| “ | Yes Caesar, I'm very prepared. | „ |
| ~ Glimmer to Caesar Flickerman. |
Glimmer is a supporting antagonist in The Hunger Games, the first installment of The Hunger Games series. She is a seventeen-year-old tribute from District 1, alongside with her district partner Marvel.
She was portrayed by Leven Rambin in her first and only villainous role.
Appearance[]
Glimmer is tall, with emerald green eyes and long blond hair. During her interview, she wears gold and provocative clothes which obviously gains her many sponsors. She seems to be somewhat skilled in archery in the movie, in contrast to the book.
Biography[]
Glimmer comes to District 1 and has been training for her entire life to win the Hunger Games. At the age of seventeen, she obviously volunteers for the seventy-forth Hunger Games and travels with her district partner, Marvel, to the Capitol. During the opening ceremonies, he and Glimmer wear bright and studded clothes, representing their district industry, luxury.
During the training, Glimmer soon joins the other Career Tributes, Marvel, Cato and Clove, and spends much time with them. At the end, she receives a training score of nine when she shows her archery (although they are poor in the book) and knife skills to the Gamemakers. Her tribute token, a ring, is confiscated before she enters the arena, as it has a hidden poisoned spike.
In the arena, she forms an alliance with the other Careers to kill the rest of the tributes. Glimmer stabs two opponents, the District 6 female and District 5 male, to death with a knife in the Cornucopia bloodbath. The District 6 male then attempts to kill her when she screams and Cato comes to help her, killing the boy. Glimmer then takes a bow with arrows Katniss wants, much to her disappointment.
Careers look up at Katniss, who climbed up a tree to escape them.
Later, Glimmer and the other Careers are joined by Peeta and the District 3 male and, in the book, the District 4 female as well. Together, they walk through the arena, killing other tributes. When they find the District 8 female, in the book, it's implied Cato severely injures the girl, with Peeta giving her a mercy kill afterwards. However, in the movie, Cato gives his sword to Glimmer, with her apparently doing the deed without the need for a mercy kill.
The Careers then chase Katniss up a tree once they find her thanks to some manipulations done by the Gamemakers to the arena, and Glimmer attempts to climb up to get her, but is too heavy. She then offers Cato her bow, but he refuses and unsuccessfully tries to climb up himself, so she shoots an arrow at Katniss herself, but luckily misses. When Katniss grabs the arrow and taunts Glimmer, the furious girl agrees with Peeta to stay under the tree until Katniss climbs down.
Glimmer being killed by the tracker jackers.
While the Careers are sleeping, Katniss manages to cut down a branch with a nest of tracker jackers on them. Shocked at the sudden attack, everyone runs into the nearest lake, but Glimmer and the District 4 female aren't able to. Glimmer screams hysterically for help until the poison from jackers' stings starts working, causing her to have severe hallucinations. Unfortunately for Glimmer, her death is very slow. When Katniss finally dares to climb down, she can't recognize Glimmer anymore, as the venom bloated her body grotesquely and her plum-sized stings are oozing green pus. However, she keeps holding her bow and arrows strongly even when she is dead and Katniss has to break her fingers to get the weapon.
Gamemakers later use Glimmer's eyes for one of their Wolf Mutts, which has silky-blonde fur, shining emerald eyes and the number "1" on its jeweled collar. Once Katniss recognizes her, she shoots the Mutt dead with an arrow.
Victims[]
- District 6 female - stabbed with a knife (Cornucopia bloodbath)
- District 5 male - stabbed with a knife (Cornucopia bloodbath)
- District 8 female - severely injured with a sword (in the movie only)
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- Glimmer appears to be have a romantic attachment to Cato in the movie. Cato saves her during the Bloodbath and they offer weapons to each other to kill other tributes. They also sleep together under the Katniss Everdeen's tree. This is likely an attempt to get them more sponsors.
- That said, it's unknown why would Glimmer form an attachment with Cato, considering they were from different districts and that, in the long run, they would have had to kill each other. Even if she had lived long enough to hear Seneca Crane's modifications to the rules to allow two victors, she and Cato couldn't have used them to survive as the rule dictated that the two victors could only be from the same district. It's possible thus that Glimmer and Cato just played with each other to lower each other's guard to then strike.
- Glimmer is the first of the Career Tributes to die.
- In the film, Glimmer's eyes are dark blue instead of green.
External Links[]
- Glimmer on the The Hunger Games Wiki.
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