'Lemony Snicket' Has the Gay TV Villas We've Been Wag For

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• LEMONY SNICKET HAS THE GAY TV VILLAS WE'VE BEEN WAG FOR
• MA CHARACTERSTHE BLAIRE CHILDREN    IN GENERAL THE BLAIRE CHILDRENORPHANED WHEN THEIR PARENTS DIE A FIRE, THE BLAIR NOW HAVE TO PE THE GREEDY HANDS OF COUNT OLAF... AND ON THEIR WAY, THEY UNVER A MASSIVE NSPIRACY. A BOY, A GIRL, AND A BABY FAY: VLET AND KLS, 14/15 AND 12/13 RPECTIVELY, F THE BILL FOR THE TWO OLR SIBLGS. ALTHOUGH SUNNY IS NO LONGER REFERRED TO AS A BABY OM BOOK THE TENTH ONWARD, SHE IS UNNIABLY THE AGE-DISTANT BABY. AMBIGUOLY JEWISH: DANIEL HANDLER HAS MENTNED THAT HE TENDS TO WRE CHARACTERS AS JEWISH BY "FLT" UNTIL ELABORATED OTHERWISE. MORE TO THE POT, THE FAL BOOK, THE BLAIR MENTN THAT IS THEIR FAY'S TRADN TO NAME BABI AFTER CEASED RELATIV — A JEWISH TRADN REAL LIFE. ANTI-HERO: THEY END UP THIS TERRORY OM BOOK 7 ONWARDS. ALL THREE OF THEM ARE FUNDAMENTALLY GOOD PEOPLE, BUT CIRCUMSTANC LEAD TO THEM BEG ON THE N AND DOG QUTNABLE THGS TO SURVIVE. THE RULTG NFLICT IS A MAJOR THEME OF THE LATER BOOKS. BAD BEDROOM, BAD LIFE: COUNT OLAF ADOPTS THE KIDS BUT IS ABIVE SO HE PROVIS THEM WH A BEDROOM THAT HAS ONLY ONE BED AND NO CRIB FOR THE BABY AND ONLY A PILE OF ROCKS FOR ENTERTAMENT. IN THE ATERE AMY, THE BLAIRE CHILDREN ATTEND POCK PREP, A BOARDG SCHOOL. WHILE MOST STUNTS THERE SLEEP DORMORI, THE BLAIR ARE FORCED TO LIVE A CRAB-FTED SHACK, BEE THEY ARE ORPHANS. BADASS ADORABLE: ALL THREE. ESPECIALLY SUNNY, WHO'S BADASS EVEN THOUGH SHE'S A BABY. BADASS BOOKWORM: KLS AND VLET BOTH UNT, THOUGH KLS IS A BIGGER EXAMPLE AS HIS SPECIALTY IS REARCHG. THE BETIFUL ELE: THE BLAIR ARE OM A VASTLY WEALTHY AND LIKELY UPPER-CLASS FAY, AND ARE SCRIBED BY LEMONY SNICKET AS POSSSG PLEASANT FACIAL FEATUR. BRAY BTE: ALL THREE OF THEM HAVE BLACK HAIR AND THEY'RE ALL TELLIGENT, THOUGH THE ADAPTATNS PORTRAY SUNNY AS BLON. BREAK THE CUTIE: NOT QUE, BUT PRETTY DAMN CLOSE AT TIM. BROTHER–SISTER TEAM: ALL THREE OF THEM, PECIALLY SCE THEY HAVE VERY FEW PEOPLE TO FULLY RELY ON. BUTT-MONKEY: THE TULAR 'SERI OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS' OCCURS THROUGHOUT THEIR LIFETIME AND IS DIRECTED AT THEM, AND WHENEVER SOMETHG GOOD HAPPENS TO THEM, UALLY DON'T LAST LONG. IT'S NEVER QUE EXPLAED WHY THEY ARE THE ON TO FALL VICTIM TO SUCH HORRIBLE TWISTS OF FATE. THE CASSANDRA: THEY ARE UALLY IGNORED, PECIALLY WHEN TO MATTERS RELATG TO COUNT OLAF. CASSANDRA TTH: NO ONE BELIEV THE BLAIR WHENEVER THEY SEE COUNT OLAF, EXCEPT THE FAL BOOK. THE GENERAL PUBLIC ALSO REFE TO BELIEVE THE BLARI AREN'T MURRERS.CLARK KENTG: THE GROUP DO THIS A FEW TIM.--> CONVENIENTLY AN ORPHAN: DENSTCTED, AS THEIR STAT AS ORPHANS LEAV THEM BOUNCG OM ONE AWFUL HOME TO ANOTHER WH NO WAY OUT TILL VLET TURNS 18. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: A VARIANT; BOOK THE TWELFTH, THE BLAIR LOSE FAH THE JTICE SYSTEM AND STAYG "NOBLE" PEOPLE AFTER REALIZG THE JUDG OF THEIR KANGAROO COURT ARE RPT AND ARE ALLOWG COUNT OLAF TO KIDNAP JTICE STRSS, TAKG ADVANTAGE OF EVERYONE BEG BLDFOLD. VLET PRETTY MUCH SAYS EVEN IF JTICE STRSS WANTS TO HELP THEM, SHE N'T BEE THE SYSTEM IS TOO RPT, AND IF THE BLAIR ARE AWAY OM SOCIETY THEN OLAF N'T GET THEIR FORTUNE EVEN IF HE HAS THEM. IN BOOK THE THIRTEENTH, THEY ONLY CI TO RETURN TO SOCIETY WHEN THEY OUTGROW THE SERTED ISLAND AND NEED TO SEE HOW THE WORLD HAS FARED. EARN YOUR HAPPY ENDG: POSSIBLY, AS BS OF NARRATN AND THE BEATRICE LETTERS SUGGT THAT THEY'VE MANAGED TO CLEAR THEIR NAM AND RE-ENTER SOCIETY. FOREGONE CONCLN: BOOK 2 REVEALS THAT THEY MANAGE TO SURVIVE THEIR CHILDHOODS TO THOROUGHLY REGRET THEM. FRDIAN TR: SUNNY, AS THE BABY, FILLS THE ID, AND KLS THE WALKG ENCYCLOPEDIA FILLS THE SUPEREGO. VLET UALLY LEADS THE FAY AS THE EGO. HE WHO FIGHTS MONSTERS: THE BLAIR FEAR THIS AND EVEN DO SOME MORALLY QUTNABLE THGS LATER ON — 'S ACTUALLY QUOTED THE TENTH BOOK. HERO WH BAD PUBLICY: FROM BOOK 7 ONWARDS, THANKS TO COUNT OLAF FAKG HIS ATH AND AMG THE BLAIR FOR HIS MURR. IT RUNS THE FAY: AN INVERTED TROPE, THAT THE MEMBERS OF THE BLAIRE FAY ARE THE LEAST SANE PEOPLE THEY ENUNTER. MOTHER NATURE, FATHER SCIENCE: INVERTED; WHILE BOTH ARE TELLIGENT, VLET IS THE GADGETEER GENI WHILE KLS IS THE BOOKWORM. PROMOTN TO PARENT: VLET TO KLS AND SUNNY, AND LATER, THE THREE OF THEM TO BEATRICE SNICKET. PROPERLY PARANOID: THEY AREN'T JT SEEG THGS; COUNT OLAF IS ALWAYS THERE. ONLY SANE MAN: PRETTY MUCH THE ONLY SANE PEOPLE WHO AREN'T THE V.F.D. THE ENTIRE STORY, OUTSI OF THE QUAGMIR. UNFORTUNATELY RARELY HELPS THEM. ORPHAN'S ORAL: THE POSTER CHILDREN FOR THIS TROPE; THE BLAIR BEG ORPHANED KICKS OFF THE TULAR 'SERI OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS'. BEG BOUNCED OM ONE BAD GUARDIAN TO ANOTHER IS JT THE START OF EVERYTHG.SEEKERS: EVENTUALLY.--> SURROUND BY IDTS: IDTS WHO HAVE POWER OVER THEM UNFORTUNATELY. TOOK A LEVEL BADASS: THE BLAIR ARE ALREADY A BADASS FAY, BUT THE REAL CLCHER IS WHEN VLET POLELY TELLS MR. POE AT THE END OF THE GRIM GROTTO THAT THEY'RE NOT GOG WH HIM BEE THEY GOT A D MSAGE TELLG THEM TO MEET WH SOMEONE ELSE, AND IMPLYG THAT THEY AREN'T GOG TO TST ADULTS BLDLY AGA, AS THEY SEEM TO BE UNRELIABLE. WEIRDNS MAG: WELL, MORE LIKE "COUNT OLAF MAG", WHO IS ONE OF THE WEIRST OF THEM ALL. WISE BEYOND THEIR YEARS: THEIR SUATN FORC THEM TO ACT AND THK MORE MATURELY THAN KIDS THEIR AGE SHOULD.    VLET VLET BLAIRETHE OLST OF THE BLAIRE TR, VLET IS AN TELLIGENT 14-15 YEAR OLD VENTOR AND RPONSIBLE OLR SISTER. BIG SISTER INSTCT: BEFORE AND AFTER THEIR PARENTS' ATHS, SHE R EPLY ABOUT HER BROTHER AND SISTER AND TAK THE VOW SHE MA TO LOOK AFTER HER YOUNGER SIBLGS VERY SERLY. COOL BIG SIS: SHE IS THE ELST CHILD AND HAS A KNACK FOR CREATG FUNCTNAL VENTNS. GADGETEER GENI: RARELY ANYTHG PARTICULARLY OUTLANDISH, AS SHE DID NOT OFTEN HAVE MUCH TO WORK WH. GIRLY GIRL WH A TOMBOY STREAK: MOST OF THE TIME, SHE IS POLE AND WELL-DRSED, BUT SHE N CLIMB A TOWER WH A GRAPPLG HOOK OF HER OWN MAKG WHEN SHE NEEDS TO. LETHAL CHEF: VLET BURNS EVERYTHG SHE OKS, EVEN TOAST. LOCKG MACGYVER IN THE STORE CUPBOARD: THIS HAPPENS TO HER ROUGHLY ONCE PER BOOK.MR. FIX--> PERKY GOTH: VLET'S CHARACTER SIGN CHANG OM A RATHER NOCENT 50'S GIRL STYLE, TO A LOLA-STYLE GOTH THE FILM. PROMOTN TO PARENT: AS THE OLST SISTER, VLET TAK TO RG ABOUT AND PROTECTG HER YOUNGER SIBLGS AFTER THE BLAIRE PARENTS DIE. TEAM MOM: ONLY NATURAL, GIVEN HER CIRCUMSTANC. THKG TIC: WHEN SHE IS THKG ABOUT A NEW VENTN (AND A WAY OUT OF WHATEVER PREDIMENT SHE FDS HERSELF ), VLET TI HER LONG HAIR WH A RIBBON TO KEEP OUT OF HER EY. TOMBOYISH PONYTAIL: IN THE FILM AND TV ADAPTATNS, ANYWAY. WRENCH WENCH: VLET LOV VENTG AND TKERG WH MACH AND GADGETS. MANY TIM SHE HAS TO QUICKLY VENT SOMETHG TO EXTRITE HERSELF AND HER SIBLGS OM THE LATT TRAGIC PREDIMENT.    KLS KLS BLAIRETHE MIDDLE BLAIRE AND ONLY BOY, KLS IS EXTREMELY BOOKISH AND PRONE TO G BIG WORDS. THE VAST AMOUNT OF THGS HE'S LEARNED OM HIS READG, AS WELL AS HIS REARCH SKILLS, E HANDY.ADORABLY PREC CHILD--> BADASS BOOKWORM: THOUGH ALL THE SIBLGS QUALIFY AS THIS, KLS'S THG IS THAT HE BOOKS TO KICK ASS. BIG BROTHER INSTCT: HE DISPLAYS A STRONG BROTHERLY STCT FOR HIS SISTERS. WHEN VLET IS PTURED THE HOSTILE HOSPAL, HE AND SUNNY DO THEIR BT TO SAVE THEIR ELR SISTER. BLD WHOUT 'EM: HE N'T SEE WELL WHOUT HIS GLASS, WHICH PLAYS HEAVILY TO OLAF'S PLOT THE MISERABLE MILL. HE'S ABLE TO SEE WELL ENOUGH WHOUT THEM WHEN HE GIV THEM TO DUNN QUAGMIRE TO POSE AS HIM OR WHEN HE AND VLET NEED TO DISGUISE THEMSELV. DOWNPLAYED THE FILM WHERE HE ONLY NEED THEM FOR READG. BRAWASHED AND CRAZY: IN BOOK THE FOURTH; HE EVEN APPEARS TO HAVE MD-CONTROL EY ON THE VER. CHARACTER TICS: KLS HAS A HAB OF POLISHG HIS GLASS. HEART IS AN AWOME POWER: HIS SPECIALTY IS READG, WHICH DON'T SEEM TOO GOOD ON PAPER AND ISN'T LOOKED HIGHLY UPON BY THE VILLAS. USUALLY, HE'LL FD A LIBRARY A NOVEL THAT WILL GIVE HIM THE POWER TO HELP THE BLAIR GET OUT OF A JAM. IN LATER BOOKS, HIS RANGE OF KNOWLEDGE BASILLY VERS ANYTHG THAT HIS SISTERS DON'T KNOW. INFANT SIBLG JEALOY: KLS ORIGALLY RENTED SUNNY WHEN SHE WAS BORN, BUT GOT OVER QUICKLY WHEN HE GOT TO KNOW HER. KNIGHT TEMPLAR BIG BROTHER: TO SUNNY. HE PHYSILLY ATTACKS THE HOOK-HAND MAN AFTER THE LATTER TELLS HIM AND VLET THAT SUNNY IS AD. LOVE HURTS: WH FNA THE GRIMM GROTTO, EVEN ASKG VLET "HOW SOMEONE SO WONRFUL ULD DO SOMETHG SO TERRIBLE". MOUTHY KID: KLS IS UALLY THE FIRST BLAIRE TO TALK BACK TO ADULTS, SEEG AS MANY S HE KNOWS BETTER THAN THEY DO. PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY: HE REMEMBERS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHG HE'S EVER READ. RUNNG GAG: ADULTS EXPLAG TO KLS THE FNS OF WORDS THAT HE ALREADY KNOWS. SQUIPEDALIAN LOQUACNS: KLS IS FOND OF BIG WORDS, MUCH TO THE ANNOYANCE OF THE VILLAS. HE ALSO EXPLAS THE FNS OF WORDS TO HIS SIBLGS OFTEN.    SUNNY SUNNY BLAIRETHE YOUNGT BLAIRE IS ONLY A BABY AND ONLY TELLIGIBLE TO HER BROTHER AND SISTER (AT LEAST AT THE BEGNG). HOWEVER, SHE IS EXTREMELY TELLIGENT, AND ADDN TO HAVG FOUR VERY SHARP TEETH AS A WEAPON, SHE ALSO MONSTRAT ADMIRABLE OKG SKILLS LATER ON. BABY TALK: THIS CHANG WHEN SHE STARTS TO SPEAK HERENTLY TOWARDS THE SERI' END. BADASS DISTRS: DPE BEG ABLE TO TAKE RE OF HERSELF, SUNNY IS STILL A BABY. SHE'S THE TARGET OF MULTIPLE KIDNAPPGS AND ONCE NTRACTED A DANGERO DISEASE. BEWARE THE NICE ON: SUNNY TAK ON DR. ORWELL WH A SWORD. IF WASN'T FOR THE VERY LARGE SAW BLA, 'S IMPLIED SUNNY WOULD W. THE BIG GUY: ESPECIALLY AT THE BEGNG WHEN HER SPECIAL ABILY WAS HER SHARP TEETH. SUNNY WAS OFTEN LLED UPON TO CHEW ROP OR ROCKS AND ONCE FOUGHT OFF A SWORD WH HER TEETH. BE OF AFFECTN: THE FIRST BOOK SHOWS THAT SHE HAS A WAY OF SHOWG HOW SHE FEELS ABOUT OTHER BY BG THEM. SHE HAT THEM IF SHE B HARD, BUT SHE LIK THEM IF SHE B SOFT. CHARACTER TICS: SUNNY LIK TO BARE OR SHARPEN HER TEETH, CHEWS ON OBJECTS WHEN SHE'S AGATED OR JT FOR FUN AND B PEOPLE GENTLY GREETG AND HARD IF SHE DON'T LIKE THEM. CHEF OF IRON: THE LATER BOOKS SHOW HER VELOPG AN APTU FOR OKG AND THE BEATRICE LETTERS MENTN GROWN-UP SUNNY DISCSG HER RECIP ON THE RAD. CHILD PRODIGY: WHAT SHE WILL FELY GROW UP TO BE. CUTE LTLE FANGS: FOUR OF THEM. USUALLY DRAWN ILLTRATNS WH THE TIP OF ONE TOOTH STICKG OUT OF HER MOUTH DEADPAN SNARKER: IN BABY TALK. ESPECIALLY PROMENT THE MOVIE AND THE NETFLIX SERI, WHERE EVERY OTHER THG SHE SAYS IS SOME KD OF SULT OR SARSM. GENRE SAVVY: SHE THE WORD "MACGUFF" TO REFER TO THE SUGAR BOWL. INTELLIGIBLE UNTELLIGIBLE: PEOPLE WHO KNOW HER WELL UNRSTAND HER. IN "THE SLIPPERY SLOPE", SUNNY TAK ADVANTAGE OF HER TENNCY TOWARDS BABY TALK AND REPEATEDLY SULTS OLAF, KNOWG HE N'T UNRSTAND HER. AND LATER BOOKS, STEAD OF GIBBERISH, SHE OFTEN SAYS WORDS (OR PARTIAL WORDS) THAT RELATE TO HER RPONSE, OR AT LEAST THE TOPIC BEG DISCSED. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN SCRIBG A SWORD FIGHT, SHE SAYS "FLYNN", WHEN SOMEBODY MENTNS A TRA, SHE SAYS "ESOOBAC", WHEN TALKG ABOUT GOG UNRVER, SHE SAYS "DRAG", AND WHEN SOMEBODY ASKS HER TO DO SOMETHG IMPOSSIBLE, SHE EXCLAIMS "UNFEASI!". EVEN TOWARD THE BEGNG OF THE SERI, SHE OFTEN SAYS THGS THAT SEEM LIKE GIBBERISH BUT ARE REAL WORDS OTHER LANGUAG, MAKG HER A BILGUAL BON. SOME HIGHLIGHTS CLU "ARIGATO", "YOMHULET", AND "YOMHASHOAH". LTLE MISS BADASS: SHE ONCE FOUGHT AGAST A SWORD-WIELDG HYPNOTIST WH HER TEETH, AND HELD HER OWN FOR A GOOD WHILE. ODD FRIENDSHIP: SHE SHAR THIS WH MONTY'S INCREDIBLY DEADLY VIPER. PT-SIZED POWERHOE: IN BETWEEN THE SHARP TEETH AND HER TELLIGENCE, SHE IS QUE FORMIDABLE FOR A BABY SUPREME CHEF: GROWS TO THIS. BY ABOUT THE 11TH BOOK, SHE KNOWS OKG AND FOOD THEORY. TROUBLG UNCHILDLIKE BEHAVR: DPE BEG THE YOUNGT BLAIRE, SUNNY IS THE DARKT AND MOST MORALLY AMBIGUO. SHE'S THE ONE LLED UPON TO FIGHT AND RORTS TO VLENCE MUCH MORE THAN HER SIBLGS (SHE'S THE ONE THAT SUGGTS BURNG DOWN THE HOTEL AND MURRG OLAF). SCE SHE'S JT A BABY, THE OVERALL EFFECT IS RATHER DISTURBG AND TRAGIC. VAGUE AGE: WHILE THE OTHER ORPHANS ARE GIVEN EXACT AG, SUNNY IS JT KNOWN AS A BABY. THIS IS PROBABLY TO KEEP HER ANTICS OM BEG TOO UNBELIEVABLE BY TYG TO AN AGE. WISE BEYOND HER YEARS: EVEN MORO THAN THE OTHER BLAIR, AS SHE'S A VERY TELLIGENT BABY.LEMONY SNICKET    LEMONY SNICKET LEMONY SNICKETTHE ARTIST HARD AT WORKTHE MYSTER NARRATOR OF THE SERI WHO HOLDS A TORCH FOR A CEASED WOMAN NAMED BEATRICE. ALTER-EGO ACTG: DANIEL HANDLER AND LEMONY SNICKET — SEPARATE CHARACTERS THE BOOKS THEMSELV. AUTHOR APPEAL: MILD EXAMPLE — DANIEL HANDLER IS SOMETHG OF A GOURMAND, AND HENCE THE LEMONY NARRATOR NEVER MISS AN OPPORTUNY TO SCRIBE SOME LIC DISH, EVEN PROVIDG A SALAD RECIPE THE MIDST OF AN URGENT-SEEMG MSAGE TO HIS SISTER EMBEDD THE TENTH BOOK.DIRECT LE TO THE AUTHOR-->DOGGED NICE GUY--> THE EEYORE: HE IS VERY SAD. THE FACELS: LARGELY BEE HE'S A WANTED CRIMAL. AVERTED THE TV SERI; NOT ONLY DO WARBURTON CLEARLY SHOW HIS FACE TO THE DIENCE, BUT THERE ARE NUMERO NON-OBSCURED PHOTOGRAPHS OF SNICKET. FIRST-PERSON PERIPHERAL NARRATOR: LEMONY SNICKER DO NOT PARTAKE THE MA STORY THE BOOKS. HE ONLY ENUNTERS THE BLAIR THE PENULTIMATE EPISO THE TV SHOW BRIEFLY, AND AN ADOLCENT VERSN OF HIS NIECE THE FALE. GREEK CHOS: LEMONY SNICKET PROVIS A NNG MENTARY ON THE EVENTS, AND OFTEN ADDRS THE REAR DIRECTLY. HERO OF ANOTHER STORY: WHILE HE MENTNS REPEATEDLY HOW HE'S NOT VERY BRAVE, HE ALSO OFTEN MENTNS BEG BIZARRE AND EXPLIBLE EXPLOS OF HIS OWN THAT WOULD PUT THE BLAIRE MISFORTUN TO SHAME. AND HE'S THE MA CHARACTER OF THE PREQUEL/SP-OFF SERI. LEMONY NARRATOR: OF URSE. LOVABLE COWARD: LEMONY SNICKET HIMSELF. IN NEARLY EVERY BOOK, WHILE NARRATG SOME TERRIFYG SUATN, HE MENTS THAT, HAD HE BEEN THE BELAIRE'S PLACE, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO GO ON AND WOULD HAVE STEAD N AWAY TERROR, DISSOLVED TO HELPLS TEARS, ETC. MY GREATT FAILURE: IN THE HOSTILE HOSPAL, HE MENTNS ONE OF HIS GREATT REGRETS IS TRODUCG BEATRICE TO ESMé SQUALOR. PLOT-BASED PHOTOGRAPH OBFTN: SNICKET NEVER SHOWS HIS FACE PHOTOGRAPHS, BUT THERE ARE SEVERAL POSSIBLE EXPLANATNS FOR WHY THIS IS, AND MOST SUCH PHOTOGRAPHS ARE ONLY SEEN BY THE DIENCE HIS THOR B RATHER THAN BY THE CHARACTERS. THIS ALSO APPLI -UNIVERSE. A NOTE THE QUAGMIRE DIARI DITE THAT SNICKET'S FACE IS NEVER SEEN A PHOTOGRAPH. AND ED, WHEN THE BLAIR FD A PHOTO OF THEIR PARENTS, THERE IS AN UNINTIFIED MAN WH HIS BACK TURNED NEXT TO THEM. PG AFTER PROTAGONIST'S PARENT: LEMONY SNICKET HOLDS A TORCH FOR A WOMAN NAMED BEATRICE, WHO IS REVEALED TO BE THE MOTHER OF PROTAGONISTS VLET, KLS, AND SUNNY. STALKER WH A CSH: INVERTED — LEMONY'S A GOOD GUY, BUT HE DO STALK THE CHILDREN OF THE WOMAN HE LOVED BUT ULDN'T HAVE SPE APPARENTLY HAVG BEEN RECIPROL AT ONE POT. UNRELIABLE NARRATOR: HIS STYLE OF WRG AS WELL AS THE SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS GIVE ONE THE SENSE LEMONY MAY VERY WELL BE THIS. HE REPEATEDLY MAK ODDLY SPECIFIC SCRIPTNS OF PEOPLE AND EVENTS YET OBSCUR THE INTI OF THE PLAYERS, SHOWG THAT TO SOME EXTENT HE'S MANIPULATG THE PERCEPTN OF HIS DIENCE. ADDNALLY, THERE'S EVINCE THAT LEMONY MAY NOT HAVE A PROPER GRASP OF HIS OWN MEMORI, PECIALLY KNOWG THAT ACRDG TO HIS "UNTHORIZED TOBGRAPHY", LEMONY HAS BEEN MORE OR LS WORKG WH V.F.D. SCE HE WAS A TODDLER.COUNT OLAF'S THEATER TROUPE    IN GENERAL COUNT OLAF'S THEATER TROUPECOUNT OLAF HAS A LARGE VARIETY OF HENCHMEN HE LLS HIS "ACTG TROUPE". CHUCK CUNNGHAM SYNDROME: THE TROUPE HAD TEN MEMBERS, NOT UNTG OLAF HIMSELF, THE FIRST BOOK, BUT ONLY FIVE NTUED APPEARG AFTER THAT. THE WART-FACED MAN WAS THE ONLY ONE TO HAVE ENOUGH PRENCE FOR HIS DISAPPEARANCE TO BE NOTICEABLE, AS THE OTHER FOUR — A WOMAN WH VERY SHORT HAIR AND THREE SHORT MEN — ARE ONLY SCRIBED BRIEF. DWDLG PARTY: STARTG AROUND THE HOSTILE HOSPAL THE HENCHMEN BEG LEAVG THE GROUP EHER VIA HEEL–FACE TURN (THE HOOK-HAND MAN AND THE WHE-FACED WOMEN) OR DYG (THE BALD MAN AND THE PERSON OF TERMATE GENR). BY THE PENULTIMATE PERIL, OF THE ORIGAL TROUPE MEMBERS PRENT SCE THE BAD BEGNG, ONLY OLAF REMAS AND THE MORE RECENT ADDNS TO THE TROUPE ARE ABANDONED TO THE HOTEL FIRE AT THE END OF THE BOOK BY OLAF. EVEN EVIL HAS LOVED ON: FERNALD HAS A SISTER, AND THE WHE-FACED WOMEN ONCE DID AS WELL. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: MOST OF THEM ARE HORRIFIED AT OLAF'S LLO DISREGARD FOR THE ATH OF THE ONE WHO LOOKS LIKE NEHER A MAN NOR A WOMAN. HYPER-COMPETENT SIKICK: SEE MASTER OF DISGUISE BELOW. MASTER OF DISGUISE: WH THE EXCEPTN OF THE ONE WHO LOOKS LIKE NEHER A MAN NOR A WOMAN, THEY'RE A LOT BETTER AT THAN OLAF; THE BLAIR NEVER SEE THROUGH THEM. MN WH AN F EVIL: IN THE ADAPTATNS. IN THE ORIGAL BOOKS THEY'RE QUE AS EVIL AS OLAF AND ARGUABLY MORE PETENT THAN HIM. PUNCH-CLOCK VILLA: ALL OF THEM, WH VARYG GRE OF ACTUAL MALICE VOLVED. SIGNIFINT ANAGRAM: EACH HAS A GO-TO ALIAS WHICH IS AN ANAGRAM OF "COUNT OLAF". THE TROPE WHOUT A TLE: PRR TO THE RNIVAL EAKS JOG THE TROUPE, EVERY ONE OF THEM IS REFERRED TO THIS WAY. THIS EVENTUALLY CHANG FOR THE HOOK-HAND MAN; THE 11TH BOOK REVEALS HIS REAL NAME AS WELL AS REVEALG THAT OLAF LLS HIM "HOOKY". VILLAO FRIENDSHIP: IT SEEMS THAT THEY ALL TLY DO ENJOY EACH OTHER'S PANY. THEY EVEN EXPRS SORROW WHEN THE PERSON WHO LOOKS LIKE NEHER A MAN NOR A WOMAN DI A FIRE.    COUNT OLAF COUNT OLAFTHE MA VILLA OF THE SERI, COUNT OLAF IS A VILLAO ACTOR WHOSE GOAL IS TO MURR THE BLAIRE CHILDREN AND STEAL THEIR FORTUNE, NO MATTER WHERE THEY GO AND HOW MANY STUPID DISGUIS HE HAS TO WEAR. HE'S REVEALED TO HAVE A NNECTN TO THE SHADOWY ANIZATN KNOWN AS V.F.D.. ABIVE PARENTS: HE'S ONE TO THE BLAIR… AN ABIVE FOSTER PARENT, ANYWAY. ADULTS ARE USELS: AVERTED — HE IS THE MOST PETENT VILLA THIS SERI AND ONLY THE BLAIR MANAGE TO THWART HIM. AGONIZG STOMACH WOUND: HOW HE FALLY B . HE LIV LONG ENOUGH TO HELP K, BUT THAT'S . ALAS, POOR VILLA: AFTER GETTG HARPOONED BY ISHMAEL, OLAF REALIZ THAT ALL OF HIS PLANS HAVE BEEN FOILED, HE HAS NOTHG LEFT TO LIVE FOR, HAVG LOST EVERYONE CLOSE TO HIM, AND HE HAS NO CHANCE OF OBTAG THE BLAIRE FORTUNE. AFTER LEARNG THAT K HAS GONE TO LABOR, HE DO WHAT VLET LLS THE SGLE GOOD ED HIS LIFE BY RRYG HER TO AN AREA WHERE CHILDBIRTH WILL BE EASIER. ALTHOUGH HE HAS EATEN AN APPLE THAT CUR HIM OF THE MSOID MYCELIUM THAT WAS RELEASED WHEN HE WAS HARPOONED, HE SUCCUMBS TO HIS HARPOON WOUND, BUT NOT BEFORE RECG THE CLOSG STANZA OF A POEM AND GIVG OUT ONE FAL "HA!" THE ALHOLIC: HIS HOE IS LTERED WH EMPTY WE BOTTL, HE GETS HEAVILY DNK AT THE DNER WHERE HE STRIK KLS, AND THE BLAIRE CHILDREN OUTRIGHT STATE TO MR. POE THAT HE "DRKS TOO MUCH WE". AMBIGUOLY RELATED: HE BE THE GUARDIAN OF THE BLAIRE CHILDREN THROUGH CLAIMG HE'S A CLOSE RELATIVE OF THEIRS. THERE IS NEVER ANY EVINCE TO SUPPORT THIS CLAIM, BUT 'S MENTNED THAT HIS HOODWKG OF THE LAW ON THIS ISSUE RELIED ON NVCG MR POE THAT "CLOST-LIVG RELATIVE" MEANS "THE RELATIVE WHO LIV CLOST"... SUGGTG THAT HE MAY STILL GENUELY BE A DISTANT . ARISTOCRATS ARE EVIL: HE IS A UNT, OR SO HE'S LLED, AND THE BIG BAD OF THE SERI. ATTENTN WHORE: HE MANDS HE BE THE CENTER OF ATTENTN AT ALL TIM, EVEN WHEN HE'S DISGUISE. ATTRACTIVE BENT-GENR: PLSIBLY A PARODY, AS THE PERSON WHO FDS THE CROSS DRSER OLAF ATTRACTIVE IS HIMSELF AN UNPLEASANT SEMI-VILLA. BAD BOSS: HE EQUENTLY YELLS AT HIS HENCHMEN, LLS THEM IDTS AND EVEN SHOWS NO REGARD FOR ANY OF THEIR ATHS. BALD OF EVIL: HE HAS LTLE-TO-NO HAIR ON HIS HEAD AND IS A WICKED DIVIDUAL. BIG BAD: OLAF IS THE MA ANTAGONIST PURSUG THE BLAIR. BIG SLEEP: HE DI OF A HARPOON GUN WOUND WH HIS EY CLOSED. BRIGHT IS NOT GOOD: COUNT OLAF HAS SHY, SHY EY, AND THEY SHE THE MOST WHEN HE'S FUR AND ABOUT TO DO SOMETHG PARTICULARLY TERRIBLE. CARD-CARRYG VILLA: HE'S PRETTY PROUD OF THE FACT THAT HE SETS FIR AND KIDNAPS CHILDREN FOR THEIR FORTUNE. CLARK KENTG: THE BLAIR NEVER FALL FOR . EVERYONE ELSE DO (SUBVERTED THE END, WHERE EVERYONE SE THROUGH HIS FAILED DISGUISE AS K SNICKET). LEMONY SNICKET'S UNOFFICIAL AUTOBGRAPHY REVEALS THAT NONE OF THE DISGUIS THAT HE'S ED THE SERI ARE EVEN OF HIS OWN VENTN, THEY'RE MOLDY LEFTOVERS OM A GENERIC V.F.D. DISGUISE K HE RECEIVED BACK WHEN HE ED TO BE A MEMBER. DEVIL PLA SIGHT: PART OF THE TRAGEDY AND DARK EDY OF THE SERI OM EVERYONE BARRG THE BLAIR BEG OBLIV EHER TO JT HOW EVIL HE IS OR WHEN HE'S WEARG A DISGUISE, SPE HOW OBV IS. CREEPY CROSSDRSER: ON TWO OCSNS, THE FIRST TIME DRSED AS A SECRETARY NAMED SHIRLEY AND THE SEND AS K SNICKET. DETERMATOR: AS HE SWEARS AT THE END OF THE FIRST BOOK, HE WILL GET THE BLAIRE FORTUNE IF 'S THE LAST THG HE DO. HE MAK GOOD ON HIS PROMISE BY HOUNDG THEM FOR THE NEXT 12 BOOKS, UNTIL HE DI. DIRTY OLD MAN: IN THE FIRST BOOK, AFTER HE MARRI VLET ON THE STAGE, HE SAYS THEY NEED TO GO HOME FOR THEIR WEDDG NIGHT. DON'T YOU DARE PY ME!: TO THE BLAIR AND K THE FAL BOOK, THOUGH NEHER PARTY WAS MUCH OF A HURRY TO DO SO. EYE MOTIFS: HE HAS IMAG OF EY ALL OVER HIS HOE AND A TATTOO OF AN EYE ON HIS ANKLE. SEEG THIS THE FIRST BOOK, THE BLAIRE CHILDREN WONR IF THEY'LL FEEL LIKE COUNT OLAF IS WATCHG THEM FOR THE RT OF THEIR LIV. INED, HE FOLLOWS THEM FOR THE NEXT 12 BOOKS. EVIL IS PETTY: COUNT OLAF FORC THE ORPHANS TO DO ALL HIS HOEHOLD CHOR WHEN THEY FIRST STAY WH HIM. ALSO, BOOK 3, HE BRIEFLY NSIRS AUNT JOSEPHE'S OFFER TO FAKE HER ATH AND LET HIM HAVE THE BLAIR, BUT CHANG HIS MD AND THROWS HER TO THE LAKE TO BE EATEN BY THE LACHRYMOSE LEECH WHEN SHE FOOLISHLY RRECTS HIS GRAMMAR. THIS QUOTE:"I THK THE FIRST THG I'LL BUY FOR MYSELF IS A SHY NEW R! SOMETHG WH A POWERFUL ENGE, SO I N DRIVE FASTER THAN THE LEGAL LIM, AND AN EXTRA-THICK BUMPER, SO I N RAM TO PEOPLE WHOUT GETTG ALL SCRATCHED UP!" EVIL LGH: ONE OF THE THOR'S MORE QUTNABLE CHOIC BOOKS 11 AND 12. EVIL OLD FOLKS: HE'S SIGNIFINTLY OLR THAN MOST OF THE ADULT CHARACTERS THE SERI AND, ON MULTIPLE OCSNS, HE'S ATTEMPTED TO KILL A BUNCH OF CHILDREN JT TO GET THEIR FORTUNE. EVIL PLAN: THROUGHOUT THE SERI HE SCHEM TO STEAL THE BLAIR CHILDREN' HERANCE, THOUGH THE MANNER CHANG. ONE TIME HE TRI TO TRICK VLET TO MARRYG HIM. EXPY: APPEARS TO BE HEAVILY BASED OFF OF OSAMU TEZA'S CHARACTER, DE RED. BOTH HAVE SIAR HAIR, A POTY NOSE, CLOTH AND THE FACT THAT BOTH CHARACTERS ARE MASTERS OF DISGUISE. FAIAL FOE: COUNT OLAF SPENDS ALL THIRTEEN BOOKS TERRORIZG THE BLAIRE SIBLGS AND ONCE VIEWED THEIR LATE PARENTS AS SWORN ENEMI. HE ALSO KILLS A UPLE OF DISTANT BLAIRE S TO FURTHER HIS PLANS. FXREIGNER: ONE OF HIS DISGUIS IS AN CTNEER OM AN AMBIGUO UNTRY NAMED GUNTHER, PLETE WH A SILLY ACCENT. HIDN DEPTHS: OLAF HAS A MYSTER PAST AND IS APPARENTLY AN ORPHAN HIMSELF. HE ALSO APPARENTLY HAD SOME SORT OF RELATNSHIP WH K SNICKET. HIGH-CLASS GLASS: AS GUNTHER. HYPOCRIL HUMOR: WHEN DISGUISED AS CAPTA SHAM, HE SAYS, "THERE A'T NOTH' BETTER THAN GOOD GRAMMAR!". ILLEGAL GUARDIAN: PLAYED UTTERLY STRAIGHT AT FIRST BOOK ONE BY CLAIMG HE IS THE "CLOST LIVG RELATIVE" THAT HE IS SUPPOSEDLY A RELATIVE AND LIV THE CLOST TO THEM PHYSILLY. IRONIC HELL: THE BLAIR ARE WONRFULLY BRIGHT AND KD CHILDREN WHO HE EQUENTLY TRI TO MURR EVEN THOUGH THEY HADN'T DONE ANYTHG TO SERVE . LATER, ESMé ADOPTS CARMELA SPATS, WHO IS A MONUMENTAL BRAT THAT ENDLSLY HARANGU AND BULLI OLAF, BUT BEE HIS GIRLIEND IS SO FOND OF HER, HE N DO LTLE BUT GRIMACE AND BEAR THE ABE. JT A STUPID ACCENT: WHILST DISGUISED AS STEPHANO AND GUNTHER. KARMA HOUDI WARRANTY: THROUGHOUT THE SERI, HIS PLANS ARE NSTANTLY THWARTED, BUT HE ALWAYS MANAG TO PE PUNISHMENT AND GO ON TO THREATEN THE BLAIR AGA. HIS STREAK FALLY TO AN END BOOK 13, WHERE HE'S SHOT WH A HARPOON GUN AND SUCCUMBS TO THE WOUND. KARMIC DEATH: THOUGH FAR TOO LATE FOR THE BLAIR' TASTE, THE TOXIC MHROOMS HE PLANNED TO E TO THREATEN HIS ENEMI DIRECTLY LED TO HIS ATH. LARGE HAM: OLAF'S ACTG IS VERY OVER-THE-TOP. IT PROBABLY HELPS THE BLAIR REGNIZE HIM ALL THE TIME. LEAN AND MEAN: SKNY AS A RAIL AND UTTERLY VILE. MANIPULATIVE BASTARD: THOUGH HAVG SAID THAT, DON'T REALLY APPEAR THAT DIFFICULT TO MANIPULATE SOMEONE THE SNICKETVERSE. THE MISTRS: TO THE ALREADY MARRIED ESMé GIGI GENEVIEVE SQUALOR. (SURPRISGLY, THE FACT THAT SHE IS MARRIED IS NEVER LAMPSHAD THE SERI.) MISTER SEAHORSE: SENT UP THE END, WHERE COUNT OLAF TRI TO DISGUISE HIMSELF AS A PREGNANT WOMAN. THE LEMONY NARRATOR STAT THAT "PREGNANCY OCCURS VERY RARELY MAL", NOTG ACTUAL SEAHORS AS AN EXCEPTN. MORALY PET: K SNICKET. THE ONLY GOOD ED HE DO HIS LIFE IS TO RRY HER TO A SAFE PLACE TO GIVE BIRTH. MYSTER PAST: DUNN AND ISADORA QUAGMIRE MENTN NEWSPAPER ARTICL THAT A MAN WH SIAR TRAS AS OLAF HAD STRANGLED A BISHOP AND PED PRISON JT TEN MUT, AND ANOTHER REPORTS OF HIM THROWG A WEALTHY WIDOW OFF A CLIFF. THE BLAIRE CHILDREN AGREE THAT SOUNDS LIKE OLAF AND BELIEVE HIM TO BE THE MAN MENTNED THE ARTICL. NOT ME THIS TIME: …MAYBE? HIS LAST MOMENTS IMPLY THAT NO, HE REALLY DIDN'T KILL MR. AND MRS. BLAIRE, EVEN THOUGH HIS PLANS OM THE BEGNG HAVE REVOLVED AROUND SEIZG THEIR FORTUNE OM THE ORPHANS THEY LEFT BEHD. GOD ONLY KNOWS IF HE WAS TELLG THE TTH — OR IF THAT'S EVEN WHAT HE MEANT. IT'S JT VAGUE ENOUGH THAT WE'LL NEVER BE SURE. JT LIKE EVERYTHG ELSE THIS SERI. OBFTG STUPIDY: THERE ARE SEVERAL STANC WHERE HE SEEMS TO DISPLAY MORE CLEVERNS THAN THE NARRATN AND HIS ANTI-TELLECTUAL ATTU SUGGTS (E.G. BEG ABLE TO REGNIZE A D FFEE STA ON A MAP). IN FACT, WHEN K SNICKET REC SOME POETRY TO HIM, HIS RPONSE IS ALONG THE L OF "YOU THK YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO N QUOTE POETRY?" THIS IS PECIALLY NOTABLE BEE WELL-READNS IS SUPPOSEDLY A TRA EXCLIVE TO THE NOBLE SI OF THE SCHISM. OLD MAN MARRYG A CHILD: HE ATTEMPTS THIS WH VLET THE FIRST BOOK AND THE FILM AND TV SERI ADAPTATNS. HE FAILS AND ATTEMPTS TO KILL VLET AND HER SIBLGS. OPPORTUNISTIC BASTARD: SCE 'S IMPLIED HE DIDN'T BURN DOWN THE BLAIRE MANSN, HE CLEARLY SAW AN OPPORTUNY FOR MONEY AND REVENGE AND TOOK . PAPER-TH DISGUISE: HIS DISGUIS ONLY EVER VER UP HIS UNIBROW AND ANKLE TATTOO, WHICH IS WHAT EVERYONE ALWAYS REGNIZ HIM BY. PET THE DOG: JT BEFORE HIS ATH, HE HELPS K SNICKET LIVER HER BABY DGHTER AND THEY SHARE A TENR MOMENT RECG POETRY. VLET EVEN NOT THAT MIGHT EVEN BE THE SOLE SELFLS ACT HIS LIFE. THE POWER OF LOVE: WHAT SNAPS HIM OUT OF HIS DPAIR EVENT HORIZON THE FAL BOOK TO AID K SNICKET ONE LAST TIME. PYROMANIAC: IT'S CLEAR THAT HE HAS AT LEAST BURNED A HOSPAL, A RNIVAL, AND A HOTEL TO GROUND AND 'S SUGGTED THAT HE ALSO BURNED THE BLAIR' MANSN, BUT SNICKET NEVER NFIRMED THE FACT. IN THE FAL BOOK, THE BLAIR NONT OLAF OVER THEIR SPICNS OF HIM BURNG DOWN THEIR MANSN. HIS IAL RPONSE IS "IS THAT WHAT YOU THK?" FOLLOWED BY "YOU KNOW NOTHG." REMPTN EQUALS DEATH: HIS LAST ACTN BEFORE DYG IS RCUG K SNICKET. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: WHILE A MAJOR ANTAGONISTIC FIGURE THE LIV OF THE BLAIR, HE'S ULTIMATELY REVEALED TO BE A B PLAYER THE WORLDS OF THEATRE, PNAGE, AND VILLAY AS THE STORY PROGRS. SMALL ROLE, BIG IMPACT: HE'S ONE OF THE PRIMARY STIGATORS OF THE VFD SCHISM, BUT AFTERWARDS, HE SPENT THE FOLLOWG S TRYG TO GET RICH THROUGH ILLIC AND LARGELY UNSUCCSFUL MONEYMAKG SCHEM, AND HIDG OUT HIS SHODDY HOME TO WA FOR HIS NEARBY RELATIV TO PASS ON SO HE ULD MAKE A GO AT THEIR FORTUNE.SMUG SNAKE:--> UNCLEANLS IS NEXT TO UNGODLS: OLAF HAS VERY POOR HYGIENE. THE UNREVEAL: DID OLAF BURN DOWN THE BLAIRE MANSN? THE FILM OF THE BOOK AT THE VERY LEAST STRONGLY SUAT HE DID, BUT THE ORIGAL BOOKS AND THE NETFLIX ADAPTATN HAVE HIM NY WHEN ASKED, AND THE LATTER S THE BLAIR HAVE NO WAY TO KNOW FOR SURE. VILLAO CSH: IMPLIED WH VLET THE FIRST BOOK SCE HIS PLANS FOR HER CLUD MARRIAGE AND THE NSUMMATN THEREOF. WANNABE SECRET AGENT: LEMONY SNICKET'S UNTHORIZED AUTOBGRAPHY REVEALS THAT HE WAS AN AGENT OF V.F.D. WHEN HE WAS A CHILD AND FOR ALL THE BEDLAM HE WAS PABLE OF, 'S HEAVILY IMPLIED THAT HE WASN'T A VERY GOOD MEMBER, BOTH TERMS OF MORALY AND PETENCY. WOOBIE, DTROYER OF WORLDS: MAYBE. IT'S IMPLIED THAT BEATRICE AND/OR BERTRAND BLAIRE AND/OR LEMONY SNICKET KILLED HIS PARENTS WH POISON DARTS DURG A PERFORMANCE OF LA FORZA L DTO. WOULD HURT A CHILD: HIS PLAN TO GET THE BLAIRE FORTUNE HAVE CLUD HIM ATTEMPTG TO KILL THE TR. ONE CLUD ATTEMPTED MARRIAGE. YOU ARE WHAT YOU HATE: OLAF, A MAN WHOSE PARENTS WERE KILLED BY POISON DARTS WHILE AT AN OPERA HOE, HAS A LICENSE PLATE WH "IH8ORPHANS" SCRIBED ON . YOU KILLED MY FATHER: THE FILM NFIRMS THAT HE WAS RPONSIBLE FOR THE ATH OFTHE BLAIR' PARENTS AND THE BURNG OF THEIR MANSN, AS KLS FDS THE GIANT MAGNIFYG GLASS RPONSIBLE FOR AND EXPOS BY BURNG THE WEDDG NTRACT. IN THE BOOKS AND THE NETFLIX ADAPTATN THE BLAIR THK HE'S RPONSIBLE, BUT WHEN THEY FALLY DIRECTLY NONT HIM ABOUT JT BEFORE HIS ATH HE NI . YOUNGER THAN THEY LOOK: HTS THROUGHOUT THE LATER BOOKS WOULD SUGGT THAT OLAF WAS V.F.D. TRAG WH K AND LEMONY, MAKG HIM AROUND 39-45, BUT HELQUIST'S ILLTRATNS PICT A MAN THAT LOOKS AROUND 50-60 YEARS OF AGE. ALSO, THE MOVIE'S PICTN. THIS MAY BE JTIFIED DUE TO HIS UNHEALTHY LIFTYLE AND FILTHY HABS GIVG HIM A PREMATURELY AGED APPEARANCE.    THE HOOK-HAND MAN O. LUFONT / HOOKY / FERNALD / THE HOOK-HAND MAN B CRASH: MIGHT HAVE DIED AFTER HIS OFFSCREEN DCHG OF OLAF. DIRTY OLD MAN: IN REGARDS TO VLET. HE NSTANTLY MENTS ON HOW PRETTY SHE IS EVEN WHEN HE HAS HER TRAPPED OLAF'S TOWER "THE BAD BEGNG". EVIL IS PETTY: HIS IA OF HAVG A GOOD DREAM IS SNEEZG WHOUT VERG HIS MOUTH AND GIVG EVERYONE THE LD. GO-TO ALIAS: LUFONT, ED BOOKS 2 AND 8, THE LATTER OF WHICH REVEALS THAT THE ALIAS ALSO CLUS THE FIRST IAL O, TO MAKE A FULL ANAGRAM OF "COUNT OLAF". HEEL–FACE REVOLVG DOOR: IT SEEMS LIKE HIS WHOLE LIFE IS A CHA OF HEEL–FACE TURN FOLLOWED BY FACE–HEEL TURN; THE ELEVENTH BOOK, HE MANAG TO DO BOTH THE SPACE OF THREE CHAPTERS. HEEL–FACE TURN: DCH OLAF WHEN HE RN WH HIS FAY. HEEL REALIZATN: WHEN FNA NONTS HIM OVER LOSG HIS HANDS, SETTG FIR AS THE DAILY PUNCTIL REPORTS AND LEARNG HE IS ONE OF OLAF'S HENCHMEN. HE DON'T NY HAVG SET THE FIR AND HAS THE GALL TO BLAME A ATHLY-ILL SUNNY FOR GETTG HIM TO SO MUCH TROUBLE, BUT HE ADMS THAT JOG OLAF'S BAND WAS NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR. SO MUCH THAT THEY PE TOGETHER AN OFFSCREEN MOMENT OF AWOME OM OLAF AFTER FNA BE A FAKE DEFECTOR. HOOK HAND: BOTH OF HIS HANDS. BOTH THE BOOK AND THE FILM PICT THEM AS STANDARD PIRATE HOOKS WHILST THE NETFLIX VERSN HAS THEM AS MORE REALISTIC PROSTHETICS. MORALY CHA: HIS YOUNGER SISTER FNA. WHEN SHE PLEADS WH HIM TO HELP HER AND THE BLAIR, HE AGRE, ON THE NDN THAT HE N GO WH THEM. SHORTLY AFTERWARD, WHEN THAT PLAN FAILS, FNA BE A FAKE DEFECTOR, AND THEY BOTH PE OM OLAF AN OFFSCREEN MOMENT OF AWOME. MYSTER PAST: IT'S NOT KNOWN EXACTLY HOW HE LOST HIS HANDS, OTHER THAN THE POSSIBILY THAT ARSON WAS VOLVED. HOW HIS BURNG OF ANWHISTLE AQUATICS WENT DOWN IS LIKEWISE UNCERTA. HE SAYS THAT THE DAILY PUNCTILL'S ACUNTG OF EVENTS IS ACCURATE AND THE NARRATN IMPLI THAT HIS STEPFATHER AND/OR LEMONY MIGHT HAVE PLAYED A ROLE, BUT THAT'S ABOUT . NO FULL NAME GIVEN: WHILE THE GRIM GROTTO REVEALS HIS FIRST NAME, AN ARTICLE THE DAILY PUNCTIL ERRONEOLY GIV HIS NAME AS "FERNALD WIDRSHS". HE SISTS THAT 'WIDRSHS' ISN'T ACTUALLY HIS LAST NAME, BUT WHAT IS ISN'T REVEALED. SCREW THIS, I'M OUTTA HERE: IN THE 12TH BOOK, DCH OLAF WH HIS SISTER OFF-PAGE. STEALTH MENTOR: IN THE ERSATZ ELEVATOR, HE DRAWS ATTENTN TO THE FACT THAT OLAF NEVER LEFT THE BUILDG, THEN SUBTLY TIPS THE BLAIR OFF THAT THEY SHOULD LOOK AT THE ELEVATOR MORE CLOSELY. ONCE WE LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM, THIS STARTS TO MAKE MORE SENSE. THIS MAY BE THE SE AS FAR BACK AS THE FIRST BOOK. THOUGH HE LIVERS AS A THREAT, HE GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO WARN THE BLAIR THAT OLAF WILL KILL THEM IF HE SUCCEEDS GETTG THEIR FORTUNE. YOUNGER THAN THEY LOOK: THOUGH HIS AGE ISN'T STATED, HE'S APPARENTLY YOUNG ENOUGH TO HAVE A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD SISTER, THOUGH 'S IMPLIED THAT THERE'S A SIGNIFINT GAP, HE'S LIKELY BETWEEN 25-30.    THE BALD MAN WH A LONG NOSE FLACUTONO / THE BALD MAN WH A LONG NOSE ADAPTATN NAME CHANGE: MERELY "BALD MAN" BOTH ADAPTATNS, AS NEHER OF THE ACTORS TO PLAY HIM HAS A LONG NOSE. BALD OF EVIL: BALD AND ONE OF THE BIG BAD'S MNSS. CHARACTER DEATH: EATEN BY LNS. DIRTY OLD MAN: IN REGARDS TO VLET. SHE EVEN NSIRS HIM THE SRIT OF OLAF'S MNS, PARTIALLY DUE TO THIS. GO-TO ALIAS: FLACUTONO, ED BOOKS 4 AND 8. KICK THE DOG: THOUGH TRIPPG KLS AND BREAKG HIS GLASS THE 4TH BOOK WAS PART OF THE PLAN, HE DIDN'T NEED TO ENJOY SO MUCH. IT'S ALSO SEEN HIS DISGUISE AS FOREMAN FLACUTONO THE SAME BOOK, WHERE HE TREATS THE L WORKERS VERY LY AND POORLY. SISTER SCHNOZ: ONE OF HIS FG TRAS.    THE TWO WHE-FACED WOMEN TOCUNA AND FLO / THE TWO WHE-FACED WOMEN EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: THE REASON FOR THEIR HEEL–FACE TURN IS THEIR GROWG SYMPATHY TOWARDS A PTIVE SUNNY (WHO MIGHT HAVE REMD THEM OF THEIR LATE SISTER) AND THEIR SPICN THAT OLAF WAS RPONSIBLE FOR THEIR SIBLG'S ATH. THEY'RE ALSO THE ON TO POT OUT TO THE RT OF THE GROUP THAT HAVG A PTIVE FANT HANDLE ALL THE OKG AND THEN PUNISHG SAID FANT FOR NOT MAKG A GOURMET MEAL MIGHT BE A LTLE UNREASONABLE. GO-TO ALIAS: THOUGH THEY DON'T HAVE ALIAS THEIR LUNCHLADY DISGUIS, BOOK 8 IMPLI THEY UALLY GO BY "TOCUNA" AND "FLO", WHICH TOGETHER FORM ANOTHER "COUNT OLAF" ANAGRAM. HEEL–FACE TURN: IN BOOK 10, THEY GET TIRED OF HEARG ABOUT ALL THE TERRIBLE THGS OLAF HAS DONE, AS REMDS THEM OF THEIR SPICN THAT OLAF SET THE FIRE THAT KILLED THEIR SISTER. NAMED BY THE ADAPTATN: JANE AND JEN THE FILM AND VIO GAME. A SE OF THE DANZA WH THEM BEG PLAYED BY JANE ADAMS AND JENNIFER COOLIDGE. SCREW THIS, I'M OUTTA HERE: IN BOOK 10, THEY WALK AWAY OM OLAF'S MP AND ARE NEVER SEEN AGA.    THE ONE THAT LOOKS LIKE NEHER A MAN NOR A WOMAN THE ONE THAT LOOKS LIKE NEHER A MAN NOR A WOMAN ADAPTATNAL ATTRACTIVENS: DCRIBED AS VERY FAT THE BOOKS, BUT NOT FAT THE MOVIE OR TV SERI. ADAPTATN NAME CHANGE: BOTH ADAPTATNS REFER TO THEM AS "PERSON OF INTERMATE GENR". AMBIGUO GENR: HENCE THE NAME. CHARACTER DEATH: DIED THE FIRE THAT STROYED HEIMLICH HOSPAL. THE DREAD: JUDGG BY VLET AND KLS'S REACTNS TO FDG THEM THE SAILBOAT RENTAL SHACK. FAT BASTARD: IMMENSELY FAT AND MONSTROLY EVIL THE BOOKS. AVERTED THE FILM AND THE NETFLIX VERSNS, WHERE THEY ARE PORTRAYED AS MORE AVERAGE SIZE. GENR FLIP: OF A SORT. THOUGH ORIGALLY SCRIBED AS A PERSON WHOSE GENR IS TERMATE, BOTH ADAPTATNS PICT THEM AS A MAN WH A SLIGHTLY FEME FASHN SENSE. NO-SELL: SUNNY'S TEETH WHICH ARE SHARP ENOUGH TO CUT WOOD, BE OFF PROSTHETIC HANDS, FIGHT EVENLY WH A SWORD, AND CUT TO STONE/NCRETE HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO EFFECT ON THEM! STOUT STRENGTH: IS ABLE TO LIFT ALL THREE ORPHANS WH NO PROBLEM. THE VOICELS: IT'S IMPLIED THAT THEY N SPEAK AT LEAST TO OLAF, AS THEY APPARENTLY RM OLAF THAT THE ORPHANS STOLE ONE OF HIS SAILBOATS. EHER WAY, THEY NEVER SPEAK ANYTHG OTHER THAN HUMAN GROANS, FURTHER OBFTG THEIR GENR.    THE WART-FACED MAN THE WART-FACED MAN CHUCK CUNNGHAM SYNDROME: HE APPEARS WH THE RT OF THE TROUPE THE FIRST BOOK AND P WH THEM, BUT NEVER APPEARS AGA. HYPER-COMPETENT SIKICK: IS THE ONE WHO TURNS OFF THE LIGHTS SO COUNT OLAF AND HIS HENCHMEN N PE. INFORMED ATTRIBUTE: HE IS NOTED AS BEG "IMPORTANT LOOKG", BUT WHAT EXACTLY MAK HIM IMPORTANT IS NOT CLEAR. THOUGH THE BIG FISH VIO GAME PICTED HIM A SU AND TIE. RIDDLE FOR THE AG: SERLY, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THIS GUY? A SONG RERD FOR THE TRAGIC TREASURY, "SCREAM AND RUN AWAY", MENTNS "ONE LONG-NOSED BALD MAN WH WARTS", DITG THAT HE MAY HAVE BEEN RETROACTIVELY BED WH THE BALD MAN.    THE CARNIVAL FREAKS THE CARNIVAL FREAKS ARSON, MURR, AND JAYWALKG: HUGO THE HUNCHBACK, COLETTE THE NTORTNIST, AND KEV... WHO IS AMBIXTRO. CONTORTNIST: COLETTE WORKS AS ONE THE CARNIVORO CARNIVAL. NICE, MEAN, AND IN-BETWEEN: HUGO (NICE) IS POLE AND DO MOST OF CHOR THE RAVAN. KEV (MEAN) IS WAS THE LEAST POLE TO BLAIR OM THE START, BELTL OTHER'S PROBLEMS (MOST NOTABLY THE HOOK-HAND MAN'S PROBLEMS)AND IS THE MOST WILLG TO JO OLAF. COLETTE (-BETWEEN) IS POLE AND PASSNATE BUT DO LS THAN HUGO. I JT WANT TO BE NORMAL: THE REASON THEY JO OLAF. SUBVERTED BY THE FACT THAT MOST PEOPLE DO ED THK THEY'RE DISGTG EAKS. PROPERLY PARANOID: KEV IS NVCED THAT EVERYONE IS WHISPERG ABOUT HIM ALL THE TIME, JT BEE HE'S AMBIXTRO. THERE IS NO REASON FOR PEOPLE TO THK THERE'S ANYTHG DIFFERENT ABOUT HIM AT FIRST GLANCE, BUT HE APPEARS TO THK THERE IS, EVEN ACCG THE BLAIR OF G TO CALIGARI CARNIVAL TO LGH AT HIM. AS TURNS OUT, MOST PEOPLE DO THK HE'S JT AS EAKY AS HUGO AND COLETTE.THE BLAIR' OTHER GUARDIANS    UNCLE MONTY DR. MONTGOMERY "MONTY" MONTGOMERY COOL OLD GUY: IMPLIED TO HAVE BEEN AT LEAST SOMEWHAT OLR (HE ONCE CLAIMS THAT HE'S BEEN STUDYG HERPETOLOGY FOR FORTY YEARS) AND ONE OF THE MORE FUN GUARDIANS THE ORPHANS HAVE HAD. GOOD PARENTS: OUT OF ALL THE ELS ADULTS THE SERI, MONTY STANDS OUT AS THE BT RETAKER THE BLAIR EVER HAD. IT DON'T LAST. NICE GUY: HAS A VERY PLEASANT ATTU AND THE BLAIR EVEN LL HIM "THE BT GUARDIAN THEY'VE EVER HAD". REPETIVE NAME: DR. MONTGOMERY MONTGOMERY. IT'S FOR THIS REASON HE'D PREFER IF PEOPLE LL HIM "MONTY MONTGOMERY". RIGHT FOR THE WRONG REASONS: FIGURED OUT THAT OLAF WAS UP TO NO GOOD... BUT THOUGHT HE WAS A SPY FOR THE HERPETOLOGIL SOCIETY. WE HARDLY KNEW YE: OLAF KILLS HIM BY THE END OF THE SEND BOOK.    AUNT JOSEPHE JOSEPHE ANWHISTLE ASSHOLE VICTIM: IT'S KD OF HARD TO FEEL SORRY FOR HER AFTER SHE SELLS THE BLAIRE CHILDREN TO COUNT OLAF HOP OF BEG SPARED, EVEN THOUGH THE CHILDREN STILL HOPED THAT SHE WAS OKAY. LEMONY SNICKET HIMSELF HOWEVER, SAID THAT SHE WAS NO DOUBT A BAD GUARDIAN FOR LETTG THE CHILDREN GO. DIRTY COWARD: HER PARANOIA SCENDS TO THIS TROPE AT THE CLIMAX OF THE WI WDOW WHEN SHE SELLS THE BLAIRE CHILDREN TO COUNT OLAF TO SAVE HER SK. DRIVEN TO SUICI: SUBVERTED WH AUNT JOSEPHE. SHE'S FORCED TO WRE A LETTER UNR OLAF'S THREATS AND MAK LOOK LIKE SHE JUMPED OUT OF A WDOW. HOWEVER, SHE JT BROKE THE WDOW AND MA HER PE TO CURDLED CAVE. GRAMMAR NAZI: HER ENTIRE SCHTICK. WELL, THAT AND PARANOIA. WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE SNAK?: SHE'S TERRIFIED OF, WELL, ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHG. EXCEPT V, SEEMS; THE ORPHANS ARE ABLE TO AX HER OUT OF A VE BY PLAYG ON HER FEAR OF REALTORS, OF ALL THGS.    SIR AND CHARL SIR AND CHARL AMBIGUOLY GAY: SCE THEIR "PARTNERSHIP" CLEARLY ISN'T A BS ONE, 'S IMPLIED THEY'RE A UPLE. SNICKET GO A B FARTHER THAN IMPLYG THE TV SERI. CHARL IS SCRIBED AS SIR'S PARTNER WHEN FIRST TRODUCED, AND WHILE THE CHILDREN THK HE MEANS BS PARTNER, HE IS NEVER ACTUALLY SEEN DOG ANYTHG FOR THE BS. SIR EXPLAS THEY SPL 50/50, YET HE DO NOT GET A SAY BS CISNS. HIS ROLE IS A DOMTIC ONE, SIAR TO A HOEWIFE. HE OKS AND CLEANS FOR HIM, AND SIR BUILDS HIM A LIBRARY. IT IS IMPLIED HE'S ACTUALLY HIS ROMANTIC PARTNER AND THE CHILDREN PURELY MIXED UP THE TERMS DOMTIC PARTNER AND BS PARTNER. LATER ON, WHEN THEY BOTH APPEAR AGA THE PENULTIMATE PERIL, THEIR RELATNSHIP IS EVEN MORE DIRECTLY QUEER. THEY ARE SEEN SHARG A HOTEL ROOM MATCHG PYJAMAS AND BATH ROB. THEY ARE ALSO SEEN TOGETHER A SNA WHERE SIR MAK AN ALMOST SEXUAL NUENDO TOWARDS HIM, SAYG THAT HE "LIK THE SMELL OF HOT WOOD." BOTH OF THEM A SNA TOGETHER ULD BE A REFERENCE TO THE NNECTNS SNAS AND GAY CULTURE HAD AT THE TIME, WH GAY BATHHO BEG ED AS A SAFE SPACE TO ENGAGE WH EACH OTHER ROMANTILLY. WHEN THEY ARE LAST SEEN TOGETHER, BEFORE THEIR IMPLIED ATH THEY ARE SEEN HOLDG EACH OTHERS HANDS TO STAY TOGETHER. IN THE PANN BOOK THE BEATRICE LETTERS, THERE'S A PART OF A LETTER THAT MIGHT BE REFERRG TO THEIR RELATNSHIP, AS THE IALS ARE THE SAME:BEATRICE: I WILL LOVE YOU UNTIL C. REALIZ S. IS NOT WORTHY OF HIS LOVE. BAD BOSS: SIR PAYS HIS EMPLOYE UPONS AND FEEDS THEM ONLY GUM. CIGAR CHOMPER: SIR IS RARELY SEEN WHOUT A CIGAR HIS MOUTH, AND HIS PREFERRED BRAND EMS SO MUCH SMOKE THAT OBSCUR HIS FACE. IN THE TV SERI, HE CLAIMS THAT HE HAT CIGARS, BUT HAS TO SMOKE THEM BEE HE'S THE BOSS. CORPT CORPORATE EXECUTIVE: SIR IS THE AMORAL, CIGAR-SMOKG LUMBERL OWNER WHO PAYS HIS WORKERS UPONS AND GIV THEM GUM FOR LUNCH; A LATER APPEARANCE, BS IS BAD, AS THE NEARBY LUMBER SOURCE, THE FE FORT, IS NNG OUT OF TRE. DARK AND TROUBLED PAST: ACRDG TO CHARL, SIR HAS A TERRIBLE CHILDHOOD. EXTREME DOORMAT: CHARL. AS SEEN UNR AMBIGUOLY GAY, POSSIBLY ACTUALLY A HENPECKED HBAND. THE FACELS: SIR'S FACE IS ALWAYS OBSCURED BY CIGAR SMOKE. THE ONE TIME HE'S SEEN WHOUT A CIGAR, HE'S A SNA AND HIS FACE STILL N'T BE SEEN. AS WH SNICKET, AVERTED THE TV SERI. NO NAME GIVEN: SIR. EVINTLY HE FDS EASIER THAN TEACHG PEOPLE HOW TO PRONOUNCE HIS NAME. SHOUT-OUT: SIR OWNS A BATHROBE MONOGRAMMED WH "LS", WHICH ONCE BELONGED TO AN THOR. THE IMPLITN IS EHER THAT HE STOLE OM SNICKET, OR THAT HE STOLE OM LOUIS SACHAR, WHO THEN WROTE HIM TO HOL AS THE VILLA MR. SIR. THE UNPRONOUNCEABLE: MR. POE MAK SEVERAL ATTEMPTS AT PRONOUNCG SIR'S NAME, BUT N ONLY GET ONE SYLLABLE . AND 'S A PLETELY DIFFERENT SYLLABLE EACH TIME.    JEROME SQUALOR JEROME SQUALOR CHEKHOV'S GUNMAN: HE'S A JS.DOGGED NICE GUY--> HENPECKED HBAND: FOR ESMé. IRONIC NAME: HE LIV AN EXPENSIVE PENTHOE, BUT HIS SURNAME IS 'SQUALOR'.V.F.D.    IN GENERAL THE V.F.D. ARE A SHADOWY ANIZATN THAT EVERYONE — OM OLAF TO THE BLAIR' PARENTS — IS NNECTED TO. BEETHOVEN WAS AN ALIEN SPY: THE NARRATOR AND HIS RAS IMPLY THAT V.F.D. DAT BACK TO ANCIENT GREECE, THAT MART LUTHER KG, EDH WHARTON, AND THOMAS MALTH WERE VOLVED WH — ALTHOUGH MALTH WAS ON THE EVIL SI OF THE SCHISM — AND THAT SHAKPEARE MAY BE ALIVE. HOWEVER, THE MAY BE THE RULT OF REVISNISM ACRDANCE WH V.F.D.'S OWN VIEWS. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: SOME MEMBERS QUALIFY AS THIS. DARK AND TROUBLED PAST: MOST ADULTS HAVE THIS DUE TO THEIR VOLVEMENT OM AN EARLY AGE WH V.F.D.. THE GHOST: THE SERI HAS A WI BACKSTORY AND SEVERAL CHARACTERS ARE ONLY EVER REFERRED TO. THE MOST NOTABLE EXAMPLE IS PROBABLY R., THE DUCHS OF WNIPEG. GREY-AND-GREY MORALY: INIALLY IMPLIED TO BE AN ANIZATN FIGHTG AGAST PEOPLE LIKE OLAF, 'S LATER SUGGTED THEY AREN'T SO DIFFERENT. BOTH SIS REGULARLY KIDNAP CHILDREN TO REC THEM FOR THEIR OWN PURPOS. OLAF'S PARENTS MIGHT HAVE EVEN BEEN KILLED BY THEM. KNIGHT TEMPLAR: GREGOR ANWHISTLE, WHO WANTED TO E THE ADLY MSOID MYCELIUM ON V.F.D.'S ENEMI. MILKMAN CONSPIRACY: A SECRET NSPIRACY THAT MANY CHARACTERS ARE VOLVED SOME WAY, MAK LIBERAL E OF SECRET S, HAS BEEN GOG ON FOR CENTURI AND WAS SUBJECT TO A SCHISM LONG AGO... BASED ON THE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. MYSTER PAST: ON ONE LEVEL, MANY TAILS ABOUT V.F.D.'S HISTORY ARE UNKNOWN AND WE DON'T KNOW HOW THE SCHISM HAPPENED (THE CLOST BEG THAT HAPPENED WHEN CHARACTERS LIKE THE SNICKET SIBLGS, THE BLAIRE PARENTS AND OLAF WERE VERY YOUNG). ON ANOTHER, ALMOST NONE OF THE BACKSTORI OF THE DIVIDUAL MEMBERS ARE FULLY REVEALED AND WHAT WE DO KNOW RAIS AS MANY QUTNS AS ANSWERS (WHICH IS PAR FOR THE URSE FOR THE SERI). THE OMNISCIENT COUNCIL OF VAGUENS: V.F.D., AND SPECIFILLY THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETG OF THE VAGUE "BUILDG COMMTEE" THE UNTHORIZED AUTOBGRAPHY — EVEN THE THOR DIDN'T KNOW SOME OF WHAT WAS BEG DISCSED HERE, AND HE WAS TECHNILLY ATTENDANCE. PSYCHOPATHIC MANCHILD: THEIR MEMBERS NSIST OF THOSE ABDUCTED OM THEIR PARENTS OR HAVE HAD THEM RENRED ABSENTIA DUE TO AN OUTSI CINT. THE ANISATN, WHILE HAVG MANY BRILLIANT PEERS FOR THE YOUTHS, DON'T HAVE ANYTHG THE WAY OF A PARENTAL SUBSTUTE LEAVG THEM IMMATURE AND OTHERWISE EMOTNALLY AND MENTALLY STUNTED SPE OF THEIR GREAT TALENTS. SPY SPEAK: V.F.D., BEG A SECRET ANISATN, NATURALLY P QUANTI OF THIS, SO MUCH SO THAT THERE HAVE BEEN DISPUT AMONG REARS OVER WHETHER CERTA PHRAS ARE OR NOT."THE WORLD IS QUIET HERE." "I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS WAS A SAD OCSN." THEME INIALS: ONCE THE CHILDREN LEARN OF THE IALS, THEY TRY TO FD OUT WHAT THEY ULD POSSIBLY STAND FOR. THIS LEADS TO THEM GOG ALL OVER THE PLACE THE HOP THAT THEY N LEARN THE NNECTN WH THEIR FAY. THEY ACTUALLY STAND FOR "VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT".    MR. AND MRS. BLAIRE MR. AND MRS. BLAIRETHE CEASED PARENTS OF THE BLAIRE ORPHANS. ALLERATIVE NAME: THEIR NAM BOTH START WH THE LETTER 'B', BERTRAND AND BEATRICE. POSTHUMO CHARACTER: THEY PERISH THE FIRST PAG OF THE BOOK SERI. RED HERRG: THE OCSNAL IMPLITN THAT THEY'RE STILL ALIVE NEVER AMOUNTS TO ANYTHG. THE NETFLIX SERI SPENDS S ENTIRE FIRST SEASON IMPLYG THAT THE CHARACTERS PLAYED BY WILL ART AND COBIE SMULRS ARE THE BLAIR, ONLY FOR THE SEVENTH EPISO TO REVEAL THEY'RE ACTUALLY THE PARENTS OF THE QUAGMIRE TRIPLETS.    MS. K (UNMARKED SPOILERS) K SNICKETLEMONY AND JAQU SNICKET'S SISTER. IMPERILED PREGNANCY: SHE'S THIS BY THE TIME SHE GIV BIRTH — AFTER BEG ATTACKED BY THE GREAT UNKNOWN, SHE WASH UP HURT ON THE ISLAND, AND IS FECTED BY THE SPOR OF THE MSOID MYCELIUM. LAST EPISO, NEW CHARACTER SHE FIRST APPEARS AT THE VERY END OF THE THIRD-TO-LAST BOOK AND A MAJOR CHARACTER THE LAST TWO BOOKS. MISSG MOM: LIKE HER LOVER, UNTENTNALLY LEAV THEIR CHILD ORPHANED AFTER HER ATH. MORALY PET: FOR COUNT OLAF. HIS ONE GOOD, AND FAL ACT IS TO GET HER TO A SAFE PLACE TO GIVE BIRTH. WALKG SPOILER: WE AREN'T KIDDG WHEN WE SAY EVERYTHG ABOUT HER IS A GIANT SPOILER, PECIALLY SCE SHE DON'T APPEAR UNTIL THE END OF THE SERI.OTHER CHARACTERS    BEATRICE BEATRICESNICKET'S LOST LOVE, OFTEN ALLUD TO. DEDITN: EVERY BOOK IS DITED TO HER, ACPANIED BY A POETIC WAY OF EXPLAG THAT SHE'S CEASED. THE LOST LENORE: TO SNICKET. POSTHUMO CHARACTER: AS SNICKET POETILLY MAK CLEAR EVERY BOOK DITN. THE REVEAL: THE FAL PARAGRAPH OF THE SERI REVEALS WHAT ROLE SHE HAD THE STORY BIS HER PAST RELATNSHIP WH SNICKET: SHE WAS THE BLAIRE SIBLGS' MOTHER. WALKG SPOILER: GOOD LUCK TRYG TO DISCS BEATRICE WHOUT SPOILG THE BIG TWIST.    GERALDE JULIENNE GERALDE JULIENNE IMMORAL JOURNALIST: SHE'S READY TO PUBLISH ANYTHG THE DAILY PUNCTIL, PROVID MAK A GOOD STORY. FOR EXAMPLE, AFTER THE EVENTS OF THE VILE VILLAGE, THE PUNCTIL PUBLISH AN ARTICLE ACCG THE BLAIR OF COUNT OLAF'S MURR AND FORCG THEM TO STAY ON THE N FOR THE RT OF THE BOOKS.    MR. POE MR. POETHE BANKER WHO IS CHARGE OF THE BLAIR' AFFAIRS AFTER THE ATH OF THEIR PARENTS. ADULTS ARE USELS: THERE ARE MANY ELS ADULTS THE SERI (AND THAT'S AN UNRSTATEMENT!), BUT MR. POE IS, BY FAR, THE ELST ONE OF ALL — AND WE'RE CLUDG OLAF, AUNT JOSEPHE AND JEROME THAT; THEY, AT LEAST, HAVE REASONS FOR THEIR ELSNS — POE IS JT AN OUTRIGHT IDT WH NO REEMG QUALI, EXCEPT POSSIBLY FOR THE FACT THAT HE DO GENUELY WANT WHAT'S BT FOR THE KIDS SPE BEG REALLY BAD AT GETTG THAT FOR THEM. AOP AMNIA: HE NSTANTLY FETS THAT THE BLAIR ARE ACTUALLY PETENT, TELLIGENT, AND JTIFIED THEIR SPICNS, AFTER THEY'VE PROVEN THEMSELV TIME AND AGA. HE EVEN SUGGTS THEY MIGHT BE LETTG THEIR IMAGATNS N AWAY WH THEM WHEN THEY SIST CAPTA SHAM IS OLAF, CG HOW THEY BELIEVED THE SAME OF STEPHANO—WHO WAS COUNT OLAF, AND WHOSE UNMASKG POE WAS PRENT FOR. CHARACTER TICS: COUGHG. DEPARTMENT OF CHILD DISSERVIC: A SORT OF ONE-MAN VERSN, DUMPG THE BLAIR WH ONE EVIL AND/OR UTTERLY PETENT GUARDIAN AFTER ANOTHER, THE SOLE EXCEPTN BEG BOOK 2 AND POSSIBLY 3. FREAK OUT: AS BOOK THE SEND REVEALS, HE JUMPS AROUND AND BABBL HERENTLY WHEN HE PANICS. HATE SK: WHILE NOT EXPLICLY MEAN OR UNPLEASANT, HIS STUPIDY, NSCENDG ATTU, AND DOWNRIGHT ELSNS IS AS TRATG TO THE DIENCE AS IS TO THE ORPHANS, EVEN COUNT OLAF DON'T SEEM TO LIKE HIM. HORRIBLE JUDGE OF CHARACTER: MR. POE TOWARDS NEARLY EVERY PERSON HE HAS PLACED THE BLAIR WH, PECIALLY ONCE HE STARTS NNG OUT OF RELATIV WILLG TO TAKE THEM. EVEN THE SE OF UNCLE MONTY, BY FAR THE MOST PETENT PARENTAL FIGURE THE BLAIR GET, HE FDS MONTY'S NICE GUY NATURE TIMIDATG SOMEHOW. IDT HOUDI: HE'S NEVER PUNISHED FOR HIS NSTANT PETENCE. IRONIC ECHO: A RECURRG SCHTICK OF HIS, UALLY APPEARG IMMEDIATELY AFTER EACH BOOK'S REP OF PAST EVENTS, IS THAT HIS THOUGHT PROCS IS ALWAYS ON THE EXACT OPPOSE WAVELENGTH AS THAT OF SNICKET OR THE BLAIR. PUT ON A B: AFTER THE VILE VILLAGE DUE TO THE BLAIR BEG ON THE N. HE REAPPEARS AT THE END OF THE GRIM GROTTO, BUT THE BLAIR IMMEDIATELY SEE THAT HE WON'T BE OF ANY HELP AND LEAVE WHOUT HIM. RIDDLE FOR THE AG: THE REASON FOR HIS NSTANT UGHG IS NEVER EXPLAED.    JTICE STRSS JTICE STRSSCOUNT OLAF'S NEIGHBOR, A JUDGE. CHEKHOV'S GUNMAN: SHE'S A JS. GOOD PARENTS: AS SOON AS SHE ARRIV, SHE MAK VERY CLEAR THAT SHE WOULD MAKE THE PERFECT MOTHER FIGURE FOR THE ORPHANED BLAIR. SO, OBVLY, SHE'S PLETELY FOTTEN FOR MOST OF THE STORY AND ANY HOPE OF HER ADOPTG THEM GO OUT THE WDOW. NO NAME GIVEN: JTICE STRSS IS HER TLE, NOT HER REAL NAME. REFORMED CRIMAL: SHE ED TO STEAL HORS HER YOUTH. THIS IS WHY SHE N RELATE WH ESMé. UNWTG PAWN: SHE'S BEEN KEEPG TABS ON THE BLAIR WH HER LLEAGU WHO TURN OUT TO BE THE MAN WH THE BEARD BUT NO HAIR AND THE WOMAN WH THE HAIR BUT NO BEARD. CONSEQUENTLY, THEY HAVE BEEN FEEDG THIS RMATN DIRECTLY TO OLAF, WHICH IS HOW HE ALWAYS FDS THE CHILDREN WHEREVER THEY GO.    PHIL PHILA LUMBERL WORKER WHO IS AN OPTIMIST. AN ARM AND A LEG: HE LOS HIS LEG A LUMBERL ACCINT. IT DON'T FAZE HIM MUCH. CHUCK CUNNGHAM SYNDROME: DPE HAVG JT BEEN BROUGHT BACK AFTER AN ABSENCE OF SEVEN BOOKS. THE POLLYANNA: EXCCIATGLY OPTIMISTIC, TO THE POT WHERE LOSG HIS LEG DON'T BOTHER HIM THAT MUCH. UNCERTA DOOM: DUE TO THE THOR FETTG HE WAS THE GRIM GROTTO, HE ISN'T MENTNED THE END, LEAVG HIS FATE EVEN MORE UNCLEAR THAN EVERYONE ELSE'S.    NERO NEROTHE VICE PRCIPAL OF POCK PREP. DEAN BTERMAN: HE IS THE VICE PRCIPAL AND HE IS VERY NASTY AND CEL. DREADFUL MICIAN: NERO, AS SNICKET PUTS , HAS NO IA HOW TO PLAY THE VL BUT SISTS ON DOG SO ANYWAY. EVIL IS PETTY: VICE PRCIPAL NERO LIK TO PUNISH STUNTS WHO MISS HIS VL RECALS BY FORCG THEM TO BUY A BAG OF NDY FOR HIM AND WATCH HIM EAT ALL. GIFTEDLY BAD: NERO THKS HE'S A SUPER GENI AND EXPERT VL MICIAN, BUT IS REALLY A STUPID JERKASS MANCHILD WHO N'T PLAY THE VL AT ALL. NOHELS, HE FORC ALL THE STUNTS TO ATTEND 6 HOUR VL NCERTS WH HIM PLAYG THE VL HORRIBLY EVERY NIGHT. MEANGFUL NAME: VICE PRCIPAL NERO, LIKE THE ROMAN EMPEROR HE TAK HIS NAME OM, IS A CALIGULA-LIKE FIGURE WHO PLAYS THE VL. PSYCHOPATHIC MANCHILD: VICE PRCIPAL NERO ACTS LIKE A FIVE-YEAR OLD BRAT QUE OFTEN, MIMICKG PEOPLE, PUNISHG STUNTS BY MAKG THEM GIVE HIM BAGS OF NDY AND FORCG THEM TO WATCH HIM EAT , ETC. SADIST TEACHER: NERO IS RELATIVELY SUBTLE HIS TORMENT OF HIS STUNTS. FOR STANCE, THE PUNISHMENT FOR MISSG ONE OF HIS SIX-HOUR VL NCERTS IS TO BE FORCED TO BUY A BAG OF NDY AND WATCH NERO EAT . THE GLUM EXPRSNS ON THE FAC OF SUCH STUNTS STANDS OUT THE FETERIA JT AS MUCH AS THOSE WHO HAVE NO SILVERWARE, NO CUP, OR THEIR HANDS TIED BEHD THEIR BACK FOR ASSORTED OTHER TRANSGRSNS.    MR. REMORA AND MS. BASS MR. REMORA AND MS. BASS ANIMAL MOTIFS: DPE THEIR FISH NAM, THEY'RE SAID TO REMBLE GORILLAS. REMORA IS A BULKY MAN WH THICK BLACK HAIR ALWAYS SRFG DOWN BANANAS, WHILE MS. BASS'S LONG BLACK HAIR AND PROWLG AROUND GIVE OFF A SIAR IMPRSN. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: MR. REMORA AND MS. BASS ARE... RATHER ODD SORTS OF TEACHERS. IN REMORA'S CLASS, ONE LISTENS TO REMORA TELL BIZARRE THREE-SENTENCE-LONG STORI WH NO PARTICULAR POT; BASS'S CLASS, ONE SIMPLY MEASUR ASSORTED OBJECTS (WH THE METRIC SYSTEM!). QUIZZ AND TTS VOLVE REMEMBERG THE TAILS OF THE STORI AND MEASURED OBJECTS. DUMBASS HAS A POT: DPE ALL THEIR LACK OF PROFSNALISM AS TEACHERS, THEY JTIFIEDLY, IF UNSUCCSFULLY, LOBBY NERO TO EXPELL NOTORLY STUPID AND ATTENTIVE CARMELA AND ALLOW THE BLAIR TO REMA THE POCK. HIDN DEPTHS: MR. REMORA, A TYPIL ELS ADULT HIS FIRST APPEARANCE, IS ONE OF THE FEW RETURNG CHARACTERS THE PENULTIMATE PERIL SMART ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THE BLAIR' NOCENCE. DURG THE CLIMACTIC FIRE THE HOTEL, REMORA IS ALSO AMONG THOSE WHO TOOK OFF THEIR BLDFOLD AFTER HEARG THE BLAIRE'S WARNG. SAVED BY CANON: REMORA AND BASS ARE, THEIR IAL TRODUCTN, BLATANTLY REVEALED TO HAVE SURVIVED PAST THEIR TRODUCTN... LONG ENOUGH FOR THEM TO BE ARRTED FOR ROBBG A BANK, THAT IS. SHIP TEASE: REMORA AND BASS ARE SEEN TOGETHER AT ONE OF NERO'S RECALS, AND IMPLIED TO HAVE BEE AN OUTLAW COUPLE. THEME NAMG: REMORA AND BASS ARE BOTH NAMED AFTER SPECI OF FISH. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: ASI OM HAVG BEE A BANK ROBBER THE PERD BETWEEN BOOK 5 AND BOOK 12, MS BASS IS SHOWN AFTER HER RETURN AS A PERSON ALMOST AS AND ARROGANT AS NERO HIMSELF. ALSO, UNLIKE MR. REMORA, WHO REMEMBERS THEM FONDLY, SHE GAED AN IRRATNAL HATRED TOWARDS THE BLAIR, EVEN SLANRG THEM AS THIEV.    THE QUAGMIRE TRIPLETS THE QUAGMIR TRIPLETSTHE BLAIR' IENDS ARE TWO TRIPLETS WHO HELP THE BLAIR OUT AND GET KIDNAPPED FOR THEIR TROUBLE. DUNN IS A JOURNALIST WHILE ISADORA IS A POET SPECIALIZG UPLETS. LATER ON, QUIGLEY IS REVEALED TO HAVE SURVIVED. ALLERATIVE NAME: QUIGLEY QUAGMIRE. AMBIGUOLY GAY: ISADORA GETS LLED 'SAPPHO' (THE NAME OF A GREEK POET KNOWN FOR WRG ABOUT THE LOVE BETWEEN TWO WOMEN) BY SUNNY THE FIFTH BOOK. ANGSTY SURVIVG TW: MORE LIKE ANGSTY SURVIVG TRIPLETS; DUNN AND ISADORA MOURN THEIR BROTHER QUIGLEY, NOT KNOWG HE'S ALIVE. BRAY BTE: ALL THREE HAVE VERY DARK HAIR AND VERY TELLECTUAL TERTS. BROTHER–SISTER TEAM: ISADORA AND DUNN. B CRASH: POSSIBLY. THE V.F.D. EAGL STROY THE MOBILE HOME WHICH DUNN AND ISADORA PE THE VILLAGE OF FOWL DEVOTE AND CRASH TO THE QUEEQUEG. INSISTENT TERMOLOGY: ISADORA AND DUNN ARE TRIPLETS BY BIRTH, BUT HAVE TO EXPLA THIS TO THOSE THEY MEET. INTREPID REPORTER: DUNN, TO A GREE, SCE HIS MA TERT IS JOURNALISM AND HE PUTS HIMSELF AND HIS SISTER SER DANGER FOR THE SAKE OF FDG OUT THE TTH. LOVE INTERT: DUNN AND QUIGLEY FOR VLET. THE LATTER MAY EVEN HAVE GOTTEN TO KISS HER THE SLIPPERY SLOPE. HALF-INTIL TWS: IT IS STATED HER FIRST APPEARANCE THAT ISADORA LOOKS LIKE A FEMALE VERSN OF DUNN, AND THE ILLTRATNS SHOW THAT QUIGLEY IS SIARLY ALIKE TO BOTH HIS SIBLGS. ODD NAME OUT: ISADORA, DUNN (WHO HAVE A THEME NAMG AFTER ISADORA DUNN THE DANCER) AND QUIGLEY. PUT ON A B: DUNN AND ISADORA PE THE VILLAGE OF FOWL DEVOTE ON A SELF STAG MOBILE HOME. THEME NAMG: ISADORA AND DUNN. (ISADORA DUNN, AFTER THE DANCER.)    ISHMAEL ISHMAEL BIG BAD: HE TAK COUNT OLAF'S ROLE AS THE MA ANTAGONIST THE END. FEET OF CLAY: AS ILLTRATED BY THE ACTUAL CLAY ON HIS FEET. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: ONLY R FOR HIMSELF TO BE THE MOST ADVANCED ISLANR, HOARDG MOST OF THE SHIPWRECKED EMS FOR HIMSELF. UTOPIA JTIFI THE MEANS: A D EXAMPLE: ISHMAEL'S DYSTOPIC UTOPIA ON A DERTED ISLAND SUPPRS S HABANTS VIA PEER PRSURE, TECHNOLOGIL PRIVATN AND DGGGS.OTHER VILLAS

LEMONY SNICKET HAS THE GAY TV VILLAS WE'VE BEEN WAG FOR

They might be a villa, but they are an equal-opportuny addn to the Henchperson of Intermate Genr, A Seri of Unfortunate Events troduc s dience to Sir (Don Johnson) and Charl (Rhys Darby), a gay uple who operate a lumber l. Inially troduced as partners to the Blaire children, the pair is revealed to be gay by Lemony Snicket.

If you thought the sual gay moment ParaNorman and the oh-so-brief lbian uple Fdg Dory were e for applse, then get ready to break to a standg ovatn. Neil Patrick Harris, an openly gay actor, is excellent the role of Count Olaf. Gay Lumberjacks.

MA CHARACTERSTHE BLAIRE CHILDREN    IN GENERAL THE BLAIRE CHILDRENORPHANED WHEN THEIR PARENTS DIE A FIRE, THE BLAIR NOW HAVE TO PE THE GREEDY HANDS OF COUNT OLAF... AND ON THEIR WAY, THEY UNVER A MASSIVE NSPIRACY. A BOY, A GIRL, AND A BABY FAY: VLET AND KLS, 14/15 AND 12/13 RPECTIVELY, F THE BILL FOR THE TWO OLR SIBLGS. ALTHOUGH SUNNY IS NO LONGER REFERRED TO AS A BABY OM BOOK THE TENTH ONWARD, SHE IS UNNIABLY THE AGE-DISTANT BABY. AMBIGUOLY JEWISH: DANIEL HANDLER HAS MENTNED THAT HE TENDS TO WRE CHARACTERS AS JEWISH BY "FLT" UNTIL ELABORATED OTHERWISE. MORE TO THE POT, THE FAL BOOK, THE BLAIR MENTN THAT IS THEIR FAY'S TRADN TO NAME BABI AFTER CEASED RELATIV — A JEWISH TRADN REAL LIFE. ANTI-HERO: THEY END UP THIS TERRORY OM BOOK 7 ONWARDS. ALL THREE OF THEM ARE FUNDAMENTALLY GOOD PEOPLE, BUT CIRCUMSTANC LEAD TO THEM BEG ON THE N AND DOG QUTNABLE THGS TO SURVIVE. THE RULTG NFLICT IS A MAJOR THEME OF THE LATER BOOKS. BAD BEDROOM, BAD LIFE: COUNT OLAF ADOPTS THE KIDS BUT IS ABIVE SO HE PROVIS THEM WH A BEDROOM THAT HAS ONLY ONE BED AND NO CRIB FOR THE BABY AND ONLY A PILE OF ROCKS FOR ENTERTAMENT. IN THE ATERE AMY, THE BLAIRE CHILDREN ATTEND POCK PREP, A BOARDG SCHOOL. WHILE MOST STUNTS THERE SLEEP DORMORI, THE BLAIR ARE FORCED TO LIVE A CRAB-FTED SHACK, BEE THEY ARE ORPHANS. BADASS ADORABLE: ALL THREE. ESPECIALLY SUNNY, WHO'S BADASS EVEN THOUGH SHE'S A BABY. BADASS BOOKWORM: KLS AND VLET BOTH UNT, THOUGH KLS IS A BIGGER EXAMPLE AS HIS SPECIALTY IS REARCHG. THE BETIFUL ELE: THE BLAIR ARE OM A VASTLY WEALTHY AND LIKELY UPPER-CLASS FAY, AND ARE SCRIBED BY LEMONY SNICKET AS POSSSG PLEASANT FACIAL FEATUR. BRAY BTE: ALL THREE OF THEM HAVE BLACK HAIR AND THEY'RE ALL TELLIGENT, THOUGH THE ADAPTATNS PORTRAY SUNNY AS BLON. BREAK THE CUTIE: NOT QUE, BUT PRETTY DAMN CLOSE AT TIM. BROTHER–SISTER TEAM: ALL THREE OF THEM, PECIALLY SCE THEY HAVE VERY FEW PEOPLE TO FULLY RELY ON. BUTT-MONKEY: THE TULAR 'SERI OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS' OCCURS THROUGHOUT THEIR LIFETIME AND IS DIRECTED AT THEM, AND WHENEVER SOMETHG GOOD HAPPENS TO THEM, UALLY DON'T LAST LONG. IT'S NEVER QUE EXPLAED WHY THEY ARE THE ON TO FALL VICTIM TO SUCH HORRIBLE TWISTS OF FATE. THE CASSANDRA: THEY ARE UALLY IGNORED, PECIALLY WHEN TO MATTERS RELATG TO COUNT OLAF. CASSANDRA TTH: NO ONE BELIEV THE BLAIR WHENEVER THEY SEE COUNT OLAF, EXCEPT THE FAL BOOK. THE GENERAL PUBLIC ALSO REFE TO BELIEVE THE BLARI AREN'T MURRERS.CLARK KENTG: THE GROUP DO THIS A FEW TIM.--> CONVENIENTLY AN ORPHAN: DENSTCTED, AS THEIR STAT AS ORPHANS LEAV THEM BOUNCG OM ONE AWFUL HOME TO ANOTHER WH NO WAY OUT TILL VLET TURNS 18. DPAIR EVENT HORIZON: A VARIANT; BOOK THE TWELFTH, THE BLAIR LOSE FAH THE JTICE SYSTEM AND STAYG "NOBLE" PEOPLE AFTER REALIZG THE JUDG OF THEIR KANGAROO COURT ARE RPT AND ARE ALLOWG COUNT OLAF TO KIDNAP JTICE STRSS, TAKG ADVANTAGE OF EVERYONE BEG BLDFOLD. VLET PRETTY MUCH SAYS EVEN IF JTICE STRSS WANTS TO HELP THEM, SHE N'T BEE THE SYSTEM IS TOO RPT, AND IF THE BLAIR ARE AWAY OM SOCIETY THEN OLAF N'T GET THEIR FORTUNE EVEN IF HE HAS THEM. IN BOOK THE THIRTEENTH, THEY ONLY CI TO RETURN TO SOCIETY WHEN THEY OUTGROW THE SERTED ISLAND AND NEED TO SEE HOW THE WORLD HAS FARED. EARN YOUR HAPPY ENDG: POSSIBLY, AS BS OF NARRATN AND THE BEATRICE LETTERS SUGGT THAT THEY'VE MANAGED TO CLEAR THEIR NAM AND RE-ENTER SOCIETY. FOREGONE CONCLN: BOOK 2 REVEALS THAT THEY MANAGE TO SURVIVE THEIR CHILDHOODS TO THOROUGHLY REGRET THEM. FRDIAN TR: SUNNY, AS THE BABY, FILLS THE ID, AND KLS THE WALKG ENCYCLOPEDIA FILLS THE SUPEREGO. VLET UALLY LEADS THE FAY AS THE EGO. HE WHO FIGHTS MONSTERS: THE BLAIR FEAR THIS AND EVEN DO SOME MORALLY QUTNABLE THGS LATER ON — 'S ACTUALLY QUOTED THE TENTH BOOK. HERO WH BAD PUBLICY: FROM BOOK 7 ONWARDS, THANKS TO COUNT OLAF FAKG HIS ATH AND AMG THE BLAIR FOR HIS MURR. IT RUNS THE FAY: AN INVERTED TROPE, THAT THE MEMBERS OF THE BLAIRE FAY ARE THE LEAST SANE PEOPLE THEY ENUNTER. MOTHER NATURE, FATHER SCIENCE: INVERTED; WHILE BOTH ARE TELLIGENT, VLET IS THE GADGETEER GENI WHILE KLS IS THE BOOKWORM. PROMOTN TO PARENT: VLET TO KLS AND SUNNY, AND LATER, THE THREE OF THEM TO BEATRICE SNICKET. PROPERLY PARANOID: THEY AREN'T JT SEEG THGS; COUNT OLAF IS ALWAYS THERE. ONLY SANE MAN: PRETTY MUCH THE ONLY SANE PEOPLE WHO AREN'T THE V.F.D. THE ENTIRE STORY, OUTSI OF THE QUAGMIR. UNFORTUNATELY RARELY HELPS THEM. ORPHAN'S ORAL: THE POSTER CHILDREN FOR THIS TROPE; THE BLAIR BEG ORPHANED KICKS OFF THE TULAR 'SERI OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS'. BEG BOUNCED OM ONE BAD GUARDIAN TO ANOTHER IS JT THE START OF EVERYTHG.SEEKERS: EVENTUALLY.--> SURROUND BY IDTS: IDTS WHO HAVE POWER OVER THEM UNFORTUNATELY. TOOK A LEVEL BADASS: THE BLAIR ARE ALREADY A BADASS FAY, BUT THE REAL CLCHER IS WHEN VLET POLELY TELLS MR. POE AT THE END OF THE GRIM GROTTO THAT THEY'RE NOT GOG WH HIM BEE THEY GOT A D MSAGE TELLG THEM TO MEET WH SOMEONE ELSE, AND IMPLYG THAT THEY AREN'T GOG TO TST ADULTS BLDLY AGA, AS THEY SEEM TO BE UNRELIABLE. WEIRDNS MAG: WELL, MORE LIKE "COUNT OLAF MAG", WHO IS ONE OF THE WEIRST OF THEM ALL. WISE BEYOND THEIR YEARS: THEIR SUATN FORC THEM TO ACT AND THK MORE MATURELY THAN KIDS THEIR AGE SHOULD.    VLET VLET BLAIRETHE OLST OF THE BLAIRE TR, VLET IS AN TELLIGENT 14-15 YEAR OLD VENTOR AND RPONSIBLE OLR SISTER. BIG SISTER INSTCT: BEFORE AND AFTER THEIR PARENTS' ATHS, SHE R EPLY ABOUT HER BROTHER AND SISTER AND TAK THE VOW SHE MA TO LOOK AFTER HER YOUNGER SIBLGS VERY SERLY. COOL BIG SIS: SHE IS THE ELST CHILD AND HAS A KNACK FOR CREATG FUNCTNAL VENTNS. GADGETEER GENI: RARELY ANYTHG PARTICULARLY OUTLANDISH, AS SHE DID NOT OFTEN HAVE MUCH TO WORK WH. GIRLY GIRL WH A TOMBOY STREAK: MOST OF THE TIME, SHE IS POLE AND WELL-DRSED, BUT SHE N CLIMB A TOWER WH A GRAPPLG HOOK OF HER OWN MAKG WHEN SHE NEEDS TO. LETHAL CHEF: VLET BURNS EVERYTHG SHE OKS, EVEN TOAST. LOCKG MACGYVER IN THE STORE CUPBOARD: THIS HAPPENS TO HER ROUGHLY ONCE PER BOOK.MR. FIX--> PERKY GOTH: VLET'S CHARACTER SIGN CHANG OM A RATHER NOCENT 50'S GIRL STYLE, TO A LOLA-STYLE GOTH THE FILM. PROMOTN TO PARENT: AS THE OLST SISTER, VLET TAK TO RG ABOUT AND PROTECTG HER YOUNGER SIBLGS AFTER THE BLAIRE PARENTS DIE. TEAM MOM: ONLY NATURAL, GIVEN HER CIRCUMSTANC. THKG TIC: WHEN SHE IS THKG ABOUT A NEW VENTN (AND A WAY OUT OF WHATEVER PREDIMENT SHE FDS HERSELF ), VLET TI HER LONG HAIR WH A RIBBON TO KEEP OUT OF HER EY. TOMBOYISH PONYTAIL: IN THE FILM AND TV ADAPTATNS, ANYWAY. WRENCH WENCH: VLET LOV VENTG AND TKERG WH MACH AND GADGETS. MANY TIM SHE HAS TO QUICKLY VENT SOMETHG TO EXTRITE HERSELF AND HER SIBLGS OM THE LATT TRAGIC PREDIMENT.    KLS KLS BLAIRETHE MIDDLE BLAIRE AND ONLY BOY, KLS IS EXTREMELY BOOKISH AND PRONE TO G BIG WORDS. THE VAST AMOUNT OF THGS HE'S LEARNED OM HIS READG, AS WELL AS HIS REARCH SKILLS, E HANDY.ADORABLY PREC CHILD--> BADASS BOOKWORM: THOUGH ALL THE SIBLGS QUALIFY AS THIS, KLS'S THG IS THAT HE BOOKS TO KICK ASS. BIG BROTHER INSTCT: HE DISPLAYS A STRONG BROTHERLY STCT FOR HIS SISTERS. WHEN VLET IS PTURED THE HOSTILE HOSPAL, HE AND SUNNY DO THEIR BT TO SAVE THEIR ELR SISTER. BLD WHOUT 'EM: HE N'T SEE WELL WHOUT HIS GLASS, WHICH PLAYS HEAVILY TO OLAF'S PLOT THE MISERABLE MILL. HE'S ABLE TO SEE WELL ENOUGH WHOUT THEM WHEN HE GIV THEM TO DUNN QUAGMIRE TO POSE AS HIM OR WHEN HE AND VLET NEED TO DISGUISE THEMSELV. DOWNPLAYED THE FILM WHERE HE ONLY NEED THEM FOR READG. BRAWASHED AND CRAZY: IN BOOK THE FOURTH; HE EVEN APPEARS TO HAVE MD-CONTROL EY ON THE VER. CHARACTER TICS: KLS HAS A HAB OF POLISHG HIS GLASS. HEART IS AN AWOME POWER: HIS SPECIALTY IS READG, WHICH DON'T SEEM TOO GOOD ON PAPER AND ISN'T LOOKED HIGHLY UPON BY THE VILLAS. USUALLY, HE'LL FD A LIBRARY A NOVEL THAT WILL GIVE HIM THE POWER TO HELP THE BLAIR GET OUT OF A JAM. IN LATER BOOKS, HIS RANGE OF KNOWLEDGE BASILLY VERS ANYTHG THAT HIS SISTERS DON'T KNOW. INFANT SIBLG JEALOY: KLS ORIGALLY RENTED SUNNY WHEN SHE WAS BORN, BUT GOT OVER QUICKLY WHEN HE GOT TO KNOW HER. KNIGHT TEMPLAR BIG BROTHER: TO SUNNY. HE PHYSILLY ATTACKS THE HOOK-HAND MAN AFTER THE LATTER TELLS HIM AND VLET THAT SUNNY IS AD. LOVE HURTS: WH FNA THE GRIMM GROTTO, EVEN ASKG VLET "HOW SOMEONE SO WONRFUL ULD DO SOMETHG SO TERRIBLE". MOUTHY KID: KLS IS UALLY THE FIRST BLAIRE TO TALK BACK TO ADULTS, SEEG AS MANY S HE KNOWS BETTER THAN THEY DO. PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY: HE REMEMBERS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHG HE'S EVER READ. RUNNG GAG: ADULTS EXPLAG TO KLS THE FNS OF WORDS THAT HE ALREADY KNOWS. SQUIPEDALIAN LOQUACNS: KLS IS FOND OF BIG WORDS, MUCH TO THE ANNOYANCE OF THE VILLAS. HE ALSO EXPLAS THE FNS OF WORDS TO HIS SIBLGS OFTEN.    SUNNY SUNNY BLAIRETHE YOUNGT BLAIRE IS ONLY A BABY AND ONLY TELLIGIBLE TO HER BROTHER AND SISTER (AT LEAST AT THE BEGNG). HOWEVER, SHE IS EXTREMELY TELLIGENT, AND ADDN TO HAVG FOUR VERY SHARP TEETH AS A WEAPON, SHE ALSO MONSTRAT ADMIRABLE OKG SKILLS LATER ON. BABY TALK: THIS CHANG WHEN SHE STARTS TO SPEAK HERENTLY TOWARDS THE SERI' END. BADASS DISTRS: DPE BEG ABLE TO TAKE RE OF HERSELF, SUNNY IS STILL A BABY. SHE'S THE TARGET OF MULTIPLE KIDNAPPGS AND ONCE NTRACTED A DANGERO DISEASE. BEWARE THE NICE ON: SUNNY TAK ON DR. ORWELL WH A SWORD. IF WASN'T FOR THE VERY LARGE SAW BLA, 'S IMPLIED SUNNY WOULD W. THE BIG GUY: ESPECIALLY AT THE BEGNG WHEN HER SPECIAL ABILY WAS HER SHARP TEETH. SUNNY WAS OFTEN LLED UPON TO CHEW ROP OR ROCKS AND ONCE FOUGHT OFF A SWORD WH HER TEETH. BE OF AFFECTN: THE FIRST BOOK SHOWS THAT SHE HAS A WAY OF SHOWG HOW SHE FEELS ABOUT OTHER BY BG THEM. SHE HAT THEM IF SHE B HARD, BUT SHE LIK THEM IF SHE B SOFT. CHARACTER TICS: SUNNY LIK TO BARE OR SHARPEN HER TEETH, CHEWS ON OBJECTS WHEN SHE'S AGATED OR JT FOR FUN AND B PEOPLE GENTLY GREETG AND HARD IF SHE DON'T LIKE THEM. CHEF OF IRON: THE LATER BOOKS SHOW HER VELOPG AN APTU FOR OKG AND THE BEATRICE LETTERS MENTN GROWN-UP SUNNY DISCSG HER RECIP ON THE RAD. CHILD PRODIGY: WHAT SHE WILL FELY GROW UP TO BE. CUTE LTLE FANGS: FOUR OF THEM. USUALLY DRAWN ILLTRATNS WH THE TIP OF ONE TOOTH STICKG OUT OF HER MOUTH DEADPAN SNARKER: IN BABY TALK. ESPECIALLY PROMENT THE MOVIE AND THE NETFLIX SERI, WHERE EVERY OTHER THG SHE SAYS IS SOME KD OF SULT OR SARSM. GENRE SAVVY: SHE THE WORD "MACGUFF" TO REFER TO THE SUGAR BOWL. INTELLIGIBLE UNTELLIGIBLE: PEOPLE WHO KNOW HER WELL UNRSTAND HER. IN "THE SLIPPERY SLOPE", SUNNY TAK ADVANTAGE OF HER TENNCY TOWARDS BABY TALK AND REPEATEDLY SULTS OLAF, KNOWG HE N'T UNRSTAND HER. AND LATER BOOKS, STEAD OF GIBBERISH, SHE OFTEN SAYS WORDS (OR PARTIAL WORDS) THAT RELATE TO HER RPONSE, OR AT LEAST THE TOPIC BEG DISCSED. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN SCRIBG A SWORD FIGHT, SHE SAYS "FLYNN", WHEN SOMEBODY MENTNS A TRA, SHE SAYS "ESOOBAC", WHEN TALKG ABOUT GOG UNRVER, SHE SAYS "DRAG", AND WHEN SOMEBODY ASKS HER TO DO SOMETHG IMPOSSIBLE, SHE EXCLAIMS "UNFEASI!". EVEN TOWARD THE BEGNG OF THE SERI, SHE OFTEN SAYS THGS THAT SEEM LIKE GIBBERISH BUT ARE REAL WORDS OTHER LANGUAG, MAKG HER A BILGUAL BON. SOME HIGHLIGHTS CLU "ARIGATO", "YOMHULET", AND "YOMHASHOAH". LTLE MISS BADASS: SHE ONCE FOUGHT AGAST A SWORD-WIELDG HYPNOTIST WH HER TEETH, AND HELD HER OWN FOR A GOOD WHILE. ODD FRIENDSHIP: SHE SHAR THIS WH MONTY'S INCREDIBLY DEADLY VIPER. PT-SIZED POWERHOE: IN BETWEEN THE SHARP TEETH AND HER TELLIGENCE, SHE IS QUE FORMIDABLE FOR A BABY SUPREME CHEF: GROWS TO THIS. BY ABOUT THE 11TH BOOK, SHE KNOWS OKG AND FOOD THEORY. TROUBLG UNCHILDLIKE BEHAVR: DPE BEG THE YOUNGT BLAIRE, SUNNY IS THE DARKT AND MOST MORALLY AMBIGUO. SHE'S THE ONE LLED UPON TO FIGHT AND RORTS TO VLENCE MUCH MORE THAN HER SIBLGS (SHE'S THE ONE THAT SUGGTS BURNG DOWN THE HOTEL AND MURRG OLAF). SCE SHE'S JT A BABY, THE OVERALL EFFECT IS RATHER DISTURBG AND TRAGIC. VAGUE AGE: WHILE THE OTHER ORPHANS ARE GIVEN EXACT AG, SUNNY IS JT KNOWN AS A BABY. THIS IS PROBABLY TO KEEP HER ANTICS OM BEG TOO UNBELIEVABLE BY TYG TO AN AGE. WISE BEYOND HER YEARS: EVEN MORO THAN THE OTHER BLAIR, AS SHE'S A VERY TELLIGENT BABY.LEMONY SNICKET    LEMONY SNICKET LEMONY SNICKETTHE ARTIST HARD AT WORKTHE MYSTER NARRATOR OF THE SERI WHO HOLDS A TORCH FOR A CEASED WOMAN NAMED BEATRICE. ALTER-EGO ACTG: DANIEL HANDLER AND LEMONY SNICKET — SEPARATE CHARACTERS THE BOOKS THEMSELV. AUTHOR APPEAL: MILD EXAMPLE — DANIEL HANDLER IS SOMETHG OF A GOURMAND, AND HENCE THE LEMONY NARRATOR NEVER MISS AN OPPORTUNY TO SCRIBE SOME LIC DISH, EVEN PROVIDG A SALAD RECIPE THE MIDST OF AN URGENT-SEEMG MSAGE TO HIS SISTER EMBEDD THE TENTH BOOK.DIRECT LE TO THE AUTHOR-->DOGGED NICE GUY--> THE EEYORE: HE IS VERY SAD. THE FACELS: LARGELY BEE HE'S A WANTED CRIMAL. AVERTED THE TV SERI; NOT ONLY DO WARBURTON CLEARLY SHOW HIS FACE TO THE DIENCE, BUT THERE ARE NUMERO NON-OBSCURED PHOTOGRAPHS OF SNICKET. FIRST-PERSON PERIPHERAL NARRATOR: LEMONY SNICKER DO NOT PARTAKE THE MA STORY THE BOOKS. HE ONLY ENUNTERS THE BLAIR THE PENULTIMATE EPISO THE TV SHOW BRIEFLY, AND AN ADOLCENT VERSN OF HIS NIECE THE FALE. GREEK CHOS: LEMONY SNICKET PROVIS A NNG MENTARY ON THE EVENTS, AND OFTEN ADDRS THE REAR DIRECTLY. HERO OF ANOTHER STORY: WHILE HE MENTNS REPEATEDLY HOW HE'S NOT VERY BRAVE, HE ALSO OFTEN MENTNS BEG BIZARRE AND EXPLIBLE EXPLOS OF HIS OWN THAT WOULD PUT THE BLAIRE MISFORTUN TO SHAME. AND HE'S THE MA CHARACTER OF THE PREQUEL/SP-OFF SERI. LEMONY NARRATOR: OF URSE. LOVABLE COWARD: LEMONY SNICKET HIMSELF. IN NEARLY EVERY BOOK, WHILE NARRATG SOME TERRIFYG SUATN, HE MENTS THAT, HAD HE BEEN THE BELAIRE'S PLACE, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO GO ON AND WOULD HAVE STEAD N AWAY TERROR, DISSOLVED TO HELPLS TEARS, ETC. MY GREATT FAILURE: IN THE HOSTILE HOSPAL, HE MENTNS ONE OF HIS GREATT REGRETS IS TRODUCG BEATRICE TO ESMé SQUALOR. PLOT-BASED PHOTOGRAPH OBFTN: SNICKET NEVER SHOWS HIS FACE PHOTOGRAPHS, BUT THERE ARE SEVERAL POSSIBLE EXPLANATNS FOR WHY THIS IS, AND MOST SUCH PHOTOGRAPHS ARE ONLY SEEN BY THE DIENCE HIS THOR B RATHER THAN BY THE CHARACTERS. THIS ALSO APPLI -UNIVERSE. A NOTE THE QUAGMIRE DIARI DITE THAT SNICKET'S FACE IS NEVER SEEN A PHOTOGRAPH. AND ED, WHEN THE BLAIR FD A PHOTO OF THEIR PARENTS, THERE IS AN UNINTIFIED MAN WH HIS BACK TURNED NEXT TO THEM. PG AFTER PROTAGONIST'S PARENT: LEMONY SNICKET HOLDS A TORCH FOR A WOMAN NAMED BEATRICE, WHO IS REVEALED TO BE THE MOTHER OF PROTAGONISTS VLET, KLS, AND SUNNY. STALKER WH A CSH: INVERTED — LEMONY'S A GOOD GUY, BUT HE DO STALK THE CHILDREN OF THE WOMAN HE LOVED BUT ULDN'T HAVE SPE APPARENTLY HAVG BEEN RECIPROL AT ONE POT. UNRELIABLE NARRATOR: HIS STYLE OF WRG AS WELL AS THE SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS GIVE ONE THE SENSE LEMONY MAY VERY WELL BE THIS. HE REPEATEDLY MAK ODDLY SPECIFIC SCRIPTNS OF PEOPLE AND EVENTS YET OBSCUR THE INTI OF THE PLAYERS, SHOWG THAT TO SOME EXTENT HE'S MANIPULATG THE PERCEPTN OF HIS DIENCE. ADDNALLY, THERE'S EVINCE THAT LEMONY MAY NOT HAVE A PROPER GRASP OF HIS OWN MEMORI, PECIALLY KNOWG THAT ACRDG TO HIS "UNTHORIZED TOBGRAPHY", LEMONY HAS BEEN MORE OR LS WORKG WH V.F.D. SCE HE WAS A TODDLER.COUNT OLAF'S THEATER TROUPE    IN GENERAL COUNT OLAF'S THEATER TROUPECOUNT OLAF HAS A LARGE VARIETY OF HENCHMEN HE LLS HIS "ACTG TROUPE". CHUCK CUNNGHAM SYNDROME: THE TROUPE HAD TEN MEMBERS, NOT UNTG OLAF HIMSELF, THE FIRST BOOK, BUT ONLY FIVE NTUED APPEARG AFTER THAT. THE WART-FACED MAN WAS THE ONLY ONE TO HAVE ENOUGH PRENCE FOR HIS DISAPPEARANCE TO BE NOTICEABLE, AS THE OTHER FOUR — A WOMAN WH VERY SHORT HAIR AND THREE SHORT MEN — ARE ONLY SCRIBED BRIEF. DWDLG PARTY: STARTG AROUND THE HOSTILE HOSPAL THE HENCHMEN BEG LEAVG THE GROUP EHER VIA HEEL–FACE TURN (THE HOOK-HAND MAN AND THE WHE-FACED WOMEN) OR DYG (THE BALD MAN AND THE PERSON OF TERMATE GENR). BY THE PENULTIMATE PERIL, OF THE ORIGAL TROUPE MEMBERS PRENT SCE THE BAD BEGNG, ONLY OLAF REMAS AND THE MORE RECENT ADDNS TO THE TROUPE ARE ABANDONED TO THE HOTEL FIRE AT THE END OF THE BOOK BY OLAF. EVEN EVIL HAS LOVED ON: FERNALD HAS A SISTER, AND THE WHE-FACED WOMEN ONCE DID AS WELL. EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: MOST OF THEM ARE HORRIFIED AT OLAF'S LLO DISREGARD FOR THE ATH OF THE ONE WHO LOOKS LIKE NEHER A MAN NOR A WOMAN. HYPER-COMPETENT SIKICK: SEE MASTER OF DISGUISE BELOW. MASTER OF DISGUISE: WH THE EXCEPTN OF THE ONE WHO LOOKS LIKE NEHER A MAN NOR A WOMAN, THEY'RE A LOT BETTER AT THAN OLAF; THE BLAIR NEVER SEE THROUGH THEM. MN WH AN F EVIL: IN THE ADAPTATNS. IN THE ORIGAL BOOKS THEY'RE QUE AS EVIL AS OLAF AND ARGUABLY MORE PETENT THAN HIM. PUNCH-CLOCK VILLA: ALL OF THEM, WH VARYG GRE OF ACTUAL MALICE VOLVED. SIGNIFINT ANAGRAM: EACH HAS A GO-TO ALIAS WHICH IS AN ANAGRAM OF "COUNT OLAF". THE TROPE WHOUT A TLE: PRR TO THE RNIVAL EAKS JOG THE TROUPE, EVERY ONE OF THEM IS REFERRED TO THIS WAY. THIS EVENTUALLY CHANG FOR THE HOOK-HAND MAN; THE 11TH BOOK REVEALS HIS REAL NAME AS WELL AS REVEALG THAT OLAF LLS HIM "HOOKY". VILLAO FRIENDSHIP: IT SEEMS THAT THEY ALL TLY DO ENJOY EACH OTHER'S PANY. THEY EVEN EXPRS SORROW WHEN THE PERSON WHO LOOKS LIKE NEHER A MAN NOR A WOMAN DI A FIRE.    COUNT OLAF COUNT OLAFTHE MA VILLA OF THE SERI, COUNT OLAF IS A VILLAO ACTOR WHOSE GOAL IS TO MURR THE BLAIRE CHILDREN AND STEAL THEIR FORTUNE, NO MATTER WHERE THEY GO AND HOW MANY STUPID DISGUIS HE HAS TO WEAR. HE'S REVEALED TO HAVE A NNECTN TO THE SHADOWY ANIZATN KNOWN AS V.F.D.. ABIVE PARENTS: HE'S ONE TO THE BLAIR… AN ABIVE FOSTER PARENT, ANYWAY. ADULTS ARE USELS: AVERTED — HE IS THE MOST PETENT VILLA THIS SERI AND ONLY THE BLAIR MANAGE TO THWART HIM. AGONIZG STOMACH WOUND: HOW HE FALLY B . HE LIV LONG ENOUGH TO HELP K, BUT THAT'S . ALAS, POOR VILLA: AFTER GETTG HARPOONED BY ISHMAEL, OLAF REALIZ THAT ALL OF HIS PLANS HAVE BEEN FOILED, HE HAS NOTHG LEFT TO LIVE FOR, HAVG LOST EVERYONE CLOSE TO HIM, AND HE HAS NO CHANCE OF OBTAG THE BLAIRE FORTUNE. AFTER LEARNG THAT K HAS GONE TO LABOR, HE DO WHAT VLET LLS THE SGLE GOOD ED HIS LIFE BY RRYG HER TO AN AREA WHERE CHILDBIRTH WILL BE EASIER. ALTHOUGH HE HAS EATEN AN APPLE THAT CUR HIM OF THE MSOID MYCELIUM THAT WAS RELEASED WHEN HE WAS HARPOONED, HE SUCCUMBS TO HIS HARPOON WOUND, BUT NOT BEFORE RECG THE CLOSG STANZA OF A POEM AND GIVG OUT ONE FAL "HA!" THE ALHOLIC: HIS HOE IS LTERED WH EMPTY WE BOTTL, HE GETS HEAVILY DNK AT THE DNER WHERE HE STRIK KLS, AND THE BLAIRE CHILDREN OUTRIGHT STATE TO MR. POE THAT HE "DRKS TOO MUCH WE". AMBIGUOLY RELATED: HE BE THE GUARDIAN OF THE BLAIRE CHILDREN THROUGH CLAIMG HE'S A CLOSE RELATIVE OF THEIRS. THERE IS NEVER ANY EVINCE TO SUPPORT THIS CLAIM, BUT 'S MENTNED THAT HIS HOODWKG OF THE LAW ON THIS ISSUE RELIED ON NVCG MR POE THAT "CLOST-LIVG RELATIVE" MEANS "THE RELATIVE WHO LIV CLOST"... SUGGTG THAT HE MAY STILL GENUELY BE A DISTANT . ARISTOCRATS ARE EVIL: HE IS A UNT, OR SO HE'S LLED, AND THE BIG BAD OF THE SERI. ATTENTN WHORE: HE MANDS HE BE THE CENTER OF ATTENTN AT ALL TIM, EVEN WHEN HE'S DISGUISE. ATTRACTIVE BENT-GENR: PLSIBLY A PARODY, AS THE PERSON WHO FDS THE CROSS DRSER OLAF ATTRACTIVE IS HIMSELF AN UNPLEASANT SEMI-VILLA. BAD BOSS: HE EQUENTLY YELLS AT HIS HENCHMEN, LLS THEM IDTS AND EVEN SHOWS NO REGARD FOR ANY OF THEIR ATHS. BALD OF EVIL: HE HAS LTLE-TO-NO HAIR ON HIS HEAD AND IS A WICKED DIVIDUAL. BIG BAD: OLAF IS THE MA ANTAGONIST PURSUG THE BLAIR. BIG SLEEP: HE DI OF A HARPOON GUN WOUND WH HIS EY CLOSED. BRIGHT IS NOT GOOD: COUNT OLAF HAS SHY, SHY EY, AND THEY SHE THE MOST WHEN HE'S FUR AND ABOUT TO DO SOMETHG PARTICULARLY TERRIBLE. CARD-CARRYG VILLA: HE'S PRETTY PROUD OF THE FACT THAT HE SETS FIR AND KIDNAPS CHILDREN FOR THEIR FORTUNE. CLARK KENTG: THE BLAIR NEVER FALL FOR . EVERYONE ELSE DO (SUBVERTED THE END, WHERE EVERYONE SE THROUGH HIS FAILED DISGUISE AS K SNICKET). LEMONY SNICKET'S UNOFFICIAL AUTOBGRAPHY REVEALS THAT NONE OF THE DISGUIS THAT HE'S ED THE SERI ARE EVEN OF HIS OWN VENTN, THEY'RE MOLDY LEFTOVERS OM A GENERIC V.F.D. DISGUISE K HE RECEIVED BACK WHEN HE ED TO BE A MEMBER. DEVIL PLA SIGHT: PART OF THE TRAGEDY AND DARK EDY OF THE SERI OM EVERYONE BARRG THE BLAIR BEG OBLIV EHER TO JT HOW EVIL HE IS OR WHEN HE'S WEARG A DISGUISE, SPE HOW OBV IS. CREEPY CROSSDRSER: ON TWO OCSNS, THE FIRST TIME DRSED AS A SECRETARY NAMED SHIRLEY AND THE SEND AS K SNICKET. DETERMATOR: AS HE SWEARS AT THE END OF THE FIRST BOOK, HE WILL GET THE BLAIRE FORTUNE IF 'S THE LAST THG HE DO. HE MAK GOOD ON HIS PROMISE BY HOUNDG THEM FOR THE NEXT 12 BOOKS, UNTIL HE DI. DIRTY OLD MAN: IN THE FIRST BOOK, AFTER HE MARRI VLET ON THE STAGE, HE SAYS THEY NEED TO GO HOME FOR THEIR WEDDG NIGHT. DON'T YOU DARE PY ME!: TO THE BLAIR AND K THE FAL BOOK, THOUGH NEHER PARTY WAS MUCH OF A HURRY TO DO SO. EYE MOTIFS: HE HAS IMAG OF EY ALL OVER HIS HOE AND A TATTOO OF AN EYE ON HIS ANKLE. SEEG THIS THE FIRST BOOK, THE BLAIRE CHILDREN WONR IF THEY'LL FEEL LIKE COUNT OLAF IS WATCHG THEM FOR THE RT OF THEIR LIV. INED, HE FOLLOWS THEM FOR THE NEXT 12 BOOKS. EVIL IS PETTY: COUNT OLAF FORC THE ORPHANS TO DO ALL HIS HOEHOLD CHOR WHEN THEY FIRST STAY WH HIM. ALSO, BOOK 3, HE BRIEFLY NSIRS AUNT JOSEPHE'S OFFER TO FAKE HER ATH AND LET HIM HAVE THE BLAIR, BUT CHANG HIS MD AND THROWS HER TO THE LAKE TO BE EATEN BY THE LACHRYMOSE LEECH WHEN SHE FOOLISHLY RRECTS HIS GRAMMAR. THIS QUOTE:"I THK THE FIRST THG I'LL BUY FOR MYSELF IS A SHY NEW R! SOMETHG WH A POWERFUL ENGE, SO I N DRIVE FASTER THAN THE LEGAL LIM, AND AN EXTRA-THICK BUMPER, SO I N RAM TO PEOPLE WHOUT GETTG ALL SCRATCHED UP!" EVIL LGH: ONE OF THE THOR'S MORE QUTNABLE CHOIC BOOKS 11 AND 12. EVIL OLD FOLKS: HE'S SIGNIFINTLY OLR THAN MOST OF THE ADULT CHARACTERS THE SERI AND, ON MULTIPLE OCSNS, HE'S ATTEMPTED TO KILL A BUNCH OF CHILDREN JT TO GET THEIR FORTUNE. EVIL PLAN: THROUGHOUT THE SERI HE SCHEM TO STEAL THE BLAIR CHILDREN' HERANCE, THOUGH THE MANNER CHANG. ONE TIME HE TRI TO TRICK VLET TO MARRYG HIM. EXPY: APPEARS TO BE HEAVILY BASED OFF OF OSAMU TEZA'S CHARACTER, DE RED. BOTH HAVE SIAR HAIR, A POTY NOSE, CLOTH AND THE FACT THAT BOTH CHARACTERS ARE MASTERS OF DISGUISE. FAIAL FOE: COUNT OLAF SPENDS ALL THIRTEEN BOOKS TERRORIZG THE BLAIRE SIBLGS AND ONCE VIEWED THEIR LATE PARENTS AS SWORN ENEMI. HE ALSO KILLS A UPLE OF DISTANT BLAIRE S TO FURTHER HIS PLANS. FXREIGNER: ONE OF HIS DISGUIS IS AN CTNEER OM AN AMBIGUO UNTRY NAMED GUNTHER, PLETE WH A SILLY ACCENT. HIDN DEPTHS: OLAF HAS A MYSTER PAST AND IS APPARENTLY AN ORPHAN HIMSELF. HE ALSO APPARENTLY HAD SOME SORT OF RELATNSHIP WH K SNICKET. HIGH-CLASS GLASS: AS GUNTHER. HYPOCRIL HUMOR: WHEN DISGUISED AS CAPTA SHAM, HE SAYS, "THERE A'T NOTH' BETTER THAN GOOD GRAMMAR!". ILLEGAL GUARDIAN: PLAYED UTTERLY STRAIGHT AT FIRST BOOK ONE BY CLAIMG HE IS THE "CLOST LIVG RELATIVE" THAT HE IS SUPPOSEDLY A RELATIVE AND LIV THE CLOST TO THEM PHYSILLY. IRONIC HELL: THE BLAIR ARE WONRFULLY BRIGHT AND KD CHILDREN WHO HE EQUENTLY TRI TO MURR EVEN THOUGH THEY HADN'T DONE ANYTHG TO SERVE . LATER, ESMé ADOPTS CARMELA SPATS, WHO IS A MONUMENTAL BRAT THAT ENDLSLY HARANGU AND BULLI OLAF, BUT BEE HIS GIRLIEND IS SO FOND OF HER, HE N DO LTLE BUT GRIMACE AND BEAR THE ABE. JT A STUPID ACCENT: WHILST DISGUISED AS STEPHANO AND GUNTHER. KARMA HOUDI WARRANTY: THROUGHOUT THE SERI, HIS PLANS ARE NSTANTLY THWARTED, BUT HE ALWAYS MANAG TO PE PUNISHMENT AND GO ON TO THREATEN THE BLAIR AGA. HIS STREAK FALLY TO AN END BOOK 13, WHERE HE'S SHOT WH A HARPOON GUN AND SUCCUMBS TO THE WOUND. KARMIC DEATH: THOUGH FAR TOO LATE FOR THE BLAIR' TASTE, THE TOXIC MHROOMS HE PLANNED TO E TO THREATEN HIS ENEMI DIRECTLY LED TO HIS ATH. LARGE HAM: OLAF'S ACTG IS VERY OVER-THE-TOP. IT PROBABLY HELPS THE BLAIR REGNIZE HIM ALL THE TIME. LEAN AND MEAN: SKNY AS A RAIL AND UTTERLY VILE. MANIPULATIVE BASTARD: THOUGH HAVG SAID THAT, DON'T REALLY APPEAR THAT DIFFICULT TO MANIPULATE SOMEONE THE SNICKETVERSE. THE MISTRS: TO THE ALREADY MARRIED ESMé GIGI GENEVIEVE SQUALOR. (SURPRISGLY, THE FACT THAT SHE IS MARRIED IS NEVER LAMPSHAD THE SERI.) MISTER SEAHORSE: SENT UP THE END, WHERE COUNT OLAF TRI TO DISGUISE HIMSELF AS A PREGNANT WOMAN. THE LEMONY NARRATOR STAT THAT "PREGNANCY OCCURS VERY RARELY MAL", NOTG ACTUAL SEAHORS AS AN EXCEPTN. MORALY PET: K SNICKET. THE ONLY GOOD ED HE DO HIS LIFE IS TO RRY HER TO A SAFE PLACE TO GIVE BIRTH. MYSTER PAST: DUNN AND ISADORA QUAGMIRE MENTN NEWSPAPER ARTICL THAT A MAN WH SIAR TRAS AS OLAF HAD STRANGLED A BISHOP AND PED PRISON JT TEN MUT, AND ANOTHER REPORTS OF HIM THROWG A WEALTHY WIDOW OFF A CLIFF. THE BLAIRE CHILDREN AGREE THAT SOUNDS LIKE OLAF AND BELIEVE HIM TO BE THE MAN MENTNED THE ARTICL. NOT ME THIS TIME: …MAYBE? HIS LAST MOMENTS IMPLY THAT NO, HE REALLY DIDN'T KILL MR. AND MRS. BLAIRE, EVEN THOUGH HIS PLANS OM THE BEGNG HAVE REVOLVED AROUND SEIZG THEIR FORTUNE OM THE ORPHANS THEY LEFT BEHD. GOD ONLY KNOWS IF HE WAS TELLG THE TTH — OR IF THAT'S EVEN WHAT HE MEANT. IT'S JT VAGUE ENOUGH THAT WE'LL NEVER BE SURE. JT LIKE EVERYTHG ELSE THIS SERI. OBFTG STUPIDY: THERE ARE SEVERAL STANC WHERE HE SEEMS TO DISPLAY MORE CLEVERNS THAN THE NARRATN AND HIS ANTI-TELLECTUAL ATTU SUGGTS (E.G. BEG ABLE TO REGNIZE A D FFEE STA ON A MAP). IN FACT, WHEN K SNICKET REC SOME POETRY TO HIM, HIS RPONSE IS ALONG THE L OF "YOU THK YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE WHO N QUOTE POETRY?" THIS IS PECIALLY NOTABLE BEE WELL-READNS IS SUPPOSEDLY A TRA EXCLIVE TO THE NOBLE SI OF THE SCHISM. OLD MAN MARRYG A CHILD: HE ATTEMPTS THIS WH VLET THE FIRST BOOK AND THE FILM AND TV SERI ADAPTATNS. HE FAILS AND ATTEMPTS TO KILL VLET AND HER SIBLGS. OPPORTUNISTIC BASTARD: SCE 'S IMPLIED HE DIDN'T BURN DOWN THE BLAIRE MANSN, HE CLEARLY SAW AN OPPORTUNY FOR MONEY AND REVENGE AND TOOK . PAPER-TH DISGUISE: HIS DISGUIS ONLY EVER VER UP HIS UNIBROW AND ANKLE TATTOO, WHICH IS WHAT EVERYONE ALWAYS REGNIZ HIM BY. PET THE DOG: JT BEFORE HIS ATH, HE HELPS K SNICKET LIVER HER BABY DGHTER AND THEY SHARE A TENR MOMENT RECG POETRY. VLET EVEN NOT THAT MIGHT EVEN BE THE SOLE SELFLS ACT HIS LIFE. THE POWER OF LOVE: WHAT SNAPS HIM OUT OF HIS DPAIR EVENT HORIZON THE FAL BOOK TO AID K SNICKET ONE LAST TIME. PYROMANIAC: IT'S CLEAR THAT HE HAS AT LEAST BURNED A HOSPAL, A RNIVAL, AND A HOTEL TO GROUND AND 'S SUGGTED THAT HE ALSO BURNED THE BLAIR' MANSN, BUT SNICKET NEVER NFIRMED THE FACT. IN THE FAL BOOK, THE BLAIR NONT OLAF OVER THEIR SPICNS OF HIM BURNG DOWN THEIR MANSN. HIS IAL RPONSE IS "IS THAT WHAT YOU THK?" FOLLOWED BY "YOU KNOW NOTHG." REMPTN EQUALS DEATH: HIS LAST ACTN BEFORE DYG IS RCUG K SNICKET. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: WHILE A MAJOR ANTAGONISTIC FIGURE THE LIV OF THE BLAIR, HE'S ULTIMATELY REVEALED TO BE A B PLAYER THE WORLDS OF THEATRE, PNAGE, AND VILLAY AS THE STORY PROGRS. SMALL ROLE, BIG IMPACT: HE'S ONE OF THE PRIMARY STIGATORS OF THE VFD SCHISM, BUT AFTERWARDS, HE SPENT THE FOLLOWG S TRYG TO GET RICH THROUGH ILLIC AND LARGELY UNSUCCSFUL MONEYMAKG SCHEM, AND HIDG OUT HIS SHODDY HOME TO WA FOR HIS NEARBY RELATIV TO PASS ON SO HE ULD MAKE A GO AT THEIR FORTUNE.SMUG SNAKE:--> UNCLEANLS IS NEXT TO UNGODLS: OLAF HAS VERY POOR HYGIENE. THE UNREVEAL: DID OLAF BURN DOWN THE BLAIRE MANSN? THE FILM OF THE BOOK AT THE VERY LEAST STRONGLY SUAT HE DID, BUT THE ORIGAL BOOKS AND THE NETFLIX ADAPTATN HAVE HIM NY WHEN ASKED, AND THE LATTER S THE BLAIR HAVE NO WAY TO KNOW FOR SURE. VILLAO CSH: IMPLIED WH VLET THE FIRST BOOK SCE HIS PLANS FOR HER CLUD MARRIAGE AND THE NSUMMATN THEREOF. WANNABE SECRET AGENT: LEMONY SNICKET'S UNTHORIZED AUTOBGRAPHY REVEALS THAT HE WAS AN AGENT OF V.F.D. WHEN HE WAS A CHILD AND FOR ALL THE BEDLAM HE WAS PABLE OF, 'S HEAVILY IMPLIED THAT HE WASN'T A VERY GOOD MEMBER, BOTH TERMS OF MORALY AND PETENCY. WOOBIE, DTROYER OF WORLDS: MAYBE. IT'S IMPLIED THAT BEATRICE AND/OR BERTRAND BLAIRE AND/OR LEMONY SNICKET KILLED HIS PARENTS WH POISON DARTS DURG A PERFORMANCE OF LA FORZA L DTO. WOULD HURT A CHILD: HIS PLAN TO GET THE BLAIRE FORTUNE HAVE CLUD HIM ATTEMPTG TO KILL THE TR. ONE CLUD ATTEMPTED MARRIAGE. YOU ARE WHAT YOU HATE: OLAF, A MAN WHOSE PARENTS WERE KILLED BY POISON DARTS WHILE AT AN OPERA HOE, HAS A LICENSE PLATE WH "IH8ORPHANS" SCRIBED ON . YOU KILLED MY FATHER: THE FILM NFIRMS THAT HE WAS RPONSIBLE FOR THE ATH OFTHE BLAIR' PARENTS AND THE BURNG OF THEIR MANSN, AS KLS FDS THE GIANT MAGNIFYG GLASS RPONSIBLE FOR AND EXPOS BY BURNG THE WEDDG NTRACT. IN THE BOOKS AND THE NETFLIX ADAPTATN THE BLAIR THK HE'S RPONSIBLE, BUT WHEN THEY FALLY DIRECTLY NONT HIM ABOUT JT BEFORE HIS ATH HE NI . YOUNGER THAN THEY LOOK: HTS THROUGHOUT THE LATER BOOKS WOULD SUGGT THAT OLAF WAS V.F.D. TRAG WH K AND LEMONY, MAKG HIM AROUND 39-45, BUT HELQUIST'S ILLTRATNS PICT A MAN THAT LOOKS AROUND 50-60 YEARS OF AGE. ALSO, THE MOVIE'S PICTN. THIS MAY BE JTIFIED DUE TO HIS UNHEALTHY LIFTYLE AND FILTHY HABS GIVG HIM A PREMATURELY AGED APPEARANCE.    THE HOOK-HAND MAN O. LUFONT / HOOKY / FERNALD / THE HOOK-HAND MAN B CRASH: MIGHT HAVE DIED AFTER HIS OFFSCREEN DCHG OF OLAF. DIRTY OLD MAN: IN REGARDS TO VLET. HE NSTANTLY MENTS ON HOW PRETTY SHE IS EVEN WHEN HE HAS HER TRAPPED OLAF'S TOWER "THE BAD BEGNG". EVIL IS PETTY: HIS IA OF HAVG A GOOD DREAM IS SNEEZG WHOUT VERG HIS MOUTH AND GIVG EVERYONE THE LD. GO-TO ALIAS: LUFONT, ED BOOKS 2 AND 8, THE LATTER OF WHICH REVEALS THAT THE ALIAS ALSO CLUS THE FIRST IAL O, TO MAKE A FULL ANAGRAM OF "COUNT OLAF". HEEL–FACE REVOLVG DOOR: IT SEEMS LIKE HIS WHOLE LIFE IS A CHA OF HEEL–FACE TURN FOLLOWED BY FACE–HEEL TURN; THE ELEVENTH BOOK, HE MANAG TO DO BOTH THE SPACE OF THREE CHAPTERS. HEEL–FACE TURN: DCH OLAF WHEN HE RN WH HIS FAY. HEEL REALIZATN: WHEN FNA NONTS HIM OVER LOSG HIS HANDS, SETTG FIR AS THE DAILY PUNCTIL REPORTS AND LEARNG HE IS ONE OF OLAF'S HENCHMEN. HE DON'T NY HAVG SET THE FIR AND HAS THE GALL TO BLAME A ATHLY-ILL SUNNY FOR GETTG HIM TO SO MUCH TROUBLE, BUT HE ADMS THAT JOG OLAF'S BAND WAS NOT WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR. SO MUCH THAT THEY PE TOGETHER AN OFFSCREEN MOMENT OF AWOME OM OLAF AFTER FNA BE A FAKE DEFECTOR. HOOK HAND: BOTH OF HIS HANDS. BOTH THE BOOK AND THE FILM PICT THEM AS STANDARD PIRATE HOOKS WHILST THE NETFLIX VERSN HAS THEM AS MORE REALISTIC PROSTHETICS. MORALY CHA: HIS YOUNGER SISTER FNA. WHEN SHE PLEADS WH HIM TO HELP HER AND THE BLAIR, HE AGRE, ON THE NDN THAT HE N GO WH THEM. SHORTLY AFTERWARD, WHEN THAT PLAN FAILS, FNA BE A FAKE DEFECTOR, AND THEY BOTH PE OM OLAF AN OFFSCREEN MOMENT OF AWOME. MYSTER PAST: IT'S NOT KNOWN EXACTLY HOW HE LOST HIS HANDS, OTHER THAN THE POSSIBILY THAT ARSON WAS VOLVED. HOW HIS BURNG OF ANWHISTLE AQUATICS WENT DOWN IS LIKEWISE UNCERTA. HE SAYS THAT THE DAILY PUNCTILL'S ACUNTG OF EVENTS IS ACCURATE AND THE NARRATN IMPLI THAT HIS STEPFATHER AND/OR LEMONY MIGHT HAVE PLAYED A ROLE, BUT THAT'S ABOUT . NO FULL NAME GIVEN: WHILE THE GRIM GROTTO REVEALS HIS FIRST NAME, AN ARTICLE THE DAILY PUNCTIL ERRONEOLY GIV HIS NAME AS "FERNALD WIDRSHS". HE SISTS THAT 'WIDRSHS' ISN'T ACTUALLY HIS LAST NAME, BUT WHAT IS ISN'T REVEALED. SCREW THIS, I'M OUTTA HERE: IN THE 12TH BOOK, DCH OLAF WH HIS SISTER OFF-PAGE. STEALTH MENTOR: IN THE ERSATZ ELEVATOR, HE DRAWS ATTENTN TO THE FACT THAT OLAF NEVER LEFT THE BUILDG, THEN SUBTLY TIPS THE BLAIR OFF THAT THEY SHOULD LOOK AT THE ELEVATOR MORE CLOSELY. ONCE WE LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM, THIS STARTS TO MAKE MORE SENSE. THIS MAY BE THE SE AS FAR BACK AS THE FIRST BOOK. THOUGH HE LIVERS AS A THREAT, HE GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO WARN THE BLAIR THAT OLAF WILL KILL THEM IF HE SUCCEEDS GETTG THEIR FORTUNE. YOUNGER THAN THEY LOOK: THOUGH HIS AGE ISN'T STATED, HE'S APPARENTLY YOUNG ENOUGH TO HAVE A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD SISTER, THOUGH 'S IMPLIED THAT THERE'S A SIGNIFINT GAP, HE'S LIKELY BETWEEN 25-30.    THE BALD MAN WH A LONG NOSE FLACUTONO / THE BALD MAN WH A LONG NOSE ADAPTATN NAME CHANGE: MERELY "BALD MAN" BOTH ADAPTATNS, AS NEHER OF THE ACTORS TO PLAY HIM HAS A LONG NOSE. BALD OF EVIL: BALD AND ONE OF THE BIG BAD'S MNSS. CHARACTER DEATH: EATEN BY LNS. DIRTY OLD MAN: IN REGARDS TO VLET. SHE EVEN NSIRS HIM THE SRIT OF OLAF'S MNS, PARTIALLY DUE TO THIS. GO-TO ALIAS: FLACUTONO, ED BOOKS 4 AND 8. KICK THE DOG: THOUGH TRIPPG KLS AND BREAKG HIS GLASS THE 4TH BOOK WAS PART OF THE PLAN, HE DIDN'T NEED TO ENJOY SO MUCH. IT'S ALSO SEEN HIS DISGUISE AS FOREMAN FLACUTONO THE SAME BOOK, WHERE HE TREATS THE L WORKERS VERY LY AND POORLY. SISTER SCHNOZ: ONE OF HIS FG TRAS.    THE TWO WHE-FACED WOMEN TOCUNA AND FLO / THE TWO WHE-FACED WOMEN EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: THE REASON FOR THEIR HEEL–FACE TURN IS THEIR GROWG SYMPATHY TOWARDS A PTIVE SUNNY (WHO MIGHT HAVE REMD THEM OF THEIR LATE SISTER) AND THEIR SPICN THAT OLAF WAS RPONSIBLE FOR THEIR SIBLG'S ATH. THEY'RE ALSO THE ON TO POT OUT TO THE RT OF THE GROUP THAT HAVG A PTIVE FANT HANDLE ALL THE OKG AND THEN PUNISHG SAID FANT FOR NOT MAKG A GOURMET MEAL MIGHT BE A LTLE UNREASONABLE. GO-TO ALIAS: THOUGH THEY DON'T HAVE ALIAS THEIR LUNCHLADY DISGUIS, BOOK 8 IMPLI THEY UALLY GO BY "TOCUNA" AND "FLO", WHICH TOGETHER FORM ANOTHER "COUNT OLAF" ANAGRAM. HEEL–FACE TURN: IN BOOK 10, THEY GET TIRED OF HEARG ABOUT ALL THE TERRIBLE THGS OLAF HAS DONE, AS REMDS THEM OF THEIR SPICN THAT OLAF SET THE FIRE THAT KILLED THEIR SISTER. NAMED BY THE ADAPTATN: JANE AND JEN THE FILM AND VIO GAME. A SE OF THE DANZA WH THEM BEG PLAYED BY JANE ADAMS AND JENNIFER COOLIDGE. SCREW THIS, I'M OUTTA HERE: IN BOOK 10, THEY WALK AWAY OM OLAF'S MP AND ARE NEVER SEEN AGA.    THE ONE THAT LOOKS LIKE NEHER A MAN NOR A WOMAN THE ONE THAT LOOKS LIKE NEHER A MAN NOR A WOMAN ADAPTATNAL ATTRACTIVENS: DCRIBED AS VERY FAT THE BOOKS, BUT NOT FAT THE MOVIE OR TV SERI. ADAPTATN NAME CHANGE: BOTH ADAPTATNS REFER TO THEM AS "PERSON OF INTERMATE GENR". AMBIGUO GENR: HENCE THE NAME. CHARACTER DEATH: DIED THE FIRE THAT STROYED HEIMLICH HOSPAL. THE DREAD: JUDGG BY VLET AND KLS'S REACTNS TO FDG THEM THE SAILBOAT RENTAL SHACK. FAT BASTARD: IMMENSELY FAT AND MONSTROLY EVIL THE BOOKS. AVERTED THE FILM AND THE NETFLIX VERSNS, WHERE THEY ARE PORTRAYED AS MORE AVERAGE SIZE. GENR FLIP: OF A SORT. THOUGH ORIGALLY SCRIBED AS A PERSON WHOSE GENR IS TERMATE, BOTH ADAPTATNS PICT THEM AS A MAN WH A SLIGHTLY FEME FASHN SENSE. NO-SELL: SUNNY'S TEETH WHICH ARE SHARP ENOUGH TO CUT WOOD, BE OFF PROSTHETIC HANDS, FIGHT EVENLY WH A SWORD, AND CUT TO STONE/NCRETE HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO EFFECT ON THEM! STOUT STRENGTH: IS ABLE TO LIFT ALL THREE ORPHANS WH NO PROBLEM. THE VOICELS: IT'S IMPLIED THAT THEY N SPEAK AT LEAST TO OLAF, AS THEY APPARENTLY RM OLAF THAT THE ORPHANS STOLE ONE OF HIS SAILBOATS. EHER WAY, THEY NEVER SPEAK ANYTHG OTHER THAN HUMAN GROANS, FURTHER OBFTG THEIR GENR.    THE WART-FACED MAN THE WART-FACED MAN CHUCK CUNNGHAM SYNDROME: HE APPEARS WH THE RT OF THE TROUPE THE FIRST BOOK AND P WH THEM, BUT NEVER APPEARS AGA. HYPER-COMPETENT SIKICK: IS THE ONE WHO TURNS OFF THE LIGHTS SO COUNT OLAF AND HIS HENCHMEN N PE. INFORMED ATTRIBUTE: HE IS NOTED AS BEG "IMPORTANT LOOKG", BUT WHAT EXACTLY MAK HIM IMPORTANT IS NOT CLEAR. THOUGH THE BIG FISH VIO GAME PICTED HIM A SU AND TIE. RIDDLE FOR THE AG: SERLY, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THIS GUY? A SONG RERD FOR THE TRAGIC TREASURY, "SCREAM AND RUN AWAY", MENTNS "ONE LONG-NOSED BALD MAN WH WARTS", DITG THAT HE MAY HAVE BEEN RETROACTIVELY BED WH THE BALD MAN.    THE CARNIVAL FREAKS THE CARNIVAL FREAKS ARSON, MURR, AND JAYWALKG: HUGO THE HUNCHBACK, COLETTE THE NTORTNIST, AND KEV... WHO IS AMBIXTRO. CONTORTNIST: COLETTE WORKS AS ONE THE CARNIVORO CARNIVAL. NICE, MEAN, AND IN-BETWEEN: HUGO (NICE) IS POLE AND DO MOST OF CHOR THE RAVAN. KEV (MEAN) IS WAS THE LEAST POLE TO BLAIR OM THE START, BELTL OTHER'S PROBLEMS (MOST NOTABLY THE HOOK-HAND MAN'S PROBLEMS)AND IS THE MOST WILLG TO JO OLAF. COLETTE (-BETWEEN) IS POLE AND PASSNATE BUT DO LS THAN HUGO. I JT WANT TO BE NORMAL: THE REASON THEY JO OLAF. SUBVERTED BY THE FACT THAT MOST PEOPLE DO ED THK THEY'RE DISGTG EAKS. PROPERLY PARANOID: KEV IS NVCED THAT EVERYONE IS WHISPERG ABOUT HIM ALL THE TIME, JT BEE HE'S AMBIXTRO. THERE IS NO REASON FOR PEOPLE TO THK THERE'S ANYTHG DIFFERENT ABOUT HIM AT FIRST GLANCE, BUT HE APPEARS TO THK THERE IS, EVEN ACCG THE BLAIR OF G TO CALIGARI CARNIVAL TO LGH AT HIM. AS TURNS OUT, MOST PEOPLE DO THK HE'S JT AS EAKY AS HUGO AND COLETTE.THE BLAIR' OTHER GUARDIANS    UNCLE MONTY DR. MONTGOMERY "MONTY" MONTGOMERY COOL OLD GUY: IMPLIED TO HAVE BEEN AT LEAST SOMEWHAT OLR (HE ONCE CLAIMS THAT HE'S BEEN STUDYG HERPETOLOGY FOR FORTY YEARS) AND ONE OF THE MORE FUN GUARDIANS THE ORPHANS HAVE HAD. GOOD PARENTS: OUT OF ALL THE ELS ADULTS THE SERI, MONTY STANDS OUT AS THE BT RETAKER THE BLAIR EVER HAD. IT DON'T LAST. NICE GUY: HAS A VERY PLEASANT ATTU AND THE BLAIR EVEN LL HIM "THE BT GUARDIAN THEY'VE EVER HAD". REPETIVE NAME: DR. MONTGOMERY MONTGOMERY. IT'S FOR THIS REASON HE'D PREFER IF PEOPLE LL HIM "MONTY MONTGOMERY". RIGHT FOR THE WRONG REASONS: FIGURED OUT THAT OLAF WAS UP TO NO GOOD... BUT THOUGHT HE WAS A SPY FOR THE HERPETOLOGIL SOCIETY. WE HARDLY KNEW YE: OLAF KILLS HIM BY THE END OF THE SEND BOOK.    AUNT JOSEPHE JOSEPHE ANWHISTLE ASSHOLE VICTIM: IT'S KD OF HARD TO FEEL SORRY FOR HER AFTER SHE SELLS THE BLAIRE CHILDREN TO COUNT OLAF HOP OF BEG SPARED, EVEN THOUGH THE CHILDREN STILL HOPED THAT SHE WAS OKAY. LEMONY SNICKET HIMSELF HOWEVER, SAID THAT SHE WAS NO DOUBT A BAD GUARDIAN FOR LETTG THE CHILDREN GO. DIRTY COWARD: HER PARANOIA SCENDS TO THIS TROPE AT THE CLIMAX OF THE WI WDOW WHEN SHE SELLS THE BLAIRE CHILDREN TO COUNT OLAF TO SAVE HER SK. DRIVEN TO SUICI: SUBVERTED WH AUNT JOSEPHE. SHE'S FORCED TO WRE A LETTER UNR OLAF'S THREATS AND MAK LOOK LIKE SHE JUMPED OUT OF A WDOW. HOWEVER, SHE JT BROKE THE WDOW AND MA HER PE TO CURDLED CAVE. GRAMMAR NAZI: HER ENTIRE SCHTICK. WELL, THAT AND PARANOIA. WHY DID IT HAVE TO BE SNAK?: SHE'S TERRIFIED OF, WELL, ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHG. EXCEPT V, SEEMS; THE ORPHANS ARE ABLE TO AX HER OUT OF A VE BY PLAYG ON HER FEAR OF REALTORS, OF ALL THGS.    SIR AND CHARL SIR AND CHARL AMBIGUOLY GAY: SCE THEIR "PARTNERSHIP" CLEARLY ISN'T A BS ONE, 'S IMPLIED THEY'RE A UPLE. SNICKET GO A B FARTHER THAN IMPLYG THE TV SERI. CHARL IS SCRIBED AS SIR'S PARTNER WHEN FIRST TRODUCED, AND WHILE THE CHILDREN THK HE MEANS BS PARTNER, HE IS NEVER ACTUALLY SEEN DOG ANYTHG FOR THE BS. SIR EXPLAS THEY SPL 50/50, YET HE DO NOT GET A SAY BS CISNS. HIS ROLE IS A DOMTIC ONE, SIAR TO A HOEWIFE. HE OKS AND CLEANS FOR HIM, AND SIR BUILDS HIM A LIBRARY. IT IS IMPLIED HE'S ACTUALLY HIS ROMANTIC PARTNER AND THE CHILDREN PURELY MIXED UP THE TERMS DOMTIC PARTNER AND BS PARTNER. LATER ON, WHEN THEY BOTH APPEAR AGA THE PENULTIMATE PERIL, THEIR RELATNSHIP IS EVEN MORE DIRECTLY QUEER. THEY ARE SEEN SHARG A HOTEL ROOM MATCHG PYJAMAS AND BATH ROB. THEY ARE ALSO SEEN TOGETHER A SNA WHERE SIR MAK AN ALMOST SEXUAL NUENDO TOWARDS HIM, SAYG THAT HE "LIK THE SMELL OF HOT WOOD." BOTH OF THEM A SNA TOGETHER ULD BE A REFERENCE TO THE NNECTNS SNAS AND GAY CULTURE HAD AT THE TIME, WH GAY BATHHO BEG ED AS A SAFE SPACE TO ENGAGE WH EACH OTHER ROMANTILLY. WHEN THEY ARE LAST SEEN TOGETHER, BEFORE THEIR IMPLIED ATH THEY ARE SEEN HOLDG EACH OTHERS HANDS TO STAY TOGETHER. IN THE PANN BOOK THE BEATRICE LETTERS, THERE'S A PART OF A LETTER THAT MIGHT BE REFERRG TO THEIR RELATNSHIP, AS THE IALS ARE THE SAME:BEATRICE: I WILL LOVE YOU UNTIL C. REALIZ S. IS NOT WORTHY OF HIS LOVE. BAD BOSS: SIR PAYS HIS EMPLOYE UPONS AND FEEDS THEM ONLY GUM. CIGAR CHOMPER: SIR IS RARELY SEEN WHOUT A CIGAR HIS MOUTH, AND HIS PREFERRED BRAND EMS SO MUCH SMOKE THAT OBSCUR HIS FACE. IN THE TV SERI, HE CLAIMS THAT HE HAT CIGARS, BUT HAS TO SMOKE THEM BEE HE'S THE BOSS. CORPT CORPORATE EXECUTIVE: SIR IS THE AMORAL, CIGAR-SMOKG LUMBERL OWNER WHO PAYS HIS WORKERS UPONS AND GIV THEM GUM FOR LUNCH; A LATER APPEARANCE, BS IS BAD, AS THE NEARBY LUMBER SOURCE, THE FE FORT, IS NNG OUT OF TRE. DARK AND TROUBLED PAST: ACRDG TO CHARL, SIR HAS A TERRIBLE CHILDHOOD. EXTREME DOORMAT: CHARL. AS SEEN UNR AMBIGUOLY GAY, POSSIBLY ACTUALLY A HENPECKED HBAND. THE FACELS: SIR'S FACE IS ALWAYS OBSCURED BY CIGAR SMOKE. THE ONE TIME HE'S SEEN WHOUT A CIGAR, HE'S A SNA AND HIS FACE STILL N'T BE SEEN. AS WH SNICKET, AVERTED THE TV SERI. NO NAME GIVEN: SIR. EVINTLY HE FDS EASIER THAN TEACHG PEOPLE HOW TO PRONOUNCE HIS NAME. SHOUT-OUT: SIR OWNS A BATHROBE MONOGRAMMED WH "LS", WHICH ONCE BELONGED TO AN THOR. THE IMPLITN IS EHER THAT HE STOLE OM SNICKET, OR THAT HE STOLE OM LOUIS SACHAR, WHO THEN WROTE HIM TO HOL AS THE VILLA MR. SIR. THE UNPRONOUNCEABLE: MR. POE MAK SEVERAL ATTEMPTS AT PRONOUNCG SIR'S NAME, BUT N ONLY GET ONE SYLLABLE . AND 'S A PLETELY DIFFERENT SYLLABLE EACH TIME.    JEROME SQUALOR JEROME SQUALOR CHEKHOV'S GUNMAN: HE'S A JS.DOGGED NICE GUY--> HENPECKED HBAND: FOR ESMé. IRONIC NAME: HE LIV AN EXPENSIVE PENTHOE, BUT HIS SURNAME IS 'SQUALOR'.V.F.D.    IN GENERAL THE V.F.D. ARE A SHADOWY ANIZATN THAT EVERYONE — OM OLAF TO THE BLAIR' PARENTS — IS NNECTED TO. BEETHOVEN WAS AN ALIEN SPY: THE NARRATOR AND HIS RAS IMPLY THAT V.F.D. DAT BACK TO ANCIENT GREECE, THAT MART LUTHER KG, EDH WHARTON, AND THOMAS MALTH WERE VOLVED WH — ALTHOUGH MALTH WAS ON THE EVIL SI OF THE SCHISM — AND THAT SHAKPEARE MAY BE ALIVE. HOWEVER, THE MAY BE THE RULT OF REVISNISM ACRDANCE WH V.F.D.'S OWN VIEWS. BUNNY-EARS LAWYER: SOME MEMBERS QUALIFY AS THIS. DARK AND TROUBLED PAST: MOST ADULTS HAVE THIS DUE TO THEIR VOLVEMENT OM AN EARLY AGE WH V.F.D.. THE GHOST: THE SERI HAS A WI BACKSTORY AND SEVERAL CHARACTERS ARE ONLY EVER REFERRED TO. THE MOST NOTABLE EXAMPLE IS PROBABLY R., THE DUCHS OF WNIPEG. GREY-AND-GREY MORALY: INIALLY IMPLIED TO BE AN ANIZATN FIGHTG AGAST PEOPLE LIKE OLAF, 'S LATER SUGGTED THEY AREN'T SO DIFFERENT. BOTH SIS REGULARLY KIDNAP CHILDREN TO REC THEM FOR THEIR OWN PURPOS. OLAF'S PARENTS MIGHT HAVE EVEN BEEN KILLED BY THEM. KNIGHT TEMPLAR: GREGOR ANWHISTLE, WHO WANTED TO E THE ADLY MSOID MYCELIUM ON V.F.D.'S ENEMI. MILKMAN CONSPIRACY: A SECRET NSPIRACY THAT MANY CHARACTERS ARE VOLVED SOME WAY, MAK LIBERAL E OF SECRET S, HAS BEEN GOG ON FOR CENTURI AND WAS SUBJECT TO A SCHISM LONG AGO... BASED ON THE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. MYSTER PAST: ON ONE LEVEL, MANY TAILS ABOUT V.F.D.'S HISTORY ARE UNKNOWN AND WE DON'T KNOW HOW THE SCHISM HAPPENED (THE CLOST BEG THAT HAPPENED WHEN CHARACTERS LIKE THE SNICKET SIBLGS, THE BLAIRE PARENTS AND OLAF WERE VERY YOUNG). ON ANOTHER, ALMOST NONE OF THE BACKSTORI OF THE DIVIDUAL MEMBERS ARE FULLY REVEALED AND WHAT WE DO KNOW RAIS AS MANY QUTNS AS ANSWERS (WHICH IS PAR FOR THE URSE FOR THE SERI). THE OMNISCIENT COUNCIL OF VAGUENS: V.F.D., AND SPECIFILLY THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETG OF THE VAGUE "BUILDG COMMTEE" THE UNTHORIZED AUTOBGRAPHY — EVEN THE THOR DIDN'T KNOW SOME OF WHAT WAS BEG DISCSED HERE, AND HE WAS TECHNILLY ATTENDANCE. PSYCHOPATHIC MANCHILD: THEIR MEMBERS NSIST OF THOSE ABDUCTED OM THEIR PARENTS OR HAVE HAD THEM RENRED ABSENTIA DUE TO AN OUTSI CINT. THE ANISATN, WHILE HAVG MANY BRILLIANT PEERS FOR THE YOUTHS, DON'T HAVE ANYTHG THE WAY OF A PARENTAL SUBSTUTE LEAVG THEM IMMATURE AND OTHERWISE EMOTNALLY AND MENTALLY STUNTED SPE OF THEIR GREAT TALENTS. SPY SPEAK: V.F.D., BEG A SECRET ANISATN, NATURALLY P QUANTI OF THIS, SO MUCH SO THAT THERE HAVE BEEN DISPUT AMONG REARS OVER WHETHER CERTA PHRAS ARE OR NOT."THE WORLD IS QUIET HERE." "I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS WAS A SAD OCSN." THEME INIALS: ONCE THE CHILDREN LEARN OF THE IALS, THEY TRY TO FD OUT WHAT THEY ULD POSSIBLY STAND FOR. THIS LEADS TO THEM GOG ALL OVER THE PLACE THE HOP THAT THEY N LEARN THE NNECTN WH THEIR FAY. THEY ACTUALLY STAND FOR "VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT".    MR. AND MRS. BLAIRE MR. AND MRS. BLAIRETHE CEASED PARENTS OF THE BLAIRE ORPHANS. ALLERATIVE NAME: THEIR NAM BOTH START WH THE LETTER 'B', BERTRAND AND BEATRICE. POSTHUMO CHARACTER: THEY PERISH THE FIRST PAG OF THE BOOK SERI. RED HERRG: THE OCSNAL IMPLITN THAT THEY'RE STILL ALIVE NEVER AMOUNTS TO ANYTHG. THE NETFLIX SERI SPENDS S ENTIRE FIRST SEASON IMPLYG THAT THE CHARACTERS PLAYED BY WILL ART AND COBIE SMULRS ARE THE BLAIR, ONLY FOR THE SEVENTH EPISO TO REVEAL THEY'RE ACTUALLY THE PARENTS OF THE QUAGMIRE TRIPLETS.    MS. K (UNMARKED SPOILERS) K SNICKETLEMONY AND JAQU SNICKET'S SISTER. IMPERILED PREGNANCY: SHE'S THIS BY THE TIME SHE GIV BIRTH — AFTER BEG ATTACKED BY THE GREAT UNKNOWN, SHE WASH UP HURT ON THE ISLAND, AND IS FECTED BY THE SPOR OF THE MSOID MYCELIUM. LAST EPISO, NEW CHARACTER SHE FIRST APPEARS AT THE VERY END OF THE THIRD-TO-LAST BOOK AND A MAJOR CHARACTER THE LAST TWO BOOKS. MISSG MOM: LIKE HER LOVER, UNTENTNALLY LEAV THEIR CHILD ORPHANED AFTER HER ATH. MORALY PET: FOR COUNT OLAF. HIS ONE GOOD, AND FAL ACT IS TO GET HER TO A SAFE PLACE TO GIVE BIRTH. WALKG SPOILER: WE AREN'T KIDDG WHEN WE SAY EVERYTHG ABOUT HER IS A GIANT SPOILER, PECIALLY SCE SHE DON'T APPEAR UNTIL THE END OF THE SERI.OTHER CHARACTERS    BEATRICE BEATRICESNICKET'S LOST LOVE, OFTEN ALLUD TO. DEDITN: EVERY BOOK IS DITED TO HER, ACPANIED BY A POETIC WAY OF EXPLAG THAT SHE'S CEASED. THE LOST LENORE: TO SNICKET. POSTHUMO CHARACTER: AS SNICKET POETILLY MAK CLEAR EVERY BOOK DITN. THE REVEAL: THE FAL PARAGRAPH OF THE SERI REVEALS WHAT ROLE SHE HAD THE STORY BIS HER PAST RELATNSHIP WH SNICKET: SHE WAS THE BLAIRE SIBLGS' MOTHER. WALKG SPOILER: GOOD LUCK TRYG TO DISCS BEATRICE WHOUT SPOILG THE BIG TWIST.    GERALDE JULIENNE GERALDE JULIENNE IMMORAL JOURNALIST: SHE'S READY TO PUBLISH ANYTHG THE DAILY PUNCTIL, PROVID MAK A GOOD STORY. FOR EXAMPLE, AFTER THE EVENTS OF THE VILE VILLAGE, THE PUNCTIL PUBLISH AN ARTICLE ACCG THE BLAIR OF COUNT OLAF'S MURR AND FORCG THEM TO STAY ON THE N FOR THE RT OF THE BOOKS.    MR. POE MR. POETHE BANKER WHO IS CHARGE OF THE BLAIR' AFFAIRS AFTER THE ATH OF THEIR PARENTS. ADULTS ARE USELS: THERE ARE MANY ELS ADULTS THE SERI (AND THAT'S AN UNRSTATEMENT!), BUT MR. POE IS, BY FAR, THE ELST ONE OF ALL — AND WE'RE CLUDG OLAF, AUNT JOSEPHE AND JEROME THAT; THEY, AT LEAST, HAVE REASONS FOR THEIR ELSNS — POE IS JT AN OUTRIGHT IDT WH NO REEMG QUALI, EXCEPT POSSIBLY FOR THE FACT THAT HE DO GENUELY WANT WHAT'S BT FOR THE KIDS SPE BEG REALLY BAD AT GETTG THAT FOR THEM. AOP AMNIA: HE NSTANTLY FETS THAT THE BLAIR ARE ACTUALLY PETENT, TELLIGENT, AND JTIFIED THEIR SPICNS, AFTER THEY'VE PROVEN THEMSELV TIME AND AGA. HE EVEN SUGGTS THEY MIGHT BE LETTG THEIR IMAGATNS N AWAY WH THEM WHEN THEY SIST CAPTA SHAM IS OLAF, CG HOW THEY BELIEVED THE SAME OF STEPHANO—WHO WAS COUNT OLAF, AND WHOSE UNMASKG POE WAS PRENT FOR. CHARACTER TICS: COUGHG. DEPARTMENT OF CHILD DISSERVIC: A SORT OF ONE-MAN VERSN, DUMPG THE BLAIR WH ONE EVIL AND/OR UTTERLY PETENT GUARDIAN AFTER ANOTHER, THE SOLE EXCEPTN BEG BOOK 2 AND POSSIBLY 3. FREAK OUT: AS BOOK THE SEND REVEALS, HE JUMPS AROUND AND BABBL HERENTLY WHEN HE PANICS. HATE SK: WHILE NOT EXPLICLY MEAN OR UNPLEASANT, HIS STUPIDY, NSCENDG ATTU, AND DOWNRIGHT ELSNS IS AS TRATG TO THE DIENCE AS IS TO THE ORPHANS, EVEN COUNT OLAF DON'T SEEM TO LIKE HIM. HORRIBLE JUDGE OF CHARACTER: MR. POE TOWARDS NEARLY EVERY PERSON HE HAS PLACED THE BLAIR WH, PECIALLY ONCE HE STARTS NNG OUT OF RELATIV WILLG TO TAKE THEM. EVEN THE SE OF UNCLE MONTY, BY FAR THE MOST PETENT PARENTAL FIGURE THE BLAIR GET, HE FDS MONTY'S NICE GUY NATURE TIMIDATG SOMEHOW. IDT HOUDI: HE'S NEVER PUNISHED FOR HIS NSTANT PETENCE. IRONIC ECHO: A RECURRG SCHTICK OF HIS, UALLY APPEARG IMMEDIATELY AFTER EACH BOOK'S REP OF PAST EVENTS, IS THAT HIS THOUGHT PROCS IS ALWAYS ON THE EXACT OPPOSE WAVELENGTH AS THAT OF SNICKET OR THE BLAIR. PUT ON A B: AFTER THE VILE VILLAGE DUE TO THE BLAIR BEG ON THE N. HE REAPPEARS AT THE END OF THE GRIM GROTTO, BUT THE BLAIR IMMEDIATELY SEE THAT HE WON'T BE OF ANY HELP AND LEAVE WHOUT HIM. RIDDLE FOR THE AG: THE REASON FOR HIS NSTANT UGHG IS NEVER EXPLAED.    JTICE STRSS JTICE STRSSCOUNT OLAF'S NEIGHBOR, A JUDGE. CHEKHOV'S GUNMAN: SHE'S A JS. GOOD PARENTS: AS SOON AS SHE ARRIV, SHE MAK VERY CLEAR THAT SHE WOULD MAKE THE PERFECT MOTHER FIGURE FOR THE ORPHANED BLAIR. SO, OBVLY, SHE'S PLETELY FOTTEN FOR MOST OF THE STORY AND ANY HOPE OF HER ADOPTG THEM GO OUT THE WDOW. NO NAME GIVEN: JTICE STRSS IS HER TLE, NOT HER REAL NAME. REFORMED CRIMAL: SHE ED TO STEAL HORS HER YOUTH. THIS IS WHY SHE N RELATE WH ESMé. UNWTG PAWN: SHE'S BEEN KEEPG TABS ON THE BLAIR WH HER LLEAGU WHO TURN OUT TO BE THE MAN WH THE BEARD BUT NO HAIR AND THE WOMAN WH THE HAIR BUT NO BEARD. CONSEQUENTLY, THEY HAVE BEEN FEEDG THIS RMATN DIRECTLY TO OLAF, WHICH IS HOW HE ALWAYS FDS THE CHILDREN WHEREVER THEY GO.    PHIL PHILA LUMBERL WORKER WHO IS AN OPTIMIST. AN ARM AND A LEG: HE LOS HIS LEG A LUMBERL ACCINT. IT DON'T FAZE HIM MUCH. CHUCK CUNNGHAM SYNDROME: DPE HAVG JT BEEN BROUGHT BACK AFTER AN ABSENCE OF SEVEN BOOKS. THE POLLYANNA: EXCCIATGLY OPTIMISTIC, TO THE POT WHERE LOSG HIS LEG DON'T BOTHER HIM THAT MUCH. UNCERTA DOOM: DUE TO THE THOR FETTG HE WAS THE GRIM GROTTO, HE ISN'T MENTNED THE END, LEAVG HIS FATE EVEN MORE UNCLEAR THAN EVERYONE ELSE'S.    NERO NEROTHE VICE PRCIPAL OF POCK PREP. DEAN BTERMAN: HE IS THE VICE PRCIPAL AND HE IS VERY NASTY AND CEL. DREADFUL MICIAN: NERO, AS SNICKET PUTS , HAS NO IA HOW TO PLAY THE VL BUT SISTS ON DOG SO ANYWAY. EVIL IS PETTY: VICE PRCIPAL NERO LIK TO PUNISH STUNTS WHO MISS HIS VL RECALS BY FORCG THEM TO BUY A BAG OF NDY FOR HIM AND WATCH HIM EAT ALL. GIFTEDLY BAD: NERO THKS HE'S A SUPER GENI AND EXPERT VL MICIAN, BUT IS REALLY A STUPID JERKASS MANCHILD WHO N'T PLAY THE VL AT ALL. NOHELS, HE FORC ALL THE STUNTS TO ATTEND 6 HOUR VL NCERTS WH HIM PLAYG THE VL HORRIBLY EVERY NIGHT. MEANGFUL NAME: VICE PRCIPAL NERO, LIKE THE ROMAN EMPEROR HE TAK HIS NAME OM, IS A CALIGULA-LIKE FIGURE WHO PLAYS THE VL. PSYCHOPATHIC MANCHILD: VICE PRCIPAL NERO ACTS LIKE A FIVE-YEAR OLD BRAT QUE OFTEN, MIMICKG PEOPLE, PUNISHG STUNTS BY MAKG THEM GIVE HIM BAGS OF NDY AND FORCG THEM TO WATCH HIM EAT , ETC. SADIST TEACHER: NERO IS RELATIVELY SUBTLE HIS TORMENT OF HIS STUNTS. FOR STANCE, THE PUNISHMENT FOR MISSG ONE OF HIS SIX-HOUR VL NCERTS IS TO BE FORCED TO BUY A BAG OF NDY AND WATCH NERO EAT . THE GLUM EXPRSNS ON THE FAC OF SUCH STUNTS STANDS OUT THE FETERIA JT AS MUCH AS THOSE WHO HAVE NO SILVERWARE, NO CUP, OR THEIR HANDS TIED BEHD THEIR BACK FOR ASSORTED OTHER TRANSGRSNS.    MR. REMORA AND MS. BASS MR. REMORA AND MS. BASS ANIMAL MOTIFS: DPE THEIR FISH NAM, THEY'RE SAID TO REMBLE GORILLAS. REMORA IS A BULKY MAN WH THICK BLACK HAIR ALWAYS SRFG DOWN BANANAS, WHILE MS. BASS'S LONG BLACK HAIR AND PROWLG AROUND GIVE OFF A SIAR IMPRSN. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: MR. REMORA AND MS. BASS ARE... RATHER ODD SORTS OF TEACHERS. IN REMORA'S CLASS, ONE LISTENS TO REMORA TELL BIZARRE THREE-SENTENCE-LONG STORI WH NO PARTICULAR POT; BASS'S CLASS, ONE SIMPLY MEASUR ASSORTED OBJECTS (WH THE METRIC SYSTEM!). QUIZZ AND TTS VOLVE REMEMBERG THE TAILS OF THE STORI AND MEASURED OBJECTS. DUMBASS HAS A POT: DPE ALL THEIR LACK OF PROFSNALISM AS TEACHERS, THEY JTIFIEDLY, IF UNSUCCSFULLY, LOBBY NERO TO EXPELL NOTORLY STUPID AND ATTENTIVE CARMELA AND ALLOW THE BLAIR TO REMA THE POCK. HIDN DEPTHS: MR. REMORA, A TYPIL ELS ADULT HIS FIRST APPEARANCE, IS ONE OF THE FEW RETURNG CHARACTERS THE PENULTIMATE PERIL SMART ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THE BLAIR' NOCENCE. DURG THE CLIMACTIC FIRE THE HOTEL, REMORA IS ALSO AMONG THOSE WHO TOOK OFF THEIR BLDFOLD AFTER HEARG THE BLAIRE'S WARNG. SAVED BY CANON: REMORA AND BASS ARE, THEIR IAL TRODUCTN, BLATANTLY REVEALED TO HAVE SURVIVED PAST THEIR TRODUCTN... LONG ENOUGH FOR THEM TO BE ARRTED FOR ROBBG A BANK, THAT IS. SHIP TEASE: REMORA AND BASS ARE SEEN TOGETHER AT ONE OF NERO'S RECALS, AND IMPLIED TO HAVE BEE AN OUTLAW COUPLE. THEME NAMG: REMORA AND BASS ARE BOTH NAMED AFTER SPECI OF FISH. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: ASI OM HAVG BEE A BANK ROBBER THE PERD BETWEEN BOOK 5 AND BOOK 12, MS BASS IS SHOWN AFTER HER RETURN AS A PERSON ALMOST AS AND ARROGANT AS NERO HIMSELF. ALSO, UNLIKE MR. REMORA, WHO REMEMBERS THEM FONDLY, SHE GAED AN IRRATNAL HATRED TOWARDS THE BLAIR, EVEN SLANRG THEM AS THIEV.    THE QUAGMIRE TRIPLETS THE QUAGMIR TRIPLETSTHE BLAIR' IENDS ARE TWO TRIPLETS WHO HELP THE BLAIR OUT AND GET KIDNAPPED FOR THEIR TROUBLE. DUNN IS A JOURNALIST WHILE ISADORA IS A POET SPECIALIZG UPLETS. LATER ON, QUIGLEY IS REVEALED TO HAVE SURVIVED. ALLERATIVE NAME: QUIGLEY QUAGMIRE. AMBIGUOLY GAY: ISADORA GETS LLED 'SAPPHO' (THE NAME OF A GREEK POET KNOWN FOR WRG ABOUT THE LOVE BETWEEN TWO WOMEN) BY SUNNY THE FIFTH BOOK. ANGSTY SURVIVG TW: MORE LIKE ANGSTY SURVIVG TRIPLETS; DUNN AND ISADORA MOURN THEIR BROTHER QUIGLEY, NOT KNOWG HE'S ALIVE. BRAY BTE: ALL THREE HAVE VERY DARK HAIR AND VERY TELLECTUAL TERTS. BROTHER–SISTER TEAM: ISADORA AND DUNN. B CRASH: POSSIBLY. THE V.F.D. EAGL STROY THE MOBILE HOME WHICH DUNN AND ISADORA PE THE VILLAGE OF FOWL DEVOTE AND CRASH TO THE QUEEQUEG. INSISTENT TERMOLOGY: ISADORA AND DUNN ARE TRIPLETS BY BIRTH, BUT HAVE TO EXPLA THIS TO THOSE THEY MEET. INTREPID REPORTER: DUNN, TO A GREE, SCE HIS MA TERT IS JOURNALISM AND HE PUTS HIMSELF AND HIS SISTER SER DANGER FOR THE SAKE OF FDG OUT THE TTH. LOVE INTERT: DUNN AND QUIGLEY FOR VLET. THE LATTER MAY EVEN HAVE GOTTEN TO KISS HER THE SLIPPERY SLOPE. HALF-INTIL TWS: IT IS STATED HER FIRST APPEARANCE THAT ISADORA LOOKS LIKE A FEMALE VERSN OF DUNN, AND THE ILLTRATNS SHOW THAT QUIGLEY IS SIARLY ALIKE TO BOTH HIS SIBLGS. ODD NAME OUT: ISADORA, DUNN (WHO HAVE A THEME NAMG AFTER ISADORA DUNN THE DANCER) AND QUIGLEY. PUT ON A B: DUNN AND ISADORA PE THE VILLAGE OF FOWL DEVOTE ON A SELF STAG MOBILE HOME. THEME NAMG: ISADORA AND DUNN. (ISADORA DUNN, AFTER THE DANCER.)    ISHMAEL ISHMAEL BIG BAD: HE TAK COUNT OLAF'S ROLE AS THE MA ANTAGONIST THE END. FEET OF CLAY: AS ILLTRATED BY THE ACTUAL CLAY ON HIS FEET. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: ONLY R FOR HIMSELF TO BE THE MOST ADVANCED ISLANR, HOARDG MOST OF THE SHIPWRECKED EMS FOR HIMSELF. UTOPIA JTIFI THE MEANS: A D EXAMPLE: ISHMAEL'S DYSTOPIC UTOPIA ON A DERTED ISLAND SUPPRS S HABANTS VIA PEER PRSURE, TECHNOLOGIL PRIVATN AND DGGGS.OTHER VILLAS

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