Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes hardly needs an introduction. An eccentric independent investigator and detective, Holmes is one of the sharpest minds of late 1800s London, if not one of the sharpest minds in human history. With his ever keen deductive skills to outwit his enemies and a penchant for fisticuffs to outmaneuver them, there are very few who can say that they crossed swords with Sherlock Holmes and came out the victor.

Strength

• Kicks open a grate. (source)
• Sends a man back through a pair of swinging doors hard enough to knock several more men over. (source)
• Kicks an old wooden door out of its frame. (source)
• Tackles a man through an ornamental wooden door. (source)
• Explodes through a slatted window swinging on a rope. (source)
• Sends a man flying back with a kick. (source)

Speed

• Dodges gunshots and dives out a window. (source)

Durability

• Jumps from a window to a platform a story down, then to a second, crashing through the roof without injury. (source)
• Gets thrown across a table and into a wall and is quickly back on his feet. (source)
• Takes nearby explosions, using a wooden plank to block shrapnel. (source)
• Has a wooden box shattered over his head to no ill effect. (source)
• Falls from an upper story window, slamming into a wooden platform as he falls. (source)
• In a building as a lighthouse falls onto it and makes it out. (source)
• Throws himself and Moriarty off a cliffside waterfall and somehow survives. (source)

Skill

• Helps Watson beat several armed guards. (source)
• Easily dances around a boxer without trying before a sensory overload opens him up. (source)
• Covertly closes a chimney hatch while handcuffed to cover his escape. (source)
• Fights with an armed Blackwood on top of an under construction bridge, then traps him using the environment. (source)
• Cuts a moving rope by throwing a hand axe at it. (source)
• Fights near evenly with four men at once. (source)
• Fights with a man while tied to him. (source)
• Fights with German soldiers while recovering from getting stabbed in the shoulder. (source)

Perception

• Holmes is highly perceptive of everything happening in his surroundings, to the point of being vulnerable to sensory overloads. If this catches him at a bad moment, it can open him up in the middle of a fight. (source)
• Notices a glass blade being held by Lord Blackwood to trick Watson into running himself through. (source)
• Spots a hidden stolen gem on Irene Adler’s person. (source)
• Recognizes Adler’s perfume in a room adjacent to a chemist’s workshop, in which he recognizes a number of distinct chemicals as well. (source)
• Spies three people tailing Adler while also tailing Adler. (source)
• Perfectly times throwing Mary out of a train car to have her land safely in a lake. And he did. (source)
• Was able to notice surgical scarring and minute behaviors in two distinct combat situations, leading him to a conclusion about Moriarty’s plan. (source)

Combat Analysis

• Recognizes and takes down a partially deaf drunk in four moves. (source)
• In summary: Ears ringing, jaw fractured, three ribs cracked, four broken, diaphragm hemorrhaging. Physical recovery: 6 weeks. Full psychological recovery: 6 months. (source)
• Redirects the electric shock of a supercharged cattle prod in such a way to send a man flying into another attacker. (source)
• Figures out how to slow and then break a death trap. (source)
• Knows the weapons that four attackers are about to draw before they do so (he had fought hand to hand with them just previously) and then counters each one to ground all four of them. (source)

Non-Combat Analysis

• Exhibits his ability to read a person’s history and habits from small details. (source)
• Pulls personal information and a lead from a dead man’s pocket watch. (source)
• Able to figure out where he’s been taken while blindfolded and almost immediately figures out the mysterious benefactor with whom he’s speaking. (source)
• Able to tell the blood relation of two seemingly unrelated people just by looking at them. (source)
• Discovers a person’s place of work with an autopsy. (source)
• Determines where Blackwood and company had been plotting to kill the members of parliament by a man’s clothing. (source)
• Recognizes a package is actually an explosive and stops the detonator at the last moment. (source)
• Claims to be able to psychoanalyze a person from their handwriting. (source)
• Discovers the location of a man by examining the paper he used for drawing. (source)
• Uses a few environmental details to find the location of a hidden exit. (source)
• Discovers evidence of a sniping in an explosion’s rubble, then with Watson’s help tracks the exact movements and discovers the identity of the sniper. (source)

Deductions

• Gives possible conclusions to cases as they’re handed to him. (source)
• Uses knowledge of the secret order to discover the pattern in Blackwood’s murders and predict the fourth killing. (source)
• Figures out the solutions behind Blackwood’s various feats of “magic”. (source)
• Some more solutions behind Blackwood’s various feats of “magic”. (source)
• Figures out which train Moriarty will be taking and where he’s going based on a few comments. (source)
• Keeps up with and ultimately “beats” Moriarty in a battle of wits. (source)

Experiments

• Creates an anesthetic to knock out a bulldog. (source)
• Causes flies to fly in a specific order using musical theory. (source)
• Constructs a false hangman’s noose to replicate Blackwood’s faked execution. (source)
• Creates office camouflage, along with some kind of decoy dummy. (source)

Other

• Tails Irene Adler through a circus grounds without standing out, even confronting her in a disguise. (source)
• Knows a chemical compound to transfer messages in ink, even if the original paper has been burned. (source)
• Sets up a number of traps well in advance for corrupt train guards, including a dummy round in a rifle that causes the shooter to burst into flames using a vial of phosphorous, a trapped grenade in a bathroom that triggers when the door is opened and a lipstick tube in a gatling gun’s bullet feed that gives Watson a window of opportunity to counter attack. (source)