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* [[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.
* [[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.
** 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.
* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: The [[Adults Are Useless]] mentality of pretty much everyone the kids meet probably made most of them [[Too Dumb to Live]] when they refuse to believe the building they're in is on fire. YMMV on whether the (potentially lethal) negligence displayed by characters who were otherwise good people made this [[Laser-Guided Karma]].
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: The [[Adults Are Useless]] mentality of pretty much everyone the kids meet probably made most of them [[Too Dumb to Live]] when they refuse to believe the building they're in is on fire. YMMV on whether the (potentially lethal) negligence displayed by characters who were otherwise good people made this [[Laser-Guided Karma]].
* [[Ho Yay]]: Sir and [[Dogged Nice Guy|Charles]] (see [[Word of Gay]])
* [[Ho Yay]]: Sir and [[Dogged Nice Guy|Charles]] (see [[Word of Gay]])
* [[Iron Woobie]]: The Baudelaire children, in spades.
* [[Iron Woobie]]: The Baudelaire children, in spades.
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* [[No Yay]]: Violet and Count Olaf.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[Periphery Demographic]]: Like ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]],'' it's one of those books you'll often see teens and adults picking up for themselves, possibly not allowing their own children to read them until they are mature enough that it won't give them nightmares.
* [[Periphery Demographic]]: Like ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]],'' it's one of those books you'll often see teens and adults picking up for themselves, possibly not allowing their own children to read them until they are mature enough that it won't give them nightmares.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: Spoken by Sunny, in book thirteen: {{spoiler|"If we fail, at least we die reading together."}}
* [[Tear Jerker]]: Spoken by Sunny, in book thirteen: {{spoiler|"If we fail, at least we die reading together."}}
* [[Tethercat Principle]]
* [[Tethercat Principle]]
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** Of course, in this case 'less threatening' does not necessarily translate into 'less ''dangerous'''
** Of course, in this case 'less threatening' does not necessarily translate into 'less ''dangerous'''
** It's not so much ''decay'' as the fact that you realize that he is ''not even [[The Dragon]]'' to an incomprehensibly vast [[Ancient Conspiracy]] that is never fully explained but nonetheless pervades the last 4 books. Olaf's a [[Mook Lieutenant]] at best and just a flat-out ''[[Mook]]'' at worst–even the very definitely evil woman with hair but no beard and man with beard but no hair appear to be taking their orders from someone else. [[Paranoia Fuel|And that person could be taking orders from someone else, and so on...]]
** It's not so much ''decay'' as the fact that you realize that he is ''not even [[The Dragon]]'' to an incomprehensibly vast [[Ancient Conspiracy]] that is never fully explained but nonetheless pervades the last 4 books. Olaf's a [[Mook Lieutenant]] at best and just a flat-out ''[[Mook]]'' at worst–even the very definitely evil woman with hair but no beard and man with beard but no hair appear to be taking their orders from someone else. [[Paranoia Fuel|And that person could be taking orders from someone else, and so on...]]
* [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]]: You think ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]'' had a lot of death and misery? Psh!
* [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?]]: You think ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' had a lot of death and misery? Psh!


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