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| " | With me. Back on the streets. Every fairy tale needs a good old fashioned villain. You need me, or you’re nothing. Because we’re just alike, you and I. Except you’re boring. You’re on the side of the angels. — Moriarty to Sherlock [3] |
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Jim Moriarty is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the BBC TV series Sherlock. He is a criminal mastermind and the sole and only criminal consultant at world, much like his nemesis Sherlock Holmes was the only detective consultant at world.
A powerful and mysterious criminal greatly feared in criminal underworld, Jim Moriarty offered services to execute various crimes, varying to bombings, assassinats or scam. Having starting to crime with the assassinat to schoolar Carl Powers in 1989, he then became at adulthood a self-proclaimed fan of Sherlock Holmes, who he confronted various time until he shoot himself in the mouth in the within his final scheme to destroy Sherlock and push him to suicid. However, he returned from the grave several times for continuing to tourmenting Sherlock, notably in the machination of Eurus Holmes, the sister of his nemesis.
Biography
Early life
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Engaging Jeff Hope
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Helping the Black Lotus Gang
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The game
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Advising Irene Adler
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Captured
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Final showdown
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Legacy
In 19th Century
- Main article: James Moriarty (19th Century)
Mind palace
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The final problem
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Personnality
| " | People have died." "That’s what people DO! — Moriarty to Sherlock [1] |
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Moriarty was a textbook psychopath, with extreme disdain for life, even his, and similar hatred for boredrom and excentric behavior than his nemesis, Sherlock Holmes. In contrast to him, however, Moriarty kept himself busy by committing numerous crimes without the slightest remorse and without any thought for the lifes he was taking, going so far as to tell Sherlock that dying was what people did. [1] His intolerance of boredom, unlike Sherlock's, went even further: he considered life itself boring, and was prepared to sacrifice his own life if he could do more harm by being dead, [3] as his ally Eurus Holmes noted. [4] He also had no interest in the lives of others or himself, even choosing to kill his ally General Shan to guarantee his own safety [5] and reacting to life-threatening situations only with humor. [1][3]
When interacting with people, Moriarty adopted a humorous, cool and detached demeanour, even with people he considered a great threat, which is perfectly shown at the trial when he nonchalantly chews gum and makes a few humorous faces or in his final confrontation with Sherlock, where he briefly adopts an almost clownish behaviour to mock his intelligence. [1] During his time at Sherrinford, he also joked about cannibals locked here and pretended to have written his own, darker version of Nativity. [4] However, he was also known to move extremely quickly from joy to anger and back again, as shown during interactions with Sherlock at the swimming pool [1] or on the roof of Saint Barts. [3] Due to his brilliance, Moriarty displayed virtually identical arrogance than Sherlock, even if he was very careful in his work. He noted that no one would ever be able to reach him, not even Sherlock. [1]
Moriarty was shown to be enjoying pop music which he listened on his iPod, listening "I Want to Break Free" when visiting Mycroft at Sherrinford [4] and attacking London Tower, and "Stayin' Alive" when waiting for Sherlock at the roof of Barts. [3]
Abilities
| " | People like him, we know about them. We watch them. But James Moriarty…. The most dangerous criminal mind the world has ever seen. — Mycroft about Moriarty [3] |
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- Genius-level intelligence: Moriarty is a tremendously clever man even since his childhood, with levels of intellect rivalising with his nemesis Sherlock Holmes. Among facts, he was able to kill his fellow Carl Powers using extremely subtle method as a child, [1] set up a extended and vastly powerful criminal network while efficently staying in shadows himself, and almost drive his nemesis to suicide with a very well thought and brilliant plan, only being twarted at the last second. He was also a well-read man, quoting an anecdote about Johann Sebastian Bach as well referencing a verset of "Humpty Dumpty" rhyme.
- Master tactician: Moriarty' main asset as a criminal consultant was his exceptional tactical mastery. His immense and virtually unparalled skill allowed him to create and maintain an immense international criminal network, so effective that even the exceptionally clever detective Sherlock Sholmes was unable to destroy it from within for two years, [6] and that even the second greatest mind on the planet, Mycroft Holmes, was completely unable to find the slightest evidence incriminating him and was therefore reluctantly forced to let him go free. [4] Among his exploits a criminal consultant, Moriarty was responsible for the series of murders of Jeff Hope by promising him money for every murder he committed; [7] for bringing the Black Lotus Gang to Britain by providing them with cover as circus performers; [5] for the murders of Alex Woodbridge, Professor Cairns and Connie Prince; for the forgery of a painting as an elaborate scam; and for the fake death of a businessman in a near-perfect hidden scam. [1] Moriarty was also extradordinary skilled in outsmarting people, first countering his arch-enemy Sherlock Holmes when the latter asked him to meet him at the swimming pool where Carl Powers died, by taking John Watson hostage and protecting himself with a sniper; [1] but above all, the main exemple is when he implemented a brilliant plan to make Sherlock look like an impostor, using, according to Sherlock, a double of him to frighten the children the detective had just saved and to make the police doubt his involvement, also using a false identity and fake photos to make his story more believable; the final phase being Sherlock's suicide in disgrace, which he intended to force by threatening his friends with death and the only way to stop him being his angel jump from the roof of St. Barts Hospital, his plan only failing thanks to prior and careful preparation by Sherlock and Mycroft. [3]
| " | Did you almost start to wonder if I was real? Did I nearly get ya? — Moriarty to Sherlock [3] |
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- Master deceiver: To be added
| " | Moriarty is playing with your mind too. Can’t you see what’s going on! — Sherlock to Watson [3] |
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- Master manipulator: To be added
| " | James Moriarty isn’t a man at all. He’s a spider. A spider at the center of a web. A criminal web with a thousand threads and he knows precisely how each and every single one of them dances. — Sherlock about Moriarty [3] |
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- Master networker: To be added
- Fighting prowess (possibly): When imaginating Moriarty inside his mind palace in the 19th Century, Sherlock imaginated Moriarty nearly besting him in unarmed fight, implying the real Moriarty has at least some fighting prowess. [8]
Relations
Sherlock Holmes
| " | She has noted your interest in the activities of my little brother. — Mycroft Holmes to Moriarty |
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Quotes
- See: Jim Moriarty/Quotes
Gallery
- See: Jim Moriarty/Gallery
Références
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Series 1, episode 3: "The Great Game"
- ↑ Series 2, episode 1: "A Scandal in Belgravia"
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Series 2, episode 3: "The Reichenbach Fall"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Series 4, episode 3: "The Final Problem"
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Series 1, episode 2: "The Blind Banker"
- ↑ Series 3, episode 1: "The Empty Hearse"
- ↑ Series 1, episode 1: "A Study in Pink"
- ↑ "The Abominable Bride"
