List of Saw characters

The Saw franchise features a large cast of characters created primarily by directors and screenwriters James Wan, Leigh Whannell, Darren Lynn Bousman, Patrick Melton, and Marcus Dunstan.

The films mainly focus on the character of John Kramer (Tobin Bell), the "Jigsaw Killer," who seeks out those he considers to be wasting their lives and subjects them to torturous and lethal traps, referred to as "tests" and "games," in an attempt to make them appreciate being alive.

In Saw: The Video Game, it is shown that Tapp was nursed back to health by Jigsaw and placed in a series of traps in an asylum, forced to overcome tests and other victims sent to kill him.

Mark has to walk over a floor covered in broken glass and use a candle to read the safe combination written on the wall, wary that his flesh is smeared with a highly flammable jelly-like substance.

Recalling hints left by Jigsaw on a tape recorder, Xavier realizes that each victim has a number written on the back of their neck that, when combined, will open a safe containing the antidote.

After the end credits on the Director's Cut DVD of Saw VI, Amanda Young is seen talking to Corbett through the door of the room she's captive in, urging her not to trust Hoffman when he saves her.

Jill is briefly mentioned in Jigsaw, when it is revealed that the main game is taking place at a pig farm that had been owned by her family, until it had to close due to an outbreak of Aujeszky's disease.

[citation needed] Timothy Young is a medical student who knocked Jeff Denlon's son, Dylan, off of his bicycle and killed him while driving drunk three years prior to the events of Saw III.

He is tasked with keeping Eric Matthews and Mark Hoffman alive throughout the 90 minutes of Rigg's tests, wearing a device strapped to his back with a set of pincers poised to cut through his spine.

Rigg subdues her by throwing her into a mirror, and by the time the police arrive at the scene she has already died from blood loss Cecil is a drug addict who played a large role in John Kramer's transformation into the Jigsaw Killer.

As Jill Tuck was closing down her drug rehabilitation clinic for the night, he begged her to let him back in; once inside, he robbed the facility and shoved a door into her stomach while fleeing, inadvertently causing her to have a miscarriage.

In the final test, Mallick begins to understand his connection to the other victims that is through an incident, orchestrated by Brit, in which he burned down a supposedly abandoned building, killing eight people and leaving him guilt-ridden.

She is kidnapped, tied up and placed in William's third test at the abandoned Rowan Zoological Institute;[18] a device is strapped to her chest that will shoot a spear through her head unless she reaches the end of a steel cage maze in 90 seconds.

Flashbacks throughout Saw VI reveal that his health insurance policy was revoked by William Easton due to a discrepancy found on his application, and he eventually died from heart disease.

Bobby is later abducted by Jigsaw's successor Mark Hoffman and put into a series of six tests at the abandoned Clear Dawn Psychiatric Hospital, along with his wife Joyce Dagen and three of his key staff members.

For his final test, he is made to undergo the ordeal that he claimed to have endured in his book: he must drive two meat hooks through his pectoral muscles, then haul himself up to connect two extension cords and shut off the electrified wire around Joyce's platform.

As he is about to plug in the cords, the hooks tear through his flesh and he drops to the floor, and he watches helplessly as a large metal capsule resembling a brazen bull slams shut around Joyce and she is incinerated within it.

At the abandoned Clear Dawn Psychiatric Hospital, Cale is blindfolded, with a noose attached to a winch, standing at one end of a hallway with no floor, only the support beams and a few loose planks.

Clues left by Hoffman lead Gibson to the observation area of Bobby Dagen's tests, where he and the two officers accompanying him are killed by a remote-controlled machine gun placed in the room.

Based on analysis of trace evidence on the latest victims' bodies, Eleanor determines the location of the new game, an abandoned pig farm, and takes Logan there; Halloran follows and ambushes them, but she escapes and flags down a car.

During the third game, he tries to leave the barn through a door marked "No Exit", but steps on a rigged patch of floor and gets his leg caught in a set of sharpened steel cables that slowly constrict, tearing into his flesh.

Angie is lured into the cold case evidence room located in the precinct basement, where she is placed in a trap that will pour molten wax onto her face unless she severs her spinal cord.

He awakens balanced on a stool with his tongue in a vise, and a video recording of the killer accuses him of being corrupt and lying on the witness stand numerous times, resulting in false convictions.

Dunleavy is later kidnapped by the Jigsaw copycat killer and suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned factory, in front of a device that crushes glass bottles and shoots the shards forward at high speed.

In order to escape with his sight intact, the custodian (whose occupation John describes as a noble one, as he prevents people from becoming sick) must turn a dial on a machine that will break all of the fingers on his right hand.

Gabriela presents herself as a recovering cancer patient at Cecilia's clinic, owing her survival to the doctor's revolutionary treatment program, but she is actually a drug addict who buys pills from Mateo.

Gabriela is suspended from the ceiling by shackles attached to her left wrist and right ankle, and must use a sledgehammer to smash her hand and foot in order to free herself and escape from being bombarded with ionizing radiation.

Joseph Poltzer is a corrupt vice cop who abuses his position to steal drugs seized from criminals and sell them in a cartel, alongside Henry Jacobs, Carla Song, and Sarah Blalok.

During the game, Michael is revealed to have abused his strained relationship with his father to steal documents pertaining to the Jigsaw case, including Tapp's botched sting that resulted in Detective Steven Sing's death.

He is later responsible for using his accountancy role to hide the illegal money made by the drug cartel consisting of Henry Jacobs, Joseph Poltzer, Carla Song, and Sarah Blalok, thus bringing him to Jigsaw's attention.