History Awesome / ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents

** In ''The Miserable Mill'', Klaus saves Charles by moving a tree trunk, with nothing but a very sticky gun, a stick and the strength of his arms. This would be more than enough to categorize him as a GeniusBruiser.

* Climbing up an elevator with her teeth in ''The Ersatz Elevator''.

** In ''The Bad Beginning'', she figures out at the last minute how to avoid marrying Olaf - sign the marriage certificate with her left hand; because she's right-handed, she wouldn't have signed in "the bride's own hand," so she wouldn't be legally married.
*** In the same book Violet also managed to [[MacGyvering jury rig a grappling hook using only a curtain rod, some wire from a painting, a thirty foot rope hand made from torn straps of cloth, a rock, and a very clever knot.]] She then proceeded to throw the hook up the side of Olaf's tower, [[{{Determinator}} never giving up, no matter how many times she missed and not even when the hook cut open her shoulder on its way down.]] All for the sake of rescuing her little sister.

** Her managing to read an extremely difficult book in ''The Miserable Mill'' when Klaus is taken out of action. To give you some idea of ''how'' difficult, Violet got stuck on the second word of the first sentence. Yet she powers through, manages to accurately guess the meaning and uses this knowledge to undo Klaus's hypnotism, indirectly saving the day.
** Her proving that Stephano murdered Uncle Monty by breaking into his suitcase to find the evidence.

** In ''The Miserable Mill'', Sunny engages in a swordfight with Georgina. As a ''[[LittleMissBadass baby]]''. She doesn't even have a sword, she just uses her sharp teeth to block the sword in mid-air. She eventually loses, but still.

* Climbing up an elevator with her teeth in ''The Ersatz Elevator''.

* Her managing to read an extremely difficult book in ''The Miserable Mill'' when Klaus is taken out of action. To give you some idea of ''how'' difficult, Violet got stuck on the second word of the first sentence. Yet she powers through, manages to accurately guess the meaning and uses this knowledge to undo Klaus's hypnotism, indirectly saving the day.
* Her proving that Stephano murdered Uncle Monty by breaking into his suitcase to find the evidence.

* You may actually feel like cheering for Count Olaf when he calls out Carmelita for being such a horrible brat and dumps Esmé.

'''The Baudelaire Orphans'''

** In ''The Hostile Hospital,'' Violet invents a jumping device to escape a burning hospital while locked in a closet. It's just another normal day for her, but you have to remember that she's drugged out of her mind at that particular moment, since she's just had anesthesia.

** In ''The Miserable Mill,'' Klaus saves Charles by moving a tree trunk, with nothing but a very sticky gun, a stick and the strength of his arms. This would be more than enough to categorize him as a GeniusBruiser.

** In ''The Hostile Hospital,'' Klaus faces [[QuirkyMinibossSquad all of Olaf's henchmen]] who have [[WolfpackBoss cornered]] him in the operation theater. All he's got is a rusty knife to defend himself ; [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks he won't even need]] to use it, and will escape successfully while saving his sister Violet.
** Please note that he escapes by jumping on Violet's hospital gurney and riding it out.
** In ''The Slippery Slope,'' Klaus breaks a complicated code using resources from a library. The kicker? The library has already burned to the ground, so he's basically relying on ''ashes''.

** In ''The Miserable Mill,'' Sunny engages in a swordfight with Georgina. She doesn't even have a sword, she just uses her sharp teeth to block the sword in mid-air. She eventually loses, but still.
** In ''The Slippery Slope,'' taking advantage of the fact that Olaf can't understand anything she says to get away with repeatedly insulting him.
* Climbing up an elevator with her teeth in ''The Ersatz Elevator.''

* '''Other:'''
** Friday gets one when she orders Olaf to stop misbehaving, while he points ''a harpoon gun'' at her. She gets another one when she flatly tells him to go away, being the first person in the series, aside from the Man with Beard but no Hair and the Woman with Hair but no Beard, that he actually ''obeys''. Note that she’s only seven years old.
** You may actually feel like cheering for Count Olaf when he calls out Carmelita for being such a horrible brat and dumps Esmé.