History Film / YoungSherlockHolmes

* ImGoingForACloserLook: While exploring the hidden temple.

* CrystallineCreature: After being hit by a hallucinogen-inducing dart, the cardinal sees the glass motif of a knight coming to life and striking him down.

* OneGenderSchool: Brompton Academy is an all-boys school. Elizabeth is only present because her uncle is a retired professor who still lives on campus.

* RedHerring: While witnessing the sacrifice in the temple, Holmes removes a square-shaped object from one of the members. Most viewers would think it would turn out to be important, but it never shows up again. (Alternatively, it's WhatHappenedToTheMouse)
** It's where the cultists keep their drugged thorns. That's what Holmes dumps them out of on Lestrade's desk later.

** It's where the cultists keep their drugged thorns. That's what Homes dumps them out of on Lestrade's desk later.

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* ActionPrologue: The pre-title sequence involves [[spoiler: Mrs. Dribb]] drugging Bentley Bobster by shooting him with a dart tipped with a hallucinogenic substance; this first causes Bobster to see his dinner as alive, and later believe that his room is set on fire, causing him to throw himself out of his window to "escape".

* CastingGag: Nigel Stock (Professor Waxflatter) previously played Dr. Watson in two Sherlock Holmes TV shows in the 1960s, opposite Douglas Wilmer and later Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes.

* DontThinkFeel: Inverted during the climax. After [[spoiler:Rathe has captured Elizabeth and is going to drown her in hot wax]], Holmes and Watson start panicking about what to do, and they only get anywhere once they start taking things slower and observing their surroundings.

* BaldWomen: [[spoiler: Mrs. Dribb.]]

-->--'''Opening Disclaimer'''

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: When Holmes and Watson go the Egyptian pub, the bartender asks what he can get them: drink, food or women.

* BittersweetEnding: The two heroes win the day, but [[spoiler: Elizabeth dies.]] However, John realizes that he has outgrown his childhood, [[HeterosexualLifePartners he'll meet Sherlock again]] and [[AndTheAdventureContinues this is only the first of many adventures with him]].

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: When Holmes and Watson go the the Egyptian pub, the bartender asks what he can get them: drink, food or women.

-->--Opening Disclaimer

* BittersweetEnding: The two heroes win the day, but [[spoiler: Elizabeth dies.]]

* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Two famous items associated with Holmes are featured here: the deerstalker cap and the curved pipe. Both are treated as ridiculous in-universe, particularly the pipe, which Watson has to buy so Holmes could get information. Holmes thinks the pipe in particular is ridiculous, while he inherits the cap from Waxflatter.

* PistolWhipping: Lestrade knocks out a drugged Chester Cragwitch to prevent him from strangling Holmes.

* YankTheDogsChain: Holmes and Watson have foiled [[spoiler: Eh Tar/Rathe's plans]] by [[spoiler: keeping Cragwitch alive, saving Elizabeth and destroying the cult's temple. Now the trio is walking back to school. Then Rathe appears and shoots Elizabeth..]].

* {{Flanderization}}: This film does use the Flanderized version of Watson who's overweight and rather clueless, but it's somewhat {{justified|Trope}} by being Watson as a ''schoolboy''. Presumably he's got years (and a stint in the military) yet to grow into the more fit and savvy Watson the original was. [[spoiler:And in the end, Watson narrates that [[ComingOfAgeStory this first adventure with Holmes IS part of what helped him go from a weak, easily frightened boy to a man]].]]

* AlreadyMetEveryone

A 1985 mystery/adventure film directed by Barry Levinson, Executive produced by Creator/StevenSpielberg, produced by among others Creator/HenryWinkler (yes, [[Series/HappyDays that one]].) and written by Creator/ChrisColumbus, and based on the classic characters of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. An admittedly non-canonical WhatIf story, it depicts a young Sherlock Holmes and John Watson meeting and solving a mystery together at a boarding school.

!! This film is an example of:

* ActionPrologue: The pre-title sequence involves [[spoiler: Mrs. Dribb]] drugging Bentley Bobster by shooting him with a dart tipped with a hallucinogenic substance; this first causes Bobster to see his dinner as alive, and later believe that his room is set on fire, causing him to throw himself out of his window to "escape."
* AllThereInTheStinger: TheStinger at the end shows [[spoiler: Rathe (a.k.a. Eh-Tar) signing into a hotel in Switzerland. He signs the register as ''Moriarty'']].

* CanonDiscontinuity: This movie is NOT a part of the canon, and the movie makers say so.
** In fact part of Watson's opening narration implies that he might be making it all up as just a bit of fun, thinking about what it would have been like if he and his best friend had met earlier in life. It's effectively an in-universe HighSchoolAU that Watson is writing about his own life.

* CaptainCrash: Holmes doesn't know how to land Waxflatter's flying machine.

* {{Flanderization}}: This film does use the Flanderized version of Watson who's overweight and rather clueless, but it's somewhat {{justified|Trope}} by being Watson as a ''schoolboy''. Presumably he's got years (and a stint in the military) yet to grow into the more fit and savvy Watson the original was. [[spoiler: And in the end, Watson narrates that [[ComingOfAgeStory this first adventure with Holmes IS part of what helped him go from a weak, easily frightened boy to a man]].]]

* FrightDeathTrap: The "Run To Your Doom" variety is used frequently. Several elder gentlemen [[spoiler:who pissed off the wrong Egyptian cult as younger men]] are drugged with blow-darts, causing them to see terrifying hallucinations and run into traffic, leap out 3rd story windows, etc.
* GilliganCut: While being told about Professor Waxflatter, Watson wonders why he is considered a lunatic. Cue Waxflatter trying to fly--again.

* SdrawkcabAlias: The villain [[spoiler:Eh Tar]] uses the alias of [[spoiler:Professor Rathe]] for his cover job at Brompton Academy. Watson even spells this out towards the end of the film as a "very important clue."