Count Olaf



Count Olaf is the main villain from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Count Olaf is greedy, and will go any lengths to get what he wants, even if it involves murder. He appears in every book of the "Series of Unfortunant Events," in some form or another.

He was cunning, and while not neccesarily vastly intelligent, he seemed to always be one step ahead of the authorities. While he did, indeed, use various disquises to try to fool the protagonists, they only seemed to work on those around the children, instead of the children themselves.

Count Olaf was also a shameless bully and an arsonist who had an almost obsessive tendency to use a large death-ray style weapon to burn down the homes of those that became too wise to his misdeeds, he was also not against personally taking care of certain individuals if needed.

Count Olaf was also ruthless, to the point he was quite willing to wed a girl barely in her teenage years just so he could inherit the family fortune - upon believing he had won the fortune he loudly declared his intent to send his new "bride" to the furthest corners of the world to be adopted separately from her brother and sister.

Despite being a criminal mastermind Count Olaf had little experience with children and he believed that a baby was a monkey - although he was played comically (at least in the movie) he was still a very dark and evil individual, as was seen when he struck one of the children and when he put the baby in a cage in order to force her siblings to comply with his demands.

However in the end of the movie Count Olaf gets what he deserves when his own death-ray is used to burn the document he so boldly flaunted at the angry crowds, revelling in his victory and telling them all about how he was a monster but one of their own making.

With the document igniting in flames Count Olaf suddenly panics as the crowd descends upon him and he is dragged away to an unknown fate..