Literature / The Fowl Twins

The Fowl Twins is a sequel/spinoff series to Artemis Fowl starring Artemis' younger twin brothers, Myles and Beckett Fowl.

• The Fowl Twins (November 2019)
• The Fowl Twins: Deny All Charges (October 2020)
• The Fowl Twins Get What They Deserve (October 2021)

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The Fowl Twins

• All Trolls Are Different: There are now multiple breeds including one with "toy" variants that are a couple foot high.
• Artistic License – Martial Arts: Beckett has mastered a kind of punch which almost no one else in the world can pull off. Needless to say, there's no such thing in real life (and if there were, no little kid would be able to pull it off, no matter how intelligent).
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Zigzagged, co-lead Myles is just a younger Artemis while other co-lead Beckett is completely opposite. While Artemis, the protagonist of the original series, is almost always serious, highly intellectual, and practically allergic to physical activity, Beckett is a Cloud Cuckoolander who's gifted in physical skills.
• Distinguishing Mark: Myles and Beckett Fowl look alike, except that Beckett possesses a highly distinctive birthmark... which is, in fact, a complete ruse designed to aid in the pulling of a Twin Switch. The birthmark is in fact, completely fabricated, created by food coloring and the story of the birthmark put for public consumption should such a switch become necessary as part of a double-bluff.
• Flying Car: Bleedham Drye has pre-ordered one that Myishi Corporation is working on.
• Fun with Acronyms:
  • The Fowl Family's artificial intelligence that spans their personal network along with Myles' glasses is called Nano Artificial Neural Network Intelligence system. It is designed by Artemis Fowl the Second to assist his family. Not surprisingly, NANNI is mainly responsible for watching over his younger brothers in their adventures.
  • The government organisation called ACRONYM, no less. It stands for Asociación para el Control, la Regulación, y la Observación de los No-humanos y Magia in Spanish. It means Association for the Control, Regulation, and Observation of Non-humans and Magic in English.
• Immortality Seeker: Lord Bleedham-Drye is trying to nab troll blood in order to become immortal.
• The Men in Black: There's government organisation called ACRONYM that investigates fairies. They get their entire network and database breached and stolen by the Myles in the first book and the gold they stole is lost underground in the end of the second book.
• Non-Human Humanoid Hybrid: It's stated that there are several crossbreed subspecies between the fairy races.
• Polar Opposite Twins: Myles and Beckett are like chalk and cheese.
• Put on a Bus:
  • Artemis and Butler are off on a five year mission to Mars.
  • Juliet is away in the United States working as a wrestler.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: The Myishi Corporation Megacorp from The Supernaturalist appear here supplying weapons and technology to criminals.
• Sequel Series: To the Artemis Fowl books, with Artemis now a grown-up (albeit a young one) and his much younger twin brothers as the main characters.
• Stealth Pun: Lord Bleedham Drye ("bleed 'em dry").
• The World Is Always Doomed: Artemis says in his recording that history has taught him that Earth always needs saving, it's usually a Fowl who saves it and that now might be Myles and Beckett's turn.

The Fowl Twins: Deny All Charges

• Actually A Doom Bot: The Beckett that accompanies Myles to the Convention Center is actually a hologram being projected by the NANNI glasses.
• Acquired Poison Immunity: Surface dwarves acquire limited resistance to sunlight.
• Alternet:
  • Miles hacks the LEP Core which is the LEP equivalent of the Cloud.
  • A Fairy search engine called Bugle is also mentioned.
• And I Must Scream: Teddy Bleedham-Drye had his brain transplanted into a clone body and was conscious the entire time.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Because the Horteknut gold was in the destroyed elevator, Gveld Horteknut still succeeded in returning the gold back to the fairies when the elevator fell underground and was subsequently investigated by the LEP.
• Becoming the Mask: Despite being a human ACRONYM agent, Gundred is now loyal to the Dwarf reclaimers.
• Berserk Button: Shushing a dwarf is said to be as dangerous as poking a troll with a stick.
• Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism: Female Dwarves generally don't have the same tunneling abilities as the males but there are exceptions.
• Body Backup Drive: Lord Bleedham-Drye is back in a cloned body though due to the expense he doesn't want to have to do it again.
• Bully Hunter: Beckett has used his cluster punch on five bullies he caught picking on younger children.
• Cats Are Mean: They're the only animal that Beckett can't communicate with but it's suspected that they understand him and don't bother to reply.
• Clone Degeneration: The decoy for the kidnapped Myles dissolves after a few hours.
• Crazy-Prepared: Artemis Fowl the Second, as usual. Realising that The World Is Always Doomed and needs a Fowl to save it, he stimulated the brains of his family members while giving them full access to all his information on the People so that they wouldn't be caught off guard again, as he himself is in space. It is also noted that he wound up discovering that he wasn't the first Fowl to come into contact with the People in the process.
• Distressed Dude: Myles gets kidnapped.
• Doesn't Like Guns: Myles has never fired one before and swears that shooting Lazuli will be the last time.
• Escape Pod: The boys and Lazuli escape the Fowl Tachyon on one before it gets blown up.
• Evil Orphanage Lady: Gender-Inverted. Lazuli grew up in an orphanage run by a cruel male sprite who neglected the orphans.
• Evolutionary Levels: Foaly tells Lazuli that he thinks hybrids are the next step in fairy evolution.
• Faeries Don't Believe in Humans, Either:
  • There's a parody of Flat-Earthers called Underearthers which are fairies that don't believe humans exist.
  • It's mentioned that fairies don't believe in vampires but that by and large, vampires don't believe in fairies either.
• Fan Convention: Myles hinders the Horteknut attack on the Convention Center by hacking an actor's social media account and telling fans that a short notice convention is on.
• Forbidden Chekhov's Gun: Lazuli says she can't be electrocuted because that'll stop her magic suppressing chip from working. Guess what Myles does later on.
• Forgotten Phlebotinum: Holly can't reach the surface for a few days because she's waiting on a magma flare for her shuttle to ride on. Only the pods need magma flares. Shuttles can fly up in a few hours using their engines.
• Fun with Acronyms:
  • Myles called the Fowl Tachyon's limpet pods "Ballistic Cyber Recon pods with potential Transfer" because "bcrypt" was the name of an algorithm used to hack Yahoo. Beckett renamed it "Systems for Cyber Attack Re-task And Breach" because they're shaped like beetles and Myles admitted it was a better name.
  • Foaly puts Lazuli into a Magical Resonance Imaging machine to find the source of her SPontaneous Appearence of Magic.
  • Myles names Gundred's Drill Tank Propulsion through Internal Gears and Locking Epicyclic Transmission.
  • NOK-NOK is a Network Override Key that hacks electronic locks.
• Hold Your Hippogriffs: Whistle Blower says "we're caught in a dwarf's Jetstream without a bandana" as an equivalent to being up Shit Creek without a paddle.
• Hologram: The Fowl Tachyon can launch drones that can project six realistic decoys of itself, sadly Beckett reprogrammed them to project images of the protagonist of his favourite book, Alien Poop Boy.
• Humans Are Psychic in the Future: Myles intends to master Telekinesis by the time he's fifteen. The narration mentions he won't be able to move objects with his mind until he's 17.
• I Gave My Word: Artemis Sr. forces the boys to make a promise while doing a wrist-bump because he knows they'll never break it.
• Knockout Gas: The Horteknuts use it to kidnap Lazuli during her MRI scan.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Foaly's working on technology to erase memories from a distance.
• Magitek: Foaly has started working at the new Magitek division of J.Argon's clinic.
• Magnetic Weapons: The Fowl Tachyon Cool Plane has tailfins hidden behind panels.
• The Mole: Gundred is actually a human dwarf placed by ACRONYM.
• My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Due to the difficulty of translating Dwarf languages, Beckett tells one that there's no need to enrage the cattle rather than engage in battle. Luckily that particular Dwarf has as phobia of cows and turns to look behind him.
• Never Found the Body: Gundred is last seen going off to find Gveld's body in a collapsing Convention Center. The LEP never find either of them.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands: It's acknowledged in-universe that Dwarves tend to come out with unexpected abilities, which is explained as being because other fairies haven't been able to document what they can and can't do.
• Pardon My Klingon: Beckett swears in the badger language, Brockish.
• The Reveal: The Fowls have always been in contact with The People, even before the events of the first book. They just erased their memories to make it as if Artemis' kidnapping of Holly was the first incident.
• Recursive Canon: If an event from an earlier book is referenced, we're told to look up an LEP file with the same name as the book.
• Restraining Bolt: Foaly injects Lazuli Heitz with a magic suppressing chip so she won't accidentally incinerate people with her fire breath.
• Series Continuity Error: While it could be simply a case of sibling rivalry making it up, there was a moment with Myles where he once remembered his older brother Artemis telling him when he was ten-months old to change his own diaper. The ending of The Lost Colony implies that the twins were at least a year old when Artemis returned from Limbo. Also in The Time Paradox Artemis states that Myles potty trained himself at 14 months old.
• Sequel Hook: Ends with Myles offering to help the LEP work out where the Reclaimers got his clone from and the epilogue has Lord Bleedham-Drye vowing to kill the twins.
• Stay in the Kitchen: Female Dwarves don't normally work the tunnels. Though as well as running the home, they're trusted to run finances, politics and combat strategy.
• Tempting Fate: After Artemis Sr makes him say goodbye to Whistle Blower, Beckett says "Nothing worse can happen". Not realising that Myles is being kidnapped.
• Total Eclipse of the Plot: The Horteknut dwarves are taking advantage of an eclipse to attack the Convention Center during the day. Justified in that sunlight isn't good for dwarves in general.
• Unmasqued World: Myles has NANNI programmed to send all the information he has about fairies to all major news outlets if she detects any sign of someone trying to erase his or Beckett's minds.
• Would Hurt a Child: Gveld thinks nothing of killing children, believing there are no innocent humans.
• Your Costume Needs Work: Downplayed. When Lazuli sneaks into a Fan Convention, a teenager shouts "Go Neytiri" at her.

The Fowl Twins: Get What They Deserve

• Accidental Discovery: In his attempts to see past the latest LEP shimmer suit's invisibility, Myles winds up discovering the method to see ghosts.
• Big Damn Heroes: Lazuli's pod winds up shredding what's left of Lord Bleedham-Drye's clone army upon landing on his island.
• Book Ends: The epilogue takes place in Ho Chi Minh City in the summer. Sweltering, by anyone's standards.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • After being stranded away from the twins thanks to Lord Bleedham-Drye's trickery, Lazuli is forced to contact a smuggling ring that bridges the fairy and human worlds. The leader turns out to be none other than Minerva Paradizo.
  • Lazuli's parentage remains a mystery touched upon throughout the story. At the end, Myles discovers that her mother is the same fairy that Artemis tracked down in Ho Chi Minh City in the very first book. The epilogue ends with Lazuli reuniting with her.
• Chekhov's Gun: Lord Bleedham-Drye's clone body has an input that pops open his skull to allow easy transfer of his brain. As the coup de grace, Lazuli manipulates him into pressing it by accident out in the open, effectively killing him.
• Clone Army: Lord Bleedham-Drye has not only received a new clone body, but he's created a small army of additional clones to serve as guards. They have computer chips instead of brains, but this doesn't mean they can't be possessed by ghosts. Bleedham-Drye's other clone army of seaweed-based goblins proves impossible to possess, even if they're physically weaker. Their ability to produce fireballs is still incredibly dangerous, however.
• Death Is Cheap: Whistle Blower gets fatally poisoned in the middle of the story. He comes back as a ghost to help push Teddy into the afterlife. The epilogue has Myles making a clone body for him to inhabit.
• Doing In the Wizard: As Myles has shown, the gate to the afterlife can be forced open with science. This allows the murdered Bleedham-Dryes to finally pass on to the afterlife now that their murderer is finally dead.
• Fate Worse than Death: Lord Bleedham-Drye plans to decapitate Myles. What makes it this is that Myles will be kept alive and conscious afterward as a living head in a jar. If it wasn't for his dwarf magic kicking in, Myles would have suffered this.
• Fun with Acronyms:
  • Coroners and Pathologists Association of Southern England.
  • Shadow-Amplifying Darkness Emissions lamp, an invention of Foaly to conceal objects even when they were shone under normal light.
  • Beckett calls Myles' fart escape a Bumper Release of Undigested Sugars and High-sulfur food waste.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: One of Myles' experiments leaves him able to see spirits of the dead. This proves vital in securing the aid of Lord Bleedham-Drye's murdered relatives, who continue to haunt his island. Apparently, they cannot possess any living being with a strong enough will, with the most successful attempt being a snake for a few minutes. This is why they couldn't stop him until he made his clone army, which doesn't have any will of their own.
• Interspecies Romance: Minerva had one of these with a fairy. He was killed by ACRONYM, but not before he and Minerva had a child together.
• Loophole Abuse: Daphne makes Lord Bleedham-Drye vow to not harm any present family in exchange for the Lionheart Ring, which will make him a royal candidate. What he didn't know is that she married Beckett fifteen minutes earlier, meaning that he cannot hurt them as the twins are now family. This leads to his Villainous Breakdown as he prides himself on his word which he now cannot take back. If it wasn't for him remembering that he can afford to lie once in his life later on, he would've remained defeated.
• Put on a Bus: NANNI gets deleted and shut down early in the story when Myles was desperately trying to not relive the life of a deceased criminal, repeating the words "Shut down" over and over in which the AI took as a command. While he has a backup of NANNI back at home, it will not come into play for the rest of the story.
• Ship Tease: Apparently Minerva and Artemis dated briefly, but nothing came of it and they went their separate ways.
• Thanatos Gambit: Lord Bleedham-Drye decided to use his original body to fake his death with his brain safe in a clone. When the Regrettables investigate the body at the mortuary, they will be ambushed by several goblins. If they survive, he poses as one of his relatives to bring the Fowl Twins to his castle where he will kill them as he is declared dead.

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