Jigsaw

> "*I want to play a game...*"
> ― Jigsaw's most iconic opening phrase
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Jigsaw (represented by Billy the Puppet) on the poster for Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood's "SAW: The Games of Jigsaw" where Jigsaw was icon

## Bio information

### Affiliation

Fear
Pigheads

## Physical Description

### Gender

Man (John Kramer)

**"Jigsaw"** or "**The Jigsaw Killer**" is the name appointed to the main-antagonist of the *Saw* horror film franchise, often represented by the prop "**Billy the Puppet"**. There have been many individuals to use this moniker, with the original and most traditional being **John Kramer**. Jigsaw makes frequent appearances at Universal's Halloween Horror Nights, and was the icon of Universal Hollywood's *Halloween Horror Nights 2009*.

## History

### Background

#### Origins

The original Jigsaw Killer was John Kramer, an old engineer who learned that he had terminal cancer leading him to believe that others took their lives for granted. Using his skills, John began crafting torturous death-traps so that he could kidnap people he deemed as flawed and force them into games where they had to "Redeem" themselves through brutal actions in-order to survive. The murderer was nicknamed "Jigsaw" or "The Jigsaw Killer" due to earlier kills involving Kramer cutting out jigsaw shaped parts of the victims' flesh to symbolize the piece of them that was missing.

Around 2004, John took on his survived victim Amanda Young as his apprentice, giving her a pig mask while training her to be the next Jigsaw. John would take on several other pig-masks disciples from his games.

Many of Jigsaw's killings occurred in the *Gideon Meatpacking Plant*.

#### Game Over

Jigsaw oversaw a series of "Games", (possibly around the year 2009). Jigsaw's lair for this event was protected by several of his disciples, dressed in pig-masks while armed with buzz-saws.

This included hijacking a backlot tram tour of horror movie fans around Halloween and forcing those on board through real horrors. All of them had to work together to survive, otherwise they would all be killed by Jigsaw. Jigsaw sent on of his disciples to string up the girl and murder her with a chainsaw, which the tram tour happened upon. Jigsaw then forced the tram through a spinning tomb death trap which they would only survive if they loudly screamed.

#### Twenty Years of Fear

In the year 2010, the paranormal-investigation organization *Legendary Truth: The Collective* accidentally freed the God of Fear into Universal Studios Florida. Leading up to Fear's "Twentieth Cycle", the face of Billy the Puppet could be observed within Fear's supernatural lantern. When Fear attempted to gain power and become freed, Jigsaw was summoned onto Universal Studios to assist the deity.

#### Game On

(Possibly by the year 2010), John Kramer was deceased with his Pighead disciples fully running the Jigsaw operation. These disciples did not adhere to Jigsaw's values and created a maze of torture devices which they forced people through.

## Appearances

### Halloween Horror Nights

#### Halloween Horror Nights: Ripped from the Silver Screen (HHN 19)

Advertisements showed the Billy the Puppet doll in the *Universal Palace Theater* along with Chucky and the a werewolf. The "Trapped" part of the theater's backstory in which a movie-goer had his leg trapped in a soundproof part of the theater where he died was made to promote the haunted house "SAW" and the man's corpse was found with a list of names connected to characters from the Saw franchise including: *Amanda, Michael, Mallick, Brit, Patrick, Reinhart, Paul,* and *Brenda*.

##### SAW

This haunted house revolved around the Saw franchise.

#### Halloween Horror Nights: Twenty Years of Fear

Leading up to this event, Billy the Puppet's face appeared as one of the monsters within Fear's lantern (along with Knightmare and the Body Collectors) on the HHN website.

##### HHN: 20 Years of Fear

The cloaked Jigsaw was one of the monsters summoned by Fear's lantern.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 27

##### Halloween Horror Nights Tribute Store

Billy the Puppet appeared near a poster for the SAW haunted house within the 2017 Halloween Horror Nights tribute store.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 2009 (Hollywood)

Jigsaw (represented by Billy the Puppet) was the icon of this Halloween Horror Night event. Many of the events surrounded Jigsaw.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 2010 (Hollywood)

##### Saw: Game On

This haunted maze revolved around Jigsaw's disciples.