Career Tribute



Career Tributes, commonly known simply as Careers, are Hunger Games tributes who train throughout their lives to be in the Games and then volunteer to participate. Typically, the Careers come from the wealthier districts, 1, 2, and 4, where being a tribute is seen as a great honor. In the movie, the Careers are very "chatty". Glimmer and Cato run around mocking tributes they are going to kill or have killed. This is in contrast to the novels, where the Career Tributes are generally more stealthy and menacing. The Careers in the 74th Hunger Games are led by Cato. In the 75th Hunger Games, there is no known leader of the Careers (Brutus, Enobaria, Gloss, and Cashmere)

Career Tributes
Career Tributes tend to be the winners on the field- the strongest, most agile players in the Hunger Games, having been prepared and trained since birth. Even though training tributes before the Games begin is technically illegal, the Career districts generally get away with this because of their wealth.

These tributes volunteer to participate in the games, causing much more commotion during the Reaping than necessary. In poorer districts, such as 12 and 11, being a volunteer tribute is viewed as suicide. But in Career districts, volunteering is very common. Everyone wants to win the games, even if it means volunteering. In wealthy districts, you are looked upon as a hero and gather great fame after winning the Hunger Games.

At the beginning of each Hunger Games, these tributes generally team up together to take out the weak. But once all other targets are out of the way, they turn on each other.

Katniss killed the Careers Glimmer, who was killed when Katniss dropped the nest of Tracker Jackers on them, and Marvel who was shot in the neck (heart in the movie) by her arrow. Cato was also technically killed by Katniss with an arrow to the head to put him out of his misery when being mauled by wolf muttations, and Clove was killed by Thresh when she was about to kill Katniss. He let Katniss live to repay her for trying to save Rue.

Career Districts
District 1, District 2, and District 4 tend to be the Career districts, although other tributes are allowed to join if they show exceptional skill. These districts are richer and have more supplies than other districts, giving a huge advantage to their tributes. Because of their wealth, tributes from these districts have training prior to the games. Katniss once pointed out a common weakness of the Careers in the first novel, the Hunger Games: the Careers couldn't handle lack of food, which is understandable since they've been properly fed all their lives.

These districts normally have an elaborate way of choosing volunteers, as they have no lack in them.

74th Hunger Games Career Pack


In the 74th games, the Career Pack consisted of seven members. The female tribute from District 4, the boy from District 3, Cato, Clove, Marvel, Glimmer, Peeta except for the male tribute from District 4 had died at the Cornucopia. The group teamed up with Peeta to find Katniss. The pack didn't do too well, though; the boy from District 4 died in the bloodbath on the first day. Not long after, Glimmer and the District 4 girl were killed by tracker jacker stings, the result of a tracker jacker nest thrown by Katniss. As Katniss went to retrieve Glimmer's bow, Cato saw Peeta aid Katniss in escape. This led Cato to cut a severe wound in Peeta's leg and abandon him, lowering the pack's number to four. The group included the boy from District 3 because he could reactivate the land mines. When Katniss blew up the Careers supplies, Cato killed the boy from District 3 out of anger. Shortly after, Marvel spears Rue, and Katniss kills him in vengeance by shooting an arrow into his neck. At the feast, Thresh bashes Clove's head in with a rock; Cato is the lone Career, left in a flurry of bloodlust. He makes it to the final three until Katniss kills him out of mercy while he is being torn apart by muttations.

75th Hunger Games Career pack
In the 75th Hunger Games, or the third Quarter Quell, the Career Pack originated with Enobaria and Brutus from District 2, and Gloss and Cashmere from District 1. There were no careers from District 4 (which is usually a part of the career pack), as Finnick and Mags teamed up with Katniss and Peeta. Once Cashmere and Gloss were killed by Katniss and Johanna, Brutus and Enobaria hid until the end. Then, Peeta killed Brutus after watching him kill Chaff, and Enobaria was taken by the Capitol.

Known Careers

 * Cato; Leader of the 74th Hunger Games Career Pack (Killed by Katniss using her final arrow out of mercy during The 74th Hunger Games.)
 * Clove (Killed by Thresh at The Feast in The 74th Hunger Games)
 * Marvel (Killed by Katniss after he killed Rue in The 74th Hunger Games)
 * Glimmer (Killed by Tracker Jackers, thrown by Katniss in The 74th Hunger Games)
 * Cashmere (Killed by Johanna after her brother, Gloss, killed Wiress in The 75th Hunger Games)
 * Gloss (Killed by Katniss after he slit Wiress's throat in The 75th Hunger Games)
 * Brutus (Killed by Peeta after Brutus killed Chaff in The 75th Hunger Games)
 * Enobaria (Captured by Capitol after The 75th Hunger Games, yet still living)
 * District 4 female (74th HG) (Killed by Tracker Jackers, thrown by Katniss in The 74th Hunger Games. in the film, she wasn't apart of the Careers and was killed by Glimmer.)
 * District 1 Female (50th HG) (Killed by her own axe when Haymitch ducked and the axe ricocheted off the forcefield and buried it in her head)
 * Finnick Odair (Killed by lizard mutts in the Battle of the Capitol)
 * Annie Cresta (Living)
 * Mags (Died in the 75th Hunger Games when she sacrificed herself by walking into poisonous fumes so Katniss's group could go on)
 * District 4 male (74th HG) (Killed in Bloodbath, in the film, he wasn't apart of the Careers and was killed by Cato.)
 * District 4 male (70th HG) (Beheaded)
 * Lyme (Killed in battle after Katniss was shot)
 * District 3 male(74 HG) (Neck snapped by Cato in a rage after Katniss blew up their supplies)