President Coriolanus Snow

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* President
* Young Man

### Most Detestable Traits

Being a complete sociopath who will get his best friend hanged, have teenagers mass-murdered annually, and have people like Finnick Odair raped.

### Type of ED

Tyrannical Mastermind

**President Coriolanus Snow** is the main antagonist of *The Hunger Games* books series and the villainous protagonist of it's prequel *The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes*. He started out with relatively humble origins and began his journey when he was assigned to mentor Lucy Gray, and he is now the president of Panem, comprising of the Capitol and twelve diverse districts which he efficiently rules with an iron fist.

He was portrayed by Donald Sutherland.

## His Qualities

### What Makes Him Entertaining?

* He is an extremely charismatic and competent governor who rules Panem and keeps the country together for years. It's also not unreasonable to feel tempted to root for him since President Ravinstill and President Alma Coin are both more vile tyrants than he is by far.
	+ He also has standards against disgusting good-for-nothings like Dr. Gaul.
* Even as a little boy he was awesome, scaring off a savage dog threatening to hurt his sister.
* He does everything he can for his mentoree, Lucy Gray, during the 10th Hunger Games, and she actually ends up winning. He is also clever enough to drop a handkerchief with Lucy's scent into the tank of snake mutts, which gets them used to her scent so they won't attack her later on.
* He does a fantastic job as a Peacekeeper, resulting in him being promoted rather quickly. It can even be taken from this that he's okay with their brutality since he was once a Peacekeeper himself, hence why he understands why they are so extreme with their methods.
* He reminds us how cool he is yet again when he beats down a vicious boy who tried to grab Lucy while she was on stage.
* He goes on a journey of self-discovery throughout the prequel film as he grapples with his blossoming romantic feelings for Lucy and his own power lust.
* He gives Casca Highbottom what he deserves by killing him, marking a streak of cleverly poisoning his rivals to stay two steps ahead of them. He even takes the poison himself to avert suspicion.
* He genuinely believes the Hunger Games are Necessary Evil so there will not be a repeat of the Dark Days, which very nearly caused complete anarchy. While it doesn't justify it, he only kills teenagers to prevent history from repeating itself because the only thing stronger than fear is hope. It's also quite hard to feel sorry for some of the victims like Marvel and Clove since they were such deplorable adolescents.
* He has an extremely prominent "Evil is Cool" vibe with a considerably intimidating presence throughout the films, not to mention his voice as an old man is very epic.
* He loves his family, keeping a rose from his grandmother and being supportive of his granddaughter even when she admires Katniss.
* He's very intelligent, surmising that if Katniss was truly dead, then she would have been martyred.
* He has respect for Katniss even though they understandably have a mutual hatred for one another. They promise to never lie to each other, and Snow willingly honors his end of that. He apparently sees her as Lucy Gray, who disappeared decades ago.
* Unlike President Coin, he has standards against nuking little kids and considers it "wasteful" to do so.
* He sincerely pities Katniss for losing Primrose and helps her move on by letting her express her emotions, and he comforts her.
* His warnings about President Coin ultimately lead to her downfall. When he is subsequently trampled, he accepts his defeat with dignity.

### What Makes Him Detestable?

* He's been running the Hunger Games for decades, getting hundreds if not thousands of teenagers killed, including Rue, Thresh, and Cato, and even the old lady Mags (although a few of the victims like Marvel, Clove, and Brutus deserved it).
* Most of the severe poverty and immense suffering of Districts like 11 and 12 can be tied back to him.
* He betrays Sejanus Plinth which results in him ending up getting hanged. He also kills Mayfair Lipp (while she was definitely kind of a dolt, she still didn't deserve to get shot).
* He takes some very brutal measures to stop District 13 such as blowing up a hospital for instance when they go there to film.
* Upon capturing several rebels, he has Johanna Mason electrocuted and hijacks Peeta Mellark's mind.
* He infamously forced Johanna and Finnick Odair to have sex with rich people.
* He is far from counting as a Magnificent Baddie due to unjustifiably forcing people into prostitution, getting numerous children killed in gory and brutal ways on live television, betraying Sejanus Plinth to his demise, hijacking Peeta Mellark, and repeatedly trying to mess with Katniss Everdeen in violent ways; all of which can be considered exemplary "Kick the Dog" moments.

## External Links

* President Coriolanus Snow on the Villains Wiki
* President Coriolanus Snow on the Near Pure Evil Wiki

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