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!!''Saw'' characters:

[[folder:Lawrence Gordon]]
!!Dr. Lawrence Gordon
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/CaryElwes

-->''"He doesn't want us to cut through our chains. He wants us to cut through our feet."''

One of the main characters of the original ''Saw''. The doctor who was treating John at the hospital, he wasn't particularly caring towards his patients, being more interested in treating the disease than the person. He was also taking his family for granted. Jigsaw thinks he has a way to teach him to appreciate them more...

* AnArmAndALeg: Cuts off his right foot in order to escape at the climax of the first film.
* ApologeticAttacker: He tells Adam he's sorry as he shoots him to save his wife and daughter, and breaks down screaming and crying afterwards.
* BackForTheFinale: He comes back for ''Saw 3D'', which was planned to be the series' original finale. Up until this point, he hasn't been seen since the first film, six movies ago.
* BleedEmAndWeep: He was already desperate and near-tears when he picks up the gun to shoot Adam, but the second he pulls the trigger and Adam falls to the floor, he breaks down sobbing and screaming.
* ClusterFBomb: He delivers a litany of them during the climax of the first movie, after having kept himself completely devoid of swearing up until that point.
-->'''Lawrence, trying to attack Zep''': You bastard! I'll fucking kill you! I'll fucking kill you! '''YOU FUCKING BASTARD! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!'''
* FatalFamilyPhoto: Notably averted. Gordon shows Adam a picture of his family in the first movie, and yet he's still alive in the seventh one. Considering the series' ludicrously high mortality rate, his survival would be impressive even if he didn't tempt fate with this trope.
* FreakOut: Goes completely nuts when he thinks his family has been killed, leading to him cutting off his foot and shooting Adam.
* MetaphoricallyTrue: In the first film, he says that newspapers dubbing the Jigsaw Killer as such is inaccurate, because technically speaking, he never killed anyone directly; he just puts them in situations where death is very likely. The point is really moot, as almost any jurisdiction would consider putting someone in such a situation to be murder, combined with other possible crimes like kidnapping. ''Saw II'' does at least have the {{Jerkass}} detective Eric call Jigsaw out on this defense: "putting a gun to someone's head and forcing him to pull the trigger is still murder." Plus, that ignores one of the flashbacks to Lawrence's explanation of Jigsaw, in which the latter lures Sing into a booby trap, resulting in his death; this was in turn preceded by a very straightforward attempt to murder Tapp by slashing his throat.
* MrExposition: He serves this purpose in the first film to explain the previous Jigsaw incidents and Tapp's story.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Especially in the first film. Cary Elwes just didn't know how to fake an American accent. ''Especially'' in the more dramatic scenes, where his British accent tends to show up.
* SanitySlippage: WordOfGod is that after surviving his game, he developed a severe mental instability that led to his wife divorcing him.
* ThatLiarLies: After being told by his wife that Adam is lying. "Stop the lies! You're a liar!"
* UncertainDoom: His fate was left hanging and never made clear until ''Saw 3D''.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Averted. He wears a white T-shirt identical to Adam's during the first film in the Bathroom, but never gets covered in blood and survives the game.

[[folder:Adam Stanheight]]
!!Adam Stanheight
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->'''Played by:''' Leigh Whannell

-->''"Face it, Larry, we're both bullshitters. My camera, it doesn't know how to lie. It only shows you what's put right in front of it."''

The other main character of the original ''Saw'', locked in the bathroom with Lawrence. A photographer by trade, Adam was paid by Tapp to take pictures of Lawrence.

* BadBadActing: His pathetic attempt to convince Jigsaw that he's been poisoned by a cigarette. It works as well as you would expect.
* BleedEmAndWeep: Breaks down sobbing as soon as Zep's dead, not just because he's just killed a man, but also from all the physical pain and mental trauma he's endured alongside Lawrence.
* BookDumb: In the original script he tells Lawrence that he didn't finish high school, but he shows more than one instance of good problem-solving and remarkable intuition, and winds up saving Lawrence's life by PlayingPossum and attacking and killing Zep when he's not expecting it.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Adam and Lawrence manage to find a box hidden in one of the Bathroom's walls, which has a cigarette and a note from Jigsaw inside. Lawrence proposes a plan -- Adam will smoke the cigarette and pretend to die, since the note implies that it's laced with poison. Although the plan doesn't work, Adam is clearly elated to see the cigarette, and savors it while he smokes it, fluttering his eyelashes, dropping his shoulders and even smiling after he takes a drag.
* DarknessEqualsDeath: Happens to him twice.
** On the night that he gets abducted, all of the light in his apartment is cut out.
** Adam is ultimately left to die in the pitch-black Bathroom.
* DeadpanSnarker: "I went to bed in my shithole apartment, and woke up in an actual shithole," amongst many other [[Funny/{{Saw}} funny gems]].
* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: Beats Zep's head into a bloody pulp right as he's about to kill Lawrence.
* FreakOut: The film ends with him screaming in desperation and fear after realizing Jigsaw has been in the room with him the whole time, and being locked in the bathroom to die.
* HairTriggerTemper: He tells Lawrence that his last girlfriend broke up with him for being too angry.
* HeadbuttOfLove: Shares one with Lawrence for comfort as they both lay bleeding on the floor.
* MercyKill: By Amanda, after her remorse caught up to her.
* MuzzleFlashlight: A variant. In a flashback, Adam has to use his camera flash to try and see if there's an intruder in his apartment when the power gets cut. Said intruder captures him.
* NiceGuy:
** Even if his job was a little seedy. He expresses genuine concern about Lawrence's family, tries to comfort him and calm him down as he's breaking down towards the end of the film, and beats his would-be murderer to death. He didn't do his job to spy on people; like he said, he just needed to eat. He was undoubtedly one of the nicest people in the franchise, and fans agree that he definitely did not deserve the horrible fate he got.
** One of the smaller interactions he has with Lawrence is a perfect example. When Lawrence tosses him his wallet to show him a picture of his wife and daughter, Adam flips through it and sees that the original picture is replaced with one of Alison and Diana, gagged and trapped, left there for Lawrence to find. Adam, very shakily, lies and tells Lawrence that the original picture of them isn't there. When he throws Lawrence his wallet back later on and he sees the real photo, he tearily asks why Adam didn't show it to him, and he just says, "I couldn't." He knew how much pain it would put Lawrence in to see his family in danger, and even ''apologizes to him for not telling him''. That's some tender-hearted shit right there.
* PerfectPoison: Invoked when he pretends to pass out from the poisoned cigarette after taking a couple of drags from it. It doesn't fool anyone.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Begs Lawrence not to leave him in the bathroom alone, even though he promises that he's leaving to get help for the both of them.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Adam's actor, Leigh Whannell, is Australian, and though he's not perfect at hiding his Australian accent, he's leagues ahead of Lawrence's Cary Elwes.
* TragicDropout: In the original draft of the script, Adam says that he really wanted to be a veterinarian growing up, but thought it was impossible when he saw the grades he would need to get there. When Lawrence claims that he's seen kids graduate high school from a hospital bed, Adam says that they got farther than he did.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Adam wears a white T-shirt for the entire first movie, which ends up drenched in his and Zep's blood. Played with in that he ends up dying in a bloodless way, as shown in a flashback in ''Saw III'' (namely Amanda asphyxiating him as a MercyKill when he's LockedUpAndLeftBehind).

[[folder:Alison and Diana Gordon]]
!!Alison and Diana Gordon
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->'''Played by:''' Monica Potter (Alison), Makenzie Vega (Diana)

Lawrence Gordon's unfortunate family held hostage by Zep, whom he has been ordered to murder if the doctor fails to either kill Adam Stanheight or escape by six o' clock.

* AllThereInTheManual: WordOfGod explains Alison divorced Lawrence and took Diana with her after his major SanitySlippage following his survival.
* BreakTheCutie: For Diana, an 8-year-old, it doesn't get worse than being held hostage by a sadistic monster and not knowing where your father is.
* MamaBear: When Gordon fails his game, Alison isn't having [[StupidEvil Zep's sadistic shit]] and fights him with all her might to protect her child before Tapp bursts into the scene.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Diana often wonders why Lawrence is almost never at home. Of course, his wife doesn't really know either.

[[folder:Carla Song]]
!!Carla Song
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->'''Played by:''' Alexandra Bokyun Chun

A medical student at the Angel of Mercy Hospital, where she was educated by the renowned oncologist Dr. Lawrence Gordon, whom she had an affair with.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: In the second video game, Carla meets her fate at Henry Jacobs' hand, who brutally kills her with a pair of scissors.
* KarmaHoudini: Averted in the second video game, where she is kidnapped and put to test by Jigsaw for smuggling drugs.
* TheMistress: Carla engages in an affair with Lawrence, even though he has a wife and a daughter.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Carla, a medical student, is played by Alexandra Bokyun Chun, who was 37 years old when the movie was released.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Her adultery with Lawrence kickstarts the latter's suffering streak. Lawrence's family slowly crumbles down, he becomes vulnerable and exposed to both Tapp and Jigsaw, and despite surviving Jigsaw's test, it is heavily implied that Lawrence's wife and daughter leave him and he never recovers.
* SympatheticAdulterer: She seems genuinely saddened when Lawrence eventually ends their affair, leading to the assumption that her feelings for the doctor are real to some degree.

[[folder:Other Victims]]
!!Other Victims (Paul Leahy, Mark Wilson, Jeff Ridenhour)
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[[caption-width-right:350:Mark Wilson]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Jeff Ridenhour]]
->'''Played by:''' Mike Butters (Paul), Paul Gutrecht (Mark), Ned Bellamy (Jeff)

A series of unfortunate victims, all but one of which the police found before Amanda Young.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: Mark's test was hindered by glass shards spread all around the room to trip his bare feet.
* DisproportionateRetribution: As the audience knows, Mark Wilson was a successful man enjoying life. Jigsaw's reason for kidnapping him? [[UpToEleven He liked to claim he was sick to get days off work.]]
* KillItWithFire: Mark is covered head to toe in flammable jelly. He has to cautiously use a candle to navigate a dark room to discover a code for a safe in the center of it to get an antidote for his poison. [[CruelAndUnusualDeath He trips.]]
* SelfHarm: The reason John kidnapped Paul was that he had run a straight razor across his wrists twice (either to [[AttentionWhore gain attention]] or to [[DrivenToSuicide kill himself]], as John asks via tape).
* PaedoHunt: It is theorized by fans that Jeff was the pedophile dentist Tapp mentioned to Gordon earlier in the film. Jigsaw's reason for kidnapping him and making his test the way it is is otherwise never explained.
* SymbolicMutilation:
** The Razor Wire Maze forced Paul, who cut himself twice, to crawl carefully around razor wire.
** Mark, who called in sick to work even though he wasn't, had to find numbers with a candle to unlock a safe while he's covered in flammable jelly. He ended up burning to death, so he got [[JustForPun fired]].
* ThisIsADrill: Jeff's test involves two drills coming at his neck. He has twenty seconds to find the right key in a chain of them. Fortunately, Sing aborts the game by destroying the drill contraptions with his pistol.

!!''Saw II'' characters:

[[folder:Daniel Matthews]]
!!Daniel Matthews
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->'''Played by:''' Erik Knudsen

-->''"My dad's a... He's, um, he's a real hardass. You know, he's probably got half the city right now looking for me just so he can kick my ass for disappearing on him."''

Eric Matthew's estranged son, who after another argument with his father, was kidnapped by the Jigsaw Killer. Eric's desperate efforts at finding the whereabouts of his son drive the plot of ''Saw II''.

* BreakTheCutie: Daniel is just a troubled kid put into the trials of the city's most notorious SerialKiller despite having done ''nothing'' wrong to warrant it considering the killer's twisted philosophy. As it turns out, his role in Jigsaw's game is merely part of a greater conspiracy concerning his father, and he's betrayed and subdued by the closest person he had to a friend in his ordeal. By the time the police discover him, he's completely broken on an emotional level.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He doesn't appear after ''Saw II'', despite surviving and his father having further roles. He's only being mentioned again in the film's DVD short ''The Scott Tibbs Documentary'', where Scott attempts to interview Daniel in a hospital before a security guard kicks him out. WordOfGod is that Daniel was meant to appear in the [[ContinuityCavalcade Jigsaw Survivor Group meeting]] in ''Saw 3D'', but he couldn't be included due to scheduling issues with his actor Erik Knudsen.
* {{Delinquent|s}}: A troubled teenager who doesn’t get along with his dad and was caught shoplifting on at least one occasion.
* DisappearedDad: Daniel never saw Eric again after the argument they had on the boardwalk.
* EnclosedSpace: After the Nerve Gas House game ended, Daniel is abducted and placed into a small metal container with an oxygen mask on his face.
* ImprobableInfantSurvival: While John Kramer isn't above harming children, Amanda was installed into the Nerve Gas House game specifically to ensure Daniel's safety, as his survival is necessary to test his father. After everyone else in the house dies, Amanda cures him of the nerve gas, knocks him out, and traps him in a safe with an oxygen mask in preparation for Eric Matthew's test.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Despite being a teen delinquent, Daniel is genuinely one of the kindest characters in the series and tries to be the most supportive of everyone during the Nerve Gas House Game. Eric even lampshades he's done absolutely nothing wrong for John to put him in his sick game.
* PartingWordsRegret: Daniel's final interaction with Eric prior to being abducted was being on the receiving end of his father’s fury, and since Eric was killed in ''IV'' six months after being abducted by Jigsaw, we know they never reconciled.
-->'''Daniel''': I just think I should go back to Mom's early.
-->'''Eric''': What did you say?\\
'''Daniel''': What, can you not hear me?\\
'''Eric''': No, I can't hear you. Say it again!\\
'''Daniel''': I think I should go back to Mom's...\\
'''Eric''': Well, then, GO!\\
'''Daniel''': Jesus...
* SinsOfOurFathers: That's the [[{{Revenge}} ''perfect'']], second reason why Xavier [[BerserkButton wanted it to kill]] [[WouldHurtAChild Daniel]] and to look at the back of his combination number, [[RevengeBeforeReason personally.]] Even Addison and Amanda did not want to anything to do with him, especially when he is the son of [[DirtyCop a corrupt police detective]], who frame them for the crimes they did not do.
* SirSwearsALot: Daniel has quite the sailor mouth for a kid character, dropping multiple f-bombs and s-bombs throughout his screen time.
* ShipTease: The film seems to be setting him and Laura up for this, but it's abruptly cut by her death, which comes mere seconds after she learns that he is the son of the detective who wrongfully convicted her prevents anything from coming of this.
* SlashedThroat: Kills Xavier in this way with Dr. Gordon's hacksaw from the first film.
* TraumaCongaLine: After being thrust into the Nerve Gas House and witnessing several people die in absolutely nightmare-inducing ways Daniel is finally forced to kill Xavier in self-defense and is left with a look of pure shock and horror as he realizes that he has just killed another man. There is absolutely zero doubt that Daniel will be left with major PTSD from this experience.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Even though Daniel survived the events of the second film he seemingly disappears from the series entirely—the last time he's even mentioned is when Eric escapes from the bathroom in ''III''. Even stranger still is the fact that he's seemingly been forgotten by the fourth film, and Eric doesn't so much as utter his name under his breath while he's hanging over the ice block; the only reference to Daniel in ''IV'' is a blink-and-you'll-miss photograph in Rigg's apartment.
* XMarksTheSpot: The backside of a picture hanging on the wall with the glass shattered into an X reveals the true commonality the test subjects share—they were all falsely convicted by Daniel's father, Eric.

[[folder:Other Nerve Gas House Victims]]
!!Other Nerve Gas House Victims (Gus Colyard, Jonas Singer, Laura Hunter, Addison Corday)
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->'''Played by:''' Tony Nappo (Gus), Glenn Plummer (Jonas), Emmanuelle Vaugier (Addison), Beverley Mitchell (Laura)

The rest of the unlucky group of convicts John Kramer abducted for the main game of ''Saw II''. While most of them are indeed real criminals, what they all have in common is that they were framed by [[DirtyCop Eric]] for crimes they didn't commit. This is to potentially complicate the situation by having Daniel in the game.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted. Jonas is among the last to die.
* BloodFromEveryOrifice: Discussed when John tells Eric that his son and the rest of the victims in the Nerve Gas House are doomed to this fate. Eventually averted, however, as the only victim who actually dies from the gas, Laura, only gets BloodFromTheMouth.
* BloodFromTheMouth: A sign of the progression of the toxin's effects in the Nerve Gas House is coughing or vomiting up blood, which several victims end up doing.
* BrokenBird: Both Laura and Addison give off shades of this, Laura with her general fragility and Addison with her general prickliness and fear of trusting others.
* DeathByIrony: The ''intention'' behind the house is for each victim to encounter an individually-tailored trap that could get them a dose of the antidote or kill them. However, the fast-acting nerve toxin and Xavier's rampage meant that most of the victims didn't even have a chance to discover their own tests.
* DisposableSexWorker: Addison's only crime besides her connection to Eric is once having attempted to proposition John before he became Jigsaw.
* EyeScream: Gus dies checking into the peephole of a door with a revolver waiting on the other side [[TooDumbToLive when he was repeatedly warned not to.]]
* KillEmAll: Everyone except Daniel and Amanda dies. Daniel wasn't even a real player, as Amanda was there to ensure his survival in preparation for Eric's game, meaning that all the victims basically failed.
* MoralityPet: Almost everyone, but particularly Daniel and Amanda, treats Laura protectively as she begins to weaken from the gas. The remaining survivors splinter after her death, though this is also because Daniel's connection to Eric has been exposed by that moment.
* NervousWreck: Laura is this in spades. Unfortunately, it contributes to her having the weakest will and she dies from the nerve gas quickly.
* SacrificialLamb: Laura, who is never presented as anything but kind and terrified, expires right before the rest of the cast begins to die en masse.
* SymbolicMutilation: In a WhatCouldHaveBeen example, Addison was originally going to have a different trap than the Razor Box (which was meant for Gus), in which she had to press her face onto a hot iron, sacrificing her looks (as a prostitute, that's one of her key features) to save her life.
* TeamDad: Jonas is by far the most reasonable member of the group, and tries to corral the rest of the party to work together. He even tries to relate to Xavier, but Xavier had gotten too AxCrazy by that point and ends up murdering him.
* TenLittleMurderVictims: A group of apparent strangers find themselves locked in an abandoned house, which is obviously full of Jigsaw's traps. They soon learn that something links them all together... And one of the "survivors" was actually in on it.
* TooDumbToLive:
** Gus ignores every warning to not use a key to open a certain door. When he peeks into the peephole, he subsequently [[MoeGreeneSpecial gets his eye blown out by the Magnum Eyehole]].
** Addison has the dubious honor of being seen as ''the'' dumbest victim in the series by the fandom and squandering what is likely the easiest trap of them all. The Razor Box Trap is a hanging glass box with two holes to put one's hands in to retrieve an antidote. The only catch is if the victim does this, [[SchmuckBait they will die from blood loss due to the holes being lined with trapping razor blades.]] However, on the other side of the box is a padlock with a key already loaded, meaning all the victim has to do to win is walk around the box. Addison, however, plunges her hands into the box the moment she enters the room and seals her fate. To be fair, though, she was ''extremely'' delirious from the nerve toxin by this point.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Gus dies when [[MoeGreeneSpecial his left eye is shot by the Magnum Eyehole]], with the ensuing blood getting his white shirt drenched in the process.
* WorfHadTheFlu: When Xavier attacks Jonas for the code number behind his neck, Jonas overpowers him, but briefly succumbs to the nerve gas. This allows Xavier to win the fight.

[[folder:Michael Marks]]
!!Michael Marks
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->'''Played by:''' Noam Jenkins

A former druggie, now police informant for Eric. He's introduced as the victim of the Death Mask trap in ''Saw II'', kickstarting the plot when Jigsaw calls out for Eric at the scene of his death.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Jigsaw kidnaps Michael because he despises his role as an informant, describing him as a "voyeur." While the role of a criminal informant can be dirty, especially when it concerns someone like Eric, an informant can be invaluable in assisting law enforcement in saving lives and catching criminals. Plus, the fact John describes Michael as such is [[{{Hypocrite}} pretty rich]], [[InsaneTrollLogic considering he spies extensively on his victim's personal lives before testing them.]]
* EyeScream: The key to his Death Mask is hidden behind one of his eyes, which Jigsaw encourages to gouge out with a dinky scalpel given to him.
* RageQuit: He gives up midway into his test, angrily throwing away his scalpel and screaming for help in vain until he dies.
* RapidFireNo: Shortly before the Death Mask closes.
* SymbolicMutilation: Michael was a police informant to a corrupt cop who spied on people. In his test, he has to cut out one of his eyes to get the key that will free him from the trap.
* TheStoolPigeon: He's a criminal informant for Eric.

!!''Saw III'' characters:

[[folder:Jeff Denlon]]
!!Jeff Denlon
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/AngusMacfadyen

The main character of ''Saw III''. His son was killed by a drunk driver. He is unable to let go, to the detriment of the rest of his family, including his daughter Corbett and his wife Lynn. Jigsaw devises a series of traps in an attempt to help him let go and forgive those responsible for his son's death.

* AbortedArc: In ''Saw IV'', the arc about saving his daughter by playing another game is abruptly cut short by Strahm shooting him dead.
* DecoyProtagonist: The last minute or so of ''Saw III'' sets him up as the protagonist for the next movie as well - "In order to save your daughter, you will need to play a game." Apparently the new writers brought in for ''IV'' didn't want to follow up on that plotline, since he's shot by Strahm seconds later.
** In a [[WhatCouldHaveBeen previous version]] of the ''Saw IV'' script, it was shown that Jeff had to play a game similar to Strahm's in ''Saw V'' but with saw blades, and would have had to get inside like a giant blender of sorts.[[note]]This idea was later reused for the Cycle Trap in ''Jigsaw''.[[/note]] He was still killed regardless.
* ExcessiveMourning: What brings him onto Jigsaw's radar: Jeff is consumed by grief over his son's death, to the point he's neglecting the rest of his family. His first scene has him getting angry at his daughter for taking a toy bear from his son's room. His game is all about getting him to let go of his grief and anger. Too bad it didn't take.
* PapaWolf: All of his rage is over the death of his son. Anyone even remotely involved with the boy's death is responsible in his eyes.
* ParentalNeglect: He's so busy grieving for his lost son that he has been neglecting his daughter.
* PyrrhicVictory: The only victory he can really be said to have is that of putting an end to Jigsaw and his apprentice. Not that it matters much, since it condemns his wife and daughter to death and he gets killed by Strahm.
* RevengeBeforeReason: His fatal flaw. He could have forgiven all those responsible, save them from death, and find peace for himself. He could have also chosen to live the rest of his life with his other family members, learning to live with his son's death. Yeah, he doesn't. The result? Every victim of the games dies, including his wife. Plus, his daughter remains missing and he gets killed by Strahm.
* TooDumbToLive: He draws his pistol (which was ''empty'' at the time) on an armed FBI agent who warned him to stand down. Although to be fair, Jeff was definitely not in the right state of mind with everything he went through.
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: When confronted with Timothy, he doesn't exactly feel too great about watching his torture device slowly kill him despite openly stating he's wanted to kill him for years. Jeff then tries to save him. Ironically, he didn't actually learn anything from this and tries to exact revenge on John after, [[DownerEnding which ends horribly for him.]]

[[folder:Lynn Denlon]]
!!Lynn Denlon
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->'''Played by:''' Bahar Soomekh

A major character in ''Saw III'', Lynn is kidnapped by Amanda and forced to perform brain surgery on John to keep him alive. In order to ensure her cooperation, a device is placed on her neck that is hooked up to John's heart monitor, ensuring she only lives as long as he does.

* DeadMansSwitch: John has his heart rate monitor hooked up to the Shotgun Collar, which will kill Lynn if he flatlines; he eventually does when Jeff kills him. This example of the trope has a twist in that it's not about preventing somebody from killing him, but coercing them into keeping him alive (despite John's late-stage cancer) for as long as possible.
* EmotionlessGirl: To some extent. Justified, as she's grieving for her and Jeff's deceased son.
* MeatgrinderSurgery: PlayedForDrama. Without a surgical theater or any real operating tools, she's forced to use a power drill and small circular saw to cut away a piece of John's skull and relieve the cranial pressure.
* NiceGirl: Despite cheating on her husband, Lynn isn't a bad person at all underneath her cold exterior. In fact, she's so genuinely sympathetic and kind she wins ''John Kramer's'' heart over a conversation, enough for him to order Amanda to remove her shotgun collar.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When John asks her how people will remember his horrific story, her response is short, but effective:
-->"A monster. A murderer."
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: She wears a white shirt when she's abducted and tested, and receives a bloody shot from the back by Amanda in the climax. The Shotgun Collar then seals her fate with LudicrousGibs when John flatlines.
* YourHeadAsplode: Her demise, thanks to her husband [[DeadMansSwitch killing John]].

[[folder:Troy]]
!!Troy
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->'''Played by:''' J. Larose

A repeat convict who is the first victim of Amanda Young's rigged inescapable traps.

* AssholeVictim: Potentially, as he is a known repeat offending criminal, though exactly what his crimes were are never elaborated on, so it's unclear how bad he was.
* AttackTheMouth: One of the chains is hooked into his lower jaw. It's the only one he's unable to remove in time.
* BitCharacter: His only real purpose is to foreshadow the fact that Amanda has started rigging traps.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He was mutilated by having chains pierced through his body, and was forced to pull them out before being blown up with a nail bomb.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: If you are knowledgeable, you may realize that removing the chain from his lower jaw would be impossible for him to do with his bare hands. This is a hint that his test was rigged to be nearly impossible to escape. Unless he could free himself from the other chains and grab the bomb to disarm it or throw it out one of the windows, he would have no way to survive. Even then, he would be forced to stay with his jaw hooked until help arrived, assuming he didn't bleed to death first.
* LudicrousGibs: From taking the explosion of a nail bomb point-blank.
* MortonsFork: Even if he had been able to remove the final chain in time, the door to the room was welded shut. Technically, despite the attempt to rig his test, he could have possibly survived by cheating and removing the visible batteries from the bomb's timer or throwing the bomb out the window, but with the mercilessly short timer of a minute and 37 seconds and no foreknowledge of the door being welded shut, his chance of surviving is still virtually nonexistent, due to just how much of the time he would have spent getting out of the chains.
* SymbolicMutilation: Troy repeatedly returned to prison despite having a good privileged life. In the Classroom Trap, numerous chains pierce his body and keep him enclosed like in a prison cell, which he has to pull out in order to free himself. Plus, the door to get out of the classroom was rigged by Amanda, which, while rendering the trap inescapable, can be seen as a metaphor to confinement.

[[folder:Victims of Jeff's Trial]]
!!Victims of Jeff's Trial (Danica Scott, Halden, Timothy Young)
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[[caption-width-right:248:Danica Scott]]
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->'''Played by:''' Debra Lynne [=McCabe=] (Danica), Barry Flatman (Halden), Mpho Koaho (Timothy)

A trio of people involved with the death of Jeff's son. Timothy Young recklessly ran over Dylan while drunk driving, causing a horrified Danica Scott to flee at the sight of the scene. As Danica was the only witness and did not testify, presiding judge Halden gave Timothy a light sentence of six months in prison. The game Jigsaw set up for Jeff has him simply run through a gauntlet of these people at his mercy, where he can satisfy his thirst for vengeance by leaving them to die or suffer some pain to save their lives and forgive them before confronting John Kramer.

* AccidentalChildKillerBackstory: Timothy was driving drunk when he struck and killed Jeff's son Dylan. He felt horrible about the accident, but that didn't stop Jigsaw from putting him in a DeathTrap to test Jeff's capacity for forgiveness.
* AssholeVictim: Subverted and deconstructed. All three of the victims are shown to be complex people with regrets and sympathetic qualities despite being involved with the accidental death of a child. The very idea of Jigsaw putting them into these death traps for honest mistakes in life calls into question how much of a sham his philosophy is throughout ''Saw III''.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath:
** Danica is left naked and tied up in a freezer room. She dies freezing to death when Jeff fails to save her in time.
** Halden is set to drown in the gore of rotting pig carcasses ground up above him, but it's subverted when Jeff saves his life. He later dies a comparatively much less horrific death of taking a shotgun blast to the side of his face.
** Timothy, the prime object of Jeff's obsession for vengeance, gets the worst of the three. He's put into a device known as "The Rack" that will twist all his limbs apart before his neck unless Jeff chooses to save him. Jeff fails to do so despite trying his hardest.
* FanDisservice: Danica in the Freezer Room; one movie critic once said that her scene may be the most un-erotic scene featuring a naked woman in all of horror movie history. She was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally]] going to wear just a tight T-shirt and panties, but the director Darren Lynn Bousman thought it would be too erotic for her to dress in such clothes and get wet, so they just decided to strip her completely.
* ForWantOfANail: If Halden hadn't died in such a stupid way, Jeff's confrontation with John may have gone very differently.
* ItsAllJunk: A brutal ''forced'' example. In order to be able to save Halden, Jeff must turn on an incinerator that will destroy his son's toys (which he's been keeping in pristine condition).
* TooDumbToLive: Halden stands directly in front of a shotgun's line of fire when Jeff was willing to take the blast to his arm to save Timothy.

!!''Saw IV'' characters:

[[folder:Cecil Adams]]
!!Cecil Adams
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->'''Played by:''' Billy Otis

A drug addict and a thief, Cecil was Jigsaw's first test subject. He first appears in ''Saw IV'' (in flashbacks), and makes another brief appearance in ''Saw VI'' (also in a flashback).

* AssholeVictim: Being a mugger responsible for the miscarriage of a baby in one of his muggings makes him deserve everything coming to him. Even though it was later revealed that he was pressured into robbing the clinic by [[spoiler: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.
* DrugsAreBad: Cecil is a drug addict, one of the reasons Jigsaw chooses to test him.
* FacialHorror: After going through the Knife Chair Trap, his face is caked in blood.
* FatalFlaw: 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.
* FiveFingerDiscount: 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.
* IllKillYou: The moment he's out of his test, he rages on about how John is going to die.
* PosthumousCharacter: Long dead before the series started, he was Jigsaw's first victim.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: He doesn't develop StockholmSyndrome or forgive John for putting him in a death trap. No, he's royally pissed off and once he gets out, he immediately bum-rushes him with every intent of kicking his ass.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: While he's not the only reason John became Jigsaw, him causing the miscarriage of John's son was essentially the beginning John's StartOfDarkness.
* VillainsWantMercy: 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.

[[folder:Brenda]]
!!Brenda
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->'''Played by:''' Sarain Boylan

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.

* AssholeVictim: She was a pimp who made women into her slaves. No one would miss her after she was thrown into a mirror.
* BareYourMidriff: Wears a shirt that reveals her navel.
* DirtyCoward: Tried to kill Rigg after she was saved only to be killed when he threw her into a mirror.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: She tries to kill Rigg after he saves her. However, she was ordered by Jigsaw to kill him should he save her.
* FemmeFatale: She was ordered to kill Rigg if he decided to save her.
* FlayedAlive: The trap starts to scalp her just as Rigg finds the three-digit number and saves her.
* LongHairIsFeminine: 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.
* TomboyishPonytail: Which is caught in her trap.
* VillainsWantMercy: She begged Rigg to save her even though he was told not to.

[[folder:Ivan Landsness]]
!!Ivan Landsness
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->'''Played by:''' Marty Adams

A serial rapist and proprietor of the run-down Alexander Motel. He becomes one of the subjects of Rigg's game.

* AnArmAndALeg: 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.
* AssholeVictim: 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.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He acts very friendly toward others in public, but in private is a sadistic rapist.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He tries to gouge out both his eyes, fails, and all his limbs are promptly torn off his body.
* DirtyCoward: 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.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He has a pet dog named Chance, whom he truly seems to love. Basically his only redeeming feature.
* EyeScream: 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.
* FatBastard: He's obese and a serial rapist.
* HateSink: Can you really sympathise with a serial rapist?
* KarmicDeath: 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.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: 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.
* SerialRapist: Raped several women, even filming and photographing the acts to watch again.
* TheSociopath: 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.
* SymbolicMutilation: 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.
* VillainsWantMercy: 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.

[[folder:Morgan and Rex]]
!!Morgan and Rex
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->'''Played by:''' Janet Land (Morgan), Ron Lea (Rex)

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.

* AlreadyDoneForYou: 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.
* AssholeVictim:
** 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.
* DomesticAbuse: Rex had regularly beaten his wife and daughter, Jane, into submission every day.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: 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.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: 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.

[[folder:Trevor]]
!!Trevor
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->'''Played by:''' Kevin Rushton

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.

* BitCharacter: 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. [[spoiler:He also appears in a CallBack in ''3D'' with the reveal that Dr. Gordon was the one who sewed his eyes shut.]]
* EyeScream: 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.
* ForWantOfANail: If he had only felt around the back of his neck, both he and Art could have gotten out of the situation easily.
* RiddleForTheAges: Unlike most victims, we never learn why Trevor was targeted.

!!''Saw V'' characters:

[[folder:Seth Baxter]]
!!Seth Baxter
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->'''Played by:''' Joris Jarsky

The boyfriend and murderer of Hoffman's sister. Hoffman used his knowledge of Jigsaw to kill him and frame Jigsaw. When the real Jigsaw found out, he blackmailed Hoffman into becoming his accomplice.

* AssholeVictim: Brutally murdered his girlfriend and received nowhere near the adequate punishment for it. That is, until Hoffman gets to him.
* BastardBoyfriend: He murdered his girlfriend, who also happened to be [[WifeBasherBasher Hoffman's sister]].
* BlatantLies: He claims the murder was an accident, but a flashback shows that his girlfriend's throat was slit. Yeah, he "accidentally" slit her throat.
* DirtyCoward: He whines, yells for help, says it was an [[BlatantLies accident,]] and has trouble even completing the task of crushing his hands.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: Eventually, the pendulum lowers itself enough that it begins to slowly cut him in half, despite completing his test.
* OffOnATechnicality: He was originally sentenced to life in prison, but was released after only five years due to an unexplained legal technicality.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His actions lead to Hoffman becoming Jigsaw's accomplice, and killing many, ''many'' people.
* VillainHasAPoint: 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.

[[folder:Angelina Acomb]]
!!Angelina Acomb
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->'''Played by:''' Sarah Power

-->''"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. She was brutally killed in a domestic dispute with her boyfriend, Seth Baxter. When her killer was released on a technicality, Hoffman killed him and framed it on Jigsaw in order to bring her justice.

* CradleOfLoneliness: The flashbacks of her death briefly show Hoffman cradling the hand of her corpse, and no one willing to pull him away.
* MonsterBrotherCutieSister:
** Implied; 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. [[SerialKiller Hoffman needs no explanation...]]
* MoralityPet: Seems to be this for Hoffman, as after she died, all hinges on him went loose.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: 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.
* PosthumousCharacter: She's only shown through brief flashbacks before and of her death.
* SlashedThroat: How she was killed by Seth.

[[folder:The Fatal Five]]
!!The Fatal Five (Brit Stevenson, Mallick Scott, Luba Gibbs, Charles Salomon, Ashley Kazon)
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->'''Played by:''' Julie Benz (Brit), Carlo Rota (Charles), Meagan Good (Luba), Laura Gordon (Ashley), Greg Bryke (Mallick)

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.

* AssholeVictim: 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 [[KarmicDeath Luba helps Mallick and leaves Charles to die instead.]]
* AnArmAndALeg: 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''.
* IdleRich: Mallick used his parents' money to finance his drug habit.
* IronLady: Brit is the senior vice president of a real estate development company, and will do sketchy things to get her work done her way.
* KarmaHoudini: 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.
* KillItWithFire: Mallick set a building with people living in it on fire, all to get a fix.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** 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.
* OffWithHerHead: Ashley is killed this way as the only victim of the first trial.
* OhCrap: 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 PowerOfTrust 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!
* PowerOfTrust: 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 ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, only Mallick and Brit make it to the end, with Brit making it clear she would have likely killed Mallick if she had to.
* PragmaticHero: Brit kills Luba instead of Mallick because he would be less likely to turn against her.
* SymbolicMutilation: 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.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Ashley is killed minutes into their introduction, and we barely learn anything about her other than her role in the arson.

!!''Saw VI'' characters:

[[folder:William Easton]]
!!William Easton
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/PeterOuterbridge

The main character of ''Saw VI''. He is the head of a local health insurance office and is in charge of, among other things, allowing or denying claims. One of his customers was John Kramer; Easton personally denied coverage for an experimental treatment for John's brain tumor. That was probably not a good idea.

* AllForNothing:
** 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, escalating things into a fight for no substantial reason. Unsurprisingly, Debbie's time runs out as a result, and she is killed.
** [[spoiler: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.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive:
** Subverted; Jigsaw 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 even tries to save everyone he can over the course of Jigsaw's test.
** It's still played straight in the clinic party scene, though, where William was talking with John, bragging about his so-called "formula" that he created himself to determine who gets coverage or not.
* DecoyProtagonist: As he realizes, [[spoiler:the main game isn't his: it's that of the family of one of the people he's let die]].
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:As the acid melts his torso, his upper body detaches itself.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: 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.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: He passes all the tests and learns his lesson about helping people. [[spoiler: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. They choose not to, as they never forgave him, and he dies one of the most violent and painful deaths in the series.]]
* SadisticChoice: 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.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: Despite learning his lesson and passing all his tests, [[spoiler:he dies one of the most violent and painful deaths in the series]].
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: William wears a white shirt during his trial, which is stained in blood from the beginning due to him having had [[TreasureChestCavity a key surgically placed inside him]]. [[spoiler:He's eventually killed in the Acid Room.]]

[[folder:Pamela Jenkins]]
!!Pamela Jenkins
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->'''Played by:''' Samantha Lemole

The sister of William Easton and supporting protagonist of ''Saw VI.'' 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.

* AllThereInTheManual: WordOfGod claims that Pamela is [[BreakTheCutie relatively]] fine after the events of the movie. She was planned to make a cameo in the survivor meetup in ''3D'', but she didn't make it into the film.
* BigNo: When [[spoiler:Brent decides to execute William]].
* BreakTheCutie: It doesn't get much worse than [[spoiler: seeing your sibling dissolved by acid in front of your own eyes.]]
* DamselInDistress: She is kept in a cage for most of the running time of ''Saw VI.''
* MotorMouth: Befitting her sensationalist nature, she's very chatty and has little sense of personal space, which draws the ire of Jill and Hoffman.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Her obsession with Jigsaw leads her to [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler:sabotage Hoffman's game]], making Hoffman go completely mad and have his identity ousted to the public when Jill seeks police protection in ''3D''.

[[folder:Tara and Brent Abbott]]
!!Tara and Brent Abbott
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/DevonBostick (Brent), Shauna [=MacDonald=] (Tara)

The remaining family of Harold Abbott, an ill man who William Easton coldly turned down health insurance for, leading to his death. For whatever reason, Jigsaw kidnapped Harold's family and left them in a cage adjacent to Pamela's with a timer counting down. [[spoiler: In reality, John Kramer had no intention to harm either Brent or Tara, but instead left them there for an opportunity to take revenge on William if he makes it through to the end of his test.]]

* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler: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...]]
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Brent knowingly [[spoiler:sentences a man to die by being dissolved in acid.]] To be fair, he is horrified immediately after this.
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: [[spoiler: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.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: They don't appear in the survivor meeting in ''Saw 3D'', but like with Pamela, WordOfGod says that this is due to Devon Bostick and Shauna [=MacDonald=] being too busy to reprise their roles.

[[folder:Hank]]
!!Hank
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->'''Played by:''' Gerry Mendicino
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 because he ''smokes'' despite a history of health issues.

* DisproportionateRetribution: 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.
* NoFullNameGiven: His surname is never stated.
* UnwinnableByDesign: The Oxygen Crusher consists of two contraptions consisted of two big metal clamps aiming at the victims' bodies from the sides. Once the game began, a highly sensitive pump measured their breathing activity. Each time one of them took a breath, the clamps would close in and eventually crush their body. Once someone dies, the trap would deactivate with the second victim free to go. However, due to Hank's smoking habits and health issues, there is legitimately no way he could ''ever'' win against William even if the latter intentionally tried to lose. Due to the expansive nature of William's trial, it seems Jigsaw was even aware of this and never expected Hank to win.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: One of the most underdeveloped victims in the series. We know his occupation and the ludicrous reason John tests him, but nothing more.

[[folder:Allen and Addy]]
!!Allen and Addy
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->'''Played by:''' Shawn Ahmed (Allen), Janelle Hutchison (Addy)
A pair of victims in William's trial, introduced after he wins his game against Hank. Their game is fairly simple, [[SadisticChoice with William merely choosing which one will be hanged]] and the other free to go.

* DisproportionateRetribution: 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 himself simply maintained William's files and documents, having no role in denying people insurance like his other workers.
* LonersAreFreaks: 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.
* NoFullNameGiven: Neither of them have stated surnames.
* WhatTheHellHero: Allen angrily calls William out when he realizes he chose Addy's life over his.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Allen is always seen wearing a white shirt, and is hanged bloodily in the Gallows.

[[folder:Debbie]]
!!Debbie
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->'''Played by:''' Caroline Cave
The third victim in William's trial. Debbie was William's lawyer and defended his corrupt policies by taking action against anyone that tried to take legal proceedings against him, like the Abbott family.

* AmoralAttorney: Debbie fiercely fought back against anyone that threatened William or his company's policies.
* AssholeVictim: Of all the victims with a connection to Easton, she was the most complicit in William's 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.
* BoomHeadshot: 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.
* CallBack: 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.
* FanDisservice: 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.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: 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 apprehension of being cut open, Debbie has no choice but to kill him.
* NoFullNameGiven: Her surname is never stated.

[[folder:Shotgun Carousel Victims]]
!!Shotgun Carousel Victims (Aaron, Emily, Gena, Dave, Shelby, Josh)
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->'''Played by:''' James Gilbert (Aaron), Larissa Gomes (Emily), Melanie Scrofano (Gena), Darius [=McCrary=] (Dave), Karen Cliche (Shelby), Shawn Mathieson (Josh)

A group of insurance analysts who used to work for William in finding errors in policies to potentially deny people health insurance. 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, [[SadisticChoice only two people could be saved while the other four inevitably had to die]].

* AintTooProudToBeg: 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.
* BadLiar: Gena makes a pathetic attempt at claiming she's pregnant to gain William's sympathy. The stilted acting and panic make it too obvious she's lying, however, and she's called out for it by the other victims.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: As aforementioned, their jobs were looking for loopholes in William's policies to deny people health insurance.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Josh has what is absolutely, without a doubt, the most badass death speech in the whole franchise.
-->"Aww, 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? Your policy is 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!'''"
* FaceDeathWithDignity: 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 FinalSpeech to William (listed under DyingMomentOfAwesome above), but he notably whimpers right before he's killed.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: In a 3-to-3 gender ratio, both survivors are women while all three men die.
* NoFullNameGiven: None of them have stated surnames.
* SymbolicMutilation: 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.
* TemptingFate: Aaron, the first victim to get killed.
-->'''Aaron:''' Listen to me, Mr. Easton. I am the one who should live! ''(is stopped before the gun first)'' Jesus Christ! Please, Mr. Easton! MR. EASTON! PLEASE! FOLLOW THE POLICY, MR. EASTON! DO IT! PLEASE! MR. EASTON, FOLLOW THE POLICY! FOLLOW THE POLICY! ''(gets killed by the gun)''

[[folder:Simone]]
!!Simone
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->'''Played by:''' Tanedra Howard
A predatory money lender. Introduced in the opening scene of ''Saw VI'' with her fellow lender, Eddie, she survives her game while Eddie dies. [[AnArmAndALeg At the expense of her arm.]]

* AnArmAndALeg: She chops off her left arm to survive her test.
* AssholeVictim: She lended money and put people into serious debt for her selfish gain. While she survives her game, she is not a sympathetic survivor, to say the least. That being said...
* BigNo: 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.
* JerkassHasAPoint: 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:''' [[SecretTestOfCharacter And did you?]]\\
'''Simone:''' [[RageBreakingPoint ...Look at me.]] Look [[AnArmAndALeg at my goddamn arm!]] What the FUCK am I supposed to learn from '''[[InsaneTrollLogic THIS]]''', huh?!
* NoFullNameGiven: His surname is never stated.
* StockholmSyndrome: 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 [[InsaneTrollLogic 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.
* SymbolicMutilation: The Pound of Flesh puts her against a fellow corrupt money lender, both giving all they had to give to survive.

[[folder:Eddie]]
!!Eddie
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->'''Played by:''' Marty Moreau

Another predatory money lender and the other victim in the opening trap of ''Saw VI'', who ends up dying.

* AssholeVictim: 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!"
* FatBastard: 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.
* NeverMyFault[=/=]NoHonorAmongThieves: 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.
* NoFullNameGiven: His surname is never stated.
* SymbolicMutilation: The Pound of Flesh puts him against a fellow corrupt money lender, both giving all they had to give to survive.

!!''Saw 3D'' characters:

[[folder:Bobby Dagen]]
!!Bobby Dagen
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/SeanPatrickFlanery

The main character of ''Saw 3D''. Bobby is a writer who realized that Jigsaw victims could make a lot of money by telling their story -- if they weren't so traumatized by the experience. To this end, Bobby decides to lie about being a victim, publish a book about his "experience", and go on the talk show circuit to rake in the cash and fame. Jigsaw takes issue with this...
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* AssholeVictim: By proxy. While he himself lives by the end of the film (albeit injured), [[spoiler:his friends and wife are killed due to him failing to save them]].
* BecomingTheBoast: He falsely claims to have survived one of Jigsaw's death traps, in which he put two hooks through his pectoral muscles and climbed the chains attached to them in order to pull himself up to safety. Guess what his final test is when he's put through one of Jigsaw's trials for real, with his wife Joyce's life on the line? [[spoiler:It's cruelly subverted when a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs, as the pectoral muscles simply aren't strong enough to support Bobby's full weight, and the hooks tear right out of his chest as he tries to climb the chains. Thanks to his lie, Bobby is ForcedToWatch as Joyce suffers one of the most brutal deaths in the entire series.]]
* BullyingADragon: Emphatically so. Impersonating a victim of a serial killer who victimizes frauds was only ever going to end one way.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: While Bobby's plan to make money isn't exactly terrible at a glance, he didn't make sure that Jigsaw was either dead or behind bars before publishing his false story.
* {{Determinator}}: Bobby is an asshole for lying, but he was fully willing to do what it took to keep his friends and wife alive, even if that meant ripping out his own back teeth and recreating the trap he described in the book that had gotten him there in the first place.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: To foreshadow the fact that Bobby's a liar (which isn't shown for quite a few minutes until his trial begins), his trap is nowhere to be actually seen in the flashback to it. Given how the series almost always shows traps in action, this is a clue that Bobby's made-up game never happened in reality.
* HappilyMarried: After getting fame for his false survival story against Jigsaw, he has a happy marriage with the woman he loves. Too bad the "happy" part was short-lived after he and anyone associated with him gets captured for one of Jigsaw's games. [[spoiler:Bobby ultimately fails at saving all of them.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His final test involves recreating the trap he lied about surviving in the first place: hoisting himself up by chains hooked through his chest muscles to stop a trap from springing. [[spoiler:His failure to recreate the trap as he described it cost him dearly.]] There were, however, several things he could have done instead that would have made the trap rather trivial to complete (for instance, the hooks were big enough for him to simply stand in), which was more than likely intentional on Jigsaw's part.
* ItsForABook: Inverted. After seeing people explaining their own experiences in Jigsaw traps, Bobby uses them to make up his own experience as the theme for a book, down to scarring his own pectorals like the scars of said victims to make it seem more real. The success of the book kickstarts the film's main game, where Bobby is put in an actual trial by Hoffman long after Jigsaw took notice of him.
* KarmaHoudini: Subverted. Although he lied about being a survivor of one of Jigsaw's traps [[OnlyInItForTheMoney simply to become rich and famous]], he survives his trial (which was the last one Hoffman ran) with only a few injuries. That being said, [[spoiler:his incompetence at successfully completing most of the traps lead to the deaths of his staff, best friend and wife]], and in all likelihood his career as a writer would be over with him being exposed as a fraud.
* LaserGuidedKarma: After lying about surviving his own Jigsaw game, John posthumously gets even by making him actually experience the games, only not to save himself, but to save those close to him. [[spoiler:Bobby ultimately proves incompetent with his challenges, as everyone he tried to save ends up dying grisly deaths, leaving him with nothing but guilt.]]
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The reason why he published his false story about being a victim of Jigsaw. It would allow him to earn quick cash.
* SymbolicMutilation: His final test is to recreate the trap he made up: piercing his pecs and hosting himself up to connect wires. [[spoiler:It doesn't work when he does it exactly that way]], but the hooks' size and design imply that he also had to think logically, since he couldn't have known if the trap would have been actually possible in reality.
* TooDumbToLive: Let's be honest, lying about being caught in a trap of a SerialKiller who specifically targets those who are guilty and liars is not a very smart move, especially while said criminal is ''active''. Bobby should have known that his name would eventually come next, or have at least published the story after the events of the third movie, when Jigsaw was already dead.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: While ''Saw 3D'' ends after his final test, Bobby's ultimate fate after his game is left unknown, since he remained in the psychiatric hospital after the SWAT team who came to stop the game was killed. Neither ''Jigsaw'' nor ''Spiral'' add any information about his aftermath.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Victims of Bobby's Trial]]
!!Victims of Bobby's Trial (Cale, Suzanne, Nina, Joyce Dagen)
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[[caption-width-right:350:Suzanne]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Nina]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Joyce Dagen]]
->'''Played by:''' Dean Armstrong (Cale), Rebecca Marshall (Suzanne), Naomi Snieckus (Nina), Gina Holden (Joyce)

Bobby's best friend (Cale), lawyer (Suzanne), publicist (Nina) and wife (Joyce), kidnapped by Jigsaw for being complicit in his falsified story about surviving a Jigsaw game.
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* AmoralAttorney: Since Suzanne was Bobby's lawyer during his scheme, handling the legal work, she counts as this as she knew she was defending his lies for money.
* AssholeVictim: All of them except Joyce, who was the only one kept in the dark about Bobby's lies and was only presented as a good person.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Joyce gets burned alive by a ''brazen bull'' for Bobby's failures, which is horrifying for someone who did nothing wrong.
* DisproportionateRetribution: While Joyce enjoyed the money from Bobby's false story, she didn't know he was lying. As a result, apart from being his unwitting wife, she literally did nothing to warrant being a victim of Jigsaw.
* NoFullNameGiven: Joyce is the only one of the victims with a stated surname.
* TooDumbToLive: Nina's trap advances faster if she screams during Bobby's attempts at saving her. Despite having a right to be afraid, Bobby repeatedly warns her to not scream and was doing well in fishing out the key to her survival. She keeps screaming regardless and [[spoiler:promptly dies]], causing Bobby to lampshade her idiocy [[spoiler:post-mortem]].
** In addition, Suzanne and Cale could also count, as they should have know taking part in this scheme would also make them targets of Jigsaw.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: A deleted scene from the movie reveals that Cale was the one who suggested Bobby to pretend to be a Jigsaw survivor, thus kickstarting the main game of the movie.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Brad and Ryan]]
!!Brad and Ryan
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[[caption-width-right:350:Brad]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Ryan]]
->'''Played by:''' Sebastian Pigott (Brad), Jon Cor (Ryan)

Two teenaged victims of the opening trap in ''3D'', the Public Execution Trap. Deceived by a two-timing gold digger named Dina, they decide she's not worth it and let her die to save their lives instead.
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* CockFight: They spend a good minute trying to kill each other, [[SubvertedTrope until they realize]] that Dina was a two-timing, backstabbing adulterer who was playing them both, causing them to put BrosBeforeHoes and get her cut in half.
* FaceHeelTurn: WordOfGod claims that they were the two pig-masked men who [[spoiler:helped Lawrence in subduing Hoffman]].
* LoveTriangle: They were both involved in relationships with Dina, so in the Public Execution Trap, Jigsaw gives them the choice to either attempt to kill each other with a table of saws in order to "prove who is the alpha male", or leave Dina to die. However, unlike most examples of this trope, the love triangle isn't resolved in favor of either "competitor", as when Dina's loyalty switches between whoever happens to be winning, both of them are convinced to call it a draw and allow Dina to be killed instead.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Invoked and then subverted. They can either fight to the death over the woman they both love or let her die instead. Realizing that she doesn't care which one of them dies so long as one of them saves her, they agree to let her die so both of them can survive.
* NoFullNameGiven: Their surnames are never stated.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Brad and Ryan's friendship was fractured by Dina's deception, but they reconcile after their test.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Dina]]
!!Dina
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->'''Played by:''' Anne Lee Greene

The girlfriend of Brad and Ryan, who manipulated them into committing crimes for her and played them against each other.
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* AssholeVictim: She played her boyfriends against each other and got them to steal things for her to try and impress her. In the trap, she doesn't hesitate to try and get both of her boyfriends to kill the other so her own life can be saved. This eventually backfires on her as Brad and Ryan take notice of it and decide to sacrifice her instead.
* FanDisservice: Dina is probably the biggest fanservice material in the whole franchise... until she's sawn in half and her intestines spill out, anyway.
* ManipulativeBitch: She manipulated Brad and Ryan to steal for her, and tries to get each of them to kill the other so her own life can be spared.
* NoFullNameGiven: Her surname is never stated.
* OpinionFlipFlop: When Brad starts to get the upper hand, Dina roots for him to kill Ryan. When Ryan starts to turn the tables, she starts rooting for Ryan. This gets them to see that she really doesn't love either of them, which prompts them to let her die.
* SayingTooMuch: Dina makes a mistake that proves fatal to her: she first cheers for Brad when it looks like Brad might win, but then when Ryan starts winning she immediately switches and starts cheering for Ryan. The fact that Dina is willing to "love" whichever man kills the other causes Ryan to realize that she doesn't genuinely love ''either'' man (or she would have been cheering only for the one she loved), so he voluntarily gives up the struggle and convinces Brad to do the same, and Dina is killed instead.
* TooDumbToLive: Had she not rooted for Brad and Ryan to kill each other, she may have lived.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Skinheads]]
!!The Skinheads (Evan, Kara, Dan, Jake)
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[[caption-width-right:350:Kara]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Dan]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Jake]]
->'''Played by:''' [[Music/LinkinPark Chester Bennington]] (Evan), Gabby West (Kara), Dru Viergever (Dan), Benjamin Clost (Jake)

A gang of Neo-Nazi skinheads that Hoffman decides to test with a trap of his own while on the run from the law. They are the victims of the Horsepower Trap.
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* AssholeVictim: Every last one of them.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:As a result of Evan failing to win his game on time, Kara gets her face disintegrated by a moving tire, Dan's arms and jaw are torn off when Evan's car goes out of control, and Evan himself is sent flying out a windshield with all the skin on his back forcibly torn off his body, bleeding to death. Averted with Jake, who is simply run over by the front of the car Evan is in.]]
* FlayedAlive: In the Horsepower Trap, Evan is superglued into the driver's seat of a car. In order to save himself and the others, he has to pull himself loose by ripping off the skin from his arms and back.
* HateCrimesAreASpecialKindOfEvil: As a group of racists, Hoffman tests them for this reason.
* NoFullNameGiven: None of them have stated surnames.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Being white supremacist skinheads, this is a given.
* SymbolicMutilation: They're put in a trap for being racists, in which Evan's competence is fundamental for the others' lives. His task? Peeling the skin off his back to reach the lever that will stop the trap.
[[/folder]]

!!''Jigsaw'' characters:

[[folder:Logan Nelson]]
!!Logan Nelson
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->'''Played by:''' Creator/MattPassmore

The main character of ''Jigsaw''. Logan is a military veteran who served in Iraq, where he experienced trauma that led to his discharge and has remained with him up to the present. Currently, he's a medical examiner who works with the police. When the Jigsaw murders start up again, he is eventually made into a suspect.
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* ActionDad: He has a daughter, and he can also hold his own in a fight as a veteran.
* CatchPhrase: "I speak for the dead."
* TheCoroner: He's the main medical examiner involved in the second Jigsaw killing spree.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Was tortured as a prisoner of war during his time as a military medic.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: He has several scars on his back, which we are led to believe are from when he was tortured.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Eleanor Bonneville]]
!!Eleanor Bonneville
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->'''Played by:''' Hannah Emily Anderson

An assistant medical examiner assisting Logan in investigating the new Jigsaw murders, she is quickly made a suspect along with Logan for her fascination with the morbid.
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* TheCoroner: An assisting one to Logan, specifically.
* HospitalHottie: A extremely attractive medical examiner.
* NightmareFetishist: She is absolutely obsessed with Jigsaw, to the point of trolling the dark web for sites and information on him and having an entire warehouse full of replicas of the various traps he built over the course of the series. [[EveryoneHasStandards But she is offended when Logan asks if she "gets off on this shit.'']]
* RedHerring: The viewers are led to believe that she's the new Jigsaw killer because she's a {{Fangirl}} of Jigsaw and has built replicas of many of his previous traps, but the real killer is [[spoiler: Logan]].
* SmokingIsCool: Smokes a cigarette while Logan walks around and explores her studio.
* StalkerShrine: She has one detailing most of Jigsaw's traps, including the Spiralizer.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ryan]]
!!Ryan
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->'''Played by:''' Paul Braunstein, Ryan Manning (young)

A victim of the barn game and the tertiary protagonist of ''Jigsaw''. While he's no saint, Ryan reluctantly takes a leadership role in the game with the questionable mental states of his fellow victims.
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* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:He gets caught in a booby trap that slices his leg into three pieces.]]
* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:His possible fate after Anna destroys the keys for his last test. However, not only is Ryan implied to have taken it in stride, he possibly bled to death before dehydration or starvation would do him in.]]
* AssholeVictim: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. [[spoiler:Back in high school, his drunken reckless behavior caused a car accident that killed two of his friends and another driver, then he incriminated one of the said friends for it. As if this wasn't enough, he committed other crimes afterwards, like selling credits that could not be paid, selling cocaine, not paying state taxes, and cheating on his two wives. While pretty bad things, he's still one of the ''least'' reprehensible of the people in his game,[[labelnote:*]]Mitch knowingly sold a faulty motorcycle that got John's nephew killed, Anna killed her baby and framed her husband who proceeded to [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]], and Carly got an asthmatic woman she stole a purse from killed due to taking her inhaler. Logan is the only one less reprehensible since his only crime was accidentally mislabeling the x-ray that could have detected John's cancer earlier.[[/labelnote]] and none of that was really worthy of him bleeding out on a dirty barn floor.]]
* CallBack: Him trying to break open a door with a shovel is similar to a scene in ''Saw II'', where Xavier does the same with a studded baseball bat.
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: [[spoiler:When he's faced with the dilemma of losing his leg to save Anna and Mitch from the Grain Silo Trap, he adamantly refuses at first. After hearing enough of their desperate pleas, however, Ryan caves and gives up his leg.]]
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:When he realizes he's doomed, he sincerely apologizes for everything bad he's done in life and lies down quietly next to Anna's corpse. The fact his corpse is in the same position in the present implies he didn't try to escape his fate (not that he could).]]
* FatalFlaw: His temper and impulsiveness. The first instance of this is when he ignores Anna and Mitch's suggestions to not go through a door that Jigsaw warned them not to open. He loses a leg for this. The second and fatal instance of this is when [[spoiler:Anna decides to kill him, believing that's the answer to the riddle behind their final test. Rather than try to reason with her, he immediately begins to panic and calls her a "psycho bitch," provoking her to finalize her decision to kill him.]]
* FlippingTheBird: In the barn game's first trap, he does this towards the speaker from which the instructions are told, complete with a loud "FUCK YOU!".
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: [[spoiler:Ryan kills Carly when she refuses to make a critical decision, which would kill everyone in the game. When Mitch and Anna chew him out for it, he points this out to justify himself.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Ryan is a very unpleasant man who's easy to anger.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ryan is fairly abrasive, unfaithful to his two wives, reckless, and irresponsible. But unlike many of the other Barn victims, he is not nearly as self-absorbed or ill-intentioned. [[spoiler:The deaths he caused are genuinely accidental, albeit brought on by his own recklessness. He also cuts off his own leg to save Mitch and Anna, then refuses to shoot Anna at the end. He even tries to warn her at the last second what will happen if she fires the gun.]]
* NoFullNameGiven: Like most of the other barn game victims, his surname is never stated.
* ThatLiarLies: When Carly hesitates to tell the truth about what she did. "YOU'RE LYING! YOU'RE LYING!"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mitch]]
!!Mitch
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->'''Played by:''' Mandela Van Peebles

A victim of the barn game.
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* AssholeVictim: Despite passing himself off as a NiceGuy, he [[spoiler:knowingly sold a bike with faulty brakes to a young man who just so happened to be Jigsaw's nephew, and covered it up in order to get full price for it, directly leading to the man's death in an accident. He ends up being sliced apart in a blender-like trap powered by [[KarmicDeath a motorbike that had the exact engine from the original bike that he sold]]]].
* FlayedAlive: [[spoiler:He's sent tumbling into the coils of the Cycle Trap [[CheatersNeverProsper when Anna tries to help him get through it]] and is spat out as a mutilated corpse.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Mitch's attempt to just cut his finger in the first game, only to have the chain jerk him forward and spill much more blood, foreshadows his reticence to reach his hand out to pull the brake in his trap later on, [[spoiler:which ultimately dooms him]].
* {{Greed}}: [[spoiler:He knowingly sold a defective bike to a man and could only look at the cash rather than think of the consequences.]]
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:The faulty engine fueling the Cycle Trap that mutilates Mitch belongs to the bike he sold to John's nephew.]]
* NoFullNameGiven: Like most of the other barn game victims, his surname is never stated.
* TooDumbToLive: Anna's interference with Mitch's trap disables the coils for a few minutes. Rather than use the time to pick up the handbrake that would ensure the trap is permanently disabled, Mitch simply celebrates thinking he's in the clear.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Carly]]
!!Carly
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->'''Played by:''' Brittany Allen

A victim of the barn game.
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* AmbiguousDisorder: Carly's constant nervousness, pathological refusal to admit fault and thieving tendencies are indicative of narcissistic personality disorder.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:She's a purse snatcher who stole from an asthmatic woman, leading to the woman having an attack and dying. Carly could have helped her but chose to run away with $3.53.]] [[DirtyCoward She refuses to risk her life for the other players despite the fact that all of them will die if she doesn't]], [[spoiler:and gets acid injected into her throat, dying an incredibly painful death]].
* BloodFromEveryOrifice: This is how she dies when [[spoiler:Ryan injects the three syringes of the Chain Hangers into her]].
* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: [[spoiler:In the past, Carly robbed an asthmatic woman of her purse. Upon discovering her inhaler in the bag, she felt guilt over it and tried to return it to her. Unfortunately, she came back to find the woman already died of stress. This didn't stop Carly from keeping her money afterwards, which is probably one of the main reasons John tested her.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Carly is forced into a decision where she must pick one of three syringes that will force her to confess how much money she stole from a woman that died from her thieving. She refuses to do so, and to save the group, Ryan injects her with all three. As a result, Carly is literally melted from the inside out by acid.]]
* NeverMyFault: Deconstructed. Unlike the rest of the group, Carly is adamant about not admitting any wrongdoing in the past, not even twisting a narrative to better suit her [[spoiler:[[BitchInSheepsClothing like with Anna]]. As this would kill all the victims, Ryan kills Carly to save them]].
* NoFullNameGiven: Like most of the other barn game victims, her surname is never stated.
[[/folder]]

!!Short film characters:

[[folder:Rich Skidmore]]
!!Rich Skidmore
->'''Played by:''' Rich Skidmore

-->''"His targets come from all walks of life and somehow seem to disappear without a trace only to be found later, the victims of a grisly game involving torture and ultimately death."''

The host of the ''Full Disclosure Report'' documentary series, which addresses the aftermath of the film's events in the short film of the same title.
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* AsHimself: He has the same name as his actor.
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!!Scott Tibbs
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->'''Played by:''' Zach Starr

-->''"I'm gonna prove that I can survive a brush with death and come out stronger in the end!"''

The frontman of the in-universe band Wrath of the Gods and Adam's best friend. When Adam goes missing with found connections to the Jigsaw case, he decides to make a documentary regarding Jigsaw in ''The Scott Tibbs Documentary'', eventually setting up a Jigsaw-esque trap with his bandmates for him to test in order to see if Jigsaw's method actually works.
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* AscendedExtra: Scott was first mentioned by Adam in the first film. He then became the central character of ''The Scott Tibbs Documentary''.
* AxCrazy: Downplayed. While he's not violently unhinged or murderous, he progressively becomes more psychotic as he isn't able to get any information in regards to the Jigsaw case. It culminates in him building a copycat trap with his bandmates, which he tests himself in order to prove John's philosophy.
* UncertainDoom: Scott's fate in his trap is left unknown, as the outcome isn't seen due to his bandmates taking the camera and leaving the room he's in before the trap's timer runs out. He does panic and yell at the bandmates just before the timer ends, though, so his chance of survival isn't probably good.
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** [[Characters/SawIToIII I to III]] '''(all spoilers unmarked!)'''
** [[Characters/SawIVToVI IV to VI]]
** [[Characters/Saw3DToJigsaw 3D to Jigsaw]]

A major character in ''Saw III'', Lynn is kidnapped by Amanda and forced to perform brain surgery on John Kramer to keep him alive. In order to ensure her cooperation, a device is placed on her neck that is hooked up to John's heart monitor, ensuring she only lives as long as he does.

* BigNo: [[spoiler: When Brent decides to execute William.]]

* RevengeBeforeReason: [[spoiler: 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...]]
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Brent knowingly [[spoiler: sentences a man to die by being dissolved in acid.]] To be fair, he is horrified immediately after this.
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: [[spoiler: 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.]]

* FatalFamilyPhoto: Notably averted. Gordon shows Adam a picture of his family in the first movie, and yet he is still alive in the seventh one. Considering the series' ludicrously high mortality rate, his survival would be impressive even if he didn't tempt fate with this trope.

* FaceHeelTurn: WordOfGod claims that Brad and Ryan [[spoiler:were the two pig men accompanying Lawrence in subduing Hoffman at the end]].

** Adam is ultimately left to die in the pitch-black bathroom.

** One of the smaller interactions he has with Lawrence is a perfect example. When Lawrence tosses him his wallet to show him a picture of his wife and daughter, Adam flips through it and sees that the original picture is replaced with one of Alison and Diana, gagged and trapped, left there for Lawrence to find. Adam, very shakily, lies and tells Lawrence that the original picture of them isn't there. When he throws Lawrence his wallet back later on and he sees the real photo, he tearily asks why Adam didn't show it to him, and he just says, "I couldn't." He knew how much pain it would put Lawrence in to see his family in danger, and even ''apologizes to him for not telling him.'' That's some tender-hearted shit right there.

* KarmaHoudini: Despite Brit and Mallick being involved in an arson and the fact that Hoffman left evidence of it at the scene, both are walking free by the time of ''Saw 3D'' with no apparent legal punishment whatsoever.

* KarmaHoudini: Despite Brit and Mallick being involved with such a horrible arson and the fact that Hoffman left evidence of it at the scene, both are walking free by the time of ''Saw 3D'' with no apparent legal punishment whatsoever.

* KarmaHoudini: Despite Brit and Mallick being involved with such a horrible arson, both are walking free by the time of ''Saw 3D'' despite Jigsaw leaving evidence of their involvement at the scene.

* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: [[spoiler:In the past, Carly robbed an asthmatic woman of her purse. Upon discovering her inhaler in the bag, she felt guilt over it and tried to return it to her. Unfortunately, she came back to find the woman already died of stress. This did not stop Carly from keeping her money afterward, which was probably a huge factor in John testing her.]]

* NiceGuy: Even if his job was a little seedy. He expresses genuine concern about Lawrence's family, tries to comfort him and calm him down as he's breaking down towards the end of the film, and beats his would-be murderer to death. He didn't do his job to spy on people; like he said, he just needed to eat. He was undoubtedly one of the nicest people in the franchise, and fans agree that he definitely did not deserve the horrible fate he got.

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: The reason why he published his false story about being a victim of Jigsaw; it would allow him to earn quick cash.

* SymbolicMutilation: His final test is to recreate the trap he made up: piercing his pecs and hosting himself up to connect wires. [[spoiler:It doesn't work when he does it exactly that way]], but the hooks' size and design imply that he also had to think logically, since he couldn't have known the trap would have been actually possible in reality.

* KillEmAll: Everyone except Daniel and Amanda dies. Daniel wasn't even actually a real player, as Amanda was there to ensure his survival in preparation for Eric's game, meaning that all the victims basically failed.

--> "I know about your sister. I know how you cared for her. I know she was your only family."
-->-- '''John Kramer about Angelina'''

Mark Hoffman's beloved sister and only known family member. She is brutally killed in a domestic dispute with her boyfriend, Seth Baxter. When her killer is released on a technicality, Hoffman kills him and frames it on Jigsaw in order to bring her justice.

** Implied; to Hoffman's monster brother. Though her screen time is limited, the articles posted about her death imply she was the kinder of the two of them. [[SerialKiller Hoffman needs no explanation...]]
* MoralityPet: Seems to be this for Mark Hoffman, as after she died all hinges on him went loose.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Her death is the start of Hoffman's mental spiral and delve into alcoholism. This leads to his murder of [[BastardBoyfriend Seth Baxtor]] and triggers the rest of the events of Saw V.
* PosthumousCharacter: She is only shown through brief flashbacks before and of her death.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: His final test involves recreating the trap he lied about surviving in the first place: hoisting himself up by chains hooked through his chest muscles to stop a trap from springing. [[spoiler:His failure to recreate the trap as he described it cost him dearly. There were, however, several things he could have done instead that would have made the trap rather trivial to complete (for instance, the hooks were big enough for him to simply stand in), which was more than likely intentional on Jigsaw's part.]]

A group of victims that used to work for William in finding errors in policies to potentially deny people health insurance. To survive, the test subjects had 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, [[SadisticChoice only two people could be saved while the other four inevitably had to die.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:From left to right: Gus, Daniel, Jonas, Amanda, Laura, and (obscured) Addison ]]