Talk:Professor Moriarty

message: I hope you don't mind me removing the picture of the waterfall; it seemed highly unnecessary and was kind of clamming the article up. --71.109.37.168 05:34, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Waterfall 

message: The article states ...when Geordi LaForge has the computer create a foe, he mistakenly asks it to create a foe "capable of defeating Data" instead of Holmes. Due to this error in phrasing...
However, the episode's article doesn't say it was a mistake in phrasing, neither does the Memory Alpha page.
Geordi purposely wants the computer to create an opponent capable of defeating Data, but does not realize the ramifications of the request until later. Prometheus-X303- 14:18, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Geordi does not want to create an opponent the equal of Data. Dr. Pulaski contends that Data is incapable of solving a Holmes mystery that he hasn't read, and Geordi decides to test her theory by having the computer create an original Holmes  adventure. The point isn't to create a mystery that would challenge Data, but to create one that would challenge Holmes and see if Data can solve it. Later in the episode, when Geordi and Picard are discussing what could've gone wrong, Geordi says something along the lines of, "I asked the computer to create an opponent capable of defeating Holm--shiznit! I asked it to create an adversary able to defeat Data." Seantrinityohara (talk) 20:45, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moriarty in TNG  Mistake or No? 

message: I think this
"He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. ..."  comes from a book called The Seven Percent Solution, which was not written by Conan Doyle. LDH 01:38, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Professor James Moriarty, a character in stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is a criminal mastermind with a PhD in non-Euclidean geometries.
No reference is given. Can someone find a passage that supports the assertion ? — Rgdboer (talk) 23:39, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moriarty a mathematician? 

message: In an unfavored and forgotten version, Moriarty and Holmes die falling off a cliff. Doyle was so tired of Holmes, so he decieded to kill him. The public didn't like it, so they forced Sir Arthur to make another version. So, Doyle makes Sherlock die in his sleep. The public allowed it. Search for it on Google, I heard this in my British Literature course. --69.67.230.24 03:10, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not exactly. Wryspy (talk) 22:59, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a story called "The House that Jack Built" by Edward Wellen that deals with the idea that Holmes and Moriarty are akin to Jekyll and Hyde.--BruceGrubb (talk) 22:10, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead? 

message: How about Moriarty in the anime Sherlock Hound? Egon Eagle (talk) 00:03, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The anime-character 

message: While the article shows some real terriblr people in the worldodels, it seems to me neglected a fictional antecedent: analogously to Poe's August Dupin, the unscrupulous Minister D (from the "The Purloined Letter") can be a model for Moriarty. D is both poet and mathematician, expert in Calculus. The Minister D is presented as contemporarily very smart and cunnning. --79.0.93.114 (talk) 21:31, 1 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Role models 

message: The article states that M never shows his face in the canon, when The Final Problem has 2.5 pages of dialogue between Holmes and M?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Noonand (talk • contribs) 13:57, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Holmes describes the interview to Watson. Watson never sees Moriarty himself, unless you count a far-off view of a man "walking very rapidly", "his black figure clearly outlined against the green", towards the Reichenbach Falls where Watson last saw Holmes. Opera hat (talk) 18:29, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Moriarty face-to-face 

message: There is some confusion in the article, which I don't know how best to rectify.  One or two things are more or less said twice.  There is what seems like internal discussion of whether it is two or three times that Moriarty was killed off in the Basil Rathbone films. I don't think I have them all, to check this. I find it just as interesting that he was never played by the same actor twice.  And Orson Welles also played both Holmes and Moriarty, for radio in both cases.
Rogersansom (talk) 17:28, 1 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: The Article

message: "have described this as a pun by Doyle upon the name of Thomas Agnew of the gallery "Thomas Agnew and Sons", who had a famous painting[2] stolen by Adam Worth, but was unable to prove the fact.[1]"
The sentence begins midway through.98.222.213.161 (talk) 02:45, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  Thanks for the flag-up. Mezigue (talk) 14:53, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs to be fixed 

message: The Moriarty in popular culture section is pretty bloated, and seems to be a list of not just depictions, but practically every time the word "Moriarty" has appeared in popular culture. It's pretty much trivia. I reckon we could rename it to Moriarty in later works, condense it down to a paragraph and perhaps have a short list of the most important depictions - i.e. 
In later adaptations and derivative works of the Sherlock Holmes stories the character of Moriarty, or derivatives thereof, frequently appears as an antagonist to Sherlock Holmes. In many he is Holmes' principal and greatest nemesis.
Some of the best-known portrayals of Professor Moriarty include:
*A list of maybe a dozen or so of actors who have portrayed the in some of the best known adaptations.
What do people think? In my opinion the long list doesn't do this article any favors right now. LukeSurl t c 00:18, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moriarty in popular culture 

message: * I considered not mentioning it, but since the article goes so far as to say that Dublin-born Andrew Scott plays the character of Jim Moriarty "with a strong Irish accent," I thought it worthwhile to note that the character's manner of speaking appears to be inspired by Enrico Colantoni's portrayal of "Mathesar" in the 1999 film "Galaxy Quest". That's my original research, but the similarity is uncanny. --Dystopos (talk) 03:25, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Accent

message: There is Spanish verb 'morir' which means 'to die' and 'mori' means 'i die' in Spanish, but I assume that the latin (which I do not know) word 'mori' means 'you die'. Then add on the word 'arty' and it impresses me that his name confers 'the art of making you die'. Help me on this, I am not qualified in this area.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.104.195.251 (talk) 02:02, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Meaning of last name? 

message: "...was introduced primarily as a narrative device to enable Conan Doyle to kill off Sherlock Holmes"
Not sure what the policy is here, but could we consider removing the major plot spoiler in the opening paragraph?  Chris112358 (talk) 04:36, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spoiler in the opening paragraph. 

message: This incarnation of moriarty is missing, please add it to the TV's adaptations section
Here is here info:
Sarah Ezer as Molly Hardy: Shirley's nemesis, and Moriarty counterpart. A newcomer to Sussex Academy, Molly first appeared as Alicia Gianelli's running mate during the school election for student council president. Through an elaborate scheme, Molly is elected student council president. Her true scheming nature is hidden from everyone except Shirley and Bo. Although her machinations are routinely thwarted by Shirley, Molly manages to escape punishment. She is revealed to be a sociopath in "The Case of the Crooked Comic" and is a mastermind of evil genius with an IQ of 160. Molly first appeared in "The Case of the Ruby Ring." It is possible that she is in fact descended from Professor Moriarty.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drumerwritter (talk • contribs) 21:03, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The adventures of shirley holmes : Sarah Ezer as Molly Hardy: Shirley's nemesis, and Moriarty counterpart 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Should the list of Moriarty appearances in other media also appear in this article?  I think not, since this will invariably lead to the divergence of the two lists. Also, these are not about Prof. Moriarty in general, so the separate page is the best place.  Other opinions are welcome, of course.   LouScheffer (talk) 22:32, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should the list of Moriarty appearances in other media also appear in this article?