76th Hunger Games

76th Hunger Games

Type

Official (cancelled)

Unofficial

Arena

Unknown arena (cancelled edition)

The Capitol (unofficial edition)

Duration

3 days

Appearance

MockingjayMockingjay - Part 2

Preceded by

75th Hunger Games(3rd Quarter Quell)

Followed by

Abolition of the Hunger Games

The 76th Hunger Games was not an official Hunger Games installment. Instead, it is associated with three distinct events: the cancelled regular edition of the Hunger Games, the Battle of the Capitol,[1] and a proposal introduced at the conclusion of the Second Rebellion.[2]

Contents

• 1 Cancelled Regular Edition
• 2 Battle of the Capitol
  • 2.1 Known "tributes"
    • 2.1.1 Survivors
    • 2.1.2 Casualties
• 3 Proposed Capitol Edition
  • 3.1 Voting breakdown
    • 3.1.1 Sequence of events
  • 3.2 Aftermath
• 4 Trivia
• 5 References

Cancelled Regular Edition

Had the 75th Hunger Games concluded normally with a victor, the 76th Hunger Games would have been the next regular edition of the Games following the Third Quarter Quell and its associated Victory Tour, scheduled to begin on Reaping Day, July 4th, 76 ADD. However, due to the outbreak of the Second Rebellion - which intensified through the summer and into the fall and winter of 75 ADD - the Games are presumed to have been postponed pending the outcome of the conflict. With multiple districts in open revolt and the Capitol directing all of its resources toward the war effort, the government lacked the capacity to prepare for the next Hunger Games, including construction of the arena that would have been used. Following the Rebel victory in the civil war and overthrow of the Snow regime, the Hunger Games were abolished by the new democratic administration, and the 76th Hunger Games (both the planned regular edition and proposed Capitol edition) were officially cancelled.

Battle of the Capitol

Main article: Battle of the Capitol Finnick Odair: "Ladies and gentlemen..."Katniss Everdeen: "Let the Seventy-sixth Hunger Games begin!" —Mockingjay, Chapter 18

After passing their exams, rebel soldiers assigned to Squad 451 were immediately directed to Command in District 13. There, they received a mission briefing from Plutarch Heavensbee on what to expect in the Capitol. Upon seeing a holographic map of the city marked with pods, victors Katniss Everdeen and Finnick Odair immediately recognized its similarity to a Hunger Games arena, and they compared the upcoming battle to a 76th Hunger Games.[1]

The conflict continued to bring back memories of the Games for Katniss and Peeta Mellark.[3][4] Even Capitol media drew on the comparison: they showed images of the presumed-dead Squad 451 on television over the sounds of the anthem,[5] as was the practice with each day's dead tributes every evening inside the arena.[6]

Known "tributes"

"This time Snow will be a player, too." —Katniss to Finnick[src]

"Tributes" are listed from the latest known death to the earliest, mimicking the placing of a typical Hunger Games. Members of Squad 451 are marked with an asterisk (*).

Survivors

• Katniss Everdeen,* Peeta Mellark,* and Gale Hawthorne* - District 12
• Pollux* and Cressida* - The Capitol

Casualties

• Coriolanus Snow - The Capitol - Either choked on his own blood, or was trampled/lynched by the crowd.[7]
• Alma Coin - District 13 - Shot with an arrow in the chest by Katniss during Snow's public execution[2]
• Primrose Everdeen - District 12 - Killed coming to the aid of the wounded in the City Circle bombing[8]
• Numerous Capitol children, Peacekeepers, and District 13 medics - Incinerated by the City Circle bombing.[8][9]
• Numerous Capitol refugees - Shot by either by rebels, collateral bombings, or killed by a number of different pods[9]
• Unidentified Capitol woman - Shot by Katniss with an arrow in her home.[10]
• Finnick Odair* - District 4 - Decapitated by lizard mutts.[10]
• Homes* (District 13) - Killed by mutts.[10]
• Castor* (The Capitol) - Killed by mutts.[10]
• Jackson* and Leeg 1* - District 13 - Died trying to hold off mutts at the Meat Grinder[10]
• Messalla* - The Capitol - Killed by a pod; immobilized by a beam that melted off his flesh[10]
• Mitchell* - District 13 - Killed when Peeta pushed him on top of a pod; caught and speared in a net of barbed wire[4]
• Boggs* - District 13 - Legs blown off by an explosive pod;[3] died moments later from blood loss.[4]
• Leeg 2* - District 13 - Killed by a mislabeled pod that sent out a "sunburst of metal darts", with one shooting through her head.[1]

Proposed Capitol Edition

After the end of the civil war, there were calls amongst the victorious rebels for the "complete annihilation" of Capitol citizens. The interim government of Panem opposed this idea, not on moral grounds, but in order to maintain a sustainable population. District 13's President Alma Coin, who had assumed the post of interim President for the whole country, put forward a proposal. However, she and her "colleagues" could not come to a consensus, so it was instead put to a vote among the seven known surviving victors.[2]

During a meeting with the victors, Coin proposed a "final, symbolic" Hunger Games, where tributes would be reaped from the children of the Capitol's highest officials and those associated with the Hunger Games. If it was approved, the new Games would be announced with the support of the victors, but their votes would remain anonymous for their own security.[2]

Voting breakdown

Below is a table illustrating the division of votes.

For	Against
Victors	Johanna Mason	Peeta Mellark
	Enobaria	Annie Cresta
	Katniss Everdeen	Beetee Latier
	Haymitch Abernathy
Total	4	3

Sequence of events

Peeta initially questioned whether the proposal was a joke, and then immediately rejected it. He was rebuffed by Johanna, who said it seemed "fair", and even put in that President Snow had a granddaughter. Enobaria also voted in favor, saying to "Let them have a taste of their own medicine."[2]

When Peeta appealed to the other victors, stating that this was the reason they rebelled, Annie voted no with him. She also put in that Finnick would have voted against it too. Johanna replied that Finnick couldn't because "Snow's mutts killed him." Next, Beetee cast a third vote against the proposal. He said that it would "set a bad precedent", and he emphasized the necessity of unity and not seeing each other as enemies.[2]

Internally, Katniss was revolted; she took the idea as a sign that Coin would continue the same evils of Snow's regime. She voted in favor, though, in order to gain Coin's trust, and she claimed it was "for Prim". Furious, Peeta rounded on Haymitch with an impassioned plea about the atrocity they would be party to if they approved of this. However, Haymitch caught onto Katniss' line of thinking and finally voted in favor of another Hunger Games.[2]

Aftermath

Once all the votes were cast, the proposal was approved by a narrow 4-3 majority. However, the approved Games were never carried out when Katniss assassinated Coin later that day, at what would have been the execution of President Snow.[2] After an emergency election, Commander Paylor became Panem's new president,[7] and the plan for the Capitol Hunger Games were presumably scrapped when the Hunger Games were abolished, and all previous arenas were destroyed to make way for memorials.[11]

Trivia

• Most known casualties of the Battle of the Capitol were from District 13 or the Capitol itself.
  • Nine out of fourteen members of Squad 451 died: seven soldiers— six of them from District 13— and two members of the propaganda film crew, both from the Capitol.
• Snow's granddaughter was only mentioned once in Mockingjay,[2] but she appeared in a minor role in the films as an apparent fan of Katniss and Peeta.[12][13]

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mockingjay, Chapter 18
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Mockingjay, Chapter 26
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Mockingjay, Chapter 19
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Mockingjay, Chapter 20
5. ↑ Mockingjay, Chapter 21
6. ↑ The Hunger Games, Chapter 11
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Mockingjay, Chapter 27
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Mockingjay, Chapter 25
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Mockingjay, Chapter 24
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Mockingjay, Chapter 22
11. ↑ Mockingjay, Epilogue
12. ↑ The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
13. ↑ The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1