List of The Hunger Games characters

This is a list of characters in the Hunger Games trilogy, a series of young adult science fiction novels by Suzanne Collins.

Main characters

Katniss Everdeen

Main article: Katniss Everdeen

Katniss Everdeen
The Hunger Games trilogy character
First appearance	The Hunger Games
Last appearance	Mockingjay
Created by	Suzanne Collins
Portrayed by	Jennifer Lawrence
In-universe information
Nickname	"Catnip" (Gale) "The Mockingjay" (the rebels) "The Girl On Fire" (Cinna and Thresh) "Sweetheart" (Haymitch and Peeta)
Gender	Female
Family	Mrs. Everdeen (mother) Mr. Everdeen (deceased father) Primrose Everdeen (deceased sister) Unnamed daughter Unnamed son

Katniss Everdeen is the 16-year-old protagonist and narrator of the story. Katniss is normally quiet in school and doesn't bother with gossip and social matters. She lives with her mother and younger sister Primrose in the poorest district of Panem, District 12, which is in charge of mining coal for the capitol. Her looks are typical for those from the Seam (the slums of District 12): long black hair, which she wears in a braid; olive skin; and gray eyes. Five years before Katniss becomes a tribute in The Hunger Games, her father was killed in a mining explosion and her mother fell into a depression. In order to provide for her sister, Katniss began to hunt in the woods just as her father had taught her. In the process, she becomes friends with Gale Hawthorne.

When it comes time to draw the tributes for the 74th annual Hunger Games, Katniss' sister Prim's name is drawn, but Katniss volunteers to take her sister's place, along with the male tribute from District 12, Peeta Mellark. During the Games, Peeta expresses his love for her on live television, which Katniss assumes is a ploy to gain attention from rich sponsors, later as they grow closer to each other it's genuine. Halfway through the Games, a new rule is instituted so that both tributes from a District can become winners. However, when only Peeta and Katniss are left, the rule is reversed, in an attempt to force one of them to kill the other, ensuring a more dramatic ending. At that moment, Katniss decides that both of them should eat poisonous berries called nightlock and die, ensuring the Hunger Games have no winner. As a result, the Games are ended and both Katniss and Peeta are declared winners, which humiliates the Capitol. This choice makes Katniss a symbol of rebellion for the Districts.

Collins has said that Katniss "is a futuristic Theseus." When Katniss returns to District 12, she gives her lovely house at Victors Village to her mother and Prim, and she lived in her family's old home, or as Katniss describes it, "a run down shack."

Near the end of the trilogy, Katniss helps to end the war, but her sister is killed in an explosion, believed to be set off by the Capitol, right before the end of the war. After a talk with President Snow, she realizes that it was Coin, the new president of Panem, that set off the bombs. When Katniss is supposed to be executing Snow, she kills Coin instead, to avenge Prim's death.

After being exonerated for Coin's death, Katniss later marries Peeta and they have two children.

Oscar-nominated actress Jennifer Lawrence will portray Katniss Everdeen in the upcoming 2012 movie.

Peeta Mellark

Main article: Peeta Mellark

Peeta Mellark
The Hunger Games trilogy character
First appearance	The Hunger Games
Last appearance	Mockingjay
Created by	Suzanne Collins
Portrayed by	Josh Hutcherson
In-universe information
Gender	Male
Occupation	Baker
Family	Mrs. Mellark (mother) Mr. Mellark (father) Two unnamed older brothers Unnamed daughter Unnamed son

Peeta Mellark is the male tribute from District 12. He is described as being "medium height with a stocky build," having "ashy blond hair that falls in waves over his forehead" and blue eyes. He is the town baker's son and is talented in baking breads and icing cakes, which proves to be an unexpected asset to him in the arena when he can camouflage himself effortlessly. His mother is a nasty woman, described as a “witch” by Katniss. She tells him that she has more faith in Katniss than in him. He has two brothers, neither of who care for him as much as Katniss cares for her little sister, Prim. His father, Mr. Mellark, is the town baker.

He is described by Katniss as a decent wrestler in the Training Center. Upon arriving in the Capitol, it is discovered that Peeta has an instinctive ability to perform on camera and manipulate public sentiment. He is a brilliant liar and covers for himself and Katniss on multiple occasions. He has harbored a secret love for Katniss since they were five, at the beginning of their school year when he heard her sing. He is rarely moody or upset, and generally takes things lightly. Peeta saved Katniss's life when she was eleven years old by giving her bread when her family was starving, which resulted in the nickname Katniss uses often to describe him, "the boy with the bread." The two never talked until the Games.

During The Hunger Games, Peeta declares his love for Katniss after being reaped. In the arena, she first tries to kill him then heals him after an injury. When they both win the Games, he is devastated to find out that Katniss may have been playacting being in love for the cameras.

Catching Fire opens with Peeta “icy” and “unreachable”. When Snow announces the Quarter Quell he makes a deal with Haymitch to keep Katniss alive. At the end of Catching Fire, Peeta is captured by the Capitol. Katniss finds herself willing to kill him to save him from the tortures there. In Mockingjay he is tortured in an attempt to "break" Katniss because of her love for him. Although he and others are eventually rescued, the Capitol had tampered with his memories by using tracker jacker venom - a process called "hijacking" which leaves him frightened and unstable. He attempts to kill Katniss because the results of the Capitol's hijacking have left him confused about their relationship. He believes she is evil, and he remembers twisted versions of their time in the games. With help from District 13 doctors and friends, he slowly begins to regain parts of his real memories, although the process is overwhelming and tedious for him. President Coin sends him on the final mission into the Capitol with the squad of soldiers that includes Katniss, Gale, and Finnick, where he struggles with his memories and trauma. Realizing the danger in which he puts the group and the difficulty he causes them, he asks to be killed when it seems that he will lose control and try to kill Katniss. Katniss fiercely refuses and kisses him, which seems to make him stable. Peeta later votes not to have a Hunger Games featuring Capitol children. When the war ends, Peeta survives and eventually returns to District 12 with Katniss. Later he and Katniss marry, and have two children, who are able to live in a world without the Hunger Games.

Peeta’s actual age or birthday are never given, but it’s assumed that he’s the same age as Katniss because he was in her grade when he first heard her sing. His favorite color is orange, not “like Effie’s hair” but “soft, like the sunset”.

He is going to be played by actor Josh Hutcherson in the 2012 movie.

Haymitch Abernathy

Haymitch Abernathy
The Hunger Games trilogy character
First appearance	The Hunger Games
Last appearance	Mockingjay
Created by	Suzanne Collins
Portrayed by	Woody Harrelson
In-universe information
Gender	Male
Family	Unnamed mother (killed on President Snow's orders) Unnamed younger brother (killed on President Snow's orders)

Haymitch Abernathy is a "paunchy, middle-aged man" who was the victor of the 50th Hunger Games. 24 years before the series begins, he became the victor for District 12, at the 50th Hunger Games. When he was 16, Haymitch was reaped for the second Quarter Quell, where four tributes from each district were forced into the arena. He became an ally to a girl named Maysilee Donner, but later was forced to watch her die. During the games he had also found his way past a wall of shrubbery and to the edge of the arena, where a force field that flung whatever was tossed at it back blocked the participants from exit. When the games came down to him and another tribute, the girl threw her weapon at him, leaving the two of them without weapons. However, the force field sent the weapon back at her, killing her, leaving Haymitch the victor. Within two weeks of his victory, Haymitch's mother, younger brother, and girlfriend were killed by President Snow as punishment for Haymitch using the force field to his advantage. He was not used as a prostitute by President Snow since he had no one that Snow could hold over him.

After winning his games, he became an alcoholic and had spent almost all of his intervening life intoxicated to the point of embarrassment. Being the only surviving Hunger Games champion from District 12 (one of only two in the history of the games), Haymitch was forced to mentor all of its tributes. Therefore, he acted as a mentor for Peeta and Katniss before they entered the Games. He is often sarcastic and anything but sober, which Katniss finds highly irritating. However, when pushed, he emerges as the pair's greatest advocate and shows himself to be highly canny as he guides his protégés in a cleverly designed, highly unorthodox strategy aimed at ensuring the survival of both tributes.

Although she disliked him greatly at first due to his drinking and his harshness, Katniss later realizes that he is tired of seeing children placed under his care for the Games only to die, and also that he cares a lot about Peeta and Katniss. After being in the arena, she realizes that drinking was his form of escape from the nightmares caused by his experiences as a tribute. During the book Catching Fire it is said that the liquor supply in District 12 had run out and Haymitch had gone insane, causing him to shake violently and have visions that only he could see. It was left up to Katniss and Peeta to coax him back to health (and get him more liquor). After this Katniss begins to develop a true affection and respect for him. Katniss also realizes that she and Haymitch both think alike, since they were able to communicate through the gifts that he sends her in the arena.

He will be played by Woody Harrelson in the upcoming 2012 movie.

Gale Hawthorne

Main article: Gale Hawthorne

Gale Hawthorne
The Hunger Games trilogy character
First appearance	The Hunger Games
Last appearance	Mockingjay
Created by	Suzanne Collins
Portrayed by	Liam Hemsworth
In-universe information
Gender	Male
Family	Hazelle Hawthorne (mother) Unnamed father(deceased) Rory Hawthorne (brother) Vick Hawthorne (brother) Posy Hawthorne (sister)

Gale is an 18-year-old who is Katniss's best friend and hunting partner. Like Katniss, he has black hair, olive skin, and gray eyes. His father died in the same explosion that killed Katniss's father. While hunting, the pair combined their respective talents, his at trapping and hers at archery, to become a highly effective team. Their success makes them fixtures at District 12's black market, the Hob, where they trade their illegal game for other valuable items. Gale has three siblings: Rory, Vick and Posy. Gale does not accept the authority of the Capitol and even suggests half-seriously that the two flee to escape selection for the Hunger Games. Gale is in love with and fiercely devoted to Katniss, although she doesn't know it at the time. He kisses her after a hunt one day, in the second book, and the two are never really the same again. During the tightened security in Catching Fire, Gale is caught with a turkey he shot in the woods. Though he claims he found it in the district, he is whipped severely, but Katniss's mother eventually helps him heal. He returns at the end of Catching Fire to tell Katniss that District 12 was destroyed, but that he managed to evacuate about 10% of the population. Gale lives in District 13 in Mockingjay and spends most of his time working with Beetee to create bombs that prey on human instinct, one of which is used on Capitol children, killing Prim in the process. He is also in Katniss's "Star Squad" on their mission to assassinate Snow. At the end of Mockingjay, he has found a job in District 2 and is speculated to be married and settled, a fact for which Katniss says she is somewhat relieved, because she will never know if he helped create the bombs that killed her sister.

Gale will be portrayed by Liam Hemsworth in the upcoming 2012 release of the Hunger Games.

Primrose Everdeen

Primrose Everdeen
The Hunger Games trilogy character
First appearance	The Hunger Games
Last appearance	Mockingjay
Created by	Suzanne Collins
Portrayed by	Willow Shields
In-universe information
Nickname	"Prim" (everyone) "Little Duck" (Katniss occasionally)
Gender	Female
Family	Mrs. Everdeen (mother) Mr. Everdeen (deceased father) Katniss Everdeen (sister) Unnamed niece Unnamed nephew

Primrose Everdeen, nicknamed "Prim", is Katniss's younger sister. She was 12 years old in The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, and 13 in Mockingjay. Like her mother, she has blonde hair and blue eyes.

Her name is chosen at the reaping for the 74th Hunger Games, and it is in order to save her that Katniss volunteers in her place. Primrose also elicits a promise from Katniss that she will do all that she can to win the Hunger Games, which provides impetus to Katniss's actions.

In the Hunger Games, Prim is thoughtful, sweet, and somewhat delicate in spite of all she has been put through at a young age. She is a skilled healer, and in Mockingjay is singled out by District 13 to be trained as a doctor. During Catching Fire and Mockingjay, Katniss sees a change in her personality, as she has become more solemn and mature. Katniss once said that Prim is "the only person I'm certain I love and would do anything to protect her."

In Mockingjay, Prim is sent into the battle for The Capitol to serve as a medic by President Coin. During this battle, Prim is killed in a bombing, causing Katniss to go into a deep depression.

Publishers Weekly was pleased with the fact that Prim's character expanded in Mockingjay and readers were able to know her better.

She will be portrayed in the upcoming The Hunger Games film by actress Willow Shields.

President Coriolanus Snow

Coriolanus Snow
The Hunger Games trilogy character
First appearance	The Hunger Games
Last appearance	Mockingjay
Created by	Suzanne Collins
Portrayed by	Donald Sutherland
In-universe information
Alias	"President Snow"
Gender	Male
Family	Unnamed granddaughter

The main antagonist of the series, President Snow is the autocratic ruler of the Capitol and all of Panem. Though seemingly laid-back, this hides a sadistic and psychopathic mind. He initially appears in The Hunger Games when he crowns Katniss and Peeta as victors, but he doesn't speak to Katniss face-to-face until Catching Fire, when he pays her a visit at home and tells her that he is angry that both she and Peeta were allowed to survive the Hunger Games, as their act of defiance (preferring joint suicide to the prospect of one killing the other) has ignited rebellion in several of the Districts. She is too prominent to kill, but he threatens her family and Gale unless she proves to the Districts that her act of saving Peeta was merely that of a love-crazed teenager and was not related to any desire to defy the Capitol. Later, Snow indicates to her that she failed in this, meaning that some or all of his threats will come true. President Snow is described as having very puffy lips, which are most likely the result of an appearance-altering operation that is very popular in the Capitol. Katniss describes him as exuding a smell of blood and roses. In Mockingjay, it is revealed that the smell of blood is due to mouth sores he got from one of the poisons that he used to kill people in his monomaniacal efforts to control Panem. He drank the poison in order to allay suspicions, then took the antidote, but they could not cure him of the sores. He also smells strongly of genetically enhanced roses. He always wears a white rose in his lapel to cover the scent of blood. The strong smell invariably makes Katniss gag. He is said to have prostituted winning tributes, forcing them to have sex with wealthy Capitol denizens, under threat of killing their loved ones if they refuse. Snow claims he only kills for a purpose and he promises Katniss he will always tell her the truth. Whether these assertions are true or not is left up to interpretation by Katniss. He dies at the end of Mockingjay, but it is uncertain whether he choked to death on his own blood from his untreated mouth sores, or whether he was trampled by a crowd of people.

He will be portrayed in the upcoming The Hunger Games film by actor Donald Sutherland.

Major Tributes

This is a list of the major tributes that affected the plot or characters from either the 74th Hunger Games and the 75th Hunger Games, also known as the third Quarter Quell.

District 1

In the 74th Hunger Games

• Marvel (male) - His name is unknown to Katniss until the Victory Tour in the second book; throughout The Hunger Games he is simply known as "the boy from District 1." He kills Rue when he stabs her with a spear in her abdomen and Katniss shoots an arrow through his neck in retaliation. In the upcoming film, Marvel will be portrayed by Jack Quaid.

• Glimmer (female) - As a Career tribute, she teams up with Cato, Clove, Marvel, and the tributes from District 4. She is described as very beautiful, being tall with long blond hair and emerald green eyes. She dies, along with the girl from District 4, when Katniss drops a tracker jacker nest on the Career alliance. Afterwards, Katniss retrieves her bow and arrows. In the upcoming film, Glimmer will be portrayed by Leven Rambin.

In the 75th Hunger Games

• Gloss (male) — Brother of Cashmere. He kills Wiress by slitting her throat, and Katniss retaliates by sending an arrow into his temple.

• Cashmere (female) - Sister of Gloss. She and her brother won back-to-back Games which were fairly recent because Katniss remembers watching them. She is described as being classically beautiful with long blond curls. Johanna kills her with an axe when Cashmere, Gloss, Brutus, and Enobaria attack Katniss and Peeta's group at the Cornucopia.

District 2

In the 74th Hunger Games

• Cato (male) - Katniss considers Cato to be her and Peeta's most fearsome opponent because of his size and strength, skill with many weapons, and savage pleasure in killing. Like most Careers, Cato has complete confidence in his abilities and expects that he will be the victor. Katniss believes he is not completely sane after seeing his reaction to the destruction of the Careers' food supply. He is the last tribute to die. During the finale of the Games, he is pushed off the Cornucopia to the wolf muttations—fearsome creatures created in the Capitol—who prolong his death to the point that, when Katniss finally shoots him, he is nothing more than a gnawed and bloody hunk of meat. In the upcoming film, Alexander Ludwig will portray Cato.

• Clove (female) — She is arrogant, strong, and can use many weapons, especially knives, and she is known to not ever miss her target. She has a special hatred of Katniss because of her high training score. Katniss attempts to kill her with the tracker jacker nest. Like Cato, she enjoys killing, as evidenced when she captures Katniss at the Feast and plans to give her the most torturous death possible. Before she can continue to cut Katniss, Thresh catches her and dents her skull with a rock, which kills her. In the upcoming film, Isabelle Fuhrman will portray Clove.

In the 75th Hunger Games

• Brutus (male) — Described by Katniss as being in his 40s, he volunteers for the Quarter Quell and "can't wait to get back in the arena". He is killed by Peeta after killing Chaff.

• Enobaria (female) — She is part of the Career alliance in the arena, along with Brutus, Cashmere, and Gloss. She is also one of the six survivors of the 75th Games, and is taken to the Capitol along with Peeta and Johanna. At the end of Mockingjay she is one of the only Victors to survive the Quarter Quell and the war with the Capitol, along with Peeta, Annie, Johanna, Haymitch, Katniss, and Beetee.

District 3

In the 74th Hunger Games

• Male tribute - He is able to rearrange and reactivate the land mines at the start of the Games to protect the food the Careers have gathered, resulting in them allying with him despite his not being a Career Tribute. Katniss manages to blow up the food with his mines, and Cato kills the boy for it by snapping his neck. In the upcoming film, he will be portrayed by Ian Nelson.

• Female Tribute - She died on the first day, most likely during the Bloodbath at the Cornucopia. In the upcoming film, she will be portrayed by Kalia Prescott.

In the 75th Hunger Games

• Beetee (male) — He is described as an older man with dark hair, pale skin and glasses. He is an incredibly smart inventor and can effectively use wire as a weapon, usually in combination with electricity. He is crucial to the plans of the Rebels to rescue the Tributes in the Quarter Quell, having devised a method of short circuiting the forcefield surrounding the Arena. He is nicknamed "Volts" by Johanna Mason. In Mockingjay he is one of the scientists who works in District 13 and helps Gale develop bombs, one of which is likely the bomb used in the bombing that killed many Capitol children (including Prim). He is part of the committee that gathers at the end of the book to vote whether or not to hold a final Hunger Games (he votes against the idea).

• Wiress (female) — She is described as being around the same age as Katniss' mother (so is most likely between her late thirties and mid forties) and has dark hair and pale skin. She often doesn't finish her sentences; Beetee sometimes finishes them for her. Although she is an inventor like Beetee, her genius manifests itself in different ways. She is very intuitive and figures out the arena works like a clock before anyone else does. She is killed when Gloss from District 1 slits her throat. She is nicknamed "Nuts" by Johanna Mason.

District 4

In the 74th Hunger Games

• Male Tribute - He died in the Bloodbath, on the first day, in the Cornucopia. In the upcoming film, he will be portrayed by Ethan Jamieson.

• Female tribute - She is killed by Katniss, who drops a tracker jacker nest on the Career alliance, also killing Glimmer. Like most District 4 tributes, she was part of the Career alliance. In the upcoming film, she will be portrayed by Tara Macken.

In the 75th Hunger Games

• Finnick Odair (male) — Finnick is 24 years old and described as being very handsome and tall with tan skin, bronze hair, and stunning sea-green eyes, making him very popular with people in the Capitol. He is known for having many lovers in the Capitol, none of which he stays with for long. At age fourteen, he won his original Hunger Games by using a trident and a net against other tributes; District 4's trade is fishing. Katniss remarks that a trident given to him by a sponsor may have been the most expensive gift ever seen in the games. During the Quarter Quell, Katniss is hesitant to make Finnick her ally, because she does not trust him and does not want to become close to him and then have to kill him, but he proves to be valuable, saving Peeta using CPR and using his district skills to provide shelter. When jabberjays made to sound like tortured loved ones appear in the Quell, the one made to target Finnick uses the voice of Annie Cresta, his "poor, mad" lover back home, who won her own Games a few years before but went insane after seeing her district partner decapitated. In Mockingjay, Finnick enters a deep depression as a result of Annie's being held prisoner in the Capitol. He helps the rebellion by appearing in rebel propos, revealing the fact that victors are routinely prostituted to wealthy citizens of the Capitol by President Snow, which is why he was seen as having a string of lovers. He then reveals all of the political secrets he learned from clients, including that President Snow owes his position to having poisoned his opponents. He is reunited with Annie when District 13 retrieves her, Johanna, and Peeta from the Capitol, and they get married. Finnick is a member of the "Star Squad" that goes to fight in the Capitol during the final stages of the rebellion. He is decapitated by lizard muttations during the attempt to infiltrate the Capitol. Some months after his death, Annie has their son.

• Mags (female) - She is 80 years old and volunteers to take the place of Finnick's lover, Annie Cresta, to spare her. She was Finnick's mentor when he competed in the 65th Hunger Games. Along with Wiress and Beetee, Mags is one of the first people Katniss wants for an ally, because her selflessness reminds her of when she volunteered for Prim. Katniss observes that she can make a fishing hook out of anything. When the group is trying to escape poisonous fog, Mags kills herself without hesitation when Finnick becomes distraught because he cannot rescue both Mags and Peeta. Her death causes Finnick to cry. Katniss is confused by this act and Finnick's distress, until she learns near the end of the book that both Finnick and Mags were privy to a plan to keep her and Peeta alive in order to aid the rebels.

District 5

In the 74th Hunger Games

• Male Tribute - The male tribute dies in the initial bloodbath at the Cornucopia, and in the upcoming film he will be portrayed by Chris Mark.

• "Foxface" (female) — The female tribute from District 5. Katniss gives her the nickname Foxface after seeing her on TV when they announce the contestants of the Hunger Games, describing her as "a girl that looks like a fox." Katniss shares this nickname with only Rue and Peeta. Foxface's real name is never revealed. Foxface is the second to last tribute to die, after Thresh's death but before Cato's. Clever and evasive, she uses ingenious strategies, such as hiding in the Cornucopia at the Feast, in order to survive. She avoids contact with other tributes, but relies on them for food; she steals just enough food to survive, but not enough to arouse suspicion that any food is missing. She dies after surreptitiously stealing some of Peeta's food. Unfortunately, the food was a type of poisonous berry called nightlock. Katniss believes her to have been the smartest of all the tributes, and later remarks that "Had we poisoned the berries intentionally, she would not have attempted to steal them." She is unusual in that she, despite coming in fourth in the Games, is thought to have made no kills, probably as part of her strategy.

In the upcoming film, Jacqueline Emerson will portray Foxface.

District 6

In the 74th Hunger Games

• Male tribute- Dies in bloodbath in the Cornucopia on the first day. He will be portrayed by Ashton Moio in upcoming film.

• Female tribute- Dies in bloodbath in the Cornucopia on the first day. She will be portrayed by Kara Petersen in upcoming film.

In the 75th Hunger Games

• Male Morphling - Katniss refers to him, along with his female partner, as "the morphlings" because of their addiction to the painkiller. Just as Haymitch turned to alcohol, the District 6 tributes turned to morphling in an attempt to block out the horrors they witnessed in the arena. He and his fellow tribute were said to be glued to the camouflage station during training and loved to paint in swirling patterns. They also paint flowers on Peeta and Katniss' faces. He died at the Cornucopia, possibly being killed by one of the careers.

• Female Morphling - Katniss refers to her, along with her male partner, as "the morphlings" because of their addiction to the painkiller. She sacrifices her life to save Peeta from the monkey muttations. It is later revealed that she was part of the alliance protecting Katniss and Peeta. In her last minutes, she uses her own blood to paint a flower on Peeta's face. Katniss and Peeta are by her side as she bleeds to death.

District 7

In the 74th Hunger Games

• Male tribute- Dies in the bloodbath the first day in the Cornucopia. He will be portrayed by Sam Ly in upcoming film.
• Female tribute- Dies in the bloodbath the first day in the Cornucopia. She will be portrayed by Leigha Hancock in upcoming film.

In the 75th Hunger Games

• Blight (male) — He is killed when he runs into the force field while he, Johanna, Beetee, and Wiress are trying to escape from the blood-rain section of the arena.

• Johanna Mason (female) — Sarcastic and mean-spirited, Johanna's first meeting with Katniss involves her stripping out of her tree costume in order to make Katniss uncomfortable. She reveals that she has no friends or family in District 7, stating "there is no one left I care about." She won her original Hunger Games by pretending she was a weakling so no one regarded her as a threat, but Katniss describes her as being a "vicious killer." Johanna teams up with Katniss, Peeta, and Finnick in the Quarter Quell, bringing Beetee and Wiress with her, because that was the only way to ally with Katniss. Katniss describes her presence as being akin to having an older sister who hates you. Johanna is captured by the Capitol at the end of Catching Fire. In the third book, she is rescued along with Peeta and Annie and brought to District 13, where she fights with rebel forces and improves her friendship with Katniss. She is to fight in the Capitol with Katniss (although not as a sharpshooter—being from an area where lumber is the main export, her main weapon is the axe) but during training in District 13 she panics when the training arena is deliberately flooded. Katniss later learns Johanna has a fear of water, which developed from her Capitol torture: being soaked in water and given electric shocks. Because she and Katniss refuse to be held in the District 13 hospital due to their supposed mental illnesses, they convince the officials of District 13 to let them room together. Johanna is part of the committee that votes whether or not to hold one last Hunger Games.

District 8

In the 74th Hunger Games

• Male tribute - Dies in the bloodbath the first day in the Cornucopia. He will be portrayed by Samuel Tan in upcoming film.

• Female tribute - She is killed during the first night in the woods near Katniss. The fire she starts attracts the attention of the Careers and Peeta, who attack her. She does not die immediately, forcing Peeta to go back and kill her. In the upcoming film, she will be portrayed by Mackenzie Lintz.

In the 75th Hunger Games

• Woof (male) — He is killed at the Cornucopia bloodbath. During training, the author implies that he may be senile.

• Cecilia (female) — In Catching Fire, it is mentioned that she has three children she left in her district before the Quarter Quell. She is killed in the bloodbath at the Cornucopia on the first day.

District 9

In the 74th Hunger Games

• Male tribute - He is killed the first day when Clove throws a knife in his back at the Cornucopia while he is fighting with Katniss over a backpack. When he got hit by Clove's knife, he spat blood in Katniss's face. Upon retrieval of the backpack, Katniss uses it to block the knife Clove throws at her. The knife sticks in the backpack, which gives Katniss a weapon. In the upcoming film, he will be portrayed by Imanol Yepez-Frias.

• Female tribute- Dies in the bloodbath the first day in the Cornucopia. She will be portrayed by Annie Thurman in upcoming film.

District 10

In the 74th Hunger Games

• Male tribute - He is described as having a bad leg, and is one of the last ten to die in the Hunger Games. In the upcoming film, he will be portrayed by Jeremy Marinas.
• Female tribute- Dies in the bloodbath the first day in the Cornucopia. She will be portrayed by Dakota Hood in upcoming film.

District 11

In the 74th Hunger Games

• Thresh (male) — He has the same dark brown skin and golden brown eyes as Rue, but is not otherwise similar in appearance. He is physically well-built, possessing immense strength. Thresh is quiet and solitary, and turns down invitations from the careers to join them. He kills Clove by smashing her skull with a rock as she is about to kill Katniss. He lets Katniss live because he owes her: she sang to Rue as she died and decorated her corpse with flowers. Thresh is supposedly killed by Cato, but the details are unknown. Dayo Okeniyi is set to portray Thresh in the upcoming film.

• Rue (female) — She and Katniss become allies. She is 12 years old, with dark brown hair, skin, and "golden brown" eyes. She is similar in size and demeanor to Katniss' sister Prim, which is a major factor in Katniss' decision to team up with her. She is the oldest of six children and worked in the orchards for her district, which specializes in agriculture. Her love of music inspires her to teach Katniss a simple four note melody which she used to signal quitting time in the orchards back home. Katniss and Rue use this melody as a signal call to each other to let them know they're both safe. Rue also brings attention to Katniss's mockingjay pin—the pin is what led Rue to trust Katniss, because of the mockingjay's symbolic significance. Katniss tries to give Rue the pin, but Rue tells her to keep it. While Rue is acting as a decoy and Katniss tries to destroy the Careers' food, Rue runs into trouble with the boy tribute from District 1, Marvel. He spears Rue through her abdomen, causing Katniss to kill him with an arrow. Katniss sings to Rue as she dies, and covers her with flowers, before letting the hovercraft retrieve her. Katniss's actions are rewarded by a gift of bread from District 11. Rue's particularly poignant death contributes to the protests that District 11 holds during the Victory Tour. At the 75th Hunger Games, Peeta draws a picture of Rue's body decorated with flowers to send a message to the Gamemakers who are evaluating Peeta's chances at the Games. This action results in him receiving a rating of 12, thus having being a huge figurative target in the arena. Amandla Stenberg is set to portray Rue in the upcoming film.

In the 75th Hunger Games

• Chaff (male) — He is known to be one of Haymitch's closest friends. Haymitch suggested him to be an ally. He lost a hand in his original Games and refuses to use a prosthetic. He is killed by Brutus, but the details are unknown. He is among the last to die. He, like Haymitch, was a drunkard. When he first met Katniss he kissed her "full on the lips", leaving Katniss reeling.

• Seeder (female) — She is described as being around 60 and almost looks like she could be from the Seam (black hair, olive skin), except for the color of her eyes, which are gold. She is shown to be warm and friendly, as she hugs Katniss at the training center and reassures Katniss that Thresh and Rue's families are OK despite the crackdown on District 11 set off by Katniss and Peeta's words during the Victory Tour. Haymitch suggests her as a potential ally before the Games begin. She is killed on the first day of the 3rd Quarter Quell, presumably at the Cornucopia blood bath.

Other characters

In District 12

• Madge Undersee — The mayor's daughter and Katniss's friend. She and Katniss were always thrown together at school, both being solitary in nature. Madge is the one who gives Katniss her mockingjay pin, which becomes a symbol of rebellion and is featured on every book cover. Katniss later learns that the pin had belonged to Madge's aunt, Maysilee, a Tribute in the 50th Hunger Games who teamed up with Haymitch. Katniss and Madge spend more time together during the months after the Games. Katniss is at Madge's house when she first hears of the uprisings. She and her family perish in the District 12 bombings.

• Mayor Undersee: Madge's father. He is the mayor of district 12 and likes to buy strawberries from Katniss and Gale, knowing that they broke the law and picked them in the woods. He is always on the stage in front of the justice building for the drawing of the names for the Hunger Games. He dies in the bombing of District 12.

• Darius — A Peacekeeper in District 12. He cheerfully looks the other way at the black market trading in District 12, even being a frequent customer at the Hob. He is turned into an Avox after he interferes with Gale's whipping, and serves Katniss as an Avox before the Quarter Quell in an attempt to unhinge her. He is tortured to death in front of Peeta.

• Delly Cartwright — A girl from District 12 whom Katniss describes as being "the friendliest person on the planet." She is Peeta's friend and they have both shared many childhood memories together, including making "dough girls and boys" with the dough from Peeta's father's bakery and drawing animals with sidewalk chalk. She is one of the refugees in District 13, after escaping the District 12 fire bombing that kills both of her parents. Peeta lies in the first book and says that the Avox serving them in the Capitol is a "dead ringer for Delly." Also, in Mockingjay she is used to stir childhood memories in Peeta after he is rescued from the Capitol, in order to begin his recovery from the mind-control tortures inflicted upon him.

• Mrs. Everdeen — Katniss's mother. She was raised in town as the daughter of an apothecary, and consequently had a fairly comfortable life. She gave it all up to marry Katniss's father and move to the Seam, where she lived in impoverished and starvation-level conditions. She goes into a deep depression when Katniss's father dies in a mining accident. She eventually recovers enough to set up an apothecary in District 12. In Mockingjay she is seen working in the hospital in District 13, and following Prim's death at the end of the book, she does not return to District 12 with Katniss. Instead, she stays in District 4, working in a hospital and coping with her grief. She and Katniss maintain contact through telephone calls.

• Mr. Everdeen - was Katniss's father, before his horrific death in the mines of District 12 when Katniss was 11. The memory of him makes several appearances throughout the series, with Katniss mentioning such features of him as his singing voice, his attractiveness, and his teachings to her. She misses him terribly, and the pain of losing him almost destroyed Mrs. Everdeen.

• Mr. Mellark - is Peeta's father. Kind and soft spoken, resembling Peeta, he doesn't appear except when he trades with Katniss and Gale and when visits Katniss before the 74th Hunger Games to give her cookies. It is later revealed that he grew up with Katniss's mother, Mrs. Everdeen, and even loved her. He and his wife die in the bombings of District 12.

• Mrs. Mellark - is Peeta's mother. Very stern and strict, she doesn't appear in the series except once when she beats Peeta, making her presumably abusive also. Peeta mentions that he likes his father more than his mother once. Katniss calls her a "witch" on several occasions, and hints that Mr. Mellark only married her because he couldn't have the woman that became Mrs. Everdeen. Mrs. Mellark dies in the bombings of District 12.

• Greasy Sae — An old woman who sells soup at the Hob, with whom Katniss and Gale would often trade. She starts up a collection to sponsor Katniss and Peeta during the 74th Hunger Games. After District 12 is bombed, she works as a chef in District 13, although she dislikes the strict atmosphere. After the war is over, she visits Katniss' house twice a day to make sure she eats.

• Hazelle Hawthorne — Gale's mother. A very self-reliant woman, after her husband is killed in a mining accident, she takes up work doing people's laundry. After Gale is caught poaching and publicly whipped, people stop using her services for fear of being punished for associating with her. She gets a new job cleaning Haymitch's house sometime after that. She was a good friend of Katniss.

• Rory, Vick, and Posy Hawthorne — Gale's younger siblings. The book states that Rory is twelve, Vick is ten and Posy is five. Posy was born just after the mining accident in which Gale's father died, and her favorite color is pink.

• Rooba - A butcher in District 12. Not much is known about her except that Katniss and Gale sold her a deer before the events of the first book and used the money to buy Prim's goat, Lady.

• Ripper - She sells the liquor in District 12. She is a one armed woman. Peeta targets her in Catching Fire paying her not to sell to Haymitch or Katniss after Katniss gets drunk.

• Leevy - Leevy is a friend of Katniss's who gets Hazelle Hawthorne when Gale is injured in "Catching Fire". She and her brother survived the District 12 bombing, as they are in District Thirteen in "Mockingjay".

In the Capitol

• Effie Trinket — Effie works as a chaperone for District 12 in the Hunger Games, particularly to Katniss and Peeta, carrying out such tasks as drawing the tributes' names at the reaping and escorting them to the Capitol. At first, she detests her association with District 12, trying to be promoted to a better, richer district. Effie later becomes attached to her District 12 acquaintances. Effie has bright pink hair that appears to be a wig. She seems totally oblivious to the misfortunes of District 12, although whether this behavior is intentional is unknown. She is very strict about manners and is always punctual. In Mockingjay, it is said that she was imprisoned after her escape, but meets up again with Katniss before Snow's execution. Effie Trinket is to be portrayed by Elizabeth Banks in the film version of the Hunger Games.

• Cinna — Katniss's stylist, responsible for her public appearance. After designing the spectacular outfits of the opening ceremony, which include igniting Katniss and Peeta's costumes with synthetic fire, he nicknames Katniss, "the girl on fire." Cinna is in his first year as a stylist for the Games, and he specifically requested he be assigned to District 12. His audacious designs immediately win over the audience in favor of the District 12 tributes. Despite (or perhaps because of) his professional interest in image, Cinna proves to be better than most at seeing through the superficial spectacle of the Games to their barbaric core, "using [her] outfits as a vehicle to express potentially dangerous ideas." He and Katniss establish an easy, comfortable relationship and he demonstrates a genuine concern for her well-being. In Catching Fire, Cinna dresses her for her interview in her wedding dress, as insisted by President Snow, but alters it so that when Katniss raises her arms at her interview, the white dress burns away to be replaced with a black dress of feathers that resembles a mockingjay, which has become the symbol of the resistance in Panem. Because of this, Cinna is savagely beaten in front of Katniss, right before she enters the arena for the Quarter Quell. He is tortured to death after the arena explodes. Cinna is very different from the other inhabitants of the Capitol; he does not use surgery to alter his features, wears simple black clothes, and leaves his hair its natural dark brown color, close cropped. His only evidenced feature is a slight touch of gold eyeliner that brings out the gold flecks in his eyes. Cinna is to be portrayed by Lenny Kravitz in the upcoming film version of the Hunger Games.

• Octavia, Venia, and Flavius — Katniss's prep team. They are residents of the Capitol and sport the usual altered appearances of Capitol residents, including orange corkscrew hair and purple lipstick (Flavius), pea green skin (Octavia), and aqua colored hair and a face etched with gold tattoos (Venia). Katniss assumes that they are very dull-witted, and care only for their appearance. They prove themselves less shallow when they begin to cry because it is unlikely that Katniss will survive the Quarter Quell, but at the request of herself and Cinna, they leave the room if they feel the need to be emotional. Katniss also learns valuable information from them by listening to their gossip, in which they speculate which districts have rebelled. In Mockingjay, they are kidnapped and taken to District 13 to help with Katniss's style, at which point they are punished for stealing bread from District 13. Katniss orders them set free and healed. Venia is said to have always been the strongest: for example, in Catching Fire, Venia is the only one to contain her emotions while working on Katniss's appearance. Octavia and Flavius both needed to leave on account of being too emotional.

• Avox girl (Lavinia) — A servant girl whose tongue has been cut out for being a traitor. She has red hair, porcelain skin, and striking features. Because of her inability to speak, Katniss does not know her name or anything about her. Katniss recognizes her from when she and Gale witnessed the girl's capture and the death of her friend, and Katniss later speculates that she is a runaway from the Capitol. In Mockingjay, Katniss learns that her name was Lavinia and that it was planned that she be tortured to death. Katniss learns from Peeta that her torturers used too much electricity during the process and her heart stopped.

• Seneca Crane — The Head Gamemaker during the 74th Hunger Games. He is executed because he lets both Katniss and Peeta live. During her chance to impress the Gamemakers in the second book, Katniss hangs a dummy and paints "Seneca Crane" on him in an attempt to shock them, then which she did, some even fainted. He is played by Wes Bentley in the movie version of The Hunger Games.

• Plutarch Heavensbee — In the 74th Hunger Games, he is the judge that falls into the punch bowl when Katniss shoots an arrow at the apple in the suckling pig's mouth. In Catching Fire, he is the new Head Gamemaker. He is later shown to be the leader of the rebellion movement in the Districts, and is the mastermind behind the plan to break the tributes out of the arena in Catching Fire. In Mockingjay he has become a "rebel filmmaker" and helps create propaganda featuring Katniss as the Mockingjay for Panem. Katniss notices that he takes no credit for small victories, commenting that he will make his final bow when the rebellion is over. He is elected Secretary of Communications after the war ends.

• Caesar Flickerman — A popular Capitol reporter who is famous for conducting interviews for the Hunger Games for more than 40 years. Described as wearing a "ceremonial suit, midnight blue dotted with a thousand tiny electric bulbs" and having a heavily powdered face and hair that the color changes every year as does the tributes, giving every different games a different color, he is somewhat freakish in his appearance to Katniss's District eyes. He is easygoing with most, if not all people, and is excellent at making the tributes "shine." In Mockingjay, he is also the one who interviews Peeta during his pro-Capitol propos.

• Portia — Peeta's stylist for the 74th and the 75th Hunger Games. Very little is known about her and her styling team. All four of them are executed on live television to punish Peeta during the war.

• Tigris — A former stylist. Her face has been "altered into a semi-feline mask" from many surgical operations. She aids Katniss's squad on the their final mission by hiding them in her shop and disguising them.

In District 13

• Alma Coin — The president of District 13. Described as having eyes "the color of slush you wish would melt away", "gray hair that falls in an unbroken sheet to her shoulders" that is "uniform...without a flaw, a wisp, even a split end." She runs 13 similarly, with no flaws or imperfections. Though she and Katniss are on the same side, Katniss greatly dislikes her because of her ruthlessness and her hunger for power. Despite her affiliation with the rebellion, she is even more ruthless than Snow since she, unlike him, is willing to break her word. Her desire for power is such that she kills Capitol children, including her own medics — with Prim Everdeen amongst them — to undermine President Snow. He reveals the truth to Katniss who, after having remembered that she and Snow had agreed not to lie to each other, assassinates Coin instead of Snow.

• Boggs — First introduced as one of Coin's "lackeys," or her personal guards. At first Katniss writes him off as someone she would dislike because of her hatred towards Coin. However, he is shown to be quite witty and friendly, and Katniss starts to like him. He serves as Katniss's bodyguard for part of Mockingjay, and is assigned to Squad 451 along with Katniss, Gale, and Finnick. He accidentally steps on a land mine on a Capitol street which the Holo did not detect. When his legs are blown off, the squad drag him into an apartment, where he gives Katniss his Holo, and tells her to complete her "mission," not to trust "them" (who he refers to is unclear), and to kill Peeta. He dies soon after.

• Leeg 1, Leeg 2, Mitchell, Jackson, and Homes - Part of Katniss's sharpshooting team, the Star Squad. Mitchell is accidentally kicked into a net of barbed wire by a raging Peeta and subsequently killed by a black mist. Leeg 2 dies from shard blades shooting out of a wrongly labeled pod. Jackson and Leeg 1 stay behind to hold back the muttations, presumably killing them.

• Cressida — She films the rebels' propaganda. Cressida and her camera crew follow and film the training and the final mission of Katniss and her troop. Cressida manages to stay alive, and leads the remaining members of the Star Squad to safety in Tigris's shop.

• Castor and Pollux (brothers) — Cressida's camera crew. They often wear "insect shells", that is, a wearable carapace holding the camera and equipment. Pollux is an Avox and gets along well with Katniss after she sings "The Hanging Tree." Castor is killed by the lizard muttations with Finnick and Homes. Their names come also come from the appropriately-named constellation, Gemini, the twins and also Greek mythology. In the myth, as in Mockingjay, Castor was killed, while Pollux lived on alone.

• Messalla - He is part of the camera crew, and Cressida's assistant. He does minor things, like touching up Katniss' makeup occasionally. When the Star Squad goes underground, Messalla is melted by a pod.

Others

• Paylor — Originally the head of the troops in District 8, Paylor becomes President two days after Katniss kills Coin.

• Twill and Bonnie — Katniss meets Twill and Bonnie in the woods during Catching Fire. Both are from District 8 and are rebels. Twill proves this by holding out a piece of bread with the image of a mockingjay; it is the first time where Katniss sees that the mockingjay has become a symbol of rebellion. Bonnie and Twill are on their way to District 13 and they are the first to tell Katniss that District 13 may exist. However, in Mockingjay, it is mentioned that the pair never made it to 13, and they are presumed dead.

• Annie Cresta — From District 4, she competed in the 70th Hunger Games. In it, she went insane after seeing the male tribute from her district decapitated. When the arena was flooded, she won because she was the best swimmer there. She seems never to have fully recovered. She has sea green eyes and dark hair. She is chosen at the reaping for the Quarter Quell, but Mags volunteers to take her place. Her scream is used by the jabberjays in the Quarter Quell to torment Finnick, who loves her. In Mockingjay, she and Finnick Odair marry, and she later gives birth to his son after his death. Annie votes against another Hunger Games for Capitol children.