- Dina's gruesome but entirely deserved Karmic Death at the hands of Brad and Ryan in the Lovers' Triangle Trap.
After accidentally revealing that she didn't actually love either — only supporting the one who was winning at the time — and was playing them against each other and forcing them to commit crimes for her benefit the whole time, the two men both realize she's not worth it, put aside their differences and refuse to kill each other, leaving Dina herself to be slowly bisected by an enormous circular saw.Ryan: (after scarring Brad across the chest) You love him?!Dina: No, I didn't say that! I always loved you! Do it for me, please. You gotta kill him! Kill Brad! DO IT!Ryan: (realises she's playing them both) You lying SLUT!(Ryan pulls his saw back, aiming the middle one at Dina. She catches on to what he's trying to do)Dina: (panicking) WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!Ryan: You don't love anybody, you cheat and liar! Fuck you! FUCK YOU! (turns to Brad) Brad! Brad, look at me! Is the chick that fucked me in your bed two days ago worth one of our lives? Not worth it, man. She's not worth it. Right?!(Brad glances up at Dina, then to Ryan, and agrees after some hesitation)Brad: YEAH! (the two men stop fighting and push the saw back into the middle, leaving Dina to her fate)(time runs out, and Dina is slowly lowered into and graphically torn in half by the middle saw)- And furthermore, Ryan is one of the only survivors in the whole franchise to walk away completely unscathed, and Brad doesn't fare much worse.
- On top of all that, Word of God confirms that the masked accomplices who help Gordon capture Hoffman at the end are Brad and Ryan, proving that they came to appreciate the experience enough to help Jigsaw fulfill his last wish of killing Hoffman.
- Say what you will about Hoffman, but you have to admit that his whole plan to break into a police station using the Bodybag Trick just to kill Jill was very clever... And better yet, it worked.
- Finally seeing the Reverse Bear Trap kill someone. Sick, but cool nonetheless.
- Simone, the survivor of the Pound of Flesh from the beginning of Saw VI, attends a Jigsaw Survivor Group meeting in this movie. While the other survivors talk on about how grateful they are for having gone through their tests and what a great method Jigsaw employs, Simone rightly points out that Jigsaw’s methods are unforgivably fucked up, with nothing detracting from her point; even when one of the survivors, Sidney, claims that her life's improved due to Jigsaw helping her escape an abusive relationship (i.e. putting her in a contest where she was forced to kick her ex-boyfriend Alex into a room full of rotating lawnmower blades), she calls her out for how that shouldn’t have been treated as how it had to be.Simone: He had to die for you to leave him!?
- Aside from Simone, Dr. Gordon, an other actual Jigsaw victim and secretly, the only apprentice/ally that didn’t go AWOL, sarcastically tears into him.
Dr. Lawerence Gordon: Bravo! To be able to sustain such a traumatic experience and, uh, and yet find a positive in that grizzly act. It's a remarkable feat, indeed. Remarkable... if not a little perverse. I salute you, Mr. Dagen. You have not only endured, but prevailed. I’m sure I speak for everyone here of how grateful we are to be part of your (his smile fades) … promotional DVD. - Throughout the film, Gibson is relentless in bringing Hoffman down. He figures out the clues, accompanies the SWAT Team to the site of the latest game, and leads the attempt to capture Hoffman himself. Hoffman may have outplayed him, but he only did so by taking advantage of Gibson's courage and determination.
- Although the film is widely considered to be the worst in the series, it had one of the best endings. Lawrence Gordon, who we last saw 6 years ago in the first movie, returns and finally gives Hoffman, the cold-hearted sociopathic bastard, his just desserts by chaining him by the ankle in the bathroom he himself was first trapped in. As you hear Hoffman scream his F-U's, Lawrence calmly states "Game over", and locks the door behind him. Ass Pull maybe, but it was still goddamn awesome.
- Another bit from that scene; Dr. Gordon picks up the saw he used to cut off his own foot, and after a brief flashback of that moment, he just smirks at Hoffman and says, "I don't think so." He then throws the saw out into the hallway. Hoffman sometimes didn't give his victims a chance in his traps, so Dr. Gordon isn't giving him a chance, either. While he played more fairly than Amanda overall with his traps, he undermined it by pretty much killing every law enforcement officer and federal agent that came close to unmasking him, such as putting Strahm undeservedly in a trap and slaughtering Erickson and Perez. The final nail in his coffin was slaughtering Gibson, Rogers, Dr. Heffner, and several others in his quest to murder Jill. By that point, yeah, Hoffman didn't deserve any more chances even though he was pretty epic in his ability to wiggle out of every sticky situation up to that point. He was a sociopathic killer that sadly needed to be put down by Dr. Gordon.
- Hoffman himself immediately going for said saw, showing that he is indeed an individual with "the will to live", as John Kramer put it. Much like his desperate (but successful) attempt to survive the Reverse Bear Trap in the previous movie.
- Even better? While the twist may feel like an Ass Pull due to how abruptly it was introduced (likely due to the planned Saw VII and VIII being mashed together into this movie), it very much wasn't. This twist was planned since before the fourth movie, and foreshadowing for it is sprinkled throughout the intervening movies. The flashback sequence when Dr. Gordon unmasks revels in the reveal by showcasing all the scenes from the last several movies that led up to this moment, as well as some of those pieces of foreshadowing, driving home one last time just how much everything is connected in this series.
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