Watchmens Rorschach Made His Own Saw Trap Decades Before The Movie

Watchmen’s Rorschach Made His Own ‘Saw’ Trap Decades Before The Movie

Decades before the Saw franchise saw Cary Elwes hacksaw his foot off to escape certain doom, Watchmen’s Rorschach was playing a similar game.

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Watchmens Rorschach Made His Own Saw Trap Decades Before The Movie

The Saw franchise has become famous for forcing its characters to make seemingly impossible life-or-death decisions to repent for their past transgressions, a trick Watchmen’s Rorschach had been using decades before the first film’s premiere.

While the traps in the Saw movies have become increasingly elaborate through the series’ run, the first film featured the simplest, and, for lack of a better word, most elegant: two captors are chained by their ankles in a decrepit bathroom and the only way to escape is to hacksaw their own foot off. In the end, Dr. Lawrence Gordon, played by Cary Elwes, “wins” the “game” and survives the movie, minus one appendage. This simple idea of a man seeking what he considered justice by forcing a wrongdoer to make the impossible choice of severing their own limb shocked audiences at the time and the movie went on to spawn a slew of sequels, a spinoff film, and a video game. But Rorschach did it first.

Saw debuted in 2004, but in 1987, in issue #6 of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ seminal comic book masterpiece, readers are given some backstory to the series’ brutal antihero. Growing up abused, beaten, bullied, and disenfranchised, Walter Kovacks would eventually become the vicious, inkblot-masked vigilante Rorschach. It’s in issue #6 that readers see the first time he stepped over the line from vigilante to murderer. While investigating a kidnapping, Rorschach finds the perpetrator’s hideout and discovers he’d done unspeakable things to his victim before killing her. Handcuffing the villain to a furnace, Rorschach gives him a hacksaw before setting the building on fire, telling him there’s no use trying to cut through the chains. The kidnapper is horrified when he realizes what he is supposed to cut through.

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While the incident is one of the most formative ones for Rorschach’s development in the comics, it was changed for Zack Snyder’s 2009 big-screen adaptation. In the movie, Rorschach took a much more direct, hands-on approach to dealing with the criminal by the way of a meat cleaver to the head. And while Jigsaw’s most prolific trap may seem derivative of Watchmen, it’s worth noting that Rorschach wasn’t even the first fictional character to devise such a ghastly plan. 1979’s Mad Max saw the titular character use the same trick on one of the antagonist bikers, giving him a chance to free himself – via hacksaw – from the car he’s chained to before it explodes.

The idea of having to sever one’s own limb is a horrifying one, so it makes sense that it’s been used multiple times in fiction. But the fact that characters in Saw, Watchmen, and Mad Max used such an acutely specific way of exacting their brands of vengeance is a pop culture curiosity. Whether it’s a matter of creators being inspired by past works or just happenstance, one thing’s for certain; don’t get on the wrong side of Max Rockatansky, Rorschach, or Jigsaw and expect to come out intact.

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