benpaddon:

SuperWhoLock and SuperWhoAvengerLock baffle me.

Here’s the thing: I think Supernatural and Doctor Who are a good fit. If you throw The Avengers in there it’s a bit of a stretch but, alright, it works.

The minute you involve Sherlock, though, the entire premise falls apart. Holmes does not exist within a scifi/fantasy context. The moment you introduce aliens, ghosts, demons, monsters, time travel and improbable technology into Sherlock’s world you essentially doom the character.

Locked-door mysteries lose their… well, their mystique when the solution could literally be “A trickster god from another realm appeared, killed the man, then vanished.” Or “A Time Agent from the 51st century used his Vortex Manipulator to travel back to this point in time, killed the man, then vanished.” Or “A man in a suit that allows him to control his size snuck in through the crack in the door, grew to full size, killed the man, then vanished.”

Sherlock would not be able to function under those conditions. He would, in point of fact, begin to dismiss every case out of hand because the available solutions are so wide in scope – and thus boring – that he’d fall into a malaise. The Holmes that would exist within a SuperWhoLock/SuperWhoAvengerLock setting would be unusable and, quite possibly, suicidal.

Now, if you want to involve a detective into these scenarios, your best bet – your better bet, I’d wager – is Dirk Gently. He’s a perfect fit for the supernatural scifi hodge-podge world SuperWhoLock represent. In addition to which, “Gently WhoPernatural” is much more fun to type.

May I suggest @superwholockthecomic? Also when I superwholock it’s 90% because I’m sure that Mycroft knows about Torchwood. (and I may have written a couple smutfics)

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