Brutus

Brutus
Age	At least 40
Occupation	Victor Career Tribute (75th Hunger Games)
Home	Victors' Village in District 2
Gender	Male
Weapon	Spear
Fate	Deceased
Book Appearances	Catching Fire
Book Mentioned	Mockingjay
Movie Appearances	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Portrayed by	Bruno Gunn

"Brutus, a volunteer from District 2, who must be at least forty and apparently can't wait to get back in the arena. "

—Katniss Everdeen watching Brutus' reaping

Brutus was the male tribute from District 2 for the 75th Hunger Games, and the victor of an unknown past Games. He was also a Career Tribute.

Biography

75th Hunger Games

Brutus and Enobaria are reaped for the 75th Hunger Games.

When the time came for the third Quarter Quell, Brutus volunteered and apparently indicated he couldn't wait to get back into the arena.

Training

Brutus throwing spears in the Training Center.

During training, Brutus and Peeta got on each other's good side. Along with Chaff, they practiced at the spear-throwing station. When Brutus saw Katniss's skill with a bow and arrow, Brutus expressed his interest in an alliance to Haymitch. Katniss turned down his offer, and she and Peeta told Haymitch that they should go into the arena without any allies. Brutus received a fairly high score at the end of the training, though the exact number was not specified.

During the interviews with each of the tributes, Brutus did not try to express any anger or feelings of betrayal, but he did reluctantly join hands with the other victors as a chain symbolizing their strength. He wore a silver chest plate, a black pair of shorts, and black boots.

During the Games

Brutus gives chase to Katniss.

At the Cornucopia, his pedestal was between the District 5 male and Katniss. When the gong sounded, he jumped to his spoke and swam to the Cornucopia. Inside the arena, Brutus, Enobaria, Cashmere and Gloss approached the Cornucopia, where he showed a unique way of dodging Katniss' arrows with his belt. However, he, along with the other Careers, were driven off by Katniss and Finnick Odair, who got there before the Careers. While Katniss and Finnick left with Mags and Peeta, Brutus and the other Careers stayed and helped massacre the competition. In the film, he killed the District 9 female. He was able to secure a spear during the bloodbath, which he likely used to kill his victims.

Brutus's ID

Together, Brutus, Enobaria, Cashmere and Gloss followed the rebel alliance's tributes in the arena (those left being Wiress, Beetee, Mags, Finnick, the female morphling, Johanna, Blight, Chaff, Katniss, and Peeta). Over time, the alliance began to shrink with the deaths of Mags, the female morphling, and Blight, and the remaining members (minus Chaff who was off on his own) traveled back to the Cornucopia to retrieve any weapons they needed that had been left behind. In the film, he was nearly killed by Finnick, but saved after Enobaria threw a knife at Finnick's arm. Gloss killed Wiress and he and Cashmere died shortly after, forcing Brutus and Enobaria to retreat from the Cornucopia.

Back in the jungle, the alliance soon learned that, with the deaths of the District 10 male and the District 5 female, the Games were now down to them, Chaff, Enobaria, and Brutus. Beetee set up a plan to electrocute the water and cut off Brutus and Enobaria's resources. He sent Katniss and Johanna to run the line across the jungle, pursued by Brutus and Enobaria.

Brutus and Enobaria track Katniss and Johanna.

Johanna stopped and cut out Katniss's tracker to make it appear like she was dead, then led Brutus and Enobaria away from her. In the chaos that followed, Enobaria stabbed Beetee again but didn't manage to kill him before Finnick chased her away. Brutus ran into Peeta, who had recently met up with Chaff. In the battle that followed, Chaff was killed by Brutus. In a fit of rage, Peeta killed Brutus seconds later.

Brutus placed 7th and was the last tribute to die. Shortly after his death, Katniss destroyed the arena and ended the Games, leaving six surviving tributes.

Victims

As a victor and Career tribute from District 2, he presumably managed to kill many tributes in his original Hunger Games. In the 75th Hunger Games, he killed the District 9 female in the bloodbath. Toward the end of the Games, he killed Chaff, which led to his death.

Brutus's chest piece from the Tribute Parade.

Trivia

• Brutus was also the last tribute to die in all the Hunger Games, and therefore the last District 2 tribute to die.
• Brutus and Enobaria most likely mentored Clove and Cato, which could explain their similar qualities.
  • In the book, Katniss talks about the District 2 tributes, saying "Cato. Clove. Brutus. Enobaria. I've seen their eagerness. I've seen their bloodlust, too".
• In the 74th and 75th Hunger Games, both District 2 males (Cato and Brutus) were the last to die, and their last kills were the District 11 males.
• Both male volunteers from District 2 in the 74th and 75th Hunger Games were killed by volunteers from District 12. Cato was killed by Katniss, and Brutus was killed by Peeta.
• The book states that Brutus killed Chaff and caused Peeta to go on a rampage killing Brutus. In the film, it is shown that Chaff was killed, but Brutus' fate is ambiguous. However, in the film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, Brutus is not present at the meeting of the surviving victors, indicating he died prior to that point.
• Brutus' name is another reference to Ancient Rome as several Romans in history went by this name, most famously Julius Caesar's assassin, Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, who often went by the name Brutus alone.