Meowiarty – Moriarty
http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Meowiarty#ixzz7bO5l6hNQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Moriarty
Meowiarty is a master thief in Marleybone whom Malistaire Drake has broken out of Newgate Prison to help steal the Krokonomicon. He views the interference of the wizard as a game of which he grows tired.
Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character and criminal mastermind created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be a formidable enemy for the author’s fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. He was created primarily as a device by which Doyle could kill Holmes and end the hero’s stories. Professor Moriarty first appears in the short story “The Adventure of the Final Problem”, first published in The Strand Magazine in December 1893. He also plays a role in the final Sherlock Holmes novel The Valley of Fear, but without a direct appearance. Holmes mentions Moriarty in five other stories: “The Adventure of the Empty House”, “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder”, “The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter”, “The Adventure of the Illustrious Client”, and “His Last Bow”.
Moriarty is a criminal mastermind who uses his intelligence and resources to provide criminals with crime strategies and sometimes protection from the law, all in exchange for a fee or a cut of profit. Holmes likens Moriarty to a spider at the center of a web and calls him the “Napoleon of crime”, a phrase Doyle lifted from a Scotland Yard inspector referring to Adam Worth, a real-life criminal mastermind and one of the individuals upon whom the character of Moriarty was based. Despite his appearing only twice in Doyle’s original stories, later adaptations and pastiches have often given Moriarty greater prominence and treated him as Sherlock Holmes’s archenemy.
This is the seventy-second article chronicling the #W101PopCulture references starting in Wizard City and the (currently) last Marleybone article more may come to light in the future. The current list of all the (known) Marleybone references are located here.
Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.
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