History NightmareFuel / TheHungerGames

* The screams of the girl who lit the fire. And still she gets off easy in the film - in the book she was just dying slowly, probably bleeding out, after the Careers left her. Then Peeta went back to end it.

** Almost certainly [[spoiler:she died instantaneously and didn't suffer.]] Still horrible, though not quite as much.

-> Katniss: [[spoiler: No mutt is good. All are meant to damage you. Some take yor life, like the monkeys. Others your reason, like the tracker jackers. However, the true atrocities, the most frightening, incorporate a perverse psychological twist designed to terrify the victim. The sight of the wolf mutts with the dead tributes' eyes. The sound of the jabberjays replicating Prim's tortured screams. The smell of Snow's roses mixed with the victim's blood.]]

* It's haunting how everything just slows to a halt when in Mockingjay Part II [[spoiler: the parachutes fall from the sky. In the Hunger Games, parachutes mean supplies. The children stick their hands up in the sky, reaching for them, some of them smiling perhaps, it's so sinister because of that hope they gave those kids on top of everything. You can hear them exclaim 'gifts' surprised and elated. Everything looks like it's looking up for them. Then a flash and a bang and everyone's on the ground. Katniss barely stands up and notices her sister amidst the chaos. She calls out to her and her sister notices her and before she can even do anything it goes dark. Katniss couldn't save her sister. None of those people could save their kids. And nobody saw it coming. The entire saga started with Katniss volunteering in the place of her sister to save her from near-certain death and after four movies, after going through all these horrors, the end seemed so close, she was finally going to get vengeance for Rue and for herself and her sister and all the other children. She was there to stop the murder of children. To prevent the Hunger Games from happening ever again. And as she was about to take those final steps... to meet her destiny, when Bam, hundred children dead in a flash. Bam, her sister gone too. She was so close from having the ending she deserved. Everything was so close to being fine.]]

* Had Katniss not [[spoiler: murdered Coin]], it's entirely possible that there would be [[spoiler: more Hunger Games set up for the remaining Capitol children.

** The mutts were scary period. Not just the moment they appeared.

* It's haunting how everything just slows to a halt when in Mockingjay pt2[[spoiler: The parachutes fall from the sky. In the Hunger Games, parachutes mean supplies. The children stick their hands up in the sky, reaching for them, some of them smiling perhaps, it's so sinister because of that hope they gave those kids on top of everything. You can hear them exclaim 'gifts' surprised and elated. Everything looks like it's looking up for them. Then a flash and a bang and everyone's on the ground. Katniss barely stands up and notices her sister amidst the chaos. She calls out to her and her sister notices her and before she can even do anything it goes dark. Katniss couldn't save her sister. None of those people could save their kids. And nobody saw it coming. The entire saga started with Katniss volunteering in the place of her sister to save her from near-certain death and after four movies, after going through all these horrors, the end seemed so close, she was finally going to get vengeance for Rue and for herself and her sister and all the other children. She was there to stop the murder of children. To prevent the Hunger Games from happening ever again. And as she was about to take those final steps... to meet her destiny, when Bam, hundred children dead in a flash. Bam, her sister gone too. She was so close from having the ending she deserved. Everything was so close to being fine.]]

* The Hunger Games in general. These children finish High School with approximately 12 less school-mates. Haymitch is the only District 12 Victor alive in 74 years which means District 12 lost 147 children to the Hunger Games. And the 12 districts have lost a total of 1,725 children. This is in a country ravaged by war.. In fact we only have the hunger games because the districts rebelled in the first place and no doubt they would have suffered great losses. If 23 children are murdered every year that certainly shallows out the gene pool.

** It's haunting how everything just slows to a halt then. [[spoiler: The parachutes fall from the sky and in the Hunger Games, parachutes mean supplies. The children stick their hands up in the sky, reaching for them, some of them smiling perhaps, it's so sinister because of that hope they gave those kids on top of everything. You can hear them exclaim 'gifts' surprised and elated. Everything looks like it's looking up. Then a flash and a bang and everyone's on the ground. Katniss barely stands up and notices her sister amidst the chaos. She calls out to her and her sister notices her and before she can even do anything it goes dark. Katniss couldn't save her sister. None of those people could save their kids. And nobody saw it coming. The entire thing started with Katniss volunteering in the place of her sister to save her from near-certain death and after four movies, after going through all these horrors, the end seemed so close, she was finally going to get vengeance for Rue and for herself and her sister and all the other children. She was there to stop the murder of children. To prevent the Hunger Games from happening ever again. And as she was about to take those final steps... to meet her destiny, Bam, hundred children dead in a flash. Bam, her sister gone too. She was so close from having the happy ending she deserved. Everything was so close to being fine.]]
* Had Katniss not [[spoiler: murdered Coin]], it's entirely possible that there would be [[spoiler: more Hunger Games set up for the remaining Capitol children. The fact that so many people in the districts immediately wanted to inflict the horrors of the games on children for revenge in just chilling.]] Fortunately, that does not happen.

* A subtler form of NightmareFuel: Seeing a boy in the Capitol being given a toy sword in the Hunger Games. The people at the capital have come to see these horrendous Games as mere entertainment, not by advanced drugs or brainwashing, but by [[ParanoiaFuel mundane methods that we see everyday: parents teaching their children the way the world works]]. The Capitol isn't protected from the {{Dystopia}} outside, it's the core.

* The giant lizard mutts in the Capitol in Mockingjay. Even before the reader sees exactly what they can do, they're described to smell like blood and roses (Snow's signature scent) and are able to say the word "Katniss" in the most frightening way possible.

* The creepy white giant lizard muttations in ''Mockingjay''. They smell like a horrific combination of the blood of their victims and the sickeningly sweet fragrance of President Snow's signature roses. Oh and they maul and dismember anything in their path, even Capitol citizens, to get to Katniss.
** They also hiss Katniss's name, and that's what she hears before she ever even sees the things...

->[[spoiler: No mutt is good. All are meant to damage you. Some take yor life, like the monkeys. Others your reason, like the tracker jackers. However, the true atrocities, the most frightening, incorporate a perverse psychological twist designed to terrify the victim. The sight of the wolf mutts with the dead tributes' eyes. The sound of the jabberjays replicating Prim's tortured screams. The smell of Snow's roses mixed with the victim's blood.]]

** Movie!Glimmer comes off as scarier than Cato or Clove due to the fact that while those two always came across as alway AxeCrazy, Glimmer acted disturbingly like a normal teenage girl at times which made her creepier.

* '''The Tracker Jackers'''. Everything about them, from watching them swarm around Glimmer as she screams to Katniss's hallucinatory run from them, is ''terrifying''. And they're actually ''LighterAndSofter'' compared with the book, where [[spoiler:Katniss gets a hallucination of Glimmer's face being melted off.]] And as for the eradication of her features, that was the result of the huge lumps from getting stung.

* A subtler form of NightmareFuel: Seeing a boy in the Capitol being given a toy sword in the Hunger Games. The people at the capital have come to see these horrendous Games as mere entertainment, not by advanced drugs or brainwashing, but by [[ParanoiaFuel mundane methods that we see everyday: parents teaching their children the way the world works]]. The Capitol isn't protected from the {{Dystopia}} outside, it's the core.
* Katniss's visit to the bombed-out ruins of District 12 in ''[[TheHungerGamesMockingjay Mockingjay Part 1]]''. She walks through the ruins and over a hill...and sees [[SceneryGorn hundreds upon hundreds of burned, mutilated corpses]]. She's so horrified by the sight that she [[HeroicBSOD collapses to her knees, unable to stand or make a sound]].
** You can see vultures and dogs eating the corpses.
* In District 8, dozens of badly burned bodies are lined up by the entrance to the hospital. Katniss sees them on the way there, and is visibly trying not to break down.
* Peeta's detoriating physical state is horrifying to watch.
* [[spoiler:Peeta attacking Katniss comes completely out of nowhere. First of all, Peeta looks heart-wrenchingly bad: you can see the abuse on his malnourished body and face, and in his eyes. Then, he starts choking the life out of poor Katniss, throwing her across the room as she struggles. What really sells the horror is Katniss' genuine surprise as her eyes bulge out, and for a moment the audience is truly afraid that she will die.]]
** [[spoiler: Peeta thrashing about in his cell at the end.]]
** The attack on the hydroelectric dam. There had to be at least a couple hundred people, and every single one of them perished in what was essentially a suicide bomb attack.

** Let's not forget that he was alive the whole time for hours while this all happened to him. He was suffering for an entire night until Katniss shot him out of mercy, not hate as it had been up until that point. But to make matters worse, she and Peeta sat on the Cornucopia waiting for him to die slowly and painfully, just so the people in the Capitol would have their sick show of violence. Only when Katniss couldn't bear it anymore did she do something about it.
*** It was probably more that she didn't realize that, even with the armor, it would take ''that long'' for him to die. Plus, she didn't have a clear shot at him before he and the mutts came out of the Cornucopia. But either way, still one of the most horrifying things I have ever read.
** And if the mutts really were made out of the dead tributes' body parts as opposed to just looking like them, then [[spoiler: Clove, Glimmer, and Marvel--his allies--also killed him, and he was reminded of them right before his death]].

* Why hasn't anybody mentioned the fact that many victors, not just Finnick, who are very attractive [[spoiler: end up as prostitutes in the Captiol. If they refuse Snow kills their loved ones.]] It's just horrible...

** Movie!Glimmer came off as scarier to this troper than Cato or Clove due to the fact that while those two always came across as alway AxeCrazy, Glimmer acted disturbingly like a normal teenage girl at times which made her creepier.

* '''The Tracker Jackers'''. Everything about them, from watching them swarm around Glimmer as she screams to Katniss's hallucinatory run from them, is ''terrifying''. And they're actually ''LighterAndSofter'' compared with the book, where they inject enough venom into Glimmer to [[spoiler:melt her face off.]]
** The venom didn't melt her face off. Katniss eventually realizes that the disintegrating, which she saw happen to her ''arm'', was probably a hallucination. And as for the eradication of her features, that was the result of the huge lumps from getting stung.
* The screams of the girl who lit the fire. And still she gets off easy in the film - in the book she was tortured for an undisclosed period of time and then had to be mercy killed by Peeta.
** She wasn't tortured for any length of time, she was just dying slowly, probably bleeding out, after the Careers left her. Then Peeta went back to end it. Still worse and more drawn out than how the movie did it though.

* Gale's desire for revenge in the third book. [[spoiler: He desires revenge so much, that as the rebellion drags on he becomes willing to commit atrocities just as bad as those committed by the Capitol. At first he builds snare bombs which are designed to kill medics and noncombatants, but it his bloodlust soon culminates in him causing an avalanche in the Nut which kills thousands (not just peacekeepers, but also civilians and rebel spies). He knows that there are civilians and spies in the Nut, and not only does he not care but in fact he also wanted to BOMB THE ESCAPES to ensure nobody survives. The fact that he survived the bombing of District 12 actually makes this worse, as he knows how wrong it is to kill civilians but he still does it.]]

** [[spoiler: Peeta thrashing about in his cell at the end.]]

* [[spoiler:Peeta attacking Katniss comes completely out of nowhere. First of all, Peeta looks heart-wrenchingly bad: you can see the abuse on his malnourished body and face, and in his eyes. Then, he starts choking the life out of poor Katniss, throwing her across the room as she struggles. What really sells the horror is Katniss' genuine surprise as her eyes bulge out, and for a moment the audience is truly afraid that she will die.]]

* Katniss's visit to the bombed-out ruins of District 12 in ''Film/Mockingjay''. She walks through the ruins and over a hill...and sees [[SceneryGorn hundreds upon hundreds of burned, mutilated corpses]]. She's so horrified by the sight that she [[HeroicBSOD collapses to her knees, unable to stand or make a sound]].
* In District 8, dozens of badly burned bodies are lined up by the entrance to the hospital. Katniss sees them on the way there, and is visibly trying not to break down.

* A subtler form of NightmareFuel: Seeing a boy in the Capitol being given a toy sword in the Hunger Games. The people at the capital have come to see these horrendous Games as mere entertainment, not by advanced drugs or brainwashing, but by [[ParanoiaFuel mundane methods that we see everyday: parents teaching their children the way the world works]]. The Capitol isn't protected from the {{Dystopia}} outside, it's the core.