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| “ | Remarkble, if not a little perverse. I'm sure I speak for everyone when I say how grateful we are to be part of your promotional DVD. | „ |
| ~ Dr. Gordon's chilling message to Bobby Dagen during a meeting. |
Dr. Lawrence Gordon is a major character in Lionsgate's Saw franchise. He diagnosed serial killer John Kramer with brain cancer, but Lawrence's smug attitude and adultery with his medical student caused John to decide to test him. After overcoming this gruesome test, he becomes disillusioned with John's morals and ends up becoming an accomplice to him.
He was played by Cary Elwes.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- Despite promising to come back for Adam Stanheight after escaping the bathroom, he ultimately breaks his promise, even if he was not able to fulfill it, as he never mentions Adam after escaping the bathroom. In fact, he sees Adam's corpse when locking Mark Hoffman in the bathroom, ignoring it.
- After John persuades him to join, he accepts the deal and even becomes John's self-proclaimed "greatest asset" with most of his work not being possible without him:
- He brutally tortures Michael Marks by putting a key behind his eye and giving him 60 seconds to cut through his eye to get the key, which he fails.
- He sews up Trevor's eyelids and Art Blank's mouth before chaining them to a machine that would strangle them if they didn't figure out how to communicate.
- This led to Art killing Trevor to get the key without trying to save him.
- Most infamously, he asks John to put Dr. Lynn Denlon in his game, knowing she is Jeff's wife. The worst part is Lynn worked at the same hospital as him and even had the same family problems as him, effectively attacking his own kind, setting himself apart from Logan Nelson and William Schenk. This also caused Lynn's daughter to be trapped, like Lawrence's own daughter was.
- He doesn't show remorse for his crimes, and acts coldly towards other Jigsaw survivors during a meetup, telling them the tragedies were necessary for them to cherish their lives. He also mocks Bobby Dagen, a fake survivor, and doesn't stop Mark Hoffman from putting him and others into a real trap.
- He finally puts Mark into the bathroom trap, chaining his foot to the wall, but this time leaving him to die in the dark with no way to escape, instead of calling the feds he lets Mark suffer. Even worse, this is not punishment for his crimes, only vengeance for killing John's wife Jill Tuck, although Mark still deserved it for all his crimes. Although this was done under John's orders, he didn't explicitly tell him to kill Mark, only stop Jill's attacker.
- Despite not branching off from John as an independent serial killer, John had to hide Lawrence from the other accomplices which was a very hard thing to do given John's health, preventing Lawrence from being worse. The same applied to after John's death when Mark was the last man standing and did the traps by himself while framing Peter Strahm.
- He also does not have the fitness to become an independent villain, as it is shown he needs a cane to walk slowly due to his amputated foot and he also needed two other men to help him incapacitate Mark and carry him to the bathroom.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- Despite what he did, his tragedy in the bathroom always held. He was forced to cut off his entire right foot with the hacksaw, and remembered it when taking the saw away from Mark. He also did it to save his family, showing that he cares for them and went to extreme lengths to save them.
- He cared for his medical students, including Carla, the woman he cheated on his wife with, despite the games.
- He is an extremist like all the others (except Mark), putting people in the traps as a twisted way to rehabilitate them like what John did to him.
- He is affable to Tapp when interrogated by him, his patients, enemies, and everyone else.
- He loves and cares for his family, despite cheating on his wife, he felt regret afterwards for doing so and decided to break up with Carla, plus this is further shown as he started to feel sadness and anxiety when she and his daughter were Zep's hostages and he apologized for not being with them in a brief phone call.
- He is honorable to John and Jill, following John's request to stop Mark.
External Links[]
- Lawrence Gordon on the Heroes Wiki
- Lawrence Gordon on the Villains Wiki
- Lawrence Gordon on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
- Lawrence Gordon on the Saw Wiki
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 Inconsistently Heinous
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