YMMV / The Hound of the D'Urbervilles

• Ho Yay: Being villainous versions of Holmes and Watson, Moriarty and Moran naturally get bit of this:
  Moran: Moriarty smiled his adder’s smile. And I relaxed. And I knew. My destiny and his wound together. It was a sensation I’d never got before upon meeting a man. When I’d had it from women, the upshot ranged from disappointment to attempted murder. Understand me, Professor James Moriarty was a hateful man, the most hateful, hateable, creature I have ever known…But at that moment, I was his, and I remain his forever. If I am remembered, it will be because I knew him.
• Political Overcorrectness: Possibly invoked with Professor Temple, who removes Moran's lengthy diatribes about sex, homosexuality, and race because she believes they "make Moran seem more appalling a human being than his inclinations towards larceny, duplicity, and homicide."
• Straw Feminist: Parodied with Professor Temple, which makes her insistence that Moran is more misanthropic than racist, sexist, or homophobic all the more amusing. (And her belief that a modern audience would find Moran's bigotry more offensive than his extensive list of crimes.)