History Characters / SherlockAntagonists

* NeverMyFault: When Sherlock draws a surgery knife in Culverton's presence, Culverton is terrified and asks Sherlock to leave while Culverton gets off scot free where as Sherlock is instead blamed for drawing a surgery knife in Culverton's presence.

* GenreRefugee: She acts more like supervillain from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' than a Sherlock Holmes villain, being an inmate in a secure prison for all the worst people in the world whose incredible intellect allows her to predict what is going to happen years in advance while being able to bring people under her control by simply talking to them.

* RomanticTwoGirlFriendship: With Kate, her lover/assistant.

* RedRightHand: Taking out one brown contact to reveal her naturally blue eyes (but leaving the other in) gives her subtly disturbing MismatchedEyes.

* ThickerThanWater: Averted, she did something so heinous that Mycroft either exiled her or locked up her up without a second thought.
--> '''Mycroft:''' Sherlock gone rogue is a legitimate security concern. The fact that I'm his brother changes absolutely nothing! It didn't the last time!
** Played straight by the end of the episode, however, in that she's largely [[KarmaHoudini given a pass]] where other antagonists who committed far less heinous acts are imprisoned, forced into life on the run, commit suicide (on purpose or by accident) or are straight-out murdered themselves. Because she's family, not because she's innocent.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: He has incredible wealth and power, but absolutely no positive relationships with anyone. Even ''Moriarty'' at least had the respect of some of his clients, and one or two [[VillainousFriendship Villainous Friendships']]. But nobody feels anything to Magnussen but fear and/or loathing.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: While he isn't ''gorgeous'' in either the books or the show, in the book she is a FatBastard while in the show he's LeanAndMean.

* VillainousFriendship: [[spoiler:With Jim Moriarty. They're both AxCrazy and obsessed with Sherlock.

* KarmaHoudini: Compared to every other villain (and some of the good guys like [[RedemptionEqualsDeath Mary]]) on the show. Eurus gets off from murdering uncounted numbers of people, frequently in grotesque ways, psychologically torturing victims ForTheEvulz, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raping someone and mutilating them so badly ''she can't remember if they were male or female'']], and having started by murdering another child and trying to burn down the family home to kill her younger brother. Her punishment? Hugs, visitation with her parents, and being treated nicely because she's family.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Rotten teeth notwithstanding, he's Brad Pitt compared to how Smith was described in the novel.

* ShowSomeLeg: Calculates that showing some leg would simply be analyzed for what it is by Sherlock. So she takes it UpToEleven.

** It has been speculated in ''The Guardian'' and elsewhere, that this version of Smith is based off disgraced BBC presenter Creator/JimmySavile, including using his influence to access restricted areas (including a hospital mortuary) and others being subtly complicit in his crimes thanks to his fame. The only difference is Saville was a serial rapist, not a serial murderer. He even inherits Saville's habit of SarcasticConfession in public. Steven Moffat has denied this however, claiming that Smith was meant to be an embodiment of the dark side of celebrity in general.

* EnemyEatsYourLunch: When he and Sherlock meet in the cafe, Magnussen pokes around Sherlock's pasta and takes an Olive from it, wiping his fingers off on Sherlock's glass to add salt to the wound.

* JabbaTableManners: When he meets Sherlock in the cafeteria, he picks an olive out of Sherlock's salad with his fingers and then wipes them off on Sherlock's glass.

** He is an evil counterpart of Mycroft. Both have extensive influence over governments, both have direct yet ethically-questionable access to leaders of Britain, both are more [[TheChessmaster chessmasters]] than [[TheTrickster trickster]], and both are strongly implied to actually be smarter than Sherlock (and both definitely like reminding him of it). It's strongly implied that Magnussen has clashed with Mycroft before and has found a way to blackmail or control him [[spoiler: which may be threats against Sherlock]] and at one point Sherlock tries [[spoiler: and fails to bribe him with Mycroft's laptop, because Magnussen craves the information on it.]] In the original stories Sherlock muses that if Mycroft had the inclination he could easily become the most successful criminal the world had ever seen- Magnussen could be read as an attempt to see if that is true.

* GreaterScopeVillain: In "The Empty Hearse". He's around, and arranges for John's life to be put in danger, but he doesn't become the full BogBad until a couple episodes later.

* LightingBruiser: In addition to being big and strong, he's also agile and fast.

* EvilIsNotWellLit: The only scenes he appears in are a dark alley and a planetarium during a show.

* EvilIsBigger: He's an asassin working for Moriarty who's taller than any of the heroes.

* MythologyGag: His build and behavior are highly reminiscent of Dredge from Film/SherlockHolmes2009.

* MythologyGag:

* TheRedBaron: "The Golem" is his nickname.

* ProfessionalKiller:

A Member of Parliament who was actually working for North Korea with an underground terrorist cell. He planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament with a tube train rigged to detonate.

* MythologyGag: To the Doyle story ''The Tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra'': his rigged train is on Sumatra Roat, and Sherlock calls him a "big rat".