Web Video / Tales of the Hunger Games

"Fictional games based on ideas inspired from the novels by Suzanne Collins and the films by Lionsgate Entertainment!"

— Tagline

Tales of the Hunger Games by Christian Blanco is a YouTube The Hunger Games 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 Capitolians.

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

• Abandoned Hospital: The narrator clearly states that both the 51st Games and the District 12 Games during the 100th takes place in a generic abandoned hospital.
• A Boy and His X:
  • During the 26th Hunger Games, Jericho befriends a pack of wolves who help him while he's in the arena. He's allowed to adopt the surviving wolves and bring them home to the Victors' Village following his Hunger Games.
  • Chintz during the 86th Hunger Games befriends a goat while in the arena, who he names Artulia. She dies after Wonder (the boy from One) shoots her in the chest.
• Accidental Murder:
  • In the 97th Games, Ross accidentally kills Jersey when he is startled awake by the latter.
  • It is revealed that, sometime following the 72nd Hunger Games, the future President Gaul had seen his ex-girlfriend, Sinitta, with Flint, the Games' Victor. Drunk at the time, he had confronted the girls as they were walking home, which led to a physical fight between himself and Sinitta. Said fight sees Sinitta dying from a blow to the head caused by Gaul knocking her to the ground.
• Adaptation Expansion: The 75th Games include more details on the other hazards of the 12-area Clock arena, including a monstrous Chimera mutt, deadly freeze, and a section with violent lions.
• Adaptational Jerkass: In-Universe. Katniss comes across as much more surly and cold than in canon but since Tales is from the Capitol's POV, they do everything they can to remove or downplay her good qualities to make her seem unreasonable and surly.
• Adapted Out: Any mention of Katniss' motive for volunteering and her placement of flowers around Rue's body are omitted since the Capitol removed such moments from the reruns.
• Alternate Universe Fic: Tales takes place in a world where the Capitol regains control in the year '88 and restarts the Hunger Games.
• Ambiguous Ending: Following the conclusion of the 100th Hunger Games, the fates of Tritica (the Victor of the 100th Hunger Games), many of the living Victors before her, Eugenia, Artulia, and Pesident Gaul are left open to the viewer.
• Amusement Park of Doom: This is the arena for the 21st Hunger Games, complete with a ride demolition and deadly jaguars prowling the area.
• Artistic License – Biology: A few people in the series have been seen pinching the back of people's necks to knock them out. In reality, it's not possible to do this although pressure points exist.
• Author Catchphrase:
  • “Words that have to be censored” is used to describe profanity.
  • Sexual relations and activity between the tributes is commonly referred as “being intimate”.
  • "Eejit" and "Haud yer wheesht" are common phrases said by Scottish tributes from District Fourteen.
  • “Good evening tributes and welcome back to tales of the Hunger Games!”
  • Christian use “cannon(s) sounded” to describe the death of a tribute or multiple tributes.
  • Bathroom activities in the arena are referred to as tributes “relieving themselves.”
• Bee-Bee Gun: James uses a sponsor gift bag full of bees to lure and kill other tributes during his Games.
• Bears Are Bad News: This is the case for the 64th Games, since the arena includes angry bears.
• Berserk Button: Johanna does NOT like having her hair touched, as seen during her final battle with Signiall.

  Christian: She [Johanna] infamously proclaimed, 'don't touch my hair, bitch' and for each word of this that she said, she slammed the axe down on his [Signiall's] body, harder and harder each time, until she said the final word and his cannon sounded.

• Bilingual Bonus: Ariadne is seen saying things in French, German, and Spanish. It starts with basic greetings, but evolves to “alguien me dijó que la chica tenga una fobia de insectos”^note The District One girl (Pearl) has an insect phobia. as of the 99th Hunger Games.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: Both Finnick Sr. and Tyrone are both reaped on their birthdays. Finnick's ex-girlfriend also lampshades this when he's reaped.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • Irene al-Fayed reappears decades after the Capitol Games to mentor the District Six tributes of the 85th Hunger Games.
  • Effie Trinket returns for the 90th Hunger Games, where she volunteers to be Rue Mellark's stylist.
• Caught Monologuing: In the 31st Games, Pearl gives a victory speech before she kills Gregor. Magnetta (who is barely conscious) uses this opportunity to distract her so that he can kill her.
• Chained Heat: How the tributes "fight as one" during the 95th Hunger Games (4th Quinquennial Quell). Every district reaps a pair of male tributes and a pair of female tributes, with each pair being chained to each other by their waists.
• Chekhov's Gunman:
  • Rue Mellark is briefly mentioned in the epilogue of her parents' Hunger Games.
  • Olive first appears as a 13-year-old during the 95th Hunger Games (4th Quinquennial Quell), where she's seen saying goodbye to her sister Hazel.
  • Ariadne Fling has been seen in other tributes' Hunger Games as an eccentric stylist who likes to say phrases in foreign European languages.
  • Coriolanus Snow III is seen hitting on multiple female victor-tributes prior to the Grand Final of the 100th Hunger Games.
• Classy Cane: Mayor Dalton has a gold cane beneath his golden cloak, which he uses to point at younger-aged residents during the reapings for the District Two preliminaries of the 100th Hunger Games.
  Christian (as the narrator): "Dalton then stated that he was incredibly proud of the fourteen volunteers that had been selected to represent this district, before flurrying his cloak back with a swish, to reveal the gold cane that lay beneath, which he jerked out and pointed upwards. He continued that two more 'fortunate young things' would be about to receive this honour as well, before stating 'it could be you' and suddenly pointing his cane at a young girl with frizzy hair at the very front of her enclosure, before she gasped."
• Commonality Connection: In the 31st Games, Gregor and Magnetta bond during training and then ally in the arena because his brother is blind like her.
• Content Warnings: At the beginning of each video, Christian warns the viewer that literary gore and spoilers will follow.
• Comfort the Dying: This happens many times throughout the series, with tributes who were friends or lovers.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Maxima is relieved that Ross is wearing underwear under his kilt, referencing how Dougal accidentally flashed the public when he arrived in the Capitol 8 years ago.
  • Speaking of Dougal, Linnet and Marcellus's mooning stunt is indirectly brought up for why he can't play the bagpipes during the tribute parade.
  • During the 86th Hunger Games, the girl from Twelve (Florence) falls into the lava. Eugenia jokingly calls her "the girl on fire", a reference to Katniss's past moniker.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: In the 84th Hunger Games, Petro (1) throws Alis (12) into a fire, leaving her to burn alive.
• Dead Guy Junior: Common with a handful of the Victors, particularly the post-Reclamation ones.
  • Gregor names his daughter after his late ally, Magnetta.
  • Ennius names his children after three former District Two Victors (Claudia, Septimus, Flavia).
  • Finnick Jr names his daughter after Mags, Annie (his mother's) mentor.
  • Rue names her daughter after her mother, Katniss.
    • Rue herself was named for one of Katniss's allies in the 74th Games.
  • Ross names his child after Jersey years after he leaves the arena.
• Death by Adaptation: Happens to most of the canon characters after the Reclaimers take over Panem in '88.
  • President Paylor is executed for her role in the Capitol Games.
  • Haymitch is shot while trying to escape District Twelve during the Reclamation.
  • Enobaria, Johanna, Katniss, and Peeta volunteer as tributes for the 76th/Reclamation Hunger Games and perish in the arena. Enobaria is beheaded by Johanna, Peeta is killed by some lion mutts, and both Katniss and Johanna are killed by Ennius Dalton.
  • Beetee dies of old age after the 91st Hunger Games.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • During the 41st Hunger Games, Astrid (the girl from One) snuck cyanide into her district partner's food after she overheard him saying that she looks like an anorexic flamingo during the tribute parade. She's punished during the countdown where her pedestal explodes.
  • In the 58th Hunger Games, Texas commits suicide so his badly injured sister-in-law, Megan, can go home to her baby and husband. Snow and the Gamemakers execute Megan's husband and parents and send her son to be adopted by a Capitol family, leaving her alone.
• Disney Villain Death: How Silico dies during the finale of the 21st Hunger Games. He's pulled off from the top of a roller coaster so he plunges to his death.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: 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 some leaders and event organizers responded to Covid-19.
• Doomed by Canon:
  • A majority of the pre-Reclamation Victors inevitably die in either the 75th Games or the Victors Purge. The exceptions are Bluebell Janssen and Michele Onasis.
  • Canon mentions that 16 of the Victors died (or presumably died in the case of Lucy and Flint) before the 75th Hunger Games. Christian reflected that during the pre-Reclamation arc, before confirming who specifically died during his video of the 75th Hunger Games.
  • Those 16 dead Victors also includes Guillaume LeFieve years after he permanently moves to the Capitol following the 1st Quarter Quell. When Katniss and Peeta are watching the tapes of the living past Victors while preparing for the 3rd Quarter Quell, they notice the absence of his tape.
• Eaten Alive: Nicola, a career tribute from the 56th Games, is devoured alive by a loch monster mutt. Her screams are heard from within its mouth until her bones crunch.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: Implied in Districts One and Two. The tributes who represent Districts One and Two come in different races, classes, and even sexual orientations. Justified because of Christian's tendency to write about diverse characters and that the Capitol doesn't care about what your race is.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones:
  • Ennius has older sisters who were willing to help train him for the 76th Hunger Games.
  • Rubius with his cousins, Lazarus, Octavia, and Romulus, at the expense of the other tributes he's supposed to help as their sole mentor. He opts to focus on mentoring Lazarus to victory over Selena during the 99th Hunger Games. During the 100th Games, he spends an hour with Octavia and Romulus, while giving the bare minimum to the other non-Dalton careers and outright ignored the reaped pair (Ismene and Florian).
  • Downplayed with Eugenia. She has a sister named Petunia.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: Christian puts on a raspy voice when saying "It could be you!" as Mayor Dalton (while he's planning to reap two kids from the general population as part of the District Two preliminaries of the 100th Hunger Games).
• Foregone Conclusion: During the 70th to the 74th Games due to the YouTube titles containing the names of the Victors (Annie, Johanna, Flint, Artemis, and both Katniss and Peeta).
• 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. She's proven right when Chintz dies in a final battle with Rubius.
  • 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. 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. It was where accounts of past Hunger Games were stored, which the narrator checked out and read to his daughter, Arabella.
  • Shell often draws pictures of other tributes dying in ways that foreshadow how they will die in the Games, like Lusius being impaled by a trident. In the prelude to the Grand Final, she draws a hysterical Tritica as a Victor which is unlike her other drawings of dying or dead tributes. Tritica ends up winning the 100th Hunger Games.
• Gilded Cage: 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.
• Hated by All:
  • Sheaf from the Capitol's perspective for killing two Capitol favourites (Spartacus and Panatena).
  • 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, while Eugenia admits that Atomica's interview was one of her least favourites to do due to the hostility of the audience.
  • Most of the non-career tributes who are sent into the arena during the 1st Quarter Quell. They're unpopular (why Guillaume LeFieve was voted in), the children of high-ranking officials, known criminals, or a combination of those descriptions.
• Hate Sink:
  • Ennius Dalton is an arrogant, smug, violent Career who kills Katniss and Johanna in the Reclamation Games. Needless to say, he's not very liked by the audience.
  • Like Ennius, Janus (District Two boy of the 96th Hunger Games) is also an arrogant, smug, and violent Career. He forces feeds live beetles to his defeated mud pit opponents and captures arena tributes to turn into "prisoners" for his personal entertainment.
• In-Series Nickname:
  • Some of the post-Reclamation Victors are given nicknames, such as Asha ("The Tusk Killer") and Maxima ("The Ice Queen").
  • With the exception of Lumo and Glitch, 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.
• Legacy Character: There are two people named after Coriolanus Snow in the series. Coriolanus Snow III briefly appears in the epilogues for two of the districts' Hunger Games during the 5th Quinquennial Quell. His father, Coriolanus Snow II is mentioned at the end of the series, where he, his family, and his associates flee the Capitol along with several other commanders and their associates to England.
• Loophole Abuse: During the 63rd Hunger Games, the gamemakers announce that tributes must take a certain pill located at the Cornucopia in order to be immune from a certain paralysis gas. However, they can only hold one pill each or their trackers are detonated. Larima (the girl from One and Gloss's district partner) circumvents this rule by throwing the remaining pills on the grassy floor to sabotage other tributes.
• Loved by All: Bluebell from the 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.
• Loyal Animal Companion: The wolves are this to Jericho in the 26th Games, so much so that they save him from being killed in the final fight against Ceres. He even gets to keep them after his victory.
• Macross Missile Massacre:
  • Following the Reclamation, District Thirteen is destroyed on live television by a barrage of missiles after they're framed for the sabotage caused by the Reclaimers.
  • 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.
• Master-Apprentice Chain:
  • District One: Emerald -> Cashmere -> Flint
    • Also Grenadino -> Estelle -> Mirai/Dollar
  • District Two: Ennius -> Maxima/Rubius
    • Rubius -> Selena
    • Maxima -> Alisia/Ross^note The boy from Fourteen during the 97th Games
  • District Three: Garrison -> Beetee -> Gif -> Atomica
  • District Four: Mags -> Annie -> Finnick Jr / Sandy
    • Finnick Jr -> Limerick
  • District Eleven: Moss -> Bluebell -> Geranio -> Easter -> Delphine
• Meaningful Name: A minor Capitol character named Karen is said to have allegedly complained during the Reclamation Games.^note Karen is slang for an entitled or demanding woman.
• The Mole:
  • Ariadne Fling, a Hunger Games stylist, is actually a UNIDAD agent who convinces Selena to kill Ennius Dalton.
  • 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".
  • So does the unnamed peacekeeper who wishes Lumo "good luck" in Italian after he shoots his colleague, but before shooting himself. It's not stated if he's either a Defector from Decadence or a European plant.
• Mooning: Linnet and Marcellus does this during the tribute parade to spice things up before the 82nd Hunger Games.

  Linnet: "Ladies and gentlemen, you've seen us as suns...but have you seen us...moon?"

• Ms. Fanservice:
  • Panatena (the girl from Nine) uses this angle for getting sponsorship gifts during the 87th Hunger Games.
  • Sandy was thought to use this strategy as well. Subverted because it turns out that's she was trying to urinate on a sock to help cure a jellyfish sting.
• Multi-Part Episode: TOTHG has had numerous two-part episodes starting with the 85th Hunger Games, either deliberately or because Christian was forced to split a single episode into two parts (like the 91st Hunger Games) due to uploading issues with YouTube.
  • The Grand Final is split into three parts, totalling about five hours' worth of content.
• Murder in the Family: Implied to be this within the Dalton family for District Two's preliminaries for the 100th Hunger Games. Christian confirmed that six out of the sixteen tributes are Daltons.
• Mushroom Samba: This is the case with the mushrooms in the 46th Games, which cause tributes to hallucinate that they have three hands, or something of the like.
• Named by the Adaptation:
  • All of the unnamed Catching Fire Victors take on their actors’ and actresses’ names. This includes Ivette and James (District Five), Megan and Justin (District Six), Marian and Daniel (District Nine), and Tiffany and Jackson (District Ten)
  • Most of the canon Victors whose surnames are unknown are given that of their actors.
  • Foxface's real name is Finch.
  • The District 8 girl in the 74th Games is named after her actress, Mackenzie.
  • Haymitch's final opponent during the 50th Hunger Games is named Opal.
  • Katniss and Peeta's children are named Rue and Crimson.
  • Cinna and Atala's last names are revealed, where they're shown to be part of the Jasper family.
  • President Paylor's first name is Lathe.
  • Portia is given the surname "Phipps", one that appears in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
• Names to Run Away From: Common with the District Hunger Games arenas including “The Mortal Fields”, “The Cursed Island”, “The Runaway Train”, and “The Cursed Forest”.
• Narrative Profanity Filter: Whenever a tribute swears, the objectionable words are not mentioned. Instead, the narration says something along the lines of "used words that had to be censored."
• Night-Vision Goggles: Emerald uses a pair of these during her Games. They come in handy during a blackout.
• Non P.O.V. Protagonist: Alisia Heath is the Victor of the 89th Games but she is only mentioned on occasion in the video. Instead the story focuses on the tributes of the newly formed District 14.
• Not Proven: The Capitol cannot find evidence that Maxima and Sheaf got the Avoxes out of the Capitol to European lands but it's all-but stated they are responsible.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted throughout the series. For example, there are two people in the series named "Asha". One was beheaded by Mariana Washington during the 9th Hunger Games, the other became Victor of the 77th Hunger Games.
• Out with a Bang: Selena snaps the neck of Garrick while having sex with him.
• Patchwork Map:
  • The 90th Hunger Games arena ("The Land Of Opportunities") contains six pie-shaped sectors consisting of steep rocky mountains, a network of cold and arid caves, sandy dunes of varying heights, an archipelago of islands, a dense jungle, and a sector covered with dry mud with a valley containing sparse trees.
  • 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.
• Pink Girl, Blue Boy: In the video chronicling the Seventy-fifth Hunger Games, the names of each district's past victors are listed in text boxes, 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.
• Poison Mushroom: Both the respective arenas of the 46th Hunger Games and the District Fourteen preliminaries for the 100th Hunger Games contain poisonous mushrooms.
• Posthumous Character: Many of the characters outside of the narrator and Arabella fall into this category, as the videos are based on recollections by descendants of leading commanders with personal hovercrafts, their families, and their private security teams who flee the Capitol for England.
• Prison Episode: The 96th Games take place in an abandoned prison.
• Put on a Bus: Downplayed. Caesar Flickerman is replaced by Eugenia Ravinstill after the Reclaimers take over Panem without any explanation. However, he returns back for the 80th and 85th Hunger Games to comment with Eugenia.
• Queer Romance: This is the case with Justin and Clearfell in the 61st Games, and Flint and Catara in the 72nd Games.
• "Ray of Hope" Ending: The series ends with all of the District Games Victors dying except Tritica and the Hunger Games continuing at least until the year 113. There is no game-changing rebellion rescue this time. However, District 12 has been freed from the Capitol and becomes Virginia, President Gaul is booted from office and his successor opens negotiations with European powers, and the popularity of the Hunger Games has severely decreased within the Capitol, with Capitolians themselves rioting due to Begonia's death. The rebellion has failed to end the Games for at least another decade, but they aren't defeated either. This leaves the series open to be continued by other writers.
• Recursive Fanfiction:
  • Two Games are based on Hunger Games 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 Cirrus Quell: A Hunger Games Story, which leads to the implementation of the Quarter Quell.
    • The 52nd Games takes its story from Weeping Willow and focuses on its victor, Tristan Terrace.
  • 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, most notably Panem Reborn by Lauren "Laurier-Rose" ^note the writer of the 82nd, 91st, and 94th Hunger Games.
• Rhyme Theme Naming:
  • Nina and Dina Dalton, the District Two female tribute pair for the 95th Hunger Games (4th Quinquennial Quell).
  • Eugenia Ravinstill, Caesar's replacement following the Reclamation, has a sister named Petunia.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
  • Vita changed her name, joined the peacekeepers, and left District Two for an undisclosed district following her victory.
  • Tatianna becomes a peacekeeper in another district after most of District Two shuns her for killing her Career allies during the Bloodbath.
  • Haymitch attempts to escape District Twelve after the Reclaimers take over Panem. He’s shot after he attacks a Capitol guard.
  • Downplayed with Maxima after she mentors Ross to victory. She retires in a remote area near the borders of District Two, distancing herself both from the other Victors in her district and the career academy.
  • 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.
• Sea of Sand: Downplayed with the 72nd Hunger Games arena. The arena is covered in bright white sand dunes but has sprinklings of cool lakes in the valleys.
• Sewer Gator: These are featured in the 40th Games, which is a toxic sewer. One of them bites off the leg of the District One girl (Jade), before eating her alive.
• Shout-Out:
  • There is a District Five female tribute named Hermione during the 50th Hunger Games.
  • Discordia, the girl from Two during the 85th Hunger Games is seen singing "there's no business like show business", as the arena took place on Bluebell Janssen's property (a film studio) after she passes away following the 83rd Hunger Games.
  • There is a District Twelve male tribute during the 94th Hunger Games named Gunther.
  • "Joy" is one of the tribute names for the District Twelve Hunger Games during the Fifth Quinquennial Quell.
  • During the District 4 preliminaries of the 100th Hunger Games, Rubius informed the viewers that the island arena’s temperature is at "a sensible 74". Makes sense because Christian openly enjoys watching RuPaul's Drag Race outside of the Hunger Games.
• Screamer Prank: Christian adds one to the end of his video about the 82nd Hunger Games featuring the mannequins that prowled the arena, an abandoned mannequin factory.
• Series Continuity Error:
  • Following the District Six preliminaries for the 100th Hunger Games and District Fourteen's liberation from the Capitol, Christian said that all of the tributes were taken to the accommodation tower. It changed to President Gaul's mansion when the second part of the District Six Hunger Games video was released.
  • Delphine was said to be the only twelve-year-old Victor, but so was Baffin, who was acknowledged as the second twelve-year-old Victor in the history of the Hunger Games.
• Show Within a Show: Happens a few times to add to the series's lore.
  • Bluebell won a Snow Globe for playing President Snow's grandmother in On Top, a biographical film about President Snow.
  • Speaking of Bluebell, there is a biographical movie about her life called Legs Eleven.
  • There is a Capitol TV show for children called Tales of the Bunger Games.
• Spin-Offspring:
  • The 80th Hunger Games features tributes reaped from those who are descended from a Victor (or a sibling of one).
  • Rubius Dalton is Ennius's nephew who's the victor of the 86th Hunger Games.
  • Each District Hunger Games has at least one focus tribute who's implied to be related to a pre-Reclamation Victor. Or in the case of both District Two and District Twelve, a canon character (such as Sejanus Plinth and Jessup Diggs respectively).
• Spoiled Brat: 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 leads to him snapping and killing her.
• Stealth Insult: Ffion sings a beautiful-sounding Welsh song during her interview. It later turns out that the lyrics when translated, mocked the Capitol.
• To Absent Friends: During the 100th Hunger Games Grand Finale pre-games, Asha and her district victors (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.
• Together in Death: 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.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Deconstructed. Upon receiving luxurious sponsorships from the Capitol, Panatena becomes arrogant, entitled, and selfish to the point where her District partner, Sheaf, snaps and kills her.
• United Europe: Downplayed. The European Lands aren't a single country, but a few countries in Western Europe are united into one country. Examples include the Scandinavian Confederacy and Germania.
• Unreliable Narrator: The series is written from the Capitol's perspective. As a result, events that paint rebellious tributes like Katniss in a positive light are omitted. For example, it's heavily implied by the story and Christian that the Victor's Choice was no such thing and Katniss and Peeta were forced into the 76th Games. Supposed "technical difficulties" or "accidents" that result in rebellious tribute's deaths (such as Potenza from District 5's Games) are also common.
• Undignified Death: A common fate for District One's tributes between Estelle and Mirai's respective victories. Notable ones include both tributes being killed by someone impersonating a Career (90th Hunger Games), one tribute being ran over by a trash compactor and another dying in an explosion caused by it (91st Hunger Games), and both tributes falling into a piranha pit made by a twelve-year-old outlier (92nd Hunger Games)
• Urban Ruins: Several of the arenas are based on ruins of past cities, such as San Francisco (Claudia), New York City (Tiffany), and Aspen (Artemis)
• Variety Show: This is the case with the Victors’ Variety Show, which proceeded the 50th Games. Bluebell Janssen steals the spotlight by doing a comedic performance about her Hunger Games where she pretends to "strangle" her opponents (as played by other Victors).
• Villain Reveals the Secret: Downplayed with Neptune before Rue is about to finish him off, since that secret is an open one.
  Neptune: ...you now look like a lot like your mother...well how she used to, before my uncle killed her.
• Wham Episode: The Reclamation Games. The Reclaimers take back Panem for the Capitol, Peeta, Katniss, Johanna, and Enobaria all die, and the Hunger Games are brought back.
• Wham Line:
  • 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). Selena announces her intent to kill him in a different way.
    Selena: "You won't".
  • When the narrator is explaining the aftermath of the 100th Hunger Games including how several leading Capitolian commanders fled Panem for what was once England:
    Narrator: ...including your great-grandfather, Coriolanus Snow III.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Each Victor's Hunger Games ends with a brief description of what they did after their Hunger Games.
  • Subverted with Mohammed and Sioned following District Six's District Hunger Games during the Fifth Quinquennial Quell, where it's briefly mentioned what they have done after the British Isles was liberated.
  • Also subverted with District Twelve following District Four's preliminaries for the 100th Hunger Games, where it's also mentioned what the district has done and has become following their "liberation" by European forces.