History Awesome / ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents

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

** 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 Esme.
** In the film, there's the scene where he gloats to his audience that he is now legally married to Violet thanks to Justice Strauss, and when Mr. Poe orders that the Chief of Police arrest him for being a monster, Olaf counters by stating that Poe and all of the other adults are monsters themselves for all the times they ignored the children when they pleaded for help. Admit it, Poe and the others deserved it. If not for their stupidity things wouldn't have been so difficult for the siblings.
** "I'm the monster? ''I'm'' the monster? YOU'RE the monster! These children tried to warn you but you wouldn't listen. No one ''ever'' listens to children! You think you're innocent? You're accomplices!" [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped Anvil, consider yourself dropped]].
** Oh, and if you are reading this page, you'll know how Violet fooled him in the book. She tried the same trick in the movie. Except, this time Olaf notices it immediately, almost as if he was expecting it.
* Admittedly, it's something that everyone saw that coming, but ''[[UpToEleven the sky itself opening]]'' [[UpToEleven to let the sunlight hit the lenses]] and burn down Olaf's marriage contract. Olaf just won, and it's bragging about it, giving a well-deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to everyone else, and then you get the closest thing to DivineIntervention this series ever had.
* Another awesome moment in the film: Mr. KarmaHoudini aka Count Olaf gets a full dose of LaserGuidedKarma in the film with a cruel and unusual punishment: Having to go through all the Hell the kids went through in the film. This includes, fighting the man eating fish, escaping from the wreck of the house, and escaping getting ran over by the train. However, he escapes and survives each mess up in those really dangerous situtions.
** By the Way, Jim Carrey is AWESOME at playing Olaf.

* Admittedly, it's something that everyone saw that coming, but [[UpToEleven ''the sky itself opening'' to let the sunlight hit the lenses]] and burn down Olaf's marriage contract. Olaf just won, and it's bragging about it, giving a well-deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to everyone else, and then you get the closest thing to DivineIntervention this series ever had.

** By the Way, Jim Carrey is AWESOME at playing Olaf.

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** "Nobody ''ever'' listens to children~!" [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped Anvil, consider yourself dropped]].

** In the film, there's the scene where he gloats to his audience that he is now legally married to Violet thanks to Justice Strauss, and when Mr. Poe orders that the Chief of Police arrest him for being a monster, Olaf counters by stating that Poe and all of the other adults are monsters themselves for all the times the children asked for their help but were ignored. Admit it, Poe and the others deserved it. If not for their stupidity things wouldn't have been so difficult for the siblings.

** The XanatosSpeedChess they play at the end of ''The Slippery Slope'' to rescue Sunny AND learn the location of "the last safe place." Very dangerous, but it pays off. "We know where the sugar bowl is." Oh, these little [[TheChessMaster ChessMasters]].

* Collective

* Violet

* Klaus

** 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 succesfully while saving his sister Violet.

* Sunny

* 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''.

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

* Admittedly, it's something that everyone saw that coming, but [[UpToEleven ''the sky itself opening'' to let the sunlight hit the lenses]] and burn down Olaf's marriage contract. Olaf just won, and it's bragging about it, giving a well-deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to everyone else, and then you get the cosest thing to DivineIntervention this series ever had.

* Admittedly, it's something that everyone saw that coming, but ''the sky itself opening'' to let the sunlight hit the lenses and burn down Olaf's marriage contract. Olaf just won, and it's bragging about it, giving a well-deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to everyone else, and deciding where to send Violet's siblings [[GenreSavvy since they are too dangerous to be kept together]], and then you get the cosest thing to DivineIntervention this series ever had.

** 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 an 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 a his arms. This would be more than enough to categorize him as a GeniusBruiser.

** 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''.

** The XanatosSpeedChess they play at the end of ''The Slippery Slope'' to rescue Sunny AND learn the location of "the last safe place." Very dangerous, but it pays off. "We know where's the sugar bowl." Oh, these little [[TheChessMaster ChessMasters]].

** In the film, there's the scene where he gloats to his audience that he is now legally married to Violet thanks to Justice Strauss, and when Mr. Poe orders that the Chief of Police arrest him for being a monster, Poe counters by stating that Poe and all of the other adults are monsters themselves for all the times the children asked for their help but were ignored. Admit it, Poe and the others deserved it. If not for their stupidity things wouldn't have been so difficult for the siblings.

Usually get at least one per book. God, these guys are 'good' at surviving.

** In ''TheBadBeginning'', 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.

*** Even ''younger'' than that, actually, given she was barely out of infancy at the start, and the books take place roughly over a year.

** 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 dude, was that cool.

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

** In ''The Hostile Hospital,'' Violet invents a jumping device to escape a burning hospital while locked in a cellar. 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 an anesthesia.