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{{quote|''[[Snicket Warning Label|PLEASE READ SOMETHING ELSE.]]''|Lemony Snicket }}
'''''A Series of Unfortunate Events''''' is a series of [[Black Comedy|darkly humorous]] children's books by Daniel Handler, under the nom de plume Lemony Snicket.
After their parents die in a fire at the family mansion, Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire are left in the care of Count Olaf, a sinister distant relative who wants his hands on the Baudelaire family fortune, which Violet will inherit when she turns 18.
Throughout the first few books in the series, the children are sent from one caretaker to another, each one more eccentric and troubled than the last. Count Olaf is following them in a series of [[Paper-Thin Disguise|Paper Thin Disguises]] that [[Adults Are Useless|only the children immediately see through]]. Eventually, the children must strike out on their own to discover their family's dark secret - their parents' connection to a mysterious organization. And all the while, bizarre and improbable disasters strike the children and everyone around them for no discernible reason.
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[[Lemony Narrator|Lemony]] Snicket [[Narrator|narrates]] throughout, providing commentary, anecdotes, and advice - usually against reading any more of his history of the Baudelaire orphans.
For a guide to the copious amounts of literary/historical allusions present in the books, see [https://web.archive.org/web/20061231041332/http://www.quidditch.com/lemony%20snicket.htm here]
== ''A Series of Unfortunate Events'': ==
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* Book the Eleventh: ''The Grim Grotto''
* Book the Twelfth: ''The Penultimate Peril''
* Book the Thirteenth: ''The End''
== Supplementary materials: ==
* (''The Bad Beginning Rare Edition'')
* ''[[
* (''The Puzzling Puzzles'')
* ''The Beatrice Letters''
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* [[Lemony Narrator]]
* [[Snicket Warning Label]]
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Not parents, strictly speaking, but many guardians are thoroughly unsuitable. Count Olaf worst of all.
* [[Adaptational Attractiveness]]: While their appearance outside of illustrations are never really detailed in the books, the movie makes them appear much more "pretty", making Klaus look much older than he probably should, and making him no longer need glasses, which would be a vital plot point in the fourth book.
** Aside for Violet who has been repeatedly noted as being pretty in the books.
* [[
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: By the eighth book, the three principles (by now ages fifteen, thirteen, and not-quite-two) take care of themselves, because just about every adult they've met is stupid, evil, cowardly, or some combination thereof. On rare occasions they encounter a decent, intelligent, competent adult -- who promptly winds up dead.
* [[Adventure Towns]]: Each book is in a different town (or island or mountain or ...). Except the first, sixth, and twelfth, which are set in the same [[City with No Name|nameless city]].
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Handler started off trying to write the sort of gothic, bloodthirsty children's stories he wanted to read when he was a child, and most of the books take off one genre or another, occasionally straying into [[Deconstruction]] territory)
{{quote|'''Handler (At a Book Reading at Washington College):''' "Is it so wrong that I wanted to read books where terrible things happened to small children over and over?"}}
* [[Alliterative Name]]: The [[Odd Name Out]] in both sets of triplets: Quigley Quagmire and Dewey Denouement. {{spoiler|Beatrice and Bertrand Baudelaire. Actually, both Beatrice Baudelaires.}} The titles of the first twelve books are alliterative, as well as many, many locations mentioned throughout the books (Lousy Lane, Lake Lachrymose, Finite Forest, Heimlich Hospital, etc.).
* [[All There in the Manual]]: ''[[Lemony Snicket:
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Carmelita Spats.{{context}}
* [[Alter Ego Acting]]: Daniel Handler and Lemony Snicket -- separate characters in the books themselves.
* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: There actually is [http://www.libraryhotel.com/ a hotel in New York City] organized by the Dewey Decimal System.
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* [[Arc Number]]: 13. It makes sense, since...well, look at the title.
** Every book even has thirteen chapters. {{spoiler|Averted in the final installment, however, thanks to the additional "Chapter Fourteen" which is treated as a seperate book despite consisting of a single chapter. This also causes the series ''as a whole'' to avert the arc number; until then, it would have had 169 (13 times 13) chapters, but it now has one chapter more than that.}}
* [[Arc Words|Arc Initials]]: V.F.D., and later J.S.
** There are also some actual [[Arc Words]], especially in the later books and in the "supplementary materials." For example, "The world is quiet here."
* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: ''Count'' Olaf, anyone?
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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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* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: The ending of the movie, that closes the story in an ambiguous but optimistic way:{{spoiler|"...the Baudelaires were very fortunate indeed."}}
* [[Bizarrchitecture]]: Doctor Orwell's eye-shaped building, the "thumb" shaped buildings at Prufrock Prep and to a certain extent, the Eye decor of Olaf's house.
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: Especially from Book the Eighth and on.
* [[Boarding School of Horrors]]: Prufrock Preparatory School in Book the Fifth.
* [[Body Motifs]]: The eye that first appears in Count Olaf's ankle tattoo, and later in many other places.
* [[Bookworm]]: Klaus, the Researcher.
* [[Boring but Practical]]: One chapter taught kids a useful trick when eating foods you don't like to spread the food around on the plate so as to make it appear like there's less left.
** Also the trick the kids use in the elevator that their dad taught them, where they press every single button in order to cause a large delay.
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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.
* [[
* [[Crapsack World]]: Invoked.
* [[Curse of the Ancients]]: "Blasted furnaces of Hell!"
* [[Cut Short]]: Or more precisely, [[No Ending]].
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* [[Glove Snap]]: Jim Carrey's Count Olaf does this in his herpetologist disguise.
* [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress]]: [[Discussed Trope|Plays out in dialogue]] -- and thus ends up [[Averted Trope|averted]] -- in Book the Twelfth: "I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies."
* [[Half-Identical Twins]]: The Quagmire triplets are "absolutely identical," so how the Baudelaires tell whether they're talking to male Duncan or female Isadora is a mystery -- although Isadora is illustrated with subtly longer hair. But at least the two brothers Duncan and Quigley never share a scene. Jacques and Kit are an [[Averted Trope|aversion]], as the book does not mention any similarity. At all. If anything, there's more similarity between Jacques and Olaf.
* [[Hanlon's Razor]]: The line between willful villainy and pure incompetence is rather thin, especially since some incompetent and stupid characters become pawns in what seems like a massive [[Gambit Roulette]].
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Or rather, Hannibal Gloat, in the movie. Olaf reveals to the audience that he has just legally married Violet and played everyone for a sap. When Mr. Poe demands that the Chief of Police arrest him, Olaf calls Poe and everyone out on how the kids had repeatedly tried to warn the adults and asked for help, but they wouldn't listen to them. "No one ever listens to children".
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* [[Hitler Ate Sugar]]: Played with, a few times. (Only a villainous person places his cup on the table without using a coaster or enjoys the works of Edgar Guest.)
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Count Olaf dies of a wound he sustained from having his own harpoon gun fired at him by Ishmael.}}
** 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]].
* [[Hostage for McGuffin]]: A [[Subverted Trope]]: in Book the Tenth, where for once it's proposed by the heroes, neither they nor the villain are capable of carrying out their side of the bargain.
* [[How Do You Like Them Apples?]]: ''The End''.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: When Captain Sham (Count Olaf) says, "There ain't nothin' better than good grammar!"
* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Alliterated "The <adjective> <noun>", e.g., ''The Miserable Mill'', ''The Wide Window'', for nearly all the books.
* [[The Illuminati]]: Hinted at with Fiona Widdershins, who seems to prefer triangular eyeglasses.
* [[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It]]: [[The Film of the Book]] is titled ''Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events'', perhaps to emphasize the [[Lemony Narrator]].
* [[Incest Subtext]]: Violet and Klaus, [[Sarcasm Mode|obviously]]. The [[Film of the Book]] actually ''does'' sport a bit of chemistry though.
** [[Just for Fun]], try watching the movie with the sound off. Pay attention to [[Held Gaze|the looks]] the siblings give [[Brother-Sister Incest|each other]] throughout the film. Try not to think differently [[Alternate Character Interpretation|about the characters]] after ''that''.
* [[Incurable Cough of Death]]: Subverted. Mr. Poe's cough is his defining character quirk (other than being woefully incompetent), and serves only to show what a weak and annoying person he is rather than mark him for death.
** Not to mention the connection to his name and [[Easter Egg|Edgar Allen Poe's association with tuberculosis]]
** However, {{spoiler|with the fire in the second to last book and the vague status on the minor characters, he may have died.}}
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* [[Just a Stupid Accent]]: Characters trying to be "foreign" use broken English with clumsy syntax (like "I am loving of the children") and frequent interjections of "Please", and apparently everyone falls for it.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] and [[Justified Trope|justified]]
* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: When Count Olaf violently pushes Carmelita Spats to the ground.
* [[Kill All Humans]]: While not particularly harmful, the insects called snow gnats sting humans just for the fun of it.
* {{spoiler|[[Kill'Em All]]}}: Maybe.
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* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: See [[Hoist by His Own Petard]] above.
* [[Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone]]: Snicket does this to the readers in ''The Slippery Slope.''
* [[Lemony Narrator]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition]]: Numerous rereleases of The Bad Beginning, including one priced higher than the thirteen-book box set. Also, the box sets, which have exclusive artwork. The new paperbacks are aversions because they're much better for about half the price.
* [[Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard]]
* [[The Long List]]: The Snow Scouts Alphabet Pledge in the tenth book, along with lists of food, disguise items, and books seen elsewhere. Also, the long list of rules they had to follow at the Village of Fowl Devotees.
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* [[Lost Aesop]]: Parodied. The series starts off meandering fairly aimlessly through satires of various unfortunate literary settings, with Book the Third [[Lampshade Hanging]] its lack of a meaningful [[An Aesop|Aesop]], but the later books begin to diverge wildly with mixed messages about what is justifiable in conflict; Book the Tenth resolves this, then Book the Twelfth forgets it was resolved, and Book the Thirteenth (and Last) concerns the impossibility of finding answers to the big questions in life, while ignoring most of the big questions in the series.
* [[Lovable Coward]]: Lemony Snicket himself. In nearly every book, while narrating some terrifying situation, he comments that, had he been in the Beaudelaire's place, he would have been unable to go on and would have instead run away in terror, dissolved into helpless tears, etc.
* [[MacGuffin]]: The sugar bowl. The Baudelaire fortune. Also, a [[Discussed Trope]], as the word "[[MacGuffin]]" is spoken in the final book.
* [[MacGyvering]]: Violet does this at least [[Once Per Episode|once per book]].
** And Klaus gets his turn in ''The Miserable Mill''.
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* [[Masquerade]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]: ''Most'' character and place names are literary or historical allusions, some of them clearly relevant (such Dr. Orwell the hypnotist and Dewey the librarian), others more like a secular version of [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]].
* [[Milkman Conspiracy]]: this series isn't keen on giving clear answers, but VFD seems to be nothing more than {{spoiler|the Volunteer Fire Department.}}
* [[Mind Screw]]: The eleventh and thirteen books featured an {{spoiler|incarnation of Mystery and Death, shaped like an ''enormous question mark'', that stalked the seas, its motives unfathomable}}; the existence and activities of V.F.D. get very close to this in the twelfth book, too.
** Hell, re-reading the entire series, along with all the [[Red Herring|Red Herrings,]] [[Red Herring Twist|twists on such]], [[Paranoia Fuel]], and the fact that ''every single thing in the series could be a clue toward an ending'' (or not) Can turn even the [[Viewers Are Geniuses|smartest and most critical thinking readers]] on their heads in absolute confusion.
* [[Mister Seahorse]]: Sent up in ''The End'', where Count Olaf tries to disguise himself as a pregnant woman. The [[Lemony Narrator]] states that "pregnancy occurs very rarely in males," noting actual seahorses as an exception.
* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate]]: [[Meaningful Name|Doctor Orwell.]]
* [[Mysterious Past]]: Nearly every character has a mysterious past, and none are ever fully revealed. For example, Emse reveals that Beatrice stole the sugar bowl, but Lemony later states that he was involved too. Just ''HOW'' he was involved, we do not know.
* [[Named After Somebody Famous]]: Tons and tons of characters. A few examples: the main characters are named [[wikipedia:Charles Baudelaire|Baudelaire]]; their banker is named [[wikipedia:Edgar Allan Poe|Poe]]. See also [[Odd Name Out]], below.
* [[Necromantic]]: In Book the Eighth, Lemony wishes.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Notable for averting this trope, and hard.
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: An official website that revealed the only details about the highly secretive twelfth book made numerous updates implying an elevator-centric plotline which never actually materialised, going so far as to reveal a chapter picture which actually referred to a single inconsequential offhand sentence; Snicket's [["On the Next..."]] mislead by giving away random details as though they were equally important, and later obscure themselves to become even more incomprehensible; one promised a prop in the following book that never actually appeared.
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** The main series consists of thirteen books, each with thirteen chapters. {{spoiler|The thirteenth book has a "hidden" fourteenth chapter which serves as an epilogue, bringing the main series total to one hundred seventy chapters rather than one hundred sixty-nine.}}
* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: An [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] of movie!Olaf. He's portrayed as very goofy and melodramatic by Jim Carrey (surprise, surprise), but he's still able to come up cunning plans to steal the Baudelaire fortune.
* [[Odd Name Out]]:
** [[wikipedia:Sunny von Bulow|Sunny]], [[wikipedia:Claus von Bulow|Klaus]], and Violet Baudelaire
*** Violet was actually the name of Claus von Bulow's lawyer.
** [[wikipedia:Isadora Duncan|Isadora, Duncan]], and Quigley Quagmire
** [[wikipedia:Frank and Ernest (comic strip)|Frank, Ernest]], and Dewey Denouement.
** While the names of the first 12 books are alliterative, the last book is simply called "The End."
* [[Oh, and X Dies]]: In ''The Reptile Room''
* [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness]]: V.F.D.
* [[Onion Tears]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] in ''[[The End]]''.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Frequently the Baudelaires are this, as are other well-read volunteers. During an interview, Liam Aiken (who played Klaus in ''[[The Movie of the Book]]'') himself described the siblings as "the only sane people."
* [["On the Next..."]]: Lemony's letters to his Kind Editor, which include the title of the next book and a few random details from it. As the series goes on, these letters become increasingly obscured, such as by tearing and water-stains, and so the information is increasingly elusive. In the case of the eleventh book, only half the title was known; the twelfth book's title was completely lost; the letter about the thirteenth book was just a single sentence written on a napkin -- with the title included, but nobody realized at the time as it deviated from the usual [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming|title pattern]].
* [[Painting the Medium]]: In ''The Ersatz Elevator'', the three children are {{spoiler|thrown down an elevator shaft}}, and rather than try to describe it, Lemony just prints two pages solid black.
* [[Paper-Thin Disguise]]: Count Olaf, over and over again.
** In the eighth, ninth, and twelfth books, the Baudelaires get disguises of their own. Their disguises in the eighth book are particularly ridiculous: thirteen year old Klaus and baby Sunny just don face masks and ill-fitting doctor uniforms and are mistaken as the pale-faced women, ''by the women's own cohorts''! In the ninth book, their disguises are a bit less paper thin, but Count Olaf still probably should have recognized them since he's been following them so long (though he does mention that they look familiar).
** Subverted with Olaf's henchmen. When one of them is in disguise, the Baudelaires "meet" them before Olaf, and never recognize them.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Happens to at least eleven characters.
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Dr. Montgomery is a good substitute. In ''The Penultimate Peril'', volunteers Kit Snicket and {{spoiler|Dewey Denouement}} answer ''some'' of the Baudelaires' questions and the latter offers to become their guardian. {{spoiler|All three of them die, of course.}}
* [[Perky Goth]]: Violet's character design changes from a rather innocent 50's girl style, to a lolita-style goth.
* [[Persona Non Grata]]: Snicket mentions that he is banned from a certain town, not so far from where ''[[Infallible Narrator|you]]'' live.
* [[Plot Based Photograph Obfuscation]]: Lemony Snicket never shows his face in photographs, but there are several possible explanations for why this is, and most such photographs are only seen by the audience in his author bio rather than by the characters. The nearest thing we get to an actual image of him is the elusive taxi driver, which is rumoured, and hinted in the series, to actually be him.
* [[Plot Tailored to the Party]]: In every book the children are in situations that require inventing skills, research skills, and sharp teeth (or cooking, from the 10th book on); also true to some degree of the Quagmire triplets, although Duncan's journalism interest is rarely useful.
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: In ''The Reptile Room''
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* [[Scenery Gorn]]: The ruins of the Baudelaire mansion, and Olaf's house in [[The Film of the Book]].
* [[Scenery Porn]]: All other scenery in the above.
* [[Scrapbook Story]]: ''[[Lemony Snicket:
* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: {{spoiler|The white-faced women}} fall victim to this in Book the Tenth. Apparently, so do {{spoiler|Fernald and Fiona}} in Book the Twelfth (albeit off-screen).
* [[Self-Induced Allergic Reaction]]: The Baudelaire siblings eat peppermints so they have an excuse to escape from dinner and decode a secret message.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: Often seen in books which Klaus has to read because only he can make sense of them.
* [[Shaming the Mob]]: Done by ''Olaf'' of all people to the audience of the play in the film.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Numerous allusions to literature, history, and mythology, among other things; many are listed [https://web.archive.org/web/20061231041332/http://www.quidditch.com/lemony%20snicket.htm here].
** Why will no-one call me Ish?
* [[Show Within a Show]]: The theme song from ''The Littlest Elf'' is heard on two characters' car stereos, and Olaf has a bobblehead of the character in his car, implying it's a film within the world of the story. This ties in perfectly with the conceit that Snicket's intended audience is also part of that world, when he recommends ditching out and seeing that movie instead.
* [[Shrug of God]]: The fans can't get anything out of Daniel Handler.
* [[Significant Anagram]]: Count Olaf's henchmen use anagrams of "Count Olaf" as pseudonyms. In the eighth book, Violet is given an anagrammed name on a hospital patient list One of the anagrams in the list, when unravelled, reads "Beatrice Baudelaire". Whether this was done deliberately, to state that she IS actually alive {{spoiler|at least until the hospital burned down}}, or not, is unknown. It may just be a red herring.
* [[Signature Style]]: And how.
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* [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]]: For the most part, very silly.
* [[Social Services Does Not Exist]]
* [[Something They Would Never Say]]
* [[Snicket Warning Label]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Spoof Aesop]]: Snicket's narration is peppered with comments like "The moral of [[World War I]] is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand'"; the [[Spin-Off]] ''Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid'' compiles a lot of these, some from the main series and some entirely new.
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* [[Theme Initials]]: V.F.D.
* [[Theme Naming]]: The teachers at Prufrock Preparatory School are named after fish, and later we discover some families of siblings with alphabetically sequential names.
* [[Themed Aliases]]: Count Olaf and his henchman often use aliases that are anagrams of Count Olaf, such as Al Funcoot or O. Lucafont. The Baudelaires finally pick up on this in the eighth book.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: So many children are orphaned in this series, but instead of counseling they get sent to abusive foster homes -- or worse.
* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: Thirteen books in the series. Each book {{spoiler|except the thirteenth}} has thirteen chapters. The series has other examples as well.
* [[Throw It In]]: In [[The Film of the Book]], "Let me try that again, quickly, while it's fresh in my mind." The dialog was supposed to end after Klaus says "Our parents just died", but Carrey felt he didn't get the reaction right. Silberman just kept the cameras rolling and Carrey ad-libbed from there.
* [[Totem Pole Trench]]: An interesting variant: Violet and Klaus put on the same oversized outfit to disguise themselves as a two-headed person.
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* [[Two-Teacher School]]: Prufrock Prep has three teachers, a Vice Principal, and no other visible staff, excepting the lunch ladies who are Olaf's white-faced women who wear masks.
* [[Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness]]: Olaf's poor hygiene and dirty house, played up even more in [[The Movie]]-- there are not only roaches and rats in the kitchen, but bats living in the cupboards.
* [[The Unintelligible]]: Sunny (whose speech is a mixture of [[Speaking Simlish|gibberish]], semi-relevant words and phrases (some of them [[Shout-Out|literary or cultural allusions]]), and sentence fragments), though her older siblings can understand her.
* [[The Unpronounceable]]: Sir's real name -- which is why he makes people call him Sir.
* [[The Un-Reveal]]: When Sir is in a sauna, he puts down the cigar whose smoke usually covers his face, but he is covered up again by the steam.
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* [[Verbal Tic]] ([[Fauxreigner|Fauxreigners]] "Gunther" and "Madame Lulu" say "please" in almost every sentence.
* [[Viewers are Morons]]: In a parody of the way children's books try to be educational, Lemony constantly defines words such as alcove, brummagem, cower, denouement, ersatz etc. Ironically many viewers didn't realize this is supposed to be a joke, even though he uses the most bizarre and snarky definitions, and much of the humor comes from assuming the reader ''[[Viewers Are Geniuses|already knows]]'' the standard definition of the word.
* [[Villain Exit Stage Left]]
* [[The Walrus Was Paul]]: Let's face it, the entire series was a deliberate [[Mind Screw]].
* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Sort of. The children are more like weirdness iron filings, drawn to bizarre people and places. On the other hand, that might just be because there aren't any normal people in Snicketland.
* [[We Sell Everything]]: Last Chance General Store.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Phil. Arguably a lot of minor characters who weren't brought back, in the last couple of books when many one-shot characters returned).
** In the first book an assistant of Olaf's is mentioned who has warts all over his face. We never hear of him again.
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] {{spoiler|Chapter Fourteen}}; arguably a [[Subverted Trope]] because they haven't gone anywhere, although their views have moved on. ''The Beatrice Letters'' form part of an epilogue themselves. Even though the scrambled letters reveal that {{spoiler|" BEATRICE SANK"}}, the Baudelaires {{spoiler|are apparently living out their lives doing what they love. Beatrice (that's the Beatrice born in Book 13) is currently trying to find Lemony Snicket, presumebly to ask him [[Mind Screw|what the hell is happening.]] }}
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