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⌈ Secret Post #2475 ⌋

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[Supernatural, Watchmen]

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[a case of exploding mangoes (2008 novel)]

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[Brothers in Arms]

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[Agents of SHIELD ]

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[Transformers: IDW Generation One]

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[Sarah Michelle Gellar]

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[Young Guns 2]

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Does Sherlock Holmes actually fight in the novels or at least know how to fight?

He does know how to fight. In fact he is a master of bartitsu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartitsu

Sherlock Holmes is strong enough to bend a metal poker back into shape in in canon. From wiki:

In several stories, Holmes is described or demonstrated as having above-average physical strength. As an example, in "The Adventure of the Speckled Band", Dr. Roylott, 6 feet tall and wide as a doorframe, demonstrates his strength by bending a fire poker in half. After the Doctor leaves, Holmes said, "laughing, 'I am not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him that my grip was not much more feeble than his own.' As he spoke he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, straightened it out again." In "The Yellow Face", Watson comments of Holmes, that "Few men were capable of greater muscular effort."

as for fighting (again, from wiki);

In "The Adventure of the Empty House", Holmes recounts to Watson how he used martial arts to overcome Professor Moriarty and fling his adversary to his death down the Reichenbach Falls. He states, "I have some knowledge, however, of baritsu, or the Japanese system of wrestling, which has more than once been very useful to me". The name "baritsu" appears to be a reference to the real-life martial art of Bartitsu, which combined jujitsu with boxing and cane fencing.

:)

He was an accomplished boxer, in Watson's exact description, and as far as actions go, he gets a guy who threatened him in a bar sent home in a cart, wiped the floor with a boxer who he later befriends, knows martial arts that allowed him to chuck Moriarty off a cliff, and has at various times hit someone with a pistol-butt or riding crop in an effective manner that shows that he knows what he's doing. Alas, most of it is described in third-person rather than shown in action :(

I think he fights somebody in "The Solitary Cyclist" and then, of course, he fights Moriarty in "The Final Problem."

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