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.

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.

Items
In most of the Games, there are backpacks containing various items. Some examples may be weapons, medical supplies, food, or water. The supply of items tempted the tributes to go into the Cornucopia, putting the tributes closer together.

74th Hunger Games
Tribute name indicates who the item was used or attained by:
 * Orange Backpack- Katniss
 * Bow and Quiver of Arrows- Glimmer
 * Knife- District 8 male
 * Curved Knife- Marvel
 * Yellow Duffel Bag- District 10 male, District 6 female, District 4 male, Marvel
 * Machete- Cato
 * Spear- Marvel, Peeta
 * Throwing knives- Clove
 * Small Sword- Glimmer, District 4 female, District 6 male
 * Sickle- District 5 male
 * Water Canteen- Cato, Thresh
 * Black Backpack- District 3 female, District 5 male, District 7 female, District 3 male
 * Red Backpack- District 4 female, District 6 male
 * Small Knife- Glimmer
 * Slingshot- Rue
 * Double-Holed Battle Axe- District 7 male
 * Curved Sword- Thresh
 * Blue Duffel Bag- Thresh
 * White Spear- District 7 male
 * Long Sickle- Cato
 * Throwing Axe- District 3 male, Marvel
 * Throwing Spear- Marvel
 * Colada Sword- Cato
 * Pair of Socks- Rue
 * Water Skin- Rue

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 * Bow and quiver of arrows- Katniss
 * Trident- Finnick
 * Spear- Brutus
 * Throwing Knives- Enobaria
 * Daggers- Gloss
 * Axe- Johanna
 * Awl- Katniss, Mags
 * Knife
 * Mace
 * Sickle
 * Blade

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!

Pedestal 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 District 9 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
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. === Most of the tributes run towards the cornucopia. Peeta, Rue, and Foxface are the only ones shown running away from it. As Peeta runs into the forests, Katniss watches him and stops running. The massacre begins as Marvel drags down the District 8 male into the ground and uses a knife to stab and slash him to death. Cato, the District 2 male, uses a machete to cut into the District 10 male’s chest, pushing him onto his back with a wound. Katniss watches as the bloodbath unfolds more. Marvel intimidates the District 7 female with a spear pointed into her heart, as she helplessly crawls away from him. Clove searches through a bag and finds some knives –behind her, the District 4 female finds a sword and the District 5 male has just killed the District 3 female. Cato goes near that area and picks up a water canteen off the floor while Marvel is taking a yellow duffel bag from a tribute behind. Katniss watches as the District 4 female grab a red backpack off the floor and run off. As she stares, she notices an orange backpack and dashes to retrieve it. She runs pass many scenes of killing –Marvel cheers on Glimmer, the District 1 female, as she stabs the District 6 female to death after pulling her onto the ground, behind her, the District 6 male searches through a backpack desperately. The District 5 male is shown once more slashing the District 3 female to death. Nearby, the District 7 female ducks behind a chest, and the District 4 female and Cato sword fight. Marvel nears the area where the District 3 female was killed as the District 4 male scurries into a hiding spot between chests after grabbing some gear, including a yellow duffel bag-. Inside the cornucopia, the District 6 male uses his bare hands to smash the District 5 male into a crate and then throttles him as they fight. Katniss reaches the backpack and grabs it, only to have the District 7 male on her tail –at the same time, the District 4 female slices a chunk of meat off the District 6 male-. Katniss trips onto the ground –inside the cornucopia, Glimmer has pinned the District 5 male onto crates and stabs him to death. The District 7 male, wielding an axe, walks up to Katniss and almost lands a hit on her, but he falls into the ground, dead with a knife protruding in his back. Katniss turns quickly to see who killed him and sees Clove, angry and desperate to kill her. Clove throws a knife at her, almost hitting her head, but Katniss uses her newly acquired backpack to shield herself. Clove furiously runs towards her, but Katniss manages to escape. Inside the cornucopia, Glimmer is on a pile of chests, with a terrified expression on her face. The District 5 male grabs the District 6 male in a headlock and hurls his head into chests as the District 4 male watches and Glimmer runs to them. Outside, Katniss puts on her backpack as she continues running. Clove runs back to the Cornucopia to finish off the rest of the tributes. Thresh leaves the cornucopia –Glimmer has just run in- only to be confronted by the District 7 male, wielding a spear. The District 7 male attempts to stab him, but Thresh dodges his attack and uses his acquired curved sword to push him away, slicing his throat in the process. He runs away from the scene –around him, Marvel picks up a yellow duffel bag and the District 3 male and the District 7 female grapple over a backpack. Later on, the District 4 male attempts to leave the cornucopia, only to turn around and face Cato, who slashes his neck with a machete, pushing his body back as it splatters blood on chests. Cato then spots a sword on the end wall of the cornucopia. ===

Survivors
Glimmer: Glimmer stands on the pedestal between Rue and the District 3 male. When the games begin, she runs towards the cornucopia for supplies. She and Clove meet up with eachother. When she spots the District 6 female with a yellow duffel bag, she grapples over it with her. Eventually, she trips and pulls the District 6 female down on the floor with her and grabs a knife, using it to stab her to death. After that, she runs into the cornucopia and attacks the District 5 male as he is fighting with the District 6 male. Glimmer pins the tribute onto a chest and stabs him repeatedly to death with a small sword. The District 6 male then attacks her and she crawls away from him as he is about to kill her. Cato comes in and they fight, the result being Cato killing the tribute with a long sickle. This scene might explain why the two become a couple.

Tributes killed: District 6 female, District 5 male

Marvel: Marvel stands on the pedestal between Katniss and Clove. When the games begin, he gets the first kill by dragging the District 8 male down on the floor, before he could make it to the cornucopia, and then using a knife to slash and stab him to death. After that, Marvel chases the District 7 female with a spear, as she helplessly crawls away, and eventually skewers her heart.

Tributes killed: District 8 male, District 7 female

Clove: Clove stands on the pedestal between the District 4 female and Marvel. When the games start, she and Glimmer meet up. She then finds a pack of knives and uses it to kill the District 7 male as he was about to kill Katniss. After killing him, Clove throws another knife towards Katniss' head, but she shields herself with her backpack. She then chases Katniss but is seen going back to the cornucopia later on. When the District 4 male is killed, the District 7 female's body is seen laying inside the cornucopia, which might indicate Clove killing her by throwing a knife in her back when she arrived back to the cornucopia.

Tributes killed: District 9 male (played by the District 7 male), presumably District 9 female (played by the District 7 female)

Cato: Cato stands between the District 6 and 7 male tributes. When the games begin, he immediately runs towrad the District 6 male and knocks him in the ground. He punches and injures him and then goes to a nearby chest to grab a machete. Cato instantly uses the machete to slash the District 10 male's chest, as he attempted to flee with a yellow duffel bag, pushing him onto the ground to bleed to death. The District 4 female then confronts him with a blade and swings it towards his head. He ducks the attack and uses his machete to knock down her weapon, unarming her. He then hits her in the abdomen and grabs her, hurling her into a a chests, where she somersaults onto the floor. This causes her to get up and flee the scene. After noticing Glimmer in trouble inside the cornucopia, he runs in with a long sickle to see the District 6 male about to kill Glimmer. Cato shoves the tribute away from her. As the District 6 male tries to stab him, he grabs his armed hand and uses his long sickle to trip the tribute onto the floor. Cato then uses the sharp end on his sickle to stab the District 6 male twice in the abdomen, killing him. This scene may explain why Glimmer and him become a couple. While he is still in the cornucopia, the District 4 male attempts to run out of it. He spots the tribute and uses his sickle to slash his throat, knocking his body back into chests as blood splatters them. Cato then spots a sword at the end of the cornucopia on a wall.

Tributes killed: District 10 female (role taken by the District 10 male), District 6 male, District 4 male, presumably District 4 female

District 3 male: The District 3 male stands on the pedestal between Glimmer and his district partner. When the games begin, he goes to the cornucopia for supplies. He and the District 7 female fight over a backpack, with the District 7 female winning. The District 3 male later finds a throwing axe, but Marvel steals it from him. He presumably fled after these events and survives days before joining the careers after Glimmer's death.

Foxface: Foxface stood between Katniss and the District 7 male on the pedestals. When the games begin, she runs toward the forests, away from the cornucopia, like Peeta. After Katniss flees the bloodbath, she and her crash into eachother and exchange looks before running off opposite directions.

District 8 female: The District 8 female is nowhere to be seen in the bloodbath and is presumed to have fled instead of participate.

Rue: Rue stands between Glimmer and the District 4 male on the pedestals. When the games start, she runs away from the cornucopia. She makes her own supplies in the forest, like a slingshot.

Thresh: Thresh stands between the District 6 female and the District 5 male on the pedestals. When the games begin, he runs toward the cornucopia very quickly and acquires a curved sword, two duffel bags, and a number of other supplies. As he exits, the District 7 male confronts him and tries to stab him with a spear. He dodges the attack and uses his sword to push the tribute onto the ground, slicing his throat in the process.

Killed tributes: District 7 male

Katniss: Katniss stands between Marvel and Foxface on the pedestals. When the games begin, she runs towards the cornucopia and hesitates. She stops running when she sees her district partner, Peeta, running away into the forest as their mentor, Haymitch, had advised. She watches the scene for a few seconds and then stares at the District 4 female making her away out of the cornucopia while grabbing a backpack off the floor. She spots an orange backpack and dashes for it. When she grabs it, the District 7 male had just begun to chase her. Katniss trips onto the ground and is almost killed, when Clove kills the District 7 male. Clove then throws a knife towards her head, but Katniss shields it with her backpack and runs after Clove chases furiously toward her. As she runs, she puts on her backpack.

Peeta: Peeta stands between the District 10 male and the District 7 female on the pedestals. When the games begin, he runs away from the cornucopia as Haymitch, his mentor, had advised.

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.

(Novel) The Distirct 9 male: Knife thrown in back by Clove

The District 8 male: Dragged onto the ground and slashed to death by Marvel with a knife (9")

The District 5 male: Stabbed repeatedly in the abdomen by Glimmer (13") [District 10 male's time]

The District 3 female: Slashed in the throat by the District 5 male with a sickle (29")

The District 7 male: Throat slashed by Thresh unintentionally with a curved sword (37")

The District 4 male: Slashed in the neck by Cato with a long sickle (1"18")

The District 7 female: Speared in the heart by Marvel with a spear (2'31")

The District 10 female (District 10 male shown): Slashed in the chest by Cato with a machete (Unknown time)

The District 6 female: Stabbed to death by Glimmer (Unknown time)

The District 6 male: Stabbed to death by Cato with a long sickle (Unknown time)

The District 9 male (District 7 male shown): Knife thrown into back by Clove (Unknown time)

The District 9 female (District 7 female shown): Presumably killed by Clove (Unknown time)

The District 4 female: Unknown; hit in the abdomen and thrown into chests by Cato (17'23")

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.
 * The District 8 female is presumed to have run away from the cornucopia when the games begin
 * The District 9 male's role is played by the District 7 male
 * The District 9 female's role is presumedly played by the District 7 female
 * The District 10 female's role is played by the District 10 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.

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 District 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.