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Hoffman has managed to survive his predecessor final game for him, albeit not without injury. Now seeking revenge on Jill Tuck, who placed him in the trap, he proceeds to go on the warpath to find her. All the while, a man named Bobby Dagen, who proclaims himself as a survivor of one of Jigsaw's traps and achieved fame for writing a book about it, find himself put into one of Jigsaw's games which force him to try to save the people who participated in his scams.

Hoffman has managed to survive his predecessor final game for him, albeit not without injury. Now seeking revenge on Jill Tuck, who placed him in the trap, he proceeds to go on the warpath to find her. All the while, a man named Bobby Dagen, who proclaims himself as a survivor of one of Jigsaw's traps and achieved fame for writing a book about it, find himself put into one of his games that force him to try to save the people who participated in his scams.

'''WARNING:''' This page contains a few untagged spoilers that assume you have knowledge of spoilers from the prior entries of the franchise.

* TheBadGuyWins: Subverted. [[spoiler:Hoffman wins as effortlessly as he has in the past two films--''then'' gets captured and left to die by Dr. Gordon, of all people. Given that Gordon is another Jigsaw [[strike:apprentice]] accomplice, he's technically also a bad guy, but he's leagues better than Hoffman.]]

* BystanderSyndrome: Taken UpToEleven with the Public Execution Trap, where a huge crowd of pedestrians stand around the display window and only two of them make an attempt to do anything, one tries to bash the glass with her briefcase and another calls the police . Some are even filming it.

* BystanderSyndrome: Taken UpToEleven with the Public Execution Trap, where dozens of pedestrians stand around the display window and none of them makes any serious attempt to save the woman that gets lowered onto a chainsaw. Some are even filming it.

** Dr. Gordon is first seen dragging himself away from the first film's setting and cauterizing his amputated foot and later shows up at a gathering of Jigsaw survivors. At the end of the film, it turns out [[spoiler:he had been nursed back to health by Jigsaw, given a prosthetic foot, and trained as an apprentice. Gordon becomes the only truly faithful apprentice when Hoffman kills Jill Tuck--acting on Jigsaw's orders, Gordon captures Hoffman and leaves him to die in the same bathroom from the first film.]]

* DeathByRacism: Evan and the others in his trap.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Pierced eyes and mouth.]]
* FanDisservice: The girl in the opening is probably the biggest fanservice material in the whole franchise--until her intestines shoot out, anyway.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler:Dr. Gordon does this to Hoffman by leaving him to die in the bathroom. It would be cruel, but Hoffman is a murderous asshole.]]

* LoveTriangle: Brad and Ryan are both involved in relationships with Dina, so in the public execution trap, Jigsaw asks both men to attempt to kill each other with a table of saws, in order to "prove who is the alpha male" and allow one of the men to kill his romantic rival. However, unlike most examples of this trope, the love triangle is not resolved in favor of either "competitor", as when Dina's loyalties switch between whoever happens to be winning, this convinces both men to give up, allowing Dina to be killed instead.

* MurderTheHypotenuse: This is invoked and then subverted in the opening trap. Brad and Ryan, the men in the trap, can either fight to the death over the woman they both love or let her die instead. Realizing that she doesn't care which one of them dies so long as one of them save her, the men agree to kill her together so both of them can survive.

* PreviewsPulse: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBCSASJrB6I Used in this trailer for]] ''The Final Chapter''.

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Dr. Gordon cauterized his wound with the help of a hot pipe after escaping the bathroom. When Jigsaw discovers this, he takes Gordon in and places a prosthetic leg on him...on the condition that Gordon becomes an assistant to Jigsaw's work. Gordon becomes the killer's one true apprentice--the only person trusted with the details of all the "games"--and willingly helps him with his schemes: He places the key behind the eye of Michael from ''Saw II'', sews shut the eyes of Trevor from ''Saw IV'', and tells Jigsaw about Lynn from ''Saw III''. The letter Jill delivered to the medical office in ''Saw VI'' was addressed to Gordon; it contained a tape of Jigsaw telling Gordon to act against Hoffman should anything happen to Jill.]]

* SayingTooMuch: In the public execution trap, either Brad or Ryan must fight to push a table of saws onto the other man and kill him, or allow Dina to be killed by a saw instead. Initially, both of them struggle over the saws and are set to try to kill each other, but Dina makes a mistake that proves fatal to her: she first cheers for Brad when it looks like Brad might win, but then when Ryan starts winning she immediately switches and starts cheering for Ryan. The fact that Dina is willing to "love" whichever man kills the other causes Ryan to realize that she doesn't genuinely love ''either'' man (or she would have been cheering only for the one she loved), so he voluntarily gives up the struggle and convinces Brad to do the same, and Dina is killed instead.

* SeriesFauxnale: It was treated as such and even titled "The Final Chapter," until the eighth and final film, ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'', came out in 2017.

* TheBadGuyWins: Subverted. [[spoiler:Hoffman wins as effortlessly as he has in the past two films--''then'' gets captured and left to die by Dr. Gordon, of all people. Given that Gordon is another Jigsaw [[strike:apprentice]] accomplice, he's technically also a bad guy, but he comes off as way more sympathetic than Hoffman.]]

* AxCrazy: Hoffman.

* ChekhovsGunman: Dr. Gordon is first seen dragging himself away from the first film's setting and cauterizing his amputated foot and later shows up at a gathering of Jigsaw survivors. At the end of the film, it turns out [[spoiler:he had been nursed back to health by Jigsaw, given a prosthetic foot, and trained as an apprentice. Gordon becomes the only truly faithful apprentice when Hoffman kills Jill Tuck--acting on Jigsaw's orders, Gordon captures Hoffman and leaves him to die in the same bathroom from the first film.]]

* SeriesFauxnale: It was treated as such and even titled "The Final Chapter," until the eighth and final film, ''Film/Jigsaw'', came out in 2017.

* SeriesFauxnale: It was treated as such and even titled "The Final Chapter," until the eighth and final film, ''Film/SawLegacy'', came out in 2017.

'''WARNING:''' This page contains a few untagged spoilers that assumes you have knowledge of spoilers from the prior entries of the franchise.

* AndIMustScream [[spoiler:Hoffman at the end of the film is chained in the dark abandon bathroom with no means of escape and will certainly suffer a slow painful death]]

* SeriesFauxnale: It was treated as such and even titled "The Final Chapter," until the eighth and final film, ''Saw: Legacy'', came out in 2017.

''Saw [=3D=]'' (2010) is the final film in the ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' horror series.

* YourHeadAsplode: [[spoiler:Evan's girlfriend has her head obliterated when the car falls on top of her head and revs up.]]

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'''WARNING: This page contains a few untagged spoilers that assumes you have knowledge of spoilers from the prior entries of the franchise.'''

* AllJustADream: [[spoiler:Jill's death.]] [[spoiler:Her first death, at least.]]

* TheBadGuyWins: Subverted. [[spoiler:Hoffman wins as effortlessly as always - and ''then'' gets captured and left to die by Dr. Gordon, of all people. Given that he's yet another Jigsaw [[strike:apprentice]] accomplice, he's technically also a bad guy, but he still comes off way more sympathetic than Hoffman.]]
* BigNo: Hoffman at the end of the film when [[spoiler:Dr. Gordon leaves him chained up to die in the same basement he was in]].

* BrickJoke: [[spoiler: The reverse bear-trap. The most iconic trap of the franchise. Eventually it was going to go off. And it looked ''awesome''. Hoffman even makes it a point to use the ''original'' Reverse Bear Trap used on Amanda, and not the newer-looking model that Jill used on him.]]

* ChainedToARailway: Kind of. The trailer for ''Saw 3D'' shows a woman ([[spoiler:Jill]]) tied such that she is suspended in the air, with a vehicle with a giant blade on the front coming toward her. Unlike most examples of this DeadHorseTrope, it looks like it might actually be terrifying. [[spoiler:It was, though this particular trap was AllJustADream.]]
* CharacterBlog: New main character Bobby Dagen has [[http://twitter.com/bobbydagen a Twitter page]], [[http://www.bobbydagen.com/ a website]] and [[http://www.facebook.com/bobbydagen a Facebook page]]. The S.U.R.V.I.V.E group that Bobby Dagen leads has [[http://www.facebook.com/pages/SURVIVE/158786210807319#!/pages/SURVIVE/158786210807319?v=wall a Facebook page]] and [[http://survivorsofjigsaw.blogspot.com/ a blog]].
* ChekhovsGunman: Dr. Gordon is first seen dragging himself away from the first film's setting and cauterizing his amputated foot and later shows up at a gathering of Jigsaw survivors. At the end of the film, it turns out [[spoiler:he had been nursed back to health by Jigsaw, given a prosthetic foot, and trained as an apprentice, turning out to be the only truly faithful apprentice when Hoffman kills Jill Tuck and Gordon, acting on Jigsaw's orders, captures Hoffman and leaves him to die in the same room he himself had survived in the first film.]]
* ContinuityCavalcade: The SURVIVE meeting.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: Jill in the train trap in the trailer appears to be doing one of these.

* FanDisservice: The girl in the opening is probably the biggest fanservice material in the whole franchise. That is, until her intestines shoot out...
* FinalGirl: Subverted. [[spoiler:Jill Tuck has an inevitable showdown with Hoffman at the police station, but she dies when he puts her in the reverse bear trap.]]

* FlayedAlive: One of the four victims in the Horsepower Trap is superglued into the driver's seat of a car. In order to save himself and the others, he has to pull himself loose, ripping off the skin from his arms and back.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Bobby's final test is his own made-up trap from his get-rich-quick scheme. Doesn't work as well when he has to do it for real though.]]
* IronicEcho: Bobby pretends to be a survivor of Jigsaw's games and creates an acronym (S.U.R.V.I.V.E.) that supposedly the lessons that he learned in this experience. [[spoiler:When he actually takes part in his trap, the phrases his acronym stands for are scrawled all over the walls, partially because they embody the values Jigsaw tries to instill in his victims.]]
* KickTheSonOfABitch: By the end of the film, [[spoiler: Dr. Gordon does this to Hoffman himself, by leaving him to die in the bathroom. It would be cruel, but Hoffman is a murderous asshole.]]
* MurderByCremation: [[spoiler: Bobby's wife, Joyce,]] is burned alive in a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull Brazen bull]] when Bobby fails his final trap.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Invoked and then subverted in the opening trap. Brad and Ryan, the men in the trap, can either fight to the death over the woman they both love or let her die instead. Realizing that she only wants to save herself and doesn't care which one of them dies, they agree to kill her together so both of them can survive, because in Ryan's words, "she's not worth it."
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: The ending, in which [[spoiler:Hoffman]] is left chained up in the bathroom from the first film with no readily apparent means of escape, acts as if that's a guaranteed death sentence -- ignoring the fact that [[spoiler:Eric Matthews]] was ''also'' trapped in that situation at the end of the second film, and still managed to free himself. Then again, [[spoiler:Dr. Gordon]] may have known about this, and taken more care to make sure the room was inescapable this time - including throwing the one unbroken hacksaw out of the room.
** Confirmed by WordOfGod.
* OnceMoreWithClarity: [[spoiler:Jigsaw had ''one more'' apprentice, a surgeon, and the only one he completely trusted; that was Dr. Gordon. This reveal is accompanied by several shots of various victims being set up in such a way that Jigsaw (a mechanical engineer) wouldn't be able to, but a Doctor could. These include the "key behind the eye" in ''Saw II'' and the "eyes sewn shut" of IV.]]

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Hoffman, while [[spoiler: bashing Jill's forehead against a table]]:

* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Dr. Gordon was alive all along, having cauterized his wound with the help of a hot pipe after escaping the bathroom. When Jigsaw discovers this, he takes Gordon in and places a prosthetic leg on him...on the condition that Gordon assist him with his work. Gordon becomes Jigsaw's true apprentice - the only one he trusted with the details of all the games - and willingly helps him with his schemes; he is shown placing the key behind the eye of Michael from ''Saw II'', sewing shut the eyes of Trevor from ''Saw IV'', and telling Jigsaw about Lynn from ''Saw III''. It is also revealed that the letter Jill delivered to the medical office in ''Saw VI'' was addressed to Gordon, which contained a tape of Jigsaw telling Gordon to act against Hoffman should anything happen to Jill.]]
* SarcasticClapping: [[spoiler: Dr. Gordon]] does it to the survivor meeting.
* SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere: [[spoiler:This is Hoffman's fate at the end. Dr. Gordon chains him to a pipe in the same bathroom where the events of the original ''Saw'' occurred, and removed his only means of escape (the saw). WordOfGod confirms that he dies there.]] [[invoked]]
* SpaceWhaleAesop: In the last one - Always tell the truth and don't make up lies to get attention, especially if it's about having survived a serial killer's deadly trap when you actually didn't [[spoiler:or else said serial killer will kidnap your wife and friends, put them in lethal deathtraps, and put you in not one, but two deathtraps yourself, including the kind of trap that you lied about surviving. And then all you'll get for your troubles are physical and psychological scars from having tried to save your friends and wife, only to watch them die]]

* TooDumbToLive: Bobby Dagen claimed to be a Jigsaw survivor, without ever having actually been in a Jigsaw trap. This wouldn't be so bad, except he started doing this well before the events of 3, and Jigsaw was still at large. He knew the man was out there, did he really think he would just let it slide?
* TheToothHurts: Bobby learns that the combination to get through a door has been etched on two of his teeth. He must extract them with a pair of locking pliers in order to proceed.

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''Saw [=3D=]'' (2010) is the final film in the ''Film/{{Saw}}'' horror series.