History Film / Saw3D

* EyeScream: The Impalement Wheel, which involves three rods that would not only penetrate Suzanne's eyes, but also her mouth. If any scene in the ''Saw'' franchise wanted viewers to see first-hand what being in a Jigsaw trap is actually like, watching that trap in 3D (as the film had intended) is it.

* RemovingTheRival: The public execution trap is set up so that two men (Brad and Ryan), both vying for the affections of a woman (Dina) affections, will have to attempt to kill each other so that when one of them dies, the woman can live. However, this is subverted when Dina's loyalties rapidly switch between whoever's winning the struggle, which proves she doesn't love either man, so both refuse to kill each other over her, and she is killed instead.

* SayingTooMuch: In the public execution trap, either Brad or Ryan must fight to push a spinning saw 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.

*** Even if he had done that, Hoffman (or Gordon) may well still have taken offence.
** Nina's trap advances faster if she screams during Bobby's attempts at saving her. Despite having a right to be afraid, Bobby repeatedly warns her to not scream and was doing well in fishing out the key to her survival. She keeps screaming regardless [[spoiler:and promptly dies]], causing Bobby to lampshade her idiocy [[spoiler:post-mortem]]. On the other hand, preventing yourself from screaming in response to pain is very hard to do, especially with regard to an internal injury (which only ''keeps getting worse'') such as this.
** Speaking of Bobby's team, Suzanne and Cale could also count, as they should have know taking part in this scheme would also make them targets of Jigsaw.
** Had she not rooted for Brad and Ryan to kill each other, Dina may have lived.

* WorthLivingFor: Subverted in the Public Execution Trap. Both men discover that they've been dating the same woman and are challenged to kill the other to save her or allow the trap to kill her. [[spoiler:They initially try to kill the other, and Ryan does hit Brad with the saw (albeit non-fatally). Despite saying she loved Brad earlier, Dina immediately switches to Ryan's side and roots for him when he has the upper hand. Ryan, instead, forfeits the fight, realigns his side of the trap so it targets Dina, and convinces Brad to let her die instead because she's disloyal to both of them and not worth killing for since her feelings for them are actually selfish and insincere.]]
-->[[spoiler:"Is the chick that fucked me in your bed two days ago worth one of our lives? She's not worth it, man! She's not worth it!"]]
* WrapItUp: The film was originally drafted by ExecutiveMeddling to wrap up the series after ''Film/SawVI'' underperformed at the box office, namely by condensing two planned films into one. However, two more films, ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'' and ''[[Film/Spiral2021 Spiral]]'', were released years later. To be fair, one focuses on [[spoiler:John's very first apprentice]], and only features John in flashbacks without any other previously-seen characters; meanwhile, the second one purely features a Jigsaw copycat and doesn't have any appearances of previous characters (including those from ''Jigsaw''), just a glimpse of John's picture and discussion of his methods, so for all intents and purposes, the two films that came after are pretty much stand-alone films.

* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: In the Public Execution Trap, Dina, the girl who's cheating on Brad and Ryan, is dropped forcefully upon a rotating saw blade when they agree that ''she'' is the one who should die in the trap.

** In the opening trap, Brad and Ryan are bound to a double-bladed bandsaw and Dina is above a second saw jutting upwards. At first, both men try to kill the other by pushing the blade into the other one in order to save themselves and Dina... until Dina essentially exposes through an OpinionFlipFlop that she's been playing both of them for money and comfort at the same time, thus cheating on both of them. Brad and Ryan decide to stop fighting in response, resulting in Dina's death.

* RemovingTheRival: The public execution trap is set up so that two men (Brad and Ryan), both vying for a woman's (Dina) affections, will have to attempt to kill each other so that when one of them dies, the woman can live. However, this is subverted when Dina's loyalties rapidly switch between whoever's winning the struggle, which proves she doesn't love either man, so both refuse to kill each other over her, and she is killed instead.

* SayingTooMuch: In the public execution trap, either Brad or Ryan must fight to push a spinning saw 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.

* TheToothHurts: One part of Bobby's game late in the film requires him to simply put in a combination so he can get through a door. The combination has been etched on two of his wisdom teeth; he must extract them with a pair of locking pliers to get the combination and move forward.

* WorthLivingFor: Subverted in the Public Execution Trap. Both men discover that they've been dating the same woman and are challenged to kill the other to save her or allow the trap to kill her. [[spoiler:They initially try to kill the other and Ryan does hit Brad with the saw (albeit non-fatally). Dina immediately switches to Ryan's side and roots for him despite saying she loved Brad earlier. Ryan, instead, forfeits the fight and realigns his side of the trap so it targets Dina. Ryan then convinces Brad to let her die instead because she's disloyal to both of them and not worth killing for since her feelings for them are actually selfish and insincere.]]

* YourHeadASplode: [[spoiler:Kara has her head obliterated in the Horsepower Trap when the car falls on top of her head and revs up.]]

* AbandonedHospital: The setting of the film's main game is an abandoned asylum known as the Clear Dawn Mental Facility.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: While Bobby's plan to make money isn't exactly terrible at a glance, he didn't make sure that Jigsaw was either dead or behind bars before publishing his false story. But even that would have been risky since Jigsaw's accomplices would have realized that Bobby was never tested.
* DigitalDestruction: An inverted example where the ''lack'' of digital retouching for the non-3D home releases made the film look far worse than the 3D viewings it aimed at. Due to the film being shot with lighter colors for 3D so the colors would appear darker when viewed in 3D as intended (including [[BlackBlood the blood being changed to a hot pink color]]), the non-3D home releases feature the entire film sporting a light, washed-out coloration and virtually no deep reds, including the aforementioned hot pink blood, a hot pink lightbulb which is supposed to be red that comes on during a particular trap, and a lot of hot pink scrawlings on walls, doors, and floors that are clearly supposed to be red. These coloration issues could have easily been solved through proper editing and retouching, but the film suffers greatly from a lazy, hastily-made home version.

* 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. Realising that she doesn't care which one of them dies so long as one of them saves her, they agree to let her die so both of them can survive.

* SarcasticClapping: Dr. Gordon does it (along with sarcastic verbal applause) at the Jigsaw Survivor Group meeting after Bobby gives a particularly dramatic, self-serving speech.

* BatmanGambit: A small part of Hoffman's plan to catch Jill is a pretty extreme case of this, as it requires [[spoiler: the explosion he sets off in the scrapyard to distract every single officer present for several minutes while he opens up a bodybag, removes the body from it, moves it two rooms over, poses it and then [[BodybagTrick crawls back into the bodybag]], all without anyone noticing]].

* BatmanGambit: A small part of Hoffman's plan is a pretty extreme case of it, as it requires [[spoiler: the explosion he sets off in the scrapyard to distract every single officer present for several minutes while he opens up a body bag, removes the body from it, moves it two rooms over, poses it and then crawls back into the body bag, all without anyone noticing.]]

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: At least one of the numbers on Bobby's wisdom teeth for the Wisdom Teeth Combination was etched onto said tooth's root, which is impossible to do without extracting it beforehand.

* ArtisticLicenseMedicine: At least one of the codes on Bobby's teeth was etched onto the root, which is impossible without extracting it beforehand.

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Gordon condemns Hoffman to painfully starve to death in the bathroom he was tested in. Before he leaves, he also tauntingly disposes of Adam's hacksaw within his reach.]]

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Gordon condemns Hoffman to painfully starve to death in the bathroom he was tested in. Before he leaves, he also tauntingly disposes of Adam's hacksaw within his reach.]] ''Very'' satisfying.
* KarmicTwistEnding: [[spoiler:After the climax, Hoffman managed to prevail over the police in his final schemes before escaping the city, including finishing with Bobby's game and killing Jill. Just as he was going to the airport, Gordon, revealed to be Jigsaw's most entrusted accomplice, gets on his way (alongside Brad and Ryan, two of the victims of the film's opening trap) and captures him, eventually locking him up to die in the same room where Gordon had previously been imprisoned in by Jigsaw during the [[Film/SawI first movie]]. Gordon himself was acting on the order of Jigsaw, who gave him instructions to take Hoffman out if he went after Jill; in the case of success, Gordon would be given access to the remaining material that Jigsaw had kept secret to him.]]

* FlashbackEcho: The ending gives us [[spoiler:Dr. Gordon closing the Bathroom door on Hoffman]] in the same manner as John did in the first film, complete with the "game over" PreMortemOneLiner.

* AdvertisedExtra: Despite [[Creator/TobinBell Tobin Bell]] receiving top billing and appearing in many of the movie's promotional material, John Kramer is barely in the movie at all.

* DeathByIrony: In ''Saw VI'', Jill intended to kill Hoffman in a newer version of the Reverse Bear Trap, but managed to survive. Here, [[spoiler:Hoffman ends up killing Jill by putting her in the original Reverse Bear Trap]].

* DesperateObjectCatch: In his fourth test, Bobby has to guide a blindfolded Cale across some precarious planks, then toss him a key to unlock a cable that will hang Cale if the time runs out. [[spoiler:He throws it ''just'' too high, and it bounces off Cale's chest and through the space between the planks, dooming Cale to hang.]]

* FlashbackEcho: The ending gives us [[spoiler:Dr. Gordon closing the Bathroom door on Hoffman]] in the same manner as John in the first film, complete with the "game over" PreMortemOneLiner.

* HappilyMarried: After getting fame for his false survival story against Jigsaw, Bobby has a happy marriage with Joyce. Too bad the "happy" part was short-lived after he and anyone associated with him gets captured for one of Jigsaw's games. [[spoiler:Bobby ultimately fails at saving all of them.]]

*** Although he lied about being a survivor of one of Jigsaw's traps [[OnlyInItForTheMoney simply to become rich and famous]], Bobby survives his trial (which was the last one Hoffman ran) with only a few injuries. That being said, [[spoiler:his incompetence at successfully completing most of the traps lead to the deaths of his staff, best friend and wife]], and in all likelihood his career as a writer would be over with him being exposed as a fraud.

** However, it's played straight with Brit and Mallick, two of the victims of the Fatal Five's trial from ''Film/SawV''. Despite being involved in an arson and the fact that Hoffman left evidence of it at the scene for the FBI to find, both are walking free by the time of this film with no apparent legal punishment whatsoever.

* KarmicTwistEnding: [[spoiler:After the climax, Hoffman managed to win over the police in his final schemes before escaping the city, including finishing with Bobby's game and killing Jill. Just as he was going to the airport, Gordon, revealed to be Jigsaw's most entrusted accomplice, gets on his way (alongside Brad and Ryan, two of the victims of the film's opening trap) and captures him, eventually locking him up to die in the same room where Gordon had previously been imprisoned in by Jigsaw during the [[Film/SawI first movie]]. Gordon himself was acting on the order of Jigsaw, who put him a contract to take Hoffman out if he went after Jill; in the case of success, Gordon would be given access to the remaining material that Jigsaw had kept secret to him.]]

* LoveTriangle: Brad and Ryan were both involved in relationships with Dina, so in the Public Execution Trap, Jigsaw gives them the choice to either attempt to kill each other with a table of saws in order to "prove who is the alpha male", or leave Dina to die. However, unlike most examples of this trope, the love triangle isn't resolved in favor of either "competitor", as when Dina's loyalty switches between whoever happens to be winning, both men are convinced to call it a draw and allow Dina to be killed instead.

* 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 doesn't care which one of them dies so long as one of them saves her, they agree to let her die so both of them can survive.
* NearVillainVictory: [[spoiler:Just before the end, and in Hoffman's perspective, everyone who had opposed him was dead, and there was nobody left to stop him. It looks as if Hoffman had won in the end... until Dr. Gordon, Brad and Ryan show up to immobilize him, something that Hoffman never knew, let alone suspected.]]

* SarcasticClapping: Dr. Gordon does it at the Jigsaw Survivor Group meeting after Bobby gives a particularly dramatic, self-serving speech.

* SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere: [[spoiler:Dr. Gordon chains Hoffman 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 originally confirmed that Hoffman died there.]]

* TemptingFate: Gibson returns to the Horsepower Trap's scene when Rogers tells him over the phone that an explosion just happened there. The moment he enters, Gibson asks if anyone got hurt, to which another explosion comes off almost immediately. Downplayed in that the cops at the scene dodge both explosions in time to avoid any injuries.

** Nina's trap advances faster if she screams during Bobby's attempts at saving her. Despite having a right to be afraid, Bobby repeatedly warns her to not scream and was doing well in fishing out the key to her survival. She keeps screaming regardless [[spoiler:and promptly dies]], causing Bobby to lampshade her idiocy [[spoiler:post-mortem]].

** ''3D'' begins with a flashback to Lawrence sawing off his foot. [[spoiler:At the end, one of the last things Hoffman sees before the lights go out is that same foot, badly decayed and still resting in its shackle.]]

* HealItWithFire: The film reveals that after Dr. Gordon crawled out of the bathroom sans a foot in the first film, he cauterized his bleeding stump by pressing it against a hot metal pipe.

* FlayedAlive: In the Horsepower Trap, Evan is superglued into the driver's seat of a car. In order to save himself and the others, he has to pull himself loose by ripping off the skin from his arms and back -- in Hoffman's eyes, to illustrate how "we are all the same color on the inside."

* HealItWithFire: Dr. Gordon does this with a hot metal pipe to his recently-made stump.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Bobby's final test--the "game" he must "win" to save his wife--is the same trap he made up in his lies about being a Jigsaw survivor. Bonus points for said trap literally involving hoisting yourself up. He tries to do it the way he described in his lies, by digging the hooks into his chest, but [[spoiler:it turns out to be impossible to complete the trap that way]]. There were, however, several things he could have done instead that would have made the trap rather trivial to complete (for instance, the hooks were big enough for him to simply stand in), which was more than likely intentional on Jigsaw's part.

* NeverSentAnyLetters: In ''Film/SawV'', Hoffman received a letter in his office that only reads "I know who you are". Hoffman likely believed the letter came from Strahm (with Jill also being a potential suspect for the viewer), but it's revealed in this film that it was actually sent by [[spoiler:Dr. Gordon]].

** The evidence room where [[spoiler:Hoffman brings Jill to before killing her]] is full of pieces from past traps, including those that were never used or were only seen in the background.

** The evidence room where [[spoiler:Hoffman brings Jill to before killing her]] is full of pieces of past traps, including those that were never used or were only seen in the background.

* ContinuityCavalcade: The Jigsaw Survivor Group, formed by Jigsaw survivors from the previous films.