The Hunger Games Mutts Explained: All Variants & Origin

The Hunger Games Mutts Explained: All Variants & Origin

The Mutts are terrifying, engineered creatures found throughout The Hunger Games franchise. Here is every variant seen in the movies. The Mutts (AKA Muttations) are hybrid creatures found in The Hunger Games saga, appearing in the arena to terrorize tributes. Alongside X-Men: First Class, the original Hunger Games is one of the movies that made Jennifer Lawrence into a star. Lawrence plays protagonist Katniss Everdeen in the series, who becomes a symbol of rebellion after surviving the 74th Hunger Games, a televised game of death. The movies were based on the best-selling book series by author Suzanne Collins. Hunger Games:...

The Mutts are terrifying, engineered creatures found throughout The Hunger Games franchise. Here is every variant seen in the movies. The Mutts (AKA Muttations) are hybrid creatures found in The Hunger Games saga, appearing in the arena to terrorize tributes. Alongside X-Men: First Class, the original Hunger Games is one of the movies that made Jennifer Lawrence into a star. Lawrence plays protagonist Katniss Everdeen in the series, who becomes a symbol of rebellion after surviving the 74th Hunger Games, a televised game of death. The movies were based on the best-selling book series by author Suzanne Collins. Hunger Games: Catching Fire found Katniss forced into a new game, but the final two installments focused on efforts to overthrow the Capital and the evil President Snow, played by Donald Sutherland. The movies were hugely successful and kicked off a trend of YA adaptations, including The Maze Runner and Divergent. The Hungers Games did a great job of world-building, with Panem feeling like a real place. Animal hybrids dubbed Mutts existed in the world of Panem too, which were used by the Capital both in the games and occasionally as weapons against rebels. Jabberjays/Mockingjay One of the first mutts created in the novels was the jabberjay, a bird created to spy on the population of Panem. Jabberjays are capable of recounting entire conversations, but once the people who were spied upon realized how they were being used, the birds lost their usefulness. Before they died out they mated with female mockingbirds, creating the Mockingjay bird, which existed in the wild. Both birds get a mention in the first Hunger Games movie, but their skills are seen, or rather heard, later. The Hunger Games arenas differ in each game, and in Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the birds are used within the arena itself. The contestants hear the cries of those they care about, actually produced by the birds, to cause them anguish in the arena, leaving Katniss and Finnick (Sam Claflin) to wonder how the gamemakers got the sounds for the birds to mimic. After Katniss was gifted a Mockingjay pin, the bird later became Katniss's symbol in the games and the rebellion itself. Cinna (Lenny Kravitz) even designed Katniss' dress during the opening ceremonies to resemble a Mockingjay after it flamed, also earning her the moniker of "girl on fire." The Mockingjay was a symbol in the First Rebellion, and the new rebels co-opted it as a result of Katniss seen wearing it. Tracker Jackers These nasty little creatures are wasps capable of vicious stings that can cause severe swelling, hallucinations, and death. They earned their nickname because they will track and kill anyone that disturbs their nest. Their nests are particularly large, and if disturbed, they do not hesitate to swarm after those people or animals near them. Katniss avoids their nests in the arena in the first Hunger Games movie until she has to cut one of the nests down to use as a weapon against the Career tributes. Katniss ends up with severe stings from her efforts, but Glimmer (Leven Rambin) loses her life when the tracker jackers sting her repeatedly. Wolf Mutts The Wolf Mutts are a deadly threat in the original Hunger Games and are released by the Capital to make the game more exciting. The Hunger Games book uses the wolf mutts slightly differently. They were designed to look like fallen tributes - right down to the human-like eyes. The effect unnerves Katniss and makes her hesitate when encountering them in the finale of the Games with Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) and Cato (Alexander Ludwig). The movie does away with this design, where they instead resemble hulking dogs with vicious claws and teeth. Monkey Mutts These baboon-like creatures are used in the 75th Hunger Games, or the Quarter Quell, of...