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Professor MoriartyProfessor MoriartyRealName: Professor James MoriartyIdentity/Class: Normal humanOccupation: Maths Professor, crimelordGroup Membership: Leader of his own criminal gang, and through thatmost of London's underworldAffiliations: Sebastian MoranEnemies:,Known Relatives: Colonel James Moriarty (brother)Aliases: The Napoleon of CrimeBase of Operations: LondonFirst Appearance: The Final Problem (1893)Powers/Abilities: Moriarty was a criminal genius, very nearlyas smart as his nemesis, Sherlock Holmes. Happy chef 2 game. While an older man and given todealing with problems using his brains rather than brawn, he was clearlya good hand-to-hand fighter when pushed, as he was able to give the extremelystrong, martial arts knowledgeable Holmes a run for his money when they foughtatop the Reichenbach Falls.History: He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizerof half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great city.He is a genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker.

He has a brain of thefirst order. He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web,but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver ofeach of them.

'The Final Problem' (1893), Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe arch-nemesis of Sherlock Holmes, who ruled the London underworld in thelate 19th century, before (apparently) meeting his death at the ReichenbachFalls at the hands of the great detective. An extremely intelligent man ofgood birth, Moriarty was a Professor of Mathematics, writing a treatise onthe binomial theorem (The Final Problem), lecturing about eclipses, and becomingthe celebrated author of 'The Dynamics of An Asteroid', a book so advancedthat 'no man in the scientific press is able to criticize it'. He left hisUniversity Chair to become an army coach, and then went to London. At first,in a manner similar to Holmes being a consulting detective, Moriarty wasa consulting criminal, in one instance aiding a crime syndicate from Americato track down 'Birdy Edwards' (The Valley of Fear). Later he set up his owncriminal syndicate, with Colonel Sebastian Moran as his right hand. In 1891,when Holmes disrupted his criminal activities, he pursued the detective acrossEurope to the aforementioned Falls in Switzerland, where the two fought andMoriarty fell to his death (perhaps).Comments:Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.As the secret head of the criminal underground and with his incredible intellect,Moriarty could be argued to be one of the first supervillains.

He and Moranare featured in The Final Problem, The Empty House and TheValley of Fear.Moriarty had at least one brother, a station master in the West of England.In the Final Problem (as Traven reminds me) his brother Colonel James Moriartywrites letters defending the memory of his dead brother, which forces Watsonto tell the true story. However, while this suggests that the Professor hadtwo brothers, it is conceivably possible that Colonel Moriarty had retiredto become the station master.

Not likely though. So, definitely one brother,probably two.

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