History Characters / TheHungerGamesTheBalladOfSongbirdsAndSnakes

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Falls for Coriolanus Snow because he did his best to care for and guide her both before and during the Games (while knowing it was for their mutual benefit).

* TheManBehindTheMan: She serves this role to President Ravinstill. In a story where Gaul is both told and implied to be singlehandedly responsible for the biggest problems with the Capitol (implementing the Hunger Games and becoming Head Gamemaker, seeking to increase viewer retention on the games, pioneering muttations, grooming Coriolanus Snow into the villain he becomes, dictating war policy, and even setting tastes for vain and ridiculous fashion), President Ravinstill, the ostensible chief authority of Panem, is never seen or heard even once and could be as good as her puppet for all we know.

* FashionVictimVillain:[[invoked]] Invoked, and she's implicitly the first in the series, chronologically. Gaul wears ostentatious outfits with bright colors, big hair, and patterns that feel very out-of-place in the solemn postwar Capitol, and her flashy clothing makes her stand out in her role as a ruthless monster--her fashion sense was chosen to evoke both ''{{Franchise/Frankenstein}}'' and [[Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory Willa Wonka]]. It's indicated that Gaul's unusual tastes had a big influence on the gaudy, freakish style later adopted by the whole ghoulish Capitol.

* ProfessorGuneaPig: Alluded to with her character design having scars, mismatched eyes, and always-covered hands, with suggestions that her experiments have backfired and damaged her when she got too close or tested things on herself.

* {{Evil is Hammy}}: Courtesy of Viola Davis.

* 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.

* CruelToBeKind: [[spoiler:His treatment of Snow is as much about making sure he doesn't follow his father's dark path as it is getting RevengeByProxy on Crassus. Unfortunately for Highbottom, this only solidifies Snow's desire to keep the games going]].

* MayorPain: He's the evil variety. He sends Lucy off to what he thinks is her death, and assaults her.

* WouldHurtAChild: He slaps Lucy Gray, a 16 year old girl, in the face for putting a snake on his daughter's dress.

** Even with her only being the Gamemaker and leading the Science Department at the University, she still being the one to implement the Games and having overseen them since their inception—as well as having asked for creative and cruel new ways to punish the Districts—and ordering the snake attack on the Tributes—be it to wipe them all out or not, would indicate that ''she'' despite not being the President is the true malevolent ruler of Panem in her lifetime more than anyone else.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: He and Snow's father used to be best friends but had a falling out and now Highbottom takes out his hatred of Crassus on his son. [[spoiler: Said falling out was caused when Crassus gave Highbottom's draft plan for the Hunger Games to Gaul against his own wishes to have them burned.]]

* 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.

* BadBoss: An inverted example; he's good to the Peacekeepers under his command and not so good to the citizens that they police.

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: By the end of ''The Ballad of Songbirds & 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--though would still have died obviously. 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]]--and it would also be a KarmicDeath for her at that too (especially with [[AssholeVictim all her varied crimes]] over the decades).

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: By the end of ''The Ballad of Songbirds & 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--though would still have died obviously. 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]]--and it would also be a KarmicDeath for her at that too.

* 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.

* PragmaticVillainy: Everything she does while also ForTheEvulz is rooted in it too and not because of any special kinds of standards. Specifically when she has Clemensia bitten by a snake to prove she's lying, has Coriolanus retrieve Sejanus from the arena so the Capitol isn't embarrassed—which involves the latter endangering himself as well, takes on Coriolanus as her associate at the Academy to further instructing him in her ideals, allows Lucy Gray to live just because she wanted to prevent an uprising if she died and when she decided to execute all the Tributes left in the 10th Games before that just because she wanted to send a message and retaliate for their mockery—claiming it's because of the President's son dying. Anyone she keeps around is always in service to her agenda and not because she actually cares about any of them.

* PragmaticVillainy: Everything she does while also ForTheEvulz is rooted in it too and not because of any special kinds of standards. Specifically when she has Clemensia bitten by a snake to prove she's lying, takes on Coriolanus as her associate at the Academy, allows Lucy Gray to live just because she wanted to prevent an uprising if she died and when she decided to execute all the Tributes left in the 10th Games before that just because she wanted to send a message. Anyone she keeps around is always in service to her agenda and not because she actually cares about any of them.

* HeroAntagonist: While she's [[VillainProtagonist Coriolanus's]] love interest the majority of the film and the two are mostly on the same page, she's clearly not for the Capitol and their stronghold on everything. Lucy Gray immediately begins to realize how dangerous their connection is the moment that she suspects [[spoiler:Coriolanus got Sejanus executed]]. It's once she confirms this suspicion that she [[spoiler:tricks him into getting bitten by a snake and then attempts to make a run for it]].

* 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]].

[[folder:Circ and Teslee]]
!!Circ and Teslee
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Felix Audu (Circ), Vanessa Blanck (Teslee)

The District 3 tributes of the 10th Hunger Games. They are mentored by Io Jasper and Urban Canville, respectively.

[[folder:Mizzen]]
!!Mizzen
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Cooper Dillon

The District 4 male tribute of the 10th Hunger Games. He is mentored by Persephone Price.

* BadassAndChildDuo: With him as the child and Coral as the badass, though Mizzen's not bad himself.
* DevouredByTheHorde: He meets his end when snake muttations devour him to death.
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: He dies being devoured by the snake mutts rather than falling from a great height and breaking his neck.
* MeaningfulName: His name brings to mind the ''mizzen''-mast of a ship.
* VillainousFriendship: He seems to have a good rapport with Coral, and she gives a look of sadness when she sees him being devoured by the snakes.

[[folder:Coral]]
!!Coral
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!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Mackenzie Lansing

The District 4 female tribute of the 10th Hunger Games. She is mentored by Festus Creed.

!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Kittipong Ace Cunjanagan (Hy), Samia Hofmann (Ginnee)

!!Otto and Ginnee

* 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.

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.]]

* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:Brandy kills her by slashing her throat with a broken glass bottle.]]

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

[[caption-width-right:300:''"You really want to take care of me in that Arena? Start by thinking I can actually win."'']]

->''"There's a natural goodness built into us all. No. Really. We can either cross that line into evil, or not. And it's our last work to stay on the right side of that line."''

->''"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."''

[[caption-width-right:300:''"You hear that, boy? It's the sound of snow... falling."'']]

->''"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."''

[[caption-width-right:300:''"Smile. It's why we have teeth."'']]

->''"How wonderful that we all get to be here, for someone's final performance."''