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.

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 behavior.

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.

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. In the 74th Hunger Games, the Career Pack originated with Marvel, Glimmer, Cato, Clove, and the girl from District 4. The boy from District 4 died in the bloodbath.

Career Tributes are sometimes viewed as the Capitol's lapdogs.

74th Games Career Pack
In the 74th games, the Career Pack consisted of eight original members. The two tributes from District 4 (the boy tribute died in the bloodbath), the boy from District 3, Cato, Clove, Marvel, Glimmer, and Peeta. 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.

75th Games Career pack
In the 75th Games, or the third Quarter Quell, the Career Pack originated with Enobaria, Gloss, Cashmere, and Brutus. District 4, a usual Career district, did not participate, as Finnick and Mags teamed up with Katniss and Peeta. Cashmere and Gloss were from District 1. Once Cashmere and Gloss were killed by Katniss and Johanna, Brutus and Enobaria hid until the end. Then, Peeta killed Brutus after he killed Chaff, and Enobaria was taken by the Capitol.

Known Careers

 * Cato (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 Gloss slit Wiress 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)
 * District 4 Girl (killed by Tracker Jackers, thrown by Katniss in The 74th Hunger Games)
 * District 1 Female (50th HG) (killed by her own axe when Haymitch ducked and the axe richocheted off the forcefield and buried it in her head)