Riddler DC Rebirth What is the DC Rebirth? the new DC continuity relaunch, DC Rebirth, When was the relaunch? in Batman #19. Did it recieve any recognition? I don't know. Are there any other interesting aspects about this article? Blackmailing the approaching guards with details of their children and families, Riddler walks out freely before intruding into Joker's office. What does he do then? Riddler seemingly offers the Joker a partnership, acknowledging that if either of the two men individually kill Batman, the other will be left forever unsatisfied. Does Joker accept? the Joker shoots Riddler in the stomach and quickly departs, does riddler survive? Left in a pool of his own blood, Riddler rose to his feet and limped out of the office, seemingly unfazed. What happened after that? healed from the wound, carving a question marked shaped scar over the wound, before murdering Dr. Jaime Knowles. Did he get in trouble for murdering him? Riddler is then seen meeting with Poison Ivy, discussing the Joker's need to rid anyone who could potentially kill Batman before him.
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The Riddler makes his first true appearance in the new DC continuity relaunch, DC Rebirth, in Batman #19. An inmate of Arkham once again, he rather cooperatively assists Bane in unlocking a high tech door, allowing Bane access to confront Batman.  In the eight-part story-arc "War of Jokes and Riddles", commencing with Batman Vol. 3 #25, flashbacks to a year after the events of "Zero Year" have Batman recounting the details of a war between Riddler and Joker. He is first seen in custody at the GCPD, assisting them in solving a variety of crimes, including locating Joker's whereabouts, before stabbing a police officer to death 26 times. Blackmailing the approaching guards with details of their children and families, Riddler walks out freely before intruding into Joker's office. Riddler seemingly offers the Joker a partnership, acknowledging that if either of the two men individually kill Batman, the other will be left forever unsatisfied. However the Joker shoots Riddler in the stomach and quickly departs, Batman appearing through the window and giving chase. Left in a pool of his own blood, Riddler rose to his feet and limped out of the office, seemingly unfazed.  Edward quickly healed from the wound, carving a question marked shaped scar over the wound, before murdering Dr. Jaime Knowles. Riddler is then seen meeting with Poison Ivy, discussing the Joker's need to rid anyone who could potentially kill Batman before him. The duo are then ambushed by gunmen working for Carmine Falcone under the orders of the Joker to kill Riddler within the hour. However Poison Ivy attacks the gunmen with her vines, allowing Edward and herself to leave.  Riddler eventually formed his team, consisting on himself, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, Deathstroke, Clayface, Killer Croc, Two-Face, Firefly, and Victor Zsasz. Waging war on Joker's team across Gotham, Riddler is responsible for poisoning Charles Brown's son, resulting in his transformation into Kite Man who joins up with Joker's team consisting of Cluemaster, Deadshot, Mad Hatter, Man-Bat, Mr. Freeze, Penguin, Solomon Grundy, and Ventriloquist. The war continues, with Riddler and Joker claiming territories across Gotham, before Riddler, who'd convinced Batman to side with him during the conflict, blackmails and interrogates Kite Man into giving up Joker's location. However Batman, after a brief fight between him, Riddler and Joker, becomes disgusted by Riddler's actions and quickly grabs a blade, breaking his one rule of No Killing in order to stab Riddler. However Joker, who finally begins to laugh again, prevents Batman from doing so.  The present day Riddler shows up next in 'Deathstroke #25' as a member of The Society who have placed Deathstroke on trial for appearing to have reformed. Riddler, using Hector Hammond's abilities, convinces the Society that Deathstroke is indeed evil by showcasing a simulation of Deathstroke killing them all right before Deathstroke himself is kidnapped. CANNOTANSWER
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The Riddler (Edward Nigma, later Edward Nygma and Edward Nashton) is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang, and debuted in Detective Comics #140 in October 1948. He has become one of the most enduring enemies of the superhero Batman and belongs to the collective of adversaries that make up his rogues gallery.

In his comic book appearances, the Riddler is depicted as a criminal mastermind in Gotham City. He has an obsessive compulsion to incorporate elaborate riddles, puzzles, and death traps in his schemes to prove his intellectual superiority over Batman and the police. His real name–Edward Nigma–is a pun itself; an "enigma" is a person or thing that is difficult to understand. With this self-conscious use of a gimmick, the Riddler's crimes are often theatrical and ostentatious. The character commonly wears a domino mask and either a green unitard decorated with question mark prints, or a green suit and bowler hat. A black, green or purple question mark serves as his visual motif.

The Riddler has been adapted into numerous forms of media, having been portrayed in live-action by Frank Gorshin and John Astin on the 1960s television series Batman, Jim Carrey in the 1995 film Batman Forever, Cory Michael Smith on the 2014 FOX series Gotham, and Paul Dano in the 2022 film The Batman. John Glover, Robert Englund, Wally Wingert, and others have provided the character's voice ranging from animation to video games.

Fictional character biography

Criminal career

The character's origin story recounts Edward Nigma's fascination with puzzles from a young age. After a teacher announces that a contest will be held over who can solve a puzzle the fastest, Nigma sets his sights on winning this, craving the glory and satisfaction that will come with the victory. He breaks into the school at night to practice the puzzle until he is able to solve it in under a minute. Due to this he wins the contest and is given a book of riddles as a prize. His cheating rewarded, Edward embraced the mastery of puzzles of all kinds, eventually becoming a carnival employee who excelled at cheating his customers out of their money with his bizarre puzzles and mind games. He soon finds himself longing for greater challenges and thrills and dons the disguise of the "Riddler" to challenge Batman, believing him to be a worthy adversary. In his first encounter with the Dynamic Duo, Riddler first tried to confound the crime-fighters with his infamous double-entry Riddle Clues and then tried to kill them both in a booby-trapped glass maze on a pier, sealing the door so they couldn't leave the structure before it exploded, only for Batman and Robin to escape and the Riddler "vanishing" after getting knocked into the sea by the explosion, leaving only his trademark "?" floating in the water.

In Batman: The Long Halloween, the Riddler appears as an informant. The Riddler is hired by Carmine "The Roman" Falcone to tell him the identity of the Holiday Killer. Falcone eventually loses his patience with Riddler and has his daughter throw him out on the 1st of April. Outside Falcone's he is confronted by the holiday killer who fires several shots at him without harming him due to it being April Fool's, the killer also leaves several items pertaining to their identity at the scene. This may be why Riddler was left alive, as matters are traditionally reversed on the holiday. He appeared again in the same chapter of the story in which Harvey Dent is disfigured when Batman comes to him for information about the attack. He plays a slightly larger role in the story's sequel Batman: Dark Victory, in which Batman turns to him to figure out the significance of the lost games of hangman that are left at the scenes of the Hangman killer's crimes. He later showed up as a member of Two-Face's jury during the Hangman's trial.

In Catwoman: When in Rome, he joins Selina Kyle on a trip to Italy in search of his fellow rogue's origins. It is there that he manipulates her into believing that some of Batman's most dangerous foes are after her. He has his henchmen employ several gimmicks and weapons used by the Scarecrow, Mr. Freeze and the Joker to achieve this. He hopes to extract Batman's real identity from her, but to his dismay, she actually doesn't know or care. The Riddler appears in The Question series, being convinced to become a "big-time villain" by a prostitute he meets on a bus. He hijacks the bus and begins asking riddles, killing and robbing anyone that gets them wrong. Question quickly subdues him by asking him philosophical riddles in return. He is outwitted and has a mental breakdown before being set free as a reward for getting one last riddle right. In the one-shot "Riddler: The Riddle Factory", the Riddler becomes the host of an underground game show that focuses on digging up dirt on celebrities. Many of the famous people that he humiliates end up committing suicide shortly afterward, suggesting that perhaps Riddler did more than just inspire their deaths. In the end, his actions turn out to be a front for his attempts to find the hidden treasures of "Scarface" Scarpelli, a Gotham City gangster who lived long before Batman's reign of crimefighting.

In the three-part Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight storyline "The Primal Riddle", written by Steve Englehart, the Riddler engineers one of his greatest deathtraps: Batman is thrown into a narrow pit that is slowly filling up with water. The walls are electrically wired, and a set of bumpers are the only thing that prevents the water from touching the walls and causing Batman to die by electrocution. The only options Batman appears to have are death by electrocution and death by drowning, but as always, Batman manages to tamper with the trap's design and develop a route of escape. After Harley Quinn briefly breaks free of her devotion to the Joker, she attempts to hold up a large party at Wayne Manor, only to find that the Riddler is targeting the building also. The two gangs engage in a firefight, but Harley gains the upper hand when Big Barda (who was secretly allied with her at the time) interrupts the conflict and captures the Riddler and his men. During the storyline, Riddler makes constant allusions to a "mystery" that is hidden within the mansion, and after his apprehension, damage done to the building causes the entrance to the Batcave to open. Riddler sees this, and then declares that he has "solved the riddle of Wayne Manor". During this period, he attacks Black Canary and Green Arrow in Star City, and he is easily defeated. This event helps lay the foundations for Riddler's future confrontations with Green Arrow.

During a crisis caused when Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth was broken, resulting in the laws of truth breaking down and causing reality to be shaped by the perceptions of individuals, one of the symptoms was when Batman found himself unable to solve any of the Riddler's riddles but was nevertheless still able to defeat Riddler as Riddler himself could not solve the riddles eithermost likely reflecting the public idea of Riddler's puzzles being insolubleclaiming that he managed to "improvise" to defeat Riddler. His low reputation among heroes and villains was reflected when the Flash noted that Batman having trouble with Riddler was a clear sign that the world was ending.

Batman: Hush
In the 12-part storyline Batman: Hush, it is revealed that Riddler suffers from cancer (specifically a brain tumor), which also afflicted the mother of Dr. Thomas Elliot. Riddler uses one of Ra's al Ghul's Lazarus Pits to cure himself and offers Elliot the chance to cure his mother as well, provided he pays a large sum of money. However, Elliott is, in fact, eager for his mother to die in order to inherit her fortune. Elliott, who goes on to secretly become the masked criminal Hush, explains he wants to get revenge on his childhood friend Bruce Wayne. The two of them agree to work together and Riddler sets Killer Croc, Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Joker, Clayface and Scarecrow out to destroy Batman, with Ra's, Talia al Ghul, and Lady Shiva being temporarily drawn into the scheme as well.

During the psychotic break that follows exposure to the Lazarus Pit, the Riddler deduces Batman's secret identity; he then reveals his knowledge to Hush. He has Clayface shapeshift into the form of Batman's presumed deceased protégé Jason Todd in order to torment Batman, who is haunted by the former Robin's death. Batman first thinks that Riddler had stolen Todd's corpse and hid it, but it was revealed in a later storyline, Batman: Under the Hood, that Todd was alive the whole time and had personally played a role in Riddler and Hush's scheme. When the Riddler threatens to expose Batman's secret identity, the Caped Crusader mockingly labels it an empty threat, pointing out that if Riddler revealed the answer to the riddle "who is Batman?", it would become worthless, something Riddler would not be able to stand. In addition, Batman warns him that if he reveals the secret, it would give Ra's al Ghul a vital clue that he used a Lazarus Pit without his permission, and the League of Assassins would subsequently retaliate against him.

Aftermath
The fallout from the Riddler's failed scheme is played out in Batman: Gotham Knights #50-53. In the story "Pushback", Hush reappears and beats Riddler senseless across a rooftop. Seeking refuge, Riddler goes to the Joker and the Penguin. He offers to tell the Joker who had killed his pregnant wife Jeannie if the Clown Prince of Crime would protect him from Hush. Joker immediately agrees, but eventually, Hush, with the help of the impostor Prometheus, defeats him, forcing Riddler to flee for his life. In Detective Comics #797-799, the Riddler seeks shelter from Poison Ivy only to be humiliated. Riddler and Poison Ivy then face off in a physical duel, which Ivy wins easily.

As revealed in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #185-189, the Riddler is stripped of his deductive powers and left to rot as a member of Gotham City's vast and invisible homeless population. A chance encounter with an ex-NSA codebreaker gives him a positive environment in which to recover his mind. During that stay, he experiences an induced flashback that leads him to realize that his father had abused him many years ago. Envious of his son's academic achievements in school, and unable to understand his brilliance, his father believed he had cheated on his accomplishments, and beat him out of jealousy. Once Riddler discovers this, he also realizes that his compulsion is born out of a strong desire, to tell the truth, to prove his innocence of deception. Having made this connection, the Riddler spends some of his vast fortunes, acquired over many years of crime, to get minor plastic surgery and extensive tattooing, covering most of his torso with his trademark question insignia. He returns and kills the codebreakerwho had pieced together his identity but couldn't act on itthen promptly steals a priceless scroll out from under Batman's nose. Since then, Riddler has spent most of his time either legally amassing a huge fortune or attacking various heroes in order to prove his new-found power.

After orchestrating a brutal series of assaults on Green Arrow, as revenge against his defeat at his hands during the "No Man's Land" era, Riddler gravely injures and almost kills both Green Arrow and Arsenal. He once again escapes before the Outsiders arrive to save them. Sometime between this incident and the events of Hush, Riddler was hired to steal artifacts imbued with mystical powers from one of Star City's museums, and then distract the authorities so that the related rituals could be commenced. He sends Team Arrow on a wild goose chase around the city and then reveals that he has an atomic bomb housed in the stadium where the Star City Rockets play. However, as a side effect of the ritual performed with the artifacts, the city is plunged into complete darkness, and Green Arrow uses this to his advantage, moving in and apprehending the Riddler.

Riddler later shows up in Infinite Crisis #1, with a group of villains, which includes the Fisherman and Murmur, attacking the Gotham City Police Department. He is next seen escaping Arkham Asylum during the worldwide supervillain breakout engineered by the Secret Society of Super Villains in Villains United: Infinite Crisis Special #1, which takes place only days after the prior supernatural disaster. Riddler reappears as part of the Society's "Phase Three" attack on Metropolis. He is defeated by the Shining Knight and is struck in the head by the Knight's mace.

Riddler reformed
In Detective Comics #822, the first of a series of issues written by veteran Batman writer Paul Dini, the Riddler returns, having spent much of the previous year in a coma due to brain damage after being struck in the head by Shining Knight. When he awakes, he is cured of his insanity and of his obsession with riddles, while retaining both his genius intellect and his mammoth ego. He has seemingly reformed and becomes a private consultant who takes on the murder case of a wealthy socialite. Hired by the socialite's father, he proves that a photo of Bruce Wayne apparently implicating him in the crime depicts an impostor and briefly works with Batman to investigate the crime. He has suffered severe memory loss from the coma, and he barely remembers his own name. He does not appear to remember that Wayne and Batman are one and the same, although he does harbor some suspicions of once knowing something amazing about Wayne.

In Detective Comics #828, the Riddler is a guest along with Bruce Wayne on board a ship during a party. During the party, an old friend of Bruce's falls overboard and is mauled to death by sharks. Riddler appears to solve the case with the suicide of the apparent murderer, and quickly takes the credit. However, Batman finds evidence that suicide was a setup to divert attention away from the real killer. Bruce suspects foul play, and eventually tracks down the killer, whom Riddler is also close to catching before Nigma is bludgeoned over the head by a shark-tooth club. The killer pushes Batman out the window and is about to drop him to his death, when Nigma wraps his tie around an arrow, lights it on fire, and shoots it into the killer's back. As the assailant rolls around screaming, Nigma taunts him, refusing to douse the flames. Batman extinguishes the flame and responds to Nigma's assertion that they are now allies with hostile dismissal. In Detective Comics #837, Riddler is hired by Bruce Wayne to track down an experimental drug developed by Wayne Enterprises, currently being tested for muscle stamina and cellular regeneration, which has been stolen by the lab assistant Lisa Newman. He discovers that Newman is staying at the same Athenian Women's Help Shelter as Harley Quinn. With Harley's help, he defeats Newman and returns the drug to Wayne Enterprises, earning Batman's trust for the time being.

In Countdown #42, Riddler claims to Mary Marvel that he has gone straight and is now a detective. The two join forces to defeat Clayface, and after witnessing Mary's new malicious approach to crime-fighting, suggests that she consider finding a mentor to help her control her powers or at the very least get some anger management counseling. After a serial killer surfaces on the streets of Gotham City, the Riddler homes in on closing the case, only to find that the killer is actually one of his former victims out for revenge. The young man, whose girlfriend was caught in the crossfire of a gunfight between Nigma's gang and security guards, captures Riddler and attempts to kill him, but Batman intervenes just in time and saves his former foe's life. In the 2008 mini-series Gotham Underground, Riddler investigates the Penguin's involvement with the events of Salvation Run. He saves Dick Grayson working undercover during the Gotham Gang War between Penguin and Tobias Whale and deduces that Grayson is Nightwing.
He appears in Battle for the Cowl: The Underground, where he is hired by the Penguin to find Black Mask. To that end, he tracks down Selina Kyle, meeting up with Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy in the process.

In the Gotham City Sirens storyline, Poison Ivy is controlling the Riddler, keeping him in a nearly vegetative state so she can move into his house. When a villain named Boneblaster decides to make a name for himself by killing Catwoman, the fight ends up there. The house is severely damaged, but Riddler is freed from Ivy's control in the process. Seeing his house in shambles, he takes his question mark cane off the wall and begins to savagely beat the already downed Boneblaster. In the third issue, Riddler attempts to solve a pair of unlikely suicides, the first being the second-best female tennis player in the world, the second an ace race car driver. During his re-enactment of one of the deaths, he is visited by both Catwoman and Poison Ivy, seeking his help in locating Harley after her abduction. Due to the events of the first issue, and Harley's mental state, he quickly declines and brushes off Poison Ivy's threats.

In his efforts, he discovers that these deaths are in fact homicides orchestrated by a serial killer who leaves subtle clues to the next victim within the body and time of death of the current victim. While attempting to alert the media, he provokes Dick Grayson, who is now acting as Batman. Almost instantly, Riddler deduces that the Batman before him is a new one. Additionally, Riddler reveals that the next victim will be the sister of the second victim, a young romance writer, something that Dick needed Alfred Pennyworth and the Batcave computer to figure out. In the end, Dick goes off to confront the killer, while Riddler agrees to look after the intended victim. After a brief, but an expected misunderstanding about Riddler's intentions with the young woman, Dick phones in to announce that he has apprehended and questioned not one, but three killers about their intentions, but got no answers. Riddler almost leaves the woman to her life, when the lights go out unexpectedly. Riddler immediately concludes that Dick has not captured all of the killers, and pulls the woman out of harm's way when a bomb goes off in front of her bookstore.

While Riddler and the writer hide as the smoke clears, three costumed assailants, enter the wreckage, looking for their victim to mark with their next riddle. The two men are led by a woman going by the moniker Conundrum, and their costumes sport black and green color schemes along with disturbingly familiar question mark emblazoned on their outfits. As Riddler stealthily disposes of the two grunts with his cane, Conundrum takes the writer hostage at gunpoint. Riddler deduces that Conundrum and her men are all college students who specialize in police sciences. Due to his famous rehabilitation, Conundrum's group decided to fill the void with their debut murders. Conundrum admits that Riddler was her idol and that it would be a shame to kill him.

At this point, Riddler announces that Batman is en route to their very location, something both Conundrum and the writer have difficulty believing. Riddler claims that since his reform, he and Batman have become close and that his cane now has its own GPS that alerts Batman to his location whenever the question mark is twisted. Noting her disbelief, Riddler calmly asks Conundrum with a smirk, "Why is this man smiling?". Just as the Riddler finishes his question, Dick shows up and knocks Conundrum out. Riddler then admits that he is completely baffled that Batman is indeed there since he was only stalling for time until he thought of something, leading him to wonder if there truly is a Bat-signal in his cane (a panel during Riddler's "bluff" shows that there is indeed a Bat-signal in his cane, as a green question mark alongside a map shows up inside the Batmobile's window). After the ordeal is over, the young writer hugs Riddler, thanking him for saving her life. Afterward, she and Riddler go out to dinner at a fancy restaurant, under Dick's covert surveillance. Dick admits that Riddler is indeed on a path of recovery, but must still be watched. After washing up in the men's room, Riddler sees a gossip show on closed-circuit television, showcasing a plainclothes Harley getting into a car with Hush disguised as Bruce Wayne. He then calls Selina and tells her to turn on her television. Sometime later, Riddler arrives at his office to find his secretary bound and gagged at her desk, with Harley, Ivy, and Selina waiting in his office. The women tell him that they are being framed for the murder of a young woman whose body was dropped into their pool, and they need his help to prove that they had no part in it. After examining the woman's body, he finds that the women were telling the truth, only to be attacked by Dr. Aesop.

Return to villainy
In Tony Daniel's "Life After Death", Riddler appears early in the story at a gala party attended by Arkham, Dick Grayson, Huntress, and Oracle, hired by Penguin to find the Black Mask. As he chases Catgirl away from her robbery of the venue, the Riddler is rocked by a bomb detonation, the trauma re-awakening his psychosis. Cackling, rambling and insane, he terminates his contract with Cobblepot and disappears. In "Riddle Me This", the Riddler still "acts" as a private eye and teams with Batman to solve the murders of a mysterious sorcerer named Sebastian Rothschild (aka Sebastian Blackspell). Blackspell is apprehended, but only after Batman suspects Riddler went to great lengths to orchestrate the ordeal, including poisoning himself with a nearly lethal dose of Joker gas to skirt suspicion and act on a grudge between him and Blackspell.

Riddler's return to villainy is cemented in "Eye of the Beholder". Investigating the Sensei's attack on the Jade Society, Batman (Dick Grayson) is ambushed by Riddler and a young woman introduced as Enigma, Riddler's daughter. Riddler and Enigma escape, delivering the Jade Society member list to Gilda Dent. Riddler is paid but is more interested in another reward, which Gilda promises after one more job. This occurs in "Pieces", where Gilda reveals herself to her estranged husband Harvey, who is now the disfigured criminal Two-Face. She hires Riddler and Enigma to help Two-Face best Mario Falcone and reclaim his coin. The plan works; Riddler and Enigma defeat Batman and reunite the Dents. The Riddler is rewarded with multiple dossiers of himself. When Enigma calls him a has-been, Riddler retorts with a new riddle: "What's green and purple and bleeds profusely?". Enigma's response is cut short by her scream, implying that the Riddler has murdered his own daughter.

The New 52
In DC's 2011 relaunch of all of its monthly titles, The New 52, Riddler appears as an inmate at Arkham Asylum in Batman #1. Redesigned in the style of the new titles, he sports a green mohawk in the shape of a question mark. Riddler appears in more traditional form in the short that concludes Batman #15 "And Here's the Kicker", the third part of "Death of the Family". After it is revealed that Joker has secretly hijacked Arkham Asylum, Riddler is depicted as a current inmate, calmly biding his time and taunting guards. But when Joker appears and reveals his great respect for Riddler (as the villain whose dangerous intellect has kept Batman "sharp"), he uses Joker-gas to force Riddler to prove he could have escaped his cell anytime he wanted. To his chagrin, Riddler does and becomes quite alarmed when Joker shares a write-up of his plan to ambush Batman. Joker admits Riddler will have little part in his designs but should stick around for the "show" anyway.

The Riddler made an appearance in Batman, vol. 2, #21, the opening book of the "Zero Year" arc, where his surname is changed from Edward Nigma to Nashton or Nygma. The Riddler later appears in both the second and third chapters of the "Zero Year" storyline. In the canon, the Riddler is Batman's first masked supervillain and is not only able to best Batman twice, but also takes control of Gotham, causing it to become a flooded wasteland where only the intelligent are meant to survive. Although the Riddler continues to be steps ahead of the Dark Knight, he is eventually defeated by the combined efforts of Batman, Commissioner James Gordon and Wayne Enterprises CEO Lucius Fox. He is later moved to Arkham Asylum.

Riddler appeared one more time in New 52 in the last three issues of Flash. Holding a presumed dead Heat Wave hostage, it is revealed that the Riddler designed a range of deadly drones around Central City, drones that he had out-sourced to the CCPD. Alongside the Trickster (whose arm Edward had placed a bomb in), Riddler begins ruthlessly punching and beating the Flash (Barry Allen) before the speedster is quickly rescued by the Pied Piper. Riddler then threatens to have his drones open fire on the citizens of Central City once more. However, he is eventually defeated and imprisoned by a uniformed effort between the Flash and the Rogues.

DC Rebirth
The Riddler makes his first true appearance in the new DC continuity relaunch, DC Rebirth, in Batman #19. An inmate of Arkham once again, he rather cooperatively assists Bane in unlocking a high tech door, allowing Bane access to confront Batman.

In the eight-part story arc "The War of Jokes and Riddles", commencing with Batman Vol. 3 #25, flashbacks to a year after the events of "Zero Year" have Batman recounting the details of a war between Riddler and Joker. He is first seen in custody at the GCPD, assisting them in solving a variety of crimes, including locating Joker's whereabouts, before stabbing a police officer to death 26 times. Blackmailing the approaching guards with details of their children and families, Riddler walks out freely before intruding into Joker's office. Riddler seemingly offers the Joker a partnership, acknowledging that if either of the two men individually kills Batman, the other will be left forever unsatisfied. However the Joker shoots Riddler in the stomach and quickly departs, Batman appearing through the window and giving chase. Left in a pool of his own blood, Riddler rose to his feet and limped out of the office, seemingly unfazed. Edward quickly healed from the wound, carving a question marked shaped scar over the wound, before murdering Dr. Jaime Knowles. Riddler is then seen meeting with Poison Ivy, discussing the Joker's need to rid anyone who could potentially kill Batman before him. The duo is then ambushed by gunmen working for Carmine Falcone under the orders of the Joker to kill Riddler within the hour. However, Poison Ivy attacks the gunmen with her vines, allowing Edward and herself to leave.

Riddler eventually formed his team, consisting of himself, Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, Deathstroke, Clayface, Killer Croc, Two-Face, Firefly, and Victor Zsasz. Waging war on Joker's team across Gotham, Riddler is responsible for poisoning Charles Brown's son, resulting in his transformation into Kite Man who joins up with Joker's team consisting of Cluemaster, Deadshot, Mad Hatter, Man-Bat, Mr. Freeze, Penguin, Solomon Grundy, and Ventriloquist. The war continues, with Riddler and Joker claiming territories across Gotham, before Riddler, who had convinced Batman to side with him during the conflict, blackmails and interrogates Kite Man into giving up Joker's location. However Batman, after a brief fight between him, Riddler and Joker, becomes disgusted by Riddler's actions and quickly grabs a blade, breaking his one rule of no killing in order to stab Riddler. However, Joker, who finally begins to laugh again, prevents Batman from doing so.

The present-day Riddler shows up next as a member of the Society who have placed Deathstroke on trial for appearing to have reformed. Riddler, using Hector Hammond's abilities, convinces the Society that Deathstroke is indeed evil by showcasing a simulation of Deathstroke killing them all right before Deathstroke himself is kidnapped. In the Watchmen sequel Doomsday Clock, Riddler hosts an underground meeting with the other villains to talk about the Superman Theory. The meeting is crashed by Comedian who shoots Riddler in the leg.

Characterization

Skills and abilities

The Riddler is a criminal genius capable of extraordinary lateral thinking in decoding and formulating puzzles of all kinds. As a private detective during the time he was reformed, he demonstrated investigative skills that rival those of the Dark Knight. However, Batman's observations note that "[Nigma] exhibits personality disorders consistent with a fanatic narcissist, egocentrism, and megalomania crossed with severe obsessive compulsion".

Like most of Batman's enemies (and Batman himself), the Riddler has no superhuman abilities but is a highly cunning criminal strategist. He is not especially talented in fisticuffs (although his endurance has grown from having to engage in it over the years), but sometimes employs weaponry that exploits his gimmick, such as exploding jigsaw pieces, question-mark-shaped pistols, and his infamous question-mark staff, known to house a wide variety of technological devices and weapons. He is shown to be skilled with engineering and technology, having confronted Batman and Robin with unique and elaborate deathtraps. He is also well known for being Batman's most intelligent adversary, and with a flexible theme to his crimes compared to similar criminals: all the Riddler requires is to be able to describe his threatened crime with a riddle or puzzle.

However, the threat that Riddler actually poses is somewhat inconsistent across his various stories. His most formidable depictions emphasize his intelligence and cunning, portraying him as one of few rogues capable of seriously taxing Batman's mental prowess, while also willing to take the precaution of obtaining firearms to deal with the superhero. Some recent depictions, however, have placed a derogatory focus on his flamboyant gimmickry, and (like most of Batman's enemies) relative lack of major victories, portraying him as petty, overconfident, relatively harmless, and held in low esteem. The latter approach has proved polarizing, with some fans finding it wasteful in light of the character's classic status and history of compelling stories, while others argue that most of his popularity has come from media other than his comic storylines and enjoy the notion of knowing that his "real" threat level is overrated. Since The New 52 reboot, Riddler has been consistently depicted as a serious threat, with notable successes.

Relationships
The Riddler has a working relationship with the Cluemaster, although he initially resents the villain for seemingly copying his modus operandi. In their first encounter, he sets his fellow rogue up with a bomb and sends Batman off chasing riddles that would lead to its defusing, as well as away from his real plan: to steal a vast amount of priceless baseball merchandise. The two team up on a few occasions afterward and work together on a big scheme shortly before Cluemaster's apparent death in the pages of The Suicide Squad.

DC Comics' 2022 Valentine's Day special, Strange Love Adventures #1, introduced the people the main continuity Riddler has had a romantic interest in, including a man named Antoine Moray and the women Miss Grantham, Jasmin Shroff, and the villain The Quiz (Miyu Tangram), confirming that canonically he is at least bisexual.

Other versions
As one of Batman's most famed and popular adversaries, a number of alternate universes in DC Comics publications allow writers to introduce variations on the Riddler that are not part of the official DC continuity, variations in which the character's origins, behavior, and morality differ from the mainstream setting.

Joker

A radically different interpretation of the Riddler is featured in Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo's Joker. In this version, he wears a solid green jacket with question marks on the very back of it and a circle of question mark tattoos around his abdomen. His cane serves the purpose of helping to prop him up, due to a disabled leg. In the story, he sells an unknown substance to the Joker, who identifies him as "Edward".

Thrillkiller
In the Elseworlds miniseries Thrillkiller, Nygma is a psychiatrist who counsels Barbara Gordon. Doctor Edward Nygma, author of Riddle Me This — What Do We Really Mean?, keeps Barbara dosed with increasing amounts of Valium and encourages her to mix with people that she actually loathes. Edward wears a green suit and the cushions of his couch bear the pattern of the Riddler's outfit. Alfred, Barbara's butler, takes the drugs away from her at the request of her father Commissioner Gordon, who considers Edward to be a quack.

Batman: Earth One
The Riddler appears in the graphic novel series Batman: Earth One. This version of the character is a nameless serial killer who puts people in life-threatening situations, all while questioning them in riddles, claiming that if they get it right, he will spare them; in fact, this is all a ruse, as he kills them regardless of whether they answer the riddles he proposes or not. Even though he is not obsessed with finding answers to most riddles, the Riddler does have an obsession with learning the Batman's identity, which he considers to be the "ultimate riddle".

In Volume Two, six months after the death of Mayor Oswald Cobblepot, the Riddler goes on a killing spree in Gotham City, hoping to get Batman's attention. After a bombing, Batman chases the Riddler, but falls off a roof in the process of attempting to catch him. Though Batman finds the Riddler's sewer-based hideout, he fails to stop him from bombing a rapid transit train. Using discovered clues, Batman deduces that these killings were not random; they were actually targeted, specifically that the Riddler is targeting the people who are trying to take over the remains of Cobblepot's criminal network. Bruce is later accused of being the Riddler after the real Riddler frames him in an attempt to divert James Gordon's investigation, but Jessica Dent is able to provide Bruce an alibi so he is not arrested. In the middle of a riot at the police precinct caused by the Riddler, Batman pursues the villain in a car chase and eventually subdues him with Waylon Jones' help. The Riddler is subsequently arrested by the Gotham City Police Department and brought up on 43 charges of murder.

Batman/Judge Dredd: The Ultimate Riddle
In the Batman/Judge Dredd crossover Batman/Judge Dredd: The Ultimate Riddle, the Riddler uses a reality-manipulating wand-like device he acquired during the Zero Hour crisis to pull Batman, Dredd, and six alien warriors together, intending to pit Batman against the other warriors and get him killed. However, Batman and Dredd are able to work together to overcome their opponents, culminating in Dredd shooting Riddler in the shoulder and Batman claiming the device, subsequently using it to return the survivors home.

Justice
The Riddler's appearance in Alex Ross' 12 issue series Justice suggests a new motivation, that, as a child, he had been beaten by his father whenever he told a lie, to the extent that he was now psychologically incapable of telling a lie. His riddles are his method of subverting his condition so that he is still technically telling the truth, but always in as cryptic a manner as possible.

Antimatter Universe
The Riddler has a heroic counterpart in the antimatter universe called the Quizmaster, who is a member of Lex Luthor's Justice Underground (that Earth's version of the Injustice Gang) which opposes the evil Crime Syndicate of Amerika. He first appeared in JLA Secret Files 2004 #1. He later has the right half of his face burned by Ultraman, leading him to don a half-face and temporarily take on the name "Enigma". He last appeared in the Trinity series. As the New Earth Riddler slowly became a lighter, less criminal figure, Enigma became a darker figure in this series, attempting to join forces with Despero and Morgaine le Fay to perform a ritual that will allow them to 'supplant' the Trinity of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman and gain the power to manipulate the multiverse. In the course of the series, it is revealed that Enigma seeks this power to save his daughter after she was mortally injured, but the ritual fails when Despero is replaced by one of his henchmen in an attempted coup, creating an imbalance that destabilizes reality until Trinity's allies can regain enough of their own memories to help their loved ones come back to themselves. Similarly, on Earth-3, the Riddler's heroic counterpart (simply Riddler) is married to Three-Face (Evelyn Dent) and is the stepfather to the Jokester's daughter Duela Dent.

Emperor Joker
In the "Emperor Joker" storyline, the all-powerful Joker creates an alternate Riddler, known as "Enigma", to be a member of the Joker's League of Anarchy along with alternate versions of Poison Ivy and Bizarro. After learning of the Joker's plans to destroy the universe, he leads the League in an uprising against him. The Joker's vast and amazing powers cause the plan to fail, and the entire League is destroyed as a result.

Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again
The Riddler can be heard saying "ruh-riddle me this" in Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again.

Kingdom Come
The Riddler appears in the miniseries Kingdom Come, having been invited to a meeting of the Mankind Liberation Front by Lex Luthor. In this alternate future, the Riddler has become an old, bald man wearing glasses with question mark-shaped rims. He still indulges in his habitual riddling, asking "Who is the Riddler?" when Luthor referred to him by his real name. He appears to have been invited to the meeting only upon the insistence of Selina Kyle, as Luthor does not appear enthused by his presence.

Batman: Crimson Mist
In the third issue of the Batman vampire series Batman: Crimson Mist, the Riddler appears in a morgue where he shoots the mortician who was about to start an autopsy on a corpse where the Riddler had stored a large number of drugs. The Riddler in that appearance has a big question mark-shaped scar on his face and another one on his chest with his navel being the dot. While shooting he cites what would be his final riddle: "When Genius becomes dope plus 'E' how does she redeem herself? Answer: By turning 'Heroine' which minus the E is 'Heroin', lots of it and redeemable for lots of cash," at which vampire Batman appears and scolds the Riddler for graduating from robbery and extortion to drug trafficking and murder. In a panic, the Riddler begins to fire at Batman only to find that his bullets have no effect on him. Stunned, the Riddler asks Batman what he is, to which Batman replies: "The answer to life's every riddle: death and hungry darkness." With that, Batman proceeds to drain the Riddler of his blood.

The Batman Adventures
In The Batman Adventures #2, the Riddler makes yet another attempt to go straight. While reformed in issue #11, the Riddler struggles to avoid the temptation of crime as well as planting riddles. To remedy that, Batman recruits the Riddler to answer a great riddle: "How did the Penguin succeed in becoming mayor of Gotham City?". In the process, he is heavily injured by the Clock King, which ends up with him in a coma in issue #12. The series was canceled before the Riddler's fate could be resolved. The story planned for the Riddler would have him emerging from his coma stricken with amnesia, allowing him to solve the greatest riddle: "Who Am I?".

The character was featured in several issues of The Batman and Robin Adventures. In his first appearance, he holds an entire Christmas party hostage, convinced that Batman and Robin are among the crowd. This issue is also the debut of his two assistants, Query and Echo, in the DCAU continuity. In a later issue, he kidnaps Commissioner Gordon and threatens Gotham City with deadly nerve gas. Since Batman and Robin fail to show up, Batgirl is forced to take on the Riddler alone and save her father.

The Riddler is featured prominently in Batman: Gotham Adventures, a spin-off of Batman: The Animated Series.

Injustice: Gods Among Us
In Injustice: Gods Among Us'''s prequel comic, when the Justice League come to remove the patients of Arkham, only to be resisted by Batman and Nightwing, the Riddler watches the argument between the heroes in silence. He was about to make a riddle but Cyborg orders him to be silent. Cyborg next plans to remove him but is stopped by Batman when he activates a virus he had uploaded into Cyborg years ago. Riddler is freed by Harley Quinn alongside all the other inmates to attack the heroes. The Riddler is seen about to crush Batman's head with a large rock but hesitates as he tries to think of a riddle to say before committing the act, allowing the Green Arrow to knock him out with a boxing glove arrow, before being beaten down by Robin.

Teen Titans Go!
In the tie-in comic to the Teen Titans animated series Teen Titans Go!, one issue focused on a villain named "Kwiz Kid", whose plan was to stump Robin with riddles in an attempt to get a date with Killer Moth's daughter, Kitten. Kwiz Kid is possibly a younger version of the Riddler as he bears a number of similarities to the Riddler in both style and physicality, even down to wearing a green suit with a question mark as his symbol.

Batman: White Knight
The Riddler made a minor appearance in the 2017 series Batman: White Knight. Riddler, along with several other Batman villains, is tricked by Jack Napier (who in this reality was a Joker who had been force-fed an overdose of pills by Batman, which temporarily cured him of his insanity) into drinking liquids that had been laced with particles from Clayface's body. This was done so that Napier, who was using Mad Hatter’s technology to control Clayface, could control them by way of Clayface's ability to control parts of his body that had been separated from him. Riddler and the other villains are then used to attack a library that Napier himself was instrumental in building in one of Gotham City’s poorer districts. Later on in the story, the control hat is stolen by the Neo-Joker (the second Harley Quinn, who felt that Jack Napier was a pathetic abnormality, while the Joker was the true, beautiful personality), in an effort to get Napier into releasing the Joker persona. Riddler also appears in the sequel storyline Batman: Curse of the White Knight'', being among the villains murdered by Azrael.

In other media

See also
 List of Batman Family adversaries
 Enigma (DC Comics)

References

External links

 Riddler at DC Comics' official website
 
 Edward Nygma's Puzzle Web Site : puzzles, games and stories featuring the animated series Riddler.

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The Saw series of horror films 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 focus primarily 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. 

The franchise consists of nine films: Saw (2004), Saw II (2005), Saw III (2006), Saw IV (2007), Saw V (2008), Saw VI (2009), Saw 3D (2010), Jigsaw (2017), and Spiral (2021).

Saw

Adam Stanheight
 Portrayed by Leigh Whannell
 Appears in: Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw V (mentioned only), Saw VI, Saw 3D, Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw III

Adam Stanheight is a freelance photographer hired by the discharged detective David Tapp to follow Dr. Lawrence Gordon, the man he suspected of being the Jigsaw Killer. Adam is kidnapped by Jigsaw's apprentice Amanda Young and placed in a game alongside Dr. Gordon, which takes place in a large dilapidated bathroom. Each of them are chained to pipes on opposite sides of the room, with a presumed dead body in the middle, and are given specific instructions on what they need to do in order to survive. Dr. Gordon has to kill Adam by six o'clock, while Adam simply has to escape. After failing to complete their respective tasks by the deadline they are confronted by Zep Hindle, an orderly from Dr. Gordon's hospital. Adam beats Zep to death with a toilet tank lid, believing he is responsible for their abduction, and Dr. Gordon crawls away to get help, having sawed off his foot, and promised to return to Adam. While searching Zep's body for a key, Adam finds a tape recorder that reveals that Zep was a victim in the game and only following instructions in order to obtain an antidote for a poison in his blood stream. As the tape ends, the body gets up and the real Jigsaw reveals himself. When Adam tries to shoot him, he is incapacitated with an electric shock and Jigsaw seals the bathroom door, leaving Adam in the darkness of the bathroom to die. While the main assumption was that Adam simply died of thirst when his corpse was shown in Saw II, he is later shown to have been killed out of guilt by Amanda in a flashback in Saw III shortly after the end of the first Saw film, by suffocating him with a plastic bag.

Adam's decomposing corpse is seen in Saw II, Saw III, and Saw 3D. In Saw II: Flesh & Blood, Adam is mentioned in Tapp's files and audio tapes as having been hired by one of Tapp's colleagues to prove his wife was having an affair, implying this was why Tapp hired him.

According to the producers of Saw, Adam's last name was Faulkner, but the FBI documents in Saw V gave his last name as Stanheight. In the original script for Saw, Adam's last name was Radford.

Alison and Diana Gordon
 Portrayed by Monica Potter and Makenzie Vega
 Appear in: Saw, Saw II (Alison mentioned only)
 Status: Alive

Alison and Diana Gordon are the wife and daughter of Dr. Lawrence Gordon. They are held hostage by Zep Hindle as a part of Lawrence's test. When Lawrence fails his test, Zep attempts to kill both Alison and Diana, but they are rescued by Detective David Tapp. The DVD commentary for Saw 3D reveals Alison divorced Lawrence because of his unstable mindset.

Allison Kerry
 Portrayed by Dina Meyer
 Appears in: Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw III

Allison Kerry is one of the first detectives assigned to the Jigsaw case, and one of the most knowledgeable of how he works. She first appears in Saw, working alongside Detectives David Tapp and Steven Sing. In Saw II, she works with Detective Eric Matthews and Officer Daniel Rigg in order to try to save Eric's son Daniel. In Saw III, after Eric disappears and is presumed dead, Kerry becomes wracked with guilt. She and Detective Mark Hoffman are called to the scene of an inescapable trap, and Kerry is the first to suspect that someone else was responsible, as the trap didn't follow Jigsaw's M.O. She is later captured and placed in her own trap, but even though she follows the rules, the trap (which was built and rigged by Amanda Young) tears her rib cage apart, killing her. Her corpse is later discovered by Officer Rigg and the FBI. It is revealed in Saw IV that Kerry's first name is Allison, as seen on a file observed by Officer Rigg. In Saw V, a police memorial service is held honoring those who died in their effort to close the Jigsaw case; Kerry is among the officers honored.

Amanda Young

 Portrayed by Shawnee Smith (film) and Jen Taylor (game)
 Appears in: Saw: Rebirth, Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D, Saw: The Video Game, Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw III

In Saw, Amanda Young is introduced as a heroin addict, and the first person to survive one of Jigsaw's "games" (notably, the only known survivor at the time of Saw), who ultimately believes that John helped her. It is revealed in Saw II that after her test John recruited her as his apprentice, and Amanda was intended to carry out John's legacy. In Saw III it is revealed that Amanda has become disillusioned with his philosophy and starts designing inescapable traps. Unwilling to let a murderer continue his legacy, John designs a test in which Amanda must prove that she has what it takes to carry on with it, but she ultimately fails when she shoots Lynn Denlon, and Lynn's husband Jeff Denlon retaliates by shooting Amanda. Amanda's corpse is seen in Saw IV and Saw V, and she appears in flashbacks in Saw V, Saw VI, and Saw 3D. In Saw VI it is revealed that Mark Hoffman blackmailed Amanda into killing Lynn, using the knowledge that she had a role in Jill Tuck's miscarriage.

Billy

 Voiced by Tobin Bell
 Appears in: Saw (short), Saw: Rebirth, Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D, Jigsaw, Saw: The Video Game, Saw II: Flesh & Blood
 Status: Some confiscated/Most destroyed

Billy is a ventriloquist puppet created by John Kramer to communicate with his victims. Billy usually appears on a TV screen when talking to victims, but sometimes appears in person. Billy gives the victims instructions on how to escape their traps before the time expires. Billy has also appeared in every adaption of Saw, becoming an icon of the series. It is revealed in Saw IV that Billy was originally created for John and Jill Tuck's unborn son Gideon.

Carla Song
 Portrayed by Alexandra Bokyun Chun (film)
 Appears in: Saw, Saw II: Flesh & Blood
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw II: Flesh & Blood

Carla Song is a medical student at St. Eustice Hospital, and Dr. Lawrence Gordon's mistress. She plays a larger role in the video game Saw II: Flesh & Blood where she is targeted by Jigsaw for stealing vital pharmaceuticals and selling them on the street for profit. She is found by Michael Tapp with her arms secured to the ceiling of an elevator shaft and her legs secured to the roof of an elevator. Michael is tasked with completing a test in order to release her safely, his failure resulting in the elevator lowering, tearing Carla in half. It is revealed that she is part of a criminal conspiracy alongside Henry Jacobs, Joseph Poltzer, and Sarah Blalok; Carla being responsible for procuring more specialist items from her clinic. Even though she and Michael work together, she is soon left with Henry, who slashes her to death with a pair of scissors.

David Tapp

 Portrayed by Danny Glover (film) and Earl Alexander (game)
 Appears in: Saw, Saw III, Saw V, Saw: The Video Game, Saw II: Flesh & Blood, Dead by Daylight: The Saw Chapter
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw

David Tapp is a detective assigned to investigate the earlier Jigsaw crimes. Evidence leads him to suspect that Dr. Lawrence Gordon is the Jigsaw Killer. Tapp and his partner Steven Sing later find Jigsaw's warehouse, but before they can apprehend him, he activates a trap, which threatens the life of Jeff Ridenhour. Sing rushes to help the victim while Tapp attempts to arrest Jigsaw, but Jigsaw slashes Tapp's throat with a concealed blade and flees. When Sing pursues Jigsaw, he is killed by a shotgun booby trap for which Tapp blames himself. Tapp is subsequently discharged from the force, but continues to obsess over finding Jigsaw.

Tapp monitors the Gordons' residence, still convinced that Lawrence is Jigsaw, and rushes over after hearing gunshots. There he finds Alison and Diana Gordon being held captive by Zep Hindle. Zep flees and is pursued by Tapp; the chase leads to an underground room where Tapp is shot after a brief struggle and left for dead. 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. In the game's "Freedom" ending, Tapp manages to escape the asylum but committs suicide sometime afterwards, unable to overcome his obsession with Jigsaw. In Saw V, a police memorial service is held honoring those who died in their effort to close the Jigsaw case; Tapp is among the officers honored.

Donnie Greco
 Portrayed by Oren Koules
 Appears in: Saw, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V (mentioned only), Saw VI, Saw: The Video Game (mentioned only), Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw

Donnie Greco first appears in Saw. He is Amanda Young's drug dealer and cellmate. As a part of Amanda's game, he is heavily tranquilized (injected with an opioid overdose) and unable to move or feel anything. The key to unlock her trap is placed in his stomach, and to get it, Amanda has to cut him open. Donnie is seen again in a flashback in Saw III in which Jigsaw is shown preparing the trap. He appears again in a flashback in Saw IV exiting Jill's health clinic with Paul Leahy.

Jeff Ridenhour
 Portrayed by Ned Bellamy (film) and Dex Manley (game)
 Appears in: Saw, Saw V (mentioned only), Saw: The Video Game, Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw II: Flesh & Blood

Jeff Ridenhour first appears in Saw as a victim of one of Jigsaw's experimental traps. He is bound to a chair with two drills aimed at his neck. Jigsaw activates the trap, and the drills slowly move towards Jeff's neck. Jigsaw tells Detective Steven Sing that the key to free him is on a ring with dozens of others. Without enough time to try all the keys, Sing shoots the drills to stop them.

Jeff later appears in Saw: The Video Game. He is shown to have become suicidal due to trauma. As such, Jigsaw kidnaps Jeff once again and places him in a trap that would impale him with spikes. Detective Tapp manages to free him, but an injured Jeff runs away and leaves Tapp behind. During the events of Saw II: Flesh & Blood, it is revealed that two days after Jeff escaped from the asylum, he committed suicide.

John Kramer

 Portrayed by Tobin Bell (film/game) and George Williams (animated comic)
 Appears in: Saw: Rebirth, Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D, Jigsaw, Spiral, Saw: The Video Game, Saw II: Flesh & Blood
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw III

John Kramer was a successful civil engineer, married to Jill Tuck and expecting a son to be named Gideon. Following the miscarriage of his son caused by Cecil Adams and Amanda Young, John became distraught and later learned he had an aggressive inoperable brain tumor. He attempted suicide but ultimately survived, finding a new appreciation for life. Using his wealth and skill, John began testing others' will to live by placing them in deadly traps, which he referred to as "games" or "tests", hoping to give those who survived a new appreciation for their lives. Those who failed would have a jigsaw-shaped piece cut from their flesh to represent they were missing "the survival instinct". John was then nicknamed "The Jigsaw Killer", or simply "Jigsaw" by the media. Although John's throat is slashed by Jeff Denlon in Saw III, he appears in flashbacks throughout the series.

Lawrence Gordon

 Portrayed by Cary Elwes (film) and Stan Kirsch (animated comic)
 Appears in: Saw: Rebirth, Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV (mentioned only), Saw V (mentioned only), Saw VI (mentioned only), Saw 3D, Saw: The Video Game (mentioned only), Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Alive

Lawrence Gordon is the man who diagnosed John Kramer's terminal cancer and was initially a suspect in the Jigsaw murder case. John targets Lawrence for being cold and uncaring to others, and for cheating on his wife Alison by having an affair with his medical student, Carla Song. Lawrence is placed in a trap alongside Adam Stanheight and is tasked with killing him before six o'clock or his wife and daughter will be killed. He fails to do so, but severs his own foot to free himself from his shackle, and crawls away to get help, promising Adam he will bring someone back. His fate is unknown until Saw 3D, when it is revealed that Lawrence passed out after using a hot steam pipe to cauterize his ankle stump. John found him unconscious shortly after and congratulated him for surviving. He then helped Lawrence recover, and gave him a prosthetic foot.

John recruited Lawrence afterwards, and used his medical skills to prepare other traps. He prepared a variety of traps for John, such as putting the key in Michael Marks' eye in the Venus flytrap (Saw II), as well as sewing Art Blank's mouth and Trevor's eyes shut for the mausoleum trap (Saw IV). He also selected Lynn Denlon as John's surgeon (Saw III) and wrote an anonymous message to Detective Mark Hoffman (Saw V) stating "I know who you are". Following John's death, his ex-wife Jill Tuck delivered a package to Lawrence that had been left to her in John's will; it contained a videotape with instructions from John to watch over Jill and act on his behalf if anything was to happen to her. When Hoffman kills Jill and attempts to flee the city, he is ambushed by three people in pig masks, led by Lawrence. After chaining Hoffman by the ankle to the pipes in the bathroom (which also reveals he did not return to Adam as promised), Lawrence picks up the hacksaw he had used to sever his own foot and throws it into the corridor. He then turns off the lights and leaves, and despite Hoffman's protests, closes the door and leaves Hoffman to die in the darkness of the bathroom, with no means of escape.

Mark Wilson
 Portrayed by Paul Gutrecht
 Appears in: Saw: Rebirth, Saw, Saw III, Saw V (mentioned only), Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw

Mark Wilson, a 30-year-old software analyst, is one of Jigsaw's earliest victims, targeted because he feigned illness to excuse himself from his responsibilities. Mark is stripped naked and informed that he has a slow-acting poison in his body, the antidote to which is locked in a safe in the room. 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. Mark eventually fumbles with the candle, burning himself alive, and his charred corpse is later found by police. It is shown in Saw V that his surname is Wilson, as indicated by a document observed by Agent Peter Strahm.

Paul Leahy
 Portrayed by Mike Butters
 Appears in: Saw: Rebirth, Saw, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw

Paul Leahy is one of John's earliest victims, chosen because he attempted suicide by cutting his wrists despite having a good life with a wife and kids. Paul is placed in a large cage lined with a maze of razor wire and is given two hours to crawl his way to freedom; ironically if Paul wants to live, he will be forced to cut himself again, but if he wants to die, all he has to do is wait. Paul attempts to escape, but bleeds to death before reaching the exit. Paul is later seen in Saw IV leaving Jill's drug clinic. In Saw V, Paul is shown being kidnapped by both John and Mark Hoffman for his test in Saw.

Steven Sing
 Portrayed by Ken Leung
 Appears in: Saw, Saw III, Saw V, Saw: The Video Game (mentioned only), Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw

Steven Sing is one of the first detectives assigned to the Jigsaw case. He and his partner, David Tapp, use clues from a video tape to find Jigsaw's warehouse. There, they find Jeff Ridenhour in a trap with drills aimed at his neck. Jigsaw arrives shortly after and activates the device when the officers expose themselves, forcing them to choose between arresting him or saving Jeff. Sing shoots the drills and pursues Jigsaw through the warehouse, after Jigsaw slashes Tapp's throat with a hidden wrist blade. While pursuing him, Sing accidentally activates a tripwire that triggers four overhead shotguns to discharge, killing him. Tapp blames himself for Sing's death, which ultimately causes him to obsess over capturing Jigsaw. In Saw V, a police memorial service is held honoring those who died in their effort to close the Jigsaw case; Sing is among the officers honored.

It is shown in the video game that Sing has a wife named Melissa and a son named Franklin. Melissa encounters Tapp during the game and blames him for the death of her husband. Sing is also frequently mentioned in tapes and documents.

Zep Hindle
 Portrayed by Michael Emerson (film) and Jeff Shuter (animated comic)
 Appears in: Saw: Rebirth, Saw, Saw II, Saw III, Saw V (mentioned only), Saw 3D, Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw

Zep Hindle is an orderly who works at St. Eustice Hospital, where John Kramer is being treated for his cancer. He forms a bond with John while he is being treated, but John considers him to have "issues of his own". Zep is forced to monitor Adam Stanheight and Dr. Lawrence Gordon's game, in order to obtain the antidote for the slow-acting poison in his blood stream. He is instructed to hold Alison and Diana Gordon captive and kill both them and Lawrence if the latter fails to kill Adam by six o'clock. Lawrence fails, but Alison and Diana manage to escape when Detective David Tapp arrives and chases Zep to an underground sewage system. After shooting Tapp, Zep proceeds to the site of Adam and Lawrence's test. Zep prepares to kill Lawrence since he shot Adam after the deadline, but Adam, having survived the gunshot, knocks Zep to the floor and beats him to death with a toilet tank cover, believing him to be their captor.

Throughout the film the audience is led to believe Zep is Jigsaw; it's not revealed until the end that Zep is a victim of Jigsaw's game rather than Jigsaw himself. On the DVD commentary for Saw, Leigh Whannell and James Wan stated that Zep enjoyed the sense of power he is given over others that he did not have before. Zep's decomposing corpse is later shown in Saw II, Saw III, and Saw 3D.

Saw II

Addison Corday
 Portrayed by Emmanuelle Vaugier
 Appears in: Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Spiral
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw II

Addison Corday is a prostitute, and a victim in the nerve gas house. Like the other victims, she was framed by Detective Eric Matthews. She attempts to work with the other captives to survive, but upon learning that another victim, Daniel, is Eric's son, she begins working alone to find an antidote. She reaches into a glass box to retrieve an antidote, and her arms get caught in the razor blade lined sockets. Xavier Chavez finds her, but leaves her to bleed to death after reading the number on the back of her neck. In a flashback in Saw IV, she is seen offering John Kramer her services, prior to John becoming the Jigsaw Killer. In a flashback in Saw V, she is seen lying unconscious as John and Mark Hoffman set up the nerve gas house.

According to the Saw II website, Addison is written to be 29 years old.

Daniel Matthews
 Portrayed by Erik Knudsen
 Appears in: Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw 3D
 Status: Alive

Daniel Matthews is the son of Detective Eric Matthews. After a falling out with his father, Daniel goes missing but is revealed to have been captured and placed in the nerve gas house, with seven people who had served prison terms after being framed by Eric. As the game progresses, Daniel's lineage is discovered and he is abandoned by the other victims. Amanda Young returns after discovering Jonas Singer's body, and they attempt to flee from Xavier Chavez. The chase leads to the bathroom from Saw, and Daniel slices Xavier's throat with a hacksaw, killing him. After these events, Amanda (revealed to be John Kramer's apprentice) takes an unconscious Daniel to John's lair where he is locked in a safe for Eric's test; the safe opens after a two-hour timer expires, and he is found by a SWAT team, with a mask that provided him with oxygen while in the safe. Daniel appears in a flashback in Saw V, lying unconscious on the floor, while John and Mark Hoffman prepare the nerve gas house. In Saw 3D he appears in another flashback, this time with Amanda in the bathroom at the end of Saw II.

Daniel Rigg
 Portrayed by Lyriq Bent
 Appears in: Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw IV

Daniel Rigg is a SWAT commander that first appears in Saw II, assisting Detectives Eric Matthews and Allison Kerry in apprehending Jigsaw. In Saw IV, Rigg is put through four trials in which he is forced to understand Jigsaw's modus operandi. He suffers a gunshot wound to the stomach in his final test, and it is revealed in Saw V that he died of blood loss. In Saw V, a police memorial service is held honoring those who died in their effort to close the Jigsaw case; Rigg is among the officers honored.

Eric Matthews

 Portrayed by Donnie Wahlberg
 Appears in: Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw IV

Eric Matthews is a police detective who leads a SWAT team to John Kramer's lair in Saw II. It is also implied he had an affair with Detective Allison Kerry, which led to his divorce. When the police raid the lair, John reveals that he has captured Eric's son, but promises that Eric will be able to find him in a "safe and secure state" after talking with Jigsaw for two hours. Eric has been chosen for the game due to his history of police brutality and planting evidence to convict people of crimes they did not commit. Eric soon loses patience and assaults John, forcing him to take him to the nerve gas house. When he enters the bathroom from Saw, Amanda Young incapacitates him, chains him to a pipe, and leaves him to die.
 
In Saw III, Eric escapes the bathroom by breaking his foot and ankle. He pursues and beats Amanda before she gains the upper hand and leaves him for dead. He is later dragged to a cell by a hooded figure, given a brace for his shattered foot, and imprisoned until the time comes for Daniel Rigg's tests in Saw IV. Rigg fails his final test, triggering two large ice blocks to swing down from the ceiling and crush Eric's head. In Saw V, a police memorial service is held honoring those who died in their effort to close the Jigsaw case; Eric is among the officers honored.

Gus Colyard
 Portrayed by Tony Nappo
 Appears in: Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw II

Gus Colyard, a businessman, is a victim of the nerve gas house. He and Xavier Chavez attempt to use a key on a booby-trapped door, and Gus is shot through the eye while peering through the peephole. Like the other victims, Gus was in the house because he was framed for crimes he did not commit by Detective Eric Matthews. Gus later appears in a flashback in Saw IV, in which he quarrels with Cecil Adams in Jill Tuck's health clinic. In a flashback in Saw V, Gus is seen lying unconscious while John Kramer and Mark Hoffman set up the nerve gas house. It is shown in Saw V that his surname is Colyard, as indicated by a document observed by Agent Peter Strahm.

According to the Saw II website, Gus is written to be 38 years old.

Jonas Singer
 Portrayed by Glenn Plummer
 Appears in: Saw II, Saw III, Saw V
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw II

Jonas Singer appears in Saw II as a victim of the nerve gas house. Like the other captives, Jonas had previously been framed and jailed by Detective Eric Matthews, and it is implied that he is gang affiliated. Jonas attempts to work with the others to find an antidote, and is eventually killed by Xavier Chavez with a spiked baseball bat. It is shown in Saw V that his family name is Singer, as indicated by a document observed by Agent Peter Strahm. Jonas briefly appears in Saw V, in which he is seen lying unconscious on the floor, while John Kramer and Mark Hoffman set up the nerve gas house.

According to the Saw II website, Jonas is written to be 41 years old.

Laura Hunter
 Portrayed by Beverley Mitchell
 Appears in: Saw II, Saw III, Saw V
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw II

Laura Hunter appears in Saw II as a prisoner of the nerve gas house alongside seven other victims, all but one of whom were framed for crimes they did not commit by Detective Eric Matthews. A flashback reveals that Obi Tate had kidnapped her for Jigsaw. Laura works with the others to find an antidote, but succumbs to the nerve agent shortly after discovering that another victim, Daniel, is Eric's son. Laura briefly appears in Saw V lying unconscious, while John Kramer and Mark Hoffman set up the nerve gas house. It is shown in Saw V that her surname is Hunter, as indicated by a document observed by Agent Peter Strahm.

According to the Saw II website, Laura is written to be 24 years old.

Michael Marks
 Portrayed by Noam Jenkins
 Appears in: Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V (mentioned only), Saw 3D
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw II

In Saw II, Michael Marks is a police informant working for Detective Eric Matthews. He awakes with a spike-filled mask (called a "Venus flytrap" by Jigsaw) locked around his neck. A videotape and a set of x-ray slides reveal that the key has been surgically implanted behind his right eye, and in order to retrieve it he must remove his eye with a scalpel. He cannot bring himself to do it, and when the timer expires the mask closes, killing him.

Michael is seen again in a flashback in Saw IV, in the waiting room of Jill Tuck's clinic. It is shown in Saw V that his surname is Marks, as indicated by a document observed by Agent Peter Strahm.

Michael makes an appearance in Saw 3D, where it is revealed in a flashback sequence that Dr. Lawrence Gordon surgically placed the key behind his eye for the purposes of his test in Saw II.

Obi Tate
 Portrayed by Timothy Burd (film) and Marc Carr (game)
 Appears in: Saw II, Saw III, Saw V, Saw 3D, Spiral, Saw: The Video Game, Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw II

Obi Tate is an arsonist, and a victim of the nerve gas house. He remains isolated from the rest of the group until they come across a trap intended for him. A tape recorder reveals that Obi aided Jigsaw in kidnapping the other victims, and Obi is instructed to retrieve two antidote syringes from a furnace, keeping one for himself and giving the other away. When he attempts to retrieve the syringes, he inadvertently triggers a trap that seals and ignites the furnace, burning him alive. A clue given on Obi's tape indicates that he can save himself by closing a valve with a picture of a devil next to it, but will burn himself in the process.

In a flashback in Saw V, his unconscious body is shown being dragged into the nerve gas house by Mark Hoffman. Obi appears in Saw: The Video Game where he is rescued from another furnace by David Tapp. In Saw: The Video Game it is revealed that Obi desires to be tested by Jigsaw repeatedly, thinking of it as a "gift".

Xavier Chavez
 Portrayed by Franky G
 Appears in: Saw II, Saw III, Saw V, Saw 3D
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw II

Xavier Chavez is a drug dealer and a victim of the nerve gas house. Like the other victims, Xavier had served time in prison after being framed by Detective Eric Matthews. Xavier is instructed to search for antidote syringes hidden around the house. The group finds a test intended for him, in which a key is hidden in a pit of hypodermic syringes, but he throws Amanda Young into the pit instead. He fails to unlock a door containing the antidote in time, and frustrated by their lack of success, abandons the others. 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. Xavier begins hunting down the other victims to collect their numbers before realizing that one of the victims, Daniel, is Eric's son. He corners Daniel and Amanda in the bathroom from Saw, but Daniel slashes Xavier's throat with a hacksaw, killing him. Xavier's corpse appears in Saw III and Saw 3D. In Saw V, he is seen lying unconscious while John Kramer and Mark Hoffman set up the nerve gas house.

According to the Saw II website, Xavier is written to be 40 years old.

Saw III

Corbett Denlon
 Portrayed by Niamh Wilson
 Appears in: Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI
 Status: Alive

Corbett Denlon is the neglected daughter of Jeff and Lynn Denlon. She is kidnapped and hidden in Jigsaw's warehouse, given a limited air supply. Jeff learns of her kidnapping upon killing Jigsaw, revealing that to get Corbett back he would have to play another game. However, that game never materializes since he is shot dead by Agent Peter Strahm in Saw IV. During Saw IV, Mark Hoffman is seen holding one of Corbett's stuffed animals when he talks to Agent Lindsey Perez. Corbett has a brief appearance in Saw V where she is seen with the stuffed animal being carried out of the warehouse and given to a police officer by Hoffman. 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.

Danica Scott
 Portrayed by Debra McCabe
 Appears in: Saw III, Saw V (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw III

Danica Scott was the only witness to the hit-and-run that left Jeff Denlon's son Dylan dead. Instead of staying to testify, Danica fled the scene, and is later kidnapped as part of Jeff's tests. She is stripped nude and suspended by her wrists in a freezer room. Once Jeff enters, two metal poles start spraying Danica with water at random intervals. She manages to convince Jeff to help her, but she freezes solid before he can retrieve the key from behind frozen metal bars.

Dylan Denlon
 Portrayed by Stefan Georgiou
 Appears in: Saw III, Saw IV
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw III

Dylan Denlon is Jeff and Lynn Denlon's deceased son. He was run over by a drunk driver named Timothy Young. Since Timothy did not get the punishment he deserved, Jeff became vengeful, which is why he is tested in Saw III.

Judge Halden
 Portrayed by Barry Flatman
 Appears in: Saw III, Saw V (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw III

Halden is a judge who presided over the case of Timothy Young, the drunk driver who killed Jeff Denlon's son Dylan. Halden is captured and positioned as part of Jeff's test of forgiveness to see if Jeff could overcome his anger at Halden for only giving Timothy a six-month sentence. He is chained at the neck to the bottom of a large vat being filled with liquified pig corpses. The key to free him is in an incinerator filled with Dylan's belongings; Jeff reluctantly burns the items to retrieve the key, and frees Halden in time. Later, while confronting Timothy, Jeff accidentally triggers a shotgun that discharges into Halden's face, killing him.

Jeff Denlon
 Portrayed by Angus Macfadyen
 Appears in: Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw IV

Jeff Denlon is one of John Kramer's victims in Saw III. Due to his obsession with vengeance against those that were involved in the death of his son Dylan, Jeff is kidnapped and subjected to a series of encounters with those he held accountable for the incident and is faced with the choice of saving them or allowing them to die in their traps. In Jeff's final test, he confronts Jigsaw himself to prove he has learned how to forgive. Jeff tells John he forgives him before slicing his throat with a circular saw. Upon killing John, Jeff inadvertently triggers a device that kills his wife Lynn. Before dying, John plays a tape revealing Jeff must undergo another test to save his daughter Corbett, but in Saw IV he is killed by Agent Peter Strahm, who appears while he tries to rescue Eric Matthews, shortly after.

Jill Tuck
 Portrayed by Betsy Russell
 Appears in: Saw: Rebirth, Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D, Jigsaw (mentioned only), Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw 3D

Jill Tuck, the ex-wife of John Kramer, appears briefly in Saw III as part of a memory that John recalls while he is undergoing brain surgery. She is interrogated by FBI agents Peter Strahm and Lindsey Perez in Saw IV, revealing Jigsaw's backstory. In Saw V, after John's death, Jill visits his lawyer to hear his will, during which she is bequeathed a box containing his last intended test subjects, including one test that Jill must carry out herself. Submitting to John's final wishes, in Saw VI Jill places Mark Hoffman in a seemingly inescapable trap, intending to kill him.

After Hoffman escapes the trap, in Saw 3D Jill flees to his precinct station and asks for help from Detective Matt Gibson in Internal Affairs, offering to incriminate Hoffman in exchange for immunity and protection. While Jill is in protective custody, Hoffman infiltrates the station and kills her with the reverse bear trap. Her death is subsequently avenged by Dr. Lawrence Gordon, who was instructed in a tape left for him by John to watch over Jill and to act immediately on John's behalf if anything happened to 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.

Lynn Denlon
 Portrayed by Bahar Soomekh
 Appears in: Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw III

Lynn Denlon is an ER doctor who is kidnapped in Saw III by Amanda Young and tasked with keeping John Kramer alive until another victim completes his test. Amanda locks a collar around Lynn's neck; if John dies or she moves too far out of range, the collar will fire five shotgun shells at her head. Lynn looks after John and performs an improvised brain surgery to relieve pressure on his brain, while her husband Jeff Denlon faces a series of tests. Amanda refuses to free Lynn after Jeff completes his test, jealous of the attention John showed her and not believing she had learned anything. Amanda, unaware that Lynn is married to Jeff, shoots her. Jeff enters the room after Lynn is shot and retaliates by shooting Amanda; he then kills John with a circular saw, unwittingly activating Lynn's collar. Her corpse is seen in Saw IV and Saw V. It is revealed in Saw VI that Mark Hoffman blackmailed Amanda into killing Lynn. In Saw 3D, it is revealed that it was Dr. Lawrence Gordon who suggested her as a test subject.

Mark Hoffman

 Portrayed by Costas Mandylor
 Appears in: Saw III, Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D, Saw: The Video Game (mentioned only), Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Unknown (likely deceased)
 Died in: Saw 3D (possibly)

Mark Hoffman is briefly introduced in Saw III as a detective investigating the scene of Troy's inescapable trap. In Saw IV, he is placed in a trap as a part of Officer Daniel Rigg's test. However, he is later revealed to be John Kramer's accomplice after he frees himself and leaves Rigg to die. Saw V reveals that Hoffman's sister was murdered by her abusive boyfriend Seth Baxter, and that Hoffman took revenge by placing him in an inescapable trap made to look like one of John's. John found out about the trap and blackmailed Hoffman into working for him, but Hoffman eventually became a willing apprentice and aided him in nearly every subsequent trap.

When Agent Peter Strahm closes in on him, Hoffman kills and frames him. In Saw VI, he kills two FBI agents and a technician who threaten to expose his secret. Jill Tuck attempts to kill him with an updated reverse bear trap, as per John's request, although he manages to escape wounded. In Saw 3D, he sneaks into the police station, kills everyone standing between him and Jill, then kills her with the original reverse bear trap John had used on Amanda Young. After Jill dies, Hoffman destroys his warehouse and attempts to leave town. However, before he can leave, he is abducted by Dr. Lawrence Gordon and left to die in the bathroom from Saw.

According to producers Oren Koules and Mark Burg, Hoffman is named after late Saw producer Gregg Hoffman, who died shortly after the announcement of Saw III.

Timothy Young
 Portrayed by Mpho Koaho
 Appears in: Saw III, Saw V (mentioned only), Saw VI
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw III

Timothy Young is the drunk driver who killed Jeff Denlon's son Dylan. Timothy was only sentenced to six months, fueling Jeff's thirst for vengeance. In Saw III, he is kidnapped and placed in a device called "The Rack", which begins to rotate, twisting and breaking each of his limbs one-by-one. Jeff is initially content with watching Timothy die, but decides to help him. However, Jeff is too late and the device twists Timothy's head, fatally breaking his neck before Jeff can retrieve the key. Timothy appears in a flashback in Saw VI, lying unconscious before being placed in The Rack.

According to Jigsaw, Timothy was 27 years old when he died.

Troy
 Portrayed by J. Larose
 Appears in: Saw III, Saw IV
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw III

Troy is one of Amanda Young's first victims, chosen because of his long prison record for unnamed crimes despite having a privileged upbringing. Troy is tasked with tearing eleven chains from his flesh before a bomb detonates, but he is unable to remove the final chain in his mandible in time. It is later revealed that Troy's only exit from the trap had been welded shut, leaving him no means of escape even if he had removed all the chains. Troy is later seen in a flashback in Saw IV, in the waiting room of Jill Tuck's clinic.

Saw IV

Adam Heffner
 Portrayed by James Van Patten
 Appears in: Saw IV, Saw VI, Saw 3D
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw 3D

Dr. Adam Heffner is the medical examiner who performs John Kramer's autopsy in the beginning of Saw IV. He appears briefly in Saw VI, where he tells Detective Mark Hoffman and Agents Lindsey Perez and Dan Erickson that he performed the autopsies on all of Jigsaw's victims, and that a different knife was used to cut the jigsaw piece from Seth Baxter's flesh. In Saw 3D, he is killed by Hoffman, who hides in a body bag in order to gain access to the morgue.

Art Blank
 Portrayed by Justin Louis
 Appears in: Saw IV, Saw V, Saw 3D, Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw IV

Art Blank is a lawyer who was involved in a housing development project with John Kramer and Jill Tuck, before John's transformation into the Jigsaw Killer. Art is targeted by John for successfully defending guilty people, including Brenda (a pimp), Ivan Landsness (a rapist), and Rex (an abusive husband). Art first appears in a trap that pits him against another victim, Trevor. Both are chained at the neck to a winch and Art's mouth is sewn shut, as are Trevor's eyes, rendering communication impossible. Trevor panics and attempts to kill Art, and Art is forced to kill Trevor in order to retrieve the key attached to his collar, tearing his mouth open in the process. Art later has a hand in setting up the tests for Daniel Rigg. 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. Once the timer runs out, he is to press a button that will free him and both captives. However, Rigg crashes through the door with one second to spare, causing Eric's death, and then shoots Art in the head after mistaking the tape recorder in his hand for a gun. Art is seen in archival footage in Saw V, and is seen in a photograph with John outside the Gideon Meatpacking Plant in the police station's evidence room in Saw 3D.

Brenda
 Portrayed by Sarain Boylan
 Appears in: Saw IV
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw IV

Brenda is a pimp who appears in Saw IV as a victim in Daniel Rigg's game. Art Blank had acted as her lawyer in previous criminal trials and got her acquitted. Brenda is placed in a machine designed to tear her scalp from her head and Rigg is instructed to simply walk away from her as she is not worth saving. After he dials the lock combination written on the gears to release her, she attacks him with a knife that had been hidden in the room. 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. She had been told by Jigsaw that Rigg was there to arrest her and the only way to prevent Rigg from sending her to prison for her crimes was to kill him.

Cecil Adams
 Portrayed by Billy Otis
 Appears in: Saw IV, Saw V (mentioned only), Saw VI, Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw IV

Cecil Adams 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. John later abducts Cecil and places him in the first Jigsaw trap: a chair with razor blade restraints, from which he can only escape by pushing his face through a set of knives. The chair collapses and Cecil charges at John, who steps aside, allowing Cecil to fall into a tangle of razor wire, killing him. In Saw VI, it is shown that Cecil robbed Jill's clinic at Amanda Young's request.

Crime Scene Photographer
 Portrayed by Joanne Boland
 Appears in: Saw IV
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw IV

The crime scene photographer discovers a bullet at the scene of Allison Kerry's trap, clamped between Kerry's corpse and the trap. Later, at the elementary school trap, a crime scene technician inadvertently triggers a device that fires a steel spike into the crime scene photographer's head, killing her.

Detective Fisk
 Portrayed by Mike Realba
 Appears in: Saw IV, Saw V
 Status: Alive

Fisk is a detective who first appears in Saw IV working with Agents Peter Strahm and Lindsey Perez. In Saw IV, he discovers Daniel Rigg's fingerprints at the scene of Allison Kerry's death on a bullet casing lodged between her body and the trap. In Saw V, he is present at the Gideon Meatpacking Plant when the FBI rescues Mark Hoffman and Corbett Denlon. Fisk is also seen in flashbacks with Hoffman at the scene of Seth Baxter's death and is later told by Hoffman to keep him in the loop about the Jigsaw murders.

Ivan Landsness
 Portrayed by Marty Adams
 Appears in: Saw IV
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw IV

Ivan Landsness appears in Saw IV as the clerk of the Alexander Motel. Suspected of multiple vicious rapes but freed repeatedly due to the efforts of his lawyer Art Blank, Ivan is part of Daniel Rigg's second test. Following instructions, Rigg forces him into an adjoining motel room, where they are both confronted with video and photographic evidence of Ivan's exploits. Enraged, Rigg forces Ivan into a prearranged trap, and supplies him with the tools to escape: two buttons that will drive blades into his eyes. Ivan only blinds one eye before the 60-second timer runs out, and the trap rips off three of his limbs and throws his body across the room.

Lindsey Perez
 Portrayed by Athena Karkanis
 Appears in: Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw VI

Lindsey Perez is an FBI agent assigned to the Jigsaw case along with her partner, Agent Peter Strahm. Informed by Detective Allison Kerry that two officers might be in danger, she and Strahm investigate the disappearances of Daniel Rigg and Mark Hoffman. As they follow the trail of Rigg's tests, it becomes apparent that they themselves are being targeted by Jigsaw. Perez barely escapes death when Strahm pulls her out of the firing path of a harpoon (which in turn hit a crime scene photographer). Minutes later, they enter a room where they are confronted with a Billy doll and a tape meant for Perez. As she leans in to hear the tape, the Billy doll's face explods sending shrapnel into her face and neck. In Saw V, it is implied that Perez died from her injuries; her last words to Strahm were "Detective Hoffman", leading to Strahm's initial suspicion regarding Hoffman.

Perez is revealed to be alive in Saw VI, with prominent facial scars, and is back on the Jigsaw case. Dismissive of Strahm being Jigsaw's accomplice, she and Agent Dan Erickson investigate abnormalities in each crime scene that implicates Strahm, including a distorted tape made by Hoffman. As soon as the tape is unscrambled Hoffman fatally stabs her. When Hoffman demands to know who else is aware of his secret, she says "everyone" before dying. Her body, and everything else in the audio lab is set on fire to destroy the evidence.

Morgan and Rex
 Portrayed by Janet Land and Ron Lea
 Appear in: Saw IV
 Status: Morgan alive; Rex deceased
 Died in: Saw IV (Rex only)

Morgan and Rex are a married couple. Officer Daniel Rigg suspected Rex of abusing his wife and their daughter Jane but was unable to arrest him as Morgan and Jane refused to testify against him. In frustration, Rigg punched Rex, prompting his lawyer Art Blank to threaten him with a lawsuit. Detective Mark Hoffman interceded, claiming Rigg was acting in self-defense and the matter was dropped. Rex and Morgan are later put into a Jigsaw test as part of Rigg's game. The pair are locked back to back in a harness, their bodies impaled with several long spikes. A tape left for Morgan informs her that she can free herself by removing the spikes but will kill Rex in the process. When Rigg finds the pair, Rex is dead and Morgan is unconscious, having removed all but one spike. He gives her the key to the harness and tells her she will have to save herself, then sets off a fire alarm to alert the authorities to her location. When found by Agents Peter Strahm and Lindsey Perez, Morgan says that Rigg has saved her.

Peter Strahm

 Portrayed by Scott Patterson
 Appears in: Saw IV, Saw V, Saw VI
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw V

Peter Strahm is an FBI agent assigned to the Jigsaw case. He and his partner, Agent Lindsey Perez, arrive at the scene of Allison Kerry's death shortly after the police find her body. He is the first to theorize that Jigsaw may have had more than one accomplice. He interrogates Jill Tuck gaining information on Jigsaw's background, while pursuing Daniel Rigg. His investigation leads him to the Gideon Meatpacking Plant, where he discovers the corpses of Jigsaw, Amanda Young, and Lynn Denlon, in the makeshift sickroom. Strahm kills Jeff Denlon in self-defense before Mark Hoffman locks him in. Early in Saw V, Strahm finds a hidden exit, but is captured and placed in a trap (a glass cube around his head that fills with water) meant to kill him. He survives by removing a pen from his shirt pocket and using the plastic tube to perform a makeshift tracheotomy on himself. Subsequently, his boss, Agent Dan Erickson, removes him from the case. Strahm conducts his own investigation, now suspicious of Hoffman. He is eventually crushed to death in a trap room when he fails to follow Hoffman's instructions, and Hoffman plants his cell phone at a crime scene to frame him as Jigsaw's second accomplice.

In Saw VI, Hoffman emerges from the casket below the trap and uses Strahm's severed hand to place his fingerprints at additional crime scenes. As soon as Agents Perez and Erickson unravel the deception, Hoffman murders them and again leaves Strahm's fingerprints at the scene before setting it on fire.

Tracy Rigg
 Portrayed by Ingrid Hart
 Appears in: Saw IV
 Status: Alive

Tracy Rigg, the wife of Daniel Rigg, is often home alone because he spends so much time at his job. He arrives home just as she is about to leave for a few days and stay with her mother; she tries to persuade him to come with her, but he declines. Before leaving, she tells him that he cannot save everyone.

Trevor
 Portrayed by Kevin Rushton
 Appears in: Saw IV, Saw 3D
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw IV

Trevor appears in Saw IV as a victim placed in a trap with Art Blank. Both are chained at the neck to a winch; the key is attached to Trevor's collar, however, Trevor's eyes are sewn shut, as well as Art's mouth, rendering communication impossible. In a panic, Trevor blindly stabs Art in the leg with a hook, and Art kills him to retrieve the key. In Saw 3D, it is revealed that Dr. Lawrence Gordon had sewn Trevor's eyes shut.

Saw V

Angelina Acomb
 Portrayed by Sarah Power
 Appears in: Saw V, Saw VI (mentioned only), Saw 3D, Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw V

Angelina Acomb, the younger sister of Detective Mark Hoffman, was murdered by her boyfriend Seth Baxter. He received a life sentence, but was released from prison on a technicality after only five years. For revenge, Hoffman captured Seth and placed him in an inescapable trap that sliced him in half with a pendulum, even though he followed the instructions. John Kramer learns of the trap and uses this knowledge to coerce Hoffman into becoming his apprentice.

Ashley Kazon
 Portrayed by Laura Gordon
 Appears in: Saw V, Saw VI (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw V

Ashley Kazon is one of the five victims placed in the main game in Saw V. In the first room, the victims have collars locked around their necks connected to cables that will pull them back toward a set of blades positioned to decapitate them. The keys to the collars are at the other end of the room, and they have 60 seconds to free themselves before the collars retract. All but Ashley free themselves in time. She is a former fire inspector who lost her job after writing a report to cover up an arson fire in which eight people died.

Brit Stevenson
 Portrayed by Julie Benz
 Appears in: Saw V, Saw VI (mentioned only)
 Status: Alive

Brit Stevenson is the vice president of a real estate company, and is placed in a series of four traps along with four other people. The five victims believe that one person will have to die in each room in order for the others to move ahead; Brit fatally stabs Luba Gibbs through the neck with an electrical screwdriver in the third room. However, in the final room, she realizes that the group could have worked together so that everyone would have survived. She and Mallick Scott, the only other person to reach this point, also learn that the members of the group are connected through a building fire that killed eight people, which Brit had orchestrated. Brit and Mallick are forced to saw their arms in order to obtain enough blood to open the exit door. As she crawls from the room, Agent Dan Erickson finds her and calls for medical assistance.

Charles Salomon
 Portrayed by Carlo Rota
 Appears in: Saw V, Saw VI (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw V

Charles Salomon, a journalist, is a victim in the main game of Saw V alongside four other people. He is shown to be intelligent and to possess knowledge about the other victims and their mutual involvement in an arson scam. He attacks Mallick Scott in the second room, to obtain a key to a bomb shelter, but is attacked by Luba Gibbs with a metal bar and left to die as the other three victims move to safety from the explosive devices in the room. Charles realizes too late that the bomb shelters are large enough to fit more than one person, and dies when the bombs detonate. Charles had been writing a report about the arson of a building that burned down, but buried the story.

Dan Erickson
 Portrayed by Mark Rolston
 Appears in: Saw V, Saw VI
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw VI

Dan Erickson is an FBI agent in charge of the Jigsaw case, with Agents Peter Strahm and Lindsey Perez working under him. He relieves Strahm of duty following his narrow escape from a Jigsaw trap, and becomes increasingly wary of him as Strahm becomes obsessed with Jigsaw. When Erickson is informed by Detective Mark Hoffman that Strahm believes there to be another Jigsaw accomplice, he places a trace on Strahm's mobile phone to find him. He finds the phone (planted by Hoffman) at the scene of a Jigsaw game, and puts out an all-points bulletin for Strahm's arrest.

In Saw VI, Erickson and Perez, whose death was faked for her protection, resume the investigation and probe Strahm's apparent link to John Kramer. As they uncover evidence that indicates Strahm was framed, their suspicion of Hoffman grows. Once their audio lab technician removes the distortion from the Seth Baxter tape, revealing Hoffman as John's accomplice, he slashes Erickson's jugular vein and stabs Perez to death. Erickson is still alive as Hoffman pours gasoline over him and sets the lab on fire to destroy the evidence.

Luba Gibbs
 Portrayed by Meagan Good
 Appears in: Saw V, Saw VI (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw V

Luba Gibbs, a city planner, is a victim in the main game of Saw V, alongside four other people. After surviving the first room, Luba assaults Charles Salomon after he attacks Mallick Scott, leaving Charles to die when explosive devices in the second room detonate. In the third room, Brit Stevenson fatally stabs Luba in the neck, stating that she does not trust her, and she and Mallick use the corpse as an electrical conductor to open the door to the final room.

It is revealed that Luba played a role in an arson scam that killed eight people, an event that links all the victims of the game. She had accepted bribes from a sports team owned by her father, Richard Gibbs, to allow a stadium to be built on the site of a building Mallick burned down.

Mallick Scott
 Portrayed by Greg Bryk
 Appears in: Saw V, Saw VI (mentioned only), Saw 3D
 Status: Alive

Mallick Scott, an arsonist and heroin addict, is one of the five victims in the main game in Saw V. Suspicious of the other victims, Mallick manages to survive the first trap, and is saved by Luba Gibbs in the second test at the expense of Charles Salomon's life, but Luba turns on him in the third trap. Mallick is rescued by Brit Stevenson who murders Luba, and the pair use Luba's body to close the circuits and open the door to the final room. 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. Mallick and Brit, realizing that the victims were meant to work together to win, are forced to provide 10 pints of blood to open the exit door. Mallick passes out from blood loss as Brit crawls out of the room, and both he and Brit are taken to safety by Agent Dan Erickson.

In Saw 3D, Mallick appears in Bobby Dagen's support group, wearing a cast on his injured arm.

Pamela Jenkins
 Portrayed by Samantha Lemole
 Appears in: Saw V, Saw VI, Saw 3D (mentioned only), Saw: The Video Game (mentioned only)
 Status: Alive

Pamela Jenkins is a reporter following the Jigsaw killings who first appears in Saw V, attending a press conference being held by Detective Mark Hoffman. In Saw VI, she begins pursuing Jill Tuck for information about Jigsaw, presenting her with a letter found at an earlier Jigsaw crime scene, later revealed to be that given by Hoffman to Amanda Young. Pamela is kidnapped and placed in a cell opposite Tara and Brent Abbott's, with a message telling her that she is there as punishment for sensationalizing Jigsaw's story and twisting his message for her own gain, and will be forced to "experience the meaning of sacrifice" and "see the consequence for those who unjustly hurt others". At the end of William Easton's game, he is confronted by Pamela, who is revealed to be his sister, and Tara and Brent are revealed to be the family of a man whose medical insurance had been denied by William, in part leading to his death. Brent activates a device that kills William as Pamela watches.

Pamela also appears in Saw: The Video Game, providing information to another journalist, Oswald McGillicutty, who plans to write a book and not credit Pamela. Knowing this, Pamela steals all his notes, preventing him from writing the book, in order to write a book of her own. Despite her relationship to William Easton, the game and films show her last name as Jenkins.

Seth Baxter
 Portrayed by Joris Jarsky
 Appears in: Saw V, Saw VI, Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw V

Seth Baxter is the boyfriend and murderer of Mark Hoffman's younger sister Angelina Acomb. After serving five years of a life sentence in prison, he is released on a technicality. Hoffman, enraged by the death of his only family member, kidnaps Seth and puts him in a trap that mimics Jigsaw's methods but is rigged to be inescapable. He is told that he must put his hands into two presses and push buttons to crush them in order to avoid being killed by a swinging pendulum blade. Even though he does so, the pendulum still descends and slices him in half as Hoffman watches through a peephole.

Saw VI

Addy and Allen
 Portrayed by Janelle Hutchison and Shawn Ahmed
 Appear in: Saw VI, Saw 3D (Addy; Allen mentioned only)
 Status: Addy alive; Allen deceased
 Died in: Saw VI (Allen only)

Addy and Allen, William Easton's secretary and file clerk, are victims forced to take part in his second game at the abandoned Rowan Zoological Institute. They are standing on retractable ledges with barbed wire nooses around their necks and their hands tied behind their backs, while William holds two chains connected to the ledges. In order to move on, he has to drop one chain and let that person die. He is presented with information that Addy is a diabetic and in poor health but has a family, while Allen is young and healthy, but is all alone. William is forced to choose whether to act by his company's policy or by his own morals, and the chains are gradually reeled in, making it harder for William to keep holding them; he finally chooses to save Addy, and Allen's noose cuts his throat and strangles him to death when his ledge retracts.

In Saw 3D, Addy is part of Bobby Dagen's support group.

Brent and Tara Abbott
 Portrayed by Devon Bostick and Shauna MacDonald
 Appear in: Saw VI, Saw 3D (Tara; Brent mentioned only)
 Status: Both alive

Brent and Tara Abbott are the teenage son and widow of a man named Harold Abbott whose health insurance policy was revoked by William Easton on a technicality, resulting in his eventual death. They are captured and placed in one of two cages at the abandoned Rowan Zoological Institute at the end of William's series of tests, with Pamela Jenkins in the other. Once William reaches the end, Tara and Brent are given the choice of sparing his life or ending it. Despite expressing anger for her husband's death, Tara listens to the pleas for mercy from both William and Pamela, and cannot bring herself to kill William. However, Brent cannot forgive him and triggers the device himself, causing a platform of needles to swing down into William's back and inject him with hydrofluoric acid. Pamela, Tara, and Brent watch in horror as he is dissolved from the inside out.

In Saw 3D, Tara is part of Bobby Dagen's support group.

Carousel Room Victims
 Portrayed by James Gilbert (Aaron), Darius McCrary (Dave), Larissa Gomes (Emily), Melanie Scrofano (Gena), Shawn Mathieson (Josh), Karen Cliche (Shelby)
 Appear in: Saw VI, Saw 3D (Emily; Others mentioned only)
 Status: Emily and Shelby alive; Others deceased
 Died in: Saw VI (excluding Emily and Shelby)

Aaron, Dave, Emily, Gena, Josh, and Shelby (collectively referred to as "The Dog Pit" by their boss, William Easton) are six of William's junior associates, who did the investigative work as a team to weed out health insurance applications and claims that can be denied. They are placed at the abandoned Rowan Zoological Institute in the last of William's four tests, and are chained to a carousel facing a shotgun that's controlled by the gears of a bicycle. Just as their work resulted in ⅔ of all applications being denied or prematurely terminated, William can save only ⅓ of the group of six; two of them can be saved by pushing two buttons that will drive a spike through William's hand and divert the shotgun upward, while the other four will die. If he does nothing, all six will be killed. Each argues, trying to win William's favor as he struggles with his decisions. Aaron begs for William to follow the company's policy until he's shot, Emily states her two kids can't grow up without her and lives, Gena claims she is pregnant and she dies, Dave tries to bribe William and is killed, Shelby pleads for her life to take care of her sick parents and survives, while Josh attempts to appease William by claiming that Shelby is not to be trusted. William ultimately decides to save Emily and Shelby, who are respectively the second and fifth to be stopped on the carousel. Aaron (the first), Gena (the third), Dave (the fourth), and Josh (the sixth and final) are left to die in that order.

In Saw 3D, Emily is part of Bobby Dagen's support group.

Debbie
 Portrayed by Caroline Cave
 Appears in: Saw VI, Saw 3D (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw VI

Debbie is the attorney for Umbrella Health and William Easton. She is kidnapped, tied up and placed in William's third test at the abandoned Rowan Zoological Institute; 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. After Debbie unties herself, William has to help her by diverting jets of scalding steam away from her path and onto himself. After reaching the end of the maze, she discovers that the key to her device is sewn into William's side. She attacks him with a circular saw but is unable to retrieve the key before her time runs out and the device activates, killing her, and she falls to the bottom of the shaft.

Eddie
 Portrayed by Marty Moreau
 Appears in: Saw VI
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw VI

Eddie is a predatory lending banker and a part of a game in Saw VI, along with his co-worker Simone, in which they are placed in adjoining cells. He wears a head harness with screws poised at the temples, and has a knife and a meat cleaver. A balance scale is placed between his and Simone's cell, and the one who can cut off more weight in flesh in 60 seconds will live, while the other will be killed by the screws boring into his or her skull. Eddie, being overweight, slices several chunks of flesh from his stomach, but Simone severs her left arm and tips the scale in her favor, leading to Eddie's death.

Hank
 Portrayed by Gerry Mendicino
 Appears in: Saw VI, Saw 3D (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw VI

Hank is a janitor for Umbrella Health, working for William Easton. He is kidnapped and placed in the first of William's four tests, a vise-like trap that will crush either his or William's chest, leaving only one survivor. Jigsaw informs them that every breath they take will cause the vise to tighten and that Hank is a smoker, despite a history of health problems. Even though William encourages Hank to hold his breath he is unable to do so, and continues breathing heavily until the vise crushes him.

Harold Abbott
 Portrayed by George Newbern
 Appears in: Saw VI
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw VI

Harold Abbott is the husband of Tara and father of Brent. 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. Tara and Brent are placed in a game in which they can choose to let William live or die. Brent kills William by activating a platform of needles that inject hydrofluoric acid into his body, as an act of revenge for William's role in Harold's death.

Sachi
 Portrayed by Ginger Busch
 Appears in: Saw VI
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw VI

Sachi is a forensic technician who is tasked with analyzing the Seth Baxter tape by Agents Dan Erickson and Lindsey Perez. She later calls the agents and Detective Mark Hoffman to see her restore the tape. When she does, revealing Hoffman as the real Jigsaw accomplice, he goes berserk and uses Sachi as a human shield, with Agent Perez accidentally shooting her in the back.

Security Guard
 Portrayed by Karl Campbell
 Appears in: Saw VI
 Status: Unknown

The security guard is an African American man who works at Umbrella Health as a night security guard. The night when William Easton is kidnapped, he is shot by his boss by accident. He tries to warn William about Jigsaw, but before he can do so, William is knocked out by a man wearing a cloak and pig mask. His ultimate fate is unknown.

Simone
 Portrayed by Tanedra Howard
 Appears in: Saw VI, Saw 3D
 Status: Alive

Simone is a predatory lending banker, who is placed in a game with her co-worker Eddie. They are placed in adjoining cells. Since they have figuratively extracted "pounds of flesh" from loan recipients who they knew could never pay them back, they will literally have to do the same in order to survive. She wears a head harness with screws poised at the temples, and has a knife and a meat cleaver. A balance scale is placed between her and Eddie's cell; whichever one cuts off the most weight in flesh in sixty seconds will live, while the other will be killed by the screws boring into his or her skull. Eddie, being overweight, slices several chunks of flesh from his stomach, but Simone chops off her left arm and tips the scale in her favor. Simone survives and is later questioned by Detective Mark Hoffman and the FBI in her hospital room. She angrily lashes out at Hoffman when he asks her if she learned anything from her experience.

Simone appears in Saw 3D, at Bobby Dagen's support group, still bitter from her experience and wearing a prosthetic arm.

William Easton
 Portrayed by Peter Outerbridge
 Appears in: Saw VI, Saw 3D
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw VI

William Easton is an insurance executive at Umbrella Health who is tested in Saw VI. He helped fund Jill Tuck's rehab clinic; later, he informed John Kramer that his company would not cover the cost of an experimental treatment for John's cancer, based on a probability formula he invented, which his company uses to reject insurance coverage for people with fatal conditions. William is placed in the abandoned Rowan Zoological Institute and given 60 minutes to complete four tests, or else the explosives strapped to his limbs will detonate. The tests force him to make decisions about who will live or die and re-examine his policy. After completing his tests William is confronted by Tara and Brent Abbott, the widow and son of a man whose coverage had been cancelled by William, and subsequently died as a result. William learns that Tara and Brent have the choice to either let him live or kill him. He, along with his captured sister Pamela Jenkins, convince Tara to let him live, but Brent activates a device that drives a bed of needles into William's back. A vat of hydrofluoric acid is pumped through the needles, dissolving his body in half and killing him.

William is mentioned in Saw 3D on a newscast stating that his remains were found along with the other victims from Saw VI.

Saw 3D

Bobby Dagen
 Portrayed by Sean Patrick Flanery
 Appears in: Saw 3D
 Status: Unknown

Bobby Dagen is the author of a self-help book based on his accounts of surviving a Jigsaw trap. In reality, however, he made the entire story up in order to find quick fame and success. He is abducted 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. The first test requires him to escape from a cage suspended above a series of spikes on the floor, which he achieves by releasing the cage's bottom end and swinging himself far enough to jump free. The next three tests each lead to the death of one of his staff members; in the fifth, he must pull out two of his teeth in order to obtain the combination to the door leading to Joyce. For the final test, he must undergo the ordeal that he claimed to have endured in his book: drive two meathooks 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 slams shut around Joyce and she is incinerated within it. His ultimate fate is left unknown.

Brad, Dina, and Ryan
 Portrayed by Sebastian Pigott (Brad), Anne Lee Greene (Dina), Jon Cor (Ryan)
 Appear in: Saw 3D
 Status: Brad and Ryan alive; Dina deceased
 Died in: Saw 3D (Dina only)

These three victims are placed in a storefront window at a public shopping center. Brad and Ryan are chained by the wrists to opposite ends of a worktable, while Dina is suspended above them. A movable carriage with three saws is attached to the table. A Billy doll informs them that Dina has manipulated both men's affections for her in order to coerce them into stealing for her. Since she claimed to love each man, they will have the chance to fight for her love and their survival. In order to free her, one will have to push the carriage to the other's end within 60 seconds, killing him; alternatively, they can spare each other and Dina will die once the timer runs out. After a brief fight in which Dina tries convincing both men to kill each other, Brad is slightly wounded. Ryan then offers a truce and they allow Dina to be cut in half by the center wheel.

Brad and Ryan are later seen at Bobby Dagen's Jigsaw survivors meeting. According to the producers' commentary, Brad and Ryan are the two men in the pig masks that help Dr. Lawrence Gordon abduct Mark Hoffman.

Cale
 Portrayed by Dean Armstrong
 Appears in: Saw 3D
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw 3D

Cale is Bobby Dagen's best friend and co-conspirator. He is accused of "hearing no evil", after choosing to help Bobby carry out his scheme to become famous by fabricating an account of surviving a trap. 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. Bobby is at the other end, and the key to free Cale hangs from the ceiling between them. In 60 seconds, Bobby attempts to guide Cale across the hallway and get the key. Bobby throws the key to Cale, who misses catching it and dies when the winch lifts him off his feet.

Dan, Evan, Jake, and Kara
 Portrayed by Dru Viergever (Dan), Chester Bennington (Evan), Benjamin Clost (Jake), Gabby West (Kara)
 Appear in: Saw 3D
 Status: All deceased
 Died in: Saw 3D

These four victims, all members of a racist neo-nazi skinhead gang, are placed in a trap set inside a junkyard's garage. Evan's back, arms, and legs are glued to the driver's seat of a car whose rear end is up on jacks. His girlfriend Kara is tied to the floor with barbed wire, her head directly beneath the rear wheel; Dan stands strapped to a pole behind the car, with chains attached to the bumper connected to his wrists and jaw; Jake is chained to the closed garage door in front of the car. In order to save them and himself, Evan must tear himself loose from the seat and pull a lever protruding from the car's engine compartment within 30 seconds. He fails to do so, and the car is dropped off its jacks, crushing Kara's head. As it speeds forward, Dan's arms and jaw are ripped off, Jake is hit and killed, and the car crashes into a pile of wrecked cars outside, causing Evan to go flying through the windshield and killing him. Mark Hoffman later steals Dan's corpse in order to use it as a decoy, while hiding in its body bag in order to sneak into the police station and find Jill Tuck.

Donna Evans
 Portrayed by Christine Simpson
 Appears in: Saw 3D
 Status: Alive

Donna Evans is the host of Daybreak, a talk show produced at the Stage 6 Studios, who invites Bobby Dagen for an interview. During the interview, she asks Bobby about the public attention he got due to his national tour, during which he promotes his book.

Joyce Dagen
 Portrayed by Gina Holden
 Appears in: Saw 3D
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw 3D

Joyce Dagen is Bobby's wife, and is unaware that he lied about surviving a Jigsaw trap. She is placed in Bobby's test at the abandoned Clear Dawn Psychiatric Hospital. She wakes up with a collar connected to her neck that gradually draws her closer to the floor, as she watches Bobby's progress. He makes it in time to save her, and must re-enact the test he claimed to have survived; however, he fails to complete it, resulting in Joyce being enclosed in a brazen bull and incinerated.

Matt Gibson
 Portrayed by Chad Donella
 Appears in: Saw 3D
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw 3D

Matt Gibson is an Internal Affairs detective who takes an interest in the Jigsaw case when Jill Tuck asks to speak to him personally. She offers to turn over evidence of Mark Hoffman's crimes in exchange for police protection and immunity from prosecution. When Gibson was a uniformed officer, he was attacked by a homeless man who took his gun; Hoffman ordered the man to drop the weapon, then killed him. The incident led Gibson to mistrust Hoffman from that moment on, and he and his partner Officer Rogers lead the efforts to find him. 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.

Nina
 Portrayed by Naomi Snieckus
 Appears in: Saw 3D
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw 3D

Nina is Bobby Dagen's publicist, who is accused of "speaking no evil" by being his greatest link to the media but never revealing the truth of Bobby being a fraud. She is brought to the abandoned Clear Dawn Psychiatric Hospital; locked in a straitjacket and surrounded by four spikes aimed at her neck, Nina has a fishing line down her throat, with a key on the hook at its end. Bobby has 60 seconds to pull the hook up from her stomach. Attached to the mechanism is a decibel meter that brings the spikes closer to Nina whenever the sound level rises above a whisper. The timer starts and Bobby repeatedly stops to quiet Nina's screams before he finally retrieves the key, but he is too late and the trap kills her.

Officer Palmer
 Portrayed by Kim Schraner
 Appears in: Saw 3D
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw 3D

Palmer is an Internal Affairs officer who works with Detective Matt Gibson and traces Mark Hoffman's location based on video messages he sends in. As Hoffman searches for Jill Tuck, he kills Palmer by breaking her neck, then uses her body to trick another officer into opening the door leading to the holding cell area.

Officer Rogers
 Portrayed by Laurence Anthony
 Appears in: Saw 3D
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw 3D

Rogers is an Internal Affairs officer who helps Detective Matt Gibson investigate Mark Hoffman. Once Gibson figures out Hoffman's location, he puts Rogers in charge of guarding Jill Tuck, who has been moved to a holding cell in the police station for her protection. After Hoffman sneaks into the station, he kills every officer standing between him and Jill; Rogers is killed when he is shot through his eye.

Sidney
 Portrayed by Oluniké Adeliyi
 Appears in: Saw 3D
 Status: Alive

Sidney is a Jigsaw survivor who appears at Bobby Dagen's support group. She reveals that she had been placed in a trap with her abusive boyfriend Alex. Hanging above a series of upturned lawnmowers, Alex tried to kick her to her death to save himself but was instead struck back by her, causing him to fall into the lawnmowers and be sliced to death. She was freed after this and came to value her life more for overcoming her abuser and surviving.

Suzanne
 Portrayed by Rebecca Marshall
 Appears in: Saw 3D
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw 3D

Suzanne is Bobby Dagen's lawyer, who is accused of "seeing no evil" by ignoring her duty as a lawyer and turning a blind eye to Bobby's fraud. Her test occurs at the abandoned Clear Dawn Psychiatric Hospital; she is placed horizontally inside a steel frame that begins to rotate her in a standing position, where three spikes are placed to pierce her eyes and mouth. To save her, Bobby must lift a pair of weights at shoulder height and hold them for at least 30 seconds, until the 60 second timer expires, in order to stop Suzanne's rig from approaching the spikes. However, as he does this, two rods pierce his sides. Bobby attempts to hold it, but continues to drop it. Suzanne is inches from death, and with just one second left, Bobby drops it and she is killed.

Jigsaw

Anna
 Portrayed by Laura Vandervoort
 Appears in: Jigsaw
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Jigsaw

Anna is one of the five victims in the barn games. While she and her husband Matthew lived next door to John Kramer, she was enraged by her baby's constant crying. She suffocated it to death and placed the body in bed next to Matthew to make it seem as if he had rolled over onto the baby. Matthew went insane and was committed to a mental institution, where he later committed suicide. In the third trap, Anna and Mitch are locked in a grain silo, at risk of being buried alive or cut to death by the grain and sharp objects pouring in. They are saved when Ryan pulls a lever to release them, at the cost of severing his own leg. Later, in the fifth game, Anna and Ryan are chained to pipes at opposite sides of a room and given a shotgun loaded with one shell. Anna tries to shoot Ryan, but the gun explodes in her face and kills her, having been rigged to backfire.

Brad Halloran
 Portrayed by Callum Keith Rennie
 Appears in: Jigsaw
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Jigsaw

Brad Halloran is a homicide detective in the city police department. He takes the lead role in the investigation of several deaths in which jigsaw puzzle pieces have been cut from the bodies; all the victims are associated in some way with his past cases. He begins to suspect medical examiner Logan Nelson and his assistant Eleanor Bonneville of being involved, and trails them to an abandoned pig farm where the new games are being played. During a fight with Logan, both men are knocked out and placed in collars with laser cutters set to kill them unless they confess their sins. After forcing Logan to go first, Halloran admits that he has taken bribes and planted evidence, allowing guilty criminals to go free and innocent people to be sent to prison in their place. After tape recording this confession and planting evidence to frame Halloran as the new Jigsaw, Logan activates the collar and slices his head open, killing him.

Carly
 Portrayed by Brittany Allen
 Appears in: Jigsaw
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Jigsaw

Carly is one of the five victims in the barn games. She had stolen a purse from a woman who suffered from asthma; without her inhaler, the woman suffered a fatal asthma attack when she gave chase. For the second game, Carly is presented with three hypodermic syringes, one of which contains the antidote for a poison that has been injected into her system. Another contains saline solution, and the third holds a lethal acid. If she does nothing, she and the other three still-living victims (Anna, Mitch, and Ryan) will be lifted off their feet and strangled to death by the collars locked around their necks. Carly refuses to choose and fights Ryan. However, he overpowers her and injects all three syringes into her neck, dissolving her face and killing her.

Edgar Munsen
 Portrayed by Josiah Black
 Appears in: Jigsaw
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Jigsaw

Edgar Munsen is a meth addict and criminal, having been arrested twice, once for the murder of Christine Nelson, but was released by Detective Brad Halloran. Edgar is later put in a test by the new Jigsaw: find and trigger a mechanism to activate a game, or die. Edgar succeeds in activating the trigger, but is shot by Logan Nelson via his sniper and hospitalized. Edgar is later abducted, and found buried in John Kramer's grave with his throat slit.

Eleanor Bonneville
 Portrayed by Hannah Emily Anderson
 Appears in: Jigsaw
 Status: Alive

Eleanor Bonneville assists Logan Nelson in performing autopsies of crime victims for the police department. She has a deep fascination with the Jigsaw murders, bordering on obsession, and has built replicas of several Jigsaw traps. When she shows her work to Logan, Detective Keith Hunt follows them and takes pictures, leading Detective Brad Halloran to order their arrest. 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.

Keith Hunt
 Portrayed by Clé Bennett
 Appears in: Jigsaw
 Status: Alive

Keith Hunt is Detective Brad Halloran's partner in the homicide squad, but has been assigned there from the Internal Affairs office to keep an eye on him. Hunt follows Logan Nelson and Eleanor Bonneville to Eleanor's studio and secretly takes pictures of the Jigsaw trap replicas that she has built, leading Halloran to suspect Logan and/or Eleanor of being the perpetrator of the new games. Hunt arrests Logan on Halloran's orders, but releases him after finding evidence (planted by Logan) that implicates Halloran as the new Jigsaw.

Logan Nelson
 Portrayed by Matt Passmore
 Appears in: Jigsaw
 Status: Alive

Logan Nelson is the medical examiner for the city police department. He had served with the United States Army in Fallujah during the Iraq War, but was captured, interrogated, and tortured by the enemy. This experience, combined with the trauma of his wife Christine's murder, leads Detective Brad Halloran to suspect him as the new Jigsaw. When Logan and his assistant, Eleanor Bonneville, find the site of the new game, Halloran ambushes them; both Logan and Halloran are knocked out and placed in collars rigged to fire laser cutters at their heads unless they confess their wrongdoing. Logan appears to die when his collar activates, but then stands up alive and well after Halloran admits to his own unethical behavior as a police officer.

Logan reveals to Halloran that 10 years ago, while working at a hospital, he had inadvertently mixed up John Kramer's x-rays with those of another patient, leading to a delay in treatment for John's cancer that allowed it to become terminal. He was placed into one of John's games, in which he was wounded on a set of circular saws. Choosing to spare Logan because he had made an honest mistake, John recruited him as an apprentice. In the present, Logan sets up a new barn game using three people associated with Halloran's past cases (including Christine's murder) in order to draw him in and frame him as the new Jigsaw. With Halloran's confession on tape, Logan activates Halloran's collar, which slices his head open.

Matthew
 Portrayed by Edward Ruttle
 Appears in: Jigsaw
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Jigsaw

Matthew was Anna's husband and John Kramer's neighbor. While they were kind to John and had a baby, Matthew and Anna frequently got into fights. Anna later killed the baby and made it look like Matthew had smothered it in his sleep. Matthew was driven insane with grief, and put in a mental institution where he eventually committed suicide.

Mitch
 Portrayed by Mandela Van Peebles
 Appears in: Jigsaw
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Jigsaw

Mitch is one of the five victims in the barn game. He had sold a motorcycle to John Kramer's nephew years earlier, concealing the fact that the brakes were faulty, and the nephew had died in an accident as a result. During the third game, Mitch and Anna are locked in a grain silo and at risk of being buried alive or cut to death by the grain and sharp objects pouring in. Ryan saves them by pulling a lever, which severs his lower leg. For the fourth game, Mitch is suspended upside down and slowly lowered toward a helical blade spun by the engine of that same motorcycle. In order to save himself, he must reach down through the center of the blade and pull the engine's brake handle. Anna jams the mechanism for a few seconds, but before Mitch can reach the brake, it starts spinning again and slices him to death.

Ryan
 Portrayed by Paul Braunstein
 Appears in: Jigsaw
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Jigsaw

Ryan is one of the five victims in the barn game. While in high school, his drunken carousing led to a car accident in which two of his friends and the driver of the other car were killed. 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. When Anna and Mitch become trapped in a grain silo under a flood of pouring grain and sharp objects, he must pull a lever to save them and free himself; doing so causes the cables to sever his lower leg. Later, in the fifth game, Ryan and Anna are chained to pipes at opposite sides of a room and given a shotgun loaded with one shell. Anna tries to shoot Ryan, but the gun explodes in her face and kills her, having been rigged to backfire. Ryan discovers that the keys to free both of them had been inside the shotgun shell, but the gun's discharge destroyed them and left him with no way to free himself. It is revealed that he later died and his body was left in the barn to rot.

Spiral

Angie Garza
 Portrayed by Marisol Nichols
 Appears in: Spiral
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Spiral

Angie Garza is a police captain and head of the homicide department of the South Metro Precinct. During Marcus Banks' tenure as chief of police, she worked alongside him to cover up corruption as part of the Article 8 policy and was promoted to captain at age 35. She is one of the few officers who does not mistreat Zeke Banks, but insists on partnering him with rookie detective William Schenk so he learns to work as part of a team. She assigns Banks as the lead officer investigating the Spiral murders, despite initially selecting Lieutenant Tim O'Brien for the role. Garza 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. Despite doing so, she dies of her injuries before she can be rescued.

Deborah Kraus
 Portrayed by Edie Inksetter
 Appears in: Spiral
 Status: Alive

Deborah Kraus is a detective in the South Metro Precinct homicide department, partnered with Detective Fitch. It is never specified that she is corrupt, but she's part of the group of officers who mistreat Zeke Banks after he reported his partner for corruption. Kraus and Fitch split up when pursuing a lead on Detective Marv Bozwick's murder, and although Fitch tries to call her as backup she is unable to answer her phone. When attending the crime scene after Fitch is found dead, Kraus is seen crying and provides Banks with the information they had obtained.

Detective Fitch
 Portrayed by Richard Zeppieri
 Appears in: Spiral
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Spiral

Fitch is a corrupt homicide detective in the South Metro Precinct. During his time as a patrol officer he shot a motorist dead for insulting him, but the matter was covered up. He also refused to respond to Detective Zeke Banks' call for backup 12 years prior to the events of the film, which resulted in Banks getting shot. Fitch is partnered with Detective Deborah Kraus, and whilst pursuing a lead in the investigation into the murder of Detective Marv Bozwick he decides to go after a suspect himself, as opposed to informing Banks. He is captured by the Jigsaw copycat and placed in a trap where he has to choose between having his fingers ripped off or being electrocuted in a bath of water. Whilst in the trap he is shown dash cam footage of him gunning down the innocent driver years prior. Fitch is too slow in activating the mechanism to pull off his fingers, resulting in him getting electrocuted to death.

Jeannie Lewis
 Portrayed by Ali Johnson
 Appears in: Spiral
 Status: Alive

Jeannie Lewis is a uniformed patrol officer at the South Metro Precinct who is seen assisting Detective Zeke Banks and the homicide department with their investigations into the Jigsaw copycat killer. She is shown to be one of the few officers who does not mistreat Banks due to his reputation as a snitch. The first "gift" for Banks (a box containing the tongue and badge of Detective Marv Bozwick) is dropped off to her at the reception area of the precinct. She later detains a second courier with a second package along with other uniformed officers. When Captain Angie Garza goes missing, it is Lewis who assists Banks in gaining access to the building's cold case evidence room (located in a repurposed bank vault), however they are too late to save Garza from being killed by the trap she was put in.

Marcus Banks
 Portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson
 Appears in: Spiral
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Spiral

Marcus Banks is the former chief of police and father of Zeke Banks. As chief he devised and introduced the controversial Article 8 policing policy, which saw the force turn a blind eye to police brutality and corruption to give officers more leeway to fight crime. He also struggled balancing his role as a police officer and protecting his son from police retribution after turning in a dirty cop. Marcus is lured into a trap by William Schenk, where he is strung up like a marionette and has his blood drained. Zeke is forced to use his last bullet to shoot a target that releases his father, instead of killing Schenk. However, an incoming SWAT team triggers a tripwire that resuspends Marcus, and forces him to raise his arm towards the officers, resulting in them gunning him down.

Marv Bozwick
 Portrayed by Dan Petronijevic
 Appears in: Spiral
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Spiral

Marv "Boz" Bozwick is a homicide detective and friend of Detective Zeke Banks, he was one of the few officers who did not turn on Banks when he reported a fellow officer for corruption. At the start of the film, Bozwick pursues a mugger into a subway tunnel and is knocked out and placed into a trap by the Jigsaw copycat. 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. He is given the choice to either jump from the stool and sever his tongue, or remain suspended and be hit by the oncoming train. Bozwick is unable to escape in time and is killed when the train impacts him. Banks and William Schenk are the detectives first on the scene, with Banks later being led to Bozwick's severed tongue and badge. Bozwick is mentioned to be married with a young son.

Peter Dunleavy
 Portrayed by Patrick McManus
 Appears in: Spiral
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Spiral

Peter "Pete" Dunleavy is a former patrol officer and partner of Zeke Banks, he murdered a witness who was due to testify against a corrupt officer 15 years prior to the events of the film. Despite planting a weapon on the innocent man, Banks remained suspicious of the circumstances of the shooting, and later reported him. Dunleavy was fired from the police and imprisoned for a number of years, causing Banks to become a pariah within the department due to "ratting" on a fellow cop. After being released from prison he works in a church and lives in the basement, leading an Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step program for fellow recovering alcoholics. 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. Banks is also kidnapped and placed in the same room, given the option to either save Dunleavy or let him die. Although Banks tries to save his former partner's life, his body is too badly cut up by the glass and he dies before being untied.

Tim O'Brien
 Portrayed by Thomas Mitchell
 Appears in: Spiral
 Status: Alive

Tim O'Brien is a lieutenant in the South Metro Precinct homicide department and the second in command under Captain Angie Garza. He is one of many officers who mistreats Detective Zeke Banks due to him reporting his partner for corruption. O'Brien is initially assigned as lead detective in the Spiral copycat murders, but is replaced by Banks as part of official protocol. As more officers are killed he accuses Banks of being involved, resulting in the two of them almost getting physical with one another. After the death of Garza, it can be presumed he is the acting head of the homicide department in the South Metro Precinct.

William Schenk / Emmerson
 Portrayed by Max Minghella and Leonidas Castrounis (young)
 Appears in: Spiral
 Status: Alive

Billy Emmerson is the son of Charlie Emmerson, and witnessed his father being murdered by corrupt officer Peter Dunleavy fifteen years prior to the events of the film. Dunleavy was later arrested and imprisoned as a result of Zeke Banks reporting him. Planning to exact his revenge on the organization, Billy joins the police 12 years later under the alias William Schenk, and is assigned as Banks' partner when he first makes detective. Taking inspiration from the Jigsaw Killer, he devises a series of "games" to punish corrupt officers, resulting in the deaths of Detective Marv Bozwick, Detective Fitch, Captain Angie Garza, and former officer Dunleavy. He fakes his own death, making it appear he has been captured and skinned alive by the copycat killer. Using Banks' phone, he lures former chief of police Marcus Banks into a trap, blaming him for facilitating the corruption under Article 8 that resulted in his father being murdered. He proposes a partnership with Banks, with Banks locating corrupt officers and him killing them. In order for Banks to prove his loyalty, he makes him choose between using his last bullet to either shoot him or free his father from a trap. Banks frees his father, but then fights Schenk and gains the upper hand. However, an incoming SWAT team sets off a tripwire, resulting in Marcus' death. Schenk is able to get away and his current whereabouts are unknown.

Zeke Banks
 Portrayed by Chris Rock
 Appears in: Spiral
 Status: Alive

Ezekiel "Zeke" Banks is a detective in the South Metro Precinct homicide division assigned to investigate the "Spiral" Jigsaw copycat killings targeting police officers. He is a pariah within the department, having reported his corrupt partner Peter Dunleavy for murdering a witness years prior, resulting in him being imprisoned. As a young detective, Banks was shot by a suspect when other officers refused to provide him backup. He mentions he has a son, and is in the process of divorcing his wife Lisa. Banks is paired with rookie William Schenk to investigate the copycat murders of police officers, including his good friend Detective Marv Bozwick. He is drawn to a final trap where his former partner Dunleavy is suspended from the ceiling, and is impacted by high speed flying glass shards. Although Banks tries to save Dunleavy, he dies from his injuries before he can be freed. Leaving the room, Banks encounters Schenk, who is revealed to be the killer and faked his own death. Schenk tells Banks he is actually Billy Emmerson, the son of the witness murdered by Dunleavy 12 years prior. Knowing Banks is a good cop, he proposes they become partners, with Banks locating corrupt officers and him killing them. In order for Banks to prove his loyalty, Schenk shows him the final game. Having kidnapped Banks' father Marcus, whose policies as chief of police enabled the corruption, he is strung up and being drained of blood. Schenk makes Banks choose between using his last bullet to free his father (by shooting a metal plate that releases the wires) or shoot him. Banks frees his father, but then fights Schenk and gains the upper hand. However, a tripwire is set off by an incoming SWAT team, which forces Marcus to raise his hand (with a gun attached to the restraints) and he is subsequently shot by them. Zeke is last seen screaming at the SWAT officers shooting his father whilst Schenk escapes.

Saw: The Video Game

Jennings Foster
 Portrayed by Troy Lund
 Appears in: Saw: The Video Game, Saw II: Flesh & Blood
 Status: Alive

Jennings Foster is the head of a CSI team who cooperates with David Tapp's department to solve murder cases. Unbeknownst to others, Jennings committed a hit-and-run years ago that led him to frame an innocent citizen to avoid conviction himself. For this, Jigsaw places Jennings as a victim for Tapp to save in a pendulum trap. Tapp saves him, but Jennings blames Tapp for being there and runs away. He also makes a brief appearance in Saw II: Flesh & Blood, where he is seen assisting the investigation into Tapp's death and photographing the crime scene at Tapp's apartment. In one of the case files, he seems to be very grateful towards Tapp for saving his life.

Melissa Sing
 Portrayed by Kahn Doan
 Appears in: Saw: The Video Game, Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Alive

Melissa Sing is the widow of Detective Steven Sing, who is killed after falling victim to one of Jigsaw's traps in Saw. Upon Sing's death, Melissa becomes a neglectful parent to her son Franklin, and blames David Tapp for ruining her family. For this, she is placed in Whitehurst Asylum during Saw: The Video Game in an iron-maiden trap for Tapp to save her from. Tapp saves her, but she leaves him quickly. During the finale of the game, if the player chooses the "Truth" door, Melissa is revealed to have been held against her will following her trap and was forced to help Jigsaw, keeping Tapp's game going until 6:00, or her son would die. Attempting to evade Tapp, she is accidentally killed by a shotgun trap. However, in the "Freedom" ending, she is saved along with the other surviving victims in the asylum and set free, never having her incidental ties to Jigsaw revealed.

A file written by Tapp in Saw II: Flesh & Blood confirms that Melissa survived the events of the previous game.

Oswald McGillicutty
 Portrayed by David Scully
 Appears in: Saw (mentioned only), Saw: The Video Game, Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw: The Video Game

Oswald McGillicutty is the newspaper writer who coined the nickname "The Jigsaw Killer". One of his articles is seen in Saw. In the game, Oswald is placed in Whitehurst Asylum due to Jigsaw believing Oswald is perverting his message and also for accusing David Tapp of being the real Jigsaw Killer. It is revealed in case files that Oswald was originally writing a novel about Jigsaw, but his notes were stolen by Pamela Jenkins in an effort to thwart him and write a book of her own. Tapp finds Oswald in a folding table trap, which he releases him from, only for Oswald to be killed by sharp slabs of metal immediately after.

Pighead
 Appears in: Saw: The Video Game, Saw II: Flesh & Blood (mentioned only)
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw: The Video Game

Pighead is a masked person who works for Jigsaw. He appears in Saw: The Video Game and watches over David Tapp's game. He is shown to be hostile and is witnessed by Tapp killing several test subjects around Whitehurst Asylum. Pighead seems to taunt Tapp throughout the game, and sometimes attempts to come after him. Later on near the end of the game, Tapp is required to fight Pighead, who wants to kill Tapp and sabotage his game in order to surpass Jigsaw. Tapp manages to kill Pighead and get hold of a key to the library where his final choice is awaiting. Jigsaw rhetorically asks Tapp if he's a "murderer" for killing his servant. Pighead wears a red boxer robe and the infamous pig mask concealing his identity. He is referenced in one of Tapp's audio tapes in Saw II: Flesh & Blood, with Tapp feeling guilt having killed him, not knowing if the person in the costume had a family or is another victim forced to obey Jigsaw.

Saw II: Flesh & Blood

Campbell Iman
 Appears in: Saw II: Flesh & Blood
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw II: Flesh & Blood

Campbell Iman is one of the two main protagonists and the brief playable character of Saw II: Flesh & Blood. He is targeted by Jigsaw because of his addiction to drugs and his estrangement from his son, who is also a drug addict. His last name is mentioned in a case file that also revealed that he has lymphoma. Jigsaw places him in a "Venus flytrap" device that he escapes by cutting out a key buried near his own eye. After traversing several traps, Campbell is informed that there is another subject, Michael Tapp, in the game and that only one may live. Campbell is given the choice of sacrificing himself for a stranger, who has a potentially long life ahead of him, or saving himself, knowing he has a short time left to live because of his cancer. This choice decides the fate of Michael Tapp at the end of the game.

If Campbell sacrifices himself, he gets crushed by spiked moving walls. If Campbell chooses to save himself, Michael dies and Campbell meets Jigsaw who informs him that his son is safe, having passed his own test prior to the events of the game, and all he has to do is leave through the exit. Campbell instead attempts to attack Jigsaw only to be killed by a concealed, falling scythe.

Henry Jacobs
 Appears in: Saw II: Flesh & Blood
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw II: Flesh & Blood

Henry Jacobs is the chief of police in David Tapp's precinct. He is involved in the Jigsaw cases and is the chief officer involved in the investigation into Tapp's death. Henry is involved in a conspiracy alongside Joseph Poltzer, Carla Song, and Sarah Blalok to steal seized drugs and sell them on the streets, bringing him to Jigsaw's attention. When Michael Tapp finds him, Henry is strapped to a chair with a revolver placed in his mouth that will fire unless Michael can pass a test. Even though Henry appears helpful upon his release, he begins stalking Michael throughout the game in order to kill him and prevent his corruption from being revealed. After Joseph escapes, Henry finds and allies himself with him in order to find Michael and any others who could reveal their secrets, leading him to murder Carla. Henry later runs into Pighead II, who stabs him repeatedly in the chest.

Joseph Poltzer
 Appears in: Saw II: Flesh & Blood
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw II: Flesh & Blood

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. As a member of the group, he is kidnapped by Jigsaw and placed in a vise trap designed to crush all of his limbs and his skull unless Michael Tapp can save him. Michael's father David Tapp had accidentally uncovered their drug cartel while investigating Jigsaw, so Joseph teams up with Henry to hunt and kill Michael, Carla, and Sarah to tie up any loose ends that could reveal their criminal actions. He later executes Sarah as she is about to reveal the true identity of Pighead II. He and Michael get embroiled in a fight that results in them breaking through a wall and plummeting into an alley below. They struggle over Joseph's gun, but Michael eventually triumphs and fatally shoots Joseph in the head.

Michael Tapp
 Appears in: Saw II: Flesh & Blood
 Status: Unknown (depends on player's choice)
 Died in: Saw II: Flesh & Blood (possibly)

Michael Tapp is Detective David Tapp's estranged son and one of the two main protagonists and the main playable character in Saw II: Flesh & Blood. He is a reporter, investigating his father's recent death when he is captured by Pighead II and forced to undergo a series of lethal traps set up by Jigsaw. As he progresses through the game he saves several people, freeing Henry Jacobs, Sarah Blalok, Joseph Poltzer, Carla Song, and Solomon Bates while surviving other victims loose in the game; criminals previously arrested by his father after revenge on his son. Though initially friendly, Henry, and later Joseph, begin stalking Michael in order to kill him and prevent their corruption and role in a drug cartel being revealed, should Michael escape. Henry is killed by Pighead II before he can kill him however, and Michael is able to kill Joseph himself. 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. Using this information for personal gain and revenge against his father for feelings of abandonment, Michael wrote an exposé that destroyed his father's career, unwittingly aiding the drug cartel run by Henry and Joseph, and partially contributing to his father's eventual suicide.

In the finale, it is revealed that Campbell Iman and Michael's tests had occurred concurrently, with Michael's fate left in Campbell's hands. Campbell is given the choice at the end of his own test to sacrifice himself for Michael, a stranger, or save himself at Michael's expense. If Campbell chooses himself, Michael is trapped and crushed to death by a spiked moving ceiling. If Campbell sacrifices himself, Michael survives. Jigsaw reveals that Michael's real test is to see if he had the ability to punish the corrupt (Henry and Joseph) and so he is given a choice between two doors; one leads Michael to freedom and the chance to use the evidence found by his father to print the story of Jigsaw and the drug cartel. The other door reveals a Pighead costume and an offer to help people see the truth inside themselves, implying Michael can become Jigsaw's apprentice. The choice made is not revealed to the player.

Pighead II
 Appears in: Saw II: Flesh & Blood
 Status: Alive

Pighead II is a replacement for Pighead, who died during the events of the first game. Little is known about the character except that he is garbed in similar attire to the original Pighead and that he is involved in placing some individuals into their respective traps, including Carla Song. Throughout the game, he can be seen kidnapping Michael Tapp and killing other victims. He later corners and kills Henry Jacobs. Before her death, Sarah Blalok indicates that Michael knows the man behind the pig mask and that he is a friend of his father David Tapp. However, she is killed before she reveals his identity. Although Pighead II appears to work for Jigsaw, he commits acts of murder against his philosophy. Although his identity is never confirmed, it is possible that Pighead II is Mark Hoffman, since Hoffman knew Tapp and he was a murderer, unlike Jigsaw.

Sarah Blalok
 Appears in: Saw II: Flesh & Blood
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw II: Flesh & Blood

Sarah Blalok is a drug addict, prostitute, and an informant for David Tapp. Tapp gives her a second chance by helping her escape from her previous life. Following his death, however, she begins to fall back into her previous lifestyle. She blames Michael Tapp for betraying his father and contributing to his suicide. Michael finds her trapped in a sealed tank slowly filling with water and is forced to solve a puzzle to free her before she drowns. Though initially hostile towards Michael, she later becomes more friendly, explaining that his father loved Michael even after his betrayal. She is revealed to have been part of a criminal conspiracy alongside Carla Song, Henry Jacobs, and Joseph Poltzer; her role being to sell drugs on the streets. While searching for Jigsaw, Tapp discovered their drug cartel and Sarah was used to mislead him, even though she was aware that he was not concerned about the drug cartel because of his obsession with Jigsaw. Through her own admission, it is revealed that she had feelings for Tapp. She is found by Joseph as she is about to disclose the identity of Pighead II. Joseph sneaks up on Sarah and shoots her in the head.

Solomon Bates
 Appears in: Saw II: Flesh & Blood
 Status: Unknown (likely deceased)
 Died in: Saw II: Flesh & Blood (possibly)

Solomon Bates is an accountant involved in a housing development project with John Kramer and Art Blank before the events that would turn John into Jigsaw. 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. Solomon is initially found trapped inside a movable cage alongside Michael Tapp during the latter's first test prepared by Jigsaw. Both men have to race to push their cages over a floor covered in broken glass towards the exit, with the winner receiving their freedom. Solomon manages to reach the end first and escapes. After Jigsaw gives Michael a second chance, Michael later encounters Solomon again during his trials. Solomon is seen chained to a suspended cart set on a track filled with slowly rising flames that will burn him alive unless Michael pushes him out of harm's way. Upon his release, Solomon reveals the truth about the members of the drug cartel and that Michael's father David Tapp accidentally stumbled on their operations during his search for Jigsaw. He is last seen being cornered by Pighead II and thrown into a pit of syringes. Pighead II then seals the door before Michael can enter.

Zeke
 Appears in: Saw II: Flesh & Blood
 Status: Deceased
 Died in: Saw II: Flesh & Blood

Zeke is a Jigsaw victim whose original trap mangles his hands beyond repair, stripping away much of the flesh. He is a pedophile who molested little girls. He is saved from his trap by Michael Tapp, but passes out from blood loss. Between this event and the events of the game, he has his damaged forearms replaced with large blades and becomes psychotic, chasing and attempting to kill Michael at any opportunity. Michael manages to lure him in between two spiked wall devices in front of a doorway that snap shut and crush him.

References

Saw Mi Saw U (, ; also known as Min Saw U) was a Pagan princess, who was queen of two kings, Kyawswa of Pagan and Thihathu of Pinya, and mother of two kings, Uzana I of Pinya and Kyawswa I of Pinya. Saw U was a daughter of Narathihapate, the last sovereign king of Pagan. Married to her half-brother Kyawswa, Saw U was pregnant with Kyawswa's child (Uzana) in December 1297 when she was seized by Thihathu who had just overthrown Kyawswa. Thihathu raised Uzana as his own child and later selected him as heir apparent. Saw U also gave birth to Thihathu's child, also named Kyawswa. Both Uzana and Kyawswa went on to become kings of Pinya. Her youngest son Nawrahta defected to the Sagaing Kingdom c. 1349 after a disagreement with his brother Kyawswa.

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