The Hunger Games

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Does the dog die?
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KatarineMiller
They kill "Mutations" of wolves/dogs, but they were trying to attack them
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is there bestiality?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Abandonment
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The protagonist’s mother becomes catatonically depressed in the backstory and is unable to take care of her children, leaving the protagonist to become the primary caregiver. Although the mother recovers and her condition is treated sensitively, it’s still seen as emotional abandonment.
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Abuse
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Romana
Peeta's mother hits him - unclear whether this is frequent. Not discussed in much depth
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Is someone stalked?
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amwhite91
Characters hunt and pursue one another in the Hunger Games. Even before the Games, the protagonist and other characters always operate under the assumption that they are being watched or might be overheard by Peacekeepers
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Anonymous
A wife is mentioned to be borderline abusive, I believe.
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Jay_isnt_cool
Katniss is gaslighted throughout the entire book but it gets revealed in the second book
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Is a child abused?
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Anonymous
The entire concept is that children are forced to fight to the death. Framing it as entertainment is part of the abuse--the villains are so powerful that they can force a whole society to act like watching kids kill each other is all in good fun.
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Addiction
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KatarineMiller
Katniss drugs Peeta with a sleeping drug, so she can leave
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Is there addiction?
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amwhite91
Haymitch is heavily alcohol addicted.
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CeliaDeveaux
Haymitch, the mentor regularly drinks
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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amwhite91
Multiple characters are hunters. Animal death is described quite a bit.
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Are animals abused?
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Anonymous
A cat is borderline manhandled but not abused.
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amwhite91
In the climax, anthropomorphic mutated dogs fight human characters but not one another.
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KatarineMiller
They hunt for food
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Does a cat die?
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amwhite91
However, Katniss admits in her internal monologue to attempting to drown her sister's cat in the past. This obviously didn't happen. The cat survives through the whole series.
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there snakes?
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No, but snake imagery is mentioned often.
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Are there bugs?
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KatarineMiller
There are wasp mutations called tracker jackers that kill a tribute, and injure others
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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Yes in book one pidia is knocked out for his own good
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amwhite91
Rue gets trapped in a net, and this precipitates her death. After the Games, Katniss receives medical attention, some of which being against her will. She is restrained in her hospital bed at points.
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Anonymous
Someone is kissed without consent.
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Bodily Harm
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elliotscreams
There’s a scene where the main character is waxed, but no self-harm.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Is there cannibalism?
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elliotscreams
Mentioned at the beginning of the book that a tribute a few years earlier would eat his victims in the arena and he was killed off by the gamemakers, so it’s an unspoken rule that cannabilism is one of the few things not allowed in the arena.
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Dreamdust1600
If I remember correctly Thresh crushes the girl who was attempting to kill katniss when she went to the cornicopia for peeta's medicine
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Jay_isnt_cool
She doesn't die but there is a part where she gets chased by a wall of fire and she gets severe burns
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Anonymous
Someone has a nightmare they are buried alive.
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Is there body horror?
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Is there amputation?
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KatarineMiller
Peeta's leg gets amputated at the end of the book
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Anonymous
Yes, a tribute's head gets smashed in.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Lear_
Someone's head gets smashed in...
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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feferipeixes
I don't believe so. If there is, it's very subtle.
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Is someone tortured?
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KatarineMiller
Cato is tortured by the mutations for almost a whole day, before being put out of his misery by Katniss
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amwhite91
Haymitch falls off the stage during the reaping. He is not seriously injured, but he falls unconscious.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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amwhite91
Throughout
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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feferipeixes
Obviously
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Dreamdust1600
Katniss mentions previous tributes from her district were forced to wear nothing but Charcoal all over their bodies to be shown off to all of panem, we do not know the age of these tributes but there is a high possibility that they were underage since the age range fir going into the games is 12 to 18
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does a major character die?
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No pets, but plenty of animals are killed for food, as well as animals killed in self-defense
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Does someone die?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Dreamdust1600
SPOILER: no but there is a double suicide attempt near the end of the book using berries that are poisonous and before that a tribute does die from eating these berries
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Family
Does a parent die?
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amwhite91
Katniss' father died in a mining accident before the events of the book.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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amwhite91
The redheaded avox girl was apprehended while trying to escape her district.
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Does someone cheat?
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Dreamdust1600
I don't remember any cheating
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Are there jump scares?
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amwhite91
The protagonist gets to take showers while in the Capitol. The shower scenes are not sexual.
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Are there razors?
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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is it graphic? like graphically explained?
edit:nevermind
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Does someone spit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Dreamdust1600
Not in the books but there probably is in the movies
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Anonymous
If anything, cops are heavily hated.
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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amwhite91
Directly after the end of the Hunger Games, the Katniss and Peeta receive medical attention.
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone self harm?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Dreamdust1600
SPOILER: Whoever said no clearly doesn't remember the end of the games where katniss and peeta attempt to eat poisonous berries
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Is there misophonia?
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feferipeixes
Prim probably had one at the reaping. It doesn't explicitly say
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Dreamdust1600
No but at the end it is said that the capital wanted to alter katniss's body against her will specifically by making her boobs bigger
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Dreamdust1600
I would consider the part where katniss is restrained by the waist in some sort of hospital a claustrophobic scene
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amwhite91
Although no one has an eating disorder, as you can imagine with a name like "The Hunger Games," the series involves lots of descriptions of food and starvation.
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karaszi
Not explicitly. One character who is shown to have proficient knowledge in plants, dies by eating poisonous berries. It is unknown if she knew the effects of the berries beforehand. Two characters are also almost of commit suicide, but they ultimately don't.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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Anonymous
In the movie, constantly. The book mentions vision swaying.
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Dreamdust1600
The other comment is not in this book, I haven't read the second book yet but I believe its in that one
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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freshD
No, that’s in the second book
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there hate speech?
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Relationships
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freshD
The main characters friend, who’s two years older than her, wants more out of their relationship
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Sex
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Dreamdust1600
Yes katniss is nude when the capital is making her presentable (waxing her making her skin look soft ect) there is I think one shower scene and she is naked in the hospital after the games
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Sexism
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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Is someone homeless?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Dreamdust1600
SPOILER: the book ends with Peeta very angry with katniss for faking her love for him
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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amwhite91
Throughout
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there gun violence?
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