One character who stands out in particular in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is Tigris, and that's thanks to her entrancing facial features. So, this begs the question, why does Tigris look like a Tiger?
Serving in the main Capitol of The Hunger Games is no easy task, as portrayed through Tigris Snow's hesitation to continue supporting her cousin, Coriolanus Snow, in the early years of the annual event.
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES
Why Does Tigris Look Like a Tiger?
There is no doubt that the Capitol is obsessed with everyone's looks and staying in their youthful forms. Even the ruthless Hunger Games was well-transformed into a form of entertainment, a soap opera, for a survival game for the lower districts.
However, why Tigris looks like a tiger is a pretty new feature to draw for a character as important as Tigris Snow.
Tigris Snow, as her surname suggests, is the older cousin of Coriolanus Snow, which means she knows the exact ins and outs of how her relative operates behind the games.
As it turned out, she was not at all happy with how her cousin treated the winners of the district, not even when she found out that Coriolanus purposely cheated to have Lucy Gray Baird from District 12 win.
The Capitol is filled with the harsh realities they have yet to uncover, and seeing as Tigris herself witnessed the horrors behind the scenes, she tried to keep her focus on being the stylist of the tributes.
However, the more she had to hide her mixed feelings on the situation, the more enhanced that of a tiger her face had become.
Tigris Deices To Rebel Against [SPOILER]
While some believe that the surgical enhancements were a metaphor for her 'trying to fit in' the Capitol, it was the opposite. If anything, it was her showing rebellion against the beauty standards they upheld.
How her face had been altered to a tiger could very well mean she would rather be an animal than be one of the 'human beings' responsible for the creation of The Hunger Games.
Not to mention, all her life, she had always been belittled for her looks given how significantly skinnier and how her nose was longer and sharper than the rest, all of which became the complete opposite when she 'transformed', hence, why Tigris looks like a tiger.
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Who Plays Tigris Snow in The Hunger Games' prequel?
Tigris Snow from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was played by none other than Euphoria star Hunter Schafer.
Set six decades before the events of the original The Hunger Games franchise, the portrayal of the younger Tigris Snow was meant to show how big of a change the character went from The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, as Schafer told Entertainment Weekly:
"Aesthetically, we wanted it to be a pretty big departure to insinuate how much has happened in between this movie and Mockingjay Tigris. I remember seeing Tigris in Mockingjay 2 and being taken aback by her. She's so striking. It was fun to reinvent her - or uninvent her - and create the younger version of her that's still in survival mode with [Coriolanus]. We had creative liberty."
In The Mockingjay, Tigris is fiercer and has the closest look of being a full-fledged tiger. This was after her cousin had fired her from being the stylist of the tributes, which also explains why she had even more 'creative liberty' outside the Capitol.
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