Professor Moriarty

Professor Moriarty
A.K.A.	James R. Moriarty
Character Information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Residence	Prime Universe
Behind the Scenes
First seen in	PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker
Copyright	Public Domain

In many realities, Professor Moriarty was a 19th century criminal mastermind and a major nemesis of Sherlock Holmes.

Biography

In the Prime Universe

In the “Prime Universe”, Sherlock Holmes andh is associates were real people. The Professor'ss name was “James R. Moriarty”, and by December of 1895, Holmes believed him to be dead and gone. Pythagoras-858 briefly impersonated a resurrected Moriarty to get Holmes's attention so that he could aid in Pythe's quest to discover the culprit in the freezing of Madame Tarsa. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)

Behind the scenes

Background

Professor Moriarty is one of the most notorious characters in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. His first name was an area of contention: in The Final Problem (1893), “James Moriarty” is an army colonel and the Professor's brother; in the 1899 Sherlock Holmes play co-authored by Doyle, the Professor is named Robert Moriarty; but in The Adventure of the Empty House (1903), Holmes refers to the criminal mastermind as “Professor James Moriarty”, the name most modern adaptations retain. The named used in The Time of the Toymaker, “James R. Moriarty”, appears to imply that this continuity's Moriarty had James as his first name and Robert as a middle name.