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7	In RealLife, circular saw blades are used for cutting materials into smaller pieces. In fiction, they're often used for [[AnArmAndALeg cutting people into smaller pieces]]. Their nasty, sharp appearance makes them ideal {{Deadly Disc}}s, and they can be repurposed either as gruesome melee weapons or dangerous projectiles.
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9	Spinning saw blades are often used in {{Death Trap}}s, protruding from the floor or walls to hack off the limbs of unsuspecting protagonists. Sometimes they even hang mid-air or move along predetermined path.
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11	These will appear frequently during a LumberMillMayhem sequence or ConveyorBeltODoom.
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13	See also:
14	* ChainsawGood, when chainsaws are used as weapons instead.
15	* DeadlyTrainingArea, when it's used as part of a TrainingFromHell regimen.
16	* DeathCourse, when it's part of a (more-or-less) linear series of deadly traps.
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19	!!Examples:
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23	* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': The end credits for the first eight episodes show the two angels poised to meet a grisly demise. One of these shows them strapped to a table while a whirling circular saw slowly descends toward them. It seems no deathtrap can erase their cheery smiles, however.
24	* ''Anime/YuGiOh'': In Yugi's duel with Arkana, the duelists are trapped in their chairs. As their life points approach zero, saw blades close in on their ankles. The [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] dub [[{{Bowdlerise}} censored this]] by having the saw blades be "Dark Energy Discs" that would instantly banish you to [[NeverSayDie the Shadow Realm]].
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28	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': In ''Spider-Man Unlimited'' (Vol. 1) #14, El Toro Negro, a rogue participant of "the Great Game", is delivered by mercenary Chance to his ''true'' employer, Justin Hammer. Toro Negro receives his due reward in Hammer's laboratory: a buzzsaw to the head.
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32	* ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'': The Tweedys' new chicken pie machine has saw blades that can grind any chicken into meat. Ginger and Rocky had dodged them after they got inside.
33	* In ''[[ComicStrip/FootrotFlats Footrot Flats: The Dog's Tale]]'', the Dog gets chased through the Murphys' sawmill by the Murphys' dogs, narrowly avoiding the whirring buzzsaws.
34	* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': The Omnidroid's claws can double as spinning saw blades, which nearly behead Mr. Incredible when he gets captured.
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37	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
38	* ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel'': One of the criminals hired by Vector to kill Alita during her first Motorball match, Stinger, has two retractable buzzsaws on his arms alongside his cyborg hands, and tries to cut Alita to pieces with them. Just as Screwhead holds Alita to have her cut by Stinger, Alita breaks free of Screwhead's grip and uses the latter's own chain to perform a DeadlyDodging, dragging her (Screwhead) right in the way of Stinger's buzzsaws, which cut her in two instead.
39	* ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'': Vanderohe carries a big portable buzzsaw, which can be useful to cut through either obstacles or zombies.
40	* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'': On the path to the hiding place of the Holy Grail, the first trap is a pair of whirling saw blades that come out of the wall and floor. If the person trying to pass by isn't on their knees, the saw blade in the wall will cut off their head.
41	* ''Film/JamesBond'':
42	** ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'' has a thug with a yo-yo saw, which is a circular saw weapon that operates like said yo-yo. He uses it to kill Vijay and nearly manages to kill Bond and Octopussy before being killed himself.
43	** ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' has two helicopters with tree-clearing circular sawblades (ten on each) suspended below them attack Bond in his CoolCar. A missile takes out one, but the other saws his car in half lengthwise.
44	* In ''Film/RipperLettersFromHell'', the killer chases Chantel into a sawmill and then activates the saws: forcing her to try to escape through a deadly environment.
45	* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'':
46	** At the end of ''Film/SawIII'', [[spoiler:Jeff kills Jigsaw by slitting his throat with a hand-held circular saw.]]
47	** In the Steam Maze from ''Film/SawVI'', William and Debbie are given a similar hand-held saw to cut out the key inside William's body, which is necessary for Debbie to free herself from the harpoon contraption she has attached. [[spoiler:William tells Debbie that he's willing to cut himself, but Debbie immediately tries to use the saw to try to kill William instead, making her lose all the time they could have used until the harpoon kills her.]]
48	** The main components of the Public Execution Trap from ''Film/Saw3D'' are a pair of circular saws, one within the range of injuring and potentially killing Brad and Ryan on the table they're on opposites sides of, and another pointing at Dina, which will rise to her if Brad and Ryan don't move their saw to fight each other. [[spoiler:Although Brad and Ryan initially fight (with Ryan landing a brief hit on Brad), they ultimately let Dina die instead once she exposes her infidelity to the two of them.]]
49	** Played with in the Bucket Room from ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'', where the victims are in front of a wall of circular saws closing on them. Although the saws are harmful, making the slightest contact with them is necessary to pass the trap (meaning they'd only need a small finger slit at minimum), as Jigsaw exactly instructs by referring to this act as a "blood sacrifice".
50	* ''Film/TheTheatreBizarre'': In "Wet Dreams", Donnie wakes up from a nightmare where here is chained to a rack in a dungeon with a [[GroinAttack buzzsaw moving towards his groin]], only to find [[ChainedToABed his hands tied to the head of his bed]]. Only when a buzzsaw appears out of his mattress and starts advancing towards his crotch does he realise it is a DreamWithinADream.
51	* In ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'', one of Big Figure's henchmen, Lawrence, is killed when Rorschach holds his hands through his prison cell's bars and the other henchman of big figure gruesomely cuts his arms off with an electric circular saw, leaving him to die either from the shock or bleeding.
52	* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': In the climactic battle, Judge Doom tries to kill Eddie with a giant toon circular saw [[spoiler:that he produces from his own arm, being a toon disguised as a human]].
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56	* ''Series/Batman1966''
57	** In the third season episode "Catwoman's Dressed to Kill", the DeathTrap Catwoman has set up for Batgirl is a pattern cutter, with saw blades advancing towards her while she's tied up on a conveyer belt. Luckily for Batgirl, [[BigDamnHeroes Alfred shows up in time to rescue her]].
58	** There was also a cliffhanger where the Riddler did this to Robin. When Batman arrived to save him, it turned out to be a dummy.
59	* ''Series/TheGoodies''. In "Cunning Stunts", Bill is trying to commit suicide, and in one scene lies down in front of a giant circular saw which advances towards him. Fortunately Bill and Tim arrive in time to put the saw in reverse, only to have it [[RuleOfFunny roll after them instead]].
60	* ''Series/BattleBots'' and ''Series/RobotWars'' feature saw blades on the arena walls as well as some that pop in through the floor to swipe at the contestants.
61	* ''Series/{{Knightmare}}'': One of the many rooms a dungeoneer may end up entering is the Corridor of Blades, where they’re standing on an InconvenientlyPlacedConveyorBelt, with saw blades jutting out of the walls. Their teammates would be tasked with telling them which way to run to dodge the blades, and the dungeoneer themselves would have to move out of the way. This trap had the highest body count of the show, due to how it was instant death if either the team or the dungeoneer messed up once, and the speed of the blades only made it harder for both to react in time.
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65	* ''TabletopGame/IronKingdoms'': The [[ClockworkCreature Convergence of Cyriss]] faction has a few of their [[HumongousMecha Vectors]] equipped with sawblades as weapons. The [[CombatMedic Galvanizer]] uses it as part of its repair protocols on other Convergence models (while its description notes that the blade cuts through flesh just as well as metal). The [[ColdSniper Monitor]], on the other hand, uses a [[ImprobableAimingSkills hyper-accurate targeting array]] to fling a huge elliptical sawblade ''[[AbnormalAmmo as a ranged attack]]'' that [[PinballProjectile bounces between targets]].
66	** In ''Dogs of War: The Devil's Pay'', a new recruit named Dawson worked in a sawmill before becoming a mercenary. He briefly examines a Monitor's used ellipsaw projectile, describing it as having incredibly sharp steel, short teeth for cutting metal instead of wood, and little wear & tear outside of the scuff mark left when it was flung at a Cryxian Ripper, [[AbsurdlySharpBlade cutting it in half]]. The Dogs then get to tangle with the Monitor that fired said saw, piloted by [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Aurora]].
67	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': One of the recurring close-combat weapons of the Orks' [[MiniMecha Killa Kans]] are arm-mounted buzz-saws. We get a good look at what they can do to Space Marines in the opening video of ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar''.
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71	* ''VideoGame/ThirtyXX'': The Dustria level features groups of sawblade-like traps at the bottom of some areas.
72	* ''VideoGame/AdventurerFarmerSaveMySon!'': Saw blades moving along tracks is one of the most common hazards in this game.
73	* The original trailer for ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesAlice'' showed Alice sitting down for tea with the Mad Hatter, while he secretly pulls a lever beneath the table that politely raises a whirring lumber saw out of the floor behind her chair. [[TrailersAlwaysLie No such scene was in the game]], but a flashback to it in ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'' indicates it did happen (and is the reason Alice no longer trusts the Hatter).
74	* ''VideoGame/AstraAndTheNewConstellation'': Saws, introduced in early levels, move across the surface are a common obstacle throughout the game.
75	* ''VideoGame/{{Badland}}'': Circular saw blades are a common obstacle, which will shred any clone which touches them into pieces instantly.
76	* Later stages of ''VideoGame/BattleblockTheater'' feature deadly saw blades that move back and forth across the surfaces.
77	* ''VideoGame/BenAndEd'': Circular saws are just another obstacle that Ed needs to avoid.
78	* ''VideoGame/BerserkBoy'': Buzzsaws are fairly common hazard in this game. Some spin in place, others move back-and-forth or across the surfaces.
79	* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': One of the weapons is Whirligig Saw, which can be revved up to stunlock susceptible enemies.
80	* ''VideoGame/BloodyTrapland'' and its sequel have saw blades as a common hazard to avoid. Some spin mid-air, others move along the rails. They come in two sizes.
81	* ''VideoGame/{{Broforce}}'' has saw blades as obstacles in certain levels. They kill you instantly if you touch them, but they also kill most {{mooks}} instantly as well, so by [[EverythingBreaks knocking them loose]], you can use them to shred whole rooms of mooks. Some saw blades hang mid-air until damaged. Other saw blades are dispensed by sawblade traps.
82	* ''Bounce Ball Blitz'': Saws are one of the most common things floating in the air that can shred the ball.
83	* ''VideoGame/{{Bzzzt}}'': Both static and moving circular saws are introduced early, acting as death traps for the protagonist.
84	* ''VideoGame/CanYourPet'' ends with [[spoiler:your pet chicken being ground up by a pair of saw blades.]]
85	* ''VideoGame/CaptainAmericaAndTheAvengers'': In stage 5, just before the fight with subboss Crossbones, he sends two minions to fight the players, and activates some saw blades that buzz between the floor tiles.
86	* ''VideoGame/CaptainDynamo'' has saw blades that hang around the hooks and move back and forth. These act as a common obstacle.
87	* Saw blades are a common obstacle in ''VideoGame/CloudberryKingdom''. They move around in circles, attached to the axis point via chains.
88	* ''Dadish'': Saw blades are a commonly-encountered obstacle. Most of them most either along surfaces or in the path indicated by dotted white line.
89	* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': [[spoiler:Kirumi's execution. In addition to the thorned vine she climbs up, piercing her hands all the way, saw blades appear from the walls, threatening to cut her if she continues. ''And she does''.]]
90	* ''VideoGame/DeadIsland'': The first game features the "Ripper" weapon mod, which adds a circular saw to a baseball bat for extra damage. ''VideoGame/DeadIsland2'' was going to include the Ripper as its own weapon, but it was cut for unknown reasons.
91	* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' has the Remote Control Disc Ripper, or the Ripper for short. It's a handheld engineering tool that deploys a circular saw blade and keeps it suspended via a gravitational tether, allowing for users to cut through anything they see without risking getting too close. The secondary fire launches the saw blade like a projectile, causing it to ricochet off hard surfaces.
92	* In ''Death Office'', circular saws are a common level gimmick that the player can use to achieve their goal in killing the puppets in the level, whether it be the basic goal (in which only killing a determined portion of the puppets is necessary) or the perfect goal (which requires the player to kill all the puppets with the time, weapons and gimmicks provided).
93	* ''VideoGame/TheDevilInMe'' includes one that previous victims of Granthem Du'Met were unfortunate enough to fall to; it consists of a two people chained together by the neck while a very large saw spins between them with a clock counting down, that if it reaches zero, the chain recedes, killing them both. If one person sacrificed themself or was pulled in the blade by the other, the timer would stop, and the chain would release for the living person.
94	* ''VideoGame/DiscRoom'' is centered around the player trying to dodge various saw blades: Some bounce around the room, some move along the edges of the arena.
95	* Levels in ''Doomer's Adventure'' have at least one deadly circular saw but usually more. They either hang mid-air or move along predetermined path.
96	* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'':
97	** One enemy in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'' is a ''sentient'' sawblade which are attached to various surfaces. They can't be killed, so the player needs to go around them.
98	** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'' has plenty of these in level 2-4 ("[[LumberMillMayhem Sawmill Thrill]]"). The saw blades here act as gigantic hazards that should be avoided at all costs.
99	* Buzzsaws as obstacles occasionally appear in ''VideoGame/{{Dungreed}}''. They either rotate in place, rotate on a chain or move along a determined path. When the room is cleared, the buzzsaws stop.
100	* ''VideoGame/{{DUSK}}'': The Infernal Machine features an area with huge saw blades that can kill the player.
101	* ''Videogame/DwarfFortress'' lets ''you'' deploy these against your enemies for once, in the form of Large Serrated Discs of various metals (or glass if you want something cheaper). Not as heavy as Giant Axe Blades, but they're still sizable and hit three times per Disc. Nothing but available materials and time stops you from putting ten of them in a single tile, ensuring anything that cannot avoid traps will be reduced to a scattered heap of LudicrousGibs as soon as they step into it.[[note]][[UnexpectedlyRealisticGameplay Just be aware that so many gibs might jam up the mechanism.]][[/note]]
102	* Saw blades are the only non-terrain hazard in ''VideoGame/ElastoMania''. Unlike the terrain, even the wheels can't touch it.
103	* ''VideoGame/ExMutants'': Saw blades as a deadly obstacle first appear in caves, either going around in circles, or moving up and down while hanging on a predetermined path.
104	* ''VideoGame/ExtremeSprint3010'' features spinning saws on the ground, as an obstacle the player must jump over.
105	* ''VideoGame/FearAndHungerTermina'': The Meat Grinder is a table saw blade attached to a bench grinder, which functions as one of the most devastating weapons in the game (both against players, and against enemies). You can also throw saw blades at enemies.
106	* Saw blades make an appearance in ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet2'' as one of the obstacles.
107	* ''VideoGame/Garlic2021'' game has a Factory level. In addition to reciprocating saw blades, there are also circular saw blades that move along the surface and should be avoided.
108	* ''VideoGame/GrappleDog'': Second world introduces sawblades that rotate mid-air and mid-water. Later worlds also have sawblades that move back and forth on rails.
109	* ''Gray Destiny'': Circular saws are the most commonly encountered obstacle in this game. These stay in place or move along predestined path.
110	* ''VideoGame/{{Frogun}}'': One of the obstacles in the game are circular saws moving back and forth.
111	* ''VideoGame/GunDevil'': Commonly found buzzsaws are attached to chains, circling around the center point.
112	* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'': The level "We Don't Go to Ravenholm" is essentially a SurvivalHorror level with very little conventional ammunition. Fortunately, there are plenty of circular saw blades that can be turned into projectiles with the recently acquired Gravity Gun. From that point on, ie. the following chapters and Episodes 1 and 2, saws can be found occasionally in industrial buildings (even if they're not strictly for logging, lumber or other wood-related jobs) or Resistance stashes.
113	* ''VideoGame/{{Hamsterball}}'': In the Expert race, if you're playing at Standard difficulty or harder, sawblades will appear on some parts of the track and zoom forward once. Even if you avoid them, they cause half of the track they travel through to fall off.
114	* ''VideoGame/HaikuTheRobot'': Buzzsaws make an appearance as a deadly obstacle. Some areas have multiple different types of buzzsaws.
115	* ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'': Saw blades, while not directly harming the player, slice up the wagons in Train Rush.
116	* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'': Mounted saw traps are a prominent security feature of the White Palace, even more so in the area aptly called the Path of Pain. Both are covered in fixed and mobile sawblades that [[PlatformHell the Knight has to carefully deflect and bounce off of in order to navigate the area]]. This appears to be a family trait of the Pale King, whose daughter Hornet is seen wielding her own saws in trailers for ''[[VideoGame/HollowKnightSilksong Silksong]]''.
117	* ''VideoGame/TheIncredibleCrashDummies'' features buzzsaws that move along the surface they're on, ready to slice limbs off the dummy.
118	* ''I Wanna Maker'' has saw blades as one of the objects you can place.
119	* ''VideoGame/{{IZBOT}}'' and its sequel have saw blades as a common hazard.
120	* ''VideoGame/{{JAILBREAKER}}'': Circular saws are the second most common hazard encountered after spikes.
121	* The Deep area in ''VideoGame/KingdomShell'' has buzzsaws that move along the surface.
122	* ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheRainbowCurse'' does occasionally have buzzsaws that act as a hazard.
123	* ''VideoGame/KittenHero'': Sawblades are common in this game, appearing throughout the levels. Most of them are on metal sticks while some skim along the surfaces.
124	* ''VideoGame/LabBreakOut'': Both static and moving buzzsaws are the second most common obstacle after spikes.
125	* ''VideoGame/{{Limbo}}'': Some areas feature noisy saw blades that are deadly on touch. They can be static or they can also move back and forth.
126	* ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'' has Metal Man, whose main weapon is a circular saw he can manifest and throw to shred targets. A quirk in the programming made it accidentally far stronger than intended, resulting in it vaporizing almost every enemy in the game, including Metal Man himself!
127	** ''VideoGame/MegaManX3'' has Crush Crawfish, who grants the Spinning Blade to X upon defeat, based on his PowerPincers. In X's hands, he fires two of them in front of him, which then arc to hit behind him. The charged version deploys a massive cutting blade on an energy tether that can rotate around X based on if the up or down directions are pressed.
128	* ''VideoGame/TheMessenger2018'': A few later stages have saw blades in them, clearly designed to be an obstacle. Most move along determined path indicated by rail but some spin around in place.
129	* ''VideoGame/MickeyMania'': In stage 2, based on the short "The Mad Doctor", there is an AutoScrollingLevel where Mickey jumps on a self-moving gurney and must avoid giant saw blades above him and below him.
130	* ''VideoGame/MightyGunvolt Burst'': Buzzsaws appear in military base as an obstacle that has to be avoided.
131	* ''VideoGame/MotherHorrorShopGames'': It's revealed that the protagonist's mother has saw blades on the floor of her room. She uses to kill her sons [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty so she can cannibalize them due to the famine they've been dealing with]]. Ultimately, though, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard she ends up being mortally wounded by those saw blades]] when she's chasing the protagonist.
132	* ''VideoGame/MrBree'': Saws are one of the obstacles in the [[spoiler: butchery]] levels.
133	* ''VideoGame/MuseDash'' has saw blades (referred to as "gears" by the game, but they clearly have pointed teeth like a saw) as an obstacle that the girls have to deal with, either floating in the air or cutting through the ground. Unlike other enemies and obstacles, they cannot be hit, only dodged.
134	* ''VideoGame/NeverGiveUp'': Saws are a very common hazard here, littering walls and floors, or moving on rails or along surfaces.
135	* ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'': In the arcade port, when the player receives a GameOver, the "continue" screen features the protagonist tied down while a saw blade slowly lowers while the time counts down.
136	* ''VideoGame/OldBoy: Eventually, buzzsaws start to appear to hinder player's progress. They are on rails moving back and forth.
137	* ''VideoGame/PanicPorcupine'': Large saw blades start to make an appearance as a common stage hazard from world 2 onwards. They can spin in place, move back and forth, rotate on an axis or even swing back and forth.
138	* ''VideoGame/ThePedestrian'': Some level sections contain floating buzzsaws that kill the player upon contact.
139	* Saw blades going in circles are a common hazard in ''Pep-Pel''.
140	* ''Pixi Poxi Autorunner Lab'': Circular saws are one of the more common hazards encountered.
141	* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' features rather ornate spinning saws that the player must avoid.
142	* In ''VideoGame/PrisonCity'', moving floor- or ceiling-mounted saw blades are present as an obstacle in the final levels.
143	* ''VideoGame/{{Quake}} II and IV'' feature saws. However, not as obstacles but as devices to cut meat and limbs off the humans.
144	* Circular buzzsaws can be seen in ''VideoGame/RaymanLegends''. They rotate in place rather slowly but are still deadly on toch.
145	* ''RITE'' features saw blades prominently in its levels. Many spin around in place but some also move back and forth.
146	* ''SAOMI'' has buzzsaw obstacles moving back and forth along its designated track.
147	* ''SAW HELL'' is a platformer where the main obstacles, as the title says, are saw blades.
148	* ''VideoGame/SEUMSpeedrunnersFromHell'' features saw blades as one of the obstacles.
149	* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'': Roller Brawl has circular saws serving as wheels for her [[RollerbladeGood skates]], and is able to launch them at opponents as projectiles. She can also perform pirouettes to lash at opponents on one upgrade path, and another enhances her skills with the saw blades, allowing her to lay down a saw as a trap to slash opponents or even summon four sawblades as an OrbitingParticleShield.
150	* ''VideoGame/SlayersXTerminalAftermathVenganceOfTheSlayer'' has a secret base with 3 restrooms. X slayers' bathroom features, among other things, spinning damaging saw blades.
151	* ''Slow Mole'' has circular saws travelling along set paths, acting as a deadly hazard. They come in two sizes.
152	* ''VideoGame/SodaCrisis'': One of the obstacles encountered in the game are rotating buzzsaws. These obstacles are preceeded by vehicles near the beginning of the game that also have circular saws.
153	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
154	** In [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1 the original game]], the sixth and final world, [[EternalEngine Scrap Brain Zone]], has buzzsaws as hazards. Some of them are stationary and Sonic has to run under them when they are raised, and others chase after him, requiring him to outrun them or jump over them to dodge them.
155	** ''VideoGame/SonicCD'': The final level, Metallic Madness, has moving saw blades similar to those in Scrap Brain Zone.
156	** ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'': The truck from [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 City Escape]]'s second Act pulls out three saw blades when chasing Sonic.
157	* In the two ''VideoGame/StealthBastard'' games, sawblades are one of the commonly encountered hazards. For added irony, they are sometimes adorned with smiley faces.
158	* ''Steam Defense'' from [=MadSword=] Studio has the Human faction weaponize them with the Battle Blade. These {{Steampunk}} light armoured vehicles from the future have a massive buzzsaw in their front and are a big improvement over your infantry as the Battle Blade can't be poisoned or knocked back with a ramming attack. The Battle Blade causes heavy damage and ties up enemies for your ranged units to hammer.
159	* ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRogue'': Spinning saw blades are one of the many hazards that can be encountered inside buildings.
160	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Saw blades in Mario series are called Grinders and have made an appearance in few of its games as obstacles.
161	** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'': In addition to reciprocating saws, Grinders also make their debut here, usually moving back and forth. They need to be avoided but Mario can bounce on them with a spin jump.
162	** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'': Grinders appear in puzzle plank galaxy. In addition to damaging Mario, they also saw through wood, making pieces of planks to fall off the map.
163	* ''VideoGame/SuperMeatBoy'' and its predecessor ''Meat Boy'': Saw blades are the main obstacles in the game. Some are still, some move back and forth and some move in circles.
164	* 2011 video game ''Swarm'', saw blades are eventually encountered. These kill the player characters instantly.
165	* One level in the Expert difficulty of ''VideoGame/SuperMonkeyBall'' ''2'', Spinning Saw, is one giant saw blade that moves up and down through the center of a donut-shaped platform and spins quickly counterclockwise. If the player is not careful, they can be sent careening off of the stage before they have a chance to get to the goal, which is located at the center of the blade.
166	* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', the Sawmill map features a central objective in which two giant sawblades alternate back and forth. Anyone who touches the sawblades will die instantly, even if they're Ubercharged or equipped with the Dead Ringer.
167	* ''VideoGame/TheyBleedPixels'' has sawblades all over the place, which will violently hurt you or one-shot enemies thrown on them.
168	* ''VideoGame/TheThoriumMod'' lets players craft the Man Hacker, a special gun that shoots miniature sawblades at enemies.
169	* Present in various ''Franchise/TombRaider'' games starting with ''VideoGame/TombRaiderII''.
170	* ''TTV2'' features the player trying to navigate the ever-moving terrain with gigantic buzzsaws being one of the obstacles that needs to be avoided.
171	* ''VideoGame/{{Transiruby}}'' has spinning buzzsaws present as an environmental hazard.
172	* ''VideoGame/{{Tyrian}}'': The Microsol planet Ixmucane is defended by giant, self-propelled versions of these. One level set there is even called "Sawblades".
173	* ''VideoGame/UltimateChickenHorse'': Saw blades that orbit around the central axis are one of the obstacle types that can be placed by players.
174	* ''VideoGame/{{ULTRAKILL}}'' offers the Sawblade Launcher as the alternative version of Nailgun. It can be used to [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe bisect]] weaker humanoid enemies for an unique style bonus, can bounce off walls for a short while before losing momentum and, when coupled with magnets from the Attractor variant, orbit said magnets at a short distance - for use either as a trap or as a launchpad to punch accumulated saws out with the Feedbacker. One saw can be empowered with accumulated heat from the Overheat variant to create a singular, very sturdy multi-hitting enemy-piercing multi-bouncing incendiary death-dealing disc.
175	* ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'' gives us what looks like a ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' style trap with two characters strung up by their wrists and a massive lumber saw attached to a cart, [[SadisticChoice with a lever deciding who gets it]]. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a massive fake out, as Josh, one of the two strung up, was the one who built the trap and was never in any danger. The saw will disembowel the fake body he was hiding behind regardless of choice.]]
176	* In ''VideoGame/VelocityNoodle'', saw blades, attached to surfaces or hanging mid-air, are a default obstacle the player encounters.
177	* ''[[VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} Warcraft III]]'' and ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Goblin shredders are wood-cutting machines that double as [[MiniMecha mini-mechas]] when attacking enemies with their saw arm.
178	* ''VideoGame/TheWizardOfOz'' has circular saw blades in a barn level that hurt the player. Unlike most examples in this page, you can kick them to destroy them.
179	* ''Wolverine: Adamantium Rage'': In the factory area, there are saws partly on the ground with seemingly no purpose other than to hurt Wolverine.
180	* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': Akademi’s gardening club keep a handheld circular saw in their shed, which Ayano can take by either breaking into the shed, or joining the club to get a key and authorisation for the shed. The saw can either be used as a weapon to kill another student, or it can also be used to dismember a corpse, making it easier to move pieces since they’re lighter than the body in full, or even wrap each piece in a tarp to disguise them as random bags of trash for other students to incinerate.
181	* Red buzzsaws make an appearance in ''VideoGame/YookaLayleeAndTheImpossibleLair''. They're most prominently featured in Factory Fright levels but they also appear in Impossible Lair itself. They move along the rails and at one point, a much larger circular saw chases the player.
182	* Circular saws that move along the surface appear in castle levels of ''VideoGame/YoshisStory''.
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187	* ''WebAnimation/SkibidiToiletSeries'': Episodes 48 and 49 feature a rocket-propelled Toilet equipped with a giant horizontal circular saw blade, which is eventually [[PuppeteerParasite controlled]] and destroyed by the [=TVwoman=].
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191	* ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'': In the high-fantasy setting, [[FictionalSport gnomish baseball]] is a blood sport played on a DeathCourse. The [[https://rustyandco.com/comic/level-8-23/ theme]] for one day is sawblade traps embedded in the pitch, which one GuileHero [[https://rustyandco.com/comic/level-8-30/ turns against his opponents]] and one MetalMuncher contestant simply eats. (The next day's theme? Flamethrowers.)
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195	* ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'': In one episode, Snidely Whiplash is about to kill Nell at a saw mill with saw blades when Dudley shows up to stop him. When Dudley pulls the lever, the saw blades become detached and start running amok, even going after Snidely.
196	-->'''Snidely:''' [''as he's running away'']] I've created a Frankenstein!
197	* ''WesternAnimation/ILostMyBody'': Naoufel works in a carpenter's workshop full of circular saws, but he has a poor attention span and keeps multitasking. He eventually [[TooDumbToLive tries swatting a fly that's perched next to one of the saws]], ''without turning the saw off beforehand''... [[AnArmAndALeg guess what happens]].
198	* ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'': The Jokerz known as Ghoul (on which a time-displaced Batman performs a HighAltitudeInterrogation) is a {{cyborg}} whose right hand can turn into a circular saw.
199	* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': In "The Mysterious Mr. Mist", Mr. Mist attempts to feed Perry White into a buzz saw on his farm.
200	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Silverhawks}}'': Buzz-Saw, the KillerRobot member of Mon-Starr's Mob, is a walking bunch of metal-piercing buzzsaws and one of the most destructive members of the Mob ([[NonLethalWarfare if nothing else]] because he gets to use them to tear open doors and walls a lot).
201	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': The shop teacher was depressed after his wife died and he attempted to commit suicide by lying down on a conveyor belt headed for a buzzsaw. At first, he lied down on it with his feet facing the saw. Before he reached the saw, he turned around and said "What was I thinking? [[CaptainObvious That would've hurt like hell]]."
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205	* Unsurprisingly, saw blades can be just as dangerous in real life as they are in fiction. In 2011, the [[https://nclnet.org/ncl_fact_sheet_on_saw_safety/ National Consumers' League]] estimated that about 40,000 Americans visit the emergency room every year due to saw-related accidents (and that a whopping 10% of them suffer amputations!).
206	* Circular saws have been used in a variety of real-life assaults and murders, which often make the news due to their implied brutality.
207	* In 2023, the state of Texas was criticized after floating barriers -- lined with circular saw blades -- were floated in the Rio Grande by immigration authorities in an attempt to deter border crossers. This led to an ongoing Justice Department lawsuit over the safety and environmental concerns posed by these barriers.
208	* Runaway circular saw blades are a real thing, especially the large blades used to saw grooves in concrete pavement because of their weight and momentum. [[https://youtu.be/MwFXFc8lUlk Two]] [[https://youtu.be/am3qbgNJxrU examples]].
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