Ishmael harpoons Olaf in the stomach, inadvertently shattering the helmet containing the Medusoid Mycelium, a deadly fungus, infecting the island's entire population.
Nonetheless, it was pretty shocking -- and surprisingly emotional. In the final episode of the third and last installment of the Netflix series, Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris) found himself impaled with a harpoon (yes, really) at the hand of his former mentor and the founder of the VFD, Ishmael.
But in the final episode, as the villain Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris) dies, he manages to break that one ideal not with deeds, but with his own carefully chosen words. From the moment their bank-appointed and always coughing guardian Mr.
In flashbacks, it is shown that Count Olaf was engaged to Kit Snicket, his father was the chief of the city's official fire department, and his mother had died in a fire. His father was accidentally killed one night at the opera by a poison dart thrown by Beatrice Baudelaire that was meant for Esmé Squalor.
“Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.”
He is the love interest for Josephine Anwhistle, Georgina Orwell, Esmé Squalor, Babs, Olivia Caliban (books only), and Kit Snicket.
Al Funcoot from The Bad Beginning
Al Funcoot is a fake playwright who serves as Olaf's nom de plume in the first book.
Olaf and his men fought Alfvine's crew and won every battle, but did not kill any of them; instead, they bound them. Alfvine was told to leave the country and never come back again. Gyda and Olaf married, and spent half their time in England and the other half in Ireland.
He believed that because Lemony Snicket's sister, Kit, smuggled poisoned darts to the Baudelaire parents at some point, that they were the ones responsible for his parents deaths. Hence, his hatred for the Baudelaire children.
In the end, Olaf redeems himself by helping Kit Harrington to deliver her baby Beatrice.
In the play, Olaf's character is a "very handsome man" who marries Violet Baudelaire's character, a beautiful bride, at the end. Justice Strauss played the "walk-on role" of judge adjudicating the marriage.
Later on, he met Beatrice on a street, telling her he would always love her even if he wouldn't see her again. The two shared a departing kiss.
As Kit Snicket's only confirmed relationship was with Olaf, it is often theorized that her daughter, Beatrice Baudelaire II, is biologically Olaf's.
And the big question, did the Baudelaires survive fleeing the island? Yes, and they lived on to raise Kit Snicket's child to be a new kind of volunteer. A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS Credit: It makes sense that a TV show would have a more traditionally satisfying ending than a series of very weird books from the '00s.
The most popular theory behind the fire is that Count Olaf is the culprit. He has had a history of starting similar fires and admits to being guilty of "arson".
During A Series of Unfortunate Events. Kit's book list. At some point, Kit became pregnant. It is unknown who the father of the child is; Count Olaf is her only named love interest, but it is unknown how long their relationship lasted, and while Dewey Denouement seemed to love her, it is unknown if she reciprocated.
They're another set of characters in the books. Beatrice and Bertrand, the Baudelaire parents, we learn, are definitely dead.
Klaus later tells Violet Count Olaf's full plan: He means to marry her for real so that he can control the enormous Baudelaire fortune. In order to get Violet to agree to the marriage, Count Olaf kidnaps Sunny and hangs her in a birdcage from the top of the tower.
And this immediately gives us a motive for their murders: inheritance. Making Olaf the heir to his familial fortune might give another person the opportunity to steal it for him/herself.
The characters started out as “mini Olafs,”explains Fever producer Peter Del Vecho. “We realized we wanted Olaf to remain pure, so quickly it evolved into these fun little snowballs we call 'snowgies' that bring a lot of mischief and fun to the short.” ADVERTISEMENT.
According to history, Olaf's son Magnus was illegitimate, whose mother was a concubine named Alvhild. His son is known as Magnus the Good. Olaf's father is described as a great-great grandchild of Harald Fairhair.
Olaf was born around 820, in Ireland. His father was the Hiberno-Norse warlord Ingjald Helgasson. Some traditional sources portray Olaf as a descendant of Ragnar Lodbrok – for instance, the Eyrbyggja Saga, claims that Olaf's paternal grandmother (Thora) was a daughter of Ragnar's son Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye.
Montgomery had ever learned Sebald Code, and as a result they did not realize this. The Baudelaire orphans were aware that Stephano was Olaf in disguise, but they were unable to convince Montgomery. In the TV series, Montgomery does notice the code, and received a message saying, "Danger.
Violet Baudelaire, the oldest (age 14 at the start of the series, then 15 in The Grim Grotto and 16 by the end of the series). Violet is an intelligent, avid inventor and on numerous occasions saves the lives of her siblings Klaus and Sunny.