As one of the most popular YA series' of the 2000s, The Hunger Games has attracted a lot of interest from fans, with many supporting and minor characters gaining huge fan appreciation.
Original Trilogy
- Cinna, the only Capitol citizen who is undeniably on Katniss' side the entire time. This ends up costing him his life, with him being eventually Killed Offscreen.
- Finnick Odair, victor of District 4, the fishing district, with a trident, introduced as a Mr. Fanservice, with Katniss noting that he used to get gifts from Capitol citizens he has slept with. He later revealed that he was a child prostitute and didn't actually want to sleep with any of those people, and was actually in love with Annie, another victor who was traumatized by her experiences in the games. This, combined with his verbal takedown of President Snow made many people prefer him over Gale or Peeta, both as a character and as a potential Love Interest.
- Rue. She only appears in one book, but she's impossibly beloved by fans. Some fan-circles seem to adore her more than they do Primrose Everdeen.
- Foxface is a notable example; she only appears for a few scenes in the first book, doesn't get any lines and doesn't even get her real name revealed, yet fans love her for how cunning she is and because she's more identifiable than a sword badass/archery badass/knife badass/rock badass etc.
- Thresh is pretty popular as well. Him killing Clove with Laser-Guided Karma helps.
- The Careers - Clove, Cato, and Glimmer (and sometimes Marvel). The ships of Cato/Clove, Clove/Katniss, Clove/Glimmer, Cato/Glimmer and Glimmer/Seneca Crane further prove this - in some places, they're more popular than the Katniss/Peeta/Gale OT3!
- Seneca Crane, the Gamemaker who allowed Katniss and Peeta to win the games together, was also Killed Offscreen for doing so, helped along by his beard in the movie.
- Madge Undersee, the nice daughter of the mayor of District 12 with whom Katniss has an Interclass Friendship. Also the one who gives her the Mockingjay pin, which ends up giving Katniss her nickname in the revolution. Many were disappointed that she was Adapted Out in the movies.
- Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee only gets a few scenes until the third book and is a mysterious figure involved in some very morally dubious acts, but fans adore the idea of a rebel gamemaker, especially one who plays Snow so well, and his background and motivations are a constant source of Fanfic Fuel.
- Wiress is only present for a quarter or so of the second book, but her Bunny-Ears Lawyer skills and implied status on the Autism spectrum have won her many admirers and prominent fanfic roles.
- Despite just being a Satellite Character to Cinna and Peeta, Peeta's stylist, Portia, is a pretty common fanfiction character (albeit mainly in supporting roles).
- Gloss and Cashmere have a pretty big following despite having barely any dialogue or characterization due to their intriguing Back Story as sibling Victors and So Beautiful, It's a Curse appearances that made at least Cashmere a Sex Slave victim like Finnick.
- The District 10 male tribute in the 75th Hunger Games is a Living Prop, but is quite popular in fanfiction (where he is usually but not always made into a sympathetic character) due to how he lasts longer than anyone else besides some of the Career tributes and the rebel alliance.
- Not So Stoic butcher Rooba is one of the better-liked District 12 denizens despite only being in one scene.
- Rebel District 2 Victor Lyme is only in one or two scenes, but good luck finding a fan who's not at least a little obsessed with wondering what her background, motives, ultimate fate, and niche in the Victor community are.
- Team Pet Buttercup's dynamics with the Everdeen sisters wins him more fans than many human characters.
- The recent male Victor with a training score of 3 and the reaped Victor who Brutus volunteers to replace for the 3rd Quarter Quell only get a single mention apiece and nothing else about them is revealed to the readers, but they often attract a lot of interest and speculation from fans.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
- Clemensia Dovecote gets a lot of love from the fanbase, thanks to being one of the few Capitol citizens to actively critique the Games, as well as being an all-around Nice Girl. The fact that she suffers from a mutation after being bitten by many genetically modified snakes only adds to it, and many were quite relieved to find out that she can fully recover.
- Lysistrata Vickers is similarly loved for the same reasons as Clemensia, also opposing the Games and humanizing the tributes, including protecting Lucy Gray from a rabid Jessup by distracting him with water bottles, clarifying at her last interview that the rabies Jessup contracted was not from his District and helping Lucy Gray with her leftover sponsor money.
- Coral's Big Sister Instinct toward her district partner, Teslee's Gadgeteer Genius skills, and Lamina's Mighty Lumberjack moments after initially seeming weak make all of them highly popular standouts even amongst an almost universally beloved crop of tributes, but none of them get many scenes.
- Competent, affable, somewhat mysterious District 12 rebel Spruce has his fans.
- Many of the tributes of the 10th Hunger Games, especially Lamina, Teslee and Coral.
- Despite being Red Shirts, the Ring Twins have more fans than a lot of far more prominent mentors due to how nice they are to their tributes and Coriolanus.
