History Main / SherlockHomage

* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' animated special ''It's a Mystery, Charlie Brown'' Snoopy dons a deerstalker hat and Meerschaum BubblePipe to play detective in order to find Woodstock's missing nest.

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* ''Film/ShanghaiNoon'': While Chon Wen and Roy O' Bannon are waiting in front of Creator/ArthurConanDoyle's door they are dressed in similar clothing as Holmes and Watson. As Doyle sees their silhouettes he is stunned.
* Daryl Zero in ''Film/ZeroEffect'' is a clear Literature/SherlockHolmes expy, and the film itself is a WholePlotReference to "A Scandal In Bohemia." Zero is ''extremely'' eccentric and socially awkward but a brilliant detective, and, like Holmes, uses drugs and plays a stringed instrument.

* ''Professor Stewart's Casebook of Mathematical Mysteries'' by Ian Stewart differs from the previous popular-maths books in the series (''Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities'' and ''Professor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures'' by having a through-story featuring Hemlock Soames and Dr Whatsup, who live at 222B Baker Street, and are fed up of people mistaking them for that ''other'' detective and doctor duo. Soames works by the maxim "Once you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable ... remains improbable. There's probably something else entirely going on, and you missed it."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'': Basil is a detective mouse living beneath Holmes' appartment in Baker Street, London, dresses like him . His sidekick Dawson is, of course, a mouse counterpart to Watson. See lit entry below.

* Victorique in ''LightNovel/{{Gosick}}'' is an [[NoSocialSkills undersocialized]], [[LittleMissSnarker snarky]], InsufferableGenius BadassBookworm and a brilliant detective. She even spends time with a NiceGuy AudienceSurrogate who functions as her [[TheWatson Watson]]. Unusually for the trope, she's a cute, petite teenage girl.

* In ''Literature/TheDeathOfTheNecromancer'' by Creator/MarthaWells, a Holmes and Watson inspired pair Ronsard and Dr. Hall serve in a HeroAntagonist and later EnemyMine role to AntiHero Nicholas Valiarde and his CaperCrew. Like Holmes, Ronsard is a GreatDetective known as a MasterOfDisguise and like Watson, Hall is the faithful assistant and is both a physician and chronicler of the detective's adventures. By extention, this suggests parallels between Nichals and co. and Holmes' antagonists. Like Moriarty, Nicholas is [[RichIdiotwithNoDayJob a master criminal with an inconspicuous public persona]]. Nicholas' second-in-command Reynard Morane is a disgraced soldier with an aristocratic background like Moriarty's second-in-command, Sebastian Moran. Finally, Nicholas' mistress and other second-in-command, Madeline, is acelebrated actress and MasterOfDisguise like Irene Adler.

* The main character of ''Manga/CaseClosed'' (aka Case Closed) is Shinichi Kudo, a teen detective who is forcefully given a poison that reverts him into a child rather than killing him, is this in spades. He is a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] young detective with an insanely keen eye for detail, uses alcohol to temporarily revert back to his teenage form on occasion, and has an extensive amount of otherwise esoteric knowledge. Hell, most of the promotional art for the series has him wearing a [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Detective_Conan_Volume_1.png deerstalker cap and pipe]]. Also, his pseudonym as his child self is Conan Edogawa, a combination of the names Sherlock author Arthur Conan Doyle and Ranpo Edogawa, who was arguably his Japanese equivalent. Shinichi would often refer to Ran as "Watson", although Prof. Agasa and to a lesser extent, the cyncical Ai Haibara, also serve that role.
* L in ''Manga/DeathNote'' is his world's greatest detective. (Also second and third best, via aliases.) He's an eccentric, unsociable, BadassBookworm genius.
* Frost in ''Webcomic/DrFrost'' does [[SherlockScan Sherlock Scans]] on a regular basis, is an InsufferableGenius, has NoSocialSkills, has a [[TheWatson smart, plucky assistant,]] and has a MirrorCharacter who is a Moriarty homage and is a direct parallel to him.
* ''Manga/BlackJack'', Creator/OsamuTezuka's famous manga/anime medical professional. An unlicenced physician talented at diagnosing indecipherable medical issues. BJ can identifies the mystery ailment from observation and can fix it with near superhuman surgical talent. Further he smokes a pipe, has an aloof demeanor, is always concentrating, lives apart from others, and has one person in his life to whom he anchors himself...in this case, his adopted daughter Pinoko.

* Amelia Watson from ''WebAnimation/{{hololive}}'' - although as the name implies she is more of a Dr. Watson homage. She wears the typical Sherlock dress (hat, magnifying glass, etc.) and carries medical equipment. In fact, she's canonically Watson's granddaughter and actually met Holmes himself.

* ''Comicbook/{{Grandville}}: Force Majeure'': Sandford Hawksmoor, a golden eagle (Holmes's profile is often described as "aqualine") in a deerstalker and Inverness cape, who was [=LeBrock=]'s mentor, but retired to Sussex to keep ferrets. Many of his lines are paraphrases of Holmes.

* ''Black Jack'', Osama Tezuka's famous manga/anime medical professional. An unlicenced physician talented at diagnosing indecipherable medical issues. BJ can identifies the mystery ailment from observation and can fix it with near superhuman surgical talent. Further he smokes a pipe, has an aloof demeanor, is always concentrating, lives apart from others, and has one person in his life to whom he anchors himself...in this case, his adopted daughter Pinoko.

* Eccentricity, perhaps (especially in more recent adaptations) to the point of AmbiguousDisorder

* L in ''Manga/DeathNote'' is his world's greatest detective. (Also second and third best, via aliases.) He's an eccentric, unsociable, BadassBookworm genius with an AmbiguousDisorder.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Fourth Doctor throws on a deerstalker cap and greatcoat in such an homage in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]", as he tries to solve the mystery. Clearly he had other Holmes tendencies going for him: the intelligence, the eccentricity, the snarkiness, having a quirky sidekick...

** While he skips the deerstalker, the Twelfth Doctor has more than a few Holmesian tendencies, being a tall, lean SugarAndIce JerkWithAHeartOfGold InsufferableGenius with an AmbiguousDisorder and a love for music.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'''s Sherlock Hemlock, a Holmes {{Expy}} on a kiddie level. Hemlock is also a parody of this trope, as a Holmes homage who is also a CluelessDetective.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'' has Sherlock Hemlock, the page image.

* Hamilton Drew, a detective from the 1920s who ended up in the present day in James Robinson's ''Comicbook/{{Starman}}''. He bears a striking physical resemblence to Holmes, in addition to having a keen deductive brain. His cases were apparently recorded by his friend Ben Luddy, who was a lawyer rather than a doctor.

[[folder: Comic Books]]

* Apart from the French accent and being serially married [[spoiler: to multiple versions of the same woman]], Sherloque Wells in ''Series/TheFlash'' is a Holmes homage. He's a brilliant detective. he's snarky and not great with people (although those are also common traits of Wells counterparts), he used to have an assistant called Watsunne and his one true love is Renee Adler. And the alternate universe he's from? Earth-221.

* In ''Literature/DeathOfTheNecromancer'' by Creator/MarthaWells, a Holmes and Watson inspired pair Ronsard and Dr. Hall serve in a HeroAntagonist and later EnemyMine role to AntiHero Nicholas Valiarde and his CaperCrew. Like Holmes, Ronsard is a GreatDetective known as a MasterOfDisguise and like Watson, Hall is the faithful assistant and is both a physician and chronicler of the detective's adventures. By extention, this suggests parallels between Nichals and co. and Holmes' antagonists. Like Moriarty, Nicholas is [[RichIdiotwithNoDayJob a master criminal with an inconspicuous public persona]]. Nicholas' second-in-command Reynard Morane is a disgraced soldier with an aristocratic background like Moriarty's second-in-command, Sebastian Moran. Finally, Nicholas' mistress and other second-in-command, Madeline, is acelebrated actress and MasterOfDisguise like Irene Adler.

* Cassander Baker in the ''Comicbook/JamesTynionIVsBatman'' storyline "His Dark Designs" was once the world's greatest detective, and when the young Bruce Wayne went to train with him, he effortlessly {{Sherlock Scan}}ned him. However, by this point he was a shell of a man who refused to train Bruce except to "teach [him] how to lose", having been completely broken by his Moriarty counterpart, who went on to become the Designer.

* The main character of ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' (aka Case Closed) is Shinichi Kudo, a teen detective who is forcefully given a poison that reverts him into a child rather than killing him, is this in spades. He is a [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] young detective with an insanely keen eye for detail, uses alcohol to temporarily revert back to his teenage form on occasion, and has an extensive amount of otherwise esoteric knowledge. Hell, most of the promotional art for the series has him wearing a [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Detective_Conan_Volume_1.png deerstalker cap and pipe]]. Also, his pseudonym as his child self is Conan Edogawa, a combination of the names Sherlock author Arthur Conan Doyle and Ranpo Edogawa, who was arguably his Japanese equivalent. Shinichi would often refer to Ran as "Watson", although Prof. Agasa and to a lesser extent, the cyncical Ai Haibara, also serve that role.

* ''Black Jack'', Osama Tezuka's famous manga/anime medical professional. An unlicenced physician talented at analyzing indecipherable medical issues; can not only identify the cause of the ailment from scratch but can fix it with near superhuman surgical talent. Further he smokes a pipe, has an aloof demeanor, is always concentrating, lives apart from others, and has one person in his life to whom he anchor himself...in this case, his adopted daughter Pinoko.

* ''Manga/Black Jack'', Osama Tezuka's famous manga/anime medical professional. An unlicenced physician talented at analyzing indecipherable medical issues; can not only identify the cause of the ailment from scratch but can fix it with near superhuman surgical talent. Further he smokes a pipe, has an aloof demeanor, is always concentrating, lives apart from others, and has one person in his life to whom he anchor himself...in this case, his adopted daughter Pinoko.

* Black Jack, Osama Tezuka's famous manga/anime medical professional. An unlicenced physician talented at analyzing indecipherable medical issues; can not only identify the cause of the ailment from scratch but can fix it with near superhuman surgical talent. Further he smokes a pipe, has an aloof demeanor, is always concentrating, lives apart from others, and has one person in his life to whom he anchor himself...in this case, his adopted daughter Pinoko.