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The children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events and its film and television adaptations features a large cast of characters created by Daniel Handler under the pen name of Lemony Snicket. The original series follows the turbulent lives of the Baudelaire orphans, Violet , Klaus , and Sunny , after their parents are killed in an ...
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- Physical Appearance
- Behind the scenes
- Trivia
Sunny Baudelaire is the youngest of the three Baudelaire orphans. Her older siblings are Violet and Klaus Baudelaire. Sunny, along with her siblings, is one of the main protagonists of A Series of Unfortunate Events.
At the start of the series, Sunny had four abnormally large, sharp teeth and enjoys biting things with them, an interest that stuck with her even after the rest of her teeth began to come in. She eventually acquires a penchant and talent for cooking, and both skills save the lives of the Baudelaires at various times. For instance, in The Slippery Slope, when Sunny and her siblings are separated, she uses a smoked salmon (described in-series as 'lox') recipe to signal her location to her siblings elsewhere in the Mortmain Mountains). The first time Sunny showed her passion for cooking is during the events in The Carnivorous Carnival when she edited a hot chocolate recipe by including cinnamon. Over time, she began creating more and more complicated dishes, such as pesto lo mein, water-chestnut amuse-bouche, and coconut cream cake, with her prowess expanding over her time spent on the Island to include various types of soft baby food, developed for a young Beatrice Baudelaire II.
In her early appearances before she could walk, she was usually seen being carried in Violet's arms, although there have been times when Violet will make her stand or put onto something such as a chair or table. She learned to stand and walk properly at the end of The Vile Village. In The Hostile Hospital, she is carried by Klaus, who rarely does this, as they need to get around the hospital quickly.
At times in the series, Sunny is presented in an unrealistic way in terms of physical feats for a baby, adding to the absurdist nature of the series. For example, her teeth are sometimes shown carving hard material such as rocks and wood, she is seen changing a lightbulb on a ladder in The Bad Beginning, she defends herself against in a sword fight in The Miserable Mill, she works as a secretary in The Austere Academy (although Vice Principal Nero fires her for being a "terrible" secretary), she climbs an elevator shaft using nothing but her teeth in The Ersatz Elevator, and she works as a hotel concierge in The Penultimate Peril, among various other accomplishments. In the TV series, she is seen playing poker while being held hostage by the Hook-Handed Man.
As Sunny is a baby, she is at an age where one mostly speaks in a series of unintelligible shrieks. She cannot say many English words at the start of the series other than "bottle," "mommy," "bite," and the names of her siblings. "Bite" is mentioned to be the first full word she spoke. She does, however, have an expansive vocabulary of non-English words that can be translated by Violet, Klaus, and, occasionally, Lemony Snicket who despite giving meanings to most of Sunny's early language, chooses to define the words as 'meaning something like' rather than meaning an exact word. When Sunny speaks however, most people are confused with what she is saying, despite her being a baby. According to The Miserable Mill, one of her favorite words is, "Aha!" Sunny's vocabulary grows overwhelmingly throughout the series, and by The End, she is speaking in full and clarified sentences. By Chapter Fourteen, Sunny can speak as well as both her siblings. In actuality, a lot of Sunny's gibberish are references and allusions. In the film and Netflix series, Sunny's language is translated and communicated with subtitles.
Sunny is kind-hearted, brave, intelligent, gracious, and sensible like her older siblings. Her understanding of the world around her and cognitive thinking appears to be fully developed for her age as indicated by her ability to adapt well in frantic situations. She also has a bit of creative side especially when she became interested in cooking si...
Early Life
Sunny was born to Beatrice and Bertrand Baudelaire at Pincus Hospital in The City, much later than her older siblings, Violet, and Klaus Baudelaire. While Klaus disliked her while she was a newborn, by the time she was six weeks old the two of them were as thick as thieves. As the eldest child, Violet also promised her parents that she would take care of Sunny and Klaus. Her parents used to sing Sunny a lullaby called "The Butcher Boy". Each took turns singing the verses in the song. She took an interest in biting things starting on Beatrice's birthday. On that day, the family woke up early to bake a cake, but the electric can opener broke. Sunny, who had been playing quietly on the floor, spoke her first word, "Bite", and bit down onto the condensed milk. This allowed the rest of the family to pour it, so they could continue baking. This greatly impressed them, and since then, Sunny had a tendency to be used as a human can opener, save for beets. By the time Beatrice and Bertrand passed away, Sunny had four sharp teeth. Despite only knowing how to speak a few words, she primarily communicated in a form of babytalk that few could understand, but her siblings would somehow manage to translate for her. When Violet and Klaus became embarrassed by it, Sunny became the primary audience for her father's poetry recitations. She also remembers her parents using the phrase "eating crow" while playing backgammon. Once, while Sunny was dropping forks onto the ground to see what sound they made, Beatrice taught her that people would think dinner was impressive, even a hastily made one, if it was made to look fancy. She also once asked her father about her name, to which he explained to her that it was a family tradition to name children after the deceased. The family once went to a picnic at the Rutabaga River, but Bertrand was so excited that he forgot to pack silverware, and they had to eat sweet-and-sour shrimp with their fingers and wash their hands in the river. Sunny remembers biting rocks during the trip. They also went to the Hotel Preludio for a weekend, where Sunny first learned how to blow bubbles in the pool. Bertrand taught his children a prank, where they pressed every button on the elevator before getting out, in order to make everyone else have to go up to every floor. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny had a routine for whenever their parents went out to the orchestra; first, Violet and Klaus would play a few games of checkers while Sunny ripped up old newspapers, and then the children would read in the library (or, in Sunny's case, just look at the pictures) until they fell asleep on the sofas. It is briefly mentioned in The Bad Beginning that she hated baths and, would bite you very hard if you tried to give her one.
The Bad Beginning
The series begins when Sunny, at Briny Beach with Klaus and Violet, notices Arthur Poe, a friend of the children, moving towards them through the fog. He informs the children that their parents have perished in a terrible fire, which has also destroyed their home. The children, now orphans, are sent to live with the dreadful Count Olaf, who abuses them and attempts to get the fortune that their parents left behind by marrying Violet. Later, Sunny is captured by Count Olaf, has her hands tied together, gagged, and is dangled while in a birdcage from top of Olaf's very high tower. It is implied she fought against her restraints but they wouldn't budge. Count Olaf does this in order to force the Baudelaires into his play, (The Marvelous Marriage) which is a scheme to steal their fortune. At night, Violet attempts to rescue Sunny by climbing the tower with her invented grappling hook, but she is found by a guard (the hook-handed man), and the children are locked up until the play begins, which Klaus asks about. During the play, Count Olaf releases Sunny after Violet signs the marriage certificate and she is reunited with her siblings. However, his plans are ruined by Violet who reveals she signs the wedding document with her left hand. Mr. Poe has to find another home for them.
The Reptile Room
Sunny and her siblings are sent to live with Uncle Monty, after the events of The Bad Beginning. Sunny befriends the Incredibly Deadly Viper, Uncle Monty's latest discovery, a completely harmless snake. She later stalls some time with the viper so that Violet and Klaus have a chance to find clues that would prove that Uncle Monty's lab assistant is really Count Olaf. In the Netflix show, Count Olaf wields a knife, which he uses to threaten them into not telling Uncle Monty. Sunny also bites Dr. Lucafont's hand and it cracks, revealing that he is the hook-handed man. The Baudelaires move on to their next guardian.
Books
Every aspect of Sunny's physical appearance that is described in-text is that she is incredibly small; in The Bad Beginning, she is about the size of a boot, and she grows to the size of an eggplant by The Slippery Slope. She cannot walk on her own until the end of The Vile Village. She has been described by Lemony Snicket to have "Pleasant facial features", but what exactly that entails is unknown. In the original illustrations, Sunny has one strand of black hair with a bow tied around it- the bow changes colors in the illustrations but seems to be either red/dark pink, yellow or blue. She is drawn white and has rosy cheeks. Her eye color is indeterminable, though it seems to be dark. She wears a long white dress with a lace collar and sleeves, though it appears as light blue in some lighting. The dress is long enough to cover her feet. Unlike her siblings she who change outfits for the versions designed to mimic Victorian penny-dreadfuls (for example: The Reptile Room or, Murder), she is always pictured wearing the same outfit. Her most notable feature is her four incredibly sharp teeth, which can bite through most anything. In illustrations that feature her biting something, her teeth stick out and are very pointy.
Film
In the film, Sunny is a bit older than described in the books, already walking by the time the story begins. She has red hair, light blue eyes, and pale skin with rosy cheeks. She wears a very large and Victorian-style dress, that is mainly gray but includes splashes off pink on the sleeves and top skirt, on the lace around the collar and sleeves, and as the bottom of her skirt. She has black stripes around the collar and a black ribbon around her waist. She also has a black ribbon belted on her sleeves and tied into bows and hanging from her collar. Her hair is tied up in a dark green ribbon, and she has white socks and black shoes. In The Wide Window segments, she is given a light blue cloak with pink edges and a pink inside, tied with a matching pink ribbon. In some of the flashback segments at the beginning of the film, Sunny can be seen in a light pink dress in a similar style to her normal outfit, and accented with light silver, including a ribbon collar.
TV Series
In the television series, Sunny begins around the same age she was described in the books- actress Presley Smith was eight months old when filming began. However, due to a large gap in production time between Season 1 and Seasons 2 and 3, Presley aged quickly and grew into a toddler. This is waved aside as a growth spurt, and she begins walking in "The Austere Academy: Part One" as opposed to at the end of She has blonde hair that is typically tied into a ponytail, with a light-colored ribbon. For the majority of The Carnivorous Carnival and The Slippery Slope, her hair is down, and it is very short in the back, though her bangs almost reach her eyes. She has pale skin and dark brown eyes. She has a much wider variety of outfits than previous adaptations. Her most marketed outfits are her dark-pink-and-white striped onesie with a white-collar as seen in The Wide Window (not to be confused with a similar onesie with lighter pink stripes and a striped collar that appeared in The Bad Beginning) her white-accented dress from The Vile Village through "The Carnivorous Carnival: Part One" that has a blue top, and a skirt with three large yellow, pink and dark blue stripes, light leggings, and three white buttons shaped like stars, and her white floral dress with bright pink accents and white buttons (designed after the book illustrations) from "The Penultimate Peril: Part Two", though in early promotion for Season Three she was shown in her Slippery Slope outfit made for her by Fernald, where she has a dark yellow jacket, plaid skirt, white leggings, and boots. When she leaves the island, her hair is the same as before, but she has a white sleeveless dress, lightly striped with blue and pink, and with light buttons.
•In the 2003 Multi-Voice Recording of The Bad Beginning, she is voiced by Tara Sands.
•In the film, she was portrayed by both Kara and Shelby Hoffman. However, some stunts were too dangerous or impossible for a baby, so a virtual baby was used. One part where a virtual baby was used was when Sunny bit the table and held on. Another, as revealed by the commentary, was when Sunny is thrown out the window in a crate; the director reveals it is an animatronic baby.
•Sunny, as well as her siblings, got their allergy of peppermints from their mother; Beatrice.
•She is the only one out of her siblings to have not celebrated her birthday throughout the series.
•Her foil from The Luckiest Kids in the World! written by Loney M. Setnick is a baby named Lil' Linda Lotsaluck who, in The Pony Party!, is treated to a fun party, a big prize, a pony ride, several kind, and sensible adults, and all the cake she can eat.
•In The Bad Beginning and the film adaptation, it is mentioned that Klaus initially disliked Sunny when she was born. The reasons are unknown; it's possible that it was because his parents focused less on him and more on Sunny. However, he grew to love and accept her, and by the time Sunny was six weeks old, they were "thick as thieves."
•Just like her siblings, she is severely allergic to peppermints. In her case, her tongue swells up like Klaus and her skin breaks out in hives like Violet.
•In The Slippery Slope, Sunny says "Busheney" to Olaf, which meant something along the lines of, "You're an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people." It is theorized to be Daniel Handler throwing shade at George Bush and Dick Cheney for supporting the Iraq War.
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