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  • The poster for the film on the main page. The person's makeup is riddled with so many cracks that it's likely to scare anyone with trypophobia.
    • Some additional teaser posters conjure their own form of creepy by showing an assortment of people of different shapes, sizes, and races wearing Jigsaw's pig mask (see one example here). Jigsaw is no longer a man — he's more of an idea, and as the multiple taglines say, "he is everyone," "he is everything," and "he is everywhere."
  • All of the traps. All of them.
    • In the first one, the characters wake up with buckets over their heads, hooked up to chains connecting them to the wall. After Jigsaw's monologue is finished, buzz-saws protrude from the wall and activate, while the chains gradually retract, pulling them ever closer to the saws.
      • Even worse is the solution: they have to willingly cut themselves on one of the saws to make them stop. Brrr.
      • Not to mention that one of the victims doesn't wake up until it's too late and he's about to be chopped up by the saws. Making things worse is the fact that we never see him die. Of course, this eventually turns out to be because of the fact that he's still alive.
    • The second trap is slightly less bloody but no less horrifying. The four remaining victims are hooked up to chains leading through the ceiling, which Anna quickly deduces is an indication that the next trap will involve death by hanging. It is then revealed that Carly has been injected with poison, and the way to stop the trap and save everyone from hanging to death is to inject her with the antidote, which Jigsaw has been so kind as to provide. The problem? It's in an unmarked syringe, next to two other syringes, one of which contains a simple saline solution, while the other contains outright poison. After a minute's worth of bickering, the chains retract once more and everyone goes up. So how do they escape? Ryan injects her with all three syringes just to be safe.
    • The third trap is initiated after Ryan attempts to escape through a door marked "NO EXIT". His leg winds up going through a weak part of the floor and is wrapped with three ever-tightening pieces of piano wire. Anna and Mitch then find themselves inside a silo that is increasingly filled with grain. The only way to save them is for Ryan to pull a lever located under the floor, but doing so will also cut off his leg.
      • The silo trap gets even worse when the grain stops pouring in, and is instead replaced with knives, pitchforks, nails, and other assorted goodies.
    • In the fourth trap, Mitch winds up getting torn apart by the blades of a wind turbine powered by a motorcycle engine. From the faulty motorcycle he sold to Kramer's nephew, no less.
    • The laser collar trap, pictured above. Both Logan and Halloran are fitted with collars lined with tissue-cutting lasers, and Jigsaw tells them over an intercom that if they don't confess their sins, they'll die. Logan apparently dies even after he admits that he accidentally mislabeled two x-rays, which led to John Kramer's brain tumor not being discovered until it was too late. Halloran admits that he let criminals walk free and that innocent people died because of it, and his collar shuts off... And then Logan gets back up, completely fine. He reveals that he's the new Jigsaw and that he orchestrated the movie's entire plot both to frame Halloran for his crimes and to get revenge on him since a criminal Halloran let walk went on to kill Logan's wife. He planted evidence to incriminate Halloran, and now that he has both an airtight alibi and a fake confession from Halloran admitting his "guilt", Logan turns the lasers back on and slices Halloran's head apart like a cantaloupe. The real kicker? Halloran tries to appeal to Logan, saying that Kramer gave people a chance to win their games; he gave them a choice. Logan's response?
      Logan: You have a choice: Scream, or don't.
    • Halloran's death. Once his collar releases and his body drops to its knees, his head splits open like a flower, spraying blood out like a fountain.
  • Despite being styled as a typical horror movie heroine and the only person in the game with a genuinely sympathetic backstory, it turns out that this backstory is a lie, and Anna is revealed to be one of the most, if not the most vile character in the entire franchise; she and John were neighbors, and while she and her husband Matthew were supportive during John's chemotherapy, they argued constantly, which put a severe strain on their marriage. Then one night, Anna smothered their infant child to death in a fit of petty rage and made it look like Matthew did it, resulting in him being committed to a mental hospital where he hung himself out of guilt. Even when John directly confronts her with his knowledge of this, Anna continues to deny that she's done anything to deserve being put in the game and shows zero remorse or sadness over it. When trapped in the final room with Ryan, she almost fanatically believes she has to kill him so she can live, only for the shotgun John left them to literally backfire on her, killing her instantly, destroying the keys to their shackles that were hidden in the shell, and singlehandedly screwing Ryan out of getting his happy ending.

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