Figures from the Hunger Games series

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This article describes key characters from the trilogy The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins . These are the following works:

main characters

Katniss Everdeen

Katniss Everdeen is the protagonist of the series.

Peeta Mellark

Peeta Mellark is the male tribute from District 12 in the 74th and 75th Hunger Games. He is the son of a baker, thus also having a female connotation , and once saved the life of 11-year-old Katniss by giving her bread, even though it was forbidden to him. Peeta is 16 years old at the beginning of the trilogy. He is good with words and is good at entertaining an audience. Peeta abhors violence, which is why his experiences in the Hunger Games weigh heavily on him. He has a great talent for painting; his favorite color is orange as this is the color of the sunset.

In the tape Deadly Games , Peeta publicly confesses that he has been in love with Katniss since childhood. That is why he is usually referred to as “lover boy” by the other tributes. At the start of the Games, he teams up with the Career Tributes to protect Katniss. Later he allies himself with Katniss in order to be the joint winner of the games with her, which they succeed. They get closer and kiss several times. While Peeta hopes for more from Katniss, she only does so because she is encouraged by hints from Haymitch . At the end of the book, Peeta learns that Katniss was only feigning her affection and distances herself from her.

In the volume Dangerous Love , Peeta and Katniss largely avoid each other. They only continue to play their alleged love for the public. When he and Katniss have to go back to the arena for the 75th Hunger Games, he makes a deal with Haymitch to save Katniss' life. During the interviews with Caesar Flickerman , Peeta claims that he and Katniss are married and that she is pregnant by him, in order to persuade the Capitol to abandon the Games, but they do not succeed. Peeta and Katniss are part of the group who destroy the arena in the middle of the games. Peeta is then captured by the Capitol while Katniss is saved by the rebels. It is later revealed that his entire family was killed in the destruction of District 12.

In the volume Flaming Wrath , Peeta is seen in several interviews broadcast by the Capitol in which he is asked about Katniss' involvement in the rebellion. His condition indicates that he is being tortured. After he is rescued from the clutches of the Capitol, it turns out that he was apparently brainwashed : The Capitol managed to convince him that Katniss is a mutation he tries to kill the first time they meet. With the help of doctors and his friends, Peeta fights his way back to reality, even if there is no complete cure for him. Of President Coin Peeta is sent to fight the Capitol, where he Katniss, Gale and Finnick to support, although he is still a danger to others. He himself demands to be handcuffed. Over time he succeeds better and better against the manipulation of the Capitol. Peeta survives the war and returns to District 12 after Katniss' trial. There he helps her come to terms with the events of the past few years and they become a couple. In the epilogue, Katniss and Peeta are married and have two children.

In the film adaptations , Peeta Mellark is portrayed by Josh Hutcherson .

Gale Hawthorne

Gale Hawthorne is 18 years old at the start of the series and lives with his family in District 12. He is Katniss' best friend and her hunting partner at the same time. Gale is described as outwardly very angular but also closed, compassionate and loving. He has three younger siblings. His trapping skills are an advantage when hunting, but he is also very good at bow and arrow. He's in love with Katniss for a long time, but in the end he has to accept that his love will not be reciprocated.

After Katniss volunteers as a tribute in Deadly Games , he takes care of her mother and sister in her absence. In the second volume, Dangerous Love , one learns that his relationship with Katniss suffered from the events in the Hunger Games and is no longer the same as before. In public, Gale is portrayed as Katniss' cousin to avoid possible doubts about the alleged love between Katniss and Peeta. When District 12 is bombed, he rescues his own family and Katniss' family to District 13. It is also he who tells Katniss at the end of the tape that District 12 no longer exists.

In Flaming Wrath , Gale has joined the rebels and takes part in the war against the Capitol. His hatred of the Capitol goes so far that, together with Beetee, he develops war strategies and appropriate explosive devices that lead to the death of many innocent people, including Katniss' sister Prim. His friendship with Katniss breaks because of this. It is later learned that Gale lives in District 2, where he has a "lucrative job" and is often seen on television.

Liam Hemsworth plays the role of Gale Hawthorne in the films .

Supporting characters

Haymitch Abernathy

Haymitch Abernathy is the winner of the 50th Hunger Games and since then mentor of the tributes that followed him from District 12, in the books Katniss and Peeta . He is part of the tribute support team before the games and acts as the sponsor winner during the games. He also determines the time at which the sponsor gifts will be distributed in the arena. Haymitch is in his early 40s and won the games at the age of 17 by taking advantage of the force field that surrounds the arena: Since the force field has the property of throwing all objects back when touched, Haymitch always stayed on the edge and gave way Attacks by his opponents were so clever that they were killed by their own thrown back weapons. In the first two books, Haymitch is described as an incorrigible alcoholic who, in addition to his annual work as a mentor, ekes out a solitary existence. The background to his behavior is not known until the third volume: Since the Capitol did not like the way he used the arena force field to win the Hunger Games, the president had everyone killed who ever meant something to him. So he got lonely and drowned his grief in alcohol.

In the volume Deadly Games , Haymitch becomes the mentor of Katniss and Peeta. He treats the two of them with contempt, is sarcastic towards them, and initially makes no effort to help them. But during the preparations for the games he still proves to be helpful and tries to keep them both alive during the games. In the band Dangerous Love Katniss suspects that Haymitch drinks so much so as to forget the nightmares that made him since his torment games. At the end of the tape, Haymitch turns out to be a member of the rebellion and saves Katniss from the arena during the 75th Hunger Games. Since there is no alcohol in District 13, he has to go to Flaming Anger for withdrawal. After the war, he returned to District 12 and raised geese, but started drinking again.

Katniss recognizes similarities between Haymitch and himself in the recordings of the 50th Hunger Games: Haymitch held the hand of the dying Maysilee Donner, the aunt of Madge Undersee , whose rescue he was too late, just as Katniss came too late to Rue to protect.

In the film adaptations , Woody Harrelson plays the role of Haymitch Abernathy.

President Coriolanus Snow

Coriolanus Snow is the antagonist of the series and the president of the country of Panem. He has governed this very strictly and cold-heartedly for 25 years, which is why he is hated by many. According to Johanna Mason , he has a granddaughter between the ages of 12 and 18. He is described as an old man with white hair and a beard. Snow always carries a white rose with him to hide the smell of blood from his mouth. His lips are also very swollen from having had many cosmetic surgeries over the years.

In the volume Deadly Games he opened the 74th Hunger Games and in the end chose Katniss and Peeta as winners. In the second volume, Dangerous Love , you learn that he caused Seneca Crane to kill himself. He also visits Katniss to tell her he is angry about her irregular behavior in the Hunger Games. He threatens to see to it that her family and her boyfriend Gale are killed if she fails to convince the insurgents that she acted in the games not out of rebellious reasons, but out of pure love for Peeta. Since it is impossible for Katniss and Peeta to calm the rebels, Snow announces that the tributes for the 75th Hunger Games will be selected from the existing circle of winners.

In the volume Flammender Zorn you can find out why Snow smells so much of blood: During his time as president, he poisoned many enemies and competitors who challenged him for his position. In order to refute a suspicion against him, he himself drank the drinks of the poisoned. Despite the antidote, open wounds remained in his mouth, causing the strong smell of blood. To mask the smell, he always carries a genetically modified rose with him. We also learn that he forced Finnick Odair into prostitution (through threats similar to those of Katniss) and that some other winners of the Hunger Games have had similar fates as Haymitch . After Snow is captured by the rebels, he meets Katniss again. In their conversation he explains his motives and implies that he is not responsible for the bomb attack in which Prim Everdeen was killed. Katniss does not want to believe this at first, but later realizes on the basis of various indications that President Coin must have commissioned the attack, not Snow. As a result, during the planned execution of Snow, Katniss does not kill him, but Coin. As Katniss later learns, Coriolanus Snow dies of suffocation and being crushed by the crowd.

The 2020 prequel The Song of a Bird and a Snake deals with Snow's growing up.

Coriolanus Snow is embodied in the films by Donald Sutherland .

Primrose Everdeen

Primrose "Prim" Everdeen is the younger sister of Katniss and is very much loved by her. She is 12 years old at the start of the series. She has blonde hair and blue eyes. Prim is described as a helpful and caring girl. She has a hangover named Buttercup that she loves dearly.

In Deadly Games , the Tribute Prims name is drawn at the draw, but Katniss volunteers in her place. Before Katniss is taken to the Capitol, she promises Prim to try to win the games for her. In the further course, Prim's character becomes noticeably more mature. In District 12, Prim is already regularly helping her mother with treating the injured. She also works on the infirmary in District 13 and plans to become a doctor later. In Flaming Wrath , children are placed as human shields in front of the Capitol to protect President Snow . Above these children, a hovercraft with the coat of arms of the Capitol drops containers on parachutes containing explosive charges. Shortly thereafter, some of the bombs detonated, injuring and killing many of the children. When the rebel paramedics, including Prim, rush to the aid of the injured, the remaining containers explode and kill everyone present.

During a later conversation between Katniss and Snow, the latter explains that he had no motivation to kill the children, as his situation was already hopeless at this point in time. With a functioning hovercraft he would - according to his own statement - have fled to a safe place instead of causing a senseless massacre for which he would later be held accountable. After initial doubts, however, Katniss realizes that President Coin is actually responsible for the attack. Coins plan was to wear down the already psychologically unstable Katniss and to eliminate the "mocking boob" (ie Katniss) as a competitor for the management post after the war.

With Gale , who helped the rebels develop bombs that work on the same principle (e.g. bombs that are dropped on vital junctions such as water points or a mine that wounds the victim with a small explosive charge, and then with a great sacrifice and rescuer to kill), Katniss later breaks the friendship.

In the film adaptations , Prim is portrayed by Willow Shields .

Effie Trinket

Effie Trinket is a Capitol presenter and draws the names of the tributes for District 12 before the Hunger Games. Effie then oversees the tributes before the Games and takes care of her entire day. She looks after Katniss and Peeta at the 74th and 75th Hunger Games. She is always dressed and made up flashy. She acts and feels stressed all the time. In Blazing Anger , she is arrested for supporting the rebels. However, Katniss manages to free them.

In the film adaptations , Effie Trinket is played by Elizabeth Banks .

Cinna

Cinna is the Katniss stylist in the Hunger Games. He is described as pretty normal compared to other Capitol residents, except for the gold eyeliner he always wears. He has brown hair and green eyes with gold flecks. In the book, Cinna is in her early twenties, in the film around her mid-30s. He is at the 74th Hunger Games for the first time. According to his request, District 12 was assigned to him. With his outfits for Katniss, Cinna wins the hearts of the audience in equal measure. He befriends Katniss and gives her confidence. He also dresses her again at the 75th Games. For her interview with Caesar Flickerman, he puts Katniss in a wedding dress and asks her to turn around. When she does this, the dress changes into a mocking booby costume. This fueled the rebellion even further and Cinna reveals herself to be their supporter. Shortly before the start of the game, he is fainted before Katniss' eyes by peacekeepers and dragged out of the starting room. He is believed to be killed under torture during interrogation, but leaves Katniss a draft for her rebel leader costume.

Cinna, the androgynous stylist, is the most rebellious figure in the first volume: he feminizes Katniss so that she can be a more successful rebel.

In the films The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games - Catching Fire , Cinna is played by Lenny Kravitz .

Plutarch Heavensbee

Plutarch Heavensbee replaces the killed Seneca Crane as chief playmaker at the 75th Hunger Games. Katniss met him at the closing party of the “Tour of the Winners” in the Capitol. He shows her his pocket watch under a pretext, on which she recognizes a gold-shimmering mocking booby - but not its meaning. As it turns out later, Heavensbee wanted to give her an indication of the hourly system of the new arena, into which Katniss is forced to move a few weeks later as part of the 75th Hunger Games. After being rescued from the arena, Katniss learns that Heavensbee is the leader of the District 13 underground rebellion. In Flammender Zorn he also acts as the head of the film crew for the “Mocking Booby”, which creates the propaganda videos with Katniss in the lead role. After the war, President Paylor appointed him Minister of Communications and was charged with running the state's entertainment programs. It is also he who defends Katniss in the process and turns it into a big television event.

In The Hunger Games - Catching Fire and The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 1 , Plutarch Heavensbee was portrayed by Philip Seymour Hoffman . He died shortly before the end of filming. For Mockingjay, part 2 it should be digitized.

Mrs. Everdeen

She is the mother of Katniss and Prim. Her first name is never mentioned in the books. She comes from a relatively well-off family of pharmacists. When she fell in love with the simple coal worker and married him, she renounced a carefree life for him, which Katniss secretly resented: her mother had thus acted irresponsibly towards her children, who now also have a difficult life. In addition to her job as a housewife and mother, Mrs. Everdeen is considered a kind of doctor in the district due to her knowledge of medicinal plants. She often has to treat half-starved children or injuries of all kinds in the kitchen of her house. When her husband died, she fell into a permanent depression, so Katniss had to take care of her sister alone.

In the second volume, Mrs. Everdeen continues her role as a healer in her home district with Prim's support. In District 13 she works in the third volume as a nurse in the local infirmary. After Prim's death, she will not return to District 12. She settles in District 4 and works in a hospital there.

In the film adaptations , Mrs. Everdeen is portrayed by Paula Malcomson .

President Alma Coin

Alma Coin is the president of District 13 and the initiator of the rebellion. She has shoulder-length gray hair and gray eyes. She is a combative and intelligent woman who did not get along with Katniss from the start. She would have preferred the eloquent Peeta as the leading figure in the rebellion. In her autocratic leadership style and methods, she resembles President Snow. After the latter's fall, it turns out that Coin saw Katniss as a competitor for the post of president after the end of the war and therefore exploited, manipulated and in some cases played off her against the brainwashed Peeta. In order to break the already mentally ailing Katniss, Coin lets a hovercraft with the emblem of the Capitol bomb helpless children, whereby Katniss' sister Prim is also killed. After the war, she becomes the new President of Panem. When Coriolanus Snow is being executed, Katniss is supposed to kill him, as previously agreed, with an arrow shot. Katniss does not shoot him, but Coin, and thus avenges herself for the death of her sister.

In the film adaptations , Alma Coin is portrayed by Julianne Moore .

tribute

74. Hunger Games

Cato

Cato is the male tribute from District 2. He is a career who has volunteered for the Hunger Games. Like most careers, he has full confidence in his abilities and expects to emerge as the winner of the Games. He sees Katniss as a threat because she receives a higher training score than him. He knows best about the short sword. In the arena, he and the other careers besieged the cornucopia and added Peeta to the group as he hopes to get to Katniss through him. He is one of the three last survivors of the Hunger Games. When it comes to a fight with Peeta and Katniss at the Cornucopia, the group is attacked by wolf mutations and Cato is seriously injured. To spare him further suffering, Katniss kills him with an arrow.

In The Hunger Games , Cato is portrayed by Alexander Ludwig .

Clove

Clove is the District 2 female tribute and has volunteered. She is 15/16 years old and very short for her age, which gives her an advantage as it makes her underestimated by others. She has long dark brown hair, dark brown eyes and lots of freckles on her cheeks. She is particularly noticeable for her pronounced arrogance and cool manner. Clove can handle many weapons, but most importantly the throwing knives. She tries to kill Katniss right at the beginning of the games, but she fails. The next time she meets Katniss, she happily tells her how she watched as Rue was killed. The conversation is picked up by Thresh, who then kills Clove with a stone on the temple. As you can read in the book, she had a kind of love affair with Cato, which was particularly evident in the place where she died.

Clove is portrayed in The Hunger Games by Isabelle Fuhrman .

Rue

Rue is the female tribute from District 11. She is 12 years old and has dark brown hair. In District 11 she works on the orange plantations and has five siblings. Her greatest strength is her skill. She becomes an ally of Katniss after helping her escape the Careers. She treats Katniss' wounds after numerous hunter wasp stings while she is unconscious. Katniss learns the melody from Rue, which she used in her district as an end-of-work signal for the plantation workers, which in turn also serves as a signal in the arena. Their joint plan to destroy the supplies of the Careers succeeds, but Rue is killed by Marvel with a spear. While Rue is dying, Katniss sings her a lullaby. Her last words to Katniss are to win the games. Before Rue's body is taken out of the arena by a hovercraft, Katniss decorates it with flowers, which is tantamount to a funeral, and thereby deliberately violates the rules of the game. Rue's speaking name (to rue = repent) announces that one day the Capitol will regret what it did to Panem.

In The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games , Rue is portrayed by Amandla Stenberg .

Thresh

Thresh is the male tribute from District 11. He is very stout, strong and muscular. He makes it into the last five. When he overhears a conversation between Clove and Katniss, in which Clove admits to having watched Rue die with pleasure, he kills Clove with a stone. He spares Katniss this once and thanks her for looking after Rue. He is killed by Cato in revenge for Clove's death.

In The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games , Thresh is played by Dayo Okeniyi .

"Fox face"

"Foxface" (English: "Foxface") is the nickname of the female tribute from District 5. Foxface is clever and devious. Your strategy is to stay out of all fights in order to stay alive as long as possible. She observes the other tributes from a distance and thus learns their plans. She steals other people's food, but only in small amounts that no one will notice. When she steals the supplies from the Karrieros, she cleverly bypasses the mines that protect the camp. She watches Peeta picking poisonous berries that he considers edible and dies while eating the berries herself.

Fox face is portrayed in The Hunger Games by Jacqueline Emerson .

Marvel

Marvel is the male tribute from District 1, he is one of the careeros. Marvel is 17 years old and teams up with Glimmer, Clove and Cato in the arena. He's very good at handling the spear and kills some tributes with it, including Rue. Then he is killed by Katniss with an arrow that she shoots him in the neck.

Marvel is portrayed in The Hunger Games by Jack Quaid , son of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan .

mica

Glimmer is the female tribute from District 1. She uses a bow and arrow as a weapon in the arena, but is not as good with it as Katniss. She is described as smart, beautiful, and sexy. Glimmer allies with the Karrieros, but dies from the stings of the hunter wasps after Katniss drops a hunter wasp nest over the sleeping Karrieros.

In The Hunger Games , Glimmer is embodied by Leven Rambin .

75. Hunger Games

Finnick Odair

Finnick is from District 4 (Fisheries) and won the 65th Hunger Games at the age of 14. He is the youngest winner of the games and the one who got the most expensive sponsor gift, a trident. He is 24 years old at the 75th Hunger Games and is traded as a heartthrob in the Capitol. Finnick is described as exceptionally handsome, with tanned skin, sea green eyes, and bronze hair. He won his hunger games by tying nets, catching his opponents with them and then killing them with his trident.

During the preparations for the 75th Hunger Games, Finnick tries to contact Katniss, which she rejects. Since Haymitch is friends with Finnick, he advises Katniss to ally with him. Katniss, however, is undecided. In the arena he is one of the first at the Cornucopia and kills a Tribute from District 5 to save Katniss. Since Haymitch had given Finnick his gold bracelet, Katniss initially accepted him as an ally. However, she remains skeptical of him, even when he resuscitates Peeta after a cardiac arrest a short time later. After the group is attacked by the poisonous mist, Peeta and Katniss take care of Finnick's wounds. When the arena collapses, Finnick and Katniss are rescued by Haymitch and Plutarch Heavensbee in a hovercraft and taken to District 13. It turns out that Finnick worked with the Rebels from the start to help them keep Katniss and Peeta alive in the arena.

In Flaming Wrath , his great love, Annie Cresta , is held captive by the Capitol. As a result of this capture, and certainly also because of the electric shock, Finnick suffers a kind of collapse that he does not overcome for months. When Annie is rescued, she and Finnick get married. Nevertheless, Finnick volunteers as a soldier and is assigned to Katniss' group. He follows Katniss as she breaks away from the main army in the attack on the Capitol. The group is attacked by mutations in a tunnel below the Capitol. Finnick sacrifices himself to give the group time to escape. It is later learned that Annie is expecting a child from Finnick. After the war she returns to her home district, where she has a son.

In The Hunger Games - Catching Fire , Finnick is portrayed by Sam Claflin .

Johanna Mason

Johanna Mason is the winner of the 67th Hunger Games and comes from District 7. She has to compete again at the 75th Hunger Games because she is the only female survivor from her district. She is described as muscular with brown-black hair. Johanna won her games by pretending to be harmless and then killing her opponents in cold blood with an ax. Over time you learn that she is not that unscrupulous, but only hates the Capitol because it killed her family.

In the arena, Johanna rescues Beetee and Wiress and escapes with them into the jungle. She later joins Katniss' group. Johanna is privy to the plan of the rebels and saves Katniss when the arena is destroyed. However, she is captured by the Capitol. She is saved by the rebels in Blazing Fury . She is tortured with water while in detention and is terrified of it afterwards. After being rescued, she befriends Katniss and later shares a room with her in District 13.

In The Hunger Games - Catching Fire Johanna is played by Jena Malone .

Beetee

Beetee is the male tribute from District 3. He is short, has ash-gray skin and black hair, and wears glasses. Beetee is an electrical engineer and, like Wiress , an inventor. Beetee won its Hunger Games by building a current trap and thereby killing the other tributes. He has been called "Minus" by the others since then, while Wiress is nicknamed "Plus", which is also to express how much they get along. Beetee is badly wounded while looking for a roll of wire on the cornucopia. He escapes into the jungle with Johanna and Wiress. However, when they are surprised by the rain of blood, he loses consciousness. Johanna brings him and Wiress to Katniss, Peeta and Finnick, and allies with them. After his wounds have been tended, Beetee explains his plan to the others to shut down the remaining tributes with an electric shock. To do this, he sends Katniss and Johanna to roll out the wire. On the way, however, the wire is cut by Brutus and Katniss and Johanna are attacked. Shortly afterwards, Katniss finds Beetee lying motionless on the floor after being electrocuted. After the arena is destroyed, he and Katniss are rescued by the rebels.

In Flammender Zorn , Beetee is working on new weapons for District 13. He is developing special weapons for Katniss and Finnick, and also hacking into the Capitol's communications network to broadcast the “Mocking Booby's” propaganda films nationwide. Together with Gale , Beetee invents explosive devices that are later responsible for the death of Primrose Everdeen . After the war, he returns to District 3.

In The Hunger Games - Catching Fire Beetee is portrayed by Jeffrey Wright .

Wiress

Wiress is the female tribute from District 3. She is short, has ash-gray skin, black hair and a calm voice. She has the quality of not finishing her sentences, which her long-time friend Beetee does for her. Wiress, like Beetee, is an inventor. Your weapon is the wire. It is also called "plus" by the others. Before the games, Wiress draws Katniss' attention to the force field that shields the playmakers from the tributes to protect them. Therefore Katniss is later able to recognize the force field there in the arena. In the arena, Wiress and Beetee team up with Katniss, Peeta, Finnick and Johanna. Through Wiress, Katniss also recognizes the hourly clock system of the arena, which means that the group can now orientate itself better and protect itself from the dangers of the arena. In an attack by the Careeros, Wiress is killed by Gloss .

In The Hunger Games - Catching Fire , Wiress is played by Amanda Plummer .

Mags

Mags is the female tribute from District 4. She won one of the first Hunger Games and volunteers for the 75th Hunger Games instead of Annie Cresta by lot . Mags is 80 years old. Her strength is that she can make a fish hook out of anything. In the arena, she allies with Finnick, Peeta and Katniss. She and Finnick weave large mats of grass for the group to sleep on at night. Finnick takes great care of Mags; if it becomes too weak or too slow while running, he carries it on his back. When the group has to flee from the poison mist, Finnick makes the difficult decision of whether to help her or Peeta by walking into the mist and dying in the process. As a result, Peeta is rescued by Finnick again.

In The Hunger Games - Catching Fire , Mags is portrayed by Lynn Cohen .

Brutus

Brutus is the male tribute from District 2. He won the 51st Hunger Games at the age of 16 and volunteered for the 75th Hunger Games. According to Katniss' estimate, Brutus is "at least 40". He allies himself with Gloss, Cashmere and Enobaria. He's very good at handling the spear. Together with the Careers, Brutus kills many tributes on the cornucopia. When they attack Katniss and the others again, Gloss and Cashmere are killed and Brutus has to flee with Enobaria. Brutus and Enobaria thwart Beetee's plan by cutting the wire and attacking the group. He is killed by Peeta who believes that Brutus killed Katniss.

Bruno Gunn took on the role of Brutus in The Hunger Games - Catching Fire .

Enobaria

Enobaria is the female tribute from District 2. She won her Hunger Games by ripping open her throat with her bare teeth in a fight in another tribute. She has been a capitol favorite ever since, and even had her teeth sculpted into sharp fangs as a memento of the Games. She is a career and allies itself with Gloss, Cashmere and Brutus. She and Brutus learn of Beete's plan and thwart it. When Katniss destroys the arena, Enobaria is captured by the Capitol along with Johanna and Peeta. In Fiery Anger , she is tortured by the Capitol and rescued to District 13. Due to an agreement between President Coin and Katniss, which applies to all winners of the Hunger Games, Enobaria enjoys political immunity, which is why she survived the war unscathed, except for torture by the Capitol.

In The Hunger Games - Catching Fire , the role of Meta Golding is played.

Chaff

Chaff is the male tribute from District 11 and an old friend of Haymitch . He won the 45th Hunger Games, but lost his arm as a result. He's been an alcoholic ever since. He befriends Peeta before the games and is privy to the rebels' plans. Since he does not manage to make contact with the group around Peeta and Katniss in the arena in time, he is killed by Brutus.

In The Hunger Games - Catching Fire , Chaff is portrayed by E. Roger Mitchell .

Cashmere and Gloss

Cashmere and Gloss are the tributes from District 1. They are siblings and have won two hunger games in a row. The two team up with Brutus and Enobaria. You kill some tributes at the beginning and retreat into the jungle. On the second day they attack Katniss, Peeta, Finnick and Johanna's group. Gloss kills Wiress, whereupon Katniss shoots him with an arrow. Cashmere also dies in the attack from an ax from Johanna.

Stephanie Leigh Schlund and Alan Ritchson play the roles of Cashmere and Gloss in The Hunger Games - Catching Fire .

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Annie Cresta

Annie Cresta was the winner of the 70th Hunger Games from District 4. Since then she has been mentally unstable and often appears absent as she had to watch the male tribute from her district be beheaded. She is the friend of Finnick Odair . At the 75th Hunger Games, Annie is again drawn as a tribute, but replaced by Mags, who volunteers. After the arena is destroyed, Annie, who is supposed to be used as leverage against Finnick, is kidnapped from the Capitol. She is rescued to District 13 along with Peeta, Johanna and Enobaria and shortly thereafter marries Finnick. However, he dies a little later during the capture of the Capitol. It is later learned that Annie was already pregnant by him at this point. After the war, she returns to her home district where she gives birth to a son.

Octavia, Venia and Flavius

You're the Katniss styling team at the Hunger Games and residents of the Capitol. Katniss receives important information about the situation in the various districts through Octavia, Venia and Flavius. During the rebellion they can flee to District 13 with Plutarch Heavensbee's help. In the third volume, Katniss finds out that President Coin is holding her in a kind of dungeon under inhumane conditions because she was hungry and stole bread from the canteen. Katniss then demands her release. Thanks to Katniss, you are the only team of stylists in the Capitol to survive the war.

In the film adaptations , Portia is portrayed by Latarsha Rose and Octavia by Brooke Bundy .

Seneca Crane

Seneca Crane is the playmaker of the 74th Hunger Games. He is executed at the end of the first volume for declaring both Katniss and Peeta winners. In the film, the playmaker Seneca Crane is locked in a room with the poisonous berries to disguise his death as a suicide. This scene does not exist in the book.

During her traditional one-on-one lesson in the Tribute Training Center in the Capitol, Katniss hangs a human-sized wooden dummy on ropes in the second volume and writes Seneca Crane's name on it. She shows the Capitol that she knows about the circumstances of his death.

In The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games Seneca Crane is from Wes Bentley presented.

Caesar Flickerman

Caesar Flickerman interviews the tributes before they enter the Hunger Games arena. He also comments on the games together with Claudius Templesmith. Caesar is always conspicuously dressed and made up.

In the film adaptations , Caesar Flickerman is portrayed by Stanley Tucci .

Claudius Templesmith

Claudius Templesmith is a commentator on the Hunger Games together with Caeser Flickerman. In the third volume he also comments on the rebel attack on the Capitol.

In the films he is played by Toby Jones .

President Paylor

Paylor is the leader of the rebels in District 8 during the war and later becomes president of Panem. She is in her early 30s, a doctor and has dark brown eyes and hair. It is also she who abolishes the Hunger Games, destroys the arenas and builds monuments for the deceased tributes.

Tigris

Tigris was a popular stylist who was deported from the Capitol and now owns a store that sells fur underwear. She was fired as a stylist after losing her popularity with audiences. After many cosmetic surgeries, she resembles a tiger. In the third volume she hides Katniss, Peeta and their companions in the basement under their shop in front of the Capitol and brings them food.

Darius

Darius is one of the peacekeepers from District 12. He advocates dangerous love for Gale and is therefore tortured and taken to the Capitol as Avox. He is later tortured and killed in front of Peeta's eyes.

Delly Cartwright

She is a sixteen-year-old girl from District 12 who flees to District 13 during the rebellion. She is friends with Peeta and in the third volume she helps him to regain his memories.

Madge Undersee and her family

Madge Undersee is the daughter of the mayor of District 12 and Katniss' only friend. She and her family play a special role for Katniss in several ways:

  • The mocking booby brooch

Madge gives Katniss the mocking booby brooch, which later becomes a symbol of rebellion. The brooch has been in the family for a long time and once belonged to Madge's aunt Maysilee Donner. Peeta says Maysilee and Madge's mother were "twins or something." Katniss' mother and Maysilee were friends as young girls, and they looked very much alike. These connections are clarified when Katniss and Peeta watch the recordings of the 50th Hunger Games together - Maysilee was drawn as a tribute together with Haymitch. Against this background, Katniss sees Madge's mother's frequent headache attacks in a new light, "half of the time she is confined to bed in unbearable pain and fades out the world."

  • Deviation from gender stereotypes

Madge and Katniss meet every now and then after Katniss' return from the games, because both move outside of what is customary for their age: “I have heard other girls our age talk about boys or about other girls or about fashion. Maid and I don’t like to gossip and I find clothes dead boring. ”Katniss takes Madge into the forest and shows her archery, Madge wants to teach her friend to play the piano, but she prefers to listen.

  • Help for Gale

It was only when Katniss found out that Madge's aunt died in the Hunger Games that she could understand why Madge brought six ampoules of Morfix, a drug from the Capitol, for Gale, brutally beaten by the new peacekeeper Thread, in the snowstorm with the words: “They belong my mother. She said I can take her. Please give it to him. ”Against this background, the help for the norm deviator Gale can be read as a quiet sympathy signal for the resistance.

  • Information about the uprising in District 8

When Katniss Madge wants to visit the winner during the tour, she sees television footage of the violent uprising in District 8, which the Capitol is trying to put down, intended for her father. This is the first time Katniss is confronted directly with the rebellion in a district.

Madge dies with her family in the bombing of District 12.

The character of Madge did not appear in the film adaptations .

Peacekeeper

The peacekeepers are the policemen and soldiers of Panem. Initially quite moderate, they become more and more aggressive as the series progresses. So in District 11 they shoot an old man who showed the sign of respect from District 12 and caused the entire population of District 11 who were gathered in the square to show this sign. During the Tour of the Victors, several people who displayed this mark were arrested. From a Capitol perspective, they are extremely efficient. This was partly confirmed by the uprisings in Districts 7 and 5, as they succeeded in shooting many insurgents before they were murdered by the population before the rebels won.

The peacekeepers in a district are commanded by the Supreme Peacekeeper. He has the rank of commander. For example, until District 12 is bombed, Commander Thread is in charge of the force. He replaced the inefficient Commander Cray. Romulus Thread had to enforce tough laws in District 12; he should close the black market and punish every violation of the law with at least a public flogging, which was broadcast live on television. However, he loses out when he whips Gale, because three winners stand in his way and Haymitch can convince him that Snow would probably not be happy about three dead winners. He lets his troops withdraw before the bombing raids. He leaves the people driven into the houses behind.

Mocking boobies

The mockingbird, an ancestor of the mocking booby

The fictional songbird species, the mocking booby, emerged from the crossing of female mockingbirds and the - also fictional - male gnarled booby and becomes a symbol of Katniss and the uprising in the course of the trilogy. The goblet booby is a Capitol genetically engineered male bird, a mutation that can remember and reproduce many words. The Capitol wanted to use the chatterbox to spy on the rebels in the districts. But the rebels saw through the plan and told the birds lies that were then reported to the Capitol. When the Capitol realized this, it made the gnomes extinct. But it had underestimated the birds' will to live: they had mated with mockingbirds in the wild, and from this connection came the mocking booby.

With a songbird as heraldic animal, Katniss gradually found her own voice as a symbol for the revolution. In the second volume the mocking booby has already become a symbol of the rebellion: The two refugees from District 8, Bonnie and Twill, show Katniss a cracker with his picture as a sign of identification. In the Capitol, the bird has now become a fashion item, but also a symbol of sympathy for the rebels among the powerful, which Katniss did not understand until very late. In the novel, the bird also gives the first clue to the Capitol's denied existence of District 13: Bonnie and Twill have noticed that in all the shots of District 13 shown by the Capitol, the same mocking booby always flies past the law building in the same place, i.e. it is about an archive recording must act. There is also a relationship with Katniss' homeland: In District 12, canaries are kept in the mines, which fall silent in case of danger and thus warn people.

literature

  • Emily Soap: The Official Guide to the Tributes. , translated by Jutta Wurm. Oettinger Verlag Hamburg, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7891-3224-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games. Dangerous love. , Friedrich Oetinger Hamburg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7891-3219-3 , p. 226.
  2. ↑ Amy L. Montz: Rebels in Dresses: Distractions of Competitive Girlhood in young adult Dystopian Fiction. , in: Sara K. Day, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Amy L. Montz (Eds.): Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction. , Ashgate Publishing Limited, Surrey 2014, ISBN 9781472431493 , page 111.
  3. ↑ Philip Seymour Hoffman new director in "Catching Fire"
  4. ↑ Sebastian Moitzheim: Solution for Philip Seymour Hoffman's missing scenes found gamona.de, February 8, 2014
  5. ↑ Jessica Miller: "She has no idea what kind of charisma she can have": Katniss and the gender problem , in: George Dunn, Nicolas Michaud (ed.): The philosophy of "The Hunger Games": Hunger Games - love , Power and survival; translated by Ursula Bischoff; Wiley-VCH Verlag Weinheim, 2013, ISBN 978-3-527-50753-5 , p. 150
  6. ↑ Tammy L. Gant: Hungering for Righteousness: Music, Spirituality and Katniss Everdeen. in: Mary F. Pharr, Leisa A. Clark (Eds.): Of bread, blood and the Hunger Games: critical essays on the Suzanne Collins trilogy. McFarland & Company, inc. Publishers Jefferson North Carolina, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7864-7019-8 , p. 92.
  7. ↑ 'Catching Fire' Casts Sam Claflin As Finnick
  8. ↑ Hanna Huge: Jena Malone as Johanna in dangerous love. In: Serienjunkies.de . July 4, 2012, accessed June 10, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Jeffrey Wright Cast In Hunger Games As Beetee !!!
  10. ↑ Amanda Plummer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  11. ↑ Lynn Cohen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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  13. ↑ Bruno Gunn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  14. ↑ Meta Golding Joins 'Hunger Games' sequel 'Catching Fire'
  15. ^ E. Roger Mitchell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  16. ↑ Stephanie Leigh Schlund in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  17. ↑ Alan Ritchson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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  19. ↑ a b Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games. Dangerous love. , Friedrich Oetinger Hamburg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7891-3219-3 , p. 103.
  20. ↑ Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games. Dangerous love. , Friedrich Oetinger Hamburg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7891-3219-3 , p. 133.
  21. ↑ Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games. Dangerous love. , Friedrich Oetinger Hamburg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7891-3219-3 , p. 105.
  22. ↑ a b c Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games. Dangerous love. , Friedrich Oetinger Hamburg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7891-3219-3 , p. 107.
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  24. ↑ Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games. Dangerous love. , Friedrich Oetinger Hamburg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7891-3219-3 , p. 157.
  25. ↑ Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games. Dangerous love. , Friedrich Oetinger Hamburg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7891-3219-3 , p. 93.
  26. ↑ Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games. Dangerous love. , Friedrich Oetinger Hamburg, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7891-3219-3 , p. 165.
The Hunger Games
Books

Deadly Games  (2008) • Dangerous Love  (2009) • Flaming Wrath  (2010) • The Song of a Bird and a Snake  (2020)

Movies

The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games  (2012) • The Hunger Games - Catching Fire  (2013) • The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 1  (2014) • The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 2  (2015)