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* [[Allergic to Routine]]

* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: In addition to being hated by pretty much the entire police force sans Lestrade, in The Blind Banker it is revealed that all his classmates hated him when he was in school.

* [[Badass Baritone]]

* [[Badass Bookworm]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: ''Don't'' {{spoiler|hurt or insult Mrs Hudson}}. Sherlock does not take it well. Specifically, he looks at you and {{spoiler|starts planning kill shots, then beats you senseless and throws you out a window... five times}}.

** [[Tranquil Fury|And you will not realize he's angry until after he's beaten the crap out of you.]]

* [[Lack of Empathy]]: Subverted, at least when it comes to his friends.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]

** What, no mention of the infamous "[[Memetic Mutation|purple shirt of sex]]"?

* [[Mad Scientist]]: He keeps a human head in the refrigerator and human eyeballs in the microwave, both of which are being used in "experiments". Enough said.

* [[The Wonka]]

 

{{quote|"''How—'' oh, never mind."}}

* [[Adorkable]]: Doctor Watson. Martin Freeman's support of Woolly Hat Day.

* [[Badass Adorable]]: Whether it's shooting a guy dead under improbable odds, sassing back criminal masterminds who've kidnapped him or ordering around CIA agents who have a gun to the back of his head, chances are he'll be doing it in a cardigan. Also is strongly implied to be one of those people who starts celebrating Christmas in October.

'''Sherlock:''' …Want to see some more?

'''John:''' Oh, ''God'', yes. }}

* [[Morality Pet]]: For Sherlock, letting him know whenever he's said or done something "not good".

* [[Mysterious Middle Initial]]: In "A Scandal in Belgravia," John H. Watson finally reveals his much-speculated upon middle name: {{spoiler|Hamish}}.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: If Sherlock's getting one of these, chances are good that John will be the one lecturing him.

 

{{quote|"All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage, Sherlock."}}

* [[Aloof Big Brother]]: To Sherlock.

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: If you take Sherlock's "queen" joke at face value. He does have a few of the traits.

* [[The Wonka]]: Though certainly to a lesser degree than his younger brother.

 

{{quote|"Every fairytale needs a good, old-fashioned villain."}}

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Keeps up his [[Camp]] persona after {{spoiler|revealing his identity to Sherlock}}. As always, it's hard to tell what really motivates him.

* [[Always Someone Better]]: What motivates him to take down ''Sherlock''.

* [[Shadow Archetype]]: He's Sherlock if our protagonist had decided to commit crimes rather than solve them to pass the time, and didn't have the [[Morality Pet|moral guides]] of John, Mrs Hudson and Lestrade.

* [[Sissy Villain]]: How Jim liked to portray himself to Sherlock, [[Not So Harmless|at]] [[Knight of Cerebus|first]].

* [[The Sociopath]]: A genuine example, unlike Sherlock.

* [[The Unfettered]]: Ultimately a deconstruction. Having absolutely no empathy and no limits, Jim's one and only concern is to try and stave off his endless boredom...even if that means putting his own plans and well-being at risk to do it. Best illustrated in the second series finale {{spoiler|where Moriarty gleefully '''shoots himself in the head''' for no reason other than he thinks it's the best way to "win" his game with Sherlock and believes that with Sherlock dead his life will have no further meaning.}}

{{quote|'''Moriarty''': You're [[Insult Backfire|just getting that now?]]}}

 

{{quote|"Do you know the problem with a disguise, Mr Holmes? However hard you try, it's always a self-portrait."}}

* [[Adaptational Badass]]: In the original stories, Irene Adler's impressive feat was simply seeing through Holmes' ruse and having the good sense to skip town while she has the chance. Here, she manages to {{spoiler|con him into decoding top-secret, vital information which she then passes along to Moriarty, ruining Mycroft's day}}. It takes a last-second epiphany for Sherlock to recover himself and make up for his own royal fuckup.

* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]: For all of Irene’s alleged cleverness, it’s still clear that she wouldn’t have gotten away with as much {{spoiler|without Moriarty’s assistance}}.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: For all the havoc and damage she caused, {{spoiler|she still gets to survive in the end.}}

* [[Lipstick Lesbian]]: Identifies as gay (with a willingness to "scold" men in a professional context) — [[If It's You It's Okay|with one niggling exception]].

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]

* [[Naked on Arrival]]: Pulls this on Sherlock to defeat his [[Sherlock Scan|trademark scan]]. Can't tell anything from a person's clothes if they're not wearing any, right?

* [[Show Some Leg]]: Or, you know, the whole package.

* [[Silk Hiding Steel]]

* [[Whip It Good]]: ''Introduced'' holding a riding crop, which features extensively in her website's photos, and [[Dominatrix|uses it for reasons very different from Sherlock's]].

 

{{quote|"Well, don't let it get to you, ''I'' always feel like screaming when you walk into a room. In fact, so do most people."}}

* [[Big Good]]: In-universe. Moriarty of all people, even compares him to [[King Arthur]].

* [[Busman's Holiday]]: How he becomes involved in ''Hounds''.

* [[Silver Fox]]

 

{{quote|"Are these ''human'' eyes?"}}

* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: Sherlock exposes her affair with Anderson at a crime scene just by taking a whiff of her. Doesn't stop her from calling him 'freak' or encouraging John to leave him.

* [[By-The-Book Cop]]: Does ''not'' approve of Sherlock's consulting. To her, he's always "Freak".

* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: Sleeping with Anderson, who's married.

 

{{quote|"Never mind that, we found the case! According to ''some''one, the murderer has the case, and we found it in the hands of our favourite psychopath."}}

* [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop]]: It's unclear if he's actually good at his job or not, since all we hear is Sherlock trashing him. In the original pilot, Lestrade seems to treat him better.

* [[Bullying a Dragon]]: Sherlock only has to ''sniff'' him to figure out he's having an affair with DS Donovan.

* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: Gets his affair with Donovan exposed at a crime scene by Sherlock.

 

* [[Girl Friday]]: To Mycroft.

* [[The Nameless]]: Her name is never given; she introduces herself to John in "A Study in Pink" as "Anthea", but cheerfully admits that it isn't her real name.

* [[Sexy Secretary]]

 

{{quote|"I know what that means, looking sad when you think no-one can see you."}}

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Verging on [[The Chew Toy|Chew Toy]] at times, with the way Sherlock treats her.

* [[Closer to Earth]]: The only one to see Sherlock's {{spoiler|suicidal behavior}} in "The Reichenbach Fall", and ultimately {{spoiler|the one he trusts to help fake his death}}.

* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: {{spoiler|Moriarty}} uses her to get close to Sherlock.

 

{{quote|"I'm your landlady, not your housekeeper."}}

* [[As You Know]]: Her screen-name is "Marie Turner" which is her friend's name (Mrs. Turner, next door, with "the married ones"). Becomes a [[Running Gag]] on Sherlock's site and John's blog where every time she comments, she immediately double-posts a reminder: "It's Mrs. Hudson, by the way."

** With the exception of the one time Mrs Turner herself actually commented.

* [[Shipper on Deck]]: She assumes that John and Sherlock are a couple, and won't be persuaded otherwise.

 

* [[Action Girl]]: Took on Chinese gangsters with a ''wooden stick''.

* [[Alliterative Name]]: Presumably as a [[Shout-Out]] to Mary Morstan.

* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]: Disappears from the narrative when she and John break up sometime after "The Great Game".

 

* [[Inspector Lestrade]]: Plays this role in "The Blind Banker", as temporary replacement for the real Lestrade. (Soak up the irony!)

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]

* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]

 

* [[The Alcoholic]]: Harry's a known alcoholic, but has tried to quit various times according to John's website.

* [[Big Sister Instinct]]: Is very protective of John on the forums of his website.

* [[The Unseen]]: While mentioned in the show, Harry has yet to show up. She is, however, a frequent poster on John's blog.