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* MisplacedRetribution: He wants to wipe out the demons in retribution for the murder of his older brother Eric... something they had absolutely nothing to do with, as Eric actually died in an incident of gang violence. Downplayed, however, in that he fully believes they ''were'' responsible.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: Ironically, their own incompetence is one of the key reasons why Opal's EvilPlan in ''The Opal Deception'' falls through -- they [[ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish don't bother changing the default code]] on the handcuffs used to [[ChainedHeat lock Artemis and Holly together]], helping them to escape the troll nest and eventually foil Opal's plot.
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The [[BigBad most significant threat]] throughout the entirety of the ''Artemis Fowl'' series, Opal Koboi is a megalomaniacal pixie and EvilGenius, constantly dreaming up fiendish schemes to TakeOverTheWorld.
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* EngineeredHeroics: [[spoiler:He was always planning to backstab Opal and undo her sabotage, allowing him to present himself as a hero who 'foiled' her plot]].
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!!Opal Koboi and Associates
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!!Opal Koboi
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the original books, she's described as having black hair and dark brown eyes. The graphic novels give her red hair and eyes.
* ArchEnemy:
** To Artemis Fowl. Not only is she by far the most recurrent villain in the series, but she is the one villain who serves as TheDreaded for Artemis. Even in one book where she's not even the villain, Artemis is hesitant on even relying on technology produced by her. The feeling is very mutual on Opal's side, and she grows to hate Artemis and has plotted to have him murdered several times.
** To Holly Short. ''Opal Deception'' reveals just how much Opal despises the elf, with a revenge scheme she plotted to hurt Holly in every way possible, having Julius Root murdered, framing Holly for said murder, and then repeatedly attempting to get Holly killed.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: most prominently when she attacks Cudgeon for treachery.]]
* BigBad: Effectively serves as this for the whole series, being part of a EvilDuo in the second book, and the BigBad in the fourth book, the sixth book (although her involvement is only revealed quite late in) and the eighth and final book.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Briar Cudgeon, in book two. [[spoiler: She ends up killing him for plotting to betray her.]]
* BreakoutVillain: Was first introduced as a secondary villain in the second book, where she was the EvilGenius to Briar Cudgeon. She eventually became the closest thing the series had to a BigBad.
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:She implants a human pituitary gland into her brain in the fourth book. This ends up draining her magic reserves.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Shes the CEO and founder of Koboi Laboratories and wicked to the core.
* CuteIsEvil: Her Fairy subspecies, Pixies, are famous for being child-like, cute and adorable-looking. Doesn't prevent her from being easily one of the nastiest characters in the whole series.
* DaddysLittleVillain: Subverted hard. Well back when she was young, she admired her father and wanted to follow in his footsteps. After he tried to dissuade her from studying engineering (as he expected his daughter to follow the normal path in life for female pixies: basically, getting married to a suitable husband), she drove him insane, committed him to an asylum, and took over his company. Not necessarily in that order, either.
* DarkMessiah: [[spoiler:Expects to become this in Book eight; she envisions the more warlike elements of fairy society rallying around her and making her empress, after her plan to destroy humanity comes to fruition.]]
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* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:She is finally killed by Oro after he is released from her control and she still tries to order him to kill Nopal.]]
* EnfanteTerrible: When she's posing as a human in The Opal Deception.
* EvilCounterpart: Or perhaps Eviler Counterpart to Artemis Fowl. Both are the WorldsSmartestMan for their respective people and both were criminal geniuses that aspired to be greater and waged war on the Fairy People. However, while Artemis was raised in a criminal family and ended up learning humility which led to him pulling a HeelFaceTurn and becoming a better person, Opal was a BitchInSheepsClothing who posed as a righteous person and even wanted to be seen as a hero alongside Briar Cudgeon, but her defeat corrupted her and she ended up descending more into insanity with increasingly megalomaniacal schemes. In essence, Artemis's defeat turned him into a hero, while Opal's defeat made her even worse of a villain.
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* EvilGenius: Her IQ is over 300 and it's implied that shes even smarter than even Artemis himself.
* EvilIsHammy: Not so much in Book Two, but Book Four shows signs, and by Book Six she is irretrievably a LargeHam.
* EvilIsPetty: The reason she hates Foaly so much? His invention won a prize over hers when they were in college.
* FurAndLoathing: She has the seats of her private shuttle lined with animal fur, symbolizing of her rejection of fairies in favour of [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans]].
* GeniusSweetTooth: One of her favourite foods is chocolate truffles.
* AGodAmI: Prone to delusions of godhood, especially when [[spoiler:Her magic gets supercharged in books six and eight]].
* HijackedByGanon: [[spoiler:In Book 6, it turns out she'd been using Damon for quite some time.]]
* InsufferableGenius: Just like Foaly she loves to show off how smarter she is than anyone she happens to be in the room with.
* ItsAllAboutMe: In book six, she's outraged about the fact that the LEP confiscated her source of a key ingredient of her SuperSerum just because they needed it to cure a disease that had already killed ''a quarter of the population of the entire fairy world''.
* KickTheDog: Not only did she [[spoiler: kill Root]], she tricked Holly into [[spoiler:speeding up his demise by shooting the bomb wrapped around his waist,]] claiming there was a weak spot.
* KillAllHumans: Her ultimate plan is to manipulate the ghosts of dead fairies into killing all of humanity.
* MadScientist: Shes the creator of various LEP's weaponry and transportation craft. She also later experiments on endangered animals to use their brain fluid to increase her powers.
* TheManBehindTheMan: While the B'wa Kell has not always worked for her, she and Cudgeon helped orchestrate its largest historical campaign against the LEP. [[spoiler:She is also this to the Extinctionists in book six.]]
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* {{Narcissist}}: Calling her egocentric is putting it mildly.
* NeverMyFault: She blames Foaly for her decision to implant a human pituitary gland in her skull. The logic involved is probably of the [[InsaneTrollLogic insane troll]] variety.
* OurPixiesAreDifferent: As a pixie, she looks like a young human children to the point that small surgical adjustments could allow her to pass as a human. Pixies in general are noted to be far shorter than other [[TheFairFolk Fairy races]] like elves and are also characterized as being exceptionally intelligent, with Opal being so smart she is a contender for the WorldsSmartestWoman of the Fairy Race.
* ProperlyParanoid: Sets up an elaborate deathtrap for Holly and Artemis in Book four, with a videofeed so she can watch their demises from her shuttle. When the videofeed shorts out moments before they get devoured by trolls, she decides to proceed with her plan as though they survived and are hunting her down. Given who she's dealing with, this is the right course of action.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: In the graphic novel of the second book, Opal is depicted as wearing what looks like a thick sweater and ''"footy pajamas"''.
* {{Revenge}}: Her prime motivation in all titles from ''The Opal Deception'' onwards, particularly against Artemis Fowl, Holly and Foaly.
* SanitySlippage: After waking up from her coma, her mental health declines significantly, due to having developed a mental disorder called Narcissus syndrome from spending so much time with only herself for company. [[spoiler:This malady is later [[SanityStrengthening cured]].]]
* SinisterSweetTooth: She's a treacherous, murderous would-be dictator with a love of chocolate.
* SmugSnake: Even though she's one of the most competent and dangerous bad guys in the series, she still slips into this, largely thanks to regularly bragging about her plans and accomplishments. In ''The Opal Deception'', she sets up an underwater TV monitor for no reason other than to taunt Artemis and Holly, which ends up simply providing motivation for both after they survive.
* TemptingFate: In the fourth book, she arrogantly proclaims that magic is of no use to her, and she will rely on science instead. When she needs to use her ''mesmer'' powers on a human at the end of the book, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard it backfires on her]].
* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Chocolate. Especially truffles.
* VillainousBreakdown: Experiences this in book 4 after Artemis tricks her into detonating the charges needed to complete her plan on her own shuttle, ensuring that her EvilPlan will fail and leaving enough evidence to show that she was behind everything.
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[[folder: Briar Cudgeon]]
!!Briar Cudgeon
* AmbitionIsEvil: His 'favourite daydream' of a Council seat leads him to one questionable act after another, leading to the following tropes.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Opal Koboi in book two.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Not only does he turn against the government and police in book two, he [[spoiler:has plans to betray the B'wa Kell and Opal]].
* CombatPragmatist: On his first arrival at the Fowl Manor, he wanted to blue rinsed the whole place immediately. Quick, clean, unexpected, and completely against the rules.
* DeathByIrony: Is killed when he is knocked into an open plasma pipe. The plasma is active, because he activated it himself; the narration even notes the irony (and that it probably did not have time to occur to him before he was fried).
* DrugsAreBad: When Root shoots him with a tranquilliser dart in Book 1, the drugs in the dart end up reacting badly with some illegal stimulants he was taking, ultimately leaving him with several deformities and "a complexion like melted tar".
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Foaly [[spoiler: sends a conversation of him admitting his plans to betray Opal to Artemis' mobile phone near the end of book two]].
* EvilerThanThou: Subverted. In book 2 he is presented as the more evil of the BigBadDuumvirate; he had the personal grudge, the greater screen time, and more malice than Opal. In the end he plots to betray the B'wa Kell goblins and Opal, and his betrayal makes him out to be worse than his more trusting companions. Post book 2 however, Opal becomes far worse than Briar could ever hope to be.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: He used to be relatively attractive. But when Root accidentally shot him [[ChekhovsGun with the dart finger Foaly gave him in case he needed it while meeting with Artemis]], the sedative reacted badly with some mind-enhancing chemicals he was experimenting with, and he ended up seriously disfigured.
* FallenHero: One of the few on a FirstNameBasis with Root because of their long friendship and the former's respect for his integrity and sense of duty. Then he lets his ambition get the best of him.
* FatalFlaw: Ambition. In book one, he lets his dreams of a council seat get the better of his morality and good judgment, and he ends up disgraced for it. [[spoiler:Then in book two, he ends up snatching defeat from the jaws of victory due to his inability to share power.]]
* HighVoltageDeath: [[spoiler:Gets fried when he's thrown into a reservoir of active plasma]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Opal kills him by ramming him into exposed plasma he himself had activated.]]
* LadyAndKnight: Has this Dynamic with Opal Koboi ''The Artic Incident''. Opal is the {{ojou}} who does her techo-wizardy from a safe distance and Cudgeon is the FallenHero in the thick of things. As he himself puts it: "I shall be the hero of the resistance and you shall be my princess."
* TheManBehindTheMan: The B'wa Kell Triad may officially be run by its generals, but in reality, Briar's the one calling the shots.
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: In this case, goblins. The B'wa Kell goblin triads were just a public nuisance until he organized and armed them.
* NeverMyFault: He blames Foaly, Root, and even Artemis for ruining his career, even though he torpedoed it himself when he decided to send a troll into Fowl Manor.
* SanitySlippage: Noticeably more unstable in Book 2, thanks to a sedative reacting badly with some illegal mind-enhancing chemicals he was using.
* SmugSnake: {{Pride}} outstreching his ability is the reason for his fall.
* VillainousBreakdown: While he's not exactly an outright villain yet, his appearance in Book One ends with him screaming angrily and trying to attack Foaly after his plans blow up in his face and it becomes clear Root and Foaly are going to give evidence against him.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He used to be Root's friends and they grew up together, but his actions during the first book end up alienating Root from him and in book 2, it's clear that their friendship is now dead.
* WhatTheHellHero: Julius calls him out on using a troll in the Fowl siege.
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* BigBadTriumvirate: They are led by a triumvirate of goblins consisting of Generals Scalene, Sputa and Phlebum.
* FalseFlagOperation: Cudgeon and Opal are using them as puppets, even staging attacks on Koboi's facilities to put her above suspicion.
* KillItWithFire: Their favourite method of dealing with things.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: For all their stupidity, they very nearly manage to beat the LEP in Book 2. Only Foaly regaining control of Police Plaza's defence systems manages to put down their rebellion.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: They are reptilian creatures who shed their skins and use them to make clothes. They have [[PlayingWithFire the ability to produce fire as well as near-complete immunity to it]]. And they are ''incredibly'' stupid.
* PlayingWithFire: It comes out their nostrils.
* StupidCrooks: The lot of them, from the lowliest grunts all the way up to the top leadership.
* StupidEvil: Colfer [[RunningGag will not let you forget that goblins are dumb]].
* TheSyndicate: Appear to fill this kind of role in the goblin criminal underworld.
* TooDumbToLive: A general, one of their best and brightest, was caught using a forged credit card because he used his real name.
* TookALevelInBadass: They go from a relatively minor nuisance to a very serious threat after Cudgeon and Opal ally with them, thanks to them being supplied with both illegal weaponry and a reliable source of energy for said weaponry.
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!!Mervall and Descant Brill
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* PunchClockVillain: They have no personal investment in Opal's plans-- they're just motivated by pay and fear.
* ShinyNewAustralia: In light of Opal's growing narcissism and madness, the only thing keeping them loyal, aside from fear of punishment, is the thought of sipping alcoholic beverages on the beaches of the Carribean after Opal's world conquest.
* VileVillainLaughableLackey: While Opal Koboi is probably the most dangerous villain throughout the series, as an AxCrazy psychopath who wants to TakeOverTheWorld, Mervall and Descant are a cowardly, often incompetent BumblingHenchmanDuo.
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!!The Russian Mafia
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:When Artemis Fowl II seemingly has his own father assassinated, they're genuinely shocked and horrified]].
* KarmaHoudini: Britva, the leader of the group.
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* NoFullNameGiven: Britva and Kamar.
* OddlySmallOrganization: Their total presence in the books amounts to a mob boss and his two enforcer henchmen. Though there were a hundred guards mentioned at some point and it's heavily implied that the two henchmen are doing one small task out of a big organization.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: Inverted as it was the Irish GentlemanThief who moved on their territories and they showed him he was not welcome by hitting the ship he was on with a stinger missile.
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* BadBoss: Apparently used to toss complaining employees out of high-rise windows before the laws became tighter. He resents having to give employees basic amenities like decent wages and insurance and those working for him are constantly in fear of having YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness and/or YouHaveFailedMe pulled on them.
* BigBad: Of Book Three, given he holds the MacGuffin that the heroes must acquire back from him.
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* ColourMotifs: White. He wears white clothing, and just about everything in his personal quarters is white.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Aside from Artemis himself being a VillainProtagonist in the first book, Spiro is the only main villain who is a human rather than a fairy.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: See BadBoss above. Even if his underworld connections and use of illegal means to undermine his competition didn't qualify him for this, his willingness to have a teenage boy murdered to get his hands on very advanced technology ''definitely'' does. Its also implied that Phonetix outstrips his company due to him cutting corners.
* CrazyPrepared: Holly describes his company's security system as being the most state of the art she has ever seen for a Mudman. It's telling that Foaly concludes they could not pull off infiltrating it without his help.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: His company's relationship with Phonetix seems very reminiscent of that between Microsoft and Apple.
* EvilerThanThou: He lampshades this toward Artemis, who was still using his criminal mastermind cred, he might not be the better mastermind but Spiro is way better at being a criminal since he doesn't mind dirtying his hands.
* EvilTowerOfOminousness: The Spiro Needle, a very tall and thin Chicago office building that serves as his company's headquarters.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He cracks a lot of jokes and makes bets with his employees, but he also has ties with the mob and won't hesitate to kill a kid.
* IdiotBall: Unfortunately grabs it pretty hard during the climax of the book. [[spoiler: For most of the story's he's careful and well-prepared, and Artemis is only able to match him by calling in help from his fairy allies with advanced technology and magical powers. He correctly guesses that Artemis' initial surrender is a ruse and is waiting inside when Artemis breaks into his vault. But when Artemis has been apparently "beaten for real" and unlocks the C-Cube, he's easily goaded into celebrating by driving over to the highly secure corporate headquarters of his rival tech giant in the middle of the night and personally breaking in to steal their research, confident that this is a great idea because the C-Cube can supposedly hack the electronic security systems and activate tanks of sleeping gas hidden in the vents as a security measure to disable the guards. Dumb because of the many ways such a plan could go wrong even if the C-Cube actually did those things, but more importantly, because he immediately trusts that the Cube is actually doing anything it claims to be doing once Artemis unlocks it.]]
* JustForPun: The name of his company, Fission Chips.
* LeanAndMean: Described as being "thin as a javelin".
* LightIsNotGood: He's heavily associated with the colour white, and is a CorruptCorporateExecutive ''par excellence''.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Spiro has a taste for expensive suits. Like just about everything else he owns, they're white.
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* TheRichHaveWhiteStuff: Everything in his apartment is white, including a painting titled ''Snow Ghost'' that's just a solid white canvas.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: To TheMafia, no less.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Though this doesn't save him from [[spoiler:getting his just deserts after being caught breaking into Phonetix headquarters]].
* SmugSnake: He ''is'' fairly competent, and he did almost get Artemis killed at the beginning of Book 3, but he is just not as good as he think he is. In the end, [[spoiler:Artemis completely outdoes him.]]
* StraightEdgeEvil: Spiro never smokes (he does chew and suck on the end of a cigar, but never lights it), and hardly ever drinks non-decaf coffee. It's implied that this is because he's a health nut, and strictly follows his doctor's orders.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:After realising he has been the victim of an elaborate BatmanGambit and is destined for prison.]]
* VillainInAWhiteSuit: Wears all white suits, and is a ruthless CorruptCorporateExecutive with ties to the mob.
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!!Arno Blunt
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* TheDragon: To Jon Spiro.
* FangsAreEvil: One of his sets of false teeth is pointed, like a shark's.
* {{Foil}}: To Butler. Both are bodyguards to highly-intelligent, criminal masterminds. However, Blunt is loud and calls attention to himself with his appearance, whereas Butler makes himself as inconspicuous as possible. He's also extremely pragmatic, does not hold to any code of honor in a fight, and he's relatively unprofessional (trying to hold pointless staring contests with Butler). He's also nowhere near as loyal to Jon Spiro, as Butler is to Artemis; the moment things go south for Spiro, he tries to high-tail it out of there.
* HeelFaceTurn: A forced one at that.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: After losing his teeth.
* TattooedCrook: Though not to the same extent as Loafers.
* TheToothHurts: He has all of his teeth blown out as a result of Artemis detonating a sonic grenade during their first meeting, and spends most of the rest of the book wearing dentures.
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[[folder: "Loafers" [=McGuire=]]]
!!Loafers [=McGuire=]
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* BondOneLiner: Keeps a notebook of quips to make after he kills people.
* EntertaininglyWrong: When he overhears Mulch refer to himself as a "fairy dwarf", he assumes it's the name of a gang (though he notes that it's far from an intimidating name). An understandable conclusion to make for somebody who doesn't know that literal fairies exist.
* {{Expy}}: He's pretty much an Irish version of [[Film/{{Goodfellas}} Tommy DeVito]] or [[Film/{{Casino}} Nicky Santoro]], being a short tough guy with a bad temper and involvement in organized crime.
%%* FishOutOfWater
* GoingNative: [[spoiler:After his memory was altered, he changed his name to "Nuru" and went to live among an East African tribe]].
* HairTriggerTemper: Which Mulch gladly exploits.
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:He ends up mind wiped and sent to live among African villagers.]]
* IdentityAmnesia: [[spoiler:After Juliet knocks him out, he gets his memory altered and forgets who he actually is]].
* KillTally: Loafers gets a new tattoo every time he completes a hit. Hardly any of his skin retains its original colour by the time of the third book.
* TheNapoleon: Well below average height for a human man, and known for his bad temper.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Despite being only five feet tall, he's one of the Chicago Outfit's best hitmen. And he doesn't need his weapons to be scary, either; he once defeated seven larger mobsters in a brawl.
* SarcasmBlind: Mulch's sarcasm makes a slight whistling noise as it sails clean over his head
* TattooedCrook: He gets a new tattoo after every successful job. By the time he gets hired to go after Artemis, he hardly has any skin retaining its original colour left.
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[[folder:Pex and Chips]]
!!Pex and Chips
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* BumblingHenchmanDuo: While Pex seems ''marginally'' smarter and more competent than Chips, neither of them show much in the way of intelligence and Mulch easily tricks them into letting him escape with some BriarPatching. [[spoiler:Spiro's downfall happens at least partly because they end up being ''mesmerized'' by Holly after losing a fight to a teenage girl.]]
* DumbMuscle: They were hired purely for their strength (Pex is said to be able to crack open a walnut with his bare hands) and neither has much in the way of brains.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Really, they're so dimwitted and childish you can't help but feel sorry for them.
* {{Manchild}}: They're fans of [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney the Dinosaur]]. That tells you all you need to know about their maturity.
* NeverLearnedToRead: If some of Spiro's thoughts are any indication, they're both illiterate.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Pex" for his impressive pectorals, and "Chips" because he's often eating chips.
* TooDumbToLive: They make the goblins look like paragons of intellectual prowess.
* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Chips' is... well, chips.
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[[folder:Ark Sool]]
!!Ark Sool
The replacement for the late Commander Julius Root after his assassination. Ark Sool is an immoral BadBoss who is eager to push Holly as a criminal and have her arrested or killed for her crimes.
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* BadBoss: Is extremely abrasive and refuses to so much as consider the possibility of Holly being innocent.
%%* BeardOfEvil
* CorruptBureaucrat: [[spoiler:He tries to let the demons be wiped out.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Played with. He was never a saint to begin with, being an immoral CorruptBureaucrat and BadBoss. However, after being fired from LEP, he officially switches over to the baddie's side by joining Turnball's gang.
* GeneralRipper: In Book 4, he is absolutely obsessed with placing the blame on Holly, constantly refusing any further investigations or research that could help prove her innocence.
* HateSink: He was already this even when he was supposedly a HeroAntagonist, being nothing but contemptible and trying to tarnish Holly's reputation and brand her as a criminal. Trying to [[spoiler:let the entire Demon race die off]] only cements him as this. And then as icing on the cake, he decides to join the villain's side altogether and allies with Turnball's gang.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He only cares about his own career, and nothing else.
* {{Jerkass}}: Sool is an incredibly unlikable individual, as cemented by [[spoiler:his willingness to ''let the whole Eighth Family die off''.]]
* KickTheDog: On too many occasions to count, but one of the biggest he had was when he [[spoiler:tried to let the whole demon people die. This ends up costing him his career]].
* LeanAndMean: He's a good deal skinnier than most gnomes.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Holly mentally refers to him as "the king of red tape" at one point.
* OutOfFocus: Him joining Turnball in Book 7 is merely a footnote in the story. Rather than dwell on his enmity with Holly and the rest of the LEP, Sool's just sorta there hanging out with Turnball's other {{mooks}}.
* SmugSnake: Just about everything he does ''screams'' unwarranted self-importance.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: [[spoiler:He takes over the LEP after Julius' death. Holly immediatly quits.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Leon Abbot]]
!!Leon Abbot
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* BigBad: Of Book Five.
* ControlFreak: He demands complete loyalty from the other demons, to the point of choosing names for them during their adulthood ceremonies, and inflicts humiliation and punishment on those who dissent or challenge his authority.
* CreateYourOwnHero: [[spoiler:Attempting to sent Number 1 to his death started a chain of events that led to his downfall, which Number 1 played a key part in.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:By Qwan's apprentice Qweffor, in an exceedingly rare heroic example.]]
* DoNotCallMePaul: He chose the name Leon Abbot, after a character in a human romance novel. [[spoiler:His real name in N'Zall, which translates into demon language as 'Little Horn'.]]
* EvilOverlord: Rules over the demons during their exile on Hybras.
* FakeUltimateHero: Talks himself up as a brave hero who fought a multitude of humans and stole treasured possessions from them. [[spoiler:In reality, he was merely given the possessions by Minerva.]]
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:It's revealed he has magic abilities stemming from his body merging with that of Qwan's apprentice Qweffor in a ritual gone wrong.]]
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:He ends up having his body taken over by Qweffor, then his consciousness gets transferred into the body of a guinea pig.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: He detests magic, and magic-using warlock demons, but is not above using it to [[CompellingVoice mesmerise]] other demons into obeying him, or heal himself to get rid of humiliating injuries.
* {{Irony}}: In more than one way: [[spoiler:He mesmerized Number 1 into leaving because he feared the young warlock might become a threat. This ended up leading exactly to the chain of events that caused his demise.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:In the end, he cares for nothing but his own personal power.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: A large and physically imposing demon, and self-appointed ruler of Hybras.
* MagicKnight: He has the strength and stature of a demon warrior, and a pool of magic power which he stole while sabotaging a warlock ritual.
* {{Narcissist}}: Rivals Opal in this department. There are few depths he won't sink to for the sake of satisfying his sense of self-importance.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Another in-universe example: He possesses [[MagicKnight magic abilities]] [[spoiler:through a FusionDance he had with a warlock named Qweffor]].
* SealedEvilInATeddyBear: [[spoiler:His mind ends up being transferred into the body of a guinea pig against his will.]]
* SmugSnake: While he's more clever and intelligent than he might seem at first glance, he's still not as smart as he thinks he is.
* StrawHypocrite: [[spoiler:Yeah, he talks a big game about going on the warpath against humans when the time comes, but it's all for show; he knows full well that trying to take on humanity would [[CurbStompBattle end very poorly]]. His militant rhetoric is just a tool he uses to stay in power.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Billy Kong]]
!!Billy Kong aka Jonah Lee
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* AnimeHair: Invoked by his spiky, multicoloured hair, which the narration refers to as "manga hair".
%%* AxCrazy
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Holly comments he looks more like a member of a boy band than a hardened criminal who killed his partner with a kitchen knife. He is extremely dangerous and even Butler commented that it's gonna be a problem if he is part of the antagonists.
* TheDragon: To Minerva.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: He actually has his own reasons to work for Minerva; [[spoiler:he plans to kill all demons by sending a powerful bomb into their dimension. He ends up betraying Minerva and holding Nº1 hostage because of it]].
* TheDreaded: When Artemis asks Butler about him Butler takes a long breath before saying he should be avoided, he also keeps to himself how dark Billy's reputation is in the Underworld as someone that will get any job done no matter how dirty.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The reason he tries to wipe out the demons is because he thinks they killed his older brother and wants to avenge him.
* FreudianExcuse: His older brother Eric made up stories about him fighting shapeshifting demons to cover up his nightly gang escapades. When Eric was murdered in a gang war, Billy (still known as Jonah at the time) refused to accept the police's explanation and was driven to kill the demons that supposedly took his brother's life.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Subverted. It seems like he'll only be punished for property damage, leaving his more serious crimes unaccounted for... but then Butler reveals to the Taiwanese police that he has an active arrest warrant for murder under his birth name, Jonah Lee.]]
* OvershadowedByAwesome: [[spoiler:While he's very dangerous in combat, he's still no match for Butler.]]
* PsychoForHire: Though he does have an agenda beyond just killing people, that's not to say he doesn't enjoy it.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:He ends up taking over Minerva's operation.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Damon Kronski]]
!!Damon Kronski
* ChekhovsGunman: A hotel bears his name in book four.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:To Opal Koboi, though he doesn't realize it]].
* EgomaniacHunter: He leads the Extinctionists, a club for people who want to push as many endangered species as possible into extinction.
* EvilIsHammy: Thanks to seeing his preacher father in action, he is really good at making grandiose speeches. Shame they're about exterminating other species.
* EvilPoacher: He drives animals to extinction.
* ExploitedImmunity: He organises a meeting with Artemis in a leather souk, hoping that the smell of leather-tanning chemicals will unnerve Artemis. Since he doesn't have a sense of smell, the chemicals don't faze him at all.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Though he puts on a charming air, it's glaringly obvious that he's an asswipe.
* FirstTimeFeeling: [[spoiler:During a fight with Holly, he ends up getting his sense of smell restored by her healing magic. Unfortunately for him, he happens to be in a particularly foul-smelling souk at the time, so he falls to the ground, writhing in agony.]]
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:His hatred of animals stems from an incident in his childhood, when he was mauled by a koala.]]
* HijackedByGanon: [[spoiler:Or more accurately, by Opal.]]
* KnightTemplar: The narration implies that unlike most of his friends he actually believes the crap about exterminating a species since humans are at the centre and should only keep the animals that help them.
* PreachersKid: Those revival tent sermons led him to develop his fearsome oratory prowess.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When Artemis makes it look like he's passing off a human teenager as a fairy and trying to have her killed under false pretenses, thus turning his own club against him, he drops his composure. He's driven even further over the edge when Holly restores his sense of smell at the worst possible time. Since it's implied his mental health was already shaky due to him being repeatedly mesmerized by Opal, it seems likely he went completely insane.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Turnball Root]]
!!Turnball Root
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* AffablyEvil: Walks the line between this and FauxAffablyEvil. He is very polite and respectful to allies and enemies alike. While he does do a lot of horrible things, he sees it more as NecessarilyEvil to reach a means to an end and never takes any sadistic pleasure in what he does.
* AntiVillain: Somewhat. His motivations in ''The Atlantis Complex'' are sympathetic, but it's made clear that he has been anything but an AntiVillain throughout his career. Artemis states at the end that he finds it hard to really see Turnball as a villain.
* BadBoss: Played with. Usually he is a FatherToHisMen with his henchman being very loyal to him and Turnball treating them with respect. However, on occasion he won't have a problem with leaving one behind to to die if they have [[YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness outlived their usefulness]] as was the case with Vishby.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: In "[=LEPrecon=]" (in ''The Artemis Fowl Files''), he swallows a lethal spider rather than let his brother take him back to prison. Julius manages to save him, though.
* BigBad: Of both the prequel story "[=LEPrecon=]" and ''The Atlantis Complex''.
* CainAndAbel: With his brother Julius.
* TheChessmaster: Probably the biggest one in the series save for Artemis himself. He masterminds the entire events of ''the Atlantis Complex'', from hacking the space shuttle and making it turn rogue, turning the entire wrestling ring crowd against the Butlers, orchestrating his prison escape with the help of a BrainwashedAndCrazy prison guard, and has a NearVillainVictory in his ultimate goal in securing Nº1 to heal his human wife.
* DirtyCop: He tried to flood a section of Haven in an attempt to wipe out a competitor who was muscling in on his illegal mining operation.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For all his villainy, he genuinely cares for his wife.
* EvilGenius: In addition to being TheChessmaster, Turnball is described as being the number one expert on runes in the world. He's able to use a combination of a Thrall Rune and one magic spark from rice wine to take control of his subjects.
* InterspeciesRomance: He fell in love with a human woman who he ended up marrying. His motivation for ''The Atlantis Complex'' was to keep her alive.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: Insists on being addressed as captain despite obviously no longer holding that rank in the LEP.
* ThrownFromTheZeppelin: In ''The Atlantis Complex'', Turnball asks a shuttle full of prisoners (including many members of his old gang) for volunteers to join him in his next venture and depart the shuttle under dangerous circumstances. The first three people who choose to follow him survive. The prisoners who decide to stay behind, ask to join him too slowly for his tastes, or seem too nervous and desperate while asking to join him are all left behind and die when the shuttle is destroyed to cover his escape.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Pulls this on Vishby, who had been [[TheDragon right-hand man]] for the majority of ''Atlantis Complex'' but he had no problem with leaving Vishby behind in the escape pod full of criminals before the whole pod got crushed and the occupants liquefied by the satellite.
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[[folder:Lord Teddy]]
!!Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye
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* TheAgeless: How his immortality seems to work. It's implied he could have been trapped at the bottom of the sea for all eternity but a shark wanting to wear him is treated as a credible threat.
* AndIMustScream: He ends ''The Fowl Twins'' [[spoiler:trapped wrapped in cellphane underwater and could be trapped forever due to his immortality. The sequel says his brain had to be transferred into a clone body and he was]] awake during the procedure.
* BigBad: The main antagonist of ''The Fowl Twins''.
* BodyBackupDrive: The sequel says his brain was put into a clone body but he doesn't want to do this again due to the expense.
* CannotTellFictionFromReality: Has memory problems as a side effect of his brain transplant and asks if Australia and [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Narnia]] are real places.
* FlyingCar: Has pre-ordered one that the Myishi Corporation is working on.
* GoshDarnItToHeck: Says "My word, my blooming word" when Beckett breaks his shoulder. The narration says this is as close to swearing as he normally gets due to his breeding.
* GratuitousFrench: His first words to Lazuli are "Au contraire, mademoiselle".
* ImmortalitySeeker: Is trying to find troll blood so he can live forever.
* MeaningfulName: He plans to drain a troll of its blood.
* MuggedForDisguise: He knocks out and steals clothes from an [=ACRONYM=] guard.
* TheNeedless: His immortality seems to allow him to be trapped forever underwater without air or food.
* PunnyName: His name is a play on "bleed 'em dry".
* UncertainDoom: At the end of ''The Fowl Twins'', he's trapped underwater with a shark about to eat him and a Myishi Corporation worker on the way to rescue him.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: He's the Duke of Scilly and widely respected.
* WouldHurtAChild: He intends to kill the Fowl twins and looks forward to hearing them.
[[/folder]]
!!Opal Koboi and Associates
[[folder:Opal Koboi]]
!!Opal Koboi
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* AdaptationDyeJob: In the original books, she's described as having black hair and dark brown eyes. The graphic novels give her red hair and eyes.
* ArchEnemy:
** To Artemis Fowl. Not only is she by far the most recurrent villain in the series, but she is the one villain who serves as TheDreaded for Artemis. Even in one book where she's not even the villain, Artemis is hesitant on even relying on technology produced by her. The feeling is very mutual on Opal's side, and she grows to hate Artemis and has plotted to have him murdered several times.
** To Holly Short. ''Opal Deception'' reveals just how much Opal despises the elf, with a revenge scheme she plotted to hurt Holly in every way possible, having Julius Root murdered, framing Holly for said murder, and then repeatedly attempting to get Holly killed.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: most prominently when she attacks Cudgeon for treachery.]]
* BigBad: Effectively serves as this for the whole series, being part of a EvilDuo in the second book, and the BigBad in the fourth book, the sixth book (although her involvement is only revealed quite late in) and the eighth and final book.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Briar Cudgeon, in book two. [[spoiler: She ends up killing him for plotting to betray her.]]
* BreakoutVillain: Was first introduced as a secondary villain in the second book, where she was the EvilGenius to Briar Cudgeon. She eventually became the closest thing the series had to a BigBad.
* BroughtDownToNormal: [[spoiler:She implants a human pituitary gland into her brain in the fourth book. This ends up draining her magic reserves.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Shes the CEO and founder of Koboi Laboratories and wicked to the core.
* CuteIsEvil: Her Fairy subspecies, Pixies, are famous for being child-like, cute and adorable-looking. Doesn't prevent her from being easily one of the nastiest characters in the whole series.
* DaddysLittleVillain: Subverted hard. Well back when she was young, she admired her father and wanted to follow in his footsteps. After he tried to dissuade her from studying engineering (as he expected his daughter to follow the normal path in life for female pixies: basically, getting married to a suitable husband), she drove him insane, committed him to an asylum, and took over his company. Not necessarily in that order, either.
* DarkMessiah: [[spoiler:Expects to become this in Book eight; she envisions the more warlike elements of fairy society rallying around her and making her empress, after her plan to destroy humanity comes to fruition.]]
%%* DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:She is finally killed by Oro after he is released from her control and she still tries to order him to kill Nopal.]]
* EnfanteTerrible: When she's posing as a human in The Opal Deception.
* EvilCounterpart: Or perhaps Eviler Counterpart to Artemis Fowl. Both are the WorldsSmartestMan for their respective people and both were criminal geniuses that aspired to be greater and waged war on the Fairy People. However, while Artemis was raised in a criminal family and ended up learning humility which led to him pulling a HeelFaceTurn and becoming a better person, Opal was a BitchInSheepsClothing who posed as a righteous person and even wanted to be seen as a hero alongside Briar Cudgeon, but her defeat corrupted her and she ended up descending more into insanity with increasingly megalomaniacal schemes. In essence, Artemis's defeat turned him into a hero, while Opal's defeat made her even worse of a villain.
%%* EvilGloating
* EvilGenius: Her IQ is over 300 and it's implied that shes even smarter than even Artemis himself.
* EvilIsHammy: Not so much in Book Two, but Book Four shows signs, and by Book Six she is irretrievably a LargeHam.
* EvilIsPetty: The reason she hates Foaly so much? His invention won a prize over hers when they were in college.
* FurAndLoathing: She has the seats of her private shuttle lined with animal fur, symbolizing of her rejection of fairies in favour of [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans]].
* GeniusSweetTooth: One of her favourite foods is chocolate truffles.
* AGodAmI: Prone to delusions of godhood, especially when [[spoiler:Her magic gets supercharged in books six and eight]].
* HijackedByGanon: [[spoiler:In Book 6, it turns out she'd been using Damon for quite some time.]]
* InsufferableGenius: Just like Foaly she loves to show off how smarter she is than anyone she happens to be in the room with.
* ItsAllAboutMe: In book six, she's outraged about the fact that the LEP confiscated her source of a key ingredient of her SuperSerum just because they needed it to cure a disease that had already killed ''a quarter of the population of the entire fairy world''.
* KickTheDog: Not only did she [[spoiler: kill Root]], she tricked Holly into [[spoiler:speeding up his demise by shooting the bomb wrapped around his waist,]] claiming there was a weak spot.
* KillAllHumans: Her ultimate plan is to manipulate the ghosts of dead fairies into killing all of humanity.
* MadScientist: Shes the creator of various LEP's weaponry and transportation craft. She also later experiments on endangered animals to use their brain fluid to increase her powers.
* TheManBehindTheMan: While the B'wa Kell has not always worked for her, she and Cudgeon helped orchestrate its largest historical campaign against the LEP. [[spoiler:She is also this to the Extinctionists in book six.]]
%%* ManipulativeBastard
* {{Narcissist}}: Calling her egocentric is putting it mildly.
* NeverMyFault: She blames Foaly for her decision to implant a human pituitary gland in her skull. The logic involved is probably of the [[InsaneTrollLogic insane troll]] variety.
* OurPixiesAreDifferent: As a pixie, she looks like a young human children to the point that small surgical adjustments could allow her to pass as a human. Pixies in general are noted to be far shorter than other [[TheFairFolk Fairy races]] like elves and are also characterized as being exceptionally intelligent, with Opal being so smart she is a contender for the WorldsSmartestWoman of the Fairy Race.
* ProperlyParanoid: Sets up an elaborate deathtrap for Holly and Artemis in Book four, with a videofeed so she can watch their demises from her shuttle. When the videofeed shorts out moments before they get devoured by trolls, she decides to proceed with her plan as though they survived and are hunting her down. Given who she's dealing with, this is the right course of action.
* PsychopathicWomanchild: In the graphic novel of the second book, Opal is depicted as wearing what looks like a thick sweater and ''"footy pajamas"''.
* {{Revenge}}: Her prime motivation in all titles from ''The Opal Deception'' onwards, particularly against Artemis Fowl, Holly and Foaly.
* SanitySlippage: After waking up from her coma, her mental health declines significantly, due to having developed a mental disorder called Narcissus syndrome from spending so much time with only herself for company. [[spoiler:This malady is later [[SanityStrengthening cured]].]]
* SinisterSweetTooth: She's a treacherous, murderous would-be dictator with a love of chocolate.
* SmugSnake: Even though she's one of the most competent and dangerous bad guys in the series, she still slips into this, largely thanks to regularly bragging about her plans and accomplishments. In ''The Opal Deception'', she sets up an underwater TV monitor for no reason other than to taunt Artemis and Holly, which ends up simply providing motivation for both after they survive.
* TemptingFate: In the fourth book, she arrogantly proclaims that magic is of no use to her, and she will rely on science instead. When she needs to use her ''mesmer'' powers on a human at the end of the book, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard it backfires on her]].
* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Chocolate. Especially truffles.
* VillainousBreakdown: Experiences this in book 4 after Artemis tricks her into detonating the charges needed to complete her plan on her own shuttle, ensuring that her EvilPlan will fail and leaving enough evidence to show that she was behind everything.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Briar Cudgeon]]
!!Briar Cudgeon
* AmbitionIsEvil: His 'favourite daydream' of a Council seat leads him to one questionable act after another, leading to the following tropes.
* BigBadDuumvirate: With Opal Koboi in book two.
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Not only does he turn against the government and police in book two, he [[spoiler:has plans to betray the B'wa Kell and Opal]].
* CombatPragmatist: On his first arrival at the Fowl Manor, he wanted to blue rinsed the whole place immediately. Quick, clean, unexpected, and completely against the rules.
* DeathByIrony: Is killed when he is knocked into an open plasma pipe. The plasma is active, because he activated it himself; the narration even notes the irony (and that it probably did not have time to occur to him before he was fried).
* DrugsAreBad: When Root shoots him with a tranquilliser dart in Book 1, the drugs in the dart end up reacting badly with some illegal stimulants he was taking, ultimately leaving him with several deformities and "a complexion like melted tar".
* EngineeredPublicConfession: Foaly [[spoiler: sends a conversation of him admitting his plans to betray Opal to Artemis' mobile phone near the end of book two]].
* EvilerThanThou: Subverted. In book 2 he is presented as the more evil of the BigBadDuumvirate; he had the personal grudge, the greater screen time, and more malice than Opal. In the end he plots to betray the B'wa Kell goblins and Opal, and his betrayal makes him out to be worse than his more trusting companions. Post book 2 however, Opal becomes far worse than Briar could ever hope to be.
* EvilMakesYouUgly: He used to be relatively attractive. But when Root accidentally shot him [[ChekhovsGun with the dart finger Foaly gave him in case he needed it while meeting with Artemis]], the sedative reacted badly with some mind-enhancing chemicals he was experimenting with, and he ended up seriously disfigured.
* FallenHero: One of the few on a FirstNameBasis with Root because of their long friendship and the former's respect for his integrity and sense of duty. Then he lets his ambition get the best of him.
* FatalFlaw: Ambition. In book one, he lets his dreams of a council seat get the better of his morality and good judgment, and he ends up disgraced for it. [[spoiler:Then in book two, he ends up snatching defeat from the jaws of victory due to his inability to share power.]]
* HighVoltageDeath: [[spoiler:Gets fried when he's thrown into a reservoir of active plasma]].
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Opal kills him by ramming him into exposed plasma he himself had activated.]]
* LadyAndKnight: Has this Dynamic with Opal Koboi ''The Artic Incident''. Opal is the {{ojou}} who does her techo-wizardy from a safe distance and Cudgeon is the FallenHero in the thick of things. As he himself puts it: "I shall be the hero of the resistance and you shall be my princess."
* TheManBehindTheMan: The B'wa Kell Triad may officially be run by its generals, but in reality, Briar's the one calling the shots.
* TheManBehindTheMonsters: In this case, goblins. The B'wa Kell goblin triads were just a public nuisance until he organized and armed them.
* NeverMyFault: He blames Foaly, Root, and even Artemis for ruining his career, even though he torpedoed it himself when he decided to send a troll into Fowl Manor.
* SanitySlippage: Noticeably more unstable in Book 2, thanks to a sedative reacting badly with some illegal mind-enhancing chemicals he was using.
* SmugSnake: {{Pride}} outstreching his ability is the reason for his fall.
* VillainousBreakdown: While he's not exactly an outright villain yet, his appearance in Book One ends with him screaming angrily and trying to attack Foaly after his plans blow up in his face and it becomes clear Root and Foaly are going to give evidence against him.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He used to be Root's friends and they grew up together, but his actions during the first book end up alienating Root from him and in book 2, it's clear that their friendship is now dead.
* WhatTheHellHero: Julius calls him out on using a troll in the Fowl siege.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: 'wa Kell]]
!!The B'wa Kell
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* BigBadTriumvirate: They are led by a triumvirate of goblins consisting of Generals Scalene, Sputa and Phlebum.
* FalseFlagOperation: Cudgeon and Opal are using them as puppets, even staging attacks on Koboi's facilities to put her above suspicion.
* KillItWithFire: Their favourite method of dealing with things.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: For all their stupidity, they very nearly manage to beat the LEP in Book 2. Only Foaly regaining control of Police Plaza's defence systems manages to put down their rebellion.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: They are reptilian creatures who shed their skins and use them to make clothes. They have [[PlayingWithFire the ability to produce fire as well as near-complete immunity to it]]. And they are ''incredibly'' stupid.
* PlayingWithFire: It comes out their nostrils.
* StupidCrooks: The lot of them, from the lowliest grunts all the way up to the top leadership.
* StupidEvil: Colfer [[RunningGag will not let you forget that goblins are dumb]].
* TheSyndicate: Appear to fill this kind of role in the goblin criminal underworld.
* TooDumbToLive: A general, one of their best and brightest, was caught using a forged credit card because he used his real name.
* TookALevelInBadass: They go from a relatively minor nuisance to a very serious threat after Cudgeon and Opal ally with them, thanks to them being supplied with both illegal weaponry and a reliable source of energy for said weaponry.
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[[folder:Mervall and Descant]]
!!Mervall and Descant Brill
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* PunchClockVillain: They have no personal investment in Opal's plans-- they're just motivated by pay and fear.
* ShinyNewAustralia: In light of Opal's growing narcissism and madness, the only thing keeping them loyal, aside from fear of punishment, is the thought of sipping alcoholic beverages on the beaches of the Carribean after Opal's world conquest.
* VileVillainLaughableLackey: While Opal Koboi is probably the most dangerous villain throughout the series, as an AxCrazy psychopath who wants to TakeOverTheWorld, Mervall and Descant are a cowardly, often incompetent BumblingHenchmanDuo.
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!!Other Villains
[[folder:The Russian Mafia]]
!!The Russian Mafia
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:When Artemis Fowl II seemingly has his own father assassinated, they're genuinely shocked and horrified]].
* KarmaHoudini: Britva, the leader of the group.
%%* TheMafiya
* NoFullNameGiven: Britva and Kamar.
* OddlySmallOrganization: Their total presence in the books amounts to a mob boss and his two enforcer henchmen. Though there were a hundred guards mentioned at some point and it's heavily implied that the two henchmen are doing one small task out of a big organization.
* RuthlessForeignGangsters: Inverted as it was the Irish GentlemanThief who moved on their territories and they showed him he was not welcome by hitting the ship he was on with a stinger missile.
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[[folder:Jon Spiro]]
!!Jon Spiro
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* BadBoss: Apparently used to toss complaining employees out of high-rise windows before the laws became tighter. He resents having to give employees basic amenities like decent wages and insurance and those working for him are constantly in fear of having YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness and/or YouHaveFailedMe pulled on them.
* BigBad: Of Book Three, given he holds the MacGuffin that the heroes must acquire back from him.
%%* BaldOfEvil
* ColourMotifs: White. He wears white clothing, and just about everything in his personal quarters is white.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: Aside from Artemis himself being a VillainProtagonist in the first book, Spiro is the only main villain who is a human rather than a fairy.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: See BadBoss above. Even if his underworld connections and use of illegal means to undermine his competition didn't qualify him for this, his willingness to have a teenage boy murdered to get his hands on very advanced technology ''definitely'' does. Its also implied that Phonetix outstrips his company due to him cutting corners.
* CrazyPrepared: Holly describes his company's security system as being the most state of the art she has ever seen for a Mudman. It's telling that Foaly concludes they could not pull off infiltrating it without his help.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: His company's relationship with Phonetix seems very reminiscent of that between Microsoft and Apple.
* EvilerThanThou: He lampshades this toward Artemis, who was still using his criminal mastermind cred, he might not be the better mastermind but Spiro is way better at being a criminal since he doesn't mind dirtying his hands.
* EvilTowerOfOminousness: The Spiro Needle, a very tall and thin Chicago office building that serves as his company's headquarters.
* FauxAffablyEvil: He cracks a lot of jokes and makes bets with his employees, but he also has ties with the mob and won't hesitate to kill a kid.
* IdiotBall: Unfortunately grabs it pretty hard during the climax of the book. [[spoiler: For most of the story's he's careful and well-prepared, and Artemis is only able to match him by calling in help from his fairy allies with advanced technology and magical powers. He correctly guesses that Artemis' initial surrender is a ruse and is waiting inside when Artemis breaks into his vault. But when Artemis has been apparently "beaten for real" and unlocks the C-Cube, he's easily goaded into celebrating by driving over to the highly secure corporate headquarters of his rival tech giant in the middle of the night and personally breaking in to steal their research, confident that this is a great idea because the C-Cube can supposedly hack the electronic security systems and activate tanks of sleeping gas hidden in the vents as a security measure to disable the guards. Dumb because of the many ways such a plan could go wrong even if the C-Cube actually did those things, but more importantly, because he immediately trusts that the Cube is actually doing anything it claims to be doing once Artemis unlocks it.]]
* JustForPun: The name of his company, Fission Chips.
* LeanAndMean: Described as being "thin as a javelin".
* LightIsNotGood: He's heavily associated with the colour white, and is a CorruptCorporateExecutive ''par excellence''.
* ManOfWealthAndTaste: Spiro has a taste for expensive suits. Like just about everything else he owns, they're white.
%%* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed
* TheRichHaveWhiteStuff: Everything in his apartment is white, including a painting titled ''Snow Ghost'' that's just a solid white canvas.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: To TheMafia, no less.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Though this doesn't save him from [[spoiler:getting his just deserts after being caught breaking into Phonetix headquarters]].
* SmugSnake: He ''is'' fairly competent, and he did almost get Artemis killed at the beginning of Book 3, but he is just not as good as he think he is. In the end, [[spoiler:Artemis completely outdoes him.]]
* StraightEdgeEvil: Spiro never smokes (he does chew and suck on the end of a cigar, but never lights it), and hardly ever drinks non-decaf coffee. It's implied that this is because he's a health nut, and strictly follows his doctor's orders.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:After realising he has been the victim of an elaborate BatmanGambit and is destined for prison.]]
* VillainInAWhiteSuit: Wears all white suits, and is a ruthless CorruptCorporateExecutive with ties to the mob.
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[[folder:Arno Blunt]]
!!Arno Blunt
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* TheDragon: To Jon Spiro.
* FangsAreEvil: One of his sets of false teeth is pointed, like a shark's.
* {{Foil}}: To Butler. Both are bodyguards to highly-intelligent, criminal masterminds. However, Blunt is loud and calls attention to himself with his appearance, whereas Butler makes himself as inconspicuous as possible. He's also extremely pragmatic, does not hold to any code of honor in a fight, and he's relatively unprofessional (trying to hold pointless staring contests with Butler). He's also nowhere near as loyal to Jon Spiro, as Butler is to Artemis; the moment things go south for Spiro, he tries to high-tail it out of there.
* HeelFaceTurn: A forced one at that.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: After losing his teeth.
* TattooedCrook: Though not to the same extent as Loafers.
* TheToothHurts: He has all of his teeth blown out as a result of Artemis detonating a sonic grenade during their first meeting, and spends most of the rest of the book wearing dentures.
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[[folder: "Loafers" [=McGuire=]]]
!!Loafers [=McGuire=]
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* BondOneLiner: Keeps a notebook of quips to make after he kills people.
* EntertaininglyWrong: When he overhears Mulch refer to himself as a "fairy dwarf", he assumes it's the name of a gang (though he notes that it's far from an intimidating name). An understandable conclusion to make for somebody who doesn't know that literal fairies exist.
* {{Expy}}: He's pretty much an Irish version of [[Film/{{Goodfellas}} Tommy DeVito]] or [[Film/{{Casino}} Nicky Santoro]], being a short tough guy with a bad temper and involvement in organized crime.
%%* FishOutOfWater
* GoingNative: [[spoiler:After his memory was altered, he changed his name to "Nuru" and went to live among an East African tribe]].
* HairTriggerTemper: Which Mulch gladly exploits.
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:He ends up mind wiped and sent to live among African villagers.]]
* IdentityAmnesia: [[spoiler:After Juliet knocks him out, he gets his memory altered and forgets who he actually is]].
* KillTally: Loafers gets a new tattoo every time he completes a hit. Hardly any of his skin retains its original colour by the time of the third book.
* TheNapoleon: Well below average height for a human man, and known for his bad temper.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Despite being only five feet tall, he's one of the Chicago Outfit's best hitmen. And he doesn't need his weapons to be scary, either; he once defeated seven larger mobsters in a brawl.
* SarcasmBlind: Mulch's sarcasm makes a slight whistling noise as it sails clean over his head
* TattooedCrook: He gets a new tattoo after every successful job. By the time he gets hired to go after Artemis, he hardly has any skin retaining its original colour left.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Pex and Chips]]
!!Pex and Chips
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* BumblingHenchmanDuo: While Pex seems ''marginally'' smarter and more competent than Chips, neither of them show much in the way of intelligence and Mulch easily tricks them into letting him escape with some BriarPatching. [[spoiler:Spiro's downfall happens at least partly because they end up being ''mesmerized'' by Holly after losing a fight to a teenage girl.]]
* DumbMuscle: They were hired purely for their strength (Pex is said to be able to crack open a walnut with his bare hands) and neither has much in the way of brains.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Really, they're so dimwitted and childish you can't help but feel sorry for them.
* {{Manchild}}: They're fans of [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney the Dinosaur]]. That tells you all you need to know about their maturity.
* NeverLearnedToRead: If some of Spiro's thoughts are any indication, they're both illiterate.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Pex" for his impressive pectorals, and "Chips" because he's often eating chips.
* TooDumbToLive: They make the goblins look like paragons of intellectual prowess.
* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Chips' is... well, chips.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ark Sool]]
!!Ark Sool
The replacement for the late Commander Julius Root after his assassination. Ark Sool is an immoral BadBoss who is eager to push Holly as a criminal and have her arrested or killed for her crimes.
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* BadBoss: Is extremely abrasive and refuses to so much as consider the possibility of Holly being innocent.
%%* BeardOfEvil
* CorruptBureaucrat: [[spoiler:He tries to let the demons be wiped out.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: Played with. He was never a saint to begin with, being an immoral CorruptBureaucrat and BadBoss. However, after being fired from LEP, he officially switches over to the baddie's side by joining Turnball's gang.
* GeneralRipper: In Book 4, he is absolutely obsessed with placing the blame on Holly, constantly refusing any further investigations or research that could help prove her innocence.
* HateSink: He was already this even when he was supposedly a HeroAntagonist, being nothing but contemptible and trying to tarnish Holly's reputation and brand her as a criminal. Trying to [[spoiler:let the entire Demon race die off]] only cements him as this. And then as icing on the cake, he decides to join the villain's side altogether and allies with Turnball's gang.
* ItsAllAboutMe: He only cares about his own career, and nothing else.
* {{Jerkass}}: Sool is an incredibly unlikable individual, as cemented by [[spoiler:his willingness to ''let the whole Eighth Family die off''.]]
* KickTheDog: On too many occasions to count, but one of the biggest he had was when he [[spoiler:tried to let the whole demon people die. This ends up costing him his career]].
* LeanAndMean: He's a good deal skinnier than most gnomes.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Holly mentally refers to him as "the king of red tape" at one point.
* OutOfFocus: Him joining Turnball in Book 7 is merely a footnote in the story. Rather than dwell on his enmity with Holly and the rest of the LEP, Sool's just sorta there hanging out with Turnball's other {{mooks}}.
* SmugSnake: Just about everything he does ''screams'' unwarranted self-importance.
* TyrantTakesTheHelm: [[spoiler:He takes over the LEP after Julius' death. Holly immediatly quits.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Leon Abbot]]
!!Leon Abbot
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* BigBad: Of Book Five.
* ControlFreak: He demands complete loyalty from the other demons, to the point of choosing names for them during their adulthood ceremonies, and inflicts humiliation and punishment on those who dissent or challenge his authority.
* CreateYourOwnHero: [[spoiler:Attempting to sent Number 1 to his death started a chain of events that led to his downfall, which Number 1 played a key part in.]]
* DemonicPossession: [[spoiler:By Qwan's apprentice Qweffor, in an exceedingly rare heroic example.]]
* DoNotCallMePaul: He chose the name Leon Abbot, after a character in a human romance novel. [[spoiler:His real name in N'Zall, which translates into demon language as 'Little Horn'.]]
* EvilOverlord: Rules over the demons during their exile on Hybras.
* FakeUltimateHero: Talks himself up as a brave hero who fought a multitude of humans and stole treasured possessions from them. [[spoiler:In reality, he was merely given the possessions by Minerva.]]
* FusionDance: [[spoiler:It's revealed he has magic abilities stemming from his body merging with that of Qwan's apprentice Qweffor in a ritual gone wrong.]]
* HumiliationConga: [[spoiler:He ends up having his body taken over by Qweffor, then his consciousness gets transferred into the body of a guinea pig.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: He detests magic, and magic-using warlock demons, but is not above using it to [[CompellingVoice mesmerise]] other demons into obeying him, or heal himself to get rid of humiliating injuries.
* {{Irony}}: In more than one way: [[spoiler:He mesmerized Number 1 into leaving because he feared the young warlock might become a threat. This ended up leading exactly to the chain of events that caused his demise.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: [[spoiler:In the end, he cares for nothing but his own personal power.]]
* LargeAndInCharge: A large and physically imposing demon, and self-appointed ruler of Hybras.
* MagicKnight: He has the strength and stature of a demon warrior, and a pool of magic power which he stole while sabotaging a warlock ritual.
* {{Narcissist}}: Rivals Opal in this department. There are few depths he won't sink to for the sake of satisfying his sense of self-importance.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Another in-universe example: He possesses [[MagicKnight magic abilities]] [[spoiler:through a FusionDance he had with a warlock named Qweffor]].
* SealedEvilInATeddyBear: [[spoiler:His mind ends up being transferred into the body of a guinea pig against his will.]]
* SmugSnake: While he's more clever and intelligent than he might seem at first glance, he's still not as smart as he thinks he is.
* StrawHypocrite: [[spoiler:Yeah, he talks a big game about going on the warpath against humans when the time comes, but it's all for show; he knows full well that trying to take on humanity would [[CurbStompBattle end very poorly]]. His militant rhetoric is just a tool he uses to stay in power.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Billy Kong]]
!!Billy Kong aka Jonah Lee
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* AnimeHair: Invoked by his spiky, multicoloured hair, which the narration refers to as "manga hair".
%%* AxCrazy
* BewareTheSillyOnes: Holly comments he looks more like a member of a boy band than a hardened criminal who killed his partner with a kitchen knife. He is extremely dangerous and even Butler commented that it's gonna be a problem if he is part of the antagonists.
* TheDragon: To Minerva.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: He actually has his own reasons to work for Minerva; [[spoiler:he plans to kill all demons by sending a powerful bomb into their dimension. He ends up betraying Minerva and holding Nº1 hostage because of it]].
* TheDreaded: When Artemis asks Butler about him Butler takes a long breath before saying he should be avoided, he also keeps to himself how dark Billy's reputation is in the Underworld as someone that will get any job done no matter how dirty.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The reason he tries to wipe out the demons is because he thinks they killed his older brother and wants to avenge him.
* FreudianExcuse: His older brother Eric made up stories about him fighting shapeshifting demons to cover up his nightly gang escapades. When Eric was murdered in a gang war, Billy (still known as Jonah at the time) refused to accept the police's explanation and was driven to kill the demons that supposedly took his brother's life.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Subverted. It seems like he'll only be punished for property damage, leaving his more serious crimes unaccounted for... but then Butler reveals to the Taiwanese police that he has an active arrest warrant for murder under his birth name, Jonah Lee.]]
* OvershadowedByAwesome: [[spoiler:While he's very dangerous in combat, he's still no match for Butler.]]
* PsychoForHire: Though he does have an agenda beyond just killing people, that's not to say he doesn't enjoy it.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:He ends up taking over Minerva's operation.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Damon Kronski]]
!!Damon Kronski
* ChekhovsGunman: A hotel bears his name in book four.
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:To Opal Koboi, though he doesn't realize it]].
* EgomaniacHunter: He leads the Extinctionists, a club for people who want to push as many endangered species as possible into extinction.
* EvilIsHammy: Thanks to seeing his preacher father in action, he is really good at making grandiose speeches. Shame they're about exterminating other species.
* EvilPoacher: He drives animals to extinction.
* ExploitedImmunity: He organises a meeting with Artemis in a leather souk, hoping that the smell of leather-tanning chemicals will unnerve Artemis. Since he doesn't have a sense of smell, the chemicals don't faze him at all.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Though he puts on a charming air, it's glaringly obvious that he's an asswipe.
* FirstTimeFeeling: [[spoiler:During a fight with Holly, he ends up getting his sense of smell restored by her healing magic. Unfortunately for him, he happens to be in a particularly foul-smelling souk at the time, so he falls to the ground, writhing in agony.]]
* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler:His hatred of animals stems from an incident in his childhood, when he was mauled by a koala.]]
* HijackedByGanon: [[spoiler:Or more accurately, by Opal.]]
* KnightTemplar: The narration implies that unlike most of his friends he actually believes the crap about exterminating a species since humans are at the centre and should only keep the animals that help them.
* PreachersKid: Those revival tent sermons led him to develop his fearsome oratory prowess.
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:When Artemis makes it look like he's passing off a human teenager as a fairy and trying to have her killed under false pretenses, thus turning his own club against him, he drops his composure. He's driven even further over the edge when Holly restores his sense of smell at the worst possible time. Since it's implied his mental health was already shaky due to him being repeatedly mesmerized by Opal, it seems likely he went completely insane.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Turnball Root]]
!!Turnball Root
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* AffablyEvil: Walks the line between this and FauxAffablyEvil. He is very polite and respectful to allies and enemies alike. While he does do a lot of horrible things, he sees it more as NecessarilyEvil to reach a means to an end and never takes any sadistic pleasure in what he does.
* AntiVillain: Somewhat. His motivations in ''The Atlantis Complex'' are sympathetic, but it's made clear that he has been anything but an AntiVillain throughout his career. Artemis states at the end that he finds it hard to really see Turnball as a villain.
* BadBoss: Played with. Usually he is a FatherToHisMen with his henchman being very loyal to him and Turnball treating them with respect. However, on occasion he won't have a problem with leaving one behind to to die if they have [[YouHaveOutLivedYourUsefulness outlived their usefulness]] as was the case with Vishby.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: In "[=LEPrecon=]" (in ''The Artemis Fowl Files''), he swallows a lethal spider rather than let his brother take him back to prison. Julius manages to save him, though.
* BigBad: Of both the prequel story "[=LEPrecon=]" and ''The Atlantis Complex''.
* CainAndAbel: With his brother Julius.
* TheChessmaster: Probably the biggest one in the series save for Artemis himself. He masterminds the entire events of ''the Atlantis Complex'', from hacking the space shuttle and making it turn rogue, turning the entire wrestling ring crowd against the Butlers, orchestrating his prison escape with the help of a BrainwashedAndCrazy prison guard, and has a NearVillainVictory in his ultimate goal in securing Nº1 to heal his human wife.
* DirtyCop: He tried to flood a section of Haven in an attempt to wipe out a competitor who was muscling in on his illegal mining operation.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: For all his villainy, he genuinely cares for his wife.
* EvilGenius: In addition to being TheChessmaster, Turnball is described as being the number one expert on runes in the world. He's able to use a combination of a Thrall Rune and one magic spark from rice wine to take control of his subjects.
* InterspeciesRomance: He fell in love with a human woman who he ended up marrying. His motivation for ''The Atlantis Complex'' was to keep her alive.
* TheyCallMeMisterTibbs: Insists on being addressed as captain despite obviously no longer holding that rank in the LEP.
* ThrownFromTheZeppelin: In ''The Atlantis Complex'', Turnball asks a shuttle full of prisoners (including many members of his old gang) for volunteers to join him in his next venture and depart the shuttle under dangerous circumstances. The first three people who choose to follow him survive. The prisoners who decide to stay behind, ask to join him too slowly for his tastes, or seem too nervous and desperate while asking to join him are all left behind and die when the shuttle is destroyed to cover his escape.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Pulls this on Vishby, who had been [[TheDragon right-hand man]] for the majority of ''Atlantis Complex'' but he had no problem with leaving Vishby behind in the escape pod full of criminals before the whole pod got crushed and the occupants liquefied by the satellite.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Lord Teddy]]
!!Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye
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* TheAgeless: How his immortality seems to work. It's implied he could have been trapped at the bottom of the sea for all eternity but a shark wanting to wear him is treated as a credible threat.
* AndIMustScream: He ends ''The Fowl Twins'' [[spoiler:trapped wrapped in cellphane underwater and could be trapped forever due to his immortality. The sequel says his brain had to be transferred into a clone body and he was]] awake during the procedure.
* BigBad: The main antagonist of ''The Fowl Twins''.
* BodyBackupDrive: The sequel says his brain was put into a clone body but he doesn't want to do this again due to the expense.
* CannotTellFictionFromReality: Has memory problems as a side effect of his brain transplant and asks if Australia and [[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Narnia]] are real places.
* FlyingCar: Has pre-ordered one that the Myishi Corporation is working on.
* GoshDarnItToHeck: Says "My word, my blooming word" when Beckett breaks his shoulder. The narration says this is as close to swearing as he normally gets due to his breeding.
* GratuitousFrench: His first words to Lazuli are "Au contraire, mademoiselle".
* ImmortalitySeeker: Is trying to find troll blood so he can live forever.
* MeaningfulName: He plans to drain a troll of its blood.
* MuggedForDisguise: He knocks out and steals clothes from an [=ACRONYM=] guard.
* TheNeedless: His immortality seems to allow him to be trapped forever underwater without air or food.
* PunnyName: His name is a play on "bleed 'em dry".
* UncertainDoom: At the end of ''The Fowl Twins'', he's trapped underwater with a shark about to eat him and a Myishi Corporation worker on the way to rescue him.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: He's the Duke of Scilly and widely respected.
* WouldHurtAChild: He intends to kill the Fowl twins and looks forward to hearing them.
[[/folder]]
