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The children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events features a large cast of characters created by Daniel Handler by the pen-name of Lemony Snicket. The series follows the turbulent lives of the Baudelaire orphans after their parents, Bertrand and Beatrice, are killed in an arsonous structure fire and their multiple escapes from their murderous relative Count Olaf, who is after their family fortune.
The author of the series is Lemony Snicket (the nom de plume of Daniel Handler), who plays a major role in the plot himself. Although the series is given no distinct location, other real people appear in the narrative, including the series' illustrator, Brett Helquist, and Daniel Handler himself.
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1 Main characters
1.1 Count Olaf
1.2 Violet Baudelaire
1.3 Klaus Baudelaire
1.4 Sunny Baudelaire
1.5 Arthur Poe
1.6 Lemony Snicket
2 Supporting characters
2.1 Baudelaire family members
2.1.1 Bertrand Baudelaire
2.1.2 Beatrice Baudelaire
2.1.3 Beatrice Baudelaire II
2.1.4 Montgomery Montgomery
2.1.5 Josephine Anwhistle
2.2 Count Olaf's acting troupe
2.2.1 The Hook-Handed Man
2.2.2 The Bald Man With the Long Nose
2.2.3 The Person of Indeterminate Gender
2.2.4 The White-Faced Women
2.2.5 The Wart-Faced Man
2.2.6 Esmé Squalor
2.2.7 Carmelita Spats
2.2.8 Caligari Carnival freaks
2.2.8.1 Hugo
2.2.8.2 Colette
2.2.8.3 Kevin
2.2.9 The Man with a Beard But No Hair
2.2.10 The Woman with Hair But No Beard
2.3 Quagmire triplets
2.3.1 Duncan and Isadora Quagmire
2.3.2 Quigley Quagmire
2.4 Baudelaire children guardians
2.4.1 Sir
2.4.1.1 Charles
2.4.2 Vice-Principal Nero
2.4.3 Jerome Squalor
2.4.4 Hector
2.4.5 Hal
2.4.6 Olivia Caliban
2.4.7 Bruce
2.4.8 Captain Widdershins
2.4.9 Dewey Denouement
2.4.9.1 Frank and Ernest Denouement
3 Other characters
3.1 Edgar and Albert Poe
3.2 Eleanora Poe
3.3 Polly Poe
3.4 Justice Strauss
3.5 Gustav Sebald
3.6 Larry
3.7 Phil
3.8 Dr. Georgina Orwell
3.9 Mr. Remora
3.10 Mrs. Bass
3.11 Ms. Tench
3.12 Mr. and Mrs. Quagmire
3.13 Council of Elders
3.14 Mrs. Morrow
3.15 Mr. Lesko
3.16 Jacques Snicket
3.17 Geraldine Julienne
3.18 Babs
3.19 The Man with Pimples On His Chin
3.20 The Woman With Dyed Hair
3.21 Fiona
3.22 Castaways
3.22.1 Ishmael
3.22.2 Friday Caliban
3.22.3 Minor castaways
4 Animals
4.1 Incredibly Deadly Viper
4.2 Mamba du Mal
4.3 Lachrymose Leech
4.4 V.F.D. Crows
4.5 Volunteer Feline Detectives
4.6 Snow Gnats
4.7 V.F.D. Eagles
5 See also
6 References
Main characters[edit]
Count Olaf[edit]
Count Olaf is the main antagonist and one of the primary characters of the series, making an appearance in each installment with the Baudelaire children. Olaf is an eccentric criminal and a member of the Volunteer Fire Department that became a massive secret organization prior to the events of the first book in the series. Olaf is repeatedly described as an extremely tall and thin person with a monobrow, wheezy voice, gleaming eyes, extremely poor hygiene, and a tattoo of an eye on his left ankle.
Following the death of their parents, the Baudelaire orphans are placed under his care, and he proves to be a horrible guardian who is only interested in the Baudelaire fortune left behind by their mom and dad. It is implied that he gained his dislike of the Baudelaire and Snicket families after the Baudelaire children's parents, perhaps with the help of Kit and Lemony Snicket, killed his parents, orphaning him at a seemingly young age. After Olaf loses his guardianship over the children, he begins a series of attempts to steal the fortune by wearing various disguises and murdering Gustav Sebald, Montgomery Montgomery, Josephine Anwhistle, Jacques Snicket, and Olivia Calliban as well as attempting to murder Charles and countless other characters.
Count Olaf's aliases have included:
Al Funcoot - Al Funcoot is an anagram of "Count Olaf" that he uses it as his nom de plume when writing The Marvellous Marriage, The Most Handsome Man in the World, its sequel, Why, I Believe I've Become Even More Handsome!, and One Last Warning to Those Who Try to Stand in My Way, as referenced in The Unauthorised Autobiography.
Stephano /ˈstɛfənoʊ/ STEF-ə-noh - An assistant herpetologist with a long beard, a shaved head, and no eyebrows. He used special makeup to cover his ankle tattoo. In the TV series, he wears thick cartoonish glasses and speaks in a nasally accent.
Captain Julio Sham - A sea captain with an eye-patch and a wooden leg who uses a tobacco pipe for smoking. Count Olaf murdered the real Julio Sham, who was the captain of the Prospero.
Shirley - Dr. Georgina Orwell's feminine receptionist that wears stockings with eyes on them to cover his ankle tattoo. T. Sinoit-Pécer is "receptionist" spelled backwards. The alias was renamed Shirley St. Ives in the TV series.
Coach Genghis - A sweatsuit-wearing gym teacher with a turban that he claims to wear for religious reasons covering his one eyebrow, and expensive looking running shoes covering his eye tattoo. In the TV series, Coach Genghis speaks in an southern American accent.
Gunther (/ˈɡuːntər/ GOON-tər)[1] - A pinstripe suit-wearing auctioneer. He pretends to come from a foreign country so that people will believe that he doesn't speak fluent English. Olaf constantly says "please" after and in the middle of every sentence in this disguise. He wears horse riding boots to cover up his tattoo and a monocle to distort his eyebrow. In the TV series, Gunther wears glasses.
Detective Dupin - A "famous" detective obsessed with cool things, including ridiculous sunglasses which cover up his eyebrow and green plastic shoes with yellow lightning bolts on them to cover his tattoo. The alias name is a reference to C. Auguste Dupin.[citation needed] In the TV series, Detective Dupin is obsessed with scat singing and resorts to finding ways to get out of answering some questions.
Mattathias /ˌmætəˈθaɪ.əs/ MAT-ə-THY-əs - Heimlich Hospital's new Human Resources director. The only sign of his presence is his voice over Heimlich Hospital's intercom. In the TV series, Mattathias is a doctor and has the full name of Mattathias Medicalschool who plans to do a "Crainioectomy" on "Laura V. Bleediotie."
Kit Snicket - Olaf used this disguise in The End, but failed to fool anyone on the Island. The disguise consists of seaweed hair, Esme Squalor's dress which she wore in The Slippery Slope, and a diving helmet with the Medusoid Mycelium to make it look like Olaf is pregnant.
Yessica Haircut - Exclusive to the Netflix TV series, Count Olaf used this improvisational disguise to convince Mr. Poe (who had a haircut scheduled) that the Baudelaire children should be given to Count Olaf prior the events of The Bad Beginning.
While the Baudelaire children are always able to see through his disguises and intentions, the adults around them remain completely oblivious to the villain and fail to aid the children, forcing the Baudelaires to unmask Count Olaf and his various schemes numerous times throughout the series.
With the death of Jacques, who is mistakenly identified as the count by The Daily Punctilio, the target of the police manhunt for Olaf shifts to the Baudelaires, who are framed for the murder of Jacques. Olaf uses his newfound immunity to burn Heimlich Hospital and Caligari Carnival without repercussions. When he and the Baudelaires burn the Hotel Denouement down, they are forced to flee the authorities by escaping to sea, where they are shipwrecked on the island on the coastal shelf. In an attempt to take control of the island, Olaf threatens to release the airborne pathogens of Medusoid Mycelium on the colonists, but is harpooned by Ishmael. Olaf lives long enough to help Kit Snicket safely deliver her child, then he softly kisses her on the lips, which the Baudelaires refer to as the "one good thing" in his life.
In the 2004 film, Count Olaf is portrayed by Jim Carrey while the video game adaption had Count Olaf's additional dialogue provided by Robin Atkin Downes. Due to Carrey's comedic manner, Olaf's sinister nature was toned down and his occupation as an actor was increased, with him being comically bad at performing, but exceptional at improvising. His disguises for Stephano and Sham are slightly altered. Stephano now had thinning hair, prescription glasses, and a thin mustache that is "a tad askew" which Olaf claims was due to an incident involving a moray eel. He also spoke with a thick Italian American accent similar to comedian Ray Romano. His Sham disguise still kept the pegleg, but he had no eye patch (though the DVD extras reveal that at one point the filmmakers considered having him wear a strap around his head in place of a typical patch). After his plot was exposed and Count Olaf was arrested by the constable as the crowd converged on him, Lemony Snicket stated that the judge had decreed that Count Olaf be made to suffer every hardship he caused on the Baudelaire children before serving a life sentence. However, Lemony Snicket later stated that Count Olaf "vanished" after a jury of his peers overturned his sentence. In the video game, after being exposed, someone turned off the lights, enabling Count Olaf to escape as he vows to get his hands on the fortune.
In the 2017 TV series, he is portrayed by Neil Patrick Harris. Much like Carrey's portrayal of the character, Harris' portrayal was lighthearted, but still sinister in some fashion. The show dives into his acting persona with him being capable of thinking up a plan and disguise on the spot. In addition, he assumes the alias of an unrelated Count Olaf who works as the Caligari Carnival's ringmaster in "The Carnivorous Carnival" after Count Olaf's apparent death.
Violet Baudelaire[edit]
Violet Baudelaire is one of the three protagonists of the series; she appears in all thirteen novels. Violet helps her twelve-year-old brother Klaus and her baby sister Sunny solve problems with her inventing skills. As the eldest, she is the natural leader of the group. Violet is the eldest Baudelaire: she is fourteen at the beginning of the series and turns fifteen in The Grim Grotto. Brett Helquist's drawings indicate she has long, dark brown hair, and though her eye colour is never specified, it is implied that her eyes are a different colour than Klaus's.
When thinking and concentrating on new inventions, Violet ties her hair in a purple ribbon to keep it out of her face. Violet is a brilliant inventor, inventing various items such as:
A grappling hook that gets her up Count Olaf's tower in The Bad Beginning.
A lock pick that enables her to open Count Olaf's suitcase in The Reptile Room.
A signaling device in The Wide Window.
A staple-making device in The Austere Academy using a small crab, a potato, metal rods, creamed spinach, and a fork.
A mobile designed to brighten up the Orphan Shack while keeping the crab infestation at bay in the TV adaptation of The Austere Academy.
A climbing device made from ties, curtains, and extension cords in The Ersatz Elevator.
3 welding devices made of fire tongs in The Ersatz Elevator.
An invention created from bread and water that frees the three siblings from the Village of Fowl Devotees' uptown jail in The Vile Village before two of them are to be burned alive.
A rubber band ladder to escape the burning Heimlich Hospital in The Hostile Hospital.
A cart as an escape vehicle made from vines, roller coaster parts and a piece of rubber in The Carnivorous Carnival.
Fork-assisted climbing shoes that help her and Quigley Quagmire climb the frozen waterfall of Mount Fraught in The Slippery Slope.
When Violet and her siblings were accused of killing "Count Olaf," they use a series of disguises while evading the authorities and Count Olaf's group. Violet's disguises include:
In The Hostile Hospital, Count Olaf disguises her as a patient named Laura V. Bleediotie when he plans to perform a "Crainioectomy" surgery that will serve as a cover-up for Count Olaf's plot to behead her.
In The Carnivorous Carnival, Violet and Klaus do a shared disguise of Beverly and Elliot where they disguise themselves as a two-headed person.
In The Slippery Slope, Violet poses as a Snow Scout and a volunteer when saving Sunny.
In The Grim Grotto, Violet dresses as a scuba diver.
In The Penultimate Peril, she and her siblings pose as concierges until Dewey Denouement is accidentally killed during a confrontation with Count Olaf. Justice Strauss states to the crowd that they will have a blindfolded trial to determine who is guilty and who is not. However, the other two judges are discovered by the Baudelaires to be the Man With a Beard But No Hair and the Woman With Hair But No Beard. Violet and her siblings see Strauss being kidnapped, but nobody else does since the entire courtroom is blindfolded. Following Olaf, Violet and her siblings help him unlock the laundry room to get the sugar bowl. Using three clues, they break in, but find that the sugar bowl is not there. Angered, Olaf declares that he is going to the roof to get the Medusoid Mycelium which he will spread through the hotel, kill everyone, and escape by jumping off the roof in a boat. Violet, realizing his plan is foolish, agrees to help. Klaus is surprised that she would do this but Violet knows that they need an escape route, and going with Olaf may be the only way. Then, Sunny abruptly suggests that they burn down the Hotel, and Olaf agrees. On the roof, Klaus reveals that the sugar bowl fell into the pond and not into the laundry room. Here, Violet deduces that Sunny suggested they set the Hotel on fire as a signal so that noble people like Kit, Hector and the Quagmires would cancel the meeting. As Sunny says "the last safe place is safe no more". Violet makes a chute for the boat to safely make it off the building, and they use the giant spatulas used for flipping sunbathers as oars. Justice Strauss attempts to stop the Baudelaires leaving on the boat, but Sunny bites her hand and makes her let go. The boat floats safely down to the ocean, and the Baudelaires are left "in the same boat" as Count Olaf. Flames engulf the Hotel Denouement and Count Olaf gets away yet again.
In The End, the boat carries Violet, Klaus, Sunny and Olaf away from the burning hotel. After surviving a storm, they find themselves on a coastal shelf of an island inhabited by a mysterious group of people. They are first greeted by a little girl named Friday Caliban. Count Olaf, who had previously proclaimed himself king of Olaf-Land, threatens the girl with a harpoon gun. Friday is unfazed; she refuses Olaf permission to land on the island, but invites the Baudelaires onto the island. Along the way, she describes what the islanders do with their time—all year long, they build an outrigger on the coastal shelf, and once a year the water rises high enough to submerge the shelf and launch the outrigger. This is known as Decision Day, when anyone who wishes can board the ship, bite a bitter apple, spit it back out, and sail away. The island facilitator, Ishmael, introduces the Baudelaires to the strange island customs and has the islanders introduce themselves to the Baudelaires. After Count Olaf and Kit Snicket die, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny adopt Kit's baby daughter Beatrice as they leave their island. Not much was known about the Baudelaires since then.
In the 2004 film and its video game adaption, Violet is portrayed by Emily Browning.
In the 2017 TV series, she is portrayed by Malina Weissman. She is much more kind to her siblings as in the 6th episode, she doesn't fight with Klaus like she does in The Wide Window.
Klaus Baudelaire[edit]
Klaus Baudelaire is one of the three orphans of the series who appears in all thirteen novels. Klaus is the middle child of the Baudelaire orphans; he has an older sister named Violet and a younger sister named Sunny. His sister, Violet, is the family inventor, Sunny is the family biter, and he is the researcher. He is twelve years old at the beginning of the series and is fourteen by the end of the series. Klaus is the "bookworm" of the family, and his love of books has often helped him save himself and his sisters from Count Olaf. He tries to research their way out of the Marvellous Marriage in The Bad Beginning, helped prove that Stephano was really Count Olaf in disguise in The Reptile Room, and decoded Aunt Josephene's note, leading him and his siblings to Curdled Cave. In The Ersatz Elevator, Klaus helped Violet and Sunny find out what V.F.D means. He also found his book knowledge important when he and his siblings were accused of killing "Count Olaf." From The Vile Village onwards, the Baudelaire orphans use a series of disguises while evading the authorities and Count Olaf's group. Klaus' disguises include:
In The Hostile Hospital, Klaus disguises himself as a doctor with Sunny. In the TV series, this disguise was named Dr. Faustus.
In The Carnivorous Carnival, Klaus and Violet dress as a two-headed freak named Beverly and Elliot with Klaus as Elliot and Violet as Beverly.
In The Slippery Slope, Klaus poses as a Snow Scout and a volunteer.
In The Grim Grotto, Klaus wears a diving suit with a picture of Herman Melville on the front.
When it came to The Penultimate Peril, Klaus and his siblings pose as concierges until Dewey Denouement is accidentally killed during a confrontation with Count Olaf. Justice Strauss states to the crowd that they will have a blindfolded trial to determine who is guilty and who is not. However, the other two judges are discovered by the Baudelaires to be the Man With a Beard But No Hair and the Woman With Hair But No Beard. Violet and her siblings see Strauss being kidnapped, but nobody else does since the entire courtroom is blindfolded. Following Olaf, Violet and her siblings help him unlock the laundry room to get the sugar bowl. Using three clues, they break in, but find that the sugar bowl is not there. Angered, Olaf declares that he is going to the roof to get the Medusoid Mycelium, which he will spread through the hotel, kill everyone, and escape, by jumping off the roof in a boat. Violet, realizing his plan is foolish, agrees to help. Klaus is surprised that she would do this but Violet knows that they need an escape route, and going with Olaf may be the only way. Then, Sunny abruptly suggests that they burn down the Hotel, and Olaf agrees. On the roof, Klaus reveals that the sugar bowl fell into the pond and not into the laundry room. Here, Violet deduces that Sunny suggested they set the Hotel on fire as a signal so that noble people like Kit, Hector and the Quagmires would cancel the meeting. As Sunny says, "the last safe place is safe no more". Violet makes a chute for the boat to safely make it off the building, and they use the giant spatulas used for flipping sunbathers as oars. Justice Strauss attempts to stop the Baudelaires leaving on the boat, but Sunny bites her hand and makes her let go. The boat floats safely down to the ocean, and the Baudelaires are left "in the same boat" as Count Olaf. Flames engulf the Hotel Denouement, and Count Olaf gets away yet again.
In The End, the boat carries Violet, Klaus, Sunny and Olaf away from the burning hotel. After surviving a storm, they find themselves on a coastal shelf of an island inhabited by a mysterious group of people. They are first greeted by a little girl, Friday Caliban. Count Olaf, who had previously proclaimed himself king of Olaf-Land, threatens the girl with a harpoon gun. Friday is unfazed; she refuses Olaf permission to land on the island, but invites the Baudelaires onto the island. Along the way, she describes what the islanders do with their time—all year long, they build an outrigger on the coastal shelf, and once a year the water rises high enough to submerge the shelf and launch the outrigger. This is known as Decision Day, when anyone who wishes can board the ship, bite a bitter apple, spit it back out, and sail away. The island facilitator, Ishmael, introduces the Baudelaires to the strange island customs and has the islanders introduce themselves to the Baudelaires. After Count Olaf and Kit Snicket die, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny adopt Kit's baby daughter Beatrice as they leave the island. Not much was known about the Baudelaires since then.
In the 2004 film as well as its video game adaption, Klaus is portrayed by Liam Aiken. He doesn't have glasses unlike his book counterpart.
In the 2017 TV series, he is portrayed by Louis Hynes.
Sunny Baudelaire[edit]
Sunny Baudelaire is one of the three protagonists of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events series who appears in all thirteen novels. Sunny is the youngest of the three Baudelaire orphans and is described as an infant through much of the series. Although Sunny cannot walk until the end of the seventh book and speaks in idiosyncratic baby talk, she repeatedly demonstrates advanced problem solving skills, motor dexterity, comprehension, moral reasoning, and intelligence.
Early in the series, Sunny is frequently noted for the size and strength of her teeth. While Klaus and Violet often use their respective talents of reading and inventing to solve their problems, Sunny is required on multiple occasions to use her sharp teeth. As the books progress and Sunny grows out of infancy, she develops a love for cooking.
When Sunny and her siblings were accused of killing "Count Olaf," they use a series of disguises while evading the authorities and Count Olaf's group. Sunny's disguises include:
A surgeon in The Hostile Hospital.
Chabo the Wolf Baby in The Carnivorous Carnival. Sunny uses Count Olaf's fake beard to make her look hairy.
A scuba diver in The Grim Grotto. She is curled up in a diving helmet
In The Penultimate Peril, Sunny and her siblings pose as concierges until Dewey Denouement is accidentally killed during a confrontation with Count Olaf. Justice Strauss states to the crowd that they will have a blindfolded trial to determine who is guilty and who is not. However, the other two judges are discovered by the Baudelaires to be the Man With a Beard But No Hair and the Woman With Hair But No Beard. Violet and her siblings see Strauss being kidnapped, but nobody else does since the entire courtroom is blindfolded as the two villains state for everyone not to take their blindfolds off. Following Olaf, Violet and her siblings help him unlock the laundry room to get the sugar bowl. Using three clues, they break in, only to find that the sugar bowl is not there. Angered, Olaf declares that he is going to the roof to get Medusoid Mycelium which he will spread through the hotel, kill everyone, and escape by jumping off the roof in a boat. Violet, realizing his plan is foolish, agrees to help. Klaus is surprised that she would do this but Violet knows that they need an escape route, and going with Olaf may be the only way. Then, Sunny abruptly suggests that they burn down the Hotel, and Olaf agrees. On the roof, Klaus reveals that the sugar bowl fell into the pond and not into the laundry room. Here, Violet deduces that Sunny suggested they set the Hotel on fire as a signal so that noble people like Kit, Hector and the Quagmires would cancel the meeting. As Sunny says, "the last safe place is safe no more". Violet makes a chute for the boat to safely make it off the building, and they use the giant spatulas used for flipping sunbathers as oars. Justice Strauss attempts to stop the Baudelaires leaving on the boat, but Sunny bites her hand and makes her let go. The boat floats safely down to the ocean, and the Baudelaires are left "in the same boat" as Count Olaf. Flames engulf the Hotel Denouement, and Count Olaf gets away yet again.
In The End, the boat carries Violet, Klaus, Sunny and Olaf away from the burning hotel. After surviving a storm, they find themselves on a coastal shelf of an island inhabited by a mysterious group of people. They are first greeted by a little girl, Friday Caliban. Count Olaf, who had previously proclaimed himself king of Olaf-Land, threatens the girl with a harpoon gun. Friday is unfazed; she refuses Olaf permission to land on the island, but invites the Baudelaires onto the island. Along the way, she describes what the islanders do with their time—all year long, they build an outrigger on the coastal shelf, and once a year the water rises high enough to submerge the shelf and launch the outrigger. This is known as Decision Day, when anyone who wishes can board the ship, bite a bitter apple, spit it back out, and sail away. The island facilitator, Ishmael, introduces the Baudelaires to the strange island customs. Also, Ishmael has the islanders (most named after famous literary or historical castaways) introduce themselves to the Baudelaires. After Count Olaf and Kit Snicket die, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny adopt Kit's baby daughter Beatrice as they leave their island. Not much was known about the Baudelaires since then.
In the 2004 film, Sunny is portrayed by Kara and Shelby Hoffman. In the video game adaption, her vocal effects are provided by Karis Campbell.
In the 2017 TV series, Sunny is portrayed by Presley Smith and her vocal effects are provided by Tara Strong.
Arthur Poe[edit]
Arthur Poe is a banker in charge of the Baudelaire and Quagmire fortunes and the Baudelaire orphans' guardianship. He is distinguished by a congenital cough, purblind demeanour, and general inefficacy in caring for the Baudelaire and Quagmire children. Poe is the first to bring the news of Bertrand and Beatrice's death to the Baudelaire children who were at Briny Beach. As executor of the Baudelaire estate, he interprets the will's instructions that the children "be raised in the most convenient way possible", meaning they should remain within the city limits, and arranges for their distant relative Count Olaf to take custody. When the Baudelaires contact Poe at his bank, Mulctuary Money Management, to report Olaf's abuse, the banker points out that Olaf is acting in loco parentis, and can raise them as he sees fit. However, when Olaf traps Sunny in a birdcage and attempts to force Violet to marry him during the play while exposing his plot, Poe invokes citizen's arrest just prior to Count Olaf's escape.
Since then, Arthur Poe tries to find a suitable guardian to watch over the kids. He is not a very big help to the Baudelaire orphans. The Baudelaires are unable to contact him after the events of The Vile Village. He offers to help the Baudelaires prove their innocence only for them to get into a taxi that Kit Snicket was in.
In The Penultimate Peril, Arthur Poe was staying at the Hotel Denouement. He came out of his hotel room during Count Olaf's confrontation with Dewey Denouement. Count Olaf being surprised by Arthur Poe's appearance resulted in the accident where Dewey Denouement was killed by the harpoon gun. During the trial of the Baudelaires and Count Olaf, Mr. Poe submitted some financial records as evidence. When Mrs. Bass claimed that the Baudelaires robbed banks, Mr. Poe quoted "Who said that?" When the hotel was burned down, Mr. Poe was last seen on the third floor. Lemony Snicket says "it wasn't Mr. Poe's destiny to be killed by a harpoon gun, at least not this evening in particular." This means that Mr. Poe may be killed on another occasion by a Harpoon Gun and may suggest that he survived the Hotel Denouement fire.
In the 2004 film, Arthur Poe is portrayed by Timothy Spall. Unlike the books, Arthur Poe repossesses the children from Count Olaf after he "let Sunny drive." This led Arthur Poe to take the Baudelaire children to relative after relative. Following the incident in Lake Lachrymose, Arthur Poe and the constable saw that Count Olaf had "redeemed himself" by rescuing the Baudelaire children from the Lachrymose Leeches. When Count Olaf's plot had been exposed, he and the crowd converged on him. After Count Olaf "vanished" after a jury of his peers overturned his sentence, Arthur Poe allowed the Baudelaire children to visit their old home before being taken to their next guardian. In the video game adaption, he is voiced by Daniel Hagen.
In the 2017 TV series, he is portrayed by K. Todd Freeman. In "The Wide Window" Pt. 2, Mr. Poe loses the Baudelaire children during the confusion when Count Olaf was exposed. In "The Miserable Mill," Eleanora assists Mr. Poe into finding the Baudelaires and were able to locate them at Lucky Smells Lumbermill following Count Olaf's escape. In "The Vile Village" Pt. 2, Mr. Poe hears about the Baudelaire's "murder" of "Count Olaf." As he are unable to believe the Baudelaires' claim that the man that was killed wasn't Count Olaf, Mr. Poe is unable to help them and prepares to say his goodbyes to them before they are burned at the stake. After a crow is accidentally injured by Esmé during the Baudelaire's escape, Mr. Poe tells the villagers that they got to take the crow to the veterinarian. In "The Hostile Hospital," Mr. Poe goes to Heimlich Hospital thinking that he contracted swine flu during his time at the Village of Fowl Devotees. When he receives a ticket to the "crainoectomy" held by Count Olaf under the alias of Mattathias Medicalschool, Klaus and Sunny's disguises come undone as Mr. Poe is displeased that Klaus and Sunny were partaking in an operation where they didn't have a medical liscense. After Heimlich Hospital is set on fire, Mr. Poe gets out and comforts Babs. In "The Carnivorous Carnival" Pt. 2, Mr. Poe attends the lion-feeding event at the Caligari Carnival. He was there after getting an anonymous tip that the Baudelaire children were sighted in the area. After the Caligari Carnival was burned to the ground, Mr. Poe was driving home as he plans to give Mrs. Bass a tour of his bank first.
Lemony Snicket[edit]
Main article: Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket is the author of the book series who has chronicled the lives to the Baudelaire children. He dedicates his books to his long lost girlfriend, Beatrice Baudelaire.
In the 2004 film, Lemony Snicket is portrayed by Jude Law where he is shown writing the story on a typewriter inside a clock tower. In the video game adaptation and the audiobooks, he is voiced by Tim Curry.
In the 2017 TV series, he is portrayed by Patrick Warburton who appears as the onscreen narrator that is shown in different outfits to go with specific scenes. In "The Carnivorous Carnival" Pt. 1, a flashback showed Lemony Snicket with Jacques at a party at the V.F.D. headquarters. He gets a root beer message stating "Olaf knows" as he rushes to get to Beatrice before Count Olaf can make an attempt on her life. In the present, the Baudelaire children notice him on the film reel they find at the Caligari Carnival about the V.F.D. and claim that he looks like Jacques Snicket.
Supporting characters[edit]
Baudelaire family members[edit]
Bertrand Baudelaire[edit]
Bertrand Baudelaire is the father of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, the husband of Beatrice, and a V.F.D. member. Throughout the series, the children remember anecdotes about their father, such as him cooking at a dinner party. He was a childhood friend of Beatrice and a good friend of Dewey Denouement.[1] As a member of the V.F.D., Bertrand helped train the V.F.D. lions to become the Volunteer Feline Detectives.[2] Count Olaf implies that Bertrand and Beatrice murdered Olaf's parents. At the beginning of the series, Bertrand died in the fire that destroyed the Baudelaire Mansion.
Beatrice Baudelaire[edit]
Lemony Snicket was in love with Beatrice Baudelaire and they were engaged long ago, but Beatrice cancelled the marriage and married Bertrand instead because she believed that Lemony was dead after his obituary appeared in The Daily Punctilio newspaper. Various hints are dispensed throughout the series as to why she called off the marriage.
According to Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography, Snicket is mistakenly reported by the notoriously inaccurate Punctilio as dead.
In The Grim Grotto, Lemony makes reference to Captain Widdershins's having convinced Beatrice that a story in a newspaper was true, which could be the report of his death. The other evidence for her belief was that she had planned to name Violet 'Lemony' had she been a boy, in accordance with the family custom of naming a child after a dead friend. We can assume that Beatrice at one time believed that Snicket was dead. When Lemony was revealed to be alive, she had already married Bertrand and she could not marry him.
However, in The Beatrice Letters the reader is told that Beatrice returned Lemony's engagement ring and sent him a 200-page book explaining why the two could not wed, something she could not have done had she believed Snicket to be dead; although this may have been after he was revealed to be alive.
This may contradict Ishmael's statement from The End that the ring was given to Beatrice then back to Lemony to Kit to Bertrand then back to Beatrice. Also, the newspaper article mentions Lemony's work as the biographer of the Baudelaires, so this particular article could not have been published until after Beatrice's death, so this puts a damper on the idea that she read that particular article. She could, of course, have believed a completely different article about him (perhaps one accusing him of crimes he did not commit—Snicket makes frequent references to such articles and false information), sent him the book and the letter, then later when she had married Bertrand, discovered the truth and also believed him (for a time at least) to be dead for some reason—though again, it could not be the obituary that appears in the Daily Punctilio that convinces her of this as that must appear after her death. In The End, when Kit Snicket nears death, she informs the Baudelaire children that "their families have always been close, even if they had to stay apart from one another".
In the 2004 film, Beatrice is portrayed in an uncredited cameo by Helena Bonham Carter.
Beatrice Baudelaire II[edit]
"The End"
"Chapter Fourteen"
Beatrice Baudelaire II is the daughter of Kit Snicket,[3] who dies after giving birth. The infant Beatrice is adopted by the Baudelaire orphans, hence the use of the surname Baudelaire. At age one, "she looks very much like her mother," according to Chapter Fourteen. The younger Beatrice was named for the Baudelaires' mother Beatrice, at Kit's request and in keeping with the tradition of naming children after deceased friends.
In The Beatrice Letters, which is set ten years after the main series, she is the second Beatrice Baudelaire. She is searching for her uncle Lemony Snicket and for the Baudelaire orphans, who have apparently disappeared.[4] She follows her uncle and writes him six letters. However, he constantly refuses to see her and actively runs from her. She writes that she attends a "secretarial school that isn't really a secretarial school", implying that she has found a V.F.D. training school. Her sixth letter is signed "Beatrice Baudelaire, Baticeer Extraordinaire."
Montgomery Montgomery[edit]
"The Reptile Room"
Dr. Montgomery Montgomery or "Uncle Monty" (introduced and killed in The Reptile Room) is Bertrand Baudelaire's cousin's brother-in-law and Violet, Klaus, and Sunny's second guardian, but he prefers to be called Uncle Monty. His sole appearance is in The Reptile Room. It is thought that his name is inspired by Monty Python, as he is a herpetologist (one who studies snakes) whose first name is Monty.
Uncle Monty is a "fat, short, chubby man with a round red face." He discovered the Incredibly Deadly Viper (which is in fact not deadly at all). When the Baudelaires first meet him, he gives them homemade coconut cream cake, and the Baudelaires instantly warm to him. He plans to take them to Peru with his assistant Gustav Sebald, but receives Gustav's apparent letter of resignation the day before (it is later revealed that Gustav was actually killed by Count Olaf), so Uncle Monty hires "Stephano" (Count Olaf in disguise) in his place. The Baudelaires quickly recognize Stephano as Olaf. Uncle Monty, on the other hand, thinks that Stephano is a jealous spy from the herpetology society, there to steal the Incredibly Deadly Viper, which he has not yet revealed to the society. When the Baudelaires tried to tell Uncle Monty Stephano's true identity, he misunderstood them, thinking that they were saying that Stephano's "plan to steal the Incredibly Deadly Viper" was as despicable as Olaf, rather than Stephano actually being Olaf. Olaf murders Uncle Monty (using snake venom), then blames it on the Mamba Du Mal (the Incredibly Deadly Viper in the movie), another snake owned by Uncle Monty. The Baudelaires escape Olaf upon his hand in Monty's death being exposed, but they never again find a nicer or more caring guardian than Uncle Monty. Uncle Monty also had some connection to the Quagmire family because there is a tunnel connecting the two houses.
Snicket's autobiography indicates that Uncle Monty's death may be partly attributable to his failure to learn Sebald Code, with which a message intended for him was hidden in the movie Zombies in the Snow, which he had taken the children to see.
In the book, Monty dearly wishes to have a family, but never found the right woman (the movie revealed that Monty had a wife and children, but they were killed by yet another arson attack presumably at the hands of Count Olaf). On the book cover, Monty's hair is red while other media adaptions have it in different colors.
In the book Who Could That Be at This Hour?, Monty is mentioned by Hector in the final chapter.
In the film adaptation, Montgomery Montgomery is portrayed by Billy Connolly. Klaus sees Uncle Monty with a spyglass similar to the one he found in his father's desk drawer, and later finds one that belongs to Aunt Josephine. Klaus also found a picture with his parents, Aunt Josephine, Uncle Monty, and other presumably VFD members, all holding spyglasses. He is older and one of the more sympathetic characters in the movie. He gives the children a wonderful home, but faces the same fate as the other sympathetic guardians. In the video game adaption, he is voiced by Bob Joles.
In the 2017 Netflix television series, Montgomery Montgomery is portrayed by Aasif Mandvi. Monty is also shown to have a ticket seller ally who spliced the film footage so that Monty can copy down the remaining message. In addition, he fought off the two White-Faced Women's attempt to capture him while thinking that they were helping Stefano to steal his research for the herpetology society. In "The Carnivorous Carnival," Montgomery made an appearance in a flashback at a celebration at the V.F.D. headquarters on the day when Count Olaf failed to murder Beatrice. He was seen talking with the ticket seller about a Mamba du Mal code that he was working on. In the present, he appears on a film reel at the Caligari Carnival that talks about the V.F.D.
Josephine Anwhistle[edit]
Josephine Anwhistle or Aunt Josephine is Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire's second cousin's sister-in-law, and becomes their guardian in The Wide Window.
Aunt Josephine thinks that grammar is the greatest joy in life. She keeps many books about Lake Lachrymose under her bed. These books include The Tides of Lake Lachrymose, The Bottom of Lake Lachrymose, Lachrymose Trout, The History of the Damocles Dock Region, Ivan Lachrymose - Lake Explorer, How Water Is Made and A Lachrymose Atlas. Ever since her husband Isaac (Ike for short) was devoured by Lachrymose Leeches due to not waiting an entire hour after eating something, she has developed numerous fears including irrational concerns about doorknobs, radiators, telephones, and ovens. In Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, several events Josephine was irrationally afraid of occur when her home falls into the lake, including a fridge nearly falling on Klaus and a radiator exploding.
In the end, Josephine pleads with Count Olaf (in his disguise of Captain Sham) to let her live by offering the Baudelaire children and their fortune in exchange for her own safety, but he pushes her overboard from a small sailboat after she corrected the grammar of her own death sentence, literally. It is heavily implied that she meets the same fate as her husband. Josephine is surrounded by leeches and her tattered life jackets are found later by fishermen at the time the orphans were in Prufrock Preparatory School, two books later, but it is not conclusively established if she survived or not. The Grim Grotto implies that she might still be alive.[clarification needed] She and Esmé Squalor are the only female guardians the Baudelaires have in the series.
In the film adaptation, Aunt Josephine is portrayed by Meryl Streep. Unlike the books, Josephine was more courageous before Ike's death. Also, Count Olaf didn't use his Captain Sham disguise when he did away with Josephine. In the video game adaption, she is voiced by Donna Bullock.
In the 2017 Netflix television series, Aunt Josephine is portrayed by Alfre Woodard. Just like the film, Josephine was more courageous before Ike's death. She had her first encounter with Count Olaf's Captain Sham alias where his theater troupe posed as random civilians talking about him. In "The Carnivorous Carnival," Josephine made an appearance in a flashback at a celebration at the V.F.D. headquarters on the day when Count Olaf failed to murder Beatrice. She was seen with Ike back when he was still alive where she wanted to do some thrill-seeking activities and made a brief silent reaction when Ike wanted to have kids. In the present, she appears on a film reel at the Caligari Carnival that talks about the V.F.D.
Count Olaf's acting troupe[edit]
The Hook-Handed Man[edit]
The Bad Beginning
The Reptile Room
The Ersatz Elevator
The Hostile Hospital
The Carnivorous Carnival
The Slippery Slope
The Grim Grotto
Fernald, commonly known as the Hook-Handed Man, is an assistant of Count Olaf. He wears fake hands on his hooks and/or other outfits that would hide his hooks when posing as different people.
First appearing in The Bad Beginning as part of his theatre troupe, he was sent to Justice Strauss' house to retrieve the Baudelaires where he even claimed to them that Count Olaf hasn't ripped them limb from limb yet because he doesn't have the Baudelaire fortune yet. The Hook-Handed Man was the one who catches Violet when she climbs up the side of Count Olaf's tower in an attempt to rescue Sunny and informs Count Olaf about it. When Count Olaf's true nature is exposed, the Hook-Handed Man is among the members of Count Olaf's theater troupe that escape in the blackout.
In The Reptile Room, the Hook-Handed Man poses as a doctor named Dr. O. Lucafont to examine the supposed bite marks that the Mamba Du Mal supposedly left on Montgomery Montgomery. When Stefano was exposed as Count Olaf, Sunny bites off the Dr. O. Lucafont's fake hands exposing him as well. Both men managed to get away.
In The Ersatz Elevator, the Hook-Handed Man poses as a doorman at 667 Dark Avenue. He wore a long coat that had long sleeves that hid his hooks.
He appears in The Hostile Hospital, posing as a doctor at Heimlich Hospital where he assisted Olaf's surgical attempt to murder Violet.
In The Carnivorous Carnival, the Hook-Handed Man helped to dig the pit for the lions that will be used for the lion-feeding event at the Caligari Carnival. While he has told the Man with Pimples On His Chin that he is not a freak, the Hook-Handed Man was advised to get some realistic hands. In addition, the Hook-Handed Man was equipped with a giant noodle to whip any disobeying freaks.
In The Slippery Slope, the Hook-Handed Man is taken to The Carmelita with the Snow Scouts.
In The Grim Grotto, Fiona meets him and it is revealed that they are siblings: Captain Widdershins is his stepfather. He joined Olaf and left Captain Widdershins after burning down Anwhistle Aquatics and killing Gregor Anwhistle. He also joined Count Olaf because Captain Widdershins always said "Aye!" which annoyed him. Fiona convinces him to steal Olaf's submarine. Their fate is unknown as Kit Snicket reports in The End that she abandoned them in the face of the "Great Unknown." It is also revealed that when he had to wait, he played a card game he made up named Fernald's Folly.
In the film, the Hook-Handed Man is portrayed by Jamie Harris. He is British and as revealed in the deleted scenes, is obsessed with pirates which is something that annoys Count Olaf. The Hook-Handed Man seems to relish in his use of his hook hands. In the video game adaption, the Hook-Handed Man is voiced by Jay Gordon.
In the Netflix series, he is portrayed by Usman Ally. He has scars on his face, is bald-headed, and his hook hands have claws. He has the most interaction with the Baudelaires and despite making constant threats, is relatively mild-mannered and not entirely unfriendly to them, to the point that he even concerns himself with their wellbeing. Interestingly, he understands Sunny's speech as clearly as her siblings, as opposed to almost every other adult in the series, and on occasion even responds directly to her. As a nod to the books, he likes to play cards and does so with Sunny while he is guarding her. However, just like the Bald Man, the Hook-Handed Man too appears to be comically unintelligent. In addition, his Lucafont alias is used by the Person of Indeterminate Gender instead while the Hook-Handed Man joined the rest of the troupe in posing as members of the sheriff's department putting Uncle Monty's house under "quarantine" following Uncle Monty's death. In "The Wide Window," the Bald Man later appeared as a random citizen at Lake Lachrymose, spekaing highly of Captain Sham when Josephine Anwhistle meets him. In "The Miserable Mill," the Hook-Handed Man was the one who posed as Foreman Flacutano. In "The Austere Academy," the Hook-Handed Man assists the Bald Man in posing as the dead horse mascot. He is the one who catches Duncan and Isadora Quigley. In "The Ersatz Elevator," the Hook-Handed Man posed as a doorman, a worker at the Herring Houdini restaurant, and a staff member of Veblen Hall. In "The Vile Village," the Hook-Handed Man posed as a villager that assisted in Detective Dupin's scat by playing music. In "The Hostile Hospital," the Hook-Handed Man poses as a doctor associate of Mattathias Medicalschool where he introduces himself as Dr. Flacutano. In "The Carnivorous Carnival", Madame Lulu mentions that the Hook-Handed Man's sister relies on him, shocking him, and he is later seen wondering if he should call her and dreading his stepfather picking up. This presumably is a hint at Fiona and Captain Widdershins. In addition, he is the one who plays the calliope at the Caligari Carnival.
The Bald Man With the Long Nose[edit]
The Bad Beginning
The Miserable Mill
The Hostile Hospital
The Carnivorous Carnival
The Bald Man With the Long Nose is one of Olaf's henchmen, he is described as a bald man with a hooked nose who always wears a black robe. At the time when Count Olaf's true nature is exposed, the Bald Man is among the members of Count Olaf's theatre troupe that escape during the blackout.
In The Miserable Mill, the Bald Man disguises himself as Foreman Flacutono at the Lucky Smells Lumbermill.
In The Hostile Hospital, the Bald Man disguises himself as the head doctor at Heimlich Hospital while using a surgical mask to cover his face both times.
In The Carnivorous Carnival, the Bald Man helped to dig the pit for the lions that will be used in the lion-feeding event at the Caligari Carnival. He and Olivia Caliban fell into the lion pit during the crowd chaos and are devoured by the lions.
In the film, the Bald Man is portrayed by Luis Guzmán. He is shown to be the least sinister with no long nose but a short one, and for that matter least intelligent of the troupe. The deleted scenes reveal that he wishes to have a prominent role in The Marvelous Marriage, but Count Olaf makes him the effects man instead. In the video game adaption, the Bald Man is voiced by S. Scott Bullock.
In the Netflix series, the Bald Man is portrayed by John DeSantis. He is shown to be rather large and intimidating with a short nose instead of a long one. In addition, the Bald Man has a deep bellowing voice. Despite this, he is shown to be just as unintelligent as his movie counterpart. As seen in the second part of "The Bad Beginning," he catches Mr. Poe's secretary Jacquelyn eying Count Olaf's car at the time when he was posing as "Yessica Haircut" causing the Bald Man to tie her to a tree to keep her from interfering. In addition, he was the one who caused the blackout that enabled Count Olaf and his theatre troupe to get away. In "The Reptile Room," the Bald Man joined his fellow troupe members into posing as members of the sheriff's department putting Uncle Monty's house under "quarantine" following Uncle Monty's death. In "The Wide Window," the Bald Man later appeared as a random citizen at Lake Lachrymose talking good about Captain Sham when Josephine Anwhistle meets him. In "The Miserable Mill," his Foreman Flacutono alias was used by the Hook-Handed Man instead. In "The Austere Academy," the Bald Man assists the Hook-Handed Man in posing as the dead horse mascot. In "The Ersatz Elevator," the Bald Man posed as a worker at the Herring Houdini restaurant and a security guard at the entrance of Veblen Hall. In "The Vile Village," the Bald Man posed as a villager that assisted in Detective Dupin's scat by playing music. In "The Hostile Hospital," the Bald Man poses as a doctor associate of Mattathias Medicalschool named Dr. Tocuna. In "The Carnivorous Carnival," the Bald Man worked as a vendor at the Caligari Carnival. Unlike the books, he did not fall into the lion pit.
The Person of Indeterminate Gender[edit]
The Bad Beginning
The Wide Window
The Hostile Hospital
The Person of Undetermined Gender is one of Olaf's henchpeople who appears in The Bad Beginning, The Wide Window, and Hostile Hospital.
Described as a gigantic, overweight individual, with pure white eyes and an androgynous appearance. The Person is immensely strong and never speaks, except in bellows and roars. As the Person's gender is said to not look like a man nor a woman, even Count Olaf doesn't know what the Person's gender is. At the time when Count Olaf's true nature is exposed, the Person is among the members of Count Olaf's theatre troupe that escape during the blackout.
In The Wide Window, the Person posed as a security guard at "Captain Sham's Sailboat Rentals."
In The Hostile Hospital, the Person poses as a hospital security guard. The Person is last seen trapped in a fire at Heimlich Hospital trying to catch the Baudelaires. Its fate is unknown.
In the film, the Person is portrayed by Craig Ferguson. Most of the Person's dialogue is cut from the film, the Person possess a Scottish accent and surprisingly they too are unsure of their gender, though Count Olaf calls the Person 'Eliza' even after referring to the Person as 'he.'
In the Netflix series, the Person is portrayed by Matty Cardarople. The Person is the youngest member of the troupe and unlike the books, actually talks a lot. However, the Person's speaking is prone to mumbling and mostly consists of rather educated observations that tend to agree with the Baudelaires' arguments much to the annoyance of Count Olaf and their fellow troupe members. In the episodes adapted from "The Reptile Room," the Person poses as Nurse Lucafont while their fellow troupe members pose as members of the sheriff's department putting Uncle Monty's house under "quarantine" following Uncle Monty's death. In "The Wide Window," the Person later appeared as a random citizen at Lake Lachrymose talking good about Captain Sham when Josephine Anwhistle meets them. In "The Austere Academy," the Person of Indeterminate Gender poses as a teacher who teaches indeterminate gender studies. In "The Ersatz Elevator," the Person of Indeterminate Gender posed as a worker at the Herring Houdini restaurant and an attendant of the In Auction at Veblen Hall. In "The Vile Village," the Person of Indeterminate Gender posed as a villager that assisted in Detective Dupin's scat by playing music. In "The Hostile Hospital" Pt. 2, the Person once again poses as Nurse Lucafont who is an associate of Mattathias Medicalschool. Unlike the books, the Person survives the Heimlich Hospital fire and continues assisting Count Olaf in the following escapades. In "The Carnivorous Carnival," the Person of Indeterminate Gender posed as a popcorn vendor at the Caligari Carnival.
The White-Faced Women[edit]
The Bad Beginning
The Austere Academy
The Hostile Hospital
The Carnivorous Carnival
The Slippery Slope
The two White-Faced Women are two members of Olaf's theater troupe who always cover their faces in white powder. They are apparently twins.
They disguise themselves as cafeteria workers in The Austere Academy where they succeed in abducting the Quagmire Children.
In The Hostile Hospital, the White-Faced Women posed as Heimlich Hospital's workers Dr. Tocuna and Nurse Flo.
In The Carnivorous Carnival, the White-Faced Women helped to dig the pit for the lions that will be used for the lion-feeding event at the Caligari Carnival.
The White-Faced Women abandon Count Olaf in The Slippery Slope after accusing him of starting a fire that killed their third sibling and when they refused to kill Sunny. Their fates have been speculated by Lemony Snicket to either have them singing sad songs in some of the gloomiest music halls in the city, living together in the Hinterlands attempting to grow rhubarb in the dry and barren ground, or never making it out of the Mortmain Mountains where their bones can be found in one of the mountain range's many caves.
In the film, the White-Faced Women are portrayed by Jennifer Coolidge and Jane Adams. They are both rather vain and seem to have a slight attraction to Count Olaf. As revealed in the deleted scenes, they seem to be slightly reciprocated. In the video game adaption, the White-Faced Women are voiced by Jocelyn Blue and Kari Wahlgren. The White-Faced Women in the video game adaption are named White-Faced Jen and White-Faced Jane after the actress that portrayed them in the film.
In the Netflix series, the White-Faced Women are portrayed by Jacqueline and Joyce Robbins. They are twins, they both wear glasses, and are both elderly. They admire Count Olaf and are always finishing each other's sentences. The first part of "The Reptile Room" episode had them attempting to capture Uncle Montgomery only for him to thwart their plan. The second part had them posing as members of the sheriff's department putting Uncle Monty's house under "quarantine" following Uncle Monty's death. Later on, the White-Faced Women join their fellow troupe members into posing as members of the sheriff's department putting Uncle Monty's house under "quarantine" following Uncle Monty's death. In "The Wide Window," the White-Faced Women later appeared as a random citizen at Lake Lachrymose where talking good about Captain Sham when Josephine Anwhistle meets him. In "The Austere Academy," the White-Faced Women assist Count Olaf in throwing Larry into the walk-in freezer and later pose as cheerleaders. In "The Ersatz Elevator," the White-Faced Women posed as workers at the Herring Houdini restaurant and presenters of the items at the In Auction held that is held at Veblen Hall. In "The Vile Village," the White-Faced Women posed as villagers that assisted in Detective Dupin's scat by playing music. In "The Hostile Hospital," the White-Faced Women pose as nurses who are associates of Mattathias Medicalschool. While the Dr. Tocuna alias was used by the Bald Man, the aliases they use are Nurse Flo and Nurse Glo. In "The Carnivorous Carnival," the White-Faced Women operated the lights at the Caligari Carnival.
The Wart-Faced Man[edit]
The Bad Beginning
The Wart-Faced Man is a man with warts on his face who is a minor member of Count Olaf's theater troupe where he works on Count Olaf's play that would have him actually marrying Violet. Lemony Snicket described him as being important-looking. Upon Count Olaf's true nature being exposed during the play, the Wart-Faced Man causes a blackout that enables himself, Count Olaf, the Hook-Handed Man, the Bald Man with the Long Nose, the Person of Indeterminate Gender, and the two White-Faced Women to escape. The Wart-Faced Man isn't seen again after that.
Esmé Squalor[edit]
The Ersatz Elevator
The Vile Village
The Hostile Hospital
The Carnivorous Carnival
The Slippery Slope
The Grim Grotto
The Penultimate Peril
Esmé Gigi Genevieve Squalor is Count Olaf's girlfriend and the ex-wife of Jerome Squalor. Her name is possibly a reference to For Esmé—with Love and Squalor. Prior to the events of the series, she was a professional stage actress and member of V.F.D.[5] Esmé is distinguished by her very tall height and her obsession with high fashion. She often wears ridiculous outfits that she considers stylish. Lemony Snicket mentions that Esmé and Beatrice Baudelaire met for the first time at a Thursday tea party.
While the Baudelaires are living with the Squalors in The Ersatz Elevator, Esmé conspires with Count Olaf while he is still in disguise as the auctioneer Gunther. After the "In Auction", during which Olaf in the disguise of Gunther completes a complicated scheme to "launder" the kidnapping of the remaining Quagmire triplets, he drives away with her in his truck. Although the Baudelaires attempt to warn her of Gunther's true identity, she reveals that she not only knew all along, but that Olaf was her acting teacher.
Later while staying in the Village of Fowl Devotees in The Vile Village, the Baudelaires hear that the two of them are dating. Besides being Olaf's girlfriend, Esmé acts as one of his henchmen, although always within the limits of what is "in".[clarification needed] During this time, Esmé Squalor poses as a police officer named Officer Luciana. When Esmé accidentally harms one of the V.F.D. crows in violation of the Village of Fowl Devotees' #1 rule of not harming crows as well as the use of a mechanical device like a harpoon gun, she and Count Olaf (acting as Detective Dupin) are forced to flee the villagers.
In The Hostile Hospital, Esmé poses as a doctor is sent to destroy the Snicket File, one of the last remaining pieces of evidence that could send Count Olaf to jail. The file is kept in the Library of Records at the hospital, where the Buadelaires have been working in the hope of discovering more about V.F.D. Esmé uses her sharp stilettos (the heels being real stiletto knives) to attempt to harm the orphans. Esmé is unable to claim the file as not only had the authorities had removed it beforehand, but also Klaus has retrieved the thirteenth page and hidden it in his pocket. She attempts to murder the orphans by crushing them with book shelves and later burns down the Library of Records. Esmé captures Violet, but fails to keep her captive.
In The Carnivorous Carnival, Esmé wears different outfits while at the Caligari Carnival and has a rivalry with Madame Lulu as Madame Lulu had a certain affection for Count Olaf. Esmé constantly gives her angry glances and has the original idea of tossing Lulu to the lions for the upcoming lion-feeding event at the Caligari Carnival.
In The Slippery Slope, Esmé was present when the Man with a Beard But No Hair and the Woman with Hair But No Hair show up to discuss some plans with Count Olaf. The Baudelaires and Quigley Quagmire consider taking Esmé hostage in a plan to rescue Sunny Baudelaire, but cancel the plan because it was "too villainous".
In The Grim Grotto, Esmé dresses up as an octopus and uses a giant noodle to slap the children who are being used to power The Carmelita.
In The Penultimate Peril, Olaf and Esmé break up after fighting during the dramatic "harpoon gun" incident in The Vile Village. She wears a "lettuce bikini" with silver sandals and silver lipstick, and has her name carved into her fingernails at the time when she and Carmelita Spats were staying at the Hotel Denouement. Following Dewey Denouement's death, Jerome tried to get back together with Esme, an idea which Esme spurned instantly. During the trial of the Baudelaire children and Count Olaf, Esmé submitted a blank testimony to Justice Strauss and the two judges who were actually the Man with a Beard But No Hair and the Woman with Hair But No Beard. At the end, it is not known whether Esmé escaped the fire at Hotel Denouement with Carmelita Spats, but the narrative suggests that if she did, she never again met the Baudelaire children. She was on the 2nd floor when the Baudelaires last saw her.
In the Netflix TV series, Esmé is portrayed by Lucy Punch.[6] She is said to be the original owner of the mysterious sugar bowl which was stolen from her by Lemony Snicket and Beatrice Baudelaire. Unlike the books, Esmé is shown to be strong enough to carry an unconscious Jerome back to her apartment. After she and Count Olaf fight in "The Vile Village", Esmé begins to be much more interested in recovering this bowl than assisting Count Olaf in kidnapping the Baudelaires until he leads her to believe the Baudelaires have the bowl. In "The Hostile Hospital," Esmé poses as a nurse where she says that her name is Nurse Cassandra Ursula Terrific Elliandra- before the rest of the name is cut off by Count Olaf in his alias of Mattathias Medicalschool.
Carmelita Spats[edit]
The Austere Academy
The Slippery Slope
The Grim Grotto
The Penultimate Peril
Carmelita Spats is a pupil of Prufock Preparatory School and a Snow Scout, appearing in The Austere Academy, The Slippery Slope, The Grim Grotto and The Penultimate Peril. She dislikes the Baudelaires, taunting them for being orphans and calling them "cakesniffers." Carmelita is liked by Vice-Principal Nero and disliked by Mrs. Bass.
Her uncle Bruce is the leader of the Snow Scouts as seen in The Slippery Slope. She hikes up the Mortmain Mountain every year with the group, which celebrates the False Spring by crowning her queen. One year later, she meets Olaf and Esmé at the peak of the mountain and they unofficially adopt her.
In The Grim Grotto, she claims to be a "tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian" and performs a recital. Esmé finds this adorable while Olaf is annoyed by it.
In The Penultimate Peril, she dresses as a "ballplaying cowboy superhero soldier pirate" and has a pool and a ship brought to the roof of the Hotel Denouement.
In the Netflix TV series, Carmelita Spats is portrayed by Kitana Turnbull.[7] Unlike the books, Carmelita was the one who snuck Count Olaf and his troupe into Prufrock Preparatory School upon Count Olaf making a deal with her through the bleachers. In addition, she also helped Count Olaf and the White-Faced Women trap Larry in the walk-in freezer. The series also comically depicts her literally sniffing cakes which she does in secret in the middle of the night when nobody is looking.
Caligari Carnival freaks[edit]
The Caligari Carnival freaks are members of a freak show that reside in the Caligari Carnival's House of Freaks. They later side with Count Olaf.
Hugo[edit]
The Carnivorous Carnival
The Slippery Slope
The Penultimate Peril
Hugo is a hunchback who is one of the Caligari Carnival freaks. He has a hunched back that makes him look slightly awkward. He is good-natured and always flexible towards the present circumstances.
Hugo lives with the Baudelaire children for a small period of time in The Carnivorous Carnival and appears to bond with Sunny Baudelaire when they make soup together. He later became one of Count Olaf's henchmen when Esmé gives him the large coat that was a part of the Hook-Handed Man's doorman disguise that would hide his hunchback.
After discovering that the Baudelaire siblings aren't actually freaks, Hugo appears specially bitter towards them at The Slippery Slope.
In The Penultimate Peril, which marks his final appearance in the series, he and the freaks are present at the Hotel Denouement where Hugo poses as a worker at the hotel's rooftop sunbathing salon. When Dewey Denouement is killed during the confrontation with Count Olaf which awakens all the hotel patrons, he agrees with Mrs. Bass when she claims that the Baudelaire children are criminals and he says that they are too freakish to be allowed to move around freely. During the blindfolded trial presided over by Justice Strauss, Hugo presents some carnival posters as evidence. When Hotel Denouement catches fire, Hugo, Colette, and Kevin are last seen holding the bird paper that Klaus hung on the outside of the sauna. Hugo asks if the plan for the hors-d'oeuvres is still in operation. It is left uncertain whether Hugo survived the fire at the Hotel Denouement.
In the TV series, Hugo is portrayed by Kevin Cahoon.[8]
Colette[edit]
The Carnivorous Carnival
The Slippery Slope
The Penultimate Peril
Colette is a contortionist who is one of the Caligari Carnival freaks. She considers her trait to be an abnormality rather than an ability.
In The Carnivrous Carnival, Esmé swayed her to Count Olaf's side by giving her a large robe that would allow her to contort her body into any shape she wanted without people being aware.
In The Slippery Slope, Colette wondered why the White-Faced Women disliked their paleness since they used makeup and powder in front of her.
In The Penultimate Peril, Colette was present at the Hotel Denouement where she posed as a chemist in a long white coat and surgical mask staying at the Hotel Denouement that walks by Klaus as he takes Sir and Charles to the sauna. During the blindfolded trial, Colette submitted some drawings as evidence. When Hotel Denouement was starting to catch on fire, Hugo, Colette, and Kevin were last seen holding the bird paper that Klaus hung on the outside of the sauna. Colette talks about plucking the feathers off some crows. It is left uncertain if Colette survived the fire at the Hotel Denouement.
In the TV series, Colette is portrayed by real-life contortionist Bonnie Morgan.[8]
Kevin[edit]
The Carnivorous Carnival
The Slippery Slope
The Penultimate Peril
Kevin is an ambidextrous man with a wrinkly face who is one of the Caligari Carnival freaks. Though his trait is considered advantageous by many people, he views it as a disability.
In The Carnivorous Carnival, Esmé swayed Kevin to Count Olaf's side by giving him a rope that would enable him to tie one hand behind his back so that he can look normal.
In The Penultimate Peril, Kevin was present at the Hotel Denouement where he poses as a washerwoman in the Hotel Denouement's laundry room. During the blindfolded trial, Kevin submitted books as evidence with both his hands. When Hotel Denouement was starting to catch on fire, Hugo, Colette, and Kevin were last seen holding the bird paper that Klaus hung on the outside of the sauna. Kevin wonders if he should hold the bird paper with his left hand or his right hand. It is left uncertain if Kevin survived the fire at the Hotel Denouement.
In the TV series, Kevin is portrayed by Robbie Amell.[9]
The Man with a Beard But No Hair[edit]
The Slippery Slope
The Penultimate Peril
The Man with a Beard But No Hair is a high-voiced man who has no background history, but is said to be villainous to the point that even Count Olaf fears him. He is the latest member of Count Olaf's theatre troupe.
He and the Woman with Hair But No Beard first appear in The Slippery Slope where they congratulate Count Olaf for setting fire to the Caligari Carnival and gave him the coveted Snicket File when they meet him at the Mortmain Mountains.
In The Penultimate Peril, the Man with a Beard But No Hair and the Woman with Hair But No Beard served as judges alongside Justice Strauss at the trial of the Baudelaire children and Count Olaf. When Count Olaf starts the fire at the Hotel Denouement, the Man with a Beard But No Hair was last seen on the first floor with his hand on Jerome Squalor as he secretly praises Count Olaf for starting the fire. It is left uncertain if the Man with a Beard But No Hair survived the fire at the Hotel Denouement.
The Woman with Hair But No Beard[edit]
The Slippery Slope
The Penultimate Peril
The Woman with Hair But No Beard is a low deep-voiced associate of the Man with a Beard But No Hair where they are the latest members of Count Olaf's theatre troupe. Her "aura of menace" even frightens Count Olaf and Lemony Snicket states that he refused to write down her real name.
She and the Man with a Beard But No Hair first appeared in The Slippery Slope where they congratulate Count Olaf for setting fire to the Caligari Carnival and gave him the coveted Snicket File when they meet him at the Mortmain Mountains.
In The Penultimate Peril, the Woman with Hair But No Beard and the Man with a Beard But No Hair served as judges alongside Justice Strauss at the trial of the Baudelaire children and Count Olaf. When Count Olaf starts the fire at the Hotel Denoument, the Woman with Hair But No Beard was last seen on the first floor where she directs the blindfolded Frank and Ernest to the elevator. It is left uncertain if the Woman with Hair But No Beard survived the fire at the Hotel Denouement.
Quagmire triplets[edit]
Duncan, Isadora, and Quigley Quagmire are triplets who help the Baudelaires on some of their adventures.
Duncan and Isadora Quagmire[edit]
Duncan and Isadora Quagmire are students at Prufrock Preparatory School in The Austere Academy. They are named after Isadora Duncan, a dancer who was strangled to death when her scarf became caught in the wheel of her car.[10] They become friends with the Baudelaires: both families lost their parents in a fire and will inherit a large fortune upon turning 18. The Quagmires attempt to help the Baudelaires work out Count Olaf's plan, but end up being kidnapped by him.
They return in The Ersatz Elevator and The Vile Village and the Baudelaires try to help them escape Olaf's clutches. In the latter, they end up escaping in a hot-air balloon house with Hector.
In The End, Kit Snicket tells the Baudelaires that she briefly met up with them, but does not know what happened to them as she abandoned them when threatened by the Great Unknown.
In the TV series, Duncan and Isadora are portrayed by Dylan Kingwell and Avi Lake, respectively. The TV series portrays a romantic relationship between Duncan and Violet Baudelaire that is not seen in the books.
Quigley Quagmire[edit]
Quigley Quagmire is the brother of Duncan and Isadora Quagmire, who supposedly died in the fire which killed his parents.
He actually escaped and eventually managed to find the Baudelaires in The Slippery Slope, where he helped Violet and Klaus rescue their sister and later falls in love with Violet. He was then separated from the Baudelaires.
Though he managed to meet up with his siblings, according to Kit Snicket in The End, she does not know what happened to him after abandoning him to the Great Unknown.
In the TV series, Quigley is portrayed by Dylan Kingwell.
Baudelaire children guardians[edit]
Violet Baudelaire, Klaus Baudelaire, and Sunny Baudelaire live with various guardians following the death of Mr. and Mrs. Baudelaire. After a brief stay with Mr. Poe, the children are shuffled from one legal guardian to another until The Vile Village when they run away from the Village of Fowl Devotees and become fugitives for the "murder" of Count Olaf. From this point on, there is always someone (or in some cases several someones) who takes care of them.
Besides Count Olaf, Uncle Montgomery, and Aunt Josephine, among the known guardians in order of appearance are:
Sir[edit]
Sir
A Series of Unfortunate Events character
First appearance
The Miserable Mill
Last appearance
The Penultimate Peril
Portrayed by
Don Johnson (TV series)
Occupation
Owner of Lucky Smells Lumbermill
In The Miserable Mill, Sir is the proprietor of the Lucky Smells Lumbermill, located in Paltryville. His real name is not known, although it has been described as being hard to pronounce. Mr. Poe has attempted to pronounce the first syllable of the name, using a radically different syllable every time (Wuz, Qui, Bek, Duy, Sho, Gek, etc.). Klaus may have been able to pronounce it, but he is shot down by Mr. Poe stating it's too complicated for an adult.
Equally obscure is Sir's appearance. Sir's entire head is hidden by the thick smoke of his ever-burning cigar; Lemony Snicket also stated that neither the Baudelaires, the reader, or himself would ever see Sir's face. He shows little or no concern for either the Baudelaire orphans or his employees, whom he pays in coupons and provides with an unsatisfying meal of chewing gum. His partner Charles mentions that he has had a terrible childhood. Following Count Olaf being exposed, the death of Dr. Georgina Orwell, and Count Olaf's escape with the Bald Man with the Big Nose, Sir fires the Baudelaire children, thinking that they would bring misery to Lucky Smells Lumbermill much to Charles' objection.
He later appears in The Penultimate Peril where he and Charles were in a hotel room for people in the lumbermill industry as Klaus takes them to the sauna down the hall. Charles explains to Sir that he wants to apologize to the Baudelaires for their treatment. While in the sauna, the two of them talk about a party on Thursday held by a person with the initials J.S. When Dewey Denouement is accidentally killed during a confrontation with Count Olaf which woke up all the patrons, Sir claimed the Baudelaires caused accidents at the Lucky Smells Lumbermills where Charles stated that Count Olaf was responsible for them. During the blindfolded trial, Sir submitted employement papers as evidence. When Count Olaf starts a fire at the Hotel Denouement, Sir was last seen holding hands with Charles on one of the floors.
In the 2017 Netflix series, he is portrayed by Don Johnson. Unlike the novel, his face is completely shown. As he never encountered Mr. Poe, he met the Baudelaire children when they were brought to him by Charles who found them near the Lucky Smells Lumbermill. Upon the Baudelaire children breaking Georgina Orwell's hypnosis on the workers, Sir flees during the employee chaos.
Charles[edit]
The Miserable Mill
The Penultimate Peril
Charles is Sir's partner at the Lucky Smells Lumbermill in The Miserable Mill.
Charles is kind to the Baudelaires but not very helpful; he organizes a library to be set up at the mill but it only contained three books. He was nearly killed by a hypnotized Klaus before being broken free from Dr. Georgina Orwell's hypnosis by Violet. When Sir fires the Baudelaire children thinking that they will bring more misery to the lumbermill, Charles objected to Sir's action.
Charles makes an appearance in The Penultimate Peril, staying with Sir in the Hotel Denouement where they are seen with other people in the lumbermill industry. He explains to Sir that he wants to apologize to the Baudelaires for their treatment and he is sent a letter by J.S., which assists him in his search. Both of them are taken by Klaus to the sauna that's down the hall where they both talk about a party on Thursday held by someone with the initials J.S. Although it is not stated in the book, Charles may be on the firefighting side of V.F.D. due to a mentioning by Kit Snicket where he sent her some blueprints. When Dewey Denouement is accidentally killed during a confrontation with Count Olaf which woke up all the patrons, Charles objects to Sir's claims that the Baudelaires caused accidents at the Lucky Smells Lumbermill and states that Count Olaf was responsible. During the blindfolded trial, Sir submitted some environmental studies as evidence. When Count Olaf starts a fire at the Hotel Denouement, Charles was last seen holding hands with Sir one one of the floors.
In the 2017 Netflix TV series, Charles is portrayed by Rhys Darby. It is strongly implied that Charles is Sir's domestic partner, something that was only vaguely implied in The Penultimate Peril. In this show, Charles was the one who found the Baudelaires near the property and brought them to Sir. Charles mentions that he does things for Sir like ironing his clothes, cooking his omelets, and making him milkshakes. Before leaving to find Sir after he fled during the employee chaos, Charles shows the Baudelaires the truth about their parents actually fighting the fire in Paltryville.
Vice-Principal Nero[edit]
The Austere Academy
The Penultimate Peril
Vice-Principal Nero is the childish, narcissistic, and delusional vice-principal of Prufrock Preparatory School in The Austere Academy. His name is seemingly an allusion to the Roman Emperor Nero, who is often said to have "fiddled while Rome burned."[10]
Vice Principal Nero plays the violin, and he expects all the students to attend his daily six-hour violin performances.[11]
Nero dresses in a brown suit with a necktie patterned with pictures of snails. In The Austere Academy, his hair is tied into four pigtails, but by The Penultimate Peril, they have grown into four long braids that dangle behind him. Nero often mimics what others have just said in a high, mocking tone and has numerous strict and unusual punishments for his students, especially if they miss his violin performances. He is a vain egotist.
In his first appearance, he gives Mr. Poe the approval to let the Baudelaires live at his boarding school where his security system will detect Count Olaf if he came near the school. Vice-Principal Nero had them in the Orphans Shack with the Quagmire Children and had Sunny work as his administrative assistant. While he has adorded the student Carmelita Spats, he unknowingly hired Count Olaf in the form of Coach Genghis to be the new gym teacher. When the Baudelaires were caught "cheating" in the S.O.R.E. exams, Nero gleefully expels the Baudelaires much to the objection of Mrs. Bass and Mr. Remora. Even after Count Olaf was exposed as Coach Genghis and gets away, Nero still wouldn't have the Baudelaires living with him which he argued with Mr. Poe on.
Nero re-appears in The Penultimate Peril when he, along with Mr. Remora and Mrs. Bass staying at the Hotel Denouement and are invited to Esmé Squalor's cocktail party. When being taken by a disguised Sunny to the Hotel Denouement's Indian restaurant run by Hal, Nero expresses interest to perform his violin at the cocktail party so that his musical genius can be recognized and he can resign as vice-principal. When Dewey Denouement is accidentally killed during a confrontation with Count Olaf which woke up all the patrons, Nero mimics what Mr. Remora claimed about the Baudelaire children and claims that Violet and Klaus failed all the tests and weren't good students while Sunny was the worst administrative assistant. During the blindfolded trial, Nero submitted administrative records as evidence. When Count Olaf starts the fire at the Hotel Denouement, Nero and Mr. Remora were last seen wandering the seventh story as Nero starts to worry about his violin case.
In Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography, it was mentioned that Kit Snicket went to Prufrock Preparatory School where she operated under the alias of Ms. K, until Vice-Principal Nero fired her upon Carmelita Spats' parents tipping him off that Ms. K had given her students books that weren't on the approved reading list. Upon Nero firing her, she ran off and took two orphaned students with her.
In the Netflix TV series, Vice-Principal Nero is portrayed by Roger Bart. In this show, his full name is Nero Feint where he is less cruel and more sympathetic as well as being financially poor.[6] He is also shown to be extremely out of the loop, wondering why Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart does not reply to his letters and thinks Voltaire is probably some French kid he expelled for smoking. When Sunny was working as Nero's administrative assistant, he had her write letters to certain people in the music community to ask them about the reasons behind the restraining orders they sent him. In addition, Nero is also shown to not like Olivia Caliban. Nero later assists Mr. Remora and Mrs. Bass into giving an exam to the Baudelaires where he had Sunny organize the list of students who owe him candy by the color of the candy in question. Sunny passes this test as Nero is inspired to keep improving his musical ways. He was shown to have been surprised when Count Olaf was exposed. Unlike the books, Nero doesn't expel the Baudelaires. Instead, Mr. Poe takes them away to their next guardian following Count Olaf's escape. Though it was mentioned that Nero put Olivia on an unpaid leave in "The Ersatz Elevator" Pt. 1.
Jerome Squalor[edit]
Jerome Squalor
A Series of Unfortunate Events character
First appearance
The Ersatz Elevator
Last appearance
The Penultimate Peril
Family
Esmé Squalor (wife)
the Baudelaire siblings (briefly)
Jerome Squalor first appears in The Ersatz Elevator as the husband of Esme Squalor.
Together, Esmé and Jerome briefly adopted the Baudelaires. Jerome is kind to the Baudelaires, but completely submissive to Esmé and other characters due to his distaste for arguing. He is less of a follower of fashion than Esmé. Jerome is rich and successful as is his wife. At the end of the novel, Esmé leaves Jerome to become a member of Count Olaf's troupe and Count Olaf's girlfriend. The Baudelaires leave Jerome behind as he does not wish to help them rescue the Quagmires.
In Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography, there are two letters concerning Jerome. One letter Lemony got from Jerome had him mentioning that the food at "The Anxious Clown" was terrible.
Jerome returns in The Penultimate Peril. Feeling guilty at his desertion of the Baudelaires, he has been researching their case and writing a book about injustice entitled Odious Lusting After Finance (a backronym of "Olaf"[citation needed]). When Dewey Denouement is accidentally killed during a confrontation with Count Olaf which woke up all the patrons, Jerome states that the Baudelaires aren't murderers. He gives his book to Justice Strauss to be used as evidence against Count Olaf at Count Olaf and the Baudelaires's trial. Jerome also meets his wife Esmé at the Hotel Denouement. When she dumps Count Olaf publicly, Jerome urges Esmé to rejoin his side. Esmé refuses his offer. His book was later used for kindling when Count Olaf started the fire at the Hotel Denouement. As the fire starts, Jerome is last seen on the first floor with the Man with a Beard But No Hair's hand on him.
In the Netflix TV series, Jerome Squalor is portrayed by Tony Hale.[6]
Hector[edit]
The Vile Village
Hector is the handyman in the Village of Fowl Devotees appearing in the seventh book The Vile Village. He is the last official guardian of the Baudelaire children.
He was given the task of taking care of the Baudelaires under the Village Elders' direction. Hector is known to be skittish and always looks down and never speaks when in front of the Village Elders, even when the Baudelaires needed his help in proving their innocence of Jacques Snicket's murder at the time when Jacques was mistaken for Count Olaf. He later escapes with the Quagmire triplets on his self-sustaining hot air mobile home, after finally standing up to the Village Elders.
Notably, Hector is the only one of the Baudelaires' guardians who immediately believes them when they say that Count Olaf is present in disguise. He is also the only guardian who actively tries to help them discover more about V.F.D., and the only non-villain who wanted them to stay with him under any circumstances (not including the guardians of the Baudelaires that had died).
In the TV series, Hector is portrayed by Ithamar Enriquez.[12] He is shown to have fainting spells when he is addressed by the Council of Elders which challenges his courage. Hector mentioned to the Baudelaires that his mother was busted for violating the rule where you can't wear white after Yom Kippur. He mentioned that his mom had to pay a fine and she later moved to the City where she opened a gallery.
Hal[edit]
The Hostile Hospital
The Penultimate Peril
Hal is a man in small glasses that first appears in the eighth novel The Hostile Hospital.
Working as a bookkeeper at the Library of Records in the Heimlich Hospital, he is one of the oldest men that the Baudelaires have ever met. When the Library of Records is burned down with the hospital by Count Olaf, Hal is quick to believe that the Baudelaires are responsible and so turns against them. He eventually forgives the Baudelaires and apologizes for believing Geraldine Julienne's stories in The Daily Punctilio.
In The Penultimate Peril, he reappears as the owner of an Indian restaurant at the Hotel Denouement after he was approached by Dewey Denouement. Although he owns the Indian restaurant, Hal is a terrible cook. It is hinted that Hal may be a V.F.D. member as he says the code "I didn't realize this was a sad occasion" to Mr. Remora who failed to understand it. When Dewey Denouement is accidentally killed during a confrontation with Count Olaf which woke up all the patrons, Hal firmly says that the Baudelaires aren't criminals. During the blindfolded trial, Hal submitted some paperwork.
In the TV series, Hal is portrayed by David Alan Grier.[13] In this show, he wears normal-sized glasses have magnifying lenses that are on both sides of his glasses. After Esmé destroys the Library of Records, Hal is depressed and operates the front desk when Mr. Poe arrives. Hal has him fill out the paperwork to get him checked out for his hay fever. When Klaus and Sunny in their alias of Dr. Faustus are exposed by Esmé, Hal comes in feeling deceived by the Baudelaires as the Baudelaires try to explain themselves. As Count Olaf in the alias of Mattathias Medicalschool starts a fire at the Heimlich Hospital and blames the Baudelaires for starting it, Hal joins the Person of Indeterminate Gender and some members of the Volunteers Fighting Disease into pursuing them. Before the fire can get worse, Hal managed to make out alive feeling depressed at the loss of the Library of Records as he walks passed Lemony Snicket during his narration.
Olivia Caliban[edit]
Olivia Caliban (a.k.a. Madame Lulu[14]) appears solely in The Carnivorous Carnival. She is technically the ninth guardian of the Baudelaire orphans due to the fact that the Baudelaires go to work for her.
She is a fraudulent fortune-teller. Her lightning device (operated by reflecting beams of the sunrise) tricks guests into believing in magical lightning. After instructing them to close their eyes, she seeks out the answers from the archival library under her table.
Madame Lulu says she just likes giving people what they want. It is implied, but not explicitly stated, that she is a member of V.F.D. The Grim Grotto reveals that she once knew Captain Widdershins. It is strongly implied that she is in love with Count Olaf, earning her the enmity of Olaf's then-girlfriend Esmé Squalor.
She speaks in broken English with a thick fake accent, saying “please” in the middle or the end of her sentences.
Lulu promised the Baudelaires that she wouldn't tell Count Olaf where they were if they took her to the Mortmain Mountains. This place was marked on her map, but Klaus found that it was a coffee stain, but he later said that it might be there to refer to as a secret place, such as the headquarters of V.F.D.
Esmé Squalor convinces the "freaks" in the Caligari Carnival to murder her by pushing Madame Lulu into the lion pit in exchange for being hired by Count Olaf. She met a sticky end when she fell into the lions' pit along with the Bald Man With the Long Nose during the crowd chaos. After that,at the performance "Madame Lulu was to throw "Beverly and Eliot" into the pit. She was uncertain,which led everyone into a frenzy,rushing to throw them in. In all the commotion Madame Lulu fell into the pit. Later Count Olaf reveals that Madame Lulu told him about the Baudelaires' disguises.
She has been implied to be a fortune-teller mentioned in a much earlier book who cursed Lemony Snicket when a policeman tripped Mr. Snicket, causing him to break the crystal ball he was holding.[citation needed] She also states in the book that Olaf promised to give her the Snicket Fortune for the times she helped Olaf.
When Olivia removes her turban, Snicket states she has blond hair but in illustrations, she is shown with black hair. If this is simply a mistake or not is unknown.
A later book mentions an "Olivia Caliban", who may be Olivia and who thus may be the sister of Friday's father Thursday Caliban.[citation needed]
In the TV series, Olivia Caliban is portrayed by Sara Rue.[8] Her role is expanded where she first appears as a school librarian at Prufrock Preporatory School that is often disliked by Vice-Principal Nero. After the Hook-Handed Man makes off with Duncan and Isadora Quagmire, Olivia walks off with the book on secret organizations. After Olivia visits Mr. Poe and attempts to show him the book in "The Ersatz Elevator" while also mentioning that Vice-Principal Nero put her on an unpaid leave, Jacquelyn enlists Jacques Snicket to bring Olivia into the organization. While Larry keeps Esmé busy at Café Salmonella, Olivia accompanies Jacques into searching the Squalors' building for Duncan and Isadora. Olivia and Jacques later attend an auction presided over by Count Olaf's Gunther alias. In "The Vile Village" after Count Olaf's Detective Dupin alias tricks the Village of Fowl Devotees into thinking that Jacques Snicket is Count Olaf, Olivia negotiates with Esmé in exchange for the information about the Sugar Bowl that she is looking for. Jacques later directs Olivia to "Madame Lulu" so that she can find the Sugar Bowl before Count Olaf does. Madame Lulu turns out to be a title for the V.F.D. member stationed at the Caligari Carnival and the current Madame Lulu heads to Heimlich Hospital to recover the Sugar Bowl while Olivia takes the Madame Lulu mantle. When Count Olaf and his troop arrive at the carnival in hopes of finding out whether or not one of the Baudelaires' parents survived the fire as seen in "The Carnivorous Carnival," Olivia attempts to stall them until the other Madame Lulu arrives. She later encounters the Baudelaires, disguised as freaks, and gives them some of the information she has gained as a member of V.F.D., but also reveals that she has no idea whether or not one of their parents survived. However, she promises to take them to the old V.F.D. headquarters, where their parent may be if they are, in fact, alive. Before they can leave, unfortunately, Count Olaf begins the performance where one of the freaks will be thrown into the lion's pit, picking Klaus and Violet's two-headed disguise. Klaus and Violet attempt to trick Count Olaf out onto the platform by telling him to come push them in to make it more dramatic, plotting to push him in instead, but he sends Olivia to push them in in his place. Olivia manages to push them over the pit to safety. Before she can take out Count Olaf, he cuts the rope on the platform and drops her into the pit where she is devoured by the lions offscreen, much to the horror of the crowd.
Bruce[edit]
Bruce is briefly a guardian of the Baudelaires. He first appears at the end of The Reptile Room in which he moves Uncle Monty's reptiles.
In The Slippery Slope, Bruce appears again as the leader of the Snow Scouts. The Baudelaires learn that he is the uncle of Carmelita Spats, a member of the Snow Scouts. Count Olaf cheated him out of Uncle Monty's reptile collection (except for one reptile, most likely the Incredibly Deadly Viper). This was confirmed in Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography, in which Lemony receives the letter from the owners of the Prospero). Bruce is kidnapped by the Man with a Beard But No Hair and the Woman with Hair But No Beard, along with all the Snow Scouts, save for Carmelita, at the end of the book.
At Hotel Denouement shortly after Dewey Denouement is accidentally killed, someone calls for a man named Bruce to come back to bed. Later as the hotel starts to burn, the Baudelaires hear a man calling out for this Bruce while a woman calls out for her mother. It hasn't been confirmed if this is the same Bruce or a different Bruce.
Captain Widdershins[edit]
Captain Widdershins is the captain of the Queequeg submarine. He is the stepfather of Fiona and Fernald.
In The Grim Grotto, he finds Klaus, Violet, and Sunny Baudelaire at sea while he is looking for the sugar bowl and takes them aboard the Queequeg. He is extremely emphatic, with almost all of his sentences being exclamations, and permeates his speech with the word "Aye!" His personal philosophy is "He who hesitates is lost", which the Baudelaires find to be unreasonable. Captain Widdershins is considered the eleventh guardian of the Baudelaires. He seems aware that Fiona takes a fancy to Klaus (he accuses them of flirting when Fiona is proud Klaus knows what a mycologist is), stating that if Klaus finds the sugar bowl, he will "allow [Klaus] to marry Fiona."
After sending the Baudelaires and Fiona into the Gorgonian Grotto, he and Phil appear to desert the Queequeg. The reason may have to do with a woman who approached the Queequeg to tell Captain Widdershins something involving him being required to leave the submarine. In The Penultimate Peril, Kit Snicket says that she intends to meet Captain Widdershins and is later mentioned water-skiing towards and, soon after, away from him.
Kit had contacted all three of The Quagmire Triplets as well as their Guardian Hector and had met with them and the crew of the Queequeg when their self-sustaining mobile home crashed into it. This reunion was short-lived, however, as all of the crew as well as the triplets were picked up by the mysterious '?' Shape (dubbed by Kit Snicket as 'The Great Unknown'). Another note to make is that though he himself stated that The Great Unknown was "something worse than Olaf himself", he seemed to insist to take his chances with it, as mentioned by Kit Snicket in The End. It is possible that Captain Widdershins also has, or had, a fortune because when Count Olaf is talking about all the fortunes he will obtain, he says "the Widdershins fortune." Widdershins says that Fiona's mother died in a manatee accident.
Dewey Denouement[edit]
Dewey Denouement is the hotel manager of the Hotel Denouement and the brother of Frank and Ernest, but far fewer people are aware he exists. In addition to Dewey being an old friend of Bertrand Baudelaire, Count Olaf describes Dewey as a "legendary figure." He calls himself a "sub-sub-librarian" and has spent his life cataloging evidence hidden beneath the pond near the Hotel Denouement.[15] Dewey was four when the Schism began and later began a relationship with Kit Snicket. Also, his parents house was burned down which killed his parents.
At Hotel Denouement, Dewey was also responsible for winding up the clock that is built into the ceiling there. He made himself known to the Baudelaires where he revealed his library at the bottom of the nearby pond. When he refuses to tell Count Olaf the passwords to unlock a door (which supposedly led to a room containing the sugar bowl) upon being confronted by him, Count Olaf threatens to shoot him with a harpoon gun. The Baudelaires try to save Dewey, but Count Olaf drops the gun when Mr. Poe shows up and it goes off killing Dewey whose body falls into the pond which then sinks. The harpoon gun going off also woke up the other patrons. As for Dewey's secret library, Lemony Snicket stated that it was unharmed when Hotel Denouement was set on fire.
Dewey is the father of Kit Snicket's child.
Frank and Ernest Denouement[edit]
Frank Denouement and Ernest Denouement are identical brothers of Dewey and are managers of the Hotel Denouement who oversee the maintenance of the hotel and the needs of the guests. Frank is a "volunteer" while Ernest is a "villain" who used to be part of Count Olaf's theater troupe. The Baudelaires work in the hotel as concierges and meet the managers on several occasions, but fail to tell Frank and Ernest apart.
When their brother is accidentally killed during a confrontation with Count Olaf which woke up all the patrons, Frank and Ernest were charged by Justice Strauss to put the Baudelaires and Count Olaf in separate rooms until her fellow judges arrive. As both of them are blindfolded for the trial as well, it was not known which one brought the Baudelaires to where the blindfolded trial is. During the trial, Frank and Ernest submitted a commonplace book as evidence. When Count Olaf starts the fire at the Hotel Denouement, Frank and Ernest were last seen on the first floor as the Woman With Hair But No Beard directs them to the elevator where the Baudelaires, Count Olaf, and Justice Strauss are. When Violet asks for them to call the fire department, Frank and Ernest ask "which one" as the elevator closes on them.
Their names are a reference to the phrase "You be frank and I'll be earnest."
Other characters[edit]
Edgar and Albert Poe[edit]
The Bad Beginning
Edgar and Albert are Mr. Poe's two sons. They are only seen in The Bad Beginning when the Baudelaires stay with Mr. Poe following their parents' death. The two brothers are unwelcoming to the Baudelaire orphans. Their names are apparent allusions to Edgar Allan Poe, though they may also be derived from Edgar Albert Guest (who is mentioned in The Grim Grotto).
In the TV series, Edgar and Albert are played by Kaniel Jacob-Cross and Jack Forrester, respectively. Their unwelcoming attitude goes so far to the point that they both think the Baudelaires caused the fire themselves. Lemony Snicket reveals that later in life one became a banker like their father while the other lives in a cave, but that both think that "the other has it better."
Eleanora Poe[edit]
Eleanora Poe is the sister of Mr. Arthur Poe, who is in charge of the Baudelaire orphans' affairs. Eleanora is the editor-in-chief of The Daily Punctilio. She is first mentioned as "a tiresome woman named Eleanora" who was in an elevator at the Hotel Preludio with the Baudelaire family one day when Bertrand played a prank that forced her to stop at every floor on the way to her hotel room.
It is implied that Eleanora and Arthur are not part of the V.F.D. organization because at The Anxious Clown, Larry the Waiter uses a code for V.F.D. members, and neither Eleanora nor Arthur seem to understand it or decide to ignore it.
In Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Biography, Eleanora was eventually locked in the basement of the newspaper building by her "star reporter" Geraldine Julienne on the orders of Esmé Squalor. She tried to telegram her brother only for an imposter to tell Mr. Poe to ignore all incoming telegrams.[16] This was likely to secure the influence of the newspaper for the villainous side of V.F.D.
In the TV series, her character is changed to be Mr. Poe's wife upon being amalgamated with Polly Poe and she is portrayed by Cleo King. She is shown to be more concerned with the Baudelaires' fame in the papers than their actual living conditions. In addition, she has used the "Wait until the readers of the Daily Punctilio see that!" catchphrase that Geraldine uses.
Polly Poe[edit]
Polly Poe is Mr. Poe's wife. She is mentioned in The Bad Beginning when the Baudelaires stay with the Poe family. While the Baudelaires stay at the Poes' house, she buys a lot of itchy and ugly clothing. She later appears at the theater for Count Olaf's performance of The Marvelous Marriage and was there when Count Olaf's plot was exposed.
In The Ersatz Elevator, Mr. Poe says that he will tell his wife that dark is in, indicating that she is interested in fashion.
In the film, she is played by Deborah Theaker.
In the television series, her character is combined with Eleanora Poe who is portrayed by Cleo King.
Justice Strauss[edit]
Justice Strauss
A Series of Unfortunate Events character
First appearance
The Bad Beginning
Last appearance
The Penultimate Peril
Portrayed by
Catherine O'Hara (film)
Joan Cusack (TV series)
Occupation
Judge
Justice Strauss is a judge who lives next door to Count Olaf. The Baudelaires initially take a liking to her as soon as they meet in The Bad Beginning and her library also comes in handy in the foiling of Count Olaf's plot to get the Baudelaire fortune. At the purported mock wedding that Olaf sets up at the theater, she plays the judge and unwittingly almost marries Violet to Olaf, legally. At the end of the book following Count Olaf and his troupe getting away, she offers to look after the Baudelaires only for it to not be possible due to legal obligations on the part of Mr. Poe.
Strauss reappears in The Penultimate Peril. She has been researching the Baudelaire case and attempts to bring Count Olaf to justice. After Dewey Denouement is accidentally killed, Justice Strauss breaks up the commotion between the guests. She informs everyone present that the authorities have been summoned and that they will have a trial on the Baudelaire children and Count Olaf. When it came to the trial, she had issued an order beforehand to have the Baudelaires, Count Olaf, Frank and Ernest Denouement, and those attending the trial wear blindfolds to go with the "Justice is blind" saying. Though she did had to direct them to where the respectful benches are. As the trial progressed where the judges were given their evidence against the Baudelaires and Count Olaf, it turns out that her two fellow High Court judges are actually Olaf's associates the Man With a Beard But No Hair and the Woman with Hair But No Beard. Olaf kidnaps Justice Strauss and the Baudelaires follow the two. They end up ascending the roof of the Hotel Denouement after setting fire to the building as part of the Baudelaire children's plan to leave a signal in the sky to warn those of the firefighting side of the V.F.D. that the upcoming meeting is cancelled and that Hotel Denouement is no longer safe for them. Justice Strauss attempts to prevent the escape of Count Olaf, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, but they leave her behind.
In the film, Justice Strauss is portrayed by Catherine O'Hara. When Count Olaf's plot during the play was exposed, Justice Strauss was shocked that she was duped and ran off stating that she didn't know. In the video game adaption, she is voiced by April Stewart.
In the Netflix series, she is portrayed by Joan Cusack. Justice Strauss' library is shown to have a book on secret societies. At the end of the second part of "The Bad Beginning," she pushes the book on secret societies that was partially pulled out back in sometime after the Baudelaire children were transferred to Uncle Monty.
Gustav Sebald[edit]
Gustav Sebald is a film director and member of the V.F.D. who invented the Sebald Code which was used by V.F.D. members in their correspondence.
Gustav's films contained crucial messages to the V.F.D.
In The Reptile Room, Gustav was mentioned to be the assistant of Montgomery Montgomery. When Count Olaf arrived at his house in the disguise of Stephano, Montgomery was informed that Gustav has suddenly and suspiciously resigned. Gustav's movie "Zombies in the Snow" was seen at the local theater by the Baudelaire children, Montgomery, and Stephano. The coded message that Montgomery couldn't understand was "Attention! Hidden in the snowman is a survivor of the fire. Meet us in the town where this film takes place. Bring the three children. Your new assistant is not one of us. Beware!" Following Gustav's death, his sister Sally is managing his estate.
In the film, Gustav Sebald is portrayed by John Dexter. He was briefly seen having been strapped to the front of a train by Count Olaf.
In the TV series, Gustav Sebald is portrayed by Luke Camilleri. He first appeared in "The Bad Beginning" Pt. 2 where he met Jacquelyn underground after she escaped from the Bald Man's trap and informed him what happened. When Count Olaf's plot to get the Baudelaire fortune is exposed, Jacquelyn and Gustav made themselves known as they revealed that Montgomery Montgomery was supposed to get the Baudelaire children and not Count Olaf. Before Count Olaf can be apprehended, the lights go off enabling Count Olaf and his associates to get away. When outside Montgomery's house to make sure the Baudelaire children arrived safely, he is hit by a tranquilizer dart fired by an offscreen Count Olaf where his body sinks into a pond in Swarthy Swamp. Gustav's death enabled Count Olaf to begin his next plot as Stephano. In "The Carnivorous Carnival," Gustav made an appearance in a flashback at a celebration at the V.F.D. headquarters on the day when Count Olaf failed at murdering Beatrice. He was seen being hypnotized by Georgina Orwell into kissing her which Orwell covered up in front of Jacquelyn. In the present, he appears on a film reel at the Caligari Carnival that talks about the V.F.D. where he talked about his movie codes and showed the different disguises.
Larry[edit]
Larry is a waiter who works at the "Anxious Clown" restaurant in The Wide Window who is implied to be a member of V.F.D. as he uses the coded phrase "I didn't realize this was a sad occasion." He also has a history with Josephine Anwhistle.
He first appears where he serves food to the Baudelaire children, Mr. Poe, and Count Olaf in his alias of Captain Sham.
In Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography, a letter Lemony received from Jacques advised him to visit The Anxious Clown and look for a waiter who quoted "I didn't realize this was a sad occasion."
In the Netflix TV series, Larry is portrayed by Patrick Breen. He was first seen in "The Wide Window" sweeping outside his restaurant when Count Olaf appears. Count Olaf manages to overpower Larry as the rest of his troupe swarms over him. While Count Olaf in the disguise of Captain Sham has dinner at the Anxious Restaurant with Mr. Poe and the Baudelaire children, Larry serves them food as Count Olaf's theater troupe makes sure that he sticks to the script. While struggling to get untied, he does managed to answer a call from Mr. and Mrs. Quagmire. When the Hook-Handed Man grabbed the phone, Mr. and Mrs. Quagmire hung up knowing that the Anxious Clown has been compromised. In "The Austere Academy," Larry appears as a cafeteria worker at Prufrock Preporatory school where he misplaced a book about secret societies that Jacquelyn gave him. He gets locked in the walk-in refrigerator by Count Olaf and is later freed by Jacques Snicket. In "The Ersatz Elevator" Pt. 1, Larry appears as a waiter at Café Salmonella where he stalls Esmé while Jacques and Olivia sneak into their building to find Duncan and Isadora Quagmire. In "The Vile Village" Pt. 2, Larry hears about Jacques' death assists Jacquelyn into distracting the Village of Fowl Devotees' inhabitants in order to give the Baudelaires time to get away from them. He was shown to have a history with Mrs. Morrow and Mr. Lesko. Though they are tied up by Count Olaf's troupe, Larry and Jacquelyn are pleased that the Baudelaire children and the Quagmire children successfully got away in their own ways. In "The Carnivorous Carnival" Pt. 1, Larry was seen in a flashback at a party at V.F.D. HQ where he has a message passed along to Lemony Snicket that tells him "Olaf knows" as Lemony runs out in an attempt to thwart Count Olaf's attempt on Beatrice Baudelaire's life. In the present, he appears on a film reel at the Caligari Carnival that talks about the V.F.D. as he talks about the different coded phrases. While in the tunnels, he is on the phone with someone about the survivor of the Baudelaire fire being sighted at the Mortmain Mountains when he starts to smell smoke.
Phil[edit]
The Miserable Mill
The Grim Grotto
Phil worked at the Lucky Smells Lumbermill in The Miserable Mill. Phil was one of the friendlier mill workers, and helped the Baudelaires adjust to their new home. During the Baudelaires' stay at the lumbermill, Phil was injured by a mill machine, operated by Klaus, who was hypnotized at the time. On the bright side, Phil is an eternally optimistic character who is not upset about the accident, by saying things such as "at least no one would ask whether I'm right-handed or left-handed."
In The Grim Grotto, Phil worked as a cook at a submarine manned by Captain Widdershins (who calls him Cookie) and his stepdaughter Fiona although all he can make are damp casseroles. Klaus believes that Phil is still being affected by the stamping machine accident, but Phil claims it to be a shark bite. He, along with Captain Widdershins, abandons the Baudelaires and Fiona during the middle of the novel for unknown reasons, (or had been captured), and does not appear in The Penultimate Peril or The End.
It is suspected that Phil may have left his work at Lucky Smells Lumbermill due to a lack of sufficient pay; in The Miserable Mill he states that he has read law books and learned that being paid with coupons is illegal. Despite bringing this up with Sir, it is stated in The Penultimate Peril the workers at the mill are still being paid in coupons.
In the TV series, he is portrayed by Chris Gauthier.
Dr. Georgina Orwell[edit]
The Miserable Mill
Dr. Georgina Orwell is an optometrist and an accomplice to Count Olaf in his attempts to steal the Baudelaire fortune in The Miserable Mill by hypnotizing Klaus after the Bald Man with the Big Nose posing as Foreman Flacutano breaks his glasses. Her name is an allusion to George Orwell.[10] She is killed when she falls into a gigantic lumber saw while battling Sunny, sword vs. teeth.
In the TV series, she is portrayed by Catherine O'Hara (who previously portrayed Justice Strauss in the film adaptation). Instead of being killed by the gigantic lumber saw, she falls into the furnace where all that was left of her was her glasses. In "The Carnivorous Carnival," Georgina made an appearance in a flashback at the celebration at the V.F.D. headquarters the day when Count Olaf failed at murdering Beatrice. She hypnotized Gustav into kissing her and had to cover up this act in front of Jacquelyn. In the present, she appears on a film reel at the Caligari Carnival that talks about the V.F.D.
Mr. Remora[edit]
The Austere Academy
The Penultimate Peril
Mr. Remora is a teacher at Prufrock Preparatory School in The Austere Academy teaching Violet Baudelaire. He loves bananas and is constantly seen eating one, smearing banana pulp on his moustache. In his class, students are forced to listen to tiresome and extremely short stories he dictates after which he gives examinations on various objective aspects of the stories. He thinks that the Baudelaires are good students and even objected to Vice-Principal Nero expelling them.
Lemony Snicket reveals in Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography that Mr. Remora later retired from his teaching job because he choked on a banana and was briefly replaced by Kit Snicket under the alias of Miss K.
Whether retired or not depending on when the banana-choking incident happened, Mr. Remora reappears in The Penultimate Peril with Vice-Principal Nero and Mrs. Bass, having been invited to a cocktail party at the Hotel Denouement and makes a brief reference to running from the law (possibly a reference to Mrs. Bass's bank robbery). Hal also tries to communicate with him using a V.F.D. coded phrase "I didn't realize this was a sad occasion." However, Mr. Remora fails to understand, meaning that he is probably not part of V.F.D. When Dewey Denouement is accidentally killed during a confrontation with Count Olaf which woke up all the patrons, Mr. Remora chose the side of the Baudelaire children where he mentioned good things about them which Vice-Principal Nero mimicked. During the blindfolded trial, Mr. Remora submits the gradebooks as evidence. When Count Olaf starts the fire at the Hotel Denouement, Mr. Remora was last seen wandering the seventh story with Nero while wondering about fried bananas.
In the TV series, Mr. Remora is portrayed by Malcolm Stewart.[8] During the pep rally, he and Mrs. Bass shoot down Duncan and Isadora's attempts to warn the Baudelaires that Count Olaf is in the school. He later assists Vice-Principal Nero and Mrs. Bass in giving the Baudelaires their exam. Unlike the books, Mr. Remora made an appearance in "The Carnivorous Carnival" Pt. 2 attending the Caligari Carnival with Mrs. Bass where they watched the lion-feeding event.
Mrs. Bass[edit]
The Austere Academy
The Penultimate Peril
Mrs. Bass is Klaus Baudelaire's teacher in The Austere Academy, obsessed with measuring in metric and all of her lessons are on measuring certain items. Mrs. Bass is described to having long messy hair that vaguely made her resemble a gorilla. She and Mr. Remora only agree that Violet and Klaus are good students after their final examination that would determine their expulsion from Prufrock Preparatory. Prior to this however, they were under the impression that Violet and Klaus were the two worst students in the history of the school. Mrs. Bass at this occasion states that she dislikes Carmelita Spats.
She reappears in The Penultimate Peril, having been invited to a cocktail party at Hotel Denouement by J.S., wearing a thin black mask and a small white wig as a disguise. It is implied, as foreshadowed in The Austere Academy and Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography, that she has robbed a bank, having in her possession several bags of money marked with name of Mulctuary Money Management. It is also implied that the money she stole is from the Spats Fortune. She makes no attempt to conceal her crime from Vice Principal Nero and Mr. Remora and they in turn do not judge her, seeming to look on her robbery as an everyday occurrence. She also reveals that her invitation to the cocktail party asked her to bring all her valuables and since she did not earn enough as a teacher to have valuables she was forced to turn to a life of crime. Despite her defense of the Baudelaires in The Austere Academy when their own identities are revealed at the Hotel Denouement following the death of Dewey Denouement, she claims that they are criminals that should be punished which Hugo agreed with her on. During the blindfolded trial, Mrs. Bass submits the blueprints for banks and later claims that the Baudelaires robbed a bank to which Mr. Poe quoted "Who said that?" When Count Olaf starts a fire at the Hotel Denouement, Mrs. Bass was last seen on the third story muttering something about a getaway car.
It is assumed that she survives the fire because it is mentioned in The Austere Academy that she was arrested for bank robbery at Mulctuary Money Management by Lemony Snicket which is one of the reasons why Prufrock Preparatory School closed down.
In the TV series, Mrs. Bass is portrayed by BJ Harrison.[8] This version is an African-American woman and doesn't have messy hair. During the pep rally, she and Mr. Remora shoot down Duncan and Isadora's attempts to warn the Baudelaires that Count Olaf is in the school. She later assists Vice-Principal Nero and Mr. Remora into giving the Baudelaires their exam. Like the books, she starts to become a bank robber. Unlike the books, Mrs. Bass appeared in "The Carnivorous Carnival" Pt. 2 attending the Caligari Carnival with Mr. Remora where they watched the lion-feeding event. She is shown to have a bag of money in her hands which she passes off as quiz papers. While the Caligari Carnival was burning down, she hitches a ride with Mr. Poe where she wants him to give her a "tour" of Mulctuary Money Management.
Ms. Tench[edit]
Ms. Tench is the gym teacher at Prufrock Preparatory School.
She was mentioned in The Austere Academy where Vice-Principal Nero stated that Ms. Tench "fell out of a third story window a few days ago." Though it wasn't mentioned if she is dead or injured. Either way, she was replaced by Count Olaf posing as Coach Genghis.
In the TV series, Miss Tench is portrayed by Bronwen Smith.[8] While riding a bus with the pep squad and sports team, the bus is hijacked by Count Olaf. While it was mentioned that Count Olaf and his troupe left Ms. Tench, the pep squad and sports team, and the bus driver on the side of the road, Count Olaf's disguise as Coach Genghis seems to include her stolen tracksuit.
Mr. and Mrs. Quagmire[edit]
Mr. and Mrs. Quagmire are the parents of Duncan, Isadora, and Quigley Quagmire who are on the fire-fighting side of the V.F.D. They perished in the fire at their home after getting their children to safety.
In the TV series, Mr. and Mrs. Quagmire are portrayed by Will Arnett and Cobie Smulders. Their subplot throughout the first season had them captured by the fire-starting side of the V.F.D. and their escape as they make their way back to their kids. During a flight over Lake Lachrymose, the two of them managed to secretly help the Baudelaires set off a signal light at the time when they are being attacked by the Lachrymose Leeches. Mr. and Mrs. Quagmire were able to reunite with their children. Later that night, an unseen person starts to set fire to their mansion from a distance causing them to perish offscreen.
Council of Elders[edit]
The Council of Elders are the governing force behind the Village of Fowl Devotees. It consists of the village's 25 elders. Each of the members of the Council of Elders worship the crows and wear hats that have fake crows on top of their hats. They sit on a long bench in the Village of Fowl Devotees' City Hall to discuss some things. The youngest member of the Council of Elders was The Woman Who Was About Eighty-One.
In The Vile Village, the Council of Elders meet the Baudelaire children during an assembly and ask who would watch over them. They got Hector to watch over them because nobody else wanted the job.
In the TV series, the Council of Elders only has three members. They are named Anabelle, Jemma, and Sam and are portrayed by Mindy Sterling, Carol Mansell, and Ken Jenkins respectively.[8]
Mrs. Morrow[edit]
The Vile Village
The Penultimate Peril
Mrs. Morrow is a citizen from the Village of Fowl Devotees in The Vile Village. She is seen at Town Hall wearing a pink bathrobe when the Baudelaires arrive. She is one of the people who does not want the Baudelaires living with her. Mrs. Morrow makes them trim her hedges and later complains about their poor job. Mrs. Morrow delivers the news about Jacques Snicket's mysterious death whom she, like the other villagers, thought was Count Olaf. Mrs. Morrow is one of the villagers most determined to burn the Baudelaires (and any other person in violation of the many thousands of village rules) at the stake. She was with the villagers when Esmé Squalor in the alias of Officer Luciana accidentally injured a crow with her harpoon gun and was among the villagers that retaliated at this rule violation.
She reappears in The Penultimate Peril as a guest at Hotel Denouement alongside Mr. Lesko. Mrs. Morrow is seen sleeping in the lobby after being woken up by a shot from the harpoon gun that killed Dewey Denouement. When Charles states to Sir that Count Olaf caused accidents at the Lucky Smells Lumbermill and not the Baudelaire children, Mrs. Morrow stated that "Count Olaf" was murdered by the Baudelaire children in her village. She submits constitutions to be used as evidence at the blindfolded trial for the Baudelaires and Count Olaf. When Count Olaf starts a fire at the Hotel Denouement, Mrs. Morrow was last seen on one of the floors arguing with Mr. Lesko.
In the TV series, Mrs. Morrow is portrayed by Lossen Chambers. While helping Jacquelyn buy the Baudelaires and the Quagmire's time to get away, Larry mentioned to Mrs. Morrow that he remembered her and her mother from book club. Mrs. Morrow stated that it's now a magazine club and she hates magazines. Unlike the books, Mrs. Morrow appears in "The Carnivorous Carnival" Pt. 2 attending the Caligari Carnival with Mr. Lesko and some of their fellow villagers where they watched the lion-feeding event.
Mr. Lesko[edit]
The Vile Village
The Penultimate Peril
Mr. Lesko is a citizen of the Village of Fowl Devotees from The Vile Village. The Baudelaires first meet him at a meeting in Town Hall where he is shown wearing plaid pants. He and several other citizens do not want the Baudelaires to live with him and describes them as "noisy" children. Mr. Lesko is very mean to them and makes them and Hector clean the windows of his house. He is the one who suggests the Baudelaires be burned at the stake because he thinks they killed Count Olaf (who was actually Jacques Snicket). Mr. Lesko was with the villagers when Esmé Squalor in the alias of Officer Luciana accidentally injured a crow with her harpoon gun and was among the villagers that retaliated at this rule violation.
He returns in The Penultimate Peril as one of the hotel guests in the lobby where he was seen with Mrs. Morrow. He is woken up when Dewey Denouement is killed. When Mrs. Morrow claims that "Count Olaf" was killed by the Baudelaire children in her village, Mr. Lesko claims that he thought the man that was killed was named "Count Omar." At the Baudelaires and Count Olaf's blindfolded trial, he hands in rule books for evidence. When Count Olaf starts the fire at the Hotel Denouement, Mr. Lesko was last seen on one of the floors arguing with Mrs. Morrow.
In the TV series, Mr. Lesko is portrayed by Kevin Chamberlin and is first referred to as "The Man in Plaid Pants" by the Council of Elders. While helping Jacquelyn buy the Baudelaires and the Quagmire's time to get away, Larry asked Mr. Morrow how his retirement was. He didn't get an answer out of him. Unlike the books, Mr. Lesko appears in "The Carnivorous Carnival" Pt. 2 attending the Caligari Carnival with Mrs. Morrow and some of their fellow villagers where they watched the lion-feeding event.
Jacques Snicket[edit]
The Vile Village
Jacques Snicket is the older brother of Lemony Snicket and the twin brother of Kit Snicket as well as a member of the V.F.D. At some point during his work, he lost contact with Lemony and remained close to Kit.
Jacques was first seen in The Vile Village where the villagers of the Village of Fowl Devotees mistook him for Count Olaf. He was to be burned at the stake only to be killed by the real Count Olaf (who was disguised as Detective Dupin at the time) who framed the Baudelaire siblings for his death. Before he died, he tried to mention to the Baudelaire children that he worked for the V.F.D.
In the Netflix TV series, Jacques Snicket is portrayed by Nathan Fillion.[6] He is first seen in "The Austere Academy" where he frees Larry from the walk-in refrigerator that Count Olaf trapped him in. In "The Ersatz Elevator," Jacquelyn enlists Jacques Snicket to bring Olivia Caliban into their organization. While Esmé is kept busy by Larry at Café Salmonella, Jacques and Olivia sneak into the Squalors' building to find Duncan and Isadora Quagmire. When Count Olaf in the form of Gunther holds an auction, Jacques and Olivia attend it. In "The Vile Village," Jacques and Olivia arrive in the Village of Fowl Devotees in order to detain Count Olaf. Unfortunately, Count Olaf poses as Detective Dupin where he fools the villagers into thinking that Jacques Snicket is actually Olaf and the Council of Elders sentence Jacques to death. While Jacques still had the V.F.D. tattoo, Count Olaf put a fake extension between his eyebrows to make it look like one eyebrow. He did silently introduce himself to the Baudelaires and explain the tattoo description to them while Detective Dupin and the Council of Elders were talking. After Olivia negotiates with Esmé in the disguise of Officer Luciana for their freedom in exchange for the information about the Sugar Bowl that Count Olaf seeks, Jacques sends Olivia to find "Madame Lulu." When Jacques confronts Count Olaf and Esmé, they managed to incapacitate him as Count Olaf struck him with a crowbar offscreen. The next day, the Baudelaires are informed that "Count Olaf" was murdered. Olaf as Detective Dupin pins the blame of his death on the Baudelaires. In "The Hostile Hospital" Pt. 1 and 2, Jacques Snicket appeared on a film reel that is in Heimlich Hospital's Library of records. In "The Carnivorous Carnival" Pt. 1, Jacques Snicket was seen in a flashback at a party at the V.F.D. Headquarters with Lemony. In the present, he appears on a film reel at the Caligari Carnival that talks about the V.F.D.
Geraldine Julienne[edit]
The Vile Village
The Hostile Hospital
The Carnivorous Carnival
The Penultimate Peril
Geraldine Julienne is the star reporter for the Daily Punctilo. She is depicted as always carrying a microphone and incorrectly reports on events throughout the series. In addition, Geraldine is a devoted fan of Esmé Squalor. Her catchphrase upon coming across a headline is "Wait until the readers of the Daily Punctilio see that!"
She was first mentioned in The Vile Village where she wrote the inaccurate article about the Baudelaire children murdering Count Olaf. What really happened is that Count Olaf framed them at the time when Jacques Snicket was mistaken for Count Olaf.
In The Hostile Hospital, Geraldine is present at Violet Baudelaire's surgery.
In The Carnivous Carnival, Geraldine appears at the Caligari Carnival reporting on the lion show there.
In The Penultimate Peril, Geraldine is seen at the Hotel Denouement. She was seen in the rooftop sunbathing salon with Esmé Squalor and Carmelita Spats. When Dewey Denouement is accidentally killed during a confrontation with Count Olaf which woke up all the patrons, Geraldine quotes that the Baudelaires are no ordinary murderers. When Justice Strauss proposes a blindfolded trial, she did not want Geraldine to do any premature news stories. During the blindfolded trial, Geraldine submitted some newspaper articles as evidence. When Count Olaf starts the fire at the Hotel Denouement, Geraldine was last seen on one of the floors using her microphone as a cane while squealing about the headlines.
In Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography, Esmé orders Geraldine to lock Eleanora Poe in the basement of the Daily Punctilo.
In the TV series, Geraldine Julienne had written different articles in the series like the loss of the Baudelaire children's parents, them being raised by Count Olaf, and the accident at the Lucky Smells Lumbermill.
Babs[edit]
The Hostile Hospital
Babs first appears in The Hostile Hospital.
She is the head of Heimilich Hospital's Human Resources Department. She is never seen but is heard over an intercom, which distorts her voice and makes it sound 'scratchy'. She seems to believe that the Baudelaires should be "seen and not heard" which is ironic since she can't see them anyway. Count Olaf, disguised as Mattathias, later stole her position to take control of the hospital and hinted that he pushed her off the roof of the hospital as he said she had "decided to pursue a career as a stuntwoman' and had 'started jumping off buildings immediately." This means that Olaf probably pushed her off a roof or forced her to jump off one. Either way, Babs was killed.
In the TV series, Babs is portrayed by Kerri Kenney-Silver.[8] She is actually seen in this version and is easily stressed, carrying a paper bag around to breathe into when she begins to hyperventilate. Babs is also obsessed with paperwork. Despite them not being on her list, she allows Count Olaf, disguised as Dr. Mattathias Medicalschool, and his troupe into the hospital. Later, they capture her and Count Olaf replaces her as the head of the Human Resources Department. When Violet is also captured, she attempts to escape with Babs, but Babs's nervous laughter and loud speech results in them being captured by Count Olaf again and separated. Despite Count Olaf threatening to kill her at this point, Babs survives and is later seen escaping Heimlich Hospital during the fire and mourning the loss of her clipboard and paperwork. Mr. Poe attempts to comfort her as he chases after the Baudelaires.
The Man with Pimples On His Chin[edit]
The Man with Pimples On His Chin is a middle-aged man and a resident of the Hinterlands several large pimples on his chin and a skin condition that cause people to mistake him for a freak. In addition, he has a mother who also has pimples on her.
The Man with Pimples On His Chin first appears in The Carnivorous Carnival where he mistakes the Hook-Handed Man as a freak to which the Hook-Handed Man states that he isn't one. The Man with Pimples On His Chin apologizes and advises the Hook-Handed Man to get some fake hands. During the show, he joins the Hook-Handed Man into heckling Hugo. Violet and Klaus in the alias of the two-headed person Beverly and Elliot encountered the Man With Pimples On His Chin before the lion-feeding event where he asks them why one of them doesn't wear a bag over their head. Sunny in the alias of Chabo the Wolf Baby grows at them as Violet tells him to leave them alone as Chabo is protective of them. The Man With Pimples On His Chin states that Chabo won't be a match for the lions which his mother agrees on. During the lion-feeding show, The Man with Pimples On His Chin tells Beverly and Elliot to jump into the lion pit. During the commotion where nobody would push Beverly and Elliot into the lion pit, The Man with Pimples On His Chin was accidentally slapped by an audience member as he begins to argue with him and his wife where the worsening commotion caused Madame Lulu and the Bald Man with the Big Nose to be accidentally knocked into the lion pit where they are devoured. When the Caligari Carnival was set on fire, The Man with Pimples On His Chin and his mother aren't seen again after that.
In the TV series, his role is filled by an exclusive character named Mr. Willums who is portrayed by David Burtka where the character also speaks the lines that are also said by The Woman With Dyed Hair. He has a wife named Mrs. williams (portrayed by Jill Morrison) and children Skip and Trixie Willums (portrayed by Gideon Burtka-Harris and Harper Burtka-Harris) where they attend the Caligari Carnival. During the "House of Freaks" show, he is the only one who applauds. During the lion-feeding event, Mr. Willums starts to get more excited about the selected freak being fed to the lions. Though he and his son annoy Count Olaf when Mr. Willums asks why he gets to pick which freak gets devoured by lions and his son asking if it is legal. Mr. Willums is among those horrified when Madame Lulu is thrown to the lions. When the Caligari Carnival is burned down, Mr. Willums and his family aren't seen again after that.
The Woman With Dyed Hair[edit]
The Woman With Dyed Hair is a woman whose hair has been dyed.
She is seen in The Carnivorous Carnival as a spectator of the Caligari Carnival where she mocks the freaks.
Fiona[edit]
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Fiona is a very bright mycologist and is the stepdaughter of Captain Widdershins and the sister of Fernald (the Hook-Handed Man). She is also the love interest of Klaus Baudelaire.
Fiona first appears in The Grim Grotto, when Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire enter the Queequeg. Though she is not part of the Queequeg's "Crew of Two", she is the ship's head engineer. Fiona is the first non-Baudelaire that can actually understand some of Sunny's utterances. Later, Fiona goes with the Baudelaires into the Gorgonian Grotto to look for the sugar bowl, but when the four children come back, empty-handed, they find the Queequeg deserted; Captain Widdershins and Phil had been convinced by an unnamed woman to abandon the ship. Count Olaf then captures the submarine with his own, the Carmelita, and takes the Baudelaires and Fiona to the brig to be tortured by the Hook-Handed Man, who turns out to be Fiona's long-lost brother Fernald. The Baudelaires and Fiona persuade Fernald to join them and help them escape. The Baudelaires escape, but Fiona and Fernald are caught and tell Esmé Squalor that they support Count Olaf. At this point, Esmé begins to call Fiona "Triangle-Eyes", due to the triangular shape of her glasses. Later, Fernald persuades Fiona to really be part of Count Olaf's troupe. Fiona, knowing that she is wrong, allows the Baudelaires free access to the Queequeg to escape. But she cannot go with them, out of loyalty to her brother, but before she rejoins Olaf, however, she kisses Klaus.
Fiona did not appear in The Penultimate Peril, but Count Olaf says that she and Fernald stole the Carmelita. In The End, it was revealed that both returned to the Fire-Fighting Side of V.F.D., but they may have been sucked into The Great Unknown.
Castaways[edit]
The Castaways are a group of people that live on an island that Count Olaf tried to christen as Olaf Land. Among the known castaways are:
Ishmael[edit]
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Ishmael appears in The End.
Ishmael is the leader in a small colony of island inhabitants. He uses peer pressure and the sedative of fermented coconut cordial to influence the islanders. While claiming to be unable to walk, he often sneaks off to the island's arboretum writing diary entries and organizing shipwrecked objects. The Baudelaires, when on this island, discover that he used to know their parents and forced them off the island when their mother was pregnant with Violet. When they ask him why he keeps so many secrets from the islanders, he says that he is trying to keep them safe. He is last seen on a boat leaving the island, surrounded by poisoned islanders, although he previously consumed an antidote.
Friday Caliban[edit]
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Friday Caliban is a young island girl who quickly befriends the Baudelaires, giving Sunny a whisk as a gift, and making enemies with Count Olaf by abandoning him. She is the daughter of Thursday and Miranda Caliban. Her mother told her that her father was eaten by a manatee in the storm which shipwrecked her on the island, but the truth is that Miranda and Thursday were separated by the schism and Miranda did not want her daughter to know this. Friday was forced to leave the island on a boat with the other islanders, all of them infected by the Medusoid Mycelium, leaving the Baudelaires behind.
Minor castaways[edit]
The following castaways don't play a big part in the series:
Alonso - Not much is known about Alonso except for the fact that prior to living on the island, he was involved in a dreadful political scandal. He is named after a character in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Ariel - She is named after a character in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Brewster - He is named after Maud Brewster, a character in Jack London's The Sea-Wolf.
Byam - He is named after Roger Byam, a fictional character in the novel Mutiny on the Bounty.
Calypso - She is named after the sea nymph Calypso from Greek mythology.
Dr. Kurtz - He is named after a character in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
Erewhon - A former inhabitant of an island far away from the castaway's island. Erewhon was the one responsible for orchestrating the mutiny on Ishmael. She is named after the utopia in Samuel Butler's book of the same name. It is also an anagram of Nowhere.
Finn - A young girl who assisted Omeros in picking the wild onions. Finn once found a typewriter in one of the shipwrecks. She is named after Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn.
Jonah and Sadie Bellamy - Two siblings who brought the boat containing the Baudelaires in while storm scavenging. They are named after named after the biblical Jonah; a character in The Adventures of Sadie, aka Our Girl Friday, a 1953 film about a shipwrecked girl; and Samuel "Black Sam" Bellamy, an 18th-century pirate who was shipwrecked off Cape Cod. The surname may also refer to Edward Bellamy, author of the utopian novel Looking Backward.
Larsen - He is named after Wolf Larsen, a character in Jack London's The Sea-Wolf.
Madame Nordoff - She is named after Charles Nordhoff, co-author of Mutiny on the Bounty.
Miranda Caliban - The mother of Friday and the husband of Thursday. Miranda covered up the fact to her daughter that her father left the island by stating that he was killed in a manatee accident. Though Miranda stated that it was better that she and Friday remained on the island. She is named after a character in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
Mr. Pitcairn - He is named after the Pitcairn Islands where the Bounty mutineers eventually settled.
Ms. Marlow - She is named after a character in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
Omeros - He is possibly named after the Greek epic poet Homer, whose Iliad and Odyssey deal extensively with sea voyages and shipwrecks; another possibility is the 1990 poem of the same name by Derek Walcott, which is partly a retelling of the Odyssey set in the Caribbean.
Professor Fletcher - He is named after Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian.
Rabbi Bligh - The castaways' residential rabbi. He is named after Bounty captain William Bligh.
Robinson - He is named after the title character in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
Sherman - He is named after General William Tecumseh Sherman, who survived two shipwrecks; or from William Pène du Bois’s The Twenty-One Balloons.
Thursday - The father of Friday Caliban and the husband of Miranda Caliban. He was an islander for a short time before the events of book. Miranda covered up the fact to her daughter that her father left the island by stating that he was killed in a manatee accident.
Weyden - A red-haired woman who first arrived at the island on a raft. She is named after Humphrey Van Weyden, a character in Jack London's The Sea-Wolf.
Willa - She is possibly named after writer Willa Cather who refers to a shipwreck in a notable quotation.
Animals[edit]
There are different animals that appear in this franchise and are listed in order of appearance:
Incredibly Deadly Viper[edit]
The Incredible Deadly Viper (also known as Ink and Inky) is a snake that was discovered by Montgomery Montgomery.
In The Reptile Room, Inky was presented to the Baudelaire children as Montgomery's latest discovery" where it bonded with Sunny. When Count Olaf posed as Stephano and killed Montgomery while framing Inky, the Baudelaire children were able to prove it's innocence and expose Stephano as Count Olaf. After Count Olaf and the Hook-Handed Man got away, Inky was among the reptiles that were packed up by Bruce to be sent to the Herpetology Society.
In The End, Inky arrived on the island with a pregnant Kit Snicket who revealed that Inky lived on the island before being "discovered" by Montgomery. Following Count Olaf and Kit Snicket's deaths, Inky rounded up the type of apples that were mixed with normal apples and horseradishes in order to give them to the departed castaways following their infection of the Medusoid Mycelium.
In the film, Count Olaf as Stephano pinned the blame of Montgomery's death on the Incredibly Deadly Viper to Mr. Poe and the Constable. This plot was foiled when Sunny plays with it causing Count Olaf to secretly get away while shedding his disguise on the way out.
In the TV series, Count Olaf as Stephano pinned the blame of Montgomery's death on the Incredibly Deadly Viper to Mr. Poe with the help of the Person of Indeterminate Gender posing as Nurse Lucafont while the rest of Count Olaf's troupe posed as members of the Sheriff Department. Just like the book, Violet finds the vial containing the Mamba du Mal poison in Stephano's briefcase.
Mamba du Mal[edit]
The Mamba du Mal is a snake in Montgomery Montgomery's collection which is "one of the deadliest snakes in the hemisphere" that kills it's victims by strangling them.
In The Reptile Room, Count Olaf in his alias of Stephano used it's venom to kill Montgomery and frame the Incredibly Dangerous Viper for the death. After Count Olaf was exposed and the Incredibly Deadly Viper was innocent, the Mamba du Mal is among the reptiles that are packed up by Bruce in order to take them to the Herpetology Society.
While the Mamba du Mal does not appear in the film, it's venom was used in the TV series during the final parts of "The Reptile Room" Pt. 1. When Stephano talks about the Mamba du Mal in the second part, it shifts to a snake that might by the Mamba du Mal. Either way, it alongside the other creatures in Montgomery's collection are claimed by the Herpetology Society in light of Montgomery's death.
Lachrymose Leech[edit]
The Lachrymose Leech is a type of leech that lives in the waters of Lake Lachrymose where they have six rows of sharp teeth, a sharp pointed nose, and a smell of food. As they are blind, the Lachrymose Leeches can attack any human who has just eaten something as well as their usual food of small fish and crabs. Anyone traveling on the lake must wait one hour after eating before entering it for any reason.
In The Wide Window, Josephine Anwhistle mentioned that she lost her husband Ike to the Lachrymose Leeches when he waited 45 minutes before going swimming. When the Baudelaire children and Josephine were leaving Curdling Cave by water, the Baudelaires did not know that Josephine ate a banana which started to attract the Lachrymose Leeches. As their boat is attacked by the Lachrymose Leeches, Violet invents a signal light that attracts a passing boat. However, the boat is operated by Count Olaf in the alias of Captain Sham. When Josephine begs for Captain Sham to spare her, he got irritated with Josephine and pushed her into the water where the Lachrymose Leeches are.
In The Beatrice Letters, there was a Lachrymose Leech paperweight that Ike Anwhistle gave Lemony Snicket as a graduation present.
In the film, the Baudelaires were rescued from the Lachrymose Leeches by Count Olaf who left Josephine to her fate.
In the TV series, the Baudelaires were rescued from the Lachrymose Leeches by Captain Sham and the disguised members of Count Olaf's troupe.
V.F.D. Crows[edit]
The V.F.D. Crows are a type of crows that are worshiped by the Village of Fowl Devotees and have the same migratory pattern every day. The #1 rule in the Village of Fowl Devotees is to never harm a crow.
In The Vile Village, Esmé Squalor in the alias of Officer Luciana accidentally harmed a crow when she fired a harpoon gun at the books that the Quagmire children were throwing to the Baudelaire children. This incited the wrath of the villagers causing Count Olaf and Esmé to flee.
Volunteer Feline Detectives[edit]
The Volunteer Feline Detectives are a group of lions that lived in the caves of the Mortmain Mountains. They were trained by the V.F.D. to smell out smoke. At some point following the Schism, the fire-starting side of the V.F.D. gained possession of the lions. On a related note, one of Gustav Sebald's movies was called Lions in the Mountains which references these lions and their habitat in the Mortmain Mountains.
In The Carnivorous Carnival, Count Olaf whipped and abused them enough for them to have scars where the Baudelaire children noticed that as they can see the ribs of one of them due to them being lethargic and malnourished. When Count Olaf put on a show at the Caligari Carnival, he held an event where one of it's freaks would be fed to the lions. During the crowd chaos, Olivia Caliban and the Bald Man with the Big Nose were knocked into the lion pit and devoured by the lions. When the Caligari Carnival is burned by Count Olaf, the lions perished in the fire as Count Olaf neglected to get them out of the pit. Lemony Snicket stated that the lions' bodies were blackened when he found them. It wasn't mentioned what happened to the remaining lions in the Volunteer Feline Detectives.
In the TV series, a group of starving lions lurk in the haunts near the Caligari Carnival. Two of the lions were captured by Count Olaf for his lion-feeding event. Just like the book, the lions perished in the Caligari Carnival's fire.
Snow Gnats[edit]
The Snow Gnats are small flying insects that inhabit the Mortmain Mountains. Similar to red ants, they enjoy stinging people for no reason. There are two ways to prevent Snow Gnats from stinging people. One is to create smoke by starting a fire since Snow Gnats hate smoke. Another way is to cover the entire body so that they won't attack.
In The Slippery Slope, the Snow Gnats are first seen attacking Violet and Klaus. They managed to find shelter in a cave where Bruce, Carmelita Spats, and the Snow Scouts are taking refuge in.
V.F.D. Eagles[edit]
The V.F.D. Eagles are a type of eagle that are used by the fire-starting side of the V.F.D. They bend to their whim upon hearing their whistles.
In The Slippery Slope, the V.F.D. Eagles are summoned by Count Olaf to carry off Bruce and the Snow Scouts.
In The End, it was mentioned that the V.F.D. Eagles have attacked Hector's self-sustaining hot-air mobile home causing it to crash into the Queequeg. This was foreshadowed by Kit Snicket in The Penultimate Peril where Quigley Quagmire used a homemade net to save his fellow siblings.
See also[edit]
Lemony Snicket portal
References[edit]
Jump up ^ LS to BB #5, Dewey is killed in book 13 The End. When Violet accidentally drops a harpoon gun causing Dewey to be shot. The Beatrice Letters
Jump up ^ The Bad Beginning: Rare Edition
Jump up ^ Snicket, Lemony (2006). The End. A Series of Unfortunate Events. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-441016-1.
Jump up ^ Snicket, Lemony (2006). The Beatrice Letters. A Series of Unfortunate Events. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-058658-3.
Jump up ^ The Unauthorized Autobiography, p. 79
^ Jump up to: a b c d UPI (June 14, 2017). "Nathan Fillion, Tony Hale Book Roles on 'A Series of Unfortunate Events'". TV Insider. Retrieved June 14, 2017.
Jump up ^ Behind the Scenes of "A Series of Unfortunate Events"
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h https://screenrant.com/series-unfortunate-events-season-2-cast-characters/
Jump up ^ A Series of Unfortunate Events [@unfortunate] (February 23, 2018). "A most unfortunate update: @robbieamell joins Season 2 of #ASOUE. Our repeated letters instructing him to run swiftly in the opposite direction must have failed to arrive". Retrieved February 24, 2018 – via Instagram.
^ Jump up to: a b c Melody Joy Kramer (October 12, 2006). "A Series Of Unfortunate Literary Allusions". NPR. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
Jump up ^ McLaughlin, Maureen; Overturf, Brenda (November 7, 2012). The Common Core: Teaching K-5 Students to Meet the Reading Standards. International Reading Assoc. p. 92. ISBN 0872078159. clearly a reference to the Roman Emperor Nero, who allegedly fiddled while Rome burned
Jump up ^ https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/a-series-of-unfortunate-events-season-2-review-release-watch-netflix-date-cast-count-olaf-a8274776.html#gallery
Jump up ^ A Series of Unfortunate Events [@unfortunate] (February 23, 2018). "The sad truth is the truth is sad. @davidalangrier joins Season 2, adding to the ranks of people who did not heed our sound advice to avoid this grim tale at all costs". Retrieved February 24, 2018 – via Instagram.
Jump up ^ p. 163 of The Carnivorous Carnival calls Madame Lulu "the fake name of the woman".
Jump up ^ French, Emma (April 27, 2017). "Best librarian characters in fantasy fiction". OUPblog. Oxford University Press. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
Jump up ^ Snicket, Lemony. "Lemony Snicket: The Unauthroized Autobiography". HarperCollins, 2002, p. 140-141.
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