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The article written for the Lonely Nerds Special Issue dwells upon the problem of archetypical features of a fictional character Sherlock Holmes. We suggest that in our post-modern society with its increasing interest towards people with different kinds of mental disorders it became possible to expand features immanent to the archetypical fictional character or shift focus to those features, which allow the makers changing the character without actually changing him. At the same time, such changes make it possible to move the character to a different environment and let him be absorbed by it. Sherlock Holmes has undergone drastic changes in his homeland – Great Britain, and he changes ever more after having been moved to Japan, but miraculously he is the same great detective and can easily be recognised through all the changes he had gone through.