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1!All spoilers will be unmarked ahead. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Read on or go back]] -- [[CatchPhrase make your choice]].
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6* ''Fridge/SawI''
7* ''Fridge/SawII''
8* ''Fridge/SawIV''
9* ''Fridge/SawV''
10* ''Fridge/SawVI''
11* ''Fridge/Saw3D''
12* ''Fridge/{{Jigsaw}}''
13* ''[[Fridge/Spiral2021 Spiral]]''
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23* The series' prominent use of AnachronicOrder with {{Sequencing Deception}}s, [[{{Flashback}} Flashbacks]], and OnceMoreWithClarity scenes seems like an odd stylistic choice, until you realize that [[JigsawPuzzlePlot the story is basically a jigsaw puzzle]], and you have to put the pieces together yourself.
24* Billy the freakish little puppet can seem oddly out of place in a series full of torture machinery and gritty, realistic violence. But consider what the core of the franchise really is: manipulation. Jigsaw is TheChessmaster through and through, and almost everyone, victim or villain, has been at one point a pawn in his long running game, from apprentices like Amanda and Hoffman to hapless hostages like Lynn or Adam. John runs everything behind the scenes all the way to his death, like a gruesome puppet show. Billy is the mascot because he symbolizes the games as a whole, and the mechanical nature of Jigsaw's puppetry.
25* And speaking of Billy, ever wonder why he's the MascotVillain of the franchise (Ala [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]], [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]], [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], etc.) rather than any of the Jigsaw killers, even John Kramer himself? Because he represents Jigsaw as a concept, and Jigsaw isn't one character. Even in the first film Kramer is mostly hidden in the background, while Billy is used to represent his evil presence. And then the man kicks the bucket in ''Film/SawIII'', but Billy continues to show up. Similar to Ghostface from ''Film/{{Scream}}'', the puppet embodies how the ever-changing identity is the focus rather than the original mastermind.
26* The reveal of Amanda, Hoffman and Logan as Jigsaw's apprentices were twists in and of themselves. What makes them FridgeBrilliance, however, is when you realize that they revealed themselves exactly the same way that John did back in the original ''Film/SawI'': they were presented as mere victims in their traps, only to reveal to their ultimate victims that they were the ones ''manipulating'' the traps. Even Schenk, a mere Jigsaw copycat, did this.
27* It makes one wonder, aside from the fact that he was justifiably angry with being blamed for Seth's murder and framed/threatened him into being his apprentice, what John saw in Hoffman and how a clever and resourceful man like himself could be ''[[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter so wrong]]'' [[EvilerThanThou about the guy]]. You then have to remember that John had terminal cancer that was gradually getting worse and while he was still rather brilliant in most aspects (obviously enough to build traps, make sure they worked, train his apprentices, overpower his victims, etc.), at the same time he isn't a mind reader and probably never even predicted that Hoffman would someday kill his wife.
28** Or at the beginning, at the very least. John must have realized that should Hoffman find a way to survive his test, then Jill will be in great danger, which is why he arranged for Dr. Gordon to execute Hoffman just before his death. As ''Saw VI'' implies, John knew Hoffman's sociopathy makes him unfit to continue his legacy.
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32* If Amanda was broken down emotionally even before Hoffman's letter to her, what happened to the other people who lived from the traps? How emotionally miserable would they have become?
33* Think of some of the traps, and what would happen if they somehow went wrong. For instance, the Death Mask from the beginning of ''Saw II''. Imagine what would happen if Michael was in the middle of cutting his eye when the mask closed. His arms would get entangled and would smash into his face, leaving him in immense pain of his broken arms and of having several spikes in his head until he eventually died of blood loss.
34** Something like this wouldn't matter in the slightest to Jigsaw; all it would mean is Michael not escaping the trap in time, therefore not possessing the will to survive.
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38* Crossing over with FridgeHorror, but how is it that John, Amanda, Hoffman and so forth were able to seemingly know how much of the sedatives to use on their victims prior to kidnapping them? I mean, ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'' finally gave us an example of someone who ''didn't'' wake up in uniform time like the other victims, only to be awakened by John due to him realizing how "unfair" it would be to be killed in his sleep, but was there ever an incident where someone had an adverse reaction to the sedative (due to taking something else that screwed with the effectiveness of the drug) or perhaps even an overdose of what they had pumped into them?
39** Who's to say that the only games John set up were the ones seen by the viewer? There could be numerous other incidents that the films never showed, and anything (accidental overdose of a victim, for example) could have happened during those instances. This applies to pretty much every fictional universe, actually. There's almost infinite possibility regarding events we simply never see.
40*** This is made clear in ''Saw 3D'', where we see plenty of minor and background victims we've never seen before. Previous films also show plans for traps that aren't seen being used at any point.
41** Whenever there's more than one victim (especially in the first, second and fifth films), they don't usually wake up at the same time. Case and point; Gordon had been up for ''hours'' before Adam wakes up. In the second film, Amanda is the last person to wake up, and everyone else had clearly been up for a while. The dosage is irrelevant anyway, because the games are usually triggered when everyone wakes up/starts moving around.
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45* The ending of ''Saw III'' is a lot, but the sorrow of it is amplified in ''IV'' and ''V'' when you ask: what happened to Corbett, the young girl who initially lost her brother, and has now lost ''both'' of her parents?
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