History Main / BakerStreetRegular

* ''Series/DirkGently'' knows a [[HollywoodHacking Hollywood Hacker]] who happens to be twelve. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny And gets paid with cigarettes.]]

* Luke and, to a lesser extent, Flora in the ''ProfessorLayton'' games are variations on this trope. Flora mostly fits in the sense of being [[spoiler:an orphan who gets adopted by the protagonist]], though she ''tries'' to be useful in the Professor's investigations. Luke plays the trope almost straight; however, his parents are still alive and perfectly comfortable financially, and he must [[spoiler:surrender the post at the end of the third game, when the family moves overseas]]. In fact, it's thanks to his parents that Luke is hanging around in the first place -- Clark Triton is an old friend of the Professor's, which probably explains why they're willing to let a grown man take their preteen son gallivanting off to solve mysteries impeded by hordes of people who insist you use thirteen coins to spell "waffle".

** The TropeNamer also does not go un-riffed; the pilot episode introduces Sherlock's "homeless network," who are an obvious stand-in for the Irregulars. He also once gets information on the spray-can used to paint a cryptic message on a wall from a graffiti artist [[WildMassGuessing who some fans think]] is supposed to be {{Banksy}}, if not a cameo from the ''real'' Banksy AsHimself.

* In the third book of the ''Literature/BardicVoices'' series, ''The Eagle and the Nightingale'', Nightingale hires a group of street children to be her eyes and ears.

* Akechi Kogoro had several as well, including Yoshio Kobayashi, [[{{Shotacon}} who later became famous for something else entirely]].

* ''Film/AWalkAmongTheTombstones''. T.J. provides both street-smarts and computer literacy to the private eye protagonist.

* ''Film/AWalkAmongTheTombstones''.

* Subverted in ''Film/TheArrival'' [[spoiler:when the kid who hooks up with the protagonist turns out to be a spy sent by the aliens.]]

* Varys Kingfisher, the royal spymaster in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', is implied to employ mute, literate children who wander the sewers and low places of King's Landing as his "little birds."

* Clara O'Dea and her urchins in ''AssassinsCreedSyndicate''. Considering the VictorianLondon setting, almost certainly a tip of the hat to the TropeNamer.

* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko, the Detective Boys. They're even referred to as Baker Street Regulars in an arc. They ''literally'' play this when they entered the {{cyberspace}} VictorianEngland AU in the NonSerialMovie ''Phantom of Baker Street''.

* Charlie Chaplin in ''Film/ShanghaiKnights''.

->''As he spoke, there came a swift pattering of naked feet upon the stairs, a clatter of high voices, and in rushed [[StreetUrchin a dozen dirty and ragged little street Arabs]]. There was some show of discipline among them, despite their tumultuous entry, for they instantly drew up in line and stood facing us with expectant faces. One of their number, taller and older than the others, stood forward with an air of lounging superiority which was very funny in such a disreputable little scarecrow.''

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* ''Series/ThePretender'' episode "Back from the Dead... Again" has [[TheArtfulDodger Bruno]] who gets recruited by Jarod to help him for the episode.

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The Baker Street Regular is a pun on the TropeNamer, the Baker Street Irregulars, who were a network of orphaned street urchins that had been under the employment of Sherlock Holmes to gather rumors, gather clues, and do various odd jobs, in which he made sure to pay what was, [[MundaneLuxury to them, an outrageous sum of money]] for their discretion and loyalty.

* As the plot approaches the end of ''[[{{Slayers}} Slayers Next]]'', one of these attempts to pickpocket the party, but eventually joins them and befriends Martina. Subverted, as [[spoiler: he's the BigBad.]]

* ''Series/DirkGently'' knows a HollywoodHacker who happens to be twelve. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny And gets paid with cigarettes.]]

* TheNewsboyLegion are nothing if not this trope. Primarilly they are this for TheGuardian, but they also work with JimmyOlsen and Comicbook/{{Superman}}.

** The TropeNamer also does not go un-riffed; the pilot episode introduces Sherlock's "homeless network," who are an obvious stand-in for the Irregulars.

** Deconstructed in the officially-approved pastiche, ''TheHouseOfSilk'', when [[spoiler: one of them gets killed, brutally, because they took a mission]].