Artemis Fowl Fan Club

<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7818/artemiss.png" border="0" /><!--center--></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Artemis<strong> an Irish child prodigy and a ruthless master criminal who takes charge of rebuilding his family fortune following the disappearance of his father. Although Artemis is never fully described in the books, we know that he is pale and cold, but charismatic. He is also known to have blue eyes, but later switched one of his eyes with Holly Short and black hairand it can be inferred that his hair is a little long. On more than one occasion, his smile has been said to be horrible, like a vampire's . Despite his intelligence, he is shown to be quite lonely on occasions. His family's motto is "Aurum Potestas est", meaning "Gold is Power".<!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong> Butler</strong> is Artemis' butler and bodyguard.He tells Artemis his first name, normally forbidden by his bodyguard training, because keeping it secret doesn't matter any more.The Butler family has served the Fowl family for generations, with a Butler being assigned to each new Fowl at birth. He has comprehensive knowledge of weapons and extensive training in martial arts, enough so as to become the only human ever to fight a troll and win . Butler is more than what he seems (for example, in the Artemis Fowl Handbook it is revealed in an "interview" with Butler he stated that he enjoys romance novels.) (But he also informs the interviewer, "...if you tell anyone, I will hunt you down.") and follows Artemis around the world on his adventures. He is also one of Artemis' few good friends.<!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Captain Holly Short</strong> the first female LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance) officer so far, is more skilled, has more chutzpah, and is far more daring than most of her fellow officers. Her talents are often under-appreciated because of her gender. Holly looks up to Julius Root, her LEP commander and something of a father figure, who has high expectations of her. Holly, who has an unwavering moral code, typically operates on intuition, rather than on protocol; a trait that often leads her into trouble. Throughout the series Holly and Artemis understand each other on a very personal level, and consequently recognize each other as friends.<!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Juliet Butler</strong> is Butler's younger sister, and until The Eternity Code is a bodyguard in training. The following quote from this book describes Juliet's deviation from the normal teenage girl's standard quite well: "For her eighteenth birthday she asked for, and received, a ribbed Judo crash vest, two weighted throwing knives and a World Wrestling Grudge Match video. At the age of eighteen, she could hit a moving target with any weapon you could care to name and she could throw most people a lot further than she trusted them." <!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Commander Julius Root</strong> of LEPrecon has the personality of an old soldier. He smokes noxious fungus cigar, and his short temper earns him the nickname "Beetroot", as he is often purple in the face with rage. Julius follows protocols more closely than Holly, or indeed any other LEPrecon officer, but driven by his concern for his subordinates and the fairy People he serves, he bends rules where necessary. Holly deeply respects him, and up until his death he is a mentor as well as a father figure for her. He gets very angry with most people who call him by his first name - in the first book, we are told that there are perhaps five fairies who are allowed to call him Julius; but one of them is discredited by the end of the book, presumably meaning there are now only four.<!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Foaly</strong> a centaur, is the LEP's technological genius. He is paranoid about discovery by humans, choosing to wear tin-foil hats to protect his brain from mind-probing rays in case humans invent them. He is also quite vain about his work and appearance. His inventions keep Holly one step ahead of the game. He has a tendency to make sarcastic remarks and they cause him trouble on more than one occasion. However, he cannot be fired, lest human technology be allowed to catch up with the fairy brand (plus if any one tries to start up his computers, "a hidden virus will bring it crashing down around their pointy ears."He and Mulch Diggums are friends, though whenever they meet they usually communicate largely through insults.<!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Mulch Diggums</strong> is a kleptomaniac dwarf with explosive flatulence. He is called upon by Commander Julius Root to break into the Fowl Manor in the first book, having already lost his magical abilities due to entering human's dwellings without permission. Like all male dwarves, Mulch is adapted for tunneling, and his unhingeable jaw and accelerated digestion have proved vital on many of his criminal ventures. An amoral thief who loves luxury and cares little for the law or the environment the People hold dear, he nevertheless develops sentiments towards Julius,Holly, and Artemis, eventually risking his life on their behalf. At first he is a criminal, but later in the series his name is cleared when Artemis hacks into the LEP arrest records and nullifies several search warrants. Although he often complains about being dragged unwillingly into most of the books adventures, it is implied several times that he actually does want to help. Mulch has also been viewed as a anti environmentalist due to his methane gas, or major powerful farts that can send him and people around him flying.<!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Minerva Paradizo</strong> debuts in The Lost Colony. She is a teenage genius, like Artemis, who captures the imp No1 and tries to present him as her project for the Nobel Prize in Stockholm. She is 3 years younger than Artemis and believes she can outsmart him when he tries to save the magical world from discovery. Near the end of the book, she realizes that there was much more to the fairy world then she had discovered, and changes her mind. According to Butler at the end of The Lost Colony, she has developed feelings for Artemis. <!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>N°1</strong> is a very powerful imp warlock who serves as Qwan's apprentice in The Lost Colony (book five). He helps to save Hybras, the lost colony of the title. Before that, however, N°1 gets involved with Artemis Fowl and is kidnapped by Minerva Paradizo. He is incredibly powerful but still in training, meaning that while he often has the raw power for the job, he doesn't have the expertise.<!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Qwan</strong> was the most powerful of the original seven fully-fledged warlocks who lifted Hybras out of time. The only warlock who survived in his petrified form, he brought Hybras back from Limbo with help from Artemis, Holly, N°1, and Qweffor (his apprentice who was believed to be deceased, but was actually trapped in N'zall, also known as Leon Abbot).<!--spoiler--></span></div><!--center--></div> <strong><u>Antagonists</u></strong> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Opal Koboi</strong> is a narcissistic pixie genius and the main antagonist of the second, fourth, and sixth book starting with The Arctic Incident. She masterminded the Goblin uprising with the help of Briar Cudgeon in The Arctic Incident but was defeated by Artemis, Holly and the LEP. She returned in The Opal Deception, the collapse of her previous plan and her year long coma having reduced her to a paranoid madwoman bent on revenge. She also planned to mobilize humans and fairies in a cross-species war and conquer the world. In this book, she also murders Julius Root. Opal made her vast fortune by forming "Koboi Laboratories" after bankrupting her father's company and merging it with her own. Opal is a rival of Foaly, with whom she held a bitter grudge over her loss of an invention contest when they were both in the fairy equivalent of college. Her younger self returns in the sixth book, when, in an extremely confusing time paradox, she uses a time tunnel created by the protagonists to travel forward in time and cause the need for the time tunnel in the first place. Her ultimate goal in this case is the brain fluid of Jayjay, a silky sifaka lemur, which can both heal Spelltropy (a deadly, magic-based disease), and increase magical power. She is smart in some ways, but dumb or even demented in other ways.<!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Briar Cudgeon</strong> was a power hungry officer in the LEP driven by ambition and planning to ascend the Council. He was a centuries old friend of Julius Root but by the end of the original Artemis Fowl incident however he was found to be corrupt. After Foaly exposed him, Cudgeon attacked the centaur in a rage. Root "accidentally" incapacitated Cudgeon with a tranquilizer dart. The chemicals in the dart reacted badly with illegal brain enhancers Cudgeon had been taking, leaving him physically deformed, partially robbed of his magical power and somewhat insane. He was also demoted to the rank of private. In Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, consumed with rage and bitterness, he plans to get back at the LEP by allying himself with Opal Koboi in her plan to take over the Lower Elements. He co-headed the B'wa Kell rebellion but had plans of eliminating Opal rather than retaining her as his "empress", knowing that she would not be satisfied to share power. At the end of the rebellion, he was killed when he fell into a plasma conduit and was incinerated.<!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Jon Spiro</strong> is the villain of Book III. A shady and powerful businessman from Chicago, he formed and headed the company Fission Chips which was backed by the Mob. Instead of paying Artemis off to withhold the C Cube (an extremely powerful micro-computer that Artemis made using parts from the helmets he stole in the first book) from the immediate market, he robbed Artemis of the C-Cube at their meeting. He also ordered Arno Blunt to kill Artemis, but he failed, critically injuring Butler in the process. Spiro captured Artemis when he could not crack its encryption, but ended up playing into Artemis and LEPrecon's plans to recover the C Cube. He is arrested at the end, and seems to have gone insane when he finds out he has been tricked. At the end of the book, Spiro says that it isn't over, and that he will find him and never give up.<!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Goblins</strong> are a species of fairies who have lizard-like bodies and can conjure fire. In spite of their incredible lack of intelligence, they have a highly competitive gang, the B'wa Kell. They become a threat in The Arctic Incident, with the aid of Opal and Cudgeon, who supplied the plan and weapons of the revolution along with weapons that would keep working when all neutrino weapons (such as the LEP's) were sabotaged. They are incredibly unintelligent and rely mainly on instinct and brute strength, but they are also very dangerous (sometimes through sheer stupidity).<!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Leon Abbot</strong> is the villain of Book V. He is the self-proclaimed savior of the demons, who venerate him for bringing a romance novel and an old crossbow from the human world. He is believed to be the only demon to leave Limbo and survive, though both N°1 and Qwan also survived the trip. He was the one who threw off the original time spell and his stunt caused him to absorb the warlock apprentice Qweffor, therefore granting him limited magic powers, including the mesmer, an ability similar to hypnosis. At the end of the Lost Colony, his consciousness is implanted in the brain of a guinea pig. His real name is N'zall which means "Little Horn". <!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>demons</strong> demons are arguably antagonists, but characters like N°1 and Qwan are ambivalent due to the aid they render to Artemis and all inhabitants of the Earth, magical or not and for the fact they are Warlocks. Bloodlust causes an imp to warp into a demon. Warlocks however do not warp, because they are inherently pacifists , and because when a demon warps they lose any magic that they might have had.<!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Billy Kong</strong> is the alias of Jonah Lee, a villain in Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony. He is a former bodyguard of Minerva Paradizo and betrays her when she chooses to postpone her research on demons. When Jonah was a child, his older brother Eric claimed to be a demon slayer to cover his illicit activities. When Eric was killed by a gang, Jonah thought that demons were responsible. Though his belief in demons waned over the years, it was revitalized when Minerva showed Billy that demons truly existed. This made him dangerously fanatical in his pursuit of demons and all fairies, which he believes are also demons.<!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Ark Sool</strong> replaces Julius Root as the new Commander of the LEP. Foaly holds him in high contempt, and his distrust for Holly drove her to quit the LEP. He was fired as LEP Commander during the time when Holly and Artemis were at Hybras (the demon island, lifted out of time by the demon warlocks) in Book 5 due to the fact that he wanted to let the entire demon clan die off. He distrusts the LEP.<!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Arno Blunt</strong> is Jon Spiro's bodyguard from Book III . Blunt attempted to shoot Artemis, instead shooting Butler, almost killing him. Artemis called upon Holly to save Butler, then Butler (with Foaly & Holly's help) tricks Blunt into giving a confession. He wears a cut off t-shirt and silver pirate earrings, and towards the middle of the book, ostentatious pairs of false teeth.<!--spoiler--></span></div> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Damon Kronski</strong> is the leader of the radical group, "the Extinctionists" in book six. Artemis Fowl had sold him the silky sifika lemur, and he killed it as the "opening trial" at the Extinctionist banquet 8 years prior to the main time line. Artemis and Holly go back in time to rescue the lemur, but Holly is captured and sold to Kronski, who tries to prosecute her. Opal Koboi was later discovered to have been mesmerising him in order to get her hands on rare animals (certain rare animals have bodily fluids that increase magical powers).<!--spoiler--></span></div></strong></strong></strong></strong>