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** Holmes drugging the dog.
** One that spans over two movies "Get that thing out of my face." "It's not in your face, it's in my hand." "Get what's in ''your hand'' out of ''my face.''"
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: Constable Clarky and {{spoiler|Lestrade}} trust Holmes more than their chief officers.
* [[Sequel Hook]]: The first film had Adler revealing she was working for Moriarity.
** The second film had {{spoiler|"THE END?"}}
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* [[The Watson]]: A nice subversion occurs: Holmes asks Watson about a watch and Watson explains it, using his own deductive skills. Then it's revealed Holmes already knew everything Watson said.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: What did Moriarty want that radio-control device he stole at the end of the first film for?
** to use {{spoiler|as a [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check|product in his war industry of course]]}}
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Irene and Holmes to an extent.
* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: Holmes is a master, pitted against Blackwood's [[Magnificent Bastard]] and Moriarty's [[Chessmaster]].
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]:
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* [[Bastard Bastard]]: Blackwood was conceived out of wedlock during a magic ritual.
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Blackwood's attempt to {{spoiler|scare everybody into thinking he had great magical powers and thus he would rule England / the world.}} Of course, they may all be a part of the [[Evil Plan]] of {{spoiler|Professor Moriarty}} by exploiting the confusion caused by Blackwood's plan.
* [[Berserk Button]]: {{spoiler|Blackwood needs Standish to try and shoot him so he'll become a self-inflicted victim of [[Kill It With Fire]], so he drops a few threatening lines about conquering America while referring to it as a colony. Blackwood knows that Standish is a firm believer in [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]], and it works perfectly.}}
** Never, ever, spit on Holmes.
* [[Bifauxnen]]: Irene Adler dresses in men's clothing in some scenes, probably referencing how she managed to get past Holmes in "A Scandal in Bohemia", where she says that she dresses as a man to enjoy the liberties to which she was otherwise not entitled in Victorian England. She even calls her men's clothing ''her walking clothes''. (Though she doesn't bother to hide her figure or remove her make-up at all - she'd never be taken for a man.)
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* [[Clipboard of Authority]]: Watson uses one to infiltrate a factory.
* [[Connect the Deaths]]: In its use of this trope, it's a better adaptation of [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[From Hell]]'' than the actual movie of ''[[From Hell]]''.
* [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom]]: The slaughterhouse scene.
* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: {{spoiler|Among many of the technologies Lord Blackwood uses to simulate magic, the gas machine is a remarkable invention. Subverted in that Moriarty sees the value in the radio receiver and steals it.}}
** The whole Blackwood plot, although haphazard at first, has a very practical goal: {{spoiler|a coup d'état installing Blackwood's supporters in the highest seats of power}}.
* [[Cutting the Knot]]: Holmes is trying to open a locked door with an array of lock picks. Watson merely kicks the door open.
* [[Dark Messiah]]: Lord Blackwood would very much like to be thought of as one of these, and goes a long way towards convincing the entire country he is. {{spoiler|But then, in the end, he actually isn't...probably.}}
* [[Dark Is Evil|Dark is]]/[[Dark Is Not Evil|Not Evil]]: Everything connected with Blackwood is always associated with pure darkness. Also, Blackwood is always seen wearing a wicked-looking black leather trenchcoat while his minions wear dark cloaks. However Holmes himself is [[Tall, Dark and Snarky]], and also dresses in gloomy black, complete with [[Sinister Shades]].
* [[Death Trap]]: Several... [[Conveyor Belt O' Doom|one for Irene]], one for {{spoiler|[[Gas Chamber|Parliament,]]}} one for [[Kill It With Fire|Standish]], etc.
* [[Doing in The Wizard]]: {{spoiler|At the end of the movie, Holmes beautifully deconstructs Blackwood's every known act of sorcery, explaining exactly how each was done via friends in high places, applied science, and plain old theatrics. He also notes that Blackwood had better hope the occult parts were all baseless superstition, since he did the rituals perfectly.}}
* [[Diabolical Mastermind]]: Blackwood {{spoiler|and later revealed Moriarty.}}
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* [[The Faceless]]: {{spoiler|Professor Moriarty}}
* [[Fandom Nod]]: In the extended preview (aired during the ''[[Monk]]'' series finale), there's yet another clip of the Holmes-Watson [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] routine, then a cut to Adler going "They've been flirting like this for ''hours''." To the general public, a funny joke. To those aware of the Holmes/Watson-shipping fanbase, ''bloody hilarious''. As it happened, {{spoiler|this seems to have been a deleted scene referring to Watson's bickering with a boat captain.}}
* [[Five
** [[Big Bad]]--Lord Blackwood.
** [[The Dragon]]-- {{spoiler|Lord Coward}}.
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: See [[Orphaned Punchline]] and [[Holding the Floor]] below and keep in mind that Holmes tells this joke in jail.
* [[Government Conspiracy]]
* [[Go
* [[Go Look At the Distraction]]: Holmes sends the officers to find where Sir Thomas kept his bath salts while he looks for Thomas's occult paraphernalia.
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: When Blackwood makes his short drop {{spoiler|for real at the end}}, we are indicated that he's dead not by seeing him hit the sudden stop directly, but by seeing the chain that ended up around his neck going suddenly taut.
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* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|[[It Was His Sled|Prof. Moriarty, for Irene Adler]] and Lord Blackwood for Lord Coward.}}
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Blackwood's entire plan is more or less to [[Mind Rape]] all of London so he can use their fear of him to control them.
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: {{spoiler|Blackwood's [[Contrived Coincidence|death]]. "You had best hope it's not real, because you performed the ritual perfectly. The devil's due a soul, I think." The raven - normal bird, that [[Red Herring|coincidentally keeps appearing]] or ''[[Satan|something]]'' keeping an eye on Blackwood?}}
* [[Misapplied Phlebotinum]]: The [[Evil Genius]] has developed a method of {{spoiler|radio control}} seven years before it was actually invented by [[Nikola Tesla]]. Blackwood uses it to {{spoiler|pretend to have magical powers}}
** He used it for practical purpose ( {{spoiler|killing opposing politicians}}), magic was only the explanation for the public.
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{{quote| '''Holmes:''' Madam, I need you to remain calm. And trust me, I'm a professional. [[Accidental Innuendo|Beneath this pillow, lies the key to my release.]]}}
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: If your title is Lord Blackwood, it's almost a requirement that you'll be involved in the dark arts. {{spoiler|Also, Lord Coward. To the general public, a funny, jovial guy. And neither does Standish's name sound very antagonistic, in comparison to Coward's}}.
* [[Newspaper
* [[Nothing Up My Sleeve]]: {{spoiler|Professor Moriarty's signature weapon is a hidden gun in his sleeve.}}
* [[Oh Crap]]: The look on Holmes and Watson's faces when Dredger walks into the midget's lodgings.
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* [[Save the Villain]]: {{spoiler|Holmes saves Blackwood from being dragged off the bridge, if only so he can be ''properly'' hanged this time around. After Blackwood tries to kill him again, though, Holmes lets the hanging take place sooner than Blackwood had hoped.}}
* [[Scooby Doo Hoax]]: {{spoiler|The truth about the strange phenomena around Lord Blackwood.}}
* [[Screw the Money, I Have Rules]]: When the Order approaches Holmes asking him to clear up the mess they ended up creating with Blackwood and offers to allow him to name his price, Holmes coolly remarks that the advantage of being a consulting detective means he gets to pick and choose his clients, and agrees to stop Blackwood... "but not for ''you''. And ''certainly'' not for a price."
* [[Sequel Hook]]: Irene's employer? None other than {{spoiler|Professor Moriarty}}. {{spoiler|Subverted slightly in that Moriarty's reason for being involved is not brought up in the sequel}}.
* [[Slipping a Mickey]]: When Holmes goes to see Irene, she offers him a glass of wine from an unopened bottle. {{spoiler|Then, after Holmes drinks it and collapses, we get to see a short flashback-- of her doctoring the bottle with a syringe, and resealing it.}}
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* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]]:
** Inverted as Holmes drops the handcuff key down between Irene Adler's breasts for her to fish around for.
*** Not for her... He handcuffed her behind her back. She'll have to get someone else to fish around in there for it. [[Laser
** Also played straight with the 'Maharajah's Diamond' and, earlier, the 'deadly' envelope.
* [[When the Clock Strikes Twelve]]: {{spoiler|Blackwood's device is set to detonate on the twelfth chime of [[Westminster Chimes|Big Ben]].}}
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** Sherlock Holmes himself, even more than in the first film.
* [[Anachronism Stew]]: All of Moriarty's new weapons (with the exception of the Gatling and Maxim machine guns) are anachronistic. The Mauser C96 pistol was not produced until 1896, for instance. Given that the entire basis of Moriarty's plot revolves around producing new, technologically advanced weapons {{spoiler|so that he can turn an enormous profit by starting World War I}}, this makes perfect sense. Presumably the weapons are prototypes. It's not a stretch to imagine that other companies got their hands on the designs {{spoiler|after Moriarty died}} and began producing them a few years later.
* [[And Your Little Dog, Too]]: Moriarty makes a point of threatening Watson and Mary for no other reason than to get back at Holmes.
* [[Arch Enemy]]: Moriarty, naturally.
* [[At the Opera Tonight]]: Holmes suspects the {{spoiler|bomb}} is at the opera house where Don Giovanni is playing {{spoiler|and Moriarty is attending}}.
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* [[Chess Motifs]]: All over the place, especially in the [[Grand Finale]], which consists largely of a literal chess game between Holmes and Moriarty.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Both Holmes and Moriarty, as per the norm. The climax of the film even {{spoiler|has them playing chess outside the location of an assassination, their moves mirroring what their 'pieces' are doing inside. The game actually ends verbally, with them stating their moves aloud until one of them wins both the game and the game of wits they've been going at the entire film.}}
* [[Cold
* [[Cold Sniper]]: Sebastian Moran.
* [[Complexity Addiction]]: Moriarty,with the means at his disposal, he probably could have killed Holmes any time he wanted. Moran could have done it without much trouble, if nothing else. He clearly wanted an opponent to make the game more interesting.
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* {{spoiler|[[The End or Is It]]: A [[Not Quite Dead]] Sherlock sneaks into the room where Watson is typing the story of their adventure and types a question mark at the end of THE END at the end of the movie.}}
* [[Everyone Knows Morse]]: Watson apparently, as Holmes has him send a telegram. Justified in that Watson was a serviceman.
* [[
* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: This is the deciding factor in the {{spoiler|'duel' between Holmes and Moriarty at the end; Moriarty thinks, like Holmes, that he is guaranteed to win the fight because of Holmes' injury, but he fails to take into account the idea of Holmes [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrificing himself]] to [[Taking You With Me|kill Moriarty]]. Holmes even explicitly says that he'd be willing to do a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] if it completely assured Moriarty's destruction as well, and Moriarty still doesn't factor it in.}}
** {{spoiler|Or maybe he did and we will find out in the next movie.}}
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* [[How Dare You Die On Me]]: {{spoiler|Watson to Holmes.}}
* [[I Have Your Wife|I Have Your Wife And Kids]]: Moriarty uses this to force the leader of the anarchists to follow his orders, including {{spoiler|shooting himself in the head.}}
** This is basically how Watson gets involved in the plot. Holmes tells Moriarty that Watson is not part of the game, Moriarty announces his plans to [[And Your Little Dog, Too|kill Watson and Mary anyway]]. It is averted, however: Moriarty '''expected''' Holmes to rescue Mary and John, it was one of many diversions the Professor planned to keep Holmes, the only man who could stop him, busy.
* [[I Call Her "Vera"]]: [[BFG|Little Hansel]]
* [[It Got Worse]]: Near the end of the film, {{spoiler|while Holmes and Moriarty fight in their minds, Holmes starts by noting that Moriarty has a serious advantage from Holmes' disabled arm. Shortly thereafter, he thinks something we have never hear him say the like of in any fight in the two films: "Arsenal running low." Moriarty "kills" him seconds later. He is both physically and mentally incapable of beating Moriarty in hand-to-hand, and they both know Moriarty's going to try to kill him.}}
* [[
* [[Just Between You and Me]]
* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Moran slips away after killing Sim's brother.}} This is consistent with "The Final Problem," as {{spoiler|Moran still being at large was the main reason Holmes had to fake his death}}.
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* [[Neat Freak]]: Mycroft is implied to be this. Doesn't like to shake hands, barely goes anywhere other than his home and office, carries [[Chekhov's Gun|a personal supply of oxygen]]... even his habit of walking around his house naked could be a reference to [[Super OCD]] sufferer [[The Aviator|Howard Hughes]].
* [[Never Found the Body]]: {{spoiler|Holmes and Moriarty. In the case of Holmes, he is revealed to be alive at the end of the film.}}
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: When Holmes, Watson, and the gypsies are trapped in a weapons factory and pinned down, the guards try to take them out with an artillery cannon. However, they miss and only succeed in blowing a hole in the wall, giving our heroes a quick escape route.
* [[No Holds Barred Beatdown]]: {{spoiler|Even though it never actually takes place except in Holmes' and Moriarty's minds,}} the final confrontation definitely qualifies. It's not so much a fistfight as an excuse for {{spoiler|Moriarty to repeatedly and brutally whale on Holmes' wounded shoulder}}.
* [[No Kill Like Overkill]]: {{spoiler|Moriarty arranges a bombing in a banquet hall at the Hotel de Triomphe to conceal the assassination by sniper of one of the celebrants. The bomb alone would surely have been sufficient to kill him all on its own.}}
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* [[Politically Correct History]]: Holmes and Watson share a dance together and nobody bats an eyelash - despite homosexuality being illegal at the time.
** They do manage a few odd looks from some older gentlemen behind them, but nothing else.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Both Holmes and Moriarty, despite being on opposite sides of the law, are men of brightest intelligence, courage and ruthlessness - while at the same time Moriarty (the evil conspirator) is the man of science, technology, progress, strict and merciless organization of everything that moves under his hand (having ''Germans'' as [[Germanic Efficiency|the most trusted workers]] and bodyguards no less). Holmes (despite being the man of the law) is the one who doesn't give a damn on the prejudices of the time, even allying himself with Gypsies (living personification of [[Wrong Side of the Tracks|whatever is disorderly on the Earth]]) out of all people.
* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: A meta example. The car Holmes uses is 'so overt its covert'.
* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: {{spoiler|Irene. Think about how capable she was in the first movie, and how easily Moriarty has her killed in this one.}}
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* [[War Is Hell]]: The chase sequence in Germany seems to evoke this trope, giving a taste of what Moriarty's new weapons would do to Europe.
* [[We Have Ways of Making You Talk]]: Holmes being interrogated by Moriarty.
* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: {{spoiler|Colonel Moran shoots Rene with a curare dart, then leaves the party. As far as the viewer knows, he gets away.}} Instead, he is saved as a [[Sequel Hook]].
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Holmes, to get in the train. (The original script had him as a priest, as in the original short story, but Downey Jr. asked to change for crossdressing as it was funnier.)
* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Moriarty takes this trope to its logical extreme, torturing Holmes while listening to and singing along with Schubert on a phonograph. Moran also says he really wanted to see ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' himself.
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