Sherlock Holmes: A Super Hero

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Sherlock Holmes has become known as a tremendously intelligent and unique individual who has a strong passion for solving mysteries. In fact, his name has almost come to stand for, someone who almost seems to have telepathy. Sherlock in the new adaptations, Elementary, House M.D. and Sherlock Holmes, has the ability to look at any given character he can distinguish their life story without even speaking a single word to them, just using his observations. Within the BBC vision of Sherlock, he is a silly and genius man who cannot filter the words coming out of his mouth, but he knows your life story along with your entire family tree. Secondly, House Holmes’s spin off character House can diagnose his patient’s illness’ without ever meeting them. Lastly, while viewing the show series Elementary, Mr. Holmes takes on crime with his partner Watson and leaves your mind wondering, how did he know that? Holmes has become a household name: he’s intelligent and witty, and without a doubt Sherlock Holmes has adapted through the twenty first century. He has become a super human character as he evolves into his new …show more content…
Unlike the original series Sherlock Holmes remains a mystery as he solves his crimes, but in the TV series you can see the way his mind is working and without a doubt the way he is solving things is extremely unrealistic. With given reasons anyone can agree that Sherlock Holmes has become a superhero character with superhero powers like telepathy. Sherlock Holmes is a household name that is admired and followed globally and with the adaptation in the new century Sherlock become the futuristic version of his original character by showing off his wits and creating himself into an un-humanly human. One thing we have learned for sure about the ever so famous character, is no one will ever be able to understand how his gears turn inside his

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