History Awesome / ArtemisFowl

Artemis's and Root's first "meeting" on the booby trapped whaling vessel, Root is smug until He sees the LCD countdown and Semtex.....

Artemis escaping the bio bomb one of the greatest of his BatmanGambits.

Artemis's and Root's first "meeting" on the booby trapped whaling vessel, Root is smug until He sees the countdown.

The Showdown with Opal Kobi on the giant steps, starting with a horse chase, turning into a Ariel chase and finally an epic standoff where Artemis instigates another Batman gambit which incapacitated her under exploding boulders.

*** Holly's encounter with the troll in Italy that's used as a bad example is in the same one as this moment. Butler's confrontation with the same troll is far too BadAss for the fairies to receive it negatively. Holly's is used [[WhatTheHellHero by her instructor in a class she takes]]. Butler's is in the hand-to-hand combat instruction class.

* When Artemis [[spoiler: figures out, in his head, the pattern in which ''a dimension is fading from time and space'' and uses it to save Holly's life, in the past, ''from the future''.]] I know, that scene is kinda tough to explain.

* The whole book is one CMOA after another"

* In book one, Butler wanders unarmed into the middle of a heavily armed and ''invisible'' group of LEP commandos, and proceeds to wipe the floor with them.

** In book 2, Butler takes on about 200 heavily-armed goblins, with nothing but a SIG pistol and his fists. He gets through about 50 of them, before the rest flee in terror from the terrifying god-mountain. As the book puts it "There were only two people on Earth more well-versed in the martial arts than Butler. One was related to him. The other spent his days alone on a small Pacific island, meditating and beating up palm trees. You really had to feel sorry for those goblins".

* The climax of The Arctic Incident is a brilliant CMOA for Foaly. Basically, he uses his tech genius and some secret footage of his conversation with one of the villains to turn the joint {{Big Bad}}s' army against them, and then the Big Bads against ''each other''. All from ''inside a locked cell''. It's probably the only adventure in which Artemis relies entirely on someone else's plan to save the day.

* How about Juliet in The Eternity Code? She manages to [[BavarianFireDrill infiltrate a SWAT Unit and convince them she's a rookie]]? All after she convinced a desk clerk at the building the rest of the crew were infiltrating that she was a little girl asking if her "invisible friend" could come along (so that Holly could enter the building - Fairies have to have permission to enter a human dwelling in order to enter it without becoming sick)? [[CuteBruiser Cute, powerful]], AND versatile.
* In book 3, Butler throws himself in front of a bullet meant for Artemis, and then (even though the bullet ''went through his heart'') he manages to remain conscious long enough to shoot the would be assassin ''in the head''. When this fails to kill him, Butler later returns (his heart got better) and manages to convince the hitman that he is a spectre sent from hell to claim him, which leaves the hitman a gibbering wreck, promising to confess to every crime he's ever committed.

* The ending of ''Literature/ArtemisFowl 3''.

* In The Opal Deception Holly pilots a shuttle[[spoiler: without the engine to hide their heat signiture from heat seeking missles.]] Yes, being an ace pilot is a necessary plot skill.

* ''The Lost Colony'', when Artemis [[spoiler: figures out, in his head, the pattern in which ''a dimension is fading from time and space'' and uses it to save Holly's life, in the past, ''from the future''.]] I know, that scene is kinda tough to explain.

* The whole "The Lost Colony" is one CMOA after another"

* The book itself got one [[spoiler:when ten-year-old Artemis wakes up after the events of ''The Time Paradox'' saying "Fairies. Something about fairies."]]

* In ''The Atlantis Complex'' when [[spoiler: Artemis knows that once Turnball gives him an order he will be unable to disobey, so he goads Ragby into shocking him, knowing this will trigger the complex and bring the Orion personality - which is not under Turnball's control - to the fore. He finds a way to use a serious mental illness to defeat the {{Big Bad}}.]] Only Artemis Fowl.

* In book one, Butler wanders unarmed into the middle of a heavily armed and ''invisible'' group of LEP commandos, and proceeds to wipe the floor with them. Shortly after, he trumps that by taking on a troll (which in the ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' series, are 10 foot tall, 900 pound, crazed engines of death, with retractable claws, and poison tusks) and beats it to a quivering pulp, ''using a mace, and his BARE HANDS''. Even the human-hating fairies acknowledge it as awesome (it basically turns Butler into a legend, with the footage of the battle used in LEP training videos), and one of them has to be assured that it wasn't a hallucination brought on by delirium from severe wounds.
*** [[strike:LEP training videos dealing with how ''not'' to deal with trolls, no less.]] Actually, it's Holly's encounter with the troll in Italy that's used as a bad example. Butler's confrontation with the same troll is far too BadAss for the fairies to receive it negatively.
**** Holly's is used, by her instructor in a class she takes. Butler's is in the hand-to-hand combat instruction class.
*** Made even more awesome in the graphic novel version where, once Butler's done beating the troll to a bloody pulp, he proceeds to ''forcibly chuck the broken 900 pound killing machine out the front door'', while nonchalantly stating: "And don't come back."
*** He does this in the book as well.
* Butler [[spoiler:taking a troll on bare-handed]] in book one.
** He didn't take it on "bare-handed" at all. He took it on'' [[spoiler: wearing ancient knight armour and carrying a morningstar.]]'' Which is [[UpToEleven even better.]]

-->'''Holly''' You gave fairy technology to a man like Jon Spiro?
'''Artemis''' I quite obviously didn't give it to him. He took it.
'''Holly''' Don't play the victim, Artemis. It doesn't suit you. What did you think? That Jon Spiro was going to walk away from technology that would've made him the richest man on the face of the planet?

'''Book One'''

'''Book Two'''

'''Book Three'''
* "About my name - Artemis - you were right. In London, it is generally a female name, after the Greek goddess of archery. But every now and then a male comes along with such a talent for hunting that he earns the right to use the name. I am that male. Artemis the hunter. I hunted you."]]

'''Book Four'''
* The Opal Deception.

'''Book Five'''

'''Book Six'''

'''Book Seven'''

'''Book Eight'''

* The book itself got one [[spoiler:when ten-year-old Artemis wakes up after the events of ''The Time Paradox'' saying "Fairies. Something about fairies."]]
** I was wondering what Artemis was doing looking for The Booke in the first place.

* The whole "The Lost Colony" is one CMOA after another
** One personal favorite: Butler holding a trained killer with deadly martial arts to the wall, then throwing him across the room for Holly to shoot in mid-flight.
-->'''Holly''': "Pull."

* [[BadAss Butler]] gets ''at least'' one per book. Off the top of my head:
** In book one, he wanders unarmed into the middle of a heavily armed and ''invisible'' group of LEP commandos, and proceeds to wipe the floor with them. Shortly after, he trumps that by taking on a troll (which in the ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' series, are 10 foot tall, 900 pound, crazed engines of death, with retractable claws, and poison tusks) and beats it to a quivering pulp, ''using a mace, and his BARE HANDS''. Even the human-hating fairies acknowledge it as awesome (it basically turns Butler into a legend, with the footage of the battle used in LEP training videos), and one of them has to be assured that it wasn't a hallucination brought on by delirium from severe wounds.
*** [[strike:LEP training videos dealing with how ''not'' to deal with trolls, no less.]] Actually, it's Holly's encounter with the troll in Italy that's used as a bad example. Butler's confrontation with the same troll is far too BadAss for the fairies to receive it negatively.
**** Holly's is used, by her instructor in a class she takes. Butler's is in the hand-to-hand combat instruction class.
*** Made even more awesome in the graphic novel version where, once Butler's done beating the troll to a bloody pulp, he proceeds to ''forcibly chuck the broken 900 pound killing machine out the front door'', while nonchalantly stating: "And don't come back."
*** He does this in the book as well.
** In book 2, he takes on about 200 heavily-armed goblins, with nothing but a SIG pistol and his fists. He gets through about 50 of them, before the rest flee in terror from the terrifying god-mountain. As the book puts it "There were only two people on Earth more well-versed in the martial arts than Butler. One was related to him. The other spent his days alone on a small Pacific island, meditating and beating up palm trees. You really had to feel sorry for those goblins".
*** To give you an idea of what exactly that entails, he is described as "a ton of bricks, but with considerably more economy of movement."
*** In the graphic novel, one panel shows Butler out of ammo and surrounded by goblins. The next few panels show what else is going on, and then it cuts back to Butler, who is still surrounded by goblins, all of whom are unconscious. He took them all down offscreen.
*** "Two hundred goblins versus two LEP officers, one human and one working weapon. This was going to be close."
** In book 3, he throws himself in front of a bullet meant for Artemis, and then (even though the bullet ''went through his heart'') he manages to remain conscious long enough to shoot the would be assassin ''in the head''. When this fails to kill him, Butler later returns (his heart got better) and manages to convince the hitman that he is a spectre sent from hell to claim him, which leaves the hitman a gibbering wreck, promising to confess to every crime he's ever committed.
*** It should also be noted that he was essentially ''blind'' when he made that shot
** in book five when he yanks artemis out of the past, literally

* ''The Lost Colony'', when Artemis [[spoiler: figures out, in his head, the pattern in which ''a dimension is fading from time and space'' and uses it to save Holly's life, in the past, ''from the future''.]] I know, that scene is kinda tough to explain.
** Doesn't make it any less awesome, though. Let me try to clarify: [[spoiler: the BigBad has run Holly through. He then went on to kill Number One and Qwan and is now readying a killing blow for Artemis. Every three minutes or so (bit unclear on the timing), a piece of space teleports back to the previous three minutes. Artemis fires a laser shot into this space, where it teleports back in time just in time to hit the BigBad as he readies the (now-averted) fatal strike.]]
*** In laymans terms, he shot a laser backwards in time.

* The climax of The Arctic Incident is a brilliant CMOA for Foaly. [[spoiler: Basically, he uses his tech genius and some secret footage of his conversation with one of the villains to turn the joint {{Big Bad}}s' army against them, and then the Big Bads against ''each other''.]] All from ''inside a locked cell''. It's probably the only adventure in which Artemis relies entirely on someone else's plan to save the day.

* In The Opal Deception Holly pilots a shuttle[[spoiler: without the engine to hide their heat signiture from heat seeking missles.]]Yes, being an ace pilot is a necessary plot skill.

** He didn't take it on "bare-handed" at all. He took it on'' [[spoiler: wearing ancient knight armour and carrying a morningstar.]]'' Which is [[BeyondTheImpossible even better.]]

* The ending of ''{{Artemis Fowl}} 3''.

** In book one, he wanders unarmed into the middle of a heavily armed and ''invisible'' group of LEP commandos, and proceeds to wipe the floor with them. Shortly after, he trumps that by taking on a troll (which in the ''ArtemisFowl'' series, are 10 foot tall, 900 pound, crazed engines of death, with retractable claws, and poison tusks) and beats it to a quivering pulp, ''using a mace, and his BARE HANDS''. Even the human-hating fairies acknowledge it as awesome (it basically turns Butler into a legend, with the footage of the battle used in LEP training videos), and one of them has to be assured that it wasn't a hallucination brought on by delirium from severe wounds.

* "About my name - Artemis - you were right. In London, it is generally a female name, after the Greek goddess of archery. But every now and then a male comes along with such a talent for hunting that he earns the right to use the name. I am that male. Artemis the hunter. [[VictoryGloating I hunted you."]]

** In book 3, he throws himself in front of a bullet meant for Artemis, and then (even though the bullet ''went through his heart'') he manages to remain conscious long enough to shoot the would be assassin ''in the head''. When this fails to kill him, Butler later returns (his heart [[IGotBetter got better]]) and manages to convince the hitman that he is a spectre sent from hell to claim him, which leaves the hitman a gibbering wreck, promising to confess to every crime he's ever committed.

*** Made even more awesome in the graphic novel version where, once Butler's done beating the troll to a bloody pulp, precedes to ''forcibly chuck the broken 900 pound killing machine out the front door'', while nonchalantly stating: "And don't come back."

** Doesn't make it any less awesome, though. Let me try to clarify: [[spoiler: the BigBad has run Holly through. Every three minutes or so (bit unclear on the timing), a piece of space teleports back to the previous three minutes. Artemis fires a laser shot into this space, where it teleports back in time just in time to hit the BigBad as he readies the (now-averted) fatal strike.]]

* In The Time Paradox, Artemis [[spoiler: takes advantage of the seemingly random (but actually quite heavily patterned) time fluctuations on the volcano to undo Leon Abbot killing all his friends. He does this by firing Neutrino shot ''precisely'' timed, so that it goes back in time and stuns Leon before he can do it. All while continuing to focus on the bomb's countdown.]]
-->'''Artemis:''' "You never [[spoiler:killed my friends]]. That never happened."

* In The Opal Deception Holly pilots a shuttle[[without the engine to hide their heat signiture from heat seeking missles.]]Yes, being an ace pilot is a necessary plot skill.