| 1 | The Brutal series (or the [[{{Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy}} inaccurately named]] [[ArtifactTitle Brutal trilogy]]) is a series of {{fan fiction}}s by Number One Fan of Journey on Fanfiction.net. It is named for its first installment, [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6200154/1/Brutal Brutal]], and continues with [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6507611/1/Horrible Horrible]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7341787/1/Miserable Miserable]], and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8316851/1/Unsurvivable Unsurvivable]]. It also has a few tie-ins, so far including [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6749961/1/Coming_Home Coming Home]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6482745/1/Of_Happiness_and_Sanity Of Happiness and Sanity]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7089237/1/Hit_The_Bottle Hit The Bottle]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8160600/1/Two_More Two More]], [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7817037/1/Difference Difference]], and [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6802723/1/What_If What If]]. |
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| 3 | This series is a {{crossover}} between ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' and ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers''. The countries are taken from ''Hetalia'', turned into humans (some with slightly different or very different traits from the original characters) and thrown into the Hunger Games as average District kids. |
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| 5 | See also ''FanFic/TheRules'', another Hetalia story by the same author with a slightly similar premise. |
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| 8 | !! Provides Examples Of: |
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| 10 | * AbusiveParents: It's hinted that the father of Toris, Esto, and Raivis may be one of these. |
| 11 | * AccidentalMurder: |
| 12 | ** Thinking the tribute is already dead, [[spoiler: Switz throws Thew to the wolves. Literally.]] And, as it turns out, said tribute wasn't actually dead yet. Whoops. |
| 13 | ** [[spoiler: China]]. Enough said. |
| 14 | ** [[spoiler: Amer]] must have some sort of mental imbalance: he just snaps and murders and hates it. |
| 15 | ** [[spoiler: Vahn's]] murder of [[spoiler: Celladora]] isn't quite on purpose, either. |
| 16 | ** [[spoiler: Spain]] sure wasn't intending to strangle that girl. |
| 17 | ** No one's completely sure whether [[spoiler: Vash's]] shooting of [[spoiler: Dardana]] is an accident or not. |
| 18 | ** In ''Unsurvivable'', [[spoiler: Italo]] sneaks poison into [[spoiler: Ermine’s]] food to see what it does, not thinking that it will kill her. |
| 19 | %%* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: These occur more than you'd expect. |
| 20 | * ActionGirl: |
| 21 | ** All of the female Careers involved. As for the non-Careers, Veta in ''Brutal'', Gries in ''Horrible''; Sui (near the end of the Games) and Tina (in one instance) in ''Miserable'' and Romania, Holland and Ermine in ''Unsurvivable'' qualify. |
| 22 | * ActionGirlfriend: Veta to Austria. |
| 23 | * AerithAndBob: Names ranging from Maria to Celladora to Spain. |
| 24 | * AfterActionHealingDrama: Happens in ''Miserable'', when Ise patches Norge's near-fatal wounds after a battle with Careers despite knowing that they will likely have to kill each other afterwards. |
| 25 | * AfterActionPatchup: Occurs between Igris and Amer during ''Horrible'' as a sign of the boys' growing trust for one another. |
| 26 | * AGoodWayToDie: |
| 27 | ** [[spoiler: Amer and Igris]] settle all of their debts with the world and leave things to chance so neither has to die by the hand of the other. |
| 28 | ** [[spoiler: Amer]] at the end of the third ''What If'' scenario concludes that he'll die allowing [[spoiler: Raivis]] to win and preventing [[spoiler: Eston]] from becoming like him. |
| 29 | * AlasPoorVillain: |
| 30 | ** [[spoiler: Taberah]] spending her last moments worrying about the reason she signed up for the Games in the first place. |
| 31 | ** [[spoiler: Vahn]] saying he "just wanted to go home". |
| 32 | ** [[spoiler: Rome]] being betrayed by his ally. |
| 33 | ** [[spoiler: Osso and Magya]], the former dying beside his only friend in the arena, the latter realizing that she can't end everyone's suffering and acknowledging the beauty of life before leaving it. |
| 34 | * AlternateUniverseFic: Rather than countries, the ''Hetalia'' characters are human. And a LOT of them have different personalities. |
| 35 | * TheAlcoholic: None mentioned in the core series, but in ''What If'', third ending, [[spoiler: Raivis ]] ends up one, at least for a while. This is the topic of "Hit The Bottle". |
| 36 | * AllLoveIsUnrequited: The many ships in the series fall into four categories: those that are wholly one-sided or cut short before they can be reciprocated (Rome/Ania, Natalya/Vahn, Sve/Finni, Feli/Sheen), the ShipTease (Lovi/Spain, Osso/Magya, Thew/Maria, Wy/Seborga, Ax/Ilber, Ermine/Italo, Turk/Romania, Cuba/Nada, Anissa/Zavann, Shiran/Plutonia, Franse/anyone...), those that are mere lust (Amantius/Cisca, arguably Natalya/Vahn) and the sole reciprocated ship, Austria/Veta. |
| 37 | * AlwaysSaveTheGirl: |
| 38 | ** Sve and Finni. |
| 39 | ** [[spoiler: Sadik]] holds a knife up to [[spoiler: Lovi]]'s throat and forces [[spoiler: Spain]] to make a SadisticChoice: hand over the rest of the alliance's food or watch her die. [[spoiler: Spain]], of course, forks over the food. [[spoiler: Lovi]] is not pleased by this, saying she'd have preferred a quick death to one by starvation. |
| 40 | * AmericaSavesTheDay: Not America itself, but two of characters representing the country; both want to be heroes in their own sense of the word - Amer by protecting his allies, Alf by winning the Games and bringing glory to his district. Only [[spoiler: Amer]] actually manages to 'save the day', though, and more often than not he just ends up making things worse. |
| 41 | * AndThenWhat: [[spoiler: Thew]] realizes that [[spoiler: Alf (who thinks he killed Thew)]] is terrified of ghosts and dresses up as one to scare him. However, when his plan succeeds and he has [[spoiler: Alf]] trembling at his mercy, he realizes that he has no idea what to do next, and merely leaves with an ominous but vague warning. |
| 42 | ** In a more comedic example, this is Romania’s response to Turk when he suggests recruiting every other tribute into their alliance. He hadn’t thought of that. |
| 43 | * AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler: Sheen's]] dying thoughts. |
| 44 | * AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Shiran in Igris's introductory chapter. Also Natalya to Vahn and Heracles to Sadik. |
| 45 | * AntiClimaxCut: Played for Drama in Unsurvivable. Egypt is pinned to the ground by Turk, who takes out his sword and brings it down before Egypt can say goodbye to his family – then the scene cuts, and it’s revealed [[spoiler: Egypt merely got a scratch.]] |
| 46 | * AntiVillain: Those appearing in the series can be sorted into four categories: |
| 47 | ** Type I (all are definite villains, but have certain standards, moral codes, or Pet the Dog moments): Lude (particularly in the fourth What If), Japan, Osso, Yao (merges with Type II), and arguably Anglynn (due to her rather inactive role in the hunts and her preoccupation with her imaginary friends). |
| 48 | ** Type II (characters who kill only out of necessity, not having wanted to join the Games; or due to some sort of trauma in their past or present): Russia, Chia, arguably [[StoicWoobie Vash]], Taberah, Vahn in his [[spoiler: death scene]], arguably Den, Yao (merges with Type I), Cisca, and arguably Ivan. |
| 49 | ** Type III (WellIntentionedExtremist): Magya; [[spoiler: Norge]] towards the end of ''Miserable.'' |
| 50 | ** Type IV (mostly evil only by association; rarely actively malevolent and usually good-natured): Rome, Ax, Antonio, Sheen, Cisca to an extent. |
| 51 | * ApologeticAttacker: While he doesn't actually apologize, [[spoiler: Lude]] hesitates to kill [[spoiler: Ciano and calls him "friend"]] before finishing him off. |
| 52 | * Nada also apologizes to Turk when they’re fighting – [[spoiler: to the death]]. |
| 53 | * AnyoneCanDie: Hunger Games fiction, regardless of the characters being based off countries. |
| 54 | * AscendedExtra: |
| 55 | ** Spain, Vahn, Raivis, Sadik and Gries all have brief mentions in ''Brutal'' and become important characters in ''Horrible''. |
| 56 | ** Also, Amer's brother, Matt, is briefly mentioned in ''Horrible'' but is serves a much greater purpose in ''Coming Home''. |
| 57 | ** The third Lithu brother, Esto, receives brief mentions in ''Brutal'' and ''Horrible'' but has a more significant role in "Hit the Bottle". |
| 58 | ** Now Shiran and Feli are looking like this, what with them being reaped in ''Miserable''. |
| 59 | ** Riben, China's barely-mentioned little brother, debuts in ''Unsurvivable.'' |
| 60 | * TheAtoner: |
| 61 | ** [[spoiler: Amer]] throughout the latter half of ''Horrible'', after he kills [[spoiler: Sadik and Vahn]]. |
| 62 | ** It's even worse in the climax of ''What If'', in which he actually lets [[spoiler: Gries run him through]] because he feels he does not deserve to live. |
| 63 | ** Spain also has shades of this, when we learn his main motivation for protecting Lovi is guilt over [[spoiler: killing a young woman]] and a desire not to let another die. |
| 64 | * AttemptedRape: Wiremu has every intention to do this. [[spoiler: To the relief of all the female tributes (and readers), he gets killed trying to start something with Finni.]] |
| 65 | * AuthorAppeal: The author is quite fond of both gore and driving her readers to tears. |
| 66 | * AvengingTheVillain: |
| 67 | ** Dardana aims to do this to the tributes from 10 (Meghna and Amer) in order to avenge her friend [[spoiler: Corianne, a career killed by Gil two years earlier]]. |
| 68 | ** Defied by [[spoiler: Natalya]], who was mature enough not to do this in ''Horrible'', as she realized killing [[spoiler: Amer]] would not bring [[spoiler: her adopted brother/love interest Vahn]] back to life. |
| 69 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Exclusively platonic versions: |
| 70 | ** One occurs between the [[VitriolicBestBuds quarrelling duo]] Fronce and Igris, when [[spoiler: Fronce is mortally wounded. Doubles as a {{How Dare You Die on Me}} moment.]] |
| 71 | ** Lovi and Spain also get these a lot, particularly when Lovi thinks they are about to be killed by [[spoiler: cat muttations]]. |
| 72 | ** When Ise bandages Norge's wounds after their fight with Careers. |
| 73 | ** The entire ending of ''Horrible'' is basically this for [[spoiler: Amer and Igris.]] |
| 74 | ** Anyone who thought Ermine really saw Italo as The Load was proven wrong by [[spoiler: her Heroic BSOD]] after [[spoiler: his death.]] |
| 75 | ** A subtle example, but Turk (who had previously decided Egypt was his ‘property’ rather than his ally) calls him a friend [[spoiler: after his death.]] |
| 76 | * AxCrazy: |
| 77 | ** Vivi from ''Brutal'' is a criminally insane girl who delights in the bloodshed of the Hunger Games, going so far as to [[spoiler: shove a sickle into her own throat because she thought her impending death by poison wasn't violent enough.]] |
| 78 | ** [[spoiler: Russia]] also qualifies after he loses his mind in ''Brutal'' and becomes a psychopath who murders anyone he comes across. |
| 79 | ** This also happens to [[spoiler: Norge]] when the stress of protecting his sibling gets the better of him. |
| 80 | ** [[spoiler: Amer]] and [[spoiler: Ermine]] when protecting or avenging their allies. |
| 81 | ** A good many of the Careers, such as Journs from ''Miserable'' and Ivan from ''Unsurvivable,'' |
| 82 | * BadBoss: Nothing wrong with obtaining allies by threatening their lives and [[spoiler: chopping off fingers]] when they try to escape, right? |
| 83 | * TheBadGuyWins: The second and fourth ''What If'' endings (although it's debatable whether [[spoiler: Russia]] is a 'bad guy' or not). |
| 84 | * BandOfBrothers: |
| 85 | ** Amer, Eston, and Raivis. |
| 86 | ** Also Igris and Fronce. [[spoiler: Eventually includes Amer as well. ]] |
| 87 | * BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Subverted a few times, but upheld others. Not much detail is really put into the slow decay of the characters' physical conditions, other than a short paragraph with Natalya. |
| 88 | * BerserkButton: |
| 89 | ** Don't kill any of [[spoiler: Amer]]'s [[{{protectorate}} friends]]. Or injure them. Or look like you might injure them. And you probably shouldn't look at them funny, either. For that matter, you should probably keep a good 30 metres of distance between yourself and any of his friends. |
| 90 | ** Don’t threaten or hurt Liet in front of Switz. It’s not a great idea to just leave the alliance without telling him, either. |
| 91 | ** Don’t threaten or hurt Finni in front of Sve. [[spoiler: Wiremu found this out the hard way.]] |
| 92 | ** [[RuleOfThree Don't threaten or hurt]] any of Ermine's allies - particularly Italo - in front of her. |
| 93 | ** Don’t mock [[spoiler: Maria's death or last words]] in front of Spain. |
| 94 | ** Don’t hit on Veta if you're not Austria (see Franse's introductory chapter). |
| 95 | * BetaCouple: Sve/Finni, Natalya/Vahn, and Rome/Ania. Notable in that all of them are largely one-sided. |
| 96 | * BetterToDieThanBeKilled: |
| 97 | ** Part of [[spoiler: Japan's]] reasoning for stabbing himself rather than letting [[spoiler: Alf]] strangle him. |
| 98 | ** Rather than let the Gamemakers eventually kill them with [[spoiler: the raging fire beneath them, Sve and Natalya]] jump into it and thus decide when they're going to die. |
| 99 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: |
| 100 | ** Most of the nice people in the series snap if they're not killed off quickly enough. |
| 101 | ** Especially [[spoiler: Russia]]. Cheerful the whole time... Even while killing people |
| 102 | ** Veta is pleasant enough (other than hitting Franse over the head for hitting on her) until [[spoiler: she beats Gil’s brains out with a frying pan.]] |
| 103 | ** Amer is an almost impossibly nice person, but [[spoiler: he'll kill anyone who threatens his friends.]] |
| 104 | ** Tina killed [[spoiler: Den]] with his own [[spoiler: cleaver]]. |
| 105 | ** Spain. A typically nice, friendly guy who [[spoiler: strangled someone for mocking his sister]] and [[spoiler: bashes in Ania's brains]] in the sixth ''What If''. |
| 106 | * BigBrotherInstinct: |
| 107 | ** Switz to Liet, literally. |
| 108 | ** Spain to Lovi. |
| 109 | ** Amer to everyone he's allied with, particularly Raivis. Ironic, in that Amer is the youngest member of both his alliances. |
| 110 | ** Norge and his trusty companion, his big friendly axe. |
| 111 | * BigDamnHeroes: Amer taking on Vahn and [[spoiler: liberating Eston and Raivis after the latter had had his finger chopped off.]] |
| 112 | * BigEater: Both incarnations of America -- Alf in ''Brutal'' and Amer in ''Horrible''. |
| 113 | * BigLittleBrother: Ukraine states that her little brother, Russia, is the tallest of all the tributes, presumably including herself. |
| 114 | * BigOlEyebrows: Igris has these; often lampshaded or mocked by Fronce. |
| 115 | * BittersweetEnding: And the 'sweet' part only comes in if you like the victors. Both survive, but are tormented by memories of the Games and those they lost. |
| 116 | * BlackMagic: Aurth certainly thinks he has it. Whether or not he does is debatable. |
| 117 | * BloodierAndGorier: This isn’t hard to achieve when ''Hetalia'' is involved in the crossover. But under those qualifications, this series is absolute overkill of this trope. |
| 118 | ** With [[spoiler: Ciano's]] fate in the fourth ''What If'' ending, it may qualify under ''Hunger Games'' grounds, too. |
| 119 | * BloodKnight: |
| 120 | ** Many of the Careers, most notably Vivi. |
| 121 | ** [[spoiler: Russia]] spends the entirety of the Games after he snaps looking for tributes to kill. |
| 122 | ** Gil as well; he was so eager for a fight that he deliberately showed himself to Careers. |
| 123 | ** Journs from ''Miserable''. |
| 124 | * BloodSport: Hunger Games. |
| 125 | * BodyCountCompetition / KillSteal: seems to be a major source of conflict amongst the ''Unsurvivable'' career pack, with Ivan not wanting Anglynn to 'steal kills' with her long-range weaponry and arguing with Amantius over who gets to kill Nada. |
| 126 | * BodyguardBetrayal: [[spoiler: Norge]] ends up killing his [[spoiler: little brother/protectee Ise]] in a fit of rage. |
| 127 | * BookEnds: Both the first and last chapters of ''Horrible'' (not counting the epilogue) involve [[spoiler: Igris' broken Beatles CD]]. The first time it's just a throwaway occurrence, but the second time is a touching moment that shows how much [[spoiler: Igris' brother cared for him and allows him to GoOutWithASmile.]] |
| 128 | * BreatherEpisode: Tends to happen a lot. If an alliance goes through an undisturbed period of lighthearted bonding, rest assured that it will end very badly for them, very soon. |
| 129 | ** Special mention goes to Veta's and Austria's wedding before [[spoiler: the latter is murdered]], as well as the apple-tossing chapter of ''What If''. |
| 130 | * BrickJoke: |
| 131 | ** Igris' broken Beatles CD is mentioned in the first chapter of ''Horrible'' and comes back at the very end. |
| 132 | ** Veta notes the little loop on the end of her frying pan, and it returns to the spotlight at a later time. |
| 133 | * BrokenBird: |
| 134 | ** [[spoiler: Veta]] in the epilogue of ''Brutal'' is definitely one. |
| 135 | ** Lovi was well on her way to becoming one when [[spoiler: she was killed by Ania]], and definitely ends up as one in the first ''What If'' ending. |
| 136 | ** [[spoiler: Amer]] during the latter half of ''Horrible''. Probably a lot more. |
| 137 | ** Magya, after she realizes that she couldn't stop people's suffering. |
| 138 | * BrotherSisterIncest: Natalya's undying love for her brother. Yergh. |
| 139 | * TheBrute: Alf serves as The Brute in the FiveManBand for the ''Brutal'' Careers, Wiremu for the ''Horrible'' Careers, Journs and/or Ilber for ''Miserable,'' and Ivan and/or Amantius for ''Unsurvivable.'' |
| 140 | ** Vahn could count as one not in any group. |
| 141 | * BulletHolesAndRevelations: A variation is used twice, once in Brutal and once in Unsurvivable. In both situations, two characters ([[spoiler: Toris and Thew]] in Brutal, with [[spoiler: Toris]] being the victim; [[spoiler: Ermine and Egypt]] in Unsurvivable, with [[spoiler: Egypt]] being the victim) are put in life-threatening situations when a cannon goes off, and the reader is left until the next chapter to discover which was killed. |
| 142 | * CarryABigStick: Spain and Lovi share a hammer as their only weapon. |
| 143 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: For Romania in ''Unsurvivable.'' In her introductory chapter, she exhibits some hints of psychosis as she gleefully anticipates the bloody nature of the Games. This never recurs after the bloodbath, with her becoming a quirky but loyal ally to Turk, never fighting with intent to kill until the very end, and even showing reluctance to leave an unconscious Riben behind to die. |
| 144 | * ChekhovsGun: |
| 145 | ** The [[spoiler: poison]] that Igris receives from a sponsor in ''Horrible'' is quickly forgotten, but becomes vital in the climax. |
| 146 | ** Less obvious is the loop on the end of Veta's frying pan in ''Brutal''. While grieving [[spoiler: Austria's death]], she absentmindedly muses over its purpose. Later, [[spoiler: in the final battle]], it saves her life when [[spoiler: Russia's knife tip gets caught in it, allowing her to wrench it out of his hands.]] |
| 147 | ** The victor of Miserable, [[spoiler: Shiran]], also wins with one - a poisonous frog he had been warned about earlier. |
| 148 | * TheChessmaster: Osso, big time. |
| 149 | * ChildrenForcedToKill: Hunger Games. |
| 150 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: Amer has it ''really'' bad. He volunteers for the Games in the place of his brother, asks nearly everyone to be allies so he'll have someone to protect, attacks [[spoiler: a pickaxe-wielding tribute with only a hypodermic needle]] to save someone he barely knows, is constantly willing to die protecting his friends, blames himself for everything that goes wrong, nearly kills himself [[spoiler: at the end of the story so that Igris can live]], and then can't go through with it because he doesn't want to let down his brother. And that's not even counting ''What If''. |
| 151 | * CliffHanger: Many chapters end this way. |
| 152 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: |
| 153 | ** Ciano all the way. |
| 154 | ** Laine, who sings "Hole in my Bucket," at top speed and [[spoiler: whose dying thought is how much the spear that killed her looks like a carrot.]] |
| 155 | ** [[spoiler: Russia]] could count as an extremely dark version after he snaps. |
| 156 | ** [[spoiler: Tina]] definitely counts, after she snaps and all. And maybe Aurth. |
| 157 | * CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Thew for a couple chapters of Brutal, in which he's allied with Ciano. |
| 158 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: Between Toris and Poal; lampshaded by Toris: |
| 159 | --> Toris: "How about we look around, and when we find a muttation, ''I'll'' take it down so you don't have to dirty your dress."/ |
| 160 | --> Poal: "That's even stupider! And I'm not even wearing a dress, in case you didn't notice!"/ |
| 161 | --> Toris: "...That's not the argument at hand, Poal."/ |
| 162 | ** Another example occurs in Miserable, when Tina misinterprets Den's decision to go 'hunting' as hunting for food, rather than for other tributes. It could also double as DramaticallyMissingThePoint, as it shows that she and Sui aren't as ready to kill as Den is. |
| 163 | * ContinuityNod: The Victors of the past games in the series occasionally make appearances ([[spoiler: Veta]] is mentioned indirectly in Horrible and by name in Miserable; the epilogue of Miserable is in [[spoiler: Amer’s]] POV; [[spoiler: Shiran]] appears, albeit unnamed, in Unsurvivable) and the previous games and tributes are often referenced. |
| 164 | ** The series also references specific characters or games from the Hunger Games canon occasionally, mostly in Unsurvivable – Haymitch and Wiress are mentioned, Egypt and Yana are the District 12 tributes said to have worn nothing but coal dust on the chariots, [[spoiler: bloodbath victim]] Chanelle is hinted to be a girl Katniss briefly recalls in the book series, and the entire Games is implied to be the snowy arena remembered in the same scenario. |
| 165 | ** Finally, Miserable contains a Continuity Nod to Lucky Lady, another FanFiction in Number One Fan of Journey’s canon, in the character of Shaw Telfair, the victor of the 13th Hunger Games. |
| 166 | * ConvectionSchmonvection: Averted with the lava crater China, Fronce and Igris arrive at in ''What If''. |
| 167 | ** [[ConvectionSchmonvection Radiation Schmadiation]]: On the other hand, scenes following this scenario are the only ones mentioning sunburn. Otherwise, ultraviolet radiation does not exist—no sunburn, no snow blindness. |
| 168 | * CornerOfWoe: The Review Page. Reviewers such as Axxi and Pceluvmusicart are especially well known for this. |
| 169 | * CorruptTheCutie: |
| 170 | ** Both Russia and Amer fall victim to this. |
| 171 | ** Happens to [[spoiler: Raivis]] in "Hit The Bottle". |
| 172 | * {{Crossover}}: Between ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' and ''[[Webcomioc/HetaliaAxisPowers Hetalia]]''. |
| 173 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: About every other death. Even worse in ''What If''. Notable examples include |
| 174 | ** [[spoiler: Peyton]] being stabbed multiple times by Vivi, who intentionally leaves enough time between attacks so that her victim will suffer for as long as possible, in ''Brutal''. |
| 175 | ** [[spoiler: Veta]] smashing [[spoiler: Gil's]] skull to pieces with a frying pan in ''Brutal''. |
| 176 | ** [[spoiler: Vash]] being blown up by explosive pinecones in ''Horrible''. |
| 177 | ** [[spoiler: Raivis]] being slowly frozen to death by a poison injected into him by thorny vines, in ''Horrible''. |
| 178 | *** [[spoiler: Lovi]] gets this fate in ''What If''. |
| 179 | ** [[spoiler: Vahn]] having his abdomen "shredded to the point of unidentifiability," by [[spoiler: Amer's clawed glove]], in ''Horrible''. |
| 180 | ** [[spoiler: Finni]] having a hole drilled in her chest by a pointy-tailed mutt, in ''Horrible''. |
| 181 | ** [[spoiler: Switz]] being eaten alive by wolves in ''What If''. |
| 182 | *** [[spoiler: Thew's]] death in ''Brutal'' is a subversion of this, as he suffered the same fate but was unconscious during it. |
| 183 | ** [[spoiler: Thew and Liet]] having their heads (and possibly more in the latter case) decimated by a morningstar in ''What If''. |
| 184 | ** [[spoiler: Ciano]] being burned alive by a swarm of fire crickets in ''What If''. |
| 185 | ** [[spoiler: China]] slowly rotting away from the cat muttation's venom in the sixth ''What If'' scenario. |
| 186 | ** [[spoiler: Spain]] having his abdomen sliced open and slowly losing his innards in the sixth ''What If'' scenario. |
| 187 | ** [[spoiler: Paliss]] has her skull completely smashed by being repeatedly slammed onto a metal plate at the ''Miserable'' bloodbath. |
| 188 | ** [[spoiler: Sheen]] being hacked apart with an axe and left to bleed to death over several ''hours.'' |
| 189 | ** [[spoiler: Osso and Magya]] also die slow, lingering deaths after sustaining multiple axe and cleaver wounds. |
| 190 | ** This happens to bloodbath victims a lot, as they're often killed by being beaten with fists or blunt objects rather than actual weapons. |
| 191 | ** Amantius and Ivan were planning to take turns stabbing/beating Nada until she died, as a contest to see which of them would claim her as their kill. [[spoiler: Fortunately, she escaped before they could carry this out.]] |
| 192 | * CruelTwistEnding: At first, [[spoiler: Unsurvivable]] seems like it’s building up to the series’ typical bittersweet ending – most of the tributes have died, but [[spoiler: Turk]] survives, injured but with a family to return to and far fewer psychological scars than the rest of the Victors. Then, in the epilogue, it’s revealed that he died of his wounds on the hovercraft and the actual winner is [[spoiler: Riben,]] who [[spoiler: went into shock after being buried by an avalanche]] and was going to be left to die so that [[spoiler: Turk]] could be the fan-preferred Victor. [[spoiler: Riben]] not only has to deal with painful memories and the loss of his allies, but his parents are tortured to death in front of him as his punishment for [[spoiler: not killing anyone in the Games]], and the same fate befalls anyone he becomes close to. He is now a drug addict hinted to be [[spoiler: the morphling who died in the Quarter Quell.]] |
| 193 | * CurbStompBattle: |
| 194 | ** [[spoiler: Veta vs. Gil.]] He barely even got a chance to attack before she had him down. |
| 195 | ** [[spoiler: Russia vs. Lude.]] Both are serious contendors, but it ends rather quickly when [[spoiler: Lude is overwhelmed by the cold which Russia is accustomed to.]] |
| 196 | ** [[spoiler: Gries vs. Taberah.]] Another one where the victim went out ridiculously easily. |
| 197 | ** [[spoiler: Amer vs. Vahn]] also swung in Amer's favor rather quickly. |
| 198 | ** Sve vs. Wiremu was so one-sided it can hardly be called a "battle". |
| 199 | * CynicismCatalyst: This trope is all over the place in the series. |
| 200 | ** [[spoiler: Russia]] crosses the {{Despair Event Horizon}} into full-blown madness after the death of [[spoiler: his sister Ukraine]]. |
| 201 | ** Spain is also scarred by [[spoiler: his sister Maria's death in an earlier Games]], and is partially inspired to protect Lovi due to remorse over not saving [[spoiler: Perdita]] at the bloodbath. |
| 202 | ** The guilt of accidentally killing [[spoiler: China]] haunts [[spoiler: Fronce]] for the rest of the Games. |
| 203 | ** But probably the Most Triumphant Example is the effect that [[spoiler: Raivis' and Eston's deaths]] (and probably [[spoiler: Fronce's and Igris's]], following the Games) had on [[spoiler: Amer]], forever destroying his view of himself as a hero and leaving him with extreme SurvivorsGuilt. |
| 204 | * DamselInDistress: |
| 205 | ** Wynd Blune. |
| 206 | ** Also Lovi, who probably would have died in the bloodbath without Spain's help. |
| 207 | * DarkActionGirl: All of the female careers, most notably Vivi in ''Brutal'' and Ania in ''Horrible''. |
| 208 | * DarkerAndEdgier: than ''Hetalia Axis Powers'', at least. Probably on par with ''Hunger Games''. |
| 209 | * DarkFic: Obviously. |
| 210 | * DeadlyGame: Hunger Games. |
| 211 | * {{Deconstruction}}: the whole series serves as one. Scenes and quirks which are largely played for laughs in Hetalia are put into a realistic situation and played for drama here. (Although there definitely are some elements still played for laughs.) |
| 212 | * DuelToTheDeath: Happens often. |
| 213 | * DeadpanSnarker: Nearly everyone, at one point or another. Snarky characters are a given in practically any of Number One Fan of Journey's works. Special mention must go to Igris, Lovi, and Gries. |
| 214 | * DeathFakedForYou: [[spoiler: Thew]], sort of. A bit of a subversion in that nobody intentionally sets him up for it; it's more of a series of extremely convenient coincidences that leads everyone to believe he has died. |
| 215 | * DeadSidekick: |
| 216 | ** [[spoiler: Raivis and Eston]] to Amer. |
| 217 | ** [[spoiler: Fronce to Igris.]] |
| 218 | * DeathAsComedy: Who didn't chuckle a little when [[spoiler: Dardana]] was offed? |
| 219 | * DeathByAdaptation: Applies to everyone apart from the victors, as obviously character death is not much of a problem in ''Hetalia Axis Powers''. [[spoiler: Veta and Amer]] both get in this in ''What If'', as well as many characters who die earlier than usual, such as [[spoiler: Spain, Igris, and Thew]] in the first, third and fourth endings respectively. |
| 220 | * DeathByIrony: |
| 221 | ** [[spoiler: Poal]], being killed by the muttation she'd tried to convince Toris was harmless. |
| 222 | ** Zigzagged with [[spoiler: Thew]], whose cause of death (mauled by wolves) was not particularly ironic, but the fact that he was finished so offhandedly when he'd been trying to bring himself to the spotlight for once was. |
| 223 | *** Not to mention his life was saved by a cannon firing at just the right time… And then a different cannon firing at just the wrong time indirectly leads to his death. |
| 224 | ** In an extremely dark example, Eston could qualify in the third ''What If'' ending, as he is killed by the person sworn to protect him. |
| 225 | ** Chanelle's district token is a wooden ball meant to bring her luck. It ends up killing her when she drops it and sets off the mines too early. |
| 226 | * DeathEqualsEmotion: |
| 227 | ** [[spoiler: Vahn]] actually crying and saying he "just wanted to go home" as [[spoiler: Amer]] kills him. |
| 228 | ** [[spoiler: Russia]], being relieved that he'll get to see [[spoiler: his sister Ukraine]] again once he dies. |
| 229 | ** Averted with [[spoiler: Vash]], whose final thought before being blown to pieces is a mild "Crap, I really liked this place." |
| 230 | * DeclarationOfProtection: |
| 231 | ** Switz volunteers for the Games to protect his little sister, Liet. |
| 232 | ** Sve does the same for his girlfriend, Finni. |
| 233 | ** Spain always looks out for his female ally, Lovi. |
| 234 | * DefrostingIceQueen: |
| 235 | ** Definitely Lovi, who's always acting like she doesn't need Spain, but lets her true feelings show when they're in danger. |
| 236 | ** Igris as well; he starts out cold towards everyone, but genuinely comes to care for [[spoiler: his allies Fronce and Amer (although it’s hinted he really cared about Fronce the whole time).]] |
| 237 | * DesignatedGirlFight: Seen in Gries vs. Taberah and [[spoiler: Gries vs. Ania]]. |
| 238 | * DespairEventHorizon: |
| 239 | ** [[spoiler: Russia]] crosses over this into full-blown insanity in a matter of sentences after he finds his sister's severed head in ''Brutal''. |
| 240 | ** [[spoiler: Veta]] dances on it after [[spoiler: her fiancee, Austria, is murdered]], but manages to stay stable enough to [[spoiler: survive the Hunger Games and mentor for at least another two years]], though she's still definitely a {{Broken Bird}}. |
| 241 | ** The same scenario occurs in ''Horrible'' with Amer, due to the deaths of [[spoiler: all his allies, his violent murder of Vahn, and his victory at the cost of Igris' life]]. |
| 242 | ** Sve and Natalya cross it over [[spoiler: the deaths of their respective love interests]]. |
| 243 | ** Lovi looks like she may cross it when [[spoiler: Spain won't wake up]], but Ania gets there first. |
| 244 | * DieLaughing: [[spoiler: Igris]]; possibly [[spoiler: Laine]] as well. |
| 245 | * DiedStandingUp: Despite having an arrow in his leg, [[spoiler: Shiran]] struggles to his feet so he can go out this way. Fortunately for him, he ends up winning this fight. |
| 246 | * DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler: Finni]] dies with her eyes open; [[spoiler: Sve]] shuts them. |
| 247 | * DiggingYourselfDeeper: After accidentally revealing that he's killed someone before the Games, [[spoiler: Spain]] tries to placate Lovi by joking around about it, but this only ends up frightening her more. |
| 248 | * DisneyDeath: [[spoiler: Thew]] appears to die at one point during ''Brutal'', but was actually only knocked unconscious while another tribute's cannon sounded. Subverted in that he does die later. |
| 249 | ** [[spoiler: Zavann]]in ''Unsurvivable'' - twice! First off he appears to be killed by [[spoiler: Ivan]] at the bloodbath, but was in reality only PlayingPossum; later, he seems to have been struck by the same lightning that kills [[spoiler: Anissa]], but lingers on long enough to [[spoiler: be killed by Ermine]]. |
| 250 | ** [[spoiler: Riben wins this way]] in ''Unsurvivable''. |
| 251 | * DisproportionateRetribution: |
| 252 | ** Yes, it was terrible that Vahn killed your allies, but did you really have to [[spoiler: rip out his internal organs, Amer]]? |
| 253 | ** Also applies to Ania, who literally stabs [[spoiler: her ally Rome]] in the back for [[spoiler: hitting on her]]. |
| 254 | * DistractedFromDeath: |
| 255 | ** [[spoiler: Amer]] is busy searching for [[spoiler: Vahn]]. He hears a cannon and thinks little of it, only to turn around and realize that it belonged to [[spoiler: his ally, Eston]]. |
| 256 | ** [[spoiler: Fronce]] dies when one of his allies is sleeping and the other musing over his own thoughts. [[spoiler: Igris]] doesn't even realize it until the hovercraft comes to take away his body. |
| 257 | * DistressedDude: Many of the non-action male characters, such as Austria, Ciano, Eston, and especially Raivis. |
| 258 | * DivorcedInstallment: ''Asylum'' and ''Comrade'' were originally supposed to be epilogues of some of the ''What If'' endings. |
| 259 | * TheDogBitesBack: |
| 260 | ** After Alf tries to kill [[spoiler: Thew]] (and ends up giving him an excruciating headache), [[spoiler: Thew]] exploits Alf's fear of ghosts to get one over on the Career. |
| 261 | ** And in ''Miserable'', Ilber discovers why it isn't a good idea to [[KickTheDog Kick the Puffin]]. |
| 262 | * DoggedNiceGuy: Sve to Finni. |
| 263 | ** Sheen to Feli. |
| 264 | * DoomMagnet: [[spoiler: Amer]], so much. He even lampshades this at one point. Every last one of his allies dies despite his best efforts. Though, given the nature of the Hunger Games, this is justified. |
| 265 | * DoomedByCanon: Toris, Poal, Raivis and Celladora all have to die because, according to ''The Hunger Games'', District 12 has had only two victors - one a canon character, the other established in another of Number One Fan of Journey's fan fictions. |
| 266 | ** This is averted, however, in one of the alternate endings, where [[spoiler: Raivis]] wins. |
| 267 | ** Although it doesn't happen within the actual story, one can assume that [[spoiler: Veta, Amer, and Shiran]] did not live to see the fall of the Capitol, as all but seven victors are killed by the end of Mockingjay. |
| 268 | ** Chanelle's district token is a little wooden ball. Anyone who remembers such a tribute from Literature/TheHungerGames knows where this is headed. |
| 269 | * DownerEnding: It's either this or BittersweetEnding with heavy emphasis on the 'bitter.' |
| 270 | ** ''Unsurvivable'' leans most heavily towards this trope, ending with everybody dead except for [[spoiler: Riben]], who has his parents and loved ones executed for [[spoiler: his failure to kill]] and becomes addicted to morphine. |
| 271 | * DroppedABridgeOnHim: |
| 272 | ** Quite a few: [[spoiler: Thew]], who is knocked unconscious and thrown to the wolves several chapters later. |
| 273 | ** [[spoiler: Eston]], killed by Vahn within several sentences at the beginning of a chapter. |
| 274 | ** [[spoiler: Spain and Lovi]], whose deaths come out of nowhere. |
| 275 | ** Far too many to mention in ''What If''. |
| 276 | * DrivenToSuicide: |
| 277 | ** [[spoiler: Sve and Natalya]], after the deaths of [[spoiler: their love interests]], discuss surviving to the final two, then killing themselves so there will be no victor. The Capitol is not pleased and sends a ring of fire around them. Their response is to jump into the flames together. |
| 278 | ** [[spoiler: Amer]] tries to do this at the end of ''Horrible'' but cannot go through with it, although he does in the third ''What If'' ending. He also kills himself in the the sixth ''What If'' ending. |
| 279 | ** [[spoiler: Amer and Lovi]] also allow [[spoiler: Gries]] to kill them in the first ''What If'' because [[spoiler: Amer]] feels he does not deserve to live, and [[spoiler: Lovi]] can’t stand the thought of surviving at the cost of causing another person’s death. |
| 280 | ** After a serious head injury takes away the little remaining control of her life, [[spoiler: Ania]] drives a blade through her wrists in ''What If''. |
| 281 | %%* DrowningMySorrows: Raivis in "Hit the Bottle". |
| 282 | * [[invoked]]DudeNotFunny: Amer reacts this way when Igris tells Fronce to "go die". |
| 283 | * TheDulcineaEffect: A very rare gender-flipped example can be seen with Amer, who regularly risks his life for friends he's known for less than a few days. |
| 284 | * DwindlingParty: Obviously, given the nature of the Games. |
| 285 | * DyingAlone: Many characters die alone or with no one but their killer nearby, but the unpleasantness of such a fate is only mentioned with [[spoiler: China]], who is abandoned to die from poison by her allies Fronce and Igris. Fronce wishes to go back to avoid this trope, but Igris refuses. |
| 286 | * DyingAsYourself: Possibly [[spoiler: Russia]], if you squint really, really hard. He doesn't 'get better' or feel remorse by any means, but it's worth something that his final thought was of his sister, for whom he had barely spared a thought after going insane. |
| 287 | * {{Eagleland}}: Alf is a type 2, whereas Amer, who wants to be type 1, is more of a mix between the two. |
| 288 | * EarlyBirdCameo: |
| 289 | ** Raivis and Spain, who become important characters in ''Horrible'', are briefly mentioned by their siblings Toris and Maria in ''Brutal''. |
| 290 | ** Vahn is mentioned as having broken Russia's hand. |
| 291 | ** Sadik and Gries appear as [[spoiler: Veta's]] tributes in the ''Brutal'' epilogue. |
| 292 | ** Matt and Esto, brothers to Amer and Raivis/Toris, also get brief mentions before becoming central in the spin-offs "Coming Home" and "Hit the Bottle". |
| 293 | ** The list goes on with Shiran and Feli, now characters in ''Miserable''. |
| 294 | * ElsewhereFic: Takes place during the 43rd, 45th, 48th, and the 53rd Hunger Games. |
| 295 | * EmotionalBruiser: Amer. |
| 296 | * EmotionalTorque: The entire series and tie-ins. |
| 297 | * EtTuBrute: |
| 298 | ** [[spoiler: Rome]] gets stabbed in the back by [[spoiler: his district partner, Ania]]. |
| 299 | ** Lovi almost enacts this trope by trying to [[spoiler: kill Spain in his sleep]], but is unable to bring herself to do it. [[spoiler: Though she does end up giving him an injury, which allowed some sort of small muttation into his brain. This may have ended up killing him if Ania had not done so first.]] |
| 300 | ** Switz reacts in this way when [[spoiler: Austria leaves his alliance]]. |
| 301 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Vahn has his adopted sister Natalya. Dardana has her best friend Corianne. Taberah has her ailing father. |
| 302 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: After slaughtering [[spoiler: Vahn, Amer]] notes with disgust that he's never seen even a Career do anything as violent to a victim as he did. |
| 303 | * EverybodyLives: In "If NOFOJ Wasn't NOFOJ". |
| 304 | * EvilCounterpart: Alf can be seen as this to Thew. |
| 305 | * EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: |
| 306 | ** The Gamemakers moving the arena of ''Horrible'' to the ''Brutal'' one to mess with the tributes who lost loved ones in that game. |
| 307 | ** Vivi counts as well, laughing insanely as she delivers violent death blows to her victims, as does [[spoiler: Russia]] when he goes mad. |
| 308 | * EvilMeScaresMe: Amer is terrified of his violent side and tries his best to restrain it, often without success. |
| 309 | * ExecutiveMeddling: In-universe example. Several of the tributes of ''Horrible'' had ties to the ''Brutal'' tributes, so the Gamemakers ditched the arena they'd set up and changed the location of the 45th Games to the arena used in the 43rd for 'extra drama.' |
| 310 | * ExtremeMeleeRevenge: Dished out mercilessly by Veta to [[spoiler: Gil]] and [[spoiler: Amer]] to Vahn. |
| 311 | * EyeScream: |
| 312 | ** After killing [[spoiler: Spain ]] in the first ''What If'' ending, [[spoiler: Lovi]] gouges out her own eye. With a hammer. Fun stuff. |
| 313 | ** In ''Brutal'', Switz pokes his scissors into an alligator's eyes to save his sister. |
| 314 | ** In ''Unsurvivable,'' Holland kills a bear by driving her sword through its eye and into its brain. |
| 315 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: Quite a few characters: [[spoiler: Japan, Switz, Sve, Natalya, and Igris]] in the core series, not to mention [[spoiler: Eston and Amer]] in the third ''What If'' ending. |
| 316 | * FaceHeelTurn: Although there aren't really good and bad 'sides' in the Hunger Games, [[spoiler: Russia's]] transformation from a cheerful boy to a remorseless killing machine might be considered this. |
| 317 | * FeatheredFiend: One of these chases Gil and Thew during ''Brutal''. It also features prominently in one of the ''What If'' endings and receives the name "Gil-bird." |
| 318 | * FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler: Amer]] struggles to surpress his insanity and bloodlust throughout the latter half of ''Horrible'', particularly at the start of the fight with [[spoiler: Rome and Ania]]. |
| 319 | * FinalGirl: [[spoiler: Veta]] in ''Brutal''. |
| 320 | * {{Fingore}}: |
| 321 | ** What happens to [[spoiler: Raivis]] as punishment for trying to escape an alliance. |
| 322 | ** Also to [[spoiler: China]] in ''What If''. She has fingers bitten off by a cat muttation. |
| 323 | * FireForgedFriends: |
| 324 | ** Igris and Fronce (with Amer as well). |
| 325 | ** Lovi and Spain. |
| 326 | * FirstKiss: The third ''What If'' epilogue. |
| 327 | * FlashbackNightmare: [[spoiler: Ania]] is tormented by these towards the end of ''Horrible''. |
| 328 | * FondMemoriesThatCouldHaveBeen: |
| 329 | ** Before their final fight, Ise imagines how life could have been if [[spoiler: he and Norge had been raised as brothers]]. Naturally, it is a {{Tearjerker}}. |
| 330 | ** Thew also has a bit of this after the bloodbath as he imagines [[spoiler: how he and Maria could have been allies]]. |
| 331 | * FoodEnd: ''Horrible'', of all things, ends with [[spoiler: Amer and one of his]] new tributes going to get a midnight snack. |
| 332 | * ForgottenFallenFriend: |
| 333 | ** Nicely averted throughout the series, with characters such as Spain, Raivis, Fronce, Dardana, Igris, Veta, Sve, Natalya and Amer dwelling frequently on their lost siblings, friends, and love interests. |
| 334 | ** Seemingly played straight but actually averted with [[spoiler: Amer]] after he wins the Hunger Games; he pretends to have forgotten his allies, but is actually tormented with grief and guilt over their deaths. |
| 335 | ** Definitely averted with [[spoiler: Raivis]] in "Hit the Bottle". |
| 336 | ** Played straight with [[spoiler: Toris]], who is never shown to express any emotion over [[spoiler: Poal's]] death (though this may be due to the fact that he died in his next appearance.) |
| 337 | * FragileSpeedster: Ciano is scrawny but quite quick on his feet. |
| 338 | * FreudianExcuse: |
| 339 | ** Chia all the way. |
| 340 | ** Just hinted at with Vahn. |
| 341 | ** Vash doesn't have a charming childhood, either. |
| 342 | * FromBadToWorse: All over the place; this is the Hunger Games. This is pretty much the sole purpose of ''What If''. |
| 343 | * FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler: Russia]] in ''Brutal'' starts off as an unassuming, optimistic underdog. One crossing of the DespairEventHorizon later, he's the BigBad of the Fanfic. |
| 344 | * FryingPanOfDoom: Veta uses one of these. |
| 345 | * GenderFlip: Poland in ''Brutal'', Germania, South Italy, China, Greece and Finland in ''Horrible'', North Italy, Finland (again) and Sweden in ''Miserable'', and France, England, America, Romania, Netherlands, Germany and Canada in ''Unsurvivable.'' |
| 346 | * GenkiGirl: |
| 347 | ** Has there been a time when Poal WASN'T babbling hyperactively? |
| 348 | ** Tina, and maybe Bell. |
| 349 | ** Feli could've been, had she not been reaped. |
| 350 | * GoOutWithASmile: |
| 351 | ** [[spoiler: Maria]] is so relieved she got her last words that she manages to smile before she dies. |
| 352 | ** [[spoiler: Japan]] at least thinks he smiles when [[spoiler: Lude tells him what an honour it was to fight alongside him. ]] |
| 353 | ** [[spoiler: Laine ]] is so cheerful she even finds reason to laugh at the weapon that murdered her. |
| 354 | ** [[spoiler: Igris]] in the ending of ''Horrible''. |
| 355 | ** After taking a knife for [[spoiler: Liet, Switz]] smiles at her one final time before dying. |
| 356 | * GoMadFromTheIsolation: Briefly played for laughs in ''Horrible'', when Amer chides himself for talking to a rabbit in lieu of an ally. |
| 357 | * GoThroughMe: Not the exact wording, but towards the end of ''Brutal'' [[spoiler: Liet]] gets in front of an injured [[spoiler: Switz]] and says she won't let [[spoiler: Russia]] hurt him. It doesn't end well. |
| 358 | * {{Gorn}}: Gore is like sweet nectar to the author. |
| 359 | * GreatWayToGo: After [[spoiler: her ally, Yana, is blown up by the starting mines]], Romania thinks to herself that it was a pretty awesome way to go. [[spoiler: Yana]] would most likely disagree. |
| 360 | * GuttedLikeAFish: [[spoiler: Vahn]] dies this way. [[spoiler: Amer]] even uses the trope name when thinking about it. |
| 361 | * HarmlessVillain: Not exactly, as all of the Careers and more violent tributes either kill or seriously intend to kill someone, but a few—Rome, Ax, Antonio—are noticeably less successful than others. |
| 362 | * HeartbrokenBadass: both Veta (romantic version) and Amer (platonic version) fulfill this trope. |
| 363 | * HeelRealization: |
| 364 | ** [[spoiler: Russia]] almost has one, when he compares himself to the career who murdered [[spoiler: his sister]], but by now he's so far gone that he dismisses the thought that he could be doing anything wrong as completely ridiculous. |
| 365 | ** [[spoiler: Amer]], after killing [[spoiler: Vahn]], realizes how close he's coming to JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope. |
| 366 | ** Lude starts to have one in the fourth ''What If'', but [[spoiler: [[HeelFaceDoorSlam dies before he can carry it out.]]]] |
| 367 | * HerHeartWillGoOn: Seen with [[spoiler: Veta and Austria]] in ''Brutal''. |
| 368 | * HeroicBSOD: Pretty common in the series. |
| 369 | ** Veta goes into one after [[spoiler: Austria's murder]]. |
| 370 | ** [[spoiler: Amer]] gets his after failing to save [[spoiler: Eston and Raivis]] and killing [[spoiler: Vahn]], and stays in it for pretty much the rest of ''Horrible''. |
| 371 | ** Sve and Natalya fell into this after [[spoiler: their love interests' deaths]]. |
| 372 | ** Lovi was well on her way to heading into one, but [[spoiler: Ania got there]] first. |
| 373 | * HeroicResolve: |
| 374 | ** [[spoiler: Switz]] is almost too injured to move, but when [[spoiler: Russia]] is about to kill [[spoiler: Liet]], he finds the energy to push her out of the way and [[TakingTheBullet Take the Bullet]] himself. |
| 375 | ** Amer does this when fighting Vahn in the third ''What If''. |
| 376 | * HeroicSacrifice: |
| 377 | ** [[spoiler: Switz]] is the living embodiment of this trope. He volunteers for the Hunger Games so he can help [[spoiler: his twelve-year old sister, Liet,]] survive, knowing full well that doing so means his death. During the games he constantly gives her his rations and carries her on his back, even when he's injured and starving. Finally, he pushes her out of the way when [[spoiler: Russia]] attacks them, taking a knife in his chest [[spoiler: and dying]]. |
| 378 | *** Before this happened, [[spoiler: Liet]] also took several blows from [[spoiler: Russia's]] blade, shielding her brother. |
| 379 | ** In the ''Brutal'' bloodbath, Franse attacks Alf to buy his district partner, Wynd, some time to escape. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, Alf finishes him off almost immediately before dispatching Wynd.]] |
| 380 | ** In ''Horrible'', two different people volunteer to protect their loved ones -– Sve to protect his crush, Finni, in the games, and Amer in place of his twin brother Matt. [[spoiler: Sve's sacrifice is wasted as Finni dies before him, but Amer wins and returns home to his brother.]] |
| 381 | ** Also in ''Horrible'', allies Amer and Igris were both willing to do this so the other would live. They eventually settled on a game of chance to decide the Victor. [[spoiler: Igris]] was the loser. |
| 382 | ** [[spoiler: Eston and Amer]] in the third ''What If'' ending. |
| 383 | ** What Norge has been attempting to do for Ise. [[spoiler: Ise ends up dead before this can happen, though.]] |
| 384 | ** When their alliance is threatened by a tidal wave, [[spoiler: Plutonia]] stays behind to wake up [[spoiler: Shiran]], even though it means she won't make it. |
| 385 | ** [[spoiler: Cuba]] would probably have been able to protect himself from [[spoiler: Rica]] if he hadn’t been preoccupied with [[spoiler: helping Nada escape the other Careers.]] |
| 386 | * HeroicSelfDeprecation: [[spoiler: Amer]], big time. |
| 387 | * HeroicWannabe: Good gosh, freaking Amer. And Alf as well, but in a very different light. |
| 388 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: Amer's devotion to being a hero and protecting the weak leads to [[spoiler: several [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Roaring Rampages of Revenge]] and a gradual SanitySlippage]]. To be fair, he sees where he's heading, and doesn't like it, but isn't fully able to stop it. |
| 389 | * HiddenDepths: Nearly every character who survives the bloodbath and isn't a Career (and even here there are some exceptions) will have this trope. |
| 390 | * HistoryRepeats: Invoked by the Capitol with the design of the arena in Horrible, which resembles that of the previous Games in which several current tributes lost friends and family. |
| 391 | ** This trope is written all over [[spoiler: Riben]]. Not only is he the [[spoiler: young DarkHorseVictor brother of a previous dead tribute (just like Shiran)]], but he also [[spoiler: loses his ally to accidental poisoning just like he lost his sister years earlier]]. The Capitol invokes this when they poison his loved ones as punishment for [[spoiler: surviving the Games without a kill.]] |
| 392 | * HoldingHands: Peyton notes with dismay that many of the district partners in ''Brutal'' are doing this during the chariot rides, meaning that lots of them already know each other. |
| 393 | * HollywoodHealing: Largely averted, as most of the characters attain and many die from serious wounds, and those who survive do so thanks to Capitol first aid. |
| 394 | ** Zigzagged with Fronce though, as he manages to survive getting a sword through the stomach [[spoiler: but later dies from infection, though not from the stomach wounds but from a thin cut his allies didn't notice.]] |
| 395 | * HonorBeforeReason: |
| 396 | ** Sadik vowed to go as far as he could through the Games without killing, even if it meant starving to death from a lack of donations. His resolve caved in rather quickly and he [[spoiler: forced Spain to make a sadistic choice between Lovi's life and the rest of their alliance's food]]. Subverted in that, despite the fact that he ended up choosing reason before honour, he couldn't [[spoiler: go through with killing Lovi, and merely left with the food]]. |
| 397 | ** Japan. He is a ProudWarriorRaceGuy, after all. |
| 398 | * HopeSpot: Near the end of ''Horrible'', Gries and Ania go head-to-head. [[spoiler: Ania]] is quickly dispatched by [[spoiler: Gries]], but not before [[spoiler: sticking a sword through her chest]]. However, [[spoiler: Gries]] isn't done for yet, reasoning that if she just [[spoiler: keeps the sword firmly stuck in her body, she won't bleed to death. Then she sneezes, and loses her grip...]] |
| 399 | * HowDareYouDieOnMe: [[spoiler: Lovi to Spain, Igris to Fronce, Sve to Finni, Feli to Sheen.]] Numerous other characters also echo "you can't die," sentiments to their fallen allies. |
| 400 | * HumanizingTears: After complaining about Spain for most of the FanFic, Lovi breaks down crying and thanks him for all his help when she thinks they're going to be killed by cat muttations. In true {{Tsundere}} fashion, she vehemently denies her emotional outburst afterwards. |
| 401 | * HypocriticalHumor: In ''Brutal,'' the AxCrazy Russia thinks to himself that Veta must be crazy (for talking to herself) right before [[spoiler: she kills him.]] |
| 402 | ** From ''Miserable,'' [[BloodKnight Journs]] thinking that [[WellIntentionedExtremist Magya]] is a ‘psycho’ for wanting to Mercy Kill Feli. |
| 403 | * HystericalWoman: |
| 404 | ** Feli, Feli, Feli. |
| 405 | ** And, of course, Paliss. Has there ever been a time since she wasn't crying? |
| 406 | * IdenticalStranger: Twice; both with a RedOniBlueOni theme - [[JerkJock Alf]] and [[ExtremeDoormat Thew]] in ''Brutal'' and [[HotBlooded Rica]] and [[ShrinkingViolet Nada]] in ''Unsurvivable.'' Justified, as they're based off [[PolarOppositeTwins America and Canada.]] |
| 407 | ** Norge and Ise in ''Miserable.'' [[spoiler: Until they're revealed to be [[LongLostRelative Long Lost Relatives.]]]] |
| 408 | * IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The core series - ''Brutal'', ''Horrible'', ''Miserable'', and ''Unsurvivable''. |
| 409 | * IdiotHero: Amer has elements of this, particularly towards the beginning of the story. |
| 410 | * IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten: The Career pack tests Lude this way by making him [[spoiler: kill a defenceless Ciano, whom he had briefly befriended in training]]. He does (except in ''What If''). |
| 411 | * IgnoredEpiphany: At one point towards the end of the story, [[spoiler: Russia]] compares himself to the Career who murdered [[spoiler: his sister]], wondering if he isn't just as bad. Unfortunately, by now he's so far gone that he dismisses the thought as completely ridiculous. |
| 412 | * ILetGwenStacyDie: [[spoiler: Amer]] with everyone in his alliances, but most strongly [[spoiler: Eston and Raivis. Sve, after Finni is killed.]] Spain also has a brief moment of this with [[spoiler: Perdita]]. |
| 413 | * ImColdSoCold: Stammered a bit less dramatically by [[spoiler: Raivis]] before [[spoiler: the poison from the cyan vine]] takes over, and he dies. |
| 414 | * ImprovisedWeapon: So much – and it actually works! Veta uses a frying pan against Gil (and Russia); Amer uses his broken glasses against Sadik. |
| 415 | * InformalEulogy: Romania thinking about [[spoiler: her fallen ally, Yana.]] "May we all be reminded of her last volatile dance whenever we see blood on snow." |
| 416 | * InterruptedSuicide: Zigzagged with [[spoiler: Amer]] at the end of ''Horrible''. He is about to commit suicide, but stops himself -- not because he was physically interrupted by anyone, but because he knows his brother is watching this on TV and would interrupt him if he could. |
| 417 | * InsaneEqualsViolent: [[spoiler: Russia]], to the extreme. Justified in-universe, as a sponsor sends him a knife as he is crossing the DespairEventHorizon to convey the message that, with the death of [[spoiler: his sister]], no one stood in his way of winning the games and he was now free to eliminate the rest of the field. |
| 418 | * InspirationallyDisadvantaged: Completely averted with Eudocia, who tries to hide her asthma from the audience in order to make herself appear stronger, and [[spoiler: is easily killed when Corianne [[KickTheDog steals her inhaler.]]]] |
| 419 | * InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath: Between [[spoiler: Igris and Amer]] at the end of ''Horrible'' and [[spoiler: Amer, Eston and Raivis]] at the end of the third ''What If''. Notable in that, while the characters TookAThirdOption to prevent an actual battle in both scenarios, said Third Options still resulted in one or more deaths. |
| 420 | * TheInsomniac: |
| 421 | ** Amer early on in ''Horrible'' when he doesn't have any allies. |
| 422 | ** Ania towards the end after she's killed [[spoiler: Rome, Lovi and Spain]]. |
| 423 | * ItHasBeenAnHonor: Lude's words to the dying [[spoiler: Japan]] are along these lines. |
| 424 | * ItsPersonal: |
| 425 | ** Veta after [[spoiler: Gil kills]] Austria. |
| 426 | ** Amer after Vahn indirectly causes [[spoiler: Raivis']] death and kills [[spoiler: Eston]]. |
| 427 | * IWillOnlySlowYouDown: While not stated word-for-word, [[spoiler: Fronce]] tries to persuade [[spoiler: Igris]] to leave him behind instead of carrying him around as he slowly dies of infection. |
| 428 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: |
| 429 | ** Igris pretty much acts like he hates everyone, but when [[spoiler: Fronce]] is close to death (and later dies), he reveals how much he really cared. He constantly insults and complains about Amer as well, but likes him to the point of [[spoiler: dying for him]]. |
| 430 | ** Lovi has a gruff exterior and spends much of her time angry at Spain, but similar to Igris, lets her true feelings show when their lives are threatened. |
| 431 | * KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Russia]] gets off scot-free in both the ''Brutal'' What Ifs. |
| 432 | * {{Keet}}: Ciano. |
| 433 | * KickTheDog: |
| 434 | ** Vahn's [[spoiler: chopping off the pinky finger of poor little Raivis.]] |
| 435 | ** Vivi torturing poor [[spoiler: Peyton]] and continuing to mutilate her body. |
| 436 | ** Wiremu attempting to rape [[spoiler: Finni]]. |
| 437 | ** Ania kicking Rome in the stomach [[spoiler: as he lay dying]]. |
| 438 | ** While advancing to kill Ise, Ilber casually hits Mr. Puffin with his sword ForTheEvulz. He quickly discovers this was [[TheDogBitesBack a very bad idea]]. |
| 439 | * KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Quite a few times: Amer to Vahn, Veta to Gil, Ania to Rome, and that's just in the core series. In What If we have Gil to Austria and Veta as well as Lude to Liet. The reasons for these vary from UnstoppableRage to SanitySlippage to simple jerkishness. |
| 440 | * KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: Amer's]] StartOfDarkness comes when he brutally murders [[spoiler: Vahn]] ... who had used [[spoiler: his friends Raivis and Eston]] for slave labour, kept them in line with death threats, sliced off one of [[spoiler: Raivis']] fingers when he tried to run away, indirectly led to [[spoiler: Raivis']] death, and finally murdered [[spoiler: Eston]] with a pickaxe. |
| 441 | * {{Kidanova}}: Franse, Fronce, and Rome. Apparently Rome even dates dozens of girls at once. |
| 442 | * KillTheCutie: Pretty much any sweet, lovable character is involved in this - [[spoiler: Liet, Ciano, Perdita, Laine, Raivis]]... |
| 443 | * KillTheOnesYouLove: |
| 444 | ** The third ending of ''What If'' to a T. |
| 445 | ** Also seen when [[spoiler: Lude]] kills [[spoiler: Ciano]]. |
| 446 | * KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler: Dardana]]. "Quit trying to distract-" *shot* |
| 447 | * KilledOffForReal: A whopping ninety-two tributes, plus [[spoiler: Igris' and Shiran’s]] mother, [[spoiler: Natalya's and Vahn's]] mother, both of [[spoiler: China's and Riben’s]] parents and the girl who [[spoiler: Riben]] grew close to in the epilogue. [[spoiler: Taberah’s]] father most likely died without the cure she would have won him, as well. In fact, it's much easier to list those characters who ''don't'' die - [[spoiler: Veta, Amer, Shiran and Riben]], plus some minor characters back home and in the Capitol. |
| 448 | * KillItWithFire: Most of the cat muttations in the sixth ''What If'' ending get burnt to death pursuing Igris, Fronce and China through the lava crater. ([[spoiler: China]] only barely avoids this fate as well.) |
| 449 | * KillItWithWater: Lude employs this technique on [[spoiler: the fire crickets]] in ''Brutal''. |
| 450 | * LastEpisodeNewCharacter: The epilogues of ''Brutal'' and ''Horrible'' both introduce the Victor's new tributes. In the case of ''Brutal'', they become [[AscendedExtra Ascended Extras]]. |
| 451 | * LastMinuteHookup: [[spoiler: Raivis and Raisa]] in the third What If and Hit the Bottle. |
| 452 | * LastSurvivorSuicide: [[spoiler: Defied]] by [[spoiler: Riben]] in the epilogue of Unsurvivable – he states that although he has considered it, he can’t bear to bring more violence upon anyone when [[spoiler: his sister]] detested it so much. |
| 453 | * LastRequest: [[spoiler: Igris']] is that, should [[spoiler: Amer]] win the Games, he not blame himself for [[spoiler: Fronce's]] death. This being [[spoiler: Amer]], of course, he breaks the promise. [[spoiler: Igris]] also asks him to hit his little brother on the head for [[spoiler: breaking his Beatles CD]] should he meet him on the Victory Tour. |
| 454 | * LighterAndSofter: |
| 455 | ** The fifth ''What If'' ending. Not that that's a bad thing. |
| 456 | ** The portrayal of Belarus, as opposed to many other fanworks, including the author's other Hetalia fic, FanFic/TheRules. Her canon {{Yandere}} and AxCrazy tendencies are often taken up to eleven in fanworks until she's nothing short of a murderous psychopath. Here, the worst thing she does is stalk Vahn and try to break down his door, never killing or even harming another tribute. |
| 457 | * LittleMissSnarker: Lovi exemplifies this. |
| 458 | * TheLoad: |
| 459 | ** Liet to Switz. |
| 460 | ** Austria to Veta. |
| 461 | ** Raivis to Eston and Amer. |
| 462 | ** Fronce to Igris and Amer after his injury. |
| 463 | ** Ciano to Lude in the 4th What If. |
| 464 | * LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Norge and Ise]] discover they are half-brothers. |
| 465 | * LovableCoward: Ciano, and Raivis, to an extent. Not that one can blame them for being scared. |
| 466 | * LoveMakesYouCrazy: Natalya all the way, in her insane obsession with her foster brother/love interest Vahn. |
| 467 | * LunaticLoophole: averted in Brutal and Miserable, where the lunatics – namely, [[spoiler: Russia and Norge]] – die [[spoiler: second-to-last]] and the Victors are sane. Arguably played straight in Horrible, although YMMV on how insane [[spoiler: Amer]] is. Played straight in [[spoiler: the second and fourth ''What Ifs.'']] |
| 468 | * MamaBear: Nada encounters a literal one in Unsurvivable. [[spoiler: It doesn't kill her, but it chases her into Holland's way, who kills it.]] |
| 469 | * ManlyTears: Igris tries hard not to cry after [[spoiler: Fronce's death]] but gives in. Amer tells him this is nothing to be ashamed of. |
| 470 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Did Aurth actually summon a fish to swallow Antonio, were the Gamemakers just playing along with his ‘magic’ angle, or was it all a massive coincidence? It’s left up to the viewers to decide. |
| 471 | * MeaningfulEcho: After Igris abandons [[spoiler: China]] to die alone, Fronce indignantly asks him if he would leave him behind in a similar situation. Igris responds that he would instead stick around to taunt him. Much later, after Fronce has been gravely injured and knocked out, he wakes up to discover Igris is carrying him on his back. The first words out of his mouth? "So you didn't leave me behind after all." |
| 472 | * MeaningfulName: WordOfGod explains the psychology behind each name chosen for the tributes. Most of them are references to their countries or ''Hetalia'' human names. |
| 473 | * MeaninglessVillainVictory: The second and fourth What Ifs. [[spoiler: Russia]] survives, but is hinted in a SpiritualSuccessor oneshot to be locked away in an asylum, no danger to the world. |
| 474 | * MercyKill: Magya specializes in this. |
| 475 | * MilesToGoBeforeISleep: Amer would certainly like to kill himself at the end of the third ''What If'' scenario, but that would mean [[spoiler: leaving his two allies to kill each other]]. So he has to ShootTheDog before offing himself. |
| 476 | * MoodWhiplash: |
| 477 | ** From Poal's facepalm-inducing insistence on pony-riding to [[spoiler: her death pony-riding]]. |
| 478 | ** Also seen in the third ''What If'' ending: one chapter, Amer, Raivis and Eston are happily playing a game of catch with apple cores. The next chapter, they're [[spoiler: deciding which of them will be murdered by their ally]]. Yikes. |
| 479 | ** Magya going from comforting Feli to [[spoiler: killing her.]] |
| 480 | ---> [[spoiler: "With shaking hands, I rub the back of her neck a little. I then withdraw a knife and sever her spinal cord."]] |
| 481 | * MoralityPet: Ciano to Lude. |
| 482 | * MoreExpendableThanYou: Raivis plays this card when Eston is going to die for him at the end of the third ''What If'' scenario, claiming that he is worthless compared to the heroic Amer and the intelligent Eston. [[spoiler: It doesn't work.]] |
| 483 | * MoreHeroThanThou: |
| 484 | ** In ''Brutal'', Switz is determined to die so his sister, Liet can win. Once she figures out what he's going to do, she decides to do the same thing for him. [[spoiler: They both end up TakingTheBullet for each other, dying together.]] |
| 485 | ** In the end of ''Horrible'', [[spoiler: Amer and Igris]] come to a stalemate because neither one of them wants to kill the other, and neither will let the other commit suicide. They end up settling things with a game of chance that leaves [[spoiler: Amer]] the victor. |
| 486 | * MortalWoundReveal: [[spoiler: Fronce's]] wounds are seemingly patched up after a battle with Careers, but later it's revealed he's dying of infection from a tiny cut, which his allies overlooked because it was hidden behind his long hair. |
| 487 | * MurderByMistake: [[spoiler: Thew]] puts poisonous berries into Alf's water bottle, intending to kill him, but [[spoiler: Vivi]] drinks it instead. |
| 488 | * MutualKill: |
| 489 | ** [[spoiler: Gries and Ania]], in the last battle of ''Horrible''. The same scenario occurs between then in the third ''What If''. |
| 490 | ** In the first ''What If'', [[spoiler: Igris and Ania]] get this – he holds her underwater until she drowns, then dies of the wounds he received during their swordfight. |
| 491 | ** [[spoiler: Chia and Philan]] take each other out this way in the bloodbath of ''Brutal''. |
| 492 | ** [[spoiler: Igris and Rome]] in the sixth ''What If''. |
| 493 | * MyGreatestFailure: A large part of Spain's desire to protect Lovi stems from his guilt over [[spoiler: murdering a young woman who insulted his sister]], as well as for not trying to save [[spoiler: Perdita]] at the bloodbath. |
| 494 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: |
| 495 | ** Amer gets this a lot, particularly after [[spoiler: killing Vahn]]. |
| 496 | ** Lovi, both after attempting to kill [[spoiler: Spain]] (in canon) and actually killing him (in ''What If''.) |
| 497 | * MyOwnPrivateIDo: |
| 498 | ** Played with in ''Brutal'' -- realizing that, having both been reaped, they won't have a wedding, the engaged couple Austria and Veta tie the knot in the middle of the Games by reciting the wedding vows they've memorized. |
| 499 | ** Natalya also plans to do this with Vahn in ''Horrible''. [[spoiler: Unluckily for her, he’s kind of dead and gutted by the time she finds him.]] |
| 500 | * NationsAsPeople: Obviously, considering what this is partially based off of. |
| 501 | * NeckSnap: |
| 502 | ** Alf to [[spoiler: Franse.]] |
| 503 | ** Wiremu to [[spoiler: Perdita.]] |
| 504 | ** Ermine to [[spoiler: Zavann.]] |
| 505 | * NeverBringAKnifeToAFistfight: Sadik commences his and Amer's fist fight by pulling a knife, and promptly loses it. Guess who wins. Sort of zigzagged, though, since he wasn't trying to play dirty by taking out the knife, just warning Amer not to mess with him. |
| 506 | * NightmareFuelStationAttendant: [[spoiler: Russia]], [[spoiler: Russia]], and a thousand times [[spoiler: ''Russia'']]. He snaps so much that he views the killing as one fun game, even ''carving a happy face into the flesh of one of his victims'', and is completely unaware of how horrific he has become. |
| 507 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: |
| 508 | ** Spain vows to protect Lovi throughout the Games, but unintentionally reveals to her that he once [[spoiler: killed a woman]] in a fit of anger. This makes his young district partner so terrified of him that she [[spoiler: attempts to murder him in his sleep, getting cold feet at the last second but giving him a blow that leads to amnesia]]. |
| 509 | ** Also, after [[spoiler: Raivis]] dies as an indirect result of Vahn's actions, Amer rushes off to kill him. Unfortunately, in doing so, he leaves his other ally [[spoiler: Eston]] alone and unguarded, providing the perfect opportunity for Vahn to stick a pickaxe through his head. |
| 510 | * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: |
| 511 | ** Veta and Amer both deliver absolutely [[IncrediblyLamePun brutal]] no-holds-barred-beatdowns to [[spoiler: Gil and Vahn]]. |
| 512 | ** Also, [[spoiler: Maria, Tiee and Wynd]] die this way in the ''Brutal'' bloodbath, at the hands of Corianne, Lude and Alf. |
| 513 | ** Journs to [[spoiler: Paliss]] in the ''Miserable'' bloodbath. |
| 514 | * NoKillLikeOverkill: |
| 515 | ** [[spoiler: Vahn]] gets all of his internal organs ripped out. |
| 516 | ** In the first ''What If'' ending, [[spoiler: Rome]] has his neck torn to absolute shreds. |
| 517 | * NobodyPoops: Subverted. Bathroom breaks are pretty much used at leisure to separate allies. |
| 518 | * NonActionGuy: Quite a few of the boys apply: Toris, Ciano, Austria and Thew in ''Brutal'' and Raivis, Eston, Spain and Fronce in ''Horrible'' never use any weapons outside of the Training Centre and mostly choose to evade rather than confront. This changes a bit in ''What If'', when Spain takes on the careers twice. |
| 519 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 520 | ** Many of Igris' cooking attempts mentioned by Fronce, along with other references to the two's past bickering. [[spoiler: Though this also hints at why Igris’ mentor wouldn’t think Fronce would notice a packet of bitter cyanide mixed in his food. ]] |
| 521 | ** At the beginning of his introductory chapter, Eston states he'd "rather not elaborate on" any of his past wood-related endeavors. |
| 522 | * NoOneGetsLeftBehind: |
| 523 | ** Igris refuses to abandon Fronce, even when he's mortally wounded and Careers are closing in. [[DoubleStandard Although he was perfectly fine]] with leaving [[spoiler: China]] to die alone earlier. |
| 524 | ** [[spoiler: Plutonia]] sacrifices herself making sure [[spoiler: Shiran]] wakes up in time to escape the tidal wave. |
| 525 | * NotBloodSiblings: Vahn is only Natalya's adopted brother. This doesn't make her StalkerWithACrush obsession with him less [[{{Squick}} squicky]], though. |
| 526 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: |
| 527 | ** In ''Brutal'', [[spoiler: Russia]] has an almost-HeelRealization when he considers that what he's been doing to the other tributes, is essentially the same as what [[spoiler: Japan did to his sister]]. However, by this point he's so far over the edge that he concludes this thought is ridiculous. |
| 528 | ** In ''Horrible'', [[spoiler: Amer]] realizes that anything bad he says about Vahn would also apply to himself, as they have both been responsible for deaths in the Games. |
| 529 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Quite often, a Career starts out as less competent than the others and only shows real villainy towards the end of the story. Examples include |
| 530 | ** Alf, who, despite having two kills at the bloodbath, became nearly a full-blown TooDumbToLive HarmlessVillain who couldn't even kill [[spoiler: Thew]], before forcing [[spoiler: Japan]] into a BetterToDieThanBeKilled situation. |
| 531 | ** Ilber, who spent most of his time post-bloodbath making snide comments about Osso and being curb-stomped before [[spoiler: murdering his two allies and nearly defeating Osso in combat]]. |
| 532 | ** Arguably Rome, who had no kills for a very long time and was nearly a MilesGloriosus before killing [[spoiler: Fronce, although he was still rather easily defeated]]. |
| 533 | ** Arguably Ania, who, despite her coldly efficient attitude, had no kills before raking up the second-highest kill-count in the series in a matter of ten or so chapters. |
| 534 | * NotSoStoic: |
| 535 | ** Igris has broken out of his usual icy exterior on several occasions, both in the core series and ''What If''. In ''Horrible'', he expresses genuine emotion over [[spoiler: Fronce's injury and death]], as well as when putting his life on the line to give Amer a chance at getting home. In the sixth ''What If'', he cries upon realizing he's going to die alone. |
| 536 | ** Lude tries to remain a stiff-upper-lipped soldier throughout the fourth ''What If'', but can't help crying when [[spoiler: Ciano dies]]. [[SanitySlippage And it all goes downhill from here.]] |
| 537 | * ObliviouslyEvil: [[spoiler: Russia]] lives and breathes this trope. |
| 538 | * OddFriendship: Ciano and Lude. [[spoiler: Kind of ruined when Lude kills Ciano, though.]] |
| 539 | * OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Amer's initial HeroicSacrifice for his brother, Matt, is seen only in a one-shot tie in, and even then quite briefly. |
| 540 | ** In ''Unsurvivable,'' Ermine kills two large fox mutations which were attacking Riben; again, this is unseen by the readers. |
| 541 | * OffWithHerHead: |
| 542 | ** Japan kills [[spoiler: Ukraine]] this way in ''Brutal'', leading to a scene in which [[spoiler: Russia finds his sister's]] head lying in the grass. |
| 543 | ** Japan also cuts off [[spoiler: Alf's]] head after killing him. |
| 544 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Raivis is 16, but apparently looks about 13. |
| 545 | * OminousWalk: Ise thinks Ilber is doing this during their confrontation. In reality, Ilber has been recently injured, hence the slow approach. |
| 546 | * OneWordTitle: All of the core series. |
| 547 | * OnlySaneMan: Definitely Sui. Maybe Shiran. And yes, Ise. After all, they're the only combatants who aren't going through mental withdrawal or anything. |
| 548 | * OverlyLongGag: "There's a hole in my bucket, dear Meghna!" |
| 549 | * PayEvilUntoEvil: Thew seems to have no qualms with slipping poison into the Careers' drinks because they've killed innocent people. |
| 550 | * PerfectPoison: |
| 551 | ** Horribly, horribly averted with [[spoiler: China]], who was implied to have been vomiting in agony for quite some time before she finally died. |
| 552 | ** Averted less dramatically with [[spoiler: Igris]]. |
| 553 | ** Defied by [[spoiler: Vivi]], who decided her impending death by poison was too tame and spiced it up by ripping open her own throat with a sickle. |
| 554 | * PickyEater: Ciano, to the extent that he won't eat the food Thew finds for him and [[TooDumbToLive relies on his mentors to send him pasta]]. |
| 555 | * ThePollyanna: |
| 556 | ** Laine all the way. |
| 557 | ** Doubly subverted with [[spoiler: Russia]] – he starts out at this, loses his marbles and his morality over [[spoiler: his sister's death]], and still manages to remain optimistic in a completely terrifying way. |
| 558 | ** Shiran (even when he thinks that he's going to die, he still does his best to hide it and cheers Plutonia up) and Tina (well, before she went through a BreakTheCutie process!). |
| 559 | * PostVictoryCollapse: Gil in ''Brutal'' after [[spoiler: killing Corianne.]] |
| 560 | ** Norge following the battle at the feast in ''Miserable.'' |
| 561 | * PowerTrio: Found all over the place: Switz, Liet and Austria; Igris, Fronce and China; Amer, Raivis and Eston; Igris, Amer and Fronce; Den, Sui and Tina; Ermine, Italo and Riben; Turk, Romania and Egypt ... |
| 562 | * PreAssKickingOneLiner: |
| 563 | ** [[spoiler: Amer to Vahn]] in the third What If: "You're not going to hurt [my friends.]" [[spoiler: Vahn's]] "We shall see" could count if it wasn't for the fact that he's the one getting his butt kicked. |
| 564 | * PreMortemOneLiner: |
| 565 | ** [[spoiler: Taberah to Gries]]: "It's not a good idea to fall asleep out in the open." Followed by [[spoiler: Gries']] "I'm a pretty light sleeper, actually." |
| 566 | ** [[spoiler: Ania to Lovi]]: "You might not want to be so loud." |
| 567 | * ProperlyParanoid: Poor Toris and Plutonia. Their allies Poal and Shiran are constantly telling them to stop worrying about things, but seeing as they're in the middle of the Hunger Games, it's not as if they don't have good reason. |
| 568 | * ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Technically all the careers count, but Lude and Japan fit the best. |
| 569 | * PsychopathicManchild: [[spoiler: Russia]] after he snaps. |
| 570 | * PummelingTheCorpse: Veta doesn't stop [[spoiler: smashing Gil's skull]] until the hovercraft comes to take his body away. |
| 571 | * PurelyAestheticGlasses: Osso, so says WordOfGod. |
| 572 | * PyrrhicVictory: for both [[spoiler: Veta and Amer]]. |
| 573 | * RasputinianDeath: |
| 574 | ** [[spoiler: Gil]] is beaten over the head with a frying pan repeatedly, managing to hang on until it has chipped away some of his skull. |
| 575 | ** It takes having all his internal organs ripped out and his body hacked through all the way to his spine to kill [[spoiler: Vahn]]. |
| 576 | ** [[spoiler: Liet]], of all people, gets this in the fourth ''What If'', as Lude discovers it takes more than one morningstar blow to the head to kill her. |
| 577 | * RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: Subverted. It's hard to believe anyone can actually stutter as much as Raivis does in the story. The level of grammatical errors in both speech and narration varies with the character as well. |
| 578 | * TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: |
| 579 | ** [[spoiler: Amer]] delivers a truly merciless one to [[spoiler: Vahn]] -- while shredding his internal organs, no less. |
| 580 | ** Vivi gives one to Alf, describing why he isn't worthy to be in the Career pack. |
| 581 | ** Ilber's and Osso's dialogue to each other seems to consist solely of these. |
| 582 | ** Everyone except Magya gives one to Osso in chapter 25 of ''Miserable''. |
| 583 | * RedHerring: [[spoiler: Turk]] serves as this in the end of Unsurvivable; he appears to have won the Games, but it turns out that [[spoiler: he died from his wounds]] and [[spoiler: Riben’s DisneyDeath]] makes him the Victor. |
| 584 | * RedOniBlueOni: Quite a few (listed in red-blue order): |
| 585 | ** Amer and Igris |
| 586 | ** Amer and Eston |
| 587 | ** Poal and Toris |
| 588 | ** Ciano and Thew |
| 589 | ** Ciano and Lude in the fourth ''What If'' |
| 590 | ** Ilber and Osso |
| 591 | ** Alf and Thew |
| 592 | ** Shiran and Plutonia |
| 593 | * RedShirt: Most of the bloodbath victims fill this role. |
| 594 | * ReplacementGoldfish: |
| 595 | ** Eston starts out as this to Raivis, who lost [[spoiler: his sibling Toris]] to a previous Games and wants a 'brother' in the arena. |
| 596 | ** Arguably, Fronce and Igris could be seen as this for [[spoiler: Amer after the death of his first alliance]], because he can't stand being alone and his {{Chronic Hero Syndrome}} drives him to protect people. |
| 597 | * RevengeByProxy: Dardana's revenge on the tributes from 10 is partway between this and SinsOfOurFathers. Since her friend [[spoiler: Corianne]]'s killer, [[spoiler: Gil]], is dead, she decides to avenge him by killing the current tributes from 10. [[spoiler: Fortunately, she doesn't get too far.]] |
| 598 | * RussianGuySuffersMost: Inverted and played straight -- Russia and Vahn spend most of their time making life miserable for their fellow tributes, but [[spoiler: Russia's]] insanity stems from a horrific DespairEventHorizon moment, and [[spoiler: Vahn]] gets what might be the most painful death in the series. |
| 599 | * RussianRoulette: [[spoiler: Amer and Igris]] do this with poison at the end of ''Horrible''. |
| 600 | * SacrificialLamb: |
| 601 | ** All of the bloodbath victims fulfill this trope to a T. |
| 602 | ** Some of the earlier deaths could qualify, to a lesser extent. Characters such as [[spoiler: Vash, Poal and Bell]] have defined personalities and some development, but still don't last very long and their deaths have little impact on the plot other than that another tribute is down. |
| 603 | * SacrificialLion: |
| 604 | ** Many characters fulfill this role, their absence having serious effect upon either the surviving tributes or the reader. Notable examples include [[spoiler: Austria, Switz and Liet]] from ''Brutal'', and [[spoiler: Eston, Raivis, Lovi, Spain, Finni and Fronce]] from ''Horrible''. |
| 605 | ** [[spoiler: Ukraine and Toris]], to a lesser extent. Neither lasted as long or had as much prominence as any of those already mentioned, but both's deaths were crucial to the plot: hers was necessary to [[spoiler: bump Russia over the {{Despair Event Horizon}}]]; his to show just how insane the aforementioned had become. |
| 606 | * SadisticChoice: |
| 607 | ** Amer having to choose between killing one of his friends or leaving them to kill each other in the third ''What If'' scenario. |
| 608 | ** In Horrible, Sadik takes Lovi hostage and forces Spain to choose between her life and supplies vital to the alliance's survival. [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl Spain chooses Lovi.]] |
| 609 | * SavageWolves: Seen in ''Brutal'', with a pack of wolf mutations [[spoiler: chasing Switz and Liet and killing Thew.]] |
| 610 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: |
| 611 | ** [[spoiler: Raivis]] tries to escape from an alliance. [[spoiler: And his lovely punishment is getting a finger chopped off.]] |
| 612 | ** China plans to do this in her alliance at the beginning. [[spoiler: If she went through with it, she could have lived a little longer.]] |
| 613 | * SelfSacrificeScheme: |
| 614 | ** This was the plan for Switz and Sve - survive to the final two, then kill themselves to ensure the Victory of little sister Liet and love interest Finni. [[spoiler: Neither of them got to go through with it.]] |
| 615 | ** Looks like Sheen might be plotting this for Feli in ''Miserable''. |
| 616 | * ShellShockedVeteran: Both Victors end up as this. |
| 617 | * ShootHimHeHasAWallet: Zigzagged with [[spoiler: Sadik's]] death. He was pulling a knife, averting this trope, but was doing so to deter, not harm, his attacker. |
| 618 | * ShootTheDog: Amer killing [[spoiler: Eston]] in the third ''What If'' scenario so that he and [[spoiler: Raivis]] won't be the final two. |
| 619 | * ShoutOut: Clever little jokes and references to ''Hetalia Axis Powers'' are scattered throughout the text. |
| 620 | * ShrinkingViolet: Plutonia, and maybe Paliss. |
| 621 | * SignatureStyle: Lots of ellipses and dashes. |
| 622 | * SingleTargetSexuality: Sve to Finni; Natalya to [[BrotherSisterIncest Vahn]]; Sheen to Feli. |
| 623 | * SlashedThroat: THE leading cause of death for characters in the series. |
| 624 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Leans closer to the ''Hunger Games'' half of the crossover in that it's firmly on the cynicism hand. [[LighterAndSofter The Fifth ''What If'' on the other hand...]] |
| 625 | * SoleSurvivor: Each story has only one: [[spoiler: Veta]] in ''Brutal'', [[spoiler: Amer]] in ''Horrible'',[[spoiler: Gries, Russia, Raivis, Russia again, and Fronce]] in the ''What If''s (respectively, and not counting the [[EverybodyLives fifth]]), [[spoiler: Shiran]] in ''Miserable,'' and [[spoiler: Riben]] in ''Unsurvivable.'' |
| 626 | * SomeoneHasToDie: The third scenario in ''What If'' [[spoiler: Amer]] volunteers to kill [[spoiler: Eston or Raivis then himself. Eston loses the coin toss and dies in place of Raivis]] |
| 627 | * SorryThatImDying: [[spoiler: Finni's]] response to Sve's HowDareYouDieOnMe moment. |
| 628 | * SparedByAdaptation: ''What If'' is built around this. [[spoiler: Gries, Raivis, Fronce and Russia]] all get to keep their lives at least once (with [[spoiler: Russia]] surviving twice). Taken up to eleven in the fifth What If, in which everybody survives. |
| 629 | * SpiritualSuccessor: |
| 630 | ** Although Number One Fan of Journey's oneshot "Asylum" is listed as being solely a ''Hunger Games'' FanFiction, the author has confirmed that it is basically an epilogue to the second or fourth ''What If'' endings. |
| 631 | ** Likewise, the oneshot "Ephemeral" is listed under the same category but comes from Igris's POV. |
| 632 | ** FanFic/TheRules. |
| 633 | * StarCrossedLovers: Veta and Austria, the OfficialCouple of ''Brutal'' whose engagement is tragically cut short by the Games. Other relationships, such as Sve/Finni, Vahn/Natalya, Ania/Rome, Lovi/Spain and Sheen/Feli, are present but too one-sided to qualify as 'star-crossed.' |
| 634 | * StepfordSmiler: Russia is always smiling, even while [[spoiler: slicing up and killing other tributes.]] |
| 635 | * TheStoic: Vash, Gries, Osso, Lude, Ania, Japan, Igris ... Some of them end up as NotSoStoic, though. |
| 636 | * SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: |
| 637 | ** Sort of. [[spoiler: Veta]] is the sole survivor of ''Brutal'' but her death kicks off the first ''What If'' ending based off that fic. |
| 638 | ** Also, Switzerland is a very important character in ''Brutal'' but his alternate version [[spoiler: dies rather swiftly and unceremoniously]] in ''Horrible''. |
| 639 | * SugarAndIcePersonality: |
| 640 | ** Norge. Cold at first, but then warms up considerably when he finds that [[spoiler: Ise is his brother]]. That also leads to TheReveal. |
| 641 | ** You could count Osso as one too. [[spoiler: His dying moments]] with Magya sure confirmed his warm side. |
| 642 | * SuicidePact: After the deaths of their love interests, [[spoiler: Sve and Natalya]] decided to do this together as a way of insulting the Capitol. Turns out the Gamemakers didn't like their plans much... |
| 643 | * SurprisinglyHappyEnding: The third What If, and by extension Hit the Bottle, are both terribly depressing but end with [[spoiler: Raivis finding love and new purpose in life.]] |
| 644 | ** This is the entire purpose of the fifth What If. |
| 645 | * SurvivorsGuilt: [[spoiler: Amer]] suffers the guilt of surviving while his friends did not. [[spoiler: Veta]] feels the same about her [[spoiler: fiancee/husband Austria]]. |
| 646 | * SwallowedWhole: This was possibly [[spoiler: Antonio's]] fate, seeing as there was no noticeable blood in the water (though maybe the Careers just didn't notice it.) |
| 647 | * TheSwarm: The crickets. Oh, the crickets. |
| 648 | * SwitchingPOV: Every tribute gets a voice. Most of them just don't get to keep it very long. |
| 649 | * TearsOfRemorse: |
| 650 | ** Lovi cries her eyes out after both [[spoiler: almost killing Spain]] in ''Horrible'' and [[spoiler: actually killing Spain]] in ''What If''. |
| 651 | ** It's noted offhandedly that Sve was crying after [[spoiler: he failed to save Finni]]. |
| 652 | ** This seems to happen to Amer a LOT. |
| 653 | * TitleDrop: The final line of ''Miserable,'' as [[spoiler: Amer]] thinks about [[spoiler: Shiran]]: |
| 654 | --> "Being a victor and mentor is miserable, but at least he won't have to go it alone." |
| 655 | * {{Tomboy}}: Saki has the characteristics of one. |
| 656 | * TrueCompanions: Amer, Raivis, and Eston most strongly; also Igris, Fronce and Amer. |
| 657 | * {{Tsundere}}: Lovi struggles to stay whiny and furious when she's worried to death about Spain. |
| 658 | * TwoGirlsAndAGuy: The short-lived alliance of Sui, Den and Tina. |
| 659 | * TwoGuysAndAGirl: Switz, Liet and Austria; Igris, Fronce, and China; briefly Norge, Ise and Sui; Italo, Riben and Ermine; Turk, Romania and Egypt. |
| 660 | * VasquezAlwaysDies: Inverted in [[spoiler: Brutal]]. The two longest-lasting female characters are the sweet, innocent, blonde-haired [[spoiler: Liet]] and the tough, determined, dark-haired [[spoiler: Veta]]. [[spoiler: Liet]] is killed violently, but [[spoiler: Veta]] ends up winning. |
| 661 | ** Also avoided in the first ''What If'': the harsh, manipulative and never-mentioned-to-be-attractive [[spoiler: Gries]] wins. |
| 662 | * VillainOpeningScene: Both ''Brutal'' and ''Unsurvivable'' open in a Career's POV, in contrast to ''Horrible'' and ''Miserable'', which open in a Kirkland brother's POV. |
| 663 | * WeakButSkilled: Shiran. Definitely not the physically strongest, but he manages to [[spoiler: avoid certain death with his expertise in swimming, as well as kill Norge with some frog poison]]. |
| 664 | * WouldHitAGirl or kill her. All of the trained guys, plus Gil, Russia, Vahn, Spain (in a backstory at least), and Igris. |
| 665 | * WomenAreWiser: |
| 666 | ** Ania and Rome. |
| 667 | ** Inverted with Toris and Poal. |
| 668 | * {{Yandere}}: |
| 669 | ** [[spoiler: Russia]], after he snaps, keeps a cheerful face, murderous all the while. |
| 670 | ** The author is known to blabber about how much she loves her readers before causing their worst nightmares to happen and giggling at their cries of anguish. |
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