10 Movie Characters You Didn't Realise Actually Survived

1985's ludicrously underseen cult classic Young Sherlock Holmes offers up an early post-credits stinger more than 20 years before the Marvel Cinematic Universe made it an expected staple of glossy tentpole movies.

The film ends with the surprise reveal that the villainous cult leader Eh-Tar is in fact Sherlock's (Nicholas Rowe) friend and fencing teacher, Professor Rathe (Anthony Higgins).

In the climactic fistfight, Holmes gets the better of Rathe, who falls through the ice into the freezing River Thames below, seemingly drowning in the process.

But at the end of the closing credits, a mysterious man can be seen checking into an inn while signing himself in at the desk as Holmes' all-timer arch-nemesis, Moriarty.

We then cut to Moriarty, who is revealed to have been an inexplicably alive Rathe/Eh-Tar all along. Though most turned the movie off long before the scene played out, it's absolutely vital considering how fundamentally it re-frames the entire story.