Sunny Baudelaire
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| A Series of Unfortunate Events character | |
 Sunny, as drawn by Brett Helquist. |
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| Sunny Baudelaire | |
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| Gender | Female |
| Hair color | Novel: Black Illustrations: Auburn or Black (Single hair on which ribbon is worn) Film: Blonde |
| Age | Unknown; at least two by end of series
portrayer=Kara Hoffman/Shelby Hoffman |
| First appearance | The Bad Beginning |
| V.F.D. alliance | Volunteer side of the schism |
Sunny Baudelaire is the littlest of the Baudelaires. She takes her first name from Claus von Bülow's wife, Sunny. Sunny can't talk quite as well as other because she's only a baby. But the baby noises that she makes are often very well translated into common english words by her older siblings. In Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, the character was represented by Kara and Shelby Hoffman. Her baby talk is translated through subtitles. In the film, the character is much more sarcastic than Sunny is in the books. Sunny's favorite book is From Molars to Incisors: A Pictoral History of the Tooth, and she hates limp food.
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[edit] Biography
Sunny plays a very significant role in all books in A Series of Unfortunate Events books. Most of these involve her large, very sharp teeth and utilization of them. She has used them for many impossible tasks, such a teeth-sword fight with Dr. Orwell. Although Sunny is very young, her cognitive abilities are unusually developed for her age, with her comprehension of their situations generally equalling that of Violet and Klaus.
At the end of The Vile Village, Sunny and her siblings are accused of murder. From this point onwards they have no more guardians, and are on the run from the authorities. In this book Sunny also takes her first steps.
Also, Sunny becomes intelligent enough in The Penultimate Peril to come up with the idea to burn down the Hotel Denouement to signal to Kit Snicket and the other volunteers that the last safe place is safe no more.
As mentioned in The Hostile Hospital and The End, despite all of Lemony's research and hard work, he still does not known the current location, position and status of the Baudelaire children, so Sunny's current position, location and status is unknown, though in the The Beatrice Letters, the poster depicts the ship Beatrice destroyed and her whisk among the wreckage, implying that she is no longer alive. However, The Beatrice Letters also reveal that Sunny was on the radio discussing her recipes, which means that she might have made it back alive to the city, as it is highly unlikely that she managed to discuss her recipes on the radio on "Olaf-Land" due to her young age at the time and the fact that it is unlikely that she has managed to contact a radio station.
[edit] Speaking
She cannot speak properly, yet what she says can occasionally be translated without any help. Generally, when she uses nouns, it is clear what she is referring to. In the later books, such as The Grim Grotto, her baby noises are often allusions or subtextual meanings that relate to the plot as a whole, such as "Busheney!" which means "You're an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people!", "Hewenkella" which means she is curious about being able to see, or "Scalia!" which means "The literal interpretation makes no sense!"
Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity is a very long word that is first mentioned in book 8. It is said to have been the first sound that Sunny uttered, Sunny's first proper word being 'Bite'. It means "I must admit I haven't the faintest idea what is going on."
[edit] Skills
While Violet is the inventor and Klaus is the researcher, Sunny is the biter (and later chef). The theme of children each having a particular skill that they are exceptionally adept 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.
In The Carnivorous Carnival Sunny's other skill emerges; she likes to cook. This comes in handy in The Slippery Slope, where she cooks Olaf and his troupe an entire meal by herself, and in The Grim Grotto, where her culinary knowledge helps her siblings discover a cure to a deadly poison.
[edit] Disguises
Sunny disguises include:
- Medical doctor - (The Hostile Hospital)
- Chabo the Wolf Baby - she wore a fake beard, supposed to be half baby, half wolf - The Carnivorous Carnival
- Concierge - The Penultimate Peril
