Much of John's backstory was revealed in Saw II. Only at the end of the film is it revealed that the Jigsaw Killer is a terminal cancer patient of Lawrence's named John Kramer, who spent the entire time posing as a corpse on the floor of the bathroom Adam and Lawrence were trapped in. Throughout the first film, his identity remains uncertain the unstable ex-cop David Tapp suspects that he may be Lawrence and near the end of the film, Lawrence and Adam Stanheight are led to believe it is the hospital orderly Zep Hindle. As his victims increase, the media dubs him The Jigsaw Killer, or simply Jigsaw, because of the puzzle piece shape that he cuts out of the remains of unsuccessful subjects, which he explains in Saw II is meant to symbolize that the subject "was missing a vital piece of the human puzzle: the survival instinct". Unlike most killers, Jigsaw never intends to kill his subjects the purpose of his traps is to see if the subject has the will to live, as he hopes their experience will teach them the value of life, although he sometimes places his victims in situations where they themselves must kill others in order to follow the terms that he sets. Jigsaw is described as a mysterious person who kidnaps people he believes take their lives for granted and subjects them to "tests", usually mechanical devices rigged to maim or kill the subjects if they fail to complete it within a certain time period. Lawrence Gordon's recounting of his first killings. Jigsaw was introduced in the 2004 film Saw through Dr. The character of John Kramer was killed off at the end of Saw III, but appears in flashbacks in subsequent films. He was nicknamed "The Jigsaw Killer" by the media for his practice of cutting the shape of a puzzle piece from the remains of those who fail. These tests are typically symbolic of what Jigsaw perceives as a flaw in each person's moral character or life. His methods include forcing his subjects through deadly scenarios, which he refers to as "games" or "tests", in which they are forced to inflict pain upon themselves or others in order to escape. After a suicide attempt, John found a new appreciation for his life, and dedicated the rest of his life to inspiring the same appreciation in others by testing their will to live. In the series' narrative, John is a former 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 in the first film of the series, Saw, and appears in all subsequent sequels, with the exception of Spiral. John Kramer ( colloquially known as " The Jigsaw Killer" or simply " Jigsaw") is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the Saw franchise. Highly designed set of symbolic death traps
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