History WebVideo / TalesOfTheHungerGames

* MacrossMissileMassacre: [[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.]]

* {{Narrator}}: Christian gives narration to the series, playing the role of [[spoiler: a father and descendant of Coriolanus Snow, who's telling all the stories of the first 100 Hunger Games to his daughter, Arabella]].

* PosthumousCharacter: Many of the characters outside of the narrator and [[spoiler: Arabella]] fall into this category, as the videos are based on recollections by [[spoiler: descendants of Coriolanus Snow II, his family, and his associates who flee the Capitol for England]].

''Tales of the Hunger Games'' by Christian Blanco is a [=YouTube=] ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' {{fanfiction}} that tells the story of how each Victor won their Hunger Games and what they did afterwards. It also chronicles the Capitol Games under President Paylor, the reimposition of the Hunger Games by Capitol loyalists after they retake Panem, and Panem's diplomatic relationship with Europe including the founding of District Fourteen in the British Isles. Most of the stories are told from the perspective of Capitol historians.

** Downplayed with Eugenia. The historians show that she has a sister named Petunia.

* GildedCage: [[spoiler: Following District Fourteen’s liberation following the District Six preliminaries for the 100th Hunger Games, the District 7-12 tributes are taken to President Gaul’s mansion.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: Many of the characters outside of the narrator and [[spoiler: Arabella]] fall into this category, as the videos are based on recollections by [[spoiler: descendants of Coriolanous Snow II, his family, and his associates who flee the Capitol for England]].

** Each District Hunger Games has at least one focus tribute who's implied a direct descendant of a pre-Reclamation Victor. Or in the case of District Twelve, a canon character (such as Delly Cartwright or Jessup Diggs).

** [[spoiler: Subverted with Mohammed and Sioned following District Six's District Hunger Games during the Fifth Quinquennial Quell, where historians briefly mention what they have done after the British Isles was liberated.]]
** [[spoiler: Also subverted with District Twelve following District Four's preliminaries for the 100th Hunger Games, where historians also mention what the district has done and has become following their "liberation" by European forces.]]

!!This year's Games takes place on a site calle "TV Tropes". It contains everchanging examples of:

* TheAllConcealingI: The narrator of the series downplays this. From the voice and lore, he's appears to be a Capitol historian. However he is unnamed and we don't know much about him beyond having an ancestor who was loyal enough to President Gaul that they were allowed to watch the Grand Final in Snow Square. [[spoiler: Subverted towards the end where it's revealed that he's a descendant of Coriolanus Snow II who's telling the stories of the Hunger Games to his daughter, Arabella.]]

* TheFashionista: Eugenia is portrayed as this. She tends to wear outfits inspired by past Hunger Games and comments on the tributes' clothing.

** The end of the 99th Hunger Games video mentions that a Capitolian family escaped the city with tapes of the 99th Hunger Games, before donating them to "The Gaul Library" generations later. [[spoiler: The ending of the series later reveals that "The Gaul Library" is in what was once London, after Coriolanus Snow II fled the Capitol following the conclusion of the 100th Hunger Games.]]

* {{Narrator}}: Christian gives narration to the series, playing the role of a Capitol historian chronicling the history of the Hunger Games.

* ToAbsentFriends: Sometime before the 100th Hunger Games Grand Finale, Asha and her district victors ([[spoiler:Whin and Olive]]) make a toast. The district victors make it towards their district peers who died in the arena, while Asha makes hers towards ''all'' of the tributes that she mentored who died in their arenas.

!!This year's Games takes place in an abandoned TV Tropes page. It contains everchanging examples of:
* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Bluebell from the 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.

* TheAllConcealingI: The narrator of the series downplays this. From the voice and lore, he's appears to be a Capitol historian. However he is unnamed and we don't know much about him beyond having an ancestor who was loyal enough to President Gaul that they were allowed to watch the Grand Final in Snow Square. [[spoiler: Subverted towards the end where it's revealed that he's a descendant of Coriolanus Snow II who's telling the stories of the Hunger Games to his daughter (played by Christian's niece, Freya), Arabella.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: During the 86th Hunger Games, Artulia mentions that "actions have consequences" after learning that Chintz (the boy from Eight) named his goat after her. [[spoiler: She's proven right when Chintz dies in a final battle with Rubius.]]

* LegacyCharacter: Coriolanus Snow III briefly appears in the epilogues for two of the districts' Hunger Games during the 5th Quinquennial Quell.

* PosthumousCharacter: Many of the tributes fall into this category, as the videos are based on recollections by Capitol historians.

** [[spoiler: Several members of the Snow family escape Panem in a hovercraft, flying to what used to be New York before flying to England and settling down what used to be London to create a new Capitol.]]

** Finnick and Annie's newborn child mentioned in ''Literature/Mockingjay'' is the Victor of the 80th Hunger Games.

* TheAllConcealingI: The narrator of the series downplays this. From the voice and lore, he's a Capitol historian. However he is unnamed and we don't know much about him beyond having an ancestor who was loyal enough to President Gaul that they were allowed to watch the Grand Final in Snow Square.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: A few Victors attempt this.

* AccidentalMurder: In the 97th Games, Ross accidentally kills [[spoiler:Jersey]] when he is startled awake by the latter.

** Rubius with his cousin, Lazarus. Despite being the mentor for both Selena and Lazarus, he opts to focus on mentoring him to victory over Selena.

* SpoiledBrat: Panatena gradually becomes entitled as the 87th Games go on. As the Capitol's sponsorship and attention get to her head, she demands luxuries from the Capitol and becomes increasingly rude and dismissive of Sheaf. Her attitude eventually [[spoiler:leads to him snapping and killing her]].

''Tales of the Hunger Games'' by Christian Blanco is a [=YouTube=] ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' {{fanfiction}} that tells the story of how each Victor won their Hunger Games and what they did afterwards. It also chronicles the Capitol Games under President Paylor, the reclamation of Panem and thus the reimposition of the Hunger Games by Capitol loyalists, and the founding of District Fourteen in the British Isles. Most of the stories are told from the perspective of Capitol historians.

* PoisonMushroom: This is the case with the Death Caps in District 14’s Games, and to a lesser extent, the mushrooms in the 46th Games.

* StealthInsult: Ffion sings a beautiful-sounding song in Welsh during her interview, whose lyrics mocked the Capitol upon translation.

* UnitedEurope: Downplayed with the Scandinavian Confederacy and possibly Germania.

* VarietyShow: This is the case with the Victors’ Variety Show, which proceeded the 50th Games.

* TheBusCameBack: Irene al-Fayed reappears decades after the Capitol Games to mentor the District Six tributes of the 85th Hunger Games.

* ClassyCane: Mayor Dalton has a gold cane beneath his golden cloak, which he uses to point at younger-aged during the reapings for the District Two preliminaries of the 100th Hunger Games.

** Also Atomica from the Capitol's perspective for surviving a gas attack she shouldn’t have survived and for torturing Janus (the Capitol favourite). Her ascension to the final three also causes riots in the Capitol.

** All of the District Victors during the 5th Quinquennial Quell are given nicknames that also appear in a spreadsheet shown at the end of each District Hunger Games Video.

* AmusementParkOfDoom: This is the arena for the 21st Hunger Games, complete with a ride demolition.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: A few people in the series have been seen [[PressurePoints pinching the back of people's necks to knock them out]]. In reality, it's not possible to do this although pressure points exist.

* DisneyVillainDeath: How Silico dies during the finale of the 21st Hunger Games.

** [[spoiler:Jocasta Price, the gamemaker of the District Three preliminaries for the 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".]]
* {{Mooning}}: Linnet and Marcellus does this during the tribute parade to spice things up.

** Following the District Six preliminaries for the 100th Hunger Games and [[spoiler: District Fourteen's liberation from the Capitol]], Christian said that [[spoiler: all of the tributes were taken to the accomodation tower. It changed to President Gaul's mansion when the second part of the District Six Hunger Games video was released.]]

** [[spoiler:Ariadne Fling, a Hunger Games stylist, is actually a UNIDAD agent who convinces Selena to kill Ennuis Dalton]].
** [[spoiler:Jocasta Price, the gamemaker for the District Three preliminaries for the 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".]]

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Ariadne Fling, a Hunger Games stylist, is actually a UNIDAD agent who convinces Selena to kill Ennuis Dalton]].

* MultiPartEpisode: This happens sometimes with Games, usually Quinquennial Quells.
* MurderousThighs: Bluebell Janssen's claim to fame during the 21st Hunger Games. She uses her legs to choke her seduced opponents to death during sexual activity.

* PollutedWasteland: England is portrayed to be this as of '101.

** "Joy" is one of the tribute names for the District Twelve Hunger Games during the Fifth Quinquennial Quell. As the district now focuses on medicine instead of coal, it's presumed that she got her name from Nurse Joy from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Each Victor's Hunger Games ends with a brief description of what they did after their Hunger Games. [[spoiler: Subverted with Mohammed and Sioned following District Six's District Hunger Games during the Fifth Quinquennial Quell, where historians briefly mention what they have done after the British Isles was liberated.]]

* OneSteveLimit: Averted with a few of the mentioned non-Victor characters. For example, there are two people in the series named "Opal". One had the axe coming back at her during the 50th Hunger Games (2nd Quarter Quell), the other was part of the District One female pair "fighting as one" during the 95th Hunger Games (4th Quinquennial Quell)

!!This series contains examples of:

* EmotionlessGirl: Atomica is introduced as this when she's reaped.

* HateSink: Ennius Dalton is an arrogant, smug, violent Career [[spoiler:who kills Katniss and Johanna in the Reclamation Games]]. Needless to say, he's not very liked by the audience.

Like any other tribute, the Career tributes from both District One and Two