Saw Blades of Death

In Real Life, circular saw blades are used for cutting materials into smaller pieces. In fiction, they're often used for cutting people into smaller pieces. Their nasty, sharp appearance makes them ideal Deadly Discs, and they can be repurposed either as gruesome melee weapons or dangerous projectiles.

Spinning saw blades are often used in Death Traps, protruding from the floor or walls to hack off the limbs of unsuspecting protagonists. Sometimes they even hang mid-air or move along predetermined path.

These will appear frequently during a Lumber Mill Mayhem sequence or Conveyor Belt o' Doom.

See also:

• Chainsaw Good, when chainsaws are used as weapons instead.
• Deadly Training Area, when it's used as part of a Training from Hell regimen.
• Death Course, when it's part of a (more-or-less) linear series of deadly traps.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: The end credits for the first eight episodes show the two angels poised to meet a grisly demise. One of these shows them strapped to a table while a whirling circular saw slowly descends toward them. It seems no deathtrap can erase their cheery smiles, however.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!: In Yugi's duel with Arkana, the duelists are trapped in their chairs. As their life points approach zero, saw blades close in on their ankles. The 4Kids dub censored this by having the saw blades be "Dark Energy Discs" that would instantly banish you to the Shadow Realm.

Comic Books

• Spider-Man: In Spider-Man Unlimited (Vol. 1) #14, El Toro Negro, a rogue participant of "the Great Game", is delivered by mercenary Chance to his true employer, Justin Hammer. Toro Negro receives his due reward in Hammer's laboratory: a buzzsaw to the head.

Film — Animated

• Chicken Run: The Tweedys' new chicken pie machine has saw blades that can grind any chicken into meat. Ginger and Rocky had dodged them after they got inside.
• In Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale, the Dog gets chased through the Murphys' sawmill by the Murphys' dogs, narrowly avoiding the whirring buzzsaws.
• The Incredibles: The Omnidroid's claws can double as spinning saw blades, which nearly behead Mr. Incredible when he gets captured.

Film — Live-Action

• Alita: Battle Angel: One of the criminals hired by Vector to kill Alita during her first Motorball match, Stinger, has two retractable buzzsaws on his arms alongside his cyborg hands, and tries to cut Alita to pieces with them. Just as Screwhead holds Alita to have her cut by Stinger, Alita breaks free of Screwhead's grip and uses the latter's own chain to perform a Deadly Dodging, dragging her (Screwhead) right in the way of Stinger's buzzsaws, which cut her in two instead.
• Army of the Dead: Vanderohe carries a big portable buzzsaw, which can be useful to cut through either obstacles or zombies.
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: On the path to the hiding place of the Holy Grail, the first trap is a pair of whirling saw blades that come out of the wall and floor. If the person trying to pass by isn't on their knees, the saw blade in the wall will cut off their head.
• James Bond:
  • Octopussy has a thug with a yo-yo saw, which is a circular saw weapon that operates like said yo-yo. He uses it to kill Vijay and nearly manages to kill Bond and Octopussy before being killed himself.
  • The World Is Not Enough has two helicopters with tree-clearing circular sawblades (ten on each) suspended below them attack Bond in his Cool Car. A missile takes out one, but the other saws his car in half lengthwise.
• In Ripper Letters From Hell, the killer chases Chantel into a sawmill and then activates the saws: forcing her to try to escape through a deadly environment.
• Saw:
  • At the end of Saw III, Jeff kills Jigsaw by slitting his throat with a hand-held circular saw.
  • In the Steam Maze from Saw VI, William and Debbie are given a similar hand-held saw to cut out the key inside William's body, which is necessary for Debbie to free herself from the harpoon contraption she has attached. William tells Debbie that he's willing to cut himself, but Debbie immediately tries to use the saw to try to kill William instead, making her lose all the time they could have used until the harpoon kills her.
  • The main components of the Public Execution Trap from Saw 3D are a pair of circular saws, one within the range of injuring and potentially killing Brad and Ryan on the table they're on opposites sides of, and another pointing at Dina, which will rise to her if Brad and Ryan don't move their saw to fight each other. Although Brad and Ryan initially fight (with Ryan landing a brief hit on Brad), they ultimately let Dina die instead once she exposes her infidelity to the two of them.
  • Played with in the Bucket Room from Jigsaw, where the victims are in front of a wall of circular saws closing on them. Although the saws are harmful, making the slightest contact with them is necessary to pass the trap (meaning they'd only need a small finger slit at minimum), as Jigsaw exactly instructs by referring to this act as a "blood sacrifice".
• The Theatre Bizarre: In "Wet Dreams", Donnie wakes up from a nightmare where here is chained to a rack in a dungeon with a buzzsaw moving towards his groin, only to find his hands tied to the head of his bed. Only when a buzzsaw appears out of his mattress and starts advancing towards his crotch does he realise it is a Dream Within a Dream.
• In Watchmen, one of Big Figure's henchmen, Lawrence, is killed when Rorschach holds his hands through his prison cell's bars and the other henchman of big figure gruesomely cuts his arms off with an electric circular saw, leaving him to die either from the shock or bleeding.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit: In the climactic battle, Judge Doom tries to kill Eddie with a giant toon circular saw that he produces from his own arm, being a toon disguised as a human.

Live-Action TV

• Batman (1966)
  • In the third season episode "Catwoman's Dressed to Kill", the Death Trap Catwoman has set up for Batgirl is a pattern cutter, with saw blades advancing towards her while she's tied up on a conveyer belt. Luckily for Batgirl, Alfred shows up in time to rescue her.
  • There was also a cliffhanger where the Riddler did this to Robin. When Batman arrived to save him, it turned out to be a dummy.
• The Goodies. In "Cunning Stunts", Bill is trying to commit suicide, and in one scene lies down in front of a giant circular saw which advances towards him. Fortunately Bill and Tim arrive in time to put the saw in reverse, only to have it roll after them instead.
• BattleBots and Robot Wars feature saw blades on the arena walls as well as some that pop in through the floor to swipe at the contestants.
• Knightmare: One of the many rooms a dungeoneer may end up entering is the Corridor of Blades, where they’re standing on an Inconveniently-Placed Conveyor Belt, with saw blades jutting out of the walls. Their teammates would be tasked with telling them which way to run to dodge the blades, and the dungeoneer themselves would have to move out of the way. This trap had the highest body count of the show, due to how it was instant death if either the team or the dungeoneer messed up once, and the speed of the blades only made it harder for both to react in time.

Tabletop Games

• Iron Kingdoms: The Convergence of Cyriss faction has a few of their Vectors equipped with sawblades as weapons. The Galvanizer uses it as part of its repair protocols on other Convergence models (while its description notes that the blade cuts through flesh just as well as metal). The Monitor, on the other hand, uses a hyper-accurate targeting array to fling a huge elliptical sawblade as a ranged attack that bounces between targets.
  • In Dogs of War: The Devil's Pay, a new recruit named Dawson worked in a sawmill before becoming a mercenary. He briefly examines a Monitor's used ellipsaw projectile, describing it as having incredibly sharp steel, short teeth for cutting metal instead of wood, and little wear & tear outside of the scuff mark left when it was flung at a Cryxian Ripper, cutting it in half. The Dogs then get to tangle with the Monitor that fired said saw, piloted by Aurora.
• Warhammer 40,000: One of the recurring close-combat weapons of the Orks' Killa Kans are arm-mounted buzz-saws. We get a good look at what they can do to Space Marines in the opening video of Dawn of War.

Video Games

• 30XX: The Dustria level features groups of sawblade-like traps at the bottom of some areas.
• Adventurer Farmer Save My Son!: Saw blades moving along tracks is one of the most common hazards in this game.
• The original trailer for American McGee's Alice showed Alice sitting down for tea with the Mad Hatter, while he secretly pulls a lever beneath the table that politely raises a whirring lumber saw out of the floor behind her chair. No such scene was in the game, but a flashback to it in Alice: Madness Returns indicates it did happen (and is the reason Alice no longer trusts the Hatter).
• Astra And The New Constellation: Saws, introduced in early levels, move across the surface are a common obstacle throughout the game.
• Badland: Circular saw blades are a common obstacle, which will shred any clone which touches them into pieces instantly.
• Later stages of Battleblock Theater feature deadly saw blades that move back and forth across the surfaces.
• Ben and Ed: Circular saws are just another obstacle that Ed needs to avoid.
• Berserk Boy: Buzzsaws are fairly common hazard in this game. Some spin in place, others move back-and-forth or across the surfaces.
• Bloodborne: One of the weapons is Whirligig Saw, which can be revved up to stunlock susceptible enemies.
• Bloody Trapland and its sequel have saw blades as a common hazard to avoid. Some spin mid-air, others move along the rails. They come in two sizes.
• Broforce has saw blades as obstacles in certain levels. They kill you instantly if you touch them, but they also kill most mooks instantly as well, so by knocking them loose, you can use them to shred whole rooms of mooks. Some saw blades hang mid-air until damaged. Other saw blades are dispensed by sawblade traps.
• Bounce Ball Blitz: Saws are one of the most common things floating in the air that can shred the ball.
• Bzzzt: Both static and moving circular saws are introduced early, acting as death traps for the protagonist.
• Can Your Pet? ends with your pet chicken being ground up by a pair of saw blades.
• Captain America and the Avengers: In stage 5, just before the fight with subboss Crossbones, he sends two minions to fight the players, and activates some saw blades that buzz between the floor tiles.
• Captain Dynamo has saw blades that hang around the hooks and move back and forth. These act as a common obstacle.
• Saw blades are a common obstacle in Cloudberry Kingdom. They move around in circles, attached to the axis point via chains.
• Dadish: Saw blades are a commonly-encountered obstacle. Most of them most either along surfaces or in the path indicated by dotted white line.
• Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: Kirumi's execution. In addition to the thorned vine she climbs up, piercing her hands all the way, saw blades appear from the walls, threatening to cut her if she continues. And she does.
• Dead Island: The first game features the "Ripper" weapon mod, which adds a circular saw to a baseball bat for extra damage. Dead Island 2 was going to include the Ripper as its own weapon, but it was cut for unknown reasons.
• Dead Space has the Remote Control Disc Ripper, or the Ripper for short. It's a handheld engineering tool that deploys a circular saw blade and keeps it suspended via a gravitational tether, allowing for users to cut through anything they see without risking getting too close. The secondary fire launches the saw blade like a projectile, causing it to ricochet off hard surfaces.
• In Death Office, circular saws are a common level gimmick that the player can use to achieve their goal in killing the puppets in the level, whether it be the basic goal (in which only killing a determined portion of the puppets is necessary) or the perfect goal (which requires the player to kill all the puppets with the time, weapons and gimmicks provided).
• The Devil in Me includes one that previous victims of Granthem Du'Met were unfortunate enough to fall to; it consists of a two people chained together by the neck while a very large saw spins between them with a clock counting down, that if it reaches zero, the chain recedes, killing them both. If one person sacrificed themself or was pulled in the blade by the other, the timer would stop, and the chain would release for the living person.
• Disc Room is centered around the player trying to dodge various saw blades: Some bounce around the room, some move along the edges of the arena.
• Levels in Doomer's Adventure have at least one deadly circular saw but usually more. They either hang mid-air or move along predetermined path.
• Donkey Kong Country:
  • One enemy in Donkey Kong Country Returns is a sentient sawblade which are attached to various surfaces. They can't be killed, so the player needs to go around them.
  • Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze has plenty of these in level 2-4 ("Sawmill Thrill"). The saw blades here act as gigantic hazards that should be avoided at all costs.
• Buzzsaws as obstacles occasionally appear in Dungreed. They either rotate in place, rotate on a chain or move along a determined path. When the room is cleared, the buzzsaws stop.
• DUSK: The Infernal Machine features an area with huge saw blades that can kill the player.
• Dwarf Fortress lets you deploy these against your enemies for once, in the form of Large Serrated Discs of various metals (or glass if you want something cheaper). Not as heavy as Giant Axe Blades, but they're still sizable and hit three times per Disc. Nothing but available materials and time stops you from putting ten of them in a single tile, ensuring anything that cannot avoid traps will be reduced to a scattered heap of Ludicrous Gibs as soon as they step into it.^note Just be aware that so many gibs might jam up the mechanism.
• Saw blades are the only non-terrain hazard in Elasto Mania. Unlike the terrain, even the wheels can't touch it.
• Ex Mutants: Saw blades as a deadly obstacle first appear in caves, either going around in circles, or moving up and down while hanging on a predetermined path.
• Extreme Sprint 3010 features spinning saws on the ground, as an obstacle the player must jump over.
• Fear & Hunger: Termina: The Meat Grinder is a table saw blade attached to a bench grinder, which functions as one of the most devastating weapons in the game (both against players, and against enemies). You can also throw saw blades at enemies.
• Saw blades make an appearance in Freedom Planet 2 as one of the obstacles.
• Garlic 2021 game has a Factory level. In addition to reciprocating saw blades, there are also circular saw blades that move along the surface and should be avoided.
• Grapple Dog: Second world introduces sawblades that rotate mid-air and mid-water. Later worlds also have sawblades that move back and forth on rails.
• Gray Destiny: Circular saws are the most commonly encountered obstacle in this game. These stay in place or move along predestined path.
• Frogun: One of the obstacles in the game are circular saws moving back and forth.
• Gun Devil: Commonly found buzzsaws are attached to chains, circling around the center point.
• Half-Life 2: The level "We Don't Go to Ravenholm" is essentially a Survival Horror level with very little conventional ammunition. Fortunately, there are plenty of circular saw blades that can be turned into projectiles with the recently acquired Gravity Gun. From that point on, ie. the following chapters and Episodes 1 and 2, saws can be found occasionally in industrial buildings (even if they're not strictly for logging, lumber or other wood-related jobs) or Resistance stashes.
• Hamsterball: In the Expert race, if you're playing at Standard difficulty or harder, sawblades will appear on some parts of the track and zoom forward once. Even if you avoid them, they cause half of the track they travel through to fall off.
• Haiku, the Robot: Buzzsaws make an appearance as a deadly obstacle. Some areas have multiple different types of buzzsaws.
• A Hat in Time: Saw blades, while not directly harming the player, slice up the wagons in Train Rush.
• Hollow Knight: Mounted saw traps are a prominent security feature of the White Palace, even more so in the area aptly called the Path of Pain. Both are covered in fixed and mobile sawblades that the Knight has to carefully deflect and bounce off of in order to navigate the area. This appears to be a family trait of the Pale King, whose daughter Hornet is seen wielding her own saws in trailers for Silksong.
• The Incredible Crash Dummies features buzzsaws that move along the surface they're on, ready to slice limbs off the dummy.
• I Wanna Maker has saw blades as one of the objects you can place.
• IZBOT and its sequel have saw blades as a common hazard.
• JAILBREAKER: Circular saws are the second most common hazard encountered after spikes.
• The Deep area in Kingdom Shell has buzzsaws that move along the surface.
• Kirby and the Rainbow Curse does occasionally have buzzsaws that act as a hazard.
• Kitten Hero: Sawblades are common in this game, appearing throughout the levels. Most of them are on metal sticks while some skim along the surfaces.
• Lab Break Out: Both static and moving buzzsaws are the second most common obstacle after spikes.
• Limbo: Some areas feature noisy saw blades that are deadly on touch. They can be static or they can also move back and forth.
• Mega Man 2 has Metal Man, whose main weapon is a circular saw he can manifest and throw to shred targets. A quirk in the programming made it accidentally far stronger than intended, resulting in it vaporizing almost every enemy in the game, including Metal Man himself!
  • Mega Man X3 has Crush Crawfish, who grants the Spinning Blade to X upon defeat, based on his Power Pincers. In X's hands, he fires two of them in front of him, which then arc to hit behind him. The charged version deploys a massive cutting blade on an energy tether that can rotate around X based on if the up or down directions are pressed.
• The Messenger (2018): A few later stages have saw blades in them, clearly designed to be an obstacle. Most move along determined path indicated by rail but some spin around in place.
• Mickey Mania: In stage 2, based on the short "The Mad Doctor", there is an Auto-Scrolling Level where Mickey jumps on a self-moving gurney and must avoid giant saw blades above him and below him.
• Mighty Gunvolt Burst: Buzzsaws appear in military base as an obstacle that has to be avoided.
• Mother (HorrorShopGames): It's revealed that the protagonist's mother has saw blades on the floor of her room. She uses to kill her sons so she can cannibalize them due to the famine they've been dealing with. Ultimately, though, she ends up being mortally wounded by those saw blades when she's chasing the protagonist.
• Mr. Bree: Saws are one of the obstacles in the butchery levels.
• Muse Dash has saw blades (referred to as "gears" by the game, but they clearly have pointed teeth like a saw) as an obstacle that the girls have to deal with, either floating in the air or cutting through the ground. Unlike other enemies and obstacles, they cannot be hit, only dodged.
• Never Give Up: Saws are a very common hazard here, littering walls and floors, or moving on rails or along surfaces.
• Ninja Gaiden: In the arcade port, when the player receives a Game Over, the "continue" screen features the protagonist tied down while a saw blade slowly lowers while the time counts down.
• ''Old Boy: Eventually, buzzsaws start to appear to hinder player's progress. They are on rails moving back and forth.
• Panic Porcupine: Large saw blades start to make an appearance as a common stage hazard from world 2 onwards. They can spin in place, move back and forth, rotate on an axis or even swing back and forth.
• The Pedestrian: Some level sections contain floating buzzsaws that kill the player upon contact.
• Saw blades going in circles are a common hazard in Pep-Pel.
• Pixi Poxi Autorunner Lab: Circular saws are one of the more common hazards encountered.
• Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time features rather ornate spinning saws that the player must avoid.
• In Prison City, moving floor- or ceiling-mounted saw blades are present as an obstacle in the final levels.
• Quake II and IV feature saws. However, not as obstacles but as devices to cut meat and limbs off the humans.
• Circular buzzsaws can be seen in Rayman Legends. They rotate in place rather slowly but are still deadly on toch.
• RITE features saw blades prominently in its levels. Many spin around in place but some also move back and forth.
• SAOMI has buzzsaw obstacles moving back and forth along its designated track.
• SAW HELL is a platformer where the main obstacles, as the title says, are saw blades.
• SEUM: Speedrunners From Hell features saw blades as one of the obstacles.
• Skylanders: Roller Brawl has circular saws serving as wheels for her skates, and is able to launch them at opponents as projectiles. She can also perform pirouettes to lash at opponents on one upgrade path, and another enhances her skills with the saw blades, allowing her to lay down a saw as a trap to slash opponents or even summon four sawblades as an Orbiting Particle Shield.
• Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer has a secret base with 3 restrooms. X slayers' bathroom features, among other things, spinning damaging saw blades.
• Slow Mole has circular saws travelling along set paths, acting as a deadly hazard. They come in two sizes.
• Soda Crisis: One of the obstacles encountered in the game are rotating buzzsaws. These obstacles are preceeded by vehicles near the beginning of the game that also have circular saws.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • In the original game, the sixth and final world, Scrap Brain Zone, has buzzsaws as hazards. Some of them are stationary and Sonic has to run under them when they are raised, and others chase after him, requiring him to outrun them or jump over them to dodge them.
  • Sonic CD: The final level, Metallic Madness, has moving saw blades similar to those in Scrap Brain Zone.
  • Sonic Generations: The truck from City Escape's second Act pulls out three saw blades when chasing Sonic.
• In the two Stealth Bastard games, sawblades are one of the commonly encountered hazards. For added irony, they are sometimes adorned with smiley faces.
• Steam Defense from MadSword Studio has the Human faction weaponize them with the Battle Blade. These Steampunk light armoured vehicles from the future have a massive buzzsaw in their front and are a big improvement over your infantry as the Battle Blade can't be poisoned or knocked back with a ramming attack. The Battle Blade causes heavy damage and ties up enemies for your ranged units to hammer.
• Streets of Rogue: Spinning saw blades are one of the many hazards that can be encountered inside buildings.
• Super Mario Bros.: Saw blades in Mario series are called Grinders and have made an appearance in few of its games as obstacles.
  • Super Mario World: In addition to reciprocating saws, Grinders also make their debut here, usually moving back and forth. They need to be avoided but Mario can bounce on them with a spin jump.
  • Super Mario Galaxy 2: Grinders appear in puzzle plank galaxy. In addition to damaging Mario, they also saw through wood, making pieces of planks to fall off the map.
• Super Meat Boy and its predecessor Meat Boy: Saw blades are the main obstacles in the game. Some are still, some move back and forth and some move in circles.
• 2011 video game Swarm, saw blades are eventually encountered. These kill the player characters instantly.
• One level in the Expert difficulty of Super Monkey Ball 2, Spinning Saw, is one giant saw blade that moves up and down through the center of a donut-shaped platform and spins quickly counterclockwise. If the player is not careful, they can be sent careening off of the stage before they have a chance to get to the goal, which is located at the center of the blade.
• In Team Fortress 2, the Sawmill map features a central objective in which two giant sawblades alternate back and forth. Anyone who touches the sawblades will die instantly, even if they're Ubercharged or equipped with the Dead Ringer.
• They Bleed Pixels has sawblades all over the place, which will violently hurt you or one-shot enemies thrown on them.
• The Thorium Mod lets players craft the Man Hacker, a special gun that shoots miniature sawblades at enemies.
• Present in various Tomb Raider games starting with Tomb Raider II.
• TTV 2 features the player trying to navigate the ever-moving terrain with gigantic buzzsaws being one of the obstacles that needs to be avoided.
• Transiruby has spinning buzzsaws present as an environmental hazard.
• Tyrian: The Microsol planet Ixmucane is defended by giant, self-propelled versions of these. One level set there is even called "Sawblades".
• Ultimate Chicken Horse: Saw blades that orbit around the central axis are one of the obstacle types that can be placed by players.
• ULTRAKILL offers the Sawblade Launcher as the alternative version of Nailgun. It can be used to bisect weaker humanoid enemies for an unique style bonus, can bounce off walls for a short while before losing momentum and, when coupled with magnets from the Attractor variant, orbit said magnets at a short distance - for use either as a trap or as a launchpad to punch accumulated saws out with the Feedbacker. One saw can be empowered with accumulated heat from the Overheat variant to create a singular, very sturdy multi-hitting enemy-piercing multi-bouncing incendiary death-dealing disc.
• Until Dawn gives us what looks like a Saw style trap with two characters strung up by their wrists and a massive lumber saw attached to a cart, with a lever deciding who gets it. It turns out to be a massive fake out, as Josh, one of the two strung up, was the one who built the trap and was never in any danger. The saw will disembowel the fake body he was hiding behind regardless of choice.
• In Velocity Noodle, saw blades, attached to surfaces or hanging mid-air, are a default obstacle the player encounters.
• Warcraft III and World of Warcraft: Goblin shredders are wood-cutting machines that double as mini-mechas when attacking enemies with their saw arm.
• The Wizard of Oz has circular saw blades in a barn level that hurt the player. Unlike most examples in this page, you can kick them to destroy them.
• Wolverine: Adamantium Rage: In the factory area, there are saws partly on the ground with seemingly no purpose other than to hurt Wolverine.
• Yandere Simulator: Akademi’s gardening club keep a handheld circular saw in their shed, which Ayano can take by either breaking into the shed, or joining the club to get a key and authorisation for the shed. The saw can either be used as a weapon to kill another student, or it can also be used to dismember a corpse, making it easier to move pieces since they’re lighter than the body in full, or even wrap each piece in a tarp to disguise them as random bags of trash for other students to incinerate.
• Red buzzsaws make an appearance in Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair. They're most prominently featured in Factory Fright levels but they also appear in Impossible Lair itself. They move along the rails and at one point, a much larger circular saw chases the player.
• Circular saws that move along the surface appear in castle levels of Yoshi's Story.

Web Animation

• Skibidi Toilet Series: Episodes 48 and 49 feature a rocket-propelled Toilet equipped with a giant horizontal circular saw blade, which is eventually controlled and destroyed by the TVwoman.

Webcomics

• Rusty and Co.: In the high-fantasy setting, gnomish baseball is a blood sport played on a Death Course. The theme for one day is sawblade traps embedded in the pitch, which one Guile Hero turns against his opponents and one Metal Muncher contestant simply eats. (The next day's theme? Flamethrowers.)

Western Animation

• Dudley Do-Right: In one episode, Snidely Whiplash is about to kill Nell at a saw mill with saw blades when Dudley shows up to stop him. When Dudley pulls the lever, the saw blades become detached and start running amok, even going after Snidely.
  Snidely: [as he's running away]] I've created a Frankenstein!
• I Lost My Body: Naoufel works in a carpenter's workshop full of circular saws, but he has a poor attention span and keeps multitasking. He eventually tries swatting a fly that's perched next to one of the saws, without turning the saw off beforehand... guess what happens.
• Justice League Unlimited: The Jokerz known as Ghoul (on which a time-displaced Batman performs a High-Altitude Interrogation) is a Cyborg whose right hand can turn into a circular saw.
• The New Adventures of Superman: In "The Mysterious Mr. Mist", Mr. Mist attempts to feed Perry White into a buzz saw on his farm.
• Silverhawks: Buzz-Saw, the Killer Robot member of Mon-Starr's Mob, is a walking bunch of metal-piercing buzzsaws and one of the most destructive members of the Mob (if nothing else because he gets to use them to tear open doors and walls a lot).
• South Park: The shop teacher was depressed after his wife died and he attempted to commit suicide by lying down on a conveyor belt headed for a buzzsaw. At first, he lied down on it with his feet facing the saw. Before he reached the saw, he turned around and said "What was I thinking? That would've hurt like hell."

Real Life

• Unsurprisingly, saw blades can be just as dangerous in real life as they are in fiction. In 2011, the National Consumers' League estimated that about 40,000 Americans visit the emergency room every year due to saw-related accidents (and that a whopping 10% of them suffer amputations!).
• Circular saws have been used in a variety of real-life assaults and murders, which often make the news due to their implied brutality.
• In 2023, the state of Texas was criticized after floating barriers — lined with circular saw blades — were floated in the Rio Grande by immigration authorities in an attempt to deter border crossers. This led to an ongoing Justice Department lawsuit over the safety and environmental concerns posed by these barriers.
• Runaway circular saw blades are a real thing, especially the large blades used to saw grooves in concrete pavement because of their weight and momentum. Two examples.

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