Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock)

From Sherlock Holmes Encyclopaedia

" I’m not a psychopath, Anderson. I’m a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.
— Sherlock Holmes to Anderson [1]
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William Sherlock Scott Holmes, most commonly known with his middle name Sherlock Holmes, is a worldwide private investigator, the first and only consulting detective in the world and the brother of agent of brittanic government Mycroft Holmes, and Eurus Holmes. He is also the best friend and best man of army doctor John Watson and the godfather of John and Mary Morstan' daughter Rosamund Mary Watson.

Spending his childhood in Musgrave Hall at the family house alongside his parents and his siblings Mycroft and Eurus, he faced the death of his best friend Victor Trevor caused by his psychopathic and jealous sister, causing him to entirely suppressing his thoughts of her at act of defense and rewriting his memories into changing his friend into the dog Redbeard. Some time after, when only a toddler, he debuted interest in criminal cases with the death of the schoolar Carl Powers, finally inventing and excersing the only profession of consulting detective in the world in helping police as independant or taking cases from clients in his appartment. Sherlock' repeted success finally made him worldwide famous and a popular Internet figure, also attiring attention of criminal genius Jim Moriarty who labelled himself as his "fan" and confronted him numerous time by sheer borerom and obssession for him, finally leading him to fake his death and disappear for two years in intent of destroy restant operations of Moriarty.

Finally making his return in the world as well in John's life, he managed to discover the real identity of John' wife Mary Morstan as a former international mercenary, and testimoned to John' forgiveness toward her. After accidentelly caused Mary' death in trying to protect her, he after discovered the existence of his psychopathic sister Eurus and the truth about the death of his childhood friend Victor Trevor after confronted her at Sherrinford, and was finaly able to repair a little his relationship with her.

Biography

Early life

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The serial suicides case

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Help for Seb Wilkes

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Moriarty' game

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Confrontation with Irene Adler

The Hounds case

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Moriarty' final showdown

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Interlude

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Return and attentat on London

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John' wedding

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War against Charles Augustus Magnussen

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Protecting Mary

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Campaign against Culverton Smith

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Family confrontation

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Personnality

" My brother has the brain of a scientist or a philosopher, yet he elects to be a detective. What might we deduce about his heart?
— Mycroft about Sherlock
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Abilities

" Nobody could be that clever."
"You could.

— Sherlock and John Watson
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  • Genius-level intelligence: Like his siblings, Sherlock Holmes holds genius intelligence, making him one of the smartest people of the planet. His intelligence primarly allowed him to work as one of the best private investigators, if not the best, with worldwide reputation, often using combinaison of extremely keen observations and deductions, deceptions and tactics for find and catch criminal and/or resolve cases. Despite his tremendous intellectual prowess however, his intelligence was not at the same level than his siblings as well as Charles Augustus Magnussen, Mycroft deeming him as "slow" compared to him and Eurus and Magnussen easily outsmarting him without even trying.
" He could look at you and tell your whole life story."
"Yes, I've seen him do it."
"Put the wind up everybody, we hated it. We'd come down to breakfast in the formal hall and this freak would know you'd been shagging the previous night."
"I simply observed.

— Seb Wilkes, John Watson and Sherlock Holmes
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Sherlock' on-the-fly multiple deductions on a man
    • Master investigator: Sherlock was a extremely perceptive and skilled investigator, possibly the best in the world. He used combinaison of extremely keen observations and deductions for resolve various complex and nebulous cases, even managing to solve all the investigations assigned by Moriarty as part of his game, and resolve many minor cases in few minuts or seconds as waiting for Moriarty possible return. Among his notable feats, he was able to deduce in seconds that John Watson, he first met, was a army doctor returned from Afghanistan as the alcolohism of his sister simply in obsersing him and his phone; deduce Jeff Hope' familial situation, his motivations as well his disease; deducing most of the way of agissments of the Black Lotus Gang; win the game of Moriarty in resolving all the cases he sent to him, including murders of Carl Powers in the 1980s, as well as Connie Prince and Alex Woodbridge's; resolving the mystery of the flight 007; resolving the mystery of the Hounds of Baskerville; deduce most of Moriarty plan during their final confrontation;
" It would take Sherlock Holmes to fool me, and I don’t think he was on hand, do you?
— Mycroft about Sherlock
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    • Master deceiver: Sherlock was a extremely skilled deceiver, which was also one of his main assets. He was able to fool Jeff Hope using phone of one of his victims, making her appearing to be still alive, [1] trick a woman in inciting her to reveal informations on her husband' personnality against her will [2] and trying to fool Irene Adler in using a fake phone as a replica of her's for trying to get her code, which however failed. [3] He also tricked Culverton Smith into make him confessing his crimes both in using enregistrement devices hidden in the cane Watson gave to him earlier and make him believe he was going to die, even going so far to hide three less well-hidden other devices in himself for make the businessman lowering his guard. [4] Mycroft even deemed him as one of the few people able to trick him, which seemingly worked as he managed to hide him the survival of Irene Adler. [3]
    • Master tactician: To be added
" You’re a graduate chemist. Can’t you just work it out?
— Molly Hopper to Sherlock
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    • Master chemist: To be added
    • Master mathematician: To be added
    • Expert hacker: At one occasion, Sherlock was able to hack all the phones at a police presse conférence for affiching the word "WRONG" in the screens. [1] However, he rarely used this competence, instead using his deduction skills for find passwords of people. [1][5]
    • Multilinguism: To be added
" I play the violin when I’m thinking.
— Sherlock to John Watson [1]
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  • Master violonist: To be added
Sherlock fighting Ajay
  • Expert combattant: To be added
  • Expert spy: To be added

Relationship

John Watson

" I don’t have friends, I’ve just got one.
— Sherlock to John Watson
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Mycroft Holmes

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Ms. Hudson

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Greg Lestrade

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Eurus Holmes

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Quotes

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Gallery

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Series 1, episode 1: "A Study in Pink"
  2. Series 1, episode 3: "The Great Game"
  3. 3.0 3.1 Series 2, episode 1: "A Scandal in Belgravia"
  4. Series 4, episode 2: "The Lying Detective"
  5. Series 2, episode 2: "The Hounds of Baskerville"