President Snow wasn't too pleased with Haymitch and his actions involving the force field in the arena. As punishment for the stunt leading up to the win, Snow had Haymitch's mother, younger brother, and girlfriend killed. Basically, anyone he truly cared for was taken away from him mere weeks after his victory.
Winning the Hunger Games came at a great cost for Haymitch, as President Snow ordered the death of his family and girlfriend as punishment for his rebellion. Despite his rough exterior, Haymitch became a crucial ally and mentor for Katniss and played a key role in the rebellion against the Capitol.
The girl throws her axe and Haymitch dodges it. After that, the axe bounces off the arena force field causing the axe to hit her in the face, leaving Haymitch the victor.
He is not known to have ever married, or even been romantic with another woman after her. However, in the films he occasionally engaged in light flirtation with Effie Trinket, and the two kissed in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2.
As the lone District 12 mentor for Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark, it was revealed that Haymitch won the annual Hunger Games event when he was just 16 years old.
The Entire Life of Haymitch Abernathy Explained (From the Books)
How many kills did Haymitch have?
While in the woods, Haymitch runs into three career tributes. He's outmanned but not outgunned as he quickly kills two of them with his knife. The final tribute manages to disarm him, and as they go in for the kill fellow District 12 tribute Maysilee Donner kills the career with a dart.
When he was 16, Haymitch was reaped for the Second Quarter Quell, wherein four, instead of the normal amount of two tributes from each district participated. He became an ally to a girl named Maysilee Donner, the original owner of Katniss' symbolic mockingjay pin, but was later forced to watch her die.
In the arena, Maysilee saves Haymitch at one point, and after the two team up, they travel all the way to the arena's edge. Maysilee decides to go off on her own. Haymitch stays and ultimately discovers that a force field around the edge of the arena propels anything thrown at it back into the arena.
While, throughout the series, there's some chemistry between the two, nothing ever comes of the tension in Suzanne Collins' novels. Beyond the kiss, nothing happened between the two in the movies either.
He only uses Katniss because the Capitol is brutally oppressive and he realizes that, with Katniss's help, the rebels have a real chance of bringing it down. This sort of cynical pragmatism largely defines Haymitch, and it stems from a combination of realism and a rebellious spirit.
Finnick Odair is the youngest winner in history, winning at just 14 years old. District 2 has the most overall winners, producing "Career Tributes" and having the highest number of victors among all districts. Warning: Spoilers ahead for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes!
Johanna won the 71st Hunger Games by pretending to be weak and that made all the other tributes leave her for last. Then she unleashed her full potential and violently killed all the remaining tributes. Johanna, being the only remaining District 7 female victor, was Reaped for the 75th Hunger Games.
In The Hunger Games, Effie is an escort, which is a Capitol citizen tasked with traveling with those chosen for the Hunger Games and helping them prepare for their participation in the Games. The process begins when the escort of each district draws the names of one boy and one girl to participate.
Sadly, Phillip Seymour Hoffman died while filming the final installment in the series, and there was no way around the fact that his characters' role had to be lessened. Specifically he was meant to be in the scene in the film with Katniss where instead Haymitch reads a letter to her from Plutarch.
The fan-favorite relationship between Haymitch and Banks' character, Effie Trinket, took a big step forward at the end of Mockingjay - Part 2 when the former victor planted a serious smooch on the normally prim and polished Capitol chaperone, a move Harrelson admits was improvised by him while shooting the scene.
In the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 movie, Effie Trinket joined the rebels in District 13 and helped Katniss take her stand against the Capitol. However, the Capitol escort's experience during the war was far darker in the Hunger Games movies.
Both Morphlings die during the Hunger Games in Catching Fire, after the female tribute from District 6 protects Peeta from the monkey mutations that attack the tribute. She dies in Peeta's arms while looking at the sunset.
Later, the two learn President Snow considered their actions to be an act of rebellion against the Capitol. After their last interview, in which the two continue to affect their romantic feelings for one another, Peeta comes to the realization Katniss has staged her love for him all along.
With the last killing occuring before an hour had even passed, these games shocked the Capitol audience and are the quickest in the history of the games.
Snow Never Won Or Competed In The Hunger Games (But Did Help Lucy Gray Win) Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes reveals that Coriolanus Snow had been a mentor in the 10th Hunger Games, but this wasn't because he had been a victor.
Finnick Odair was reaped for the 65th Hunger Games at the age of 14. As a Career Tribute from District 4, he was already very well trained and was favored to win by many in The Capitol.
