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.

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THE SURVIVORS
BASE GAME	CHAPTERS I-III + PARAGRAPH I	CHAPTERS IV-VII	CHAPTERS VIII-XI	PARAGRAPH III + CHAPTERS XIII-XIV
Dwight Fairfield	Nea Karlsson	Feng Min	Kate Denson	Ash Williams
Meg Thomas	Laurie Strode	David King	Adam Francis	Nancy Wheeler
Claudette Morel	Ace Visconti	Quentin Smith	Jeff Johansen	Steve Harrington
Jake Park	Bill Overbeck	David Tapp	Jane Romero	Yui Kimura
CHAPTERS XV-XVIII
Zarina Kassir
Cheryl Mason
Felix Richter
Élodie Rakoto
THE KILLERS
BASE GAME	CHAPTERS I-III	CHAPTERS IV+V + PARAGRAPH II	CHAPTERS VI-VIII	CHAPTERS IX-XI
The Trapper - Evan MacMillan	The Nurse - Sally Smithson	The Doctor - Herman Carter	The Nightmare - Freddy Krueger	The Spirit - Rin Yamaoka
The Wraith - Philip Ojomo	The Shape - Michael Myers	The Huntress - Anna	The Pig - Amanda Young	The Legion - Frank, Julie, Susie, Joey
The Hillbilly - Max Thompson Jr.	The Hag - Lisa Sherwood	The Cannibal - Bubba Sawyer	The Clown - Jeffrey Hawk	The Plague - Adiris
CHAPTERS XII-XIV	CHAPTERS XV-XVII	CHAPTER XVIII
The Ghost Face - Danny Johnson	The Deathslinger - Caleb Quinn	The Twins - Victor & Charlotte Deshayes
The Demogorgon - Demogorgon	The Executioner - Pyramid Head
The Oni - Kazan Yamaoka	The Blight - Talbot Grimes
LORE CHARACTERS
Benedict Baker	The Entity	The Observer	Vigo	and many more...
UNUSED CHARACTERS
The Smasher	The Teacher