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Line 1: {{work}} ~~=== [[Sherlock Holmes]] (the original stories) ===~~ * [[Acceptable Religious Targets]]: Mormons in "A Study in Scarlet". In Doyle's defense, though, only Brigham Young's original polygamist followers get this treatment, not every Average Joe on the street who follows the religion. * [[Alternative Character Interpretation]]: Oh, '' dear God!'' * [[Author's Saving Throw]]: Holmes' return in "The Empty House", and the revelation that he'd survived Moriarty's attack in "The Final Problem" and just gone into hiding for a while. * [[Awesome Ego]]: Sherlock himself. * [[Complete Monster]]: Holmes feels more revulsion towards the blackmailer Charles Augustus Milverton than to any of the fifty murderers he'd confronted in his career. * [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler\|''The Five Orange Pips.'' Holmes's client is killed mere ''minutes'' after leaving Baker Street; Holmes has a [[Heroic BSOD]] before vowing revenge.}} * [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Irene Adler, who only appeared in one story of the original tales, but is popular among those who wrote Holmes-based novels, TV and movies, especially for a [[Promoted to Love Interest\|Promotion To Love Interest]]. Moriarty is another example, being a [[Breakout Villain]]. There are many others. Some include Shinwell Johnson and Kitty Winters, the supporting characters from ''The Illustrious Client'', or even Mr. Barker, Holmes's mysterious one-time rival from ''The Retired Colourman''. * [[Fan Wank]]: One of the older, best-established, and most erudite examples, and still going strong. People have written ''dissertations'' that are, essentially, Holmes [[Fan Wank]] that's [[Shown Their Work]]. * [[Genius Bonus]]: Holmes calling Maths Professor Moriarty "The Napoleon of Crime" gets a whole new dimension when you know that the original [[Napoleon Bonaparte]]'s second career choice was mathematician. So in a way, he was the Moriarty of world leaders as well. * [[Ho Yay]]: So much we had to [[Sherlock Holmes (film)/Ho Yay\|give it its own page.]] ''Someone'' involved here knew which side their fandom is buttered on... * [[Iconic Character Forgotten Title]]: Most of the novels did not have Sherlock Holmes in the title. * [[Memetic Badass]]: Irene Adler, the woman who went up against the best detective in London, if not the world, and managed to outsmart him. * [[Nightmare Fuel]]: Now with [[Sherlock Holmes (film)/Nightmare Fuel\|Its very own page, again!]] The titular substance in ''The Devil's Foot'' is literally this. In a less literal sense, Holmes and Watson testing it ''on themselves''. ''The Adventure of the Copper Beeches'' is chock full of Nightmare Fuel. First, there's the poor governess, who is brought to a mysterious countryside manor, where she is subject to bizarre demands, discovers that her boss is a [[Complete Monster]], and finds the child she is to care for takes a [[Like Father, Like Son\|perverse delight in torturing animals]]. Likewise for {{spoiler\|Rucastle's daughter, who has been imprisoned by her unstable father for some time to keep her from marrying and obtaining her inheritance.}} This would be creepy enough, but the setting of the story means that {{spoiler\|the two girls}} are entirely at the mercy of an unbalanced sociopath, and can draw on no one for aid. (Holmes even [[Lampshade Hanging\|comments]] that the isolated country setting can elevate ordinary crimes to the level of Nightmare Fuel.) Also, depending on your feelings about dogs, the vicious, half-starved mastiff can count, too. ''The Speckled Band'', especially if you [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?\|don't like snakes.]] "The Creeping Man" is, well, super creepy. The [[Jack the Ripper]] game, being based ([[Captain Obvious\|naturally]]) on the Ripper killings has this in spades. The titular hound in ''Hound of the Baskervilles''. Even though it turns out not to be supernatural, it's still huge and vicious and ''glowing''. ** The hydraulic press in 'The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb', it being the reason the engineer of the title is missing said digit. * [[Paranoia Fuel]]: The Mormons in ''A Study in Scarlet'', able to make [[Unperson\|Unpeople]] at will, and get past every barrier you can put between them and you. Likewise, the {{spoiler\|Ku Klux Klan}} from ''The Five Orange Pips''. ** A less sinister example: Holmes' deductive abilities arguably go from "cool" to "creepy" in the first chapter of ''The Sign of Four'' (that is, the second novel) when he studies Watson's watch for a minute, then proceeds to give a summarized biography of Watson's elder brother, whom he hadn't known ''existed'' before he started. * [[Saved by the Fans]]: Doyle ''tried'' to kill of Holmes when he got tired of the character. People didn't take it well, so he was brought back. ** Although [[Money, Dear Boy\|it wasn't the complaints that led him to bring Holmes back...]] * [[Unfortunate Implications]]: While most examples here would be [[Fair for Its Day]], some have objected to the thuggish potrayal of a black goon in "The Three Gables", considering that Doyle handled race much more maturely in "The Yellow Face". * [[Values Dissonance]]: Sir Arthur's depiction of the Mormons as a [[Religion of Evil]] was completely uncontroversial at the time (Jules Verne also did it in "''Around the World in 80 days''"), whereas his portrayal of the KKK as a murderous secret society was not. [[Acceptable Targets\|Nowadays, it's the opposite.]] * [[The Woobie]]: Holmes himself. ~~=== ''[[Sherlock Holmes (film)\|Sherlock Holmes]]'' (the films starring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law) ===~~ * [[Acceptable Ethnic Targets]]: The ginger midget is a [[Twofer Token Minority\|twofer]]. ** Gypsies in the sequel. Line 52 ⟶ 16: ''Beware the anglers' treason'' ''Else you may bleed too late!"'' }} * [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: The musical score by Hans Zimmer is so wonderfully eclectic. Who knew a harpsichord could sound so epic? Line 71 ⟶ 34: And {{spoiler\|Moriarty}}. ** A case could be made for Holmes as well, particularly with the examination of a Mook's body in Watson's room. Holmes knows exactly how to pique Watson's interest, tricks him into supplying the answer to a question, and when he leaves to investigate a factory by the wharf, conveniently leaves his revolver behind, knowing that Watson will follow him to see that he has it. Watson realizes this as well. "He's left it there on purpose." * [[~~Mis Blamed~~Misblamed]]: Many aspects of the film (i.e. Holmes and especially Watson - stereotyped as a bumbling sidekick - as action heroes, Holmes as a bohemian) which were criticized as being unfaithful to the original stories actually are faithful to them - it's [[Popcultural Osmosis]] of [[Lost in Imitation\|less faithful adaptations]] that makes these aspects seem out-of-place. ** The movie also lacks Holmes's deerstalker and the [[Beam Me Up, Scotty\|"Elementary, my dear Watson!"]] catchphrase, both of which are extremely common in adaptations of ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'', but never appear as such in the original Doyle stories. * [[Paranoia Fuel]]: Holmes' urban camouflage. He could be hiding in your room, watching what you're doing ''right now''. Line 84 ⟶ 47: {{reflist}} [[Category:Sherlock Holmes]]▼ [[Category:YMMV]] ▲[[Category:~~Sherlock Holmes~~{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]