History Film / EnolaHolmes

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* FingerTwitchingRevival: [[spoiler:As Enola cries over Tewksbury whom his grandmother just shot, she places her hand in his… and then he takes a hold of her hand.]]

* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Once he's decided that he's not going to get anything useful out of Enola, Linthorn tries to kill her since he's already let him see her face.]]

* InterrogatedForNothing: By the time Linthorn catches up with Enola and [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique questions her]] on Tewksbury's whereabouts, she hasn't seen Tewksbury in a day or two and so genuinely has no idea where he is. He does eventually seem to believe her protests that she doesn't know, but that doesn't improve her situation any as Linthorn points out [[HeKnowsTooMuch she's seen his face]].

* OfCorsetHurts: Played with. While Enola says that corsets are a way of women being oppressed [[spoiler: and is shown screaming in pain from being tight laced while at the boarding school]], they aren't shown to hinder her in any way when walking through London or [[spoiler: fighting against an assassin]]. This is TruthInTelevision as the tightlacing movement was considered to be highly harmful to the body (especially as regards childbearing abilities), and most corsets, either custom-made by highly trained specialists or -- for the working class -- bought off-the-rack from industrial makers, were in fact sensible undergarments made to support the body without restricting movement overmuch (there were even sports versions, only lightly boned to promote freedom of movement).

* PublicSecretMessage: Enola publishes an anagrammed message to her mother in papers she knows Eudoria keeps up with. Later, Sherlock does the same to send a message, supposedly from their mother, to her, Enola she immediately recognizes it as being from him.

** Tewksbury seems this, [[HiddenDepths at first.]] Later on though, he shows an in-depth knowledge of local flora which helps him and Enola to eat while they find their way to London. [[spoiler: And when Enola investigates his case, she discovers that he deliberately left a false trail for his family to follow so they wouldn't find him.]] Most notably, he's the ''only character'' who immediately sees through Enola's disguise and guesses that she's not a boy.

* TextileWorkIsFeminine: After Enola tells him she was not raised to do traditionally feminine things, Tewksbury expresses surprise that she can't embroider. An earlier scene showed her embroidery as sloppy.

* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:While it's revealed that Tewksbury's grandmother ordered the deaths of her son (the previous Marquess) and grandson (the current Marquess), it isn't revealed whether or not ''she'' killed him or if she hired Linthorn for both.]]

The film was produced by Creator/WarnerBros and Creator/LegendaryPictures, with its distribution rights having been acquired by Creator/{{Netflix}}, which started streaming it on September 23, 2020. A sequel was greenlit almost immediately and filming wrapped up in early 2022. Brown, Cavill, Partridge, and Bonham-Carter are all confirmed to be reprising their roles, though Claflin was unable to return. The sequel, ''Film/EnolaHolmes2'', was released on November 4, 2022.

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"If I have to stay hidden from my brothers, I must become something unexpected. A lady."'']]

* GirlInABox:
** GenderInverted when Tewksbury is introduced cutting his way out of a travel bag on the train. He later hides in a wicker suitcase.
** Played straight when Enola then hides in the wicker suitcase.

* GenderFlip: Combined with RaceLift in the second film; [[spoiler: Moriarty is actually [[SignificantAnagram Mira Troy]], a black woman]].

* ArtisticLicense: With his father deceased, Tewkesbury, is now the Marquess of Basilweather and should be addressed as such by himself and by everyone else, yet the film flip-flops on it. The newspapers and Mycroft do so, and Tewkesbury himself ''does'' introduce himself secondarily as such to Enola, yet he and everyone keep calling him by his subsidiary Viscount title thereafter. Whilst it is understandable that Tewkesbury is likely grieving his father, the previous marquess, and is more used to the title that was once his by courtesy, there is no etiquette in the [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever British peerage]] that allows for someone to continue to use their lower titles in this manner. Victorian society was especially rigid and Tewkesbury would have almost immediately been called Basilweather, or more properly Lord Basilweather by all but his closest friends, the moment his father passed on.

** Enola attempting a "corkscrew" Jiu-Jitsu maneuver (what modern UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts call a kneebar). Due to her small frame and height, she consistently fails to execute the move several times before managing it.

* ShownTheirWork: Averting ArtisticLicenseMartialArts, Enola's fighting style actually looks a lot like jiu-jitsu.

* FakeWidow: Enola sometimes masquerades as a widow. She mentions it's a great way to travel incognito because death makes people uncomfortable, and in Victorian society, it would have been all but unthinkable for a stranger to ask a widow about the circumstances of her husband's death.

* WidowWoman: Exploited by Enola when she masquerades as a widow. She mentions it's a great way to travel incognito because death makes people uncomfortable, and in Victorian society, it would have been all but unthinkable for a stranger to ask a widow about the circumstances of her husband's death.

* AgeLift:
** In the books, Sherlock is 20 years older than Enola and Mycroft is 27 years older. Their exact ages in relation to her aren't stated in the film, but their actors are both basically twice her age and she mentions that both brothers were still living at home for a little bit after her father died (when Enola was three or four judging by descriptions; for the record, during filming Cavill was 36, Claflin was 33, and Brown was 15).
** In the books, Enola is 14 when Eudoria leaves their home. In the film, she's 16.