Character from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
District 2's Career tribute — blond, brutal, and trained since birth to kill — who was the arena's apex predator until the mutts showed him what it feels like to be prey.
Cato is what the Career districts are designed to produce: a volunteer killer who sees the Games as glory. He's brutal, skilled, and genuinely dangerous — sword and hand-to-hand combat trained from childhood. But in his final moments on the Cornucopia, covered in mutt bites and bleeding out, he says something that reframes everything: he realizes he was always a piece in someone else's game. The Capitol raised him to die entertainingly. He just didn't know it until the end.
Tall, heavily muscled, blond, with a square jaw and the confident posture of someone who's been told he'd win the Hunger Games since he could hold a sword. He's the Career ideal — physically perfect, aggressive, and camera-ready.
Also known as: Cato