Jigsaw beats Dexter on the sadistic scale hands down but Dexter has proven himself to be not adverse to pain (breaking his own wrist to escape a serial killer).
If Dexter had been the doctor in the first movie, the movie would have ended in the first 20 min because he would have seen the supposedly dead body and tried to use the saw to fashion a lockpick from the body's bones.
Okay, 3...2...1 Go!
I haven't even seen the Dexter show (but it's on my Netflix :P), and I'd bet on him. The Saw movies were ... transparent, at least to me.
What's the story with this Dexter show? I was considering putting it on my Netflix too, 'cause it looks... different. So he's a serial killer or something? But he's a good guy?
Depends on your definition of "good guy." He's a serial killer, but he only kills other serial killers. The main arc revolves around him slowly learning to empathize with the people around him, and how that impacts his hobby. The actual murderizing mostly happens offscreen and is actually pretty clean. He's one of the few great unreliable narrators on TV, in my opinion. Each season takes place within the arc of a murder investigation pursued simultaneously by Dexter on his own and as a member of the police force.
Is his compulsion psychotic, or based on a twisted sense of justice?
So he murders serial murderers, serially? Ok, that's going on Netflix.
Is his compulsion psychotic, or based on a twisted sense of justice?
Mostly psychotic. A little bit of justice.
However, I do believe he is unreliable. It starts becoming pretty clear partway through the first season that Dexter doesn't really understand himself as well as he lets on.
So he murders serial murderers, serially? Ok, that's going on Netflix.
Is his compulsion psychotic, or based on a twisted sense of justice?
He thinks that he's a violent psychopath and that he needs to slake his bloodlust, so he hunts down people who deserve it (other demented murderers). As the series goes on, however, I've begun to suspect that Dexter ISN'T actually a psychopath; he just thinks he is due to his bizarre upbringing. I'm not absolutely sure, of course, but that's my theory.
Anyway, I think Dexter wins. Unless Jigsaw has some way of knowing Dexter's little secret (which no one does), he's bound to SEVERELY underestimate him. Even if he does somehow know, Dexter has years of experience in scourging people like Jigsaw, and his skill, devotion, and (and this is important when fighting Jigsaw) pain tolerance border on superhuman. My prediction is that Dexter gets hurt (and he might lose a family member or two, unless he's super careful with this one), but in the end, Jigsaw finds himself wrapped in Seran in Dexter's garage, slowly murdered and dismembered over the course of several hours.
The only possible way Jigsaw gets out alive is if he forces Dexter to choose between killing him and saving his family. In that case, Jigsaw just loses both arms, both legs, nose and ears, and maybe his love handles, eyes, and all his teeth if Dexter manages to remain calm enough to remember to take those parts.
?I gotta say I thought Jigsaw would be getting more love than this. Where are the Saw fans
Its not a question of fandom so much as the power level of the characters in question. I think Link is cooler than Superman, but that doesn't mean he could beat him in battle.
DEXTER
DEXTER DEXTER DEXTER DEXTER Oh no. Dexter fangirls. RUN! EVERYONE! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!
Dexter is SOOOO cute.
He can investigate my murder anytime. ...wait... that doesn't sound right....
Dexter is SOOOO cute.
He can investigate my murder anytime. ...wait... that doesn't sound right....
My wife says the same thing.
Sure, Dexter might get out of whatever Jigsaw puts him in, but after that, Jigsaw's long gone. Heck, if Dexter find him, it's just because Jigsaw wanted him to find him and has more plans for him...
As for the Superman vs. Link, Link would win hands down. Rupees are made of kryptonite. That and the Mastersword is magic, and Supes is also susceptible to magic - hence Captain Marvel being able to hold Supes over his head and say 'Shazam!' repeatedly and hurt him.
Back to Dexter, he is a psychopath - he has a desire to kill, as a child he limited himself to animals, but as the series progresses, I see him as becoming more 'human' and less monster, because of Rita and her kids, which when a **** was taking pictures of her daughter Dex referred to her as 'his' daughter. I think the character is getting a genuine feeling of love for Rita and her family - his family.
Seriously though I'd say Dexter...I need to watch that show though...