Summary. President Coin's manipulative tactics enabled her to take power in Panem, but she was even worse than President Snow. Coin's black-and-white thinking led her to condemn anyone associated with the Capitol, including Peeta.
Alma Coin was the true villain of The Hunger Games, with Katniss actually seeing her as more of a threat than Coriolanus Snow. At the same time, it was Snow who was made out to be the bad guy in previous movies, making some question why Katniss killed Coin and spared him.
Snow laughs after Katniss killed Coin because he enjoys the irony of the situation. He avoided the official execution ceremony, even though Panem's citizens still take their revenge on him, while Katniss ends up snatching away the victory and power that Coin thinks she has successfully secured.
The Life of President Alma Coin: The Real Villain of the Story (Hunger Games Explained)
Why did Snow turn evil?
Snow is revealed to have been heavily influenced by the nihilistic and misanthropic ideologies of Dr. Gaul. He has no qualms about hurting or killing those he perceives as threats to his power, and is mentioned to have used poison on his political opponents.
Let's get straight to the point — Katniss killed Coin because she was just as ruthless as Snow. After the Mockingjay and Gale (Liam Hemsworth) led a group of rebels to Snow's mansion, a hovercraft arrived and dropped bombs into the crowd of children.
Along the way, Snow goes on a journey of self-discovery as he grapples with his blossoming feelings for Lucy Gray and his hunger for power. Though he straddles the line of good and evil throughout the film, he eventually transforms into the villainous President Snow we all know by the end of the movie.
Before the Capitol battle, Gale had explained to Katniss his series of bombs designed to feed off human compassion: a small bomb would go off, and then when medical aid rushed in, a second bomb would go off, killing those people as well. Incidentally, it's this exact type of bomb that took Prim's life.
Coin feels threatened by Katniss' rebellious nature. In the end, her own delusional idea of Panem is her undoing, since she ignorantly trusts that Katniss is okay with her being the new president of Panem.
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.
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.
What Makes Her Close to Being Pure Evil? She is shown to have good intentions and wanted to have what was best for Panem, but later this is completely overshadowed by her arrogance, prejudice, delusions, and thirst for power that it no longer becomes a redeeming quality.
She remembers that they did indeed promise not to lie to each other anymore, and she realizes that Snow wasn't lying to her about Coin's role in the parachute bombing. He has no reason to lie to Katniss. His death is certain, but the future of the Capitol is not.
Coriolanus Snow Believed He Loved Lucy Gray - But It Was a Possessive Love. Though it's a little more complicated to tell without his internal dialogue in the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes movie, the book reveals that Coriolanus legitimately believed that he was in love—especially when they were in District 12.
Does Lucy Gray survive? In the book and the movie, Lucy Gray's fate is never confirmed. It's possible that she could have been wounded or even killed by a bullet, considering Coriolanus's frantic firing at the last location she had presumably been at.
Gale didn't mean for his bombs to murder innocent children but that doesn't matter because he was willing to do anything to win the war and the includes the mass murder of children. It's important that Gale's bombs killed Prim because it shows that there are consequences to praying on human kindness.
There was no question that Katniss shared some romantic feelings for Gale during The Hunger Games franchise. Sadly, however, Katniss began to see Gale as a representation of war and anger as most of Panem's 13 Districts embarked on the Second Rebellion.
In the end, it is Gale's conviction in the necessity of sacrifice pitted against Katniss' moral incoherence that truly severs any relationship they had or could ever have. Primrose, Katniss' sister, is killed by a firebomb that may have been designed by Gale.
Lucy Gray follows, an argument ensues and Coriolanus ends up shooting the mayor's daughter after she threatens to expose them, and another rebel named Spruce kills her boyfriend.
Katniss and Lucy Gray are not related beyond their shared District 12 and loving hearts. Fan speculation that the two are related is tantalizing, especially following Lucy Gray's love affair with young Snow. "I've heard that fan theory often. But it's not true," says director Francis Lawrence.
While they were walking away from District 12 making their escape, Coriolanus made a comment about having killed three people. Lucy Gray quickly did the math and realized that she had only known about two of them, and that Coriolanus had been lying to her, sowing doubt in her mind about him and their plan.
Coin's plans to reinstate the Hunger Games for Capitol children showed her willingness to manipulate and sacrifice lives, just like Snow. President Coin presented herself as Panem's salvation in The Hunger Games, but several moments in Mockingjay hinted that she was an even worse villain than President Snow.
Coin wants to remain in power after the revolution, and if Katniss isn't going to support Coin's leadership, then Coin will use her in whatever way she can to give the rebellion momentum. For now, that might mean turning Katniss into a martyr. For everyone's safety, the crew sets up an around-the-clock guard on Peeta.
President Snow became evil because he's always been driven by the principle that, if a cause is just enough, then anything done in pursuit of it is justified. Unfortunately for the people of Panem, Snow believed the Capitol's dominance of the other districts was among the most just causes of all.
