History Fanfic / BrutalSeries

*** {{The Chick}} is Ax, Sheen or Feli

*** {{The Chick}} is Cisca (and possibly Yao.)

** Subverted with [[spoiler: Natalya]], who was mature enough not to do this in ''Horrible'', as she realized killing [[spoiler: Amer]] would not bring [[spoiler: her adopted brother/love interest Vahn]] back to life.

*** Toris: "How about we look around, and when we find a muttation, ''I'll'' take it down so you don't have to dirty your dress."
*** Poal: "That's even stupider! And I'm not even wearing a dress, in case you didn't notice!"
*** Toris: "...That's not the argument at hand, Poal."

** Lude starts to have one in the fourth ''What If''.

* HowDareYouDieOnMe: [[spoiler: Lovi to Spain, Igris to Fronce, Sve to Finni.]] Numerous other characters also echo "you can't die," sentiments to their fallen allies.

* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: The epilogues of ''Brutal'' and ''Horrible'' both introduce the Victor's new tributes. In the case of ''Brutal'', they become ExtendedExtras.

** The portrayal of Belarus, as opposed to many other FanFictions, including the author's other Hetalia fic, FanFic/TheRules. Her canon {{Yandere}} and KnifeNut tendencies are often taken UpToEleven in fanworks until she's nothing short of a murderous psychopath. Here, the worst thing she does is stalk Vahn and try to break down his door, never killing or even harming another tribute.

** Alf, who, despite having two kills at the bloodbath, became nearly a full-blown TooDumbToLive HarmlessVillain who couldn't even kill [[spoiler: Thew]], before forcing [[spoiler: Japan]] into a KillOrBeKilled situation.

* SoleSurvivor: Each story has only one: [[spoiler: Veta]] in ''Brutal'', [[spoiler: Amer]] in ''Horrible'', and [[spoiler: Gries, Russia, Raivis, Russia again, and Fronce]] in the ''What If''s (respectively, and not counting the [[EverybodyLive} fifth]].)

* TheArcher:
** Switz in ''Brutal''.
** Vash (a crossbow, at least) in ''Horrible''.
** Ise in "Miserable".

* {{Crossover}}: Between ''{{The Hunger Games}}'' and ''[[Manga/AxisPowersHetalia Hetalia]]''.

** Ania towards the end after she's killed [[spoiler: Rome, Lovi and Spain]].
* ItGotWorse: All over the place; this is the Hunger Games. This is pretty much the sole purpose of ''What If''.

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: [[spoiler: Amer]], big time. YMMV on how justified his self-loathing is.

* HeartbreakingInHindsight: As part of his justification for [[spoiler: killing Sadik]], Amer reasons that he'd rather become a monster himself than force his friends to murder. Looking back on this quote after [[{{Tearjerker}} reading the Third What If...]]
** To elaborate: In the aforementioned alternate ending, [[spoiler: Amer, Raivis and Eston]] are the final three. Rather than commit suicide and leave [[spoiler: Raivis and Eston]] to fight to the death, [[spoiler: Amer kills Eston himself (with the latter's permission) and then slits his own throat.]]

The Brutal series (or the [[{{Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy}} inaccurately named]] Brutal trilogy) is a series of {{fan fiction}}s by Number One Fan of Journey on Fanfiction.net. It is named for its first installment, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6200154/1/Brutal Brutal]], and continues with a sequel, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6507611/1/Horrible Horrible]], a third installment, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7341787/1/Miserable Miserable]], and a new ''fourth'' tale [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8316851/1/Unsurvivable Unsurvivable]]. It also has a few tie-ins, so far including [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6749961/1/Coming_Home Coming Home]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6482745/1/Of_Happiness_and_Sanity Of Happiness and Sanity]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7089237/1/Hit_The_Bottle Hit The Bottle]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8160600/1/Two_More Two More]], and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6802723/1/What_If What If]].

* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler: Russia]] in ''Brutal'' starts off as an unassuming, optimistic underdog. One crossing of the DespairEventHorizon later, he's the CompleteMonster BigBad of the Fanfic.

** Although it doesn't happen within the actual story, one can assume that [[spoiler: Veta and Amer]] did not live to see the fall of the Capitol, as all but seven victors are killed by the end of Mockingjay.

* LighterAndSofter: The fifth ''What If'' ending. Not that that's a bad thing.

This series is a {{crossover}} between ''Literature/{{The Hunger Games}}'' and ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia''. The countries are taken from ''Hetalia'', turned into humans (some with slightly different or very different traits from the original characters) and thrown into the Hunger Games as average District kids.

** [[spoiler: Sadik]] holds a knife up to [[spoiler: Lovi]]'s throat and forces [[spoiler: Spain]] to make a {{Sadistic Choice}}: hand over the rest of the alliance's food or watch her die. [[spoiler: Spain]], of course, forks over the food. [[spoiler: Lovi]] is not pleased by this, saying she'd have preferred a quick death to one by starvation.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: Upon the 5th What If, as well as the announcement of the threequel.
** And now there's a fourth installment, ''Unsurvivable'', on the way. Cue fan hysterics.

** Amer is an almost impossibly nice person, but [[spoiler: he’ll kill anyone who threatens his friends.]]

* BigBadAssBirdOfPrey: One of these chases Gil and Thew during ''Brutal''. It also features prominently in one of the ''What If'' endings and receives the name “Gil-bird”.

* BigEater: Both incarnations of America- Alf in ''Brutal'' and Amer in ''Horrible''.

** Both Frances - Franse from ''Brutal'' and Fronce from ''Horrible''.

* BookEnds: Both the first and last chapters of ''Horrible'' (not counting the epilogue) involve [[spoiler: Igris' broken Beatles CD]]. The first time it's just a throwaway occurrence, but the second time is a touching moment that shows how much [[spoiler: Igris' brother cared for him and allows him to {{Go Out With a Smile}}.]]

* {{Crossover}}: between ''{{The Hunger Games}}'' and ''[[Manga/AxisPowersHetalia Hetalia]]''.

* {{Digging Yourself Deeper}}: After accidentally revealing that he's killed someone before the Games, [[spoiler: Spain]] tries to placate Lovi by joking around about it, but this only ends up frightening her more.

** And in ''Miserable'', Ilber discovers why it isn't a good idea to [[{{Kick The Dog}} Kick the Puffin]].

* DownerEnding: It's either this or {{Bittersweet Ending}} with heavy emphasis on the 'bitter.'

* HeartbreakingInHindsight: As part of his justification for [[spoiler: killing Sadik]], Amer reasons that he'd rather become a monster himself than force his friends to murder. Looking back on this quote after [[{{Tearjerker}} reading the Third What If…]]

** In ''Horrible'', two different people volunteer to protect their loved ones – Sve to protect his crush, Finni, in the games, and Amer in place of his twin brother Matt. [[spoiler: Sve's sacrifice is wasted as Finni dies before him, but Amer wins and returns home to his brother.]]

* HopeSpot: Near the end of ''Horrible'', Gries and Ania go head-to-head. [[spoiler: Ania]] is quickly dispatched by [[spoiler: Gries]], but not before [[spoiler: sticking a sword through her chest]]. However, [[spoiler: Gries]] isn't done for yet, reasoning that if she just [[spoiler: keeps the sword firmly stuck in her body, she won't bleed to death. Then she sneezes, and loses her grip…]]

* InterruptedSuicide: Zigzagged with [[spoiler: Amer]] at the end of ''Horrible''. He is about to commit suicide, but stops himself - not because he was physically interrupted by anyone, but because he knows his brother is watching this on TV and would interrupt him if he could.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: [[spoiler: Russia]], to the extreme. Justified in-universe, as a sponsor sends him a knife as he is crossing the {{Despair Event Horizon}} to convey the message that, with the death of [[spoiler: his sister]], no one stood in his way of winning the games and he was now free to eliminate the rest of the field.

** While advancing to kill Ise, Ilber casually hits Mr. Puffin with his sword {{For the Evulz}}. He quickly discovers this was [[{{The Dog Bites Back}} a very bad idea]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: Amer's]] {{Start of Darkness}} comes when he brutally murders [[spoiler: Vahn]] ... who had used [[spoiler: his friends Raivis and Eston]] for slave labour, kept them in line with death threats, sliced off one of [[spoiler: Raivis']] fingers when he tried to run away, indirectly led to [[spoiler: Raivis']] death, and finally murdered [[spoiler: Eston]] with a pickaxe.

* MeaningfulName: {{Word of God}} explains the psychology behind each name chosen for the tributes.

* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: Amer would certainly like to kill himself at the end of the third ''What If'' scenario, but that would mean [[spoiler: leaving his two allies to kill each other]]. So he has to {{Shoot the Dog}} before offing himself.

-> [[spoiler: "With shaking hands, I rub the back of her neck a little. I then withdraw a knife and sever her spinal cord."]] \

** Played with in ''Brutal'' - realizing that, having both been reaped, they won't have a wedding, the engaged couple Austria and Veta tie the knot in the middle of the Games by reciting the wedding vows they've memorized.

* {{Nations as People}}: Obviously, considering what this is partially based off of.
* {{Neck Snap}}:

* {{Never Bring a Knife to a Fistfight}}: Sadik commences his and Amer's fist fight by pulling a knife, and promptly loses it. Guess who wins. Sort of zigzagged, though, since he wasn't trying to play dirty by taking out the knife, just warning Amer not to mess with him.
* {{Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant}}: [[spoiler: Russia]], [[spoiler: Russia]], and a thousand times [[spoiler: ''Russia'']]. He snaps so much that he views the killing as one fun game, even ''carving a happy face into the flesh of one of his victims'', and is completely unaware of how horrific he has become.
* {{Nice Job Breaking It Hero}}:

* {{No Holds Barred Beatdown}}:
** Veta and Amer both deliver absolutely [[{{Incredibly Lame Pun}} brutal]] no-holds-barred-beatdowns to [[spoiler: Gil and Vahn]].

* {{No Kill Like Overkill}}:

* {{Nobody Poops}}: Subverted. Bathroom breaks are pretty much used at leisure to separate allies.
* {{Non Action Guy}}: Quite a few of the boys apply: Toris, Ciano, Austria and Thew in ''Brutal'' and Raivis, Eston, Spain and Fronce in ''Horrible'' never use any weapons outside of the Training Centre and mostly choose to evade rather than confront. This changes a bit in ''What If'', when Spain takes on the careers twice.
* {{Noodle Incident}}:

* {{No One Gets Left Behind}}:
** Igris refuses to abandon Fronce, even when he's mortally wounded and Careers are closing in. [[{{Double Standard}}Although he was perfectly fine]] with leaving [[spoiler: China]] to die alone earlier.

* {{Not Blood Siblings}}: Vahn is only Natalya's adopted brother. This doesn't make her {{Stalker With a Crush}} obsession with him less [[{{Squick}} squicky]], though.
* {{Not So Different}}:
** In ''Brutal'', [[spoiler: Russia]] has an almost-{{Heel Realization}} when he considers that what he's been doing to the other tributes, is essentially the same as what [[spoiler: Japan did to his sister]]. However, by this point he's so far over the edge that he concludes this thought is ridiculous.

* {{Not So Stoic}}:

** Lude tries to remain a stiff-upper-lipped soldier throughout the fourth ''What If'', but can't help crying when [[spoiler: Ciano dies]]. [[{{Sanity Slippage}} And it all goes downhill from here.]]
* {{Obliviously Evil}}: [[spoiler: Russia]] lives and breathes this trope.
* {{Odd Friendship}}: Ciano and Lude. [[spoiler: Kind of ruined when Lude kills Ciano, though.]]
* {{Off with Her Head}}:

* {{Older Than They Look}}: Raivis is 16, but apparently looks about 13.
* {{Ominous Walk}}: Ise thinks Ilber is doing this during their confrontation. In reality, Ilber has been recently injured, hence the slow approach.
* {{Only Sane Man}}: Definitely Sui. Maybe Shiran. And yes, Ise. After all, they're the only combatants who aren't going through mental withdrawal or anything.
* {{Overly Long Gag}}: "There's a hole in my bucket, dear Meghna!"
* {{Pay Evil Unto Evil}}: Thew seems to have no qualms with slipping poison into the Careers' drinks because they've killed innocent people.
* {{Perfect Poison}}:

* {{Picky Eater}}: Ciano, to the extent that he won't eat the food Thew finds for him and [[{{Too Dumb to Live}} relies on his mentors to send him pasta]].
* {{The Pollyanna}}:

** Shiran (even when he thinks that he's going to die, he still does his best to hide it and cheers Plutonia up) and Tina (well, before she went through a {{Break the Cutie}} process!).
* {{Power Trio}}: Found all over the place: Switz, Liet and Austria; Igris, Fronce and China; Amer, Raivis and Eston; Igris, Amer and Fronce; Den, Sui and Tina...
* {{Properly Paranoid}}: Poor Toris and Plutonia. Their allies Poal and Shiran are constantly telling them to stop worrying about things, but seeing as they're in the middle of the Hunger Games, it's not as if they don't have good reason.
* {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}: Technically all the careers count, but Lude and Japan fit the best.
* {{Psychopathic Manchild}}: [[spoiler: Russia]] after he snaps.
* {{Pummeling the Corpse}}: Veta doesn't stop [[spoiler: smashing Gil's skull]] until the hovercraft comes to take his body away.
* {{Pyrrhic Victory}}: for both [[spoiler: Veta and Amer]].
* {{Rasputinian Death}}:

* {{Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic}}: Subverted. I don't think anyone can actually stutter as much as Raivis does in the story. The level of grammatical errors in both speech and narration varies with the character as well.
* {{The Reason You Suck Speech}}:
** [[spoiler: Amer]] delivers a truly merciless one to [[spoiler: Vahn]] - while shredding his internal organs, no less.

* {{Red Oni Blue Oni}}: Quite a few (listed in red-blue order):

* {{Red Shirt}}: Most of the bloodbath victims fill this role.
* {{Replacement Goldfish}}:

* {{Revenge by Proxy}}: Dardana's revenge on the tributes from 10 is partway between this and {{Sins of Our Fathers}}. Since her friend [[spoiler: Corianne]]'s killer, [[spoiler: Gil]], is dead, she decides to avenge him by killing the current tributes from 10. [[spoiler: Fortunately, she doesn't get too far.]]
* {{Russian Guy Suffers Most}}: Inverted and played straight - Russia and Vahn spend most of their time making life miserable for their fellow tributes, but [[spoiler: Russia's]] insanity stems from a horrific {{Despair Event Horizon}} moment, and [[spoiler: Vahn ]]gets what might be the most painful death in the series.
* {{Russian Roulette}}: [[spoiler: Amer and Igris]] do this with poison at the end of ''Horrible''.
* {{Sacrificial Lamb}}:

* {{Sacrificial Lion}}:

* {{Sadistic Choice}}:

** In Horrible, Sadik takes Lovi hostage and forces Spain to choose between her life and supplies vital to the alliance's survival. [[{{Always Save the Girl}} Spain chooses Lovi.]]
* {{Screw This Im Outta Here}}:

* {{Self Sacrifice Scheme}}:

* {{Shell Shocked Veteran}}: Both Victors end up as this.
* {{Shoot Him He Has a Wallet}}: Zigzagged with [[spoiler: Sadik's]] death. He was pulling a knife, averting this trope, but was doing so to deter, not harm, his attacker.
* {{Shoot the Dog}}: Amer killing [[spoiler: Eston]] in the third ''What If'' scenario so that he and [[spoiler: Raivis]] won't be the final two.
* {{Shout Out}}: Clever little jokes and references to ''Axis Powers Hetalia'' are scattered throughout the text.
* {{Shrinking Violet}}: Plutonia, and maybe Paliss.
* {{Signature Style}}: Lots of ellipses and dashes.
* {{Single Target Sexuality}}: Sve to Finni; Natalya to [[{{Brother Sister Incest}} Vahn]]; Sheen to Feli.
* {{Slashed Throat}}: THE leading cause of death for characters in the series.
* {{Sliding Scale of Idealism versus Cynicism}}: Leans closer to the ''Hunger Games'' half of the crossover in that it's firmly on the cynicism hand. [[{{Lighter and Softer}} The Fifth ''What If'' on the other hand...]]
* {{Sole Survivor}}: Each story has only one: [[spoiler: Veta]] in ''Brutal'', [[spoiler: Amer]] in ''Horrible'', and [[spoiler: Gries, Russia, Raivis, Russia again, and Fronce]] in the ''What If''s (respectively, and not counting the [[{{Everybody Lives}} fifth]].)
* {{Someone Has To Die}}: The third scenario in ''What If'' [[spoiler: Amer]] volunteers to kill [[spoiler: Eston or Raivis then himself. Eston loses the coin toss and dies in place of Raivis]]
* {{Sorry That Im Dying}}: [[spoiler: Finni's]] response to Sve's {{How Dare You Die On Me}} moment.
* {{Spared by Adaptation}}: ''What If'' is built around this. [[spoiler: Gries, Raivis, Fronce and Russia]] all get to keep their lives at least once (with [[spoiler: Russia]] surviving twice). Taken {{Up to Eleven}} in the fifth What If, in which everybody survives.
* {{Spiritual Successor}}:

* {{Star Crossed Lovers}}: Veta and Austria, the {{Official Couple}} of ''Brutal'' whose engagement is tragically cut short by the Games. Other relationships, such as Sve/Finni, Vahn/Natalya, Ania/Rome, Lovi/Spain and Sheen/Feli, are present but too one-sided to qualify as 'star-crossed.'
* {{Stepford Smiler}}: Russia is always smiling, even while [[spoiler: slicing up and killing other tributes.]]
* {{The Stoic}}: Vash, Gries, Osso, Lude, Ania, Japan, Igris ... Some of them end up as {{Not So Stoic}}, though.
* {{Stuffed Into the Fridge}}: Played almost straight with [[spoiler: Ukraine and Russia]]. Japan didn't intentionally leave her headless body where [[spoiler: Russia]] could find it, but other than that, her death and the circumstances it has fit the trope summary to a T.
* {{Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome}}:

* {{Suicide Pact}}: After the deaths of their love interests, [[spoiler: Sve and Natalya]] decided to do this together as a way of insulting the Capitol. Turns out the Gamemakers didn't like their plans much...
* {{Survivors Guilt}}: [[spoiler: Amer]] suffers the guilt of surviving while his friends did not. [[spoiler: Veta]] feels the same about her [[spoiler: fiancee/husband Austria]].
* {{The Swarm}}: The crickets. Oh, the crickets.
* {{Switching POV}}: Every tribute gets a voice. Most of them just don't get to keep it very long.
* {{Tears of Remorse}}:

* {{True Companions}}: Amer, Raivis, and Eston most strongly; also Igris, Fronce and Amer.

* {{Two Girls and a Guy}}: The short-lived alliance of Sui, Den and Tina.
* {{Two Guys and a Girl}}: Switz, Liet and Austria; Igris, Fronce, and China; briefly Norge, Ise and Sui.
* ViewersInMourning

* {{Weak But Skilled}}: Shiran. Definitely not the physically strongest, but he manages to [[spoiler: avoid certain death with his expertise in swimming, as well as kill Norge with some frog poison]].
* {{White Haired Pretty Boy}}: Ax and Magya describe Ilber (an albino, thus the white hair) as good looking.
* {{Would Hit a Girl}}: or kill her. All of the trained guys, plus Gil, Russia, Vahn, Spain (in a backstory at least), and Igris.

** The author is known to blabber about how much she loves her readers before causing their worst nightmares to happen and giggling at their cries of anguish.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Journs]] not fighting. Way to go, Ilber.

* ElsewhereFic: Takes place during the 43rd, 45th, and the 48th Hunger Games.

* {{Spiritual Successor}}: Although Number One Fan of Journey's oneshot "Asylum" is listed as being solely a ''Hunger Games'' FanFiction, the author has confirmed that it is basically an epilogue to the second or fourth ''What If'' endings.

* {{Kuudere}}:
** Norge. Cold at first, but then warms up considerably when he finds that [[spoiler: Ise is his brother]]. That also leads to TheReveal.
** You could count Osso as a Kuudere too. [[spoiler: His dying moments]] with Magya sure confirmed his warm side.

** The author is known to blabber about how much she loves her readers before causing their worst nightmares to happen and giggling at their cries of anguish.

The Brutal series (or Brutal trilogy) is a series of {{fan fiction}}s by Number One Fan of Journey on Fanfiction.net. It is named for its first installment, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6200154/1/Brutal Brutal]], and continues with a sequel, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6507611/1/Horrible Horrible]], and a new third installment, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7341787/1/Miserable Miserable]]. It also has a few tie-ins, so far including [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6749961/1/Coming_Home Coming Home]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6482745/1/Of_Happiness_and_Sanity Of Happiness and Sanity]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7089237/1/Hit_The_Bottle Hit The Bottle]], and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6802723/1/What_If What If]].

* {{Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic}}: Subverted hard. I don't think anyone can actually stutter as much as Raivis does in the story. The level of grammatical errors in both speech and narration varies with the character as well.

* {{Manly Tears}}: Igris tries hard not to cry after [[spoiler: Fronce's death]] but gives in. Amer tells him this is nothing to be ashamed of.
* {{Meaningful Echo}}: After Igris abandons [[spoiler: China]] to die alone, Fronce indignantly asks him if he would leave him behind in a similar situation. Igris responds that he would instead stick around to taunt him. Much later, after Fronce has been gravely injured and knocked out, he wakes up to discover Igris is carrying him on his back. The first words out of his mouth? "So you didn't leave me behind after all."
* {{Meaningful Name}}: {{Word of God}} explains the psychology behind each name chosen for the tributes.
* {{Mercy Kill}}: Magya specializes in this.
* {{Miles to Go Before I Sleep}}: Amer would certainly like to kill himself at the end of the third ''What If'' scenario, but that would mean [[spoiler: leaving his two allies to kill each other]]. So he has to {{Shoot the Dog}} before offing himself.
* {{Missed Moment of Awesome}}: [[spoiler: Journs]] not fighting. Way to go, Ilber.
* {{Mood Whiplash}}:

* {{Morality Pet}}: Ciano to Lude.
* {{More Expendable than You}}: Raivis plays this card when Eston is going to die for him at the end of the third ''What If'' scenario, claiming that he is worthless compared to the heroic Amer and the intelligent Eston. [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]]
* {{More Hero than Thou}}:
** In ''Brutal'', Switz is determined to die so his sister, Liet can win. Once she figures out what he's going to do, she decides to do the same thing for him. [[spoiler: They both end up {{Taking the Bullet}} for each other, dying together.]]

* {{Mortal Wound Reveal}}: [[spoiler: Fronce's]] wounds are seemingly patched up after a battle with Careers, but later it's revealed he's dying of infection from a tiny scar which his allies overlooked because it was hidden behind his long hair.
* {{Murder by Mistake}}: [[spoiler: Thew]] puts poisonous berries into Alf's water bottle, intending to kill him, but [[spoiler: Vivi]] drinks it instead.
* {{Mutual Kill}}:

* {{My Greatest Failure}}: A large part of Spain's desire to protect Lovi stems from his guilt over murdering a young woman who insulted his sister, as well as for not trying to save Perdita at the bloodbath.
* {{My God What Have I Done}}:

** Lovi, both after attempting to kill [[spoiler: Spain]] (in canon) and actually killing him (in What If.)
* {{My Own Private I Do}}:

* {{Jerk With a Heart of Gold}}:

* {{Karma Houdini}}: [[spoiler: Russia]] gets off scot-free in both the ''Brutal'' What Ifs.

* {{Kick the Dog}}:

* {{Kick Them While They Are Down}}: Quite a few times: Amer to Vahn, Veta to Gil, Ania to Rome, and that's just in the core series. In What If we have Gil to Austria and Veta as well as Lude to Liet. The reasons for these vary from {{Unstoppable Rage}} to {{Sanity Slippage}} to simple jerkishness.
* {{Kick the Son of a Bitch}}: [[spoiler: Amer's]] {{Start of Darkness}} comes when he brutally murders [[spoiler: Vahn]] ... who had used [[spoiler: his friends Raivis and Eston]] for slave labour, kept them in line with death threats, sliced off one of [[spoiler: Raivis']] fingers when he tried to run away, indirectly led to [[spoiler: Raivis']] death, and finally murdered [[spoiler: Eston]] with a pickaxe.

* {{Kill Em All}}: Even if they don't die in the original, they die in the alternate endings.
* {{Kill the Cutie}}: Pretty much any sweet, lovable character is involved in this - [[spoiler: Liet, Ciano, Perdita, Laine, Raivis]]...
* {{Kill the Ones You Love}}:

* {{Killed MidSentence}}: [[spoiler: Dardana]]. "Quit trying to distract-" *shot*
* {{Killed Off For Real}}: Everyone but [[spoiler: Veta and Amer]], and some minor characters back home.
* {{Kill It With Fire}}: Most of the cat muttations in the sixth ''What If'' ending get burnt to death pursuing Igris, Fronce and China through the lava crater. ([[spoiler: China]] only barely avoids this fate as well.)
* {{Kill It With Water}}: Lude employs this technique on [[spoiler: the fire crickets]] in ''Brutal''.

** Norge. Cold at first, but then warms up considerably when he finds that [[spoiler: Ise is his brother]]. That also leads to {{The Reveal}}.

* {{Last Request}}: [[spoiler: Igris']] is that, should [[spoiler: Amer]] win the Games, he not blame himself for [[spoiler: Fronce's]] death. This being [[spoiler: Amer]], of course, he breaks the promise. [[spoiler: Igris]] also asks him to hit his little brother on the head for [[spoiler: breaking his Beatles CD]] should he meet him on the Victory Tour.
* {{Lighter and Softer}}: The fifth ''What If'' ending. Not that that's a bad thing.
* {{Little Miss Snarker}}: Lovi exemplifies this.
* {{The Load}}:

* {{Long Lost Relative}}: [[spoiler: Norge and Ise]] discover they are half-brothers.
* {{Lovable Coward}}: Ciano, and Raivis, to an extent. Not that one can blame them for being scared.
* {{Love Makes You Crazy}}: Natalya all the way, in her insane obsession with her foster brother/love interest Vahn.

* {{Idiot Hero}}: Amer has elements of this, particularly towards the beginning of the story.
* {{I Dont Want to Die}}: Obviously, none of the characters do, but [[spoiler: Eston]] fulfills this trope in the traditional sense during the third ''What If'' scenario, in which he asks to be alone and cries for a while before letting himself be killed so [[spoiler: Raivis]] can win the Hunger Games.
* {{If Youre So Evil Eat This Kitten}}: The Career pack tests Lude this way by making him [[spoiler: kill a defenceless Ciano, whom he had briefly befriended in training]]. He does (except in ''What If'').
* {{Ignored Epiphany}}: At one point towards the end of the story, [[spoiler: Russia]] compares himself to the Career who murdered [[spoiler: his sister]], wondering if he isn't just as bad. Unfortunately, by now he's so far gone that he dismisses the thought as completely ridiculous.
* {{I Let Gwen Stacy Die}}: [[spoiler: Amer]] with everyone in his alliances, but most strongly [[spoiler: Eston and Raivis. Sve, after Finni is killed.]] Spain also has a brief moment of this with [[spoiler: Perdita]].
* {{Im Cold So Cold}}: Stammered a bit less dramatically by [[spoiler: Raivis]] before [[spoiler: the poison from the cyan vine]] takes over, and he dies.
* {{Improvised Weapon}}: So much – and it actually works! Veta uses a frying pan against Gil (and Russia); Amer uses his broken glasses against Sadik.
* {{Interrupted Suicide}}: Zigzagged with [[spoiler: Amer]] at the end of ''Horrible''. He is about to commit suicide, but stops himself - not because he was physically interrupted by anyone, but because he knows his brother is watching this on TV and would interrupt him if he could.
* {{Insane Equals Violent}}: [[spoiler: Russia]], to the extreme. Justified in-universe, as a sponsor sends him a knife as he is crossing the {{Despair Event Horizon}} to convey the message that, with the death of [[spoiler: his sister]], no one stood in his way of winning the games and he was now free to eliminate the rest of the field.
* {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}: Finni's joke about physicists. Hardee-har-har.
* {{Involuntary Battle to the Death}}: Between [[spoiler: Igris and Amer]] at the end of ''Horrible'' and [[spoiler: Amer, Eston and Raivis]] at the end of the third ''What If''. Notable in that, while the characters {{Took a Third Option}} to prevent an actual battle in both scenarios, said Third Options still resulted in one or more deaths.
* {{The Insomniac}}:

* {{It Got Worse}}: All over the place; this is the Hunger Games. This is pretty much the sole purpose of ''What If''.
* {{It Has Been an Honor}}: Lude's words to the dying [[spoiler: Japan]] are along these lines.
* {{Its Personal}}:

* {{I Will Only Slow You Down}}: While not stated word-for-word, [[spoiler: Fronce]] tries to persuade [[spoiler: Igris]] to leave him behind instead of carrying him around as he slowly dies of infection.
* {{I Will Protect Her}}:

*** In the first alliance, TheHero/TheBigGuy is Amer, TheLancer/TheSmartGuy is Eston, and TheChick is Raivis.
*** In the second alliance, TheHero/TheSmartGuy is Igris (The 'Smart Guy' part isn't as obvious as it was with Eston, but he's the most rational of the bunch in most occasions, particularly when it comes to rations, and also the one to think up [[spoiler: the poison plan at the end]].), TheLancer/TheBigGuy is Amer, and TheChick is Fronce.
** Another three-man version comes from ''Brutal''; the roles are not as well-defined, but still evident if one looks closely: TheHero/TheBigGuy is Switz, TheLancer/TheSmartGuy is Austria, and TheChick is Liet.

* {{Gender Flip}}: Germania, South Italy, China, Greece, Poland and Finland are all female here. As are Sweden, Finland (again) and North Italy in ''Miserable''.
* {{Genki Girl}}:

* {{Go Out With a Smile}}:

* {{Go Through Me}}: Not the exact wording, but towards the end of ''Brutal'' [[spoiler: Liet]] gets in front of an injured [[spoiler: Switz]] and says she won't let [[spoiler: Russia]] hurt him. It doesn't end well.

* {{Heel Realization}}:

** [[spoiler: Amer]], after killing [[spoiler: Vahn]], realizes how close he's coming to {{Jumping off the Slippery Slope}}.

* {{Her Heart Will Go On}}: Seen with [[spoiler: Veta and Austria]] in ''Brutal''.
* {{Heroic BSOD}}: Pretty common in the series.

* {{Heroic Resolve}}:
** [[spoiler: Switz]] is almost too injured to move, but when [[spoiler: Russia]] is about to kill [[spoiler: Liet]], he finds the energy to push her out of the way and [[{{Taking the Bullet}} Take the Bullet]] himself.

* {{Heroic Sacrifice}}:

* {{Heroic Self Deprecation}}: [[spoiler: Amer]], big time. YMMV on how justified his self-loathing is.
* {{Heroic Wannabe}}: Good gosh, freaking Amer. And Alf as well, but in a very different light.
* {{He Who Fights Monsters}}: Amer's devotion to being a hero and protecting the weak leads to [[spoiler: several [[{{Roaring Rampage of Revenge}} Roaring Rampages of Revenge]] and a gradual {{Sanity Slippage}}]]. To be fair, he sees where he's heading, and doesn't like it, but isn't fully able to stop it.
* {{Hidden Depths}}: Nearly every character who survives the bloodbath and isn't a Career (and even here there are some exceptions) will have this trope.
* {{Holding Hands}}: Peyton notes with dismay that many of the district partners in ''Brutal'' are doing this during the chariot rides, meaning that lots of them already know each other.
* {{Hollywood Healing}}: Largely averted, as most of the characters attain and many die from serious wounds, and those who survive do so thanks to Capitol first aid.

* {{Honor before Reason}}:

** Japan. He is a {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}, after all.
* {{Hope Spot}}: Near the end of ''Horrible'', Gries and Ania go head-to-head. [[spoiler: Ania]] is quickly dispatched by [[spoiler: Gries]], but not before [[spoiler: sticking a sword through her chest]]. However, [[spoiler: Gries]] isn't done for yet, reasoning that if she just [[spoiler: keeps the sword firmly stuck in her body, she won't bleed to death. Then she sneezes, and loses her grip…]]
* {{How Dare You Die on Me}}: [[spoiler: Lovi to Spain, Igris to Fronce, Sve to Finni.]] Numerous other characters also echo "you can't die," sentiments to their fallen allies.
* {{Hurting Hero}}:

* {{Hysterical Woman}}:

* {{Face Death with Dignity}}: Quite a few characters: [[spoiler: Japan, Switz, Sve, Natalya, and Igris]] in the core series, not to mention [[spoiler: Eston and Amer]] in the third ''What If'' ending.
* {{Face Heel Turn}}: Although there aren't really good and bad 'sides' in the Hunger Games, [[spoiler: Russia's]] transformation from a cheerful boy to a remorseless killing machine might be considered this.
* {{Fighting From the Inside}}: [[spoiler: Amer]] struggles to surpress his insanity and bloodlust throughout the latter half of ''Horrible'', particularly at the start of the fight with [[spoiler: Rome and Ania]].
* {{Final Girl}}: [[spoiler: Veta]] in ''Brutal''.

* {{Fire Forged Friends}}:
** Igris and Fronce (with [[spoiler: Amer]] as well).

* {{First Kiss}}: The third ''What If'' epilogue.
* {{Five Bad Band}}:
** For the ''Brutal'' Careers: Lude is {{The Big Bad}}, Japan is {{The Dragon}}, Alf and Vivi are {{The Brute}}s, and Corianne and Chia are {{The Dark Chick}}s. In the fourth ''What If'', Ciano is {{The Load}}.
** For the ''Horrible'' Careers: {{The Big Bad}} is Rome [[spoiler: (Ania eventually takes this over when she's the only Career left.)]], {{The Dragon}} is Ania [[spoiler: (she also functions as {{The Starscream}})]], {{The Brute}} is Wiremu (and arguably Vash before he left), {{The Dark Chick}}s are Dardana and Taberah, and {{The Sixth Ranger}}s are [[spoiler: [[{{The Load}} Finni]] and Sve]].
* {{Five Man Band}}:
** Both of [[spoiler: Amer's]] alliances in ''Horrible'' are three-man versions of this: in the first alliance, {{The Hero}}/{{The Big Guy}} is [[spoiler: Amer]], {{The Lancer}}/{{The Smart Guy}} is Eston, and {{The Chick}} is Raivis.
** In the second alliance, {{The Hero}}/{{The Smart Guy}} is Igris (The 'Smart Guy' part isn't as obvious as it was with Eston, but he's the most rational of the bunch in most occasions, particularly when it comes to rations, and also the one to think up [[spoiler: the poison plan at the end]].), {{The Lancer}}/{{The Big Guy}} is [[spoiler: Amer]], and {{The Chick}} is Fronce.
** Another three-man version comes from ''Brutal''; the roles are not as well-defined, but still evident if one looks closely: {{The Hero}}/{{The Big Guy}} is Switz, {{The Lancer}}/{{The Smart Guy}} is Austria, and {{The Chick}} is Liet.
* {{Flashback Nightmare}}: [[spoiler: Ania]] is tormented by these towards the end of ''Horrible''.
* {{Forgotten Fallen Friend}}:

* {{Fragile Speedster}}: Ciano is scrawny but quite quick on his feet.
* {{Freudian Excuse}}:

* {{From Nobody to Nightmare}}: [[spoiler: Russia]] in ''Brutal'' starts off as an unassuming, optimistic underdog. One crossing of the {{Despair Event Horizon}} later, he's the {{Complete Monster}} {{Big Bad}} of the Fanfic.
* {{Frying Pan of Doom}}: Veta uses one of these.

** Japan kills [[spoiler: Ukraine]] this way in ''Brutal'', leading to a truly {{High Octane Nightmare Fuel}}-worthy scene in which [[spoiler: Russia finds his sister's]] head lying in the grass.

This series is a {{crossover}} between ''{{The Hunger Games}}'' and ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia''. The countries are taken from ''Hetalia'', turned into humans (some with slightly different or very different traits from the original characters) and thrown into the Hunger Games as average District kids.