Professor Moriarty, illustration by Sidney Paget which accompanied the original publication of "The Final Problem". Sidney Edward Paget ( October 4, 1860 in London - January 28, 1908) was a British Illustrator of the

Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character who is the best known antagonist (and nemesis) of the detective Sherlock Holmes. An antagonist (from Greek ανταγωνιστής - antagonistes, "opponent competitor rival" is a character or Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887 Widely considered to be the first true example of a supervillain, Moriarty is a criminal mastermind, described by Holmes as the "Napoleon of Crime" (T. S. Eliot would later use the same phrase, in homage, to describe Macavity in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats). A supervillain or supervillainess is a variant of the Villain character type commonly found in Comic books, Action movies and Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821 was a French military and political leader who had a significant impact on the History of Europe. Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965 was a poet Dramatist, and Literary critic. Macavity is a fictional character who is described in a poem in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, by T Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats is a set of whimsical Poems by T Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, lifted the phrase from a real Scotland Yard inspector who was referring to Adam Worth, a true-life (though non-violent) model for Moriarty. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930 was an Anglo-Scottish Author most noted for his stories about the New Scotland Yard or Scotland Yard, informally known as The Yard and NSY, is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, responsible Adam Worth (1844-1902 was a German -born gentleman criminal Scotland Yard detective Robert Anderson gave him a nickname "the Napoleon of the criminal world"

Appearance in Doyle's fiction

Professor Moriarty first appeared in Conan Doyle's tale The Final Problem, in which Holmes, on the verge of delivering a fatal blow to Moriarty's criminal organization, is forced to flee to the Continent to escape Moriarty's retribution. The Adventure of the Final Problem is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. Moriarty follows, and the two apparently fall to their deaths whilst locked in mortal combat atop the Reichenbach Falls. The Reichenbach Falls (Reichenbachfall are a series of Waterfalls near Meiringen, Switzerland. During this story, Moriarty is something of a Mafia Godfather; he protects nearly all of the criminals of England in exchange for their obedience and a share in their profits. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Holmes, by his own account, was originally led to Moriarty by the suggestion that many of the crimes he perceived were not the spontaneous work of random criminals, but the machinations of a vast and subtle criminal ring.

Moriarty plays a direct role in only one other of Conan Doyle's Holmes stories: The Valley of Fear, which was set before The Final Problem, but published afterwards. The Valley of Fear is the final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In The Valley of Fear, Holmes attempts to prevent Moriarty's agents from committing a murder. Moriarty does not meet Holmes, but sends him a note of commiseration at the end. In an episode where Moriarty is interviewed by a policeman, a painting is described as hanging on the wall; its title, "La Jeune a l'Agneau" translated to "The young one has the lamb" is a witty pun upon the name of Thomas Agnew of the gallery Thomas Agnew and Sons, who had a famous painting stolen by Adam Worth, but was unable to prove the fact.

Holmes mentions Moriarty reminiscently in five other stories: The Empty House (the immediate sequel to The Final Problem), The Norwood Builder, The Missing Three-Quarter, The Illustrious Client, and His Last Bow. The Adventure of the Empty House, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the second tale from The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories "The Adventure of the Illustrious Client", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 More obliquely, a 1908 mystery by Doyle, The Lost Special, features a criminal genius who could be Moriarty (and a detective who could be Holmes), although neither is mentioned by name. "The Lost Special" is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1908.

Viktor Yevgrafov as Professor Moriarty in Igor Maslennikov's TV series. Igor Fyodorovich Maslennikov (Игорь Фёдорович Масленников (b

Although Moriarty only appeared in two of the sixty Sherlock Holmes tales by Conan Doyle, Holmes's attitude to him in those two stories has gained him the popular impression of being Holmes's nemesis, and he has been frequently used in later stories by other authors, parodies, and in other media. In fact, among casual Holmes fans it is commonly assumed that the real overall plot arc of the Holmes stories is the war that the detective wages with Moriarty, who oversees the crimes that Holmes foils. A story arc is an extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling media such as Television, Comic books Comic strips

In the Conan Doyle stories, narrated by Holmes's assistant Dr. Watson, Watson never meets Moriarty (only getting distant glimpses of him in "The Final Problem"), and relies upon Holmes to relate accounts of the detective's battle with the criminal. In stories by other writers, Watson has encountered Moriarty more often.

Conan Doyle himself is inconsistent on Watson's familiarity with Moriarty. In "The Final Problem", Watson tells Holmes he has never heard of Moriarty. But in The Valley of Fear, set earlier on, Watson already knows of him as 'the famous scientific criminal'.

Moriarty's weapon of choice was the "air-rifle", a unique weapon constructed for the Professor by a blind German mechanic, von Herder, and used by his employee Colonel Sebastian Moran. Colonel Sebastian Moran is a fictional character the villain of the Sherlock Holmes short story The Adventure of the Empty House. It closely resembled a cane, allowing for easy concealment, was capable of firing revolver bullets and made very little noise when fired, making it ideal for sniping; the weapon became infamous for being Moriarty's favorite tool. READ DISCUSSION PAGE BEFORE MAKING ANY EDITS TO CAPTION BELOW http//en

Holmes described Moriarty as follows:

"He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of twenty-one he wrote A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem, which has had a European vogue. A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem is a brilliant work of mathematics by the young James Moriarty, the evil Archenemy of the detective Sherlock Holmes On the strength of it he won the mathematical chair at one of our smaller universities, and had, to all appearances, a most brilliant career before him.

But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. A criminal strain ran in his blood, which, instead of being modified, was increased and rendered infinitely more dangerous by his extraordinary mental powers. Dark rumours gathered round him in the University town, and eventually he was compelled to resign his chair and come down to London. . . "

—Holmes, "The Final Problem"

Holmes also states that Moriarty has written the book The Dynamics of an Asteroid, describing it as "a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticising it". The Dynamics of An Asteroid is a fictional book by Professor James Moriarty, the implacable foe of Sherlock Holmes.

Doyle's original motive in creating Moriarty was evidently his intention to kill Holmes off. As is well known, "The Final Problem" was intended to be exactly what its name says; Doyle sought to sweeten the pill a little bit by letting Holmes go in a blaze of glory, having rid the world of a criminal so powerful and dangerous that any further task would be trivial in comparison (as Holmes says in the story itself). Moriarty only appeared in one book because, quite simply, having him constantly escape would discredit Holmes, and would be less satisfying. Valley of Fear changes this.

Eventually, public pressure forced Doyle to bring Holmes back, but the literary sub-genre of the supervillain was already irrevocably launched to influence countless later writers. A supervillain or supervillainess is a variant of the Villain character type commonly found in Comic books, Action movies and

A point of interest is that the "high, domed forehead" was seen as the sign of a prodigious intellect during Conan Doyle's time. In Human anatomy, the forehead or brow is the bony part of the head above the Eyes Cultural Aspects A popular Stereotype A sign is an entity which signifies another entity A natural sign is an entity which bears a causal relation to the signified entity as thunder is a sign of storm In giving Moriarty this trait, which had already appeared in both Sherlock Holmes and the detective's brother Mycroft, Conan Doyle may have intended to portray Moriarty as a man having an intellect equal or greater than that of Holmes– thus as the only man capable of defeating him. Mycroft Holmes is a Fictional character in the stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. An alternative theory that has been proposed, based on the physical similarities, is that Holmes and Moriarty were the same person. ^[1]

Simon Newcomb and other real world role models

Simon Newcomb

In addition to the master criminal Adam Worth, there has been much speculation^[2] among astronomers and Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts that Doyle based his fictional character Moriarty on the American astronomer Simon Newcomb. Simon Newcomb ( March 12 1835 &ndash July 11 1909) was a Canadian American Astronomer and Mathematician Adam Worth (1844-1902 was a German -born gentleman criminal Scotland Yard detective Robert Anderson gave him a nickname "the Napoleon of the criminal world" Simon Newcomb ( March 12 1835 &ndash July 11 1909) was a Canadian American Astronomer and Mathematician Newcomb was certainly a multi-talented genius, with a special mastery of mathematics, and he had become internationally famous in the years before Doyle began writing his stories. More pointedly, Newcomb had earned a reputation for spite and malice, apparently seeking to destroy the careers and reputations of rival scientists.

Gauss' portrait published in Astronomische Nachrichten 1828

George Boole

A gallows ticket to view the hanging of Jonathan Wild. George Boole (buːl ( November 2, 1815 &ndash December 8, 1864) was a British Mathematician and Philosopher.

Professor Moriarty's reputed feats might also have been inspired by the accomplishments of real world mathematicians. If the names of the papers are reversed, they describe real mathematical events. Carl Friedrich Gauss wrote a famous paper on the dynamics of an asteroid^[3] in his early 20s, which certainly had a European vogue, and was appointed to a chair partly on the strength of this result. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (ˈɡaʊs, Gauß Carolus Fridericus Gauss ( 30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German Srinivasa Ramanujan wrote about generalizations of the binomial theorem, and earned a reputation as a genius by writing articles that confounded the best extant mathematicians. Gauss's story was well known in Doyle's time, and Ramanujan's story unfolded at Cambridge from early 1913 to mid 1914;^[4] The Valley of Fear, which contains the comment about maths so abstruse that no-one could criticise it, was published in September 1914. The Valley of Fear is the final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Des MacHale, in his George Boole : his life and work (1985, Boole Press) suggests that George Boole may have been a model for Moriarty. Desmond "Des" MacHale is a full-time associate professor of Mathematics at University College Cork, Ireland. George Boole (buːl ( November 2, 1815 &ndash December 8, 1864) was a British Mathematician and Philosopher.

The model which Conan Doyle himself mentions (through Sherlock Holmes) in "The Valley of Fear" is the London arch-criminal of the eighteenth century, Jonathan Wild. Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887 The Valley of Fear is the final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Jonathan Wild ( baptised 6 May 1683 – 24 May 1725) was perhaps the most famous criminal of London &mdash and He mentions this when seeking to compare Moriarty to a real-world character that Inspector Alec MacDonald might know, but it is in vain as MacDonald is not so well read as Holmes.

Finally, Conan Doyle is known to have used his former school, Stonyhurst College, as inspiration for details of the Holmes series; among his contempories at the school were two boys named Moriarty. Stonyhurst College is an independent, Roman Catholic school in the Jesuit tradition ^[5]

Moriarty's family

The stories give a number of indications about the Professor's family, some seemingly contradictory.

In The Valley of Fear, Holmes says of him: "He is unmarried. The Valley of Fear is the final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. His younger brother is a station master in the west of England. " In The Final Problem, Watson refers to "the recent letters in which Colonel James Moriarty defends the memory of his brother. The Adventure of the Final Problem is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. "

In neither story are we told the Professor's own first name; it is only in The Empty House that Holmes refers to Professor James Moriarty. The Adventure of the Empty House, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle In his play, William Gillette gives his Moriarty the Christian name "Robert".

The question of how many Moriarty brothers this makes, and which of them is called James, has provided much amusement for Sherlock Holmes fans in the years since the stories were first published.

Moriarty in popular culture

Depictions

Film

• George Zucco appeared as Professor Moriarty in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. George Zucco ( January 11, 1886 – May 28, 1960) was an English character actor who appeared almost always in supporting roles in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ( 1939) is a film featuring the characters of the Sherlock Holmes series of books as created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Vincent D'Onofrio appeared as Professor Moriarty in Sherlock (2002 film). Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio (born June 30, 1959) is an American Actor and producer.
• Lionel Atwill appeared as Professor Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon. Lionel Atwill ( March 1, 1885 – April 22, 1946 was an English stage and film actor born in Croydon, London, England. Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943 is the fourth in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films
• Henry Daniell appeared as Professor Moriarty in The Woman in Green. Henry Daniell ( March 5, 1894, London, England – October 31, 1963, Santa Monica The Woman in Green ( 1945) is a Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr
• Paul Freeman appeared as Professor Moriarty in the 1988 comedy Without a Clue, revolving around the premise that Holmes is a fictional creation of Watson's, and Watson is the real crime solving genius. Paul Freeman (born January 18 1943) is a British film and television Actor. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) Comedy (from the Greek κωμωδίαkomodia has a popular meaning (any discourse generally intended to amuse especially in Television, Film, and Without a Clue is a 1988 Comedy film starring Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley.
• In Young Sherlock Holmes Anthony Higgins plays Holmes' schoolmaster, Rathe, who turns out to be an evil mastermind. Young Sherlock Holmes ( 1985) directed by Barry Levinson and written by Chris Columbus, depicts a young Sherlock Holmes and Anthony Higgins (born 9 May 1947 in Northampton) is an English Actor. After the end credits, there's a brief scene in which Rathe enters an inn and signs the ledger as Moriarty.
• Richard Roxburgh portrayed a villain named the Fantom, whose true identity was that of Professor James Moriarty, in the 2003 film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a 2003 film loosely based on the Comic book Limited series of the same name.
• In the Disney animated film The Great Mouse Detective, the character Professor Ratigan (the archnemesis of Basil of Baker Street, the Holmes-esque hero of the film ) is an obvious parallel and tribute to the character of Moriarty, even sharing his alleged first name. The Great Mouse Detective was a 1986 Animated feature produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and originally released to Movie theaters

Television

• A computer simulation of Professor Moriarty, played by actor Daniel Davis, appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Elementary, Dear Data" and "Ship in a Bottle". Daniel Davis (born November 26, 1945) is an American Actor who is best known for portraying Niles the Butler on the sitcom Star Trek The Next Generation ( STTNG or TNG) is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning science fiction television program created by Gene Roddenberry " Elementary Dear Data " is the third episode of the second season of Star Trek The Next Generation. " Ship in a Bottle " is the 138th episode of the Television series Star Trek The Next Generation. For a bet, Data, posing as Holmes on the holodeck, proposed to solve a Holmes-style mystery, but when Geordi La Forge asked the computer to create a foe, he requested one "capable of defeating Data" (as opposed to Holmes). A holodeck is a Simulated reality facility located on Starships and Starbases in the fictional Star Trek universe Geordi redirects here for a similarly named regional culture in England see Geordie. The computer gave Moriarty self-awareness and the ability to manipulate the holodeck's controls. In doing so, Moriarty seized control of the Enterprise, but was convinced to release control and be stored in the ship's memory when he learned that he could not leave the holodeck. The Enterprise or USS Enterprise (often referred to as the " Starship Enterprise " are the names of several fictional Freed from the ship's memory in the latter episode, he again took over the Enterprise. Trapping Picard, Data and Lieutenant Barclay in a holographic duplicate of the ship, Moriarty blackmailed the crew into figuring out a way of allowing him to leave the ship with his mistress Countess Regina Bartholomew. However, the three trapped crew members programmed the holodeck on the false holographic Enterprise to create a holographic simulation of the outside world, leaving Moriarty and the Countess unwittingly stored in a memory module with enough content to keep the couple amused for some time.

Moriarty and Picard in Ship in a Bottle.

• The Darkwing Duck TV series (1991-1993) featured a mole-themed villain named Professor Moliarty, an obvious parody/homage. Darkwing Duck is an Emmy -nominated American Animated television series produced by The Walt Disney Company that ran from 1991-1995
• In No Reason, an episode of House, Dr House is shot by a man named Jack Moriarty. No Reason is the twenty-fourth episode and the season finale of the second season of House, which premiered on the FOX network on May 23 House, also known as House MD, is an American Medical drama, which debuted on the FOX network on November 16 2004 The television show contains many other similarities between its titular character and the famous detective.
• In the television series Lost, villain Benjamin Linus, played by Michael Emerson, uses the alias "Dean Moriarty" in Episode 4. Lost is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American serial drama television series. Michael Emerson (born September 7, 1954) is an American Actor of the stage and screen. 09 entitled "The Shape of Things to Come" although that is more likely a reference to the character by Jack Kerouac.

Non-canon literature

• In Neil Gaiman's Hugo Award winning short story "A Study in Emerald", the Moriarty and Holmes of an alternate history reverse roles. Neil Richard Gaiman (ˈgeɪmən (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of Science fiction and Fantasy short stories and The Hugo Awards are given every year for the best Science fiction or Fantasy works and achievements of the previous year " A Study in Emerald " is a short story written by British Fantasy and Graphic novel Author Neil Gaiman. Alternate history or alternative history is a subgenre of Speculative fiction (or Science fiction) and Historical fiction Moriarty (who, though never named as such in the story, is identified as the author of Dynamics of an Asteroid) is hired to investigate a murder. The murder has apparently been carried out by Sherlock Holmes (who signs his name Rache, an allusion to Doyle's first novella starring Holmes and Watson, A Study in Scarlet, in which the word Rache — German for revenge — is found written above the body of a murder victim) and Dr. Watson. The story is narrated by Colonel Sebastian Moran, given the rank of Major (Ret. Colonel Sebastian Moran is a fictional character the villain of the Sherlock Holmes short story The Adventure of the Empty House. ) by Gaiman.
• In a 2006 comic book story featuring Lee Falk's The Phantom, the 19th Phantom has to fight Professor Moriarty. Leon Harrison Gross, more known by the alias of Lee Falk ( April 28, 1911 - March 13, 1999) was an American writer The climax of the story features the Phantom and Moriarty falling down a waterfall in the Bangalla jungles. At the end of the story, Moriarty is shown to be alive, as he returns to London to find "a detective named Sherlock Holmes". Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887
• In Nicholas Meyer's 1976 novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Professor Moriarty is portrayed as Holmes's childhood mathematics tutor, a whining little man with a guilty secret. Nicholas Meyer (born December 24, 1945 in New York City, US) graduated from the University of Iowa with a The Seven-Per-Cent Solution is the title of a 1974 novel by Nicholas Meyer. Mathematics is the body of Knowledge and Academic discipline that studies such concepts as Quantity, Structure, Space and He is incensed to hear that Holmes, apparently under the influence of cocaine, has depicted him as a criminal mastermind. Cocaine ( benzoylmethyl ecgonine) is a Crystalline Tropane Alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the Coca plant Because of Holmes' worsening condition, and Moriarty's threats to tell the authorities about Holmes' addiction, Dr. Watson seeks the help of Sigmund Freud, who uncovers the truth behind Holmes' perception of "the Napoleon of Crime". Sigmund Freud (ˈziːkmʊnt ˈfʁɔʏt born Sigismund Shlomo Freud (May 6 1856 &ndash September 23 1939 was an Austrian Psychiatrist who founded This is one of many works to seize on the fact that Moriarty never actually shows his face in the Holmes canon. The novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution was made into a 1976 film and starred Lord Laurence Olivier as Professor Moriarty. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution is the title of a 1974 novel by Nicholas Meyer. Laurence Kerr Olivier Baron
• Michael Kurland has written a series of novels in which Moriarty is the hero: His organisation of crime is the method by which he raises the money required for his experimental physics apparatus. Michael Joseph Kurland (born 1938 is an American author best known for his works of (in chronological order Science fiction and Detective fiction. In the first book of the series, The Infernal Device, he foils a plot against Queen Victoria, reluctantly allying with Sherlock Holmes.
• John Gardner has written two novels featuring the arch-villain, The Return of Moriarty, in which the Professor, like Holmes, is shown to have survived the meeting at the Reichenbach, and The Revenge of Moriarty. John Edmund Gardner ( November 20, 1926 – August 3, 2007 In these two novels, Moriarty is depicted as a Victorian-era Al Capone or Don Corleone, single-handedly controlling London's organized crime structure. Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17 1899 &ndash January 25 1947 commonly nicknamed Scarface, was an Italian American Gangster who "Crime syndicate" redirects here For the DC Comics group of villains see Crime Syndicate. Originally planned as a trilogy, the third book, The Revolt of Moriarty, has never been published, but there have been indications, since Gardner's death on 7 August 2007, that it may appear posthumously.
• Moriarty appeared in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: having survived his final encounter with Sherlock Holmes he went on to become the head of British Intelligence under the code-name "M" (a nod to the James Bond novels and films). Alan Moore (born November 18 1953 in Northampton) is an English Writer most famous for his influential work in Comics, including the acclaimed The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a Comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill. Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887 M is a fictional character in Ian Fleming 's James Bond series as well as the films in the Bond franchise James Bond 007 is a Fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve Novels and two Short story He instigated the creation of the League as a covert ops unit with plausible deniability. A covert operation is a Military or political activity carried out in such a way that the parties responsible for the action can be an Open secret, but Plausible deniability refers to the denial of blame in loose and informal chains of command where upper rungs quarantine the blame to the lower rungs Following his supposed death (indicated, but not clearly portrayed, as he "falls" into the sky, due to the anti-gravity mineral, Cavorite) in the midst of a gang war with The Doctor, he was succeeded as "M" by Mycroft Holmes. See also A Trip to the Moon, The First Men in the Moon (1919 film, First Men in the Moon (1964 film The First Men in the Moon Dr Fu Manchu is a Fictional character first featured in a series of novels by English author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century Mycroft Holmes is a Fictional character in the stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The film of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen also included Moriarty, but with a more supervillain-style take on the character. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a 2003 film loosely based on the Comic book Limited series of the same name. A supervillain or supervillainess is a variant of the Villain character type commonly found in Comic books, Action movies and Based on the time-honored "disfigured villain under the mask" theme (such as the French characters Fantômas and the Phantom of the Opera, or the Marvel Comics character Dr Doom), Moriarty disguises himself with a silver mask and face paint, giving him the appearance of having been badly wounded in a fire of some kind. Fantômas is a Fictional arch- Villain and master criminal by French Writers Marcel Allain (1885–1970 and Pierre Character history In the original novel few details are given regarding Erik's past although there is no shortage of hints and implications throughout the book Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc Dr Doom redirects here For other uses see Dr Doom (disambiguation. In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, it is suggested that Jack Kerouac's Dean Moriarty (from On the Road) is his great-grandson, and the rivalry between the two criminals is continued by the fact that The Doctor's great-grandson is Kerouac's other creation, Doctor Sachs. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Black Dossier is an original Graphic novel in the Comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Jack Kerouac ( March 12 1922 &ndash October 21 1969) was an American Novelist, Writer, Poet, and Dean Moriarty is one of the protagonists in Jack Kerouac 's novel On the Road. On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951 and published by Viking Press in 1957. Doctor Sax ( Doctor Sax Faust Part Three) is a novel by Jack Kerouac published in 1959.
• A similar character appeared in the Solar Pons series, which was a pastiche of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Solar Pons is a Fictional Detective created by August Derleth as a Pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle 's Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887 The Moriarty figure was Baron Knoll, a German spy and a socialite who appeared in only two stories (much like Moriarty). A socialite is a person who is known to be a part of fashionable Society because of his or her regular participation in social activities and fondness for spending a significant

Other media

• The PC game Eagle Eye Mysteries features a character named Mark Moriarty - he is a high school student who is at the heart of many of the mysteries the player has to solve. A personal computer ( PC) is any Computer whose original sales price size and capabilities make it useful for individuals and which is intended to be operated Eagle Eye Mysteries is a two-part series of educational computer games developed by Stormfront Studios and published by EA*Kids. In one mystery, on the subject of Sherlock Holmes, he actually mentions that he has the same name as Holmes' nemesis.
• The 1950s radio comedy the Goon show had, as one of its principal characters, an incompetent 'Criminal Mastermind' named Count Jim Moriarty. The Goon Show was a British Radio comedy programme originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960 Count Jim Moriarty is a character from the 1950s BBC Radio comedy The Goon Show.
• Benjamin Linus uses the alias 'Professor Moriarty' in the Lost episode 'The Shape of Things to Come'.

• Moriarty was also seen in the PC game Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, in which Moriarty has survived the falls of Reichenbach and is in weak condition in a mental hospital.

Cultural references

• The title track of the Kinks' 1968 album The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society includes the line "God save Fu Manchu, Moriarty, and Dracula". The Kinks were an English pop and rock group formed in 1963 and categorised in the US as a British Invasion band The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society is a pop-rock album released by the British music group The Kinks on 22 November Dr Fu Manchu is a Fictional character first featured in a series of novels by English author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary Antagonist the vampire Count Dracula.
• The arch-villain in the Canadian television programme, The Adventures of Shirley Holmes is a teenage criminal mastermind named Molly Hardy. The Adventures of Shirley Holmes is a Canadian mystery TV series that originally aired from 1996 to 1999.

References

Professor Moriarty is referenced in the Futurama episode "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch". The Man Who Knew Infinity A Life of the Genius Ramanujan is the Biography of the Indian Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan written Futurama is an Emmy Award -winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch" is the first episode in season four of Futurama.

See also

External links

• Professor Moriarty article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
• The Final Problem - in easy to read HTML format. Memory Alpha (often abbreviated to MA) is a Wiki that is an encyclopedic reference for topics related to the Star Trek fictional universe A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content using a simplified Markup language.
• The Valley of Fear - in easy to read HTML format.
• Sherlock Holmes Public Library