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WARNING: All spoilers from previous films in the Saw franchise are unmarked here. Read on or go back — make your choice.
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Pull the Thread
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In Saw V, when John is talking to Hoffman after kidnapping him from the elevator, John mentions that Hoffman's pendulum was made of inferior steel, and that tempered steel makes a cleaner cut. In this movie, Perez and Erickson find that the jigsaw piece cut from Eddie was cut with a serrated knife, and not Jigsaw's usual tempered scalpel. This is the thread that begins to unravel Hoffman's attempts to cover his tracks.
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Human Shield
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In the first one, as his attempt to frame Strahm as Jigsaw's second accomplice pitifully falls apart in front of him, Hoffman successfully pulls off a move that only a desperate idiot would normally attempt — he kills two gun-carrying FBI agents (and fairly major characters) using only a knife, a cup of coffee and a minor character as a Human Shield; Hoffman then works to re-establish Strahm as the Jigsaw accomplice by planting his fingerprints all over the crime lab, then setting it aflame... with a still-breathing but rapidly dying Erickson left behind.
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Heel–Face Door-Slam
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Heel–Face Door-Slam: William passes all his tests and learns his lesson about helping people. Then it's revealed that the family of one of the people he let die are also playing a game: Letting him live or not. They choose not to, as they never forgave him, and he dies one of the most violent and painful deaths in the series.
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: Said by Aaron, the first victim of the Shotgun Carousel to get killed.
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Unwinnable by Design
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Unwinnable by Design: The Oxygen Crusher consists of two contraptions consisted of two big metal clamps aiming at the victims' bodies from the sides. Once the game began, a highly sensitive pump measured their breathing activity. Each time one of them took a breath, the clamps would close in and eventually crush their body. Once someone dies, the trap would deactivate with the second victim free to go. However, due to Hank's smoking habits and health issues, there is legitimately no way he could ever win against William even if the latter intentionally tried to lose. Due to the expansive nature of William's trial, it seems Jigsaw was even aware of this and never expected Hank to win.
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Pay Evil unto Evil
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Pay Evil unto Evil: At least, William is evil from Tara's viewpoint. At the end, Tara is given an opportunity to do this, as she is allowed to choose whether the man who denied her husband's health insurance lives or dies. She shouts that she's going to do it, and her hand closes around the lever... but ultimately, she can't go through with it. Unfortunately for William, while Tara can't pay evil unto evil, her son can; Brent pulls the lever and kills William.
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Diabolus ex Machina
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Diabolus ex Machina: William has been put through utter hell and has apparently learned his lesson about the true implications of deciding who lives and who dies based on greed, and advances to the final test, where he finds himself face to face with the wife and son of a man who died because William cancelled his coverage. And it's their game, not his. Cue the son flipping a switch that injects William with gallons of acid.
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Cruel and Unusual Death
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Cruel and Unusual Death: In a non-trap example, Erickson has his jugular vein cut out by Hoffman and is left writhing on the floor. After killing Perez and Sachi, Hoffman then douses him with gasoline and burns him and the whole room down. William ends up having a bed of needles launched into his back with hydrofluoric acid pumped into them, which essentially eats through his stomach and completely separates his upper and lower torso. And it takes a while.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: Three of them from previous films. The biggest one is the note that Amanda read in Saw III. We find out that it was a blackmail by Hoffman in this movie. At the climax, we are shown that the box John left Jill in his will at the beginning of Saw V had the contents for Hoffman's test. In Saw V, when John is talking to Hoffman after kidnapping him from the elevator, John mentions that Hoffman's pendulum was made of inferior steel, and that tempered steel makes a cleaner cut. In this movie, Perez and Erickson find that the jigsaw piece cut from Eddie was cut with a serrated knife, and not Jigsaw's usual tempered scalpel. This is the thread that begins to unravel Hoffman's attempts to cover his tracks.
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: William may well be the biggest example of this in the series. In order, he had to: hold his breath for a painful duration so that another guy will trigger a trap and get himself killed; choose whether to save an old, diabetic mother or a perfectly healthy loner; suffer severe steam burns while trying to help his company's lawyer escape a maze and then nearly get hacked open when she tries to find the key necessary to save her life; and then choose which two of his insurance analysts will live, condemning the other four to death. Eventually, it turns out that he was never really in control of his own fate, and he dies at the hands of an angry, vengeful teenager.
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Life-or-Limb Decision
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Life-or-Limb Decision: The very first trap of the film has an overweight man (Eddie) and a small woman (Simone) competing against one another for their survival. They're told to hack off parts of their skin, and the one whose pile weighs the most survives. Simone wins by hacking off her arm to outdo Eddie, who was cutting into his stomach.
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Bring My Brown Pants
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Bring My Brown Pants: Hank, William's opponent in the Oxygen Crusher game, wets himself involuntarily as a combined result of his panicking and the growing pain from the clamps around his ribcage closing in on it.
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Flashback Echo
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Flashback Echo: At the end of the film, after the Reverse Bear Trap 2.0 has gone off on Hoffman, and just before the final shot of Hoffman kneeling on the floor with a torn cheek, we get a rapid showing of every scene of someone closing the door on someone else at the end of the other films; in order, John closing the Bathroom's door on Adam in the first film, Amanda closing the Bathroom's door on Eric in Saw II, Hoffman closing the Ice Block Trap room's door on Rigg in Saw IV, and Jill closing the control room's door on Hoffman just a minute before in this film.
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Hollywood Acid
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Hollywood Acid: Hydrofluoric acid, while still extremely dangerous and something that should never be in contact with skin, does not instantly melt human flesh.
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Memory Trigger
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Memory Trigger: Hoffman telling Jill that he'll no longer see her once he's finished with all the tasks listed in the envelopes Jill left him makes the latter reminisce of the time John tried to show her that his "method of rehabilitation" works by showing Amanda (who had recently come out from her test back in the first movie) to her. In the main game, William uncovers text written on his skin under each of the strapped bombs he takes off with each key he finds, vaguely nodding to different past encounters he had with John. Each text uncovered leads to a flashback corresponding to each of these events. Hoffman himself gets a Memory Trigger when he enters the surveillance room for William's game and finds a blackmail letter (left there by Jill as part of her sneak attack on him) he had sent to Amanda back in Saw III, with the ensuing flashback montage revealing the sequence when Hoffman wrote it and Amanda read it using footage between Saw III and IV.
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Face Death with Despair
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Face Death with Despair: Josh, one of the Shotgun Carousel victims, has his turn come around when he knows that his death is sealed. He delivers a Final Speech to William where he makes it clear how furious he is about his predicament, and notably whimpers right before he's killed.
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Bad Liar
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Bad Liar: In the Shotgun Carousel, Gena makes a pathetic attempt at claiming she's pregnant to gain William's sympathy. Her stilted, panicked attitude make it obvious that she's lying, and Josh and Shelby call her out for it.
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Secret Test of Character
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Secret Test of Character: As the climax reveals, John's test that he alluded to Hoffman in his farewell tape to him back in Saw IV was to test Hoffman himself with a new version of the Reverse Bear Trap, which Jill sets up as part of John's request to her. Even though Jill deliberately made it unwinnable, Hoffman manages to beat the trap through improvised means and live.
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Blatant Lies
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In the Shotgun Carousel, a tirade of these rolls around between Josh and Shelby when Gena tries to convince William to save her by saying she's pregnant.
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Xanatos Speed Chess
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Xanatos Speed Chess: Hoffman is called by Erickson and Perez to go to the local FBI headquarters' audio lab with them, where an audio technician is analyzing the Pendulum Trap's tape. The analysis reveals that Hoffman's the true second wanted apprentice, so his plan to frame Strahm fails. Hoffman pulls an insane move in response: he murders the technician, Erickson and Perez with only a knife and a cup of coffee. Afterwards, he plants Strahm's fingerprints all over the lab, and then burns the place down.
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Four Is Death
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Four Is Death: William has four bomb straps tied on his limbs, and four tests he must complete to get them off. The Shotgun Carousel has six of William's employees chained down, and he can only save two of them, so at least four will die.
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I Have a Family
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I Have a Family: Emily gets saved from the shotgun in the Shotgun Carousel after she tells William that she has two children who can't live without her.
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Break the Cutie
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Break the Cutie: For Pamela, it doesn't get much worse than seeing your sibling dissolved by acid in front of your own eyes.
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Wham Line
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Wham Line: Not so much the line as the one who delivers it once the voice on Seth Baxter's tape is decoded in front of Perez and Erickson. The reveal of what Amanda read on that letter.
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Wham Shot
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Wham Shot: Doubled with a Wham Line (via voiceover) during one of the reveals, as we finally see what exactly was written in the letter in Saw III that caused Amanda's Villainous Breakdown; it was a blackmail note, written by Hoffman.
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The Farmer and the Viper
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The Farmer and the Viper: Despite William helping Debbie through the first half of her game, the steam maze, she immediately tries to kill him upon meeting him. Justified as the key to her survival was in William's stomach, and given William's apprehension of being cut open, Debbie had no choice but to attack him.
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner
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Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Said by Brent, as he seals William's fate.
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Numerological Motif
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Numerological Motif: Being the sixth Saw film, there are several allusions to the number six throughout Saw VI. Overall, there are six traps in the film, including the opening trap and all the five traps in William's trial. This is further cemented by one of the film's taglines: "6 chances. 6 lessons. 6 choices." One of the traps in itself, the Carousel Trap, has six victims. Jill is seen holding an instruction envelope from the box with the number six written on it, likely implying that there were six of them inside the box. The film's "Hello Zepp" rendition, "Zepp Six", clocks at six minutes within the six-minute climax.
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Disproportionate Retribution
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If you want someone to quit smoking, don't buy them a nicotine patch. Just force them to watch the scene where a poor janitor has his chest crushed in a Jigsaw trap just because he was a smoker with bad lungs. They'll never pick up a cigarette again.
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Fat Bastard
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Fat Bastard: Eddie is a predatory lender and noticeably pudgy. His overweight condition actually comes into play when he tries to cut off his belly fat and use it for the pound-of-flesh scale.
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Treasure Chest Cavity
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William wears a white shirt during his trial, which is stained in blood from the beginning due to him having had a key surgically placed inside him. He's eventually killed in the Acid Room.
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Smoking Is Cool
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Smoking Is Cool: Averted. Try lighting up a cigarette after watching William and the janitor's first test.
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg
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Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Given all of them have their lives hinge on William's decisions and only two can make it out, every Shotgun Carousel victim begs and pleads for their lives.
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Spanner in the Works
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Spanner in the Works: Pamela's obsession with Jigsaw leads her to find the letter Hoffman used to blackmail Amanda. While Jill denies knowledge of it when Pamela pesters her over it, she's actually furious enough over it to later sabotage Hoffman's game, making Hoffman go completely mad and have his identity outed to the public when Jill seeks police protection in the next film. In the director's cut, Brent of all people inadvertently came close to putting an end to Hoffman when the decision to kill William sets off the timer to the reverse bear trap that he narrowly escapes.
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That Liar Lies
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That Liar Lies: In the Shotgun Carousel, a tirade of these rolls around between Josh and Shelby when Gena tries to convince William to save her by saying she's pregnant. Hoffman says this to Perez as he's stabbing her to death.
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Dying Moment of Awesome
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Dying Moment of Awesome: Josh has what is absolutely, without a doubt, the most badass death speech in the whole franchise.
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We Hardly Knew Ye
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We Hardly Knew Ye: Hank is one of the most underdeveloped victims in the series. We know his occupation and the ludicrous reason John tests him, but nothing more.
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Jerkass Has a Point
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Jerkass Has a Point: Simone is one of the few people in the franchise who is correct that Jigsaw doesn't help people, and is full of it.
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Impaled Palm
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Impaled Palm: In the Shotgun Carousel trap, William is allowed to save two of the victims by simultaneously pressing two buttons on a box-like device that would pierce his hand with a metal spike. After the game, William uses his necktie to cover the resulting wound.
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Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
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Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: Downplayed. The teenager Brent knowingly sentences a man to die by being dissolved with acid, but to be fair, he is horrified immediately after this.
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Vengeance Feels Empty
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Vengeance Feels Empty: Brent kills William for being responsible for his father's death, but instead of gaining any satisfaction from it, he and his mother are horrified at his death and will likely be traumatized for life.
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Dying Declaration of Hate
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Dying Declaration of Hate: Perez gets a subtle one as her last words; once Hoffman is outed as being the wanted second Jigsaw apprentice and the one who tried to frame Strahm as being said apprentice before he died, he goes on an absolute rampage and kills the people with him in the FBI's technical lab, ending it with Perez. He stabs her constantly while asking her who else knows that it's been him all along, to which Perez simply replies, "Everyone." Hoffman tried to frame her partner of five years for heinous crimes, even using his severed hand to try and pull it off, and Perez's last act, now content in the knowledge that Strahm was innocent, is letting Hoffman know that every law enforcement agency in the city will be out for his head.
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Potty Failure
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Potty Failure: Hank wets himself midway through the Oxygen Crusher game.
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Josh delivers what is probably the ballsiest and most awesome monologue in the whole franchise when he fully realizes William intends to kill him in order to spare two of his female employees. See Dying Moment of Awesome above.
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Small Role, Big Impact
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Small Role, Big Impact: Harold Abbott, the man whom William denied coverage for his cardiac disease. It's because of this decision that Jigsaw became interested in William and all his affiliates.
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Motor Mouth
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Motor Mouth: Befitting her sensationalist nature, Pamela is very chatty and has little sense of personal space, which draws the ire of Jill and Hoffman.
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Filibuster Freefall
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Filibuster Freefall: This film has a plot that's oddly more political than the rest of the series, including following films. The opening trap has a pair of Loan Sharks as its victims, and the plot's series-typical origin storyline (which serves as the base for the film's main game) is about how John was outraged that his health insurance company denied him access to a potentially lifesaving treatment and destroyed his life; this matches the United States' healthcare situation in 2009 (the year the film was released), when the foreclosure crisis and healthcare reform were at the top of the American political agenda. One scene even has John rant about how politicians who claim that healthcare decisions should be in the hands of doctors and their patients are dishonest because it's actually the insurance companies who make all the decisions.
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Bait-and-Switch
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Bait-and-Switch: When Hoffman goes to meet with Simone in the hospital, she's very soft spoken when talking about her game, making it seem as though she's suffering from Stockholm Syndrome like some of the other victims. Then Hoffman asks her if she learned anything, causes her to lash out and pretty much demand to know what exactly she was supposed to learn from cutting her arm off.
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Didn't Think This Through
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Didn't Think This Through: In the origin storyline, John is first seen meeting William at a party in Jill's clinic, where he chides him for his questionable policy on denying insurance claims. In a subsequent scene, we're shown that John unwisely proceeded to become a client of William's, so he ended up finding out just how monstrous the policy's picture was when he was repeatedly refused coverage for an experimental cancer treatment.
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Half the Man He Used to Be
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Half the Man He Used to Be: As the acid liquefies William, his lower body detaches itself.
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Arc Number
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Arc Number: Six, as befitting the sixth entry. There are six victims on the Shotgun Carousel. Jill Tuck’s box is revealed to have six envelopes in it - the sixth one containing a photograph of Hoffman.
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Never My Fault
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Never My Fault/No Honor Among Thieves: Eddie blames everything on Simone, ignoring his own part in their dirty work and refusing to die for her. More notable is that he starts the test by leaning forward, despite Simone specifically telling him not to, yet still blames her for the situation.
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Men Are the Expendable Gender
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Men Are the Expendable Gender: Given a choice between saving the women or the men, William generally saves the women. Two women do die, but he had no means to control that: Debbie attacked him in an effort to save herself before he could make his own attempt (which he was willing to do), so her death is her own fault. In the Shotgun Carousel, he could only save two out of six people with equal gender distribution, so one woman had to die.
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Revenge Before Reason
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Revenge Before Reason: Tara subverts this. She strongly considers killing William but ultimately can't bring herself to do it. Brent on the other hand...
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Took a Level in Badass
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Took a Level in Badass: Hoffman, twice, and both at times when it seems like he's going down in defeat. In the first one, as his attempt to frame Strahm as Jigsaw's second accomplice pitifully falls apart in front of him, Hoffman successfully pulls off a move that only a desperate idiot would normally attempt — he kills two gun-carrying FBI agents (and fairly major characters) using only a knife, a cup of coffee and a minor character as a Human Shield; Hoffman then works to re-establish Strahm as the Jigsaw accomplice by planting his fingerprints all over the crime lab, then setting it aflame... with a still-breathing but rapidly dying Erickson left behind. Just minutes later, Hoffman is on the wrong end of a new Reverse Bear Trap model thanks to Jill, who reveals that this is part of John's will; as she exits the room, Hoffman bashes his way out of his restraints by using the trap, prevents the trap from opening fully, and finally rips the thing off, only getting his right cheek shred in the process. At first, Jill seems to be an innocent victim of John's schemes due to her implicit involvement as his ex-wife. At the climax, she knocks out Hoffman with an electrocuted chair and puts him in the Reverse Bear Trap 2.0, all without a hint of remorse in her face. William to an extent. He's a corrupt insurance executive who completes all of his tests, endures some severe wounds, gets hot steam blown into his face, and fought off Debbie long enough for a speargun that was attached in the harness she was stuck in to activate, which kills her. And he does all of that while his limbs are strapped with bombs.
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Saw Blades of Death
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Saw Blades of Death: In the Steam Maze, 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. 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.
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White Shirt of Death
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White Shirt of Death: William wears a white shirt during his trial, which is stained in blood from the beginning due to him having had a key surgically placed inside him. He's eventually killed in the Acid Room. Allen is always seen wearing a white shirt, and is hanged bloodily in the Gallows. Inverted with Sachi, who wears a black shirt in the only scene where she appears, and dies when she's gunned to death by Perez while Hoffman uses her as a meat shield towards the latter, leaving a visible trail of blood when Hoffman drops her into a wall.
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Destroy the Evidence
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Destroy the Evidence: Hoffman burns down the FBI's technical lab to destroy the newfound evidence exposing his identity as the new Jigsaw, including the corpses of Perez and audio tech Sachi and the writhing Erickson, whom he killed or severely injured after they got the evidence in front of him.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash:
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Cruel Twist Ending
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Cruel Twist Ending: William manages to make his way through his tests alive and having learned the lesson he had been meant to learn about respecting life... only for the son of a man who died because of his past decisions as an insurance agent to kill him when given the choice between that or forgiveness.
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Alas, Poor Villain
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Alas, Poor Villain: William may have been a greedy and immoral insurance executive, but watching him go through physical and psychological hell, repeatedly risk his life to save the other players, and learn the error of his ways makes his final fate of being melted from the inside out by hydrofluoric acid a uniquely horrifying death even by this franchise's standards.
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
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Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Hoffman uses Strahm's severed hand left from the final trap in the previous film to plant his fingerprints at the next game. Unfortunately for him, forensic data from the hand's dead state actually proves that Strahm was not the "second apprentice", which serves to be one of the big pieces for Hoffman's later downfall.
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All for Nothing
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All for Nothing: William manages to guide Debbie out of the steam maze, incurring serious burns from hot air in the process, upon which they realize that the key to her freedom is sewn within William's side. As he tries to get it himself, Debbie begins swinging a nearby circular saw at him, escalating things into a fight for no substantial reason. Unsurprisingly, Debbie's time runs out as a result, and she is killed. William's death could very much be considered this. After going through a series of demanding traps, which leads to him realizing the error of his ways and the value of the lives of the clients he had indirectly killed by denying coverage, William gets killed by the son of one of said rejected clients, ultimately making his redemption completely meaningless.
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Immediate Sequel
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Immediate Sequel: The film's first scene after the opening trap shows the aftermath of Strahm's death in the previous film's ending. How much time passed between this scene and the rest of the film's present storyline (including the opening trap) isn't made clear, however.
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Loners Are Freaks
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Loners Are Freaks: In the recording message for the Gallows, Allen is mentioned to have no friends or family, and therefore no one to miss him if he dies unlike Addy. This is a fact Jigsaw uses to tip sympathy in Addy's favor.
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Dead-Hand Shot
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Dead-Hand Shot: Two of the film's promotional posters brings back the severed hands and feet from the first film's promotions with a leather-like stitching.
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Fiery Coverup
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Fiery Cover Up: After killing and/or severely injuring everyone there, Hoffman burns down the FBI's technical lab by dropping a match on gasoline he spilled on evidence, equipment and the people's corpses (including the still-living Erickson, whom he particularly gives a sadistic gaze at when he notices him writhing).
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Amoral Attorney
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Amoral Attorney: Debbie is an incredibly sharp and ruthless attorney who fights back against anyone that threatens William or his company's policies. And as Jigsaw's test proves, she's also perfectly willing to turn on William to save herself.
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Sadistic Choice
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Sadistic Choice: The general theme of most of William's tests, meant to reflect the choices between who lives and who dies he routinely makes through his insurance company. The Gallows. William's file clerk Allen and secretary Addy have nooses of barbed wire and are on a hinged platform supported by chains which William must hold in his hands. The chains become more and more taut every few seconds, and if he doesn't let one go, both will fall. Addy is an old, diabetic woman (not worth covering according to William's insurance policy) with a family while Allen is a young, perfectly healthy loner (worth covering). William eventually lets go of Allen, sparing Addy. The Shotgun Carousel. William's six insurance inspectors — Aaron, Emily, Gena, Dave, Shelby, and Josh, collectively known as the "Dog Pit" — are chained to a carousel with a loaded gun in front of it. The carousel will periodically stop rotating, causing the gun to fire and kill someone. However, if William is willing to press a pair buttons in a box that will drive a nail into his hand, he can divert the gun so it fires harmlessly up into the air instead of killing someone. The catch is, he can only do this twice, and the carousel will not stop until the gun has fired six times, so William can only pick two people to save, leaving the other four to die. This is Jigsaw's way of criticizing William's policy, which is responsible for two-thirds of insurance applicants being rejected and left to die. William decides to spare Emily and Shelby.
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: When he's talking to William, Jigsaw says: Brent's Pre-Mortem One-Liner also applies.
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Fake Pregnancy
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Fake Pregnancy: One of the six victims on the Shotgun Carousel, Gena, suddenly claims to be pregnant, hoping that William will spare her life. The other victims immediately yell that she's lying, but whether they're telling the truth or making up anything to try to save their asses is never made clear. He doesn't spare her either way.
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Big "NO!"
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Big "NO!": Simone when she sees her time is running out, after which she makes the decision to chop off her arm. Pamela when Brent decides to execute William.
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: From this movie onward, Detective Fisk, who worked in the homicide division with Hoffman and was previously seen in IV and V, ends up completely absent in the series. Even though pretty much every significant law enforcement officer (cops and FBI agents alike) dies at some point in the series, Fisk just disappears.
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Boom, Headshot!
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Boom, Headshot!: As Debbie fails to retrieve the key from William in time, the device attached to her chest launches a metal rod directly at her head, killing her instantly.
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Fan Disservice
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Fan Disservice: Debbie in the steam maze. The steam causes her blouse to stick to her body rather tightly, but this is never focused on by the camera given the horror of the situation, and she ends the scene by dying in a rather gruesome manner.
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: How Hoffman does Perez in.
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Corrupt Corporate Executive
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: Downplayed with William. John considers him one for denying customers coverage when it could have saved their lives or eased their sickness, but it's clear that he doesn't enjoy doing so, and his interest is more in protecting company profits rather than actually wanting to hurt anyone. That said, William did develop his so-called "formula" to determine who gets coverage and who doesn't (even having bragged to John about it once), and is fully onboard with his subordinates poking holes in insurance applications and effectively screwing his clients out of their coverage for even minor or unintentional oversights. Ultimately, while William isn't a corrupt man personally, he was happily perpetuating a corrupt health insurance system before being subjected to a game. Entirely played straight with William's "Dog Pit" of insurance inspectors, as they looked for loopholes in William's policy to deny people insurance, and most (if not all) don't seem to feel any remorse over it.
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Anti-Villain
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Anti-Villain: By the end of the movie, William did learn a thing or two about helping people. If he had lived, he may have become a better person. Even from the beginning of the movie, he clearly takes no pleasure in refusing health coverage to his clients, meets with them personally, and even agrees with Harold calling him a criminal. Once the game begins, he does everything possible to help the other victims, his employees, from the very first test, even being willing to cut himself open to save his lawyer while she's coming at him with a buzzsaw.
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An Arm and a Leg
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An Arm and a Leg: Simone chops off her left arm to survive her test.
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What the Hell, Hero?
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What the Hell, Hero?: Allen angrily calls William out when he realizes he chose Addy's life over his.
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Bulletproof Human Shield
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Bulletproof Human Shield: Hoffman uses FBI lab technician Sachi as one while Perez is emptying her magazine on him. As usual, it works.
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Morally Bankrupt Banker
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Morally Bankrupt Banker: The opening trap's victims are a pair of bankers who loaned money to people who they knew couldn't pay it back, and proceeded to extract from them every pound of flesh they could with interest on their debt. Jigsaw punishes them by forcing them to give up their own "pound of flesh": whoever cuts off the most of their flesh (measured by the scale they put it on) gets to live, while the other dies from a pair of drills to the brain attached to the helmets they're wearing.
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Decoy Protagonist
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Decoy Protagonist: As William realizes, the movie's main game isn't his: it's that of the family of one of the people he's let die.
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Start of Darkness: The origin storyline intertwined with the movie's two main plots is about the beginning of John's moral descent, shown through Jill and William's flashbacks.
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Strapped to a Bomb: Four bombs are strapped to William's arms and legs, set to explode in 60 minutes unless he completes his tests and gets the keys to remove them.
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Space Whale Aesop
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Space Whale Aesop: If you want someone to quit smoking, don't buy them a nicotine patch. Just force them to watch the scene where a poor janitor has his chest crushed in a Jigsaw trap just because he was a smoker with bad lungs. They'll never pick up a cigarette again. Providing methadone and other compassionate care for people with substance abuse disorders? Bad, enabling, creating leaches on society. The best way to treat substance abuse disorder is to bring a person inches away from a gruesome death and make them stab someone in the stomach, look through their entrails and find a key to unlock themselves. Sure, it'll also turn them into murderers in their own right, but hey, better than methadone.
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Flash Forward
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Flash Forward: Two flashforwards within a flashback, to be specific. A flashback set shortly before Saw III comes with a couple flashforwards to events seen before in different movies. The flashback opens with Hoffman carrying an unconscious person; a flashforward to the Rack in Saw III clarifies that the person in question is Timothy. In their last encounter before the former's death, John gives Jill a key, which is juxtaposed with a flashforward to Jill using the key to open the black box in Saw V.
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The Starscream
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The Starscream: A flashback in this movie reveals that Hoffman blackmailed Amanda into failing her test in III, setting off the chain of events that led to the deaths of both her and John in quick succession. Jill later caught onto this deception, and angrily tries to sabotage Hoffman's test.
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You Killed My Father
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You Killed My Father: Brent's inability to surmount his anger towards William for being responsible for his father's death is what enables him to flips the switch that activates William's death after his mother is unable to bring herself to do so. As quoted in Pre-Mortem One-Liner above, he even says the line of the trope name as he does it.
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Skyward Scream
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Skyward Scream: Hoffman, in the final shot of the film, with his right cheek torn open after barely surviving the new Reverse Beartrap.
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