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- Genius Bonus: There are some obscure references to Holmes trivia. For example, when Holmes first meets John Watson, he guesses that his first name is James. In "The Man with the Twisted Lip", one of the original Sherlock Holmes stories, Watson's wife addresses him as "James" rather than "John", causing rampant speculation from the fans about whether this was a significant slip or just a sign that Doyle had forgotten his own character's name.
- Heartwarming Moments: Sherlock and Watson, despite their differences in personality and class, befriend each other pretty quickly.
- All the scenes that Sherlock and Elizabeth share, from her sneaking in letters to him at the window, to kissing each other in private, to gifting him his iconic Deerskin hat, they share a sweet romance, which makes her death all the more heartbreaking.
- Watson giving Sherlock a pipe to him, while he’s saddened to see his friend go, he at least respects his pain, tries to cheer him up and parts ways happily solving the bear riddle that he’d been struggling with since the start of the film.
- A Meta example: While the movie has a Bittersweet Ending and didn’t receive any sequels due to being a box office bomb, the actors for Sherlock and Watson, Nicolas Rowe and Alan Cox, reprised their roles in a stage play called We Are Not Amused, making Narrator!Watson’s ending monologue about hoping to see Sherlock one day as an adult even sweeter.
- Tearjerker: Elizabeth’s death. Just when it looks like she and her friends have defeated Rathe, he reappears and tries to shoot Holmes, but Elizabeth shields him with her body, and despite Holmes avenging her by seemingly killing him and Watson’s efforts to keep her conscious, she tragically dies in Sherlock’s arms, which causes him to later swear to become a lifelong bachelor and refuses to return to the school because of “Too many memories”, showing how much her death has traumatised him.
- Viewers are British: The Sdrawkcab Name clue of "Eh tar" being backwards for "Rathe" is a lot harder to spot if you speak a rhotic accent than a non-rhotic one, since with the former you're unlikely to recognize the implied "r" at the end of "Eh tar" in pronunciation (pronounced "etah" in the movie) in the first place.