History Film / SawII

* PsychopathicManchild: When Xavier fails to reach the antidote in time after Amanda gives him the key, he starts sobbing and flipping out like a little kid. He even blames her for his own inability to get the key into the lock in time (even dropping it once), and moves threateningly to hurt her before Jonas stops him.

* PsychopathicManchild: After Xavier fails to reach the antidote in time after Amanda gives him the key, he starts sobbing and flipping out like a little kid. He even blames her for his own inability to get the key into the lock in time (even dropping it once), and moves threateningly to hurt her before Jonas stops him.

* PsychopathicManchild: After Xavier fails to reach the antidote in time after Amanda gives him the key, he starts sobbing and flipping out like a little kid. He even seemingly blames her for his own inability to get the key into the lock in time (and even dropping it once), and moves threateningly to hurt her before Jonas stops him.

** Laura, who appears to be the most innocent of the Nerve Gas House victims aside from Daniel, breaks down crying at the halfway point, lamenting about her possible death and the fact that she's going to miss out on so many years of her life so many people to meet if she dies.

* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Eric is seen smoking at least four times in ''Saw II'', once during his argument with Daniel after the latter was busted for shoplifting, and another while calling Daniel to apologize for the aforementioned event.

* EnclosedSpace: [[spoiler:After the Nerve Gas House game ended, Daniel is abducted and placed into a small metal container with an oxygen mask on his face.]]

* FailedASpotCheck: Obi's tape ends by saying "When you're in Hell, only the Devil can get you out." While inside the Furnace, Obi doesn't seem to notice a drawing of a devil-like figure on the furnace wall, next to a valve that would have turned off the gas, thus allowing him to escape. However, it was confirmed by WordOfGod that Obi was going to have a phobia towards fire, so even if he did see it, he may have been too paralyzed with fear to try to reach it, as it was behind a wall of flames.

* {{Fingore}}: A common depiction in the movie's posters (a less graphic version of which is pictured above) is a pair of severed fingers with a decayed appearance, taking place as the "II" in the film's title.

* GasChamber: The Nerve Gas House slowly fills up with gas, with the victims having to search for hidden antidotes in order to survive.

* NervesOfSteel: Xavier holds a knife to Obi's throat to threaten him into entering a trap to retrieve antidotes. Not only does Obi not do so much as flinch, he willingly reaches up and drags the knife across his own throat, remarking how if Xavier was gonna threaten him with a knife, "[he] may as well cut [Obi] a little". He then climbs into the trap without any further prompting.

* PaperDestructionOfAnger: As he gets frustrated, Eric rips apart numerous papers with plans for traps in an attempt to taunt John.

* PatiencePlot: Jigsaw's test for Eric is pretty much designed around this, wanting him to simply listen to his life story and philosophy for why he does his actions under a certain time limit so he can see his son again, who's currently trapped in a building with others that's being pumped with nerve gas. [[spoiler: Eric, however, becomes too impatient at the halfway mark and ultimately threatens Jigsaw into telling him where his son is, and Jigsaw tricks him into going into a false location. Turns out Jigsaw was being truthful, as the game that was being played on the other end and shown on the monitors was pre-recorded, meaning the events in the building had already transpired. His son had already survived the game and was in a safe underneath Eric the entire time. If Eric's anger hadn't got the better of him and he managed to wait out the time limit, he would've found his son safe and sound.]]

* PoisonAndCureGambit: The main game's victims are trapped in a house that's filling up with DeadlyGas, with multiple antidotes scattered throughout and locked behind various traps.

* PredatorTurnedProtector: [[spoiler:Though Amanda was sent into the Nerve Gas House as a set of eyes and ears for Jigsaw and was in on the plan the whole time, she develops a sense of responsibility for Daniel, him being just a teenager and really only being in the house because of his father's actions. She speaks openly with him and the two of them cling to each other as they run from Xavier. She's genuinely heartbroken when she thinks Daniel succumbed to the poison and died, and clings to him when he's crying after he kills Xavier. She also, for the majority of the film, Amanda is either in the same room as him or near him at every location he visits in the house, likely to subtly intervene if things went wrong and he ended up in real danger.]]

* RabidCop: [[spoiler:It's revealed that Eric has a very nasty record of violence towards most of the suspects, and near the end of the film he [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beats John to a bloody pulp]].]]

* TheSnarkKnight: Amanda. After her initial BigNo realization she's in another Jigsaw trap, Amanda falls into this role, keeping on the peripheral, occasionally telling people to listen to instructions instead of going off half-cocked, and staying closed off from pretty much everyone except Daniel and partially Laura. She definitely has an air of world-weary disdain over the situation she's in, and some of the others trapped in the house, as well as herself, telling Daniel the reason she's being tested again is because she was so psychologically damaged from the first trap that she tried to kill herself. [[spoiler: Subverted when we find out that she's Jigsaw's apprentice, and her distant demeanor was largely so the other test subjects could learn the hard way from the traps, and that her suicide attempt was actually encouraged by Jigsaw.]]

* TenLittleMurderVictims: The main game has a group of apparent strangers finding themselves locked in an abandoned house, which is obviously full of Jigsaw's traps. [[spoiler:They soon learn that something links them all together... And one of the "survivors" was actually in on it.]]

*** The group later finds a furnace with an antidote inside of it, which Obi volunteers to retrieve (since the trap was made for him in mind anyway). He walks into the furnace and, after nothing bad happens when h removes the first syringe, goes for the second and ''grabs it without a second thought'', [[spoiler:immediately locking the exit door, setting the furnace off and burning him to death. If he took the time to look around inside, he would have seen the valve that turns the fire off, but once he notices its existence it's already too late, Also, the second syringe was clearly attached to a pull chain, but instead of removing the syringe from the chain itself, he just pulled the syringe and the chain down together.]]
*** [[spoiler:Addison, after sticking her hand inside of the Razor Box and having it get caught, immediately ''pushes the other hand inside''! There was also a key on the back of the box that could have opened it up safely, but she didn't take the time to look and wound up trapped. In Addison's defense, she was pretty heavily under the effects of the nerve gas by that point, even having trouble walking straight. If her motor function was that affected, it stands to reasoning her critical-thinking skills would also be pretty badly affected as well.]]
** There's also the fact that there's an antidote in a safe, and the combination numbers are written [[spoiler:on the back of each victim's neck. If everyone had just worked together and acted less impulsively, somebody would likely have noticed this rather quickly and that antidote would have been theirs]].

* TreasureChestCavity: In the Death Mask, Michael has a key implanted behind one of his eyes, which he has to take out in order to deactivate it and survive. Despite said eye appearing damaged enough to remove it safely, Michael hesitates to do so, having never done such a thing before, which leads to his death.

** Kerry delivers one when she realizes that [[spoiler:the Nerve Gas House's footage was pre-recorded. "It's not live."]]
** At the end, when Eric [[spoiler:pushes the play button on the tape recorder in his hand, instead of Jigsaw's voice, it's Amanda's, who says "Hello, Eric..."]]
* WhamShot: When they finally find the Nerve Gas House, the SWAT team enters a room with [[spoiler:several monitors and [=DVRs=], one of which says "PLAY." When they press pause, both the footage in the house and at Jigsaw's workshop freezes]].

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Eric ends the film trapped in the bathroom from the first film, in the dark, with seemingly no way to free himself, and with a rotting corpse, looking at a slow death from dehydration or starvation. And he does scream, although a lot of it is expletives.]]

* {{Pun}}: Several, which overlap with EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor.

* AxCrazy: Xavier starts down this road when he kills Jonas with a spiked bat in a fight. Then he gets much worse once he [[spoiler:figures out how to get the combination to the safe, reading the numbers on all the corpses' necks, leaving Addison to bleed out in a trap, slicing a patch of skin off the back of his own neck, and trying to kill Amanda and Daniel]].

* AxCrazy: When he [[spoiler:realizes how to get the combination to the safe]], Xavier goes on a rampage, [[spoiler:killing Jonas with his nail-studded bat, leaving Addison to bleed out in a trap, and trying to kill Amanda and Daniel]].

--->'''Amanda:''' "He's testing us! He wants us to survive this. But you have to play by the fucking RULES!"

* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:Xavier's aggressive, self-centered attitude and refusal to cooperate creates ''many'' needless problems for the group, and leads to the deaths of several people. When Jonas questions him about it, he states he just likes pitting himself against others. Perhaps his biggest transgression is picking up on the fact that the numbers of the safe combination are on the back of people's necks and ''not sharing it with anybody'', instead approaching people menacingly without telling them what he's doing, which is universally perceived as a threat.]]

* ShaggyDogStory: Several traps end with people going through hell but ultimately making zero progress for the group.

* PsychoStrings: The soundtrack that plays during Amanda's struggle in the Needle Pit once she gets up features this prominently, although not over its whole length.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Everyone in the Nerve Gas House 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.]]

** One moment towards the end mirrors a moment towards the end of the first film, with both in the same Bathroom to boot. In the first movie, Lawrence presumably shoots Adam dead before Zep enters the room, and as Zep's about to shoot Lawrence, Adam [[NotQuiteDead suddenly gets up]] -- [[OnlyAFleshWound having only been shot in the shoulder]] -- and kills Zep. In this movie, [[spoiler:Daniel presumably dies from the toxin before Xavier enters the room, and as he advances towards Amanda to get her number, Daniel suddenly gets up -- having only rested his eyes -- and kills Xavier]].

* ClusterFBomb: The final words of the film, [[spoiler:screamed by Eric to Amanda as she seals him in the bathroom]].

** When Jigsaw gives Michael a hint as to where the key for his mask is (flashing a picture of his X-ray, revealing that the key is located behind his right eye), he quips "It's ''right'' before your ''eyes''", and even gives a sinister chuckle afterwards.
** Jigsaw telling Eric that his son is in a "''safe'' and secure place" is also this, as [[spoiler:the ending reveals that he was quite literally in a safe a short distance away from Eric the entire time]].

* NightmarishNursery: The room with the Needle Pit appears to have been originally made as a bedroom for a baby or young child, given details like wall sketches of "ABC" and baby bottles, and a pair of dolls alongside a chair.

* ExactWords:
** John tells Eric that if they talk long enough, Eric will find his kidnapped son in "a safe and secure place." [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, it's revealed that Eric's son was locked in a ''safe'' in John's hideout, just a few feet away from Eric the whole time, and quite literally all he needed to do was sit and talk to John.]]
** The tape that introduces the victims in the Nerve Gas House to their game has John tell them that the numbers to the safe in the starting room are "in the back of your minds." [[spoiler:As Xavier finds out late in the game, each of the numbers in question is written on one of the victims' napes.]]
** Obi's tape ends with John saying "When you're in Hell, only the Devil can help you out." On one of the Furnace's internal walls, there's a devil-like figure drawn next to a valve that would turn off the gas. Despite him getting close enough for the drawing and valve to be clearly in his view, [[FailedASpotCheck Obi doesn't seem to notice it]], however.

* NervesOfSteel: Xavier holds a knife to Obi's throat to threaten him into entering a trap to retrieve antidotes. Not only does Obi not so much as flinch, he willingly reaches up and drags the knife across his own throat, remarking how if Xavier was gonna threaten him with a knife, "[he] may as well cut [Obi] a little". He then climbs into the trap without any further prompting.

* ExactWords: John tells Eric that if they talk long enough, Eric will find his kidnapped son in "a safe and secure place." [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, it's revealed that Eric's son was locked in a ''safe'' in John's hideout, just a few feet away from Eric the whole time, and quite literally all he needed to do was sit and talk to John.]]

** Jigsaw telling the Nerve Gas House test subjects that looking for a key to a locked door will be like trying to find "a needle in a haystack" as the bed is moved to reveal a pit of used syringes in a hole in the floor.]]

* XMarksTheSpot: [[spoiler: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 Eric.]]

* FramedClue: In the Nerve Gas House, there's a photo taped to the back of a frame. And for extra kudos, it's marked with an "X".

Set some time after [[Film/SawI the first movie]], the police manage to track Jigsaw's location and, after a raid, finally have him cornered. However, Jigsaw reveals that there is another game currently in place in a secret location involving a group of people stuck in a building not only full of deadly traps, but filling with a nerve gas that they must find the antidote for before it slowly kills them.

Jigsaw reveals he'll only tell them their location if one of the officers, Eric Matthews (Creator/DonnieWahlberg), plays a game with him. Eric finds himself having no choice but to do so when he discovers that his son's life is on the line as one of the participants of the other game's location.