Captain Widdershins

In Lemony Snicket's series A Series of Unfortunate Events, Captain Widdershins is the captain of the Queequeg, his submarine. He is the stepfather of Fiona and Fernald, who is missing.

In The Grim Grotto, he finds Klaus, Violet, and Sunny Baudelaire at sea while he is looking for the sugar bowl and takes them aboard the Queequeg. He is extremely emphatic, with almost all of his sentences being exclamations, and permeates his speech with the word "Aye!" His personal philosophy is "He who hesitates is lost," which the Baudelaires find to be unreasonable. Captain Widdershins is considered the eleventh guardian of the Baudelaires. He seems aware that Fiona takes a fancy to Klaus (he accuses them of flirting when Fiona is proud Klaus knows what a mycologist is), stating that if Klaus finds the sugar bowl, he will get Fiona to marry Klaus.

After sending the Baudelaires and Fiona into the Gorgonian Grotto, he and Phil appear to desert the Queequeg. In The Penultimate Peril, Kit Snicket says that she intends to meet Captain Widdershins and is later mentioned water-skiing towards and, soon after, away from him.

Kit had contacted all three of The Quagmire Triplets as well as their Guardian, Hector, and had met with them and the crew of the Queequeg when their self-sustaining mobile home crashed into it. This reunion was short-lived, however, as all of the crew as well as the triplets were picked up by the mysterious ? Shape (dubbed by Kit Snicket as 'The Great Unknown').

Captain Widdershins was unknowingly responsible for the separation of Lemony Snicket and Beatrice Baudelaire, having shown the latter an obituary of the former in The Daily Punctilio that he did not know at the time to be false.