The District 9 male was the male tribute from District 9 who participated in the 74th Hunger Games.
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Biography
74th Hunger Games
The District 9 tributes in their parade costumes.
Tribute Parade
In the film, he is seen on the chariots with his district partner in the Tribute Parade wearing silver suits and headpieces, possibly representing silos (where they store grain). He and his district partner are hardly seen in the chariot scene; as the camera focuses on the District 8 partners, they are both seen waving.[2]
Training
In the training he was first seen using a sword. After this, he was also seen making a fire and backing away with the District 3 male.[2]
Cornucopia bloodbath
The District 9 male about to kill Katniss.
The District 9 male coughing blood as he is about to be killed by Clove.
The District 9 male struck down.
The District 9 male was killed in the initial Cornucopia bloodbath. He grapples over a backpack with Katniss Everdeen, until Clove throws a knife into his back. He coughs blood on Katniss's face and then falls to the ground, dead.[3] In the film, it is also shown that he picked up an axe and tried to kill Katniss. He places 24th out of 24 in the book and 20th out of 24 in the film.[2]
He, along with Clove, are the only two tributes to directly engage with Katniss.
Physical description
He had ashen hair and hazel eyes. Katniss was able to identify the wolf mutt that resembled him based on these traits.[4] In the films, he is also shown to be one of the smallest tributes.
Trivia
- In the film, he was 14 years old, and he weighed 90 pounds.[1]
- It was confirmed the District 8 female, the District 9 male, female and the District 10 female, were considered extra characters and they only shot the parade. He also appeared in the training, but his jacket is unnumbered.
- Imanol Yepez-Frias, the District 9 boy's actor, was not a stunt actor. This meant that he was not present for the filming of the bloodbath, and so the District 7 male's actor, Sam Ly, had to take his part. Consequentially, this means that the District 7 male appears to have two deaths.
- In the arena, he wears a bottle green jacket.
- Since no official arena wear was made for the District 9 tributes, his portrait is most likely digitally altered and colorized.
- He is the only tribute that fell during the bloodbath to serve a non-trivial role in the games, and the only one with a known physical description.
- The District 9 male was one of the five mutts that Katniss recognized in the book, and one of the two that is not named (the other is Foxface).
- In the scoreboard, he lives for 35 seconds, dying before his district partner.
- In the film he was the 5th dead, but when the District 8 female was killed, on the scoreboard behind Caesar it can be seen that he was the 1st dead.
- In the book, he was the first tribute shown to be killed. After Katniss sees a knife in his back, she said that "the other tributes had already reached the Cornucopia."
- The District 9 boy's portrait is not shown during 'The Fallen' along with the District 10 female. This is most likely a production error.
- He and the District 5 male of the 75th Hunger Games served the same role, because in the films both tried to kill Katniss in order to get supplies and are killed by a Career tribute (Clove and Finnick respectively in this case)
- In The Hunger Games: Training Days board game, he and his district partner, along with District 5 and 6, were not given cards or any recognition.
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 File:Full stats board.png
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The Hunger Games (film)
- ↑ The Hunger Games, Chapter 11
- ↑ The Hunger Games, Chapter 25
