History FanFic / BrutalSeries

This series is a {{crossover}} between ''{{The Hunger Games}}'' and ''Manga/AxisPowersHetalia Hetalia''. The countries are taken from ''Hetalia'', turned into humans (some with slightly different or very different traits from the original characters) and thrown into the Hunger Games as average District kids.

This series is a {{crossover}} between ''{{The Hunger Games}}'' and ''[[Manga/AxisPowersHetalia Hetalia]]''. The countries are taken from ''Hetalia'', turned into humans (some with slightly different or very different traits from the original characters) and thrown into the Hunger Games as average District kids.

* Sheen to Feli.

* {{Early Bird Cameo}}:

* {{Eat the Dog}}: In ''Brutal'', a deranged [[spoiler: Russia]] encounters one of the cute pony muttations, greets it with a friendly "Hello!"... and then kills it and cooks its meat. Justified, as this is the Hunger Games.
* {{Elsewhere Fic}}: Takes place during the 43rd, 45th, and the 48th Hunger Games.
* {{Emotional Torque}}: The entire series and tie-ins.
* {{Et Tu Brute}}:

* {{Even Evil Has Loved Ones}}: Vahn has his adopted sister Natalya. Dardana has her best friend Corianne. Taberah has her ailing father.
* {{Even Evil Has Standards}}: After slaughtering [[spoiler: Vahn, Amer]] notes with disgust that he's never seen even a Career do anything as violent to a victim as he did.
* {{Everyone Lives}}: In "If NOFOJ Wasn't NOFOJ".
* {{Everythings Worse With Wolves}}: Seen in ''Brutal'', with a pack of wolf muttations [[spoiler: chasing Switz and Liet and killing Thew.]]
* {{Evil Counterpart}}: Alf can be seen as this to Thew.
* {{Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor}}:

* {{Evil Me Scares Me}}: Amer is terrified of his violent side and tries his best to restrain it, often without success.
* {{Executive Meddling}}: In-universe example. Several of the tributes of ''Horrible'' had ties to the ''Brutal'' tributes, so the Gamemakers ditched the arena they'd set up and changed the location of the 45th Games to the arena used in the 43rd for 'extra drama.'
* {{Extreme Melee Revenge}}: Dished out mercilessly by Veta to [[spoiler: Gil]] and [[spoiler: Amer]] to Vahn.
* {{Eye Scream}}:

* {{Bad Boss}}: Nothing wrong with obtaining allies by threatening their lives and [[spoiler: chopping off fingers]] when they try to escape, right?
* {{The Bad Guy Wins}}: The second and fourth ''What If'' endings (although it's debatable whether [[spoiler: Russia]] is a 'bad guy' or not).
* {{Band of Brothers}}:

* {{Beauty is Never Tarnished}}: Subverted a few times, but upheld others. Not much detail is really put into the slow decay of the characters' physical conditions, other than a short paragraph with Natalya.
* {{Berserk Button}}:

* {{Beta Couple}}: Sve/Finni, Natalya/Vahn, and Rome/Ania. Notable in that all of them are largely one-sided.
* {{Better to Die than Be Killed}}:

* {{Beware the Nice Ones}}:

* {{Big Bad Ass Bird of Prey}}: One of these chases Gil and Thew during ''Brutal''. It also features prominently in one of the ''What If'' endings and receives the name “Gil-bird”.
* {{Big Brother Instinct}}:

* {{Big Damn Heroes}}: Amer taking on Vahn and [[spoiler: liberating Eston and Raivis after the latter had had his finger chopped off.]]
* {{Big Eater}}: Both incarnations of America- Alf in ''Brutal'' and Amer in ''Horrible''.
* {{Big Little Brother}}: Ukraine states that her little brother, Russia, is the tallest of all the tributes, presumably including herself.
* {{Big Ol Eyebrows}}: Igris has these; often lampshaded or mocked by Fronce.

* {{Bittersweet Ending}}: And the 'sweet' part only comes in if you like the victors. Both survive, but are tormented by memories of the Games and those they lost.
* {{Black Magic}}: Aurth certainly thinks he has it. Whether or not he does is debatable.
* {{Bloodier and Gorier}}: This isn’t hard to achieve when ''Hetalia'' is involved in the crossover. But under those qualifications, this series is absolute overkill of this trope.

* {{Blood Knight}}:

* {{Blood Sport}}: Hunger Games.
* {{Book Ends}}: Both the first and last chapters of ''Horrible'' (not counting the epilogue) involve [[spoiler: Igris' broken Beatles CD]]. The first time it's just a throwaway occurrence, but the second time is a touching moment that shows how much [[spoiler: Igris' brother cared for him and allows him to {{Go Out With a Smile}}.]]
* {{Break the Cutie}}: Most of the cuties are involved in this one. Especially dear little Raivis.
* {{Breather Episode}}: Tends to happen a lot. If an alliance goes through an undisturbed period of lighthearted bonding, rest assured that it will end very badly for them, very soon.

* {{Brick Joke}}:

* {{Broken Bird}}:

* {{Brother Sister Incest}}: Natalya's undying love for her brother. Yergh.
* {{The Brute}}: Alf serves as The Brute in the {{Five Bad Band}} for the ''Brutal'' Careers, and Wiremu for the ''Horrible'' Careers.

* {{Chekhovs Gun}}:

* {{The Chessmaster}}: Osso, big time.
* {{Children Forced to Kill}}: Hunger Games.
* {{Chronic Hero Syndrome}}: Amer has it ''really'' bad. He volunteers for the Games in the place of his brother, asks nearly everyone to be allies so he'll have someone to protect, attacks [[spoiler: a pickaxe-wielding tribute with only a hypodermic needle]] to save someone he barely knows, is constantly willing to die protecting his friends, blames himself for everything that goes wrong, nearly kills himself [[spoiler: at the end of the story so that Igris can live]], and then can't go through with it because he doesn't want to let down his brother. And that's not even counting ''What If''.
* {{Cliff Hanger}}: Many chapters end this way.

* {{Cloudcuckoolanders Minder}}: Thew for a couple chapters of Brutal, in which he's allied with Ciano.
* {{Comically Missing the Point}}" Between Toris and Poal; lampshaded by Toris:

* {{Corner Of Woe}}: The Review Page. Reviewers such as Axxi and Pceluvmusicart are especially well known for this.
* {{Corrupt the Cutie}}:

* {{Cruel and Unusual Death}}: About every other death. Even worse in ''What If''. Notable examples include

* {{Cry Cute}}: After complaining about Spain for most of the FanFic, Lovi breaks down crying and thanks him for all his help when she thinks they're going to be killed by cat muttations. In true {{Tsundere}} fashion, she vehemently denies her emotional outburst afterwards.
* {{Curb Stomp Battle}}:

* {{Damsel in Distress}}:

* {{Dark Action Girl}}: All of the female careers, most notably Vivi in ''Brutal'' and Ania in ''Horrible''.
* {{Darker and Edgier}}: than ''Axis Powers Hetalia'', at least. Probably on par with ''Hunger Games''.
* {{Dark Fic}}: Obviously.
* {{Dead Little Sister}}: This trope is all over the place in the series.

** But probably the Most Triumphant Example is the effect that [[spoiler: Raivis' and Eston's deaths]] (and probably [[spoiler: Fronce's and Igris's]], following the Games) had on [[spoiler: Amer]], forever destroying his view of himself as a hero and leaving him with extreme {{Survivors Guilt}}.
* {{Deadly Game}}: Hunger Games.
* {{Duel to the Death}}: Happens often.
* {{Deadpan Snarker}}: Nearly everyone, at one point or another. Snarky characters are a given in practically any of Number One Fan of Journey's works. Special mention must go to Igris, Lovi, and Gries.
* {{Death Faked For You}}: [[spoiler: Thew]], sort of. A bit of a subversion in that nobody intentionally sets him up for it; it's more of a series of extremely convenient coincidences that leads everyone to believe he has died.
* {{Dead Sidekick}}:

* {{Death as Comedy}}: Who didn't chuckle a little when [[spoiler: Dardana]] was offed?
* {{Death by Adaptation}}: Applies to everyone apart from the victors, as obviously character death is not much of a problem in ''Axis Powers Hetalia''. [[spoiler: Veta and Amer]] both get in this in ''What If'', as well as many characters who die earlier than usual, such as [[spoiler: Spain, Igris, and Thew]] in the first, third and fourth endings respectively.
* {{Death by Irony}}:

* {{Death Equals Emotion}}:

* {{Defrosting Ice Queen}}:

* {{Designated Girl Fight}}: Seen in Gries vs. Taberah and [[spoiler: Gries vs. Ania]].
* {{Despair Event Horizon}}:

* {{Die Laughing}}: [[spoiler: Igris]]; possibly [[spoiler: Laine]] as well.
* {{Dies Wide Open}}: [[spoiler: Finni]] dies with her eyes open; [[spoiler: Sve]] shuts them.

* {{Disney Death}}: [[spoiler: Thew]] appears to die at one point during ''Brutal'', but was actually only knocked unconscious while another tribute's cannon sounded. Subverted in that he does die later.
* {{Disproportionate Retribution}}:

* {{Distressed Dude}}: Many of the non-action male characters, such as Austria, Ciano, Eston, and especially Raivis.
* {{The Dog Bites Back}}:

* {{Dogged Nice Guy}}: Sve to Finni.

* {{Doom Magnet}}: [[spoiler: Amer]], so much. He even lampshades this at one point. Every last one of his allies dies despite his best efforts. Though, given the nature of the Hunger Games, this is justified.
* {{Doomed by Canon}}: Toris, Poal, Raivis and Celladora all have to die because, according to ''The Hunger Games'', District 12 has had only two victors - one a canon character, the other established in another of Number One Fan of Journey's fan fictions.

* {{Downer Ending}}: It's either this or {{Bittersweet Ending}} with heavy emphasis on the 'bitter.'
* {{Dropped a Bridge on Him}}:

* {{Driven to Suicide}}:

* {{Drop the Hammer}}: Spain and Lovi share a hammer as their only weapon.
* {{Drowning My Sorrows}}: Raivis in "Hit the Bottle".
* {{The Dulcinea Effect}}: A very rare gender-flipped example can be seen with Amer, who regularly risks his life for friends he's known for less than a few days.
* {{Dwindling Party}}: Obviously, given the nature of the Games.
* {{Dying Alone}}: Many characters die alone or with no one but their killer nearby, but the unpleasantness of such a fate is only mentioned with [[spoiler: China]], who is abandoned to die from poison by her allies Fronce and Igris. Fronce wishes to go back to avoid this trope, but Igris refuses.
* {{Dying as Yourself}}: Possibly [[spoiler: Russia]], if you squint really, really hard. He doesn't 'get better' or feel remorse by any means, but it's worth something that his final thought was of his sister, for whom he had barely spared a thought after going insane.

* {{Abusive Parents}}: It's hinted that the father of Toris, Esto, and Raivis may be one of these.
* {{Accidental Murder}}:

* {{Action Film Quiet Drama Scene}}: These occur more than you'd expect, usually coinciding with {{Crowning Moments of Heartwarming}}, {{Tearjerker}}s, or both.
* {{Action Girl}}:

* {{Action Girlfriend}}: Veta to Austria.
* {{Adorkable}}: Plutonia.
* {{Aerith and Bob}}: Names ranging from Maria to Celladora to Spain.
* {{A Good Way to Die}}:

* {{Alternate Universe Fic}}: Rather than countries, the ''Hetalia'' characters are human. And a LOT of them have different personalities.
* {{The Alcoholic}}: None mentioned in the core series, but in ''What If'', third ending, [[spoiler: Raivis ]] ends up one, at least for a while. This is the topic of "Hit The Bottle".
* {{Always Save the Girl}}:

* {{America Saves the Day}}: Not America itself, but the characters representing the country, both want to be heroes in their own sense of the word - Amer by protecting his allies, Alf by winning the Games and bringing glory to his district. Only [[spoiler: Amer]] actually manages to 'save the day', though, and more often than not he just ends up making things worse.
* {{And Then What}}: [[spoiler: Thew]] realizes that [[spoiler: Alf (who thinks he killed Thew)]] is terrified of ghosts and dresses up as one to scare him. However, when his plan succeeds and he has [[spoiler: Alf]] trembling at his mercy, he realizes that he has no idea what to do next, and merely leaves with an ominous but vague warning.
* {{Anguished Declaration of Love}}: [[spoiler: Sheen's]] dying thoughts.
* {{Annoying Younger Sibling}}: Shiran in Igris's introductory chapter. Also Natalya to Vahn.
* {{Anti Villain}}:

* {{Apologetic Attacker}}: While he doesn't actually apologize, [[spoiler: Lude]] hesitates to kill [[spoiler: Ciano and calls him "friend"]] before finishing him off.
* {{Anyone Can Die}}: Hunger Games fiction, regardless of the characters being based off countries.
* {{The Archer}}:

* {{Ascended Extra}}:

* {{The Atoner}}:

* {{Attempted Rape}}: Wiremu has every intention to do this. [[spoiler: To the relief of all the female tributes (and readers), he gets killed trying to start something with Finni.]]
* {{Author Appeal}}: The author is quite fond of both gore and driving her readers to tears.
* {{Avenging the Villain}}:

* {{Aw Look They Really Do Love Each Other}}:

* {{Ax Crazy}}:

* {{An Axe to Grind}}:

* {{Dies Wide Shut}}: [[spoiler: Finni]] dies with her eyes open; [[spoiler: Sve]] shuts them.

* {{Closer to Earth}}:
** Ania and Rome.
** Inverted with Toris and Poal.

* {{Accidental Murder}}: Thinking the tribute is already dead, [[spoiler: Switz throws Thew to the wolves. Literally.]] And, as it turns out, said tribute wasn't actually dead yet. Whoops.

* {{Action Girl}}: All of the female Careers involved.

* {{A Good Way to Die}}: [[spoiler: Amer and Igris]] settle all of their debts with the world and leave things to chance so neither has to die by the hand of the other.

* {{Always Save the Girl}}: Sve and Finni.

* {{Anti Villain}}: Lude, a Career, gains sympathy in his befriending of [[spoiler: and hesitation to kill]] Ciano.

* {{The Archer}}: Switz in ''Brutal''.

* {{Ascended Extra}}: Spain, Vahn, Raivis, Sadik and Gries all have brief mentions in ''Brutal'' and become important characters in ''Horrible''.

* {{The Atoner}}: [[spoiler: Amer]] throughout the latter half of ''Horrible'', after he kills [[spoiler: Sadik and Vahn]].

* {{Avenging the Villain}}: Dardana aims to do this to the tributes from 10 (Meghna and Amer) in order to avenge her friend [[spoiler: Corianne, a career killed by Gil two years earlier]].

* {{Aw Look They Really Do Love Each Other}}: [[{{Vitriolic Best Buds}} Platonic version]] between the quarrelling duo Fronce and Igris, when [[spoiler: Fronce is mortally wounded. Doubles as a {{How Dare You Die on Me}} moment.]]

* {{Ax Crazy}}: Vivi from ''Brutal'' is a criminally insane girl who delights in the bloodshed of the Hunger Games, going so far as to [[spoiler: shove a sickle into her own throat because she thought her impending death by poison wasn't violent enough.]]

* {{An Axe to Grind}}: Corianne uses a halberd, or medieval axe.

* {{Band of Brothers}}: Amer, Eston, and Raivis.

* {{Berserk Button}}: Don't kill any of [[spoiler: Amer]]'s [[{{protectorate}} friends]]. Or injure them. Or look like you might injure them. And you probably shouldn't look at them funny, either. For that matter, you should probably keep a good 30 metres of distance between yourself and any of his friends.

* {{Better to Die than Be Killed}}: Part of [[spoiler: Japan's]] reasoning for stabbing himself rather than letting [[spoiler: Alf]] strangle him.

* {{Beware the Nice Ones}}: Most of the nice people in the series snap if they're not killed off quickly enough.

* {{Big Brother Instinct}}: Switz to Liet, literally.

* {{Bishonen}}: Both Frances - Franse from ''Brutal'' and Fronce from ''Horrible''.

* {{Blood Knight}}: Many of the Careers, most notably Vivi.

* {{Brick Joke}}: Igris' broken Beatles CD is mentioned in the first chapter of ''Horrible'' and comes back at the very end.

* {{Broken Bird}}: [[spoiler: Veta]] in the epilogue of ''Brutal'' is definitely one.

* {{Chekhovs Gun}}: The poison that Igris recieves from a sponsor in ''Horrible'' is quickly forgotten, but becomes vital in the climax.

* {{Closer to Earth}}: Ania and Rome.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Ciano all the way.

* {{Corrupt the Cutie}}: Both Russia and Amer fall victim to this.

* {{Curb Stomp Battle}}: [[spoiler: Veta vs. Gil.]] He barely even got a chance to attack before she had him down.

* {{Damsel in Distress}}: Wynd Blune.

* {{Dead Sidekick}}: [[spoiler: Raivis and Eston]] to Amer.

* {{Death by Irony}}: [[spoiler: Poal]], being killed by the muttation she'd tried to convince Toris was harmless.

* {{Death Equals Emotion}}: [[spoiler: Vahn]] actually crying and saying he "just wanted to go home" as [[spoiler: Amer]] kills him.

* {{Defrosting Ice Queen}}: Definitely Lovi, who's always acting like she doesn't need Spain, but lets her true feelings show when they're in danger.

* {{Despair Event Horizon}}: [[spoiler: Russia]] crosses over this into full-blown insanity in a matter of sentences after he finds his sister's severed head in ''Brutal''.

* {{Disproportionate Retribution}}: Yes, it was terrible that Vahn killed your allies, but did you really have to [[spoiler: rip out his internal organs, Amer]]?

* {{The Dog Bites Back}}: After Alf tries to kill [[spoiler: Thew]] (and ends up giving him an excruciating headache), [[spoiler: Thew]] exploits Alf's fear of ghosts to get one over on the Career.

* {{Dropped a Bridge on Him}}: Quite a few: [[spoiler: Thew]], who is knocked unconscious and thrown to the wolves several chapters later.

* {{Driven to Suicide}}: [[spoiler: Sve and Natalya]], after the deaths of [[spoiler: their love interests]], discuss surviving to the final two, then killing themselves so there will be no victor. The Capitol is not pleased and sends a ring of fire around them. Their response is to jump into the flames together.

* {{Early Bird Cameo}}: Raivis and Spain, who become important characters in ''Horrible'', are briefly mentioned by their siblings Toris and Maria in ''Brutal''.

* {{Et Tu Brute}}: [[spoiler: Rome]] gets stabbed in the back by [[spoiler: his district partner, Ania]].

* {{Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor}}: The Gamemakers moving the arena of ''Horrible'' to the ''Brutal'' one to mess with the tributes who lost loved ones in that game.

* {{Eye Scream}}: After killing [[spoiler: Spain ]] in the first ''What If'' ending, [[spoiler: Lovi]] gouges out her own eyes. With a hammer. Fun stuff.

* {{Fingore}}: What happens to [[spoiler: Raivis]] as punishment for trying to escape an alliance.

* {{Fire Forged Friends}}: Igris and Fronce (with [[spoiler: Amer]] as well).

* {{Five Bad Band}}: For the ''Brutal'' Careers: Lude is {{The Big Bad}}, Japan is {{The Dragon}}, Alf and Vivi are {{The Brute}}s, and Corianne and Chia are {{The Dark Chick}}s. In the fourth ''What If'', Ciano is {{The Load}}.

* {{Five Man Band}}: Both of [[spoiler: Amer's]] alliances in ''Horrible'' are three-man versions of this: in the first alliance, {{The Hero}}/{{The Big Guy}} is [[spoiler: Amer]], {{The Lancer}}/{{The Smart Guy}} is Eston, and {{The Chick}} is Raivis.

* {{Forgotten Fallen Friend}}: Nicely averted throughout the series, with characters such as Spain, Raivis, Fronce, Dardana, Igris, Veta, Sve, Natalya and Amer dwelling frequently on their lost siblings, friends, and love interests.

* {{Freudian Excuse}}: Chia all the way.

* {{Genki Girl}}: Has there been a time when Poal WASN'T babbling hyperactively?

* {{Go Out With a Smile}}: [[spoiler: Maria]] is so relieved she got her last words that she manages to smile before she dies.

* {{Heel Realization}}: [[spoiler: Russia]] almost has one, when he compares himself to the career who murdered [[spoiler: his sister]], but by now he's so far gone that he dismisses the thought that he could be doing anything wrong as completely ridiculous.

* {{Heroic Resolve}}: [[spoiler: Switz]] is almost too injured to move, but when [[spoiler: Russia]] is about to kill [[spoiler: Liet]], he finds the energy to push her out of the way and [[{{Taking the Bullet}} Take the Bullet]] himself.

* {{Heroic Sacrifice}}: [[spoiler: Switz]] is the living embodiment of this trope. He volunteers for the Hunger Games so he can help [[spoiler: his twelve-year old sister, Liet,]] survive, knowing full well that doing so means his death. During the games he constantly gives her his rations and carries her on his back, even when he's injured and starving. Finally, he pushes her out of the way when [[spoiler: Russia]] attacks them, taking a knife in his chest [[spoiler: and dying]].

* {{Honor before Reason}}: Sadik vowed to go as far as he could through the Games without killing, even if it meant starving to death from a lack of donations. His resolve caved in rather quickly and he [[spoiler: forced Spain to make a sadistic choice between Lovi's life and the rest of their alliance's food]]. Subverted in that, despite the fact that he ended up choosing reason before honour, he couldn't [[spoiler: go through with killing Lovi, and merely left with the food]].

* {{Hurting Hero}}: Spain, burdened with guilt from [[spoiler: a past murder]], uncertainty over his own morality, and an ungrateful ally, never stops trying to help Lovi through the Games.

* {{Hysterical Woman}}: Feli, Feli, Feli.

* {{The Insomniac}}: Amer early on in ''Horrible'' when he doesn't have any allies.

* {{Its Personal}}: Veta after [[spoiler: Gil kills]] Austria.

* {{I Will Protect Her}}: Switz volunteers for the Games to protect his little sister, Liet.

* {{Jerk With a Heart of Gold}}: Igris pretty much acts like he hates everyone, but when [[spoiler: Fronce]] is close to death (and later dies), he reveals how much he really cared. He constantly insults and complains about Amer as well, but likes him to the point of [[spoiler: dying for him]].

* {{Kick the Dog}}: Vahn's [[spoiler: chopping off the pinky finger of poor little Raivis.]]

* {{Kill the Ones You Love}}: The third ending of ''What If'' to a T.

* {{Kuudere}}: Norge. Cold at first, but then warms up considerably when he finds that [[spoiler: Ise is his brother]]. That also leads to {{The Reveal}}.

* {{The Load}}: Liet to Switz.

* {{Mood Whiplash}}: From Poal's facepalm-inducing insistence on pony-riding to [[spoiler: her death pony-riding]].

* {{More Hero than Thou}}: In ''Brutal'', Switz is determined to die so his sister, Liet can win. Once she figures out what he's going to do, she decides to do the same thing for him. [[spoiler: They both end up {{Taking the Bullet}} for each other, dying together.]]

* {{Mutual Kill}}: [[spoiler: Gries and Ania]], in the last battle of ''Horrible''. The same scenario occurs between then in the third ''What If''.

* {{My God What Have I Done}}: Amer gets this a lot, particularly after [[spoiler: killing Vahn]].

* {{My Own Private I Do}}: Played with in ''Brutal'' - realizing that, having both been reaped, they won't have a wedding, the engaged couple Austria and Veta tie the knot in the middle of the Games by reciting the wedding vows they've memorized.

* {{Neck Snap}}: Alf to [[spoiler: Franse.]]

* {{Nice Job Breaking It Hero}}: Spain vows to protect Lovi throughout the Games, but unintentionally reveals to her that he once [[spoiler: killed a woman]] in a fit of anger. This makes his young district partner so terrified of him that she [[spoiler: attempts to murder him in his sleep, getting cold feet at the last second but giving him a blow that leads to amnesia]].

* {{No Holds Barred Beatdown}}: Veta and Amer both deliver absolutely [[{{Incredibly Lame Pun}} brutal]] no-holds-barred-beatdowns to [[spoiler: Gil and Vahn]].

* {{No Kill Like Overkill}}: [[spoiler: Vahn]] gets all of his internal organs ripped out.

* {{Noodle Incident}}: Many of Igris' cooking attempts mentioned by Fronce, along with other references to the two's past bickering. [[spoiler: Though this also hints at why Igris’ mentor wouldn’t think Fronce would notice a packet of bitter cyanide mixed in his food. ]]

* {{No One Gets Left Behind}}: Igris refuses to abandon Fronce, even when he's mortally wounded and Careers are closing in. [[{{Double Standard}}Although he was perfectly fine]] with leaving [[spoiler: China]] to die alone earlier.

* {{Not So Different}}: In ''Brutal'', [[spoiler: Russia]] has an almost-{{Heel Realization}} when he considers that what he's been doing to the other tributes, is essentially the same as what [[spoiler: Japan did to his sister]]. However, by this point he's so far over the edge that he concludes this thought is ridiculous.

* {{Not So Stoic}}: Igris has broken out of his usual icy exterior on several occasions, both in the core series and ''What If''. In ''Horrible'', he expresses genuine emotion over [[spoiler: Fronce's injury and death]], as well as when putting his life on the line to give Amer a chance at getting home. In the sixth ''What If'', he cries upon realizing he's going to die alone.

* {{Off with Her Head}}: Japan kills [[spoiler: Ukraine]] this way in ''Brutal'', leading to a truly {{High Octane Nightmare Fuel}}-worthy scene in which [[spoiler: Russia finds his sister's]] head lying in the grass.

* {{Perfect Poison}}: Horribly, horribly averted with [[spoiler: China]], who was implied to have been vomiting in agony for quite some time before she finally died.

* {{The Pollyanna}}: Laine all the way.

* {{Rasputinian Death}}: [[spoiler: Gil]] is beaten over the head with a frying pan repeatedly, managing to hang on until it has chipped away some of his skull.

* {{The Reason You Suck Speech}}: [[spoiler: Amer]] delivers a truly merciless one to [[spoiler: Vahn]] - while shredding his internal organs, no less.

* {{Replacement Goldfish}}: Eston starts out as this to Raivis, who lost [[spoiler: his sibling Toris]] to a previous Games and wants a 'brother' in the arena.

* {{Sacrificial Lamb}}: All of the bloodbath victims fulfill this trope to a T.

* {{Sacrificial Lion}}: Many characters fulfill this role, their absence having serious effect upon either the surviving tributes or the reader. Notable examples include [[spoiler: Austria, Switz and Liet]] from ''Brutal'', and [[spoiler: Eston, Raivis, Lovi, Spain, Finni and Fronce]] from ''Horrible''.

* {{Sadistic Choice}}: Amer having to choose between killing one of his friends or leaving them to kill each other in the third ''What If'' scenario.

* {{Screw This Im Outta Here}}: [[spoiler: Raivis]] tries to escape from an alliance. [[spoiler: And his lovely punishment is getting a finger chopped off.]]

* {{Self Sacrifice Scheme}}: This was the plan for Switz and Sve - survive to the final two, then kill themselves to ensure the Victory of little sister Liet and love interest Finni. [[spoiler: Neither of them got to go through with it.]]

* {{Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome}}: Sort of. [[spoiler: Veta]] is the sole survivor of ''Brutal'' but her death kicks off the first ''What If'' ending based off that fic.

* {{Tears of Remorse}}: Lovi cries her eyes out after both [[spoiler: almost killing Spain]] in ''Horrible'' and [[spoiler: actually killing Spain]] in ''What If''.

* {{Yandere}}: [[spoiler: Russia]], after he snaps, keeps a cheerful face, murderous all the while.

* {{Action Film Quiet Drama Scene}}: These occur more than you'd expect, usually coinciding with {{Crowning Moments of Heartwarming}}, {{Tearjerkers}}, or both.

** Spain. A typically nice, friendly guy who [[spoiler: strangled someone for mocking his sister]] and [[spoiler: bashes in Ania's brains]] in the sixth What If.

* {{Black Magic}}: Aurth has it. Or at least he thinks so.

* {{Disproportionate Retribution}}: Yes, it was terrible that Vahn killed your allies, but did you really have to [[spoiler: rip out his internal organs, spoiler: Amer]]?

** And in Miserable, Ilber discovers why it isn't a good idea to [[{{Kick The Dog}} Kick the Puffin]].

* {{Family Unfriendly Death}}: Lots of gore in lots of places.

* {{Not So Stoic}}: Igris has broken out of his usual icy exterior on several occasions, both in the core series and What If. In Horrible, he expresses genuine emotion over [[spoiler: Fronce's injury and death]], as well as when putting his life on the line to give Amer a chance at getting home. In the sixth What If, he cries upon realizing he's going to die alone.
** Lude tries to remain a stiff-upper-lipped soldier throughout the fourth What If, but can't help crying when [[spoiler: Ciano dies]]. [[{{Sanity Slippage}} And it all goes downhill from here.]]

* {{No One Gets Left Behind}}: Igris refuses to abandon Fronce, even when he's mortally wounded and Careers are closing in. [[{{Double Standard}}Although he was perfectly fine with leaving [[spoiler: China]] to die alone earlier.]]

* {{Nobody Poops}}: Bathroom breaks are pretty much used at leisure to separate allies.

* {{Token Loli}}: Liet Wingly. She's of the youngest age of any of the tributes and rather innocent to boot.
* {{Token Shota}}: Snuff, 12 years old. Also Shiran, though he's a year older.

* {{Kuudere}}: Norge. Cold at first, but then warms up considerably when he finds that [[spoiler: Ise is his brother]]. That also leads to the {{Big Reveal}}.

* {{Sacrificial Lion}}: Many characters fulfill this role, their absence having serious effect upon either the surviving tributes or the reader. Notable examples include [[spoiler: Austria, Switz and Liet]] from Brutal, and [[spoiler: Eston, Raivis, Lovi, Spain, Finni and Fronce]] from Horrible.

* {{Sadistic Choice}}: Amer having to choose between killing one of his friends or leaving them to kill each other in the third What If scenario.

** Looks like Sheen might be plotting this for Feli in Miserable.

* {{Shoot the Dog}}: Amer killing [[spoiler: Eston]] in the third What If scenario so that he and [[spoiler: Raivis]] won't be the final two.
* {{Shout Out}}: Clever little jokes and references to Axis Powers Hetalia are scattered throughout the text.

* {{Sliding Scale of Idealism versus Cynicism}}: Leans closer to the Hunger Games half of the crossover in that it's firmly on the cynicism hand. [[{{Lighter and Softer}} The Fifth What If on the other hand...]]
* {{Sole Survivor}}: Each story has only one: [[spoiler: Veta]] in Brutal, [[spoiler: Amer]] in Horrible, and [[spoiler: Gries, Russia, Raivis, Russia again, and Fronce]] in the What Ifs (respectively, and not counting the [[{{Everybody Lives}} fifth]].)

* {{Spared by Adaptation}}: What If is built around this. [[spoiler: Gries, Raivis, Fronce and Russia]] all get to keep their lives at least once (with [[spoiler: Russia]] surviving twice). Taken {{Up to Eleven}} in the fifth What If, in which everybody survives.
* {{Spiritual Successor}}: Although Number One Fan of Journey's oneshot Asylum is listed as being solely a Hunger Games FanFiction, the author has confirmed that it is basically an epilogue to the second or fourth What If endings.
* {{Star Crossed Lovers}}: Veta and Austria, the {{Official Couple}} of Brutal whose engagement is tragically cut short by the Games. Other relationships, such as Sve/Finni, Vahn/Natalya, Ania/Rome, Lovi/Spain and Sheen/Feli, are present but too one-sided to qualify as 'star-crossed.'

* {{Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome}}: Sort of. [[spoiler: Veta]] is the sole survivor of Brutal but her death kicks off the first What If ending based off that fic.
** Also, Switzerland is a very important character in Brutal but his alternate version dies rather swiftly and unceremoniously in Horrible.

* {{Survivor's Guilt}}: [[spoiler: Amer]] suffers the guilt of surviving while his friends did not. [[spoiler: Veta]] feels the same about her [[spoiler: fiancee/husband Austria]].

* {{Self-Sacrifice Scheme}}: This was the plan for Switz and Sve - survive to the final two, then kill themselves to ensure the Victory of little sister Liet and love interest Finni. [[spoiler: Neither of them got to go through with it.]]

* {{Shell-Shocked Veteran}}: Both Victors end up as this.
* {{Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet }}: Zigzagged with [[spoiler: Sadik's]] death. He was pulling a knife, averting this trope, but was doing so to deter, not harm, his attacker.

* {{Sole Survivor}}: Each story has only one: [[spoiler: Veta]] in Brutal, [[spoiler: Amer]] in Horrible, and [[spoiler: Gries, Russia, Raivis, Russia again, and Fronce]] in the What Ifs (respectively, and not counting the [[{{Everbody Lives}} fifth]].)

* {{Sorry That I'm Dying}}: [[spoiler: Finni's]] response to Sve's {{How Dare You Die On Me}} moment.

* {{Stoic Woobie}}: Vash. After growing up on the streets and orphanages of a place as harsh as District 2, then letting himself be trained as what amounts to a child soldier just to get food and shelter, there's nothing the kid needs more than a hug. Yet he's basically the series' [[{{Emotionless Girl}} Emotionless Guy]].
** Igris and Lude (the latter only in the 4th What If) try to be this, but both end up as {{Not So Stoic}}.

This series is a {{crossover}} between ''{{The Hunger Games}}'' and ''{{Hetalia}}''. The countries are taken from ''Hetalia'', turned into humans (some with slightly different or very different traits from the original characters) and thrown into the Hunger Games as average District kids.

* {{Crossover}}: between ''{{The Hunger Games}}'' and ''{{Hetalia}}''.

* {{Revenge by Proxy}}: Dardana's revenge on the tributes from 10 is partway between this and {{Sins of the Fathers}}. Since her friend [[spoiler: Corianne]]'s killer, [[spoiler: Gil]], is dead, she decides to avenge him by killing the current tributes from 10. [[spoiler: Fortunately, she doesn't get too far.]]

* {{Red Oni, Blue Oni}}: Quite a few (listed in red-blue order):

* {{Russian Guy Suffers the Most}}: Inverted and played straight - Russia and Vahn spend most of their time making life miserable for their fellow tributes, but [[spoiler: Russia's]] insanity stems from a horrific {{Despair Event Horizon}} moment, and [[spoiler: Vahn ]]gets what might be the most painful death in the series.

* {{Water Works}}: Also known as the review section.

* {{Off with Her Head}}: Japan kills [[spoiler: Ukraine]] this way in ''Brutal'', leading to a truly {{Nightmare Fuel}}-worthy scene in which [[spoiler: Russia finds his sister's]] head lying in the grass.

* {{Noodle Incident}}: Many of Igris' cooking attempts mentioned by Fronce, along with other references to the two's past bickering. [[spoiler: Though this also hints at why Igris’ mentor wouldn’t think Fronce wouldn't notice a packet of bitter cyanide mixed in his food. ]]

* {{Annoying Younger Sibling}}: Igris's little brother in his introductory chapter. Also Natalya to Vahn.

** [[spoiler: Spain]] having his abdomen sliced open and slowly losing his innards in the sixth What If scenario.

* {{Elsewhere Fic}}: Takes place during the 43rd and 45th Hunger Games.

* {{Face Death with Dignity}}: Wuite a few characters: [[spoiler: Japan, Switz, Sve, Natalya, and Igris]] in the core series, not to mention [[spoiler: Eston and Amer]] in the third ''What If'' ending.

* {{Gender Flip}}: Germania, South Italy, China, Greece, Poland and Finland are all female here.

* {{Black Magic}}: Aurth has it.