President Snow

President Coriolanus Snow is the icy, roses-and-blood ruler of Panem — the author of the Hunger Games themselves, the man who invented a system of terror to control millions through fear and spectacle. Cultured, calculating, and utterly ruthless, Snow uses the Games as a political instrument to punish the districts and entertain the Capitol. Collins made the radical choice to humanize him in the prequel novel 'The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,' showing how a talented, ambitious young man was shaped by ideology and self-interest into a monster — one of YA fiction's most chilling villain origin stories.