Reacting to the 25 BEST & WORST Hunger Games Fan Theories

"peeta and prim werent raped, OH NO REAPED OH GOD-" got me cackling out of my seat

The child labour theory is confirmed canon, there's reference in the books to other districts using children in their industries which can give them some advantage when it comes to the games (i.e. Rue having the skill of climbing trees from working in the orchards). I think it also makes sense that the Quarter Quell arena was engineered for Finnick. Plutarch would want to play to Finnick's strengths as one of the rebels' strongest allies.

Lets be real here the gale is dead theory is just the fandom being upset he survived when other characters didn't 😂😂

I heard a Different one for Foxface, where she killed herself because she knew she couldn't win. She would've had to get REEEEALy lucky to kill Cato or Thresh, she was not going to Win against Katniss so she just decided to take herself out not to die in suffering or in a horrible way

I think the worst is by far Coin=Lucy Gray. I agree with almost all of the Super Carlin Bros theories, but the theories that try and connect Lucy Gray to Katniss are silly.

Some of these theories are so bad that it feels like they're generated by AI.

I wouldn't be surprised if Katnis's father was raising her for the games, but not to send her in. If I were a parent in this world and could teach my kids survival skills, I absolutely would so if they get reaped, they have higher odds of making it out. I will say, I think he was teaching Katnis these skills with plans of running and/or so she could care for the family in his absence should something happen to him. I don't think he, realistically, had the games in mind at all. I wouldn't be surprised if he planned on starting a revolution, though, just not via putting his children in direct danger.

Also the Foxface theory isn’t likely in the books. I think it’s only a movie thing. And I’ll explain why. Foxface is smart yeah, but she was never shown to be knowledgeable about plants at any point in the books. She’s in district 5 why would she be? She’s considered smart because she’s cunning and sneaky. Which is why the name Foxface suits her. Her entire strategy throughout the games is stealing stuff from other people, that’s all we see her do. She stays close to people and steals food in small sections so people don’t notice. She was living off of the careers pile of supplies until Katniss blew it up and she lost that source too. Katniss is the one who is the plant expert due to how she grew up, and she aced the plant section in training before the games and Katniss said that the nightlock berries are not mentioned in training at all. Katniss only knows what the berries are because she hunts illegally and they grow ok the outskirts of district 12, so her dad taught her. It’s very unlikely Foxface in her district had the same thing and have those berries grow around there. Foxface literally has no way to know what those berries are. Foxface not only just steals the berries but she steals Katniss and Peeta’s cheese that they had, if she’s just planning on killing herself then why bother stealing their cheese as well? Plus when she died, Katniss describes her body as emaciated so she was clearly starving and desperate for food. People really overestimate foxface as if she’s not also a kid who can make mistakes and that’s the point of what happens to her. She’s smart but she’s not smart in the way she can find her own food, she just knows how to be sneaky and that’s why she’s smart. Her death is about overestimating others can just be as dangerous as underestimating them. She is starving and couldn’t get food after Katniss blew up her main food source and then there was that rain storm, that would make it more difficult for her to find more food from others. When it finally stops, she manages to find Katniss and Peeta and trusts that the food they have is safe since for what she knows, they’re planning on eating it and she’s that hungry she’ll take it. Thats all it is. I know it’s just a movie theory, but I think making her this huge genius that can’t make mistakes takes some of the sadness away from the fact she’s still just a kid with one small misstep causing her death. The only basis people have for foxface ‘being good at identifying plants’ is that one scene they added into the movies with her playing that matching game, but that has absolutely nothing to do with identifying edible plants. It’s a matching game that’s based off of fast reflexes and patterns. Which is what her actual strength is, they just use plant images for the test but you wouldn’t be able to identify anything with those images.

The “Lucy Gray is Alma Coin” theory is the one I go absolutely ballistic on cause I HATE that theory so much (it is by far my least favorite Hunger Games theory). 😤 Lucy Gray is free spirited, is very expressive and loves color, music, and nature! She expresses herself through her wardrobe and her music/songwriting (which she states that she sings when she has something to say--like an insert for Suzanne Collins herself where she's said that she only writes when she has something important to say). There's no way she would give that up and live a soulless life. She wouldn't be caught wearing those ugly gray suits! Coin is overly plain in order to preserve equality and she doesn’t believe in the little joys of life if they aren’t necessary. District 13 is so industrial and rigid. Lucy Gray is probably the most colorful and vibrant character in the series. She would just give up her music, her songs, her color wardrobe to establish some war bunker, militaristic, drab society? She would want 13 to be the one normal place where people do things like singing, dancing, allowing people to express themselves however they want and not have it be some drab. Also, for her to go down the path of revenge and advocate for a symbolic Hunger Games using Capitol children (as well as all of the other atrocities Coin commits), that would be her going against her own beliefs on humanity and abandoning her philosophy. She states, "I think there is a natural goodness born into us all. No, really. You can either cross that line into evil, or not and it's our life's work to stay on the right side of that line." She would never want another Games for anyone and not want them to go through what she and the other tributes did during their time in the Capitol and during the Games. Mathematical wise, it's impossible. Lucy Gray is 16 during Ballad when the 10th Hunger Games takes place. Katniss states that Coin is somewhere around her 50s (she seems like anywhere from 50-55 within that range). It's 65 years in between Ballad and Mockingjay, so if Lucy Gray was around during the trilogy, she would be 81 years old (16+65), so a good 25-30 years older than Coin (and no, don't be using the "plastic surgery" excuse) I also don't really like nor can buy Lucy Gray being Alma Coin's mother. It's not as awful as the "Lucy Gray is Alma Coin" theory, but I still don't like it and don't believe in that whatsoever. I just CANNOT see Lucy Gray raising a child who would ever turn out like Coin did and especially when it comes to her cold, cruel, narcissistic nature (and no way would Lucy Gray ever ingrain the idea of advocating for a Games using Capitol children as some form of revenge into her child). I would also think Lucy Gray would want to incorporate aspects of herself into her child like her music, her love for nature, and expressiveness. I don't want ANY kind of association between Lucy Gray and Coin. She's our vibrant and colorful songbird! 🕊💕 Don’t disrespect my girl like that. ❤

the fact that foxface's actress even said that she thought it was canon that she committed suicide

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I think the theory that Lucy Gray and Snow are Katniss' grandparents is a bit far-fetched, but I'm sure someone from The Covey is the parent of Katniss' father. Like, only they knew about "The Hanging Tree" (in the book also people who were at the birthday of... the commenter, if I'm not mistaken), Maude Ivory, Barb Azure or Tam Amber may have sung it to Katniss's father, that's how he knew it. We also cannot forget about the lake, the existence of which few people knew about, including the members of The Covey and Spruce. So: Katniss' father's parent was Lucy Gray, Maude Ivory, Barb Azure, or Tam Amber.

something i really wish has happened in the first 3 books was that katniss found a insanely old bag of a peacekeeper’s rifle in the bottom of the lake, and no readers really noticed until they read the ballad of songbirds and snakes and it turns out it was literally snows bag

The reason the whole “Iuke, I am your father” twist was so shocking to audiences was because they didn’t see it coming AND it established a connection between Luke and Darth Vader. The reason it doesn’t make sense to make Katniss, LGB, Coin, and Snow all related is because it does…NOTHING for the story. It adds nothing to the plot. I remember having a conversation with my father about this, because Star Wars was very much his Hunger Games. He said they didn’t see the twist coming and people were floored! That they couldn’t stop talking about it the next week! Unless you add something like that in, there’s no point in making everyone related

My crazy theory comes at the end as Katniss and Gale are ascending upon the capital. We all know that district 13 was a week ahead of their team. I think the peacekeepers that snatched Gale, were sent there by Coin to grab him to separate him from Katniss. That way Katniss could go alone and hopefully get blown up and watch her sister die. Either way it would be a win for Coin as Katniss would either be a mental wreck or she would’ve been blown up trying to save her sister.. Gale and Coin were like minded in war… odds are she knew she could use him to help her get elected. After all… he is the “cousin” to the Mockingjay… people might listen to him rallying for Coin to be president

I would have loved the idea of coriolanus destroyed by his own grandchild, being how much he loves his grand daughter, but maude ivory has much stronger evidence of being related since katniss has maude's ability to memorize songs after hearing them once, and maude is the only way katniss could have learned the songs she knows from her dad, which must have been maudes son

20:03 My mind immediately went "did I miss something from the films"

My favorite theory is that Maude Ivory is Katniss' paternal grandmother, I dont think its too far fetched because they lived in the same area in the seam & while Im not sure if a beautiful signing voice is genetic, but if it is, it makes it all the more interesting if her dad is Maude Ivory's son. I also dont believe the Foxface theory simply becuase she was taking a reflex test during training, not plant identification. I do think she had knowledge about plants & was incredibly smart but Nightlock only grew around district 12, so the chances she knew what is was were slim. She might have read about it but thats still very unlikely as books arent super common in the districts. She had been stealing food from people during the entire games, I think it makes her death more fitting for the story if she died as an unknowing child, stealing food & hiding like a mouse, just furthering how tragic the games are.

Ugh, I really dislike theories that posits Katniss as a descendant of Lucy Grey. The original series already echoes a Chosen One storyline, but it's powerful because she's chosen by the people, not by a prophecy. Making her a descendant of Lucy Grey makes it seem like Katniss was fated to be in the Hunger Games, ie, was actually a Chosen One. It just cheapens the story.

I like the hospital one, Maude Ivory and Snow being the head behind the 25th Hunger Games. Snow being behind the 25th Hunger Games is almost too perfect tbh 😂 And the arena of the 75th being made with Finnick in mind is my head cannon 😂