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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.
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A Series of Unfortunate Events is an American black comedy...
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A Series of Unfortunate Events is an American black comedy drama television series based on the book series of the same name by Lemony Snicket (the pen name of American author Daniel Handler) for Netflix.
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- Known crimes
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- Behind the scenes
Violet Baudelaire is the eldest of the three Baudelaire orphans and one of the main protagonists of A Series of Unfortunate Events. She is the daughter of Beatrice and Bertrand Baudelaire as well as the elder sister of Klaus Baudelaire and Sunny Baudelaire.
Like her siblings, Violet is intelligent, charming, innovatory, kind-hearted, resourceful and polite, but is most well-known for being an incredibly talented inventor. Lamentably, Violet is extremely unfortunate, a phrase which here means "having a continuous streak of bad luck."
Violet is fourteen years old at the beginning of the series, turns fifteen in The Grim Grotto, and is sixteen upon leaving the Island during Chapter Fourteen. She would inherit the Baudelaire fortune upon her coming of age at eighteen.
Despite his best research, Lemony Snicket does not know what happened to Violet or her siblings after the events of The End.
Violet is an intelligent inventor whose wit and skills have saved her and her siblings countless times from death. She has a habit of tying her hair back with a ribbon when concentrating to keep it out of her eyes.
Violet is possibly the greatest inventor of her time. Before the demise of her parents, she liked to visit the Verne Invention Museum and its many exhibits, including one of the mechanical demonstrations that inspired her to be an inventor when she was just two years old. When Violet was five years old, she won her first invention contest with an automatic rolling pin, which she made using a window shade and six pairs of roller skates. The judge praised Violet, saying she could invent anything with both her hands tied behind her back. When Violet was around ten, she invented a new kind of pencil sharpener. She also built a telephone from scratch and created a device to soothe her sister's teething pains. Her favorite inventor is Nikola Tesla.
Though she is incredibly bright and intelligent, many things modern 14-15 year olds would know are unfamiliar to Violet, mostly because the series is set in an era in which access to information is more limited than it is today. For example, in The Wide Window, Violet does not know what leeches are, likely due to her assumption that there was no need to read about them. Later, Klaus mentions there's "something funny" about Josephine's suicide note, but Violet misinterprets this as "humorous" instead of "odd" and tries to dismiss Klaus' point about a secret message in the letter (in the live-action versions, Violet catches on to his suspicions faster). During these moments, Klaus' passion for reading comes in handy since he shares his knowledge in a wide range of subjects, allowing his older sister to become more aware of the world around her. Despite such occurrences, Violet is still committed to learn about the world and is willing to admit she does not know much about something.
After her parents' deaths, Violet was forced to take charge. Though she often collaborates with Klaus, she always feels the weight of being the oldest sibling. Her parents said to her when Klaus was born, and again when they brought Sunny home from Pincus Hospital, "You are the eldest Baudelaire child, and as the eldest, it will always be your responsibility to look after your younger siblings. Promise us that you will always watch out for them and make sure they don't get into trouble." This is why she invents the grappling hook to free Sunny from the tower; she risks her safety and well-being to help her siblings and honor the promise she made her parents to always keep her siblings away from harm. This promise is mentioned in all thirteen books.
However, Violet occasionally struggles with keeping herself and her siblings safe. She can be reckless on occasion, even when there are more sensible and safer alternatives. For example, upon learning that Aunt Josephine was hiding in Curdled Cave, she sailed across Lake Lachrymose in the middle of a hurricane with her siblings instead of waiting for it to settle. What's more is that she wasn't wearing a life jacket. Another example is that after learning the Quagmires were trapped in a cage at the bottom of an elevator shaft, she decides to take her siblings with her down twice using a handmade rope (even carrying hot irons the second time), which Lemony Snicket notes is a three-hour climb. She also encourages Hector's idea of building and living in a mobile air house, despite all the risks involved. These instances of her impulsive behavior are likely due to her great distrust of adults and authority figures, as well as still being 14 years old. This was indicated when she almost threw a rock at Mr. Poe in The Bad Beginning because his approaching figure looked frightening in the fog.
Violet has a backbone, and can be stern and/or exhibit an attitude at times, especially when angered. For example, when Violet complains to Mr. Poe about how Count Olaf slapped Klaus' face and Mr. Poe could not care less, Mr. Poe says, "'Now, I hate to usher you out posthaste, but I have very much work to do. Posthaste means—' '—means you'll do nothing to help us,' Violet finished for him, shaking with frustration". When Aunt Josephine threatened to give her and her siblings to Count Olaf, Violet retorted, "You're supposed to be caring for us, not putting us up for grabs!" When Mr. Poe ordered her to come with him to the police station at the end of The Grim Grotto, Violet replied, "No," and walked away. She can also be very rebellious when faced with corrupt authority figures, often calling them out and refusing to go along with them, such as when she removed her blindfold during the trial in the Netflix series, saying, "Maybe this court deserves contempt." In the film, she interrupts Olaf just to call him "pure evil." As the series progresses, she questions others more and becomes more outspoken about her beliefs, and less being persuaded by adults and trying to avoid confrontation.
While Klaus is brasher with his actions, Violet works in secret or tries to manipulate a situation to her advantage. For example, instead of refusing to star in The Marvelous Marriage, she suggests to Count Olaf that's she not that great of an actress. Violet said, "'Count Olaf,' and then stopped herself. She wanted to argue her way out of playing his bride, but she didn't want to make him angry. 'Father, I'm not sure I'm talented enough to perform professionally. I would hate to disgrace your good name and the name of Al Funcoot. Plus I'll be very busy in the next few weeks working on my inventions—and learning how to prepare roast beef,' she added quickly, remembering how he had behaved about dinner".
Violet is stereotypically unfeminine in some ways, though not completely. She is a poor cook and mentions she can only make toast - sometimes, she even burns it in the attempt. She knows how to create a Molotov cocktail, however. Mr. Poe once admonished Violet for picking a lock, chastising her that nice girls should not have such knowledge. Klaus defends his sister by stating, "My sister is a nice girl... and she knows how to do all sorts of things." Aunt Josephine once gave her a doll called Pretty Penny in spite of the fact Violet dislikes them. To be polite, she forces a smile and pats its plastic head to appease Aunt Josephine, eventually giving it to Sunny to bite on. Instead, Klaus gives her his toy, a model train that she can tinker with for engineering. Despite her dislike of the color pink, Violet is frequently illustrated with pink hair ribbons, and she often wears pink outfits in the Netflix adaptation.
Early Life
Beatrice Baudelaire was pregnant with Violet when she and her husband Bertrand were banished from The Island; Violet was born soon after they arrived on the mainland. She and her younger brother, Klaus, were raised in a luxurious mansion located in the city. Violet barely remembers some V.F.D. phrases, implying that her parents may have had contact with the organization that was cut off when she was a little girl. Notably, she remembers the phrase "the world is quiet here" being sung to her, and taking a strong disliking to Row Your Boat, possibly implying she was sung "The Little Snicket Lad." Violet was inspired to become an inventor when she was two years old. Back then, she visited the Verne Invention Museum and saw the mechanical demonstrations. Years later, when she was seven, she built her own telegraph machine. When Klaus was young and read Anna Karenina with their mother one summer, Violet skipped out on the activity and spent her time studying the laws of thermodynamics and building a miniature helicopter out of an eggbeater and some old copper wiring. At some point, Beatrice taught Violet how to apply stage makeup. She also remembers her father giving her the nickname, "Ed", after Thomas Edison, due to her incredible inventing abilities. Bertrand used to recite poetry to her and Klaus, but they eventually grew old enough to find his whimsical moods embarrassing. At some point, Violet had a friend named Ben who gifted her elevator blueprints for her birthday one year. Violet used to drop her ribbon on the floor, using it as an excuse for eavesdropping. If she were to be caught, she would say she was picking it up. Klaus and Violet once left a priceless atlas under an open window when it rained, ruining the book in the process. Both siblings recalled being reprimanded for making this mistake. The family spent a weekend at a vineyard, but in order to visit it, they had to transfer between two trains. Violet and Klaus were separated from their parents in the crowd and decided to search for them in a row of shops that were outside the station. The local shoemaker, blacksmith, chimney sweep, and computer technician helped them search for their missing parents. The family was reunited shortly afterwards. Their parents told them that if they ever got separated again, they should not wander around looking for them, but instead to stay put so that they could easily find them. When Violet was ten, she had shorter hair and invented a new kind of pencil sharpener. The family went to the country fair to see a pig that their Uncle Elwyn had entered in a contest, but they got bored by that so they watched the Biggest Lasagna Contest instead. Her youngest sister, Sunny was born about a year or two before the infamous fire burned down their mansion. Not long afterwards, both Beatrice and Bertrand made Violet promise to always look out for her siblings, which she took as her responsibility as the eldest. She always looked back at that promise whenever either Klaus or Sunny were in grave peril. On Beatrice's birthday, Violet, Klaus, Sunny, and Bertrand woke up early to bake her a cake. Violet beat the eggs, butter, and sugar with a mixing device she had invented herself. When the electric can opener broke, Violet discovered that she didn't have the proper tools to fix it so Sunny opened a can of condensed milk for them with her teeth. In the process, she spoke her first word- "Bite"- which impressed the Baudelaire family immensely. Sometime after that, the family all stayed inside on one boring, rainy afternoon so they all painted their toenails bright red to pass the time. Violet spilled some polish onto the yellow chair, leaving a stain that never really came off. At some point, the children watched a horror film one night. As a result, they spent the rest of it being terrified that every noise they heard were vampires breaking into the house with the intent to kidnap them - however, Klaus later hypothesizes that perhaps someone had broken into the house after all, though he did not state anything to back up his claim. Later on, the family once had a picnic at the Rutabaga River, for which Bertrand was so excited that he forgot to pack silverware. This forced everyone to eat sweet-and-sour shrimp with their bare hands and wash them in the river. Violet would then use this outing as an opportunity to find a place for a fishing rod she had invented. The children also went to the Hotel Preludio with their parents for a weekend, where Bertrand taught them an elevator prank; to press all the buttons right before exiting, so everyone who were left inside would end up going to every floor whether they liked it or not. Whenever their parents went out to the orchestra, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny had a routine that they followed. First, Violet and Klaus would play a few games of checkers while Sunny ripped up old newspapers for her own amusement. Then the children would read in the library until they fell asleep on the sofas. The events described would later be fond memories that the children looked back on to get them through somber moments or discover solutions that would allow them to escape life-threatening situations.
The Bad Beginning
Violet was at Briny Beach with her younger siblings, thinking of how to construct a device that could retrieve skipping rocks when Mr. Poe approaches them in the mist; before she recognizes him, she considers throwing a rock at the mysterious figure in the fog. Poe regretfully informs them that their parents have perished in a terrible fire that burned their mansion to the ground. Violet assumed Poe was kidding at first, but once the news sank in, she drops the rock and takes Klaus's hand as they follow Mr. Poe. They go to the mansion to see if anything can be retrieved, but the children discover that they have lost everything. Her "inventive brain [seems] to stop" with grief for a while. The children were taken to Mr. Poe's house, where they lived with his wife, Polly, and their two beastly children, Edgar and Albert, who disliked the orphans for being so glum. The following day, Mr. Poe announced that they were to be taken to their closest living relative, Count Olaf. He interpreted this phrase as the orphans' third or fourth cousin who happened to live closest in the city. He likely had a bit of help from the Count himself, which should have sounded some kind of mental alarm. Mr. Poe drives the Baudelaires to the street where Count Olaf resides, but not before stopping by the home of Justice Strauss. The children cheerfully introduce themselves, thinking they will be living with the High Court judge. They were soon corrected when Justice Strauss revealed that she was actually Count Olaf's neighbor and were instead directed to his house, which was in severe disrepair. Violet privately thinks she would rather live in Justice Strauss' house and then proceeded to wonder why Olaf would carve a large eye on his front door. Olaf menacingly greeted them before inviting them into the dirtiest house they've ever seen. When Olaf suggested that he could use the Baudelaire Fortune to fix it up, Mr. Poe sternly corrects him by stating that the money remains inaccessible until Violet comes of age. For a second, Violet believes that Olaf may strike the banker out of spite, but instead, he escorts him outside. The children then notice an eye tattooed on Olaf's ankle. This very eye would come to haunt their thoughts for years to come. Olaf forcibly places the Baudelaire children in one small bedroom with only one worn bed. Violet and Klaus take turns sleeping on it, though they discover that the bed was just as uncomfortable as the floor. Violet designs a bed for Sunny out of the dusty curtains. Unfortunately, it came at the cost of letting the sun stream into the room every morning. Though he isn't around much, Olaf turned out to be an unkind, strict figure. Over the next several days, he left them with a lengthy list of strenuous chore list in addition to lumpy oatmeal for breakfast on a daily basis. The chores are indeed difficult. For example, Violet and her younger siblings had to repaint the back porch and repair the windows, but they did their best. Violet was able to get the chimney cleaned and the windows fixed due to her inventive interests. One morning, Violet and her siblings stumble across an added chore to their list. It had stated that the children must prepare dinner for all ten members of his troupe, along with a small sum of money for ingredients. None of the children knew how to cook, causing Klaus to become hysterical. Violet comforts him, reassuring him that she also hated living in Olaf's house, but they had to keep their chin up for the time being, as their father would have said. The siblings then searched the kitchen to find a cookbook that contained an easy recipe but are unable to find one. At that moment, Justice Strauss paid a visit to see how the children were settling in. Violet and her siblings took the opportunity to ask if they could borrow a cookbook, much to Strauss's surprise. When she pointed out how unusual Olaf's request was, Violet shrugged off the absurdity by simply stating that Olaf gives them a lot of responsibility. This was because the young inventor was too well-mannered to complain. They followed Justice Strauss to her library and once they entered, they became fascinated by her wide collection of books. Violet requests a mechanical engineering, though she and everyone else agreed that finding a cookbook first should be their number one priority. After searching for half an hour, her brother Klaus found a recipe for Pasta Puttanesca, leading to Strauss to take the children to the market to shop for ingredients. They were thankfully able to buy what they need and Violet thanked Strauss when they returned to Olaf's mansion. She was unsure if they were expected to return the favor so she offered to help Strauss with chores as recompense, but she politely assured them that it will not be necessary. Violet and her siblings prepare the pasta by following the recipe. Violet does her part by roasting the garlic and chopping the anchovies. As they worked together, they began to feel less miserable, allowing them to speak of memories they had of their parents and of Justice Strauss. This joyful moment of reminiscing was short-lived for just as they placed the pudding (for dessert) in the fridge to cool, Olaf barged into the kitchen, infuriated that the children didn't prepare roast beef. He threatened Sunny, holding her up high until his troupe asked for him. As they leave, a Bald Man with the Long Nose took Violet's face and told her not to anger Count Olaf, or he "might wreck that pretty little face." Violet shudders and trembles with fear and revulsion, possibly at the thought of Olaf actually doing so. Terrified by the thought of angering Olaf a second time, the children carefully serve the dinner they made. While they set the table, Violet finds herself wishing that they'd bought poison at the market as well. When the troupe finished eating their dinner, Olaf told them that they're excused from the troupe's performance in order to clean up and then go straight to their beds. Klaus angrily corrected him by stating that they only have one bed and can't use their fortune to purchase another, causing Olaf to angrily slap him across the cheek. Afterwards, the troupe left the room and Violet gave Klaus a hug to help him feel better, but she and Sunny end up crying with him. The next morning, Olaf's note instructed the children to chop firewood. As they do so, Violet and Klaus discuss whether they should stay with such a horrible man or take their chances on the streets. They also imagined what they could buy with their parents' fortune if they had it now to pass the time and bring back their sense of optimism. Violet finally decided to go and talk to Mr. Poe, believing that if he is told how horrible they were being treated, he'll take them out of Olaf's custody. They couldn't find a map of the city so they wandered through the banking district until they find Mulctuary Money Management and Mr. Poe's office. To their chagrin, he refused to listen to them. Instead, he simply explained that Olaf is acting in loco parentis, meaning he can do what he pleases as their parent. As expected, he also ignored Klaus's bruise because to him, Olaf's treatment was justified. Violet, angry and frustrated, leads her siblings back to the neighborhood, wishing she could invent something that would take them out of there. Instead, the children spent the rest of the afternoon at Justice Strauss's library. The children are surprised to find Olaf waiting for them at breakfast the next morning, with raspberries in their oatmeal. Olaf tells them that Poe called him about their meeting and that he wants the three of them to feel at home with him as their father. He tells them that they will participate in his next play, called The Marvelous Marriage. Klaus and Sunny will be extras, while Violet will play the bride. Violet, who would much rather build the sets, feels horrified at the idea of marrying Count Olaf, even if just for pretend, and tries to get out of it with flattery. Olaf instead strokes Violet on the chin and threateningly tells her that he can order them to participate as their guardian. Violet is convinced Olaf is up to something, but they are afraid to directly ask Justice Strauss, as Olaf has also cast her in the play, or Poe, who might call Olaf again. They decide to go to Strauss's library and read up on the law, but after reading boring law books for hours, they find nothing useful, and Violet leaves to help Strauss in the garden until the Hook-Handed Man comes to fetch them and orders them to not return to the library. Klaus smuggles out a book on nuptial law, and the next morning awakens Violet in a panic, explaining that Olaf is planning to marry her for real; the only requirements for marriage are that the groom and bride say "I do" and sign the certificate in their own hands in the presence of a judge, and though Violet is underage, she can marry with the permission of her legal guardian- Count Olaf. The two of them decide to get Sunny and tell Poe, but find their sister missing. Olaf then leads them outside and shows that he has dangled Sunny in a birdcage from his tower window, and will drop her unless Violet agrees to marry him. Violet, though terrified, agrees, but ties up her hair while thinking of ways to rescue Sunny. Violet uses the curtains, a metal rod, some wire, and some rocks to make a grappling hook, though she cuts her hands in the process. She ties the curtains to the hook with the Devil's Tongue knot in order to make her hook and goes outside to try and throw it into the tower window. She fails several times, with one time resulting in the hook cutting her shoulder and causing it to bleed, but she finally manages to hit something and climbs up the tower. However, when she reaches the top, she finds that her hook caught onto the hook of the Hook-Handed Man, who captures her. Her and Klaus are locked in the tower room until the performance, and they try in vain to find something that could help them escape. Violet suggests Molotov cocktails, but they don't have any kerosine or breaking bottles to use as knives, but she's afraid they'd be overpowered. Olaf then arrives to take them to the play, and as they descend the stairs, Violet starts to come up with a plan. Though filled with dread, Violet and Klaus are fascinated by the backstage of the play, but they are taken and forced into costumes. They try (and fail) to convince Justice Strauss to mess up the legal ceremony, and are forced on stage. Violet participates in the ceremony and signs her name on the certificate with her left hand. Olaf then announces his marriage to Violet to the audience of witnesses, and Violet demands he release Sunny. He tells the Hook-Handed Man to bring the infant down to finish her chores, intending to take Violet back "for their wedding night"- however, as soon as she's assured Sunny is safe, Violet announces that the marriage is not legal, as she did not sign with her dominant hand. Strauss agrees with her, and Poe takes custody of the orphans away from Olaf for dangling Sunny out of a window. However, the lights shut off and Olaf escapes and vows to Violet that he will destroy her and her siblings. Though Violet is terrified, she finds the lights and turns them back on, finding Olaf and his troupe gone. Justice Strauss offers to adopt the orphans, but Poe refuses, as she is not a relative. The children hesitantly say goodbye to her and are taken away to go to their next guardian.
The Reptile Room
Violet Baudelaire: Arthur Poe: Klaus Baudelaire: My sister is — Mr. Poe drives the children down Lousy Lane to meet their new guardian, Monty Montgomery. Violet puts her hair up to try and think of an invention that would block the smell of horseradish, but her nerves prevent her from focusing. She asks what sort of scientist Dr. Montgomery is, and finds her answer as they pull into the driveway and see numerous hedges styled after snakes. The children are unnerved, but upon meeting their Uncle Monty, they find him very kind. Monty explains to them that he is a herpetologist and that in ten days they are all to leave on an expedition to Peru. Violet volunteers to learn about snake traps and test theirs so as not to harm the snakes they hope to catch. The children show Poe to his car, and then excitedly return to Monty can show them his Reptile Room. The children are amazed, and Monty decides to show them his newest discovery, the Incredibly Deadly Viper. It escapes and bites Sunny, which terrifies Violet and Klaus, but Monty quickly assures them that its name is a misnomer and the snake is perfectly harmless. Violet asks if there are snakes in the room that are dangerous, and he tells them that there are, but that they are kept safely locked up. Violet picks a room with an enormous window overlooking the hedges, hoping it may inspire her while inventing, and she tacks up large pieces of paper on the wall so she can sketch out her ideas should they come to her in the middle of the night. Over the next week, she studies the snake traps, repairing the broken ones, and making her own improvements, while Monty teaches them about the reptiles. After the week, Monty leaves a note explaining that he's gone into town for the last of their supplies and that his replacement assistant, Stephano, will arrive that day by taxi. The children, relaxed and happy in Monty's house, eventually hear a taxi approach and go outside to greet Stephano, only to find that he is Count Olaf in disguise. While they initially refuse to allow him into the house, he threatens them into dragging his suitcases into the house, and once inside, he pulls out a knife and threatens them again. Violet angrily tells him that he will soon be evicted from the house and marches into the Reptile Room with her siblings, where they then collapse in fear. She suggests calling Poe, but Klaus reminds her that he will not listen and instead suggests they run away. She reminds him that Olaf will just find them again. Monty arrives, but before Violet can tell Monty who Stephano is, Olaf takes Klaus outside and threatens him with the knife, so Violet remains silent. Stephano acts threatening all night, and over dinner, he rubs the blade of his knife against Violet's knee. Stephano also spends the night waiting in the hallway, keeping watch so that they don't warn Monty. The next day, Monty takes the children outside and tells them that he believes Stephano to be a spy from the Herpetological Society, and does not listen when they insist he is Count Olaf. He tears up Stephano's ticket to the S. S. Prospero, which will take them to Peru, and explains his plan to leave Olaf behind. Stephano fails to drop a heavy lamp onto Monty's head, which puts the blame on Klaus. Klaus, infuriated, accidentally informs Stephano that Monty tore up his ticket. Monty takes the group to see Zombies in the Snow, but the children cannot focus, and hurry up to bed afterward. Klaus and Sunny spend the night in Violet's room, scared of Stephano, and they try to figure out his plan. They huddle together until Stephano arrives in the morning, and tells them to get to the jeep to go to Peru, and that Monty isn't going. The children run to the Reptile Room, where they find Monty's corpse. Despite them knowing that Stephano murdered him, Olaf claims it was a snakebite and threatens them with his knife to get into the jeep. Before they can leave the driveway, Poe, with the rest of the Baudelaires' luggage, crashes into them, but he buys Stephano's story and disguises. The Baudelaires keep insisting that he is Count Olaf, so Poe has Stephano show his ankle, which is blank. The children are confused, and even more so when a "Dr. Lucafont" quickly arrives and diagnoses Monty's death as from the Mamba du Mal. The children argue with the adults on how they are to leave the house, as they know Olaf is trying to get them all into his jeep, where he will take them away. The three leave the adults and go into the Reptile Room, and Violet realizes they must find evidence of Stephano's crime. She assigns Klaus to research the Mamba du Mal in the Reptile Room, while she goes to Stephano's room to look for clues. She listens to the kitchen door for a while and finds they are still arguing, giving her enough time to go to Stephano's room. Though she's afraid, she enters the room and surveys the disgusting room, but unfortunately finds nothing. Klaus has found that the Mamba du Mal's method of killing is not via snakebite, but Poe will not listen to them. Violet realizes that she needs to break into Stephano's suitcase, where his murder weapons will likely be and tell Klaus and Sunny to stall the adults as long as they can. Violet quickly retreats to her bedroom and takes out the prongs of the electrical plug of her lamp, prodding the metal with a thumbtack until one is hooked around the other, before forcing the tack between the two pieces so the sharp end stuck out, making a crude lockpick. Violet hurries to the jeep and picks the lock of Stephano's suitcase, though she has to use a bar of soap to make the lock looser. She digs through and finds the supplies he used to make the murder weapon, which would inject poison into Monty and look like a snakebite, and goes back inside, presenting her findings to the adults. Poe uses his handkerchief to wipe away the makeup on Stephano's ankle, revealing him as Olaf. Olaf admits to the murders of Monty and Gustav Sebald, Monty's previous assistant, but Dr. Lucafont is revealed as the Hook-Handed Man, who escapes with Olaf. The Baudelaires, distraught and exhausted, fall asleep at the bottom of the steps. When they awaken, they see men taking the reptiles away. One of them, Bruce, explains that the collection will be split up now that Monty is dead. The children say goodbye to the Incredibly Deadly Viper and other reptiles, and then reassure each other as they Poe once again drives them away.
While Klaus is the researcher, Sunny is the biter and the future chef, Violet is the inventor. The theme of children each having a particular skill that they are good at is also shown with other characters in the series. For example, with the Quagmire triplets, Isadora is a poet, Duncan is a journalist, and Quigley is a cartographer. The Baudelaires' volatile friend Fiona is a mycologist.
Violet is depicted as being extremely skilled at inventing devices. She often invents devices to help herself and her siblings in dangerous situations, using only simple objects such as rubber bands and tin cans. Whenever Violet invents something, she ties her hair up with her ribbon to keep it out of her eyes.
The Baudelaire orphans were falsely accused of murder, and from this point on, they have no more guardians and are on the run from the police. While running from the police, Violet assumed the following disguises:
•In The Hostile Hospital, Count Olaf disguises her as a patient so that he can conduct a fake operation and cut her head off. The name used in disguising her is an anagram, Laura V. Bleediotie.
•In The Carnivorous Carnival, Violet and Klaus dress as a two-headed freak. Her name used here was Beverly, and Klaus was Elliot.
•In The Slippery Slope, Violet poses as both a Snow Scout and as a volunteer to save her little sister Sunny.
Violet, despite being a volunteer and considered a protagonist, has committed a variety of crimes. She:
•Interfered with a train's destination in the film, although she would have been killed by it if she and her younger siblings did nothing.
•Opened Stephano's briefcase in The Reptile Room and took his items, although her intentions were to prove her uncle's death was a murder and not a snakebite.
•Stole a sailboat in The Wide Window in order to save her aunt, although she wanted to borrow it and it was owned by Count Olaf.
•Hitchhiked without the driver's permission in the TV series.
•Broke many rules of Prufrock Preparatory School and had Isadora Quagmire impersonate her so she could skip a S.O.R.E. meeting in order to study for a crucial exam.
Books
While Violet's physical traits are never explicitly described, she is consistently illustrated as fairly tall and slim. She is about a head taller than Klaus, has black hair reaching her shoulders and cut in bangs at the front. Her eye color is indeterminable but is known to be different from Klaus's. Her eyes also seem to be fairly small in comparison to other characters. She is often drawn with rosy cheeks. She wears a violet dress somewhat reminiscent of a sailor outfit or Japanese schoolgirl uniform, or possibly a very thin old-fashioned dress, with light purple leggings and short brown boots. The color of her hair ribbon varies on each book and illustration, though it is usually pink or yellow; it is tied over her head like a headband. She wears the same outfit in most illustrations. While all three Baudelaire siblings are described as pleasant-looking, Violet is described throughout as good-looking and beautiful. Unfortunately she is called beautiful by Count Olaf and the Bald Man with the Long Nose, which scares her quite a bit. In much better circumstances, Quigley Quagmire refers to her as lovely. She is often drawn looking sickly, with dark eyes, a tired expression, and pale skin, probably due to her depressing circumstances.
Film
Violet has shoulder-length, light brown hair with long bangs, pale skin, a splash of freckles, and green eyes. Her hair is almost always tied into several braids- two on the left part of her hair (her right), one behind the right side, and a small braid on top of the right part. She is slightly shorter than Klaus. She wears a complicated black dress, covered in lace and styled vaguely Victorian. She also has black fishnet gloves and black boots under her dress. There is a belt loop on her dress that she uses to hold her ribbon, which is incredibly long and she uses to tie her hair and braids back into a ponytail. The only times she is not wearing this outfit are when she has her blue coat in the Wide Window segments and when she is forced into a wedding dress, where her hair is also unbraided and she is given a flower crown and makeup.
Netflix
Violet has waist-length dark brown hair, with bangs reaching her eyebrows, light skin and blue eyes. She begins the series around the same height as Klaus, though slightly shorter at times, but from Season 2 onwards, Klaus is about a head taller. This is due to Louis Hynes, Klaus’s actor, being slightly older than Violet’s actress, Malina Weissman. She is taller than the Quagmire triplets. In "The Hostile Hospital: Part One," a mugshot shows she is 5'3". By the time the series ended, Weissman was 5’4”. Her ribbon is shorter than in the film and appears to be black. Like her film counterpart, though, she uses her ribbon to tie a ponytail. She has a much wider variety of outfits than previous adaptations. Her most marketed outfits are the pink dress with whale print and blue jacket from The Bad Beginning episodes and the beginning of "The Reptile Room: Part Two," the blue carousel dress from "The Vile Village: Part One" and her purple dress (designed after the book illustrations) from "The Penultimate Peril: Part Two." The outfit she wears the most, however, are the yellow plaid shirt and bright red overalls, which she first wears at the end of "The Vile Village: Part One" and only removes in "The Slippery Slope: Part One," making it last five full episodes. Once again, Olaf and the Bald Man refer to her as pretty, which makes her uncomfortable, and Quigley refers to her as lovely, which, unlike the books, she is shown to react to, giving a soft and appreciative smile to him. Lemony Snicket tells Violet she looks exactly like her mother. Her hair starts to become more wavy after a year on the island, and a bit darker. Her final outfit is a light purple dress with polka dots.
Etymology
Her name Violet was chosen because it sounded British and Daniel Handler wanted to make the setting of the series ambiguous; Violet is a fairly British name; Klaus is a fairly German name; Sunny is a fairly American name, and Olaf is a fairly Scandinavian name, and that creates a certain amount of confusion. Her surname Baudelaire comes from the poet Charles Baudelaire whose most famous work is The Flowers of Evil, a cycle of poems that discusses dreadful circumstances and finds beauty in them. Violet is also a shade of purple, which, coincidentally, is the color of the dress Violet most commonly wears throughout the books.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events is a Netflix-produced and distributed adaptation of the book series of the same name by Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler). Season 1 covered the first four books: The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window, and The Miserable Mill.
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A Series of Unfortunate Events: With Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Warburton, Malina Pauli Weissman, Louis Hynes. After the loss of their parents in a mysterious fire, the three Baudelaire children face trials and tribulations attempting to uncover dark family secrets.
