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* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Is Count Olaf's marriage ploy just to get Violet's money? Or does he actually hold a long-standing, near-incestuous, [[Squick|ephebophilic]]) lust for her? (Of course, in [[Fanfic]], [[Brother-Sister Incest|everyone is incestuous]]).

* [[Broken Base]]: There have been many fan debates about the quality of [[The Film of the Book]], not to mention the [[No Ending|open-ended conclusion]] of the books.

* [[Canon Fodder]]: While the series was going on, it was assumed that all the loose ends and questions would eventually be resolved or answered, leading to huge amounts of speculation. Most of it was never referred to again.

* [[Cargo Ship]]: In ''The End'', Olaf embraces his weapons -- a harpoon gun and a container of poisonous mushrooms -- as if they're the only things he loves.

* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]: The freaks in the ninth book, although some people found it [[Dude, Not Funny]].

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]

* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: "Mr. Poe meant well, but a jar of mustard probably also means well and would do a better job of keeping the Baudelaires out of danger."

** For some reason, this troper laughed for about ten minutes when Mr. Poe shouted "Come back here, you unpleasant person!" at a fleeing Count Olaf in book four or so.

** "The bears bear hard hard yarn yarns."

*** That monologue made it impossible for this troper to hear the phrase "more than I can bear" with a straight face ever again.

* [[Growing the Beard]]: The whole [[Mind Screw]] started and was hinted from the third book onwards, but it's after The Austere Academy when things really [[Paranoia Fuel|took off]]. That's because when he was writing the fifth book Handler had finally had his contract signed for 13 instalments and could plan ahead the plot.

** You could say that ''The Miserable Mill'' also grew the beard since it revealed there was a connection between Lemony and the life of Count Olaf. Monty's death in ''The Reptile Room'' was also a key emotional step.

* [[Ho Yay]]: Sir and [[Dogged Nice Guy|Charles]] (see [[Word of Gay]])

* [[Iron Woobie]]: The Baudelaire children, in spades.

* [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks]]: The fear among some sections of the fandom that an influx of n00bish fans of [[The Film of the Book]] would ruin everything.

* [[Misaimed Fandom]]

* [[No Yay]]: Violet and Count Olaf.

* [[Paranoia Fuel]]: Beneath the surface of society is a violent feud going back decades between two factions of a child-stealing conspiracy, many members of which lead elaborate double lives as respectable members of the community while in secret they have few compunctions about arson or murder; your parents, teachers and especially librarians are probably in on it, and so are waiters and hotel managers, while taxi drivers are just waiting to whisk you away to a new life.

* ''[[The End]]'': The title of the last book, but the story itself deeply [[Subverted Trope|subverts]] the notion of endings.

** Specifically, it does this by pointedly refusing to answer any of the questions or resolve any of the plot threads that built up over the course of the series, and while resolving the story after a fashion, consciously skirting any feeling of satisfaction or closure. Fair warning.

* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: Frequently indistinguishable from [[Aborted Arc]] and [[Red Herring Twist]].

* [[Villain Decay]]: Count Olaf got less and less threatening as the books went on, although to some degree other villains picked up the slack.

* [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]]: You think ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' had a lot of death and misery? Psh!