What if the tributes refused to fight? 

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Me and my dad were talking about this a few days ago, and he said that this probably happened in some of the first hunger games when careers didn't exist and all the districts tributes were fairly even. The idea of hunger games was new, no many people would accept it, and its likely in at least one of the first 10 - 15 games the tributes all refused to fight.

I sometimes wonder what would happen if all the tributes decided to step from their podiums too early and were all blown to pieces before the game officially started.

The kids who got reaped be like: “ it aint that bad tho. Yall wanna play minecraft in real life now.”

I think that before they were about to tell them that they would kill their families then they’d mute everyone’s screens and blame it later on on a “malfunction”.

If I was in The Hunger Games I'd like to think of myself as a fox face type character so I probably agreed to not fight but run into the forest knowing that the gamemakers will probably and leaves some type of thing to kill us

If no one fought, I feel like the people in the control room would cause some sort of natural disaster, at least quite early on

I watched a fan fiction were these tributes didn’t want to fight, so somehow their trackers also had a disease and there were only five tributes left, and two cures. That got them to fight

Another tactic to do the same reality shows do. Pick a tribute who has the personality traits that can make him easily manipulated. You only need one or two to cause havoc. If you somehow trick them into making them think they are going to get the support of the game makers or the sponsors, that can do the trick.

I would only fight someone if they attacked me or if they were the only person left besides me. I wouldn't go around killing random people. But according to my location I'm techinally district 1 so I would be brainwashed to become a career so my way of thinking would have been different in the H.G. universe😂

I would probably fight even if there was an agreement, as I feel that winning would be the only way to ensure you're 'safe'

I know a way of how they could gather together. They would pass down the information to each other like a relay until everyone agrees.

If my family was threatened, I'd definitely fight. They already have/had to watch me die by other tributes. They shouldn't suffer anymore. I do value allies in the arena, but I value my family more.

Maybe if someone passed a message during training and everyone agreed?

I don’t think I’d fight, because I probably couldn’t handle killing or hurting people. In this situation, I probably would just let myself get killed (but make it look like I was trying so my loved ones didn’t get hurt). I think dying in the arena on my own terms is better than what happens if you survive, because you’ll basically be controlled by the president.

If I fought I would only fight if I was in danger. If the other person did not try to kill me I wouldn't kill them

The good thing about being in district 1 or 2 is that many people volunteers there so if you don’t wanna go, you don’t have to

During the meals They can move the tables to talk. That's the moment when they could make an agreement.whispering in each other's ear or passing notes.

They would probably hijack them in a way to be aggressive to each other, maybe during the sky images at the end of the day showing the images of deceased people? There would probably people who would risk their family, but not many. To pass the message, maybe make code words?

They could make an announcement like “If nobody dies in the next 5 minutes everyone’s trackers will detonate”

One way I could see the tributes managing to make this agreement would be through mentors, as the mentors can communicate with other mentors, who can then communicate with the tributes

They could do an announcement where instead of threatening them they could give it a twist to the victor, like their entire family being exonerated from the next hunger games or even their entire district being exonerated for the next 5 years.

Next you should do what would happen if everyone jumped off the platforms at the beginning of the games

I'm actually extremely happy this isn't real bc I turn twelve next month and I would be SCARED to actually live. Gosh I'm saved

I would fight only cause its a life or death situation. And as everyone else death is a huge no no for me.

In the movie “Battle Royale” which is basically just the Hunger Games, what they do is have there be a 2 day time limit and if there isn’t a winner by then, then they just kill them all. I feel like they’d probably do something like that

Actually, if the game maker tells you « fight or we’ll kill your loved ones », your family is going to die anyway.

If it was the 1st games, the game makers probably had to rig it to get it going. From then on, the idea and concept spread, and it got more violent and vicious.

I’m kind of a pacifist so I would agree.

Maybe in the Quarter quell if it actually carried out they know how horrible it is so maybe they would have refused.

I'd kill myself rather than fight. I took a vow of nonviolence seven years ago and I would stand by that no matter what. Even if I were in just a regular Games where no one had made any such promise, I still wouldn't kill.

if i were in the games i would just step off the exploding platform too early because 1) i can’t fight and lack most body strength 2) i would rather be blown to bits in a millisecond than stabbed to death brutally by a career 3) my death is nationally televised and people will remember me as “that dingus who dies first”

They might put another person in which would hunt people or have the finale early

At the beginning of the Games, peace pact or not, were I in them, I would sit down on my plate, close my eyes, and wait to die. I am an INCREDIBLY strict pacifist, to the point where I haven't even knowingly killed an insect for the past seven years, and it's a big jump to make from mosquito to innocent human child.

could you do a video of all the known arenas ???

I like imagine that if the tributes refused to fight in would be in the arena and an alliance would form who would refuse to fight and maybe others would join until everyone stopped fighting.

what would you do? Fight or join the pact?

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If I was a tribute, I would stick to our agreement and would only fight if it was absolutely necessary.

I still believe that district four does not have a training center I still believe the reason why they were very good at throwing spears and knives is because you would need to do those things in fishing

What if the first few tributes resisted, the gamemakers would kill them off one by one, until they r all ded, families crying shouting “it’s not fair”, or they reluctantly fight and the ded tributes parents/siblings still saying the same thing. Either way it’s a big cost to the capitol’s reputation and will probs start an uprising, that district being a dead wasteland copy of district 13 with one or two survivors hidden being tracked

Really I would stick to it but I'm where district 6 is I would camouflage myself to a tree

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I think that coming to the agreement would actually be a little easier than all gathering in a big group. Let's say that 8 and 2 come together and agree, like 'okay lets not fight',they could then go and spread it to another group each, like 8 goes to 9 and 2 can go to 1. From there, 1 and 9 could spread it to other districts, like 4 or 10, continuing to spread it. Honestly, coming together into an agreement isn't the issue, its the pressure knowing that everybody is watching and judging them, causing people to turn on one another for the sake of their district.

A way to make the tributes fight without killing their families could be to make them have hallucinations, as your more likely to kill someone who you don’t think is a human than to kill someone who you know to be a human. And for this to work, the game makers will only be able to hypnotise a handful of the tributes so the others will fight back in self defence.

If that we're me. I would fight because I love my family to much to let them suffer 🙂😀

I always thought that when the arena was flooded when Annie won, it was done to kind of move things along, that there was a lull in the action.

A big problem with this is that not all of the Tributes would refuse to fight. The ones from Districts 1, 2 and 4 think it an honor to participate in the Games, and there's probably the odd Tribute or two from the other Districts who think they have a chance and that their odds would be worste in defying the Capitol. If they did this before the start of the Games, when the cameras weren't on them, they'd all be secretly killed and a convenient "accident" staged. If they did this just before the bloodbath, they'd be blown up on camera and their families wiped out in the following days, for "the encouragement of others".

tracker jackers and stuff could make illusions, so what if they could make some kind of sickness or something that would cause the tributes to go insane and attack others?

I think that the game makers would have to make a series of "natural disasters", hitting the tributes depending on who has the most sponsors/fans (as if the least you had the sooner you would be hit)

In my opinion,I would gather all the supplies store it somewhere and blame it on Someone else and build up am explosives trap to kill them all in their sleep suggesting they camped in one big place lile the cornucopia and be the victor

What if they could pay their way out of the hunger games because if you add your name more than once you get paid

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I always imagined if the careers would not be trained and the game makers didn’t have the mutts and things they would do to kill the tributes and, all of the tributes would refuse to fight. They all be like camping in the hunger games living there together. They can make a whole population in the hunger games! They can give birth to babies and they could live there!

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okay but imagine if the plan was that instead of actually not fighting they would all step off of their platforms earlier than when the countdown is done so they would all explode and die and the hunger games would technically never happen

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There’s also, in the book, right before they show the game makers their skills in the private sessions to get their scores. That’s a time where they are all together and there is nobody else there except for the tributes.

I imagine the capitol would make mass food shortages or water shortages, they might also raise the stake, in something like your entire family can move to the capitol

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I'd keep the promise. And if the game makers said that they'd kill our families, I'd get to work with a plan to escape. I'd get the kids from D3 to take out all of the cameras some how, and then they were turn the landmines into grenades. We'd make a hole in the side of the arena and escape into the mountains, (we've been told that the Capitol is situated in the Rockies, so I have to guess that the arenas would be close by.) Once we got out, the careers would carefully slice open each of our arms to remove or trackers ()I say the careers because they should be well educated in biology). I would then get the D11 tributes to sew up our arms, and put our trackers in the arena, escaping into the wilerdness. We would survive by relying on each others Districts speciality. Obviously we don't exactly need technology or masonry at that point, but we'd just reassign jobs to agriculture or building.

I always wondered what would happen if the tributes unanimously decided not to fight.. I love your take on it :D

My tactic would be hunt and gather and learn the patterns of the traps. I would only fight to defend myself and avoid killing unless it’s a career (because they wouldn’t give up).

I would still hold up to the agreement to show that the districts will not be scared and horrified by the Capitol no longer hopefully sparking a uprising of rebellion.

The gamemakers could also use tracker jacker venom on them to brainwash the tributes into thinking each other were life threatening, like (spoiler) they did to peeta.

I would go along with the agreement until they split the stuff with me, and then just run away and hide. Foxface survived for a while without many things, so if I had all that stuff then I'd have a bigger chance of survivial

The capitol would receive it poorly if the tributes didn't fight in the begining. Most announcements made in the arena are seen by the capitol and that would be poorly received by the capitol as they would see that as cruel. (At least more cruel than killing children). It would be reasonable if the game makers included some sort of a natural disaster as you can make it so resources are limited so tributes will have to start fighting sooner than later but also kill off tributes in exciting ways.

This did happened, the Game Makers flooded the Arwna and left Annie as the lone survivor

I would fight....some people. Probably the people who seem suspicious. I would want to keep the agreement for the most part, but if someone seemed like they would try to kill everyone in a night would be a person to get rid of if you know what I mean. But that's only if the game makers didn't really do anything. If they said they would hurt my family, it would be me against everyone else. I wouldn't let anything happen to my family in that way!

What I’d do in the hunger games 2 ways, First way: I’d get a back pack and some type of weapon that I can defend myself with and run away out of the blood bath, I would try to get a long range weapon or a spear I can hold out to keep them from getting right beside me and try to win that way and if I see I can’t win I’d probably eat something poisoned because I refuse to be killer Second idea: I’d probably try to make a deal with the careers saying I don’t want to win just get them to protect me until I can eat something poisoned but I could do this or try and kill them off one by one because certain times it’s easy because their guard is down

I could only picture the tributes will refuse to fight on the 76th hunger games (if there was one winner in the 75th games) and the tributes of the 76th remembered the hand holding the 75th tributes did in the tribute interview and they pledged that they wouldn’t go after each other but instead protect each other. It made more sense in my head then how i said it.

What if non career tributes make a plan to jump the career pack before they get to the weapons and than scram that would be cool

I’m trained in martial arts yet I wouldn’t fight someone unless they attacked me or my district partner. Also I would’ve gone to cornocopia and grabbed like one pack and anything nearby that no one else is willing to fight for.

Okay. So I know this was all ready done in one of the movies. But if I were in the hunger games in general. I would remove my tracker, fake my death, then hide as well as possible and wait it out. I mean, it couldnt be to hard.i guess

If they were to decide to do this, it would probably happen at the lunch break, when the trainers are talking to the gamemakers.

I don’t know if you already did this but, new video idea: What if someone stepped of their pedestal before the timer was up?

if the tributes formed a sort of super alliance and got rid of all the careers and other violence prone tributes then they could just chill in the arena

I would stay by my agreement but still watch my back all the time. I would wait til the others were sleeping and then rest. I would keep weapons and have a back up plan in case I have to abandon them to survive.

imagine instead of hunger games it be survival so thaey all work together and stay alive for a total of 30 or 20 days and the remaining surviving children would win

This would have been REALLY interesting if this happened in the 74th hunger games because there are fanfics where Clove, Cato, Glimmer, Thresh, Foxface, Rue, Marvel, Katniss, and Peeta agree to not fight each other and join District 13 or just basically survive

For me it would depend on what happens. Like if the Gamemakers threatend my family then yes but other wise probably not

i will not fight. i would defend myself if someone attacks me, but i would stay true to the agreement. i know the consequences of this decision and it won’t end well for me but i believe if this outcome happens enough times, the capitol will eventually get bored and decide the games are not worth all the money and effort.

They will probably just send some mutts and watch the tributes turn on each other in order to survive. I think that some tributes will still keep the alliance but careers will probably break it off to try and win. (Not including district 4 in the careers)

I would initially agree. But if the Capitol threatened my love ones I honestly wouldn t know what would I do next

I think I would definitely do something like foxface, I could not deal with my family, watching me being murdered and I could never have blood on my hands.

2:50 you did forget they are all together just before they each do their individual assessment which could be when they came together, unless there are guards in the room.

If this was going to happen me and the other tributes could just all step off our circles before the 60 are up. This would be the quickest way to insure there is no victor.

Why didn’t(or did I wasn’t listening lol) the game makers think about threatening the tributes family then?

I would fight for my family. That's not even a question.

I'm Ben Tennyson and I can win this Hunger Game easily. It's time for Four Arms of fun!! Can you imagine what would happen if Ben Tennyson came to the Hunger Games universe? It would be so cool.

We now know how primitive the earlier Hunger Games were, but by later renditions the Game Makers were basically controlling the outcome (think of the fire they sent to force Katniss into the Career Pack). I think if everyone just didn't fight they would manipulate the game nonetheless so people still died.

If you think smartly in the games making the first move would most likely put the biggest target on you for a revenge kill ... I mean first move to kill... Not the other kind

I would step off my podium before the countdown was over. I'm tapping out.

The citizens of the capital were sheltered to the fact that The Hunger Games was not an option for the districts.

I mean I would get into a fight with someone but play dead

I’d love to see a video of past arenas

I think they could make them fight with their trackers because they could put more adrenaline or something in that would make them fight .

I think that because it is very unlikely for all the tributes to get in a position to agree to do this, that what would most likely happen is that this could be part of the rebellion and the leaders of the districts told them not to fight so they could be freed of the capitol. Any body else think that might happen?

I think that they would just flood the Area with mutts that looked like each one of their family members than wait if that happened their would be no Victor and the game maker would be Killed or the mutts would start attacking people until the boy/girl would Survive the attack and crown them the winner Or they could have done this Sooner when they step foot on the stools 3,2,1 everyone looked at each other and nodded they all step off the stools and stand in place they look around to see if the game makers are gonna plain something than they shrink the force field to make the Area smaller making them fight each other meaning the game would Last only 1 day and for the Last 5 that stand their as the watch the force field shrink they send in only 3 Mutts their are 3 left now than they all decide to turn on each other (the remaining 3 climb up the cornucopia,to the mutts wont attack them are Cato clove and Katnip, katniss comes up with an idea taking out night-lock and giving Clove and Cato some on the count of three they eat them 1.......2........3......they slowly eat them katniss becomes dizzy and falls off and gets eaten by the mutts Cato and clove fall down but does not fall in mutts as they grab each others hands and say they love each other as 3 cannons go off ending the games.....(ik dis was trash)

It is possible to win a Hunger Game without killing someone. What if you survive the game and the monsters without killing someone? You would be loved by everyone.