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* AuditThreat: When Holmes, Watson and Lestrade attempt to gain access to the rubber factory, the owner tells them to come back with a search warrant. Holmes says that one can be easily obtained, but adds that it might be more profitable to return with the labour commissioners: noting that unlike its neighbours, his factory has bar on the inside, not the outside, of its windows, indicating that he is more concerned with keeping someone in, rather than out, and deducing that his workforce must likely consists of illegal immigrants. The owner caves and agrees to tell them what they want to know.

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* AuditThreat: When Holmes, Watson and Lestrade attempt to gain access to the rubber factory, the owner tells them to come back with a search warrant. Holmes says that one can be easily obtained, but adds that it might be more profitable to return with the labour commissioners: noting that unlike its neighbours, his factory has bar bars on the inside, not the outside, of its windows, indicating that he is more concerned with keeping someone in, rather than out, and deducing that his workforce must likely consists of illegal immigrants. The owner caves and agrees to tell them what they want to know.


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* FramingDevice: The film opens in December 1940, during the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII London Blitz]], with an elderly John Watson telling his nurse about an [[TheGreatestStoryNeverTold "unrecorded case"]] he and Sherlock investigated in 1882.
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* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:The BigBad is ultimately reveled to be Sherlock's older brother Thorpe.]]

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* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:The BigBad is ultimately reveled revealed to be Sherlock's older brother Thorpe.]]
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* CombatTentacles: The BigBad uses a SteamPunk mechanical [[GiantSquid giant octopus]] to drag down a treasure ship with its tentacles so he can loot it to fund his EvilScheme.
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* SherlockCanRead: Holmes walks into the mortuary just as Watson is starting an autopsy. He does a SherlockScan and then proceeds to tell Watson the deceased's occupation, general state of health and cause of death. He tells Watson that Mr. Dunlevy's autopsy will have to wait till tomorrow as they only have ten minutes to catch their train. when Watson asks how he knew the dead man's name, Holmes replies "It's written on his chart".

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* SherlockCanRead: Holmes walks into the mortuary just as Watson is starting an autopsy. He does a SherlockScan and then proceeds to tell Watson the deceased's occupation, general state of health and cause of death. He tells Watson that Mr. Dunlevy's autopsy will have to wait till tomorrow as they only have ten minutes to catch their train. when When Watson asks how he knew the dead man's name, Holmes replies "It's written on his chart".

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* RobotGirl: Miss Ivory is revealed to be a clockwork automaton built by SpringHeeledJack and also [[{{Robosexual his lover]].

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* {{Robosexual}}: Miss Ivory is revealed to be a [[RobotGirl clockwork automaton]] built by SpringHeeledJack and also his lover.
* RobotGirl: Miss Ivory is revealed to be a clockwork automaton built by SpringHeeledJack and also [[{{Robosexual [[{{Robosexual}} his lover]].
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* RobotGirl: Miss Ivory is revealed to be a clockwork automaton built by SpringHeeledJack and also [[{{Robosexual his lover]].
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* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler:The BigBad is ultimately reveled to be Sherlock's older brother Thorpe.]]
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* CanonForeigner: In the [[Literature/SherlockHolmes original stories]], Sherlock has a brother named Mycroft. In this movie, Mycroft is not mentioned and Sherlock is given a brother named Thorpe. [[spoiler:Who is also the BigBad.]]
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* DoNotCallMePaul: Sherlock's brother Thorpe keeps addressing Sherlock as "Robert". At the end of the film, Watson gets around to asking Holmes about this, and Holmes admits that his full name is 'Robert Sherlock Holmes':

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* DoNotCallMePaul: [[spoiler: Sherlock's brother Thorpe Thorpe]] keeps addressing Sherlock as "Robert". At the end of the film, Watson gets around to asking Holmes about this, and Holmes admits that his full name is 'Robert Sherlock Holmes':
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* BoundAndGagged: The BigBad kidnaps Inspector Lestrade and is holding him gagged and chained to massive throne in his castle hideout.

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* BoundAndGagged: The BigBad kidnaps Inspector Lestrade and is holding him gagged and chained to a massive throne in his castle hideout.



* GeniusCripple: The BigBad is GadgeteerGenius who was paralyzed by a police bullet and uses an exoskeleton to move around.

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* GeniusCripple: The BigBad is a GadgeteerGenius who was paralyzed by a police bullet and uses an exoskeleton to move around.
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* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: After being [[InstantSedation knocked unconscious by Miss Ivory's injection'', Watson wakes up strapped to an operating table-like contraption in the BigBad's laboratory.

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* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: After being [[InstantSedation knocked unconscious by Miss Ivory's injection'', injection]], Watson wakes up strapped to an operating table-like contraption in the BigBad's laboratory.

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