10 Innocent Movie Characters Who Got Totally Unnecessary Deaths

The Saw franchise may be shamelessly sadistic, but the filmmakers nevertheless tend to afford the most brutal deaths to characters who are perceived, in one way or another, to "deserve" it, or in the very least be thoroughly unpleasant individuals.

That's not quite the case in Saw: The "Final" Chapter, though, which centers around self-help guru Bobby Dagen (Sean Patrick Flanery) being tested after pretending to be a Jigsaw survivor for publicity purposes.

Bobby's final test sees him having to save his wife Joyce (Gina Holden) from being roasted alive by inserting metal hooks into his pectoral muscles and lifting himself up - the very same test he lied about as part of his story.

Ultimately Bobby is unable to perform the task, causing blameless, helpless Joyce to be cooked alive inside an ancient torture instrument called the brazen bull. Bobby and we, the audience, are forced to watch as Joyce is burned to a charred husk and dies a slow, agonising death.

It's an odd move even for Saw, given that the worst thing you can say about Joyce is that she's guilty of marrying a fraudulent douchebag, and really it's Bobby himself who should've been in the bull. Instead, she dies without any possibility of escape while Bobby is presumed to survive.

Granted, at this point in the franchise the traps are being overseen by the utterly unhinged Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor), who doesn't much care about fairness or what's deserved. Even so, this death had even the die-hard Saw fans raising their eyebrows.