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| “ | I wanted to kill him every day. For three years, I wanted to kill you. | „ |
| ~ Jeff's vengeful and clearly obsessive words to the man who had killed his son. |
Jeff Denlon is the main protagonist of Saw III and a minor character in Saw IV. He is a vengeful man who is tested by Jigsaw after his son is killed by a drunk driver who was found not guilty. However, he is slow to act during his trial, often resulting in the deaths of the people he was supposed to save.
He was portrayed by Angus Macfadyen.
What Makes Him a Scrappy?[]
- While he was intended to be a sympathetic everyman, Jeff comes off more as a petty sociopath that is far too unlikable to be relatable.
- For years, he obsesses over a revenge fantasy against his son's killer, Timothy Young, and uses his son's death as an excuse to neglect his still living wife and daughter, never once apologizing for lashing out against them or showing any positive traits.
- Contrary to other Saw protagonists (with the exception of Bobby Dagen), Jeff is one of the least memorable. His only contribution to the series is the controversial feat that he killed John Kramer and Amanda Young.
- During all of his trials, he is presented as a petty and incompetent "hero" that fails to save 2/3 of the victims from their traps. He uses most of his time to whine at the victims for not helping fuel his vendetta, instead of actually trying to save them. Worst of all, when he does finally decide to help, he's extremely slow to action which has earned him his infamous internet nickname of "Slow-Ass Motherfucking Jeff".
- When confronted with Danica Scott (an eye witness to his son's death), he coldly lets her be tortured to death by Jigsaw because she refused to testify. Despite Danica's pleas, Jeff spitefully watches her freeze until she successfully guilts him into acting. By the time he acts, she is already encased in inches of ice and is long dead.
- When confronted with the preceding Judge Halden, he's content to let the judge drown in pig guts because he delivered a light sentence to his son's killer. Although he does save the judge, it comes off as more reluctant and aggressive than heroic.
- When finally confronted with his son's killer, he sadistically watches Timothy die in one of the series' most torturous traps.
- His recklessness indirectly kills Judge Halden when he retrieves the key to help Timothy. Despite it being an accident, it comes off more as careless negligence than an honest mistake, especially since Jeff shows no remorse or acknowledgment for Halden's death.
- His apology to Timothy's body is meant to be a moment of redemption, but it falls flat since Jeff continues his vengeful ways just with Jigsaw as his new target.
- Against his wife's pleas and John's warnings, Jeff selfishly kills John in retaliation for his kidnapping (an act that results in Lynn being killed when her shotgun collar explodes), proving to everyone and the audience that he learned nothing throughout the story.
- This inadvertently also risks his daughter suffocating in locked room, to which only John (and his accomplices) knew the location to.
- Adding insult to injury, his ending in Saw III is rendered pointless, as his entire plotline of playing another game to save his daughter was scrapped in Saw IV, and instead, he is unceremoniously shot dead by FBI Agent Peter Strahm after foolishly aiming his gun at Strahm.
Trivia[]
- Due to how hated Jeff is among the Saw fanbase, Dead Meat host James A. Janisse gave Jeff the now infamous nickname "Slow-Ass Motherfucking Jeff" during the Saw III Kill Count, with Jeff's death at Strahm's hands in Saw IV listing him by that nickname during the Saw IV Kill Count.
External Links[]
- Jeff Denlon on the Heroes Wiki
- Jeff Denlon on the Saw Wiki
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