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Only at the end of the film is it revealed that the Jigsaw Killer was in fact a terminal cancer patient of Dr. Gordon and fellow protagonist Adam Faulkner are led to believe it is the hospital orderly Zep Hindle. Gordon, one of the film's two protagonists, and near the end of the film Dr. Throughout the first film, his identity remains uncertain the unstable ex-cop David Tapp suspects that he may be Dr. As his victims increase, the media dubs him The Jigsaw Killer, or simply Jigsaw, because of the jigsaw puzzle-shaped piece of flesh that he cuts from unsuccessful subjects, a practice explained in Saw II as reflecting each subject "was missing a vital piece of the human puzzle the survival instinct". The purpose of his traps is to see if the subject has the will to survive, and thus inflict enough psychological trauma for the subject to appreciate their life and save themselves from their own demons. As opposed to other killers, Jigsaw does not actually intend to kill his subjects.
Jigsaw is described as a mysterious person who kidnaps people he sees as wasting their lives and attempts to "save" them by administering various inhumane tests. Lawrence Gordon's recounting of his first killings.
The Jigsaw Killer character was introduced in the 2004 film Saw through the character Dr. The Jigsaw name was given by the media for his practice of cutting puzzle pieces out of the flesh of those who failed his tests, symbolic of their missing survival instincts. After a failed suicide attempt, Kramer experienced a new respect for his own life and set out to put others through similarly deadly tests, often a symbolic representation of what could be seen as a flaw in the person's life, to help them appreciate their own lives by testing their will to live through self-sacrifice.
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Jigsaw, introduced in the series as John Kramer, was a civil engineer dying from an inoperable frontal lobe tumor that had developed from colon cancer. He is portrayed by American actor Tobin Bell. Jigsaw made his debut as the primary antagonist in the first film of the series, Saw, and later Saw II, III, IV, V and VI. The Jigsaw Killer, commonly referred to as simply " Jigsaw", is a fictional character in the Saw franchise.