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* [[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 (
* [[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 (
** 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.
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** 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
** 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".
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* [[The Woobie]]: Holmes himself.
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* [[Acceptable Ethnic Targets]]: The ginger midget is a [[Twofer Token Minority|twofer]].
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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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* [[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.}}
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* [[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}}.
* [[WTH? Casting Agency]]: At first, people are skeptical about choosing [[Robert Downey, Jr.|the guy]] who played Charlie Chaplin, [[Iron Man (
** Downey Jr. ''himself'' was at first puzzled as to why they wanted him for the part.
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