Jigsaw and Accomplices (John Kramer) | Other Antagonists | Law Enforcement (Metropolitan Police Department) | Other Characters (I-III, IV-VI, 3D-X)
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Saw IV characters:
Cecil Adams
Cecil Adams
"I don't have a fucking soul..."
Played By: Billy Otis
Appearances: Saw IV | Saw VI
A drug addict and a thief, Cecil was Jigsaw's first test subject. He first appears in flashbacks of Saw IV, and makes another brief appearance in a flashback of Saw VI.
- Asshole Victim: A mugger responsible for the miscarriage of a baby in one of his muggings. Even though it was later revealed that he was pressured into robbing the clinic by Amanda and was very uncomfortable doing so because Jill had been nice to him, Cecil quickly returned to his crooked way of life with no lasting remorse.
- Determinator: Cecil is technically the first survivor of a Jigsaw test, the Knife Chair Trap.
- Drugs Are Bad: Cecil is a drug addict, one of the reasons Jigsaw chooses to test him.
- Facial Horror: After going through the Knife Chair, his face is caked in blood.
- Fatal Flaw: His impulsiveness and short temper. Despite surviving the test John set up for him, Cecil doesn't undergo any kind of spiritual enlightenment like John intended. Instead, he goes into a homicidal rage and tries to kill John, leading to his death when John easily evades his attack and Cecil charges into a cage of barbed wire behind him.
- Five-Finger Discount: Cecil is a thief. In a flashback in IV, he robs from Jill's rehabilitation clinic, an act that ultimately leads to him accidentally causing the miscarriage of John and Jill's son, Gideon.
- I'll Kill You!: The moment he's out of his test, he rages on about how John is going to die.
- Posthumous Character: Long dead before the series started, he was Jigsaw's first victim.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only appeared in a flashback and died at the end, but he inadvertently helped caused the rise of Jigsaw.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: While he's not the only reason John became Jigsaw, him causing the miscarriage of John's son was essentially the beginning of John's Start of Darkness.
- Villains Want Mercy: When he wakes up to the situation John has put him in, he feebly begs for his life and makes half-hearted apologies about what he did to John.
Brenda
Brenda
Played By: Sarain Boylan
Appearances: Saw IV
Brenda was a woman who worked as a pimp. She contacted other young women, made them dependent, and then forced them to work for her as prostitutes. Eventually, she was prosecuted for her crimes. However, she was acquitted due to the assistance of her lawyer, Art Blank.
- Asshole Victim: She was a pimp who made women into her slaves. No one would miss her after she was thrown into a mirror.
- Dirty Coward: Tried to kill Rigg after she was saved only to be killed when he threw her into a mirror.
- The Farmer and the Viper: She tries to kill Rigg after he saves her. However, she was ordered by Jigsaw to kill him should he save her.
- Femme Fatale: She was ordered to kill Rigg if he decided to save her.
- Flayed Alive: The trap starts to scalp her just as Rigg finds the three-digit number and saves her.
- Long Hair Is Feminine: Hair so long it's caught in the gears of her trap. It nearly would have scalped her had Rigg not found the combination and saved her.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: Which is caught in her trap.
- Villains Want Mercy: She begged Rigg to save her even though he was told not to.
Ivan Landsness
Ivan Landsness
Played By: Marty Adams
Appearances: Saw IV
A serial rapist and proprietor of the run-down Alexander Motel. He becomes one of the subjects of Rigg's game.
- An Arm and a Leg: Both arms and one of his legs are torn off. When his body is later found by the SWAT team, it's sitting upright at the end of the bed with one leg left.
- Asshole Victim: The man is not only guilty of multiple counts of rape, but he's kept photos and videos of the acts, just so he can get off to them. While his death is probably one of the most horrific in the series, it can be said karma caught up to him.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He acts very friendly toward others in public, but in private is a sadistic rapist.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: He tries to gouge out both his eyes, fails, and all his limbs are promptly torn off his body.
- Dirty Coward: He's absolutely terrified when he's at Rigg's mercy, begging to be let go and lying that he felt regret for his actions (despite clearly keeping evidence of them to look over for his own pleasure) and paid for them long ago, when he was actually never convicted.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He has a pet dog named Chance, whom he truly seems to love. Basically his only redeeming feature.
- Eye Scream: He's given a choice during his test: gouge out his own eyes or have all of his limbs torn off. He gets about halfway there before the timer runs out.
- Fat Bastard: He's obese and a serial rapist.
- Hate Sink: Can you really sympathise with a serial rapist? Notably, he's also the only victim Rigg feels no compassion for, as the latter actually draws his gun to force Ivan into the Bedroom Trap.
- Karmic Death: Suffers one of the most fitting traps and deaths in the series. His trap and both Ivan and Riggs's involvement in it is analogous to Ivan's crimes in the following ways: He's forced into position by Officer Rigg like how Ivan forced his victims into position, strapped to the bed in a very similar fashion to his victims, and Ivan has to blind himself like he blindfolded his victims. The purpose of the trap, should he fail, is to tear him apart, like how the tape mentions how he tore apart his victim's lives.
- Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: It's definitely hard to feel sympathy for the guy who's not only raped several women but kept photos and videos of them.
- Sadist: He filmed and photographed himself raping women to watch over and over again.
- Serial Rapist: Raped several women, even filming and photographing the acts to watch again.
- Shout-Out: He and the Bedroom Trap scenario he's put into might comprise a big one to the cover art of Sodom's album Get What You Deserve, what with the bedroom location, the intense red lightning, the playing of a sex tape on a TV screen, and Ivan looking similar to the man on the cover (as well as befitting the cover's aesthetic by being a Serial Rapist).
- The Sociopath: A blink and miss moment is when Jigsaw's game for Ivan plays his snuff films, he briefly smiles before Rigg turns to face him, indicating he has no remorse for his heinous crimes.
- Symbolic Mutilation: Ivan is forced to gouge his eyes, which have "led him blindly astray", in order to escape. If he doesn't, the trap will rip his body apart, which caused endless suffering to his victims.
- Villains Want Mercy: He begs Rigg not to hurt him, whining about how he's already paid for his crimes, despite the fact that he's escaped conviction at least three times.
Morgan and Rex
Morgan and Rex
Morgan (top) and Rex (bottom)
Played By: Janet Land (Morgan), Ron Lea (Rex)
Appearances: Saw IV
The last of the victims Rigg has to go through before his final test. Rex was a tyrannical husband and father who viciously beat his wife and child on a daily basis. His wife Morgan was too terrified of Rex to testify against him. Rigg and Hoffman were once sent to investigate Rex's abuse, but due to inconclusive evidence other than implications from his quiet daughter, the case was dropped with the help of Art Blank.
- Already Done for You: Unlike Ivan and Brenda, Morgan is already through with her test by the time Rigg arrives and he has no further involvement with the situation. This is the last bit of foreshadowing Rigg should not be actively involved with the victim's games.
- Asshole Victim:
- Rex is such a case of this that the game itself is solely Morgan's; the spikes impaling Morgan are non-lethal even if she removes them, but Rex has been impaled in such a way that removing his spikes would kill him.
- On a less lethal note, getting his nose broken by Rigg after he taunts him and then the charges getting dropped when Hoffman lies that it was self-defense. Undoubtedly brutality on Rigg's part and corruption on Hoffman's and it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
- Domestic Abuse: Rex had regularly beaten his wife and daughter, Jane, into submission every day.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: In a deeply twisted way. Morgan has it fairly easy with her trap, and she's finally free of Rex and his abuse upon passing her test.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Morgan and Rex are bound by spikes that Morgan has to remove to free herself. Not the case with Rex, however, as he's doomed regardless of what he does.
- Only a Flesh Wound: The spikes are placed such that Morgan can remove them from herself with only pain and a small amount of bleeding ensuing. However, they're also placed such that they're piercing several of Rex's arteries, so each one she pulls makes him bleed out ever faster.
Trevor
Trevor
Played By: Kevin Rushton
Appearances: Saw IV
A man placed in a trap with Art Blank. He and Art are chained to a wrench that has them both trapped in a room. He has the key that will unlock both of their chain collars tied around the back of his own collar. His eyes have been sewn shut as has Art's mouth to prevent him from realizing the situation and complicate matters for both of them.
- Bit Character: We learn nothing about him, and his only role in the fourth movie is to function as part of the opening trap, which also serves as the introduction to Art Blank, who would become a major character throughout the rest of the film. He also appears in a Call-Back in 3D with the reveal that Dr. Gordon was the one who sewed his eyes shut.
- Eye Scream: His eyes are sewn shut so he's unaware of the situation, and Art's mouth has also been sewn shut so he can't communicate and explain it to him.
- For Want Of A Nail: If he had only felt around the back of his neck, both he and Art could have gotten out of the situation easily.
- Riddle for the Ages: Unlike most victims, we never learn why Trevor was targeted.
Saw V characters:
Jigsaw Victims
The Fatal Five
The Fatal Five (Brit Stevenson, Mallick Scott, Luba Gibbs, Charles Salomon, Ashley Kazon)
From left to right: Brit, Charles, Luba, Ashley, Mallick
Played By: Julie Benz (Brit), Carlo Rota (Charles), Meagan Good (Luba), Laura Gordon (Ashley), Greg Bryke (Mallick)
Appearances: Saw V | Saw 3D (Mallick only)
The primary victims of the fifth film. Brit was a successful businesswoman and the senior vice president of the Marshvard Group, a real estate development company. One day, she hired a drug dealer to burn down an apartment building to get her hands on the property. However, the building was still inhabited by eight people, who all died in the fire. Nonetheless, the Marshvard Group was granted a building permit for the property by Luba Gibbs, a corrupt employee of the Department of City Planning. Soon afterward, Peter Strahm and Lindsey Perez, two special agents working on the case, eventually suspected Brit and almost discovered her involvement in the fire. They planned to bring a charge against Brit as well as four other suspects - Ashley Kazon, a fire inspector, Charles Salomon, a journalist, Mallick Scott, a drug addict, and Luba Gibbs. However, when the only witness suddenly disappeared, the investigation was dropped.
- Asshole Victim: Charles is a smug asshole who repeatedly prioritizes his own survival over the rest, namely Mallick. Later, he outright tries to kill Mallick and boasts of the test being "the survival of the fittest" before Luba helps Mallick and leaves Charles to die instead.
- An Arm and a Leg: Mallick comes close to losing his arm entirely in the final test, but it's subverted in that it is seen recovering in Saw 3D.
- Black Dude Dies First: An inversion. Luba is the last fatality, dying in the second-to-last trap.
- Idle Rich: Mallick used his parents' money to finance his drug habit.
- Ironic Echo: "'Survival of the fittest' my ass!" told by Luba to Charles less than one minute after Charles bashed Mallick with a metal rod and proclaimed that it was "survival of the fittest" and a few seconds before Luba, Brit and Mallick left him to die when the explosives detonate.
- Iron Lady: Brit is the senior vice president of a real estate development company, and will do sketchy things to get her work done her way.
- Jerkass to One: Charles is a Jerkass for the most part, but he is specially dismissive of Mallick, who he believes to be worthless.
- Karma Houdini: Despite Brit and Mallick being involved in an arson and the fact that Hoffman left evidence of it at the scene for the FBI to find, both are walking free by the time of Saw 3D with no apparent legal punishment whatsoever.
- Kill It with Fire: Mallick set a building with people living in it on fire, all to get a fix.
- My God, What Have I Done?:
- Mallick is clearly distraught by the arson he committed, angrily lashing out at Brit after he learns she organized the scheme
- Judging by the look on her face when Mallick angrily asks her if she knew about the eight people living in the warehouse when she decided to have it burned down to take the property, Brit seems to have realized the gravity of what she's done.
- Off with Her Head!: Ashley is killed this way as the only victim of the first trial.
- Oh, Crap!: Brit and Mallick at the end realize too late that the traps could've been easily passed with minimal injury to themselves if all five players had worked together. See Power of Trust below.Mallick: "Your lifelong instincts tell you to do one thing but I implore you to do the opposite." Oh God.... whoops...Brit: Yeah, big fucking whoops!
- Power of Trust: Although the test the Fatal Five go through seems like a survival of the fittest competition at first, all of them could have survived if they cooperated as revealed later. However, through Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, only Mallick and Brit make it to the end, with Brit making it clear she would have likely killed Mallick if she had to.
- Pragmatic Hero: Brit kills Luba instead of Mallick because he would be less likely to turn against her.
- The Social Darwinist: Charles believes that the game is about survival of the fittest, and he seems to hold himself in high regard, while being dismissive of everyone else, specially Mallick. Ironically, while Charles is the second member of the Fatal Five to die, Mallick survives to the events of the film.
- Symbolic Mutilation: The final trap of their game reveals to the two remaining survivors that if they had worked together, they each could have given two pints of blood each instead of five.
- Token Minority: Luba is the only black person among the Fatal Five.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Ashley is killed minutes into their introduction, and we barely learn anything about her other than her role in the arson.
Seth Baxter
Seth Baxter
Played By: Joris Jarsky
Appearances: Saw V
The abusive boyfriend and eventual murderer of Hoffman's sister, Angelina Acomb. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for his murder, but was released five years later on a technicality. At that moment, Hoffman used his knowledge of Jigsaw to kill him in a frame-up Jigsaw trap scenario. When the real Jigsaw found out, he blackmailed Hoffman into becoming his accomplice.
- Asshole Victim: Brutally murdered his girlfriend and received nowhere near the adequate punishment for it. That is, until Hoffman gets to him. While subtle enough to be missed by most viewers, since the movie doesn't draw attention to it, his tattoos also feature white supremacy symbols, implying that he was affiliated to a racist group too.
- Bad Liar: He claims his murder of Angelina was an accident, but a flashback shows that Angelina's throat was slit. Yeah, he "accidentally" slit her throat.
- Dirty Coward: He whines, yells for help, says that what he did was an accident, and has trouble even completing the task of crushing his hands.
- Domestic Abuser: He abused his girlfriend regularly, and the moment he murdered her happened during a domestic dispute between the two. Hoffman doesn't let him get out alive with it.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Eventually, the pendulum-like blade of the trap he's put in lowers itself enough that it begins to slowly cut Seth in half, leading to his death.
- Off on a Technicality: He was originally sentenced to life in prison, but was released after only five years due to an unexplained legal technicality.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: Implied. He has Neo-Nazi symbols tattooed on his body, and murdered a woman in cold blood. This possible Neo-Nazi affiliation might have given Hoffman another reason to kill Seth besides said woman being his sister, given his later track record with Neo-Nazis.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His actions led to Hoffman becoming Jigsaw's accomplice, and killing many, many people.
- Villain Has a Point: His last words are used pointing out the fact that he did what he was told to do to pass his test and that he should have been allowed to live afterward. As Jigsaw later tells Hoffman, everybody deserves a fair chance, even murderers like Seth.
Others
Angelina Acomb
Angelina "Angie" Acomb
Played By: Sarah Power
Appearances: Saw V
"I know about your sister. I know how you cared for her. I know she was your only family."
— John talking to Hoffman about Angelina
Mark Hoffman's beloved sister and only known family member, who was brutally killed in a domestic dispute with her boyfriend, Seth Baxter. When Seth was released from his life imprisonment on a technicality, Hoffman killed him while framing Jigsaw in order to bring Angelina justice.
- Cradle of Loneliness: The flashbacks to her death briefly show Hoffman cradling the hand of her corpse, and no one willing to pull him away.
- Monster Brother, Cutie Sister: Implied to be the cutie sister to Hoffman's monster brother. Though her screentime is limited, the articles posted about her death imply she was the kinder of the two of them. Hoffman needs no explanation...
- Morality Pet: She seemed to be this for Hoffman, as after she died, all hinges on him went loose.
- Plot-Triggering Death: Her death is the start of Hoffman's mental spiral and delve into alcoholism. This leads to him murdering Seth, and triggers the rest of the events in his backstory.
- Posthumous Character: She's only shown through brief flashbacks before and of her death.
- Slashed Throat: How she was killed by Seth.
Pamela Jenkins
Pamela Jenkins
"If you'd like to make a statement on the record, I'd be more than happy to take it."
Played By: Samantha Lemole
Appearances: Saw V | Saw VI
A minor character in Saw V and a supporting character in Saw VI. The sister of William Easton, Pamela is an investigative journalist known for her sensationalist headlines. Her obsession with the Jigsaw case drew the ire of John Kramer when she wrote a book about him. Jigsaw kidnaps Pamela as an incentive for William to go through the game he set up for him.
- All There in the Manual: Word of God claims that Pamela is relatively fine after the events of the movie. She was planned to make a cameo in the survivor meetup in Saw 3D, but she didn't make it into the film.
- Big "NO!": When Brent decides to execute William.
- Break the Cutie: It doesn't get much worse than seeing your sibling dissolved by acid in front of your own eyes.
- Damsel in Distress: She is kept in a cage for most of the running time of Saw VI.
- Motor Mouth: Befitting her sensationalist nature, she's very chatty and has little sense of personal space, which draws the ire of Jill and Hoffman.
- Spanner in the Works: Her obsession with Jigsaw leads her to find the letter Hoffman used to blackmail Amanda. While Jill denies knowledge of it when Pamela pesters her over it, she's actually furious enough over it to later sabotage Hoffman's game, making Hoffman go completely mad and have his identity ousted to the public when Jill seeks police protection in 3D.
Saw VI characters:
William's Trial
William Easton
William Easton
Played By: Peter Outerbridge
Appearances: Saw VI
"Well, it's a formula. It's pretty complicated, actually, but in essence, it breaks down to monthly payments multiplied by lifespan, minus the probability of illness, and if its sum is positive, we consider coverage."
The main character of Saw VI. William is a senior vice president at the local health insurance company Umbrella Health, and is in charge of, among other things, allowing or denying claims (he's the head of the company's department for membership and claims). One of his customers was John; William personally denied coverage for an experimental treatment for his cancer, which was probably not a good idea.
- Anti-Villain: By the end of the movie, William did learn a thing or two about helping people. If he had lived, he may have become a better person. Even from the beginning of the movie, he clearly takes no pleasure in refusing health coverage to his clients; he meets with them personally and even agrees with Harold calling him a criminal. Immediately after the game begins, he does everything possible to help the other victims, even being willing to cut himself open to help his lawyer while she's coming at him with a buzzsaw.
- All for Nothing:
- He manages to guide Debbie out of the steam maze, incurring serious burns from hot air in the process, upon which they realize that the key to her freedom is sewn within William's side. As he tries to get it himself, Debbie begins swinging a nearby circular saw at him, wanting to kill him and get the key quicker. Unsurprisingly, Debbie's time runs out as a result, and she is killed.
- His death could very much be considered this. After going through a series of demanding traps, which leads to him realizing the error of his ways and the value of the lives of the clients he had indirectly killed by denying coverage, William gets killed by the son of one of said rejected clients, ultimately making his redemption completely meaningless.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Downplayed; John considers him one, for denying customers coverage when it could have saved their lives or eased their sickness, but it's clear that doesn't enjoy doing so, and his interest is more in protecting company profits rather than actually wanting to hurt anyone. That said, William did develop his so-called "formula" to determine who gets coverage and who doesn't (even having bragged to John about it once), and is fully onboard with his subordinates poking holes in insurance applications and effectively screwing his clients out of their coverage for even minor or unintentional oversights. Ultimately, while William isn't a corrupt man personally, he was happily perpetuating a corrupt health insurance system before being subjected to a game.
- Decoy Protagonist: As he realizes, the main game isn't his: it's that of the family of one of the people he's let die.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: As the acid melts his torso, his upper body detaches itself.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: He passes all the tests and learns his lesson about helping people. Then it's revealed that the family of one of the people he let die are also playing a game: Letting him live or not. The son ultimately chooses to kill him, and he dies one of the most violent and painful deaths in the series.
- Right for the Wrong Reasons: As it turns out in Saw X, the "experimental treatment" for John that William refused to cover was actually a scam, which William (presumably) had no way of knowing.
- Sadistic Choice: Most of his tests revolve around this. He first has to choose between two people and leave the other to be hanged, then must choose at least two out of six of his employees from being blasted by a shotgun.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog: He may well be the biggest example of this in the series. In order, he had to hold his breath for a painful duration so that another guy will trigger a trap and get himself killed; choose whether to save an old, diabetic mother or a perfectly healthy loner; suffer severe steam burns while trying to help his company's lawyer escape a maze and then nearly get hacked open when she tries to find the key necessary to save her life; and then choose which two of his insurance analysts will live, condemning the other four to death. Eventually, it turns out that he was never really in control of his own fate, and he dies at the hands of an angry, vengeful teenager.
- White Shirt of Death: William wears a white shirt during his trial, which is stained in blood from the beginning due to him having had a key surgically placed inside him. He's eventually killed in the Acid Room.
- Would Hit a Girl: Justified as said girl was his attorney Debbie, who was trying to slice him open with a power saw.
Tara and Brent Abbott
Tara and Brent Abbott
Played By: Devon Bostick (Brent), Shauna MacDonald (Tara)
Appearances: Saw VI | Saw 3D (Tara only)
The remaining family of Harold Abbott, an ill man whom William coldly turned down health insurance for, leading to his death. Hoffman kidnapped them and left them in a cage adjacent to Pamela's with a timer counting down. John had no intention to test them, but instead wanted them to be left there for an opportunity to take revenge on William if he makes it through to the end of his trial.
- Revenge Before Reason: Tara subverts this. She strongly considers killing William but ultimately can't bring herself to do it and forgives him. Brent on the other hand...
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Brent knowingly sentences a man to die by being dissolved in acid. To be fair, he is horrified immediately after this.
- Vengeance Feels Empty: Brent kills William. But instead of gaining any satisfaction from it, he and his mother are horrified at his death and likely got PTSD for life.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Tara appears in the survivor meeting in Saw 3D, but not Brent.
Hank
Hank
Played By: Gerry Mendicino
Appearances: Saw VI
The first victim of William's trial, introduced in a trap with William known as the Oxygen Crusher. While hardly anything is known about him, he has gained great notoriety in the fandom for being tested simply because he smokes, despite having a whole history of health issues.
- Bring My Brown Pants: In the Oxygen Crusher game, he wets himself involuntarily as a combined result of his panicking and the growing pain from the clamps around his ribcage closing in on it.
- Disproportionate Retribution: While chain-smoking despite a history of health issues can be seen to be in line with John's philosophy of punishing people inconsiderate of their lives, that is still an absurdly petty reason to put someone in a death trap. Worse yet, Hank was merely a janitor for William's company and not complicit in his corrupt work at all.
- No Full Name Given: His surname is never stated.
- Potty Failure: He wets himself midway through the Oxygen Crusher game.
- Unwinnable by Design: The trap he was put in, the Oxygen Crusher, consists of two contraptions involving a pair big metal clamps aiming at the respective victims' bodies from the sides. Once the game begins, a highly sensitive pump measures their breathing activity. Each time one of them takes a breath, the clamps would close in and eventually crush their body. Once one of them dies, the trap would deactivate with the second victim free to go. Due to Hank's smoking habits and health issues, there was legitimately no way he could ever win against William even if the latter intentionally tried to lose. Given the expansive nature of William's trial, it seems Jigsaw was even aware of this and never expected Hank to win.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: One of the most underdeveloped victims in the series. We know his occupation and the ludicrous reason John tests him, but nothing more.
Allen and Addy
Allen and Addy
Played By: Shawn Ahmed (Allen), Janelle Hutchison (Addy)
Appearances: Saw VI | Saw 3D (Addy only)
A pair of victims in William's trial, introduced after he wins his game against Hank. Their game is fairly simple, with William merely choosing which one will be hanged and the other free to go.
- Disproportionate Retribution: On both counts.
- Addy is notable for having done absolutely nothing wrong and enjoying her life. While she worked for William, she merely scheduled his appointments and was not complicit in his work.
- Allen also merely maintained William's files and documents. Him dying means that he was basically punished for having no friends or a family of his own.
- Loners Are Freaks: Allen has no friends or family, and therefore no one to miss him if he dies unlike Addy. This is a fact Jigsaw uses to tip sympathy in Addy's favor.
- No Full Name Given: Neither of them have stated surnames.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Allen angrily calls William out when he realizes he chose Addy's life over his.
- White Shirt of Death: Allen is always seen wearing a white shirt, and is hanged bloodily in the Gallows.
Debbie
Debbie
Played By: Caroline Cave
Appearances: Saw VI
The victim in William's third test. Debbie was Umbrella Insurance's legal counsel and defended William's corrupt policies by taking action towards anyone who tried to take legal proceedings against him, like the Abbott family.
- Amoral Attorney: Debbie fiercely fought back against anyone that threatened William or his company's policies.
- Asshole Victim: Of all the victims with a connection to William, she was the most complicit in his corrupt practices. Debbie also tried to viciously kill William, which while she can't necessarily be blamed for, makes her slightly more antagonistic than the rest.
- Boom, Headshot!: As she fails to kill William in time, the device attached to her chest launches a metal rod directly at her head, killing her instantly.
- Call-Back: Her game, where she must kill William to remove a key from his stomach in order to take off a device that will kill her, is a direct callback to Amanda's test in the first film.
- Fan Disservice: The steam causes her blouse to stick to her body rather tightly, but this is never focused on by the camera, and she dies in a rather gruesome manner before the scene can become true fanservice material.
- The Farmer and the Viper: Despite William helping her through the first half of her game, the steam maze, she immediately tries to kill him upon meeting him. Justified as the key to her survival was in William's stomach, and given William's natural apprehension of being cut open, Debbie has no incentive to be merciful.
- No Full Name Given: Her surname is never stated.
Shotgun Carousel Victims
Shotgun Carousel Victims (Aaron, Emily, Gena, Dave, Shelby, Josh)
Played By: James Gilbert (Aaron), Larissa Gomes (Emily), Melanie Scrofano (Gena), Darius McCrary (Dave), Karen Cliche (Shelby), Shawn Mathieson (Josh)
Appearances: Saw VI | Saw 3D (Emily only)
A group of insurance analysts who used to work for William in finding errors in policies to potentially deny people health insurance (whom William himself referred to collectively as "the Dog Pit"). To survive, they have to rely on the help of William. Standing on a pedestal outside the enclosure was a room with two buttons inside. Every time the carousel came to a standstill, William has to simply press both buttons simultaneously in order to save the victim in front of the shotgun. In return, the shotgun would go into an upright position and shoot above the other person's head without harming them, before returning to its original position. However, only two people could be saved while the other four inevitably had to die.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Given all of them have their lives hinge on William's decisions and only two can make it out, every victim begs and pleads for their lives.
- Asshole Victim: Downplayed. They've all done terrible things in the name of William's policy but their deaths are so horrific it's clear none of them truly deserved this fate.
- Bad Liar: Gena makes a pathetic attempt at claiming she's pregnant to gain William's sympathy. Her stilted, panicked attitude make it obvious that she's lying, and Josh and Shelby call her out for it.Gena: Uhmm... I- I'm pregnant! I'm- I am pregnant!
Josh: No, she's not! She's lying! She's fucking lying! Mr. Easton, she's lying!
Shelby: Mr. Easton, she's lying! - Corrupt Corporate Executive: As aforementioned, their jobs were looking for loopholes in William's policies to deny people health insurance, and most (if not all) don't seem to feel any remorse over it.
- Cowardice Callout: When William essentially sentences Josh to die by choosing to save Shelby, Josh calls William spineless among a tirade of other insults (including one about how both of the victims he saved, Emily and Shelby, are female) before meeting his end, and he hisses at William to look at him as he's about to die. He has a point in that up until he got caught in Jigsaw's games, William never had to watch the deaths of his company's healthcare recipients whom he sentenced to potentially-avoidable deaths based on a near-Darwinist company policy.
- Dying Moment of Awesome: Josh has what is absolutely, without a doubt, the most badass death speech in the whole franchise."Oh, well, that's it, isn't it? It's over! You motherfucker! You spineless, pussy-whipped motherfucker! That's all it takes, eh? A bitch says one thing and it's all over! You know what, William? You know what, William? Your policy, it's bullshit! Fucking bullshit! Well, you listen to me, you son of a bitch! I did everything for you. Look at me! When you're killing me, you look at me!"
- Everyone Has Standards: In spite of all of their attempts to get William to spare them at the expense of the others, when it's Emily's turn, no one objects to her living, as they all know she has two kids that need her.
- Face Death with Dignity: Played with. Josh has his turn come around when he knows that his death is sealed. He has the mental wherewithal to deliver a furious Final Speech to William (listed under Dying Moment of Awesome above), but he notably whimpers right before he's killed.
- He-Man Woman Hater: Josh's comments carry an undertone of misogyny, calling Shelby and Gena bitches and William "pussy-whipped" for saving the former over himself.
- I Have a Family: Emily gets saved from the shotgun after she tells William that she has two children who can't live without her.
- Men Are the Expendable Gender: In a 3-to-3 gender ratio, both survivors are women while all three men die.
- No Full Name Given: None of them have stated surnames.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Josh delivers what is easily the most epic one of these speeches in the series (listed under Dying Moment of Awesome above). Once his boss decides not to save him in favor of Emily and Shelby, Josh lets him have it shortly before the shotgun blasts a hole in his chest.
- Serendipitous Survival: William places his hand on the "save" button the second time before even seeing who it will spare: Shelby, at the expense of Josh.
- Symbolic Mutilation: William having to choose two of them (out of six) symbolizes that his policy only covered one third of the company's insurance cases. William must also give himself stigmata to save the two people he deems being hurt for.
- Tempting Fate: Aaron, the first victim to get killed.Aaron: Listen to me. Mr. Easton, I am the one who should live, okay? (is immediately stopped before the shotgun first) Fuck. (shotgun primes itself to fire) Jesus Christ! Please, Mr. Easton! Mr. Easton! Please! Follow the policy, Mr. Easton. Do it! Please! Mr. Easton, follow the policy! FOLLOW THE POLICY! (bam)
- That Liar Lies: A tirade of these rolls around between Josh and Shelby when Gena tries to convince William to save her by saying she's pregnant.Gena: Umm... I- I'm pregnant! I'm- I am pregnant!
Josh: No, she's not! She's lying! She's fucking lying! Mr. Easton, she's lying!
Shelby: Mr. Easton, she's lying!
Gena: Fuck you!
Josh: Mr. Easton, she's lying!
Gena: I'm pregnant!
Josh: She's lying!
Gena: (as the carousel stops with her in front of the shotgun) No! No, fuck! I'm pregnant!
Josh: No, she's lying! She's fucking lying!
Shelby: Mr. Easton, it's not true!
Gena: Please! Please! (the shotgun begins to arm) Fuck! Push the thing! PUSH THE THING!
Josh: She's lying!
Gena: No, Mr. Easton! Push it, push the thing! - What Happened to the Mouse?: Emily appears in the Jigsaw Survivor Group in Saw 3D, but Shelby does not.
Other Jigsaw Victims
Simone
Simone
Played By: Tanedra Howard
Appearances: Saw VI | Saw 3D
A predatory money lender. Introduced in the opening scene of Saw VI with her fellow lender, Eddie, she survives her game while Eddie dies. At the expense of her arm.
- An Arm and a Leg: She chops off her left arm to survive her test.
- Asshole Victim: She lent money and put people into serious debt for her selfish gain. She survives the game and realizes the error of her ways, but isn't even remotely grateful for what she went through, rightfully pointing out that forcing her to chop off her arm doesn't qualify as an enlightening life lesson.
- Bait-and-Switch: When Hoffman visits her in the hospital, the way she mentions how Jigsaw "wanted them to learn" makes one think that she's like the other survivors, who act as though Jigsaw did teach them something. Instead, when Hoffman asks if she did learn anything, she snaps and demands to know what exactly chopping her arm off was supposed to teach her about valuing her life.
- Big "NO!": When she sees her time is running out, after which she makes the decision to chop off her arm.
- Determinator: After seeing Eddie about to win their competition trap, Simone goes into a frenzy and hacks her arm off. Her severed arm tips the weight scale of her trap to grant her the win over Eddie.
- Jerkass Has a Point: She is one of the few individuals in the franchise who's correct that Jigsaw doesn't help people, and is full of it.Simone: He wanted us to learn...
Hoffman: And did you?
Simone: ...Look at me. Look at my goddamn arm! What the FUCK am I supposed to learn from THIS, huh?! - Only Sane Woman: From what the Jigsaw Survivor Group meeting in Saw 3D implies, she's the only survivor who's aware that Jigsaw's games don't actually help anyone and his methods are beyond fucked up.
- No Full Name Given: His surname is never stated.
- Slow and Steady Wins the Race: Between her vs. Eddie in offering flesh to the scale in their game, Eddie was ahead of the race for the majority of it by offering his belly fat, but Simone hacks off her arm and was able to win at the last second.
- Stockholm Syndrome: Subverted. Hoffman meets with Simone to clear some internal doubts he has about John's philosophy. While she initially seems to be suffering from this, when Hoffman actually asks if she learned anything from her ordeal, she furiously lashes out at him and angrily demands to know what good could possibly come from John's logic. Even in 3D, an incredibly bitter Simone calls out other survivors at their meetups for claiming Jigsaw made them positively re-evaluate their lives in some way.
- Symbolic Mutilation: The Pound of Flesh puts her against a fellow corrupt money lender, both giving all they had to give to survive.
Eddie
Eddie
Played By: Marty Moreau
Appearances: Saw VI
Another predatory money lender and the other victim in the opening trap of Saw VI, who ends up dying.
- Asshole Victim: Even worse than his partner Simone. Not only is he a predatory lender, but he blames everything on Simone and tells her "I'm not dying for you, bitch!"
- Fat Bastard: He's a predatory lender and noticeably pudgy. His overweight condition actually comes into play when he tries to cut off his belly fat and use it for the pound of flesh scale.
- Never My Fault/No Honor Among Thieves: He blames everything on Simone, ignoring his own part in their dirty work. More notable is that he starts the test by leaning forward, despite Simone specifically telling him not to, yet still blames her for the situation.
- No Full Name Given: His surname is never stated.
- Symbolic Mutilation: The Pound of Flesh puts him against a fellow corrupt money lender, both giving all they had to give to survive.
