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* [[Acceptable Ethnic Targets]]: The ginger midget is a [[Twofer Token Minority|twofer]].
** Gypsies in the sequel.
* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: [[Stephen Fry]] as Mycroft? Hell yeah!
** [[Noomi Rapace]] will be in the sequel. Fuck yeah.
* [[Complete Monster]]: Lord Blackwood. During the movie it's revealed he has killed 5 girls for his rituals (he even claims that they ''were not the first to be butchered''). He arrives at kill {{spoiler|his own father}} and his master plan is killing the members of Parliament with a poisonous gas machine thus starting a civil war. He also wants to bring America back under English rule. Some of his followers and minions also counts.
** In the sequel, Professor Moriarty arguably manages to be even worse. He's a criminal mastermind, completely devoid of empathy, with an elaborate scheme of an even grander scale than Blackwood's - and he has a personal grudge against Holmes himself. {{spoiler|If the scene where he reveals that he murdered Irene Adler when [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|she had stopped being useful]], and will murder Watson and Mary because they matter to Holmes doesn't do for a [[Moral Event Horizon]], his interrogation of Holmes where he has him [[Nightmare Fuel|impaled on a hook and suspended off the floor, screaming in agony, probably will]].}} [[Wicked Cultured|He does it while singing along to a beautiful piece by Schubert, too.]]
*** Also a hint of [[Ho Yay]]: the ''lied'' he sings, "The Trout" (composed 1817), ends with a fourth stanza which explains the trout had been an allegory for [[The Woobie|a naive girl]] caught in the reel [[All Men Are Perverts|of unscrupulous men]]. Given that Moriarty thinks himself as the fisherman and [[Freudian Excuse|his obsession with Holmes runs for years]]...
*** The fourth stanza sounds in English translation like this:
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''Of youth, so free from doubt,''
''Be to the trout beholden;''
''At danger's sign, clear out!''
''Tis oft for want of reason''
''That maids will shun the straight.''
''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?
** ''Rocky Road to Dublin'' played by ''The Dubliners,'' played over Holmes' pit fighting scene, and again over the ending credits.
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* [[Ear Worm]]: The main theme, which pops up over the course of the film in different styles (from [[Hans Zimmer]], ''of course'').
* [[Flanderization]]: Irene Adler is arguably a victim of this. In the Doyle canon, she was just an opera singer who was known for her cleverness, and she went down as an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] for outsmarting Holmes by stopping him from stealing back a compromising photo that she'd gotten her hands on through pure happenstance. In the movie, she's made into a full-on [[Femme Fatale]]/[[Action Girl]] and a professional thief.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: The film has set in motion a wave of films based on public domain classics, including ''[[Treasure Island]]'', ''[[The Three Musketeers (2011
* [[Genius Bonus]]: The revolver that Holmes leaves behind causing Watson to say "He left it there on purpose" to the dog? It's a Webley Bulldog.
* [[Good Name for A Rock Band]]: Ginger Midget
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** Which then comes to a fantastic head with the dancing scene.
* [[It Was His Sled]]: In ''A Game of Shadows'', anyone who's read the books knew what to expect when Mycroft dropped the name of Reichenbach, Switzerland.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]:
** Lord Blackwood.
** 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."
* [[
** 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''.
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* [[Squick]]: The slaughterhouse sequence. How they showed pigs being sliced in half and getting a PG-13 rating is a mystery worthy of Holmes. Perhaps slicing up pig carcasses, as opposed to living pigs, is fair game for the censors.
* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: {{spoiler|Irene. The reason this is in YMMV is that Moriarty kills ''everyone'' when they are no longer useful, and her death was not particularly gruesome. In fact, he tries to kill Watson with an assassin, then armed soldiers, then a Gatling gun, even after Holmes points out he's not involved in the case, just to screw with him. Moriarty treats Irene the same way he does anyone else. Being able to hurt Holmes was just a bonus.}}
* [[Tainted
* [[The Untwist]]: The identity of Irene Adler's employer ({{spoiler|Professor Moriarty}}) is this to a lot of people. Given that we are actually told early on that he's a professor, it's possible that the director intended it as a [[Genius Bonus|Fan Bonus]] so that it would be obvious only to fans.
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: {{spoiler|The radio transmitter is no way carried on into the sequel}}.
* [[
** Downey Jr. ''himself'' was at first puzzled as to why they wanted him for the part.
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