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* AdaptationalJobChange: In the Doyle books, Sebastian Moran was a colonel who worked for Moriarty. This Moran is an MP. Although Sebastian Moran's father ''was'' a Minister to Persia, so this might be a case of MythologyGag.
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* AdaptationalJobChange: In the Doyle books, Sebastian Moran was a colonel who worked and assassin for Moriarty. This Moran is an MP. Although Sebastian Moran's father ''was'' a Minister to Persia, so this might be a case of MythologyGag.
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* CorruptPolitician: He's a member of Parliament who is secretly orchestrating a terror strike.
* 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".
** He's also a member of the British government, like the literary Moran's father.
* 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".
** He's also a member of the British government, like the literary Moran's father.
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* AdaptationalJobChange: In the Doyle books, Sebastian Moran was a colonel who worked for Moriarty. This Moran is an MP. Although Sebastian Moran's father ''was'' a Minister to Persia, so this might be a case of MythologyGag.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the books, Moran was an employee of Professor Moriarty. In the show, they are never shown to have any connection.
* WesternTerrorists: He's a member of the British government who's working with an underground terrorist cell.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In the books, Moran was an employee of Professor Moriarty. In the show, they are never shown to have any connection.
* WesternTerrorists: He's a member of the British government who's working with an underground terrorist cell.
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[[folder:Lord Moran]]
!!Lord Moran
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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.
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!!Lord Moran
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->'''Played By:''' Uncredited
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.
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* TheStoic: He presents himself as this, and lives up to it most of the time, no matter what situation is in. The exception is when Mary threatens his life, where he reveals himself to be a DirtyCoward who hypocritically blubbers and begs for mercy.
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* TheStoic: He presents himself as this, and lives up to it most of the time, no matter what situation is in.staying cold and even-toned in almost any situation. The exception is when Mary threatens his life, where he reveals himself to be a DirtyCoward who hypocritically blubbers and begs for mercy.
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* TheStoic: He presents himself as this, and lives up to it most of the time, no matter what situation is in. The exception is when Mary threatens his life, where he reveals himself to be a DirtyCoward who hypocritically blubbers and begs for mercy.
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* ItAmusedMe: Killing people makes him, in his own words, "very happy".
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* PsychopathicManchild: Type B. He giggles about his crimes with childish glee, and treats his victims like toys to play with.
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* GigglingVillain: He's constantly smiling and chuckling, especially when he'd describing his murderous tendencies.
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* IOwnThisTown: He is implied to have this attitude when he decides that Sherlock's flat is his office.
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* IOwnThisTown: He is implied to have this attitude when he decides that Sherlock's flat is his office. Sherlock himself states that, as long as Magnussen has power, the free life of anyone in the Western world is an illusion.
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* IOwnThisTown: He is implied to have this attitude when he decides that Sherlock's flat is his office.
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: ...fear, specifically fear that he will expose her secrets. While not directly stated, it's implied that his personal employees only work for him because of this (see his mistreatment of Janine, for example).
* IControlMyMinionsThrough: ...fear, specifically fear that he will expose her secrets. While not directly stated, it's implied that his personal employees only work for him because of this (see his mistreatment of Janine, for example).
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* EvilChancellor: He has an unofficial version of this role when he consults with Britain's top officials. Official which he has nothing but petty contempt for and loves to blackmail whenever he can.
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* EvilChancellor: He has plays an unofficial "off-the-books" version of this role when he consults with Britain's top officials. Official Officials which he has nothing but petty contempt for and loves to blackmail whenever he can.
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* TheHedonist: He has no big EvilPlan or personal vendetta. He does what he does because he enjoys screwing over people in [[EvilIsPetty petty]] ways whenever the opportunity presents itself. He just uses blackmail to let the opportunity present itself as often as possible.
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* ItAmusedMe: He gets his kicks from people having no choice but to take the torment he dishes out. Flicking John's face, with Mary's life on the line if John doesn't comply, makes him giggle.
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* InterimVillain: After Series 1 and 2 had Jim Moriarty as the BigBad, Magnussen was in that role for Series 3. Almost immediately after Magnussen's death, Moriarty seemingly returns. (spoiler:although he's actually still dead, he nevertheless has an important effect on Series 4's REAL Big Bad.]])
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* InterimVillain: After Series 1 and 2 had Jim Moriarty as the BigBad, Magnussen was in that role for Series 3. Almost immediately after Magnussen's death, Moriarty seemingly returns. (spoiler:although ([[spoiler:although he's actually still dead, he nevertheless has an important effect on Series 4's REAL Big Bad.]])
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* ImmoralJournalist: snoops into the dark secrets of major political figures and then uses those secrets to blackmail them. Sherlock considers him so disgusting that [[spoiler: he opts to simply shoot him in the head rather than find a way to outsmart him]].
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* ImmoralJournalist: snoops Snoops into the dark secrets of major political figures and then uses those secrets to blackmail them. Sherlock considers him so disgusting that [[spoiler: he opts to simply shoot him in the head rather than find a way to outsmart him]].him]].
* InterimVillain: After Series 1 and 2 had Jim Moriarty as the BigBad, Magnussen was in that role for Series 3. Almost immediately after Magnussen's death, Moriarty seemingly returns. (spoiler:although he's actually still dead, he nevertheless has an important effect on Series 4's REAL Big Bad.]])
* InterimVillain: After Series 1 and 2 had Jim Moriarty as the BigBad, Magnussen was in that role for Series 3. Almost immediately after Magnussen's death, Moriarty seemingly returns. (spoiler:although he's actually still dead, he nevertheless has an important effect on Series 4's REAL Big Bad.]])
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* TheBadGuyWins: Played with. While he doesn't get to kill Sherlock and he gets caught and arrested, once he confesses to the police he realizes how much he loves confessing, and he gloats about how he'll go down in history for his crimes. While he didn't get what he wanted at first, he ends the episode perfectly happy.
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* 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.
* BadBoss: By his own account, he cruelly toys with his own employees as much as he would toy with anyone else.
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* PsychopathicManchild: He is the most powerful man in the world, but he acts like a SpoiledBrat or SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp, since he uses said power mainly to bully and humiliate people ForTheEvulz.
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* PsychopathicManchild: Type C. He is the most powerful man in the world, but he acts like a SpoiledBrat or SchoolyardBullyAllGrownUp, since he uses said power mainly to bully and humiliate people ForTheEvulz.
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** He also insinuates that one of his questioners is prejudiced against him because he's from another country, and yet he himself makes snide comments about the English.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He gets inappropriately physical with almost every female he comes across, and he insults all English people with several backhanded compliments, calling them "a nation of herbivores" and saying that he tries things in England before he tries them in "REAL countries".
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* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: He says that what he does isn't "blackmail" it's "ownership".
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His second scene is what really establishes who he is. He intimidates and harasses Lady Smallwood and threatens her with compromising letters between her husband and a 15-year-old girl, while vocally preferring the term "ownership" to "blackmail". The scene sums up his MO, his pettyness, and his will to "own" other people with disgusting clarity.
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* VillainousFriendship: Eurus mentions that Culverton has one with her and (it's implied) Jim Moriarty before he died. This allowed her to get enough information to impersonate his daughter and fool Sherlock.
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* VillainousFriendship: Eurus mentions that Culverton has one with her and (it's implied) and, it's implied, with Jim Moriarty before he died.(before the latter died). This allowed her to get enough information to impersonate his daughter and fool Sherlock.
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* VillainousFriendship: Eurus mentions that Culverton has one with her and (it's implied) Jim Moriarty before he died. This allowed her to get enough information to impersonate his daughter and fool Sherlock.
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* VillainousFriendship: [[spoiler:With Jim Moriarty. They're both AxCrazy and obsessed with Sherlock.
** She also mentions that she has one with [[spoiler:Culverton Smith. This allowed her to get enough information to impersonate his daughter and fool Sherlock.]]
** She also mentions that she has one with [[spoiler:Culverton Smith. This allowed her to get enough information to impersonate his daughter and fool Sherlock.]]
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* VillainousCheekBones: Has these to go along with his LeanAndMean build.
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* SnarkyVillainEarnestHero: Averted with Sherlock, who is snarkier than Magnussen, but played straight with John. See the quotes on DeadpanSnarker above.
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* EvilChancellor: He has an unofficial version of this role when he consults with Britain's top officials. Official which he has nothing but petty contempt for and loves to blackmail whenever he can.
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* EvilIsNotWellLit: His first few scenes take place in dimly lit rooms.
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* 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.
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* BeardOfEvil: He has a goatee.
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* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: His first action in the series is to almost have John burned in a monfire on Guy Fawkes Day.
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* HorrorDoesntSettleForASimpleTuesday: His first action in the series is to almost have John burned in a monfire on Guy Fawkes Day.
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* HorrorDoesntSettleForASimpleTuesday: His first action in the series is to almost have John burned in a monfire on Guy Fawkes Day.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: Culverton attempts to gaslight Sherlock into thinking that all Sherlock's accusations are just coming from the drugs he's on.
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* {{Gaslighting}}: Culverton attempts to gaslight Sherlock into thinking that all Sherlock's accusations are just coming from the drugs he's on. The fact that both the drugs ''and'' Eurus are messing with Sherlock's head makes it pretty easy for him.
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* 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.
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* LoopholeAbuse: He claims that he isn't evil because he has never killed anybody, even though he has let people be killed by releasing delicate information and has driven others to suicide.
