If Katniss chose to kill Snow instead, Coin would have still been as tyrannical as him and possibly even worse. Katniss herself realizes this and shoots Coin instead of Snow during his execution. Unlike the main villain Coriolanus Snow, she has no redeeming qualities, care for others, or tragedy.
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.
Her surname might be related to the saying "two sides of the same coin", since she is superficially different from Snow, but the two presidents are fundamentally similar in their ruthless pursuit of power.
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.
One of the more evident indications that President Coin was a villain was her decision to put Peeta on Katniss' squad when District 13 took the Capitol. It was clear to everyone involved—even those loyal to her—that Coin's only motivation for this would be to eliminate the Mockingjay entirely.
What if Katniss Killed Snow Instead of Coin (Hunger Games Theory/ Fan Fiction)
Was President Snow lying about Coin?
Katniss searches his eyes for signs of emotion but only finds amusement in them. 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.
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.
Answer and Explanation: Prim is killed by a bomb at the very end of the battle. Alma Coin sees an opportunity to turn the Capitol troops against Snow, and she decides the resulting loss of life from her plan is a worthwhile price to pay.
After reading the book and watching the film, it seems clear that Lucy Gray realizes Snow was responsible for the death of his friend Sejanus Plinth (Josh Andrés Rivera). If Snow could sell his best friend down the river for personal gain, it was only a matter of time until he did the same with her.
It is likely that he is a relative of Hilarius Heavensbee. In the Mockingjay - Part 2, Plutarch appears to smile as he looks at Coin's dead body, suggesting that he approved of her death.
Peeta is held back while the other rebels are sent to attack the Capitol, but he is later sent to join them as a member of Katniss's group of sharpshooters, which Katniss suspects is because President Coin sees her as a political rival and wants Peeta to kill her.
Boggs reveals that Coin had wanted to save Peeta from the arena instead of Katniss. Katniss represents a threat to Coin, and Katniss made the situation worse by forcing Coin to rescue the other victors. Boggs reminds Katniss that she has outlived her usefulness to Coin.
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.
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.
Katniss speculates that Coin deliberately sent Prim to die in the Capitol bombing in order to fully gain her trust, but it's never outright confirmed or denied.
Katniss blamed Gale for the death of Prim. She would never be able to look at him again without thinking of his part in her death. Gale was the best friend he could have been to her at that moment. He knew her so perfectly to understand this, he knew his chance with her had passed.
At an unknown point in time years before the 74th Hunger Games, she was personally fired by Snow, the stated reason being due to her being too surgically enhanced.
For one thing, Songbirds & Snakes is set 64 years before Katniss volunteers as tribute. That means there's probably a generation or two between Lucy Gray and Katniss if they are related. Fans also know who Katniss' mother is, so that rules out Lucy Gray being her mom.
Peeta, Annie, and Beetee vote no, while Johanna and Enobaria vote yes. After some thought, Katniss demands to kill Snow. Once she receives an agreement, she votes yes, for Prim. Realizing something is up (as Katniss would never do that), Haymitch votes yes, too.
Gale was responsible for creating weapons that would trigger a second wave of bombs to target first responders and combat healers. This invention potentially ended up killing Prim, but even if he wasn't directly responsible, Katniss found this tactic so abhorrent that she lost her affection for him.
He is poor. His father, deemed a war hero after the District's rebellion, and his mother dying in child birth has left Coriolanus an orphan. There is no money, but his dream is to attend university, and secure a good, safe job to enable him to support his family.
Snow was 18 during the 10th Hunger Games, making him 8 when the first Hunger Games took place. This means that during the 74th Hunger Games, he was indeed 82 (74+8). So he died at 83 in "The Mockingjay," since that was during the 75th Hunger Games...
Though Lucy Gray was never heard from again after The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, and all memories of her and the 10th Hunger Games were wiped from Panem, she nevertheless played an important role in the Second Rebellion. This role was perhaps the most obvious in her song.
