History Main / SherlockHomage

* The main character of ''Manga/CaseClosed'' 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 cynical Ai Haibara, also serve that role.

* Gregory House of ''Series/{{House}}'' is technically a doctor and not a GreatDetective, but he does solve medical mysteries. House also has the snark, the genius, the substance abuse issues, and a nicer HeterosexualLifePartner who's a doctor. Bonus points for House and Wilson's surnames being a ShoutOut to Holmes and Watson.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'': Basil is a detective mouse living beneath Holmes' apartment in Baker Street. He dresses like Holmes and has a similarly-eccentric personality. His sidekick Dawson is, of course, a mouse counterpart to Watson.

* The ''{{Series/Sliders}}'' episode "Murder Most Foul" sees Arturo brainwashed into thinking he is a Holmesian detective named Reginald Doyle, on the hunt for a Victorian serial killer named "[[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jolly Jack]]". Like Holmes, "Doyle" uses keen deductive reasoning and forensic methods, has a Watson-like sidekick named Marple, who he believes Quinn to be, and even wears the classic deerstalker cap/inverness cape ensemble.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'': Basil is a detective mouse living beneath Holmes' apartment in Baker Street. He dresses like Holmes and has a similarly-eccentric personality. His sidekick Dawson is, of course, a mouse counterpart to Watson. See lit entry below.

* Creator/HarryTurtledove's short story "The Scarlet Band" features the great detective Athelstan Helms and his faithful biographer Dr. James Walton, as they investigate a murder in Atlantis.

* Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay took inspiration from Holmes in writing his Byomkesh Bakshi stories, which have become major staples of Indian pop culture. Byomkesh is an analytical figure obsessed with logic, and is accompanied by his faithful sidekick Ajit, who narrates the stories.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarDay Avatar Day]]", Sokka and Katara are tasked with gathering evidence to help Aang, and Sokka feels the need to pull out a Sherlock hat (either an anachronistic deerstalker or its Far East equivalent) and a BubblePipe for his investigation.

* In the ''Franchise/BerniceSummerfield'' novel ''Ship of Fools'' by Dave Stone, Benny finds herself in a ClosedCircle space cruiser with multiple {{Clueless Detective}}s, all based on different fictional characters. Sandford Groke has the look ("a wiry human dressed in an archaic-looking herringbone suit") and attitude of Holmes, but is "a pig-ignorant, xenophobic, bumptious little tit", who turns out to be [[spoiler: an artificial assassin programmed to believe he's a 1920s detective who was transported forward in time]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'': When Roquefort turns detective to find Duchess and the kittens, he immediately puts on a coat and deerstalker. He wears the outfit for more of the rest of the movie.

* ''Manga/BlackJack'': An [[UncertifiedExpert unlicensed physician talented at diagnosing indecipherable medical issues]], BJ can identify 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.
* Victorique in ''Literature/{{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.

* Cassander Baker in the ''Comicbook/BatmanJamesTynionIV'' 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.
* ''Comicbook/{{Grandville}}: Force Majeure'': Stamford 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. His first name is a reference to Watson's friend who introduced him to Holmes.

* Shamrock Bones in the ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse.

* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/series/559915 The Casebook of Tigger Holmes]]'', Tigger from ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' intentionally styles himself after Holmes (though he can't get ahold of a deerstalker, and has to make do with a sou'wester instead). Kanga is Mrs. Hudson, the other characters take turns acting as Watson, and it all takes place in a world full of CasualKink.

* Literature/LordDarcy is essentially Sherlock Holmes in a world where magic exists. He has better social skills than Holmes, and is not a CelibateHero, but ticks most of the other boxes.

* Chinese author Cheng Xiaoqing wrote stories featuring a detective named Huo Sang, a character openly publicised as "The Eastern Sherlock Holmes". A English language translation of the stories was titled "Sherlock in Shanghai".

* Osgood Sigerson, the world's greatest detective in Creator/DanielPinkwater's ''Snarkout Boys'' books, is a straightforward parody of Sherlock Holmes. Sigerson even uses theater makeup to make himself resemble Holmes as played by Creator/BasilRathbone.
* Literature/NeroWolfe plays with this trope, since while he's definitely a Holmes Homage he's less Sherlock and more ''Mycroft''. While he has as many nods to the GreatDetective as any other other classic mystery investigator (and there's a persistently popular [[EpilepticTrees fan theory]] that he's Sherlock's son with Irene Adler), his general laziness, obesity and stubborn refusal to leave his house or break his routines for all but the most diabolical of situations are more reminiscent of the older Holmes than the younger.
* Invoked in the Literature/AlbertCampion novel ''Police at the Funeral'', which begins with Campion arranging to meet a potential client in a crypt while he's wearing a Holmes-style deerstalker, partly because he finds it amusing and partly because he's trying to indulge his client's impressions of detectives as derived from mystery novels. Outside of this, however, beyond shared similarities possessed by any Golden Age of Mystery detective Campion isn't particularly a homage towards Holmes (he's more an AffectionateParody of Literature/LordPeterWimsey).
* 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 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.
* KidDetective Barclay "Brains" Benton. Highly cerebral? Check (as TheWatson of his adventures, Jimmy Carson, observes: "A guy has to ''earn'' a nickname like 'Brains'"). Not a people person? Check. DeadpanSnarker? Big check. He also bears a superficial physical resemblance to Holmes. And as noted, Jimmy Carson is his Watson, to the point that Jimmy narrates their adventures in first person as his archetype did.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'' has Grand Admiral Thrawn, originally of ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' but surviving the reboot as of ''Literature/{{Thrawn}}''. His job is different, but he has Sherlock's incredible intelligence and powers of observation, and the habit of carrying out strange strategies that only make sense to others by the endgame. His second-in-command, Captain Pellaeon, is even usually drawn to look like the classic Watson.
* ''Literature/HolmesOnTheRange'': Set inn the 1890's, Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer is a fan of the Holmes stories (which in this universe are genuine memoirs and not fiction), and focuses hard on learning "the Method", which he uses to solve every crime that comes his way, with his younger brother serving as TheWatson.
* William Kotzwinkle's ''Trouble in Bugland: A Collection of Inspector Mantis Mysteries'' has Inspector Mantis as its Holmes and his sidekick Doctor Hopper as TheWatson. Several stories are direct references to the original Holmes mysteries, with an insect twist.
* Holmes met ''Literature/ArseneLupin'' in the short story, ''Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late''. After Doyle complained, the omnibus collection renamed him "Herlock Sholmes". Sholmes went on to appear in two more Lupin stories.
* Brenda Sivers wrote a series of children's books about Sherlock Hound (a bloodhound) and his associate Dr Winston (an Old English Sheepdog) in a canine WorldOfFunnyAnimals. They were ''The Case of the Baffling Burglary'', ''Hound and the Witching Affair'', ''Hound in the Highlands'', ''Count Doberman of Pincher'', ''Hound and the Curse of Kali'' and ''Hound and the Precious Pekes''.
* Crow in ''Literature/TheAngelOfTheCrows'' is ''blatantly'' based on Holmes, except for the AdaptationalSpeciesChange (being a [[CleverCrows corvid-themed]] [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angel]] instead of a human). Not surprisingly, the story got its start as ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' wingfic.
* In the ''Franchise/BerniceSummerfield'' novel ''Ship of Fools'' by Dave Stone, Benny finds herself in a ClosedCircle space cruiser with multiple {{Clueless Detective}}s, all based on different fictional characters. Sandford Groke has the look ("a wiry human dressed in an archaic-looking herringbone suit") and attitude of Holmes, but is "a pig-ignorant, xenophobic, bumptious little tit", who turns out to be [[spoiler: an artificial assassin programmed to believe he's a 1920s detective who was transported forward in time]].
* ''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 the mathematical detective Hemlock Soames and his biographer 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."

* Apart from the French accent and being serially married [[spoiler: to multiple versions of the same woman]], Sherloque Wells in ''Series/TheFlash2014'' 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.

* Alanik Ray, an elf detective from Darkon, is the ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' D&D setting's Holmes Expy.

* In the second ''VideoGame/TheIncredibleAdventuresOfVanHelsing'' game, the protagonists meet in [[{{Ruritania}} Borgovia]]'s Merchant district a beggar guarding his master's house. The house has a "221 B" panel. Said master was Borgovia's greatest detective and died by falling in a waterfall when fighting his archenemy.
* ''VideoGame/TheMaidOfFairewellHeights'': The Great Detective costume has a deerstalker hat.
** When selecting "The perp went into this room!", when solving a mystery in Artie's room, where you wear the Great Detective costume, Marshmallow responds with:
--> Elementary, my dear Watson.
* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' takes place in Victorian London, so it's a given. The "Dreadful Crimes" set of side missions has you help solve murder mysteries in the style of Holmes, accompanied by a Penny Dreadful writer and a young boy who is strongly implied to be a young Arthur Conan Doyle. [[spoiler: If you know history, you might realize that the Penny Dreadful writer is in fact Adam Worth, a criminal and major inspiration for Professor Moriarty]]. To complete the homage, Jacob's wardrobe can include a deerstalker cape.
* Herlock Shomles of ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'' is Sherlock Holmes in the original Japanese version, but due to copyright, the English localization was forced to use an expy. He is a (wannabe) GreatDetective who solves crimes with Dr. [[spoiler:Iris]] Wilson. In-game, he's more of a parody of the character who frequently gets the facts wrong, forcing Ryunosuke to correct him.

* ''[[http://ratmmjess.tripod.com/wold8.html "You are NOT Sherlock Holmes." - A Phenomenon Explained]]'', written by Jess Nevins, explains this trope as a psychological condition called the "Great Detective Syndrome" and details the lives of those afflicted by it throughout the history of the [[Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer Wold Newton]] [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover Universe]], many of whom predate Holmes himself.

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' Fern imitates her favorite mystery detectives, mostly Sherlock Holmes along with Agatha Christie's Marple and Poirot, when called upon to solve a mystery or crime. Meanwhile Buster goes for the Film Noir Hardboiled Detective angle instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In "Avatar Day", Sokka and Katara are tasked with gathering evidence to help Aang, and Sokka feels the need to pull out a Sherlock hat (either an anachronistic deerstalker or its Far East equivalent) and a BubblePipe for his investigation.

* Cyril [=McFlip=], Russell's SecretIdentity in ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012''.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In ''Elementary, My Dear Stacy'', Candace, while in England, reads the entire Holmes canon, and then decides to 'bust' her brothers Holmes-style, dressed in deerstalker and cape, and dragging along her friend Stacy.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the second part of the ''Who Shot Mr. Burns?'' episode Sideshow Mel reaches the conclusion that Smithers must be innocent. While he ponders over the clues he lits a Holmesian pipe and orders Krusty (the Watson in this case) to come along with him to the police station.

* [[ShowWithinAShow Ducktecktive]] of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', in that he's a detective and wears a deerstalker.
* The ''WesternAnimation/DogCity'' episode "But is it Arf?" featured a Holmes parody called Surelick Bones as a rival to HardboiledDetective Ace Hart. [[spoiler: He turned out to actually be the mastermind behind the crimes]].

* Special Agent Gibbs and his team of ''Series{{NCIS}}'' agents have had dealings with a team of amateur detectives called "The Sherlocks".

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