Peeta Mellark Over the course of the series, Katniss spends a lot of time with Peeta, whom she distrusts at first because he is seen as her competition. She slowly grows to admire his understated skills, his goodness, and his willingness to work with her, despite their technically being enemies.
Her rivalry with Coin begins as a simple power struggle, Coin wanting more from Katniss than the traumatized teenager is willing to give, but it grows into a struggle for the ideals of a new world.
Cato was arguably the most dangerous competitor in the 74th Hunger Games. Not only was he a Career Tribute from District 2, but he was also absolutely ruthless. As one of the strongest opponents, Cato quickly emerged as Katniss' biggest adversary.
The Hunger Games Antagonists are Katniss' enemies. The main antagonist of part 1 is Cato, part 2 is Brutus and Enobaria and parts 3 and 4 is President Snow, who is the series' big bad.
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.
Clove envied Katniss' high training score (an 11 vs. her 10) and hated her for it, more so than her fellow Careers did. In fact, Clove had purposely targeted and almost killed Katniss twice, while the other tributes, including the other Careers, couldn't at all.
One notable part of the original The Hunger Games book is that Katniss and Peeta both leave the 74th Hunger Games with major injuries that the movie doesn't include. First, Katniss becomes deaf in one ear halfway through the Games after she blows up the Careers supplies. This occurs while she is allied with Rue.
The problem was that Gale was the one who created the firebomb devices. Despite not being fully responsible, Katniss couldn't overlook his possible involvement. Katniss returned to District 12, where she reunited with Peeta after she couldn't allow herself to fully forgive her childhood best friend.
Gale Hawthorne – An 18-year-old who is Katniss's best friend and hunting partner. Like Katniss, he has dark hair and gray eyes. His father died in the same explosion that killed Katniss's father. The pair have combined their respective talents, his at trapping and hers at archery, to become an effective team.
Brutus was the male Career tribute from District 2 for the 75th Hunger Games, and the victor of the 43rd Hunger Games. He went down in history as the tribute to get the most kills in one edition of the Games, killing eleven of his competitors.
However, Katniss killing President Coin was necessary to ensure that Katniss, the Capitol, and the 13 Districts were liberated from the fascist government of Panem.
Once the games begin, Peeta forms alliances with the Careers, which Katniss does not initially realize is part of his plot to protect her. After Peeta tells Katniss to run from Cato, Cato stabs Peeta in the thigh and leaves him for dead. Peeta lives, disguising himself as a rock, but suffers from blood poisoning.
Ever since he was five years old, Peeta had a huge crush on Katniss Everdeen. On the first day of school, Peeta's father pointed her out, saying that he wanted to marry her mother but ultimately didn't as she married a coal miner.
Haymitch Abernathy, the mentor for Katniss and Peeta in The Hunger Games, won his own Hunger Games through smart tactics and outsmarting his opponents. 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.
He is "broad-shouldered and strong." Part of Peeta's left leg was amputated following the 74th Hunger Games, forcing him to walk with the aid of a prosthetic leg for the rest of his life. In the 2012 film adaptation, his leg is never amputated.
For Peeta to look like he was tortured, many think he went on an extreme diet. But in reality, they used CGI to slim his face and make him look abused and beaten.
2. Also, when Peeta's leg is amputated and he has a prosthetic leg for the rest of the series, which is important when he goes back into the Games in Catching Fire.
Originally Answered: How many people did Katniss kile? In the 74th, she killed Glimmer, Marvel, and Cato. During the war, she had confirmed kills against Coin, a citizen in the capital, and numerous peace keepers.
District 12, in the Appalachian Mountains, is the poorest of the districts, and Katniss lives with her mother and sister in the poorest part of town, known as the Seam. Katniss's father, a coal miner, was killed in a mine explosion when Katniss was 11.
After revealing that he was inadvertently the person who killed Prim, Gale walks away from Katniss without another word. In the novels, it's clear from her confused feelings that she secretly doesn't want things to end that way. Nevertheless, they do, with her and Gale's relationship now going up in its own explosion.
Snow can't stand to see a young woman betray a young man's affection—his view of what happened 65 years ago. And so he takes out his old, festering wound on Katniss.
Katniss was stuck between her feelings for Gale and Peeta in The Hunger Games, but the books proved who she was always meant to end up with. Like many literary love triangles, Katniss, Peeta, and Gale's situation sparked a fevered debate.
Katniss was sickened to think of all the people that Gale sentenced to death, and she chose to stop the rebels from firing on them immediately. Katniss' dislike of Gale's plan demonstrates that she does not agree with his lust for violence, and viewers see that Gale has a vicious streak.
