With The Hunger Games franchise finished and audiences scrambling for the next big young adult series heading to screens, what better time to look back at the immensely popular fantasy franchise and pick out its most bizarre and hilarious moments from the very first movie to the last one, for better and for worse? While initially pitched as fairly grounded for the standards of sci-fi fantasy, it wasn't long into the first film that peculiar flourishes began to creep in and completely up-end that expectation, from terrible CGI creatures to mounting implausibilities, outrageously dark kills for a PG-13 movie...and various shocks and controversies surrounding each film's production. Plus, given how unpopular the final book is even with hardcore fans, it's safe to say that director Francis Lawrence had his fair share of difficulty bringing it to the big screen. Whether you're a massive fanboy/girl or hold the films in the most casual regard possible, here are 35 WTF moments from the Hunger Games movie franchise, and of course, in case you haven't seen it yet, SPOILERS FOR MOCKINGJAY PART 2 WILL FOLLOW...
37. Peeta Disguises Himself (The Hunger Games)
Moments after the horror of Rue's death, the series delivers one of its few moments of uproarious comedy, as Katniss feels something grab her leg from within the rocks beneath her feet. She looks down, startled, to see that it's Peeta, having used his exceptional cake-decorating abilities to paint himself to blend in perfectly with the rocks, in order to lie low while suffering a painful leg injury. It's one of the most ridiculous scenes in the entire series, mainly because it's tough to imagine how Peeta managed to paint himself so perfectly, and that's assuming he even has a mirror...