Sunny Baudelaire
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| A Series of Unfortunate Events character | |
 Sunny, as drawn by Brett Helquist. | |
| Sunny Baudelaire | |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Hair color | Novel: Bald Illustrations: Auburn Film: Blonde |
| Age | Very small infant (becomes toddler in The Slippery Slope) |
| Film portrayer | Kara Hoffman/Shelby Hoffman |
| First appearance | The Bad Beginning |
| V.F.D. alliance | Volunteer side of the schism |
Sunny Baudelaire is the youngest of the Baudelaire orphans in the children's books A Series of Unfortunate Events, along with her brother Klaus and her sister Violet. She is too young to talk, but her baby noises are translated by the narrator Lemony Snicket. Sunny takes her first name from Claus von Bülow's wife, Sunny. In The Vile Village, Sunny takes her first steps, and then in The Slippery Slope, Sunny goes through a rite of passage, leaving her baby-hood, and growing into a young girl who is quite a remarkable chef. In the later books, such as The Grim Grotto, her baby noises are often clever allusions or subtextual meanings that relate to the plot as a whole.
Sunny plays a very significant role in all books in A Series of Unfortunate Events books. Most of these involve her large 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. She cannot speak properly, yet what she says can occasionally be translated without any help. When she shouts "Velocity!" for instance, it means "Faster!" or "Quickly!". Often, she says amusing things, like "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 Sunny's first 'word', but this is not true because in the very same book it mentions Sunny's first word being 'Bite'. Some speculate that it is an anagram about something important that will be revealed in Book the Thirteenth because it makes its appearance right after the first introduction of Anagrams. It is also a real word meaning "The state of not having the faintest idea what is going on."
This character was represented on the film Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events by Kara & Shelby Hoffman. In the movie, her baby talk is translated through subtitles.
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 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. Sunny also dresses up in disguises. Here are the ones:
- Medical doctor - She is thought to be one of the white faced women. The Hostile Hospital
- Chabo the Wolf Baby - She dressed up in a fake beard. She was supposed to be half baby, half wolf. The Carnivorous Carnival
- Concierge - The Penultimate Peril
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