Herlock Solmes

Herlock Solmes
Species	Human
First appearance	The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! - "The Adventures of Sherlock Mario" (1989)

“Elementary, my dear Koopa-arity. You're a cross between a lizard and an inferior species of toad. Your brain is smaller than a peanut. You got the lowest grades in your school and hold the world record for flunking kindergarten the most times. When you were little, the other Koopas nicknamed you "Lizard Lips" and never let you play with them. You were a naughty lily-livered bully boy and wet the bed until you were twelve.”

—Herlock Solmes, "The Adventures of Sherlock Mario"

Herlock Solmes is a world famous detective, described as the best there is who appeared as a character in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! He is a parody of the fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, with his name being a spoonerism of the latter.

In The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! episode "The Adventures of Sherlock Mario," Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Toadstool venture to Herlock Solmes's home city of Victoria, in search of Herlock Solmes, who had agreed to meet them at midnight to discuss plans on helping them defeat Professor Koopa-arity.

Before Mario, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Toadstool ever have the chance to meet him though, Herlock Solmes is kidnapped by Professor Koopa-arity, whose plans to destroy Victoria Herlock Solmes had discovered. Losing his hat and magnifying glass in a scuffle with Professor Koopa-arity, Herlock Solmes is taken to Professor Koopa-arity's sewer headquarters, where he is tied to a chair and mocked by Professor Koopa-arity, Mouser, Tryclyde, and a Koopa Troopa. As Professor Koopa-arity taunts Herlock Solmes, he jokingly says that he bets Herlock Solmes cannot figure out what Professor Koopa-arity is planning to do; Professor Koopa-arity is left dumbstruck though, when Herlock Solmes correctly deduces that Professor Koopa-arity, Mouser, Tryclyde, and the Koopa Troopa are going to steal the Retro Router from the Tower of Victoria, and use it to flood all of Victoria.

Later, after Professor Koopa-arity, Mouser, Tryclyde, and the Koopa Troopa steal the Retro Router and are preparing to use it to flood Victoria, Professor Koopa-arity gloats that once he flooded Victoria, he would be one of the vilest villains ever, and asks Herlock Solmes, who is still tied to a chair, what he thinks of him now; after being asked this by Professor Koopa-arity, Herlock Solmes proceeds to reveal several embarrassing secrets of Professor Koopa-arity and mocks him, which enrages Professor Koopa-arity, and causes the nearby Mouser, Tryclyde, and Koopa Troopa to laugh hysterically.

Eventually, Herlock Solmes is released from his confinement by Professor Koopa-arity by Mario (wearing Herlock's hat), Luigi, Toad, and Princess Toadstool, who manage to find Professor Koopa-arity's sewer headquarters. They defeat Professor Koopa-arity and the Koopa Pack, and destroy the Retro Router, stopping it from flooding all of Victoria.

Afterward, at Herlock Solmes's house on Bonkers Street, Herlock Solmes gratefully thanks Luigi, Toad, and Princess Toadstool for stopping Professor Koopa-arity from flooding Victoria, as Mario searches Herlock Solmes's house for some food. Before Herlock Solmes can stop him, Mario opens the carrying cage of the Killer Kitty of the Kaskervilles, thinking it to be a lunchbox. Once freed by Mario, the Killer Kitty of the Caskervilles proceeds to clamp down on Mario's hand, leaving Herlock Solmes, Luigi, Toad, and Princess Toadstool to try and pull the Killer Kitty of the Caskervilles off Mario's hand.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Chinese (simplified)	赫洛克·索尔姆斯 Hèluòkè Suǒěrmǔsī	Herlock Solmes
French	Herlock Solmes	-
German	Herlock Sholmes	-
Portuguese	Herlock Solmes	-
Swedish	Herlock Solmes	-

Trivia

• Herlock Solmes's name is misspelled as "Herlock Sholmes" on the back cover of Once Upon a Koopa, referring to a different spoonerism first used in the Arsène Lupin novelizations.