Who is the Most Tragic Hunger Games Character?

In my opinion, Johanna was the most tragic. She was tortured, lost her loved ones, betrayed and left the world alone.

It’s been like 7 years and I still haven’t been able to get over Finnicks death. Still the hardest death to accept across all fantasy franchises

I think people underestimate just how tragic Annie's ending was, she was left mentally deranged and a single mother with the responsibility of raising a kid while suffering through PTSD and insanity without any support system. Finnick and Mags were the only support she had, and Finnick was the only one who can calm her down when she gets an episode and they're both gone.

To quote Haymitch-“there are no winners-there are survivors “. The brilliance of Suzanne Collins writing is how she could make us feel such sympathy for so many characters.

You know who had it bad? Prim. Prim was only seven (?) when she her dad died. She watched her sister starve and her mother go into shock. She got reaped for the hunger games and instead had her sister take her place. She had to spend the entire hunger games watching her sister nearly die on tv multiple times. When her sister was forced back into the arena again, Prim had to watch a Katniss blow up the arena. She had her home bombed. She watched her sister deal with Peeta. Hell, Prim was the one who talked to help Peeta. Prim was sent into battle a year to young and was blown up on the field. This girl had it tough.

I truly think people underestimate the pain and tragedy of Johanna's life because of the way she reacts to it. She seems so strong because of her, what else have I got to lose attitude, but really her story is a really tragic one where the beginning, middle and end were just terrible.

I feel like we didn’t touch enough on the abuse Peeta went through from his mom. She beat the shit out of him daily since he was very young. Most of these people had good families and sure it was horrible they were taken away, but Peeta never had a family

You can't tell me that Peeta was the same Peeta after Snow was done with him and all the torture he endured back at Capitol probably had huge consequences on him mentally

I like to believe that eventually Johanna was able to work through her fear of water and find at least one person to connect with.

I think an extra tragedy is that Peeta's whole family was killed in the district 12 bombing: both his parents and siblings. Outside of Katniss and Haymich, he had no one. I'd say maybe Haymich and Peeta are toe to toe, but they're both over Finnick for me; Haymich due to how long he suffered and Peeta over how brutally he did so

Sad that Finnick never got to meet his son in both the book and movies. 😢

I feel every tribute from District 4 had a tragic past connected to them. Annie Cresta went mad after seeing beheading survived because of her swimming skills that district 4 was good at due to water filling in the arena. Her mother was just free meat and she had no chance. Finnick was the youngest to win at 14 but was pushed into sex slavery but killed by lizard mutation in 2nd Rebellion

All Haymitch did was use his brain and his surroundings to win the Hunger Games. And how did Snow repay him for it?

In some ways, though, I might say Katniss and Prim's mother. She watched her best friend die in the second quarter quell. She got married to the man she loved and had two beautiful daughters, just to have her husband blown up in the mines. She went into extreme depression while Katniss and Prim struggled around her. She picked up again once Katniss learned to hunt, and was doing alright with her apothecary business before Prim was reaped and Katniss took her place. She had to watch her daughter nearly die dozens of times on live television, and deal with her coming home supposedly in love with Peeta. Then the whole thing repeated all over again with the third quarter quell, where she also had to deal with Katniss supposedly going to certain death while pregnant. Then her home got blown up, and she had to evacuate to District 13 with what was left of the District 12 population. She watched Katniss struggle with PTSD and saw her in and out of the hospital countless times. Then Katniss went to the Capitol, and was declared dead. Prim got permission to go to the capitol as well, before she was murdered indirectly by Gale. Not much happened to her personally, but she had to watch helplessly as her husband and daughter were killed while her other daughter suffered through extremely traumatic situations over and over again.

Peeta is so much more tragic than I thought, wow. I do have to agree that Johanna is the most tragic though, as she goes through so many trials in her life to never really see a brighter side or a happy moment. It is also especially tragic to see the toll it has taken on her mental health and her personality, similar to how we see with Haymitch but a lot more dramatic I think. Haymitch turns to alcoholism, but through that he finds some sort of comfort and identity. I don’t feel like Johanna ever really gets that comfort, even when on the morphling, and she never is able to find a real sense of identity either as it has been stripped from her over and over again… The Hunger Games is literally peak literature and no one can tell me different lmao

I did not experience the torture Johanna endured, however I endured and survived my own trauma that has left me with a similar difficulty taking showers and I appreciate how he keeps mentioning it repeatedly. It’s a horrible thing to live with, a terrible fear to have constantly hanging over me (and embarrassment, of course). I probably sympathize the most with Johanna and I wish the movies had done a better job of telling her story.

Given everything that Johanna went through, the rankinh of how tragic her story was is definately well deserved

5: Annie Alive but PTSD and Finnick died. 4: Peeta Always feeling neglected, playing games for years, lost his leg, brainwashed but survived and ended up with Katniss. 3: Haymitch PTSD, depression, alcoholic but managed to stay alive and have a bit of redemption and happyness after a long life of struggles. 2: Finnick Forced into prostitution and died at the Rebellion War. Sad ending! 1: Johanna Ended up totally alone, terrible PTSD, her heart full of hatred and feeling betrayed by everyone.

I think something else you should have considered with Peeta, was his life before the games. Every single person on that list, besides Peeta, had loved ones. Even Haymitch and Joanna, who lost their loved ones, at least HAD loved ones growing up. Peeta did not. He was abused his ENTIRE life. By his mom and the capital. But never lost that kindness that made Katniss fell in love with him, unlike Joanna and Haymitch, who became bitter.

When you realize that Annie had to deal with Finnicks death more than once as she thought he died when the peacekeepers bombed that building. And than she found out that he was still alive which gave her hope. And than she had to deal with it all over again. Off!!😰