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* [[Characters/ArtemisFowlProtagonists Protagonists]][[note]]Artemis Fowl II, Butler, Juliet, Artemis Fowl Sr., Angeline Fowl, The Fowl Twins, Holly Short, Commander Root, Foaly, Captain Kelp, Grub Kelp, Wing Commander Vinyáya, Mulch Diggums, Doodah Day, Minerva Paradizo, Nº1, Qwan, Caballine.[[/note]]
* [[Characters/ArtemisFowlAntagonists Antagonists]][[note]]Opal Koboi, Briar Cudgeon, the B'wa Kell, Mervall and Descant, the Russian Mafia, Jon Spiro, Arno Blunt, "Loafers" [=McGuire=], Pex and Chips, Ark Sool, Leon Abbot, Billy Kong, Damon Kronski, Turnball Root, Lord Teddy Bleedham-Drye.[[/note]]

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!!Other Characters
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!!Madame Ko

* TheChessmaster: One rumour Juliet hears is she caused a ''stampede'' to distract a trainee. With elephants no less.
* TheMentor: To the Butlers, unwillingly.
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* NeverMessWithGranny: She's implied to still be a capable fighter in her old age.
* OldMaster: A rare female version thereof.

!!Jerbal Argon

* ChekhovsGunman: Almost literally, as it's less the character himself than his psychological skills that end up important in book four, as they help house Opal Koboi.
* PunnyName: J. Argon.
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!!The Eight Fairy Families
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In the Artemis Fowl Universe, Fairies are divided in seven (eventually revealed to be eight) families:
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* ActuallyNotAVampire: With the Sprite that Artemis first encounters being contained indoors, centuries old, with mystical powers, and most importantly can be poisoned by ''HolyWater'', you'd be forgiven for thinking she's a vampire. It turns out Eoin Colfer added other vampire traits to the fairies such as the hypnotic ''[[CompellingVoice mesmer]]'' and the fact they MustBeInvited into a human dwelling (because they'll experience severe nausea otherwise and will lose their magic if they enter uninvited too much).
* TheFairFolk: The Fairy People who are divided into eight families.
* MustBeInvited: If a fairy with magic enters a human dwelling without permission, they'll experience severe nausea; if they do it too much, they'll lose their magic entirely, which is why Mulch doesn't have his.
* UndergroundCity: The majority of their civilizations are underground, with the most notable being Haven City.

!!Elves
* JackOfAllStats: They aren't the most powerful at magic, that would be the demons. They aren't the physically strongest, that would probably be goblins. They aren't the best at infiltration, that would be dwarves. They aren't the most intelligent, that would be pixies or centaurs. They aren't the best flyers, that would be sprites. But while elves don't seem to overachieve in any particular area, they are the most balanced and all-rounder of the fairy races.
* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: Going by one passing comment in the first book, they can have children with gremlins. They can also interbreed with pixies to make "pixels".
* OurElvesAreDifferent: They are closer to the traditional short elves that are closer to fairies, rather than the tall Tolkien elves. But otherwise they still have a lot of stereotypical traits frequently seen in modern portrayals.
* PointyEars: They've all got pointed ears.

!!Dwarves
* BizarreAlienBiology: They unhinge their jaws to eat through the earth, they have PrehensileHair, their pores suck in water, and they have SuperSpit which is a fast-hardening, faintly luminous, anesthetic.
* ImprovisedLockpick: As demonstrated by Mulch, a strand of dwarven beard hair makes an excellent lockpick, as inserting it into a lock causes it to mold itself into a shape matching the tumblers, and plucking it causes it to instantly harden.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: A new dwarf talent seems to get revealed each book, usually through Mulch.
* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: ''No they are not'', being one of the most drastically different depictions of dwarves in fiction. They are a whole species of {{Tunnel King}}s with an incredibly large number of unusual abilities allowing them to adapt to many situations. They're about as close as you can get to being an earthworm while remaining a nominal hominid.
* SuperSpit: Their spit hardens in contact with air so it becomes like rock. The spit is also luminous and has sedative properties.
* TunnelKing: By unhinging their jaws, they can tunnel by eating dirt, crapping it out behind them as they go.
* WallCrawl: One quirk of dwarven physiology is that if they go without water for long enough, their pores will start sucking up moisture. Some take advantage of this by making themselves really thirsty and then using their pores as suction cups to climb walls.

!!Gnomes
* HufflepuffHouse: They are rarely discussed.
* OurGnomesAreWeirder: The only details given about them is that they have comically large behinds and are very fond of tacky jewelry.

!!Pixies
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: An Atlantean subspecies with blue skin exists.
* CuteIsEvil: Pixies are described as being very cute compared to other fairy subspecies, with their large heads and child-like facial features. The major pixie characters we get in the series range from the AxeCrazy Opal to her PunchClockVillain minions. Even the one named pixie character who isn't an outright villain started out as a smuggler before abandoning crime and becoming a private eye.
* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: Can breed with elves to make ''pixels''.

!!Goblins
* BizarreAlienBiology: ''The Fowl Twins'' specifies that their fire-breathing isn't magic and is allowed by various biological quirks including a fireproof throat.
* GenuineHumanHide: A harmless version. Since they shed, they have the habit of using their own old shedded skins to make clothes. Other fairies still find this habit pretty disgusting.
* OurGoblinsAreDifferent: Short, squat, green-skinned, large-eared, sometimes profoundly stupid and -- in a break from typical goblins -- able to spit fireballs.
* PlayingWithFire: They're able to conjure fireballs in their hands, inhale them and breathe them out as jets of fire. They themselves are almost entirely fireproof.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Goblins are described as descending from reptiles, and all those we get to see in the books are at best thugs.
* RunningOnAllFours: They're normally bipedal, but revert to all fours for speed.
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* TattooedCrook: Some goblin criminals have been known to get tattoos on their ''eyeballs''.
* TooDumbToLive: While their stupidity tends to be rather exaggerated in-universe, there have been several incidents where it directly led to the demise, or nearly so, of goblin characters, mostly criminals -- one, for instance, was incinerated by a magma flare because he flew into a magma vent without bothering to think of grabbing more safety gear than a thermal suit, while a gang of goblins nearly killed themselves by deciding to break out of a prison vehicle by turning it to slag...which would have killed them even through their normal heat resistance.

!!Centaurs
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: For starters, they are super-smart.
* ProperlyParanoid: They are well-known to be a bit paranoid, but considering their species was nearly driven into extinction by humans, who already exterminated their unicorn cousins...
* TheSmartGuy: They apparently are the most intelligent tribe.

!!Sprites
* BizarreAlienBiology: Not as ridiculously as dwarves, but water sprites have gills, and they are mentioned to have a lot of blood vessels in their wings, so a sufficiently grave injury in them can be lethal if not treated quickly.
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* SmugSuper: Apparently, they take great pride in having wings.
* SuperNotDrowningSkills: Water sprites have gills and as such can breath underwater.
* WingedHumanoid: The only known subspecies of Fairies to have retained their wings.

!!Demons
* AlienFairFolk: Demons are descended from single-celled organisms that evolved on the moon, and that arrived on Earth when a chunk of the moon broke off and crashed into the ocean in the Triassic period.
* CursedWithAwesome: Warlocks never get to turn into adult demons and stay imps all their lives, but on the bright side they are the only demons to develop magic powers.
* HornedHumanoid: Zig-zagged. They don't actually have horns, despite what the covers portray them as, but have keratinized ears that develop a number of prominent points as they age and eventually became very visually hornlike.
* {{Lunacy}}: They have an exceptionally strong connection to the moon and -- by association -- silver. Nº1 speculates at one point that it was believed demons were capable of levitating when under a full moon.
* {{Metamorphosis}}: One of their major characteristic is that they don't grow up gradually. Instead, they stay imps, then at some point in their life suddenly turn into cocoons, from which they later emerge as full-grown demons. Imps who never grow up will instead develop magic abilities and become warlocks.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent:
** They are creatures evolved from micro-organisms that came from the Moon, and it only gets weirder from there.
** They are more binary when it comes to magic. Most demons have no magic at all and have to rely on their tough hide and teeth, whereas the few demon warlocks are much more powerful than the magicians of the other races.
* OurImpsAreDifferent: Imps are infant demons; when they're ready for adulthood they undergo a metamorphosis that grants them tremendous strength and physical prowess. Although most can't use magic, a rare few imps that do not metamorphose are known as warlocks and have the potential to become the greatest mages of all fairykind.
* ProudWarriorRace: Justified. They are more barbaric than the other tribes because they were forced to live outside of time under the influence of a megalomaniac. [[spoiler:They start changing their ways after being reunited with the other Fairy families]].

!!Gremlins
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: They are never mentioned after the first book, but appear in the first three graphic novels.
* LittleGreenMen: They are slightly more than half as tall as the average elf, with green skin, bug-like eyes and green or orange manes. Unlike most examples, they come from underground rather than outer space.
* TheMedic: The ones we see mainly work as [=LEP=] medical warlocks.
* NonHumanHumanoidHybrid: Going by one passing comment in the first book, they can have children with elves.
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