Elementary: Tropes

Signature tropes

The ones that say the most about Elementary. Pick one to read it.

• Disability AlibiRare · in 41 titlesIn the season one episode "Flight Risk", Holmes and Watson investigate a plane crash.Read →
• Sacrificed Basic Skill for Awesome TrainingRare · in 42 titlesUnlike most adaptations of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock is an interesting aversion of this trope.Read →
• Hollywood Lawin 962 titlesA pretty severe one, given the premise of the show.Read →
• Ripped from the Headlinesin 1,404 titles"Lesser Evils" is inspired by the Kristen Gilbert murders, a nurse who killed four patients (and was suspected of killing eighty others) with epinephrine at the Veteran's Administration hospital in N…Read →
• Always Murderin 124 titlesSherlock usually considers investigating anything less than attempted murder to be beneath his skills.Read →
• Red Herring SecretRare · in 24 titles"One Way to Get Off": Their initial suspect is found to have a Sex Slave chained in his basement, who confirms that he was with her on the night of the murders being investigated; as Bell says sourly…Read →