John Kramer

John Kramer is an unseen Character in Dead by Daylight .

He is a Character from The SAW™ franchise. John Kramer is also commonly known as The Jigsaw Killer or simply Jigsaw.

He was a successful civil engineer and the founder of the Urban Renewal Group, a foundation dedicated to property development for needy people. The Gideon Meat Plant was the first building he had designed as an engineer and also the namesake for his unborn son Gideon John Kramer.

He was married to Jill Tuck and had encouraged her to open the Homeward Bound Clinic for recovering drug addicts.

Later in life, John Kramer got diagnosed with terminal colon cancer and a brain tumor, which had previously been undiagnosed due to a mistake and now become inoperable. He became depressed and tried to take his life by driving his car off a cliff. Crawling out of the wreckage, heavily injured but still alive, he realised that only when death was imminent, he finally began to actually appreciate his life. Observing others wasting their lives, he decided to spend the rest of his own testing other peoples' will to survive, hoping to make them appreciate their lives just as he did.

Thus, Jigsaw was born.

Trivia

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THE SURVIVORS
BASE GAME + CHAPTER I	Dwight Fairfield	Meg Thomas	Claudette Morel	Jake Park	Nea Karlsson
CHAPTERS II - V + PARAGRAPH I	Laurie Strode	Ace Visconti	Bill Overbeck	Feng Min	David King
CHAPTERS VI - X	Quentin Smith	David Tapp	Kate Denson	Adam Francis	Jeff Johansen
CHAPTERS XI - XIV + PARAGRAPH III	Jane Romero	Ash Williams	Nancy Wheeler	Steve Harrington	Yui Kimura
CHAPTERS XV - XIX	Zarina Kassir	Cheryl Mason	Felix Richter	Élodie Rakoto	Yun-Jin Lee
CHAPTER XX	Jill Valentine	Leon Scott Kennedy
THE KILLERS
BASE GAME + CHAPTERS I - II	Evan MacMillan - The Trapper	Philip Ojomo - The Wraith	Max Thompson Jr. - The Hillbilly	Sally Smithson - The Nurse	Michael Myers - The Shape
CHAPTERS III - VI + PARAGRAPH II	Lisa Sherwood - The Hag	Herman Carter - The Doctor	Anna - The Huntress	Bubba Sawyer - The Cannibal	Freddy Krueger - The Nightmare
CHAPTERS VII - XI	Amanda Young - The Pig	Jeffrey Hawk - The Clown	Rin Yamaoka - The Spirit	Frank, Julie, Susie, Joey - The Legion	Adiris - The Plague
CHAPTERS XII - XV	Danny Johnson - The Ghost Face	The Demogorgon	Kazan Yamaoka - The Oni	Caleb Quinn - The Deathslinger	Pyramid Head - The Executioner
CHAPTERS XVI - XX	Talbot Grimes - The Blight	Victor & Charlotte Deshayes - The Twins	Ji-Woon Hak - The Trickster	Nemesis T-Type - The Nemesis
LEGENDARY CHARACTERS
Chris Redfield	Claire Redfield	Cybil Bennett	Jonathan Byers	Lisa Garland	The Look-See
The Mordeo
ULTRA RARE CHARACTERS
The Krampus	The Minotaur
COSTUME CHARACTERS
Alessa Gillespie	The Birch
LORE CHARACTERS
Alex	Benedict Baker	The Entity	The Observer	Vigo	and many more...
UNUSED CHARACTERS
The Smasher	The Teacher