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* EatTheDog: ''"No one in the Seam would turn up their nose at a good leg of wild dog."''
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* PinnedToTheGround: At the feast, Katniss is ambushed and held down by Clove. The career tribute is large enough and heavy enough to keep her on the ground with just her knees, and she uses that time to prepare to kill Katniss - intending to hold her down all the while. Luckily, [[spoiler:Thresh, overhearing her taunts about the deceased Rue, grabs Clove and kills her, sparing Katniss]].
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Collins has stated that we're so far in the future that racial mixing has blurred any categories that might exist today. She refuses to elaborate on what modern races the characters would be categorized as. Katniss herself has olive skin and straight black hair, in contrast to her blonde-haired and blue-eyed mother and sister. Rue and Thresh have "dark skin". In ''The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes'', the District 11 tribute, Reaper, is described as having dark brown skin.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: Collins has stated that we're so far in the future that racial mixing has blurred any categories that might exist today. She refuses to elaborate on what modern races the characters would be categorized as. Katniss herself has olive skin and straight black hair, in contrast to her blonde-haired and blue-eyed mother and sister. Rue and Thresh have "dark skin". In ''The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes'', the District 11 tribute, Reaper, is described as having dark brown dark-brown skin.
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** Justified in that Panem's system is revealed later to be teetering on the verge of collapse by the time of the second book, weak enough that even the President is forced to admit that its fragile enough to be undone by a teenage suicide pact. It seems that originally the Capitol was supposed to provide leadership, soldiers, and advanced research but fell into Rome-style decadence and ended up outsourcing critical functions to the district while ramping up their exploitation. WordOfGod also states in her Tenth Anniversary Interview that districts do have side industries besides their primary one, though this is not explore in much detail in the text itself outside of a few offhand mentions.
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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: The Merchant class of District 12 tend to have blonde hair, and since most of them that Katniss interacts with tend to be nice people almost all blondes with names in the story tend to fit this trope. Mrs. Everdeen and Prim are kindhearted healers, Madge Undersee and Delly Cartwright are both SpoiledSweet close friends of Katniss and Peeta respectively, and Peeta's an AllLovingHero who serves as the deuteragonist. Subverted by the fact that Coriolanus Snow, the BigBad is also a Blond.
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* InelegantBlubbering: During Katniss' breakdown after the announcement of the Quarter Quell, most notably. Even more so when she meets Buttercup [[spoiler:in district 12 which makes Katniss realize Prim's death.]]
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* InelegantBlubbering: During Katniss' breakdown after the announcement of the Quarter Quell, most notably. Also after [[spoiler: Peeta's heart stopped in the arena]]. Even more so when she meets Buttercup [[spoiler:in district 12 which makes Katniss realize come to terms with Prim's death.]]
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** "Peeta" the baker sounds like "pita," a type of bread. His last name, Mellark, is a Greek word meaning "cake," which Peeta is adept at frosting.
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** "Peeta" the baker sounds like "pita," a type of bread. It also sounds like Peter, Jesus's "Rock", and he serves a grounding role for Katniss's sanity. His last name, Mellark, is a Greek word meaning "cake," which Peeta is adept at frosting.
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* RomanticFakeRealTurn: Katniss and Peeta engage in a romantic relationship for the cameras in order to attract sponsors and increase their individual likability during the games. It quickly becomes apparent that Peeta was not faking it (though still quite willing to exploit it to manipulate the audience) and Katniss also starts getting attached. It helps that both have "noticed" each other from a young age. Unfortunately, the romance becomes so popular that it intertwines with the dangerous politics of Panem, blurring the lines between what's real and what's a survival tactic. The first book ends on a [[spoiler: bittersweet ItMeantSomethingToMe moment from Peeta complete with a WasItAllALie?]]
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* ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth: After Katniss [[spoiler: watched Clove die, was spared by Thresh, successfully survives the feast, and saved Peeta through her hard-won medicine]], she passes out from fatigue and her injuries. On her way out she sees an "exquisitely beautiful green-and-silver moth" land on her wrist. While the specific metaphor is not elaborated on, her decision to risk her life to [[spoiler: ensure Peeta's survival and her earlier alliance with Rue paying off with Thresh]] represents a transformation from a person exclusively concerned about her and her family's life to a national symbol of resistance and self-sacrifice.
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** Katniss actually mulls over this possibility a few times in the original book, particularly towards the end when she realizes the implications of her solitary personality and compares them to Haymitch's life (her mother will eventually die, her sister grown up and leaving the household leaving her all alone in her old age). She also notes she's glad to have Peeta during the final face-off with Cato to avoid this trope.
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** In the 74th Hunger Games, the Careers have Katniss trapped up a tree at one point and do nothing to take advantage of her unfavorable position other than sleeping under the tree. [[spoiler:Obviously, this gives Katniss enough time to figure out an escape plan.]]
** Later, when Clove manages to pin down Katniss, Clove [[EvilGloating mocks]] and tortures Katniss instead of killing her. [[spoiler:It doesn't end well for Clove.]]
** Later, when Clove manages to pin down Katniss, Clove [[EvilGloating mocks]] and tortures Katniss instead of killing her. [[spoiler:It doesn't end well for Clove.]]
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** In the 74th Hunger Games, the Careers have Katniss trapped up a tree at one point and do nothing to take advantage of her unfavorable position other than sleeping under the tree. [[spoiler:Obviously, this gives Katniss enough time to figure out an escape plan.]]
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** Later, when Clove manages to pin down Katniss, Clove [[EvilGloating mocks]] and tortures Katniss instead of killing her. [[spoiler:It doesn't end well for Clove.]]]][[note]]She was playing for the cameras and Cato (and probably a bit crazy and vengeful herself), and incorrectly assumed Cato would cover her against Thresh.[[/note]]
** Later, when Clove manages to pin down Katniss, Clove [[EvilGloating mocks]] and tortures Katniss instead of killing her. [[spoiler:It doesn't end well for Clove.
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** District 1 seems to suffer from this the most, despite being one of the Career Districts from the beginning. In every game featured in the series, the most they do is have vain names, look pretty, round out the career pack, and kill vulnerable allies of the main leads before dying in horrible and often embarrassing ways ([[spoiler: with the exception of the District 1 Girl during Haymitch's game, each are dispatched with relative haste in battle]] . The District 2 tributes by comparison are generally presented as more of a threat overall, and take on the leadership role of the in arena antagonists.
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** District 1 seems to suffer from this the most, despite being one of the Career Districts from the beginning. In every game featured in the series, the most they do is have vain names, look pretty, round out the career pack, and kill vulnerable allies of the main leads before dying in horrible and often embarrassing ways ([[spoiler: with the exception of the District 1 Girl during Haymitch's game, each are dispatched with relative haste in battle]] .battle]]). The District 2 tributes by comparison are generally presented as more of a threat overall, and take on the leadership role of the in arena antagonists.
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* MundaneObjectAmazement: Tributes from impoverished Districts sent to the Capitol for the Hunger Games are often fascinated by objects and conveniences that are commonplace to Capitol citizens. During the interviews, Peeta makes a joke about the Capitol showers working differently that amuses the crowd.
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* SuddenPrincipledStand: Katniss and Peeta's [[spoiler: stunt with the berries]] becomes this for the entire nation (perhaps unintentionally), as their [[DeathBeforeDishonor willingness to die rather than continue living without the other]] in defiance of the Capitol's insistence that they kill one another (or at least let the other die) quickly becomes a rallying symbol for a nation chafing under brutality and ritualized killing of their children.
** Downplayed in the sense that leading up to this were several other principled decisions by the District 12 team also seen as rebellious in their humanity like Katniss volunteering for her sibling (when apparently few to none have), their decision to act like friends in public rather than coldly towards one another, Peeta's willingness to protect Katniss from the Careers at the risk of his own life, Katniss's alliance with Rue, Thresh and District 11 returning her kindness, among others.
** Downplayed in the sense that leading up to this were several other principled decisions by the District 12 team also seen as rebellious in their humanity like Katniss volunteering for her sibling (when apparently few to none have), their decision to act like friends in public rather than coldly towards one another, Peeta's willingness to protect Katniss from the Careers at the risk of his own life, Katniss's alliance with Rue, Thresh and District 11 returning her kindness, among others.
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* GenerationXerox: Katniss looks like Mr. Everdeen, has inherited his hunting abilities, singing voice and, like him, [[spoiler:will marry someone from the town]]. Prim looks like Mrs. Everdeen and has inherited her passion for healing. Also, Mrs. Everdeen was close friends with Katniss' friend Madge's mother as a teenager, and Peeta's father had a crush on Mrs. Everdeen when they were younger.
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* GenerationXerox: Katniss looks like Mr. Everdeen, has inherited his hunting abilities, singing voice and, like him, [[spoiler:will marry someone from the town]]. She also comes to find that, like her mother, she quickly falls into severe, inconsolable emotional distress when her loved ones die or are in grave danger. Prim looks like Mrs. Everdeen and has inherited her passion for healing. Also, Mrs. Everdeen was close friends with Katniss' friend Madge's mother as a teenager, and Peeta's father had a crush on Mrs. Everdeen when they were younger.
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** District 1 seems to suffer from this the most, despite being one of the Career Districts from the beginning. In every game featured in the series, the most they do is have vain names, look pretty, round out the career pack, and kill vulnerable allies of the main leads before dying in horrible and often embarrassing ways ([[spoiler: with the exception of the District 1 Girl during Haymitch’s game, each are dispatched with relative haste in battle]] . The District 2 tributes by comparison are generally presented as more of a threat overall, and take on the leadership role of the in arena antagonists.
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* HappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler: Katniss and Peeta, who despite all the trauma they go through end up falling in love and having a happy family together decades later.]] Especially poignant because every other pair of lovers mentioned (both during the story and prior and even during the prequel), even the most genuine, has tragedy befall them because of the evils of the system (whether it be mine accidents, violent deaths or emotional betrayals) - the fact that the two find love symbolically shows that Panem is finally able to turn a new chapter.
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* ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1'' and ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart2'' (2014 & 2015): The two-part adaptation of ''Mockingjay''.
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* ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1'' and & ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart2'' (2014 & 2015): The two-part adaptation of ''Mockingjay''.
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* TheWorldsExpertOnGettingKilled: The six Career tributes spend their teen years training to compete in the GladiatorGames. However, all of them are killed by untrained tributes like RoguishPoacher Katniss and ScaryBlackMan Thresh in the 74th Hunger Games, and three of them don't make it into the final eight in the 75th Hunger Games [[spoiler:despite being arena veterans due to that year's twist (although Mags is eighty years old and still lasts a while before making a HeroicSacrifice to save the others from poison fog)]]. Given how there are a bare minimum of 19 living Victors from non-Career districts during the 75th Hunger Games, the Careers apparently lose the Games relatively often despite their training, and even when they do win, only one of them goes home while the other five die despite their training and preparation (something that much of the series' fanfiction explores in greater detail).
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* BreadOfSurvival: Bread is a recurring ArcSymbol that represents survival and life. When Katniss, her mother, and her sister ran out of money and were starving to death, she dug through the Mellarks' trash bin as a last resort. Mrs. Mellark shouted at her to go away, but Peeta "accidentally" burned two loaves of raisin-and-nut bread and then threw them to Katniss when his mother wasn't looking, which saved the lives of her and her family.
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* AmputativeSentencing: Avoxes are those punished for crimes against the Capitol by having their tongues cut out, spending their lives thereafter as enslaved domestic servants. "Crimes" here included trying to escape Panem and stepping in to try to stop a Capitol beating. Lavinia and Pollux are introduced as Avoxes, [[spoiler:while Darius, a charismatic Peacekeeper in District 12, was turned into one in ''Catching Fire'', to Katniss' horror.]]
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* AccidentalMurder: Peeta accidentally kills [[spoiler:Foxface with poison berries. Unless you believe the theory that she knew what she was doing all along.]]
* AccidentalSuicide: Foxface spent all of the games hiding from the other tributes, stealing their supplies, and playing smart in order to survive. [[spoiler:This came back to bite her in the butt when she steals food from Katniss and Peeta that turns out to be poisonous berries, resulting in her death. Unless you believe the theory that she knew what she was doing all along.]].
* AccidentalSuicide: Foxface spent all of the games hiding from the other tributes, stealing their supplies, and playing smart in order to survive. [[spoiler:This came back to bite her in the butt when she steals food from Katniss and Peeta that turns out to be poisonous berries, resulting in her death. Unless you believe the theory that she knew what she was doing all along.]].
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* {{Token Good Cop}}: Most Peacekeepers are just uniformed enforcers for [[PresidentEvil President Snow]], and while the regular District 12 Peacekeepers are more easygoing about enforcing unjust regulations, this is at least partially for their own comfort, and Head Peacekeeper Cray is still an exploitative DirtyOldMan. However, Darius and Purnia are openly risk their necks to intervene when Cray's [[TyrantTakesTheHelm brutal replacement]] flogs Gale within an inch of his life.
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* {{Token Good Cop}}: TokenGoodCop: Most Peacekeepers are just uniformed enforcers for [[PresidentEvil President Snow]], and while the regular District 12 Peacekeepers are more easygoing about enforcing unjust regulations, this is at least partially for their own comfort, and Head Peacekeeper Cray is still an exploitative DirtyOldMan. However, Darius and Purnia are openly risk their necks to intervene when Cray's [[TyrantTakesTheHelm brutal replacement]] flogs Gale within an inch of his life.
