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* [[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.
** It bears mentioning if you pay very careful attention to the beginning of ''The Final Problem'', Holmes makes a reference to the villain who he would cross wits with directly in the story that is this trope, meaning Doyle set up a plot thread that let him invoke this trope later if he absolutely had to.
* [[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.
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* [[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!]]
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