Trick arrows constructed specifically as props for both films and do not function as they are portrayed. A live-action variety of explosive arrow, kit-bashed from two M203 grenades, was used in the movie "Predator". The character Yeoman of the "Wild Cards" superhero anthology series also makes occasional use of exploding arrows. Bo and Luke Duke from "The Dukes of Hazzard" used arrows with dynamite tied to them because they were banned from having firearms after being caught moonshine running. Trick arrows were also featured in the book Mockingjay, the third book in the Hunger Games series, when both the heroine, Katniss Everdeen,
Katniss Everdeen refuses to believe Snow, Katniss realizes that the attack method was identical to a trap Gale and fellow Quarter Quell tribute Beetee had designed. Eventually, Katniss realizes that someone high up in the ranks of the Rebels would have had to order to have Prim on the front line, despite her age, and comes to suspect that Coin ordered the attack on the children in order to trick the Capitol citizens into thinking that the government had killed their children, therefore winning the loyalty of the Capitol's citizens and that Prim was there solely to subdue and unhinge Katniss. Furthermore,