History NightmareFuel / TheVictorsProject

* The rebellion of District One in itself is a great example of how brutal TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized can be. While the rebellion proper (having been planning ahead for years) is fairly restrained, the mobs that swiftly erupt are far less so, quite literally [[TornApartByTheMob tearing the Peacekeepers of the District limb-from limb]] before leaving the bits to rot on the streets in the days after, lynching Song and her husband [[MisplacedRetribution despite their relative lack of connection to the Capitol]] (save for Song acting as TheQuisling to void her husband's Peacekeeper contract), and dragging LesCollaborateurs [[FamilyExtermination (along with their families)]] out into the streets before gunning them down as they beg for mercy.

** Even more so when the reader realized they've ''read about'' many of these suicides in the Victor's Project.

* The Black Banquet Massacre that kills ''ninety-seven'' people. To quantify it: if this was a real-life event and it was indeed Coriolanus Snow who was behind it, he would have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_by_number_of_victims one of the highest known victim counts as a serial killer]].

* The first Quell in general, actually. Some of the tributes were chosen for the sins of their families, some because no one would miss them, others because the district had to send 'someone' in and they had a chance of surviving. But others were genuinely bad people, in particular the District 6 and 8 males. And as the Chevy notes in Quell, someone always comes back, with the power and status of a victor and a 'grudge'.

* Rob's torture via electric shocks is bad enough for him to require a MercyKill.

--> ''Peacekeepers die. [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice They die impaled on whirling shards of steel.]] [[EyeScream They die with their eyeballs melting from their faces.]] They die half devoured or dissolved. They die screaming, and they die in silence. [[DefiantToTheEnd They die defiantly,]] [[VillainsWantMercy or they die begging for their lives.]] But they die.''

---> ''During the Dark Days, District 3 lost half their citizens. In the Mockingjay Rebellion, they are the only district to win without firing a single shot, or losing a single life.''
* District 5's rebellion is [[ChildSoldiers mostly fought by children]], with [[DeathOfAChild appropriately horrific results]] - the Capitol is shown to have absolutely no qualms about ordering at least one pair of children hanged in the main square as an example to others, and orders [[GeneralRipper Romulus Thread]] to perform decimation on the entirety of the district's Reaping-age population while forcing the parents to watch.

--> ''They're still alive, and he knows each of them is heart-hammeringly grateful for that fact, but in District 7, every child knows that when gods and ghosts walk, you get the hell out of their way.''

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* The [[AxCrazy Career]] [[ColdBloodedTorture tributes]], save for [[TokenGoodTeammate Plautia]]. They're happy to torture another tribute for seven hours before killing him, which includes [[FlayingAlive flaying him alive]] [[ForcedToWatch in front of his ally]]. The duration would make both Citrine and Enobaria's two-hour-long kills look like a MercyKill, and is also their arguably their official MoralEventHorizon.
* While it's definitely far quicker than the above, the ways the some of the Careers die are pretty horrific (if [[KickTheSonOfABitch well-deserved]]):
** Alabaster gets her throat graphically torn out by one of the horse muttations that Blight calls to the pack, with the horse at least partly eating her remains (possibly before she dies).

* The [[AxCrazy Career]] [[ColdBloodedTorture tributes]], save for [[TokenGoodTeammate Plautia]]. They're happy to torture another tribute for seven hours before killing him, which includes [[FlayingAlive flaying him alive]] [[ForcedToWatch in front of his ally]]. Looking at the length of the torture, it would make Enobaria's two-hour-long kill look like a MercyKill and is arguably their official MoralEventHorizon.

** The genuine AdultFear from some pregnant mothers, where they drink and smoke in hopes of their child(ren) having birth defects so their child(ren) fail the evaluation.

* The fighting in District 9 causes a grassfire that endangers even those who remain neutral in the Mockingjay Rebellion, directing back to AdultFear. One girl describes how her family ran for miles before the fire caught up to them and burned everyone but her and her baby brother.

* What happens when a live human is thrown into the graphite compressor, as seen with Luster's body double during the rebellion in District One. Not much is known on how the compressor works, but it's mentioned that the body double's scream turns to that of an "animalistic wail".
* The rebellion of District One in itself is a great example of how brutal TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized can be. While the rebellion proper (having been planning ahead for years) is fairly restrained, the mobs that swiftly erupt are far less so, quite literally [[TornApartByTheMob tearing the Peacekeepers of the District limb-from limb]] before leaving the bits to rot on the streets in the days after, lynching Song and her husband [[MisplacedRetribution despite their relative lack of connection to the Capitol]] (save for Song acting as TheQuisling to void her husband's Peacekeeper contract), and dragging LesCollaborateurs [[FamilyExtermination (along with their families)]] out into the streets before mercilessly gunning them down.

* District 3 wipes out their Peacekeepers by recreating every piece of technology and every muttation ever used in the Games, then unleashing them all at once. The result is a pure MookHorrorShow.
** It's too horrible to name in the story, but what exactly are those hairy yet ravenous creatures that come out of Wiress's house?
* What passes for a rebellion in District 6 is bloodthirsty gangs taking victors' relatives as hostages while trying to claim the district for themselves, the Capitol bombing anyone trying to flee the district, and the district's in-fighting starting massive urban fires.

* Chapter 9 mentions that the Capitol relied on [[ChildSoldiers reaping-aged Institute kids as soldiers]]. How many unlucky cadets had this as one of their first assignments?

** Chapter 9 mentions that the Capitol relied on reaping-aged Institute kids as soldiers. How many unlucky cadets had this as one of their first assignments?

* When Virtus befriends a pregnant stray dog, as soon as the puppies are born, Boudicca [[KickTheDog forces him to kill and eat them and their mother.]]

** Once you become a Victor, [[HopeSpot you get to escape the DAEYD without anyone there bothering you, right?]] ''[[YankTheDogsChain Not a chance]]''. Luster would still try to control you (and is good at doing so), as seen with Wonder following his Hunger Games and Ermine when she's assigned Song as a mentee. As much as she likes her, Jade is uncomfortable interacting with Song due to the attention she would attract from Luster.
** It's also mentioned that cadets are encouraged to maim and murder their peers. Can you imagine being a top-ranking DAEYD student, where your peers are nice to your face but will backstab you for a shot at competing in the Hunger Games? Esther wouldn't, as seen in Ermine's chapter. Same with the main rival who Jade incapacitated.

* The paedophiliac sex parties Justinian hosts and attends are described in nauseating detail. While the majority of the more explicit details are thankfully omitted, Finnick notes that Justinian raped ''at least'' one District One girl who couldn't have been more than nine or ten, and definitely did so to numerous others.

** His death is pretty nasty as well, with Chaff half-strangling him before smashing the career's head to pulp against a sharpened splinter of steel sticking out from one of the arena's garbage piles.

* Arachnophobes might be advised to avoid the scene where Brutus is nearly eaten by giant spider mutations.

** Granyte and Brilliance's deaths hit particularly hard. Doesn't matter if you're a wheelchair-bound seventy-four year old and reliant on an oxygen tank to breathe, it won't save you from the firing squad. Act DefiantToTheEnd by refusing to pledge your loyalty to PresidentEvil, and you [[AgonisingStomachWound get deliberately shot in the gut and left to bleed out]], with the implication being that your family will also be targeted.

* Jade's casual mention to Caesar following her Hunger Games about killing eight people in the arena. Even if she's faking it, it's very chilling to hear as an outlying district citizen.

* District 2’s tribute trials, where the tributes have to survive in the wild, are subjected to brutal MindRape, and then forced to commit a cold-blooded murder (with the victims sometimes being people they personally know, or the children of traitors).

* [[HateSink Roan's]] [[TheFarmerAndTheViper racist murder of his district partner when she tries to help him]]. [[{{Sadist}} Almost everything about Roan might count, really.]]

* [[AbusiveParents Lupus’s father]] raises his kids to be victors, burns Lupus’s hand when he’s six for hesitating, and is eager to send his younger children into the 3rd Quarter Quell together even while knowing that doing so means at least one of them will die.

* The [[AxCrazy career]] [[ColdBloodedTorture tributes]], save for [[TokenGoodTeammate Plautia]]. They're happy to torture another tribute for seven hours before killing him, which includes [[FlayingAlive flaying him alive]] [[ForcedToWatch in front of his ally]]. Looking at the length of the torture, it would make Enobaria's two-hour-long kill look like a MercyKill and is arguably their official MoralEventHorizon.
* While it's definitely far quicker than the above, the ways the some of the careers die are pretty horrific (if [[KickTheSonOfABitch well-deserved]]):

** Romani pushes another tribute off the top of a Ferris wheel, only to be [[TakingYouWithMe dragged down with her]], screaming in terror for several seconds before hitting the ground in a merciful [[GoryDiscretionShot]].

* Enobaraia and her friends being captured by the reavers, tortured, and forced to fight each other or vicious animals. Then Enobaria gets free and goes on a bloody RoaringRampageOfRevenge. She’s half-crazy when rescuers find her.

* The rebellion of District One in itself is a great example of how brutal TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized can be. While the rebellion proper (having been planning ahead for years) is fairly restrained, the mobs that swiftly erupt are far less so, quite literally [[TornApartByTheMob tearing the Peacekeepers of the District limb-from limb]] before leaving the bits to rot on the streets in the days after, [[MisplacedRetribution lynching Song and her husband despite their relative lack of connection to the Capitol]], and dragging LesCollaborateurs [[FamilyExtermination (along with their families)]] out into the streets before mercilessly gunning them down.
** Gleam and the [[EvilMentor DAEYD instructors]] get locked inside their academy, which is promptly [[KillItWithFire set on fire by the cadets]]. KarmicDeath or not, it's a pretty nasty way to go, particularly considering that Gleam is effectively an old man with minimal influence over the [[TrainingFromHell horrors]] [[SexSlave of the]] DAEYD.
* District 3 wipes out their peacekeepers by recreating every piece of technology and every mutation ever used in the Games, then unleashing them all at once. The result is a pure MookHorrorShow.
* The fighting in District 9 causes a grassfire that endangers even those who remain neutral in the Mockingjay Rebellion. One girl describes how her family ran for miles before the fire caught up to them and burned everyone but her and her baby brother.

* When Virtus befriends a pregnant stray dog, as soon as the puppies are born, Boudicca forces him to kill and eat them and their mother.
* Justus transforms into a vicious killer in the arena, parroting the Capitol's SinsOfOurFathers rhetoric with each kill and calling it justice.
* Nellie Mills' death during the 25th Hunger Games, where she's implied to be hacked to death by the District Two boy.

** Once you become a Victor, you get to escape the DAEYD without anyone there bothering you? Nuh-uh. Luster would still try to control you (and is good at doing so), as seen with Wonder following his Hunger Games and Ermine when she's assigned Song as a mentee. As much as she likes her, Jade is uncomfortable interacting with Song due to the attention she would attract from Luster.

* The stray dog attack that almost claims the life of Viola is a creepy bit of RealismInducedHorror

* The pedophiliac sex parties Justinian attends get a very chilling and nauseating description.
* Several kills the District 4 boy makes in the 45th Hunger Games feel like something from a TorturePorn flick.

* Coin executing many of the remaining Career Victors in a KangarooCourt for being Career Victors. It doesn't help that most of their views of the Games were hammered into them at either the DAEYD or the Institute.
** Granyte's death in particular. Doesn't matter if you're a disabled seventy-four year old; it doesn't save you from the firing squad.

* District 2’s tribute trials, where the tributes have to survive in the wild, are subjected to brutal MindRape, and then forced to commit a cold-blooded murder (with the victims sometimes being people they personally know or the children of traitors).

* Roan's racist murder of his district partner when she tries to help him. [[{{Sadist}} Almost everything about Roan might count, really.]]
* The District Five girl's death at the hands of Crystal during the 61st Hunger Games, where she's opened alive to reveal her organs and tendons.

* Lupus’s father raises his kids to be victors, burns Lupus’s hand when he’s six, and is eager to send his younger children into the 3rd Quarter Quell together even while knowing that doing so means at least one of them will die.

* While it's definitely far quicker than the above, the way the some of the careers die is pretty horrific:
** Alabaster gets her throat torn out by one of the horse muttations that Blight calls to the pack, with the horse at least partly eating her remains (possibly before she dies).

* The description that many District One tributes attempt SuicideByCop. Imagine thinking that an early death is more desireable than becoming a SexSlave either after your victory or graduation (if you weren't the first person to touch the reaping bowl).

* The career tributes, save for Plautia. They're happy to torture another tribute for seven hours before killing him, which includes flaying him alive in front of their ally. Looking at the length of the torture, it would make Enobaria's two-hour-long kill look like a MercyKill.

* Scipio's dismembering at the hands of Luster, after he and Wonder unsuccessfully tries to flee the district. One can imagine how it would look (and smell) like inside the box that Luster would eventually give to Wonder.

** It's also mentioned that cadets are encouraged to maim and murder their peers. Can you imagine being a top-ranking DAEYD student, where your peers are nice to your face but will backstab you for a shot at competing in the Hunger Games? Esther wouldn't, as seen in Ermine's chapter.
* Scipio's dismembering at the hands of Luster, after he and Wonder unsuccessfully tries to flee the district. One can imagine how it would look like inside the box that Luster would eventually give to Wonder.

* The career tributes, save for Plautia. They're happy to torture another tribute for seven hours before killing him, which includes flaying him alive in front of their ally. Looking at the length of the torture, it would Enobaria's two-hour-long kill look like a MercyKill.

* The Black Banquet Massacre that kills ''ninety-seven'' people.

* Scipio's dismembering at the hands of Luster, after he and Wonder unsuccessfully tries to flee the district. One can imaging how it would look like inside the box that Luster would eventually give to Wonder.
* Coin executing many of the remaining Career Victors in a KangarooCourt for being Career Victors.
** Granyte's death in particular. Doesn't matter if you're a disabled seventy-four year old; it doesn't save you from the firing squad.

* The District Five girl's death at the hands of Crystal during the 61st Hunger Games, where she's opened alive.

* Devon Hooley's torture and eventual death at the hands of the careers.

** The genuine AdultFear from some pregnant mothers, where they drink and smoke in hopes of their children having birth defects so their child(ren) fail the evaluation.
** It's also mentioned that cadets are encouraged to maim and murder their peers. Can you imagine being a top-ranking DAEYD student, where your peers are nice to your face but will backstab you for a shot at competing in the Hunger Games?