Bombinating Beast



The Bombinating Beast is a minor but very crucial antagonist in both Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions. It appears as a cryptid in the Snicket universe and is similar to creatures such as the Loch Ness Monster in both appearance and habitat.

All the Wrong Questions
In the prequel series the main antagonist Hangfire is obsessed with uncovering the creature and strikes a deal with Ellington Feint about gaining the statue of it in order to "free her father". This was later revealed to be a lie told by Ellington however as she was working with her father who was in fact Hangfire and was stealing the statue not only for him but also the Inhumane Society.

In the end however Snicket is the one who winds up summoning the beast to turn the tide in his final battle with Hangfire who was ironically devoured by the creature he had been obsessed with for years.

Snicket then set the beast free into the oceans.

A Series of Unfortunate Events
In this series the creature appeared as an unidentifiable object in the waters that resembled a serpent like question mark which would commonly pull characters from the series under the depths of the ocean presumably to devour them. Snicket describes the creature as an aura of menace in this series showing that it has became more feral after he had set it free with some characters even calling it worse than Count Olaf. Kit Snicket was also very weary of the beast and refused to go near the waters it roamed in.