History Monster / SherlockHolmes

* ''The Golden Years'' [[labelnote:Stories]]"Curse of the Black Feather", "Maestro of Mysteries", "The Cure that Kills"[[/labelnote]] : [[EvilutionaryBiologist Ciarán Malastier]] is considered by Holmes to be the worst man he's faced in his long career fighting evil. Malastier is a creepy eugenicist who wants to [[SuperBreedingProgram purge humanity of its "imperfections"]] and, to this end, has set up a baby farming operation where pregnant mothers can give up their babies so they may be adopted. In reality, Malastier [[WouldHurtAChild kills any who he deems imperfect]]. Desiring to put his plans to wider use, Malastier works for the British Government to make [[DeadlyGas poison gas]] for them to use in the coming world war one but instead uses it for his own schemes. Malastier releases the gas in a slum called Undertown, which [[KillThePoor kills hundreds]], including Holmes's greatest love Irene Adler, hoping to purge what he views as a "stain on his perfect Britain".
* "Lestrade & the Damned Cultists", from ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos Adventures'', by Ralph E. Vaughan: Lord Alathon is the leader of the [[{{Cult}} Order of the Eldritch Gate]], brushed off as a raving madman until he and his cult start engaging in brutal [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]], leaving four murdered with their [[SlashedThroat throats cut]] and the Elder Sign upon them all across Whitechapel. When Laverne and his men interrupt his affairs and interrupt an attempted fifth sacrifice, Alathon reveals his plans to let the [[EldritchAbomination Great Old Ones]] rise to enslave and feast on all humanity, as he rises above the ashes {{a god|Am I}}.

* ''Zombies Over London'', by Stephen Mertz: [[DiabolicalMastermind Professor James Moriarty]], Holmes's lifelong ArchEnemy, steals a powerful drug which transforms people into [[FleshEatingZombie flesh-eating zombies]] yoked to his will and has it tested on dozens. In order to test their destructive potential, Moriarty unleashes them on a small town, having dozens of men, women and children ripped to pieces. Capturing Holmes, Moriarty reveals to him that his ultimate plan is to [[ZombieApocalypse unleash his zombies over London]], causing mass death and havoc and clearing the way for Moriarty to be able to strip London dry of valuables, while gloating to Holmes's face on how he will make him suffer.

* "The Barrel of Lagavulin", by Craig Stephen Copland, from ''Adventures in the Realms of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe'': [[Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado Montresor]] is secretly a vile, snobbish Italian wine smuggler named Diletto. Having murdered the brother-in-law of Literature/CAugusteDupin for insulting him by having him [[BuriedAlive walled alive]], Montresor later becomes a full-blown SerialKiller. Over the course of thirty years, Montresor kills anyone who he feels to have [[DisproportionateRetribution bruised his ego]] and walls them alive as punishment, with countless victims. Near the end of the short story, Montresor attempts to kill Holmes for insulting his winemaking skills and make him the latest victim in his collection.

* ''[[Film/SherlockCaseOfEvil Case of Evil]]'': [[BigBad Professor James Moriarty]], seeking to corner the [[DrugsAreBad drug trade]], begins murdering crime lords to take their operations and refine his own morphine. To make the drug illegal, he plots to flood the market with many dying of overdoses and many more addicted so he may control the supply and demand alike. Attempting to torture Holmes with a fatal dose, Moriarty later murders Holmes's lover just to hurt the detective as a penalty for challenging him.

** ''[[Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows A Game of Shadows]]'': [[TheChessmaster Professor James Moriarty]], the notorious "[[DiabolicalMastermind Napoleon of Crime]]", is [[EvilCounterpart Holmes's equal in intellect but utterly lacking in any moral restraints]]. Fatally poisoning Irene Adler for falling in love with Holmes, Moriarty goes after not only Holmes but also his best friend, Dr. John Watson and his new wife Mary with his goons. Plotting to jump-start UsefulNotes/WorldWarI so [[WarForFunAndProfit he can profit off the munitions sales]], Moriarty oversees a series of bombings across European counties to increase tensions and greedily has a businessman killed to acquire his company. Capturing Holmes, Moriarty brutally tortures him and murders the members of the Gypsy tribe attempting to free Holmes, before trying to enact his final ploy to begin his war.

* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfShirleyHolmes's'' "The Case of the Precious Cargo": [[HumanTraffickers El Condor]] is a gangster who, with the help of a corrupt diplomat named Charles Tucker, smuggles people out of South America and into Canada. The refugees are led to believe that they will be released once they reach their destination, but in reality [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil they are enslaved]] and put to work in sweatshops overseen by El Condor. When one refugee, a little girl named Luisa, escapes, El Condor abducts Luisa's aunt and threatens to kill her unless she helps him reclaim Luisa, also threatening to use his connections to have Luisa's imprisoned mother murdered back in South America. After Charles captures Luisa, as well as [[KidDetective Shirley Holmes]], El Condor elects to [[WouldHurtAChild murder the girls]] and Rita and make it look like they were killed by Charles, who he is also going to kill, having decided [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness the latter had outlived his usefulness]].

* ''Year One'', written by Scott Beatty: [[ThemeSerialKiller Professor James Moriarty]] is a madman with delusions of grandeur, convinced he is the rightful heir to UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire and seeking to prove it to all. Moriarty murders 9 men in ways reminiscent of the deaths of the "Twelve Caesars" though creative means, from stabbing to death to burning alive. Planning to round out his murders with Sherlock Holmes and his partners, Moriarty [[BadBoss forces one of his own men]] to drink mercury and die a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath horrible death]], at which point Moriarty reveals his intent to use "GreekFire" chemicals to firebomb London and kill countless people to usher in his claim to dominion over the planet.
* ''ComicBook/{{Moriarty}}'''s "The Dark Chamber" arc: [[ChaosIsEvil Tartarus]], real name Gottfried, is a masked anarchist and terrorist who worships chaos. Tartarus manipulates the organization the Black Hand into assassinating Archduke UsefulNotes/FranzFerdinandOfAustria, which kickstarts UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Funding the creation of the powerful Dark Chamber which creates psychoactive visions of the future, Tartarus uses it to drive the Black Hand members insane and kill themselves in order to get rid of them after [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they've outlived their usefulness]]. To tie up loose ends, Tartarus frames Moriarty for a murder and bombing and has the scientist who created the Dark Chamber starved. Tartarus reveals that his ultimate aim is to release a version of the Dark Chamber to destroy London by driving it insane before selling it to all sides in the coming war and watching as Europe crumbles, after which he will rule the ashes as [[AGodAmI a god]].

* ''Moriarty Lives'', written by David Liss: [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron Bombastus von Hohenheim]] is a cruel alchemist who boasts that he is descended from Paracelsus himself. [[IOwnThisTown Lording over a town]] in Switzerland, von Hohenheim terrorizes and murders the townsfolk into submission. A [[MadScientist cruel scientist]], von Hohenheim participates in [[PlayingWithSyringes ghastly experiments]], in one case murdering a near-term pregnant woman and removing her unborn child to place it into the womb of a cow. Desiring the key to a locked safe, von Hohenheim tortures the young son of the safe maker and places mirrors around the boy so he can see himself being tortured and killed. A monstrous sadist, when confronted about his crimes, von Hohenheim turns on even his wife and starts to [[ElectricTorture torture]] her, planning to cut out her heart.

* ''[[VideoGame/SherlockHolmesTheAwakened The Awakened]]'':

** [[MadScientist Dr. Martin Fenwick]] is Professor Moriarty's right-hand man. Assisting Moriarty in his crimes, Fenwick would commit many crimes, but his [[Recap/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCenturyS2E03 worst crime]] is creating a [[OrganTheft black market organ trafficking ring]] by tricking homeless citizens into giving him their DNA. He would then clone organs for back-alley transplants that would inevitably fail without warning, and attempt to freeze Holmes and Watson to death when they uncover his scheme. He would exploit the love of a woman named Jill to manipulate her into stealing technology that would allow him to mass produce even more faulty organs for his ring, only to [[DirtyCoward abandon her to save his own skin.]] Despite being Moriarty's minion, Fenwick proves himself to be [[MoreDespicableMinion even viler than his master]].

* ''Sherlock Holmes vs. Creator/HarryHoudini'', written by Anthony Del Col & Conor [=McCreery=]: [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Rasputin]] is a master hypnotist with a desire to disprove Harry Houdini's "fake" magic and cripple London for its disrespect of the Russian autocracy. Using his hypnotizing capabilities to force innocents and [[BadBoss even his own men]] to [[PsychicAssistedSuicide commit suicide]] during Houdini's show; bombing the glass ceiling of another show and killing many with the falling glass; and trying to force Houdini to shoot several of Sherlock Holmes's close friends, Rasputin also forces Sherlock to turn a gun on himself and reveals his intention to bomb a massive London block and use the chaos plus his hypnosis to kill dozens and [[RabbleRouser whip hundreds up into violent riots]]. His actions having temporarily crippled Houdini's wife, Rasputin straps a bomb to the woman's wheelchair and [[ForcedToWatch forces Houdini to watch]] as he she is put in danger, just to spite the man Rasputin views as a lesser magician.

* ''Sherlock Holmes: The Golden Years'' [[labelnote:Stories]]"Curse of the Black Feather", "Maestro of Mysteries", "The Cure that Kills"[[/labelnote]] : [[EvilutionaryBiologist Ciarán Malastier]] is considered by Holmes to be the worst man he's faced in his long career fighting evil. Malastier is a creepy eugenicist who wants to [[SuperBreedingProgram purge humanity of its "imperfections"]] and, to this end, has set up a baby farming operation where pregnant mothers can give up their babies so they may be adopted. In reality, Malastier [[WouldHurtAChild kills any who he deems imperfect]]. Desiring to put his plans to wider use, Malastier works for the British Government to make [[DeadlyGas poison gas]] for them to use in the coming world war one but instead uses it for his own schemes. Malastier releases the gas in a slum called Undertown, which [[KillThePoor kills hundreds]], including Holmes's greatest love Irene Adler, hoping to purge what he views as a "stain on his perfect Britain".
* "Lestrade & the Damned Cultists", from ''Sherlock Holmes: Franchise/CthulhuMythos Adventures'', by Ralph E. Vaughan: Lord Alathon is the leader of the [[{{Cult}} Order of the Eldritch Gate]], brushed off as a raving madman until he and his cult start engaging in brutal [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]], leaving four murdered with their [[SlashedThroat throats cut]] and the Elder Sign upon them all across Whitechapel. When Laverne and his men interrupt his affairs and interrupt an attempted fifth sacrifice, Alathon reveals his plans to let the [[EldritchAbomination Great Old Ones]] rise to enslave and feast on all humanity, as he rises above the ashes {{a god|Am I}}.

* ''Sherlock Holmes: Zombies Over London'', by Stephen Mertz: [[DiabolicalMastermind Professor James Moriarty]], Holmes's lifelong ArchEnemy, steals a powerful drug which transforms people into [[FleshEatingZombie flesh-eating zombies]] yoked to his will and has it tested on dozens. In order to test their destructive potential, Moriarty unleashes them on a small town, having dozens of men, women and children ripped to pieces. Capturing Holmes, Moriarty reveals to him that his ultimate plan is to [[ZombieApocalypse unleash his zombies over London]], causing mass death and havoc and clearing the way for Moriarty to be able to strip London dry of valuables, while gloating to Holmes's face on how he will make him suffer.

* "The Curious Case of the Vanished Youth", by Mark A. Latham, from ''Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes'': [[LivingDollCollector Lord Percy Montagu]] is a [[VillainWithGoodPublicity well-respected High Judge]] who in truth is a depraved SerialKiller with an obsession with [[MadArtist art and beauty]]. Kidnapping beautiful youths who take his fancy from the East End, Montagu has them chained in his basement and starved to death if they aren't perfect enough for him. Those who Montagu considers to be his perfect subjects are placed into a cage in his personal tower, where he watches them, intending to turn them into [[TaxidermyIsCreepy taxidermy]] exhibits to be able to fully appreciate his "art" forever. When Langdale Pike and Watson confront him, Montagu smugly states his influence will keep him free, and threatens to add Watson's wife to his collection if he interferes.

* "The Barrel of Lagavulin", by Craig Stephen Copland, from ''Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe'': [[Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado Montresor]] is secretly a vile, snobbish Italian wine smuggler named Diletto. Having murdered the brother-in-law of Literature/CAugusteDupin for insulting him by having him [[BuriedAlive walled alive]], Montresor later becomes a full-blown SerialKiller. Over the course of thirty years, Montresor kills anyone who he feels to have [[DisproportionateRetribution bruised his ego]] and walls them alive as punishment, with countless victims. Near the end of the short story, Montresor attempts to kill Holmes for insulting his winemaking skills and make him the latest victim in his collection.

[[folder:Live-Action Television]]

* ''Film/SherlockCaseOfEvil'': [[BigBad Professor James Moriarty]], seeking to corner the [[DrugsAreBad drug trade]], begins murdering crime lords to take their operations and refine his own morphine. To make the drug illegal, he plots to flood the market with many dying of overdoses and many more addicted so he may control the supply and demand alike. Attempting to torture Holmes with a fatal dose, Moriarty later murders Holmes's lover just to hurt the detective as a penalty for challenging him.
* ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'' (2002-2003 MadeForTVMovie): [[BigBad Jack Stapleton]], even more wicked than his original incarnation, wins the trust of the Baskervilles family while using an abused, [[AttackAnimal trained hound]] to simulate the dark legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles. [[FrightDeathtrap Terrifying family patriarch Charles to death]], Stapleton uses his own wife Beryl as a HoneyTrap for Charles's nephew Henry, [[DomesticAbuse viciously abusing Beryl]] to force her under his control. Murdering a convict with the Hound that he mistakes for Henry, Stapleton later sends the Hound to savage Henry and, deciding he cannot trust Beryl, murders her himself before [[CopKiller killing an officer]] and attempting to murder Holmes and Watson in order to flee.

* ''Sherlock Holmes: Year One'', written by Scott Beatty: [[ThemeSerialKiller Professor James Moriarty]] is a madman with delusions of grandeur, convinced he is the rightful heir to UsefulNotes/TheRomanEmpire and seeking to prove it to all. Moriarty murders 9 men in ways reminiscent of the deaths of the "Twelve Caesars" though creative means, from stabbing to death to burning alive. Planning to round out his murders with Sherlock Holmes and his partners, Moriarty [[BadBoss forces one of his own men]] to drink mercury and die a [[CruelAndUnusualDeath horrible death]], at which point Moriarty reveals his intent to use "GreekFire" chemicals to firebomb London and kill countless people to usher in his claim to dominion over the planet.

* ''Sherlock Holmes: Moriarty Lives'', written by David Liss: [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron Bombastus von Hohenheim]] is a cruel alchemist who boasts that he is descended from Paracelsus himself. [[IOwnThisTown Lording over a town]] in Switzerland, von Hohenheim terrorizes and murders the townsfolk into submission. A [[MadScientist cruel scientist]], von Hohenheim participates in [[PlayingWithSyringes ghastly experiments]], in one case murdering a near-term pregnant woman and removing her unborn child to place it into the womb of a cow. Desiring the key to a locked safe, von Hohenheim tortures the young son of the safe maker and places mirrors around the boy so he can see himself being tortured and killed. A monstrous sadist, when confronted about his crimes, von Hohenheim turns on even his wife and starts to [[ElectricTorture torture]] her, planning to cut out her heart.

** [[ImmoralJournalist Charles Augustus Milverton]], the self-styled King of {{Blackmail}}ers, is the mastermind of the [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Ripper]] murders, forging the local fanatics into a serial killing unit to butcher the lower classes of society, all so he can cause a mass conflict and seize control in the ensuing chaos. Delighting in [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] people into monsters and destroying their lives, Milverton targets a good-hearted reformer, Parliament member Adam Whiteley, by blackmailing a man into [[TargetedToHurtTheHero killing his brother and servants]] so Whiteley will murder the killer, after eliminating anyone who could possibly trace the crime to Milverton. Milverton ends up threatening Mary, the fiancée of Sherlock Holmes's best friend Watson, to turn Holmes and Moriarty against one another, relishing in referencing to himself as "evil itself" to contrast Moriarty.

[[folder:Other Media]]
* ''[[Script/SherlockHolmesAndTheVengeanceOfDracula Sherlock Holmes and the Vengeance of Dracula]]'' ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20181008122149/http://www.screenplaysandscripts.com/script_files/S/Sherlock%20Holmes%20and%20the%20Vengeance%20of%20Dracula%5B1%5D(2).pdf link]]): [[{{Dracula}} Count Vlad Dracula]] is an aristocratic vampire who seeks to rule England as his new vampire dynasty. Originally UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler of Romania who was previously slain by Abraham Van Helsing, Lord Arthur Holmwood, and John Seward for the murder of Lucy Westenra, Dracula survived and sought revenge. Traveling to London and killing those who stand in his way, Dracula kills Holmwood and Seward before [[VillainTeamUp forming an alliance with Professor Moriarty]]. Seeking the death of Sherlock Holmes, Dracula turns Moriarty's henchmen into his own personal servants, while killing those who fail him, an act which [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusts even Moriarty]]. Turning Sherlock's love Constance Blackwell and Watson against him, Dracula later devises a plan to inject his own blood into the city's gaslight network to turn everybody in London into vampires, preparing to rule a country of his own kind with Constance by his side as queen.
* ''WesternAnimation/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCentury'':
** [[MadScientist Dr. Martin Fenwick]] is Professor Moriarty's right-hand man. Assisting Moriarty in his crimes, Fenwick would commit many crimes, but his [[Recap/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCenturyS2E03 worst crime]] is creating a [[OrganTheft black market organ trafficking ring]] by tricking homeless citizens into giving him their DNA. He would then clone organs for back-alley transplants that would inevitably fail without warning, and attempt to freeze Holmes and Watson to death when they uncover his scheme. He would exploit the love of a woman named Jill to manipulate her into stealing technology that would allow him to mass produce even more faulty organs for his ring, only to [[DirtyCoward abandon her to save his own skin.]] Despite being Moriarty's minion, Fenwick proves himself to be [[MoreDespicableMinion even viler than his master]].
** "[[Recap/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCenturyS1E06 The Adventure of the Deranged Detective]]": [[MadDoctor Dr. Culverton Smith]] is a neurosurgeon turned thief. When Inspector Lestrade finds evidence of his crimes, Smith uses stolen [[{{nanomachines}} nanobots]] to turn her into a feral, insane lunatic to destroy the evidence while lighting several buildings full of people on fire, [[AndIMustScream conscious but unable to stop herself]]. [[FrameUp Framing]] his superior for his crime, he would attempt to drive Holmes insane too when he catches on in order to have him kill Lestrade and then wipe his memory. When Holmes outsmarts him, Smith orders Lestrade to execute a helpless Holmes, smiling as he watches.

* ''Script/SherlockHolmesAndTheVengeanceOfDracula'' ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20181008122149/http://www.screenplaysandscripts.com/script_files/S/Sherlock%20Holmes%20and%20the%20Vengeance%20of%20Dracula%5B1%5D(2).pdf link]]): [[{{Dracula}} Count Vlad Dracula]] is an aristocratic vampire who seeks to rule England as his new vampire dynasty. Originally UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler of Romania who was previously slain by Abraham Van Helsing, Lord Arthur Holmwood, and John Seward for the murder of Lucy Westenra, Dracula survived and sought revenge. Traveling to London and killing those who stand in his way, Dracula kills Holmwood and Seward before [[VillainTeamUp forming an alliance with Professor Moriarty]]. Seeking the death of Sherlock Holmes, Dracula turns Moriarty's henchmen into his own personal servants, while killing those who fail him, an act which [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusts even Moriarty]]. Turning Sherlock's love Constance Blackwell and Watson against him, Dracula later devises a plan to inject his own blood into the city's gaslight network to turn everybody in London into vampires, preparing to rule a country of his own kind with Constance by his side as queen.

* ''Sherlock Holmes: Moriarty Lives'', written by David Liss: [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron Bombastus von Hohenheim]] is a cruel alchemist who boasts that he is descended from Paracelsus himself. [[IOwnThisTown Lording over a town]] in Switzerland, von Hohenheim terrorizes and murders the townsfolk into submission. A [[MadScientist cruel scientist]], von Hohenheim participates in [[PlayingWithSyringes ghastly experiments]], in one case murdering a near-term pregnant woman and removing her unborn child to place it into the womb of a cow. Desiring the key to a locked safe, von Hohenheim tortures the young son of the safe maker and places mirrors around the boy so he can see himself being tortured and killed. A monstrous sadist, when confronted about his crimes. von Hohenheim turns on even his wife and starts to [[ElectricTorture torture]] her, planning to cut out her heart.

** ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'': [[BigBad Jack Stapleton]], real name [[BlackSheep Rodger Baskerville]], wins the trust of the Baskervilles family while using an abused, trained hound to simulate the dark legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles. [[FrightDeathtrap Terrifying family patriarch Charles to death]], Stapleton uses his own wife Beryl as a HoneyTrap for Charles's nephew Henry, viciously [[DomesticAbuse abusing Beryl]] to force her under his control. Murdering a convict with the Hound that he mistakes for Henry, Stapleton later beats Beryl to keep her from interference and sends his beast to murder Henry to claim the family estate, even callously feeding the family doctor's little spaniel to the Hound and stopping at nothing to satisfy his cruel greed.

** [[ImmoralJournalist Charles Augustus Milverton]], the self-styled King of {{Blackmail}}ers, is the mastermind of the [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Ripper]] murders, forging the local fanatics into a serial killing unit to butcher the lower classes of society, all so he can cause a mass conflict and seize control in the ensuing chaos. Delighting in [[TheCorrupter corrupting]] people into monsters and destroying their lives, Milverton targets a good-hearted reformer, Parliament member Whitley, by blackmailing a man into killing his brother and servants so Whitley will murder the killer, after eliminating anyone who could possibly trace the crime to Milverton. Milverton ends up threatening Sherlock Holmes's best friend Watson's fiancée Mary to turn Holmes and Moriarty against one another, relishing in referencing to himself as "[[CardCarryingVillain evil itself]]" to contrast Moriarty.

** [[MadScientist Dr. Martin Fenwick]] is Professor Moriarty's [[TheDragon right hand man]]. Assisting Moriarty in his crimes, Fenwick would commit many crimes, but his [[Recap/SherlockHolmesInTheTwentySecondCenturyS2E03 worst crime]] is creating a [[OrganTheft black market organ trafficking ring]] by tricking homeless citizens into giving him their DNA. He would then clone organs for back-alley transplants that would inevitably fail without warning, and attempt to freeze Holmes and Watson to death when they uncover his scheme. He would exploit the love of a woman named Jill to manipulate her into stealing technology that would allow him to mass produce even more faulty organs for his ring, only to [[DirtyCoward abandon her to save his own skin.]] Despite being Moriarty's minion, Fenwick proves himself to be even viler than his master.

** "Consulting criminal" [[Characters/SherlockJimMoriarty Jim Moriarty]] lends his [[DiabolicalMastermind genius]] to [[PsychoForHire help other crooks commit crimes]], in the name of alleviating his own boredom and obsessively trying to capture the attention of Sherlock Holmes, not caring who he hurts while doing so. [[TheManBehindTheMan Behind the villains]] of the first two episodes, Moriarty takes center stage in "[[Recap/SherlockS01E03TheGreatGame The Great Game]]", selling out his own clients and challenging Sherlock to solve his puzzles lest bombs he has strapped to innocents--one of whom is a child--detonate, considering the whole spectacle a demented game for himself. When an old woman begins describing the sound of his voice to Sherlock, Moriarty immediately detonates her bomb, killing her and eleven others. [[Recap/SherlockS02E03TheReichenbachFall Later]], threatening the family members of a jury to force them to declare him innocent when arrested, Moriarty goes on to poison two children; murders his own accomplice; frames Sherlock for his own crimes; and tries to force Sherlock to commit suicide, threatening to have his loved ones killed if he does not. When Sherlock attempts to force Moriarty into calling off his killers, Moriarty happily [[SpitefulSuicide shoots himself dead to "win" his game with Sherlock]]. Even after his death, Moriarty arranges a plan with Sherlock's sister to continue forcing him through {{Sadistic Choice}}s, resulting in the death of more innocents, unwilling to let go of his obsessive chase with Sherlock even with his own passing.

* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20181008122149/http://www.screenplaysandscripts.com/script_files/S/Sherlock%20Holmes%20and%20the%20Vengeance%20of%20Dracula%5B1%5D(2).pdf Sherlock Holmes and the Vengeance of Dracula]]'': [[{{Dracula}} Count Vlad Dracula]] is an aristocratic vampire who seeks to rule England as his new vampire dynasty. Originally UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler of Romania who was previously slain by Abraham Van Helsing, Lord Arthur Holmwood, and John Seward for the murder of Lucy Westenra, Dracula survived and sought revenge. Traveling to London and killing those who stand in his way, Dracula kills Holmwood and Seward before [[VillainTeamUp forming an alliance with Professor Moriarty]]. Seeking the death of Sherlock Holmes, Dracula turns Moriarty's henchmen into his own personal servants, while killing those who fail him, an act which [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusts even Moriarty]]. Turning Sherlock's love Constance Blackwell and Watson against him, Dracula later devises a plan to inject his own blood into the city's gaslight network to turn everybody in London into vampires, preparing to rule a country of his own kind with Constance by his side as queen.

* ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheBaskervilles'': [[BigBad Jack Stapleton]], real name [[BlackSheep Rodger Baskerville]], wins the trust of the Baskervilles family while using an abused, trained hound to simulate the dark legend of the Hound of the Baskervilles. [[FrightDeathtrap Terrifying family patriarch Charles to death]], Stapleton uses his own wife Beryl as a HoneyTrap for Charles's nephew Henry, viciously [[DomesticAbuse abusing Beryl]] to force her under his control. Murdering a convict with the Hound that he mistakes for Henry, Stapleton later beats Beryl to keep her from interference and sends his beast to murder Henry to claim the family estate, even callously feeding the family doctor's little spaniel to the Hound and stopping at nothing to satisfy his cruel greed.

** "Child Predator": [[WouldHurtAChild Adam Kemper]] is TheManBehindTheMan to Samuel Abbott. When Abbott kidnapped Kemper, Kemper was able to bend Abbott to his will, even forcing him to live in squalor. Kemper forces Abbott to kidnap and murder five children. When Kemper is arrested, he [[WoundedGazelleGambit pretends to be a innocent victim]] with StockholmSyndrome, and is offered an immunity deal. After Abbott is confronted and [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]], Sherlock realizes he's been had. Kemper brags that he will escape prosecution, until Sherlock notices a loophole in the deal, and confronts him while he observes future victims on the playground.
** "One Way to Get Off": [[SerialKiller Wade Crewes]] murders couples by tying them to chairs and executing them with a bullet to the head. Crewes would [[EvilGloating gloat]] to the cops when questioned, until Gregson's partner [[FramingTheGuiltyParty planted his prints on the scene]]. Years later, his secret illegitimate son, Sean Figueroa, reaches out to him. Crewes convinces Figueroa to continue his crime spree, killing another two couples as well as a guest, and attempts to [[FrameUp frame a man]] with the gun and cigarette butts. When Figueroa confesses the crimes, Crewes is confronted with the evidence, but still insists that he is innocent and [[IHaveNoSon denies having a son]].
** "The Illustrious Client" & "The One Who Got Away": [[BitchInSheepsClothing Adelbert "Del" Gruner]] uses his corporate executive status and [[FauxAffablyEvil charming facade]] to attract many women, before kidnapping them, and [[ColdBloodedTorture torturing]] them with his branding iron, while also [[SerialRapist raping them]]. This kind of brutality would last for weeks before his victims would [[SerialKiller succumb to their wounds]], while Gruner would find more women, having doing this for years racking a body count in the dozens; Kitty Winter was the only survivor of Gruner's cruelty. When Gruner learns that Kitty is trying to bring him to justice, he tries to incriminate her, while continuing his killing spree in New York.

* ''[[http://screenplaysandscripts.com/script_files/S/Sherlock%20Holmes%20and%20the%20Vengeance%20of%20Dracula%5B1%5D(2).pdf Sherlock Holmes and the Vengeance of Dracula]]'': [[{{Dracula}} Count Vlad Dracula]] is an aristocratic vampire who seeks to rule England as his new vampire dynasty. Originally UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler of Romania who was previously slain by Abraham Van Helsing, Lord Arthur Holmwood, and John Seward for the murder of Lucy Westenra, Dracula survived and sought revenge. Traveling to London and killing those who stand in his way, Dracula kills Holmwood and Seward before [[VillainTeamUp forming an alliance with Professor Moriarty]]. Seeking the death of Sherlock Holmes, Dracula turns Moriarty's henchmen into his own personal servants, while killing those who fail him, an act which [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusts even Moriarty]]. Turning Sherlock's love Constance Blackwell and Watson against him, Dracula later devises a plan to inject his own blood into the city's gaslight network to turn everybody in London into vampires, preparing to rule a country of his own kind with Constance by his side as queen.

** "Consulting criminal" [[Characters/SherlockJimMoriarty Jim Moriarty]] lends his [[DiabolicalMastermind genius]] to [[PsychoForHire help other crooks commit crimes]], in the name of alleviating his own boredom and obsessively trying to capture the attention of Sherlock Holmes, not caring who he hurts while doing so. [[TheManBehindTheMan Behind the villains]] of the first two episodes, Moriarty takes center stage in "[[Recap/SherlockS01E03TheGreatGame The Great Game]]", selling out his own clients and challenging Sherlock to solve his puzzles lest bombs he has strapped to innocents--one of whom is a child--detonate, considering the whole spectacle a demented game for himself. When an old woman begins describing the sound of his voice to Sherlock, Moriarty immediately detonates her bomb, killing her and eleven others. [[Recap/SherlockS02E03TheReichenbachFall Later]], threatening the family members of a jury to force them to declare him innocent when arrested, Moriarty goes on to poison two children; murders his own accomplice; frames Sherlock for his own crimes; and tries to force Sherlock to commit suicide, threatening to have his loved ones killed if he does not. When Sherlock attempts to force Moriarty into calling off his killers, Moriarty happily [[ThanatosGambit shoots himself dead to "win" his game with Sherlock]]. Even after his death, Moriarty arranges a plan with Sherlock's sister to continue forcing him through {{Sadistic Choice}}s, resulting in the death of more innocents, unwilling to let go of his obsessive chase with Sherlock even with his own passing.

* ''ComicBook/{{Moriarty}}'''s "The Dark Chamber" arc: [[ChaosIsEvil Tartarus]], real name Gottfried, is a masked anarchist and terrorist who worships chaos. Tartarus manipulates the organization the Black Hand into assassinating Archduke UsefulNotes/FranzFerdinandOfAustria, which kickstarts UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Funding the creation of the powerful Dark Chamber which creates psychoactive visions of the future, Tartarus uses it to drive the Black Hand members insane and kill themselves in order to get rid of them after [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they've outlived their usefulness]]. To tie up loose ends, Tartarus frames Moriarty for a murder and bombing and has the scientist who created the Dark Chamber starved. Tartarus reveals that his ultimate aim is to release a version of the Dark Chamber to destroy London by driving it insane before selling it to all sides in the coming war and watching as Europe crumbles, after which he will rule the ashes as [[AGodAmI a god]].

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* ''ComicBook/{{Moriarty}}'''s "The Dark Chamber" arc: [[ChaosIsEvil Tartarus]], real name Gottfried, is a masked anarchist and terrorist who worships chaos. Tartarus manipulates the organization the Black Hand into assassinating Archduke UsefulNotes/FranzFerdinandOfAustria, which kickstarts UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Funding the creation of the powerful Dark Chamber which creates psychoactive visions of the future, Tartarus uses it to drive the Black Hand members insane and kill themselves in order to get rid of them after [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they've outlived their usefulness]]. To tie up loose ends, Tartarus frames Moriarty for a murder and bombing and has the scientist who created the Dark Chamber starved. Tartarus reveals that his ultimate aim is to release a version of the Dark Chamber to destroy London by driving it insane before selling it to all sides in the coming war and watching as Europe crumbles, after which he will rule the ashes as [[AGodAmI a god]].
* Comics by Sylvain Cordurié et al.:
** ''Sherlock Holmes and Vampires of London'': Selymes, the VampireMonarch who serves as the first supernatural threat Holmes encounters, runs a huge network of vampires that he uses to amass dozens of victims at a time for himself, who he gleefully drains of every ounce of their blood, killing them in the process. When Selymes himself turns a man named Owen Chances into a vampire, he forces the man into his service by threatening his innocent brother, and, when Owen slowly becomes savage due to Selymes's tainted blood, Selymes covers up his taint by torturing and killing Owen's brother in front of him, then leaving the corpse at Owen's side for the years he is locked away, blaming Owen's vicious bloodlust on the stress of said experience. After massacring dozens of people who try to rise up against his evil, Selymes gleefully tries to murder Owen while promising to butcher Sherlock Holmes's best friends before turning him into a vampire so as to torture him for all eternity.
** ''Sherlock Holmes and the Necronomicon'': Taher Emara initially starts as the sinister accomplice of James Moriarty himself before gradually revealing himself to eclipse even Moriarty in wickedness. Initially helping Moriarty in his own plan, including being willing to murder the entirety of London's populace with his black magic--magic he later practices on three upstart muggers, reducing them to piles of flesh--Taher [[TheStarscream betrays Moriarty]] and locks him under his thrall, magically killing all of Moriarty's men and revealing his intention to use the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Necronomicon]] to allow the eldritch Elder Gods themselves passage into Earth and sentence all mankind to a horrifying death. Further demonstrating his callousness by forcing a score of guards to shoot themselves and using Moriarty as a conduit for the Elder Gods--torturously killing him in the process--Taher's last words upon being killed by Holmes are a defiant assurance it's already too late. As cunning as he is vile, Taher manages to trump the Napoleon of Crime himself in sheer evil.
** ''Sherlock Holmes Society'':
*** [[TheFundamentalist Graham Taylor]], the understudy of Moriarty, is the leader of the enigmatic Council and a [[KnightTemplar fanatical madman]] seeking to purge England of all "false Christians"; Taylor's idea of a purge is forcing a ZombieApocalypse onto London to infect and kill millions. Taylor robbed from Edward Hyde a poison capable of infecting people and commissions [[TestedOnHumans immoral experimentation]] with the poison, turning dozens of unfortunate guinea pigs into zombies. Further testing the poison's capabilities on a village of hundreds, leaving no survivors, and ordering several assassinations of both failed subordinates and liabilities to the Council, Taylor ultimately releases the poison into London itself, leading to 30,000 fatalities. Taylor even stops to give squads of soldiers sent to stop the zombies a sporting chance before gunning them down out of nothing more than [[ForTheEvulz self-admitted sadistic amusement]], ultimately planning to release the poison to six more major cities before committing suicide as one last part of his divine mission.
*** Ryan Shelvey is a [[PsychoPsychologist slimy psychiatrist]] whose first atrocities began when he hypnotized his own patients into becoming psychotic killers, notably turning one into a JackTheRipoff who kills three women. When approached by Taylor to assist in his and the Council's plans, Shelvey happily uses his own patients as [[TestedOnHumans test subjects]] for the zombification virus, resulting in dozens of innocents being fatally experimented on. Fully aware that Taylor plans to use his own research to aide in wiping out most of London, Shelvey later sends 3 more of his hypnotized patients after Sherlock Holmes to stop his investigation, with orders to force him to watch his friends and landlady are killed in front of him before ending his life. Even when faced with life in prison, Shelvey refuses to reveal the details of Taylor's plans, knowing that, unimpeded, Taylor would arrange the annihilation of 7 major cities across the planet, starting with London.
* ''Victorian Undead'', by Ian Edginton et al.:
** ''Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies'': [[ArchEnemy Professor James Moriarty]] is the man behind the titular undead. Having sustained fatal injuries after falling down the Reichenbach Falls during a confrontation with Holmes, he ordered his henchman Colonel Moran to inject him with a serum that turned him into a [[NotUsingTheZWord revenant]]. With his mind still intact, he returned to London and began to secretly abduct people to turn them into [[NightOfTheLivingMooks mindless revenants]] under his control. As soon as he had a sizeable army, he unleashed them into the streets of the city, killing or turning a large number of its population. When Moran, the man who saved his life and served him with UndyingLoyalty, [[EvenEvilHasStandards refused his offer to be turned into a sapient undead]], Moriarty attempted to forcefully turn him into another one of his minions. Already a ruthless man with great ambition in life, his only goal now was to turn every living souls on Earth into a revenant and establish a kingdom of death with himself as eternal monarch.
** ''Victorian Undead II: Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula'': [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Dracula]] was a ruthless warlord who threw plague corpses into cities, impaled captured enemies and drank the blood of his victims. Centuries later, he reemerged as [[{{Dracula}} a vampire]] and--with the help of the British agent [[AdaptationalVillainy Arthur Holmwood]]--attempted to take over the Empire. Growing impatient with Holmwood, who preferred a more subtle approach, Dracula decided to take matters into his own hands by [[MurderIsTheBestSolution starting a plague outbreak and claiming the throne in the ensuing chaos]]. To achieve this he abducted several people, turned them into mindless thralls and planned to use them as plague carriers. When the plan failed and Holmwood called him out for his impatience, Dracula told him that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he had outlived his usefulness]] and had one of his vampire minions feed on him. Finally being exposed and cornered by the heroes during a masquerade ball, Dracula grabbed a body-double of the Queen, whom he believed to be the real one, and ripped out her throat in front of everyone before attempting to flee.
* ''Mycroft Holmes and the Apocalypse Handbook'', written by Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar & Raymond Obstfeld: [[BigBad Mr. Mason]] is a sinister ArmsDealer boasting a gallery of hundreds of apocalyptic superweapons, each capable of wreaking horrific carnage. Mr. Mason has people grotesquely murdered to showcase the power of his weapons to his clients and in one instance levels a museum filled with 200 people. Mr. Mason's finest display is a poison rain he intends to subject the entire city of Washington to in order to dazzle his bidders with the screaming of thousands. Utterly unafraid of killing people himself, Mr. Mason [[BadBoss frequently kills his own minions]] and [[LackOfEmpathy doesn't even care about his own clients]], murdering the Spanish representative for being the lowest bidder and uncaring when he accidentally decapitates another bidder in an attempt to kill another one of his own goons.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Moriarty}}'''s "The Dark Chamber" arc: [[ChaosIsEvil Tartarus]], real name Gottfried, is a masked anarchist and terrorist who worships chaos. Tartarus manipulates the organization the Black Hand into assassinating Archduke UsefulNotes/FranzFerdinand, which kickstarts UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Funding the creation of the powerful Dark Chamber which creates psychoactive visions of the future, Tartarus uses it to drive the Black Hand members insane and kill themselves in order to get rid of them after [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they've outlived their usefulness]]. To tie up loose ends, Tartarus frames Moriarty for a murder and bombing and has the scientist who created the Dark Chamber starved. Tartarus reveals that his ultimate aim is to release a version of the Dark Chamber to destroy London by driving it insane before selling it to all sides in the coming war and watching as Europe crumbles, after which he will rule the ashes as [[AGodAmI a god]].

* ''Sherlock Holmes: Case of Evil'' (2002 MadeForTVMovie): [[BigBad Professor James Moriarty]], seeking to corner the [[DrugsAreBad drug trade]], begins murdering crime lords to take their operations and refine his own morphine. To make the drug illegal, he plots to flood the market with many dying of overdoses and many more addicted so he may control the supply and demand alike. Attempting to torture Holmes with a fatal dose, Moriarty later murders Holmes's lover just to hurt the detective as a penalty for challenging him.

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* ''Sherlock Holmes: The Golden Years'' [[labelnote:Stories]]"Curse of the Black Feather", "Maestro of Mysteries", "The Cure that Kills"[[/labelnote]] : [[EvilutionaryBiologist Ciarán Malastier]] is considered by Holmes to be the worst man he's faced in his long career fighting evil. Malastier is a creepy eugenicist who wants to [[SuperBreedingProgram purge humanity of its "imperfections"]] and, to this end, has set up a baby farming operation where pregnant mothers can give up their babies so they may be adopted. In reality, Malastier [[WouldHurtAChild kills any who he deems imperfect]]. Desiring to put his plans to wider use, Malastier works for the British Government to make [[DeadlyGas poison gas]] for them to use in the coming world war one but instead uses it for his own schemes. Malastier releases the gas in a slum called Undertown, which [[KillThePoor kills hundreds]], including Holmes's greatest love Irene Adler, hoping to purge what he views as a "stain on his perfect Britain".

* ''Mycroft Holmes'', by Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar & Anna Waterhouse: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Adam McGuire]] is a racist [[CorruptCorporateExecutive businessman]] who plans to reintroduce slavery to the world. After discovering oil across the beaches of Trinidad, [=McGuire=] uses [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave labor]] to illegally mine it and in order to scare away the locales, [[WouldHurtAChild murders their young children]] and has their bodies placed on the beach in order to frighten them off. [=McGuire=], contrary to the façade he puts on to his investors, treats his slaves horrifically, having them beaten, chained and starved into submission and chains them to the island's defensive guns to be used as CannonFodder, before detonating a failsafe to kill them when they get rescued. [=McGuire=] captures Cyrus Douglas and tries to murder him in front of his best friend Mycroft Holmes before trying to beat Mycroft to death personally for foiling his operation. A total sociopath out to fuel his racist beliefs and get rich, Mycroft sums up [=McGuire=] well as "a human being devoid of the common thread of human decency."

* Comics by Sylvain Cordurié et al.:

* ''Sherlock Holmes: The Golden Years'' [[labelnote:Stories]]"Curse of the Black Feather", "Maestro of Mysteries", "The Cure that Kills"[[/labelnote]] : [[EvilutionaryBiologist Ciarán Malastier]] is considered by Holmes to be the worst man he's faced in his long career fighting evil. Malastier is a creepy eugenicist who wants to [[SuperBreedingProgram purge humanity of its "imperfections"]] and, to this end, has set up a baby farming operation where pregnant mothers can give up their babies so they may be adopted. In reality, Malastier [[WouldHurtAChild kills any who he deems imperfect]]. Desiring to put his plans to wider use, Malastier works for the British Government to make [[DeadlyGas poison gas]] for them to use in the coming world war one but instead uses it for his own schemes. Malastier releases the gas in a slum called Undertown, which [[KillThePoor kills hundreds]], including Holmes's greatest love Irene Adler, hoping to purge what he views as a "stain on his perfect Britain".

* ''Mycroft Holmes'', by Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar & Anna Waterhouse: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Adam McGuire]] is a racist [[CorruptCorporateExecutive businessman]] who plans to reintroduce slavery to the world. After discovering oil across the beaches of Trinidad, [=McGuire=] uses [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave labor]] to illegally mine it and in order to scare away the locales, [[WouldHurtAChild murders their young children]] and has their bodies placed on the beach in order to frighten them off. [=McGuire=], contrary to the façade he puts on to his investors, treats his slaves horrifically, having them beaten, chained and starved into submission and chains them to the island's defensive guns to be used as CannonFodder, before detonating a failsafe to kill them when they get rescued. [=McGuire=] captures Cyrus Douglas and tries to murder him in front of his best friend Mycroft Holmes before trying to beat Mycroft to death personally for foiling his operation. A total sociopath out to fuel his racist beliefs and get rich, Mycroft sums up [=McGuire=] well as "a human being devoid of the common thread of human decency."

* Comics by Sylvain Cordurié et al.:

* ''[[http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IzYSrPfyJIYJ:screenplaysandscripts.com/script_files/S/Sherlock%2520Holmes%2520and%2520the%2520Vengeance%2520of%2520Dracula%5B1%5D(2).pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari Sherlock Holmes and the Vengeance of Dracula]]'': [[{{Dracula}} Count Vlad Dracula]] is an aristocratic vampire who seeks to rule England as his new vampire dynasty. Originally UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler of Romania who was previously slain by Abraham Van Helsing, Lord Arthur Holmwood, and John Seward for the murder of Lucy Westenra, Dracula survived and sought revenge. Traveling to London and killing those who stand in his way, Dracula kills Holmwood and Seward before [[VillainTeamUp forming an alliance with Professor Moriarty]]. Seeking the death of Sherlock Holmes, Dracula turns Moriarty's henchmen into his own personal servants, while killing those who fail him, an act which [[EvenEvilHasStandards disgusts even Moriarty]]. Turning Sherlock's love Constance Blackwell and Watson against him, Dracula later devises a plan to inject his own blood into the city's gaslight network to turn everybody in London into vampires, preparing to rule a country of his own kind with Constance by his side as queen.

** ''Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes'': In "The Deadly Sin of Sherlock Holmes", by Tom English, [[SinisterMinister Brother Moriarty]] is fiendish monk who communes with the Devil in order to create a [[DeadlyBook magical book]] inked with [[CouldntFindAPen his own blood]]. Moriarty enchants it so that anyone who reads it will become mind-controlled with the need to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath murder and mutilate people in the most horrific ways possible]], with the book even leading to the creation of UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, over two centuries after his death, ensuring a legacy of evil.

* ''Sherlock Holmes: The Golden Years'' [[labelnote:Stories]]"Curse of the Black Feather", "Maestro of Mysteries", "The Cure that Kills"[[/labelnote]] : [[EvilutionaryBiologist Ciarán Malastier]] is considered by Holmes to be the worst man he's faced in his long career fighting evil. Malastier is a creepy eugenicist who wants to [[SuperBreedingProgram purge humanity of its "imperfections"]] and, to this end, has set up a baby farming operation where pregnant mothers can give up their babies so they may be adopted. In reality, Malastier [[WouldHurtAChild kills any who he deems imperfect]]. Desiring to put his plans to wider use, Malastier works for the British Government to make [[DeadlyGas poison gas]] for them to use in the coming world war one but instead uses it for his own schemes. Malastier releases the gas in a slum called Undertown, which [[KillThePoor kills hundreds]], including Holmes's greatest love Irene Adler, hoping to purge what he views as a "stain on his perfect Britain".

* ''Mycroft Holmes'', by Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar & Anna Waterhouse: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Adam McGuire]] is a racist [[CorruptCorporateExecutive businessman]] who plans to reintroduce slavery to the world. After discovering oil across the beaches of Trinidad, [=McGuire=] uses [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave labor]] to illegally mine it and in order to scare away the locales, [[WouldHurtAChild murders their young children]] and has their bodies placed on the beach in order to frighten them off. [=McGuire=], contrary to the façade he puts on to his investors, treats his slaves horrifically, having them beaten, chained and starved into submission and chains them to the island's defensive guns to be used as CannonFodder, before detonating a failsafe to kill them when they get rescued. [=McGuire=] captures Cyrus Douglas and tries to murder him in front of his best friend Mycroft Holmes before trying to beat Mycroft to death personally for foiling his operation. A total sociopath out to fuel his racist beliefs and get rich, Mycroft sums up [=McGuire=] well as "a human being devoid of the common thread of human decency."

* Comics by Sylvain Cordurié et al.:

* ''Mycroft Holmes'', by Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar & Anna Waterhouse: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Adam McGuire]] is a racist [[CorruptCorporateExecutive businessman]] who plans to reintroduce slavery to the world. After discovering oil across the beaches of Trinidad, [=McGuire=] uses [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave labor]] to illegally mine it and in order to scare away the locales, [[WouldHurtAChild murders their young children]] and has their bodies placed on the beach in order to frighten them off. [=McGuire=], contrary to the façade he puts on to his investors, treats his slaves horrifically, having them beaten, chained and starved into submission and chains them to the island's defensive guns to be used as CannonFodder, before detonating a failsafe to kill them when they get rescued. [=McGuire=] captures Cyrus Douglas and tries to murder him in front of his best friend Mycroft Holmes before trying to beat Mycroft to death personally for foiling his operation. A total sociopath out to fuel his racist beliefs and get rich, Mycroft sums up [=McGuire=] well as "a human being devoid of the common thread of human decency."

* Comics by Sylvain Cordurié et al.:

* ''Mycroft Holmes'', by Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar & Anna Waterhouse: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Adam McGuire]] is a racist [[CorruptCorporateExecutive businessman]] who plans to reintroduce slavery to the world. After discovering oil across the beaches of Trinidad, [=McGuire=] uses [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave labor]] to illegally mine it and in order to scare away the locales, [[WouldHurtAChild murders their young children]] and has their bodies placed on the beach in order to frighten them off. [=McGuire=], contrary to the façade he puts on to his investors, treats his slaves horrifically, having them beaten, chained and starved into submission and chains them to the island's defensive guns to be used as CannonFodder, before detonating a failsafe to kill them when they get rescued. [=McGuire=] captures Cyrus Douglas and tries to murder him in front of his best friend Mycroft Holmes before trying to beat Mycroft to death personally for foiling his operation. A total sociopath out to fuel his racist beliefs and get rich, Mycroft sums up [=McGuire=] well as "a human being devoid of the common thread of human decency."

* Comics by Sylvain Cordurié et al.:

* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'''s "The Hunting of the Baskervilles": [[SerialKiller Moires Baskerville]] is a creepily jovial noble who orders manhunts of [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. Charming street children into coming into his carriage, Baskerville kidnaps them and then removes vital body parts from them before [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame having them hunted down]] alongside his gang using his dogs and killed in horrific ways, with Baskerville having an entire collection of the skeletons and heads of the children he's killed as an exhibit. In one occasion, Baskerville forces a brother to take out his own eye if he wanted to save his sister before [[ILied lying]] and forcing them to participate anyway and killing them both anyway. Disgusting Moriarty himself with his acts of horror, Baskerville is [[AristocratsAreEvil the worst of the corrupt nobility]] and is taken down just as he gleefully plans to kill a new pair of child siblings for his collection, which already numbers in the dozens if not hundreds.

* ''Mycroft Holmes'', by Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar & Anna Waterhouse: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Adam McGuire]] is a racist [[CorruptCorporateExecutive businessman]] who plans to reintroduce slavery to the world. After discovering oil across the beaches of Trinidad, [=McGuire=] uses [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave labor]] to illegally mine it and in order to scare away the locales, [[WouldHurtAChild murders their young children]] and has their bodies placed on the beach in order to frighten them off. [=McGuire=], contrary to the façade he puts on to his investors, treats his slaves horrifically, having them beaten, chained and starved into submission and chains them to the island's defensive guns to be used as CannonFodder, before detonating a failsafe to kill them when they get rescued. [=McGuire=] captures Cyrus Douglas and tries to murder him in front of his best friend Mycroft Holmes before trying to beat Mycroft to death personally for foiling his operation. A total sociopath out to fuel his racist beliefs and get rich, Mycroft sums up [=McGuire=] well as "a human being devoid of the common thread of human decency."

* Comics by Sylvain Cordurié et al.:

** ''Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes vs. Zombies'': [[ArchEnemy Professor James Moriarty]] is the man behind the titular undead. Having sustained fatal injuries after falling down the Reichenbach Falls during a confrontation with Holmes, he ordered his henchman Colonel Moran to inject him with a serum that turned him into a [[NotUsingTheZWord revenant]]. With his mind still intact, he returned to London and began to secretly abduct people to turn them into [[NightOfTheLivingMooks mindless revenants]] under his control. As soon as he had a sizeable army, he unleashed them into the streets of the city, killing or turning a large number of its population. When Moran, the man who saved his life and served him with UndyingLoyalty, [[EvenEvilHasStandards refused his offer to be turned into a sentient undead]], Moriarty attempted to forcefully turn him into another one of his minions. Already a ruthless man with great ambition in life, his only goal now was to turn every living souls on Earth into a revenant and establish a kingdom of death with himself as eternal monarch.

* ''Mycroft Holmes'', by Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar & Anna Waterhouse: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Adam McGuire]] is a racist [[CorruptCorporateExecutive businessman]] who plans to reintroduce slavery to the world. After discovering oil across the beaches of Trinidad, [=McGuire=] uses [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave labor]] to illegally mine it and in order to scare away the locales, [[WouldHurtAChild murders their young children]] and has their bodies placed on the beach in order to frighten them off. [=McGuire=], contrary to the façade he puts on to his investors, treats his slaves horrifically, having them beaten, chained and starved into submission and chains them to the island's defensive guns to be used as CannonFodder, before detonating a failsafe to kill them when they get rescued. [=McGuire=] captures Cyrus Douglas and tries to murder him in front of his best friend Mycroft Holmes before trying to beat Mycroft to death personally for foiling his operation. A total sociopath out to fuel his racist beliefs and get rich, Mycroft sums up [=McGuire=] well as "a human being devoid of the common thread of human decency."

* Comics by Sylvain Cordurié et al.:

* ''Mycroft Holmes'', by Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar & Anna Waterhouse: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Adam McGuire]] is a racist [[CorruptCorporateExecutive businessman]] who plans to reintroduce slavery to the world. After discovering oil across the beaches of Trinidad, [=McGuire=] uses [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave labor]] to illegally mine it and in order to scare away the locales, [[WouldHurtAChild murders their young children]] and has their bodies placed on the beach in order to frighten them off. [=McGuire=], contrary to the façade he puts on to his investors, treats his slaves horrifically, having them beaten, chained and starved into submission and chains them to the island's defensive guns to be used as CannonFodder, before detonating a failsafe to kill them when they get rescued. [=McGuire=] captures Cyrus Douglas and tries to murder him in front of his best friend Mycroft Holmes before trying to beat Mycroft to death personally for foiling his operation. A total sociopath out to fuel his racist beliefs and get rich, Mycroft sums up [=McGuire=] well as "a human being devoid of the common thread of human decency."

* Comics by Sylvain Cordurié et al.:

* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'''s "The Hunting of the Baskervilles": [[SerialKiller Moires Baskerville]] is a creepily jovial noble who orders manhunts of [[WouldHurtAChild children]]. Charming street children into coming into his carriage, Baskerville kidnaps them and then removes vital body parts from them before [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame having them hunted down]] alongside his gang using his dogs and killed in horrific ways, with Baskerville having an entire collection of the skeletons and heads of the children he's killed as an exhibit. In one occasion, Baskerville forces a brother to take out his own eye if he wanted to save his sister before [[ILied lying]] and forcing them to participate anyway and killing them both anyway. Disgusting Moriarty himself with his acts of horror, Baskerville is [[AristocratsAreEvil the worst of the corrupt nobility]] and is taken down just as he gleefully plans to kill a new pair of child siblings for his collection. which already numbers in the dozens if not hundreds.

* ''Mycroft Holmes'', by Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar & Anna Waterhouse: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Adam McGuire]] is a racist [[CorruptCorporateExecutive businessman]] who plans to reintroduce slavery to the world. After discovering oil across the beaches of Trinidad, [=McGuire=] uses [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil slave labor]] to illegally mine it and in order to scare away the locales, [[WouldHurtAChild murders their young children]] and has their bodies placed on the beach in order to frighten them off. [=McGuire=], contrary to the façade he puts on to his investors, treats his slaves horrifically, having them beaten, chained and starved into submission and chains them to the island's defensive guns to be used as CannonFodder, before detonating a failsafe to kill them when they get rescued. [=McGuire=] captures Cyrus Douglas and tries to murder him in front of his best friend Mycroft Holmes before trying to beat Mycroft to death personally for foiling his operation. A total sociopath out to fuel his racist beliefs and get rich, Mycroft sums up [=McGuire=] well as "a human being devoid of the common thread of human decency."

* Comics by Sylvain Cordurié et al.:

* ''Anime/CaseFileNoTwoTwoOneKabukicho'': In the darkness of Kabukicho, these criminals stand out as particularly vile individuals:
** "Don't Take Off the Swimsuit": [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Milverton]] is a vile businessman known as the "king of all blackmailers". Milverton frequently {{blackmail}}s celebrities for money or [[SexualExtortion sex]], and will release their personal information if they are even a few seconds late with their payment. It is also revealed that Milverton blackmails young girls into becoming prostitutes, and even plans to [[HumanTraffickers sell]] his [[AbusiveParents own very young daughter]] to a pedophile.
** "Jack the Ripper": UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper, real name Maki Hokari, was a transgender woman who could not get a sex change. Developing an obsession with becoming perfect, [[TheDreaded the Ripper]] began [[CruelAndUnusualDeath brutally murdering]] attractive men and women, castrating them postmortem and [[ImAHumanitarian eating the women's wombs]]. When Irene Adler steals a USB drive with incriminating information, the Ripper murders her friend and threatens Irene's life, eventually attempting to make good on that threat. When confronted by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson and called out on the crimes, the Ripper tries to torture Holmes to death out of rage, and when confronted by James Moriarty, the Ripper [[EvilGloating taunts him]] about killing his sister and eating her womb.