History TearJerker / ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents

* Also in ''The End'', where ''The Beatrice Letters'' and other material hints that the Baudelaire orphans may have survived, there's no sign that the Quagmire Triplets, Fiona or Fernald survived aside from some reports from the Daily Punctilio. Quiggly was reunited with his siblings only for all of them to die (and none of them got to reunite with the Baudelaires). Fiona and Fernald reunited and were turning to side of good, with Fiona especially wanting to make it back to Klaus to apologize, only to die with her brother before she can make it to him.

* Lemony, whose [[spoiler: betrothed]] left him for a mutual friend; she was happy and had three children, then [[spoiler: died at the hands of an old acquaintance]]. Lemony then made it his life's work to document the sufferings of said children, to write down all they had lost, and that he had lost with them.

** Lemony recounting how he once went to a masquerade ball and for once felt happy due to hiding who he was from others. He then painfully mentions how he tried to [[spoiler: approach Beatrice and tell her that she and Bertrand were in danger]]...only to cut halfway and admit it's too painful to recite. For such a LovableCoward, you pity poor Mr. Snicket.
*** The fact that ''The Austere Academy'' and ''The Unauthorized Autobiography'' (when put together) imply that Lemony was at a masked ball that killed [[spoiler: Beatrice]] and that she ''didn't'' die in the fire that killed her husband (as Snicket mentions people are looking for Monty's reptiles, setting it ''after'' book 2) but never got to reunite with her children anyway due to being burned alive in ''that'' fire instead.

* The "denouement" of ''The Penultimate Peril'' - and indeed of the whole series really - is utterly devastating. The court case turns out [[spoiler: to be a total farce, two of the three judges turn out to be evil villains whom we have previously met.]] The Baudelaires have no choice but to [[spoiler:help Olaf escape]]. And then Sunny suggests that [[spoiler:if they burn down the hotel]], it will aid their escape [[spoiler:(and act as a signal that "the last safe place is safe no more.")]] We don't really know, but it is implied that this [[spoiler:kills perhaps hundreds of people. ]]

* Spoken by Sunny in ''The Penultimate Peril'': [[spoiler: "The last safe place is safe no more."]]
* Also by Sunny, in ''The End'': [[spoiler: "If we fail, at least we die reading together."]]

* In ''The End'' when [[spoiler: Kit]] is trapped on the makeshift raft, [[spoiler:in labor]], and the series' long-running villain, Count Olaf, [[spoiler: lifts her off and kisses her "One last time."]] Then, with a bit of darkly humorous poetry, he gives one final "HA!" and [[spoiler: dies from a harpoon injury. The Baudelaire children then help Kit give birth to a healthy baby girl, who they name after their mother. Kit dies in childbirth,]] and the author gives a beautiful speech about the moral ambiguities of life and ends the story on the usual mysterious note. Then, comes the epilogue chapter, where the Baudelaires are preparing to leave the island for good after one year. They constructed a boat, and named the boat, like the baby, after their late mother, [[spoiler:Beatrice.]] For background, all the book have been [[spoiler:dedicated to the narrator's long-lost love, Beatrice, and he regularly includes little shout-outs to her in the text. The revelation in the end that the children he's writing about were hers explains why he wrote the books all by itself.]]

** Then when the Baudelaires visit [[spoiler: Count Olaf's grave]] and sit there silently, beyond words.
** The fact that the boat that they left the island on was named ''Beatrice'' is especially important if you read ''The Beatrice Letters'', a companion to the series. There are punch-out letters which are supposed to give a message to the reader once they've been unscrambled. The message: [[spoiler: ''BEATRICE SANK''.]] Tears ensued. Still, the books occasionally mention what [[spoiler: the Baudelaires thought when looking back on events years afterwards, so at least one of them must have survived somehow]].

** Lemony recounting how he once went to a masquerade ball and for once felt happy due to hiding who he was from others. He then painfully mentions how he tried to [[spoiler: approach Beatrice and tell her that she and Bernard were in danger]]...only to cut halfway and admit it's too painful to recite. For such a LovableCoward, you pity poor Mr. Snicket.

* Klaus being struck across the face by Olaf in the first book, then breaking down in tears with his sisters once Olaf and his goons leave the room. The series has a lot of absurd and outlandish moments throughout the thirteen books, but that one moment where Klaus is struck across the face by someone who is supposed to love and care for him and his sisters is very sadly realistic and can strike a chord with many people.

* Also in ''The End'', where ''The Beatrice Letters'' and other material hints that the Baudelaire orphans may have survived, there's no sign that the Quagmire Triplets, Fiona or Fernald survived aside from some reports from the Daily Punctilio. Quiggly was reunited with his siblings only for all of them to die (and none of them got to reunite with the Baudelaire's). Fiona and Fernald reunited and were turning to side of good, with Fiona especially wanting to make it back to Klaus to apologize, only to die with her brother before she can make it to him.

* The "denouement" of The Penultimate Peril - and indeed of the whole series really - is utterly devastating. The court case turns out [[spoiler: to be a total farce, two of the three judges turn out to be evil villains whom we have previously met.]] The Baudelaires have no choice but to [[spoiler:help Olaf escape]]. And then Sunny suggests that [[spoiler:if they burn down the hotel]], it will aid their escape [[spoiler:(and act as a signal that "the last safe place is safe no more.")]] We don't really know, but it is implied that this [[spoiler:kills perhaps hundreds of people. ]]

** Lemony recounting how he once went to a masquerade ball and for once felt happy due to hiding who he was from others. He then painfully mentions how he tried to [[spoiler: approach Beatrice and tell her that she and Bernard were in danger]]...only to cut halfway and admit it's too painful to recite. For such a LovableCoward, you pity poor [[spoiler: Mr. Snicket]].

* In ''The End'' when [[spoiler: Kit]] is trapped on the makeshift raft, [[spoiler:in labor]], and the series' long-running villain, Count Olaf, [[spoiler: lifts her off and kisses her "One last time."]] Then, with a bit of darkly humorous poetry, he gives one final "HA!" and [[spoiler: dies from a harpoon injury. The Baudelaire children then help Kit give birth to a healthy baby girl, who they name after their mother. Kit dies in childbirth,]] and the author gives a beautiful speech about the moral ambiguities of life and ends the story on the usual mysterious note. Then, comes the epilogue chapter, where the Baudelaires are preparing to leave the island for good after one year. They constructed a boat, and named the boat, like the baby, after their late mother, [[spoiler:Beatrice.]] For background, all the book have been [[spoiler:dedicated to the narrator's long-lost love, Beatrice, and he regularly includes little shout-outs to her in the text. The revelation in the end that the children he's writing about were hers explains why he wrote the books all by itself.]]

** [[spoiler: Lemony recounting how he once went to a masquerade ball and for once felt happy due to hiding who he was from others. He then painfully mentions how he tried to approach Beatrice and tell her that she and Bernard were in danger...only to cut halfway and admit it's too painful to recite]]. For such a LovableCoward, you pity poor [[spoiler: Mr. Snicket]].

* The "denouement" of The Penultimate Peril - and indeed of the whole series really - is utterly devastating. The court case turns out [[spoiler: to be a total farce, two of the three judges turn out to be evil villains whom we have previously met.]] The Baudelaires have no choice but to [[spoiler:help Olaf escape]]. And then Sunny suggests that [[spoiler:if they burn down the hotel]], it will aid their escape [[spoiler:(and act as a signal that "the last safe place is safe no more.")]] We don't really know, but it is implied that this [[spoiler:kills perhaps hundreds of people. ]]
** And before the "denouement", the Baudelaire children have a moment with Olaf in which they try and convince him that he can be a good guy. Surprisingly, Olaf [[spoiler:doesn't answer them with snark or insults. Instead, he answers with a quiet "What else can I do?"]]
* At the end of ''The Grim Grotto'', when Fiona [[spoiler:tells Klaus to think of her when he thinks of his favorite food]].
* Lemony, whose [[spoiler: betrothed]] left him for a mutual friend, she was happy and had three children, then [[spoiler: died at the hands of an old acquaintance]]. Lemony then made it his life's work to document the sufferings of said children, to write down all they had lost, and that he had lost with them.
* Spoken by Sunny, in book thirteen: [[spoiler: "If we fail, at least we die reading together."]]
* Also by Sunny in the twelfth book: [[spoiler: "The last safe place is safe no more."]]
* ''The End'': The title of the last book, but the story itself {{subvert|edTrope}}s the notion of endings, by pointedly refusing to answer any of the questions or resolve any of the plot threads that built up over the course of the series, and while resolving the story after a fashion, consciously skirting any feeling of satisfaction or closure. The title even could've been ''The Enigmatic End'' to preserve alliteration.
* At the beginning of Book 8, the Baudelaires have a moment to summarize all the trouble they’re in and all the trouble they’ve been through. They’re stranded alone, lost, and unlike every time before that they had to leave a new place they’re convicts and they can’t even rely on Mr. Poe to come take them somewhere new. There isn’t any immediate danger (except dying of thirst), so they can’t even distract themselves from their awfull situation by working on a way out. The siblings face a collective HeroicBSOD until puck brings them a way out.
* The fact that ''The Austere Academy'' and ''The Unauthorized Autobiography'' (when put together) imply that Lemony was at a masked ball that killed Beatrice and that she ''didn't'' die in the fire that killed her husband (as Snicket mentions people are looking for Monty's reptiles, setting it ''after'' book 2) but never got to reunite with her children anyway due to being burned alive in ''that'' fire instead.