Despite being a citizen of the Capitol, Effie served as a key ally to Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. Her support for the pair went well beyond her job description before becoming involved in the Second Rebellion.
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.
While Effie Trinket is one of the most beloved characters in The Hunger Games, she's also inadvertently a cruel member of the Capitol. As a villain with heroic moments, she genuinely cares about Katniss and wishes the best for her. However, the way Effie smiles throughout the Reaping can't be anything but inhumane.
Effie Trinket is the escort for the District 12 tributes, acting as an advisor to Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark while she accompanies them to the Capitol. By the end of Mockingjay, she is the only escort from the 74th and 75th Hunger Games alive after the Second Rebellion.
Effie cares a lot for her own looks and career, however after the Games, it becomes clear that she does, in fact, care for Katniss and Peeta. She can be a lovely person, but she becomes emotional very quick.
Cato sees his victory in the Hunger Games as the correct and natural outcome – after all, he's been preparing his whole life, and tributes from Districts 1 and 2 are most likely to be winners. But Katniss's high score in training, uncommon for District 12 tributes, earns Cato's attention and ire.
Katniss feels betrayed, most of all by Haymitch, who used her and Peeta. Eventually she wakes to find Gale there. He's badly injured and tells her the Capitol bombed District 12 after the Games. He got Prim and Katniss's mother out in time, but the District 12 is gone.
This interaction was so surprising to fans because it's not in the books at all. 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.
Katniss's focus on survival and her family's safety prevented her from fully considering romance, but her feelings for Peeta and Gale diverged in the end. Katniss ultimately chose Peeta because he understood her trauma and she didn't want to lose him, proving her love for him.
Effie Trinket does not die in Mockingjay. She is released along with the Capitol's other political prisoners when President Snow is removed from power. She helps Katniss prepare for Snow's execution, filling the role of Cinna, while lacking his deep empathy for Katniss.
She lost some of her shallow nature as the series progresses, eventually defecting from the Capitol during the Rebellion while captured and tortured. She eventually felt extreme guilt over her actions and almost became an alcoholic like Haymitch, but reminded herself to stay strong so to not be like him.
As Katniss gets to know Finnick during the Quarter Quell, she sees he is in fact loyal, dutiful, and caring. For example, despite Mags being a burden on his chances of survival, Finnick does everything he can to keep the eighty-year-old alive because, as we learn, she was his mentor and he genuinely cares about her.
Katniss killed acting President Alma Coin instead, and after she was released from custody, the former victor was allowed to return to District 12. Effie said her goodbyes to her District 12 allies, and presumably returned to her life in the Capitol.
Peeta used the dyes to paint a picture of Rue after Katniss covered her with flowers when she died. He says he wants to hold them accountable for killing Rue, and Effie tells him that that kind of thinking is forbidden. Katniss then tells the team she hung a dummy of Seneca Crane.
In The Hunger Games, Effie Trinket is a shapeshifter. She's the herald who signals the protagonist's crossing over into another world. She is also a shadow (the protagonist's opposite). Her role in the story changes; she starts out as the other (or the enemy) and becomes a friend (or helper).
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.
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.
While popular ships like Katniss/Peeta and Katniss/Gale generally come to mind first when discussing romantic pairings in the world of Panem, the combinations of couples that fans have shipped are many. One of those ships, in particular, is Cato and Clove (also known by the portmanteau "Clato").
By killing Coin, Katniss ensured a chance for a peaceful and fair country, avenged her sister's death, and liberated Panem from the fascist government. The Hunger Games franchise is still an iconic series of books and movies, with the latter truly cementing the property as an international phenomenon.
Although she will never know for sure, Katniss does recognize that she cannot be with Gale. She will never be able to forgive him for his idea — the parachute bombs — that killed Prim.
His feelings and memories are distorted with hallucinogenic tracker jacker venom, in a mind-control technique known as "Hijacking." The Capitol uses this method to turn Peeta against Katniss, making him believe that she is not only responsible for the death of his family, friends and the destruction of District 12, but ...
In the 74th Hunger Games, Clove was the only Career tribute who came close to killing Katniss twice — at the Bloodbath and at the Feast, and certainly seemed to have a deep hatred for her, perhaps because Katniss received a higher score than her.
She loved Cato, and he loved her, but they couldn't tell anyone. No one would sponsor a Career Tribute who loved anyone, especially someone in the arena with them. They had tried to keep it secret, but, since they see the Comittee of Victors every day in training, it's hard to keep anything secret from them.
