History YMMV / SawVI

* MemeticMutation: Due to Creator/DevonBostick's role as Brent, it's not uncommon to find jokes about [[Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid Rodrick Heffley]] (his most famous role that came about a year late) being in a ''Saw'' movie. These jokes range from saying Jigsaw is testing Rodrick, to calling the movie ''Saw VI: [[Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKidRodrickRules Rodrick Rules]]''.

* MemeticMutation: Due to Creator/DevonBostick's role as Brent, it's not uncommon to find jokes about [[Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid Rodrick Heffley]] being in a ''Saw'' movie. These jokes range from saying Jigsaw is testing Rodrick, to calling the movie ''Saw VI: [[Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKidRodrickRules Rodrick Rules]]''.

* MemeticMutation: Due to Creator/DevonBostick's role as Brent, it's not uncommon to find jokes about [[Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid Rodrick Heffley]] being in a ''Saw'' movie. These jokes range from saying Jigsaw is testing Rodrick, to calling the movie ''Saw VI: Rodrick Rules''.

* MemeticMutation: Due to Creator/DevonBostick's role as Brent, it's not uncommon to find jokes about [[Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid Rodrick]] being in a Saw movie. These jokes range from saying Jigsaw is testing Rodrick for bullying Greg, to calling the movie Saw VI: Rodrick Rules.

* MemeticMutation: Due to Creator/DevonBostick's role as Brent, it's not uncommon to find jokes about [[Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid Rodrick]] being in a Saw movie. These jokes range from saying Jigsaw testing Rodrick for bullying Greg or calling the movie Saw VI: Rodrick Rules.

* AssPull: TheReveal that the main game [[spoiler:''isn't'' William's. In all trap plots before and after this one, the people forced into the game are the ones being tested, with even Jeff from ''Film/SawIII'' having to injure himself physically and emotionally to save the people in the traps, and the set up for this one even feels similar to that, with William having to decide who lives and dies amidst his staff while maiming himself to save them, representative of how his policy hurt others. Instead, the game is apparently Tara and Brent's, despite the two doing nothing but sitting in a cage watching William. It also isn't even clear what Jigsaw is testing them for, since while the obvious idea is if they'd be willing to forgive William after he doomed their husband/father to die due to his policy, the idea falls apart when ''neither'' forgive him, but while Tara can't bring herself to kill him, Brent ''can'', killing William while the two of them face no repercussions, made especially baffling when this ''is'' a game John designed, and yet Brent isn't punished for being a "killer"]].

* AssPull: TheReveal that the main game [[spoiler:''isn't'' William's. In all trap plots before and after this one, the people forced into the game are the ones being tested, and the set up for this one even feels similar to that, with William having to decide who lives and dies amidst his staff while maiming himself to save them, representative of how his policy hurt others. Instead, the game is apparently Tara and Brent's, despite the two doing nothing but sitting in a cage watching William. It also isn't even clear what Jigsaw is testing them for, since while the obvious idea is if they'd be willing to forgive William after he doomed their husband/father to die due to his policy, the idea falls apart when ''neither'' forgive him, but while Tara can't bring herself to kill him, Brent ''can'', killing William while the two of them face no repercussions, made especially baffling when this ''is'' a game John designed, and yet Brent isn't punished for being a "killer"]].

* TheScrappy: Brent for his horribly annoying and [[spoiler:murderous]] behavior. Not even [[spoiler:having recently lost his father]] makes him in any way endearing or likable.
%%** Shelby from the carousel trap and Simone from the opening trap. Simone gets RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap in ''Saw 3D'', but Shelby? No such luck.
* StockParodyJokes: French audience often mock the title's unintentional silliness to French ears. ''Saw VI'' is usually pronounced exactly like "''saucisse''" ("sausage").

* {{Anvilicious}}: Released right in the middle of a bad recession and a heated debate on health care, the writers give us an opening trap featuring two bankers who gave loans to people they knew couldn't pay, and the main game's victim, William, is an executive at a health insurance company who is forced to make some fantastically gory life-or-death decisions for his co-workers before [[spoiler:getting killed by the widow and son of a man he denied coverage.]] One scene is an outright AuthorFilibuster in which Jigsaw, in a flashback in William's office, states that it's hypocritical to attack the government for trying to take life-and-death decisions away from doctors and their patients, when the health insurance industry does this regularly by denying coverage.

* TheScrappy:
** Brent for his horribly annoying and [[spoiler:murderous]] behavior. Not even [[spoiler:having recently lost his father]] makes him in any way endearing or likable.
** Shelby from the carousel trap and Simone from the opening trap. Simone gets RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap in ''Saw 3D'', but Shelby? No such luck.

* AssPull: TheReveal that the main game [[spoiler:''isn't'' William's. In all trap plots before and after this one, the people forced into the game are the ones being tested, and the set up for this one even feels similar to that, with William having to decide who lives and dies amidst his staff while maiming himself to save them, representative of how his policy hurt others. Instead, the game is apparently Tara and Brent's, despite the two doing nothing but sitting in a cage watching William. It also isn't even clear what Jigsaw is testing them for, since while the obvious idea is if they'd be willing to forgive William after he doomed their husband/father to die due to his policy, the idea falls apart when ''neither'' forgive him, but while Tara can't bring herself to kill him, Brent ''can'', killing William while the two of them face no repercussions, made especially baffling when this ''is'' a game John Kramer designed, and yet Brent isn't punished for being a "killer".]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Before William is abducted by Hoffman, he mistakes a security guard for an invader and shoots him. The guard apologizes, and Hoffman subdues William. Does the guard apologize for unintentionally scaring his boss or because Hoffman forced him to assist in William's kidnapping?

** Brent for his horribly annoying and [[spoiler:murderous]] behavior. Not even [[spoiler: having recently lost his father]] made him in any way endearing or likable.

* SignatureScene: The carousel trap. Creative, tension-filled, gory, and [[NarmCharm over-the-top in a way that worked]]. It's a memorable scene that combined a lot of elements from previous films and [[AccidentalPun spun]] them in a way that felt original.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot:
** Unlike previous and future protagonists, William seems to have made a genuine HeelFaceTurn by the end of his test. [[spoiler:In an opportunity to give a fresh resolution where a Jigsaw game ''succeeded'' in its goal to rehabilitate the subject, William instead gets [[ShootTheShaggyDog brutally murdered anyway]] because [[DiabolusExMachina it wasn't up to him to begin with]]]].
** Some fans felt it would have been a far better plot twist if Jill had actually succeeded in [[spoiler:killing]] Hoffman, then decided to finally take over the VillainousLegacy of her late husband and emerged as the FinalBoss of the entire series. Instead, Hoffman [[spoiler:escapes the Reverse Bear Trap 2.0]], which admittedly serves as an awesome moment for him, but results in the next film being a far more standard-issue entry with Hoffman as the villain yet again.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Series/WynonnaEarp is one of the people killed on the carousel, and [[Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid Rodrick Heffley]] [[spoiler:ends up killing William]].

''[[YMMV/SawI Saw]]'' | ''[[YMMV/SawII Saw II]]'' | ''[[YMMV/SawIII Saw III]]'' | ''[[YMMV/SawIV Saw IV]]'' | ''[[YMMV/SawV Saw V]]'' | '''''Saw VI''''' | ''[[YMMV/Saw3D Saw 3D]]'' | ''[[YMMV/{{Jigsaw}} Jigsaw]]'' | ''[[YMMV/Spiral2021 Spiral]]''-]]]]]

* [[YMMV/{{Saw}} Main franchise]]
* ''[[YMMV/SawI Saw]]''
* ''YMMV/SawII''
* ''YMMV/SawIII''
* ''YMMV/SawIV''
* ''YMMV/SawV''
* ''YMMV/Saw3D''
* ''YMMV/{{Jigsaw}}''
* ''YMMV/{{Spiral|2021}}''

* JerkassWoobie: William, ''especially'' by the end.

** Some fans felt it would have been a far better plot twist if Jill had actually succeeded in [[spoiler:killing]] Hoffman, then decided to finally take over the VillainousLegacy of her late husband and emerged as the FinalBoss of the entire series. Instead, Hoffman [[spoiler:escapes the Reverse Bear Trap 2.0]], which admittedly serves as an awesome moment for him, but results in the next sequel being a far more standard-issue entry with Hoffman as the villain yet again.

** Some fans felt it would have been a far better plot twist if Jill had actually succeeded in [[spoiler:killing]] Hoffman, then decided to finally take over the VillainousLegacy of her late husband and emerged as the FinalBoss of the entire series. Instead, Hoffman [[spoiler:escapes the Reverse Bear Trap 2.0, which admittedly serves as an awesome moment for him]], but results in the next sequel being a far more standard-issue entry with Hoffman as the villain yet again.

** Some fans felt it would have been a far better plot twist if Jill actually had succeeded in [[spoiler:killing]] Hoffman, then decided to finally take over the VillainousLegacy of her late husband and emerged as the FinalBoss of the entire series. Instead, Hoffman [[spoiler:escapes the Reverse Bear Trap 2.0, which admittedly serves as an awesome moment for him]], but results in the next sequel being a far more standard-issue entry with Hoffman as the villain yet again.

** Some fans felt it would have been a far better plot twist if Jill actually had succeeded in [[spoiler:killing Hoffman]], then decided to finally take over the VillainousLegacy of her late husband and emerged as the FinalBoss of the entire series. Instead, Hoffman [[spoiler:escapes the Reverse Bear Trap 2.0, which admittedly serves as an awesome moment for him, but results in the next sequel being a far more standard-issue entry with Hoffman as the villain yet again]].

** Some fans felt it would have been a far better plot twist if Jill actually had succeeded in [[spoiler:killing Hoffman, then decided to finally take over the VillainousLegacy of her late husband and emerged as the FinalBoss of the entire series]]. Instead, Hoffman [[spoiler:escapes the Reverse Bear Trap 2.0, which admittedly serves as an awesome moment for him, but results in the next sequel being a far more standard-issue entry with Hoffman as the villain yet again]].

** Brent for his horribly annoying and [[spoiler: murderous]] behavior. Not even [[spoiler: having recently lost his father]] made him in any way endearing or likable.

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: It was regarded by fans and critics alike as a huge improvement over the two previous sequels and generally regarded as a worthy successor to the original trilogy.