The Hunger Games Wiki
Register
Advertisement
"And this moment here... this is a moment that you never forget. The moment when the tribute becomes a victor."
Caesar Flickerman[src]

Victors are tributes who have won previous Hunger Games. Because of this, they receive income from the Capitol for life, are given a special status in their districts and are allowed to live in the wealthiest part of their district called the Victors' Village with their families. Despite the privileges they enjoy, their involvement in the Hunger Games lasts for a lifetime, and they are placed under strict surveillance to ensure that they do not encourage rebellion against the Capitol. Their primary duty as victors is that they must mentor future tributes from their district through the Hunger Games.

Life as a victor[]

1st to 10th Hunger Games[]

In the past, during the 1st to 10th Hunger Games, victors were not given any specific importance or care by the Capitol, with the first few victors being generally thrown back to their home districts after winning and surviving their individual Games and were left to resume their old lives. It was only during and after the 11th Hunger Games that victors were given specific roles and duties that put them into the Capitol's spotlight and forced them to take a bigger role in future Games. These new changes also gave victors compensation and rewards for their victories in an attempt to entice a better crop of tributes to volunteer for future Games.

Public Image[]

Katniss caesar quarter quell interview

Katniss wearing a wedding dress in her interview for the 75th Hunger Games to keep up the star-crossed lovers image.

Victors are often forced to put on false personas for the Capitol audience, such as Finnick Odair's flirtatiousness, or Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark's inseparable love. They also adopt hobbies or talents they can be interviewed about by the Capitol media. Peeta's talent was painting, but Katniss's skill at hunting was illegal and she was unwilling to sing, so she tried several alternatives from a list provided by Effie Trinket: cooking, flower arranging, and playing the flute. Katniss eventually settled on faking a passion for fashion design. Her stylist, Cinna, made things himself for her to pass off as her work.[1]

The Victory Tour[]

The Victory Tour, first implemented in the 11th Hunger Games, occurs almost midway between the annual Hunger Games, and is held to keep the memory of the year's Games fresh in everyone's mind.[2] They start in the highest numbered district and count down, skipping the victor's district and saving it for last. In each district, the victor gives a speech commemorating said district's fallen tributes, followed by a dinner with the district's leaders. Prior to returning to their resident district, the victor stops in the Capitol for an interview following up on their life after the Games, with the night concluding with a lavish party at the president's mansion. The Victory Tour concludes with the Capitol throwing a huge feast for the victor's district where all the residents attend.

Trauma[]

Most, if not all, of the victors suffer from some form of post-traumatic stress as a result of their experiences in the Games. For example, both Katniss and Peeta endure nightmares,[3][4] and Annie Cresta is notably mentally unstable even for a victor.[5]

Substance abuse[]

Many victors turn to alcohol or drugs after they have won their Games as a means of coping. Some examples can be seen with Haymitch Abernathy or Chaff and their heavy drinking, and the pair from District 6 with their addiction to morphling. These addictions stem from the traumatic experiences and memories of the Games, the demands that the Capitol continues to impose on them, the death penalty on them or their families, and, for those who become mentors, having to train new tributes every year which more likely will end up dying in their Games.

Sex trafficking[]

Highly attractive and desirable victors are often sexually trafficked by President Snow to citizens of the Capitol.[6]

Family[]

The families of victors can be used as leverage to force them to bend to the Capitol's will. Katniss also mentioned that the children of victors are reaped to participate in the Hunger Games suspiciously often.[7]

Mentorship[]

Main article: Mentors

While a victor is not obligated to work as part of their district's industry, one of their primary duties is to serve as a mentor for future tributes. In this role, the mentor is to provide tactical advice on how to survive the Games, assess their pre-existing skills and talents and how best to display them during training and their interview, and serve as a lifeline for their tributes once the Games have started by attracting sponsors to finance sponsor gifts in the arena, such as food, medicine, supplies, and weapons. This last duty is one of the most crucial to their mentorship duties, as their relative success (or failure) at attracting sponsors is dependent on the impression their tributes make during training and interviews and their performance in the Games themselves, which can have an enormous impact on whether their tribute dies or survives long enough to be crowned victor themselves.

Victorsbanner full

The main 11 victors in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Third Quarter Quell[]

While victors are exempted from further eligibility in the reaping, this changed for the 75th Hunger Games. The special rule for the third Quarter Quell stipulated that, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them could not overcome the power of the Capitol, the tributes would be selected from the existing pool of victors. Thus, twenty-four victors across twelve districts were forced to participate in the Hunger Games for a second time.[8]

Known victors[]

There have been 75 victors throughout the history of the Hunger Games: one for each year from the 1st through 73rd, and then an unprecedented double victory in the 74th Hunger Games.[9] No victor was crowned for the 75th Hunger Games.[10] Aside from Finnick Odair, all victors were between the ages of 15 and 18 at the time of their victory.[11]

At the time of the reaping, 59 victors were still alive, so sixteen died prior to the third Quarter Quell. The Career districts-- District 1, District 2, and District 4—had the most victors, but each district had at least one surviving male and female.[12] Eighteen more died in the 75th Hunger Games,[10] and by the end of the Second Rebellion, only seven victors were still alive: Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Johanna Mason, Beetee Latier, Haymitch Abernathy, Annie Cresta, and Enobaria. This means that another 34 died during the Victors' Purge and the rebellion.[13]

In The Hunger Games trilogy, only 27 victors were initially revealed, with two more (Porter Millicent Tripp and Augustus Braun) revealed by promotional materials for the films, and another being revealed in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes for a total of 30 known victors. There are still 45 unknown victors. Italicized details, such as rough estimates for ages or Hunger Games, are speculative. Ages are only given regarding the age at which a given character appears in canon; for example, if they are only seen in their Victory Tour posters, their age will be given according to how old they were then.

Hunger Games Victor District Status Age Strategy and additional notes
#10 Lucy Gray Baird D12 Presumed deceased 16[14] Hid for the duration of the Games before poisoning her victims. One of sixteen victors known or presumed to be dead prior to the third Quell.
#11 Mags Flanagan D4 Deceased 16 (11th)[15]
80 (75th)[12]
Mags was the first victor to embark on a Victory Tour.[16]
12 - 23 Woof D8 Elderly[17]
26 - 33 Seeder D11 Around 60[11]
31 - 43 Beetee Latier D3 Alive Mid-forties or older[17] He won using electric traps to electrocute six tributes at once.[18]
35 - 40 District 9 female (75th HG) D9 Deceased
#38 Porter Millicent Tripp D5 Presumed deceased 15-18 Appears in promotional materials for the films.[19]
40 - 49 District 5 male (75th HG) Deceased
40 - 49 District 9 male (75th HG) D9
40 - 53 Lyme D2 Middle-aged Career Tribute.[20]
40 - 53 Brutus At least 40[12] Career Tribute.[12]
#45 Chaff D11 45–48
48 - 53 Wiress D3 Early 40s[17]
#50 Haymitch Abernathy D12 Alive 16 (50th)

40 (THG)

Skilled with a knife, had an alliance with Maysilee Donner, and used a force field to kill an opponent with her own axe in the final showdown.[12]
54 - 59 Blight D7 Deceased
55 - 61 District 5 female (75th HG) D5
55 - 61 District 6 female (75th HG) D6 Hid with camouflage.[18]
55 - 61 Cecelia D8 About 30[12]
57 - 61 District 10 female (75th HG) D10
#62 Enobaria D2 Alive 28–31 Career. Used her teeth to rip another tribute's throat out.[17]
#63 Gloss D1 Deceased 27–30 Career. Skilled with throwing knives.[18]
#64 Cashmere 26–29
#65 Finnick Odair D4 14 (65th)[11]

24 (75th)

Career. Received many sponsors and was gifted a trident in the arena. Used nets to catch and kill other tributes. Youngest known victor at the age of 14.[11]
66 - 68 District 6 male (75th HG) D6 Hid with camouflage.[18]
66 - 68 District 10 male (75th HG) D10
#67 Augustus Braun D1 Presumed deceased 15-18 (67th) Career. Appears in promotional materials for the films.[19]
#70 Annie Cresta D4 Alive 18 (70th)

23 (75th)

Presumed Career. As the best swimmer, she outlasted others in a flood.[5]
#71 Johanna Mason D7 21[21] Acted weak to divert attention. When a handful of tributes were left, she revealed herself as a vicious killer.[11][22]
#74 Katniss Everdeen D12 16 (74th)[23]

17 (75th)[24]

Archery skills. Used a suicide threat to force the Gamemakers to let her and Peeta both win.[9][25]
#74 Peeta Mellark Camouflage skills and strength. Joined the Careers. Used a suicide threat to force the Gamemakers to let him and Katniss both win.[9][25]

Unknown victors[]

Books[]

  • Katniss recalled a male victor from "a few years ago" who only received a training score of three.[26]
  • At some point in the history of the Games, District 7 had at least one female victor other than Johanna, as she was specified as being the only "living" female victor from her district.[12]
  • Since Effie only sent Katniss and Peeta tapes of victors they might have had to face in the third Quarter Quell, Katniss speculated that the victor of the 25th Hunger Games was deceased by then.[12]

Films[]

  • The propaganda video shown at the District 12 reaping in the first film appears to show four victors, two female and two male. In order of appearance, they were shown with a sword, a shield, a harpoon, and no weapon.[25]
  • In an early draft of the first film script, Caesar Flickerman mentioned to Cato during his interview that District 2 had produced the previous two victors (of the 72nd and 73rd Hunger Games, respectively).[27]

Film extras[]

All of the following victors are presumed deceased due to the Victors' Purge. As above, italicized details are speculative and ages are given according to how old the characters were when they appeared in canon.

Victor District Age Additional notes
Unnamed male D2 15-18 (73rd) Seen on television in The Hunger Games film. He won by killing his last opponent with a brick.[25] The ruined city arena lines up with the original script,[25] prompting speculation that this was the victor of the 73rd Hunger Games.
Unnamed male Extra in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.[28]
Unnamed female
Unnamed female Middle-aged Extra in Catching Fire. Only seen in a behind the scenes photo.[29]
Unnamed male D4 Elderly Extra in Catching Fire.[18]
Unnamed male Middle-aged Extra in Catching Fire. Only seen in a behind the scenes featurette.[30]
Unnamed male
Unnamed female D6 Extra in Catching Fire. Only seen in behind the scenes photos.[31]
Unnamed male Elderly

Additionally, Peacekeepers executed two people from District 8 and three people from District 11 in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1.[32] They are commonly speculated to have been victors due to the Victors' Purge.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • The youngest known victor was Finnick Odair, who won his Games at just 14 years old.[11]
  • Of the thirty known victors, there have been 16 female (53.3%) and 14 male victors (46.7%).
  • District 1 is the only district in the trilogy known to have tributes win for two consecutive years: Gloss and Cashmere. They are also the only known sibling victors.[12]
    • However, if we include the early draft of the film script, District 2 had two consecutive victors leading up to the 74th Hunger Games.[27]
  • Prior to the 74th Hunger Games, District 12 only had one surviving victor, the least in all of Panem.[23] But by the end of the war, they had the most surviving victors at three (Katniss, Peeta, and Haymitch). The other four remaining victors (Enobaria, Beetee, Annie, and Johanna) were left as the only ones still living from each of their districts (2, 3, 4, and 7, respectively). All victors from 1, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, and 11 were wiped out.[13]

References[]

  1. Catching Fire, Chapter 3
  2. Catching Fire, Chapter 1
  3. Catching Fire, Chapter 5
  4. Catching Fire, Chapter 6
  5. 5.0 5.1 Catching Fire, Chapter 24
  6. Mockingjay, Chapter 12
  7. Catching Fire, Chapter 4
  8. Catching Fire, Chapter 12
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 The Hunger Games, Chapter 25
  10. 10.0 10.1 Catching Fire, Chapter 27
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 Catching Fire, Chapter 15
  12. 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 12.4 12.5 12.6 12.7 12.8 Catching Fire, Chapter 14
  13. 13.0 13.1 Mockingjay, Chapter 26
  14. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Chapter 6
  15. https://capitolcouture.tumblr.com/post/133013089492/
  16. https://twitter.com/TheHungerGames/status/664521466885439488
  17. 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 Catching Fire, Chapter 16
  18. 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
  19. 19.0 19.1 Capitol Couture
  20. Mockingjay, Chapter 14
  21. https://entertainment.time.com/2013/11/20/i-was-destined-to-write-a-gladiator-game-a-conversation-with-suzanne-collins-and-francis-lawrence/
  22. The Hunger Games, Chapter 3
  23. 23.0 23.1 The Hunger Games, Chapter 1
  24. Catching Fire, Chapter 23
  25. 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4 The Hunger Games (film)
  26. The Hunger Games, Chapter 8
  27. 27.0 27.1 https://www.screenwritersnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/The-Hunger-Games-1-Script.pdf
  28. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1951264/fullcredits
  29. File:EnobariaReaping.png
  30. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Friend or Foe (behind the scenes featurette)
  31. http://www.thehungergamers.com/2012/10/photos-filming-of-district-6-reaping.html
  32. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
The Hunger Games trilogy
Novels The Hunger GamesCatching FireMockingjay
Main Characters Katniss EverdeenPeeta MellarkGale HawthorneHaymitch AbernathyEffie Trinket
Supporting Characters Primrose EverdeenPresident SnowCinnaMrs. EverdeenMr. EverdeenPresident CoinClaudius TemplesmithCaesar FlickermanMadge UnderseePaylorPlutarch HeavensbeeSeneca Crane
Tributes MarvelGlimmerCatoCloveFoxfaceThreshRueMaysilee DonnerTitus
Past Victors Augustus BraunAnnie CrestaBeetee LatierBlightBrutusCashmereCeceliaChaffEnobariaFinnick OdairGlossJohanna MasonLymeMags FlanaganMorphlingsPorter Millicent TrippSeederWiressWoof
Groups RebellionGamemakersPrep teamTributesVictors
Locations PanemThe CapitolDistrict 1District 2District 3District 4District 5District 6District 7District 8District 9District 10District 11District 12District 13
Behind the Scenes Suzanne CollinsGary RossFrancis Lawrence
Films The Hunger Games (film)Catching Fire (film)Mockingjay - Part 1Mockingjay - Part 2
Advertisement