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* YouGotSpunk: When volunteering for her sister at the reaping, Haymitch announces drunkenly that he likes how she's got lots of spunk.
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* [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl Always Save The Boy With The Bread]]: Continuously prioritizes Peeta's survival over what's best for her own survival, the rebellion and her squad. Even after [[spoiler:he's been hijacked into hating her and she believes she can never be with him.]]
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* [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl Always Save The Boy With The Bread]]: Continuously AlwaysSaveTheGirl: GenderInverted. She continuously prioritizes Peeta's survival over what's best for her own survival, the rebellion and her squad. Even after [[spoiler:he's been hijacked into hating her and she believes she can never be with him.]]
* ArcherArchetype: She relies on her bow to hunt, survive, and lead. Katniss has strong and independent survivalist instincts due to her difficult past and is good at thinking outside the box. She is not socially adept and has a hard time making friends due to the emotional strain on her life which has made her hard and cold. She is usually very logical.
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[[folder:Katniss Everdeen]]
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JenniferLawrence
* ActionGirl: Katniss has been the breadwinner in her family since her father died, and was a talented hunter even before that. She's lethal with a bow and when she enters the Hunger Games, she puts those skills to use. She quickly proves herself to be formidable, intelligent and determined. [[spoiler:She manages to beat out other competitors that are not only physically stronger and working together, but whom have been training their entire lives to kill.]]
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She has dark hair and is rather emotionally distant and closed off from others, due to her numerous trust issues.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Or rather Always Save The Boy With The Bread. She continuously prioritizes Peeta's survival over what's best for her own survival, the rebellion and her squad.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted. In the books, Katniss was stated as "olive-skinned" but with no specified race. In the movies, she is played by the white Jennifer Lawrence.
* AnimalMotifs: From ''Catching Fire'' onwards, she's strongly identified with mockingjays. She received a pin of one early in ''The Hunger Games'' and it became her symbol.
* {{Anti Hero}}ine: [[PragmaticHero The pragmatic kind.]] And also an example of the good kind.
* ArcherArchetype: She relies on her bow to hunt, survive, and lead. Katniss has strong and independent survivalist instincts due to her difficult past and is good at thinking outside the box. She is not socially adept and has a hard time making friends due to the emotional strain on her life which has made her hard and cold. She is usually very logical.
* ArcSymbol: Fire is strongly associated with her throughout the story. Of course, fire usually represents revolutions, even in real life, so it fits.
* ArrowsOnFire: Beetee gives her special explosive-tipped arrows in ''Mockingjay Pt. 1''. And they are ''very'' explosive.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: As much as she bickers with Haymitch and as angry as she is with him in ''Mockingjay'' they still have moments that show how much they've grown to care about one another. [[spoiler:For example it's his arms she cries in over Peeta's torture.]]
* BadLiar: According to Peeta. "Never gamble at cards. You'll lose your last coin." [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] later on, when she gradually becomes more effective at fooling people -- starting with Peeta himself in the form of their initial romance.]]
* BecomingTheMask: After playing up the Romance with Peeta for the camera's since the 74th Hunger Games, [[spoiler: her real genuine feelings for him become clearer and clearer as time goes on]]. And later, after being used as a symbol of the rebellion for propaganda purposes, [[spoiler: she becomes a warrior and inspirational leader of the revolution war.]]
* BigSisterInstinct: Katniss is deeply devoted to her beloved sister Prim, and she volunteers to take her place in the Hunger Games after Prim's name is called, effectively kickstarting the story. This is essentially a death sentence and she's fully aware of it. When she's in the arena, she forms an attachment to Rue and becomes her steadfast ally. [[spoiler:She's entirely heartbroken when Rue is killed, singing to her as she dies and burying her in flowers.]]
* BirdsOfAFeather: Her and Gale, both rebellious against the Capitol's regime but still working on providing for their families. Through illegal hunting, of course.
* BreakTheCutie: Pretty much the gist of the film series. Watch as a young girl is given Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and watch as she's forced to keep on chugging as other characters decide that she's too important to whatever is going on to be allowed to recover from her shell shock, exacerbating it at every given opportunity.
* BrokenBird: She starts out as one due to her father's death and having to be her family's main source of financial support but after the Games it turns up to eleven.
%%%* TheChosenOne: Treated this way by the rebellion.
** ColorCodedEyes: Her eyes are a cold and distant grey, reflecting determinator status. And don't you forget her archery skills, too.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: In the 74th Hunger Games, she and Peeta wore coal black jackets.
* CombatPragmatist: Increasingly becomes this as the novels progress, though moreso during the games.
%%* TheComicallySerious
* CommitmentIssues: The reason why she keeps Peeta at arm's length is that she is determined to never fall in love, get married and have children. The reason is implied to be a combination of not wanting to be a parent on Reaping Day, not wanting to put people into the world who will have to feel the same fear and hatred that she does, and not wanting to end up like her mother, who broke down completely when her husband died. In "''Catching Fire''" it's Katniss who suggests that she and Peeta get married but it's not because of romantic desire but rather a desperate attempt at keeping Snow happy. Peeta agrees, but not very happily.
%%%%* CoolBigSis: To Prim and Rue.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: In the second film near the end, as [[spoiler:she is hoisted from the burning wreckage of the Arena by a resistance hovercraft.]]
* TheCynic: In contrast to Peeta's idealism, Katniss's utter lack of faith in people at the series' start is particularly grim. In the last book, after losing [[spoiler:Prim,]] she even declares to [[spoiler:have no allegiance to the human race anymore.]]
* DaddysGirl: Her father was clearly her favored parent. Not helped very much by her mother virtually abandoning her after he died.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has her moments. Especially when bantering with Finnick.
-->'''Finnick''': You can swim, too. Where did you learn that in District Twelve?
-->'''Katniss''': We have a big bathtub.
%%* DebtDetester
* DeclarationOfProtection: Towards Prim, which sets the plot in motion. She later declares protection for Peeta at the Quarter Quell.
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->''"If we burn, you burn with us!"''
[[TheHero Our hero]], aged sixteen from District 12, the poorest of the twelve (remaining) districts. After [[DisappearedDad losing her father]] when she was only eleven, she managed to bring her family back from the brink of starvation almost single-handedly by hunting in the woods outside her district. When her little sister Prim's name is drawn in [[LotteryOfDoom the reaping]] to join [[DeadlyGame the Hunger Games]], Katniss steps up to take her place, unwittingly setting off a chain of events that will soon engulf all of Panem.
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* ActOfTrueLove: Volunteers to be in the Games to save her baby sister in the first book, setting the plot into motion. In the second book she too makes a pact with Haymitch to save Peeta at the cost of her own life. In the third book she [[spoiler:kisses Peeta when he's at the beginning of a hijack-attack, knowing that if it doesn't work he will do his best to kill her. It works, and it's implied that her beginning to show her love for him is a huge part of what makes him recover from the hijacking]].
* ActionGirl: Expected, as a participant in [[spoiler:and winner of]] the Hunger Games. Like all the tributes, she received four days of training on top of being an excellent hunter after learning to provide for her family.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ActionGirlfriend: Is this to Peeta's NonActionGuy in the second book.
* AllWomenLoveShoes: Averted. For all the detail in which she describes her various dresses, outfits, and hair styles, her shoes usually only get a cursory mention, if that. Well, except for her favorite hunting boots.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She has dark hair and is rather emotionally distant and closed off from others, due to her numerous trust issues.
* [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl Always Save The Boy With The Bread]]: Continuously prioritizes Peeta's survival over what's best for her own survival, the rebellion and her squad. Even after [[spoiler:he's been hijacked into hating her and she believes she can never be with him.]]
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Like Gale, described as "olive-skinned" with black hair.
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: In ''Mockingjay'', she'll frequently hide away in closets or storage rooms and end up falling asleep.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* AngstComa
* AnimalMotifs: From ''Catching Fire'' onwards, she's strongly identified with mockingjays. She received a pin of one early in ''The Hunger Games'' and it became her symbol.
%%* {{Anti Hero}}ine: [[PragmaticHero The pragmatic kind.]] And also an example of the [[NeutralGood good]] kind.
* ArcSymbol: Fire is strongly associated with her throughout the story. Of course, fire usually represents revolutions, even in real life, so it fits.
* ArcherArchetype: She relies on her bow to hunt, survive, and lead. Katniss has strong and independent survivalist instincts due to her difficult past and is good at thinking outside the box. She is not socially adept and has a hard time making friends due to the emotional strain on her life which has made her hard and cold. She is usually very logical.
* ArrowsOnFire: Her special Mockingjay bow allows her to shoot these.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: As much as she bickers with Haymitch and as angry as she is with him in ''Mockingjay'' they still have moments that show how much they've grown to care about one another. For example it's his arms she cries in over [[spoiler:Peeta's torture]].
* BabiesEverAfter: This was initially planned as part of continuing her and Peeta's ruse for the sake of the Capitol. [[spoiler:When they do have children, it's because they want to.]]
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Averted. [[spoiler:Katniss and Peeta have to find their way back together and restore their relationship years ''before'' they have childen together. Rather than making things better, the babies indicate that they're getting there, more like, "now that things are better, we can celebrate with babies". Katniss had sworn never to have children because she could never see them grow up in the CrapsackWorld. Her choosing to have children means that she believes that things are better now.]]
* BadLiar: According to Peeta. "Never gamble at cards. You'll lose your last coin." [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] later on, when she gradually becomes more effective at fooling people -- starting with Peeta himself in the form of their initial romance, which he believes to be more genuine on her part than it is. She also successfully convinces him that she was going to stay away from the dangerous feast]].
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* BeautifulDreamer
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Subverted. After the Games, she finds that her hearing in her left ear is restored. Her skin's perfection, smooth and glowing with no burns, scars or anything. Peeta on the other hand has his lower leg replaced with a metal and plastic device. However, in ''Mockingjay'', neither Katniss nor Peeta are considered important enough for such resources to be spent on them, giving them quality treatment for [[spoiler:their severe burns]] but making no effort to [[spoiler:give them the best skin grafts or remove the burns entirely the way they were able to do with Katniss' burns in the first book]].
* BelatedLoveEpiphany: Katniss insists that she isn't in love with anyone. That is, until [[spoiler:Peeta is imprisoned, tortured and hijacked, essentially brainwashing him into hating Katniss and wanting her dead]]. While the book never explicitly states the exact moment when she realizes her feelings the reader can take a guess at any moment from her stating that the loss of him has taken away her will to live to her telling him how she feels.
* BigEater: Katniss appreciates good food due to living on such simple fare at home. She deliberately gorges herself before the second Hunger Game to get some energy reserves.
* BigSisterInstinct:
** She cares about her sister so much that not only did she volunteer to take her sister's place in the games, but she submitted her name into the reaping multiple times to get her family more food so her sister wouldn't have to submit her own name.
** While she was in the games Katniss thought how her sister has multiple people who will make sure she's taken care of but Rue has no one to take care of her. Rue and Katniss teamed up and blew up the other's supplies. [[spoiler:Katniss tried to save Rue but she was too late. She killed the guy who killed Rue, sang to her as she died, and buried her in flowers.]]
* BirdsOfAFeather: She and Gale bond over similar personalities and experiences, both rebellious against the Capitol's regime but still working on providing for their families after their fathers died in the same mining accident. Through illegal hunting, of course.
* BraidsOfAction: She wears these a lot, and isn't seen with her hair down during the Games. It's a simple and practical hairstyle for living in a forest.
* BreakTheCutie: Pretty much the gist of the trilogy. Watch as a young girl is given Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and watch as she's forced to keep on chugging as other characters decide that she's too important to whatever is going on to be allowed to recover from her shell shock, exacerbating it at every given opportunity.
* BrokenBird:
** She starts out as one due to her father's death and having to be her family's main source of financial support but after the Games it turns up to eleven.
** Taken to a rather ''[[AnimalMotifs literal]]'' extent several times throughout the series, especially in ''Mockingjay'', which even includes a sequence in which Katniss hallucinates herself as a bird whose feathers and wings are burned off.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: In the first book, [[spoiler:Katniss is blown back by the explosion she sets off destroying the Careers' supplies and is rendered completely deaf in her left ear. Unable to escape, she only survives by hiding right under their noses.]] However, it's completely outdone in [[spoiler:the Quarter Quell, when Katniss nearly kills herself breaking the force field over the arena]].
* CantHoldHisLiquor: She gets dizzy from just half a glass of wine in the first book, and a few gulps of white liquor in the second get her to black out. Justified as these were her first times having alcohol, and the white liquor is pretty strong.
* CelibateHeroine: Seeing the horror of the Hunger Games is enough to make her call off marriage and children, because they would just end up in the reaping and possibly as tributes. And this was before she ever participated herself. Later averted as she is in a sexual relationship by the last chapter, but it still takes [[spoiler:15 years, the Hunger Games being abolished and a lot of love from Peeta to change her mind about having children]].
* ChildrenDoTheHousework: She had to pretty much take care of her household after her father died in a mining accident and her mother subsequently fell into depression.
%%* TheChosenOne: Treated this way by the rebellion.
%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* CombatPragmatist: Increasingly becomes this as the novels progress, though moreso during the games.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* TheComicallySerious
* CommitmentIssues: She keeps Peeta at arm's length because she is determined to never fall in love, get married and have children. The reason is implied to be a combination of not wanting to be a parent on Reaping Day and not wanting to end up like her mother, who broke down completely when her husband died. She does not think the world is suitable to bring children into. [[spoiler:She eventually develops past this and ''does'' have children in the epilogue, fifteen years after ''Mockingjay'' once she feels that it's safe enough for her to settle down.]]
* CoolBigSis: To Prim and Rue. Katniss goes out of her way to provide for Prim and make sure that latter never needs to take Tesserae to provide for their family. She ends up treating Rue in the same way, [[spoiler:which is part of why Katniss takes the girl's death so hard]].
* TheCynic: In contrast to Peeta's idealism, Katniss's utter lack of faith in people at the series' start is particularly grim.
* DaddysGirl: While she loved her mother, Katniss felt a stronger connection to her father, who taught her how to survive in the forest.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has her moments. Especially when bantering with Finnick.
-->'''Finnick:''' You can swim, too. Where did you learn that in District Twelve?\\
'''Katniss:''' We have a big bathtub.
* DeathSeeker: When she loses [[spoiler:Peeta's love]] in ''Mockingjay'', she makes it her goal to [[spoiler:find and kill President Snow and then die herself.]] Towards the end of the book she tries to [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]] by nightlock pill, only to be stopped by Peeta. Then she tries to starve herself to death while in confinement, but that doesn't work either. She does get better, but it takes some time and for Peeta to return to Twelve for her to want to live again]].
* DebtDetester: Katniss hates feeling she owes someone.
%%* DeclarationOfProtection: Towards Prim, which sets the plot in motion.
%%** Towards Peeta in the second book.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the IconOfRebellion. Katniss never set out to become the heroine of the anti-Capitol revolution and only ever wanted to keep her family alive, but volunteering in her sister's place and then surviving the Games with Peeta inspires an uprising among the districts. She goes along with becoming the face of the uprising not because of a desire to free the districts, but because she has no other choice. In the process, she loses almost everything, none of it by her own volition: [[spoiler:her hometown is firebombed to the ground, Peeta is taken from her and tortured until he doesn't recognize her, nearly all her friends and allies die in the revolution, Prim is blown to bits along with other rebel medics from bombs dropped from a Capitol hovercraft as part of Coin's plot to destroy the people's faith in Snow, and afterwards, Katniss can never bring herself to see Gale again, knowing he created those bombs]].
* DespairEventHorizon: Toes the line in ''Catching Fire'' when she realizes Haymitch only kept his promise to Peeta. Pushed over the edge after [[spoiler:[[DoomedHometown District Twelve is firebombed]]]]. She gets a bit better over the course of ''Mockingjay'', but gets hit ''hard'' again after [[spoiler:Prim's death]].
* {{Determinator}}: Slowly [[spoiler:starts to fall apart by Mockingjay, under the weight of guilt over all the people who died for her, and even after suffering physical, mental and emotional damage, just keeps going and going ''and going''.]]
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: In "''Mockingjay''" [[spoiler:she and Peeta have a sex scene that's so discreet it left many wondering if they had sex at all.]]
* DisappearedDad: Her father died in a mining accident when she was 11, forcing her to learn to hunt in order to provide for her family.
* DontThinkFeel: She does terribly when Haymitch tries to have her put on a fake personality in anticipation for the tribute interview, but Cinna suggests that she just be honest when answering Caesar's questions. It works beautifully and gets the Capitol audience to fall in love with her.
* ElementalMotifs: Katniss is strongly associated with fire throughout the series. In addition to her nickname being "The Girl On Fire", she also came from the coal-mining district with a bread-toasting marriage tradition, was attacked with fire by her sponsors in the arena, and even describes herself as having a fire that needed to be tempered by Peeta's calm "dandelion". Her action in the games spawned a literal and metaphorical fire across Panem that lead to the rebellion's resurgence, and her declaration that "fire is catching".
* EmotionlessGirl: Her outward demeanor is quite stoic, increasingly so as the books go on, excluding the [[SickeninglySweethearts "madly-in-love teenager"]] persona thrust upon her shoulders. [[NotSoStoic In truth, she's highly emotional.]]
%%* EmpathicWeapon: The Mockingjay bow.
* EveryoneHasStandards: In ''Mockingjay''. [[spoiler:When she makes her deal to become the face of the revolution, one of her conditions is that all the victors be pardoned for any damage they may have done to the rebel cause under threat of their lives. She privately admits to herself that she doesn't actually care about Enobaria, one of the victors from District 2 who also survived the Quell, but feels that it would be wrong to leave her out and so makes a point of explicitly including her.]]
* FamedInStory: Becomes one of the biggest celebrities in Panem.
* FamilyOfChoice: In the end her family consists of Peeta and Haymitch, not her parents or her sister.
%%* FireForgedFriends: With Johanna Mason in ''Mockingjay.''
* FirstPersonSmartass: Her narration is fairly snarky at times. It's unknown how much of it is [[StepfordSnarker a built-up defense mechanism]] and how much is natural.
-->'''Katniss:''' ''(describing the arenas in the first book)'' The arenas are historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for a month, rewatch the Games, tour the catacombs, visit the sites where the deaths took place. You can even take part in reenactments.\\
[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking They say the food is excellent.]]
* FlirtingUnderFire: Builds her romance with Peeta during the Hunger Games.
* FoodPorn: Katniss's narration includes full descriptions of everything she eats, since she's such a BigEater and has spent so long without good food.
* FreeRangeChildren: Walks around alone in the district at age eleven in all kinds of weather, trying to sell her sister's baby clothes to be able to buy food and rummaging through garbage bins to find something to eat. First heads out into the woods alone at age twelve. Being in the woods is not only dangerous but illegal, but her mother is too broken from the loss of her husband to care or possibly even notice.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Katniss was just another player, facing a one in twenty-four chance of staying alive longer than everyone else, but by the end of the series, she is [[spoiler:the face of the revolution, playing a role in the deaths of two corrupt Presidents of Panem]].
* FromRoommatesToRomance: Played with. In ''Catching Fire'' Peeta more or less moves in to Katniss' bedroom on the Victory Tour and during their Quarter Quell prep week, but even though he's deeply in love with her [[spoiler:and she's falling in love with him in return]] they keep it platonic (if affectionate). As ''Mockingjay'' draws to an end it's implied that Peeta moves in and lives with Katniss in her house, sleeping in her bed to help her cope with her bad dreams. [[spoiler:While they do end up married with children, it's implied that they essentially were just roommates for a while.]]
* GenerationXerox:
** Katniss' father [[spoiler:fell in love with a merchant girl,]] Katniss herself [[spoiler:falls in love with a merchant boy.]]
** Not just that, this trope is doubled! [[spoiler:Peeta meets Katniss when they are both children, after Peeta's father points her out to Peeta. Turns out, Peeta's dad wanted to marry Katniss' mother but she ended up falling in love with a miner. Peeta promptly falls in love with Katniss.]]
** She's also inherited her father's hair, skin, eye color and singing ability, as well as his love for hunting and being out in the woods.
* GenreSavvy: Has grown up watching the Hunger Games on television, and is able to think her way out of problems either by recalling past Games or by figuring out what moves would make the most exciting plot.
* TheGentlemanOrTheScoundrel: Katniss' original choice was not between a Gentleman and a Scoundrel, as they were both dependable people. However, as the series progresses, Peeta reveals himself as the Gentleman who cares deeply for Katniss and desires her safety, and Gale the Scoundrel revolutionist who desires to entangle Katniss in that world.
* GirlinessUpgrade: Done to her by the Capitol, putting her in dresses and make-up and so forth.
* GlassCannon: despite quick-thinking, agile, and a good shot with a bow and arrow, years of being underfed really limits how much stress her body can take.
* GoKartingWithBowser: Regularly sells her rabbits and squirrels to the Peacekeepers at the Hob.
* GrowOldWithMe: Given how long her life expectancy was when she volunteered to take Prim's place in the first book, the epilogue can be seen as this.
* HairContrastDuo: Is the bitter, cynical, stoic brunette to Peeta, Madge, and Prim's kinder, more approachable, sweeter blond.
* HairyGirl: Katniss is mentioned as having hairy legs, though it's brought up more for the sake of a PainfulBodyWaxing scene.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* {{Hallucinations}}: In her first Games, courtesy of tracker jacker venom.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Oddly, in spite of everything she and Peeta go through, with both having gone through massive amounts of DysfunctionJunction, being saddled with tons of psychological trauma from going through the games ''twice'', losing almost everyone they are close to, participating in and being the figureheads of a revolution that nearly destroys [[CrapsackWorld what little remains of human civilization]], and, in Peeta's case, [[ColdBloodedTorture cold blooded torture]] and [[MindRape mind rape]], she and Peeta still seem to end up this way. In fact, it's heavily implied that the only reason ''either'' of them is still functional is because of the other. The same goes for Haymitch, in a non romantic way.]]
* HatesTheirParent: After Katniss's and Prim's father died, their mother fell into such deep grief that she stopped taking care of either herself or them, forcing eleven-year-old Katniss to step up as head of the family. Despite her best efforts, the money ran out and they very nearly starved to death. They eventually recovered, but Katniss felt a deep sense of anger and resentment toward her mother for this.
-->Prim was thrilled to have her back, but I kept watching, waiting for her to disappear on us again. I didn't trust her. And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. Prim forgave her, but I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again.
* HeartbrokenBadass: In ''Mockingjay'', after [[spoiler:Peeta has been hijacked into hating her. She takes the loss of his love so hard that she almost begins to hate him for not loving her anymore.]] Still stays very badass though.
* HeroicBSOD: A minor one towards the end of ''Catching Fire'' that starts to resolve during ''Mockingjay'', only to implode and go supernova with [[spoiler:Prim's death. She's so completely dead inside that she needs to be put under SuicideWatch after killing Coin to avenge Prim]].
* HeroicNeutral: She really isn't interested in becoming a symbol or sparking a revolution. She just wants to keep her family safe and keep her head down.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** What volunteering for her sister was intended to be, as she knew her chances of getting out of the Games alive were extremely slim. She does make it out, though.
** She also fully tries to make sure Peeta is the one to survive The 75th Games instead of her.
* HighSchoolSweethearts: They don't actually attend high school but she and Peeta begin their romance at age sixteen. [[spoiler:It lasts for the rest of their lives.]]
* HopeBringer: The reason why President Snow views her as such a threat is that she's given hope to the districts -- more hope than Snow is comfortable with, that is.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: One of her biggest flaws. Quite simply, she has a nasty habit of always assuming the worst of everyone she meets when these people, ironically, often end up saving her life and or genuinely caring about her. Her trust issues mostly stem from her childhood trauma of never having anyone to be there for her and in turn having to be there for her younger sister.
* IconOfRebellion: The mockingjay pin, and eventually Katniss herself. Both represent something the Capitol tried to twist to their advantage, yet survived and found a way to screw their creator over.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Due to how she was raised, Katniss has a dim view of the Career tributes, considering their prior training unfair to the rest of them. What she fails to consider is that she herself has an unfair advantage because of her hunting skills. There's also her judgement of fellow tributes because of their killing, when she doesn't make any attempt to restrain her own killing – on a few occasions, she even mentions how her fingers are itching for her knife/arrows just because Johanna snapped at her. She also complains a great deal about the wasting of food, when she, in fact, does it herself (when she threw out the gift of cookies from Peeta's father, for example).
* ImperiledInPregnancy: All of Panem believes this to be the case during the Quell, courtesy of Peeta.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Katniss consistently manages to hit squirrels [[EyeScream in the eyes]] with her arrows -- something that is exceedingly difficult in the least even for experienced archers.
%%* IncorruptiblePurePureness: The other tributes see her as being this in the second Games. Cue Finnick, Johanna, and Chaff trolling her and trying to 'corrupt' her.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* IneffectualLoner
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Once she finds out [[spoiler:she'll be headed for another Hunger Games in the Quarter Quell]], she tries white liquor for the first time.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Believes that she doesn't deserve the love of someone like Peeta. Haymitch agrees with her.
* InstantTasteAddiction: She immediately took a liking for lamb stew with dried plums, to the point it was sent to her in the arena.
%%* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Haymitch, Mags and Effie.
* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:Courtesy of Peeta in ''Mockingjay'', who prevents her from biting the nightlock pill after she kills Coin.]]
* ItGetsEasier: Trope personified, as she goes from being concerned about killing for the first time, to Mockingjay [[spoiler:in which she kills unarmed people in cold blood while plotting the assassination of Snow; most disturbingly, it gets to the point where she murders an unarmed woman and proceeds to ''forget about it'' until she is finally reminded by a TV image of the dead woman; and even then, she brushes it off]].
* JadeColoredGlasses: She's not exactly all smiles. Most people who grow up in the Seam wear them in fact. Most victors, too, for that matter.
* JeanneDArchetype: A DeconstructedCharacterArchetype. She's an ActionGirl from humble origins who stands up to oppression to protect a loved one and becomes a beacon of hope for the rebellion. However, off-camera, she's actually a pragmatic survivor who never really cared about the rebel cause and is in it solely to protect her family. Later on, when she starts having visions, it's a result of trauma, drug addiction, and possible brain damage rather than any divine inspiration.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She admits herself that she's not very friendly. There are quite a few times throughout the series where she has angry/rude outbursts, but they are often caused by the various stressful situations she's thrown into and the CrapsackWorld she lives in. Regardless, she still has a kind heart and would sacrifice anything in order to protect the people that she loves.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* KnightInSourArmor
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Believes this to be her relationship with Gale in the first book. Turns out it's not quite so simple. [[spoiler:However it remains an unrequited love from Gale's side.]]
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Katniss is a lot like her father but very different from her mother. Her mother is a docile and soft spoken healer and when faced with the death of her husband she completely breaks apart and shuts down. Katniss is driven and energetic, loves being out hunting in the woods but can't stand the sight of injured or sick people and when faced with the loss of the boy she loves she rallies and channels her pain into becoming the figurehead of the revolution. They do have one big thing in common though - [[spoiler:both fell deeply in love with a man from their opposite social standing and started a family with him, something Katniss initially swore she would never do]].
* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: Falls in love with [[spoiler:Peeta Mellark]] who was her neighbor for about a year.
* LoveHurts: One of the two main reasons why she's so reluctant to admit to herself that she's falling in love. She ends up being proven right, too. [[spoiler:The loss of Peeta's love in the third book hurts her very deeply.]]
* LoveIsAWeakness: Believes this because of the way her mother completely broke down when she became a widow.
* MakeOutKids: She and Peeta play this trope up for all it's worth during the Victory Tour, as they have to make for a believable couple after everything in the arena.
%%* MamaBear: Towards Prim and Rue.
* MandatoryMotherhood: It's implied that President Snow expects her to bear Peeta's children as a means of being able to control her.
* MasterArcher: Katniss is an extremely talented archer, having grown up hunting in the wilderness. She doesn't think much of it at first, but Peeta praises her as being so skilled she can consistently hit a deer or even a squirrel in the eyes so that it dies without the arrow tearing through the edible bits.
%%* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: To both Peeta and Gale. Peeta eventually calls her on it.
* MeaningfulName: Katniss is a real plant. Its common name is "Arrowhead" (and its scientific name is ''Sagittaria'', which means 'archer' in Latin).
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* MoreHeroThanThou
* NatureLover: Loves being out in the woods and spends as much time there as possible.
* NonconformistDyedHair: Inverted. Having quirkily dyed hair or colourful wigs is a huge fashion trend in the materialistic and out-of-touch Capitol. For example, Effie has pink and purple hair, and Katniss's styling team wears their hair in a myriad of colors. Katniss, a rebel from the poorest district, is admired for her "natural beauty" (which includes her undyed brown hair).
* NoSocialSkills: Something that Haymitch frequently mocks Katniss over is her lack of people skills.
* NotAfraidToDie: In book two she intends to sacrifice herself to save Peeta and in book three she actually ''wants'' to die due to [[spoiler:losing Peeta's love, and later Prim dying]].
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Spends most of the third book being in talks to get in line with the revolution.
* NotSoStoic: She always seems like an EmotionlessGirl, or at least someone with NervesOfSteel. [[spoiler:And then Rue dies, and she cries profusely. Prim's death leads to an even worse breakdown]].
* ObliviousToLove: Cannot see that Gale and Peeta clearly love her until they outright state it to her. Even for Peeta, it took some time for her to realize after he blatantly says it.
* OneTrueLove: In the last chapter of ''Mockingjay'' she implies that she feels this way, stating that [[spoiler:she and Peeta ending up together would have happened anyway, with or without the Hunger Games and the rebellion.]]
%%* TheOphelia: [[spoiler:After killing Coin in Mockingjay]].
* PerpetualFrowner: Peeta likes watching her sleep because she doesn't scowl when she's sleeping.
* PlaguedByNightmares: Katniss and the rest of the victors seem plagued by them, although Katniss has long had recurring nightmares about her father's death.
* PluckyGirl: Even before she reaches the Capital, her acquaintances believe she has enough to win the Games. And indeed, her determination and will to survive take her to victory. Not to mention go through all the terrible things that happen later.
* PregnantBadass: During the tribute Interviews in ''Catching Fire'', Peeta tells the Capitol that Katniss was pregnant as of the time they were going into the Third Quarter Quell. {{Subverted|Trope}} by the fact that this was a lie, but it definitely succeeded in sending the Capitol into mass outrage.
* PromotionToParent: After their father died and their mother sank into depression, Katniss had to step up to the plate herself to take care of Prim.
* PullTheIV: Katniss has a tendency to pull out an IV whenever it is put into her, in at least one instance because [[DeathSeeker she wanted to die on her own terms]].
* PunnyName: An archer named after a plant also known as arrowhead.
* RebelliousRebel: She doesn't exactly agree with Coin on a few matters, [[spoiler:to the point where she ends up killing Coin at the end of Mockingjay]]. When asked to become a mascot [[spoiler:for the rebels]], she only accepts after setting some terms [[spoiler:to keep Peeta safe]]. Her inability to follow orders is a major underpinning of the third novel.
* RedBaron: Starting in the first book, she's known as the "Girl on Fire" because of her entrance in the Tribute parade. Afterward it becomes "The Mockingjay".
* RetiredBadass: Withdraws to District 12 after surviving the Hunger Games and the war and wants nothing but peace and normalcy.
* RoguishPoacher: Illegal hunting to feed starving family and stick it to The Man? Check.
* SaveThisPersonSaveTheWorld: [[spoiler:Keeping Katniss alive is of paramount importance to the rebels because she is "the Mockingjay" -- she managed to survive all attempts the Capitol made to kill her, turning her into a SymbolOfRebellion]].
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: A different interpretation of the word "connections" in this case, but the reason she hasn't been tossed in a cell for illegally hunting the District 12 wildlife isn't because of any particular skill at evading the Peacemakers. It's because the Peacemakers are also her customers.
* SelfSacrificeScheme: Her goal in ''Catching Fire'' is to save Peeta at the cost of her own life and she's well aware that by martyring herself she might be of better use to the rebellion than if she lives.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Already is one after the events of the first book, where she had to kill to survive a DeadlyGame. Then, she goes through [[TraumaCongaLine even worse things]], taking this trope up to eleven.
* ShoutOut: Her surname serves as one to Bathsheba Everdene from Thomas Hardy's ''Literature/FarFromTheMaddingCrowd''.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Under instructions from President Snow, she and Peeta act like this during the Victory Tour in an attempt to distract the districts from the rising feeling of rebellion. It doesn't work.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Appears to be this for [[spoiler:Peeta]]. She kisses two boys throughout the series but only feels sexual attraction to one of them, [[spoiler:enters into a committed relationship with him at around the age of eighteen and spends the rest of her life with him.]] While she notes that other men around her (for example Finnick) are attractive, she never seems to be sexually drawn to them herself.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: [[spoiler:This becomes the reason why she ultimately chooses Peeta over Gale]].
* SmittenTeenageGirl: The role Katniss plays for the cameras as one half of "the StarCrossedLovers from District 12". Of course, her true self is nothing like that.
%%* SoHappyTogether: She and Peeta play up this trope before the Quarter Quell.
%%* TheStoic
%%* StraightMan
%%* StylishProtectionGear: Her Mockingjay suit - designed by a professional stylist, no less.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: "Sugar" to Prim and Gale, "ice" to pretty much everyone else, including her mother. But she warms up to her and a few more people over the course of the trilogy.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* SuperCouple: With Peeta, including in-universe.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* SurvivalMantra: In the beginning of ''Mockingjay''.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* SurvivorGuilt
* SympathyForTheDevil: When she ultimately kills [[spoiler:Cato]] in the 74th Games, it's not out of anger towards him or a desire to win, but as [[MercyKill an act of compassion]] and pity for his condition.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: In the first book. Inverted in the second. Mad crushingly depressing in the third.
* TooDesperateToBePicky: At eleven years old, when her family was running out of food and money and about to starve to death, she tried searching through the trash bins of the District 12 shops to find something that would keep her family alive. She was shouted at by Mrs. Mellark, who threatened to call the Peacekeepers if she didn't leave.
* TooMuchAlike: One of the reasons why Katniss [[spoiler:never falls in love with Gale]] is that they are too much alike, both having a lot of fire and passion and anger, and she needs somebody with a different mindset than her own to balance her out.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Lamb stew with dried plums. Also Peeta's cheese buns.
* TragicKeepsake: Keeps the pearl Peeta gave her and spends a lot of time holding it in her hand in ''Mockingjay''. She even kisses it at one point, pretending she's kissing Peeta.
* TrueCompanions: With Peeta and Haymitch. She even refers to Haymitch as part of her family in "Catching Fire".
* {{Tyrannicide}}: She kills [[spoiler:President Coin after realising she and Snow were [[NotSoDifferentRemark not any different]]]].
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: By the time she realizes she's in love with [[spoiler:Peeta he's been brainwashed into thinking she's a mutt out to kill him. So he tries to strangle her. Ouch. This leaves her... rather bitter, to say the least.]]
* UnwittingPawn: Present, lampshaded, and part of the symbolism. A mockingjay is a powerful symbol to the rebels, but it's also a bird that can't sing its own songs, relying on what others sing to it.
* UselessSpleen: Loses hers in the third book.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Has no qualms whatsoever killing anyone she perceives to be a threat to Peeta in ''Catching Fire''.
* WhatTheHellHero: Imposes this on herself a few times, most notably in Mockingjay [[spoiler:when, after killing the unarmed woman, Katniss notes how she's graduated to killing unarmed civilians, and also notes in passing that she's become so accustomed to killing that she forgot all about taking the woman's life]].
* WreathedInFlames:
** Her entire public image is built around fire imagery after her debut at the 74th Games. [[spoiler:It [[ManOnFire backfires on her repeatedly]].]]
** And [[spoiler:literally applied when she is caught up in the explosion that kills Prim.]]
* YouAreWorthHell: Regarding Prim and later Peeta. While base survival is always on Katniss's mind, a major portion of the reason she wants to win the first Hunger Games is because she doesn't want to leave Prim alone in the world.
* YouGotSpunk: When volunteering for her sister at the reaping, Haymitch announces drunkenly that he likes how she's got lots of spunk.
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[[folder:Peeta Mellark]]
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->''"I just keep wishing I could think of a way to show them that they don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me. Does it make any sense?"''
Drawn to go along to the arena with Katniss, Peeta is the baker's son and thus a member of the merchant class in District 12. He also happens to be [[LoveAtFirstSight completely head-over-heels for Katniss]], which, it would seem, is his bad luck.
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* AbusiveParents:
** His mother beats him and calls him a "stupid creature". At one point, Katniss refers to her as [[WitchWithACapitalB a witch]]. ''Catching Fire'' implies that she also has whipped him, with Katniss being unfamiliar with the sound of a whip but Peeta quickly recognizing it when they hear it.
** His father is described in much better terms, although being a UselessBystanderParent nonetheless. Still, he does allow his deeply traumatized sixteen-year-old son, whose heart has just been broken and who's just had his leg amputated, to leave home and move into a house in a different part of town, all by himself. If nothing else, Papa Mellark is guilty of abuse via [[ParentalNeglect emotional (and arguably physical) neglect]].
* AccidentalMurder: Twice. Picks the nightlock berries that kill Foxface in the first book. In the third he [[spoiler:fights off a member of the Star Squad, sending him flying into a pod that kills him.]]
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ActionSurvivor
* ActOfTrueLove: Katniss spends most of the first book believing that Peeta will, or is at least willing to, kill her to survive the Hunger Games. In the climax, [[spoiler:she acts on this assumption when she sees him reaching down, presumably for a weapon, and points her own at him. It turns out he's unbandaging his leg, so that he will bleed to death, saving Katniss. When he unwraps the bandage, she realizes his true intentions and sincere care for her.]]
* AllAbusersAreMale: Averted. His mother is an AbusiveParent while his father is implied to be a UselessBystanderParent.
* AmnesiacLover: In ''Mockingjay''. He's not completely [[spoiler:amnesiac, but he does forget that he loves Katniss]].
* AnArmAndALeg: Averted. It doesn't seem to bother him in the slightest that his left leg was amputated.
* ArtAttacker: Before the Quarter Quell, Peeta uses his solo session with the Gamemakers to paint an image of Rue covered in flowers, to hold them responsible for her death.
* ArtificialLimbs: A prosthetic left leg [[HollywoodHealing which he learns to walk on within days after amputation and seems to be able to run on with no trouble within a few months]].
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:When he's been hijacked in ''Mockingjay'' he becomes violently homicidal.]]
* BadassPacifist: While he partakes in two Hunger Games and the rebellion, he is a pacifist by nature and advocates diplomacy over violence. While he is pragmatic enough to take a life when his own depends upon it, he only does so as a last resort. But while he is mild-tempered and gentle, he can definitely hold his own in close combat and even kills Brutus, [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome one of the toughest competitors]], during the Quarter Quell.
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:Just don't mention Katniss to him in the third book. And especially don't leave her in the same room with him. However, this is {{invoked|Trope}} on him by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy the Capitol's hijacking]] and not of his own accord.]]
* TheBerserker: [[spoiler:Becomes this in "Mockingjay" as he has multiple violent outbursts that causes him to attack friend or foe like the berserkers of the old that flew into a rage and could not tell who they were fighting.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Peeta's kills in the 74th Games are a MercyKill and accidentally killing someone who was TooCleverByHalf, not counting any potential kills he had at the Cornucopia. In the 75th game, [[spoiler: Brutus, probably the most dangerous enemy Victor, kills Chaff, and Peeta ''loses his shit'' and kills Brutus in retaliation. This all happens offscreen, so we never get the details of what exactly he did beyond going into a fit of rage.]]
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Gale's Veronica for Katniss.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** [[spoiler:Their [[HourglassPlot roles reverse]] as the series goes on.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In ''Mockingjay'', [[spoiler:he gets hijacked while being held hostage by the Capitol, which brainwashes him into going into a homicidal rage whenever he sees Katniss]].
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* BreakTheCutie
* BreakThemByTalking: Manages this in his Quarter Quell interview. He is highly skilled when it comes to manipulating a crowd with his words and in this case he claims to have married Katniss and that she is pregnant with their love child in order to win her support in the Games. Not only does he accomplish that but gets the Capitol audience so upset that some of them cry for the Games to be stopped.
* CatchPhrase: "Real or not real?"
* TheCharmer: His strongest quality is his ability to win over the audience, and even his fellow tributes, with his magnetic personality and ability to improvise with his words. He and interview host Caesar quickly find jokes and ways to amuse the audience during his interviews.
* CityMouse: Being from District 12's merchant class, he has little in the way of survival skills during the 74th Games, besides his ability to camouflage himself, and is [[WithCatlikeTread really bad at sneaking around.]]
%%* ConsummateLiar:
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Katniss assumes that since Peeta grew up a merchant kid, he doesn't know starvation like she does. She is surprised to find out that he rarely had enough to eat either and that the only bread they got to have was the stale, tasteless bread they could no longer sell.
* CourtlyLove: His affections for Katniss has strong aspects of this. He's deeply in love with her, has no real hope that she'll return his feelings (he thinks she's in love with Gale) yet is still willing to both kill and die for her. He plays the role of a passionate lover in public but is remarkably chaste with her in private. Even when she lets him into her bed and sleeps in his arms, he never tries to so much as kiss her.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* DeadpanSnarker
* DeathOfPersonality: In ''Mockingjay''. Johanna refers to him [[spoiler:post-hijacking]] as "the evil version of" himself.
%%* DeclarationOfProtection: To Katniss. Well, until [[spoiler:the Capitol brainwashes him, that is]].
* DemotedToExtra: In ''Mockingjay''. In the previous two books he was part of the main cast, but because of [[spoiler:his imprisonment by the Capitol and the time he spends recovering afterward]], he spends most of this book off-screen and doesn't really see much action until near the third act.
* {{Determinator}}: Perhaps not in the classic won't-stay-down-in-a-fight way, but Peeta's desire to remain himself and protect Katniss allowed him to [[spoiler: push through the Capitol's brainwashing long enough to warn District 13 of an impending attack--a warning that saved many lives, including Prim and Gale. Later, he is able to recover from hijacking, something that nobody could be sure was even possible.]]
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Of the first two books. In them, he has the most focus of any character other than Katniss. Gale takes over in book 3.
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: In ''Mockingjay'' he and [[spoiler:Katniss have a sex scene that's so discreet it left many wondering if they had sex at all.]]
* DisabledLoveInterest: Loses his left leg in the first book, and has a prosthetic for the rest of the series.
* DisneyDeath: Has one of these on the first day of the Quarter Quell [[spoiler:after he runs into the force field surrounding the arena]].
* DistressedDude: [[spoiler:Is taken hostage by the Capitol at the end of ''Catching Fire'' and held prisoner throughout a part of ''Mockingjay'']].
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* DoggedNiceGuy:
* TheDulcineaEffect: He may have known Katniss since the age of five but he only actually interacted with her once before being reaped with her and never speaks to her until they've become tributes. All the same he's so determined to die for her survival's sake that Haymitch notes it's not even worth trying to save Peeta in the arena.
* DyingAsYourself: Subverted. It's what Peeta wants. He tells Katniss that if he's going to die in the arena, he doesn't want the Games to change who he is. In "Mockingjay" he [[spoiler:asks the Star Squad to kill him while he's in-between hijack attacks, but they refuse]].
* FakeDefector: He allies with the Careers initially, but is later revealed to have done so to [[spoiler:protect Katniss in his own way]].
* FakeMemories: After [[spoiler:being hijacked at the hands of Snow's goons most of his memories pertaining to Katniss and the events of the previous two books have been altered. Gradually he begins to be able to tell fake memories apart from real ones but the effects are implied to last to some degree for the rest of his life.]]
* FamedInStory: Becomes a huge celebrity after the 74th Games.
* FamilyOfChoice: Never seems particularly close with his biological family but forms a very close bond with Katniss and Haymitch.
* FirstGuyWins: [[spoiler:Katniss met Peeta first, he declared his feelings for her first and she never did develop romantic feelings for Gale.]]
* FlirtingUnderFire: Builds a romance with Katniss during the Hunger Games.
* FlowerMotifs: Katniss associates him with dandelions, spring flowers that represent hope, life and renewal.
* FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler:After being hijacked by the Capitol, his real self struggles to show through.]]
-->[[spoiler:"How do you think this will end? What will be left? No one is safe. Not in the Capitol. Not in the districts. And you... In Thirteen... Dead by morning!"]]
* FromRoommatesToRomance: For all intents and purposes moves in to Katniss' bedroom during the Victory Tour and the Quarter Quell prep week but even though he's deeply in love with her he doesn't pressure her to make it more than platonic. After the war it's implied that he moves in to Katniss' house (and sleeps in her bed) and it stays platonic [[spoiler:until it doesn't anymore... and they become lifelong romantic partners and parents of at least two children]].
* GenerationXerox: The story goes that Peeta's father once fell in LoveAtFirstSight with Katniss' mother, and later pointed Katniss out to Peeta.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan
* GoodIsNotDumb: Peeta is kind, patient, and three steps ahead when it comes to manipulating the on-camera narrative.
* GoodIsNotSoft: His views on the game is that he will kill for survival but he won't try to let that change [[TechnicalPacifist who he is.]]
* GracefulLoser: Ties in with IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy. Volunteers to be a tribute in the Quarter Quell to ensure that Katniss can survive and be with Gale.
* GuileHero: He may be a load physically, but he's saved Katniss a lot of problems by being a big fat liar.
** [[spoiler:As such, he transforms into quite the MagnificentBastard when he is brainwashed in ''Mockingjay''.]]
* HairContrastDuo: Kind, gentle, sweet blonde to Katniss' and Haymitch's bitter, cynical, stoic brunette.
* HandicappedBadass: Loses his left leg in the first book yet remains rather badass.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Oddly, in spite of everything he and Katniss with both having gone through massive amounts of [[DysfunctionJunction dysfunction junction]], being saddled with tons psychological trauma from going through the games ''twice,'' losing almost everyone they are close to, participating in and being the figureheads of a revolution that nearly destroys [[CrapsackWorld what little remains of human civilization]], and, in Peeta's case, [[ColdBloodedTorture cold blooded torture]] and [[MindRape mind rape]], Katniss and he still seem to end up this way. In fact, it is heavily implied that the only reason ''either'' of them is still functional is because of the other. The same goes for Haymitch, in a non romantic way.]]
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* TheHeart
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* HeroicSacrifice: Practically a basic character trait of his.
* HeroicWillpower: He is the only known case of a person [[spoiler:recovering from hijacking]] and he does it almost entirely on his own, through sheer force of will.
* HighSchoolSweethearts: They don't attend school after the 74th Games, but he and Katniss are 16/17 when they begin their relationship [[spoiler:and they go on to love each other for the rest of their lives.]]
* HopeBringer: An act that Peeta was completely unaware of at the time but [[spoiler: his giving bread to Katniss in their first encounter actual restored her will to live when she was on the brink of being a DeathSeeker.]]
* HopeSpringsEternal: Embodies this to Katniss, which is one of the reasons why [[spoiler:she loves him]].
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: His plan in ''Catching Fire'' is to get Katniss through the Quarter Quell at the expense of his own life, so she can be with her family and even marry Gale.
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: On a few occasions in the first and third book. It's implied that his crush on Katniss developed into full-blown infatuation when she refused to leave him during the 74th Games even though he was close to dying from sepsis and fully aware that he was TheLoad to her at that point.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Subverted for a point, but ultimately played straight.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: [[spoiler:When he's hijacked. If being mostly catatonic isn't enough to show how the extensive MindRape affected him, him trying to strangle Katniss certainly does so]].
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Haymitch.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Paints pretty pictures, decorates cakes, bakes flower-shaped cookies, prefers diplomacy to violence, wears his heart on his sleeve...
* ItMeantSomethingToMe: The made up romance he and Katniss portrayed in the first Hunger Games was very real to him, and it leaves the first novel with a DownerEnding for him.
* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: Is in love with Katniss and gets to live next door to her after winning the 74th Hunger Games.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Katniss. After he gets [[spoiler:captured by the Capitol at the end of ''Catching Fire'', Katniss spends the first chunk of ''Mockingjay'' moping.]]
* TheLoad: Downplayed example.
** In the first book, he ends up not being able to do much after his leg gets injured. He's pretty much helpless, meaning Katniss has to risk her life twice as often to get food and supplies. Even after he heals enough to move around, he's a liability when Katniss fights and even when she ''hunts''--he walks so clumsily that he scares off any prey within earshot. Still, he greatly helps Katniss win over sponsors with the romantic storyline they play up for the audience's benefit, and he ends up [[spoiler:accidentally taking out one of their opponents by leaving out poisoned berries she steals and eats.]]
** He gets an undeserved bad rep for being this in ''Catching Fire'' as well. He displays these traits the first day of [[spoiler:the Quarter Quell - at the Cornucopia (because he can't swim) and when they're fleeing from the poisonous gas (because he's weak after getting severely electrocuted mere hours before, though that was his fault for just casually hacking through the plants and not bothering to be more mindful of his surroundings, so he walked right into the barrier)]], and it's Peeta that ends up startling the monkey mutts into attacking himself, Katniss and Finnick. However, for the rest of the time, he's either [[spoiler: carrying Beetee around the arena, creating a map of the clock, doing all he can to ensure that Katniss survives at the cost of his own life, killing Brutus who is one of their toughest competitors, or generally contributing as much as anyone else in the party.]] He was also the one who made sure himself, Katniss and Haymitch were prepared for [[spoiler:the Quell by forcing the other two to train with him, both physically and survival skills-wise, and meticulously studying their competition to find out what the other victors' strength and weaknesses were.]]
* LoveAtFirstNote: Peeta first took note of Katniss when they were five, when his father pointed her out. Peeta's father originally wanted to marry Katniss's mother, but she fell in love with a miner, because when he sang, even the birds would listen. On the first day of school, the teacher asked if anyone knew a folk song, and Katniss's hand shot right up. When she sang, even the birds stopped to listen -- and at that moment, Peeta was a goner. He's been in love with Katniss ever since.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* LoveMartyr
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* TheLudovicoTechnique: This is essentially what hijacking is, and Peeta is the most famous victim of it.
* MagneticHero: Practically a poster boy for the trope, with his persuasive skills and ultimately kind heart. President Coin is not too happy that they saved Katniss instead of him, for this very reason.
* MakeOutKids: He and Katniss play this trope up as much as they can during the Victory Tour, as they have to make for a believable couple after everything in the arena.
* MandatoryFatherhood: It's heavily implied that President Snow expects him to father children by Katniss. [[spoiler:Once the war is over and the Games have been abolished he voluntarily has them. In fact, the reason why Katniss changes ''her'' mind about children is because Peeta wants them so badly.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: A sympathetic example. He's very good at leading the interviews with Caesar, charming the audience and dropping bombshells designed to make the Capitol sympathetic to himself and Katniss, like revealing he has been in love with Katniss for years or lying and telling them Katniss is pregnant just before the Quarter Quell in hopes they will cancel the games or at the very least pull her out. They don't, but he tried.
* MartialPacifist: A pacifist at heart who doesn't want to see more bloodshed, yet he can be deadly when he feels the need to be.
* MeaningfulName: Two-fold. Peeta sounds like it's an evolved version of Peter, who was Christ's rock. It also sounds like pita bread. Peeta is Katniss' rock and, well, he bakes.
* MindRape: [[spoiler:It's presumed that he underwent this while being hijacked by the Capitol.]]
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* MindControlEyes
* MinoredInAsskicking: He's very strong, a wrestler, skilled with a knife, holds his own at the Cornucopia and against Cato and kills Brutus, one of the toughest tributes in the Quarter Quell. All the same he prefers diplomacy to violence and only uses force when his life, or Katniss', is on the line. He does most of his damage through being a MagneticHero and a master of the WhamLine.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* MoralityChain: [[spoiler:Played up subtly in Catching Fire. By the end of Mockingjay, Katniss explicitly states this is why she ultimately chooses Peeta over Gale.]]
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* MoreHeroThanThou
* NiceGuy: His kindness and compassion for others is his defining trait.
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: The noble male to Gale's roguish male. He is gentle, kind, chivalrous, has quite the way with words and advocates diplomacy over violence (even, at times, during the actual Hunger Games).
* NonActionGuy: Played with. He's said to excel at hand-to-hand combat in the training prior to the Games and, in the Games themselves, participated in several fights. However, his physical feats are mostly off-screen and the rest of the time, he's more of a talker and less of a fighter.
* NotAfraidToDie: In fact he intends to do so at various points in all three books. It makes him stand out during the 74th Hunger Games, him apparently being the first tribute to fight for someone else's survival instead of his own. Whether this is TheDulcineaEffect at play or if he simply knows he cannot win and wants his death to do some good is up for debate. In the second book it's IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy through and through. In the third, he simply doesn't want to live as the monster he believes he's been turned into.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Peeta ''did'' stay to fight it out in the opening bloodbath at the Cornucopia in the 74th Games and apparently did some serious fighting -- enough to get some bad cuts and a limp. Whatever he did, the Careers did decide to team up with him after seeing him in action and even ''[[BloodKnight Cato]]'' compliments his skill with a knife.]]
** [[spoiler:He also kills Brutus off screen.]]
* OneTrueLove: At the end of ''Mockingjay'', Katniss implies that she feels he is this for her, saying that the two of them ending up together "would have happened anyway". He most certainly seems to feel that way about her in return, telling her in ''Catching Fire'' that she is his whole life.
* PunnyName: Peeta the baker. His name is a pun on "pita", a type of bread. Fandom loves to speculate on what his brothers' names are...
* ResistTheBeast: By the time he becomes aware of how much he's been changed in ''Mockingjay'' he begins to view himself as a mutt and loathes what he has become. Ashamed of what he now is, and fearing that he might hurt Katniss (or other members of the Star Squad as collateral damage) he asks the others to kill him. When they don't comply he refuses to let them remove his handcuffs and uses the pain from wearing them as a method of keeping sane.
* RetiredBadass: At the end of the books he goes back to his home district and wants nothing more for the rest of his life than to [[spoiler:be with Katniss and eventually raise a family with her]].
* SaveThisPersonSaveTheWorld: President Coin feels it's more important to save Peeta than Katniss in the Quell. In the third book [[spoiler:she arranges for Peeta's rescue from the Capitol because Katniss cannot perform as the Mockingjay with Peeta in harm's way]], making this trope apply by extension.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* SelfDeprecatingHumor: Peeta is said to have this.
* SelfSacrificeScheme: Has no intention whatsoever of trying to win either one of the two Hunger Games he participates in, and every move of his is designed to help save Katniss instead.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Katniss begins to see potential loves interests in two guys, Peeta, the baker's son who decorates the cakes and Gale, her hunting partner. Gale is angry with the Capitol for making them participate in the games while Peeta is reflective on how he can maintain his identity in the games despite the Capitol using them.
* ShellShockedVeteran: After the Games, he takes up painting. And as Katniss discovers, it's to [[NightmareFuelColoringBook make recreations of what happened in the arena]] to help ease his mind. Her response is "I hate it. But they're extraordinary" (as the narration makes clear, they're so well done and vivid that Katniss can smell the blood, dirt and Muttation hair just by looking).
* SixthRangerTraitor: He temporarily sided with the Careers in the first Games. He later teamed up with Katniss and stayed with her for the rest of the Games.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: He's seen playing chess with Haymitch in ''Catching Fire''.
* TheSneakyGuy: He joins the Career Tributes to serve as this. And then another proof of sneakiness, he hides from them by [[ChameleonCamouflage painting himself as part of the scenery]].
* TheSocialExpert: Peeta can play the crowds like a harp, and it's arguably his greatest talent.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* SoHappyTogether: Plays this trope up for all it's worth before the Quarter Quell.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Peeta manages to be this to ''everyone'' by virtue of wanting to remain himself, rather than doing his best to survive the games at the cost of his humanity. [[spoiler: His confession, and later Katniss going along with it, triggers the rule change that allows both of them to win. His determination to make sure Katniss survives messes with the rebellion's plans during the Quarter Quell, when he refuses to let Haymitch go into the arena, and claiming Katniss was pregnant led to unrest in the very Capitol at the worst possible time for Snow. And then during the rebellion, Snow and Coin both try to use Peeta as a time bomb to kill Katniss, only for him to respond by recovering from his hijacking through pure willpower, something never done before.]]
* StealthPun: A guy named Peeta who works at a bakery. Pita bread.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* TheStoic: Has shades of this.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* TheStrategist
* SupremeChef: Having grown in one of the few District 12 places with constant food (a bakery), he's a really great cook.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* SuperCouple: With Katniss, including in-universe.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* SuperStrength: The closest person to having a CharlesAtlasSuperPower.
* SurvivalMantra: "Not real, not real, not real, not real..."
* TechnicalPacifist: Before conflict arises, he will try to go the path that involves the least amount of bloodshed.
* SweetBaker: He comes from a family of bakers and who Katniss thinks of him "the boy with the bread". He's also a sensitive, empathetic, and idealistic character who truly loves Katniss.
* ThroughHerStomach: Katniss ''really'' likes cheese buns.
* TokyoRose: [[spoiler:Pressed into this role by the Capitol after being captured, to try to convince the rebels that their efforts weren't worth it through broadcasts.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He takes a keen professional interest in bread, mainly due to being raised by and as a baker.
* TrueCompanions: With Haymitch and Katniss. The third book implies something similar between him, Johanna and Annie but in a quite twisted way.
* UselessBystanderParent: Everyone seems to think his father was a nice, kind-hearted man but it's strongly implied that he never interfered when his wife physically and verbally abused their sons.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* WhamLine: Delivering these is pretty much his specialty.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Lampshaded and subverted. Peeta is a talented artist thanks to his experience decorating cakes at the bakery, but his skill doesn't seem so useful at first in a situation where people are trying to kill each other. Katniss snarks "If only you could frost someone to death." Turns out [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower Cake Decorating Is an Awesome Power]] when it helps his camouflage skills.
%%* WideEyedIdealist: At first. His idealism gradually erodes as the series goes on.
* UnstoppableRage: When truly angered Peeta will lose all restraints and fly into a berserker rage. Played straight when he gets hijacked he becomes homicidal and gets a significant rage boost which increases his strength and his urge to brutally attack friend or foe.
* UnskilledButStrong: Peeta is the closest character in the series to having CharlesAtlasSuperPower (due to having grown up lugging massive sacks of flour), but lacks the Killer Instinct to effectively use it. During the actual training sessions before the games, Katniss notes that Peeta excels at hand-to-hand combat. In comparison, Peeta has less actual experience in the wilderness.
* UptownGuy: A member of the merchant class who's in love with a girl from the Seam. Once they're both victors, they're on equal social standing, though.
* YouAreWorthHell: Willingly [[spoiler:goes back into the arena to try and protect Katniss in ''Catching Fire'' even though he still suffers from PTSD and terrible nightmares after surviving the previous one]].
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!District 12
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!Everdeen Family
[[folder:Katniss Everdeen]]
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->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JenniferLawrence
* ActionGirl: Katniss has been the breadwinner in her family since her father died, and was a talented hunter even before that. She's lethal with a bow and when she enters the Hunger Games, she puts those skills to use. She quickly proves herself to be formidable, intelligent and determined. [[spoiler:She manages to beat out other competitors that are not only physically stronger and working together, but whom have been training their entire lives to kill.]]
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She has dark hair and is rather emotionally distant and closed off from others, due to her numerous trust issues.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Or rather Always Save The Boy With The Bread. She continuously prioritizes Peeta's survival over what's best for her own survival, the rebellion and her squad.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted. In the books, Katniss was stated as "olive-skinned" but with no specified race. In the movies, she is played by the white Jennifer Lawrence.
* AnimalMotifs: From ''Catching Fire'' onwards, she's strongly identified with mockingjays. She received a pin of one early in ''The Hunger Games'' and it became her symbol.
* {{Anti Hero}}ine: [[PragmaticHero The pragmatic kind.]] And also an example of the good kind.
* ArcherArchetype: She relies on her bow to hunt, survive, and lead. Katniss has strong and independent survivalist instincts due to her difficult past and is good at thinking outside the box. She is not socially adept and has a hard time making friends due to the emotional strain on her life which has made her hard and cold. She is usually very logical.
* ArcSymbol: Fire is strongly associated with her throughout the story. Of course, fire usually represents revolutions, even in real life, so it fits.
* ArrowsOnFire: Beetee gives her special explosive-tipped arrows in ''Mockingjay Pt. 1''. And they are ''very'' explosive.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: As much as she bickers with Haymitch and as angry as she is with him in ''Mockingjay'' they still have moments that show how much they've grown to care about one another. [[spoiler:For example it's his arms she cries in over Peeta's torture.]]
* BadLiar: According to Peeta. "Never gamble at cards. You'll lose your last coin." [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] later on, when she gradually becomes more effective at fooling people -- starting with Peeta himself in the form of their initial romance.]]
* BecomingTheMask: After playing up the Romance with Peeta for the camera's since the 74th Hunger Games, [[spoiler: her real genuine feelings for him become clearer and clearer as time goes on]]. And later, after being used as a symbol of the rebellion for propaganda purposes, [[spoiler: she becomes a warrior and inspirational leader of the revolution war.]]
* BigSisterInstinct: Katniss is deeply devoted to her beloved sister Prim, and she volunteers to take her place in the Hunger Games after Prim's name is called, effectively kickstarting the story. This is essentially a death sentence and she's fully aware of it. When she's in the arena, she forms an attachment to Rue and becomes her steadfast ally. [[spoiler:She's entirely heartbroken when Rue is killed, singing to her as she dies and burying her in flowers.]]
* BirdsOfAFeather: Her and Gale, both rebellious against the Capitol's regime but still working on providing for their families. Through illegal hunting, of course.
* BreakTheCutie: Pretty much the gist of the film series. Watch as a young girl is given Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and watch as she's forced to keep on chugging as other characters decide that she's too important to whatever is going on to be allowed to recover from her shell shock, exacerbating it at every given opportunity.
* BrokenBird: She starts out as one due to her father's death and having to be her family's main source of financial support but after the Games it turns up to eleven.
%%%* TheChosenOne: Treated this way by the rebellion.
** ColorCodedEyes: Her eyes are a cold and distant grey, reflecting determinator status. And don't you forget her archery skills, too.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: In the 74th Hunger Games, she and Peeta wore coal black jackets.
* CombatPragmatist: Increasingly becomes this as the novels progress, though moreso during the games.
%%* TheComicallySerious
* CommitmentIssues: The reason why she keeps Peeta at arm's length is that she is determined to never fall in love, get married and have children. The reason is implied to be a combination of not wanting to be a parent on Reaping Day, not wanting to put people into the world who will have to feel the same fear and hatred that she does, and not wanting to end up like her mother, who broke down completely when her husband died. In "''Catching Fire''" it's Katniss who suggests that she and Peeta get married but it's not because of romantic desire but rather a desperate attempt at keeping Snow happy. Peeta agrees, but not very happily.
%%%%* CoolBigSis: To Prim and Rue.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: In the second film near the end, as [[spoiler:she is hoisted from the burning wreckage of the Arena by a resistance hovercraft.]]
* TheCynic: In contrast to Peeta's idealism, Katniss's utter lack of faith in people at the series' start is particularly grim. In the last book, after losing [[spoiler:Prim,]] she even declares to [[spoiler:have no allegiance to the human race anymore.]]
* DaddysGirl: Her father was clearly her favored parent. Not helped very much by her mother virtually abandoning her after he died.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has her moments. Especially when bantering with Finnick.
-->'''Finnick''': You can swim, too. Where did you learn that in District Twelve?
-->'''Katniss''': We have a big bathtub.
%%* DebtDetester
* DeclarationOfProtection: Towards Prim, which sets the plot in motion. She later declares protection for Peeta at the Quarter Quell.
* DespairEventHorizon: Toes the line in ''Catching Fire'' when she realizes Haymitch only kept his promise to Peeta. Pushed over the edge after [[spoiler:[[DoomedHometown District Twelve is annihilated]]]].
%%* {{Determinator}}
* DisappearedDad: Her father died in a mining accident.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Somewhat, while she will probably suffer from the effects of PTSD due to the games the rest of her life, [[spoiler: [[HappilyMarried she and Peeta]] find a way to carve out as much normalcy as they can for themselves and their children.]]
* FamedInStory: Becomes one of the biggest celebrities in Panem.
* FireForgedFriends: With Finnick Odair and Johanna Mason in ''Mockingjay''.
* FirstGirlWins: [[spoiler:She met Peeta first, he declared his feelings for her first and she never did develop romantic feelings for Gale.]]
* FlirtingUnderFire: Builds her romance with Peeta during the Hunger Games.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: A heroic version: Katniss was a nobody from District 12 who volunteered as tribute and was not initially expected to survive. From there on, she blasts through the Hunger Games, kills numerous people, becomes one of the most well-known people in the world (with the sole exclusion of President Snow) and [[spoiler:becomes the face of a revolution intent on toppling the government.]] Not bad for a young girl who only wanted to save her sister.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: She's a good archer, but not particularly good at fighting hand-to-hand.
* {{Hallucinations}}: In her first Games, courtesy of tracker jacker venom.
* HeartbrokenBadass: In ''Mockingjay'' after [[spoiler:Peeta has been hijacked into hating her. She takes the loss of his love so hard that she almost begins to hate him for not loving her anymore.]] Still stays very badass though.
* HeroicNeutral: She really isn't interested in becoming a symbol or sparking a revolution. She just wants to keep her family safe and keep her head down.
* HeroicSacrifice: What volunteering for her sister was intended to be, as she knew her chances of getting out of the Games alive were extremely slim. She does make it out, though.
* HighSchoolSweethearts: They don't actually attend high school but she and Peeta begin their romance at age sixteen.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: One of her biggest flaws, though not in the usual way. Quite simply, she has a nasty habit of always assuming the worst of everyone she meets when these people ironically often end up saving her life and or genuinely caring about her. Her trust issues mostly stem from her childhood trauma of never having anyone to be there for her, including people she thought she could trust, and in turn having to be there for her younger sister. [[spoiler:This is also why she's so confused by Peeta, considering he ''did'' help her when no one else would, and as such she's unable to paint him with her usual worldview and doesn't know how else to see him.]]
* IconOfRebellion: The mockingjay pin, and eventually Katniss herself.
%%* ImprobableAimingSkills
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: The other tributes saw her as being this in the second Games, but largely due to the fact that she never had to be subjected to how the Capitol treats their victors, since she didn't last long after her victory tour and had a 'husband' anyway. Cue Finnick, Johanna, and Chaff trolling her and trying to 'corrupt' her.
%%* IneffectualLoner
* INeedAFreakingDrink: [[spoiler:Once she finds out she'll be headed for another Hunger Games in the Quarter Quell.]]
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Haymitch, Mags and Effie.
%%* JadeColoredGlasses
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Katniss is a good person with a huge capacity for love and the devotion of a saint, but personally she's bitter, sarcastic, distant and stand-offish. A lot of the Hunger Games deals with Haymitch and Effie's attempts to make her more 'presentable' to the Capitol.
* JeanneDArchetype: When asked to describe Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games, actress Jennifer Lawrence replied, "She's a futuristic Joan of Arc." Her co-star Donald Sutherland also compared Katniss to Joan. What clinches her role as Jeanne D'Archetype, however, is probably the whole "Girl on Fire" image which Katniss is given.
* KirkSummation: lays out to the mooks why the president and ruling methods are evil and need to be defeated. It does not work 100% but still impressively so.
* KnightInSourArmor: The only thing she ultimately wants is freedom, peace, and no more Hunger Games.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Believes this to be her relationship with Gale in the first book. Turns out it's not quite so simple. [[spoiler:However it remains an unrequited love from Gale's side.]]
* LoveHurts: One of the two main reasons why she's so reluctant to admit to herself that she's falling in love.
* MadeOfIron: She has been strangled by Peeta, shot in the chest, and had her entire body (save her face) burned by fire, and survived all of those predicaments.
* MakeOutKids: She and Peeta play this trope up for all it's worth during the Victory Tour.
* MamaBear: Towards Prim and Rue.
* MandatoryMotherhood: It's implied that President Snow expects her to bear Peeta's children as a means of being able to control her.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: To both Peeta and Gale. Gale eventually calls her on it.
* MeaningfulName: Katniss is a real plant. Its common name is "Arrowhead" (and its scientific name is ''Sagittaria'', which means 'archer' in Latin).
%%* MoreHeroThanThou
* NoSocialSkills: Something that Haymitch frequently mocks Katniss over is her lack of people skills.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: All she wants is to ensure Peeta's survival. She has no interest in starting a war with the Capital, at least at first...
* ObliviousToLove: Cannot see that Gale and Peeta clearly love her until they outright state it to her. Even for Peeta, it took some time for her to realize after he blatantly says it.
* PregnantBadass: In ''Catching Fire''... or so Peeta would have you believe.
%%* PluckyGirl
* PromotionToParent: For her sister, due to her mother's depression and general ineffectiveness.
* PunnyName: An archer named after a plant also known as arrowhead.
* RedBaron: She's known both as 'The Girl on Fire' and 'Mockingjay'.
* RetiredBadass: [[spoiler:After [[EarnYourHappyEnding earning her happy ending]] with Peeta.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: Coin took Prim's life, so Katniss wants to take Coin's.]]
* RoguishPoacher: Illegal hunting to feed starving family and stick it to The Man? Check.
%%* SaveThisPersonSaveTheWorld: Especially apparent in "''Catching Fire''". Something about Mockingjay. Possibly Katniss saves the world.
* SelfSacrificeScheme: Her goal in "''Catching Fire''" is to save Peeta at the cost of her own life and she's well aware that by martyring herself she might be of better use to the rebellion than if she lives.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Due to the events of the Hunger Games, and from there on it progresses from bad to worse.
* ShoutOut: Name serves as one to Bathsheba Everdene from Thomas Hardy's ''Literature/FarFromTheMaddingCrowd''.
* ShutUpKirk: In the middle of ''Mockingjay'', the Girl on Fire finds out the hard way that {{Rousing Speech}}es don't work on everyone.
* SmittenTeenageGirl: The role Katniss plays for the cameras is oh so in love with Peeta. Of course, her true self is nothing like that.
%%%* SoHappyTogether: She and Peeta play up this trope before the Quarter Quell.
%%* StraightMan
* StylishProtectionGear: Her Mockingjay suit - designed by a professional stylist, no less.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: "Sugar" to Prim and Gale, "ice" to pretty much everyone else, including her mother. But she warms up to her and a few more people over the course of the series.
* SuperCouple: With Peeta, including in-universe.
* SurvivalMantra: In the beginning of ''Mockingjay''.
%%* SurvivorGuilt
* SympathyForTheDevil: In the 74th Games, [[spoiler:when she ultimately kills Cato, it's not out of anger towards him or a desire to win, but as [[MercyKill an act of compassion]] and pity for his condition]].
* TragicKeepsake: Keeps the pearl Peeta gave her and spends a lot of time holding it in her hand in ''Mockingjay''.
* TrueCompanions: With Peeta and Haymitch. She even refers to Haymitch as part of her family in "Catching Fire".
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: [[spoiler:By the time she realizes she's in love with Peeta he's been brainwashed. So he tries to strangle her. Ouch. This leaves her... rather bitter, to say the least.]]
* UnwittingPawn: Present, lampshaded, and part of the symbolism. A mockingjay is a powerful symbol to the rebels as a perversion of what the Capitol hoped for and wanted, but it's also a bird that can't sing its own songs, relying on what others sing to it.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Has no qualms whatsoever killing anyone she perceives to be a threat to Peeta in ''Catching Fire''.
\%%* WhatTheHellHero
* WreathedInFlames: Her entire public image is built around fire imagery after her debut at the 74th Games.
* YouAreTheNewTrend: In the second film, she meets a girl on the Victory Tour who tells her that she wants to volunteer as tribute like her. Snow's grandddaughter also wears her hair in a braid like Katniss, even saying that all the other girls at her school are doing it. This happens to most victors immediately after the Games, even when they haven't sparked a revolution.
** President Snow tries to defy this in the final parts, declaring possession of "Mockingjay" symbolics a ground for treason accusation and subsequent execution.
* YouAreWorthHell: Regarding Prim and later Peeta.
* YouGotSpunk: When volunteering for her sister at the reaping, Haymitch announces drunkenly that he likes how she's got lots of spunk.
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[[folder:Primrose "Prim" Everdeen]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Since the last games, something is different. I can see it."'']]
->'''Portrayed By''' Willow Shields
* AllLovingHero: Prim seems incapable of bearing any ill will towards anything. However, it's unsure how much of this is Prim and how much of it is a mask for Katniss, who's doing her best to hope that her little sister is still untainted to some degree by the horrors of the Capitol.
* BreakTheCutie: Averted. Despite all that happens, she manages to remain relatively optimistic and kind.
* FloralThemeNaming: Primrose is a kind of flower, while her sister's name comes from an aquatic plant.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Animals love her. The family cat, Buttercup, only responds positively to her.
* GenerationXerox: Prim looks like Mrs. Everdeen and has inherited her passion for healing. Also, Mrs. Everdeen was close friends with Katniss' friend, Madge's mother, as a teenager and the father of Katniss' love interest Peeta had a crush on Mrs. Everdeen.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Prim is a compassionate young blonde girl with blue eyes (hazel-to-green in the film, but still) who loves all living creatures and becomes a good healer at an early age, often helping her mother with patients. When Katniss leaves her family she doesn't bother suggesting that Prim learn to hunt because her attempts were disastrous, since the woods terrified Prim and whenever Katniss shot something it would make Prim teary and she'd talk about how they might be able to heal it.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Prim is practically like a shining light in the CrapsackWorld she lives in.
* InSeriesNickname: Prim's full name is Primrose, but everyone calls her Prim.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Dies in a bombing near the end of ''Mockingjay''.]]
* KindheartedCatLover: She simply adores her cat Buttercup, who is [[CatsAreMean utterly nasty to everyone]] except her. Then again, she's the only one who seems to treat him with any sort of kindness.
%%* LikeBrotherAndSister: With Gale.
%%* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Prim starts out as being this for Katniss.
* LovedByAll: According to Joanne, Snow wouldn't dare mess with Prim, considering how beloved she has become to all of Panem.
%%* TheMedic: Grows into one.
* MoralityPet: Prim, for Katniss and Buttercup; she is one of few people they show any kindness to, and she's possibly the only person in the world that early Katniss believes is genuinely good.
%%* NiceGirl
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She isn't present for most of the plot, but it's because of her that Katniss ends up in the Games in the first place.
* TeamPet: Buttercup, especially during the rebellion.
* TenderTears: At the Reaping for the 74th Games, when her sister volunteers instead of her.
* WideEyedIdealist: At first. She loses the wide-eyed part, but keeps the idealism.
%%* WiseBeyondTheirYears: In ''Mockingjay''.
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[[folder:Mr. and Mrs. Everdeen]]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Phillip Troy Linger & Creator/PaulaMalcomson
* BrokenBird: Mrs. Everdeen was entirely destroyed by her husband's death, and is more often than not barely hanging on.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Katniss views her dead father more highly than she does her loving but not-quite-there mother. This is not helped by the fact that her father taught her the skills that ultimately saved her entire family while her mother went into emotional shock and stopped trying to take care of her and Prim after his death.
* DisappearedDad: Mr. Everdeen passed away in a coal mining accident five years before the story starts.
* TheGhost: Mr, Everdeen is only seen once in the first film during a flashback (and a few more times over the four films on photos), even then his appearance was ''very'' brief.
* HappilyMarried: The Everdeens had a loving marriage prior to Mr. Everdeen's death.
* HeroicBSOD: Mrs. Everdeen had one after Mr. Everdeen died that was so bad it left her unable to take care of Katniss and Prim.
* TheMedic: Mrs. Everdeen runs District 12's apothecary.
* ParentalAbandonment: Mrs. Everdeen. After Mr. Everdeen dies, she falls into a depression and neglects the family out of sheer grief. Eventually, she manages to move past it. Katniss' strictest warning to her when she leaves is that if she does that again when Katniss most likely dies in the Games, Prim ''will'' die without Katniss' hunting skills to fall back on.
--> ''Katniss'': You can't check out again. Not like when Dad died.
--> ''Mrs. Everdeen'': I won't.
--> ''Katniss'': No. You ''can't''.
* PosthumousCharacter: Mr. Everdeen, who died in a mine disaster.
* RoguishPoacher: Katniss's father taught her everything she knows about hunting and survival.
* UnnamedParent: We never find out Mr. and Mrs. Everdeen's first names.
* UptownGirl: Mrs. Everdeen was born into the merchant class but married a coal miner.
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!Other Citizens
[[folder:Peeta Mellark]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"You know, if I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me."'']]
->'''Portrayed By''' Creator/JoshHutcherson
* AbledInTheAdaptation: In the original novel, he loses his leg, and has a few struggles learning how to properly use the prosthetic. This doesn't happen in the movie adaption, likely due to the presence of Josh Hutcherson's leg.
* ActionSurvivor: Unlike most of his fellow tributes, Peeta lacks training and experience and has absolutely no experience in the wilderness.
* AdaptationalBadass: He sees a lot more action in the films than in the books; being able to hold his own against Cato on top of the Cornucopia in the first, and overpowering and drowning another tribute in the second.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:The Capitol 'hijacks' him into becoming violent and unpredictable.]]
* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Gale's Veronica for Katniss.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Although it gets brushed under the rug, he still [[spoiler:kills a defenseless girl in the 74th games (granted, death at his hands would've been preferable to that of the Careers). It's also implied he's willing to kill almost anyone to try and keep Katniss alive. And this is without going into his BrainwashedAndCrazy period in ''Mockingjay''.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:The Capitol hijacks him, turning him violent.]]
* BreakTheCutie: The boy had it even worse than his girlfriend -- at least she wasn't subjected to continuous MindRape for weeks on end that caused him to hate the one person he loved right before finding out that everyone else he'd ever known and loved was demolished alongside his hometown. Katniss at least had her ''family''.
* TheCharmer: His strongest quality is his ability to win over the audience, and even his fellow tributes, with his magnetic personality and lies.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: In the 74th Hunger Games, he and Katniss wore coal black jackets.
* CourtlyLove: His affections for Katniss has strong aspects of this. He's deeply in love with her, has no real hope that she'll return his feelings (he thinks she's in love with Gale) yet is still willing to both kill and die for her. He plays the role of lover in public but is remarkably chaste with her in private. Even when she lets him into her bed and sleeps in his arms he never tries to so much as kiss her.
%%* DeadpanSnarker[=/=]NonActionSnarker
* DeclarationOfProtection: To Katniss. [[spoiler:Well, until the Capitol brainwashes him, that is]].
* DemotedToExtra: In Mockingjay, until [[spoiler:his rescue from the Capitol.]]
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Of the franchise. If a rare moment isn't being spent with Katniss, then it most likely is spent with Peeta.
* DisneyDeath: Has one of these on the first day of the Quarter Quell.
* DistressedDude: [[spoiler:Is taken hostage by the Capitol at the end of ''Catching Fire'' and held prisoner throughout a part of ''Mockingjay'']].
* TheDulcineaEffect: He may have known Katniss since the age of five but he only actually interacted with her once before being reaped with her and never speaks to her until they've become tributes. All the same he's so determined to die for her survival's sake that Haymitch notes it's not even worth trying to save Peeta in the arena.
* DyingAsYourself: Kind of. It's what Peeta wanted. If he was going to die in the arena, he didn't want the Games to change who he was, like they often did with other tributes.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: While he will probably suffer from the effects of PTSD due to the games the rest of his life, [[spoiler: as well as the constant looming threat he may fall prey to his brainwashing at any moment, [[HappilyMarried he and Katniss]] find a way to carve out as much normalcy for themselves and their children.]]
* FakeDefector: When he allies with the careers.
* FamedInStory: Becomes a huge celebrity after the 74th Games. According to Johanna in the second movie, "the whole world" wants to sleep with him (though she could be saying it just to annoy Katniss... and it works like a charm).
* FamilyOfChoice: Never seems particularly close with his biological family but forms a very close bond with Katniss and Haymitch.
* FlirtingUnderFire: Builds a romance with Katniss during the Hunger Games.
* FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler: After being hijacked by the Capitol, his real self struggles to show through, including sending a thinly-veiled warning to District Thirteen that there were bombs en route to their location as he spoke.]]
-->[[spoiler:"How do you think this will end? What will be left? No one is safe. Not in the Capitol. Not in the districts. And you...in Thirteen...dead by morning!"]]
* GenerationXerox: The story goes that Peeta's father once fell in LoveAtFirstSight with Katniss' mother, and later pointed Katniss out to Peeta.
* GoodIsNotDumb: Peeta is kind, patient, and three steps ahead when it comes to manipulating the on-camera narrative.
* GuileHero: He may be a load physically, but he's saved Katniss a lot of problems by being a big fat liar. [[spoiler:As such, he transforms into quite the MagnificentBastard when he is brainwashed in ''Mockingjay''.]]
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Very strong due to working as a baker's apprentice, but not very good at hunting.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Oddly, in spite of everything he and Katniss with both having gone through massive amounts of [[DysfunctionJunction dysfunction junction]], being saddled with tons of psychological trauma from going through the games ''twice,'' losing almost everyone they are close to, participating in and being the figureheads of a revolution that nearly destroys [[CrapsackWorld what little remains of human civilization]], and, in Peeta's case, [[ColdBloodedTorture cold blooded torture]] and [[MindRape mind rape]], Katniss and he still seem to end up this way. In fact, it heavily implied that the only reason ''either'' of them is still functional is because of the other. The same goes for Haymitch, in a non romantic way.]]
%%* TheHeart
* HeroicSacrifice: Practically a basic character trait of his.
* HeroicWillpower: He is the only known case of a person [[spoiler:recovering from hijacking]] and he does it almost entirely on his own, through sheer force of will.
* HighSchoolSweethearts: They don't attend school after the 74th Games, but he and Katniss are 16/17 when they begin their relationship [[spoiler:and they go on to love each other for the rest of their lives.]]
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Subverted for a point, but ultimately played straight.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: [[spoiler:When he's hijacked]].
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Haymitch.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Paints pretty pictures, decorates cakes, bakes flower-shaped cookies, prefers diplomacy to violence, wears his heart on his sleeve...
* ItMeantSomethingToMe: The made up romance he and Katniss portrayed in the first Hunger Games was very real to him, and it leaves the first novel with a DownerEnding for him to find out that she was just trying to survive.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: His plan in ''Catching Fire'' is to get Katniss through the Quarter Quells at the expense of his own life, so she can be with her family and even marry Gale.
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: On a few occasions in the first and third book. It's implied that his crush on Katniss developed into full-blown infatuation when she refused to leave him during the 74th Games even though he was close to dying from sepsis and fully aware that he was TheLoad to her at that point.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Katniss.
* TheLoad: He ends up becoming this after his leg gets injured. He's pretty much helpless, meaning Katniss has to risk her life twice as often to get food and supplies. Even after he heals enough to move around, he's a liability when Katniss fights and even when she ''hunts''-- he walks so clumsily that he scares off any prey within earshot.
** He gets an undeserved bad rep for being this in ''Catching Fire'' as well. He displays these traits the first day of [[spoiler:the Quarter Quell - at the Cornucopia (because he can't swim - and even then, he drowns another tribute in self-defence) and when they're fleeing from the poisonous gas (because he's weak after getting severely electrocuted mere hours before).]] However the rest of the time he's either [[spoiler:fighting monkey mutts with Katniss and Finnick, turning back and helping a tripped Katniss on her feet and shoving her ahead of him while fleeing from the poisonous fog, carrying Beetee around the arena, creating a map of the clock, doing all he can to ensure that Katniss survives at the cost of his own life, killing Brutus who is one of their toughest competitors, or generally contributing as much as anyone else in the party.]] [[labelnote:From the books...]]He was also the one who made sure himself, Katniss and Haymitch were prepared for the Quell by forcing the other two to train with him, both physically and survival skills-wise, and meticulously studying their competition to find out what the other victors' strength and weaknesses were.[[/labelnote]]
** And again in ''Mockingjay Part 2''. where for most of the film not only is he [[spoiler:unable to step in and help during combat, being metaphorically dragged around town by the Star Team, but he also causes at least one ally death due to his brainwashing. And Katniss is told repeatedly to kill him or let him die, as he was only sent there to get her killed, and yet she drags his miserable butt through the whole movie. He was literally sent to her to be TheLoad]]. However, this is again averted when [[spoiler:Peeta ends up saving Katniss from the lizard mutts in the sewers]].
*** [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Original scripting also had him]] [[spoiler:save Katniss from the firebombs that killed Prim.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight[=/=]LoveAtFirstNote: Peeta first took note of Katniss when they were five, when his father pointed her out. Peeta's father originally wanted to marry Katniss's mother, but she fell in love with a miner, because when he sang, even the birds would listen. On the first day of school, the teacher asked if anyone knew a folk song, and Katniss's hand shot right up. When she sang, even the birds stopped to listen -- and at that moment, Peeta was a goner. He's been in love with Katniss ever since.
* MakeOutKids: He and Katniss play this trope up as much as they can during the Victory Tour.
* MandatoryMotherhood: It's heavily implied that President Snow expects him to father children by Katniss as means of controlling them both and keeping them in line. He's no more happy about becoming the parent of a future tribute than Katniss is. [[spoiler:Once the war is over and the Games have been abolished he changes his mind about having children. In fact, the reason why Katniss changed ''her'' mind about children was because Peeta wanted them so badly.]]
* MartialPacifist: A pacifist at heart who doesn't want to see more bloodshed, yet he can be deadly when he feels the need to be.
* MeaningfulName: Two-fold. Peeta sounds like it's an evolved version of Peter, who was Christ's rock. It also sounds like pita bread. Peeta is Katniss' rock and, well, he bakes.
%%* MindRape
* MoralityChain: [[spoiler:Played up subtlety in Catching Fire. By the end of Mockingjay, Katniss explicitly states this is why she ultimately chooses Peeta over Gale.]]
* MrFanservice: In-Universe, much like Finnick before him, many of the Capital's Women swoon and would jump at the chance to bed "The Boy on Fire".
* NiceGuy: His kindness and compassion for others is his defining trait.
* NonActionGuy: Played with. He's said to excel at hand-to-hand combat in the training prior to the Games and, in the Games themselves, participated in several fights. However, his physical feats are mostly off-screen and the rest of the time, he's more of a talker and less of a fighter.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Peeta ''did'' stay to fight it out in the opening bloodbath at the Cornucopia in the 74th Games and apparently did some serious fighting- enough to get some bad cuts and a limp. Whatever he did, the Careers did decide to team up with him after seeing him in action and even ''[[BloodKnight Cato]]'' compliments his skill with a knife.]]
** [[spoiler:He's also heavily implied to have killed Brutus off screen in ''Catching Fire''.]]
* PintSizedPowerhouse: In the movie, being played by the relatively short Josh Hutcherson. In the books he's taller than Katniss.
* PunnyName: Peeta the baker. Fandom loves to speculate on what his brothers' names are...
* SaveThisPersonSaveTheWorld: President Coin feels it's more important to save Peeta than Katniss in the Quell, even speaking out her feelings about this once. In ''Mockingjay'' [[spoiler:she arranges for Peeta's rescue from the Capitol because Katniss cannot perform as the Mockingjay with Peeta in harm's way]], making this trope apply by extension.
* SelfDeprecatingHumor: Peeta is said to have this, and it's implied it's due to some level of parental abuse.
* SelfSacrificeScheme: Has no intention whatsoever of trying to win either one of the two Hunger Games he participates in, and every move of his is designed to help save Katniss instead.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Katniss begins to see potential loves interests in two guys, Peeta, the baker's son who decorates the cakes and Gale, her hunting partner. Gale is angry with the Capitol for making them participate in the games while Peeta is reflective on how he can maintain his identity in the games despite the Capitol using them.
* SixthRangerTraitor: He temporarily sided with the Careers in the first Games. He later teamed up with Katniss and stayed with her for the rest of the Games.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: He's seen playing chess with Haymitch in ''Catching Fire''.
%%* TheSneakyGuy
* SoHappyTogether: Plays this trope up for all it's worth before the Quarter Quell.
* StealthPun: A guy named Peeta who works at a bakery.
%%* TheStrategist
* SuperCouple: With Katniss, including in-universe.
* SurvivalMantra: "Not real, not real, not real, not real..."
* ThroughHisStomach: Katniss ''really'' likes cheese buns.
* TokyoRose: [[spoiler:Pressed into this role by the Capitol after being captured]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He takes a keen professional interest in bread.
* TrueCompanions: With Haymitch and Katniss.
* UnskilledButStrong: Peeta is a strong guy, but lacks the correct combat skill as seen in his fight with Cato, who's a big guy himself. Whenever Peeta could manage to get his hands on him, he'd be throwing him around. However, Cato easily gets him in a lock once he fights back.
* UptownGirl: A member of the merchant class who's in love with a girl from the Seam. Once they're both victors they're on equal social standing, though.
* YouAreWorthHell: [[spoiler:Willingly goes back into the arena to try and protect Katniss in "''Catching Fire''" even though he still suffers from PTSD and terrible nightmares after surviving the previous one. It's also debatable whether this was worse hell for him, or if watching Katniss in danger and suffering while trying to schmooze crowds into sponsoring her without any guarantees would be worse.]]
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[[folder:Gale Hawthorne]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hawthorne_gale.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Guess the odds aren't exactly in my favor."'']]
->'''Portrayed By''' Creator/LiamHemsworth
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** In ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'' he receives a flogging from Thread because he tried to stop Thread from beating an old woman to death. In the book Gale had a black market deal with Thread's predecessor, Cray, and went to Cray's house to bring him the usual supplies... only to find that Cray had been replaced by Thread, leading to Gale being whipped for his black market dealings with Peacekeepers.
** Secondly, in ''[[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay Mockingjay Part 2]]'', Gale is much more openly remorseful and tries to console Katniss and discuss [[spoiler:Prim's death]], but Katniss is understandably upset and enraged over Gale's role in it, [[spoiler:thus wanting nothing more to do with him]]. Gale's book counterpart didn't even make the effort to approach the issue.
* AntiHero: Cynical and hot-tempered, with a burning hatred of the Capitol.
* AscendedExtra: He doesn't see much action until ''Mockingjay'', with smaller roles in first two films.
* AdvertisedExtra: Liam Hemsworth was featured in many publicity materials despite being (until the third movie) largely a tertiary character.
* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Peeta's Betty for Katniss.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Him and Katniss. Both lost their fathers in a mine explosion and became the breadwinners of their respective families.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Explicitly defied by the Capitol highers-up, who think that Gale's TallDarkAndHandsome childhood friend character could damage viewers' opinions of Katniss and Peeta's onscreen romance.
%%* CombatPragmatist
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Of ''Mockingjay,'' for a bit.
* DisappearedDad: His dad died in the same explosion that killed Katniss'.
* EverybodysDeadDave: At the end of ''Catching Fire''.
-->'''Gale''' (to Katniss): [[spoiler:There is no District Twelve]].
* GreenEyedMonster: As he becomes more and more aware that Katniss' feelings for Peeta are more than just an act, he becomes increasingly possessive of her.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: However, after Katniss outright admits she loves Peeta, he is the first volunteer for District 13's mission to liberate Peeta, and the others victors, from the Capital's captivity.
* {{Hunk}}: To contrast Peeta's "boy next door" looks.
* TheLancer: To Katniss. He's her best friend and he becomes her most trusted ally during the revolution. While she's often uncertain of how to trust others, Katniss knows to place her trust in Gale.
* LovingAShadow: His relationship with Katniss. He may love her, but she's far too broken by life and her experiences in the games to return his feelings in the same manner, making him bitter and hostile every time Peeta is brought up, the man she is able to truly be able to commit to.
%%* ManlyMenCanHunt
* MeaningfulName: He has a stormy personality.
* MrFanservice: Pretty much his defining role in the first two films, he appears in about 5-10 minutes of the nearly two and half hour first film, and about a half-hour of the second film, but dang it if he wasn't so good looking, they used him heavily in the marketing campaign.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this reaction [[spoiler:after learning he may have been involved in the bombing that killed Prim, quietly accepting he has lost any chance of a future with Katniss, leaving without argument after she confronts him on her sister's death.]]
%%* RoguishPoacher
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: He's the manly man to Peeta's sensitive guy, since Gale is a hunter and isn't quite as compassionate as Peeta. All the same, he isn't afraid to show his softer side and is generally a caring man.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Due to being played by Liam Hemsworth. He's dark-haired and towers over both Katniss and Peeta.
* ATasteOfTheLash: Courtesy of Romulus Thread.
* TookALevelInJerkass: By ''Mockingjay'', he has become a lot more ruthless and bloodthirsty. [[spoiler:He shows little sympathy to Peeta's torture and brainwashing after his broadcasting, calls him weak in an effort to disillusion Katniss' love for him, sees the civilian refugees in District 2 as traitors, showing no remorse should they die due to the rebellion's plans, and is heavily implied to have been involved in the planning of the bombing that ended up killing countless innocent Capital children, and Prim]].
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[[folder:Greasy Sae]]
->'''Portrayed By''' Sandra Ellis Lafferty
A vendor at The Hob, District 12's black market. She usually sells and buys food from Katniss.
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* DemotedToExtra: In the films, Greasy Sae doesn't have much of a role past the first one.
** CompositeCharacter: However, she gives Katniss the Mockingjay pin, instead of [[AdaptedOut Madge]].
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[[folder:Commander Romulus Thread]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thread_romulus.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Let's get to work."'']]
->'''Portrayed By''' Creator/PatrickStEsprit
The new Head Peacekeeper of District 12.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Played with. While just as reprehensible as his book counterpart, in the film his reason for having Gale whipped is because he tried to stop Thread from beating an old woman to death; in the book Gale had a black market deal with Thread's predecessor, Cray, and went to Cray's house to bring him the usual supplies... only to find that Cray had been replaced by Thread, who had Gale whipped for his black market deal. He had Gale whipped for a lesser reason but didn't try to beat an elderly woman.
* ChewingTheScenery: He snarls every other line and seems constantly on the verge of exploding.
-->'''Thread:''' ''CLEEEEAR THE SQUAAAARE! YOU ARE ALL UNDER CURFEW! ANYONE ON THE STREET AFTER DARK WILL BE [[PunctuatedForEmphasis SHOT! ON! SIGHT!]]''
** Justified for him in the above line, since Thread's a ruthless bully trying to reassert his dominance after his authority was challenged in front of a crowd.
* ColonelKilgore: He's passionately devoted to his job.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Thread is introduced having the previous head peacekeeper arrested and removed without hesitation before immediately setting about instituting his brutal new policies. It's clear from the get-go that he's a ruthless, terrifying man.
* GutturalGrowler: The normally soft-spoken Patrick St. Esprit adopts a gravelly, intimidating tone.
* FascistsBedtime: One of his new policies is a curfew, enforced by threat of death.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Of Cray, who he immediately disposes of.
* ATasteOfTheLash: Thread is a big fan of performing public whippings as punishment.
* WouldHitAGirl: The entire reason Gale is whipped is because he tried to stop Thread from beating an old woman to death. Later Thread hits Katniss across the face with his whip when she tries to intervene during his whipping of Gale, [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown then whips her again for good measure when she loses her footing]] (only this time he hits part of her covered by her leather jacket).
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Averted: whereas the novels don't mention his fate after District 12 was bombed, in the films Gale mentions all Peacekeepers left 12 before the bombing.
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[[folder:Cray]]
->'''Portrayed By''' Wilbur Fitzgerald
Head Peacekeeper at District 12.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Played with. Through his smaller role in the movie, he comes across as being less oppressive, and he shows no sign of the perverted tendencies he had in the books.
* DemotedToExtra: Even in the books he wasn't a major character, but he has basically no role here save for a single scene.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He's a victim of this from Thread, presumably because he didn't keep a tight enough leash on the District, buying from the black market and setting up illegal deals because he knew the residents needed the market to survive.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He's seen in exactly one shot in ''Catching Fire'', and he could only utter one line before being arrested and likely executed right away courtesy of Thread.
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[[folder:Katniss Everdeen]]
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->''"If we burn, you burn with us!"''
[[TheHero Our hero]], aged sixteen from District 12, the poorest of the twelve (remaining) districts. After [[DisappearedDad losing her father]] when she was only eleven, she managed to bring her family back from the brink of starvation almost single-handedly by hunting in the woods outside her district. When her little sister Prim's name is drawn in [[LotteryOfDoom the reaping]] to join [[DeadlyGame the Hunger Games]], Katniss steps up to take her place, unwittingly setting off a chain of events that will soon engulf all of Panem.
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* ActOfTrueLove: Volunteers to be in the Games to save her baby sister in the first book, setting the plot into motion. In the second book she too makes a pact with Haymitch to save Peeta at the cost of her own life. In the third book she [[spoiler:kisses Peeta when he's at the beginning of a hijack-attack, knowing that if it doesn't work he will do his best to kill her. It works, and it's implied that her beginning to show her love for him is a huge part of what makes him recover from the hijacking]].
* ActionGirl: Expected, as a participant in [[spoiler:and winner of]] the Hunger Games. Like all the tributes, she received four days of training on top of being an excellent hunter after learning to provide for her family.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ActionGirlfriend: Is this to Peeta's NonActionGuy in the second book.
* AllWomenLoveShoes: Averted. For all the detail in which she describes her various dresses, outfits, and hair styles, her shoes usually only get a cursory mention, if that. Well, except for her favorite hunting boots.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She has dark hair and is rather emotionally distant and closed off from others, due to her numerous trust issues.
* [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl Always Save The Boy With The Bread]]: Continuously prioritizes Peeta's survival over what's best for her own survival, the rebellion and her squad. Even after [[spoiler:he's been hijacked into hating her and she believes she can never be with him.]]
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Like Gale, described as "olive-skinned" with black hair.
* AnOddPlaceToSleep: In ''Mockingjay'', she'll frequently hide away in closets or storage rooms and end up falling asleep.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* AngstComa
* AnimalMotifs: From ''Catching Fire'' onwards, she's strongly identified with mockingjays. She received a pin of one early in ''The Hunger Games'' and it became her symbol.
%%* {{Anti Hero}}ine: [[PragmaticHero The pragmatic kind.]] And also an example of the [[NeutralGood good]] kind.
* ArcSymbol: Fire is strongly associated with her throughout the story. Of course, fire usually represents revolutions, even in real life, so it fits.
* ArcherArchetype: She relies on her bow to hunt, survive, and lead. Katniss has strong and independent survivalist instincts due to her difficult past and is good at thinking outside the box. She is not socially adept and has a hard time making friends due to the emotional strain on her life which has made her hard and cold. She is usually very logical.
* ArrowsOnFire: Her special Mockingjay bow allows her to shoot these.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: As much as she bickers with Haymitch and as angry as she is with him in ''Mockingjay'' they still have moments that show how much they've grown to care about one another. For example it's his arms she cries in over [[spoiler:Peeta's torture]].
* BabiesEverAfter: This was initially planned as part of continuing her and Peeta's ruse for the sake of the Capitol. [[spoiler:When they do have children, it's because they want to.]]
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Averted. [[spoiler:Katniss and Peeta have to find their way back together and restore their relationship years ''before'' they have childen together. Rather than making things better, the babies indicate that they're getting there, more like, "now that things are better, we can celebrate with babies". Katniss had sworn never to have children because she could never see them grow up in the CrapsackWorld. Her choosing to have children means that she believes that things are better now.]]
* BadLiar: According to Peeta. "Never gamble at cards. You'll lose your last coin." [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] later on, when she gradually becomes more effective at fooling people -- starting with Peeta himself in the form of their initial romance, which he believes to be more genuine on her part than it is. She also successfully convinces him that she was going to stay away from the dangerous feast]].
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* BeautifulDreamer
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Subverted. After the Games, she finds that her hearing in her left ear is restored. Her skin's perfection, smooth and glowing with no burns, scars or anything. Peeta on the other hand has his lower leg replaced with a metal and plastic device. However, in ''Mockingjay'', neither Katniss nor Peeta are considered important enough for such resources to be spent on them, giving them quality treatment for [[spoiler:their severe burns]] but making no effort to [[spoiler:give them the best skin grafts or remove the burns entirely the way they were able to do with Katniss' burns in the first book]].
* BelatedLoveEpiphany: Katniss insists that she isn't in love with anyone. That is, until [[spoiler:Peeta is imprisoned, tortured and hijacked, essentially brainwashing him into hating Katniss and wanting her dead]]. While the book never explicitly states the exact moment when she realizes her feelings the reader can take a guess at any moment from her stating that the loss of him has taken away her will to live to her telling him how she feels.
* BigEater: Katniss appreciates good food due to living on such simple fare at home. She deliberately gorges herself before the second Hunger Game to get some energy reserves.
* BigSisterInstinct:
** She cares about her sister so much that not only did she volunteer to take her sister's place in the games, but she submitted her name into the reaping multiple times to get her family more food so her sister wouldn't have to submit her own name.
** While she was in the games Katniss thought how her sister has multiple people who will make sure she's taken care of but Rue has no one to take care of her. Rue and Katniss teamed up and blew up the other's supplies. [[spoiler:Katniss tried to save Rue but she was too late. She killed the guy who killed Rue, sang to her as she died, and buried her in flowers.]]
* BirdsOfAFeather: She and Gale bond over similar personalities and experiences, both rebellious against the Capitol's regime but still working on providing for their families after their fathers died in the same mining accident. Through illegal hunting, of course.
* BraidsOfAction: She wears these a lot, and isn't seen with her hair down during the Games. It's a simple and practical hairstyle for living in a forest.
* BreakTheCutie: Pretty much the gist of the trilogy. Watch as a young girl is given Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and watch as she's forced to keep on chugging as other characters decide that she's too important to whatever is going on to be allowed to recover from her shell shock, exacerbating it at every given opportunity.
* BrokenBird:
** She starts out as one due to her father's death and having to be her family's main source of financial support but after the Games it turns up to eleven.
** Taken to a rather ''[[AnimalMotifs literal]]'' extent several times throughout the series, especially in ''Mockingjay'', which even includes a sequence in which Katniss hallucinates herself as a bird whose feathers and wings are burned off.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: In the first book, [[spoiler:Katniss is blown back by the explosion she sets off destroying the Careers' supplies and is rendered completely deaf in her left ear. Unable to escape, she only survives by hiding right under their noses.]] However, it's completely outdone in [[spoiler:the Quarter Quell, when Katniss nearly kills herself breaking the force field over the arena]].
* CantHoldHisLiquor: She gets dizzy from just half a glass of wine in the first book, and a few gulps of white liquor in the second get her to black out. Justified as these were her first times having alcohol, and the white liquor is pretty strong.
* CelibateHeroine: Seeing the horror of the Hunger Games is enough to make her call off marriage and children, because they would just end up in the reaping and possibly as tributes. And this was before she ever participated herself. Later averted as she is in a sexual relationship by the last chapter, but it still takes [[spoiler:15 years, the Hunger Games being abolished and a lot of love from Peeta to change her mind about having children]].
* ChildrenDoTheHousework: She had to pretty much take care of her household after her father died in a mining accident and her mother subsequently fell into depression.
%%* TheChosenOne: Treated this way by the rebellion.
%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* CombatPragmatist: Increasingly becomes this as the novels progress, though moreso during the games.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* TheComicallySerious
* CommitmentIssues: She keeps Peeta at arm's length because she is determined to never fall in love, get married and have children. The reason is implied to be a combination of not wanting to be a parent on Reaping Day and not wanting to end up like her mother, who broke down completely when her husband died. She does not think the world is suitable to bring children into. [[spoiler:She eventually develops past this and ''does'' have children in the epilogue, fifteen years after ''Mockingjay'' once she feels that it's safe enough for her to settle down.]]
* CoolBigSis: To Prim and Rue. Katniss goes out of her way to provide for Prim and make sure that latter never needs to take Tesserae to provide for their family. She ends up treating Rue in the same way, [[spoiler:which is part of why Katniss takes the girl's death so hard]].
* TheCynic: In contrast to Peeta's idealism, Katniss's utter lack of faith in people at the series' start is particularly grim.
* DaddysGirl: While she loved her mother, Katniss felt a stronger connection to her father, who taught her how to survive in the forest.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has her moments. Especially when bantering with Finnick.
-->'''Finnick:''' You can swim, too. Where did you learn that in District Twelve?\\
'''Katniss:''' We have a big bathtub.
* DeathSeeker: When she loses [[spoiler:Peeta's love]] in ''Mockingjay'', she makes it her goal to [[spoiler:find and kill President Snow and then die herself.]] Towards the end of the book she tries to [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]] by nightlock pill, only to be stopped by Peeta. Then she tries to starve herself to death while in confinement, but that doesn't work either. She does get better, but it takes some time and for Peeta to return to Twelve for her to want to live again]].
* DebtDetester: Katniss hates feeling she owes someone.
%%* DeclarationOfProtection: Towards Prim, which sets the plot in motion.
%%** Towards Peeta in the second book.
* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of the IconOfRebellion. Katniss never set out to become the heroine of the anti-Capitol revolution and only ever wanted to keep her family alive, but volunteering in her sister's place and then surviving the Games with Peeta inspires an uprising among the districts. She goes along with becoming the face of the uprising not because of a desire to free the districts, but because she has no other choice. In the process, she loses almost everything, none of it by her own volition: [[spoiler:her hometown is firebombed to the ground, Peeta is taken from her and tortured until he doesn't recognize her, nearly all her friends and allies die in the revolution, Prim is blown to bits along with other rebel medics from bombs dropped from a Capitol hovercraft as part of Coin's plot to destroy the people's faith in Snow, and afterwards, Katniss can never bring herself to see Gale again, knowing he created those bombs]].
* DespairEventHorizon: Toes the line in ''Catching Fire'' when she realizes Haymitch only kept his promise to Peeta. Pushed over the edge after [[spoiler:[[DoomedHometown District Twelve is firebombed]]]]. She gets a bit better over the course of ''Mockingjay'', but gets hit ''hard'' again after [[spoiler:Prim's death]].
* {{Determinator}}: Slowly [[spoiler:starts to fall apart by Mockingjay, under the weight of guilt over all the people who died for her, and even after suffering physical, mental and emotional damage, just keeps going and going ''and going''.]]
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: In "''Mockingjay''" [[spoiler:she and Peeta have a sex scene that's so discreet it left many wondering if they had sex at all.]]
* DisappearedDad: Her father died in a mining accident when she was 11, forcing her to learn to hunt in order to provide for her family.
* DontThinkFeel: She does terribly when Haymitch tries to have her put on a fake personality in anticipation for the tribute interview, but Cinna suggests that she just be honest when answering Caesar's questions. It works beautifully and gets the Capitol audience to fall in love with her.
* ElementalMotifs: Katniss is strongly associated with fire throughout the series. In addition to her nickname being "The Girl On Fire", she also came from the coal-mining district with a bread-toasting marriage tradition, was attacked with fire by her sponsors in the arena, and even describes herself as having a fire that needed to be tempered by Peeta's calm "dandelion". Her action in the games spawned a literal and metaphorical fire across Panem that lead to the rebellion's resurgence, and her declaration that "fire is catching".
* EmotionlessGirl: Her outward demeanor is quite stoic, increasingly so as the books go on, excluding the [[SickeninglySweethearts "madly-in-love teenager"]] persona thrust upon her shoulders. [[NotSoStoic In truth, she's highly emotional.]]
%%* EmpathicWeapon: The Mockingjay bow.
* EveryoneHasStandards: In ''Mockingjay''. [[spoiler:When she makes her deal to become the face of the revolution, one of her conditions is that all the victors be pardoned for any damage they may have done to the rebel cause under threat of their lives. She privately admits to herself that she doesn't actually care about Enobaria, one of the victors from District 2 who also survived the Quell, but feels that it would be wrong to leave her out and so makes a point of explicitly including her.]]
* FamedInStory: Becomes one of the biggest celebrities in Panem.
* FamilyOfChoice: In the end her family consists of Peeta and Haymitch, not her parents or her sister.
%%* FireForgedFriends: With Johanna Mason in ''Mockingjay.''
* FirstPersonSmartass: Her narration is fairly snarky at times. It's unknown how much of it is [[StepfordSnarker a built-up defense mechanism]] and how much is natural.
-->'''Katniss:''' ''(describing the arenas in the first book)'' The arenas are historic sites, preserved after the Games. Popular destinations for Capitol residents to visit, to vacation. Go for a month, rewatch the Games, tour the catacombs, visit the sites where the deaths took place. You can even take part in reenactments.\\
[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking They say the food is excellent.]]
* FlirtingUnderFire: Builds her romance with Peeta during the Hunger Games.
* FoodPorn: Katniss's narration includes full descriptions of everything she eats, since she's such a BigEater and has spent so long without good food.
* FreeRangeChildren: Walks around alone in the district at age eleven in all kinds of weather, trying to sell her sister's baby clothes to be able to buy food and rummaging through garbage bins to find something to eat. First heads out into the woods alone at age twelve. Being in the woods is not only dangerous but illegal, but her mother is too broken from the loss of her husband to care or possibly even notice.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Katniss was just another player, facing a one in twenty-four chance of staying alive longer than everyone else, but by the end of the series, she is [[spoiler:the face of the revolution, playing a role in the deaths of two corrupt Presidents of Panem]].
* FromRoommatesToRomance: Played with. In ''Catching Fire'' Peeta more or less moves in to Katniss' bedroom on the Victory Tour and during their Quarter Quell prep week, but even though he's deeply in love with her [[spoiler:and she's falling in love with him in return]] they keep it platonic (if affectionate). As ''Mockingjay'' draws to an end it's implied that Peeta moves in and lives with Katniss in her house, sleeping in her bed to help her cope with her bad dreams. [[spoiler:While they do end up married with children, it's implied that they essentially were just roommates for a while.]]
* GenerationXerox:
** Katniss' father [[spoiler:fell in love with a merchant girl,]] Katniss herself [[spoiler:falls in love with a merchant boy.]]
** Not just that, this trope is doubled! [[spoiler:Peeta meets Katniss when they are both children, after Peeta's father points her out to Peeta. Turns out, Peeta's dad wanted to marry Katniss' mother but she ended up falling in love with a miner. Peeta promptly falls in love with Katniss.]]
** She's also inherited her father's hair, skin, eye color and singing ability, as well as his love for hunting and being out in the woods.
* GenreSavvy: Has grown up watching the Hunger Games on television, and is able to think her way out of problems either by recalling past Games or by figuring out what moves would make the most exciting plot.
* TheGentlemanOrTheScoundrel: Katniss' original choice was not between a Gentleman and a Scoundrel, as they were both dependable people. However, as the series progresses, Peeta reveals himself as the Gentleman who cares deeply for Katniss and desires her safety, and Gale the Scoundrel revolutionist who desires to entangle Katniss in that world.
* GirlinessUpgrade: Done to her by the Capitol, putting her in dresses and make-up and so forth.
* GlassCannon: despite quick-thinking, agile, and a good shot with a bow and arrow, years of being underfed really limits how much stress her body can take.
* GoKartingWithBowser: Regularly sells her rabbits and squirrels to the Peacekeepers at the Hob.
* GrowOldWithMe: Given how long her life expectancy was when she volunteered to take Prim's place in the first book, the epilogue can be seen as this.
* HairContrastDuo: Is the bitter, cynical, stoic brunette to Peeta, Madge, and Prim's kinder, more approachable, sweeter blond.
* HairyGirl: Katniss is mentioned as having hairy legs, though it's brought up more for the sake of a PainfulBodyWaxing scene.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* {{Hallucinations}}: In her first Games, courtesy of tracker jacker venom.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Oddly, in spite of everything she and Peeta go through, with both having gone through massive amounts of DysfunctionJunction, being saddled with tons of psychological trauma from going through the games ''twice'', losing almost everyone they are close to, participating in and being the figureheads of a revolution that nearly destroys [[CrapsackWorld what little remains of human civilization]], and, in Peeta's case, [[ColdBloodedTorture cold blooded torture]] and [[MindRape mind rape]], she and Peeta still seem to end up this way. In fact, it's heavily implied that the only reason ''either'' of them is still functional is because of the other. The same goes for Haymitch, in a non romantic way.]]
* HatesTheirParent: After Katniss's and Prim's father died, their mother fell into such deep grief that she stopped taking care of either herself or them, forcing eleven-year-old Katniss to step up as head of the family. Despite her best efforts, the money ran out and they very nearly starved to death. They eventually recovered, but Katniss felt a deep sense of anger and resentment toward her mother for this.
-->Prim was thrilled to have her back, but I kept watching, waiting for her to disappear on us again. I didn't trust her. And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. Prim forgave her, but I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again.
* HeartbrokenBadass: In ''Mockingjay'', after [[spoiler:Peeta has been hijacked into hating her. She takes the loss of his love so hard that she almost begins to hate him for not loving her anymore.]] Still stays very badass though.
* HeroicBSOD: A minor one towards the end of ''Catching Fire'' that starts to resolve during ''Mockingjay'', only to implode and go supernova with [[spoiler:Prim's death. She's so completely dead inside that she needs to be put under SuicideWatch after killing Coin to avenge Prim]].
* HeroicNeutral: She really isn't interested in becoming a symbol or sparking a revolution. She just wants to keep her family safe and keep her head down.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** What volunteering for her sister was intended to be, as she knew her chances of getting out of the Games alive were extremely slim. She does make it out, though.
** She also fully tries to make sure Peeta is the one to survive The 75th Games instead of her.
* HighSchoolSweethearts: They don't actually attend high school but she and Peeta begin their romance at age sixteen. [[spoiler:It lasts for the rest of their lives.]]
* HopeBringer: The reason why President Snow views her as such a threat is that she's given hope to the districts -- more hope than Snow is comfortable with, that is.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: One of her biggest flaws. Quite simply, she has a nasty habit of always assuming the worst of everyone she meets when these people, ironically, often end up saving her life and or genuinely caring about her. Her trust issues mostly stem from her childhood trauma of never having anyone to be there for her and in turn having to be there for her younger sister.
* IconOfRebellion: The mockingjay pin, and eventually Katniss herself. Both represent something the Capitol tried to twist to their advantage, yet survived and found a way to screw their creator over.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Due to how she was raised, Katniss has a dim view of the Career tributes, considering their prior training unfair to the rest of them. What she fails to consider is that she herself has an unfair advantage because of her hunting skills. There's also her judgement of fellow tributes because of their killing, when she doesn't make any attempt to restrain her own killing – on a few occasions, she even mentions how her fingers are itching for her knife/arrows just because Johanna snapped at her. She also complains a great deal about the wasting of food, when she, in fact, does it herself (when she threw out the gift of cookies from Peeta's father, for example).
* ImperiledInPregnancy: All of Panem believes this to be the case during the Quell, courtesy of Peeta.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Katniss consistently manages to hit squirrels [[EyeScream in the eyes]] with her arrows -- something that is exceedingly difficult in the least even for experienced archers.
%%* IncorruptiblePurePureness: The other tributes see her as being this in the second Games. Cue Finnick, Johanna, and Chaff trolling her and trying to 'corrupt' her.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* IneffectualLoner
* INeedAFreakingDrink: Once she finds out [[spoiler:she'll be headed for another Hunger Games in the Quarter Quell]], she tries white liquor for the first time.
* InsecureLoveInterest: Believes that she doesn't deserve the love of someone like Peeta. Haymitch agrees with her.
* InstantTasteAddiction: She immediately took a liking for lamb stew with dried plums, to the point it was sent to her in the arena.
%%* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Haymitch, Mags and Effie.
* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:Courtesy of Peeta in ''Mockingjay'', who prevents her from biting the nightlock pill after she kills Coin.]]
* ItGetsEasier: Trope personified, as she goes from being concerned about killing for the first time, to Mockingjay [[spoiler:in which she kills unarmed people in cold blood while plotting the assassination of Snow; most disturbingly, it gets to the point where she murders an unarmed woman and proceeds to ''forget about it'' until she is finally reminded by a TV image of the dead woman; and even then, she brushes it off]].
* JadeColoredGlasses: She's not exactly all smiles. Most people who grow up in the Seam wear them in fact. Most victors, too, for that matter.
* JeanneDArchetype: A DeconstructedCharacterArchetype. She's an ActionGirl from humble origins who stands up to oppression to protect a loved one and becomes a beacon of hope for the rebellion. However, off-camera, she's actually a pragmatic survivor who never really cared about the rebel cause and is in it solely to protect her family. Later on, when she starts having visions, it's a result of trauma, drug addiction, and possible brain damage rather than any divine inspiration.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She admits herself that she's not very friendly. There are quite a few times throughout the series where she has angry/rude outbursts, but they are often caused by the various stressful situations she's thrown into and the CrapsackWorld she lives in. Regardless, she still has a kind heart and would sacrifice anything in order to protect the people that she loves.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* KnightInSourArmor
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Believes this to be her relationship with Gale in the first book. Turns out it's not quite so simple. [[spoiler:However it remains an unrequited love from Gale's side.]]
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Katniss is a lot like her father but very different from her mother. Her mother is a docile and soft spoken healer and when faced with the death of her husband she completely breaks apart and shuts down. Katniss is driven and energetic, loves being out hunting in the woods but can't stand the sight of injured or sick people and when faced with the loss of the boy she loves she rallies and channels her pain into becoming the figurehead of the revolution. They do have one big thing in common though - [[spoiler:both fell deeply in love with a man from their opposite social standing and started a family with him, something Katniss initially swore she would never do]].
* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: Falls in love with [[spoiler:Peeta Mellark]] who was her neighbor for about a year.
* LoveHurts: One of the two main reasons why she's so reluctant to admit to herself that she's falling in love. She ends up being proven right, too. [[spoiler:The loss of Peeta's love in the third book hurts her very deeply.]]
* LoveIsAWeakness: Believes this because of the way her mother completely broke down when she became a widow.
* MakeOutKids: She and Peeta play this trope up for all it's worth during the Victory Tour, as they have to make for a believable couple after everything in the arena.
%%* MamaBear: Towards Prim and Rue.
* MandatoryMotherhood: It's implied that President Snow expects her to bear Peeta's children as a means of being able to control her.
* MasterArcher: Katniss is an extremely talented archer, having grown up hunting in the wilderness. She doesn't think much of it at first, but Peeta praises her as being so skilled she can consistently hit a deer or even a squirrel in the eyes so that it dies without the arrow tearing through the edible bits.
%%* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: To both Peeta and Gale. Peeta eventually calls her on it.
* MeaningfulName: Katniss is a real plant. Its common name is "Arrowhead" (and its scientific name is ''Sagittaria'', which means 'archer' in Latin).
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* MoreHeroThanThou
* NatureLover: Loves being out in the woods and spends as much time there as possible.
* NonconformistDyedHair: Inverted. Having quirkily dyed hair or colourful wigs is a huge fashion trend in the materialistic and out-of-touch Capitol. For example, Effie has pink and purple hair, and Katniss's styling team wears their hair in a myriad of colors. Katniss, a rebel from the poorest district, is admired for her "natural beauty" (which includes her undyed brown hair).
* NoSocialSkills: Something that Haymitch frequently mocks Katniss over is her lack of people skills.
* NotAfraidToDie: In book two she intends to sacrifice herself to save Peeta and in book three she actually ''wants'' to die due to [[spoiler:losing Peeta's love, and later Prim dying]].
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Spends most of the third book being in talks to get in line with the revolution.
* NotSoStoic: She always seems like an EmotionlessGirl, or at least someone with NervesOfSteel. [[spoiler:And then Rue dies, and she cries profusely. Prim's death leads to an even worse breakdown]].
* ObliviousToLove: Cannot see that Gale and Peeta clearly love her until they outright state it to her. Even for Peeta, it took some time for her to realize after he blatantly says it.
* OneTrueLove: In the last chapter of ''Mockingjay'' she implies that she feels this way, stating that [[spoiler:she and Peeta ending up together would have happened anyway, with or without the Hunger Games and the rebellion.]]
%%* TheOphelia: [[spoiler:After killing Coin in Mockingjay]].
* PerpetualFrowner: Peeta likes watching her sleep because she doesn't scowl when she's sleeping.
* PlaguedByNightmares: Katniss and the rest of the victors seem plagued by them, although Katniss has long had recurring nightmares about her father's death.
* PluckyGirl: Even before she reaches the Capital, her acquaintances believe she has enough to win the Games. And indeed, her determination and will to survive take her to victory. Not to mention go through all the terrible things that happen later.
* PregnantBadass: During the tribute Interviews in ''Catching Fire'', Peeta tells the Capitol that Katniss was pregnant as of the time they were going into the Third Quarter Quell. {{Subverted|Trope}} by the fact that this was a lie, but it definitely succeeded in sending the Capitol into mass outrage.
* PromotionToParent: After their father died and their mother sank into depression, Katniss had to step up to the plate herself to take care of Prim.
* PullTheIV: Katniss has a tendency to pull out an IV whenever it is put into her, in at least one instance because [[DeathSeeker she wanted to die on her own terms]].
* PunnyName: An archer named after a plant also known as arrowhead.
* RebelliousRebel: She doesn't exactly agree with Coin on a few matters, [[spoiler:to the point where she ends up killing Coin at the end of Mockingjay]]. When asked to become a mascot [[spoiler:for the rebels]], she only accepts after setting some terms [[spoiler:to keep Peeta safe]]. Her inability to follow orders is a major underpinning of the third novel.
* RedBaron: Starting in the first book, she's known as the "Girl on Fire" because of her entrance in the Tribute parade. Afterward it becomes "The Mockingjay".
* RetiredBadass: Withdraws to District 12 after surviving the Hunger Games and the war and wants nothing but peace and normalcy.
* RoguishPoacher: Illegal hunting to feed starving family and stick it to The Man? Check.
* SaveThisPersonSaveTheWorld: [[spoiler:Keeping Katniss alive is of paramount importance to the rebels because she is "the Mockingjay" -- she managed to survive all attempts the Capitol made to kill her, turning her into a SymbolOfRebellion]].
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: A different interpretation of the word "connections" in this case, but the reason she hasn't been tossed in a cell for illegally hunting the District 12 wildlife isn't because of any particular skill at evading the Peacemakers. It's because the Peacemakers are also her customers.
* SelfSacrificeScheme: Her goal in ''Catching Fire'' is to save Peeta at the cost of her own life and she's well aware that by martyring herself she might be of better use to the rebellion than if she lives.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Already is one after the events of the first book, where she had to kill to survive a DeadlyGame. Then, she goes through [[TraumaCongaLine even worse things]], taking this trope up to eleven.
* ShoutOut: Her surname serves as one to Bathsheba Everdene from Thomas Hardy's ''Literature/FarFromTheMaddingCrowd''.
* SickeninglySweethearts: Under instructions from President Snow, she and Peeta act like this during the Victory Tour in an attempt to distract the districts from the rising feeling of rebellion. It doesn't work.
* SingleTargetSexuality: Appears to be this for [[spoiler:Peeta]]. She kisses two boys throughout the series but only feels sexual attraction to one of them, [[spoiler:enters into a committed relationship with him at around the age of eighteen and spends the rest of her life with him.]] While she notes that other men around her (for example Finnick) are attractive, she never seems to be sexually drawn to them herself.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: [[spoiler:This becomes the reason why she ultimately chooses Peeta over Gale]].
* SmittenTeenageGirl: The role Katniss plays for the cameras as one half of "the StarCrossedLovers from District 12". Of course, her true self is nothing like that.
%%* SoHappyTogether: She and Peeta play up this trope before the Quarter Quell.
%%* TheStoic
%%* StraightMan
%%* StylishProtectionGear: Her Mockingjay suit - designed by a professional stylist, no less.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: "Sugar" to Prim and Gale, "ice" to pretty much everyone else, including her mother. But she warms up to her and a few more people over the course of the trilogy.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* SuperCouple: With Peeta, including in-universe.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* SurvivalMantra: In the beginning of ''Mockingjay''.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* SurvivorGuilt
* SympathyForTheDevil: When she ultimately kills [[spoiler:Cato]] in the 74th Games, it's not out of anger towards him or a desire to win, but as [[MercyKill an act of compassion]] and pity for his condition.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* TheresNoPlaceLikeHome: In the first book. Inverted in the second. Mad crushingly depressing in the third.
* TooDesperateToBePicky: At eleven years old, when her family was running out of food and money and about to starve to death, she tried searching through the trash bins of the District 12 shops to find something that would keep her family alive. She was shouted at by Mrs. Mellark, who threatened to call the Peacekeepers if she didn't leave.
* TooMuchAlike: One of the reasons why Katniss [[spoiler:never falls in love with Gale]] is that they are too much alike, both having a lot of fire and passion and anger, and she needs somebody with a different mindset than her own to balance her out.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Lamb stew with dried plums. Also Peeta's cheese buns.
* TragicKeepsake: Keeps the pearl Peeta gave her and spends a lot of time holding it in her hand in ''Mockingjay''. She even kisses it at one point, pretending she's kissing Peeta.
* TrueCompanions: With Peeta and Haymitch. She even refers to Haymitch as part of her family in "Catching Fire".
* {{Tyrannicide}}: She kills [[spoiler:President Coin after realising she and Snow were [[NotSoDifferentRemark not any different]]]].
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: By the time she realizes she's in love with [[spoiler:Peeta he's been brainwashed into thinking she's a mutt out to kill him. So he tries to strangle her. Ouch. This leaves her... rather bitter, to say the least.]]
* UnwittingPawn: Present, lampshaded, and part of the symbolism. A mockingjay is a powerful symbol to the rebels, but it's also a bird that can't sing its own songs, relying on what others sing to it.
* UselessSpleen: Loses hers in the third book.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Has no qualms whatsoever killing anyone she perceives to be a threat to Peeta in ''Catching Fire''.
* WhatTheHellHero: Imposes this on herself a few times, most notably in Mockingjay [[spoiler:when, after killing the unarmed woman, Katniss notes how she's graduated to killing unarmed civilians, and also notes in passing that she's become so accustomed to killing that she forgot all about taking the woman's life]].
* WreathedInFlames:
** Her entire public image is built around fire imagery after her debut at the 74th Games. [[spoiler:It [[ManOnFire backfires on her repeatedly]].]]
** And [[spoiler:literally applied when she is caught up in the explosion that kills Prim.]]
* YouAreWorthHell: Regarding Prim and later Peeta. While base survival is always on Katniss's mind, a major portion of the reason she wants to win the first Hunger Games is because she doesn't want to leave Prim alone in the world.
* YouGotSpunk: When volunteering for her sister at the reaping, Haymitch announces drunkenly that he likes how she's got lots of spunk.
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[[folder:Peeta Mellark]]
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->''"I just keep wishing I could think of a way to show them that they don't own me. If I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me. Does it make any sense?"''
Drawn to go along to the arena with Katniss, Peeta is the baker's son and thus a member of the merchant class in District 12. He also happens to be [[LoveAtFirstSight completely head-over-heels for Katniss]], which, it would seem, is his bad luck.
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* AbusiveParents:
** His mother beats him and calls him a "stupid creature". At one point, Katniss refers to her as [[WitchWithACapitalB a witch]]. ''Catching Fire'' implies that she also has whipped him, with Katniss being unfamiliar with the sound of a whip but Peeta quickly recognizing it when they hear it.
** His father is described in much better terms, although being a UselessBystanderParent nonetheless. Still, he does allow his deeply traumatized sixteen-year-old son, whose heart has just been broken and who's just had his leg amputated, to leave home and move into a house in a different part of town, all by himself. If nothing else, Papa Mellark is guilty of abuse via [[ParentalNeglect emotional (and arguably physical) neglect]].
* AccidentalMurder: Twice. Picks the nightlock berries that kill Foxface in the first book. In the third he [[spoiler:fights off a member of the Star Squad, sending him flying into a pod that kills him.]]
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ActionSurvivor
* ActOfTrueLove: Katniss spends most of the first book believing that Peeta will, or is at least willing to, kill her to survive the Hunger Games. In the climax, [[spoiler:she acts on this assumption when she sees him reaching down, presumably for a weapon, and points her own at him. It turns out he's unbandaging his leg, so that he will bleed to death, saving Katniss. When he unwraps the bandage, she realizes his true intentions and sincere care for her.]]
* AllAbusersAreMale: Averted. His mother is an AbusiveParent while his father is implied to be a UselessBystanderParent.
* AmnesiacLover: In ''Mockingjay''. He's not completely [[spoiler:amnesiac, but he does forget that he loves Katniss]].
* AnArmAndALeg: Averted. It doesn't seem to bother him in the slightest that his left leg was amputated.
* ArtAttacker: Before the Quarter Quell, Peeta uses his solo session with the Gamemakers to paint an image of Rue covered in flowers, to hold them responsible for her death.
* ArtificialLimbs: A prosthetic left leg [[HollywoodHealing which he learns to walk on within days after amputation and seems to be able to run on with no trouble within a few months]].
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:When he's been hijacked in ''Mockingjay'' he becomes violently homicidal.]]
* BadassPacifist: While he partakes in two Hunger Games and the rebellion, he is a pacifist by nature and advocates diplomacy over violence. While he is pragmatic enough to take a life when his own depends upon it, he only does so as a last resort. But while he is mild-tempered and gentle, he can definitely hold his own in close combat and even kills Brutus, [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome one of the toughest competitors]], during the Quarter Quell.
* BerserkButton: [[spoiler:Just don't mention Katniss to him in the third book. And especially don't leave her in the same room with him. However, this is {{invoked|Trope}} on him by [[BrainwashedAndCrazy the Capitol's hijacking]] and not of his own accord.]]
* TheBerserker: [[spoiler:Becomes this in "Mockingjay" as he has multiple violent outbursts that causes him to attack friend or foe like the berserkers of the old that flew into a rage and could not tell who they were fighting.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Peeta's kills in the 74th Games are a MercyKill and accidentally killing someone who was TooCleverByHalf, not counting any potential kills he had at the Cornucopia. In the 75th game, [[spoiler: Brutus, probably the most dangerous enemy Victor, kills Chaff, and Peeta ''loses his shit'' and kills Brutus in retaliation. This all happens offscreen, so we never get the details of what exactly he did beyond going into a fit of rage.]]
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Gale's Veronica for Katniss.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample** [[spoiler:Their [[HourglassPlot roles reverse]] as the series goes on.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In ''Mockingjay'', [[spoiler:he gets hijacked while being held hostage by the Capitol, which brainwashes him into going into a homicidal rage whenever he sees Katniss]].
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* BreakTheCutie
* BreakThemByTalking: Manages this in his Quarter Quell interview. He is highly skilled when it comes to manipulating a crowd with his words and in this case he claims to have married Katniss and that she is pregnant with their love child in order to win her support in the Games. Not only does he accomplish that but gets the Capitol audience so upset that some of them cry for the Games to be stopped.
* CatchPhrase: "Real or not real?"
* TheCharmer: His strongest quality is his ability to win over the audience, and even his fellow tributes, with his magnetic personality and ability to improvise with his words. He and interview host Caesar quickly find jokes and ways to amuse the audience during his interviews.
* CityMouse: Being from District 12's merchant class, he has little in the way of survival skills during the 74th Games, besides his ability to camouflage himself, and is [[WithCatlikeTread really bad at sneaking around.]]
%%* ConsummateLiar:
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Katniss assumes that since Peeta grew up a merchant kid, he doesn't know starvation like she does. She is surprised to find out that he rarely had enough to eat either and that the only bread they got to have was the stale, tasteless bread they could no longer sell.
* CourtlyLove: His affections for Katniss has strong aspects of this. He's deeply in love with her, has no real hope that she'll return his feelings (he thinks she's in love with Gale) yet is still willing to both kill and die for her. He plays the role of a passionate lover in public but is remarkably chaste with her in private. Even when she lets him into her bed and sleeps in his arms, he never tries to so much as kiss her.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* DeadpanSnarker
* DeathOfPersonality: In ''Mockingjay''. Johanna refers to him [[spoiler:post-hijacking]] as "the evil version of" himself.
%%* DeclarationOfProtection: To Katniss. Well, until [[spoiler:the Capitol brainwashes him, that is]].
* DemotedToExtra: In ''Mockingjay''. In the previous two books he was part of the main cast, but because of [[spoiler:his imprisonment by the Capitol and the time he spends recovering afterward]], he spends most of this book off-screen and doesn't really see much action until near the third act.
* {{Determinator}}: Perhaps not in the classic won't-stay-down-in-a-fight way, but Peeta's desire to remain himself and protect Katniss allowed him to [[spoiler: push through the Capitol's brainwashing long enough to warn District 13 of an impending attack--a warning that saved many lives, including Prim and Gale. Later, he is able to recover from hijacking, something that nobody could be sure was even possible.]]
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Of the first two books. In them, he has the most focus of any character other than Katniss. Gale takes over in book 3.
* DidTheyOrDidntThey: In ''Mockingjay'' he and [[spoiler:Katniss have a sex scene that's so discreet it left many wondering if they had sex at all.]]
* DisabledLoveInterest: Loses his left leg in the first book, and has a prosthetic for the rest of the series.
* DisneyDeath: Has one of these on the first day of the Quarter Quell [[spoiler:after he runs into the force field surrounding the arena]].
* DistressedDude: [[spoiler:Is taken hostage by the Capitol at the end of ''Catching Fire'' and held prisoner throughout a part of ''Mockingjay'']].
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* DoggedNiceGuy:
* TheDulcineaEffect: He may have known Katniss since the age of five but he only actually interacted with her once before being reaped with her and never speaks to her until they've become tributes. All the same he's so determined to die for her survival's sake that Haymitch notes it's not even worth trying to save Peeta in the arena.
* DyingAsYourself: Subverted. It's what Peeta wants. He tells Katniss that if he's going to die in the arena, he doesn't want the Games to change who he is. In "Mockingjay" he [[spoiler:asks the Star Squad to kill him while he's in-between hijack attacks, but they refuse]].
* FakeDefector: He allies with the Careers initially, but is later revealed to have done so to [[spoiler:protect Katniss in his own way]].
* FakeMemories: After [[spoiler:being hijacked at the hands of Snow's goons most of his memories pertaining to Katniss and the events of the previous two books have been altered. Gradually he begins to be able to tell fake memories apart from real ones but the effects are implied to last to some degree for the rest of his life.]]
* FamedInStory: Becomes a huge celebrity after the 74th Games.
* FamilyOfChoice: Never seems particularly close with his biological family but forms a very close bond with Katniss and Haymitch.
* FirstGuyWins: [[spoiler:Katniss met Peeta first, he declared his feelings for her first and she never did develop romantic feelings for Gale.]]
* FlirtingUnderFire: Builds a romance with Katniss during the Hunger Games.
* FlowerMotifs: Katniss associates him with dandelions, spring flowers that represent hope, life and renewal.
* FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler:After being hijacked by the Capitol, his real self struggles to show through.]]
-->[[spoiler:"How do you think this will end? What will be left? No one is safe. Not in the Capitol. Not in the districts. And you... In Thirteen... Dead by morning!"]]
* FromRoommatesToRomance: For all intents and purposes moves in to Katniss' bedroom during the Victory Tour and the Quarter Quell prep week but even though he's deeply in love with her he doesn't pressure her to make it more than platonic. After the war it's implied that he moves in to Katniss' house (and sleeps in her bed) and it stays platonic [[spoiler:until it doesn't anymore... and they become lifelong romantic partners and parents of at least two children]].
* GenerationXerox: The story goes that Peeta's father once fell in LoveAtFirstSight with Katniss' mother, and later pointed Katniss out to Peeta.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan
* GoodIsNotDumb: Peeta is kind, patient, and three steps ahead when it comes to manipulating the on-camera narrative.
* GoodIsNotSoft: His views on the game is that he will kill for survival but he won't try to let that change [[TechnicalPacifist who he is.]]
* GracefulLoser: Ties in with IJustWantMyBelovedToBeHappy. Volunteers to be a tribute in the Quarter Quell to ensure that Katniss can survive and be with Gale.
* GuileHero: He may be a load physically, but he's saved Katniss a lot of problems by being a big fat liar.
** [[spoiler:As such, he transforms into quite the MagnificentBastard when he is brainwashed in ''Mockingjay''.]]
* HairContrastDuo: Kind, gentle, sweet blonde to Katniss' and Haymitch's bitter, cynical, stoic brunette.
* HandicappedBadass: Loses his left leg in the first book yet remains rather badass.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Oddly, in spite of everything he and Katniss with both having gone through massive amounts of [[DysfunctionJunction dysfunction junction]], being saddled with tons psychological trauma from going through the games ''twice,'' losing almost everyone they are close to, participating in and being the figureheads of a revolution that nearly destroys [[CrapsackWorld what little remains of human civilization]], and, in Peeta's case, [[ColdBloodedTorture cold blooded torture]] and [[MindRape mind rape]], Katniss and he still seem to end up this way. In fact, it is heavily implied that the only reason ''either'' of them is still functional is because of the other. The same goes for Haymitch, in a non romantic way.]]
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* TheHeart
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* HeroicSacrifice: Practically a basic character trait of his.
* HeroicWillpower: He is the only known case of a person [[spoiler:recovering from hijacking]] and he does it almost entirely on his own, through sheer force of will.
* HighSchoolSweethearts: They don't attend school after the 74th Games, but he and Katniss are 16/17 when they begin their relationship [[spoiler:and they go on to love each other for the rest of their lives.]]
* HopeBringer: An act that Peeta was completely unaware of at the time but [[spoiler: his giving bread to Katniss in their first encounter actual restored her will to live when she was on the brink of being a DeathSeeker.]]
* HopeSpringsEternal: Embodies this to Katniss, which is one of the reasons why [[spoiler:she loves him]].
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: His plan in ''Catching Fire'' is to get Katniss through the Quarter Quell at the expense of his own life, so she can be with her family and even marry Gale.
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: On a few occasions in the first and third book. It's implied that his crush on Katniss developed into full-blown infatuation when she refused to leave him during the 74th Games even though he was close to dying from sepsis and fully aware that he was TheLoad to her at that point.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Subverted for a point, but ultimately played straight.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: [[spoiler:When he's hijacked. If being mostly catatonic isn't enough to show how the extensive MindRape affected him, him trying to strangle Katniss certainly does so]].
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Haymitch.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Paints pretty pictures, decorates cakes, bakes flower-shaped cookies, prefers diplomacy to violence, wears his heart on his sleeve...
* ItMeantSomethingToMe: The made up romance he and Katniss portrayed in the first Hunger Games was very real to him, and it leaves the first novel with a DownerEnding for him.
* LiterallyLovingThyNeighbor: Is in love with Katniss and gets to live next door to her after winning the 74th Hunger Games.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Katniss. After he gets [[spoiler:captured by the Capitol at the end of ''Catching Fire'', Katniss spends the first chunk of ''Mockingjay'' moping.]]
* TheLoad: Downplayed example.
** In the first book, he ends up not being able to do much after his leg gets injured. He's pretty much helpless, meaning Katniss has to risk her life twice as often to get food and supplies. Even after he heals enough to move around, he's a liability when Katniss fights and even when she ''hunts''--he walks so clumsily that he scares off any prey within earshot. Still, he greatly helps Katniss win over sponsors with the romantic storyline they play up for the audience's benefit, and he ends up [[spoiler:accidentally taking out one of their opponents by leaving out poisoned berries she steals and eats.]]
** He gets an undeserved bad rep for being this in ''Catching Fire'' as well. He displays these traits the first day of [[spoiler:the Quarter Quell - at the Cornucopia (because he can't swim) and when they're fleeing from the poisonous gas (because he's weak after getting severely electrocuted mere hours before, though that was his fault for just casually hacking through the plants and not bothering to be more mindful of his surroundings, so he walked right into the barrier)]], and it's Peeta that ends up startling the monkey mutts into attacking himself, Katniss and Finnick. However, for the rest of the time, he's either [[spoiler: carrying Beetee around the arena, creating a map of the clock, doing all he can to ensure that Katniss survives at the cost of his own life, killing Brutus who is one of their toughest competitors, or generally contributing as much as anyone else in the party.]] He was also the one who made sure himself, Katniss and Haymitch were prepared for [[spoiler:the Quell by forcing the other two to train with him, both physically and survival skills-wise, and meticulously studying their competition to find out what the other victors' strength and weaknesses were.]]
* LoveAtFirstNote: Peeta first took note of Katniss when they were five, when his father pointed her out. Peeta's father originally wanted to marry Katniss's mother, but she fell in love with a miner, because when he sang, even the birds would listen. On the first day of school, the teacher asked if anyone knew a folk song, and Katniss's hand shot right up. When she sang, even the birds stopped to listen -- and at that moment, Peeta was a goner. He's been in love with Katniss ever since.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* LoveMartyr
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* TheLudovicoTechnique: This is essentially what hijacking is, and Peeta is the most famous victim of it.
* MagneticHero: Practically a poster boy for the trope, with his persuasive skills and ultimately kind heart. President Coin is not too happy that they saved Katniss instead of him, for this very reason.
* MakeOutKids: He and Katniss play this trope up as much as they can during the Victory Tour, as they have to make for a believable couple after everything in the arena.
* MandatoryFatherhood: It's heavily implied that President Snow expects him to father children by Katniss. [[spoiler:Once the war is over and the Games have been abolished he voluntarily has them. In fact, the reason why Katniss changes ''her'' mind about children is because Peeta wants them so badly.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: A sympathetic example. He's very good at leading the interviews with Caesar, charming the audience and dropping bombshells designed to make the Capitol sympathetic to himself and Katniss, like revealing he has been in love with Katniss for years or lying and telling them Katniss is pregnant just before the Quarter Quell in hopes they will cancel the games or at the very least pull her out. They don't, but he tried.
* MartialPacifist: A pacifist at heart who doesn't want to see more bloodshed, yet he can be deadly when he feels the need to be.
* MeaningfulName: Two-fold. Peeta sounds like it's an evolved version of Peter, who was Christ's rock. It also sounds like pita bread. Peeta is Katniss' rock and, well, he bakes.
* MindRape: [[spoiler:It's presumed that he underwent this while being hijacked by the Capitol.]]
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* MindControlEyes
* MinoredInAsskicking: He's very strong, a wrestler, skilled with a knife, holds his own at the Cornucopia and against Cato and kills Brutus, one of the toughest tributes in the Quarter Quell. All the same he prefers diplomacy to violence and only uses force when his life, or Katniss', is on the line. He does most of his damage through being a MagneticHero and a master of the WhamLine.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* MoralityChain: [[spoiler:Played up subtly in Catching Fire. By the end of Mockingjay, Katniss explicitly states this is why she ultimately chooses Peeta over Gale.]]
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* MoreHeroThanThou
* NiceGuy: His kindness and compassion for others is his defining trait.
* NobleMaleRoguishMale: The noble male to Gale's roguish male. He is gentle, kind, chivalrous, has quite the way with words and advocates diplomacy over violence (even, at times, during the actual Hunger Games).
* NonActionGuy: Played with. He's said to excel at hand-to-hand combat in the training prior to the Games and, in the Games themselves, participated in several fights. However, his physical feats are mostly off-screen and the rest of the time, he's more of a talker and less of a fighter.
* NotAfraidToDie: In fact he intends to do so at various points in all three books. It makes him stand out during the 74th Hunger Games, him apparently being the first tribute to fight for someone else's survival instead of his own. Whether this is TheDulcineaEffect at play or if he simply knows he cannot win and wants his death to do some good is up for debate. In the second book it's IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy through and through. In the third, he simply doesn't want to live as the monster he believes he's been turned into.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Peeta ''did'' stay to fight it out in the opening bloodbath at the Cornucopia in the 74th Games and apparently did some serious fighting -- enough to get some bad cuts and a limp. Whatever he did, the Careers did decide to team up with him after seeing him in action and even ''[[BloodKnight Cato]]'' compliments his skill with a knife.]]
** [[spoiler:He also kills Brutus off screen.]]
* OneTrueLove: At the end of ''Mockingjay'', Katniss implies that she feels he is this for her, saying that the two of them ending up together "would have happened anyway". He most certainly seems to feel that way about her in return, telling her in ''Catching Fire'' that she is his whole life.
* PunnyName: Peeta the baker. His name is a pun on "pita", a type of bread. Fandom loves to speculate on what his brothers' names are...
* ResistTheBeast: By the time he becomes aware of how much he's been changed in ''Mockingjay'' he begins to view himself as a mutt and loathes what he has become. Ashamed of what he now is, and fearing that he might hurt Katniss (or other members of the Star Squad as collateral damage) he asks the others to kill him. When they don't comply he refuses to let them remove his handcuffs and uses the pain from wearing them as a method of keeping sane.
* RetiredBadass: At the end of the books he goes back to his home district and wants nothing more for the rest of his life than to [[spoiler:be with Katniss and eventually raise a family with her]].
* SaveThisPersonSaveTheWorld: President Coin feels it's more important to save Peeta than Katniss in the Quell. In the third book [[spoiler:she arranges for Peeta's rescue from the Capitol because Katniss cannot perform as the Mockingjay with Peeta in harm's way]], making this trope apply by extension.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* SelfDeprecatingHumor: Peeta is said to have this.
* SelfSacrificeScheme: Has no intention whatsoever of trying to win either one of the two Hunger Games he participates in, and every move of his is designed to help save Katniss instead.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Katniss begins to see potential loves interests in two guys, Peeta, the baker's son who decorates the cakes and Gale, her hunting partner. Gale is angry with the Capitol for making them participate in the games while Peeta is reflective on how he can maintain his identity in the games despite the Capitol using them.
* ShellShockedVeteran: After the Games, he takes up painting. And as Katniss discovers, it's to [[NightmareFuelColoringBook make recreations of what happened in the arena]] to help ease his mind. Her response is "I hate it. But they're extraordinary" (as the narration makes clear, they're so well done and vivid that Katniss can smell the blood, dirt and Muttation hair just by looking).
* SixthRangerTraitor: He temporarily sided with the Careers in the first Games. He later teamed up with Katniss and stayed with her for the rest of the Games.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: He's seen playing chess with Haymitch in ''Catching Fire''.
* TheSneakyGuy: He joins the Career Tributes to serve as this. And then another proof of sneakiness, he hides from them by [[ChameleonCamouflage painting himself as part of the scenery]].
* TheSocialExpert: Peeta can play the crowds like a harp, and it's arguably his greatest talent.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* SoHappyTogether: Plays this trope up for all it's worth before the Quarter Quell.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Peeta manages to be this to ''everyone'' by virtue of wanting to remain himself, rather than doing his best to survive the games at the cost of his humanity. [[spoiler: His confession, and later Katniss going along with it, triggers the rule change that allows both of them to win. His determination to make sure Katniss survives messes with the rebellion's plans during the Quarter Quell, when he refuses to let Haymitch go into the arena, and claiming Katniss was pregnant led to unrest in the very Capitol at the worst possible time for Snow. And then during the rebellion, Snow and Coin both try to use Peeta as a time bomb to kill Katniss, only for him to respond by recovering from his hijacking through pure willpower, something never done before.]]
* StealthPun: A guy named Peeta who works at a bakery. Pita bread.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* TheStoic: Has shades of this.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* TheStrategist
* SupremeChef: Having grown in one of the few District 12 places with constant food (a bakery), he's a really great cook.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* SuperCouple: With Katniss, including in-universe.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* SuperStrength: The closest person to having a CharlesAtlasSuperPower.
* SurvivalMantra: "Not real, not real, not real, not real..."
* TechnicalPacifist: Before conflict arises, he will try to go the path that involves the least amount of bloodshed.
* SweetBaker: He comes from a family of bakers and who Katniss thinks of him "the boy with the bread". He's also a sensitive, empathetic, and idealistic character who truly loves Katniss.
* ThroughHerStomach: Katniss ''really'' likes cheese buns.
* TokyoRose: [[spoiler:Pressed into this role by the Capitol after being captured, to try to convince the rebels that their efforts weren't worth it through broadcasts.]]
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He takes a keen professional interest in bread, mainly due to being raised by and as a baker.
* TrueCompanions: With Haymitch and Katniss. The third book implies something similar between him, Johanna and Annie but in a quite twisted way.
* UselessBystanderParent: Everyone seems to think his father was a nice, kind-hearted man but it's strongly implied that he never interfered when his wife physically and verbally abused their sons.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* WhamLine: Delivering these is pretty much his specialty.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: Lampshaded and subverted. Peeta is a talented artist thanks to his experience decorating cakes at the bakery, but his skill doesn't seem so useful at first in a situation where people are trying to kill each other. Katniss snarks "If only you could frost someone to death." Turns out [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower Cake Decorating Is an Awesome Power]] when it helps his camouflage skills.
%%* WideEyedIdealist: At first. His idealism gradually erodes as the series goes on.
* UnstoppableRage: When truly angered Peeta will lose all restraints and fly into a berserker rage. Played straight when he gets hijacked he becomes homicidal and gets a significant rage boost which increases his strength and his urge to brutally attack friend or foe.
* UnskilledButStrong: Peeta is the closest character in the series to having CharlesAtlasSuperPower (due to having grown up lugging massive sacks of flour), but lacks the Killer Instinct to effectively use it. During the actual training sessions before the games, Katniss notes that Peeta excels at hand-to-hand combat. In comparison, Peeta has less actual experience in the wilderness.
* UptownGuy: A member of the merchant class who's in love with a girl from the Seam. Once they're both victors, they're on equal social standing, though.
* YouAreWorthHell: Willingly [[spoiler:goes back into the arena to try and protect Katniss in ''Catching Fire'' even though he still suffers from PTSD and terrible nightmares after surviving the previous one]].
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!District 12
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!Everdeen Family
[[folder:Katniss Everdeen]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hunger_games_katniss_everdeen_image.jpg]]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/JenniferLawrence
* ActionGirl: Katniss has been the breadwinner in her family since her father died, and was a talented hunter even before that. She's lethal with a bow and when she enters the Hunger Games, she puts those skills to use. She quickly proves herself to be formidable, intelligent and determined. [[spoiler:She manages to beat out other competitors that are not only physically stronger and working together, but whom have been training their entire lives to kill.]]
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She has dark hair and is rather emotionally distant and closed off from others, due to her numerous trust issues.
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Or rather Always Save The Boy With The Bread. She continuously prioritizes Peeta's survival over what's best for her own survival, the rebellion and her squad.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Averted. In the books, Katniss was stated as "olive-skinned" but with no specified race. In the movies, she is played by the white Jennifer Lawrence.
* AnimalMotifs: From ''Catching Fire'' onwards, she's strongly identified with mockingjays. She received a pin of one early in ''The Hunger Games'' and it became her symbol.
* {{Anti Hero}}ine: [[PragmaticHero The pragmatic kind.]] And also an example of the good kind.
* ArcherArchetype: She relies on her bow to hunt, survive, and lead. Katniss has strong and independent survivalist instincts due to her difficult past and is good at thinking outside the box. She is not socially adept and has a hard time making friends due to the emotional strain on her life which has made her hard and cold. She is usually very logical.
* ArcSymbol: Fire is strongly associated with her throughout the story. Of course, fire usually represents revolutions, even in real life, so it fits.
* ArrowsOnFire: Beetee gives her special explosive-tipped arrows in ''Mockingjay Pt. 1''. And they are ''very'' explosive.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: As much as she bickers with Haymitch and as angry as she is with him in ''Mockingjay'' they still have moments that show how much they've grown to care about one another. [[spoiler:For example it's his arms she cries in over Peeta's torture.]]
* BadLiar: According to Peeta. "Never gamble at cards. You'll lose your last coin." [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] later on, when she gradually becomes more effective at fooling people -- starting with Peeta himself in the form of their initial romance.]]
* BecomingTheMask: After playing up the Romance with Peeta for the camera's since the 74th Hunger Games, [[spoiler: her real genuine feelings for him become clearer and clearer as time goes on]]. And later, after being used as a symbol of the rebellion for propaganda purposes, [[spoiler: she becomes a warrior and inspirational leader of the revolution war.]]
* BigSisterInstinct: Katniss is deeply devoted to her beloved sister Prim, and she volunteers to take her place in the Hunger Games after Prim's name is called, effectively kickstarting the story. This is essentially a death sentence and she's fully aware of it. When she's in the arena, she forms an attachment to Rue and becomes her steadfast ally. [[spoiler:She's entirely heartbroken when Rue is killed, singing to her as she dies and burying her in flowers.]]
* BirdsOfAFeather: Her and Gale, both rebellious against the Capitol's regime but still working on providing for their families. Through illegal hunting, of course.
* BreakTheCutie: Pretty much the gist of the film series. Watch as a young girl is given Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and watch as she's forced to keep on chugging as other characters decide that she's too important to whatever is going on to be allowed to recover from her shell shock, exacerbating it at every given opportunity.
* BrokenBird: She starts out as one due to her father's death and having to be her family's main source of financial support but after the Games it turns up to eleven.
%%%* TheChosenOne: Treated this way by the rebellion.
** ColorCodedEyes: Her eyes are a cold and distant grey, reflecting determinator status. And don't you forget her archery skills, too.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: In the 74th Hunger Games, she and Peeta wore coal black jackets.
* CombatPragmatist: Increasingly becomes this as the novels progress, though moreso during the games.
%%* TheComicallySerious
* CommitmentIssues: The reason why she keeps Peeta at arm's length is that she is determined to never fall in love, get married and have children. The reason is implied to be a combination of not wanting to be a parent on Reaping Day, not wanting to put people into the world who will have to feel the same fear and hatred that she does, and not wanting to end up like her mother, who broke down completely when her husband died. In "''Catching Fire''" it's Katniss who suggests that she and Peeta get married but it's not because of romantic desire but rather a desperate attempt at keeping Snow happy. Peeta agrees, but not very happily.
%%%%* CoolBigSis: To Prim and Rue.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: In the second film near the end, as [[spoiler:she is hoisted from the burning wreckage of the Arena by a resistance hovercraft.]]
* TheCynic: In contrast to Peeta's idealism, Katniss's utter lack of faith in people at the series' start is particularly grim. In the last book, after losing [[spoiler:Prim,]] she even declares to [[spoiler:have no allegiance to the human race anymore.]]
* DaddysGirl: Her father was clearly her favored parent. Not helped very much by her mother virtually abandoning her after he died.
* DeadpanSnarker: Has her moments. Especially when bantering with Finnick.
-->'''Finnick''': You can swim, too. Where did you learn that in District Twelve?
-->'''Katniss''': We have a big bathtub.
%%* DebtDetester
* DeclarationOfProtection: Towards Prim, which sets the plot in motion. She later declares protection for Peeta at the Quarter Quell.
* DespairEventHorizon: Toes the line in ''Catching Fire'' when she realizes Haymitch only kept his promise to Peeta. Pushed over the edge after [[spoiler:[[DoomedHometown District Twelve is annihilated]]]].
%%* {{Determinator}}
* DisappearedDad: Her father died in a mining accident.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Somewhat, while she will probably suffer from the effects of PTSD due to the games the rest of her life, [[spoiler: [[HappilyMarried she and Peeta]] find a way to carve out as much normalcy as they can for themselves and their children.]]
* FamedInStory: Becomes one of the biggest celebrities in Panem.
* FireForgedFriends: With Finnick Odair and Johanna Mason in ''Mockingjay''.
* FirstGirlWins: [[spoiler:She met Peeta first, he declared his feelings for her first and she never did develop romantic feelings for Gale.]]
* FlirtingUnderFire: Builds her romance with Peeta during the Hunger Games.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: A heroic version: Katniss was a nobody from District 12 who volunteered as tribute and was not initially expected to survive. From there on, she blasts through the Hunger Games, kills numerous people, becomes one of the most well-known people in the world (with the sole exclusion of President Snow) and [[spoiler:becomes the face of a revolution intent on toppling the government.]] Not bad for a young girl who only wanted to save her sister.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: She's a good archer, but not particularly good at fighting hand-to-hand.
* {{Hallucinations}}: In her first Games, courtesy of tracker jacker venom.
* HeartbrokenBadass: In ''Mockingjay'' after [[spoiler:Peeta has been hijacked into hating her. She takes the loss of his love so hard that she almost begins to hate him for not loving her anymore.]] Still stays very badass though.
* HeroicNeutral: She really isn't interested in becoming a symbol or sparking a revolution. She just wants to keep her family safe and keep her head down.
* HeroicSacrifice: What volunteering for her sister was intended to be, as she knew her chances of getting out of the Games alive were extremely slim. She does make it out, though.
* HighSchoolSweethearts: They don't actually attend high school but she and Peeta begin their romance at age sixteen.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: One of her biggest flaws, though not in the usual way. Quite simply, she has a nasty habit of always assuming the worst of everyone she meets when these people ironically often end up saving her life and or genuinely caring about her. Her trust issues mostly stem from her childhood trauma of never having anyone to be there for her, including people she thought she could trust, and in turn having to be there for her younger sister. [[spoiler:This is also why she's so confused by Peeta, considering he ''did'' help her when no one else would, and as such she's unable to paint him with her usual worldview and doesn't know how else to see him.]]
* IconOfRebellion: The mockingjay pin, and eventually Katniss herself.
%%* ImprobableAimingSkills
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: The other tributes saw her as being this in the second Games, but largely due to the fact that she never had to be subjected to how the Capitol treats their victors, since she didn't last long after her victory tour and had a 'husband' anyway. Cue Finnick, Johanna, and Chaff trolling her and trying to 'corrupt' her.
%%* IneffectualLoner
* INeedAFreakingDrink: [[spoiler:Once she finds out she'll be headed for another Hunger Games in the Quarter Quell.]]
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Haymitch, Mags and Effie.
%%* JadeColoredGlasses
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Katniss is a good person with a huge capacity for love and the devotion of a saint, but personally she's bitter, sarcastic, distant and stand-offish. A lot of the Hunger Games deals with Haymitch and Effie's attempts to make her more 'presentable' to the Capitol.
* JeanneDArchetype: When asked to describe Katniss Everdeen of The Hunger Games, actress Jennifer Lawrence replied, "She's a futuristic Joan of Arc." Her co-star Donald Sutherland also compared Katniss to Joan. What clinches her role as Jeanne D'Archetype, however, is probably the whole "Girl on Fire" image which Katniss is given.
* KirkSummation: lays out to the mooks why the president and ruling methods are evil and need to be defeated. It does not work 100% but still impressively so.
* KnightInSourArmor: The only thing she ultimately wants is freedom, peace, and no more Hunger Games.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: Believes this to be her relationship with Gale in the first book. Turns out it's not quite so simple. [[spoiler:However it remains an unrequited love from Gale's side.]]
* LoveHurts: One of the two main reasons why she's so reluctant to admit to herself that she's falling in love.
* MadeOfIron: She has been strangled by Peeta, shot in the chest, and had her entire body (save her face) burned by fire, and survived all of those predicaments.
* MakeOutKids: She and Peeta play this trope up for all it's worth during the Victory Tour.
* MamaBear: Towards Prim and Rue.
* MandatoryMotherhood: It's implied that President Snow expects her to bear Peeta's children as a means of being able to control her.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: To both Peeta and Gale. Gale eventually calls her on it.
* MeaningfulName: Katniss is a real plant. Its common name is "Arrowhead" (and its scientific name is ''Sagittaria'', which means 'archer' in Latin).
%%* MoreHeroThanThou
* NoSocialSkills: Something that Haymitch frequently mocks Katniss over is her lack of people skills.
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: All she wants is to ensure Peeta's survival. She has no interest in starting a war with the Capital, at least at first...
* ObliviousToLove: Cannot see that Gale and Peeta clearly love her until they outright state it to her. Even for Peeta, it took some time for her to realize after he blatantly says it.
* PregnantBadass: In ''Catching Fire''... or so Peeta would have you believe.
%%* PluckyGirl
* PromotionToParent: For her sister, due to her mother's depression and general ineffectiveness.
* PunnyName: An archer named after a plant also known as arrowhead.
* RedBaron: She's known both as 'The Girl on Fire' and 'Mockingjay'.
* RetiredBadass: [[spoiler:After [[EarnYourHappyEnding earning her happy ending]] with Peeta.]]
* {{Revenge}}: [[spoiler: Coin took Prim's life, so Katniss wants to take Coin's.]]
* RoguishPoacher: Illegal hunting to feed starving family and stick it to The Man? Check.
%%* SaveThisPersonSaveTheWorld: Especially apparent in "''Catching Fire''". Something about Mockingjay. Possibly Katniss saves the world.
* SelfSacrificeScheme: Her goal in "''Catching Fire''" is to save Peeta at the cost of her own life and she's well aware that by martyring herself she might be of better use to the rebellion than if she lives.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Due to the events of the Hunger Games, and from there on it progresses from bad to worse.
* ShoutOut: Name serves as one to Bathsheba Everdene from Thomas Hardy's ''Literature/FarFromTheMaddingCrowd''.
* ShutUpKirk: In the middle of ''Mockingjay'', the Girl on Fire finds out the hard way that {{Rousing Speech}}es don't work on everyone.
* SmittenTeenageGirl: The role Katniss plays for the cameras is oh so in love with Peeta. Of course, her true self is nothing like that.
%%%* SoHappyTogether: She and Peeta play up this trope before the Quarter Quell.
%%* StraightMan
* StylishProtectionGear: Her Mockingjay suit - designed by a professional stylist, no less.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: "Sugar" to Prim and Gale, "ice" to pretty much everyone else, including her mother. But she warms up to her and a few more people over the course of the series.
* SuperCouple: With Peeta, including in-universe.
* SurvivalMantra: In the beginning of ''Mockingjay''.
%%* SurvivorGuilt
* SympathyForTheDevil: In the 74th Games, [[spoiler:when she ultimately kills Cato, it's not out of anger towards him or a desire to win, but as [[MercyKill an act of compassion]] and pity for his condition]].
* TragicKeepsake: Keeps the pearl Peeta gave her and spends a lot of time holding it in her hand in ''Mockingjay''.
* TrueCompanions: With Peeta and Haymitch. She even refers to Haymitch as part of her family in "Catching Fire".
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: [[spoiler:By the time she realizes she's in love with Peeta he's been brainwashed. So he tries to strangle her. Ouch. This leaves her... rather bitter, to say the least.]]
* UnwittingPawn: Present, lampshaded, and part of the symbolism. A mockingjay is a powerful symbol to the rebels as a perversion of what the Capitol hoped for and wanted, but it's also a bird that can't sing its own songs, relying on what others sing to it.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: Has no qualms whatsoever killing anyone she perceives to be a threat to Peeta in ''Catching Fire''.
\%%* WhatTheHellHero
* WreathedInFlames: Her entire public image is built around fire imagery after her debut at the 74th Games.
* YouAreTheNewTrend: In the second film, she meets a girl on the Victory Tour who tells her that she wants to volunteer as tribute like her. Snow's grandddaughter also wears her hair in a braid like Katniss, even saying that all the other girls at her school are doing it. This happens to most victors immediately after the Games, even when they haven't sparked a revolution.
** President Snow tries to defy this in the final parts, declaring possession of "Mockingjay" symbolics a ground for treason accusation and subsequent execution.
* YouAreWorthHell: Regarding Prim and later Peeta.
* YouGotSpunk: When volunteering for her sister at the reaping, Haymitch announces drunkenly that he likes how she's got lots of spunk.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Primrose "Prim" Everdeen]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/everdeen_primrose.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Since the last games, something is different. I can see it."'']]
->'''Portrayed By''' Willow Shields
* AllLovingHero: Prim seems incapable of bearing any ill will towards anything. However, it's unsure how much of this is Prim and how much of it is a mask for Katniss, who's doing her best to hope that her little sister is still untainted to some degree by the horrors of the Capitol.
* BreakTheCutie: Averted. Despite all that happens, she manages to remain relatively optimistic and kind.
* FloralThemeNaming: Primrose is a kind of flower, while her sister's name comes from an aquatic plant.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Animals love her. The family cat, Buttercup, only responds positively to her.
* GenerationXerox: Prim looks like Mrs. Everdeen and has inherited her passion for healing. Also, Mrs. Everdeen was close friends with Katniss' friend, Madge's mother, as a teenager and the father of Katniss' love interest Peeta had a crush on Mrs. Everdeen.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Prim is a compassionate young blonde girl with blue eyes (hazel-to-green in the film, but still) who loves all living creatures and becomes a good healer at an early age, often helping her mother with patients. When Katniss leaves her family she doesn't bother suggesting that Prim learn to hunt because her attempts were disastrous, since the woods terrified Prim and whenever Katniss shot something it would make Prim teary and she'd talk about how they might be able to heal it.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Prim is practically like a shining light in the CrapsackWorld she lives in.
* InSeriesNickname: Prim's full name is Primrose, but everyone calls her Prim.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:Dies in a bombing near the end of ''Mockingjay''.]]
* KindheartedCatLover: She simply adores her cat Buttercup, who is [[CatsAreMean utterly nasty to everyone]] except her. Then again, she's the only one who seems to treat him with any sort of kindness.
%%* LikeBrotherAndSister: With Gale.
%%* LivingEmotionalCrutch: Prim starts out as being this for Katniss.
* LovedByAll: According to Joanne, Snow wouldn't dare mess with Prim, considering how beloved she has become to all of Panem.
%%* TheMedic: Grows into one.
* MoralityPet: Prim, for Katniss and Buttercup; she is one of few people they show any kindness to, and she's possibly the only person in the world that early Katniss believes is genuinely good.
%%* NiceGirl
* SmallRoleBigImpact: She isn't present for most of the plot, but it's because of her that Katniss ends up in the Games in the first place.
* TeamPet: Buttercup, especially during the rebellion.
* TenderTears: At the Reaping for the 74th Games, when her sister volunteers instead of her.
* WideEyedIdealist: At first. She loses the wide-eyed part, but keeps the idealism.
%%* WiseBeyondTheirYears: In ''Mockingjay''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mr. and Mrs. Everdeen]]
->'''Portrayed By:''' Phillip Troy Linger & Creator/PaulaMalcomson
* BrokenBird: Mrs. Everdeen was entirely destroyed by her husband's death, and is more often than not barely hanging on.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Katniss views her dead father more highly than she does her loving but not-quite-there mother. This is not helped by the fact that her father taught her the skills that ultimately saved her entire family while her mother went into emotional shock and stopped trying to take care of her and Prim after his death.
* DisappearedDad: Mr. Everdeen passed away in a coal mining accident five years before the story starts.
* TheGhost: Mr, Everdeen is only seen once in the first film during a flashback (and a few more times over the four films on photos), even then his appearance was ''very'' brief.
* HappilyMarried: The Everdeens had a loving marriage prior to Mr. Everdeen's death.
* HeroicBSOD: Mrs. Everdeen had one after Mr. Everdeen died that was so bad it left her unable to take care of Katniss and Prim.
* TheMedic: Mrs. Everdeen runs District 12's apothecary.
* ParentalAbandonment: Mrs. Everdeen. After Mr. Everdeen dies, she falls into a depression and neglects the family out of sheer grief. Eventually, she manages to move past it. Katniss' strictest warning to her when she leaves is that if she does that again when Katniss most likely dies in the Games, Prim ''will'' die without Katniss' hunting skills to fall back on.
--> ''Katniss'': You can't check out again. Not like when Dad died.
--> ''Mrs. Everdeen'': I won't.
--> ''Katniss'': No. You ''can't''.
* PosthumousCharacter: Mr. Everdeen, who died in a mine disaster.
* RoguishPoacher: Katniss's father taught her everything she knows about hunting and survival.
* UnnamedParent: We never find out Mr. and Mrs. Everdeen's first names.
* UptownGirl: Mrs. Everdeen was born into the merchant class but married a coal miner.
[[/folder]]
!Other Citizens
[[folder:Peeta Mellark]]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mellark_peeta.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"You know, if I'm gonna die, I wanna still be me."'']]
->'''Portrayed By''' Creator/JoshHutcherson
* AbledInTheAdaptation: In the original novel, he loses his leg, and has a few struggles learning how to properly use the prosthetic. This doesn't happen in the movie adaption, likely due to the presence of Josh Hutcherson's leg.
* ActionSurvivor: Unlike most of his fellow tributes, Peeta lacks training and experience and has absolutely no experience in the wilderness.
* AdaptationalBadass: He sees a lot more action in the films than in the books; being able to hold his own against Cato on top of the Cornucopia in the first, and overpowering and drowning another tribute in the second.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:The Capitol 'hijacks' him into becoming violent and unpredictable.]]
* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Gale's Veronica for Katniss.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Although it gets brushed under the rug, he still [[spoiler:kills a defenseless girl in the 74th games (granted, death at his hands would've been preferable to that of the Careers). It's also implied he's willing to kill almost anyone to try and keep Katniss alive. And this is without going into his BrainwashedAndCrazy period in ''Mockingjay''.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:The Capitol hijacks him, turning him violent.]]
* BreakTheCutie: The boy had it even worse than his girlfriend -- at least she wasn't subjected to continuous MindRape for weeks on end that caused him to hate the one person he loved right before finding out that everyone else he'd ever known and loved was demolished alongside his hometown. Katniss at least had her ''family''.
* TheCharmer: His strongest quality is his ability to win over the audience, and even his fellow tributes, with his magnetic personality and lies.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: In the 74th Hunger Games, he and Katniss wore coal black jackets.
* CourtlyLove: His affections for Katniss has strong aspects of this. He's deeply in love with her, has no real hope that she'll return his feelings (he thinks she's in love with Gale) yet is still willing to both kill and die for her. He plays the role of lover in public but is remarkably chaste with her in private. Even when she lets him into her bed and sleeps in his arms he never tries to so much as kiss her.
%%* DeadpanSnarker[=/=]NonActionSnarker
* DeclarationOfProtection: To Katniss. [[spoiler:Well, until the Capitol brainwashes him, that is]].
* DemotedToExtra: In Mockingjay, until [[spoiler:his rescue from the Capitol.]]
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Of the franchise. If a rare moment isn't being spent with Katniss, then it most likely is spent with Peeta.
* DisneyDeath: Has one of these on the first day of the Quarter Quell.
* DistressedDude: [[spoiler:Is taken hostage by the Capitol at the end of ''Catching Fire'' and held prisoner throughout a part of ''Mockingjay'']].
* TheDulcineaEffect: He may have known Katniss since the age of five but he only actually interacted with her once before being reaped with her and never speaks to her until they've become tributes. All the same he's so determined to die for her survival's sake that Haymitch notes it's not even worth trying to save Peeta in the arena.
* DyingAsYourself: Kind of. It's what Peeta wanted. If he was going to die in the arena, he didn't want the Games to change who he was, like they often did with other tributes.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: While he will probably suffer from the effects of PTSD due to the games the rest of his life, [[spoiler: as well as the constant looming threat he may fall prey to his brainwashing at any moment, [[HappilyMarried he and Katniss]] find a way to carve out as much normalcy for themselves and their children.]]
* FakeDefector: When he allies with the careers.
* FamedInStory: Becomes a huge celebrity after the 74th Games. According to Johanna in the second movie, "the whole world" wants to sleep with him (though she could be saying it just to annoy Katniss... and it works like a charm).
* FamilyOfChoice: Never seems particularly close with his biological family but forms a very close bond with Katniss and Haymitch.
* FlirtingUnderFire: Builds a romance with Katniss during the Hunger Games.
* FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler: After being hijacked by the Capitol, his real self struggles to show through, including sending a thinly-veiled warning to District Thirteen that there were bombs en route to their location as he spoke.]]
-->[[spoiler:"How do you think this will end? What will be left? No one is safe. Not in the Capitol. Not in the districts. And you...in Thirteen...dead by morning!"]]
* GenerationXerox: The story goes that Peeta's father once fell in LoveAtFirstSight with Katniss' mother, and later pointed Katniss out to Peeta.
* GoodIsNotDumb: Peeta is kind, patient, and three steps ahead when it comes to manipulating the on-camera narrative.
* GuileHero: He may be a load physically, but he's saved Katniss a lot of problems by being a big fat liar. [[spoiler:As such, he transforms into quite the MagnificentBastard when he is brainwashed in ''Mockingjay''.]]
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Very strong due to working as a baker's apprentice, but not very good at hunting.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Oddly, in spite of everything he and Katniss with both having gone through massive amounts of [[DysfunctionJunction dysfunction junction]], being saddled with tons of psychological trauma from going through the games ''twice,'' losing almost everyone they are close to, participating in and being the figureheads of a revolution that nearly destroys [[CrapsackWorld what little remains of human civilization]], and, in Peeta's case, [[ColdBloodedTorture cold blooded torture]] and [[MindRape mind rape]], Katniss and he still seem to end up this way. In fact, it heavily implied that the only reason ''either'' of them is still functional is because of the other. The same goes for Haymitch, in a non romantic way.]]
%%* TheHeart
* HeroicSacrifice: Practically a basic character trait of his.
* HeroicWillpower: He is the only known case of a person [[spoiler:recovering from hijacking]] and he does it almost entirely on his own, through sheer force of will.
* HighSchoolSweethearts: They don't attend school after the 74th Games, but he and Katniss are 16/17 when they begin their relationship [[spoiler:and they go on to love each other for the rest of their lives.]]
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Subverted for a point, but ultimately played straight.
* InsaneEqualsViolent: [[spoiler:When he's hijacked]].
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Haymitch.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Paints pretty pictures, decorates cakes, bakes flower-shaped cookies, prefers diplomacy to violence, wears his heart on his sleeve...
* ItMeantSomethingToMe: The made up romance he and Katniss portrayed in the first Hunger Games was very real to him, and it leaves the first novel with a DownerEnding for him to find out that she was just trying to survive.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: His plan in ''Catching Fire'' is to get Katniss through the Quarter Quells at the expense of his own life, so she can be with her family and even marry Gale.
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: On a few occasions in the first and third book. It's implied that his crush on Katniss developed into full-blown infatuation when she refused to leave him during the 74th Games even though he was close to dying from sepsis and fully aware that he was TheLoad to her at that point.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: To Katniss.
* TheLoad: He ends up becoming this after his leg gets injured. He's pretty much helpless, meaning Katniss has to risk her life twice as often to get food and supplies. Even after he heals enough to move around, he's a liability when Katniss fights and even when she ''hunts''-- he walks so clumsily that he scares off any prey within earshot.
** He gets an undeserved bad rep for being this in ''Catching Fire'' as well. He displays these traits the first day of [[spoiler:the Quarter Quell - at the Cornucopia (because he can't swim - and even then, he drowns another tribute in self-defence) and when they're fleeing from the poisonous gas (because he's weak after getting severely electrocuted mere hours before).]] However the rest of the time he's either [[spoiler:fighting monkey mutts with Katniss and Finnick, turning back and helping a tripped Katniss on her feet and shoving her ahead of him while fleeing from the poisonous fog, carrying Beetee around the arena, creating a map of the clock, doing all he can to ensure that Katniss survives at the cost of his own life, killing Brutus who is one of their toughest competitors, or generally contributing as much as anyone else in the party.]] [[labelnote:From the books...]]He was also the one who made sure himself, Katniss and Haymitch were prepared for the Quell by forcing the other two to train with him, both physically and survival skills-wise, and meticulously studying their competition to find out what the other victors' strength and weaknesses were.[[/labelnote]]
** And again in ''Mockingjay Part 2''. where for most of the film not only is he [[spoiler:unable to step in and help during combat, being metaphorically dragged around town by the Star Team, but he also causes at least one ally death due to his brainwashing. And Katniss is told repeatedly to kill him or let him die, as he was only sent there to get her killed, and yet she drags his miserable butt through the whole movie. He was literally sent to her to be TheLoad]]. However, this is again averted when [[spoiler:Peeta ends up saving Katniss from the lizard mutts in the sewers]].
*** [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Original scripting also had him]] [[spoiler:save Katniss from the firebombs that killed Prim.]]
* LoveAtFirstSight[=/=]LoveAtFirstNote: Peeta first took note of Katniss when they were five, when his father pointed her out. Peeta's father originally wanted to marry Katniss's mother, but she fell in love with a miner, because when he sang, even the birds would listen. On the first day of school, the teacher asked if anyone knew a folk song, and Katniss's hand shot right up. When she sang, even the birds stopped to listen -- and at that moment, Peeta was a goner. He's been in love with Katniss ever since.
* MakeOutKids: He and Katniss play this trope up as much as they can during the Victory Tour.
* MandatoryMotherhood: It's heavily implied that President Snow expects him to father children by Katniss as means of controlling them both and keeping them in line. He's no more happy about becoming the parent of a future tribute than Katniss is. [[spoiler:Once the war is over and the Games have been abolished he changes his mind about having children. In fact, the reason why Katniss changed ''her'' mind about children was because Peeta wanted them so badly.]]
* MartialPacifist: A pacifist at heart who doesn't want to see more bloodshed, yet he can be deadly when he feels the need to be.
* MeaningfulName: Two-fold. Peeta sounds like it's an evolved version of Peter, who was Christ's rock. It also sounds like pita bread. Peeta is Katniss' rock and, well, he bakes.
%%* MindRape
* MoralityChain: [[spoiler:Played up subtlety in Catching Fire. By the end of Mockingjay, Katniss explicitly states this is why she ultimately chooses Peeta over Gale.]]
* MrFanservice: In-Universe, much like Finnick before him, many of the Capital's Women swoon and would jump at the chance to bed "The Boy on Fire".
* NiceGuy: His kindness and compassion for others is his defining trait.
* NonActionGuy: Played with. He's said to excel at hand-to-hand combat in the training prior to the Games and, in the Games themselves, participated in several fights. However, his physical feats are mostly off-screen and the rest of the time, he's more of a talker and less of a fighter.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Peeta ''did'' stay to fight it out in the opening bloodbath at the Cornucopia in the 74th Games and apparently did some serious fighting- enough to get some bad cuts and a limp. Whatever he did, the Careers did decide to team up with him after seeing him in action and even ''[[BloodKnight Cato]]'' compliments his skill with a knife.]]
** [[spoiler:He's also heavily implied to have killed Brutus off screen in ''Catching Fire''.]]
* PintSizedPowerhouse: In the movie, being played by the relatively short Josh Hutcherson. In the books he's taller than Katniss.
* PunnyName: Peeta the baker. Fandom loves to speculate on what his brothers' names are...
* SaveThisPersonSaveTheWorld: President Coin feels it's more important to save Peeta than Katniss in the Quell, even speaking out her feelings about this once. In ''Mockingjay'' [[spoiler:she arranges for Peeta's rescue from the Capitol because Katniss cannot perform as the Mockingjay with Peeta in harm's way]], making this trope apply by extension.
* SelfDeprecatingHumor: Peeta is said to have this, and it's implied it's due to some level of parental abuse.
* SelfSacrificeScheme: Has no intention whatsoever of trying to win either one of the two Hunger Games he participates in, and every move of his is designed to help save Katniss instead.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Katniss begins to see potential loves interests in two guys, Peeta, the baker's son who decorates the cakes and Gale, her hunting partner. Gale is angry with the Capitol for making them participate in the games while Peeta is reflective on how he can maintain his identity in the games despite the Capitol using them.
* SixthRangerTraitor: He temporarily sided with the Careers in the first Games. He later teamed up with Katniss and stayed with her for the rest of the Games.
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: He's seen playing chess with Haymitch in ''Catching Fire''.
%%* TheSneakyGuy
* SoHappyTogether: Plays this trope up for all it's worth before the Quarter Quell.
* StealthPun: A guy named Peeta who works at a bakery.
%%* TheStrategist
* SuperCouple: With Katniss, including in-universe.
* SurvivalMantra: "Not real, not real, not real, not real..."
* ThroughHisStomach: Katniss ''really'' likes cheese buns.
* TokyoRose: [[spoiler:Pressed into this role by the Capitol after being captured]].
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: He takes a keen professional interest in bread.
* TrueCompanions: With Haymitch and Katniss.
* UnskilledButStrong: Peeta is a strong guy, but lacks the correct combat skill as seen in his fight with Cato, who's a big guy himself. Whenever Peeta could manage to get his hands on him, he'd be throwing him around. However, Cato easily gets him in a lock once he fights back.
* UptownGirl: A member of the merchant class who's in love with a girl from the Seam. Once they're both victors they're on equal social standing, though.
* YouAreWorthHell: [[spoiler:Willingly goes back into the arena to try and protect Katniss in "''Catching Fire''" even though he still suffers from PTSD and terrible nightmares after surviving the previous one. It's also debatable whether this was worse hell for him, or if watching Katniss in danger and suffering while trying to schmooze crowds into sponsoring her without any guarantees would be worse.]]
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[[folder:Gale Hawthorne]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Guess the odds aren't exactly in my favor."'']]
->'''Portrayed By''' Creator/LiamHemsworth
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** In ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'' he receives a flogging from Thread because he tried to stop Thread from beating an old woman to death. In the book Gale had a black market deal with Thread's predecessor, Cray, and went to Cray's house to bring him the usual supplies... only to find that Cray had been replaced by Thread, leading to Gale being whipped for his black market dealings with Peacekeepers.
** Secondly, in ''[[Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay Mockingjay Part 2]]'', Gale is much more openly remorseful and tries to console Katniss and discuss [[spoiler:Prim's death]], but Katniss is understandably upset and enraged over Gale's role in it, [[spoiler:thus wanting nothing more to do with him]]. Gale's book counterpart didn't even make the effort to approach the issue.
* AntiHero: Cynical and hot-tempered, with a burning hatred of the Capitol.
* AscendedExtra: He doesn't see much action until ''Mockingjay'', with smaller roles in first two films.
* AdvertisedExtra: Liam Hemsworth was featured in many publicity materials despite being (until the third movie) largely a tertiary character.
* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to Peeta's Betty for Katniss.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Him and Katniss. Both lost their fathers in a mine explosion and became the breadwinners of their respective families.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Explicitly defied by the Capitol highers-up, who think that Gale's TallDarkAndHandsome childhood friend character could damage viewers' opinions of Katniss and Peeta's onscreen romance.
%%* CombatPragmatist
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Of ''Mockingjay,'' for a bit.
* DisappearedDad: His dad died in the same explosion that killed Katniss'.
* EverybodysDeadDave: At the end of ''Catching Fire''.
-->'''Gale''' (to Katniss): [[spoiler:There is no District Twelve]].
* GreenEyedMonster: As he becomes more and more aware that Katniss' feelings for Peeta are more than just an act, he becomes increasingly possessive of her.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: However, after Katniss outright admits she loves Peeta, he is the first volunteer for District 13's mission to liberate Peeta, and the others victors, from the Capital's captivity.
* {{Hunk}}: To contrast Peeta's "boy next door" looks.
* TheLancer: To Katniss. He's her best friend and he becomes her most trusted ally during the revolution. While she's often uncertain of how to trust others, Katniss knows to place her trust in Gale.
* LovingAShadow: His relationship with Katniss. He may love her, but she's far too broken by life and her experiences in the games to return his feelings in the same manner, making him bitter and hostile every time Peeta is brought up, the man she is able to truly be able to commit to.
%%* ManlyMenCanHunt
* MeaningfulName: He has a stormy personality.
* MrFanservice: Pretty much his defining role in the first two films, he appears in about 5-10 minutes of the nearly two and half hour first film, and about a half-hour of the second film, but dang it if he wasn't so good looking, they used him heavily in the marketing campaign.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this reaction [[spoiler:after learning he may have been involved in the bombing that killed Prim, quietly accepting he has lost any chance of a future with Katniss, leaving without argument after she confronts him on her sister's death.]]
%%* RoguishPoacher
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: He's the manly man to Peeta's sensitive guy, since Gale is a hunter and isn't quite as compassionate as Peeta. All the same, he isn't afraid to show his softer side and is generally a caring man.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Due to being played by Liam Hemsworth. He's dark-haired and towers over both Katniss and Peeta.
* ATasteOfTheLash: Courtesy of Romulus Thread.
* TookALevelInJerkass: By ''Mockingjay'', he has become a lot more ruthless and bloodthirsty. [[spoiler:He shows little sympathy to Peeta's torture and brainwashing after his broadcasting, calls him weak in an effort to disillusion Katniss' love for him, sees the civilian refugees in District 2 as traitors, showing no remorse should they die due to the rebellion's plans, and is heavily implied to have been involved in the planning of the bombing that ended up killing countless innocent Capital children, and Prim]].
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[[folder:Greasy Sae]]
->'''Portrayed By''' Sandra Ellis Lafferty
A vendor at The Hob, District 12's black market. She usually sells and buys food from Katniss.
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* DemotedToExtra: In the films, Greasy Sae doesn't have much of a role past the first one.
** CompositeCharacter: However, she gives Katniss the Mockingjay pin, instead of [[AdaptedOut Madge]].
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[[folder:Commander Romulus Thread]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Let's get to work."'']]
->'''Portrayed By''' Creator/PatrickStEsprit
The new Head Peacekeeper of District 12.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Played with. While just as reprehensible as his book counterpart, in the film his reason for having Gale whipped is because he tried to stop Thread from beating an old woman to death; in the book Gale had a black market deal with Thread's predecessor, Cray, and went to Cray's house to bring him the usual supplies... only to find that Cray had been replaced by Thread, who had Gale whipped for his black market deal. He had Gale whipped for a lesser reason but didn't try to beat an elderly woman.
* ChewingTheScenery: He snarls every other line and seems constantly on the verge of exploding.
-->'''Thread:''' ''CLEEEEAR THE SQUAAAARE! YOU ARE ALL UNDER CURFEW! ANYONE ON THE STREET AFTER DARK WILL BE [[PunctuatedForEmphasis SHOT! ON! SIGHT!]]''
** Justified for him in the above line, since Thread's a ruthless bully trying to reassert his dominance after his authority was challenged in front of a crowd.
* ColonelKilgore: He's passionately devoted to his job.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Thread is introduced having the previous head peacekeeper arrested and removed without hesitation before immediately setting about instituting his brutal new policies. It's clear from the get-go that he's a ruthless, terrifying man.
* GutturalGrowler: The normally soft-spoken Patrick St. Esprit adopts a gravelly, intimidating tone.
* FascistsBedtime: One of his new policies is a curfew, enforced by threat of death.
* ReplacementGoldfish: Of Cray, who he immediately disposes of.
* ATasteOfTheLash: Thread is a big fan of performing public whippings as punishment.
* WouldHitAGirl: The entire reason Gale is whipped is because he tried to stop Thread from beating an old woman to death. Later Thread hits Katniss across the face with his whip when she tries to intervene during his whipping of Gale, [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown then whips her again for good measure when she loses her footing]] (only this time he hits part of her covered by her leather jacket).
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Averted: whereas the novels don't mention his fate after District 12 was bombed, in the films Gale mentions all Peacekeepers left 12 before the bombing.
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[[folder:Cray]]
->'''Portrayed By''' Wilbur Fitzgerald
Head Peacekeeper at District 12.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Played with. Through his smaller role in the movie, he comes across as being less oppressive, and he shows no sign of the perverted tendencies he had in the books.
* DemotedToExtra: Even in the books he wasn't a major character, but he has basically no role here save for a single scene.
* YouHaveFailedMe: He's a victim of this from Thread, presumably because he didn't keep a tight enough leash on the District, buying from the black market and setting up illegal deals because he knew the residents needed the market to survive.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: He's seen in exactly one shot in ''Catching Fire'', and he could only utter one line before being arrested and likely executed right away courtesy of Thread.
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