All THE WEAPONS are used in the book or the movie. Rue only uses her sling shot in the book and Katniss says that she does well with it. Thresh has a rock that kills Clove, but in the movie he slams her against the cornucopia. That is just really scary about how tough he is. Cato has a sword in both the movie and the book and he uses the sword as a advantage. Katniss's dad taught her how to use a bow when she was really young so, she is really good at using it. Clove is awesome at throwing knives and she almost killed Katniss twice with them. All the characters are unique with their type of weapons. It's exciting that they use different weapons. I think the weapons make a huge difference in the games because every one of the characters has a strength and weakness. Some of the characters like Fox Face used their smartness in the games. Some of the weapons used in the games are below in the slide show. :)