The Hoffmanator

Mark Hoffman Introduction: Mark Hoffman was a respected detective within the SAW verse whose sister was slain by her ex-boyfriend. Heavily disillusioned, Mark created a Jigsaw-style trap to avenge his sister and frame the murder on Jigsaw, though this caught the killer’s attention. John Kramer captured him and blackmailed him with the evidence of Mark’s murder into working with him while also appealing to his dissatisfaction with the justice system. Through a combination of blackmail and genuine ideological realignment, Hoffman worked alongside Kramer for years, but he was unsatisfied merely being the muscle behind Jigsaw and instead wanted to run the games himself. Note: It’s shown Jigsaw had predicted his entire plan(s) years prior and set up contingencies to test/kill him if need be, though that doesn’t denigrate Marks’s strategic thinking from his end. He simply had the misfortune of facing a very brilliant opponent. Pendulum Trap But before ever meeting Kramer, Hoffman had impressed John with his revenge plot against Seth Baxter in 2004. He had been heavily depressed and an alcoholic, but even so he’d managed to, motivated by his burning desire for vengeance and disillusionment with the justice system, learn and almost replicate Jigsaw’s quality in engineering with the pendulum trap, which warrants further analysis. Seth Baxter wakes up in a dimly lit room chained to a table. A TV switches on and Jigsaw informs him that he has escaped justice for too long, let off …