History Awesome / TheHungerGames

* Katniss [[spoiler: assassinating the current president Coin with the arrow she was meant use for executing the former president Snow. Not exactly a big moment in terms of what happens but the fact that she did so and wasn't killed on the spot and is ultimately let go with basically a slap on the wrist make it pretty awesome for her to get the jump on someone who caused her so much pain.]]

** Let's lay this one out: first, the organizer, [[spoiler: Plutarch Heavensbee]], has to [[spoiler: become Head Gamemaker, designing both the entire arena and the equipment to facilitate the escape. He not only provided the wire, tree, and lighting storm needed to down the forcefield, he made the arena closed in enough to allow them to reach the field quickly, and provided enough fixed destruction to avoid being forced into throwing random destruction to spice things up]]

-->'''Johanna''': Of course I'm angry! I thought we had an understanding. I survive the games, I get to live my life in peace. And now we're doing this all over again. Well, you know what? F**k you and f**k this!

!!!'''Catching Fire'''

!!'''The Film:'''

* Peeta throwing the weight across the room (by Katniss' insistence) to let the Careers know that he's not just another piece of easy meat. According to WordOfGod that thing was ''between 50 and 75 pounds.''

* Peeta throwing the weight across the room (by Katniss' request) to let the Careers know that he's not just another piece of easy meat. According to WordOfGod that thing was ''between 50 and 75 pounds.''

** Then you consider hindsight. Haymitch manages to doom Seneca by suggesting that. If words could kill, then Haymitch is the first character to actually kill off a Capitol member in the entire trilogy.

** Then you consider hindsight. Haymitch manages to doom Seneca by suggesting that. If words could kill, then Haymitch is the first character to actually kill off a Capitol member.

* Peeta throwing the weight across the room (by Katniss' request) to let the Careers know that he's not just another piece of easy meat. According to WordOfGod that thing was ''between 50 and 75 pounds.''
* In the second film, Johanna gives a ''delighful'' speech to President Snow (through the cameras) about how she WillNotBeAVictim and how he can't just throw everyone who disagrees with him in the Arena. It's especially ballsy since she is badmouthing Snow in front of the ''entire'' Hunger Games audience, meaning that if the whole "escape to District 13" plan goes south, he will probably have her killed.

* Peeta throwing the weight across the room (by Katniss' request) to let the Careers know that he's not just another piece of easy meat. According to WordOfGod that thing was ''between 50 and 75 pounds.''

* Peeta throwing the weight across the room (by Katniss' request) to let the Careers know that he's not just another piece of easy meat.

** Which was, in itself, a death sentence, as now she will be seen as a potential threat by the Careers and will therefore be primary target.

* Katniss' performance in her private archery session, scoring several hard bullseyes after getting the feel of the bows, and getting angry because they don't bother watching so she shoots the apple out of the mouth of the pig that the Gamemakers are eating, causing one to lose his footing with surprise and fall into a bowl of punch. She storms out and immediately thinks that the consequences of her impulsive behavior may be dire, they may even give her an immediate death sentence. [[spoiler: They actually give her a score of 11 out of 12, making her the highest ranked before the games start]]

** Peeta was also present.

* Peeta throwing the weight across the room (by Katniss' request) to let the Careers know that he's not just another piece of easy meat.
* In the trailer for ''Catching Fire'', Katniss, after attempting to save Gale from being whipped by a Peacekeeper, looks the Peacekeeper in the eye ''while he has his gun out'', and only says to him, "Go ahead."
* Johanna Mason having the guts to say exactly what she thinks about the Capitol when she's forced back into the Games:
--> "Why yes, I'm angry. You know, I'm getting totally screwed over, here. The deal was that if I won the Hunger Games, I'd get to live the rest of my life in peace. But now, you want to ''kill'' me again. Well, you know what? ''FUCK THAT!"''
** Followed by a massive ClusterFBomb that gets just bleeped out enough to prevent the film from getting an R rating.

--> "Why yes, I'm angry. You know, I'm getting totally screwed over, here. The deal was that if I won the Hunger Games, I'd get to live the rest of my life in peace. But now, you want to ''kill'' me again. Well, you know what? ''FUCK THAT!"''

--> "I am mad. I'm all screwed here. I was told that if I won it here, they would leave me alone. Now they want to kill me again. You know what? ''FUCK YOU!"''

* Peeta turns the Capitol--and even Caesar Flickerman--against the Games by claiming that Katniss is pregnant during the Quarter Quell.

!!!'''The Books:'''
!!'''The Hunger Games'''

!!'''Catching Fire'''

** Really, all the victors are awesome in that series of interviews, as they remind you that, unlike most tributes, they are not scared kids dazzled by the spotlight, but hardened mentors who know ''exactly'' how to manipulate the crowd. One after the other, they talk about how sad they'll be to leave the people of the Capitol, how they wonder whether the new rules are actually legal, whether President Snow maybe doesn't understand/care/have the power to resolve the problem and so on until Peeta drops his bomb in the final interview. Basically, they turn the Quarter Quell into a [[HoistByHisOwnPetard spectacular own-goal for Snow]], and leave his hold on the hearts and minds of Panem far weaker than it was before he changed the rules to avoid this precise situation.

!!'''Mockingjay'''

!!!'''The Film:'''

* Katniss [[spoiler: managing to bluff the Gamemakers and TakeAThirdOption at the end of the first book, therefore making the 74th Hunger Games the first time in history that two tributes were allowed to live.]]
* Finnick [[spoiler: revealing the dirty secrets of all the important people in the Capitol in front of the entire country. Particularly awesome since we know [[SexSlave what he had to go through]] that inadvertently allowed him to get this information, so when he reveals it he is basically [[TheDogBitesBack throwing it back in the faces of the people who abused him for years]]. Katniss notices the broadcast of Snow's secrets doesn't get interrupted, suggesting even the people responsible for the Capitol's official television programming were curious about those particular secrets.]]
* Katniss [[spoiler: blowing out the forcefield in the Arena in the climax of Catching Fire with nothing more than an arrow, a wire, and a big bolt of lightning.]]
* Haymitch winning the 50th Hunger Games Quarter Quell by [[spoiler: using the arena force field as a weapon]]. This troper found it even better than the stint [[spoiler: with the berries]].
** Added to the fact that he outlived ''forty-seven'' other tributes. When Katniss mentioned what his Quell twist was I became ''very'' impressed and intrigued, even before we find out how he did it.
* The part where Katniss goes to the Quarter Quell's interview in her wedding dress, which starts out as a Dethroning Moment of Suck until she starts ''spinning,'' [[spoiler: [[IncendiaryExponent setting her dress on fire]] and turning her wedding gown into a mockingjay dress.]] Of course, it's apparent to some that [[spoiler: Cinna's as good as dead for what he just did, but it's a huge TakeThat to the Capitol, and the fact that he did it knowing full well what it might cost him served as an inspiration to all the rebels still on the fence because of what they stood to lose.]]
* Katniss [[spoiler: assassinating the current president Coin with the arrow she was meant use for executing the former president Snow. Not exactly a big moment in terms of what happens but the fact that she did so and wasn't killed on the spot and is ultimately let go with basically a slap on the wrist make it pretty awesome for her to get the jump on someone who caused her so much pain.]]

* [[spoiler: Fire is catching. And if we burn, you burn with us!]]
* "You... hung... Seneca Crane?"
** "Yes. I was showing off my new knot-tying skills, and he somehow ended up at the end of the noose." Definitely one of Katniss's funniest and sharpest snarks. And it wasn't even in her inner monologue, she flat out SAID that!
* Peeta turns the Capitol--and even Caesar Flickerman--against the Games by claiming that Katniss is pregnant during the Quarter Quell.
** Peeta's announcement in his interview for the 74th games also count. Even in-universe.

** In ''Catching Fire'' he has an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome when he [[spoiler:kills Brutus.]]
** In ''Mockingjay'' he [[spoiler:essentially ''cures himself'' from the hijacking through sheer force of will, making him the only known case of a person recovering from it.]]
* ''Catching Fire'' has an extended group one with [[spoiler: the conspiracy to break out of the Quarter Quell]].
** Let's lay this one out: first, the organizer, [[spoiler: Plutarch Heavensbee]], has to [[spoiler: become Head Gamemaker, designing both the entire arena and the equipment to facilitate the escape. He not only provided the wire, tree, and lighting storm needed to down the forcefield, he made the arena closed in enough to allow them to reach the field quickly, and provided enough fixed destruction to avoid being forced into throwing random destruction to spice things up]]
** Then Haymitch [[spoiler: set up a code for communicating with the tributes ''through bread''.]]
** Johanna [[spoiler: managed to convince the Capitol to overlook how Heavensbee slipped in the wire for the escape]]
** Mags [[spoiler: ran into a cloud of blister agent to keep the alliance on track]]
** Finnick [[spoiler: both was generally highly competent and was the person to first meet up with Katniss]]
** Wiress [[spoiler: figures out the arena's theme before anyone else]]
** Beetee [[spoiler: designed the forcefield, figured out how to overcome it, and ''electrocuted himself stabbing it'' in order to help Katniss figure out how to overcome it without tipping off the Gamemakers, as he had to know that wouldn't work]]
** Katniss [[spoiler: actually took down the forcefield by shooting it with an arrow]]
** Peeta was also present.
** The kicker? [[spoiler: They planned and carried out the whole thing while under constant surveillance and then ''on live national television'' without tipping the capital off at any point.]]
* Katniss, before the Quarter Quell interviews: ''However much President Snow may hate me, this Capitol audience in mine.'' The poor girl has been scared and desperate the whole book, been personally [[spoiler: threatened by Snow, had a minor HeroicBSOD after the Quell announcement, didn't get to say goodbye to her family and friends before leaving, and is pretty sure she won't come out alive this time.]] But the Capitol citizens adore her and Peeta, so she isn't even nervous about [[spoiler: the interview this year, and may even get in on the Victors' collective guilt trip about sending them back into the Games.]] It's the first time she seems truly confident in the book, you just want to cheer because she's basically saying, "To hell with President Snow, I got this."

--> "I am mad. I'm all screwed here. I was told that if I won it here, they would leave me alone. NOw they want to kill me again. You know what? ''FUCK YOU!"''

* In the trailer for ''Catching Fire'', Katniss, after attempting to save Gale from being whipped by a Peacekeeper, looks the Peacekeeper in the eye ''while he has his gun out'', and only says to him, "Go ahead."