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** ''The Hostile Hospital'' the Baudelaires are accused of being "murderers, arsonists, and spurious doctors.".
** The back covers list five or more of the "unfortunate events" found within, generally 2 or 3 serious ones and then something quite harmless -- or at least that sounds that way.
* [[Attractive Bent Gender]]: Plausibly a parody, as the person who finds the [[
* [[Author Appeal]]: Approximated in-universe by Carmelita Spats's ridiculous "tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian" and "ballplaying cowboy superhero soldier pirate" outfits.
* [[Author Catchphrase]]: "A word/phrase which here means..."
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* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Closer to this than [[Corrupt Hick]] is Sir, the amoral, cigar-smoking lumbermill owner who pays his workers in coupons and gives them gum for lunch; in a later appearance, business is bad, as nearby lumber source the Finite Forest is running out of trees.
* [[Covers Always Lie]]: The twelfth book features several sinister-looking figures whom fans thought would be important -- or even specific characters from previous books -- but no corresponding characters appear in the text. Inverted by the British edition of the sixth book, on which the cover gives away the main plot twist.
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* [[Crapsack World]]: Invoked.
* [[Curse of the Ancients]]: "Blasted furnaces of Hell!"
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