History WebVideo / TalesOfTheHungerGames

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Bluebell from the [[spoiler: Old]] Capitol's perspective. Her popularity saves her life thrice: first during the reapings for the 75th Hunger Games, second during the Second Rebellion where a group of fans hide her and her family in a bunker, third after the Reclamation where she's pardoned due to her advanced age and for her contributions to the Capitol.

** Foxface’s real name is Finch.

* DiedOnTheirBirthday: Both Finnick Sr. and Tyrone are both reaped on their birthdays. Finnick's ex-girlfriend also lampshades this when he's reaped.

* ABirthdayNotABreak: Both Finnick Sr. and Tyrone are reaped on their birthdays. Finnick's ex-girlfriend also lampshades this when he's reaped.

* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Whenever a tribute swears, the objectionable words are not mentioned. Instead, the text says something along the lines of "used words that had to be censored."

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: In the 94th Games, Kyan befriends a penguin, and names it Kyan Jr.

* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Whenever a tribute swears, the objectionable words are not mentioned. Instead, the text says something along the lines of "used language that had to be censored."

* NarrativeProfanityFilter: Whenever a tribute swears, the objectionable word(s) are not mentioned. Instead, the text says something along the lines of "used language that had to be censored."

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: By the end of the series, there's 100 Victors and 23 other District Victors. This is also on top of other tributes (regardless of focus), any of their family members who show up to the Justice Building, Capitolians...

* PinkGirlBlueBoy: In the video chronicling the Seventy-fifth Hunger Games, the names of each district's past victors are listed in text boys, with those of victors who died prior to the third Quarter Quell crossed out. The boxes containing the names of the male victors have a blue frame, while the boxes containing the names of the female victors have a red frame.

* GildedCage: [[spoiler: Following District Fourteen’s liberation following the District Six preliminaries for the 100th Hunger Games, the District 7-12 victor-tributes are taken to President Gaul’s mansion. Meanwhile, the District 1-6 victor-tributes are immediately taken there following their respective victories.]]

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Of course, with the Victors, new tributes, Capitol people, etc.

** [[spoiler: At the end of the District Four preliminaries of the 100th Hunger Games, President Gaul threatens to use ballistic missiles on both District Twelve (now “Virginia”) and the European troops protecting it. Europe as a collective retaliates by threatening to have missiles fired at the Capitol from “all sides of Panem” if Gaul has Peacekeepers re-enter District Twelve.]]

** [[spoiler:Ariadne Fling, a Hunger Games stylist, is actually a UNIDAD agent who convinces Selena to kill Ennius Dalton]].
** [[spoiler:Jocasta Price, the gamemaker of the District Three preliminaries for the 100th Hunger Games, also has UNIDAD connections. She's the one who put in the escape graft in the virtual arena that helped Lumo leave to "make the biggest fool of the Capitol".]]

** [[spoiler: The 100th Hunger Games Grand Final arena is entirely based on a map of what was once the United States of America. It contains various state-shaped areas meant to summarize the corresponding climates/terrains, but results in things such as cornfields and rocky mountains next to each other.]]

** [[spoiler: Several commanders, their families, and their associates escape Panem in a hovercraft, flying to what used to be New York before flying to England and settling down near what used to be London to create a new Capitol.]]
* SeaOfSand: This is the arena for the 72nd Hunger Games.
* SewerGator: These are featured in the 40th Games, which is a toxic sewer.

* TogetherInDeath: Maverick (the boy from Ten) chooses to die this way instead of leaving his district partner (and newly-wedded wife) Cianina when the Gamemakers unleash a tsunami during the 93rd Hunger Games. Both of them drown in the process.

** Each District Hunger Games has at least one focus tribute who's implied to a direct descendant of a pre-Reclamation Victor. Or in the case of both District Two and District Twelve, a canon character (such as Magnus Plinth and Jessup Diggs respectively).

--->'''Neptune:''' [[spoiler:...you now look like a lot like your mother...well how she used to, before my uncle killed her]].

* WhamLine: During Selena's interview following the 99th Hunger Games, when Ennius makes a comment on how he'd like to die akin to Garrison, the boy from Seven (neck snapped while having sex with Selena). [[spoiler:Selena announces her intent to kill him in a different way.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: President Gaul's response to the discovery of a new measles strain around the time of the District One preliminaries of the 100th Hunger Games is disturbingly similar to how [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment some leaders and event organizers]] responded to Covid-19.

** Christian's open ending has also inspired a few writers to "continue" the series (or have plans to do so) beyond the 100th Hunger Games following its conclusion. One notable example is ''Panem Reborn'' by Lauren "Laurier-Rose"[[note]]the writer of the 82nd, 91st, and 94th Hunger Games[[/note]].

* RecursiveFanfiction: Two Games are based on ''Hunger Games'' [[FanFilm fan films]]. Christian confirms on Reddit that the inclusion of those two films in his series are a {{Homage}} to them.
** The 23rd Games adapts the victory and suicide of Cirrus Quell from ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSpvYBP5QmrjdhQkkREC4xyoTLTHHwd54 Cirrus Quell: A Hunger Games Story]]'', which leads to the implementation of the Quarter Quell.
** The 52nd Games takes its story from ''WebVideo/WeepingWillow'' and focuses on its victor, Tristan Terrace.

** Shell often draws pictures of other tributes dying in ways that foreshadow how they will die in the Games. [[spoiler:In the prelude to the Grand Final, she draws a hysterical Tritica as a Victor, unlike her other drawings of dying or dead tributes. Tritica ends up winning the 100th Hunger Games.]]

** Haymitch is shot while trying to escape District Twelve.