The Career Tributes are supporting antagonists in The Hunger Games franchise. They are tributes who have been trained their entire lives to prepare for the Hunger Games and many are volunteers at the reaping ceremony.
Many see winning the games as the only meaning of their lives and end up turning into ruthless, murderous tributes in the competition. During the games, they usually form Career Packs to hunt down other tributes in the arena. Once most of the other opponents are out of the way, the Careers typically turn on each other to determine the victor.
History[]
Career tributes were typically children that hailed from the wealthier districts of Panem (1, 2 and 4), where being a tribute was seen as a great honor. On rare occasions, however, tributes from other districts were accepted into the pack if said tributes possessed extraordinary skills or remarkable physical prowess.
Although technically illegal, The Careers trained their whole lives in a special academy due to the Capitol's more favorable view of the Career districts. During this process, they became brainwashed to the point that they believed their only purpose in life was to win the Games and bring glory to their district.
At the annual reaping ceremony, the eldest Careers volunteered to participate in the Games at 18 years old, which was very rare in other districts, as doing so was seen as suicide. They were usually much stronger and better prepared than the rest of tributes, giving them a significant physical and mental advantage during the Games.
After being taken to the Capitol, the Careers usually formed an alliance among themselves. They trained and ate together in the Training Center. Careers from District 2 often led these alliances, such as Cato in the 74th Hunger Games, as they had more militaristic preparation than the others. In the 75th Hunger Games, the District 4 tributes, Finnick Odair and Mags Flanagan, forewent the typical Career alliance, as they were part of the rebel plan to extract Katniss Everdeen from the arena. In The Hunger Games film, the tributes from District 4 were not considered Careers and were killed in the bloodbath.
When the Games began with the tributes circled around the Cornucopia, Careers are the fastest of them. They quickly grab the best weapons and start killing their opponent immediately. During this bloodbath, they commonly cooperate and don't kill each other. They then go together across the arena, killing everyone they find. However, as the Games continue and there are no more tributes, Careers eventually turn against each other.
Despite their huge advantages in lifelong preparation for the Games, Careers have some severe disadvantages. Being well fed their entire lives, they are not as used to going hungry as tributes who have spent their lives in poverty and are very reliant on securing the supplies from the Cornucopia. Another disadvantage to them from being well fed their entire lives is their presumed heavy weight, making it difficult for them to climb trees or chase a particularly light and speedy person. They usually are very arrogant and tend to underestimate their opponents, therefore they may not think before acting. Though Careers are very effective in combat confrontations, their basic survival skills are generally quite poor; thus, if they do not remove their most dangerous opponents in the initial bloodbath (when their advantage is usually strongest) they gradually lose the initiative unless they can keep control of the Cornucopia supplies.
List of Career Tributes[]
74th Hunger Games[]
- Marvel (District 1)
- Glimmer (District 1)
- Cato (District 2)
- Clove (District 2)
- District 3 Male - Not from a Career district, but he was tribute who was in the Career pack because he could dig up land mines and make booby-traps around the Cornucopia. He was killed by Cato after Katniss used the booby-traps to destroy their supplies.
- District 4 Female - A tribute who in the movie died in the bloodbath. In the book, she teamed up with Careers and died with Glimmer when Katniss let out the tracker jackers.
- Peeta Mellark - Not really a Career, he joined them only to keep Katniss alive.
75th Hunger Games[]
- Gloss (District 1) - Winner of the 63rd Hunger Games.
- Cashmere (District 1) - Winner of the 64th Hunger Games.
- Enobaria (District 2) - Winner of the 62nd Hunger Games.
- Brutus (District 2) - Winner of unknown past Hunger Games.
- Finnick Odair (District 4) - Winner of the 65th Hunger Games. Despite being a Career, he teamed up with Katniss and Peeta instead of the other Career tributes.
Others[]
- Silka Sharp (District 1) - Last participant to die in the 50th Hunger Games, she was killed by Haymitch.
- Augustus Braun (District 1) - Winner of the 67th Hunger Games.
- Lyme (District 2) - Winner of unknown past Hunger Games.
- District 2 Male - Winner of the 73rd Hunger Games.
- Annie Cresta (District 4) - Probably a Career tribute. Winner of the 70th Hunger Games.
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