History SymbolicMutilation / Saw

* And lastly in the post-credits scene where Hoffman pops up, Henry Kassler is abducted and chained to the ceiling of the first film's iconic bathroom with it shown that he lied about the scars on his stomach being his war wound. To make his lies true, John and Hoffman have planted a saw trap onto his stomach with the outcome left for the audience to decide.

* Gabriela pretended to have been cured of cancer, so her trap is set up like a simulated cancer treatment, featuring loads of irradiation that end up burning her face.
* Valentina and Mateo pretended to be surgeons in the group of [[SnakeOilSalesman phony oncologists]] who scammed John out of his money, so John forces them to [[SelfSurgery perform surgical acts on themselves]] (amputating a leg in Valentina's case and excising brain tissue in Mateo's case). They're tested on skills they don't actually have, but falsely ''claim'' to, with Mateo's test having the bonus point of matching John's cancerous brain tumor (on top of being a CallForward to Lynn's test in ''Saw III'').
-->'''Mateo:''' I don't know what the fuck all of these things are! Medical supplies, I think, and... And there's a fucking bonecutter?!

SymbolicMutilation is a recurring element in Jigsaw's tests. While not always the case, the traps tend to inflict an injury on their victims based on the reason they're tested.

!!''Film/SawX''
* Mateo is part of the group of [[SnakeOilSalesman phony doctors]] who scammed John Kramer out of his money by pretending to cure his brain cancer. His trap is that he has to perform brain surgery on himself. Much like Bobby in ''Saw [=3D=]'', he's being tested on a skill he doesn't actually have, but falsely ''claims'' to.

* In the trailer, one of the victims is part of the group of [[SnakeOilSalesman phony doctors]] who scammed John Kramer out of his money by pretending to cure his brain cancer. His trap is that he has to perform brain surgery on himself. Much like Bobby in ''Saw [=3D=]'', he's being tested on a skill he doesn't actually have, but falsely ''claims'' to.

* Carly had accidentally given a woman she robbed an asthma attack, and since she took a medication or an inhaler from said woman, she ended up dying. The trap she gets put through has her poisoned with three syringes that force her to confess the money she stole from the woman, and as Jigsaw puts it, she is now the one who'll die without the right medication. She ends up getting injected with all three by Ryan, being melted from the inside out by acid inside her neck.

* Carly had accidentally given a woman she robbed an asthma attack, and since said woman didn’t have any medication or an inhaler, she ended up dying. The trap she gets put through has her poisoned with 3 syringes that force her to confess the money she stole from the woman, and as Jigsaw puts it, she is now the one who’ll die without the right medication. She ends up getting injected by all three, being melted from the inside out by acid inside her neck.
* Mitch had previously gotten Jigsaw’s nephew killed in a crash caused by selling him a bike that he knew was in poor condition. Jigsaw used the motor of said bike to power a spiral trap that ends up flaying Mitch alive.

* Ivan, a serial rapist, is strapped to a bed (which is an incredibly common place to have sex in) and forced to gouge his eyes, which have "led him blindly astray", in order to escape. If he doesn't, the trap will rip his body apart, which caused endless suffering to his victims.

* Ivan, a serial rapist, is forced to gouge his eyes, which have "led him blindly astray", in order to escape. If he doesn't, the trap will rip his body apart, which caused endless suffering to his victims.

* Bobby got rich writing a book about how he survived one of Jigsaw's traps. Except he was never placed in one, he made the whole thing up. His final test is to recreate the very trap from his book: piercing his pecs with meat hooks and hoisting himself up to connect some wires. However, pectoral muscles aren't strong enough to support a person's full body weight, and the hooks just rip right out of his chest before he can even get off the ground. Jigsaw evidently wanted to teach him that he absolutely ''sucks'' at designing traps, since not only is his trap literally impossible to complete using the "intended" method, but it actually has a built-in CheeseStrategy Bobby never noticed that would have made it a cakewalk -- the hooks were large enough that he could have just stood in them, no mutilation necessary.

* The Razor Wire Maze forced Paul, a man who cut himself twice, to crawl carefully around razor wire.
* Mark, who called in sick to work even though he wasn't, had to find numbers with a candle to unlock a safe while he's covered in flammable jelly. He ended up burning to death, so he got [[JustForPun fired]].

* Bobby's final test is to recreate the trap he made up: piercing his pecs and hosting himself up to connect wires. It doesn't work when he does it exactly that way, but the hooks' size and design imply that he also had to think logically, since he couldn't have known if the trap would have been actually possible in reality.

* Fitch has to rip his fingers off in his trap. He killed a man just because he flipped him off, and the Spiral Killer says that his fingers pulled the trigger.

* Fitch has to rip his fingers off in his trap. He killed a man just because he flipped him off, and The Spiral Killer says that his fingers pulled the trigger.

* Xavier, a drug dealer, was meant to search around a giant pit of used needles to get the key to the an antidote safe. He forces Amanda, who happens to be a former heroin addict, to do the task instead.

* Bobby's final test is to recreate the trap he made up: piercing his pecs and hosting himself up to connect wires. It doesn't work when he does it exactly that way, but the hooks' size and design imply that he also had to think logically, since he couldn't have known the trap would have been actually possible in reality.

* Troy, the victim of the Classroom Trap, repeatedly returned to prison despite a good privileged life. In the trap, numerous chains pierce his body and keep him enclosed like in a prison cell, which he has to pull out in order to free himself. Plus, the door to get out of the classroom was rigged by Amanda, which, while rendering the trap inescapable, can be seen as a metaphor to confinement.

* Ivan, a serial rapist, is forced to gouge his eyes, which have "led him blindly astray", in order to escape. If he doesn't, the trap will pull his body apart, which caused endless suffering to his victims.

!!''Film/SawVI'':
* The Shotgun Carousel gives William the choice (although not obligatorily) to choose [[SadisticChoice two people out of six]] from his team of analysts in his corrupt medical insurance company. This symbolizes that William's policy only covered one third of the company's insurance cases, and William must give himself stigmata to save the two people he deems being hurt for.

* Bobby is put into a trial for falsely claiming to be a Jigsaw victim and writing a book about it. His final test is to perform the test he made up; piercing his pecs and hosting himself up to connect wires. It doesn't work when he does it exactly that way, but the hooks' size and design imply that he also had to think logically, since he couldn't have known the trap would have been actually possible in reality.

* Xavier Chavez, a drug dealer, was meant to search around a giant pit of used needles to get the key to the an antidote safe. He forces Amanda, who happens to be a former heroin addict, to do the task instead.

* Addison was originally going to have a different trap than the razor box which never made it into the movie. Her wrists were going to be trapped and she had to press her face onto a hot iron, sacrificing her looks (as a prostitute, that's one of her key features) to save her life.
* Xavier Chavez, a drug dealer, was told to crawl through a giant pit of used needles to get the key to the antidote that will save his life. He chooses Amanda Young instead, who also happened to be an ex-heroin addict.
* Troy, the victim of the classroom trap, repeatedly returned to prison despite a good privileged life. Many chains pierce his body, which he needs to pull out in order to escape.
* Ivan, a serial rapist, is told he needs to [[EyeScream blind both of his eyes]], which have "led him blindly astray" in order to escape the trap that will pull his body apart, which caused others endless suffering.
* The 10 pints of sacrifice trap revealed to the two remaining survivors of the five-person game that if they had only worked together, they each could have given two pints of blood each instead of five each.
* The pound of flesh trap puts two corrupt moneylenders at odds with each other, both giving all they had to give to survive.
* The shotgun carousel forces William Easton to choose [[SadisticChoice two people out of six]] from his team of yuppies in their corrupt medical insurance company. This symbolizes that the company only chooses 1/3 of their insurance cases, and Easton needs to give himself stigmata to save the two people he deems being hurt for.
* Evan, his girlfriend, and two of his buddies found themselves in a giant trap for [[DeathByRacism their racism]]. His mutilation? Peeling the skin off his back to reach the lever to save their lives.
* Bobby Dagen was put into a trap for his lies about being a Jigsaw victim. His final test is to perform the test he completely made up and made a book about, piercing his pecs and hosting himself up to connect wires. It doesn't work and his pecs are completely torn out.

* Mark Wilson, who called in sick to work even though he wasn't, had to find numbers with a candle to unlock a safe while he's covered in flammable jelly. He ended up burning to death, so he got [[JustForPun fired]].

* Michael Marks, the victim of the [[IronMaiden venus flytrap]], was a police informant to a corrupt cop, who had to cut out one of his eyes to reach the key.

* The razor wire maze forces a man who cut himself to crawl carefully around a maze of razor wire.
* Mark Wilson, who called in sick to work even though he wasn't, had to find numbers with a candle to unlock a safe while he's covered in flammable jelly. He burns to death, therefore he got [[JustForPun fired]].