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A dying marriage (well, at least for one of them).
- The opening scene involving John's autopsy. More than any trap, this is probably the most gratuitous Body Horror in the entire series.
- The Mausoleum Trap isn't that scary at first since it's just two men with chains around their necks, fighting each other. Then you remember one (Trevor) has his eyes stitched shut and the other (Art) has his lips sewn together. The only way to break out is either for one man to kill the other or for them to work together - but the latter option's out, because one can't explain the situation and the other can't see why his opponent isn't answering him.
- After Art is forced to kill Trevor to survive, he lets out a scream that causes the stitches to rip out of his mouth.
- The Scalping Seat is really hard to watch, especially if you have long hair. Basically, a woman (Brenda)'s hair has been threaded into gears and when the trap starts, it begins to pull her hair to the point her scalp is ripped back. This becomes even worse when you learn that people are scalped regularly by having their hair caught in machines, especially when the machine twists their hair in such a way where it becomes more tear-resistant.
- The Bedroom Trap. A guy (Ivan) is chained to a bed and forced to use two buttons, one for each hand, in order to stab himself in the eyes. Though he succeeds with one eye, he fails with the other, and we get to see him torn limb from limb by the device. Sure, Ivan was a rapist asshole who nobody felt sorry for, not even Rigg (who wants to save practically everybody) but it was still really squicky to watch. Possibly made worse by a video playing in the background, which shows him actually raping a girl. Nightmare Fuel indeed.
- For that matter, Ivan Landsness himself. He's a sadistic serial rapist who raped at least 3 women to near death and then filmed and photographed himself doing so just to get off on it. Long story shot, he's easily the evilest character in the entire series, even topping the trap-making serial killer John Kramer and his apprentices (with the arguable exception of Hoffman, even though he's likely against rape too) and being up there with Anna from Jigsaw. Needless to say, he REALLY had his Karmic Death coming. Hell, when Rigg sees the proof of what Ivan has done, he forces Ivan into the trap at gunpoint.
- The page image, the Spike Trap (a.k.a. "Save as I Save" or the fan nickname, "Cupid's Arrow"). A woman with an abusive husband is put back-to-back with him against a pipe. The two are held in place by multiple spikes. The woman can escape by pulling the spikes out, one by one... but each one is positioned so that, while they're Only a Flesh Wound to her, they're sticking through her husband's arteries, being the only things keeping him from bleeding out. She's forced to kill her own husband to escape - and while he is an abuser, she clearly takes no pleasure in doing so; she actually begs his forgiveness as she yanks out the first one. The worst part is that she doesn't have enough strength to remove the last one herself, leaving her trapped until Riggs can pull it out for her.
- The Knife Chair is described by Jigsaw himself as "push your face into the knives to hit a button that can free you." The result? The victim (Cecil) escapes and charges at Jigsaw, who sidesteps and makes him fall into razor wire. This actually gave Jigsaw the idea for the Razor Wire Maze in the first film.
- The overarching goal of Rigg's game. It's readily apparent, through the messages left for Rigg and the nature of the traps themselves (especially the Bedroom Trap), that Jigsaw is actively trying to recruit Rigg.
