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** For some reason there's a train of thought in parts of the fandom that either Sherlock or Watson (most commonly the former) are Female-to-Male [[Transsexualism]]'s.
** Many adaptions talking about Sherlocks family-life (''[[Young Sherlock Holmes]]'', ''The Seven Percent Solution'', ''[[Sherlock]]'' seems to be oddly agreed on the fact that a young Sherlock Holmes deduced that his father was having an affair, told his mother and ened up ruining the family.
** For some reason, Holmes/Watson is so widespread, it's often mistaken for actual [[Canon]] by fandom newbies. Adaptations don't help. Is considered [[Serious Business]] by some fans to the point [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20130601095316/http://nekosmuse.com/sherlockholmes/subtext.htm essays are written about the "subtext"]. (In series where "ejaculation" means "sudden exclamation" and nothing else, at that.)
** Watson's appearance is never described beyond being "brown as a nut and thin as a lath" in ''A Study in Scarlet'', and ''that'' after having just returned from severe illness abroad. Nowadays, though, it's generally accepted that he was blond - helped along, perhaps, by David Burke of [[Sherlock Holmes (TV series)|the Granada series]] and Vitaly Solomin of the Russian series, not to mention Jude Law and [[Martin Freeman]].
** Another piece of [[Fanon]] that's spreading is the given name "Geoffrey" for Inspector ''G.'' Lestrade. This originated with [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1460858/aragonite Marcia Wilson] and has been picked up by an unknown number of fans, including [[Deliver Us from Evil Series|Aleine Skyfire]] and [[A Study in Regret|Riandra]].
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