History Characters / TheHungerGamesTheBalladOfSongbirdsAndSnakes

* AmbiguouslyRelated: To Caesar Flickerman, the host of the Hunger Games 65 years later. While they share a last name and job, no exact relation is confirmed, as this is a prequel. This is emphasized in the film adaptation, where Creator/JasonSchwartzman as Lucky is made up to look very similar to [[Creator/StanleyTucci Stanley Tucci's]] take on Caesar.

* BerserkButton: Being treated like an animal. Arachne plays with her by baiting her with food, causing Brandy to snap and slit her throat.

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Felix Audu (Circ), Vanessa Blanck (Ginnee)

[[folder:Otto and Sol]]

[[folder:Otto and Ginnee]]
!!Otto and Ginnee
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Nova Just (Otto), Kyra Reinert (Ginnee)

The District 6 tributes of the 10th Hunger Games. They are mentored by Apollo and Diana Ring, respectively.

* AdaptationalBadass: Otto, who never got to show his skills before his death, reveals himself to be quite deadly when given a crossbow.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Otto makes it to the Games instead of dying in the arena bombing. Averted with Ginnee who dies the same way she did in the book.

[[folder:Treech]]
!!Treech
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Hiroki Berrecloth

The District 7 male tribute of the 10th Hunger Games. He is mentored by Vipsania Sickle.

* AdaptationalVillainy: He becomes part of the Career pack in the film.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Lucy Gray kills him through the rat poison, rather than her pet venomous snake.
* EveryoneHasStandards: He refuses to hunt Lamina when the Careers corner her, since she came from his district.
* MeaningfulName: His name is ''Tree''ch, from the District filled with trees. You do the math from there.
* MightyLumberjack: He's a very good fighter from the lumber District.

[[folder:Lamina]]
!!Lamina

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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Irene Böhm

The District 7 female tribute of the 10th Hunger Games. She is mentored by Pliny Harrington.

* AdaptationalWimp: The film depicts her as ''extremely'' hysterical upon being Reaped, even until the Games start. That said, she still manages to survive the opening bloodbath.
* HistoryRepeats: She gets cornered by a pack of tributes, just like Katniss does in her Games. Unlike her, however, Lamina does not survive the encounter, being speared by Coral.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Gets skewered by Coral using her trident.
* LastStand: Coral, Mizzen, and Tanner corner her in the stadium and ultimately kill her.
* MeaningfulName: Her name refers to the botanical term of the flat part of the leaf, or in layman's terms, the leaf blade.
* MercyKill: Does this to Marcus on the first day of the Games to put him out of his suffering.
* MortonsFork: Coral and Mizzen force Lamina into one of these by cornering her on the beam from opposite sides, giving her only enough time to attack one before the other is upon her. She is subsequently knocked off the beam by Coral and falls to her death.
* MightyLumberjack: A skilled axe-wielder.
* WrongGenreSavvy: She thought that staying on the beam would keep her safe, and didn't expect Coral, Mizzen and Tanner to team up on her.

[[folder:Bobbin]]
!!Bobbin
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Knox Gibson

The District 8 male tribute of the 10th Hunger Games. He is mentored by Juno Phipps.

* BludgeonedToDeath: Snow kills him by picking up a piece of concrete and whacking him in the head with it multiple times.
* DisabledInTheAdaptation: He is an amputee in the film, but there is no mention of him having any sort of disability in the book.
* ExtremeMeleeRevenge: Coriolanus beats him to death with a piece of concrete attached to a rebar when he hits Coriolanus in the back with his sword and wounds him. Initially, Coriolanus was just planning on defending himself with that rebar but after he got hit, he got consumed by anger.
* HandicappedBadass: Having only one arm doesn't stop him from being a PintSizedPowerhouse.
* MeaningfulName: He's most likely named after the spindle/cylinder which holds thread in a sewing machine.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: He is small, but still able to spar with Coriolanus and Sejanus at the same time.
* StartOfDarkness: Bobbin is Coriolanus' first kill. Even when he tries to justify his murder as self-defense, his death obviously impacts his mental state, as he becomes more ruthless after that.

[[folder:Wovey]]
!!Wovey
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Sofia Sanchez

The District 8 female tribute of the 10th Hunger Games. She is mentored by Hilarius Heavensbee.

* DesperatePleaForHome: When the snake mutts are being carried to the Arena, she hopefully mutters whether the Games have ended and they can go home now.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Devoured by the snake mutts, rather than being poisoned by Lucy Gray's rat poison.
* DisabledInTheAdaptation: She has Down syndrome in the film, but there is no mention of her having any sort of disability in the book.
* MeaningfulName: "Wove" is the past simple form of 'weave', which is something her District is known for -- woven products.
* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: The most innocent and harmless of the tributes and one that faces a horrible death at the hands of snake mutts.

[[folder:Tanner]]
!!Tanner
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Kjell Brutscheidt

The District 10 male tribute of the 10th Hunger Games. He is mentored by Domitia Whimsiwick.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Gets impaled by Coral.
* MeaningfulName: His name is a occupational name denoting a person who makes leather from animal skins.

[[folder:Brandy]]
!!Brandy
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Luna Kuse

The District 10 female tribute of the 10th Hunger Games. She is mentored by Arachne Crane.

* BerserkButton: Being treated like an animal. Arachne plays with her by baiting her with food, causing Brandy to snap and slit her throat.
* TheDogBitesBack: After Arachne treats her like an animal too many times, Brandy slits her throat. Though she is immediately gunned down after this, making it a PyrrhicVictory.
* MeaningfulName: Her name references the branding of farm animals to mark who they belong to.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: The peacekeepers riddle her with bullets after she kills Arachne.
* SympatheticMurderer: She kills Arachne... after Arachne taunted her with a sandwich when she was in the monkey cage and starving. The fact that she was scheduled to be publicly executed as a message to the districts doesn't hurt her cause either.

[[folder:Reaper Ash]]
!!Reaper Ash
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Dimitri Abold

The District 11 male tribute of the 10th Hunger Games. He is mentored by Clemensia Dovecote.

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: He makes a defiant tirade at the Capitol after wrapping the tributes' bodies in a Capitol flag, which briefly encaptivates everyone, before it is cut off by Gaul's speech.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Devoured by the snake horde rather than being poisoned by Lucy Gray's rat poison.
* DueToTheDead: After Dill's death, he wraps bodies of the dead tributes in a Capitol flag.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: When the snake mutts reach him, he calmly closes his eyes and lets them bite him.
* TheGrimReaper: Befitting his name, he picks up bodies of dead tributes and [[DueToTheDead respectfully arranges them inside the stadium, wrapping them with Capitol flags]].
* HistoryRepeats: He shares elements with Thresh, a future male tribute from his district. Like Thresh, he is isolated during the Games, as no one dares to approach him because of his reputation. He is also close with the female tribute from his district, as seemingly looking after her and having a breakdown when she dies.
* MeaningfulName: Outside of his status as a ScaryBlackMan as perceived by others, to 'reap' means to "cut and collect a grain crop".
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: A person named ''[[TheGrimReaper Reaper]]'' is not someone you want to mess with.
* ScaryBlackMan: Aside from Lucy Gray, he is the most mysterious and undoubtedly the most feared tribute of the 10th Hunger Games, having killed a Peacekeeper back home and not being afraid to physically intimidate Snow, a mentor, when he wanders into the tributes' truck.

[[folder:Dill]]
!!Dill

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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Luna Steeples

The District 11 female tribute of the 10th Hunger Games. She is mentored by Felix Ravinstill.

* BloodFromTheMouth: Accompanies her constant coughing.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Dies drinking a water bottle that has been poisoned by Lucy Gray, rather than succumbing to her tuberculosis.
* DiesWideOpen: Her eyes are seen still open when Reaper turns her cadaver over.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: She constantly coughs during the pre-Games stage. Just before she dies, Lucky identifies her as a sufferer of tuberculosis.
* MeaningfulName: Her name refers to a [[FloralThemeNaming type of herb]].
* NotTheIllnessThatKilledThem: Rather than succumbing to her tuberculosis like in the book, she instead dies by drinking a water bottle poisoned by Lucy Gray.

!!The Capitol
[[folder:President Ravinstill]]
The President of Panem during the early years of the Hunger Games.

* CorruptPolitician: For funding the reconstruction of Panem, the president allowed the Plinths to move to the Capitol. It's mentioned that the Plinths can get away with basically everything, since they have money.
* TheGhost: He is never actually seen.
* GreaterScopeVillain: As the President of Panem, he is in charge of the Capitol's authoritarian regime which holds the people of Panem in chains and institutes the Hunger Games. Indeed, it's his consideration of ending the Hunger Games that drives the plot, and he ultimately is the one who decides to keep it going.
* LastNameBasis: His first name is never revealed.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler:His son, Felix, eventually succumbs to the injuries he sustained during the stadium bombing.]]
* PresidentEvil: While we never see much of his villainy onscreen, he is the leader of the Capitol's brutal rule over Panem.
* WouldHurtAChild: While Dr. Gaul was the catalyst for the start of the Hunger Games, the president was likely the one who approved it, since he had the final say in state matters.

[[folder:Volumnia Gaul]]
!!Volumnia Gaul
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ViolaDavis

->''"If you want to protect people, then it's essential to accept what human beings are. And what it takes to control them. Let's see you use that famous Snow charm."''

The Head Gamemaker of the 10th Hunger Games who oversees the Capitol's experimental weapons division, including the infamous muttations.

* AdaptationalSympathy: Due to AdaptationalContextChange of why Clemensia lied about working on her project with Snow (in the books, she couldn't focus due to [[spoiler:grief over the Arachne's death]], while here, [[AdaptationalJerkass she's shamelessly trying to look good in front of Gaul]]), Volumnia's decision to have Dovecote injected with snake mutt venom comes off as somewhat karmic, though this is a massively {{downplayed|Trope}} example since she is still having a young girl poisoned for lying to her over something trivial.
* CorruptedCharacterCopy: Volumnia Gaul is one for Professor Annalise Keating, a character Creator/ViolaDavis had portrayed in ''Series/HowToGetAwayWithMurder'' before playing Gaul in this movie. Both Gaul and Annalise are well-known professors working for universities who have taken a special liking to one of their students (Snow for Gaul; Wes for Annalise), excel at their profession (science for Gaul; law for Annalise) and are very [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]]. However, Gaul has none of Annalise’s sympathetic or redeeming qualities, with even Gaul’s liking to Snow being just something she can mold into sharing her nihilistic view on the world, which contrasts with Annalise’s genuine love for Wes.
* DestroyTheEvidence: [[spoiler:Dr. Gaul at the end has a hand in scrubbing all incriminating data pertaining to the 10th Hunger Games, in no small part to [[{{Unperson}} to erase Lucy Gray from the record in all but name]].]]
* DisproportionateRetribution: Gaul has Clemensia injected with snake venom for lying to her about working on an assignment that both she and Snow were supposed to do.
* {{Evil is Hammy}}: Courtesy of Viola Davis.
* EvilerThanThou: However terrible a person Coriolanus is, Snow never even comes close to just how sociopathic, vindictive, petty, insane and misanthropic Gaul was. Case in point, she arranges for Clemensia to be poisoned due to the girl lying to her over an assignment Clemensia was supposed to work on with Snow. Snow himself indulges in DisproportionateRetribution, but never for something so banal as lying on a homework assignment.
* EvilOldFolks: Gaul is depicted as an old woman, and she is a vile woman who performs experiments on innocent people and [[spoiler:was responsible for the Hunger Games becoming a part of Panem.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: Volumnia is this for the entire series, and in multiple ways.
** Even though Casca Highbottom was the one who wrote it and Crassus Snow suggested it, it was Gaul who proposed to actually ''implement'' the Hunger Games as a way to punish the Districts to the extent that their ability to rise again will be severely diminished. As a result, she's responsible for the deaths of at least 23 children every year up until the 74th Hunger Games, even though by that time, she's long dead.[[note]]Accounting for the 50th Hunger Games having twice the tributes, the 74th having two victors, and the 75th being interrupted with six remaining tributes alive, that's 1743 casualties.[[/note]]
** She is also the one who grooms Snow into the ruthless president he is today, by engaging him in mind games to harden him up and make him believe that only the Capitol is able to provide control over the Districts.
* KarmaHoudini: By the end of ''The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes'', she gets everything she wants, including an understudy to succeed her reign of terror. Since there's no mention of her in the main series, it can be assumed that she died in peace. On the other hand, Finnick in ''Mockingjay: Part 1'' reveals that Snow killed allies as well as enemies, so there's a strong possibility that Snow killed her and took her resources once he graduated and had [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness learned everything he could from her]].
* MadScientist: To say that she's a mad scientist is putting it mildly. Even the future President Snow is disturbed by her muttations and callous treatment of her subjects, including actively harming a teenage girl's life simply because she lied to her.
* MeaningfulName: Volumnia is the name of the [[MyBelovedSmother domineering mother]] of Caius Martius Coriolanus, the protagonist of [[Theatre/{{Coriolanus}} the Shakespearean tragedy]] from whom President Snow got his name. Gaul was the nation that would become France, and was an enemy of Rome's characterized as barbarians who needed to be civilized. Dr. Gaul is a cruel, ruthless person in power in the Roman-styled Capitol who believes all people are barbarians and need to be tamed with measures like the Hunger Games.
* MisanthropeSupreme: She is firmly of the opinion that all humans are inherently evil and in fact uses this to justify the Capitol's totalitarian rule over Panem, because of course those savage animals of the Districts couldn't possibly dream of placing themselves to order.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: She sends Snow to take part in Peacekeeping duties in District 12 to make him be able to see the chaotic world, realize that the Capitol's domination over the Districts is right, and, by sneaking and reporting on Sejanus' treachery, prove that he is loyal to the Capitol.
* TheSociopath: She shows no remorse for the various atrocities she commits.

!!!Capitol Academy

[[folder:Casca Highbottom]]
!!Casca Highbottom
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PeterDinklage
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/TheHungerGamesTheBalladOfSongbirdsAndSnakes''

->''"I have summoned you all here today for the Tenth Annual Reaping Ceremony, in which we choose two children from each District to throw into the Capitol Arena to fight to the death in the Hunger Games. I am here to tell you that there has been a change this year. One final assignment to prove your worth."''

The dean of the Capitol Academy in the early years of the Hunger Games who presides over its first mentorship program. He is historically significant as the man who drafted the plan to pit District children against each other in a game of death as punishment for their rebellion during the Dark Days, a spectacle that later came to be called the Hunger Games.

* AddledAddict: He has become dependent on Morphling [[spoiler:due to his guilt over unintentionally creating the Hunger Games]] to the point that he is only barely functional. His students even express surprise that he's allowed to speak at public functions.
* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:He's partly (if somewhat unwillingly) responsible for the Hunger Games and abused Coriolanus [[RevengeByProxy to take out his hatred of the boy's father]]. It's still hard not to feel pity for him when he becomes one of the first of many victims of Snow's rise to power, especially as he dies a guilt-ridden addict.]]
* DisabledInTheAdaptation: He has dwarfism in the film, but the book contains no mention of him being of below average height.
* DrowningMySorrows: After his plans for [[spoiler:the Hunger Games were carried out without his consent]], Highbottom became addicted to Morphling and is always seen intoxicated as a result.
* EtTuBrute: He felt personally betrayed when his erstwhile best friend, [[spoiler:Crassus Snow, stole his plans for the Hunger Games and then presented it to Dr. Gaul without his consent]].
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Highbottom never intended for [[spoiler:the Hunger Games to be carried out]]. No matter how much he hates the Districts, even he puts a line on [[spoiler:pitting their children into gladiator games]].
** It's also seen in how he treats Lucy Gray. [[spoiler:He could easily have had her executed for her role in cheating in the Hunger Games, but he states that sending her back to District 12 is punishment enough, and in private he apologizes to her for what she's been through and gives her a wad of money, which she admits that she's grateful to have since the Covey couldn't perform while she was gone.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Highbottom was horrified when [[spoiler:his draft plan of the Hunger Games was stolen and subsequently proposed by Crassus Snow]], as he considers it inhumane. However, he was too late to stop the plan from being carried out.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:His decision to send Snow to the Peacekeepers gave Gaul a chance to fully assess the boy's loyalties and cement his devotion to the Capital, ensuring the perpetuation of the Hunger Games]]. More generically, [[spoiler:his intentional humiliation of Coriolanus and unwillingness to explain why he hates Snow only cemented the boy's classism and other issues, which play a large role in Snow turning out so evil in the future]].
* OpposedMentors: He and Gaul are this to Snow, with Casca being the good mentor to Gaul being the evil one. {{Deconstructed|Trope}}, though, in that Casca hates Coriolanus for [[spoiler:being the son of the man who betrayed him]] and treats Snow like shit, making Snow much more receptive to Gaul's advice than his.
* RevengeByProxy: He has a personal vendetta against [[spoiler:Crassus since their falling out. Since Crassus died during the first rebellion, however]], he resorted to making the life of [[spoiler:his son]], Coriolanus, a living hell as a result.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: At the end of ''The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes'', [[spoiler:Coriolanus poisons Highbottom to eliminate a potential opponent of his rise to power]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:The Hunger Games is revealed to have been a drunkenly-made draft plan that was never intended to be proposed ''at all''.]]

[[folder:Sejanus Plinth]]
!!Sejanus Plinth
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Josh Andrés Rivera

A student of the Capitol Academy who is the son of an influential Capitol family and Coriolanus Snow's best friend. His family originally came from District 2.

%%Administrivia/ZeroContextExample* BigFancyHouse: Lives in one in the Capitol.
* ChildOfTwoWorlds: His family were residents of District 2 who moved to the Captiol in his youth thanks to his father's wealth and influence. This earns him disdain from both the Capitol natives, who view him as a NouveauRiche [[FantasticRacism District boy]], and the District 2 citizens, who see him as a CategoryTraitor for escaping subjection to the Hunger Games and participating as a mentor.
* ColdBloodedTorture: [[spoiler:It's strongly implied that he was subjected to this before his public hanging]].
* DeathByNewberyMedal: [[spoiler:Sejanus is Coriolanus' first real friend, and Coriolanus' betrayal of him, which leads to his death, serves as his definite StartOfDarkness]].
* DefectorFromDecadence: Sejanus always has a rebellious mind and loudly voices his opinion against the Capitol's mistreatment of the Districts. [[spoiler:It all culminates with him joining the District 12 rebels' plot to escape Panem and head north, which eventually costs him his life]].
* DidntThinkThisThrough: One of his defining traits. He wants to help the people of the Districts, but he always fails to think about the potential risks, complications, or consequences of his actions. He fails to understand how patronizing Marcus would find him loudly trying to give him some food while the tributes were on display at a zoo, risks his life to [[spoiler:give Marcus a [[DueToTheDead District 2 funerary custom]]]], joins Coriolanus in exile as a Peacekeeper instead of using his family's wealth to better the Districts, tries to help a woman that is imprisoned for making a scene at her husband's execution and ends up unknowingly [[spoiler:arming a Rebel cell and leading to the deaths of the mayor's daughter and her boyfriend. He ends up getting executed for that last one.]] [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney His dad constantly bailing him out of trouble with their money]] probably contributed to this.
* DueToTheDead: He goes to cover up [[spoiler:Marcus's]] corpse while the Games are still going on.
* FatalFlaw: His HotBlooded personality makes him impulsive and prone to making bad decisions which [[spoiler:eventually gets him killed]].
* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Tragically averted. When his execution is carried out, he screams for his mother]].
* FriendlessBackground: The only friend he ever had was Coriolanus Snow. [[spoiler:Who betrayed him.]]
* HotBlooded: Is impulsive and prone to having pro-District/anti-Capitol outbursts in class.
* IWantMyMommy: Played seriously. [[spoiler:His last words, which the jabberjays pick up and which visibly haunt Coriolanus, are "Ma! Ma! Ma!"]].
* MeaningfulName: "Sejanus" was the name of a powerful friend and confidant of the Roman emperor Tiberius. This story's Sejanus is powerful and influential due to his family's wealth and is a confidant of future president Coriolanus Snow. [[spoiler:Like the historical Sejanus, he is also suddenly executed on accusations of treason.]]
* NiceGuy: He's a kind, caring young man who has compassion for the people in the Districts.
* NouveauRiche: His family were wealthy residents of District 2 who were allowed to move into the Captiol after the Rebellion was crushed. They're still viewed with disdain from Capitol natives.
* RedOniBlueOni: The Red (impulsive, passionate, outspoken) to Coriolanus Snow's Blue (reserved, composed, less emotional).
* LaResistance: Is sympathetic to the rebels and [[spoiler:ends up betraying the Capitol in order to aid them]].
* TooDumbToLive: Entering the arena late at night to mourn and pay respects to Marcus's dead body when the games are still ongoing and there are still ''tributes in the arena'' was just plain stupid of him. Had Coriolanus not come there to convince him to leave, a tribute would have certainly murdered him without hesitating.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Sejanus faces few, if any, consequences to his rash actions by way of his father throwing money at the problem. He mentions how his dad had to buy a new gymnasium for the Academy so he could still graduate after he [[spoiler:snuck into the arena during the Games to give Marcus a DueToTheDead]]. Unfortunately, this lack of consequences leads him [[DidntThinkThisThrough never thinking his actions through]] and [[spoiler:he gets swiftly executed for treason for one of his misguided attempts to help. His family is never even told about his arrest or execution to keep them financially supporting the Capitol.]]
* SpoiledSweet: Despite his family's wealth, Sejanus is a kindhearted and compassionate young man. Despite this, he foolishly believes that his family's wealth can allow him to get away from any consequences his reckless actions bring him. [[spoiler:This ends up getting him killed in the end]].
* TreacheryCoverUp: Since his family is still influential, [[spoiler:the Capitol opts not to reveal the fact that Sejanus is working with the rebels. Even after he is publicly executed, he is merely reported to have died in his Peacekeeping duties and his parents decide to financially adopt Coriolanus in good faith, believing that he is upholding Sejanus' legacy, when in truth he betrayed him]].
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Many of his reckless actions indirectly lead to Coriolanus' descent to villainy. Entering the arena to [[spoiler:cover up Marcus' corpse leads to Coriolanus going there to rescue him and being forced to kill Bobbin to defend himself and Sejanus, which ends up being Coriolanus' StartOfDarkness]] and [[spoiler:allying himself with the a rebel cell leads to Coriolanus killing the mayor's daughter to protect Sejanus again, which leads to Sejanus being hanged and Lucy Gray disappearing]]. The latter event ends up cementing Coriolanus' turn to villainy and jumpstarting his path to becoming the ruthless, tyrannical president of Panem.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Having Coriolanus Snow as a best friend does ''not'' work out well for Sejanus.

[[folder:Arachne Crane]]
!!Arachne Crane
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Lilly Cooper

The mentor of the District 10 female tribute of the 10th Hunger Games, the Brandy.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:She is an incredibly unpleasant AlphaBitch and Coriolanus doesn't even like her, calling her "poison with perfect teeth". She even brought her death onto herself by taunting her tribute. Nevertheless Coriolanus is deeply upset when she's killed and the incident is portrayed as an example of what the system of Panem makes people into.]]
* TheGadfly: She always knows how to rile people up and she ''loves'' doing so. [[spoiler:This ends up costing her her life [[BullyingADragon when she pushes the buttons of her tribute too much]]]].
* GirlishPigtails: Wears her hair like this in her later scenes, [[spoiler:including the scene where she dies]].
* {{Jerkass}}: She badmouths both Snow and Sejanus, and later treats her tribute like an animal. [[spoiler:The latter ultimately kills her.]]
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:Brandy kills her by slashing her throat with a broken glass bottle.]]

[[folder:Clemensia Dovecote]]
!!Clemensia Dovecote
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Ashley Liao

The mentor of the District 11 male tribute of the 10th Hunger Games, Reaper Ash. She is the daughter of the energies secretary.

* DemotedToExtra: Her trials after being bitten by the snake mutt are not shown. The film thus makes it ambiguous as to whether she survived her ordeal.
* EveryoneHasStandards: While not to the extent of Sejanus, Clemensia disapproves of the Hunger Games, considering it cruel and sadistic.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Non-lethal example. [[spoiler:Everyone except Coriolanus, Dr. Gaul, and the doctors think that Clemensia just has a bad flu. The truth is that she is infected by a powerful snake venom which requires days to heal]].
* MeaningfulName: Her name means "mild" or "merciful". She is usually one of the nicest students in the Academy.
* TokenGoodTeammate: One of the few mentors who actively questions the Games, viewing them as amoral.
* UncertainDoom: It's unknown what happens to her after she is bitten by the snake mutt. Gaul even invites Snow to think of the possibilities of her fate.

[[folder:Lysistrata Vickers]]
!!Lysistrata Vickers
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Zoe Renee

The mentor of the District 12 male tribute of the 10th Hunger Games, Jessup Diggs.

* AffectionateNickname: Coriolanus briefly calls her "Lyssie".
* EnemyMine: Since both are mentoring District 12 tributes, she [[spoiler:briefly]] teams up with Coriolanus to look out for their tributes together.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Like Sejanus and Clemensia before her, she realizes how cruel the Hunger Games are. [[spoiler:When Jessup is rabid and delirious, Lysistrata manages to protect Lucy Gray from him by sending water bottles to distract him.]].

[[folder:Felix Ravinstill]]
!!Felix Ravinstill
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Aamer Husain

The son of the President and the mentor of Dill, the District 11 girl.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the film, he is one of the casualties of the stadium bombing, and, although he initially survives, he eventually succumbs to his injuries.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Like Arachne, he doesn't think too highly of Sejanus for being from the Districts.
* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: He is President Ravinstill's son instead of his great nephew.

!!!Family of Coriolanus Snow

[[folder:Grandma'am]]
!!Grandma'am
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/FionnulaFlanagan

The patriotic, slightly senile grandmother of Coriolanus Snow and Tigris.

* FantasticRacism: She makes no secret of the fact she views people from the Districts as inferior.
* GrannyClassic: Her racism towards District people aside, she seems genuinely nice and is a classic grandmother figure to Coriolanus and Tigris.
* NoNameGiven: We never find out her real name.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Tigris and Coriolanus call her "the Grandma'am" and we never find out her real name.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: She outlived Coriolanus' and Tigris' parents, forcing her to raise them by herself.
* RacistGrandma: Sort of. While Panem is a post-racial dystopia, the Grandma'am sees District people as barbaric and inferior to Capitol culture.
* RichesToRags: Comes from the OldMoney Snow family, who lost their money during the Dark Days.
* SomethingAboutARose: Grows roses on the roof of the Snow's penthouse apartment.

[[folder:Crassus Snow]]
The father of Coriolanus Snow. He was killed by a rebel sniper in District 12 during the Dark Days.

* BlueBlood: The patriarch of the aristocratic Snow family.
* DisappearedDad: Died when Snow was eight years old.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: His second child was stillborn with his wife [[DeathByChildbirth dying while giving birth to her]].
* PosthumousCharacter: Dies during the Dark Days, but his shadow looms large on the Snow family.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: While he doesn't appear, and we only know of him from Snow and Casca Highbottom talking about him in the prequel, his actions had a big influence on the series. He was the one who presented Casca Highbottom's draft of the Hunger Games to Volumnia Gaul, who thought they were a good idea and put them into action (despite Highbottom not wanting his idea to become a reality), so the Hunger Games are partially his fault.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Casca Highbottom and Tigris Snow note that Coriolanus Snow greatly resembles his father, Crassus.

[[folder:Mrs. Snow]]
The deceased mother of Coriolanus Snow.

* DeathByChildbirth: She died giving birth when Snow was five years old. Her unborn child didn't survive either.
* NoFullNameGiven: We never find out her first name.
* PosthumousCharacter: Died years before the Dark Days.
* TheTragicRose: Smelled like roses and died in childbirth.

[[folder:Tigris Snow]]
->See her entry [[Characters/TheHungerGamesFilmCapitol here]].

* {{Foil}}: to Volumnia Gaul, oddly enough.

* UnseenNoMore: She's the unnamed previous District 12 victor who's mentioned a handful of times in the original books.

** Katniss was a skilled hunter and fighter who had no interest in how she looked and wore exclusively drab and simple clothing when not on display for audiences while Lucy is very enthusiastic and knowledgeable about fashion, weaving, makeup and takes great pride in her appearance and so wears very colorful outfits.

** Katniss was aloof, distant, cynical and had terrible people skills while Lucy is naturally charismatic, outgoing, has excellent social skills and knows how to charm others.
** Katniss is a very talented fighter but a poor planner and leader while Lucy is not a combatant but is very good at using her charm and wits to survive and get people to root for her, even being the first Tribute to get sponsors.
** Katniss despised Snow and saw him as nothing more than a monster while Lucy knows him decades before he became President and sees his softer side, genuinely caring for him.
** Katniss led a revolt against the government through her participation and later settles down with Peeta while Lucy is simply trying to survive and disappears after she wins, her fate left a mystery.
** Katniss had a family and was born and raised in District 12 while Lucy's past is a mystery and she simply arrived in the District after losing her own parents and siblings
** The contrast can be best summed up by the popular description that Katniss was a fighter forced into being a performer while Lucy is a performer who was forced into being a fighter.

* Foil: to Volumnia Gaul, oddly enough.

* {{Unperson}}: Downplayed. [[spoiler:Thanks in no small part to Snow and Dr. Grey, Lucy Gray is all but scrubbed from the record, only recognized as an obscure victor from District 12. The legacy she inspired, however, proves far harder to erase.]]

* {{Unperson}}: Downplayed. [[spoiler:Thanks in no small part to Snow, Lucy Gray is all but scrubbed from the record, only recognized as an obscure victor from District 12. The legacy she inspired, however, proves far harder to erase.]]

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Telling a group of rebels who have ''rifles'' that she'll report them to her father so they'll get hanged is just plain idiotic. The fact that it ''wasn't'' one of the rebels that decided to pick up one of these rifles and gun her down is just the cherry on top.]]

* UndignifiedDeath: He contracts rabies from a bat biting him in the filthy train car he and Lucy Gray were transported to the Capitol in. In his death throes, he runs around in a confused state as he tries to reach Lucy Gray, who understandably stays away from him, before Coriolanus manages to convince Lysistrata to send a drone to scare him off, causing him to fall to his death.

* ShroudedInMyth: She was until now (see UnseenNoMore). [[spoiler: What happens to her at the end of the book is never revealed.]]

* AnimalMotifs: Songbirds and snakes. She has an affinity for both, and they usually return it. She often uses bird metaphors while speaking, is referred to as a "songbird" throughout the book due to her singing, is part of a group called "the Covey", and her last name is 'Baird'. At the Reaping, she uses a snake to get revenge on Mayfair for trying to kill her, manages to tame the snake mutts in the arena (with help from Coriolanus).
* BeautifulSingingVoice: She is the singer of a band of traveling musical troupe, so this is to be expected. She uses her singing to help win her sponsors.

* GoodBadGirl: Downplayed. Is sensual and flirtatious, although she uses her charms to entertain, rather than seduce. She's also one of the more good-hearted characters in ''The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes'', despite not being [[IncorruptiblePurePureness "made of sugar"]]. She'll kill in self-defense and will play a humiliating prank on someone who tried to murder her, but she'll do anything for her family and is able to empathize with Mayfair even after the latter [[MurderTheHypotenuse arranged for her to be sent into the Hunger Games]].
* GuileHero: Both she and Coriolanus know she's not really a physical threat, especially against the boys, so their strategy to is to be smart. She charms the audience into getting enough sponsorships to keep her well fed and from there it's just a waiting game to let the crowd thin from fighting, disease, and starvation. She gets the hell out of dodge as soon as it starts and stays hidden with Jessup, only coming out for food. From there, she lets the poison do its thing and never directly has to fight anyone.

** 'Lucy Gray' is the title of a poem by Creator/WilliamWordsworth. In the poem, the titular Lucy Gray disappears during a snowstorm, though her body was never found. Like her namesake, [[spoiler:Lucy Gray eventually disappears after Snow tries to kill her, although it's not explicitly stated whether she dies, decides to retreat to the wilderness, attempts to make it to what we know is District 13, or changes her identity to escape her pursuers.]]

* UncertainDoom: Just what happens to her at the end of the film? [[spoiler:Does she return to District 12 and adopt a new persona after she's sure Snow has left the woods? Does she succeed in escaping Panem? Or does she die in the woods trying to get what we know is District 13 in the north or when Snow shoots her? Like the character from the poem she was named for, her fate is unclear.]]
* UnseenNoMore: She's the unnamed previous District 12 victor who's mentioned a handful of times in the original books.

* DisappearedDad: Dies when Snow was eight years old.

* SilkHidingSteel: Turns up at the Reaping in a frilly rainbow dress with flowers in her hair... and then proceeds to stuff a snake down Mayfair Lipp's dress. [[spoiler:Repeats this at the Arena; she hides the snakes she uses to kill other tributes in the ruffles of her dress.]]