| “ | I'm not a baby. | ” |
— Sunny Baudelaire, The Slippery Slope
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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.
Background information[]
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.
Sunny communicating in subtitles, a style done for the film and TV series.
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.
Personality[]
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 since her brief time in Count Olaf's clutches. In spite of that, most of her behavior is akin to a regular infant's and toddler's. In the film and Netflix series, Sunny comes off as very cheeky and occasionally insolent. This most occurred either when she was frustrated or directly mocked for the way she communicated with others.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
| “ | Mother always said that as soon as you learned to walk, Sunny, you'd be going places. | ” |
Sunny was born to Beatrice and Bertrand Baudelaire at Pincus Hospital in The City,[9] 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.[10] Her parents used to sing Sunny a lullaby called "The Butcher Boy". Each took turns singing the verses in the song.[5]
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.[5] By the time Beatrice and Bertrand passed away, Sunny had four sharp teeth.[10]
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.[11] 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.[8] 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.[12]
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.[3] 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.[11]
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.[3]
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[]
Sunny caged by Count Olaf.
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.
The Wide Window[]
Sunny breaking out in hives.
Sunny and her siblings move in with Aunt Josephine, another distant relative. She receives a rattle as a gift which she dislikes so she trades with her other siblings and gets a Pretty Penny doll to bite on. She has allergies for the first time in this book after eating a peppermint. She grew hives (which is what Violet suffers when eating peppermints) and had a swollen tongue (which Klaus suffers when eating peppermints). She also manages to steal a sailboat from the Enormous Androgynous Person who guards Captain Sham's Sailboat Rentals. Sunny also is a tiller mover here. Towards the end of the book, she bites Captain Sham's fake peg leg to prove that he is really Count Olaf.
The Miserable Mill[]
Sunny and her siblings are then sent to work at Lucky Smells Lumbermill, Paltryville. The workers at the lumber mill only get gum for lunch so Sunny bites pieces of wood, pretending that they are apples, carrots or cheese enchiladas. She also battles Dr. Georgina Orwell here, using her four sharp teeth against Dr. Orwell's cane sword. Dr. Orwell dies when she stumbles into an active saw, which kills her. In the show, she stumbles into a furnace when being confronted by a large mob of hypnotized workers.
The Austere Academy[]
A convincingly real-looking baby.
The Baudelaire orphans are then sent to the boarding school, Prufrock Preparatory. Sunny gets hired as Vice Principal Nero's secretary, while Violet and Klaus are students (since babies aren't allowed to be students), and does all the stapling and typing for him. She is forced by Nero to make staples out of long metal rods when his staple supply runs out. Thankfully, she manages to steal some of them so that her siblings (namely Violet) can make staples out of them.
She also experiences S.O.R.E. (Special Orphan Running Exercises), however she only crawls instead of running like her siblings. Despite the fact that she is crawling the whole time, it takes a strain on her energy and she is no longer able to work as a secretary. To substitute Sunny's place, the Quagmires disguise themselves as the Baudelaires and use a string tied to a sack of flour. This is discovered by Coach Genghis (Count Olaf). The Baudelaires end up being expelled from school.
The Ersatz Elevator[]
Sunny climbing the elevator shaft.
Sunny lives in the penthouse of Jerome and Esmé Squalor where she and her siblings find the two Quagmire triplets. She also is brave enough to climb an elevator shaft with her teeth when Esmé pushed them down one. She also joins an auction and said that she would pay a thousand for V.F.D. (Very Fancy Doilies).
The Vile Village[]
Sunny and Violet fleeing the village.
This time the children get to pick where they go, and they choose to go to V.F.D. believing it might help in discovering the Quagmire triplets message, but it turns out to be the Village of Fowl Devotees. The Baudelaires live with Hector the village handyman. Sunny is dismayed by rule 4,561 which states citizens are not allowed to use their mouths for recreation, and if she bit for a recreational purpose, she would be burned at the stake. Sunny gets falsely accused of murdering Jacques Snicket and that her siblings are her accomplices in doing this crime. She also thought that the Quagmires could be near, so one night, she stayed under Nevermore Tree and found out that crows were sending Isadora Quagmire's couplets. In the TV series, Sunny drives a firetruck to help her siblings escape.
The Hostile Hospital[]
The Baudelaires have to make sure that are not recognized at Heimlich Hospital because they are being accused of murder. Sunny disguises herself as one of the white-faced women. She pokes the hole in the alphabet soup can that Violet uses for her invention. Klaus and Sunny rescue Violet from having her head cut off by Count Olaf and his assistants.
The Carnivorous Carnival[]
Sunny disguises as Chabo the Wolf Baby, a half baby, half-wolf freak and she works for Madame Lulu in the Caligari Carnival. Violet made up a story behind Chabo, the "wolf baby" - there was a female hunter who fell in love with a handsome wolf, and Chabo is their child.
Sunny's talent for cooking is also discovered here. She places a bit of cinnamon to the hot chocolate, which caused the hot chocolate to taste better (Hugo thought it was some kind of wolf recipe). She is also captured by Count Olaf because Madame Lulu betrayed them.
The Slippery Slope[]
Sunny forced to set up Olaf's camp.
Sunny worries about Klaus and Violet and how they survive while she is forced to work for Count Olaf. Olaf forces her to do chores for him like cooking and setting up a tent. She is forced to sleep in a casserole dish.
Upon being found by Violet and Klaus, she states that she is not a baby anymore when Violet calls her 'her baby sister'. She now improved in cooking, making lox and delicious False Spring Rolls.
Count Olaf orders the White-Faced women to throw Sunny off the mountain, prompting them to refuse and leave. Violet and Klaus managed to rescue her and she manages to learn that the Snicket File (except for page 13) is now with Count Olaf and that the last safe place was the Hotel Denouement.
The Grim Grotto[]
Sunny in The Grim Grotto.
Rescued by the Queequeg, Sunny managed to create a birthday party and a coconut cake for Violet with Phil's help. Sunny curls up in a diving helmet and gets poisoned by a mushroom spore while they travel inside the Grim Grotto. She gets sick and nearly dies. She also knows that wasabi is a counterpart of horseradish which removes the poison from her body. When the Queequeg springs a leak, Sunny covers it using the gum.
The Penultimate Peril[]
Sunny and her siblings are assigned by Kit Snicket to be a concierge at the Hotel Denouement. She hears about Mr. Remora, Mrs. Bass and Vice Principal Nero talking about the party. She also tries to stop Olaf from killing Dewey but fails.
Sunny suggests that they set the fire in the hotel, and Count Olaf is proud of her for it. To escape the fire she and her siblings, along with Olaf, take the boat that Carmelita Spats had on top of the hotel in the swimming pool. Sunny had to bite Justice Strauss's hand in order to do so.
The End[]
Sunny shipwrecked.
The Baudelaires are stuck on the Carmelita with Count Olaf, fleeing from the burning Hotel Denouement. After a huge storm, they find themselves on a coastal shelf of an island. A little girl named Friday Caliban gives them a tour and introduces them to other inhabitants of the island. She secretly gives Sunny a whisk, because she knows Sunny likes to cook food.
A few days later, the Baudelaires are abandoned on the coastal shelf with Count Olaf. They find the pregnant and weak Kit on top of a raft of books. Sunny sadly tells her that Dewey Denouement is dead. Towards the end of the book, Kit and Olaf, who is dying from the Medusoid Mycelium poisoning, recite a short poem called "The Night has a Thousand Eyes" together. It is unknown whether this poem has a secret meaning to V.F.D. members. Count Olaf dies shortly before the baby is born, and Kit dies soon after.
Sunny and her siblings adopt the newborn and name her Beatrice after their mother.
A year later, the four of them leave the island to start a new chapter in their lives.
After The End[]
The remains of The Beatrice.
Though the fates of Violet and Klaus are ambiguous, Sunny's fate is more well known. Several sources state that something happened to The Beatrice - it sank on some sharp rocks when they were close to the mainline, though what caused it to crash into the rocks is unknown - and Violet was forced to make an "emergency repair" to it, which allowed the ship to land, successfully, on the mainland, allowing at least Violet and Sunny to survive.[13]
While Violet is stated as returning to Briny Beach for the third time but her fate after that is unknown, but Sunny survived to be "a young woman" who often discussed her new cooking recipes on the radio.[14]
However, despite all his research and hard work, even Lemony does not know the current position, location, and status of the Baudelaire children, implying that Sunny has gone into hiding or is using a fake name on the radio.
Physical Appearance[]
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.
A Diagram of Sunny Baudelaire's costume in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (film)
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 The Vile Village.
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.[15]
A Bad Beginning[]
In A Bad Beginning: Part One and A Bad Beginning: Part Two she wears a light dusty-pink and white striped onesie, with a collar striped with the same colors. The onesie has dark-pink buttons on the back. She also often wears a bright-yellow coat with wings embroidered in yellow thread. She is sometimes seen with a light-pink baby blanket and matching lace bonnet. She wears a thin light-pink bow-shaped hair ribbon.
The Reptile Room[]
In The Reptile Room: Part One and The Reptile Room: Part Two she wears a light pink onesie with a white peter-pan collar and pink buttons down the front. When she goes to the movies she wears a red coat with light pink embroidered accents next to the zipper and pink pompoms on strings at the collar. With her red coat she wears a pink felt hat with a large pink pompom on the side. Her pajamas are a onesie with pink with small dark pink flowers. In the beginning of The Reptile Room: Part One she wears the same onesie from The Bad Beginning. She also wears a thin light-pink bow-shaped hair ribbon.
The Wide Window[]
In The Wide Window: Part One she wears a pink tweed coat with two rows of dark pink buttons on the front and pink accents on the collar and cuffs. With her coat she wears a brown hat with a light pink ribbon. Under her coat she has a light-pink onesie. The onesie had two blue heart-patterned pockets on her chest, a blue heart-patterned collar, and blue buttons on the front of the onesie. There is light-pink ric-rac accenting the collar and pockets. In The Wide Window: Part Two she wears a bright yellow and white striped onesie with a zipper on the front. When she goes to The Anxious Clown she wears the same coat and hat from earlier. After her baking soda bath she wears a dark-pink and white striped onesie with a white collar, and dark-pink buttons down the front. When they go sailing she dons a bright yellow raincoat with metal buttons and a matching rain-hat. Her hair ribbon is light pink.
The Miserable Mill[]
In The Miserable Mill: Part One and The Miserable Mill: Part Two she wears a dusty olive-green jumpsuit with a matching olive-green hat that has the Lucky Smells Lumbermill logo on the front. With it she wears plain white socks. At the very beginning and very end she wears the same dark-pink and white striped onesie from earlier. Her hair ribbon is light-pink.
The Austere Academy[]
In The Austere Academy: Part One and The Austere Academy: Part Two she wears a dark-red sweater with the Prufrock Prep logo over her heart. Under the sweater she wears a plain-white onesie. She also wears a dark grey skirt, black tights, and black dress shoes. In some scenes she wears bright-white running shoes with S.O.R.E. written in glittery letters. She sometimes wears a blue and red cap. Her hair ribbon is light-pink
The Ersatz Elevator[]
In The Ersatz Elevator: Part One and The Ersatz Elevator: Part Two she wears a tailored pinstripe suit. Her suit is black with white pinstripes and a black bow-tie. Although in the book her suit has extremely ill-fitting arms and legs, her suit for the show is only slightly baggy around those areas. She also wears nice black and white shoes. At the start of The Ersatz Elevator: Part One she is wearing her Prufrock Prep uniform. Her hair ribbon is black.
The Vile Village[]
In The Vile Village: Part One she wears a short-sleeve red and blue gingham dress with a white collar and cuffs. Her collar is accented with red ric-rac. She also wears white bloomers, white tights, and black lace-up shoes. Her hair ribbon is red. Later she dons a white short-sleeve blouse with red stitching accenting the collar and cuffs, yellow overalls, multi-colored cowboy boots, and a red cowboy hat with white stitching on the brim. In The Vile Village: Part Two she wears a white accented dress that has a blue top, and a skirt with three large yellow, pink and dark blue stripes, white tights, white bloomers, black lace-up shoes, and three white buttons shaped like stars. The dress comes down to her knee and is worn with a pink hair ribbon. In several scenes she is seen with a red plastic fireman's hat.
The Hostile Hospital[]
In The Hostile Hospital: Part One and The Hostile Hospital: Part Two she wears the same white accented dress but, the skirt is longer and less poofy. She is sometimes hidden under a white doctors coat.
The Carnivorous Carnival[]
In The Carnivorous Carnival: Part One and The Carnivorous Carnival: Part Two she is dressed as Chabo the Wolf Baby. For this disguise she wears a dirty and torn, faded-flower print shirt with dirty khaki pants. Her hair is mussed up and has dirt in it and her face is painted to look dirty. In the beginning she wears her outfit from The Hostile Hospital.
The Slippery Slope[]
In The Slippery Slope: Part One and The Slippery Slope: Part Two she wears an outfit made by Fernald. It consists of a deep-yellow coat, a red/brown plaid dress, white tights, and dirty pink boats. For part of time her hair is tied up with a scrap of the dress. The rest of the time it was down. In the beginning she wore her Chabo the Wolf Baby outfit.
The Grim Grotto[]
In The Grim Grotto: Part One and The Grim Grotto: Part Two she wears a light red sailor outfit with a white kerchief, a dirty white belt, and a picture of Captain Widdershins on the top-left side, and white accents on the collar and cuffs. She also wears a sailors hat. For part of the second Grim Grotto episode she wears a old-fashioned divers suit that is yellow and blue, with brown buckles.
The Penultimate Peril[]
In The Penultimate Peril: Part One she wears a green concierge uniform with gold-colored buttons, and a concierge hat with a golf D for Denouement. In The Penultimate Peril: Part Two she wears a short-sleeve floral patterned dress with a large pink bib-collar, pink cuffs, white buttons, white tights, and red Mary-Janes. This dress was designed after book illustrations of Sunny. Her hair is tied up in a pink ribbon.
The End[]
In The End (episode) she wears two different outfits. After being shipwrecked she wears a dirty version of her floral dress. She also wears a white and orange ombre robe. The robe is belted at the waist with a piece of rope and has wooden clasps on front. It is worn with grass sandals and a matching ombre ribbon.
Chapter Fourteen[]
In Chapter Fourteen she wears two different outfits. On Beatrice Baudelaire's birthday she wears a smocked white dress with dark blue flowers, and grass sandals. When she is leaving the island she wears a sleeveless dress with vertical pinstripes in red, green, blue, and yellow. It has three yellow buttons on the front and is worn with grass sandals. Her hair is tied up with a piece of twine.
Behind the scenes[]
- In the 2003 Multi-Voice Recording of The Bad Beginning, she is voiced by Tara Sands.[16]
- 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.
- In the TV series, she is portrayed by Presley Smith, with her vocal effects provided by Tara Strong. Again, some stunts were dangerous or impossible for a baby, so a computer-generated baby was used. Known scenes where this was used include Sunny jumping to the floor and biting Sham's peg leg, as well as debarking logs with her teeth. Her double in the TV series was Colby Cremers.
Etymology[]
The name Sunny was chosen for the youngest Baudelaire because it sounds distinctly American. Lemony Snicket 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, thus creating a certain amount of confusion as to where the series is based.[17]
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.[17]
Quotes[]
- Main article: Baby Talk Dictionary
Trivia[]
Lil' Linda Lotsaluck on The Pony Party!
- 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.
- Daniel Handler once confirmed that Sunny and her siblings are of Jewish descent.[17] It is unknown if he means ethnicity only, religion only, or both because Sunny is never seen practicing any religious rituals relating to Judaism.
An example of Sunny's sassy demeanour in the TV series.
- Sunny seems to become ruder and sassier in each adaptation of the series. In the books, Sunny is generally polite. In the film, she says things like "Is she desperate?" and "I think she's the mayor of Crazy Town". In the TV series, Sunny comes off as blunt and on occasion almost insolent, though she is shown to have a compassionate side as well.
- Some fans speculate that Sunny was named after S. Theodora Markson who was the chaperone of Sunny's father, Bertrand. However, it is unknown what the S. in Theodora's name stands for so whether that theory is actually true or not remains to be seen.
Family[]
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- ↑ https://twitter.com/Unfortunate/status/991699398970216448
- ↑ The Incomplete History of Secret Organizations, page 79: "When asked in a fan interview what year the story takes place, Daniel Handler replied with characteristic Snicket dryness: 'The Year of the Rat.'" As Sunny is two years old at the time of The Austere Academy as stated by the Netflix series' official Twitter account, she would have been born two years prior; according to the Chinese Zodiac Signs, she would be born in the Year of the Dog.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 PROSE: The Austere Academy
- ↑ PROSE: The Miserable Mill
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 PROSE: The Hostile Hospital
- ↑ PROSE: The Carnivorous Carnival
- ↑ PROSE: The Vile Village
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 PROSE: The Slippery Slope
- ↑ PROSE: The Ersatz Elevator
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 PROSE: The Bad Beginning
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 PROSE: The Penultimate Peril
- ↑ PROSE: The End
- ↑ The Bad Beginning: Rare Edition and The Beatrice Letters
- ↑ PROSE: The Beatrice Letters
- ↑ TV: The End
- ↑ https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062873927/a-series-of-unfortunate-events-the-bad-beginning-vinyl-mp3/
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 The Jewish Secrets of Lemony Snicket, Moment
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