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* FriendshipMoment: Many across the series from Holly and Artemis especially, but the ones that stand out are Artemis giving Holly the chance to [[spoiler: say goodbye to Commander Root]] and in the last book, [[spoiler: Artemis realizing that yes, he would go to the ends of the Earth (and below it) for Holly.]]
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* AnotherStoryForAnotherTime: The first book's narrator has this as a catchphrase, with the stories eventually becoming sideplots in later books.
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* CleaningUpRomanticLooseEnds: A subtler case than most, considering these are childrens books, but in the The Last Guardian we've got Foaly and Callabine happily married and kicking arse, Trouble and [[spoiler: Lilli Frond]] hooking up and a [[spoiler: moment between Holly and Artemis at the end, but that could be more of a FriendshipMoment.]]
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** Used by Artemis twice more against Opal in ''The Opal Deception'' and ''The Last Guardian''. [[spoiler: The latter example is especially notable as Artemis essentially gets Opal to push the 'off button' on her doomsday spell by predicting her rampant narcissism.]]
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* JediMindTrick: Fairy ''mesmer''. It even includes the classic 'wave of the hand'.
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* JediMindTrick: Fairy ''mesmer''. It even includes the classic 'wave of the hand'. hand'.
* JerkassWoobie: Despite her terrible deeds in ''The Time Paradox'', [[spoiler: Past!Opal at the beginning of ''The Last Guardian'' gets this, to an extent. She is very obviously ''terrified'' at her imminent death, at her future self's orders. She figures out very quickly what Future!Opal is planning to do, and feels betrayed by her only companion. And then she is killed.]]
* JerkassWoobie: Despite her terrible deeds in ''The Time Paradox'', [[spoiler: Past!Opal at the beginning of ''The Last Guardian'' gets this, to an extent. She is very obviously ''terrified'' at her imminent death, at her future self's orders. She figures out very quickly what Future!Opal is planning to do, and feels betrayed by her only companion. And then she is killed.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In ''The Last Guardian'', [[spoiler: when Gobdaw's soul AscendsToAHigherPlane, causing him to GoOutWithASmile, Artemis wonders if, when he dies, will he do the same. [[DisneyDeath And then...]]
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* HopeSpot: A ''crushing'' one near the end of ''The Last Guardian'', [[spoiler: when Artemis tries to escape the Berserker Gate before it activates and kills him. He manages to jump out of the crater and begins to pass through the magical barrier. Holly is holding his hand, pulling him through, and Artemis thinks that a new life is ahead of him as an ambassador between humans and the People. And then the Gate kicks in and Artemis is dragged back in the crater. Butler doesn't make it to pull him out. Of course, it was only a DisneyDeath, but still...]]
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* PunnyName: All over the place, most notably in ''The Last Guardian'' with the pirate duo Salton Finnacre and J'Heez Nunyan and the Chinese Warrior [[BarackObama Yezwi Khan]].
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*** The scenario kind of implies, however, that she may have [[spoiler: returned to the past. [[FridgeLogic She has to have at some point anyway, or there would be no Opal Koboi to perform the actions she did earlier in the series (before any time travel became involved), and the scenario would not be temporally stable]].]]
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* BookEnds: [[spoiler:The final lines of ''The Last Guardian'' are Holly reciting the opening to the first book verbatim.]]
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** In ''The Last Guardian'', [[spoiler:the present day Opal is able to detect the existence of the past Opal existing simultaneously in her head.]]
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Deconstructed like whoa in the first book, when Holly point-blank asks Root if he's harder on her because she's a girl. He admits it, and then points out that she's the ''first'' female in Recon, and [[GirlsNeedRoleModels needs to set an example]]. It's also worth noting that the only other female up for the job Holly considers a 'bimbo'.
* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: [[spoiler: how they defeat Opal Koboi the second time]]
* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: [[spoiler: how they defeat Opal Koboi the second time]]
* SphereOfDestruction: Biobombs. They explode in a (usually) sphere of light and kills everything within range, although they can be contained by Time Stops, which have a pentagonal base.
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* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: [[spoiler: how they defeat Opal Koboi the second time]]
* SphereOfDestruction: Biobombs. They explode in a (usually) sphere of light and kills everything within range, although they can be contained by Time Stops, which have a pentagonal base.
* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: [[spoiler: how they defeat Opal Koboi the second time]]
* SphereOfDestruction: Biobombs. They explode in a (usually) sphere of light and kills everything within range, although they can be contained by Time Stops, which have a pentagonal base.
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* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: In TLC, where Minerva is being held captive, she thinks that the situation is as tense as possible, and there's even theme music playing. Then she realizes the music is actually the BigBad's cell phone ringing.
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** PlayedForLaughs in ''The Last Guardian'', where [[spoiler:Foaly uses the power of a van whose communication system has his personality to set off a time-stop; what takes five seconds for him is five years for the van.]]
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* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Well, the only one we see is a TechnoWizard and InsufferableGenius, and pretty much the only person who can understand his TechnoBabble is Artemis. It is mentioned, however, that most centaurs are like this: without magic, but very intelligent (though Foaly presumably still qualifies as genius).
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Averted '''hard'''. They have a digestive tunneling system, unhinging jaw, glowing spit, jet pack flatulence, suction cup skin, and more.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Averted '''hard'''. They have a digestive tunneling system, unhinging jaw, glowing spit, jet pack flatulence, suction cup skin, and more.
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* EvilGenius: One per book. Artemis in book 1, Opal Koboi in book 2, Jon Spiro in book 3, Opal Koboi ''again'' in book 4, Minerva in book 5, Opal Koboi ''AGAIN'' in book 6. [[spoiler:Turnball Root in book 7.]]
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* EvilGenius: One per book. Artemis in book 1, Opal Koboi in book 2, Jon Spiro in book 3, Opal Koboi ''again'' in book 4, Minerva in book 5, Opal Koboi ''AGAIN'' in book 6. 6, [[spoiler:Turnball Root in book 7.]]]] Opal Koboi ''AGAIN AGAIN'' in book 8.
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* AuthorAppeal: The narrative would often go into the horrific outcomes of pollution and how HumansAreBastards for all their environmentally destructive ways. Also for killing animals for consumption and espousing the virtues of the green and vegetarian lifestyle of the fairies. On a lighter note, he also enjoys going into desciptions of the various high-tech gadgets that appear.
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* HumansAreBastards: According to the fairies, [[GreenAesop mostly regarding our treatment of the environment]]. In practice, Artemis is merely AffablyEvil (if that). Though other human antagonists would definitely count. Jon Spiro in the third book and The Extinctionists in the sixth book. The Extinctionists, however [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan turns out to be a fairy plot.]] It dies down as the series eventually, [[AuthorOnBoard though reluctantly]], concedes that both humans ''and'' fairies can be pretty bastardy.
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* HumansAreBastards: HumansAreTheRealMonsters: According to the fairies, [[GreenAesop mostly regarding our treatment of the environment]]. In practice, Artemis is merely AffablyEvil (if that). Though other human antagonists would definitely count. Jon Spiro in the third book and The Extinctionists in the sixth book. The Extinctionists, however [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan turns out to be a fairy plot.]] It dies down as the series eventually, [[AuthorOnBoard though reluctantly]], concedes that both humans ''and'' fairies can be pretty bastardy.
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* EvilAlbino: Kronski seems to be this. He is described as having nearly transparent white skin and purple eyes. Since some forms of albinism manifest with purple eyes, and Eoin Colfer is not known for giving his humans odd eye colors, it suggests he may he albino.
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-->'''Koboi''': [[TheDragon Cudgeon]], [[TheStarscream you betrayed me!]]
*** But it's subverted, as the last thing to happen to Koboi before she became comatose was Cudgeon's betrayal.
-->'''Koboi''': [[TheDragon Cudgeon]], [[TheStarscream you betrayed me!]]
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* EmbarrassingFirstName: In ''The Lost Colony'' [[spoiler: Abbot, the BigBad of the demons, was named after a character from a book taken from the human world, as were all demons when they come of age. His true demon name is N'zall, which means "little horn" in the demon language.]]
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* XanatosGambit: In the first book. After abducting Holly, Artemis noticies she has a tracer on her wrist so he does some quick soldering and gluing to place a tin camera inside. If it works then great, but if it doesn't, its still off Holly and all he loses is an advantage he never expected to have in the first place.
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-->'''Holly:''' Stay back, human. You don't know what you're dealing with.
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-->'''Holly:''' Stay back, human. You don't know what you're dealing with.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Implied in Book 1:
--> Juliet was the only person alive who laughed at him [Butler] with embarrassing regularity. Most other people did it once. Just once.
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* TranslatorMicrobes: Fairies are able to converse in all languages, including dolphin and dog. This is explained as being partly [[AWizardDidIt one of the benefits of fairy magic]], and partly because fairies were the first creatures to develop language, and all other languages are at least partly based on Gnomish as a result.
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* MyopicArchitecture: Butler destroys an ancient stone doorway because it's much weaker than the modern armored door. Also Mulch Diggums gets through the floor of an otherwise secure area.
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-> ''"[[MagnificentBastard I am not concerned with us all, just myself]]. And believe me, [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy I shall be perfectly fine]]. Now, sit, please." ''
-->-- '''Artemis Fowl II'''
A series of novels written by EoinColfer.
Originally, the tale of an Irish [[TeenGenius pubescent]] [[VillainProtagonist evil]] [[InsufferableGenius genius]] and his efforts to [[AmbitionIsEvil acquire money and power]] by exploiting the [[BeneathTheEarth secret underground world]] of [[TheFairFolk fairies]] living [[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment beneath the world]] using both magic and [[AppliedPhlebotinum advanced supertechnology.]] In later books in the series, he becomes a more benevolent fellow, working cooperatively with the fairies to curtail human mischief. The series takes cues from suspense, [[ActionAdventureTropes action]], [[TheCaper "heist"]] crime films, and JamesBond-esque spy movies and transplants them into a [[UrbanFantasy modern fantasy setting]].
The series currently comprises seven novels; the eighth one is scheduled for July 2012 and is intended to be the last one.
#''Artemis Fowl'' (2001)
#''Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident'' (2002)
#''Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code'' (2003)
#''Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception'' (2005)
#''Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony'' (2006)
#''Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox'' (2008)
#''Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex'' (2010)
#''Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian'' (2012)
There are also two short stories that are available in the companion book ''The Artemis Fowl Files'', and two graphic novels that appear to form a different canon to the prose (there were other [[ComicBookAdaptation less obvious changes]], but one is listed under RaceLift).
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* AccidentalHug: Butler does this to Artemis in the fifth book and then pulls away, embarrassed. (Artemis doesn't mind.)
* ActionGirl: Holly and Juliet.
* AdjectiveAnimalAlehouse: The Scuzzled Parrot.
* AffablyEvil:
** Artemis starts out this way, being loath to actually kill anyone (fine with kidnapping though, and an occasional bomb or two), and very cordial with the negotiators.
** Turnball Root, who compliments Holly right after kidnapping her.
* AirVentPassageway: in ''The Arctic Incident''. Artemis has to crawl through a duct filled with fuel for the building's plasma weapons. Before his helmet runs out of air. Without being able to see where he's going. Knowing full well that if anyone turns on the plasma cannons, he's toast. Not to mention that once he gets out, he has to be sprayed with anti-radiation foam or he'll likely develop cancer.
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* AllTrollsAreDifferent: In this case, ten-feet-tall gorilla-ish tunnel-dwelling monstrosities with poisonous tusks. And dreadlocks.
* AlmostOutOfOxygen: In the second book and again in the seventh.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Goblins and trolls, although the latter are mostly portrayed as just animals, and the former is incredibly, ''incredibly'' stupid. They're directly stated to be dumber than ''dogs''.
* AmnesiacDissonance: Artemis experiences a mild form of this when he recovers his memories of the fairy people and realizes that he had reverted to his former criminal ways during his mind-wipe.
* AnachronismStew: In ''The Time Paradox'', Artemis goes back to two years before the first book (which was published in 2001, and uses human technology from that time). Yet, the young Artemis has a mobile phone that can be used to surf on the Internet, be connected to a beamer, has a blacklight to test money and an ''X-ray scanner''. He uses his laptop to send a video message to every Extinctionist's phone, and all of them can watch it. Also, Kronski pays Artemis in bills of 500€, while the euro hadn't come into use (as a physical currency) until a few years later.
* AncientAstronauts: The reason Artemis translates the fairy language so easily is that it is similar to Ancient Egyptian and Artemis comments this is because the Egyptians borrowed it from the fairies.
* {{Annoying Younger Sibling}}s:
** As of book 6, [[spoiler: Myles and Beckett Fowl]].
** [[CuteBruiser Juliet]] to [[BadAss Butler]] in the first book, before she TookALevelInBadass.
** Grub Kelp to his superior officer Trouble. Corporal Grub has a bad habit of forgetting that Trouble is "Captain" while they're on duty; even when he remembers, he seems to think that "Mommy says" trumps rank. At his best he needs cajoling; at his worst he gives the impression that "Mommy says" is the reason such an utter liability is even allowed in the LEP, let alone on the squad of a Captain in good standing like his brother.
* AntagonistInMourning: Holly, briefly, in the first book when Fowl Manor is bio-bombed and it appears that NoOneCouldSurviveThat. Root and Mulch mutually on separate occasions.
* AntiVillain: Artemis Fowl, before he became the hero. Likewise with Butler, who's just doing his duty.
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* ArmourPiercingQuestion: "Artemis... Isn't that a girl's name?"[[hottip:Answer: while the Greek goddess Artemis was indeed female, Mr. Fowl is quick to point out that the name itself is genderless in Greek.]]
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* TheAtoner: Artemis is a [[SplitPersonality rather serious]] case in book 7.
* AuthorAppeal: The narrative would often go into the horrific outcomes of pollution and how HumansAreBastards for all their environmentally destructive ways. Also for killing animals for consumption and espousing the virtues of the green and vegetarian lifestyle of the fairies. On a lighter note, he also enjoys going into desciptions of the various high-tech gadgets that appear.
* AppliedPhlebotinum
* AwesomeMcCoolname
** [[DaChief Commander]] Trouble Kelp. Invoked, since he chose his new first name at his LEP graduation ceremony. He's so awesome even Holly respects him.
** And of course, the title character.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Artemis's forte.
* {{Badass}}: Butler can win a toe-to-toe fight with a troll. Holly is the world's best pilot ever, on top of being an athletic ActionGirl and a great markswoman. Juliet put a jade ring in her hair and beats people down with that, because she can just toy around with less awesome than her brother.
* BadassBoast: Doubles as CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, the ending of ''Eternity Code'':
--> Together we will be unstoppable.
* BadassInDistress: In the first book, Holly gets kidnapped by Artemis [[spoiler: she uses a cot to ''smash through concrete'', plants an acorn she snuck in, uses a loophole in a eye-to-eye command to go around the house, neutralizes Juliet with the ''mesmer'', punches Artemis. And just when you think things can't get worse for the kidnappers, [[OhCrap a troll comes in . . .]] ]]
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* BadGuyBar: The Sozzled Parrot in Atlantis Complex.
* BatmanGambit:
** first book, where Artemis is trying to kidnap a fairy. He knows they have to go to a specific place at a specific time to do a specific thing, but if no one shows up (a very likely outcome) then he just sits in a tent all night.
** Also first book: Cudgeon sends in the troll banking on the humans calling for help before it kills them, thus inviting the LEP inside.
** Second book: [[spoiler: Foaly gets Cudgeon to admit to his EvilPlan on tape]] because he knows his mark will want to brag about it.
* BattleButler: In its purest form, Butler.
* BavarianFireDrill: Juliet pulls one by joining a SWAT team in book three. Artemis also pulls them frequently.
* BeneathTheEarth: Haven City
* BigEater: Mulch. Full Stop.
* BoxedCrook: Mulch Diggums, frequently.
* BraidsOfAction: Juliet Butler
* {{Brainwashed}}, BrainwashedAndCrazy: The ''mesmer'' power is possessed by all fairies (and some humans).
* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: Artemis is guarded by the [[BattleButler Butler]] family, of Caucasian (as in, from the Caucasus) descent.
* CameraSpoofing: In ''The Eternity Code'', [[spoiler:Foaly spawns holographs invisible to the villain to make it seem like all the guards were knocked out from sleeping gas, and Artemis is there against his will. There were only two guards, and the holographs and Artemis don't show up on the camera. At all.]]
* CanisLatinicus: The American editions turn the Fowl family motto into this.
* CantTakeAnythingWithYou: In order to simplify things in the timestream, N[[superscript:o]]1 insists that Holly and Artemis strip before he sends them back in time, much to their chagrin. They bargain him down to just underwear.
* CanYouHearMeNow: Foaly and Holly. Often. Specifically the amusing phrase, "[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Trolls in a tantrum cause terrible trouble.]]"
* TheCaper
* CaptainObvious:
** N[[superscript:o]]1 likes to point out every possible meaning of various exclamations by other characters. Subverted in book six: "I think we all know what [[PardonMyKlingon D'Arvit]] means."
** "My butler could kill you a hundred ways without the use of his weapons. Although I'm sure one would be quite sufficient."
* CharacterDevelopment: As the series progresses, Artemis develops from a ruthless criminal mastermind into something [[AntiHero almost heroic]]. And his ten year old self is even more of an asshole.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: A major part of ''The Time Paradox'' is contrasting Artemis pre- and post-development.
* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: The new U.K. covers use this.
* ChekhovMIA: Artemis Fowl, Sr. The first book starts with Artemis Jr. actively looking for his father.
* ChekhovsGun: Several.
** Artemis' laser pointer is a literal example.
** The [[spoiler: seventh]] kraken in ''The Time Paradox''.
** The [[spoiler: toy monkey]]...
** The [[spoiler: finger gun]]
* ChekhovsGunman:
** [[spoiler: Turnball Root, appeared in a short story and reappeared in the ''Atlantis Complex''.]]
** That sprite who told [[spoiler: Turnball]] how to re-acquire some magic? That's the first supernatural being who ever appeared on-screen: the fairy who loaned Artemis a copy of her Book way at the beginning of the series. Given that she hadn't appeared since the first chapter of the first book, and this was the ''seventh'', this probably is also a BrickJoke.
*** It's also to clean up FridgeLogic, because fairies are shown to lose their magic in certain situations, which this sprite may have been in, yet she retained enough magic power to heal some few human maladies.
* TheChessmaster: Artemis (literally- one of his disguises as a chess prodigy ended up with a maneuver named after it), Opal Koboi. Spiro tries this, and is pwned.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
** Doodah Day. At the end of ''Lost Colony'', he is mentioned as having started working as a private detective along with Mulch Diggums. ''The Time Paradox'' takes place mostly in the past, so it's understandable that he wouldn't appear, but Mulch is actively involved in ''The Atlantis Complex'' and not only does he not seem to be working as a detective, there is absolutely ''no mention'' of what Doodah is doing.
** Minerva Paradizo. At the end of book 5, she is stated to have spent 3 years obsessing over Artemis, waiting for him to return, and she was set up as a very obvious LoveInterest. Two books later, and she hasn't been mentioned once since then.
* CityOfWeirdos: It's mentioned several times that faeries often go to Disney Land on vacation, to no reaction from the human visitors.
* {{Claustrophobia}}: Holly Short.
* InvisibilityCloak: Foaly creates an invention called Cam Foil to make the wearer of it invisible. It's more technological than ''Literature/HarryPotter'' cloaks, which serves some problems, such as it shorts out in rain and is not invisible to a camera. Also, the circuitry can be easily crushed and the wearer appears as a slight haze, so is still noticeable.
* CliffHanger:
** At the end of book 7, [[spoiler: Artemis ''still'' has the Atlantis Complex.]]
** At the end of ''The Time Paradox'', [[spoiler: Opal from the past is still on the loose in the present.]]
*** The scenario kind of implies, however, that she may have [[spoiler: returned to the past. [[FridgeLogic She has to have at some point anyway, or there would be no Opal Koboi to perform the actions she did earlier in the series (before any time travel became involved), and the scenario would not be temporally stable]].]]
* ConcealingCanvas: Lampshaded by Mulch in the first book. Turns out to be a subversion, as the safe behind the painting is a decoy.
* ConvenientlyPreciseTranslation: When Artemis uses a computer program to translate the fairy language into English, it comes out in rhyming couplets.
* CoolShades: they have a practical use in deflecting the fairy ''mesmer''.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jon Spiro.
* CreepyChild: Artemis, especially in the first book. And the third, to the waitress. And again in the sixth.
--> "Who would want to kill Artemis? Every waitress and tailor on the continent, for a start."
* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: Artemis tends to have this effect on psychiatrists because he is much more intelligent than most psychiatrists and has read up on all the latest approaches to psychology. He can get them to diagnose him with whatever he wants. It helps that he's actually written some of the books his psychiatrists use to diagnose him.
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* CulturalPosturing: Various fairy characters are fond of reminding Artemis how advanced fairy technology is compared to the "Mudman" equivalent. Unless it's technology that Artemis himself developed after meeting the fairies and reverse-engineering their gadgets. He even impressed Foaly by packing his 3D projection kit, which doubles as a user interface, into a briefcase.
* CulturalTranslation:
** The US edition of ''The Time Paradox'', has proudly Irish Artemis start referring to his mother as 'Mom' after making an emotional breakthrough. She gains the title 'Mum' in the UK edition, but even ''that'' may be a version of this trope, as she's referred to indirectly as the very Irish "Mam" in the first book.
** The second book, ''ArtemisFowl and The Arctic Incident'', had a line in which Artemis predicts he will be attracted to Holly when he reaches puberty that was removed from US editions. They needn't have bothered, [[spoiler: since he was right, and you couldn't have hidden it in TTP without rewriting half the book.]]
* CuteBruiser: Juliet Butler.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Artemis is such a mega genius that he could easily make many millions of dollars as an inventor -- [[SubvertedTrope and, in fact, he does]]. ''The Arctic Incident'' says that he holds several patents and is designing a Dublin opera house. He does crime in order to make ''billions''. And, you know, [[GentlemanThief for the challenge]]. He also writes romance novels for pocket change - because he figured out the formula for writing the perfect romance novel, naturally.
* DaChief: Julius Root. [[spoiler:Then he gets gibbed. Ark Sool takes the position afterwards, but after he reveals his true nature, he's replaced by Trouble Kelp.]]
* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Holly, at least in the novels.
* DastardlyWhiplash: Mocked:
-->'''Butler:''' Focus, Artemis, one dastardly crime at the time.\\
'''Artemis Fowl:''' Dastardly, Butler? Dastardly? Honestly, we are not cartoon characters. I do not have a villainous laugh or an eyepatch.
* DeadGuyJunior: Sort of: [[spoiler:Jayjay the lemur (short for "Julius junior") is indirectly named after Commander Root]]
* DeadpanSnarker: so many. Artemis, Foaly, Holly, and Mulch (and occasionally Juliet) enjoy trading sarcastic statements. Mulch lampshades it in the narration of the fifth book:
--> Their little band of adventurers needed another smart-ass like they needed ten years of bad luck.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Opal]]'s possession of [[spoiler:Angeline Fowl]] seems to go beyond mere ''mesmer'')
* DevelopmentHell: (Apparently someone wants to make a movie with Jason Statham as Butler.)
* DiabolicalMastermind: Artemis sees himself as such, especially in book one.
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* [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard With Fairies]]: WordOfGod says so.
* DoctorsOrders: The CorruptCorporateExecutive's doctors are very much aware of his Mafia connections, so they give medical advice very politely.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?: The ending to The Eternity Code is suspiciously similar to that of DeadToRights, which came out a year earlier.
* DontTellMama: Artemis really doesn't want his mother to know what's going on, even if she suspects he takes after his father.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Mulch Diggums:
-->'''Holly:''' What on earth were you doing, Mulch? The computer says you came all the way down here in first gear.\\
'''Mulch:''' There are gears?
** Mulch's driving technique is described earlier in the book as being "focus on the wheel and the pedals, and ignore everything else." He also assumed the shuttle had an automatic transmission.
** And in ''The Eternity Code,'' he scoffs at Juliet when she points out to him that he can't reach the brakes.
** And as of ''The Lost Colony'' Doodah Day:
--> '''Mulch:''' This close! We came ''this close'' to being incinerated. Give me your gun Holly, I'm going to shoot him.
* EasterEgg: The "gnommish" coded messages running along the pages of some of the books and hidden in certain cover designs. They're a bit [[MindScrew weird]]. They claim you're a long-lost [[spoiler:fairy police officer]], for one...
* EatDirtCheap: The dwarves.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Artemis Fowl, multiple times, starting from asking [[spoiler: Holly to heal his mother in book one.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even at his worst, Artemis won't stand for [[GreenAesop mistreatment of the environment]] He also won't kill people. Lemurs, maybe, but not people. When Holly compares Artemis to the villain Jon Spiro, Artemis uses this fact as his defense.
* EveryoneOwnsAMac: [[TvTropesWikiDrinkingGame Take a drink]] for every Apple reference in the books. Good examples are Artemis's iBook, and the line in ''The Time Paradox'' about Foaly sucking information from the Apple Mac.
* EvilAlbino: Kronski seems to be this. He is described as having nearly transparent white skin and purple eyes. Since some forms of albinism manifest with purple eyes, and Eoin Colfer is not known for giving his humans odd eye colors, it suggests he may he albino.
* EvilGenius: One per book. Artemis in book 1, Opal Koboi in book 2, Jon Spiro in book 3, Opal Koboi ''again'' in book 4, Minerva in book 5, Opal Koboi ''AGAIN'' in book 6. [[spoiler:Turnball Root in book 7.]]
* EvilPoacher[=/=]EgomaniacHunter: The Extinctionists.
* EvilPlan: Each book really. The first one is staged by Artemis himself when he was a VillainProtagonist. "Capture a fairy and ransom them." Simple enough, right? Except he had to find one first, get their book, translate it, and then find a fairy that was worth ransoming.
* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: In one novel, the villains pull this.
* ExoticEntree: The Extinctionists from ''Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox'' enjoy rendering endangered species extinct... and that, of course, includes dining on highly endangered or outright extinct species.
* ExtendedDisarming: Well, not ''disarming'', but near the start of Book 1, Artemis lists all of Butler's weapons hidden on his person.
-->'''Artemis:''' Let me fill you in on the weapons status. I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ... ah ... butler, has a Sig Sauer in his shoulder holster, two shrike throwing knives in his boots, a derringer two-shot up his sleeve, garrotte wire in his watch, and three stun grenades concealed in various pockets. Anything else, Butler?\\
'''Butler:''' The cosh, sir.\\
'''Artemis:''' Oh, yes. A good old ball-bearing cosh stuffed down his shirt.
:: He then goes on to say that Butler could kill someone in a hundred different ways ''without'' his weapons.
* EyeScream: The iris cam. Pure genius, but it ''sparks'' when changing the settings.
* TheFairFolk: "The People" Arrogant, and annoyed with the Mud People, yes.
* FairyCompanion: Played with: Artemis facetiously refers to Holly as "my fairy friend" at one point, but she is far too BadAss to fit the trope.
* FakeMemories: Foaly explains that the mind will naturally create false memories to fill the gaps left by a mind-wipe
* {{Fartillery}}: Never stand directly behind a dwarf. Trust us on this one.
* FantasticRacism: Basically all the fairies. You could slip in most of Draco Malfoy's lines unnoticed.
* {{Fanservice}}: Both graphic novels released so far have found an excuse to put Holly in a somewhat... [[ShowerOfAngst revealing]] [[VictoriasSecretCompartment light]]. The scenes in question ''were'' both in the original books, though.
* [[FictionFiveHundred Fiction 500]]: He's '''#3''' on the 2011 list, behind only [[{{Literature/Twilight}} Carlisle Cullen]] and [[DuckTales Scrooge McDuck]].
* FindTheCure: ''The Time Paradox'': the only cure for Angeline Fowl's disease is the brain fluid of the silky sifaka lemur - The catch? Silky sifakas went extinct eight years ago. [[spoiler:Artemis himself made sure of that]].
* FireForgedFriends: Various characters find themselves growing closer through all their adventures and misadventures.
** Artemis and Holly are the prime example, seeing as how they've gradually gone from enemies to [[EnemyMine allies by necessity]] to somewhat-trusted companions to actual friends to closer friends.
** Artemis and Butler, at first, were just 'the closest thing' each had to a friend. By the end of book 2 and all that had happened, Artemis realized that he truly respected Butler. And by book 3, Artemis was willing to go through a great ordeal to save his life.
** ''Holly and Mulch'', of all people, became close enough for him to join her as her partner when she quit the LEP and became a private detective.
* FirstTimeFeeling: In ''The Time Paradox'', Holly [[spoiler:restores Damon Kronski's sense of smell in a particularly [[IncrediblyLamePun fowl]] smelling Souk, which reduces him to writhing on the floor, clawing at his nose]].
* FiveManBand:
** The [[AntiHero "Hero"]]: Artemis Fowl
** TheLancer: Holly Short. Also Mulch Diggums, as he and Artemis both have mentioned how well they would work together.
** TheBigGuy: Butler. Mulch may also count as something of a [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]], only he takes obstacles out not with his muscles but with his... [[{{Gasshole}} uh]]... yeah.
** TheSmartGuy: Foaly
** TheChick: Juliet, of the ActionGirl variety.
* FiveTokenBand: Turnball's gang is the Fairy equivalent: One elf, one sprite, one dwarf, one gnome, one goblin.
* FourIsDeath: Invoked in the entire run of ''The Atlantis Complex''. Caused by the titular magical malady.
* FriendlyEnemy: Artemis and Holly start off this way.
* FunWithAcronyms: "LEP recon", the Lower Elements Police reconnaissance unit.
* GadgeteerGenius: Foaly.
* GambitPileup:
** The first book starts simple enough, Fowl faction vs LEP recon in a hostage situation. Then Mulch has his own agenda, Crudegon has his own agenda, Holly's agenda shifts away from Root's agenda, and then there's a '''troll'''.
** In ''The Time Paradox'', [[spoiler:Artemis versus Opal. One particular example: When he takes off in the Cessna, it looks as though they are all trying to make a break for it... but then Opal uses her thermal imager to see there is only one passenger. She guesses it is a decoy... but then notices Artemis is concealing the lemur's body heat under his shirt. ''That's what he wanted her to see.'']]
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: An odd example; the faerie language is apparently a language of symbols, but for all the codes at the bottom of the book, each symbol is translated directly to an English letter.
* {{Gasshole}}: Mulch Diggums, and the dwarves in general.
* GenderBlenderName: The title character (sort of; "Artemis" as a ''human'' name is genderless). He also claims to write romance novels under the name Violet Tsirblou in an inversion of MoustacheDePlume.
* GeniusBruiser: Butler may not quite equal his employer in heist-planning, but he's still pretty damn smart and outstrips him in several other fields.
* GentlemanThief: Artemis executes elaborate heists for the challenge and, after book one, seems to pick targets that he feels deserve it.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
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** In the sixth book, while it did fit the language-obsessed character, a particular quote seemed to be directed as much at the readers as at the other characters:
---> "I think we all know what ''D'Arvit'' means," said N[[superscript:o]]l, "But ''hurkk'' is not English."
** Artemis totally just flipped off Abbot.
---> Artemis Fowl grinned right back at him and pointed his index finger at the sky. Actually, it was his middle finger, due to the time tunnel switch.
* GiantSquid: Artemis is attacked by one in ''The Atlantis Complex''
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Julius Root.]]
* GreenAesop: The series teems with these, some more subtle than others. As of book five, environmental issues have not featured in the main plot, but the fairy people are quick to criticize humanity's lack of respect for nature and Artemis tends to agree with them in an EvenEvilHasStandards sort of way. Book six, ''The Time Paradox'', brings this front and center with the main plot focusing on an endangered lemur. Even the EasterEgg codes in some of the books are somewhat {{Anvilicious}}ly pro-green.
** Interestingly, in the first book, he nonchalantly destroys a whaling ship, [[XanatosGambit as a side-effect of some of his other schemes]]. Despite his apparent aversion to killing, he calls it a bonus.
--> There were less objectionable ways to get oil by-products, thought Artemis.
** The seventh book opens with Artemis unveiling his plan to end global warming.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: In the first book, an argument could easily be made for either side being the "good guys".
** In the case of Artemis himself, well... on one hand, he ''is'' an unashamedly greedy criminal (which his future self readily admits). On the other, he does have [[EvenEvilHasStandards some standards]], feels some guilt over his plan, and given the set of values that his father gave him, he certainly doesn't think he's doing the "wrong" thing so much as following a twisted sort of "God-helps-those-who-help-themselves" mentality. Plus, two of his less explicit reasons for his kidnapping plot were to heal his mother and raise more money to try and find his father.
** In the case of the LEP, some of them did some very questionable things, such as sending a troll into a house where it would be a danger to everyone, including the hostage. Many of them, including characters who were opposed to the troll idea, were later willing to kill several innocent bystanders (Fowl's mother and Juliet along with all of the wildlife) to take out Fowl and ensure that he wouldn't exploit the fairy world in the future. (Recovering the ransom was just a bonus.)
* GrudgingThankYou: Artemis to Holly at the end of book 2 and Butler to Holly in the first book.
* HealingHands: Any creature with magic can do it, though skill is a factor.
* HeelFaceTurn: Artemis, [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes sort of]]. His father too, after he's recovered, thanks to Holly's meddling.
* HeroicWillpower
** Strong-minded individuals can put up some resistance to fairy ''mesmer''.
** This is also the main reason Artemis's atoms don't get randomly scattered through the time stream due to his multiple travels through it--"willpower," or at least intense focus and preservation of self, was stated to save him.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Artemis and Butler.
* HeyYou: It marks a turning point in their relationship when Holly finally calls Artemis by his first name instead of "Fowl" (or "Mudboy"), and (much later) calling him "Arty". Likewise, when Artemis first calls his mother "Mum" instead of the more formal "Mother."
* HijackedByGanon: Even though the key events of ''The Time Paradox'' take place in the past, one may still get the impression that [[spoiler:Opal Koboi]] just doesn't know when to quit. Which Artemis even comments on when he desperately wonders how many times he would have to save the world from her.
* HowCanSantaDeliverAllThoseToys: Stopping time.
* HumansAreBastards: According to the fairies, [[GreenAesop mostly regarding our treatment of the environment]]. In practice, Artemis is merely AffablyEvil (if that). Though other human antagonists would definitely count. Jon Spiro in the third book and The Extinctionists in the sixth book. The Extinctionists, however [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan turns out to be a fairy plot.]] It dies down as the series eventually, [[AuthorOnBoard though reluctantly]], concedes that both humans ''and'' fairies can be pretty bastardy.
* HypocriticalHumor: From ''The Time Paradox'':
-->'''Opal Koboi:''' ''(meditating)'' Peace be within me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, tell me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Artemis gains a few DarkerAndEdgier points when he [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] Holly [[spoiler:'s feelings for her dead mother to agree to cure his own]].
* IfICantHaveYou: Young Artemis to Artemis about Jayjay in ''The Time Paradox''.
* IHatePastMe: Comes to the forefront in ''The Time Paradox''.
* ImmortalProcreationClause: Although not immortal, fairies can only have one child every twenty years; humanity's faster reproduction is actually the main reason it was able to more-or-less take the world from them.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Most of the pseudonyms employed during the series, especially Artemis'. Sir E. Brum, Dr. C. Niall [=DeMencha=], and the list goes on. Also, the way Artemis makes a point of mentioning when he used a pseudonym can be seen as LampshadeHanging.
* InsecurityCamera: [[spoiler:Help along Artemis to bust Spiro's ass.]]
* InsistentTerminology: Artemis would like everyone to remember that the silky sifaka is a ''lemur'', '''''not''''' a monkey.
* InsufferableGenius: Artemis, Foaly.
* InternalAffairs: Ark Sool.
* InterspeciesRomance:
** Artemis and Holly. Well. Sort of.
** In ''The Atlantis Complex'', [[spoiler:Turnball Root's love for Leonor is what motivates him]].
** Also, [[spoiler:Orion]], who has a thing for Holly, [[spoiler: and claims Artemis does as well.]]
* IntrinsicVow: [[HypnoticEyes Mesmer]], Butler ordered to kill Holly, the "body refuses to keep functioning" version.
* {{Invisibility}}: An ability of all faries, needed to maintain TheMasquerade.
* InvisibilityCloak: Camfoil. It doesn't work on cameras, though.
* InvoluntaryCharityDonation: Happens to [[spoiler:Jon Spiro]], who gets 90% of his billions donated to Amnesty International. Artemis ''had'' intended to keep the lot for himself, but got hit by a [[CharacterDevelopment sudden attack of conscience]] and satisfied himself with a 10% "Finder's Fee".
* IWantThemAlive: Spiro and Opal.
* IWasNeverHere: [[spoiler:The CameraSpoofing as above.]]
* JediMindTrick: Fairy ''mesmer''. It even includes the classic 'wave of the hand'.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Artemis sought the call out and kidnapped it. Orion is a bit more traditional.
-->'''Orion:''' Artemis never paid attention during self-defense lessons. I, however, always knew this day would come.
* JonesTheCat: Jayjay the lemur.
* KarmicThief: At one point, Artemis Fowl chooses to focus his efforts solely on stealing from the wealthy and corrupt. However, he explicitly says he is not aiming to be JustLikeRobinHood
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Turnball Root to Holly in Atlantis Complex.
* KilledOffForReal:
** [[spoiler:Commander Root in the fourth book.]]
** [[spoiler: Commander Vinyaya in the seventh]].
* LadyOfWar: Holly Short.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Fairy technology can do this, but it's costly and labour-intensive. Used on a random Mafia goon and Artemis after ''The Eternity Code''.
* LastOfHisKind: Jayjay, the silky sifaka lemur. [[spoiler: Not for long, because Foaly is going to clone more.]]
* LegacyOfService: The Butlers have been serving the Fowls for so long that they were the ''origin'' of the word ''butler''. The earliest known interaction between the two was the Third Crusade.
* {{Leprechaun}}: Actually [=LEPrecon=]: the Lower Elements Police reconnaissance unit. The stereotypical human view of Leprechauns is a source of significant embarrassment for the elves. And Recon are actually the source of that stereotype, if the multiple references to "the top hat and shillelagh days" in the first book are anything to go by.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Time travel and a violation of NeverTheSelvesShallMeet result in Artemis facing off against Artemis - and, for the first time, facing Butler as an opponent.
* LonelyRichKid: Artemis Fowl, book one. He spends all his time watching computer terminals for news of his father and caring for his insane mother.
* LoopholeAbuse: In one of Holly's combat simulation exams, she beat an insurmountable number of enemies by shooting the projector. As they didn't have any rules against that, they had to let her pass.
* LuckyTranslation: Trouble Kelp is called Truba in official Russian translation. It does sound similar as far as translation goes, and even though its main meaning is "pipe", its second meaning is "a disastrous situation"
* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Turnball Root manages to get one of these, receiving each item as a reward for selling out his former comrades
* MadLibThrillerTitle: ''Every'' novel beginning with book two has one.
* MagicalComputer: The Cube. Literally. Will do anything for you. Starting with hacking military satellites (human or fairy), and everything between that and diagnosing any medical conditions you have.
* MagicalDatabase: Although in Foaly's case, this might be a literal description.
* {{Masquerade}}: Fairies are real!
* {{McGuffin}}: Jayjay, [[LastOfHisKind the world's last silky sifaka lemur]].
* MeaningfulName: Multiple characters.
* MemoryGambit: ''The Eternity Code'' and ''The Opal Deception''.
* MercyLead: Kleptomaniac dwarf Mulch Diggums is recruited for so many LEP missions - despite his official criminal status - that he practically receives a salary in Mercy Leads.
* MilitaryMaverick: [=LEPrecon=] Captain Holly Short tends to ignore the order to stand down and wait for reinforcements. As such, Root keeps screaming.
* MindScrew: [[spoiler: ''The Atlantis Complex'', if you can't keep track of the number of times the narrative changes to a scene taking place a few hours earlier or later.]]
* MismatchedEyes: A tinted iris-cam borrowed from Holly makes Artemis's eyes appear mismatched during his infiltration of Spiro Needle in book 3. He gets these for real in ''The Lost Colony'' when a timestream mishap changes one of his eyes with Holly's. He apparently also [[spoiler:acquires some of Holly's magic...]]
* MoustacheDePlume: [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] Artemis says that he writes romance novels under the name Violet Tsirblou.
* [[VampireInvitation Must Be Invited]]: Any species capable of magic. Forcing your way in without an invitation is a good way to loose [[VomitIndiscretionShot the entire contents of your stomach]], and repeat offenses cause loss of spellcasting.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Nº1 is intellectual and gentle at heart, but all the other demons he grew up with were "hit first, question later" {{Blood Knight}}s overflowing with machismo. After years of trying to fit in, this (and some hypnotic prodding) lead him to leave the island. Turns out, though, that he's not like the rest because he's the first warlock to appear in ages, and warlocks just don't have the same bloodlust that most demons do.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Juliet grows up wanting nothing more than to duplicate her brother's accomplishments as a bodyguard and live up to the family name. Book 3 has her coming to terms with this attitude. Unfortunately for Juliet fans, her refusal of the bodyguard profession and conscious attempt to [[TookALevelInBadass level in Badass]] means [[LeavingYouToFindMyself joining a lucha libre troupe in Mexico and disappearing for the next three books]]. This is subverted with Opal Koboi because even though her father was successful and she entered the technology field too, he never encouraged or helped her in any way and basically wanted her to stay in the kitchen. Also, her company eventually puts his company out of business.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: ''The Time Paradox''. Ideally they wouldn't have, if everything had gone according to plan....
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Dwarves. Seriously, at least one new one per book, kinda like SilverAge {{Superman}}. Along the course of the series, we learn that they can: tunnel by eating through earth, [[{{Fartillery}} fire a devastating barrage of digested rocks/mud/whatever they just dug through]], propel themselves underwater and ignore the bends because of intestinal bacteria, have saliva that works as a healing balm, can cling to walls if dehydrated, have glow-in-the-dark spit, which can also solidify to trap enemies AND contains a sedative capable of knocking people out (how exactly is only explained as far as Mulch's comment that "You didn't fall asleep because I didn't do your head"), have prehensile beards/antennae (very handy lockpicks/emergency automatic surgical needles)....
** [[{{LampshadeHanging}} Lampshaded]]. "Even the dwarves don't know most of their abilities,"
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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: In Book 1, Artemis is a fairy-kidnapping GadgeteerGenius mastermind at the head of a criminal empire.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Jon Spiro seems a lot like a very jerky version of Donald Trump. [[hottip:*:Isn't ''Donald Trump'' a very jerky version of Donald Trump?]]
* NoEyeInMagic: The fairy 'Mesmer' ability, which - with direct eye-contact - allows the fairy to hypnotize and control a person. Reflective lenses such as shades will block it (and, on one memorable occasion, mirror-surfaced contact-lenses are used to covertly block a Mesmer), but it CAN be conveyed across video-link, albeit at a significant power-loss. (Strong-willed people can shrug off Mesmer if it's by video. With direct eye-contact, the best you can hope for is to resist violently enough to die rather than carry out the commands of your fairy master).
* NonActionGuy: Artemis is brains, not brawn, and frequently regrets his lack of physical fitness and coordination when he is forced to take an active role in things. Foaly is more successful in avoiding the action; his involvement rarely requires him to leave his computers.
* NonSequiturThud:
** When Artemis wakes up from being knocked out by [[spoiler: Butler]] in the sixth book.
-->'''Artemis''': Sell the Phonetix shares!
** Foaly in the seventh book. This was apparently an "unpleasant childhood memory", but unlike Artemis's exclamation there's no context given.
--->'''Foaly''': Not the stripy ones! They're just babies!
* NoteToSelf: The laser disc.
* NotMeThisTime: In "The Arctic Incident," Holly and Root assume it's Artemis behind the B'wa Kell golbin smugglings, but after they kidnap him to find out, it turns out not to be the case.
* ObiWanMoment: The last act of [[spoiler: Julius Root]] before Koboi blows a hole in his chest is to [[TearJerker smile at Holly and wish her well]].
* ObstacleExposition: Happens in every book, sometimes more than once. All that advanced fairy tech seems designed to create Mission: Impossible security system scenarios.
* OddlySmallOrganisation: Artemis' criminal empire pretty much consists entirely of himself and Butler. After his father's disappearance, Artemis apparently scaled back the family operations to only one's which he could oversee personally (almost entirely grand larceny and fraud), and heavily invests the profits from these (although he does make great use from his family's and Butler's vast network of contacts).
* OhGodDidSheJustHearThat: Opal Koboi has her none-too-bright henchmen convinced to the point of paranoia that she can read minds, simply by turning on them at random and shrieking "I heard that!" One henchman tests her by thinking treasonous thoughts at her as loudly as possible.
--->'''Henchman (thinking):''' Holly Short is prettier than you.\\
'''Opal Koboi:''' Don't stare at me like that, it's bad for my skin.
* OurElvesAreBetter: At least they certainly think so....
* OurElvesAreDifferent: Some sort of weird halfway-house between the Tolkien elves and old elves.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: They are lizardfolk, they are the only one who's able to use fireballs, and they are the stupidest setnient race on the planet.
* OurHeroIsDead: [[spoiler: Holly's "death" in ''The Lost Colony'' is a textbook example - although the fact that she isn't the ''title'' character might give less [[GenreSavvy jaded]] readers momentary pause]].
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Well, the only one we see is a TechnoWizard and InsufferableGenius, and pretty much the only person who can understand his TechnoBabble is Artemis. It is mentioned, however, that most centaurs are like this: without magic, but very intelligent (though Foaly presumably still qualifies as genius).
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Averted '''hard'''. They have a digestive tunneling system, unhinging jaw, glowing spit, jet pack flatulence, suction cup skin, and more.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent
* OutrunTheFireball:
** In Book 1, Commander Root is nearly killed by Artemis with a remote bomb. Commander Root, being a fairy, has to use his training to recognize the symbols... numbers... getting smaller... [[OhCrap a countdown!]]
** In Book 4, ''The Opal Deception'', Holly, after seeing a bio-bomb detonate in Artemis's hotel room, has to try and stop another one from detonating and killing her, as Artemis got out safely. She covers it with her LEP helmet, but the helmet crashes away and she has to outrun the deadly blue light.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Butler and Holly are both significantly above average intelligence. They just have the bad luck to live in the same world as [[InsufferableGenius Artemis and Foaly]].
* PardonMyKlingon: "''D'Arvit!''" Lampshaded in the first book.
--> There is no point in translating that, as we'd have to censor it.
* ParentalAbandonment: Artemis's father is missing, presumed dead, while his mother is crazy. They both get better.
* [[PetTheDog Pet The Endangered Lemur]]: Artemis has mellowed some since book 1.
* PhotoprotoneutronTorpedo: The fairies use neutrino charges to blow stuff up at one point.
* PrehensileHair: Mulch Diggums's beard hair, which can also serve as handy custom lockpicks.
* PutOnABus: Juliet joined a wrestling team, and Minerva wasn't even ''mentioned'' in Time Paradox.
* RaceLift: Holly Short and elves in general are described as brown-skinned and, except for the pointy ears, able to pass as short humans in the books, but the graphic novels give her skin as fair as Artemis's. More subtly, the Butler siblings are described as noticeably part-Asian in the books, Butler passing easily for Chinese at one point despite being blue-eyed and terrifyingly tall. It's not noticeable in the graphic novels at all, to the point Juliet looks like a palette swap of Angeline.
* RealMenWearPink: Butler is a Le Cordon Bleu chef and enjoys old romance movies (his favourite is "Some Like It Hot"; tell anyone and he'll hunt you down); Artemis writes poetry and classical music, enjoys opera, theatre, and has designed an opera house.
* RecycledINSPACE: WordOfGod describes the series as "Film/DieHard [-[[UrbanFantasy WITH FAIRIES]]-]!"
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: As part of the long-running environmentalism anvils the Fairies never provide (willingly or unwillingly) technology that would help prevent humanity from polluting. Partially justified as they believe the humans would only use any technology to cause more damage.
* ReLex: The fairy language appears to be a ReLex of English with Irish influences.
* ReplacementFlatCharacter: Artemis becomes a more decent person as the books go on, so The Lost Colony adds Minerva Paradiso who's doing near enough the same thing as Artemis in the first book. The younger Artemis they meet while travelling back in time in Time Paradox also counts.
* RetroactivePreparation: In Time Paradox Artemis and Holly are locked in the trunk of a car and decide that later on they'll go back in time and ask Mulch Diggums to come rescue them, Mulch then breaks open the trunk. They try something similar later on in the book but realize that it only works once.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Happnes to Mulch in Book one. He tries to sweet-talk some goblins by claiming to sympathise with them, only to find out that the only thing they hate more than a dwarf is a traitor to his own kind.
* RivalScienceTeams: Foaly and Opal.
* RuleOfCool
* RunningGag
** In Book 7, bivouacs.
** In Book 6, people referring to the lemur as a monkey.
* RunningOnAllFours: Goblins.
* TheSadisticChoice: The beginning of ''The Opal Deception'' Opal forces Holly to choose between saving Commander Root and Artemis, then [[HopeSpot compounds the sadism]] by offering her a false [[TakeAThirdOption third option]]. [[spoiler:To add even more insult to injury, Opal didn't give Holly enough time to save Artemis even if Holly ''had'' left immediately.]]
* ScienceIsWrong: Subverted. Human understanding of certain scientific concepts is wrong, but only because human observations are limited by the fact that magic is actively hidden from "Mudmen." The scientific method is still a-okay.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: "Illegal tends to be faster." - Butler, book 2 and 4
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Holly Short gets in trouble because of this on quite a regular basis.
--> "Have you ever actually followed an order?"
* SherlockScan: Artemis can pull this off
* [[ShinyNewAustralia Shiny New Barbados]]: What Opal promises her henchmen in ''The Opal Deception''.
* ShipTease: [[spoiler:Holly kissing Artemis in Book 6 and more.]]
** Artemis hugs Holly to activate a weight-sensitive panel to open a locked door.
** They have to undress down to underwear and then hold hands in order to [[spoiler:TimeTravel]]. N°1 makes a parting shot about pronouncing them "man and elf". Then, [[spoiler:when they arrive in the past, Artemis is aged and Holly rejuvenated to the point where their [[MayflyDecemberRomance age disparity]] disappears.]] For bonus points, thinking about this disturbs Holly. That almost crosses the line from ShipTease to UnresolvedSexualTension.
** For the non-Artolly shippers, Book 7 reveals that [[spoiler:Holly]] and [[spoiler:Trouble Kelp]] went on at least one date.
** Also in Book 7, [[spoiler:Orion]]. While he usually spends time pointing out how much he loves [[spoiler:Holly]], he also lets it slip early on that [[spoiler:Artemis]] also has similar feelings, but chooses to hide them.
** Book five covers the time period in which Artemis experiences puberty. Being Artemis, the enormous mass of new-found emotions and hormones is little more than an annoyance, but, also, being Artemis, he has no trouble mentioning this annoyance whenever he was distracted by a pretty face. This also just happened to be the book in which Minerva- essentially a slightly younger, DistaffCounterpart to Artemis Fowl- heavily features. Furthermore, he actually mentioned feeling attraction towards her, specifically. And yet, beyond these passing mentions, the matter comes up roughly twice: once when they get along incredibly well on the phone, which lasts about twenty seconds, since they are currently attempting to ruin each other's plans, and again towards the end at Minerva's side when she is revealed to have been thinking about Artemis in an admiring sense.
* ShoutOut: See ShoutOut.ArtemisFowl.
* TheSlowPath: Inverted in ''The Lost Colony''. [[spoiler: They return three years after they left. No. 1 was worried it would have been more.]]
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: One of Artemis' covers was a chess prodigy. The guard, also a chessmaster (not [[TheChessmaster that kind]]), didn't believe it, and challenged him to a game. Artemis [[CurbStompBattle beat him in six moves]].
* SmugSnake: Jon Spiro
* SorryILeftTheBGMOn: In TLC, where Minerva is being held captive, she thinks that the situation is as tense as possible, and there's even theme music playing. Then she realizes the music is actually the BigBad's cell phone ringing.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: Save the Earth or you'll kill the fairies!
* StableTimeLoop: More or less. 'The Time Paradox'' has so many piled on one another it'll make your head spin, even so far as simply 'planning' to do something when he got to the future made it retroactive fact, allowing him to reap the benefits before actually doing so. What is more, Artemis's obsession with Fairies in the first book [[spoiler: is the result of residual memories from his future self, in which he learned about fairies and his own involvement with them, after a MindWipe]].
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Deconstructed like whoa in the first book, when Holly point-blank asks Root if he's harder on her because she's a girl. He admits it, and then points out that she's the ''first'' female in Recon, and [[GirlsNeedRoleModels needs to set an example]]. It's also worth noting that the only other female up for the job Holly considers a 'bimbo'.
* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: [[spoiler: how they defeat Opal Koboi the second time]]
* SphereOfDestruction: Biobombs. They explode in a (usually) sphere of light and kills everything within range, although they can be contained by Time Stops, which have a pentagonal base.
* StagedShooting: During the rescue operation in book 2.
* StockholmSyndrome: Holly to Artemis in book one, even mentioned by name at one point.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Not really. Artemis just wakes up on one. Occurs for real in ''The Time Paradox''.
* SwissBankAccount: Artemis Fowl has several, though probably not as many as when he was still (moderately) evil. A couple of villains (most noteably in ''The Infinity Code'') also had Swiss Bank Accounts, ripe for Artemis to dig his fingers into.
* TakeThat: Colfer can be utterly ruthless in his description of civilian fairies in the first book.
** A particularly noteworthy example is Dr. J. Argon, a pastiche of celebrity doctors as well as psychologists in general. Colfer also makes a rather deliberate note in the first book that Argon is "a psychologist from ''below the United States''".
** A short one at politicans in general "Crudegon was doing what politicans did best: trying to duck responsibility."
* TechnoWizard: Foaly, and Artemis himself to a lesser extent.
* TeenGenius: Artemis, of course. And Minerva, who managed to calculate when and where demons will show up on Earth, without having ever seen the fairy book.
* TeenSuperspy: Artemis is one, albeit self-employed. No government agencies for him - Artemis has the style and the gadgets. Juliet is another, and even [[BavarianFireDrill joins a SWAT team]] in ''The Eternity Code''.
* TerribleArtist: Mulch's "helpful" diagrams in ''The Arctic Incident''.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: It may be a series of novels, but Artemis occasionally invokes this trope in his head.
** In the first book, when he finally acquires his metric ton of gold from the People, he imagines that somewhere, the 1812 Overture is playing.
** In ''The Eternity Code'' when Artemis meets Spiro on the airfield, he thinks that some music would be perfect for this situation.
** And then in ''The Time Paradox'', when he needs to think some mental music to clear his head, he thinks to himself: ''Plotting music, I need plotting music.''
** More literally in ''The Time Paradox'' when composing a symphony in his head stops his atoms being scattered.
* ThemeNaming: Most of the fairies have nature and plant-themed names.
* TimeyWimeyBall
* TitleDrop:
** Book 2, ''The Arctic Incident'', is retroactively title-dropped in book 4.
--> "Holly studied her trigger finger. A faint scar circled its base where it had been severed during the Arctic incident."
** Dropped quite a few times in Book 6.
** ''The Atlantis Complex'' also repeatedly mentions, well, Atlantis Complex.
* TooCleverByHalf: Artemis.
* TropeNamer: An in-universe example, we're told Butler's family is so highly regarded, they named the profession ''after'' them.
* TunnelKing: Mulch Diggums
* TurnInYourBadge: Root keeps threatening Holly with this, especially after being seen by a toddler.
* UltimateJobSecurity: Invoked by Foaly. He designed most of his tech so that if anyone but he tried to operate it, a hidden virus would "bring it crashing down around their pointy ears". Needless to say, he abuses this situation by talking down to and making cracks about his superiors, knowing full well that even suspending him would greatly handicap the whole organisation.
* UniversalDriversLicense:
** Fish smuggler Doodah Day can allegedly drive any vehicle, be it human, fairy or otherwise.
** Mulch has jacked several hundred kinds of vehicles and drove only with "The gas and the steering wheel". He even managed to outrun a pair of missiles in first gear.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee
* UrbanFantasy: Elves, goblins, and faries using assault rifles and jetpacks.
* VancianMagic: Everyone with magic has a certain amount that they have available for use. When they run out, they have to go through an arduous ritual to replenish it. Also, the mesmer uses up decidedly less power than the other magics... [[GameplayAndStorySegregation unless you need to heal the villain's chronic lack of smell.]]
* VetinariJobSecurity: Invoked by Foaly; if anyone but him tries to use his computer, it crashes. He can still have his pay docked, though.
* VillainProtagonist: Artemis in book one, not so villainous later on.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** Spiro in Book 3, after Artemis not only escapes from him, but calls the SWAT team, steals the Cube, and basically screws Spiro over after he had everything he could ever want in his hands.
** [[spoiler: Kronski]] suffers a particularly spectacular one
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Foaly in his role as MissionControl.
* VolleyingInsults: Mulch and Foaly in particular enjoy trading gibes.
* WakingNonSequitur: Foaly gets one in ''The Atlantis Complex''.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Animal fat.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: In Book 7, the predominant sentiment of anyone dealing with [[spoiler: Orion]]. Played for every ounce of humor and pain it's worth.
* WeAreAsMayflies
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Minerva. At the end of book 5, she is stated to have spent the last 3 years obsessing over, and waiting for, Artemis. Two books later, and she hasn't been mentioned since.
* WingedHumanoid: played with - except for sprites, fairies' "wings" are actually jetpacks.
* [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Wise Beyond His Years]]: Artemis.
* WistfulAmnesia: Artemis post-mindwipe. [[spoiler:Then he shows his former self when he discovers contact lenses he made to cheat the mesmer.]] As of "The Time Paradox", [[spoiler: Artemis being interested in fairies in the first book is actually due to this.]]
* WitchSpecies: Many of the fairy races in are this.
* WorldOfNoGrandparents: Mostly. Artemis' grandfather gets a nod in The Atlantis Complex, it's mentioned in the first book that his maternal grandfather died when he was two, and Angelina thinks Artemis is her father-in-law at one point. But that's about it.
* WriterOnBoard
* XanatosGambit: In the first book. After abducting Holly, Artemis noticies she has a tracer on her wrist so he does some quick soldering and gluing to place a tin camera inside. If it works then great, but if it doesn't, its still off Holly and all he loses is an advantage he never expected to have in the first place.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Not only can Artemis come up with new plans on the fly, he can ''calculate their probability of success''.
-->'''Foaly''': "Do you realize he had less than a minute to come up with this plan [[spoiler:to save Butler's life]]? That's one smart Mud Boy."
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[[caption-width-right:344:"I believe it's time to let our [[TheFairFolk diminutive friends]] know exactly [[BadAss who they're dealing with]]." ]]
-> ''"[[MagnificentBastard I am not concerned with us all, just myself]]. And believe me, [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy I shall be perfectly fine]]. Now, sit, please." ''
-->-- '''Artemis Fowl II'''
A series of novels written by EoinColfer.
Originally, the tale of an Irish [[TeenGenius pubescent]] [[VillainProtagonist evil]] [[InsufferableGenius genius]] and his efforts to [[AmbitionIsEvil acquire money and power]] by exploiting the [[BeneathTheEarth secret underground world]] of [[TheFairFolk fairies]] living [[DepartmentofRedundancyDepartment beneath the world]] using both magic and [[AppliedPhlebotinum advanced supertechnology.]] In later books in the series, he becomes a more benevolent fellow, working cooperatively with the fairies to curtail human mischief. The series takes cues from suspense, [[ActionAdventureTropes action]], [[TheCaper "heist"]] crime films, and JamesBond-esque spy movies and transplants them into a [[UrbanFantasy modern fantasy setting]].
The series currently comprises seven novels; the eighth one is scheduled for July 2012 and is intended to be the last one.
#''Artemis Fowl'' (2001)
#''Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident'' (2002)
#''Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code'' (2003)
#''Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception'' (2005)
#''Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony'' (2006)
#''Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox'' (2008)
#''Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex'' (2010)
#''Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian'' (2012)
There are also two short stories that are available in the companion book ''The Artemis Fowl Files'', and two graphic novels that appear to form a different canon to the prose (there were other [[ComicBookAdaptation less obvious changes]], but one is listed under RaceLift).
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* AccidentalHug: Butler does this to Artemis in the fifth book and then pulls away, embarrassed. (Artemis doesn't mind.)
* ActionGirl: Holly and Juliet.
* AdjectiveAnimalAlehouse: The Scuzzled Parrot.
* AffablyEvil:
** Artemis starts out this way, being loath to actually kill anyone (fine with kidnapping though, and an occasional bomb or two), and very cordial with the negotiators.
** Turnball Root, who compliments Holly right after kidnapping her.
* AirVentPassageway: in ''The Arctic Incident''. Artemis has to crawl through a duct filled with fuel for the building's plasma weapons. Before his helmet runs out of air. Without being able to see where he's going. Knowing full well that if anyone turns on the plasma cannons, he's toast. Not to mention that once he gets out, he has to be sprayed with anti-radiation foam or he'll likely develop cancer.
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* AllTrollsAreDifferent: In this case, ten-feet-tall gorilla-ish tunnel-dwelling monstrosities with poisonous tusks. And dreadlocks.
* AlmostOutOfOxygen: In the second book and again in the seventh.
* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Goblins and trolls, although the latter are mostly portrayed as just animals, and the former is incredibly, ''incredibly'' stupid. They're directly stated to be dumber than ''dogs''.
* AmnesiacDissonance: Artemis experiences a mild form of this when he recovers his memories of the fairy people and realizes that he had reverted to his former criminal ways during his mind-wipe.
* AnachronismStew: In ''The Time Paradox'', Artemis goes back to two years before the first book (which was published in 2001, and uses human technology from that time). Yet, the young Artemis has a mobile phone that can be used to surf on the Internet, be connected to a beamer, has a blacklight to test money and an ''X-ray scanner''. He uses his laptop to send a video message to every Extinctionist's phone, and all of them can watch it. Also, Kronski pays Artemis in bills of 500€, while the euro hadn't come into use (as a physical currency) until a few years later.
* AncientAstronauts: The reason Artemis translates the fairy language so easily is that it is similar to Ancient Egyptian and Artemis comments this is because the Egyptians borrowed it from the fairies.
* {{Annoying Younger Sibling}}s:
** As of book 6, [[spoiler: Myles and Beckett Fowl]].
** [[CuteBruiser Juliet]] to [[BadAss Butler]] in the first book, before she TookALevelInBadass.
** Grub Kelp to his superior officer Trouble. Corporal Grub has a bad habit of forgetting that Trouble is "Captain" while they're on duty; even when he remembers, he seems to think that "Mommy says" trumps rank. At his best he needs cajoling; at his worst he gives the impression that "Mommy says" is the reason such an utter liability is even allowed in the LEP, let alone on the squad of a Captain in good standing like his brother.
* AntagonistInMourning: Holly, briefly, in the first book when Fowl Manor is bio-bombed and it appears that NoOneCouldSurviveThat. Root and Mulch mutually on separate occasions.
* AntiVillain: Artemis Fowl, before he became the hero. Likewise with Butler, who's just doing his duty.
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* ArmourPiercingQuestion: "Artemis... Isn't that a girl's name?"[[hottip:Answer: while the Greek goddess Artemis was indeed female, Mr. Fowl is quick to point out that the name itself is genderless in Greek.]]
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* TheAtoner: Artemis is a [[SplitPersonality rather serious]] case in book 7.
* AuthorAppeal: The narrative would often go into the horrific outcomes of pollution and how HumansAreBastards for all their environmentally destructive ways. Also for killing animals for consumption and espousing the virtues of the green and vegetarian lifestyle of the fairies. On a lighter note, he also enjoys going into desciptions of the various high-tech gadgets that appear.
* AppliedPhlebotinum
* AwesomeMcCoolname
** [[DaChief Commander]] Trouble Kelp. Invoked, since he chose his new first name at his LEP graduation ceremony. He's so awesome even Holly respects him.
** And of course, the title character.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Artemis's forte.
* {{Badass}}: Butler can win a toe-to-toe fight with a troll. Holly is the world's best pilot ever, on top of being an athletic ActionGirl and a great markswoman. Juliet put a jade ring in her hair and beats people down with that, because she can just toy around with less awesome than her brother.
* BadassBoast: Doubles as CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, the ending of ''Eternity Code'':
--> Together we will be unstoppable.
* BadassInDistress: In the first book, Holly gets kidnapped by Artemis [[spoiler: she uses a cot to ''smash through concrete'', plants an acorn she snuck in, uses a loophole in a eye-to-eye command to go around the house, neutralizes Juliet with the ''mesmer'', punches Artemis. And just when you think things can't get worse for the kidnappers, [[OhCrap a troll comes in . . .]] ]]
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* BadGuyBar: The Sozzled Parrot in Atlantis Complex.
* BatmanGambit:
** first book, where Artemis is trying to kidnap a fairy. He knows they have to go to a specific place at a specific time to do a specific thing, but if no one shows up (a very likely outcome) then he just sits in a tent all night.
** Also first book: Cudgeon sends in the troll banking on the humans calling for help before it kills them, thus inviting the LEP inside.
** Second book: [[spoiler: Foaly gets Cudgeon to admit to his EvilPlan on tape]] because he knows his mark will want to brag about it.
* BattleButler: In its purest form, Butler.
* BavarianFireDrill: Juliet pulls one by joining a SWAT team in book three. Artemis also pulls them frequently.
* BeneathTheEarth: Haven City
* BigEater: Mulch. Full Stop.
* BoxedCrook: Mulch Diggums, frequently.
* BraidsOfAction: Juliet Butler
* {{Brainwashed}}, BrainwashedAndCrazy: The ''mesmer'' power is possessed by all fairies (and some humans).
* CadreOfForeignBodyguards: Artemis is guarded by the [[BattleButler Butler]] family, of Caucasian (as in, from the Caucasus) descent.
* CameraSpoofing: In ''The Eternity Code'', [[spoiler:Foaly spawns holographs invisible to the villain to make it seem like all the guards were knocked out from sleeping gas, and Artemis is there against his will. There were only two guards, and the holographs and Artemis don't show up on the camera. At all.]]
* CanisLatinicus: The American editions turn the Fowl family motto into this.
* CantTakeAnythingWithYou: In order to simplify things in the timestream, N[[superscript:o]]1 insists that Holly and Artemis strip before he sends them back in time, much to their chagrin. They bargain him down to just underwear.
* CanYouHearMeNow: Foaly and Holly. Often. Specifically the amusing phrase, "[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Trolls in a tantrum cause terrible trouble.]]"
* TheCaper
* CaptainObvious:
** N[[superscript:o]]1 likes to point out every possible meaning of various exclamations by other characters. Subverted in book six: "I think we all know what [[PardonMyKlingon D'Arvit]] means."
** "My butler could kill you a hundred ways without the use of his weapons. Although I'm sure one would be quite sufficient."
* CharacterDevelopment: As the series progresses, Artemis develops from a ruthless criminal mastermind into something [[AntiHero almost heroic]]. And his ten year old self is even more of an asshole.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: A major part of ''The Time Paradox'' is contrasting Artemis pre- and post-development.
* CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase: The new U.K. covers use this.
* ChekhovMIA: Artemis Fowl, Sr. The first book starts with Artemis Jr. actively looking for his father.
* ChekhovsGun: Several.
** Artemis' laser pointer is a literal example.
** The [[spoiler: seventh]] kraken in ''The Time Paradox''.
** The [[spoiler: toy monkey]]...
** The [[spoiler: finger gun]]
* ChekhovsGunman:
** [[spoiler: Turnball Root, appeared in a short story and reappeared in the ''Atlantis Complex''.]]
** That sprite who told [[spoiler: Turnball]] how to re-acquire some magic? That's the first supernatural being who ever appeared on-screen: the fairy who loaned Artemis a copy of her Book way at the beginning of the series. Given that she hadn't appeared since the first chapter of the first book, and this was the ''seventh'', this probably is also a BrickJoke.
*** It's also to clean up FridgeLogic, because fairies are shown to lose their magic in certain situations, which this sprite may have been in, yet she retained enough magic power to heal some few human maladies.
* TheChessmaster: Artemis (literally- one of his disguises as a chess prodigy ended up with a maneuver named after it), Opal Koboi. Spiro tries this, and is pwned.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
** Doodah Day. At the end of ''Lost Colony'', he is mentioned as having started working as a private detective along with Mulch Diggums. ''The Time Paradox'' takes place mostly in the past, so it's understandable that he wouldn't appear, but Mulch is actively involved in ''The Atlantis Complex'' and not only does he not seem to be working as a detective, there is absolutely ''no mention'' of what Doodah is doing.
** Minerva Paradizo. At the end of book 5, she is stated to have spent 3 years obsessing over Artemis, waiting for him to return, and she was set up as a very obvious LoveInterest. Two books later, and she hasn't been mentioned once since then.
* CityOfWeirdos: It's mentioned several times that faeries often go to Disney Land on vacation, to no reaction from the human visitors.
* {{Claustrophobia}}: Holly Short.
* InvisibilityCloak: Foaly creates an invention called Cam Foil to make the wearer of it invisible. It's more technological than ''Literature/HarryPotter'' cloaks, which serves some problems, such as it shorts out in rain and is not invisible to a camera. Also, the circuitry can be easily crushed and the wearer appears as a slight haze, so is still noticeable.
* CliffHanger:
** At the end of book 7, [[spoiler: Artemis ''still'' has the Atlantis Complex.]]
** At the end of ''The Time Paradox'', [[spoiler: Opal from the past is still on the loose in the present.]]
*** The scenario kind of implies, however, that she may have [[spoiler: returned to the past. [[FridgeLogic She has to have at some point anyway, or there would be no Opal Koboi to perform the actions she did earlier in the series (before any time travel became involved), and the scenario would not be temporally stable]].]]
* ConcealingCanvas: Lampshaded by Mulch in the first book. Turns out to be a subversion, as the safe behind the painting is a decoy.
* ConvenientlyPreciseTranslation: When Artemis uses a computer program to translate the fairy language into English, it comes out in rhyming couplets.
* CoolShades: they have a practical use in deflecting the fairy ''mesmer''.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jon Spiro.
* CreepyChild: Artemis, especially in the first book. And the third, to the waitress. And again in the sixth.
--> "Who would want to kill Artemis? Every waitress and tailor on the continent, for a start."
* CriticalPsychoanalysisFailure: Artemis tends to have this effect on psychiatrists because he is much more intelligent than most psychiatrists and has read up on all the latest approaches to psychology. He can get them to diagnose him with whatever he wants. It helps that he's actually written some of the books his psychiatrists use to diagnose him.
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* CulturalPosturing: Various fairy characters are fond of reminding Artemis how advanced fairy technology is compared to the "Mudman" equivalent. Unless it's technology that Artemis himself developed after meeting the fairies and reverse-engineering their gadgets. He even impressed Foaly by packing his 3D projection kit, which doubles as a user interface, into a briefcase.
* CulturalTranslation:
** The US edition of ''The Time Paradox'', has proudly Irish Artemis start referring to his mother as 'Mom' after making an emotional breakthrough. She gains the title 'Mum' in the UK edition, but even ''that'' may be a version of this trope, as she's referred to indirectly as the very Irish "Mam" in the first book.
** The second book, ''ArtemisFowl and The Arctic Incident'', had a line in which Artemis predicts he will be attracted to Holly when he reaches puberty that was removed from US editions. They needn't have bothered, [[spoiler: since he was right, and you couldn't have hidden it in TTP without rewriting half the book.]]
* CuteBruiser: Juliet Butler.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: Artemis is such a mega genius that he could easily make many millions of dollars as an inventor -- [[SubvertedTrope and, in fact, he does]]. ''The Arctic Incident'' says that he holds several patents and is designing a Dublin opera house. He does crime in order to make ''billions''. And, you know, [[GentlemanThief for the challenge]]. He also writes romance novels for pocket change - because he figured out the formula for writing the perfect romance novel, naturally.
* DaChief: Julius Root. [[spoiler:Then he gets gibbed. Ark Sool takes the position afterwards, but after he reveals his true nature, he's replaced by Trouble Kelp.]]
* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Holly, at least in the novels.
* DastardlyWhiplash: Mocked:
-->'''Butler:''' Focus, Artemis, one dastardly crime at the time.\\
'''Artemis Fowl:''' Dastardly, Butler? Dastardly? Honestly, we are not cartoon characters. I do not have a villainous laugh or an eyepatch.
* DeadGuyJunior: Sort of: [[spoiler:Jayjay the lemur (short for "Julius junior") is indirectly named after Commander Root]]
* DeadpanSnarker: so many. Artemis, Foaly, Holly, and Mulch (and occasionally Juliet) enjoy trading sarcastic statements. Mulch lampshades it in the narration of the fifth book:
--> Their little band of adventurers needed another smart-ass like they needed ten years of bad luck.
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:Opal]]'s possession of [[spoiler:Angeline Fowl]] seems to go beyond mere ''mesmer'')
* DevelopmentHell: (Apparently someone wants to make a movie with Jason Statham as Butler.)
* DiabolicalMastermind: Artemis sees himself as such, especially in book one.
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* [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard With Fairies]]: WordOfGod says so.
* DoctorsOrders: The CorruptCorporateExecutive's doctors are very much aware of his Mafia connections, so they give medical advice very politely.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?: The ending to The Eternity Code is suspiciously similar to that of DeadToRights, which came out a year earlier.
* DontTellMama: Artemis really doesn't want his mother to know what's going on, even if she suspects he takes after his father.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Mulch Diggums:
-->'''Holly:''' What on earth were you doing, Mulch? The computer says you came all the way down here in first gear.\\
'''Mulch:''' There are gears?
** Mulch's driving technique is described earlier in the book as being "focus on the wheel and the pedals, and ignore everything else." He also assumed the shuttle had an automatic transmission.
** And in ''The Eternity Code,'' he scoffs at Juliet when she points out to him that he can't reach the brakes.
** And as of ''The Lost Colony'' Doodah Day:
--> '''Mulch:''' This close! We came ''this close'' to being incinerated. Give me your gun Holly, I'm going to shoot him.
* EasterEgg: The "gnommish" coded messages running along the pages of some of the books and hidden in certain cover designs. They're a bit [[MindScrew weird]]. They claim you're a long-lost [[spoiler:fairy police officer]], for one...
* EatDirtCheap: The dwarves.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Artemis Fowl, multiple times, starting from asking [[spoiler: Holly to heal his mother in book one.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Even at his worst, Artemis won't stand for [[GreenAesop mistreatment of the environment]] He also won't kill people. Lemurs, maybe, but not people. When Holly compares Artemis to the villain Jon Spiro, Artemis uses this fact as his defense.
* EveryoneOwnsAMac: [[TvTropesWikiDrinkingGame Take a drink]] for every Apple reference in the books. Good examples are Artemis's iBook, and the line in ''The Time Paradox'' about Foaly sucking information from the Apple Mac.
* EvilAlbino: Kronski seems to be this. He is described as having nearly transparent white skin and purple eyes. Since some forms of albinism manifest with purple eyes, and Eoin Colfer is not known for giving his humans odd eye colors, it suggests he may he albino.
* EvilGenius: One per book. Artemis in book 1, Opal Koboi in book 2, Jon Spiro in book 3, Opal Koboi ''again'' in book 4, Minerva in book 5, Opal Koboi ''AGAIN'' in book 6. [[spoiler:Turnball Root in book 7.]]
* EvilPoacher[=/=]EgomaniacHunter: The Extinctionists.
* EvilPlan: Each book really. The first one is staged by Artemis himself when he was a VillainProtagonist. "Capture a fairy and ransom them." Simple enough, right? Except he had to find one first, get their book, translate it, and then find a fairy that was worth ransoming.
* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: In one novel, the villains pull this.
* ExoticEntree: The Extinctionists from ''Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox'' enjoy rendering endangered species extinct... and that, of course, includes dining on highly endangered or outright extinct species.
* ExtendedDisarming: Well, not ''disarming'', but near the start of Book 1, Artemis lists all of Butler's weapons hidden on his person.
-->'''Artemis:''' Let me fill you in on the weapons status. I am unarmed. But Butler here, my ... ah ... butler, has a Sig Sauer in his shoulder holster, two shrike throwing knives in his boots, a derringer two-shot up his sleeve, garrotte wire in his watch, and three stun grenades concealed in various pockets. Anything else, Butler?\\
'''Butler:''' The cosh, sir.\\
'''Artemis:''' Oh, yes. A good old ball-bearing cosh stuffed down his shirt.
:: He then goes on to say that Butler could kill someone in a hundred different ways ''without'' his weapons.
* EyeScream: The iris cam. Pure genius, but it ''sparks'' when changing the settings.
* TheFairFolk: "The People" Arrogant, and annoyed with the Mud People, yes.
* FairyCompanion: Played with: Artemis facetiously refers to Holly as "my fairy friend" at one point, but she is far too BadAss to fit the trope.
* FakeMemories: Foaly explains that the mind will naturally create false memories to fill the gaps left by a mind-wipe
* {{Fartillery}}: Never stand directly behind a dwarf. Trust us on this one.
* FantasticRacism: Basically all the fairies. You could slip in most of Draco Malfoy's lines unnoticed.
* {{Fanservice}}: Both graphic novels released so far have found an excuse to put Holly in a somewhat... [[ShowerOfAngst revealing]] [[VictoriasSecretCompartment light]]. The scenes in question ''were'' both in the original books, though.
* [[FictionFiveHundred Fiction 500]]: He's '''#3''' on the 2011 list, behind only [[{{Literature/Twilight}} Carlisle Cullen]] and [[DuckTales Scrooge McDuck]].
* FindTheCure: ''The Time Paradox'': the only cure for Angeline Fowl's disease is the brain fluid of the silky sifaka lemur - The catch? Silky sifakas went extinct eight years ago. [[spoiler:Artemis himself made sure of that]].
* FireForgedFriends: Various characters find themselves growing closer through all their adventures and misadventures.
** Artemis and Holly are the prime example, seeing as how they've gradually gone from enemies to [[EnemyMine allies by necessity]] to somewhat-trusted companions to actual friends to closer friends.
** Artemis and Butler, at first, were just 'the closest thing' each had to a friend. By the end of book 2 and all that had happened, Artemis realized that he truly respected Butler. And by book 3, Artemis was willing to go through a great ordeal to save his life.
** ''Holly and Mulch'', of all people, became close enough for him to join her as her partner when she quit the LEP and became a private detective.
* FirstTimeFeeling: In ''The Time Paradox'', Holly [[spoiler:restores Damon Kronski's sense of smell in a particularly [[IncrediblyLamePun fowl]] smelling Souk, which reduces him to writhing on the floor, clawing at his nose]].
* FiveManBand:
** The [[AntiHero "Hero"]]: Artemis Fowl
** TheLancer: Holly Short. Also Mulch Diggums, as he and Artemis both have mentioned how well they would work together.
** TheBigGuy: Butler. Mulch may also count as something of a [[TheBigGuy Big Guy]], only he takes obstacles out not with his muscles but with his... [[{{Gasshole}} uh]]... yeah.
** TheSmartGuy: Foaly
** TheChick: Juliet, of the ActionGirl variety.
* FiveTokenBand: Turnball's gang is the Fairy equivalent: One elf, one sprite, one dwarf, one gnome, one goblin.
* FourIsDeath: Invoked in the entire run of ''The Atlantis Complex''. Caused by the titular magical malady.
* FriendlyEnemy: Artemis and Holly start off this way.
* FunWithAcronyms: "LEP recon", the Lower Elements Police reconnaissance unit.
* GadgeteerGenius: Foaly.
* GambitPileup:
** The first book starts simple enough, Fowl faction vs LEP recon in a hostage situation. Then Mulch has his own agenda, Crudegon has his own agenda, Holly's agenda shifts away from Root's agenda, and then there's a '''troll'''.
** In ''The Time Paradox'', [[spoiler:Artemis versus Opal. One particular example: When he takes off in the Cessna, it looks as though they are all trying to make a break for it... but then Opal uses her thermal imager to see there is only one passenger. She guesses it is a decoy... but then notices Artemis is concealing the lemur's body heat under his shirt. ''That's what he wanted her to see.'']]
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: An odd example; the faerie language is apparently a language of symbols, but for all the codes at the bottom of the book, each symbol is translated directly to an English letter.
* {{Gasshole}}: Mulch Diggums, and the dwarves in general.
* GenderBlenderName: The title character (sort of; "Artemis" as a ''human'' name is genderless). He also claims to write romance novels under the name Violet Tsirblou in an inversion of MoustacheDePlume.
* GeniusBruiser: Butler may not quite equal his employer in heist-planning, but he's still pretty damn smart and outstrips him in several other fields.
* GentlemanThief: Artemis executes elaborate heists for the challenge and, after book one, seems to pick targets that he feels deserve it.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
%% "D'arvit" in general is not radar-busting, it's PardonMyKlingon.
** In the sixth book, while it did fit the language-obsessed character, a particular quote seemed to be directed as much at the readers as at the other characters:
---> "I think we all know what ''D'Arvit'' means," said N[[superscript:o]]l, "But ''hurkk'' is not English."
** Artemis totally just flipped off Abbot.
---> Artemis Fowl grinned right back at him and pointed his index finger at the sky. Actually, it was his middle finger, due to the time tunnel switch.
* GiantSquid: Artemis is attacked by one in ''The Atlantis Complex''
* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Julius Root.]]
* GreenAesop: The series teems with these, some more subtle than others. As of book five, environmental issues have not featured in the main plot, but the fairy people are quick to criticize humanity's lack of respect for nature and Artemis tends to agree with them in an EvenEvilHasStandards sort of way. Book six, ''The Time Paradox'', brings this front and center with the main plot focusing on an endangered lemur. Even the EasterEgg codes in some of the books are somewhat {{Anvilicious}}ly pro-green.
** Interestingly, in the first book, he nonchalantly destroys a whaling ship, [[XanatosGambit as a side-effect of some of his other schemes]]. Despite his apparent aversion to killing, he calls it a bonus.
--> There were less objectionable ways to get oil by-products, thought Artemis.
** The seventh book opens with Artemis unveiling his plan to end global warming.
* GreyAndGrayMorality: In the first book, an argument could easily be made for either side being the "good guys".
** In the case of Artemis himself, well... on one hand, he ''is'' an unashamedly greedy criminal (which his future self readily admits). On the other, he does have [[EvenEvilHasStandards some standards]], feels some guilt over his plan, and given the set of values that his father gave him, he certainly doesn't think he's doing the "wrong" thing so much as following a twisted sort of "God-helps-those-who-help-themselves" mentality. Plus, two of his less explicit reasons for his kidnapping plot were to heal his mother and raise more money to try and find his father.
** In the case of the LEP, some of them did some very questionable things, such as sending a troll into a house where it would be a danger to everyone, including the hostage. Many of them, including characters who were opposed to the troll idea, were later willing to kill several innocent bystanders (Fowl's mother and Juliet along with all of the wildlife) to take out Fowl and ensure that he wouldn't exploit the fairy world in the future. (Recovering the ransom was just a bonus.)
* GrudgingThankYou: Artemis to Holly at the end of book 2 and Butler to Holly in the first book.
* HealingHands: Any creature with magic can do it, though skill is a factor.
* HeelFaceTurn: Artemis, [[SlidingScaleOfAntiHeroes sort of]]. His father too, after he's recovered, thanks to Holly's meddling.
* HeroicWillpower
** Strong-minded individuals can put up some resistance to fairy ''mesmer''.
** This is also the main reason Artemis's atoms don't get randomly scattered through the time stream due to his multiple travels through it--"willpower," or at least intense focus and preservation of self, was stated to save him.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Artemis and Butler.
* HeyYou: It marks a turning point in their relationship when Holly finally calls Artemis by his first name instead of "Fowl" (or "Mudboy"), and (much later) calling him "Arty". Likewise, when Artemis first calls his mother "Mum" instead of the more formal "Mother."
* HijackedByGanon: Even though the key events of ''The Time Paradox'' take place in the past, one may still get the impression that [[spoiler:Opal Koboi]] just doesn't know when to quit. Which Artemis even comments on when he desperately wonders how many times he would have to save the world from her.
* HowCanSantaDeliverAllThoseToys: Stopping time.
* HumansAreBastards: According to the fairies, [[GreenAesop mostly regarding our treatment of the environment]]. In practice, Artemis is merely AffablyEvil (if that). Though other human antagonists would definitely count. Jon Spiro in the third book and The Extinctionists in the sixth book. The Extinctionists, however [[spoiler:TheManBehindTheMan turns out to be a fairy plot.]] It dies down as the series eventually, [[AuthorOnBoard though reluctantly]], concedes that both humans ''and'' fairies can be pretty bastardy.
* HypocriticalHumor: From ''The Time Paradox'':
-->'''Opal Koboi:''' ''(meditating)'' Peace be within me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, tell me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Artemis gains a few DarkerAndEdgier points when he [[ManipulativeBastard manipulates]] Holly [[spoiler:'s feelings for her dead mother to agree to cure his own]].
* IfICantHaveYou: Young Artemis to Artemis about Jayjay in ''The Time Paradox''.
* IHatePastMe: Comes to the forefront in ''The Time Paradox''.
* ImmortalProcreationClause: Although not immortal, fairies can only have one child every twenty years; humanity's faster reproduction is actually the main reason it was able to more-or-less take the world from them.
* IncrediblyLamePun: Most of the pseudonyms employed during the series, especially Artemis'. Sir E. Brum, Dr. C. Niall [=DeMencha=], and the list goes on. Also, the way Artemis makes a point of mentioning when he used a pseudonym can be seen as LampshadeHanging.
* InsecurityCamera: [[spoiler:Help along Artemis to bust Spiro's ass.]]
* InsistentTerminology: Artemis would like everyone to remember that the silky sifaka is a ''lemur'', '''''not''''' a monkey.
* InsufferableGenius: Artemis, Foaly.
* InternalAffairs: Ark Sool.
* InterspeciesRomance:
** Artemis and Holly. Well. Sort of.
** In ''The Atlantis Complex'', [[spoiler:Turnball Root's love for Leonor is what motivates him]].
** Also, [[spoiler:Orion]], who has a thing for Holly, [[spoiler: and claims Artemis does as well.]]
* IntrinsicVow: [[HypnoticEyes Mesmer]], Butler ordered to kill Holly, the "body refuses to keep functioning" version.
* {{Invisibility}}: An ability of all faries, needed to maintain TheMasquerade.
* InvisibilityCloak: Camfoil. It doesn't work on cameras, though.
* InvoluntaryCharityDonation: Happens to [[spoiler:Jon Spiro]], who gets 90% of his billions donated to Amnesty International. Artemis ''had'' intended to keep the lot for himself, but got hit by a [[CharacterDevelopment sudden attack of conscience]] and satisfied himself with a 10% "Finder's Fee".
* IWantThemAlive: Spiro and Opal.
* IWasNeverHere: [[spoiler:The CameraSpoofing as above.]]
* JediMindTrick: Fairy ''mesmer''. It even includes the classic 'wave of the hand'.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Artemis sought the call out and kidnapped it. Orion is a bit more traditional.
-->'''Orion:''' Artemis never paid attention during self-defense lessons. I, however, always knew this day would come.
* JonesTheCat: Jayjay the lemur.
* KarmicThief: At one point, Artemis Fowl chooses to focus his efforts solely on stealing from the wealthy and corrupt. However, he explicitly says he is not aiming to be JustLikeRobinHood
* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Turnball Root to Holly in Atlantis Complex.
* KilledOffForReal:
** [[spoiler:Commander Root in the fourth book.]]
** [[spoiler: Commander Vinyaya in the seventh]].
* LadyOfWar: Holly Short.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Fairy technology can do this, but it's costly and labour-intensive. Used on a random Mafia goon and Artemis after ''The Eternity Code''.
* LastOfHisKind: Jayjay, the silky sifaka lemur. [[spoiler: Not for long, because Foaly is going to clone more.]]
* LegacyOfService: The Butlers have been serving the Fowls for so long that they were the ''origin'' of the word ''butler''. The earliest known interaction between the two was the Third Crusade.
* {{Leprechaun}}: Actually [=LEPrecon=]: the Lower Elements Police reconnaissance unit. The stereotypical human view of Leprechauns is a source of significant embarrassment for the elves. And Recon are actually the source of that stereotype, if the multiple references to "the top hat and shillelagh days" in the first book are anything to go by.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Time travel and a violation of NeverTheSelvesShallMeet result in Artemis facing off against Artemis - and, for the first time, facing Butler as an opponent.
* LonelyRichKid: Artemis Fowl, book one. He spends all his time watching computer terminals for news of his father and caring for his insane mother.
* LoopholeAbuse: In one of Holly's combat simulation exams, she beat an insurmountable number of enemies by shooting the projector. As they didn't have any rules against that, they had to let her pass.
* LuckyTranslation: Trouble Kelp is called Truba in official Russian translation. It does sound similar as far as translation goes, and even though its main meaning is "pipe", its second meaning is "a disastrous situation"
* LuxuryPrisonSuite: Turnball Root manages to get one of these, receiving each item as a reward for selling out his former comrades
* MadLibThrillerTitle: ''Every'' novel beginning with book two has one.
* MagicalComputer: The Cube. Literally. Will do anything for you. Starting with hacking military satellites (human or fairy), and everything between that and diagnosing any medical conditions you have.
* MagicalDatabase: Although in Foaly's case, this might be a literal description.
* {{Masquerade}}: Fairies are real!
* {{McGuffin}}: Jayjay, [[LastOfHisKind the world's last silky sifaka lemur]].
* MeaningfulName: Multiple characters.
* MemoryGambit: ''The Eternity Code'' and ''The Opal Deception''.
* MercyLead: Kleptomaniac dwarf Mulch Diggums is recruited for so many LEP missions - despite his official criminal status - that he practically receives a salary in Mercy Leads.
* MilitaryMaverick: [=LEPrecon=] Captain Holly Short tends to ignore the order to stand down and wait for reinforcements. As such, Root keeps screaming.
* MindScrew: [[spoiler: ''The Atlantis Complex'', if you can't keep track of the number of times the narrative changes to a scene taking place a few hours earlier or later.]]
* MismatchedEyes: A tinted iris-cam borrowed from Holly makes Artemis's eyes appear mismatched during his infiltration of Spiro Needle in book 3. He gets these for real in ''The Lost Colony'' when a timestream mishap changes one of his eyes with Holly's. He apparently also [[spoiler:acquires some of Holly's magic...]]
* MoustacheDePlume: [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] Artemis says that he writes romance novels under the name Violet Tsirblou.
* [[VampireInvitation Must Be Invited]]: Any species capable of magic. Forcing your way in without an invitation is a good way to loose [[VomitIndiscretionShot the entire contents of your stomach]], and repeat offenses cause loss of spellcasting.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Nº1 is intellectual and gentle at heart, but all the other demons he grew up with were "hit first, question later" {{Blood Knight}}s overflowing with machismo. After years of trying to fit in, this (and some hypnotic prodding) lead him to leave the island. Turns out, though, that he's not like the rest because he's the first warlock to appear in ages, and warlocks just don't have the same bloodlust that most demons do.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Juliet grows up wanting nothing more than to duplicate her brother's accomplishments as a bodyguard and live up to the family name. Book 3 has her coming to terms with this attitude. Unfortunately for Juliet fans, her refusal of the bodyguard profession and conscious attempt to [[TookALevelInBadass level in Badass]] means [[LeavingYouToFindMyself joining a lucha libre troupe in Mexico and disappearing for the next three books]]. This is subverted with Opal Koboi because even though her father was successful and she entered the technology field too, he never encouraged or helped her in any way and basically wanted her to stay in the kitchen. Also, her company eventually puts his company out of business.
* NeverHurtAnInnocent
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: ''The Time Paradox''. Ideally they wouldn't have, if everything had gone according to plan....
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Dwarves. Seriously, at least one new one per book, kinda like SilverAge {{Superman}}. Along the course of the series, we learn that they can: tunnel by eating through earth, [[{{Fartillery}} fire a devastating barrage of digested rocks/mud/whatever they just dug through]], propel themselves underwater and ignore the bends because of intestinal bacteria, have saliva that works as a healing balm, can cling to walls if dehydrated, have glow-in-the-dark spit, which can also solidify to trap enemies AND contains a sedative capable of knocking people out (how exactly is only explained as far as Mulch's comment that "You didn't fall asleep because I didn't do your head"), have prehensile beards/antennae (very handy lockpicks/emergency automatic surgical needles)....
** [[{{LampshadeHanging}} Lampshaded]]. "Even the dwarves don't know most of their abilities,"
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* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: In Book 1, Artemis is a fairy-kidnapping GadgeteerGenius mastermind at the head of a criminal empire.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Jon Spiro seems a lot like a very jerky version of Donald Trump. [[hottip:*:Isn't ''Donald Trump'' a very jerky version of Donald Trump?]]
* NoEyeInMagic: The fairy 'Mesmer' ability, which - with direct eye-contact - allows the fairy to hypnotize and control a person. Reflective lenses such as shades will block it (and, on one memorable occasion, mirror-surfaced contact-lenses are used to covertly block a Mesmer), but it CAN be conveyed across video-link, albeit at a significant power-loss. (Strong-willed people can shrug off Mesmer if it's by video. With direct eye-contact, the best you can hope for is to resist violently enough to die rather than carry out the commands of your fairy master).
* NonActionGuy: Artemis is brains, not brawn, and frequently regrets his lack of physical fitness and coordination when he is forced to take an active role in things. Foaly is more successful in avoiding the action; his involvement rarely requires him to leave his computers.
* NonSequiturThud:
** When Artemis wakes up from being knocked out by [[spoiler: Butler]] in the sixth book.
-->'''Artemis''': Sell the Phonetix shares!
** Foaly in the seventh book. This was apparently an "unpleasant childhood memory", but unlike Artemis's exclamation there's no context given.
--->'''Foaly''': Not the stripy ones! They're just babies!
* NoteToSelf: The laser disc.
* NotMeThisTime: In "The Arctic Incident," Holly and Root assume it's Artemis behind the B'wa Kell golbin smugglings, but after they kidnap him to find out, it turns out not to be the case.
* ObiWanMoment: The last act of [[spoiler: Julius Root]] before Koboi blows a hole in his chest is to [[TearJerker smile at Holly and wish her well]].
* ObstacleExposition: Happens in every book, sometimes more than once. All that advanced fairy tech seems designed to create Mission: Impossible security system scenarios.
* OddlySmallOrganisation: Artemis' criminal empire pretty much consists entirely of himself and Butler. After his father's disappearance, Artemis apparently scaled back the family operations to only one's which he could oversee personally (almost entirely grand larceny and fraud), and heavily invests the profits from these (although he does make great use from his family's and Butler's vast network of contacts).
* OhGodDidSheJustHearThat: Opal Koboi has her none-too-bright henchmen convinced to the point of paranoia that she can read minds, simply by turning on them at random and shrieking "I heard that!" One henchman tests her by thinking treasonous thoughts at her as loudly as possible.
--->'''Henchman (thinking):''' Holly Short is prettier than you.\\
'''Opal Koboi:''' Don't stare at me like that, it's bad for my skin.
* OurElvesAreBetter: At least they certainly think so....
* OurElvesAreDifferent: Some sort of weird halfway-house between the Tolkien elves and old elves.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: They are lizardfolk, they are the only one who's able to use fireballs, and they are the stupidest setnient race on the planet.
* OurHeroIsDead: [[spoiler: Holly's "death" in ''The Lost Colony'' is a textbook example - although the fact that she isn't the ''title'' character might give less [[GenreSavvy jaded]] readers momentary pause]].
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Well, the only one we see is a TechnoWizard and InsufferableGenius, and pretty much the only person who can understand his TechnoBabble is Artemis. It is mentioned, however, that most centaurs are like this: without magic, but very intelligent (though Foaly presumably still qualifies as genius).
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Averted '''hard'''. They have a digestive tunneling system, unhinging jaw, glowing spit, jet pack flatulence, suction cup skin, and more.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent
* OutrunTheFireball:
** In Book 1, Commander Root is nearly killed by Artemis with a remote bomb. Commander Root, being a fairy, has to use his training to recognize the symbols... numbers... getting smaller... [[OhCrap a countdown!]]
** In Book 4, ''The Opal Deception'', Holly, after seeing a bio-bomb detonate in Artemis's hotel room, has to try and stop another one from detonating and killing her, as Artemis got out safely. She covers it with her LEP helmet, but the helmet crashes away and she has to outrun the deadly blue light.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: Butler and Holly are both significantly above average intelligence. They just have the bad luck to live in the same world as [[InsufferableGenius Artemis and Foaly]].
* PardonMyKlingon: "''D'Arvit!''" Lampshaded in the first book.
--> There is no point in translating that, as we'd have to censor it.
* ParentalAbandonment: Artemis's father is missing, presumed dead, while his mother is crazy. They both get better.
* [[PetTheDog Pet The Endangered Lemur]]: Artemis has mellowed some since book 1.
* PhotoprotoneutronTorpedo: The fairies use neutrino charges to blow stuff up at one point.
* PrehensileHair: Mulch Diggums's beard hair, which can also serve as handy custom lockpicks.
* PutOnABus: Juliet joined a wrestling team, and Minerva wasn't even ''mentioned'' in Time Paradox.
* RaceLift: Holly Short and elves in general are described as brown-skinned and, except for the pointy ears, able to pass as short humans in the books, but the graphic novels give her skin as fair as Artemis's. More subtly, the Butler siblings are described as noticeably part-Asian in the books, Butler passing easily for Chinese at one point despite being blue-eyed and terrifyingly tall. It's not noticeable in the graphic novels at all, to the point Juliet looks like a palette swap of Angeline.
* RealMenWearPink: Butler is a Le Cordon Bleu chef and enjoys old romance movies (his favourite is "Some Like It Hot"; tell anyone and he'll hunt you down); Artemis writes poetry and classical music, enjoys opera, theatre, and has designed an opera house.
* RecycledINSPACE: WordOfGod describes the series as "Film/DieHard [-[[UrbanFantasy WITH FAIRIES]]-]!"
* ReedRichardsIsUseless: As part of the long-running environmentalism anvils the Fairies never provide (willingly or unwillingly) technology that would help prevent humanity from polluting. Partially justified as they believe the humans would only use any technology to cause more damage.
* ReLex: The fairy language appears to be a ReLex of English with Irish influences.
* ReplacementFlatCharacter: Artemis becomes a more decent person as the books go on, so The Lost Colony adds Minerva Paradiso who's doing near enough the same thing as Artemis in the first book. The younger Artemis they meet while travelling back in time in Time Paradox also counts.
* RetroactivePreparation: In Time Paradox Artemis and Holly are locked in the trunk of a car and decide that later on they'll go back in time and ask Mulch Diggums to come rescue them, Mulch then breaks open the trunk. They try something similar later on in the book but realize that it only works once.
* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: Happnes to Mulch in Book one. He tries to sweet-talk some goblins by claiming to sympathise with them, only to find out that the only thing they hate more than a dwarf is a traitor to his own kind.
* RivalScienceTeams: Foaly and Opal.
* RuleOfCool
* RunningGag
** In Book 7, bivouacs.
** In Book 6, people referring to the lemur as a monkey.
* RunningOnAllFours: Goblins.
* TheSadisticChoice: The beginning of ''The Opal Deception'' Opal forces Holly to choose between saving Commander Root and Artemis, then [[HopeSpot compounds the sadism]] by offering her a false [[TakeAThirdOption third option]]. [[spoiler:To add even more insult to injury, Opal didn't give Holly enough time to save Artemis even if Holly ''had'' left immediately.]]
* ScienceIsWrong: Subverted. Human understanding of certain scientific concepts is wrong, but only because human observations are limited by the fact that magic is actively hidden from "Mudmen." The scientific method is still a-okay.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: "Illegal tends to be faster." - Butler, book 2 and 4
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Holly Short gets in trouble because of this on quite a regular basis.
--> "Have you ever actually followed an order?"
* SherlockScan: Artemis can pull this off
* [[ShinyNewAustralia Shiny New Barbados]]: What Opal promises her henchmen in ''The Opal Deception''.
* ShipTease: [[spoiler:Holly kissing Artemis in Book 6 and more.]]
** Artemis hugs Holly to activate a weight-sensitive panel to open a locked door.
** They have to undress down to underwear and then hold hands in order to [[spoiler:TimeTravel]]. N°1 makes a parting shot about pronouncing them "man and elf". Then, [[spoiler:when they arrive in the past, Artemis is aged and Holly rejuvenated to the point where their [[MayflyDecemberRomance age disparity]] disappears.]] For bonus points, thinking about this disturbs Holly. That almost crosses the line from ShipTease to UnresolvedSexualTension.
** For the non-Artolly shippers, Book 7 reveals that [[spoiler:Holly]] and [[spoiler:Trouble Kelp]] went on at least one date.
** Also in Book 7, [[spoiler:Orion]]. While he usually spends time pointing out how much he loves [[spoiler:Holly]], he also lets it slip early on that [[spoiler:Artemis]] also has similar feelings, but chooses to hide them.
** Book five covers the time period in which Artemis experiences puberty. Being Artemis, the enormous mass of new-found emotions and hormones is little more than an annoyance, but, also, being Artemis, he has no trouble mentioning this annoyance whenever he was distracted by a pretty face. This also just happened to be the book in which Minerva- essentially a slightly younger, DistaffCounterpart to Artemis Fowl- heavily features. Furthermore, he actually mentioned feeling attraction towards her, specifically. And yet, beyond these passing mentions, the matter comes up roughly twice: once when they get along incredibly well on the phone, which lasts about twenty seconds, since they are currently attempting to ruin each other's plans, and again towards the end at Minerva's side when she is revealed to have been thinking about Artemis in an admiring sense.
* ShoutOut: See ShoutOut.ArtemisFowl.
* TheSlowPath: Inverted in ''The Lost Colony''. [[spoiler: They return three years after they left. No. 1 was worried it would have been more.]]
* SmartPeoplePlayChess: One of Artemis' covers was a chess prodigy. The guard, also a chessmaster (not [[TheChessmaster that kind]]), didn't believe it, and challenged him to a game. Artemis [[CurbStompBattle beat him in six moves]].
* SmugSnake: Jon Spiro
* SorryILeftTheBGMOn: In TLC, where Minerva is being held captive, she thinks that the situation is as tense as possible, and there's even theme music playing. Then she realizes the music is actually the BigBad's cell phone ringing.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: Save the Earth or you'll kill the fairies!
* StableTimeLoop: More or less. 'The Time Paradox'' has so many piled on one another it'll make your head spin, even so far as simply 'planning' to do something when he got to the future made it retroactive fact, allowing him to reap the benefits before actually doing so. What is more, Artemis's obsession with Fairies in the first book [[spoiler: is the result of residual memories from his future self, in which he learned about fairies and his own involvement with them, after a MindWipe]].
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Deconstructed like whoa in the first book, when Holly point-blank asks Root if he's harder on her because she's a girl. He admits it, and then points out that she's the ''first'' female in Recon, and [[GirlsNeedRoleModels needs to set an example]]. It's also worth noting that the only other female up for the job Holly considers a 'bimbo'.
* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: [[spoiler: how they defeat Opal Koboi the second time]]
* SphereOfDestruction: Biobombs. They explode in a (usually) sphere of light and kills everything within range, although they can be contained by Time Stops, which have a pentagonal base.
* StagedShooting: During the rescue operation in book 2.
* StockholmSyndrome: Holly to Artemis in book one, even mentioned by name at one point.
* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: Not really. Artemis just wakes up on one. Occurs for real in ''The Time Paradox''.
* SwissBankAccount: Artemis Fowl has several, though probably not as many as when he was still (moderately) evil. A couple of villains (most noteably in ''The Infinity Code'') also had Swiss Bank Accounts, ripe for Artemis to dig his fingers into.
* TakeThat: Colfer can be utterly ruthless in his description of civilian fairies in the first book.
** A particularly noteworthy example is Dr. J. Argon, a pastiche of celebrity doctors as well as psychologists in general. Colfer also makes a rather deliberate note in the first book that Argon is "a psychologist from ''below the United States''".
** A short one at politicans in general "Crudegon was doing what politicans did best: trying to duck responsibility."
* TechnoWizard: Foaly, and Artemis himself to a lesser extent.
* TeenGenius: Artemis, of course. And Minerva, who managed to calculate when and where demons will show up on Earth, without having ever seen the fairy book.
* TeenSuperspy: Artemis is one, albeit self-employed. No government agencies for him - Artemis has the style and the gadgets. Juliet is another, and even [[BavarianFireDrill joins a SWAT team]] in ''The Eternity Code''.
* TerribleArtist: Mulch's "helpful" diagrams in ''The Arctic Incident''.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: It may be a series of novels, but Artemis occasionally invokes this trope in his head.
** In the first book, when he finally acquires his metric ton of gold from the People, he imagines that somewhere, the 1812 Overture is playing.
** In ''The Eternity Code'' when Artemis meets Spiro on the airfield, he thinks that some music would be perfect for this situation.
** And then in ''The Time Paradox'', when he needs to think some mental music to clear his head, he thinks to himself: ''Plotting music, I need plotting music.''
** More literally in ''The Time Paradox'' when composing a symphony in his head stops his atoms being scattered.
* ThemeNaming: Most of the fairies have nature and plant-themed names.
* TimeyWimeyBall
* TitleDrop:
** Book 2, ''The Arctic Incident'', is retroactively title-dropped in book 4.
--> "Holly studied her trigger finger. A faint scar circled its base where it had been severed during the Arctic incident."
** Dropped quite a few times in Book 6.
** ''The Atlantis Complex'' also repeatedly mentions, well, Atlantis Complex.
* TooCleverByHalf: Artemis.
* TropeNamer: An in-universe example, we're told Butler's family is so highly regarded, they named the profession ''after'' them.
* TunnelKing: Mulch Diggums
* TurnInYourBadge: Root keeps threatening Holly with this, especially after being seen by a toddler.
* UltimateJobSecurity: Invoked by Foaly. He designed most of his tech so that if anyone but he tried to operate it, a hidden virus would "bring it crashing down around their pointy ears". Needless to say, he abuses this situation by talking down to and making cracks about his superiors, knowing full well that even suspending him would greatly handicap the whole organisation.
* UniversalDriversLicense:
** Fish smuggler Doodah Day can allegedly drive any vehicle, be it human, fairy or otherwise.
** Mulch has jacked several hundred kinds of vehicles and drove only with "The gas and the steering wheel". He even managed to outrun a pair of missiles in first gear.
* UnspokenPlanGuarantee
* UrbanFantasy: Elves, goblins, and faries using assault rifles and jetpacks.
* VancianMagic: Everyone with magic has a certain amount that they have available for use. When they run out, they have to go through an arduous ritual to replenish it. Also, the mesmer uses up decidedly less power than the other magics... [[GameplayAndStorySegregation unless you need to heal the villain's chronic lack of smell.]]
* VetinariJobSecurity: Invoked by Foaly; if anyone but him tries to use his computer, it crashes. He can still have his pay docked, though.
* VillainProtagonist: Artemis in book one, not so villainous later on.
* VillainousBreakdown:
** Spiro in Book 3, after Artemis not only escapes from him, but calls the SWAT team, steals the Cube, and basically screws Spiro over after he had everything he could ever want in his hands.
** [[spoiler: Kronski]] suffers a particularly spectacular one
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Foaly in his role as MissionControl.
* VolleyingInsults: Mulch and Foaly in particular enjoy trading gibes.
* WakingNonSequitur: Foaly gets one in ''The Atlantis Complex''.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Animal fat.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: In Book 7, the predominant sentiment of anyone dealing with [[spoiler: Orion]]. Played for every ounce of humor and pain it's worth.
* WeAreAsMayflies
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Minerva. At the end of book 5, she is stated to have spent the last 3 years obsessing over, and waiting for, Artemis. Two books later, and she hasn't been mentioned since.
* WingedHumanoid: played with - except for sprites, fairies' "wings" are actually jetpacks.
* [[WiseBeyondTheirYears Wise Beyond His Years]]: Artemis.
* WistfulAmnesia: Artemis post-mindwipe. [[spoiler:Then he shows his former self when he discovers contact lenses he made to cheat the mesmer.]] As of "The Time Paradox", [[spoiler: Artemis being interested in fairies in the first book is actually due to this.]]
* WitchSpecies: Many of the fairy races in are this.
* WorldOfNoGrandparents: Mostly. Artemis' grandfather gets a nod in The Atlantis Complex, it's mentioned in the first book that his maternal grandfather died when he was two, and Angelina thinks Artemis is her father-in-law at one point. But that's about it.
* WriterOnBoard
* XanatosGambit: In the first book. After abducting Holly, Artemis noticies she has a tracer on her wrist so he does some quick soldering and gluing to place a tin camera inside. If it works then great, but if it doesn't, its still off Holly and all he loses is an advantage he never expected to have in the first place.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Not only can Artemis come up with new plans on the fly, he can ''calculate their probability of success''.
-->'''Foaly''': "Do you realize he had less than a minute to come up with this plan [[spoiler:to save Butler's life]]? That's one smart Mud Boy."
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