The Most Gruesome Deaths In 'The Hunger Games,' Ranked

Finnick Odair (Sam Claflin) was one of the previous victors to be unlucky enough to be chosen for the Hunger Games a second time in Catching Fire's Quarter Quell. By allying himself with Peeta and Katniss, he is able to escape the arena along with them and join the new rebellion stationed in District 13. Unfortunately, Finnick is not lucky enough to survive the subsequent war against the Capitol.

While on a mission with Katniss to infiltrate President Snow's mansion in Mockingjay, the team is attacked by lizard mutts. Although Finnick puts up a good fight, he is eventually dragged down and savaged by one of the mutts. Katniss drops a self-destructing holo device down into the tunnel to injure the mutts, but only after Finnick's head has been bitten off. Though noble, Finnick's death is made even more tragic as he had just married his fellow District 4 victor, Annie, who was pregnant with their son.

Castor (Wes Chatham) is part of the TV crew chosen to accompany Katniss and Squad 451 to the Capitol on a covert mission in Mockingjay. While sneaking through the sewers in an effort to get deeper into the city, the group is attacked by a group of lizard muttations.

While Castor's fate is left up to the imagination in the original cut of the film, the extended cut shows him being run down and mauled to death by the mutts, who are even more terrifying up close, with an unsettling humanoid-reptilian appearance and razor-sharp teeth and claws.

Cato (Alexander Ludwig) is the final tribute besides Katniss and Peeta in the 74th Hunger Games, depicted in the first installment of the trilogy. Things look grim when Cato takes Peeta hostage atop the Cornucopia, telling Katniss she can't kill him without Peeta falling with him into the pit of vicious wolf-mutts surrounding them - which, in an additional horrifying twist, are genetically designed to represent each of the fallen tributes.

Using her expert aim, Katniss shoots Cato in the hand, causing him to lose his grip on Peeta and fall into the waiting jaws of the wolves. As one of the strongest fighters among the tributes, Cato fights valiantly, but slowly gets torn apart by the pack over an unnervingly long period of time. He slowly bleeds out before Katniss takes pity on him and shoots him to end his suffering sooner.

Cinna (Lenny Kravitz) is one of Katniss's first friends in the Captiol, and his unique designs are instrumental in helping her gain the attention and support she needed to succeed in her first Hunger Games. Additionally, Cinna shows awareness of how evil the Games are and encourages Katniss to find small ways to rebel against the Capitol's control. However, in Catching Fire, when Cinna uses Katniss's costume designs to display revolutionary messaging, it earns him Capitol retaliation. 

Cinna waits with Katniss in the launch room as she prepares to enter the games once again. As Katniss is separated from him by a glass tube, Peacekeepers enter the room and begin savagely beating Cinna with spiked gloves, causing him to fall bleeding to the floor. Later, Cinna is said to have died during an interrogation, which fans know involves injecting the prisoner with painful and hallucinogenic tracker jacker venom. 

The Hunger Games arena is full of dangerous genetically modified animals called “muttations,” and tracker jackers are certainly one of the most frightening. Souped-up insects created from already-unpleasant wasps, tracker jackers have a potent venom that causes terrible hallucinations from a single sting, and is easily lethal with a few stings at once. This hallucinogenic effects of the venom are so unpleasant that it is even used by the Capitol in small doses to torture prisoners.

District 1 Career tribute Glimmer (Leven Rambin) is unfortunate enough to have a nest of tracker jackers dropped on her head by Katniss in her sleep. After receiving countless stings, her face swells so severely that she's barely recognizable, looking like a mass of bumpy flesh more than a human being. This is undoubtedly one of the most painful and visually unpleasant deaths in the series.

In Mockingjay, Mitchell (Joe Chrest) is a member of Katniss' ill-fated star squad, best known for his skill as a sharpshooter. While the squad leads a mission into the Capitol, they stumble into several traps known as Pods, which trigger Peeta to have a flashback to his former brainwashed state. As Peeta attacks Katniss, Mitchell steps in and tackles Peeta to the ground in order to save her.

Then, Peeta manages to overpower Mitchell, throwing him into a Pod which traps him in a barbed wire net. The sharp wire cuts into Mitchell, killing him almost instantly. To make matters worse, Mitchell's body is lost under a flood of black tar shot out of another Pod triggered in the scuffle.