Professor Moriarty (books)
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| " | I am quite sure that a man of your intelligence will see that there can be but one outcome to this affair. It is necessary that you should withdraw. You have worked things in such a fashion that we have only one resource left. It has been an intellectual treat to me to see the way in which you have grappled with this affair, and I say, unaffectedly, that it would be a grief to me to be forced to take any extreme measure. You smile, sir, but I assure you that it really would. — James Moriarty to Sherlock Holmes |
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Professor James Moriarty, usually simply nickamed Professor Moriarty, was a fictional character of original Sherlock Holmes book series, main adversary of Sherlock Holmes in the short-story "The Adventure of the Final Problem", published in December, 1893. Moriarty was also the unseen threat in Sherlock Holmes final book, The Valley of Fear, published between September 1914 and May 1915 in the Strand Magazine.
He was a mathematician teacher, polymath and author, secretly a criminal mastermind who offered services for various crimes to the London underworld as well as the boss of former soldier, hunter and enforcer Sebastian Moran. A brilliant mind yet contamined by criminal provisions, Moriarty has come to propose organising the London underworld into a powerful and wonderfully disciplined force, working their schemes and protecting them from the law; his motivations being both intellectually challenging and purely financial. However, his activities, despite their most secretive nature, aroused the interest of consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, who set about patiently and painstakingly destroying his criminal web, and forcing the professor to engage in a silent intellectual duel at a distance with his enemy. Their struggle, despite Moriarty's attempts and threats against Holmes, moved to Switzerland, where the professor met his end by trying to end the detective's life with his bare hands at Reichenbach Falls.
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Early life[edit]
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Clash with Sherlock Holmes[edit]
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Anthony Horrowitz' sequel book[edit]
- Main article: Professor Moriarty (Anthony Horrowitz' sequel book)
Personnality[edit]
While few to his personality was revealed, he was showed that Moriarty was an highly ruthless yet hidden in the shadows crime lord, organizing many crimes from afar and ready to do anything to guarantee his own security and the maintenance of his empire. It was also revealed that his purpose in establishing his activities was both intellectual stimulation and the more material desire for money, being apparently quite poor despite his status as a recognized academician; this could be a lie however, as Sherlock was revealed that although he came from an excellent family, he had a charged heredity and already well-established criminal instincts, this coupled with his unfortunate reputation at university due to unknown incidents. Moriarty has also been shown to be quite impulsive and vengeful, becoming angry at narrowly missing Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson at the train station and chasing them to Switzerland.
Abilities[edit]
Intelligence[edit]
| " | He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. — Sherlock Holmes about Moriarty [1] |
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Tactical skils[edit]
| " | The greatest schemer of all time, the organizer of every deviltry, the controlling brain of the underworld, a brain which might have made or marred the destiny of nations—that’s the man! — Sherlock Holmes about Moriarty [2] |
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Networking[edit]
| " | He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. — Sherlock Holmes about Moriarty [1] |
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Mathematical skills and polymathism[edit]
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Fighting abilities[edit]
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Quotes[edit]
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