Cato

'''"I can still do this. One more kill. It's the only thing I'm good at, to bring pride to my district, not that it matters."

- Cato while holding Peeta hostage. '''

Cato is the main antagonist of the first book The Hunger Games.

He was portrayed by Alexander Ludwig.

Biography
Katniss considers Cato to be her and Peeta's most fearsome opponent in The 74th annual Hunger Games because of his size and strength, skill with many weapons, and savage pleasure in killing. He is from District 2, a Career district where they focus on the military and have more food than even poorer districts due to its loyalty. These weathier districts like District 2, can afford to train kids for Hunger Games. Cato has been training for his entire life and volunteered for the Hunger Games, alongside Katniss. Being a Career, he teams up with the other career tributes; Marvel, Clove and Glimmer (in The hunger games book also District 4 female tribute), to destroy other tributes. He's the leader of the career group. In the bloodbath, he killed at least four people. His method of killing is almost always by knife or sword, though he did kill one of his own Careers by snapping his neck.

Like most Careers, Cato has complete confidence in his abilities and expects that he will be the victor. Katniss believes he is not completely sane after seeing his reaction to the destruction of the Careers' food supply, and knowing that he already wanted to fight with other tributes even before the games started. In addition, his only motivation is pride for his own district. Like most tributes, he is likely clueless of how evil President Snow is. In the movie he is 18 years old, though in the book his age was 16. He's 6'2 tall and weights 185 pounds. Despite his brutality, it is likely that he showed remorse inside, though was unable to reach it.

He is the last tribute to die. During the finale of the Games, he attemps to choke Peeta, but Katniss shoots him to his hand, causing him to let go off Peeta, and Peeta pushing him to the wolf muttations—fearsome creatures created in the Capitol—who prolong his death to the point that, when Katniss finally shoots him in his skull, he is nothing more than a gnawed and bloody hunk of meat.