In The Bad Beginning, Violet makes a grappling hook, from metal rods and torn clothing.Whenever Violet invents something, she ties her hair up with her ribbon to keep it out of her eyes.

She often invents devices to help herself and her siblings in dangerous situations, using only simple objects such as rubber bands and tin cans. Violet is depicted as being extremely skilled at inventing devices. The Baudelaires' volatile friend Fiona is a mycologist. For example, with the Quagmire triplets, Duncan is a journalist, Isadora is a poet, and Quigley is a cartographer. The theme of children each having a particular ability. While Klaus is the researcher, Sunny is the biter (and later chef), Violet is the inventor. Violet portrayed by Emily Browning Inventions She hates the color pink and finds the color lavender a sickly color, as mentioned in The Wide Window. In the Bad Beginning, Snicket describes Violet as having pleasant facial features like her siblings. Prior to the demise of her parents, she liked to visit the Verne Invention Museum and enjoyed many of its exhibits, including one of the mechanical demonstrations that had inspired her to be an inventor when she was just two years old. Around her tenth birthday, she invented a new kind of pencil sharpener. She used a window shade and six pairs of roller skates, plus winning her a gold medal and a compliment from the judge, who bet that Violet could invent something with both her hands tied behind her back. When Violet Baudelaire was five years old, she won her first invention contest with an automatic rolling pin.

The bad beginning series