The Ghost Map: Difference between revisions

* [[The Dragon]]: Yorick.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified.]] {{spoiler|Moran wants ''that'' badly for Holmes to die.}}

* [[Five-Man Band]]:

** [[The Leader]] (Type I): Holmes, obviously.

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Holmes is subjected to this, and it pretty much works.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Even when Wiggins knows he's contracted the disease, he waits to go to Watson until he has the information Holmes needed.}}

* [[Ironic Echo]]: {{spoiler|Moran confronts Holmes in Camden House, where Lestrade arrested Moran some time ago - this time, the game is Moran's. Holmes acknowledges the irony.}}

* [[It's Personal]]: When {{spoiler|Wiggins dies of cholera,}} Holmes bows out of the investigation, saying that he wants to speak with the criminal responsible once the police have found him. The narration even comes close to invoking this trope, following up with: ''And no one should be able to harm the ones who were closest to him. Not without paying for it with their own life.''

* [[Inspector Lestrade]]: Inverted. Lestrade proves himself to be quite competent, {{spoiler|arresting the [[Mook]] responsible for spreading the disease}}.

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: Holmes ''knows'' that there's a [[Big Bad]] backing the [[Serial Killer]]. [[Captain Obvious|Of course, he's right.]]

* [[Never Suicide]]: Enforced cocaine overdose intended to ''look'' like suicide.

* [[Not Quite Dead]]: {{spoiler|Moriarty has apparently survived the Reichenbach Falls.}}

* [[Police Are Useless]]: Played with. Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars do the actual fact-finding up to [[Heroic Sacrifice|a point]], but Holmes refuses to go beyond that and allows the Yard to take over.

* [[The Power of Friendship]]: One of the [[Motif|motifs]] of the fic, if not possibly its [[Central Theme]].

* [[Serial Killer]]: Invoked - one of the fic's little anachronisms.

* [[Sequel Hook]]: The {{spoiler|Moriarty}} scene at the very end of the fic.

* [[Tranquil Fury]]: In contrast to facing his [[Serial Killer]], Holmes experiences this when {{spoiler|[[Complete Monster|Moran]] threatens his friends.}}

* [[True Companions]]: Holmes, Watson, Mary, and Lestrade.

 

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