!FridgeBrilliance

* Of course Peeta knows how best to calm the female morphling and ease her suffering as she dies: they both got through their games by camouflage. They're both artists. Which of course makes Peeta's line about "all those colors" even more tear-inducing.
* During training, Haymitch tells Katniss that: "Half the tributes want to be your allies". You'd think it's a figure of speech, but later, as they fly from the wrecked arena, he explains Plutarch's sabotage of the games - "Half the tributes agreed".
* Plutarch starts giving Snow advice straight out of Machiavelli, what with the whole, it is better to be feared than loved. However, it seems he has forgotten the second part of that, which is that it is important to never be hated, for those who hate you will endure any suffering to spite you. But, considering he's a magnificent bastard whose trying to start the rebellion, it could be he has read the entire quote, and knows what exactly he is doing.
** There is also the firmly held belief that Machiavelli was purposely dispensing bad advice when he wrote that (as he was being forced to write it anyway) which makes it even more meaningful that Plutarch is giving this advice to Snow.
** It's also implied that he's the one who suggested the Quarter Quell's motif to Snow. This perfectly aligns with his plans, not only to extract Katniss but also to show the Districts they can unite to defy the Capitol.
* When Beetee and Wiress are explaining to Katniss that you can see a force field if you look at the Gamemaker's lookout at a certain way, Plutarch seems to notice and moves towards where they're looking to make it seem like they're looking at him.
* Beetee and Wiress explaining that the force field is taking up most of the energy of the facility since the rest of the electrical machines occasionally flicker is a metaphor: the Capital is too distracted on keeping Katniss towed to prevent a rebellion to notice that other people including half of the other tributes are already brewing a rebellion.

!FridgeHorror

* The film opens on a scene of Katniss having a PTSD-induced flashback while hunting: she shoots at game and it turns into Marvel, the boy from District 1 whom she killed in the first installment. But when someone has flashbacks from trauma, they aren't necessarily "true to life," when your mind is back in that moment sometimes you find yourself still trying to fix that moment. When Katniss shoots Marvel in Catching Fire, he falls with his spear still in his hands. If that spear is still in his hands, he didn't throw it at Rue. Katniss wasn't just having a flashback about having to kill another human, she was specifically having a flashback about trying to save Rue, which compounds the horror for her when her mind returns to a present where Rue didn't make it.
* There's a brief moment when an older Capitol man touches Katniss's shoulder as she and Peeta walk through the crowd to Snow's mansion. Given what we know Finnick revealed in ''Mockingjay'', there's only one way to interpret that creepy gesture.
* When laying the wire down for the electrocution trap, Johanna insists that they move quickly because she doesn't want to be anywhere near the water when it gets electrocuted. She states, "Frying is not the way I want to go". In ''Mockingjay'', the Capitol's main method of torture for her is submerging her in water and then giving her electrical shocks. This is so effective that she becomes intensely phobic of water.
* The reaped Victors from District 1 are Cashmere and Gloss, the only sibling pair to ever win the Hunger Games. They may be Careers who were willing to kill strangers in their past Games, but now they're being pitted against [[CainAndAbel their own brother or sister]], something they never anticipated or thought was possible under the Games' rules. The fact that they're stated to share a close and loving relationship just makes it all the worse. Even the Capitol's citizens [[EvenEvilHasStandards are upset by this]].
** Their body language is very telling. Compared to the other Victors, Gloss and Cashmere are interviewed together by Caesar and subtly use their familial relationship to appeal and gain sympathy from the Capitol's citizens. They sit close and hold hands through the whole debacle, Gloss bluntly stating that their shared participation in the Quarter Quell isn't by choice. One is never seen without the other during training or in the arena, either.
** And then they both die within seconds of each other in the Quarter Quell. The only slightly good thing about this outcome is that Gloss and Cashmere weren't forced to make the choice of having to commit fratricide ''or'' mutual suicide in the end.
** It's likely that Snow himself organized their paired reaping, especially since they come from such a crowded pool of District 1 Victors. Or one of them was reaped by themselves and the other felt obligated to pull a Katniss and volunteer to fight alongside their selected sibling. This shows that not even family members are safe from having to kill each other in the Games.
* Snow's granddaugther lives with him. Why doesn't that cute little girl live with her parents? In Mockingjay, Finnick reveals that Snow kills without mercy and rules with deception and fear. He killed a lot of his enemies and even allies when he thought they might challenge him. Snow might have killed his granddaughter's parents because he felt his power was challenged by them.
** Or, maybe Snow has his family live with him in the Presidential Mansion. In Mockingjay, when Snow gives his speech, we see his granddaughter standing next to what appears to be her parents.
* When Katniss and Peeta deliver their victory speech in District 11, Rue's family consists of her mother and four younger siblings, but no father. Now, back when Rue died in the 74th Hunger Games and Katniss saluted the camera and the viewers in District 11 saluted back, one man attacked the Peacekeepers, initiating a riot. Was that man Rue's father, and was he then executed for it?
* In a deleted scene, Plutarch goes into a vault containing the rules for the Quarter Quells. He removes the rule for the third Quell from a safe and replaces it with the "existing pool of victors" change. Not only does this confirm that the rule change wasn't the original one intended, but there are ''hundreds'' of safes in that vault. The Capitol was intending to have the Hunger Games go on for centuries, if not ''millennia''.