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** While speaking to Moriarty in the factory, Holmes says, "My horror at your crimes is matched only by admiration at the skill it took to achieve them." In "The Final Problem," Holmes says of Moriarty, "My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill."
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** Holmes' boxing matches and martial prowess are a reference to ''The Sign of Four'', in which a ''former boxing champion of England'' recognizes Holmes as an amateur who held his own against him a few years back. Additionally, both the boxer in the book and the one in the film are named [=McMurdo=].
** Likewise, in "The Adventure of the Yellow Face," Watson calls Holmes the finest boxer of his weight he has ever seen.
** Likewise, in "The Adventure of the Yellow Face," Watson calls Holmes the finest boxer of his weight he has ever seen.
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** When Holmes is demonstrating his abilities to Mary in the restaurant, he describes Watson as "a decorated soldier: strong, brave, born to be a man of action." This is similar to a line from ''The Hound of The Baskervilles'', when Holmes says "My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic."
** Holmes' boxing matches and martial prowess are a reference to ''The Sign of Four'', in which a ''former boxing champion of England'' recognizes Holmes as an amateur who held his own against him a few years back.Additionally, both And if you pay attention to the credits, the boxer he defeats in the book and film is named [=McMurdo=] - the same as the one in the film are named [=McMurdo=].
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*** Likewise, in "The Adventure of the Yellow Face," Watson calls Holmes the finest boxer of his weight he has ever seen.
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** His asking Holmes whether he has actually read the book may be a subtle one as well -- in the stories, the monograph was so advanced that no scientist could understand it well enough to critique it. Especially considering that in ''A Study in Scarlet'', Watson makes a length of Holmes's strengths and weaknesses, noting that the detective knows absolutely nothing about astronomy.
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** His asking Holmes whether he has actually read the book may be a subtle one as well -- in the stories, the monograph was so advanced that no scientist could understand it well enough to critique it. Especially considering that in ''A Study in Scarlet'', Watson makes a length list of Holmes's strengths and weaknesses, noting that the detective knows absolutely nothing about astronomy.
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** His asking Holmes whether he has actually read the book may be a subtle one as well -- in the stories, the monograph was so advanced that no scientist could understand it well enough to critique it. Especially considering that in "A Study in Scarlet," Watson makes a length of Holmes's strengths and weaknesses, noting that the detective knows absolutely nothing about astronomy.
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** His asking Holmes whether he has actually read the book may be a subtle one as well -- in the stories, the monograph was so advanced that no scientist could understand it well enough to critique it. Especially considering that in "A ''A Study in Scarlet," Scarlet'', Watson makes a length of Holmes's strengths and weaknesses, noting that the detective knows absolutely nothing about astronomy.
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* MythologyGag: Many to the original [[SherlockHolmes canon]], from re-appropriated lines, to Watson limping, Holmes’ skill with disguises.
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** Holmes' boxing matches and martial prowess are a reference to ''Sign of Four'', in which a ''former boxing champion of England'' recognizes Holmes as an amateur who held his own against him a few years back. Additionally, both the boxer in the book and the one in the film are named McMurdo.
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** Holmes' boxing matches and martial prowess are a reference to ''Sign ''The Sign of Four'', in which a ''former boxing champion of England'' recognizes Holmes as an amateur who held his own against him a few years back. Additionally, both the boxer in the book and the one in the film are named McMurdo.[=McMurdo=].
** Likewise, in "The Adventure of the Yellow Face," Watson calls Holmes the finest boxer of his weight he has ever seen.
** Likewise, in "The Adventure of the Yellow Face," Watson calls Holmes the finest boxer of his weight he has ever seen.
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** Moriarty's monograph ''Dynamics of an Asteroid'' (from "The Valley of Fear’’) makes a couple of prominent appearances in ''Game of Shadows''.
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** The postcard from Holmes to Watson outside the weapons factory, "Come at once if convenient" and subsequently "If inconvenient, come all the same" is from the original Doyle story ''The Adventure of the Creeping Man''.
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* MythologyGag: Many to the original [[SherlockHolmes canon]], from re-appropriated lines, to Watson limping, Holmes’ skill with disguises.
**Although it’s never specifically mentioned, there are one or two sly references to Holmes’ canonical cocaine use.
-->'''Watson:''' You realize what you're drinking is intended for eye surgery?
--> ‘’’Mrs. Hudson [from the second film]:’’’ He’s been subsisting on a diet of tea, tobacco and coca leaves.
** Holmes looking up at the ceiling or absentmindedly plucking on the violin when deep in thought are habits described in the stories.
** The headline "Sherlock Holmes Aides Police," from the beginning of the first film, is a shout-out to the several instances in the books where Lestrade or another officer gets the credit for a crime Holmes solves.
** Holmes shooting the initials "V.R." into the wall is mentioned in "The Musgrave Ritual" as his idea of patriotic decorating.
** Conan Doyle described Holmes' fits of melancholy when he didn’t have a case, and many have speculated that the detective was bipolar. Holmes seemed a little unbalanced at the beginning -- "Is it November?" -- although this was mostly played for laughs.
** Watson's bulldog is canonical but little-known, being mentioned once in the first chapter of the first Sherlock Holmes story, ''A Study in Scarlet'', and then never again (among those fans who remember the dog at all, it's often assumed that Watson sold it or gave it away shortly after moving in with Holmes). The running joke about Holmes testing anaesthetics on the dog is also inspired by a scene in ''A Study in Scarlet'', although that involved a different dog, an aged and infirm terrier that was waiting to be put out of its misery when Holmes appropriated it to test a substance he suspected of being poisonous.
** Holmes' boxing matches and martial prowess are a reference to ''Sign of Four'', in which a ''former boxing champion of England'' recognizes Holmes as an amateur who held his own against him a few years back. Additionally, both the boxer in the book and the one in the film are named McMurdo.
** The film incorporates Holmes' line about keeping Watson's checkbook locked in his desk (from “The Adventure of the Dancing Men”) and adopts the interpretation drawn from that and other hints that Watson had a weakness for gambling.
** Holmes's reference to ''Don Giovanni'' is another reference to Fanon. Irene Adler was a contralto opera singer in "A Scandal in Bohemia", and some fans believe that Holmes frequented the opera in hopes of seeing her.
** When she visits him, Irene cuts Holmes off before he can finish mentioning the details of "A Scandal in Bohemia".
** Likewise, her photograph, which Holmes asked the King of Bohemia to give him as a souvenir, is seen.
** The comments Watson makes about Scotland Yard's rugby match are a reference to ''A Study In Scarlet'', where Holmes compares the officers to a herd of bison.
** The talk about how you could tell that a watch’s owner was a heavy drinker is from ''The Sign of Four'', although it was in a different context.
** Mycroft Holmes is mentioned in the first film; in the second he's a participating character.
** Watson's [[spoiler:injury]] was a ShoutOut to Doyle's indecision about whether the bullet hit the shoulder or the leg. Fanon has different theories as to which, with both being a popular choice.
** Mary quotes Watson as saying that his friendship with Holmes is "worth the wounds". Watson, in his narration of "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs", expresses a similar sentiment in similar words: "It was worth a wound - it was worth many wounds - to see [how much Holmes cares about him]".
** The line "It does make a considerable difference to me having someone with me on whom I can thoroughly rely", which was given prominence in most of the trailers, is lifted wholesale from "The Boscombe Valley Mystery". The line, "There's nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," is from the same story.
** "Data, data, data! I can't make bricks without clay!" is similarly filched from "The Copper Beeches".
** In a similar vein, "My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work..." is from ''The Sign of Four.''
** And "You have the grand gift of silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion." from "The Man with the Twisted Lip". [[ShownTheirWork Someone had fun.]]
** Near the end of the first movie, Mary Morstan sees all of Watson's journals about his and Sherlock's adventures, and says she'd like to read them. This, of course, is a reference to how almost all the Sherlock Holmes stories are told by Watson.
** Similarly, the second movie is [[BookEnds bookended]] by scenes of Watson frantically typing up the stories. It's implied that [[spoiler: Holmes' death]] pushed him into it; this is in accordance with the real-life publication dates of the first two volumes of Holmes stories, which were all published between 1891 and 1893, when Watson would have [[spoiler: believed his friend was dead.]]
** The Diogenes Club, which Mycroft co-founded in the original canon, is mentioned when Watson deduces that, since Mycroft is not dining there, something serious must have his attention.
** ''A Game of Shadows'' unsurprisingly has quite a few references to "The Final Problem." In particular, several lines of dialogue are lifted directly from the story:
-->'''Moriarty:''' Rest assured. If you attempt to bring destruction down upon me, I shall do the same to you. My respect for you, Mr. Holmes, is the only reason you're still alive.
-->'''Holmes:''' You've paid me several compliments. Let me pay you one in return, when I say that if I were assured of the former eventuality - I would cheerfully accept the latter.
** And, later on:
-->'''Holmes:''' No possible solution could be more congenial to me than this.
** There is a train chase in the original story, though it's SIGNIFICANTLY more...''subdued'' than the one in the film.
** Moriarty's monograph ''Dynamics of an Asteroid'' (from "The Valley of Fear’’) makes a couple of prominent appearances in ''Game of Shadows''.
** His asking Holmes whether he has actually read the book may be a subtle one as well -- in the stories, the monograph was so advanced that no scientist could understand it well enough to critique it. Especially considering that in "A Study in Scarlet," Watson makes a length of Holmes's strengths and weaknesses, noting that the detective knows absolutely nothing about astronomy.
** The binomial theorem features on Moriarty's blackboard and [[spoiler: as part of the key to the code in his notebook]]. In the books, his treatise on the binomial theorem, written at the age of 21, was the thing that won him his professor's chair.
** The postcard from Holmes to Watson outside the weapons factory, "Come at once if convenient" and subsequently "If inconvenient, come all the same" is from the original Doyle story ''The Adventure of the Creeping Man''.
** Some street urchins are present at Holmes' [[spoiler: funeral]] at the end of the second movie. The Baker Street Irregulars, perhaps?
** The fake wax dummy of Holmes and the fact that [[spoiler: Moran is still at large at the end]] seem to be setting up "The Adventure of the Empty House".
** The description of Holmes near the end of the second film, "He played the game for the game's own sake", is what Holmes says of himself in "The Bruce-Partington Plans" when it's suggested he might get a big reward for solving the mystery.
**Although it’s never specifically mentioned, there are one or two sly references to Holmes’ canonical cocaine use.
-->'''Watson:''' You realize what you're drinking is intended for eye surgery?
--> ‘’’Mrs. Hudson [from the second film]:’’’ He’s been subsisting on a diet of tea, tobacco and coca leaves.
** Holmes looking up at the ceiling or absentmindedly plucking on the violin when deep in thought are habits described in the stories.
** The headline "Sherlock Holmes Aides Police," from the beginning of the first film, is a shout-out to the several instances in the books where Lestrade or another officer gets the credit for a crime Holmes solves.
** Holmes shooting the initials "V.R." into the wall is mentioned in "The Musgrave Ritual" as his idea of patriotic decorating.
** Conan Doyle described Holmes' fits of melancholy when he didn’t have a case, and many have speculated that the detective was bipolar. Holmes seemed a little unbalanced at the beginning -- "Is it November?" -- although this was mostly played for laughs.
** Watson's bulldog is canonical but little-known, being mentioned once in the first chapter of the first Sherlock Holmes story, ''A Study in Scarlet'', and then never again (among those fans who remember the dog at all, it's often assumed that Watson sold it or gave it away shortly after moving in with Holmes). The running joke about Holmes testing anaesthetics on the dog is also inspired by a scene in ''A Study in Scarlet'', although that involved a different dog, an aged and infirm terrier that was waiting to be put out of its misery when Holmes appropriated it to test a substance he suspected of being poisonous.
** Holmes' boxing matches and martial prowess are a reference to ''Sign of Four'', in which a ''former boxing champion of England'' recognizes Holmes as an amateur who held his own against him a few years back. Additionally, both the boxer in the book and the one in the film are named McMurdo.
** The film incorporates Holmes' line about keeping Watson's checkbook locked in his desk (from “The Adventure of the Dancing Men”) and adopts the interpretation drawn from that and other hints that Watson had a weakness for gambling.
** Holmes's reference to ''Don Giovanni'' is another reference to Fanon. Irene Adler was a contralto opera singer in "A Scandal in Bohemia", and some fans believe that Holmes frequented the opera in hopes of seeing her.
** When she visits him, Irene cuts Holmes off before he can finish mentioning the details of "A Scandal in Bohemia".
** Likewise, her photograph, which Holmes asked the King of Bohemia to give him as a souvenir, is seen.
** The comments Watson makes about Scotland Yard's rugby match are a reference to ''A Study In Scarlet'', where Holmes compares the officers to a herd of bison.
** The talk about how you could tell that a watch’s owner was a heavy drinker is from ''The Sign of Four'', although it was in a different context.
** Mycroft Holmes is mentioned in the first film; in the second he's a participating character.
** Watson's [[spoiler:injury]] was a ShoutOut to Doyle's indecision about whether the bullet hit the shoulder or the leg. Fanon has different theories as to which, with both being a popular choice.
** Mary quotes Watson as saying that his friendship with Holmes is "worth the wounds". Watson, in his narration of "The Adventure of the Three Garridebs", expresses a similar sentiment in similar words: "It was worth a wound - it was worth many wounds - to see [how much Holmes cares about him]".
** The line "It does make a considerable difference to me having someone with me on whom I can thoroughly rely", which was given prominence in most of the trailers, is lifted wholesale from "The Boscombe Valley Mystery". The line, "There's nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," is from the same story.
** "Data, data, data! I can't make bricks without clay!" is similarly filched from "The Copper Beeches".
** In a similar vein, "My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work..." is from ''The Sign of Four.''
** And "You have the grand gift of silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion." from "The Man with the Twisted Lip". [[ShownTheirWork Someone had fun.]]
** Near the end of the first movie, Mary Morstan sees all of Watson's journals about his and Sherlock's adventures, and says she'd like to read them. This, of course, is a reference to how almost all the Sherlock Holmes stories are told by Watson.
** Similarly, the second movie is [[BookEnds bookended]] by scenes of Watson frantically typing up the stories. It's implied that [[spoiler: Holmes' death]] pushed him into it; this is in accordance with the real-life publication dates of the first two volumes of Holmes stories, which were all published between 1891 and 1893, when Watson would have [[spoiler: believed his friend was dead.]]
** The Diogenes Club, which Mycroft co-founded in the original canon, is mentioned when Watson deduces that, since Mycroft is not dining there, something serious must have his attention.
** ''A Game of Shadows'' unsurprisingly has quite a few references to "The Final Problem." In particular, several lines of dialogue are lifted directly from the story:
-->'''Moriarty:''' Rest assured. If you attempt to bring destruction down upon me, I shall do the same to you. My respect for you, Mr. Holmes, is the only reason you're still alive.
-->'''Holmes:''' You've paid me several compliments. Let me pay you one in return, when I say that if I were assured of the former eventuality - I would cheerfully accept the latter.
** And, later on:
-->'''Holmes:''' No possible solution could be more congenial to me than this.
** There is a train chase in the original story, though it's SIGNIFICANTLY more...''subdued'' than the one in the film.
** Moriarty's monograph ''Dynamics of an Asteroid'' (from "The Valley of Fear’’) makes a couple of prominent appearances in ''Game of Shadows''.
** His asking Holmes whether he has actually read the book may be a subtle one as well -- in the stories, the monograph was so advanced that no scientist could understand it well enough to critique it. Especially considering that in "A Study in Scarlet," Watson makes a length of Holmes's strengths and weaknesses, noting that the detective knows absolutely nothing about astronomy.
** The binomial theorem features on Moriarty's blackboard and [[spoiler: as part of the key to the code in his notebook]]. In the books, his treatise on the binomial theorem, written at the age of 21, was the thing that won him his professor's chair.
** The postcard from Holmes to Watson outside the weapons factory, "Come at once if convenient" and subsequently "If inconvenient, come all the same" is from the original Doyle story ''The Adventure of the Creeping Man''.
** Some street urchins are present at Holmes' [[spoiler: funeral]] at the end of the second movie. The Baker Street Irregulars, perhaps?
** The fake wax dummy of Holmes and the fact that [[spoiler: Moran is still at large at the end]] seem to be setting up "The Adventure of the Empty House".
** The description of Holmes near the end of the second film, "He played the game for the game's own sake", is what Holmes says of himself in "The Bruce-Partington Plans" when it's suggested he might get a big reward for solving the mystery.
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** Combined with ContinuityNod, the EstablishingShot of Baker Street is almost ''exactly'' the same shot that opened the Granada Sherlock Holmes series with the seminal Jeremy Brett.
** Combined with ContinuityNod, the EstablishingShot of Baker Street is almost ''exactly'' the same shot that opened the Granada Sherlock Holmes series with the seminal Jeremy Brett.
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ShoutOut: To other Holmes adaptations:
** Combined with ContinuityNod, the EstablishingShot of Baker Street in the first film is almost ''exactly'' the same shot that opened the Granada Sherlock Holmes series with the seminal JeremyBrett.Brett.
** In the second film, take a close look at Moriarty's little red notebook. Then go watch the Granada version of "The Final Problem" - specifically, the scene where Moriarty visits Holmes in Baker Street and consults his notebook about when Holmes first crossed his path.
** When Watson comes to find Holmes after his boxing match in the first movie, Holmes' experiment with his violin and a jar full of flies is a recreation of a similar scene in the Basil Rathbone film ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''.
** "Dredger" bears some resemblance to Rondo Hatton, who played a similar hulking villain in the 1944 Holmes film ''Pearl of Death''.
** The scene where Watson tries to interest Holmes in some seemingly bizarre cases that people have written in to him about, only for Holmes to curtly reveal he's deduced the actually-very-mundane solutions from simply reading the letters, harkens back to a similar scene in Billy Wilder's ''The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes''.
* ShoutOut: To other works:
** A line from Henry V, Act III while leaving the cemetery: Watson: "Follow your spirit..." Holmes *joining*: "And upon this charge, cry God for Harry, England, and St. George!"
*** Of course, the most important part of this quote is the first line: [[ShoutOut "The game's]] [[MythologyGag afoot"...]]
** Combined with ContinuityNod, the EstablishingShot of Baker Street in the first film is almost ''exactly'' the same shot that opened the Granada Sherlock Holmes series with the seminal Jeremy
** In the second film, take a close look at Moriarty's little red notebook. Then go watch the Granada version of "The Final Problem" - specifically, the scene where Moriarty visits Holmes in Baker Street and consults his notebook about when Holmes first crossed his path.
** When Watson comes to find Holmes after his boxing match in the first movie, Holmes' experiment with his violin and a jar full of flies is a recreation of a similar scene in the Basil Rathbone film ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes''.
** "Dredger" bears some resemblance to Rondo Hatton, who played a similar hulking villain in the 1944 Holmes film ''Pearl of Death''.
** The scene where Watson tries to interest Holmes in some seemingly bizarre cases that people have written in to him about, only for Holmes to curtly reveal he's deduced the actually-very-mundane solutions from simply reading the letters, harkens back to a similar scene in Billy Wilder's ''The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes''.
* ShoutOut: To other works:
** A line from Henry V, Act III while leaving the cemetery: Watson: "Follow your spirit..." Holmes *joining*: "And upon this charge, cry God for Harry, England, and St. George!"
*** Of course, the most important part of this quote is the first line: [[ShoutOut "The game's]] [[MythologyGag afoot"...]]
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** "Dredger" bears some resemblance to Rondo Hatton, who played a similar hulking villain in the 1944 Holmes film "Pearl of Death".
** The scene where Watson tries to interest Holmes in some seemingly bizarre cases that people have written in to him about, only for Holmes to curtly reveal he's deduced the actually-very-mundane solutions from simply reading the letters, harkens back to a similar scene in Billy Wilder's '"The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes''.
* ShoutOut: To Shakespeare:
** A line from Henry V, Act III while leaving the cemetery: Watson: "Follow your spirit..." Holmes *joining*: "And upon this charge, cry God for Harry, England, and St. George!"
*** Of course, the most important part of this quote is the first line: [[ShoutOut "The game's]] [[MythologyGag afoot"...]]
** The scene where Watson tries to interest Holmes in some seemingly bizarre cases that people have written in to him about, only for Holmes to curtly reveal he's deduced the actually-very-mundane solutions from simply reading the letters, harkens back to a similar scene in Billy Wilder's '"The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes''.
* ShoutOut: To Shakespeare:
** A line from Henry V, Act III while leaving the cemetery: Watson: "Follow your spirit..." Holmes *joining*: "And upon this charge, cry God for Harry, England, and St. George!"
*** Of course, the most important part of this quote is the first line: [[ShoutOut "The game's]] [[MythologyGag afoot"...]]
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** The scene where Watson tries to interest Holmes in some seemingly bizarre cases that people have written in to him about, only for Holmes to curtly reveal he's deduced the actually-very-mundane solutions from simply reading the letters, harkens back to a similar scene in Billy Wilder's '"The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes''.
* ShoutOut: To Shakespeare:
** A line from Henry V, Act III while leaving the cemetery: Watson: "Follow your spirit..." Holmes *joining*: "And upon this charge, cry God for Harry, England, and St. George!"
*** Of course, the most important part of this quote is the first line: [[ShoutOut "The game's]] [[MythologyGag afoot"...]]
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* DeletedScene: So, Irene never got around to trying to stab Holmes with a hair pin or kneeing him in the... meerschaum, eh? Not to mention not wandering around [[MsFanservice in that saucy corset]]. [[TrailersAlwaysLie No-good, dirty, lyin' trailer]].
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* DeletedScene: So, Irene never got around to trying to stab Holmes with a hair pin or kneeing him in the... meerschaum, eh? Not to mention not wandering around [[MsFanservice in that saucy corset]]. [[TrailersAlwaysLie No-good, dirty, lyin' trailer]].
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** [[IronMan Tony Stark]] and [[SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow Sky Captain]] team up to fight against the nefarious [[RocknRolla Archy]]. [[MeanGirls Regina George]] guest stars.
** [[IronMan Tony Stark]] and [[SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow Sky Captain]] team up to fight against the nefarious [[RocknRolla Archy]]. [[MeanGirls Regina George]] guest stars.
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** [[IronMan Tony Stark]] and [[SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow Sky Captain]] team up to fight against the nefarious [[RocknRolla Archy]].[[MeanGirls [[Film/MeanGirls Regina George]] guest stars.
** [[IronMan Tony Stark]] and [[SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow Sky Captain]] team up to fight against the nefarious [[RocknRolla Archy]].
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* IAmNotSpock: Basil Rathbone became perhaps the most famous actor for his portrayal of Holmes, usually with Nigel Bruce as Watson.
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*** Moriarty is [[Series/MadMen Lane Pryce]].
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*** It was perfect for modern perceptions, but it wasn't historically accurate. Historical British sounded much closer to modern Americans than modern Britons. It mainly revolves around [[http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2047-americans-brits-accents.html rhotic speech]].
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* HilariousInHindsight: Stephen Fry flirted with Hugh Laurie on ABitOfFryAndLaurie. Laurie went on to play {{House}} (who was based very heavily on Holmes), and Stephen Fry went on to play Mycroft. [[{{Squick}} Does that make it incest?]]
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* HilariousInHindsight: Stephen Fry flirted with Hugh Laurie on ABitOfFryAndLaurie. Laurie went on to play {{House}} Series/{{House}} (who was based very heavily on Holmes), and Stephen Fry went on to play Mycroft. [[{{Squick}} Does that make it incest?]]
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*** In the 2010 TheAsylum film, [[{{Torchwood}} Ianto Jones]] is Holmes' faithful friend, biographer, and personal physician.
*** I guess [[TheOffice Tim]] found [[Series/{{Sherlock}} a new job]]. And he [[HitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy may have forgot his towel]], but he [[{{Sherlock}} brought a gun]].
**** Not to mention that his flatmate is [[AmazingGrace Britain's youngest ever Prime Minister]] and a [[TheLastEnemy ground-breaking mathematician (fictional)]] and a [[StephenHawking ground-breaking physicist (biographical)]].
*** I guess [[TheOffice Tim]] found [[Series/{{Sherlock}} a new job]]. And he [[HitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy may have forgot his towel]], but he [[{{Sherlock}} brought a gun]].
**** Not to mention that his flatmate is [[AmazingGrace Britain's youngest ever Prime Minister]] and a [[TheLastEnemy ground-breaking mathematician (fictional)]] and a [[StephenHawking ground-breaking physicist (biographical)]].
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*** In the 2010 TheAsylum film, [[{{Torchwood}} [[Series/{{Torchwood}} Ianto Jones]] is Holmes' faithful friend, biographer, and personal physician.
*** I guess [[TheOffice Tim]] found [[Series/{{Sherlock}} a new job]]. And he [[HitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy may have forgot his towel]], but he [[{{Sherlock}} brought a gun]].
**** Not to mention that his flatmate is [[AmazingGrace Britain's youngest ever Prime Minister]] and a [[TheLastEnemy ground-breaking mathematician (fictional)]] and a [[StephenHawking ground-breaking physicist (biographical)]].physician.
*** I guess [[TheOffice Tim]] found [[Series/{{Sherlock}} a new job]]. And he [[HitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy may have forgot his towel]], but he [[{{Sherlock}} brought a gun]].
**** Not to mention that his flatmate is [[AmazingGrace Britain's youngest ever Prime Minister]] and a [[TheLastEnemy ground-breaking mathematician (fictional)]] and a [[StephenHawking ground-breaking physicist (biographical)]].
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* HilariousInHindsight: Stephen Fry flirted with Hugh Laurie on ABitOfFryAndLaurie. Laurie went on to play {{House}} (who was based very heavily on Holmes), and Stephen Fry went on to play Mycroft. [[{{Squick}} Does that make it incest?]]
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*** And [[StephenFry Mycroft Holmes]] is [[{{Bones}} Gordon Gordon Wyatt]]
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!!The Doyle Canon
* US President Franklin D. Roosevelt once made a [[WildMassGuessing WMG]] that [[http://books.google.com/books?id=9LGvL2WcXX0C&pg=PA404&lpg=PA404&dq=franklin+roosevelt+sherlock+holmes&source=bl&ots=fnk7VRLhg4&sig=cBzqBFUwBsmlxFgA6lhtEBrabCY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lsEDT-eLOMWYiQKF1b2EDQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=franklin%20roosevelt%20sherlock%20holmes&f=false Sherlock Holmes was born an American]].
* US President Franklin D. Roosevelt once made a [[WildMassGuessing WMG]] that [[http://books.google.com/books?id=9LGvL2WcXX0C&pg=PA404&lpg=PA404&dq=franklin+roosevelt+sherlock+holmes&source=bl&ots=fnk7VRLhg4&sig=cBzqBFUwBsmlxFgA6lhtEBrabCY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lsEDT-eLOMWYiQKF1b2EDQ&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=franklin%20roosevelt%20sherlock%20holmes&f=false Sherlock Holmes was born an American]].
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!!The 2009 film
* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** Holmes' sunglasses are of the period.
** As is Watson's use of the word "masochist": the film is set in 1891 and the word was first recorded in 1890.
** Holmes' beat-up fedora is of the period, though just barely: the play the hat came from was first performed in 1882, and reached the English-speaking world in 1889 (the novel ''Trilby'' didn't come out until 1894). Even so, it took a while for the particular style Holmes is seen wearing to catch on as a ''men's'' fashion; early men's fedoras more closely resembled a [[http://www.belltownvintage.com/hats/Publications/1890WardCatlg/1890p278.jpg Homburg]] than anything else. Since everyone else is dressed much more traditionally, Holmes' wardrobe choices were probably made to showcase his eccentricity.
* DeletedScene: So, Irene never got around to trying to stab Holmes with a hair pin or kneeing him in the... meerschaum, eh? Not to mention not wandering around [[MsFanservice in that saucy corset]]. [[TrailersAlwaysLie No-good, dirty, lyin' trailer]].
* DyeingForYourArt: Downey did this movie in between the two ''Film/IronMan'' movies. Look at how beefy Tony Stark is compared to how wire-thin Holmes is. That takes ''dedication''.
** Rob also was meticulous in making sure his accent was perfect for the character and historical period.
* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** Holmes' sunglasses are of the period.
** As is Watson's use of the word "masochist": the film is set in 1891 and the word was first recorded in 1890.
** Holmes' beat-up fedora is of the period, though just barely: the play the hat came from was first performed in 1882, and reached the English-speaking world in 1889 (the novel ''Trilby'' didn't come out until 1894). Even so, it took a while for the particular style Holmes is seen wearing to catch on as a ''men's'' fashion; early men's fedoras more closely resembled a [[http://www.belltownvintage.com/hats/Publications/1890WardCatlg/1890p278.jpg Homburg]] than anything else. Since everyone else is dressed much more traditionally, Holmes' wardrobe choices were probably made to showcase his eccentricity.
* DeletedScene: So, Irene never got around to trying to stab Holmes with a hair pin or kneeing him in the... meerschaum, eh? Not to mention not wandering around [[MsFanservice in that saucy corset]]. [[TrailersAlwaysLie No-good, dirty, lyin' trailer]].
* DyeingForYourArt: Downey did this movie in between the two ''Film/IronMan'' movies. Look at how beefy Tony Stark is compared to how wire-thin Holmes is. That takes ''dedication''.
** Rob also was meticulous in making sure his accent was perfect for the character and historical period.
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** Both [[ANewHope Grand Moff Tarkin]] (PeterCushing) and [[AttackOfTheClones Count Dooku]] (ChristopherLee) have portrayed the great detective with great acclaim in two separate occasions. Peter Cushing in particular has been considered amongst the best out of the more than 75 actors to have portrayed the character, which include the likes of Jeremy Brett, Basil Rathbone and Vasily Livanov, and was known to have an encyclopedic amount of Holmesian knowledge.
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* ShoutOut:
** Combined with ContinuityNod, the EstablishingShot of Baker Street is almost ''exactly'' the same shot that opened the Granada Sherlock Holmes series with the seminal Jeremy Brett.
** A rather far-fetched ShoutOut is the newspaper a certain character reads at one point. The headline says "Panic in the streets." It's a London newspaper. Does Guy Ritchie like the Smiths?
** "Dredger" bears some resemblance to Rondo Hatton, who played a similar hulking villain in the 1944 Holmes film "Pearl of Death".
** The scene where Watson tries to interest Holmes in some seemingly bizarre cases that people have written in to him about, only for Holmes to curtly reveal he's deduced the actually-very-mundane solutions from simply reading the letters, harkens back to a similar scene in Billy Wilder's '"The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes''.
* ShoutOut: To Shakespeare:
** A line from Henry V, Act III while leaving the cemetery: Watson: "Follow your spirit..." Holmes: "And upon this charge, cry God for Harry, England, and St. George!"
*** Of course, the most important part of this quote is the first line: [[ShoutOut "The game's]] [[MythologyGag afoot"...]]
!!Other films:
* HeyItsThatGuy: Both [[ANewHope Grand Moff Tarkin]] (PeterCushing) and [[AttackOfTheClones Count Dooku]] (ChristopherLee) have portrayed the great detective with great acclaim in two separate occasions. Peter Cushing in particular has been considered amongst the best out of the more than 75 actors to have portrayed the character, which include the likes of Jeremy Brett, Basil Rathbone and Vasily Livanov, and was known to have an encyclopedic amount of Holmesian knowledge.
** Combined with ContinuityNod, the EstablishingShot of Baker Street is almost ''exactly'' the same shot that opened the Granada Sherlock Holmes series with the seminal Jeremy Brett.
** A rather far-fetched ShoutOut is the newspaper a certain character reads at one point. The headline says "Panic in the streets." It's a London newspaper. Does Guy Ritchie like the Smiths?
** "Dredger" bears some resemblance to Rondo Hatton, who played a similar hulking villain in the 1944 Holmes film "Pearl of Death".
** The scene where Watson tries to interest Holmes in some seemingly bizarre cases that people have written in to him about, only for Holmes to curtly reveal he's deduced the actually-very-mundane solutions from simply reading the letters, harkens back to a similar scene in Billy Wilder's '"The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes''.
* ShoutOut: To Shakespeare:
** A line from Henry V, Act III while leaving the cemetery: Watson: "Follow your spirit..." Holmes: "And upon this charge, cry God for Harry, England, and St. George!"
*** Of course, the most important part of this quote is the first line: [[ShoutOut "The game's]] [[MythologyGag afoot"...]]
!!Other films:
* HeyItsThatGuy: Both [[ANewHope Grand Moff Tarkin]] (PeterCushing) and [[AttackOfTheClones Count Dooku]] (ChristopherLee) have portrayed the great detective with great acclaim in two separate occasions. Peter Cushing in particular has been considered amongst the best out of the more than 75 actors to have portrayed the character, which include the likes of Jeremy Brett, Basil Rathbone and Vasily Livanov, and was known to have an encyclopedic amount of Holmesian knowledge.
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** In the 2009 adaptation, [[IronMan Tony Stark]] and [[SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow Sky Captain]] team up to fight against the nefarious [[RocknRolla Archy]]. Allie Hamilton guest stars.
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** In the 2009 adaptation, [[IronMan Tony Stark]] and [[SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow Sky Captain]] team up to fight against the nefarious [[RocknRolla Archy]]. Allie Hamilton [[MeanGirls Regina George]] guest stars.
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*** Also, Flora, Holmes's fake fortune teller, is [[PulpFiction Trudi]].
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*** Essentially, [[Film/IronMan Tony Stark]] and [[ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents Lemony Snicket]] try to stop Mr. [[{{Fringe}} David Robert Jones]] with the help of [[WeddingCrashers [[Film/WeddingCrashers Claire Cleary]].
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** Both [[strike: [[ANewHope Grand Moff Tarkin]]]] [[{{Dracula}} Van Helsing]] (PeterCushing) and [[strike: [[AttackOfTheClones Count Dooku]]]] {{Dracula}} (ChristopherLee) have portrayed the great detective with great acclaim in two separate occasions. Peter Cushing in particular has been considered amongst the best out of the more than 75 actors to have portrayed the character, which include the likes of Jeremy Brett, Basil Rathbone and Vasily Livanov, and was known to have an encyclopedic amount of Holmesian knowledge.
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** Both [[strike: [[ANewHope Grand Moff Tarkin]]]] [[{{Dracula}} Van Helsing]] Tarkin]] (PeterCushing) and [[strike: [[AttackOfTheClones Count Dooku]]]] {{Dracula}} Dooku]] (ChristopherLee) have portrayed the great detective with great acclaim in two separate occasions. Peter Cushing in particular has been considered amongst the best out of the more than 75 actors to have portrayed the character, which include the likes of Jeremy Brett, Basil Rathbone and Vasily Livanov, and was known to have an encyclopedic amount of Holmesian knowledge.
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**** Not to mention that his flatmate is [[AmazingGrace Britain's youngest ever Prime Minister]] and a [[TheLastEnemy ground-breaking mathematician (fictional)]] and a [[StephenHawking ground-breaking physicist (biographical)]]
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*** I guess [[TheOffice Tim]] found [[Series/{{Sherlock}} a new job]]. And he [[HitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy may have forgot his towel]], but he [[{{Sherlock}} brought a gun.]]
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**** Not to mention that his flatmate is [[AmazingGrace Britain's youngest ever Prime Minister]] and a [[TheLastEnemy ground-breaking mathematician (fictional)]] and a [[StephenHawking ground-breaking physicist(biographical)]](biographical)]].
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**** Not to mention that his flatmate is [[AmazingGrace Britain's youngest ever Prime Minister]] and a [[TheLastEnemy ground-breaking mathematician (fictional)]] and a [[StephenHawking ground-breaking physicist
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* FakeAmerican:
** Canadian {{Rachel McAdams}} as New Jerseyite Irene Adler.
** Canadian William Hope as American ambassador Standish.
* FakeBrit: American RobertDowneyJr. as... well... isn't it obvious? Downey's accent was almost flawless.
* FanNickname: Watson quickly became known as Hotson.
** Canadian {{Rachel McAdams}} as New Jerseyite Irene Adler.
** Canadian William Hope as American ambassador Standish.
* FakeBrit: American RobertDowneyJr. as... well... isn't it obvious? Downey's accent was almost flawless.
* FanNickname: Watson quickly became known as Hotson.
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*** In the 2010 Asylum film, [[{{Torchwood}} Ianto Jones]] is Holmes' faithful friend, biographer, and personal physician.
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** In the 2009 adaptation, [[IronMan Tony Stark]] and [[SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow Sky Captain]] team up to fight against the nefarious [[RocknRolla Archy]]. Allie Hamilton gueststars.stars.
*** Dredger is played Robert Maillet, who wrestled in the WWF/E as Kurrgan for several years in the 90's.
***Fans of ''TheTudors'' will recognise Lord Coward as Thomas Cranmner.
*** Essentially, [[Film/IronMan Tony Stark]] and [[ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents Lemony Snicket]] try to stop Mr. [[{{Fringe}} David Robert Jones]] with the help of [[WeddingCrashers Claire Cleary]].
** In the 2009 adaptation, [[IronMan Tony Stark]] and [[SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow Sky Captain]] team up to fight against the nefarious [[RocknRolla Archy]]. Allie Hamilton guest
*** Dredger is played Robert Maillet, who wrestled in the WWF/E as Kurrgan for several years in the 90's.
***Fans of ''TheTudors'' will recognise Lord Coward as Thomas Cranmner.
*** Essentially, [[Film/IronMan Tony Stark]] and [[ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents Lemony Snicket]] try to stop Mr. [[{{Fringe}} David Robert Jones]] with the help of [[WeddingCrashers Claire Cleary]].
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