History Characters / TheHungerGamesLiteratureTheCapitol

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Darius gets knocked out when trying to protect Gale from being beaten by Romulus. [[spoiler:he's later made into an Avox as punishment for showing sympathy to the people of District 12.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Cray's whereabouts are unknown after [[spoiler:Romulus comes to District 12]]. Given the circumstances and the way it was depicted in the movies, there is a good chance he was shot.

* NonSpecificallyForeign: In-universe Katniss notes that she cannot tell where he is from, only that his accent is foreign and conveys menace. She wonders if he's from 11 or 3 or the Capitol, and later installments indicate that many Peacekeepers come from 2.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It is unknown if he was present [[spoiler:during the bombardment of District 12, and if he was if he survived it.]]

[[folder:Darius]]
A relatively friendly Peacekeeper in District 12 introduced in ''Catching Fire''. He's on good terms with Katniss but gets promptly punished by the Capitol for trying to protect Gale from being flogged by Romulus.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Gets made into an Avox by the Capitol.]]
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Darius gets knocked out when trying to protect Gale from being beaten by Romulus. [[spoiler:he's later made into an Avox as punishment for showing sympathy to the people of District 12.]]
* PunchClockVillain: Despite being a Peacekeeper for the Capitol, he's actually on friendly terms with Katniss.

[[folder:Romulus Thread]]
Cray's replacement as Head Peacekeeper. He may hail from District 2, as Roman names are common both at the Capitol and District 2 and most Peacekeepers hail from the latter as well.

* ATasteOfTheLash: He reinstitutes whippings as punishments.
* TheBrute: He's a ruthless Peacekeeper who whips citizens who break the law (e.g. poaching), a far contrast to District 12 before the [=74th=] Hunger Games, when the Peacekeepers were much more lenient.
* MeaningfulName: Last name thread, quite fond of whips. Also Romulus was the name of the legendary founder of Rome (and also the last Emperor of the Western Empire).
* MookLieutenant: The new Commander of the District 12 Peacekeepers. Katniss speculates that he is taking orders directly from Snow himself now that the previously irrelevant district has been elevated in importance.
* NonSpecificallyForeign: In-universe Katniss notes that she cannot tell where he is from, only that his accent is foreign and conveys menace. She wonders if he's from 11 or 3 or the Capitol, and later installments indicate that many Peacekeepers come from 2.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It is unknown if he was present [[spoiler:during the bombardment of District 12, and if he was if he survived it.]]
* WouldHitAGirl: Hits Katniss across the face with his whip when she tries to intervene during his whipping of Gale.

!Defectors

[[folder:Cressida]]
A director from the Capitol assigned to document Katniss once the rebellion begins.

* DefectorFromDecadence: She defects from the Capitol sometime before the events of ''Mockingjay''.
%%* IntrepidReporter: Has shades of this, although her main job is to create propaganda.
* MeaningfulName: Named after the female lead of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, who's also a defector.
%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* OlderAndWiser: And she uses this knowledge to try and help Katniss any way she can.
* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:Of her original camera crew, only her and Pollux survive.]]

[[folder:Messalla]]
Cressida's assistant. He is described as a young man with multiple piercings.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Practically had his skin melted off before he died.]]
* DisasterScavengers: This was his most useful ability, to scavenge food in abandoned houses, mainly because as a former Capitol resident himself, he knew how Capitolites thought and thus where they would stash spare food supplies.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Defects from the Capitol along with Cressida.
* NumberTwo: Cressida's second-in-command.

[[folder:Castor and Pollux]]
Cressida's cameramen who are both brothers. Pollux is also an Avox.

* DefectorFromDecadence: They both defect from the Capitol along with Cressida.
* MadeASlave: Pollux worked in the Capitol's underground sewer system during his time as an Avox.
* MeaningfulName: Castor and Pollux are in Roman and Greek mythology. Similar to their tale, Castor [[spoiler:dies in ''Mockingjay'']] while Pollux [[spoiler:survives]].
* TheSpeechless: Pollux cannot speak due to having his tongue cut out.

[[folder:Fulvia Cardew]]
A rebel and Plutarch Heavensbee's right hand woman.

* FacialMarkings: She has tattoos of silver flowers on her cheeks.
* ImpliedLoveInterest: Katniss makes no comment beyond reporting it, but in one scene Fulvia massages Plutarch's shoulders, which implies they might be closer than their working relationship would suggest.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: She shows signs of being sheltered in her talks with the District people she works with.
* NumberTwo: Plutarch's right hand woman.
* WhiteSheep: The prequel novel implies that she's distantly related to President Snow in some way, given his MaybeEverAfter moment with another member of the Cardew Family at the end of the book.

* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: She's initially totally unaware of her role in the horror of the Capitol and the Hunger Games. By the second movie, she's learned what role she's really playing and is horrified by it.

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* MookLieutenant

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* ArchEnemy: To Katniss.

* TheFirstCutIstheDeepest: It is strongly implied that the regrets associated with his brief relationship with Lucy Gray stuck with him for the rest of his life (she, like her namesake, turning into a ghost in a metaphoric way). The narration indicates that outside of a one night stand done on a dare, Snow never had any prior lovers (owing to his fear of being exposed as an ImpoverishedPatrician), and afterwards sought a woman he hated as a bride so to avoid ever falling in love again. Fans speculate that part of the reason Snow targets Katniss and Peeta (another pair of star-crossed lovers) as much as he does is due to sour grapes.

* ItGetsEasier: Snow starts off an arrogant, ambitious jerk but he’s not a killer at the start of Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, just a prickly 18 year old with a chip on his shoulder. He is horrified when he processes his role in [[spoiler: Bobbin’s death]], realizing that despite the fact that it was clearly self defense he has irrevocably lost his innocence. His [[spoiler: murder of Mayfair and later betrayal of Sejanus and Lucy Gray]] have diminishing degrees of self-preservation involved and by the end he heartlessly [[spoiler: poisons Casca Highbottom]], the start of what Finnick reveals to be a long train of bodies that included both enemies [[TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil and allies.]]

* OutGambitted: For all his talk about destroying Katniss's image so the unhappy districts would have nobody to rally behind, [[spoiler:Plutarch completely played him for a fool]].

* ItGetsEasier: Snow starts off an arrogant, ambitious jerk but he’s not a killer at the start of Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, just a prickly 18 year old with a chip on his shoulder. He is horrified when he processes his role in [[spoiler: Bobbin’s death]], realizing that despite the fact that it was clearly self defense he has irrevocably lost his innocence. His [[spoiler: murder of Mayfair and later betrayal of Sejanus and Lucy Gray]] have diminishing degrees of self-preservation and by the end he heartlessly [[spoiler: poisons Casca Highbottom]], the start of what Finnick reveals to be a long train of bodies that included both enemies [[TreacheryIsASpecialKindOfEvil and allies.]]

* ItGetsEasier: Snow starts off an arrogant, ambitious jerk but he’s not a killer at the start of Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, just a prickly 18 year old with a chip on his shoulder. He is horrified when he processes his role in [[spoiler: Bobbin’s death]], realizing that despite the fact that it was clearly self defense he has irrevocably lost his innocence. His [[spoiler: murder of Mayfair and later betrayal of Sejanus and Lucy Gray]] have diminishing degrees of self-preservation and by the end he heartlessly [[spoiler: poisons Casca Highbottom]], the start of what Finnick reveals to be a long train of bodies that included both enemies [[TreacheryIsASpecialTypeOfEvil and allies.]]

* OnlySaneWoman: She is much more level-headed than other Capitol residents.

* ItGetsEasier: Snow starts off an arrogant, ambitious jerk but he’s not a killer at the start of Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, just a prickly 18 year old with a chip on his shoulder. He is horrified when he processes his role in [[spoiler: Bobbin’s death]], realizing that despite the fact that it was clearly self defense he has irrevocably lost his innocence. His [[spoiler: murder of Mayfair and later betrayal of Sejanus and Lucy Gray]] are diminishing degrees of self-preservation and by the end he heartlessly [[spoiler: poisons Casca Highbottom]], the start of what Finnick reveals to be a long train of bodies.

* {{Foil}}: To Sejanus Plinth in ''Literature/TheBalladOfSongbirdsAndSnakes''. They are both teenage Hunger Games Mentors from influential families who study at the prestigious Academy. But whereas Sejanus is NouveauRiche (and ''incredibly'' wealthy at that, his father having made a fortune from the war), originally from the Districts, sympathetic to the rebels, and is sensitive and sweet, Snow is Capitol-born, comes from an OldMoney family who lost their fortune due to the war and are struggling to make ends meet, is pro-Capitol, and can be cold-blooded and calculating.