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** They manage to turn The Queen Victoria Gloriana into this by what it means. "She was called Victoria, because she had beaten us in battle 700 years ago. She was called Gloriana because she was glorious, and She was called The Queen because the human mouth was not shaped to pronounce her real name."
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** They manage to turn The Queen Victoria Gloriana into this by what it means. "She was called Victoria, because she had beaten us in battle 700 battle, seven hundred years ago. She before, and she was called Gloriana Gloriana, because she was glorious, and She she was called The Queen the Queen, because the human mouth was not shaped to pronounce her real true name."
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* RefugeInAudacity: The graphic novel adaptation [[spoiler: has Holmes and Watson casually walking in London while Lestrade and his men rush pass them. Holmes gets bonus points for wearing his deerstalker and inverness cape.]]
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* RefugeInAudacity: The graphic novel adaptation [[spoiler: has Holmes and Watson casually walking in London while Lestrade and his men rush pass past them. Holmes gets bonus points for wearing his deerstalker and inverness cape.]]
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* RightUnderTheirNoses: The letter at the end declares that the killer and his accomplice are going on the run, causing Inspector Lestrade and his men to start stopping all trains and boats leaving the country. The detective, for his part, suspects that the two are ''actually'' going to hide in the notorious crime-ridden slum -- the Rookery of St. Giles merely a mile away where the police don't dare go except by the dozen. Because, if the roles were reversed, [[ThatsWhatIWouldDo that's what he'd do]].
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* RightUnderTheirNoses: The letter at the end declares that the killer and his accomplice are going on the run, causing Inspector Lestrade and his men to start stopping all trains and boats leaving the country. The detective, for his part, suspects that the two are ''actually'' going to hide in the a notorious crime-ridden slum -- the Rookery of St. Giles merely a mile away where the police don't dare go except by the dozen. Because, if the roles were reversed, [[ThatsWhatIWouldDo that's what he'd do]].
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* WritingAroundTrademarks: The narrator refers to the detective as "my friend". This sort of thing is common in professionally published pastiches, as the legal status of the Holmes characters is turbulent. [[spoiler: It's actually because the narrator and his friend are NOT Watson and Holmes.]]
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* WritingAroundTrademarks: The narrator refers to the detective as "my friend". This sort of thing is was common in professionally published pastiches, as the legal status of the Holmes characters is was turbulent. [[spoiler: It's actually because the narrator and his friend are NOT Watson and Holmes.]]
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Gaiman later wrote another, slightly more grounded Holmes pastiche, ''Literature/TheCaseOfDeathAndHoney''.
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*** [[spoiler: Moran refers to Watson as "The Limping Doctor" until Holmes and Watson's names are revealed at the end.]]
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*** [[spoiler: Moran Moriarty refers to Watson as "The Limping Doctor" until Holmes and Watson's names are name is revealed at the end.]]
* EvilReactionary: The detective eventually deduces that 'Rache' and his accomplice are "Restorationists", seditious [[BombThrowingAnarchists anarchists]] who want to drive away the Old Ones and restore mankind to its "old ways". Of course, the "Evil" part is only [[DeliberateValuesDissonance from the perspective]] of the protagonists and Lestrade; the reader might be inclined to see them in a different light.
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** When they meet for the first time and both mention some things the other might find annoying. [[spoiler: The violin not being mentioned can be a clue that the other man is not Holmes (although the violin was only mentioned since Watson had issues with strong noises, while here the narrator is the one screaming at night), and the narrator not mentioning a dog is a clue that he's not Watson.]].
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** When they meet for the first time and both mention some things the other might find annoying. [[spoiler: The annoying, [[spoiler:the violin not being mentioned can be a clue that the other man is not Holmes (although the violin was only mentioned since Watson had issues with strong noises, while here the narrator is the one screaming at night), and the narrator not mentioning a dog is a clue that he's not Watson.]].
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* PerspectiveFlip: Kind of. [[spoiler: Moriarty and Moran are the "good guys" and Holmes and Watson are the antagonists. However, while the reader probably ends up seeing the latter as still being heroic, Moriarty and Moran actually are well-intentioned in this setting despite their allegiance to Eldritch Abominations.]]
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* PerspectiveFlip: Kind of. [[spoiler: Moriarty [[spoiler:Moriarty and Moran are the "good guys" and Holmes and Watson are the antagonists. However, while the reader probably ends up seeing the latter as still being heroic, Moriarty and Moran actually are well-intentioned in this setting despite their allegiance to Eldritch Abominations.]]
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-->Having learned a little of his recreational predilections, I told him I had procured for him a girl, abducted from a convent in Cornwall where she had never seen a man, and that it would only take take his touch, and the sight of his face, to tip her over into a perfect madness.
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-->Having learned a little of his recreational predilections, I told him I had procured for him a girl, abducted from a convent in Cornwall where she had never seen a man, and that it would only take take his touch, and the sight of his face, to tip her over into a perfect madness.
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** Despite the fact that in this reality, the Old One have been ruling humanity for centuries, humanity's scientific and technological progress hasn't changed in any way. Subverted if the Detective's throwaway comments on Vernet's views on the relationship between light and matter is interpreted as a sign that [[spoiler: Holmes is trying to develop nuclear weapons decades ahead of our scientists]].
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** Despite the fact that in this reality, the Old One Ones have been ruling humanity for centuries, humanity's scientific and technological progress hasn't changed in any way. Subverted if the Detective's throwaway comments on Vernet's views on the relationship between light and matter is interpreted as a sign that [[spoiler: Holmes is trying to develop nuclear weapons decades ahead of our scientists]].
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Queen Victoria is this by the standard of the setting; she heals [[spoiler:Moran's arm without expecting anything in return, and thanks the pair for finding the prince's murderer even if said murderer is on the loose]]. But by the reader's standards she is still an Old One who will probably wipe out humanity, and she also seems to have no issue with [[spoiler:the prince's hobby of raping, torturing and murdering young human women]].
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Queen Victoria is this by the standard of the setting; she heals [[spoiler:Moran's arm without expecting anything in return, and thanks the pair for finding the prince's murderer even if said murderer is still on the loose]]. But by the reader's standards she is still an Old One who will probably wipe out humanity, and she also seems to have no issue with [[spoiler:the prince's hobby of raping, torturing and murdering young human women]].
