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* {{Squick}}: The entire sequence between Magnussen and Elizabeth Smallwood. He touches her hand, fights her attempts to break away and describes [[spoiler:the underage girl her husband exchanged elicit letters with]] as "delicious," "yummy" and "yum yum." He even [[spoiler: ''[[LecherousLicking licks her face]].'']]

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* {{Squick}}: The entire sequence between Magnussen and Elizabeth Smallwood. He touches her hand, fights her attempts to break away and describes [[spoiler:the underage girl her husband exchanged elicit illicit letters with]] as "delicious," "yummy" and "yum yum." He even [[spoiler: ''[[LecherousLicking licks her face]].'']]
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I'm sorry but there is no. While his worst crimes occur in this episode, he has atrocities in other episodes as well. His write-up covers his crimes throughout Season 3, not just this episode.


* CompleteMonster: [[ImmoralJournalist Charles Augustus Magnussen]] is the "[[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte Napoleon]] of {{blackmail}}", regarded by Sherlock Holmes as one of the few people who can disgust him. A vile predator who uses gathered information on everyone around him to blackmail them, Magnussen abides by his creed of "knowing is owning" to then dominate, bully, and sexually prey on whoever is under his thumb, using them to satisfy his sadistic ego. Molesting and threatening worse to Lady Smallwood while blackmailing her husband, Magnussen showcases what happens to those who don't cow to his whims by using his media network to demonize and [[DrivenToSuicide drive Lord Smallwood to suicide]] with his blackmail material, the Smallwoods both serving as just one example of his many victims. When Sherlock and John Watson interfere in his affairs, Magnussen threatens to expose Mary Watson's past as a gun-for-hire to get her and her loved ones slain, and forces John to withstand his eyeball being flicked repeatedly by Magnussen, who brags all the while that he torments his secretary and entire countries in whatever ways he likes [[EvilIsPetty for his own petty enjoyment]].

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* AwesomeEgo: Charles Augustus Magnussen. He's a disgusting sociopath, but [[spoiler:if you had a mind capable of storing countless facts in your head and could easily recite them from memory, and could do a SherlockScan as well as the great man himself]], wouldn't you also find it hard to brag? [[spoiler:{{Deconstructed|Trope}} as his having no backups allows Sherlock to easily shoot him in the head]].

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* AwesomeEgo: Charles Augustus Magnussen. He's a disgusting sociopath, but [[spoiler:if you had a mind capable of storing countless facts in your head and could easily recite them from memory, and could do a SherlockScan as well as the great man himself]], wouldn't you also find it hard not to brag? [[spoiler:{{Deconstructed|Trope}} as his having no backups allows Sherlock to easily shoot him in the head]].


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* CompleteMonster: [[ImmoralJournalist Charles Augustus Magnussen]] is the "[[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte Napoleon]] of {{blackmail}}", regarded by Sherlock Holmes as one of the few people who can disgust him. A vile predator who uses gathered information on everyone around him to blackmail them, Magnussen abides by his creed of "knowing is owning" to then dominate, bully, and sexually prey on whoever is under his thumb, using them to satisfy his sadistic ego. Molesting and threatening worse to Lady Smallwood while blackmailing her husband, Magnussen showcases what happens to those who don't cow to his whims by using his media network to demonize and [[DrivenToSuicide drive Lord Smallwood to suicide]] with his blackmail material, the Smallwoods both serving as just one example of his many victims. When Sherlock and John Watson interfere in his affairs, Magnussen threatens to expose Mary Watson's past as a gun-for-hire to get her and her loved ones slain, and forces John to withstand his eyeball being flicked repeatedly by Magnussen, who brags all the while that he torments his secretary and entire countries in whatever ways he likes [[EvilIsPetty for his own petty enjoyment]].
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* CatharsisFactor: Admit it, you cheered when Sherlock shot Magnusson in the head.
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* MagnificentBastard: Charles Augustus Magnussen runs the entire Western world from one room in his house where he stores the privates information of celebrities and world leaders. [[spoiler:The room is just for meditation- in fact he stores all that information ''in his mind''.]]

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* CreepyAwesome: Charles Augustus Magnussen. He's a disgusting sociopath, but [[spoiler:if you had a mind capable of storing countless facts in your head and could easily recite them from memory, and could do a SherlockScan as well as the great man himself]], wouldn't you also find it hard to brag? [[spoiler:{{Deconstructed|Trope}} as his having no backups allows Sherlock to easily shoot him in the head]].

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* CreepyAwesome: AwesomeEgo: Charles Augustus Magnussen. He's a disgusting sociopath, but [[spoiler:if you had a mind capable of storing countless facts in your head and could easily recite them from memory, and could do a SherlockScan as well as the great man himself]], wouldn't you also find it hard to brag? [[spoiler:{{Deconstructed|Trope}} as his having no backups allows Sherlock to easily shoot him in the head]].head]].
* CreepyAwesome: Magnussen, owing to his cunning moments coupled with him being an absolute creep.
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* CreepyAwesome: Magnussen, owing to his cunning moments coupled with him being an absolute creep.

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* CreepyAwesome: Magnussen, owing Charles Augustus Magnussen. He's a disgusting sociopath, but [[spoiler:if you had a mind capable of storing countless facts in your head and could easily recite them from memory, and could do a SherlockScan as well as the great man himself]], wouldn't you also find it hard to brag? [[spoiler:{{Deconstructed|Trope}} as his cunning moments coupled with having no backups allows Sherlock to easily shoot him being an absolute creep.in the head]].

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* {{HSQ}}: [[spoiler:Sherlock leaves by plane after murdering Charles Magnussen, the villain of the season. Cue a fake-out cut to the "credits". But wait! A threatening message spreads through the country! Who could it be for? Who's it from? ''It's from [[BackFromTheDead Moriarty.]]'']]


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* ShockingMoments: [[spoiler:Sherlock leaves by plane after murdering Charles Magnussen, the villain of the season. Cue a fake-out cut to the "credits". But wait! A threatening message spreads through the country! Who could it be for? Who's it from? ''It's from [[BackFromTheDead Moriarty.]]'']]

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* {{HSQ}}: [[spoiler: Sherlock leaves by plane after murdering Charles Magnussen, the villain of the season. Cue a fake-out cut to the "credits". But wait! A threatening message spreads through the country! Who could it be for? Who's it from? ''It's from [[BackFromTheDead Moriarty.]]'']]
* MagnificentBastard: Charles Augustus Magnussen runs the entire Western world from one room in his house where he stores the privates information of celebrities and world leaders. [[spoiler: The room is just for meditation- in fact he stores all that information ''in his mind''.]]

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* {{HSQ}}: [[spoiler: Sherlock [[spoiler:Sherlock leaves by plane after murdering Charles Magnussen, the villain of the season. Cue a fake-out cut to the "credits". But wait! A threatening message spreads through the country! Who could it be for? Who's it from? ''It's from [[BackFromTheDead Moriarty.]]'']]
* MagnificentBastard: Charles Augustus Magnussen runs the entire Western world from one room in his house where he stores the privates information of celebrities and world leaders. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The room is just for meditation- in fact he stores all that information ''in his mind''.]]



* {{Squick}}: The entire sequence between Magnussen and Elizabeth Smallwood. He touches her hand, fights her attempts to break away and describes [[spoiler: the underage girl her husband exchanged elicit letters with]] as "delicious," "yummy" and "yum yum." He even [[spoiler: ''[[LecherousLicking licks her face]].'']]

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* {{Squick}}: The entire sequence between Magnussen and Elizabeth Smallwood. He touches her hand, fights her attempts to break away and describes [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the underage girl her husband exchanged elicit letters with]] as "delicious," "yummy" and "yum yum." He even [[spoiler: ''[[LecherousLicking licks her face]].'']]'']]

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* CreepyAwesome: Magnussen, owing to his cunning moments coupled with him being an absolute creep.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/LarsMikkelsen's role as an opponent of Sherlock Holmes becomes this after his casting as [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels Grand Admiral Thrawn]], considered by many ''Star Wars'' fans to be that franchise's equivalent of Holmes (albeit evil, and an alien). The same year Thrawn debuted on that show, Creator/MadsMikkelsen appeared in both ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' and ''Film/RogueOne'', so now both brothers have battled Creator/BenedictCumberbatch, and both have appeared in ''Star Wars''.
* {{HSQ}}: [[spoiler: Sherlock leaves by plane after murdering Charles Magnussen, the villain of the season. Cue a fake-out cut to the "credits". But wait! A threatening message spreads through the country! Who could it be for? Who's it from? ''It's from [[BackFromTheDead Moriarty.]]'']]
* MagnificentBastard: Charles Augustus Magnussen runs the entire Western world from one room in his house where he stores the privates information of celebrities and world leaders. [[spoiler: The room is just for meditation- in fact he stores all that information ''in his mind''.]]
* MoralEventHorizon: Magnussen crosses it by [[spoiler:threatening Mary Morstan with blackmail, that would doubtless be catastrophic for the Watsons]]. How bad is this? It's so bad that Sherlock [[spoiler:outright ''murders'' him, something that he didn't even come close to doing with Moriarty]]. This is assuming he didn't cross it by driving a man to suicide or trying to burn [[spoiler:John Watson]] alive.
* {{Narm}}: Two glorious examples: First is Sherlock [[spoiler:dramatically crawling up the stairs back to his mind palace complete with infinitely swelling music]], second is [[spoiler:Magnussen enjoying himself just a little too much while going through the files in his own mind palace]].
* SpecialEffectFailure: After [[spoiler:being shot]], Sherlock falls backwards in stylistic slow motion as the room tilts along with him. While otherwise being very well done, in the background, a large flower vase begins to slide across the floor as the room tilts out from under it.
* {{Squick}}: The entire sequence between Magnussen and Elizabeth Smallwood. He touches her hand, fights her attempts to break away and describes [[spoiler: the underage girl her husband exchanged elicit letters with]] as "delicious," "yummy" and "yum yum." He even [[spoiler: ''[[LecherousLicking licks her face]].'']]

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