Cornucopia bloodbath

The Cornucopia bloodbath is an event that has always occurred at the very beginning of every Hunger Games since they began, as most of the tributes compete for valuable weapons, food, water and packs full of other valuable supplies that could be useful during the games. These supplies are spread in and around the Cornucopia.

Tributes always die at the bloodbath. The Gamemakers or the Capitol probably set up the Cornucopia for optimal entertainment value and quick deaths at the beginning of the game to keep audiences interested. In the end, the Cornucopia is often taken over by a group of tributes who fought in the bloodbath, usually this is the Career Tributes.

Location
The Cornucopia is usually located in the center of the arena and is where the Career Tributes normally set up camp during the majority of the games, as many tributes would attempt to return to scavenge what is left of the supplies there.

Tactics
There are a variety of ways tributes will approach the bloodbath, but these strategies depend on how the Cornucopia has been positioned. Some tributes ignore the Cornucopia completely and try to put as much distance as they can between themselves and the tributes with weapons from the Cornucopia. This means they will get little or no supplies at all and will have to rely on the arena and their skills or perhaps a rich sponsor to give them some. In the 74th Hunger Games, Peeta Mellark avoided the Cornucopia at first under Haymitch's orders, but later joined the Career Tributes and had access to their supplies until he betrayed them. Other tributes, including Katniss Everdeen, grab what they can from the outskirts of the Cornucopia and flee before things get too dangerous. This means they still get supplies, but are not very valuable and have little or no weapons. Other tributes, mostly the Careers, dash for supplies as an opportunity to kill as many as possible while they are all together. This means they will get the most weapons and supplies, but they also run the highest risk of getting killed or badly injured.

74th Hunger Games
In the novel and film, Katniss Everdeen was taken to a launch station, where her stylist, Cinna, would be waiting. He put on her arena jacket and gave her the Mockingjay pin for good luck. After kissing her, the timer before the elevator would close reaches 10 seconds. Katniss walks inside the tube, and it closes. Cinna nods at her as the elevator elevates her into the arena.

In the film, as she ascends, light flashes her view for a few seconds. When she can finally see clearly, she looks towards the cornucopia and its supplies. She turns her head to her left to see her opponents: the District 1 male, Marvel, the District 2 female, Clove, the District 4 female, the District 8 male, the District 6 female, and the District 11 male, Thresh. She turns to see the other tributes on her right: the District 5 female, nicknamed Foxface by her, and the District 7 male, and then faces the Cornucopia, spotting a bow and a

quiver of arrows. The countdown to the games begins at 50. The capitol citizens are seen shouting in excitement at the screens where the games are shown, showing the District 5 tributes and the District 10 male. Katniss' home, District 12, watches the game’s screen, where Rue and Glimmer are shown. Katniss’ mom and her little sister, Prim, watch the game from a television in their home, where the camera circles around the cornucopia. Gale Hawthorne, Katniss’ close friend from her district, sits in an area in an out-of-bounds forests where he and Katniss hunted, instead of watching the games begin. Katniss stares at the bow and turns to see the male from her district, Peeta Mellark, glaring at her and shaking his head, telling her not to run towards the cornucopia. The timer is at 10 seconds. Horns signal the start of the games, and the 74 th  Hunger Games begin!

Podium Stations (Film): (From left to right) District 5 male, District 4 male, Rue, Glimmer, District 3 male, District 3 female, District 10 male, Peeta Mellark, District 7 female, District 6 male, Cato, District 7 male, Foxface, Katniss Everdeen, Marvel, Clove, District 4 female, District 8 male, District 6 female, Thresh. (Missing: District 8 female, District 9 male and District9 female, and District 10 female.)

75th Hunger Games
In the novel, Katniss describes the scene as quick and similar to the 74th Hunger Games. But when she goes into the tube and is being elevated into the arena, peacekeepers come in and beat up Cinna. Katniss cries and screams as Cinna is dragged away.

50th Hunger Games
In the 50th Hunger Games, 18 people were killed in the opening bloodbath, most of them likely by the Careers. However, the arena was so beautiful, the tributes were awed at first sight. Haymitch Abernathy, the victor from District 12, managed to get supplies before the bloodbath began, being the only one not stunned by the beauty of the arena.

74th Hunger Games (Novel)
In the novel version of the 74th Hunger Games, eleven people were killed in the opening bloodbath, most of them killed by the Careers.

Katniss fights the District 9 male over an orange backpack. Clove throws a knife into the District 9 male's back, causing him to cough out blood onto Katniss' face and fall to the ground dead. Clove throws another knife at Katniss, but she deflects it with her orange backpack and runs away. The fallen tributes are shown at night and ends with the District 10 female's portrait.



74th Hunger Games (film)
The cornucopia  bloodbath begins when the song "Wasp on Her Abdomen" begins playing, sounding like a signal for the bloodbath. The scene is based on Katniss's perspective, making it very shak y and blurry. Katniss makes her way to Peeta, but he runs quickly into the forest around them, causing her to stop. Foxface and Rue, both run backwards, into the forest, away from the cornucopia as well. Katniss is forced to watch the careers begin slaughtering the other tributes. The District 1 male, Marvel, pushes the Dist rict 8 male onto the ground and uses a kukri to slash him to death. Nearby, the District 10 male tries to escape the bloodbath with a yellow duffel bag, but the nearby District 2 male, Cato, uses a machete to slash him across the chest as he is making his escape, striking him onto his back where he lays helplessly with a gash. Katniss looks around for supplies she can grab as the District 7 female crawls away from Marvel, who aims a spear toward her heart. Meanwhile, the District 2 female, Clove, has just found a bag with a pack full of knives. Behind her, the District 4 female slashes the District 3 female's legs with a short sword and runs off to fight Cato and the District 5 male grabs a sickle off the floor to finish off the injured tribute. After dispatching the District 4 female into leaving, Cato grabs a water container off the floor near the District 3 female's corpse. Katniss watches as the District 4 female runs away from Cato and the bloodbath, grabbing a red backpack off the floor in the process of doing so. As she is watching, she spots an orange backpack and dashes to get it. The District 1 female, Glimmer, pins the District 6 female onto the ground and uses a knife or short sword to stab her brutally to death as Marvel watches. The District 5 male finishes off the District 3 female with a slash to her forehead, knocking her back down, dead. Marvel walks off after dispatching the District 8 male to target more tributes. Inside the cornucopia, the District 4 male grabs a yellow duffel bag and hides between crates. Nearby, the District 5 and 6 males fight, with the District 6 male throttling the District 5 male, as the tribute struggles to pull his hands off. Katniss grabs the backpack off the floor, but behind her, the District 7 male targets her. A scene from earlier, shows the District 4 female slashing the District 3 female's legs with a short sword. Then, Katniss trips onto the ground; at the same time, Glimmer is jabbing her knife at the D istrict 10 male inside the cornucopia, who dodges it by laying on crates. The District 7 male walks toward Katniss and raises a double-holed axe, while Katniss grabs her backpack and readies to try and use it as a shield. Before the District 7 male can kill her, Clove throws a knife into his back, causing him to collapse onto the ground, killing him. Clove then throws a knife toward Katniss's head, but Katniss uses her orange backpack to shield herself. This makes Clove angry, causing her to charge at Katniss. Katniss gets up and runs off into the forest. In the cornucopia, Glimmer shrieks as she crawls on top of a crate to escape the District 6 male. The District 5 male grabs the District 6 male by the head and hurls him into crates. The District 4 male, still in hiding, ducks down as Glimmer runs by him. Katniss, still running, puts on her backpack, as Clove continues to chase her. Thresh, the District 11 male, runs out of the cornucopia with a blue duffel bag, a curved sword, and other supplies, while Glimmer runs passed him. However, the District 7 male confronts him and tries to jab him with a long spear. He dodges and knocks away his spear as he tries to slash him. Thresh then runs straight into the District 7 male and puts his sword behind his bag to hit the District 7 male onto the ground, slicing his throat. He then runs off, looking back, as the District 7 female tries to take a black backpack from the District 3 male, who shoves her and as Glimmer takes a yellow duffel bag from the District 6 female. The District 4 male runs out of the cornucopia as the District 6 male is attacking Glimmer and watches them to make sure they're distracted. However, he does not see Cato in front of him and as he turns, Cato slashes his neck with a machete, knocking him back until he hits a crate and collapse, splattering blood nearby. Cato then notices a colada sword on the wall at the end of the cornucopia and takes it. Later, when Katniss is running through the forest, away from the cornucopia, the District 4 female's screams can be heard, indicating her 17 minute death. After the bloodbath, the remains of the District 7 male, District 10 male, District 4 male, District 5 male, and District 3 female are then shown.

Participants: The list explains a tribute's age, status during the bloodbath, reason and time if they were killed, weapons they used or items they obtained, and tributes they contributed death to. * means the tribute was killed, but their death was not in the film. (Note: deaths without both a novel and film entry only happen in the film)


 * Glimmer - 17: Survived; knife, long sword, yellow duffel bag, bow and arrow; killed District 6 female
 * Marvel - 17: Survived; kukri, spear, yellow duffel bag, black backpack; killed District 8 male and District 7 female
 * Clove - 15: Survived; throwing knives; killed District 9 male (novel), District 7 male (film)
 * Cato - 16 (novel) 18 (film); Survived; machete, long handle sickle, water canteen; killed District 10 male (film), District 5 male, District 4 male, District 6 male, District 4 female (severely injured)
 * District 3 female - 13: Killed; black backpack - District 4 female slashes her legs with a short sword, District 5 male slashes her forehead with a sickle 29"
 * District 3 male - 13: Survived; throwing axe, black backpack
 * District 4 female - 16: Survived (novel), Killed (film); short sword, red backpack - slashed in hand and batted in the abdomen with a machete then thrown into a crate (severe injury) 17'23"
 * District 4 male - 12: Killed; yellow duffel bag, small sword - neck slashed open by Cato with a machete 1'18"
 * Foxface - 15: No participation;
 * District 5 male - 15: Killed; sickle, black backpack, small sword - slashed across the abdomen and legs by Cato with a machete; killed District 3 female
 * District 6 female - 16: Killed; yellow duffel bag: punched in the face - then stabbed to death repeatedly by Glimmer with a knife
 * District 6 male - 16: Killed; black backpack, small sword, knife - tripped into the air and slammed down by Cato with a long handle sickle, then stabbed in the abdomen once more
 * District 7 female - 16: Killed; black backpack - speared in the heart by Marvel with a spear while crawling on the ground 2'31"
 * District 7 male - 16 (novel) 17 (film): Killed; double-holed axe, long spear - collapses dead after Clove throws a knife into his back (film only), throat sliced by Thresh with a crescent sword 37"
 * District 8 female - 13: No participation;
 * District 8 male - 14: Killed; knife - pushed onto the ground and slashed to death by Marvel with a kukri 9"
 * District 9 female* - 14: Killed; Not shown
 * District 9 male* - 14: Killed; coughs up blood and collapses dead after Clove throws a knife into his back (novel)
 * District 10 female* - 15: Killed; Not shown
 * District 10 male - 18: Survived (novel). Killed (film); yellow duffel bag - slashed across chest by Cato with a machete 13"
 * Rue - 12: No participation;
 * Thresh - 18: Survived; crescent sword, navy blue duffel bag; killed District 7 male
 * Katniss Everdeen - 16: Survived; orange backpack
 * Peeta Mellark - 16: No participation;

The Fallen The following portraits are shown in this order in the film: The District 3 female, District 4 male, the District 7 male, the District 7 female, the District 8 male, and the District 9 female. Between the District 4 male and the District 7 male was a scene where Katniss was watching, skipping the District 4 female, the District 5 male, and the District 6 tributes.

75th Hunger Games
In the 75th Hunger Games, eight people were killed in the opening bloodbath. Unlike the previous games, the only things held in the Cornucopia were weapons. The D istrict 5 male snuck up on Katniss Everdeen, but Finnick Odair uses a trident and spears him through the chest, killing him. Katniss shoots Gloss' calf. She attempts to shoot Enobaria but misses because she dives into the water. Also, it is mentioned by Johanna Mason that Beetee was stabbed in the Cornucopia before she went to retrieve him.

The Fallen: District 5 male, District 6 male, Cecelia, Woof, both from District 9, District 10 female, and Seeder.

Participants: More information to be added
 * Cashmere - Survived
 * Gloss - Survived
 * Enobaria - Survived
 * Brutus - Survived
 * Wiress - Survived
 * Beetee - Survived
 * Mags - Survived
 * Finnick Odair - Survived
 * District 5 female - Survived
 * District 5 male - Killed
 * Female Morphling - Survived
 * Male Morphling - Killed
 * Johanna Mason - Survived
 * Blight - Survived
 * Cecelia - Killed
 * Woof - Killed
 * District 9 female - Killed
 * District 9 male - Killed
 * District 10 female - Killed
 * District 10 male - Survived
 * Seeder - Killed
 * Chaff - Survived
 * Katniss Everdeen - Survived
 * Peeta Mellark - Survived

Trivia

 * The District 8 female, District 9 male and female, and District 10 female do not appear at the bloodbath as they are not stunt actors.
 * In the film, the District 10 male is shown to be killed in the bloodbath by Cato. However, later on he is mentioned to have died later on. The time in which he was killed is instead given to the District 5 male.
 * All the times are based on the portraits. Several errors occurred during the portrait and the actual time listing. Some timings are blurred out, excluding info.
 * In the 74th Hunger Games, Katniss and the District 3 male are the only survivors to not have killed someone.
 * The District 9 male (74th HG), and the District 5 male (75th HG) are both similar, as they fought with Katniss in some way and are then killed by a career tribute, Clove and Finnick in this case.