History YMMV / TalesOfTheHungerGames

* TearJerker:
** Cashmere's story as told in this series. She deals with an arena worse than most Victors, she has to put up with an AxCrazy "ally" in her pack, she has a breakdown when it's announced that she's the Victor, and is later forced to become a SexSlave afterwards.
** TheHappyEndingOverride of [[spoiler: basically everything in the set after the events of the main book series. At the end of Mockingjay, the rebellion has succeeded despite the many losses. And though a revenge Hunger Games reaping Capitol children proposed by Alma Coin gets the popular vote among the surviving Victors, Katnis prevents it by assassinating Coin. Panem elects the more reasonable Paylor from district 8 as President. And Katniss, Peeta, Haymitch all go home with the former two starting a family. All of this is undone. First, security footage of a vote for the Capitol Hunger Games is leaked 2 years after the rebellion, which prompts demand to go through with those games. Eventual riots pressures Paylor to approve and Ebobaria and Johanna are all too happy to do the reaping. The two Victors bully the Capitol tributes all the way through training. They even enter the games themselves midway through dressed as Peacekeepers to murder a handful of tributes, including Snow’s 14 year old granddaughter. This prompts an already fully formed group of Capitol loyalists to
** The deaths of [[spoiler:the Victor Pack during the 76th Games. Peeta falls first to mutts, leaving Katniss in a catatonic shock. Then Enobaria turns against the others and Johanna kills her. Next, Ennius hits Johanna with a knife, leaving Katniss as the last one standing. With no more arrows, Katniss rushes him and gets a knife in the heart. The Mockingjay is dead and the Mellark children become orphans.]]
** [[spoiler:Anna's death during District 10's 100th Games. She and her thirteen year-old sister Clara are the last two female tributes. Anna tearfully tells Clara goodbye and orders her sister out of sight before allowing Tobe to kill her, giving Clara the victory.]]
** [[spoiler: Ismene and Florian's respective deaths during the District Two preliminaries for the 100th Hunger Games. Both of them were reaped and formed the non-volunteer pair, with both of them dying at the hands of Careers.]]
** The Grand Final of the 100th Hunger Games in general. Unless it was [[spoiler: Tritica]], imagine being attached to a tribute just to see them die in the arena.

** In the pre-Reclamation episodes, Christian tells the audience who the Victor is and how old they are at the time. If it's an OCStandIn of a canon character, he'd also include an official picture of them.

** In the pre-Reclamation episodes, Christian tells the audience who the Victor is and how old they are at the. If it's an OCStandIn of a canon character, he'd also include an official picture of them.

** Selena is touted as one of the best post-Reclamation Victors for one simple reason: [[spoiler:she killed [[HateSink Ennius Dalton]]]].
** Flint has enjoyed a significant amount of popularity due to being one of the few truly sympathetic Career Victors. It helps that [[spoiler:fans were invested in her well after her games due to her in-story disappearance]].

** Given her sadistic tendencies, no one was rooting for [[spoiler: Octavia Dalton]] to win the Grand Final, especially after [[spoiler: she kills Begonia and her unborn daughter]]. Octavia's ''long'' HumiliationConga involving [[spoiler: Dazzle slicing her tendons and Tibo torturing her before dropping her into the boiling spring]] was considered very much deserved as a result.

** If one POV character is still alive in the post-Reclamation episodes, it is inevitable that they will become the Victor no matter how many other tributes are left. The sole exception so far is [[spoiler:Dougal from the 89th Games, who is killed by Alisia Heath in the final confrontation]].

** Many in the real-world audience soon lost patience and sympathy for [[TookALevelInJerkass Panatena]] of the 87th Games to the point where they cheered when she died. This reaction got an in-universe reference when two tributes of the District 9 Games watched Sheaf's Games and cheered when he kills her.

* SpoiledByTheFormat: If one POV character is still alive, it is inevitable that they will become the Victor no matter how many other tributes are left. The sole exception so far is [[spoiler:Dougal from the 89th Games, who is killed by Alisia Heath in the final confrontation]].

** Ennuis Dalton [[spoiler:kills Katniss and Johanna, taunts Rue Mellark about it]], takes pleasure in the violent deaths of the Hunger Games, torments countless tributes physically and psychologically, and is an all-around jerk. [[spoiler:Selena killing him]] is one of the most satisfying moments in the series.

** Atomica is despised by the Capitol for torturing and killing Capitol-favourite Janus. The real-world audience loves her for surviving against the odds and getting revenge on the sadistic career that tortured her and several other tributes.

** [[spoiler:The deaths of the Victor Pack during the 76th Games. Peeta falls first to mutts, leaving Katniss in a catatonic shock. Then Enobaria turns against the others and Johanna kills her. Next, Ennius hits Johanna with a knife, leaving Katniss as the last one standing. With no more arrows, Katniss rushes him and gets a knife in the heart. The Mockingjay is dead and the Mellark children become orphans.]]

** Atomica is despised by the Capitol for torturing and killing Capitol-favorite Janus. The real-world audience loves her for surviving against the odds and getting revenge on the sadistic career that tortured her and several other tributes.