James Moriarty

Professor Moriarty is a character in the series of works by Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes, the antagonist of the main character, the head of a powerful criminal organization, a genius of the criminal world. Some information about the character: He comes from a good family, received a brilliant education and is naturally endowed with phenomenal mathematical abilities. At the age of 21, he wrote a treatise on Newton's binomial, which won him European fame. After that, he received a chair in mathematics at one of the provincial universities. Dark rumors began to spread about him in the university town where he taught, and in the end he was forced to leave the department and move to London, where he began to prepare young people for the officer's exam. He has untold wealth, uses every opportunity to hide his position, since his official income as a professor is approximately seven hundred pounds a year. As a result, Moriarty died in a fight with Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls. It is assumed that Moriarty had several real prototypes, among which the criminal Adam Worth is named, as well as Professor Walter Loyd McLarens, who taught mathematics at Oxford at the end of the XIX century.

James "Jim" Moriarty is the main antagonist of the series "Sherlock". He is an eccentric, sadistic and cunning crime boss, the sworn enemy of Sherlock Holmes. Moriarty's character includes the following traits: Extreme intelligence. He is one of the smartest people on the planet, rivaled only by Sherlock, Mycroft, Charles August Magnussen and Evra Holmes. Skill in manipulation. Even Sherlock had a hard time predicting Moriarty's next move. Cynical, sarcastic sense of humor.  It was similar to Sherlock's sense of humor, but much darker and at the expense of someone else's pain or misfortune. Ruthlessness. Moriarty committed torture and murder in sadistic ways. The ability for frightening mood swings. Moriarty prefers to work alone or with very few people, can quickly get annoyed when others interrupt him or try to penetrate his personal life

Moriarty's appearance from the TV series "Sherlock": he is thin, tall and loves expensive, well-tailored suits, which he skillfully selects everything from ties to shoes. The story "Valley of Horror" describes the appearance of canonical Moriarty: he looks like a priest because of his high-flown speech and soft, paternal demeanor.  He has a thin face framed by gray hair. In the series, Moriarty is shown much younger than his book version. The role of the head of a criminal network in the series was played by Irish actor Andrew Scott. Also in the series, Moriarty appears to Sherlock in various guises: sometimes Molly's friend, sometimes under the guise of a poor actor, then appearing in front of Sherlock in a taxi in the role of an evil storyteller, at the same time sitting at the wheel of the same car.