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[[File:Watson-and-the-Irregulars.png|link=Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century|200px|thumb|"Eyes and brains, Watson. Also, the Baker Street Regulars can search for clues where we can't go."]]
{{quote|''At this moment there was a loud ring at the bell, and I could hear Mrs. Hudson, our landlady, raising her voice in a wail of expostulation and dismay.''
''"By heavens, Holmes," I said, half rising, "I believe that they are really after us."''
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After you manage to win the respect of the Baker Street Regular, he will be an invaluable tool and assistant to your group. Life on the street is going to make him able to hear rumors that you won't be able to while you are out on your investigations. He is always good at hiding, especially in situations where the [[Big Bad]] is nearby. Expect him to have a [[Brats with Slingshots|slingshot]] or other projectile weapon to help you out if you need a distraction: He never misses unless the plot demands he does.
If he is an orphan, by the end of the story, more often than not, the detective and his love interest end up his surrogate parents, if not flat out adopting him (and any siblings or close friends he has). Other tropes that you are likely to find a
The Baker Street Regular is a pun on the [[Trope Namer]], the Baker Street Irregulars, who were a network of orphaned street urchins that had been under the employment of Sherlock Holmes to gather rumors, gather clues, and do various odd jobs, in which he made sure to pay what was, [[Mundane Luxury|to them, an outrageous sum of money]] for their discretion and loyalty.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Subverted in ''[[Black Butler]]''. Doll, aside from not being the eldest (though that is justified due to her elder "siblings" being [[Genre Blind]]), gives Ciel help, covers for him, and fits this trope to a T {{spoiler|before Ciel goes into an episode and orders for her death.}}
* In ''[[Detective Conan]]'', Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko, the Detective Boys. They're even referred to as Baker Street Regulars in an arc.
** They ''literally'' play this when they entered the [[Cyberspace]] [[Victorian
* As the plot approaches the end of ''[[Slayers|Slayers Next]]'', one of these attempts to pickpocket the party, but eventually joins them and befriends Martina. Brilliantly subverted, as {{spoiler|he's the [[Big Bad]].}}
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* Akechi Kogoro had several as well, including Yoshio Kobayashi, [[Shotacon|who later became famous for something else entirely]].
* ''[[Solar Pons]]'' has the Praed Street Irregulars.
* Nobby Nobbs is introduced in ''[[
** Sometimes members of the Beggar's Guild, although largely adults and therefore on the very fringes of the trope, act as this for Lord Vetinari as one of many information-gathering channels (it's implied that someone who may in some small way be connected to him spreads rumors that he pays for information, so that they'll come volunteer it to him instead of him needing to send someone looking). It's implied Vimes occasionally gets information from them as well.
* Ostap Bender from Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov's ''[[The Twelve Chairs]]'' employed them to track one of the titular, possibly treasure-holding chairs.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Lilly in ''[[Ceville]]''.
* Luke and, to a lesser extent, Flora in the ''[[Professor Layton]]'' games are variations on this trope. Flora mostly fits in the sense of being {{spoiler|an orphan who gets adopted by the protagonist}}. Luke plays the trope almost straight; however, his parents are still alive and perfectly comfortable financially, and he must {{spoiler|surrender the post at the end of the third game, when the family moves overseas}}. In fact, it's thanks to his parents that Luke is hanging
* Brynn from ''[[Dreamfall]]'' acts this way towards April.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Kit Cloudkicker in ''[[Tale Spin]]''. Molly can also apply in most episodes she's in.
* [[Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century]] had Wiggins, Tennyson, and Deidre as pictured here.
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