History Characters / ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents

** In the final book, [[spoiler:the Baudelaires confront Olaf over their suspicions of him burning downing their mansion. His initial response is "Is that what you think?" followed by "You know nothing."]]

* TheBeautifulPeople

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* TheWoobie: Not even counting the things about his past that are revealed outside of the thirteen books, Lemony has been dumped by his fiancee because she read an unreliable newspaper that claimed he was a villain, he went on the run and STILL is, his beloved married someone else, she then died in a horrible fire, Lemony's brother Jacques and sister Kit have both died, and he continues to become entangled in terrible situations as he relentlessly tries to gather information about the children of the woman he loves so that the world will know about the treachery that follows them. This guy's life sucks.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The reason White faced Women HeelFaceTurn.
* HeelFaceTurn: The White faced Women thank to Sunny.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The bald man with the long nose and the amibigously-gendered man.]]

* KilledoffForReal: [[spoiler: The bald man with the long nose and the amibigously-gendered man.]]

* [=~Everything's Better With Princesses~=]: Her [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot "tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian"]] costume from the eleventh book.

* [[spoiler:WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Maybe. It's implied that Beatrice and/or Bertrand Baudelaire killed his parents with poison darts during a performance of ''La Forza del Destino.'']]

* HoYay: Sir and Charles - HeterosexualLifePartners until the author started [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean dropping hints]].

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Hugo, Colette, and Kevin, the "freaks," are a hunchback, contortionist, and ''ambidextrous'', respectively. {{Subverted|Trope}} by the fact that most people do indeed think they're disgusting freaks.

* TheLibby

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** To elaborate, in one of Snicket's rambling letters in The Beatrice Letters, there is this gem of a line (paraphrasing since I don't have the book with me): "I will love you until C realizes that S is unworthy of his love." The whole letter is about VFD members, and he uses their initials as their codenames, and Charles is very much Sir's DoggedNiceGuy.

!!Esme Squalor

* EvenEvilHasStandard: The reason White faced Women HeelFaceTurn.

* InsistantTerminology: They're triplets, not twins.

* TheCruella

* CompleteMonster: Let's see - abusing children (both mentally and physically), blackmailing, murders and attempted murders of numerous people (if we count in those who [[PyroManiac he burned to death]]), multiple hoaxes and kidnapping of at least three people, while one of them being about 2-years old toddler. And who knows what else he got up to before the books.

'''The Baudelaires'''

* BadassAdorable: All three. Especially Sunny who's badass even though she's a baby.

* {{Buttmonkey}}s

* ProperlyParanoid: They aren't just seeing things - Count Olaf IS always there.
* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Men]]

'''Violet Baudelaire'''

'''Klaus Baudelaire'''

The middle Baudlaire and only boy, Klaus is extremely bookish and prone to using big words. The vast amount of things he's learned from his reading, as well as his research skills come in handy.

* SiblingRivalry / MiddleChildSyndrome: Klaus originally resented Sunny when she was born, but got over it quickly when he got to know her.

'''Sunny Baudelaire'''

'''Count Olaf'''

* {{Abusive Parent|s}} to the Baudelaires...an abusive foster parent, anyway.
* [[spoiler: AlasPoorVillain: Hhis death.]]

* CompleteMonster: Let's see: Abusing children (both mentally and physically), blackmailing, murders and attempted murders of numerous people (if we count in those who [[PyroManiac he burned to death]]), multiple hoaxes and kidnapping of at least three people, while one of them being about 2-years old toddler. And who knows what else he got up to before the books.

* DirtyOldMan: He hints he plans to consummate his marriage with Violet.

* HiddenDepths: Olaf has a MysteriousPast and is apparently an orphan himself. He also apparently [[spoiler: had some sort of relationship with Kit Snicket]].
* HighClassGlass: Gunther.

* PetTheDog: [[spoiler: He has a moment with Kit just before his death that qualifies]]
* PyroManiac: It's clear that he has at least burned a hospital, a carnival and a hotel to ground and it's suggested that he also burned Baudelaire's mansion, but Snicket never confirmed the fact.
* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: Olaf has VERY poor hygiene.

* VillainDecay: Olaf gets less and less threatening as the series goes on. A [[LampshadeHanging lampshade is even hung on it]] when the Baudelaires act annoyed rather than scared in his presence, and near the end he even gets a PetTheDog moment.

'''Esme Squalor'''

One of the Baudelaire's many foster parents turns out to be evil and becomes Count Olaf's girlfriend. She's a wealthy woman ridiculously dedicated to keeping up with every ludicrously inane fad that comes about.

* FurAndLoathing: Esmé Squalor is said to wear a coat made from the fur of animals that had been killed in extremely nasty ways.

* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: Her dress that looks like a fire- Lemony describes it as hideous, but really...

'''Lemony Snicket'''

* AlterEgoActing: Daniel Handler and Lemony Snicket - separate characters in the books themselves
* AuthorAppeal: Mild example: Daniel Handler is something of a gourmand, and hence the LemonyNarrator never misses an opportunity to describe some delicious dish, even providing a salad recipe in the midst of an urgent-seeming message to his sister embedded in the tenth book.

* TheFaceless: Largely because he's [[spoiler:a wanted criminal.]]
* GreekChorus: Lemony Snicket provides a running commentary on the events, and often addresses the reader directly
* LemonyNarrator: [[TropeNamer of course]].

* Narrator

** This also applies in-universe. A note in the Quagmire diaries indicate that Snicket's face is never seen in a photograph. And indeed, when the Baudelaire find a photo of their parents, there is an unidentified man ''with his back turned'' next to them.
* StalkerWithACrush ([[NotASubversion Inverted]]: Lemony's a good guy, but he does [[spoiler:stalk the children of the woman he loved but couldn't have but should have had.]])

'''VFD'''

The mysterious initials of a shadowy organization that everyone- from Olaf to the Baudelaires parents- is connected too.

* TheGhost: Several characters

'''The Quagmires'''

The Baudelaire's friends are a identical brother and sister whose brother Quigley died in a fire. Referring to themselves as "triplets" (just because Quigley's dead doesn't mean they were born twins), they help the Baudelaires out and get kidnapped for their trouble. Duncan is a journalist while Isadora is a poet specializing in couplets. [[spoiler: Later on, Quigley is revealed to have survived]].

'''Carmelita Spats'''

* EnfanteTerrible: She is rude, violent, filthy, but apparently one of the most popular girls in her school, and in her later appearance is to be crowned "False Spring Queen".

'''Count Olaf's Troupe'''

Olaf has a large variety of henchmen he calls his "acting troupe".

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Several members of Olaf's troupe, perhaps because of the {{Yaoi Fangirl}}s; Fernald in particular was much more popular after Book the Eleventh, but then [[spoiler:''he was never seen again''.]]

* HookHand: Fernald, a.k.a. "the hook-handed man".

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere ([[spoiler:the white-faced women]] fall victim to this in Book the Tenth, as apparently do [[spoiler:Fernald and Fiona]] in Book the Twelfth (albeit off-screen).

'''Other Characters'''

* BusCrash: [[spoiler:Let me see... Hector, the Quagmire triplets, Captain Widdershins, Fernald, Fiona]]. ''Maybe''.

* IJustWantToBeNormal (Hugo, Colette, and Kevin, the "freaks," are a hunchback, contortionist, and ''ambidextrous'', respectively. {{Subverted|Trope}} by the fact that most people do indeed think they're disgusting freaks.
* {{Pollyanna}}: Phil.
* PosthumousCharacter: Beatrice.
* RepetitiveName: Dr. Montgomery Montgomery.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Charles, Jerome, and Hector are all good-hearted and well-meaning men whose cowardice causes them to fail the Baudelaires.