! Books
* A chapter in ''The Arctic Incident'' called ''Mulch Ado About Nothing'' is named after the Creator/WilliamShakespeare play, ''Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing''.
* Book Six, and Artemis is playing the defense. Cue [[Franchise/AceAttorney "'But this creature is magical', objected Artemis, banging the podium with his fist"]]
** There's also Artemis' little brother Myles who seems overly fond of his father's cravat...
* Again in Book Six, Mulch talking to [[spoiler:Opal Koboi]]. "[[Film/TheDarkKnight I bet you would set the world on fire just to see it burn.]]" What's really weird is that this shows up in the U.S. copy of the book, which was released over a week before the premier of Film/TheDarkKnight. Considering how long the editing and publication process takes, this is most likely not a shoutout, just a coincidence.
* In Opal Deception, mind-wiped Artemis wakes up and sees Holly (whom he no longer recognizes) sitting next to the bed crying.
-->Artemis: [[Franchise/PeterPan Why are you crying, girl?]]
* Lampshaded in Book seven:
--> Artemis: "The lives of many are more important than the lives of the few."
--> Mulch: "I saw that on Franchise/StarTrek."
* In Book Seven, Mulch mentions a "[[Series/Chef1993 program about an angry, foul-mouthed chef and his staff that he enjoys watching,]]"
* Juliet using [[Series/WalkerTexasRanger a roundhouse kick]] to take out [[Creator/ChuckNorris a bearded cowboy]].
* A chapter named Murder Most Fowl from the Time Paradox is also the title of a book. There's also two references to ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' in the same book. 'all real, just like Lord of the Rings' and 'like one of Tolkien's creatures'.
* Artemis also uses the alias Stefan Bashkir, the same name as Stefan from one of Creator/EoinColfer's other books, ''Literature/TheSupernaturalist''.
* Chapter sampling from the second book: [[Film/FromRussiaWithLove To Russia With Gloves]], [[Theatre/MuchAdoAboutNothing Mulch Ado About Nothing]].
* Three of Commander Root's cousins were in the movie of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
* Af books have several references to great criminal of older date [[Literature/TheStainlessSteelRat Jim DiGriz]] most obvious are
** book 5 - where Artemis returned from time travel several years later than he came and find his mother Angeline has twins
** book 2 - When Artemis use his blood to fake shooting his father.
* Foaly tells his nephew Mayne in the last book, "Listen, nephew, if you want to strap a horn to your forehead and go to conventions on the weekends, that's completely fine" and references a miniseries about unicorns that Mayne is rather obsessed with. Seems the Lower Elements have their own version of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
** That, or ''Franchise/StarTrek'', since Mayne also speaks "Unicornian", an In-Universe fictional language (compare this to fans of ''Star Trek'' speaking Klingon).
* In the final book, Foaly pokes fun about the fear of the number four Artemis had while suffering from his Atlantis Complex by telling him "[[Franchise/StarWars May the fours be with you.]]"
* Two companies crossed over between the Artemis Fowl series and ''The Supernaturalist''
** Phonetix: originally mentioned in ''Eternity Code'' as the main competitor to Jon Spiro's Fission Chips
** Krom Automobiles: originally mentioned in ''The Supernaturalist'' makes an appearance in ''Last Guardian'' as a fairy company that bought the former Koboi Labs building.
* When Mulch breaks into the actress's apartment in the ''Arctic Incident'' graphic novel it's done in a similar style to Rorschach entering The Comedian's apartment at the start of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', including a billboard advertising a candy called ''Mmeltdowns''.

!Film
* Mulch Diggums tells the [=MI6=] interrogator "[[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve Clap your hands if you believe]] in fairies" just before he is broken out. In the play of ''Franchise/PeterPan'', the audience is told exactly this by Peter Pan in order to save Tinkerbell.