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1	The Baudelaire orphans and their deceased parents, as depicted in the 2017 adaptation of Lemony Snicket's ''Series/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''.
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8	[[folder:In General]]
9	!!The Baudelaire Orphans
10	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/3_siblings.jpg]]
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12	The three orphans of the Baudelaire family, they were sent to live with their (geographically) closest living relative Count Olaf when their parents perished in a terrible fire.
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14	* ActionSurvivor: After all the dramas and events like almost eaten by a lion, several fires and a People-Killing poison, they are definitely THIS. Special mention due of their age.
15	* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: "The Vile Village" for Klaus and "The Grim Grotto" for Violet. While their ages were stated in the first episode of Season 1, the ages they turn (13 and 15 respectively) aren't mentioned in the actual episodes.
16	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The people of the Lucky Smells Mill hate them because they think their parents burned down Paltryville.
17	* AmbiguouslyJewish: They know some Hebrew words, and Daniel Handler has said all his characters are written as Jewish by default. No mention is made of their religion, or if they even have one, though.
18	* AmbiguousSituation: Their current status. The entire show is narrated by Lemony many years after the events already happened. He confesses in Season 2 that he has no idea what the Baudelaire's current situation is, whether they are dead or where they are. [[spoiler:Subverted in the final episode, where it's revealed that for most of the narration Lemony only knew up to what had happened to them in the second-to-last episode, with the final episode serving more as an epilogue where he learns of their fate from his niece who was raised by the siblings during the time period Lemony couldn't track them. While the siblings themselves don't appear, it can be safely assumed by his niece's age (roughly 10) that the siblings have survived to adulthood]].
19	* BadassAdorable: Very young, very cute, and way more competent than they have a right to be. Given what Olaf is trying to do, this is probably from necessity.
20	* BadassFamily: They're siblings, they've been close to death quite a few times, they always make it out.
21	* TheBeautifulElite: The Baudelaires are from a vastly wealthy and likely upper-class family, and are described by Lemony Snicket as possessing pleasant facial features. Also counts as BeautyEqualsGoodness.
22	* ABoyAGirlAndABabyFamily: Klaus (a boy), Violet (a girl), and Sunny (a baby girl) after their parents die.
23	* BrainyBrunette: Violet and Klaus both have dark hair and are intelligent youths who use their wits to survive the precarious situations they're put into.
24	* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Klaus is decidedly the less optimistic and the first to bring up a flaw in any plan, while Violet acts fairly gently and even dresses relatively girly.
25	* BrotherSisterTeam: Well, two sisters, but they're all a team.
26	* TheCassandra: No one ever really seems to fully believe them until it is too late.
27	* CassandraTruth: They will always spot Count Olaf, and they will never be believed by anyone about it.
28	* DarkAndTroubledPast: And ''how!'' It's really the entire premise of the show, in case you couldn't guess from the title.
29	* DivergentCharacterEvolution: An adaptational example; in the books, they all three had roughly the same basic personality of "polite, intelligent child with a special interest", with that special interest being their only real distinction. In the series, Violet has taken on the role of the cautiously-optimistic leader, Klaus is the group cynic most prone to snarking and [[HamToHamCombat embracing VFD eccentricities when trying to outwit Olaf]], and Sunny [[LittleMissBadass has become a fearless, chaotic loose-cannon]].
30	* ForegoneConclusion: Lemony reveals in the second half of "The Reptile Room" that they managed to survive their childhoods to thoroughly regret them.
31	* FrameUp: They are framed for the murder of Jacques Snicket (mistaken for Count Olaf). Specifically, Sunny is framed for the murder and Klaus and Violet are framed as accomplices. Adding insult to injury, they are later also framed with the burning of the Heimlich Hospital.
32	* FreudianTrio: Much like in the books, Sunny the baby fills the Id, Klaus the walking encyclopedia fills the Superego, and Violet usually leads the family as the Ego.
33	* FugitiveArc: As a result of the aforementioned FrameUp, the siblings spend the latter half of the series running from Olaf's gang and authorities alike, constantly trying to avoid being recognized while also trying to figure out how to clear their names.
34	* GrowingUpSucks: All three are forced to grow up far too fast and too soon for kids their age, compounded with all of the horrible dangers and [[HarmfulToMinors traumatic experiences]] they experience over the course of the series.
35	* HadToBeSharp: For continue to survive they must use tricks, strategies, respective skills and ''even'' manipulation and that since Count Olaf entered in their lives.
36	* LittleMissBadass: Violet and Sunny.
37	* OnlySaneMan: The only ones who could see through Olaf's [[PaperThinDisguise disguises]].
38	* OrphansOrdeal: The series starts with them losing their parents and their home in a fire, and things only go downhill from there. With all of the disaster that follows in their wake and how often they get sent from place to place, they've barely had a chance to grieve their parents properly, much less everyone else who's died since.
39	* ParentalAbandonment: Their parents die in a fire at the start of the series.
40	* PromotionToParent: Violet and Klaus to Sunny, [[spoiler:and later to Beatrice II]].
41	* ProperlyParanoid: Justified since Count Olaf ''always finds them''.
42	* RichKids: They used to be and they'll inherit their parents' enormous fortune when Violet comes of age.
43	* SurroundedByIdiots: Nearly all the adults in their lives are either completely incompetent or, at best, make a few fatal mistakes.
44	* SwappedRoles: After Count Olaf frames them for murder they have to spend the later half of the series mostly following Olaf's theater troupe around and wearing disguises.
45	* SwissArmyWeapon: The lunette they get as of Season 2, which functionalities include working as a lunette, decode messages, be a heater and be a lantern.
46	* TwoGirlsAndAGuy: Their gender dynamic as two sisters and a brother, contrasted with the Quagmires, who are [[TwoGuysAndAGirl the opposite trope]].
47	* UnadoptableOrphan: At the end of Season 1, Mr. Poe informs the Baudelaires, who lost their parents at the start of the series, that all remaining eligible guardians have decided not to adopt them, as they bring misfortune and death everywhere they go. With the exception of "The Ersatz Elevator", much like the book series this was adapted from, the Baudelaire Orphans spend the rest of the series either with non-traditional guardians (wards of a boarding school in "The Austere Academy" and a village in "The Vile Village") or [[spoiler:fending for themselves as fugitives, after Count Olaf frames them for the murder of Jacques Snicket]].
48	* UnderestimatingBadassery: Often in the receiving end of this. People just keep forgetting how ingenious and smart they are, and how often they have been able to foil their enemies' plans through sheer wit.
49	* VagueAge: Klaus and Violet are identified as being 12 and 14 respectively in the very first episode, but Sunny is just generically referred to as being "an infant". Season 2 opens with the older siblings making a lampshading statement of "we've been sitting here for so long Sunny is beginning to look more like a toddler than a baby".
50	* WeirdnessMagnet: Lampshaded. If something weird is going on, expect the Baudelaires to be there.
51	* WiseBeyondTheirYears: At least, they're wise enough to see through Olaf's many schemes, while [[AdultsAreUseless almost all adults can't]].
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54	[[folder:Violet]]
55	!!Violet Baudelaire
56	[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captura_de_pantalla_2017_01_15_a_las_73135_pm.png]]
57	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Malina Weissman
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59	The eldest Baudelaire child, and the engineer of the family. The family fortune is in a trust until she comes of age.
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61	* BadassInDistress: Violet is far too competent to be a DamselInDistress, but is captured by Count Olaf at the end of "The Hostile Hospital, Part One." She's nearly manages to escape with Nurse Babs once captured, only for Babs to blow their cover and be immediately be caught again. Ultimately she's the one to get her and her siblings out of the hospital, all while still under the effects of anesthesia.
62	* BigSisterInstinct: Is very protective of her siblings because of a promise made to their parents.
63	* CallingTheOldManOut: She's furious when Josephine is too afraid to reveal she faked her own death, detailing how terrified the Baudelaires have been around Olaf thanks to her.
64	-->'''Violet''': We're ''all'' afraid. We were afraid when you brought home Count Olaf; we were afraid when we though you had jumped out a window; we were afraid to give ourselves allergic reactions; we were afraid to steal a sailboat; and we were afraid to make our way across Lake Lachrymose in the middle of a hurricane. But that didn't stop us!
65	* CharacterTics: Tying her hair back and closing her eyes when thinking.
66	* CoolBigSis: She's the eldest, she loves and protects her siblings, and she loves to invent.
67	* GadgeteerGenius: Able to construct absurd gadgets with ease.
68	* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: Dresses relatively girly and acts fairly neutral, but her interests in lockpicking and mechanics are definitely rather tomboyish. This is actually played up from the books, where she hates the color pink. Amusingly, Season 3 has Violet say the line, "Some girls find "tomboy" to be an insulting term. That means their interests don't conform to somebody else's expectations."
69	* IronWoobie: Despite all dramas who came in her life, Violet manages to stay TheDeterminator.
70	* ItsAllMyFault: In "The Miserable Mill, Part I."
71	-->'''Violet''': I promised our parents I'd always look out for Klaus. But I didn't. He wanted to leave and I made him stay. Except now he's acting strange. It's all my fault. There's no one else to fix it.
72	* LikeParentLikeChild: A FreezeFrameBonus in Sir's book from "The Miserable Mill" hints that Violet inherited her talent for inventing from her father Bertrand, who made a fire alarm out of a cowbell, a hammer, and a ten-foot pole to assist in the Paltryville Fire.
73	%%* LockingMacgyverInTheStoreCupboard
74	* [[MrFixit Ms Fixit]]: Her main skill is being this.
75	* RedOniBlueOni: The Blue Oni to Klaus's Red Oni.
76	* ScienceHero: She solves problems with her inventions and her creativity.
77	* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: When captured by Count Olaf at Heimlich Hospital, he straps Violet to a gurney and schedules a cranioectomy for her (a beheading, in other words), almost forcing Klaus to commit the deed.
78	* SymbolMotifClothing: At least two of Violet's dresses have the images of whales.
79	* TeamMom: The oldest and most mature of the trio.
80	* TeenGenius: She's 14 and an inventor who can make useful inventions using what she has.
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83	[[folder:Klaus]]
84	!!Klaus Baudelaire
85	[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captura_de_pantalla_2017_01_15_a_las_73323_pm.png]]
86	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Louis Hynes
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88	The middle child, and the only boy. He is the reader of the family, absorbing information on everything from cooking to law, and often helps plan out how to use Violet's inventions.
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90	* {{Adorkable}}: Around both Isadora and Fiona, both of whom flirt with him, Klaus becomes much less eloquent and much more awkwardly adorable.
91	--> '''Klaus''': You're both pretty smart, pretty strong-willed, pretty...pretty.
92	* BadassBookworm: The most well-read out of the Baudelaire siblings, gifted with an encyclopedic knowledge of everything he's ever read, and just as capable in a scrap as his sisters.
93	* BigBrotherInstinct: He shows a brotherly instinct towards his sisters and is very protective of them. He physically attacks the Hook-Handed Man when the latter tells him and Violet that Sunny is dead.
94	* BigLittleBrother: By mid season 2, he’s significantly taller than his elder sister.
95	* ABirthdayNotABreak: While locked in a jail cell and being falsely accused for murder, Klaus realizes it's his birthday, and none of them remembered about it in the middle of the ruckus, not even himself.
96	* {{Bookworm}}: Klaus loves reading, hence why this trope's name is Count Olaf's preferred nickname for him.
97	* BrainwashedAndCrazy: By Dr. Orwell while working at the mill.
98	* CallingTheOldManOut: Becomes increasingly disgusted with Poe over the course of their struggles, culminating in "The Wide Window, Part II."
99	-->'''Klaus:''' We tried to tell you but you don't listen. You ''never'' listen.
100	* {{Catchphrase}}: "We know what [perfectly common word] means" whenever an adult talks down and condescendingly explains the definition of a word to him. Also, one that comes up less often is "Well, [word] means the [definition]."
101	* ChildProdigy: Only twelve years old and he can recall a full library's worth of knowledge and information.
102	* TheCynic: Klaus is decidedly less optimistic than either of his sisters, and the first to bring up a flaw in any plan.
103	* DeadpanSnarker: Again, the most cynical and mouthy of the Baudelaire orphans. Klaus tends to be more quickly frustrated and likely to snipe at the madness going on around him.
104	* MouthyKid: Klaus is usually the most likely of the three kids to talk back to adults.
105	* PerpetualFrowner: Even compared to his sisters. Not that he often has reason to.
106	* PuppyDogEyes: A devastating one, whenever he's terrified or upset, which given the nature of the series, is basically always. He's constantly got this going on.
107	* RedOniBlueOni: The Red Oni to Violet's Blue Oni.
108	* SmartPeopleWearGlasses: A bespectacled kid who has a near limitless fount of obscure facts, literary quotes and loves to read for fun.
109	* TheSmartGuy: While his sisters are very intelligent in their respective ways, Klaus brings a wealth of helpful facts from reading non-fiction to the table, which makes him invaluable as a tactician.
110	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: He's fond of using big words. He also loves explaining their definitions.
111	* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Well, strapped to a chair by Dr. Orwell and Olaf.
112	* StrongFamilyResemblance: The epilogue of "The End" shows Klaus is the spitting image of his late father, Bertrand, right down to the glasses and wavy brown hair.
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115	[[folder:Sunny]]
116	!!Sunny Baudelaire
117	[[quoteright:240:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captura_de_pantalla_2017_01_15_a_las_74042_pm.png]]
118	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Presley Smith; Creator/TaraStrong (voice)
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120	The youngest child, still a baby. She possesses bizarrely powerful and precise teeth, and is much smarter than she has any right to be.
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122	* AdaptationDyeJob: Sunny has black hair in the books like her older siblings, but she has blonde hair here.
123	* BabyTalk: Speaks in this. Her siblings and the Hook-Handed Man can understand her, but no one else can. In season 3, she mostly grows out of it.
124	* BadassInDistress: Is most frequently the one held captive, because she is a baby, after all--however, she's also a force to be reckoned with thanks to her sharp teeth and surprisingly developed motor skills. She got herself out of distress in the first storyline.
125	* BrainyBaby: Based on the subtitles, Sunny is surprisingly articulate in her own head.
126	* BuzzsawJaw: Using her teeth, Sunny is able to smooth a rock or shred a bunch of parsley in a matter of seconds.
127	* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Her skill with her teeth gets boosted in this adaptation, in which she can do things like strip a large log of bark in a manner of seconds using only her teeth.
128	* FriendlyEnemy: With the Hook-Handed Man.
129	* IronicName: "Sunny" means bright and cheerful, but she is the saltiest and most confrontational of the Baudelaires.
130	* LittleMissSnarker: When she speaks she's usually very snarky.
131	* MoralityPet: The Hook-Handed Man seems to have a bit of a soft spot for her. He willingly plays poker with her (and lets her go when she wins a hand), and when Olaf threatens to drop her, he can be seen reaching out to catch her, just in case. When he thinks Olaf has kicked her, he also immediately runs over and asks if she's alright, seeming genuinely worried.
132	* PhraseCatcher: Whenever she says something indecipherable Violet or Klaus will say "What my sister means is that..."
133	* PintSizedPowerhouse: She has strong teeth and is very intelligent and brave despite her age and size.
134	* PlayAlongPrisoner: She willingly decides to stay a captive in "The Slippery Slope" to spy on Count Olaf's troop, but not before taking Violet's lockpick to break herself out when the time came.
135	* SilentSnarker: Definitely the sassiest of the orphans. (Though she isn't so much silent as she is unintelligible)
136	--> '''Sunny:''' ''[about Mr. Poe]'' You are a disgrace to your profession.
137	* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome: Due to the break in filming between seasons, she ages noticeably from a baby to toddler between the end of "The Miserable Mill, Part Two" and the beginning of "The Austere Academy," while In-Universe only a few minutes have passed. The show does [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall joke about this]] when Violet points it out and Klaus says it feels like they've been waiting for months.
138	* SupremeChef: Sunny's culinary talents are [[{{Foreshadowed}} hinted at]] in "The Carnivorous Carnival, Part One", and come into play properly during season 3 to the point her stated profession is "chef".
139	* TerseTalker: While she finally starts getting the hang of speech in Season 3, she's only capable of saying so much. Her longest lines are four words long.
140	* TheUnintelligible: To everyone but her siblings and Monty. [[RuleOfFunny And the Hook-Handed Man, for some reason.]]
141	* WiseBeyondHerYears: Seems to have a large vocabulary, even if she can't properly express it.
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144	[[folder:The Baudelaire Parents]]
145	!!Bertrand and Beatrice Baudelaire
146	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/MorenaBaccarin; Matthew James Dowden
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148	The parents of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny who perished in a terrible fire that burned down their mansion. They left their enormous fortune to Violet when she comes of age. They are typically referred to as "your parents", but eventually we learn the father was named Bertrand and the mother was named Beatrice.
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150	* GoodParents: Always discussed as loving and caring parents to Violet, Klaus and Sunny.
151	* PosthumousCharacter: Their deaths trigger the titular events that befall their children.
152	* PromotedToLoveInterest: Downplayed in the case of Beatrice. While Lemony [[PiningAfterProtagonistsParent pines after her]] as he does in the novels, how she felt about him was ambiguous. Here, it's explicit that she returned his feelings but turned down his proposal.
153	* SecondLove: In spite of her requited love for Lemony, all signs point to Beatrice having been HappilyMarried to Bertrand.
154	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Beatrice initiated the schism in VFD by accidentally killing Olaf's father.
155	* WalkingSpoiler: In two regards. Firstly, in Season 1 viewers are led to believe the Baudelaire parents are still alive, but the living parents turn out to be another family's parents. Secondly, in Season 3 we learn that the Baudelaire mother is the same person as Lemony's lost love Beatrice.
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158	[[folder:Beatrice II]]
159	!! Beatrice Baudelaire II
160	!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Angelina Capozzoli
161	The daughter of Kit Snicket and Dewey Denouement. After the death of her parents, she was adopted and raised by the Baudelaire orphans.
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163	* DeadGuyJunior: She is named after the Baudelaires' mother.
164	* GodCreatedCanonForeigner: In a way. She's the ''Beatrice'' who, in ''The Beatrice Letters'' sends a letter asking Lemony to meet with her, and her one appearance is that very meeting.
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