History Sandbox / MagnificentBastardSherlockHolmes

-> "''He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city. He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He only plans. But his agents are numerous and splendidly organized. Is there a crime to be done, a paper to be abstracted, we will say, a house to be rifled, a man to be removed--the word is passed to the professor, the matter is organized and carried out. The agent may be caught. In that case money is found for his bail or his detence. But the central power which uses the agent is never caught -- never so much as suspected. This was the organization which I deduced, Watson, and which I devoted my whole energy to exposing and breaking up.''"

DerivativeWorks/SherlockHolmes has faced countless criminals over the years, and though he is often quick to deduce their plots and schemes, it's elementary, dear viewer, to realize that a [[MagnificentBastard select few of his opponents are beyond the pale in intelligence and charm]], often in the form of Holmes' greatest rival, James Moriarty.