History Awesome / ArtemisFowl

* The hostage exchange on Taipei 101, Artemis is able to pull off a gigantic BatmanGambit, save Minerva, extract N°1 and initially get cleanly away from Billy Kong's hit squad. On a side note, he also subtly manipulated Kong into choosing the meeting spot where he would have the advantage.

* Holly pilots a shuttle without the engine to hide their heat signiture from heat seeking missiles. Yes, being an ace pilot is a necessary plot skill.

* Butler gets his revenge on Arno Blunt for nearly killing him in a way that shows he can be nearly as cunning as Artemis when the need alls for it, using a favor from Holly. Using the same video scrubbing that kept Artemis from being on the Phonetix raid security tapes and a sheet of camo foil Butler waits until Arno isn't looking in his interrogation cell, pulls off the sheet and menacingly threatens to show Arno around hell if he doesn't fess up to his crimes, then pulls it back over himself. Arno unsurprisingly cracks ''immediately'' under the fear.

--->'''Artemis:''' (to Spiro) 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.

* The Showdown with Opal Koboi on the giant steps, starting with a horse chase, turning into a aerial chase and finally an epic standoff where Artemis instigates another BatmanGambit which ends up destroying most of the giant steps and buries Koboi alive.

* Root's horrible replacement, Sool, has just given the order to blow Holly's shuttle out of the air - the justification being that she supposedly killed the Commander). Foaly is arguing with Sool in Trouble's earpiece. Trouble and Holly ''were'' friends, but he doesn't have ''any'' of the proof about her innocence. So he fires... a comlink.

* 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''. It should also be noted that he was essentially ''blind'' when he made that shot. 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.

* Artemis then gets one when he rescues his father [[spoiler: by having Butler shoot him with a sniper rifle loaded with a well-placed ChekhovsGun]].

* Arno Blunt [[spoiler: breaking out of a guarded police van. On his own which included snapping his handcuffs like twigs and flattening the cops with him with nothing but his bare hands.]]

* Artemis outsmarting Spiro in the end. [[spoiler: Artemis planned for Spiro to prevent him from recovering the cube, and had Holly plant a hypnotic suggestion into two of Spiro's goons, causing them to suggest Spiro break into a rival company's HQ using the cube. He takes Artemis along as insurance, only to find himself trapped inside as a SWAT team kicks the door down and Artemis vanishes, using the cube to erase all evidence he was ever involved.]]

* Artemis [[spoiler: stealing all Jon Spiro's billions... and donating them to charity... ''minus 10% commission''.]] '''ICONIC MOVE'''.

* [[spoiler: Root's horrible replacement, Sool, has just given the order to blow Holly's shuttle out of the air - the justification being that she supposedly killed the Commander). Foaly is arguing with Sool in Trouble's earpiece. Trouble and Holly ''were'' friends, but he doesn't have ''any'' of the proof about her innocence. So he fires... a comlink.]]

* Holly making it to Munich to save Butler and Artemis under [[spoiler: Root's final orders, which she swears to follow to the letter, and managing to defeat Opal and bring back Artemis's memories.]]
* 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.
* Of course, Opal's escape plan deserves mention. [[spoiler: She broke out of jail in such a way that no one would even realize she was gone until she revealed herself.]] This then rolled right into her revenge plan, where [[spoiler: she frames Holly for Root's murder, and makes it so that even if Holly escapes, no one will believe her claim that Opal escaped.]]

* Artemis's final gambit against Opal: [[spoiler: He has Mulch break into her shuttle and steal her two bombs. When Opal discovers this, she attempts to kill Artemis & Co by detonating the bombs remotely, but cannot. They then taunt her with the fact that they have also stolen her chocolate truffles, tricking Opal into opening her x-ray proof safe and allowing the bombs to arm... while they're still on Opal's own ship. Cue the best OhCrap moment of the series.]]

* 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''.]]

* A tie in to the original. [[spoiler:Ten-year-old Artemis wakes up after the events of ''The Time Paradox'' saying "Fairies. Something about fairies."]]
* Holly scares off a fully grown silverback gorilla while in the middle of his territory that's just [[spoiler: horrifically injured Artemis. She then proceeds to heal him, kiss him and get them the hell out of there.]]
* Artemis beating the Extinctionists at their own game in the courtroom scene, fighting for [[spoiler: Holly's survival]].

* 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}}.]]
* [[CoolOldLady Vinyaya]] [[spoiler: goes down fighting.]]
* Leonor Carsby [[spoiler: wrestles free from her husband's influence, tells him she's ready to die and gets to fly one more time as she pilots an ambulance into the Atlantis Trench to save an underwater hospital.]]

* The climax of ''The Last Guardian'': [[spoiler:Artemis, with an unconscious Holly in tow, appears to surrender to Opal as she is about to unlock the second seal on the Berserker Gate. Not willing to pass up a chance to gloat, Opal indulges herself and gives a typical villainous lecture. Artemis argues and states he could make a plan using Holly's magic to stop the spell. Opal mocks Artemis by waving Holly's hand over the magical off-button of the lock, stating that the seal can only be broken by Opal only due to DNA coding. Turns out Holly isn't actually Holly, and Opal just placed her clone's hand (from book 4) to dispel the gate. Artemis manages to pull off the ultimate BatmanGambit with nothing else left in his arsenal.]] This also gives big props to [[spoiler: Nopal, who managed to derail the final evil plan of the series and save the world while appearing in a grand total of four scenes in two of the eight books and not speaking a single line of dialogue.]]
** Not forgetting what happens ''after'' that: [[spoiler:The gate being dispelled means that a magical corona will trap every fairy in there and take their soul to the afterlife. As Artemis has a fairy eye, this includes him, leaving his physical body dead. ''However'', through a combination of his humanity and sheer willpower, his spirit manages to remain on Earth, and he arranges for Foaly to make a clone through a DNA sample he'd left on Holly by kissing her. His spirit merges with the clone, meaning Artemis has ''come back from the dead''.]] An IronicEcho, considering Opal earlier mentioned to herself that even Fowl couldn't do that.
* Mulch [[spoiler:takes control of a '''freakin' troll''' and rides it]] to rescue Holly and Artemis.
* Engineer Kolin Ozkopy is a two-shot character who at first seems to be merely the victim of a horrible PunnyName. That is until he [[spoiler:stares down a super-charged Opal, realizes she is about to kill him and manages to mock her badly enough that she remembers it for the rest of her life.]]
* Beckett Fowl [[spoiler: punched Opal while being possessed by one of her minions.]]
* Artemis informs the group that to destroy the Berserker Gate [[spoiler: they will need a super-laser. [[CrazyPrepared One of which he has in his barn.]] No one else is surprised to hear this, though Butler is quite annoyed that Artemis built it when he was supposed to be exercising]].

* The Showdown with Opal Koboi on the giant steps, starting with a horse chase, turning into a aerial chase and finally an epic standoff where Artemis instigates another BatmanGambit which ends up destroying most of the giant steps and burries Koboi alive.

* Arno Blunt [[spoiler: breaking out of a guarded police van. On his own.]]

* Artemis [[spoiler: stealing all Jon Spiro's billions... and donating them to Greenpeace... ''minus 10% commission''.]] '''ICONIC MOVE'''.

** 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. 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.

* Juliet 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.
** This troper can't believe an earlier scene in the book, where she first confuses two muscle bound henchmen with what can only be described as [[TechnoBabble Psychology Babble]], then completely mops the floor with them.
*** ''"Guess what?" "What?" said Pex. "You're not supposed to deep-fry sushi."''

* Shortly after the above, Butler 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, ancient knight armor, and his BARE HANDS''. 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."

* The Hostage exchange on Taipei 101, Artemis is able to pull off a gigantic BatmanGambit, save Minerva, extract N°1 and initially get cleanly away from Billy Kong's Hit squad. On a side note, he also subtlety manipulated Kong into choosing the meeting spot where he would have the advantage.
** 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.

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** 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. 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.

* Trouble Kelp's defense of Police Plaza. Managing to keep the enemy off ''without working weapons'' until the heroes could win the day. [[BadAss Bad. Ass.]]

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

* Minerva gets one where she's able to kidnap Number 1 and wisk him away before Holly can do anything. Artemis knows this, doesn't bother to do anything and afterwards, applauded her.
* The Hostage exchange on Taipei 101, Artemis is able to pull off a gigantic BatmanGambit, save Minerva, extract Number 1 and initially get cleanly away from Billy Kong's Hit squad. On a side note, he also subtlety manipulated Kong into choosing the meeting spot where he would have the advantage.

* The Showdown with Opal Kobi on the giant steps, starting with a horse chase, turning into a aerial chase and finally an epic standoff where Artemis instigates another BatmanGambit which ends up destroying most of the giant steps and burries Koboi alive.

* Artemis informs the group that to destroy the Beserker Gate [[spoiler: they will need a super-laser. [[CrazyPrepared One of which he has in his barn.]] No one else is surprised to hear this, though Butler is quite annoyed that Artemis built it when he was supposed to be exercising]].

Minerva gets one where she's able to kidnap Number 1 and wisk him away before Holly can do anything. Artemis knows this, doesn't bother to do anything and afterwards, applauded her.

--->'''Holly''': "Pull."

* Late in the book, Artemis saves Holly by timing a laser blast so it hits her attacker ''in the past before he could kill her''!

* The Hostage exchange on Taipei 101, Artemis is able to pull off a gigantic BatmanGambit, save Minerva, extract Number 1 and initially get cleanly away from Billy Kong's Hit squad.
On a side note, he also subtlety manipulated Kong into choosing the meeting spot where he would have the advantage.

-->'''Holly''': "Pull."

* Shortly after the above, Butler 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, ancient knight armor, 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.
*** 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.
*** 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."
* 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.

** 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".
*** 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."
* The second book was chock-full of these. Holly particularly during the scene with Root, the ship, and Koboi Labs. "Let me ask you something. How fond are you of your ribs?"

* Artemis then gets one when he rescues his father [[spoiler: by having Butler shoot him with a sniper rifle loaded with a well-placed Chekov'sGun.]]

* How about Juliet? 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.
* 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.
*** It should also be noted that he was essentially ''blind'' when he made that shot.
* The assassin also gets one for [[spoiler: breaking out of a guarded police van. On his own.]]
* Mulch climbs up a freaking skyscraper barehanded. While Juliet is tied to him. Okay, he had his dwarf pores, but still...
* The ending.

--->Artemis: (to Spiro) 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.
** To clarify: [[spoiler: Artemis planned for Spiro to prevent him from recovering the cube, and had Holly plant a hypnotic suggestion into two of Spiro's goons, causing them to suggest Spiro break into a rival company's HQ using the cube. He takes Artemis along as insurance, only to find himself trapped inside as a SWAT team kicks the door down and Artemis vanishes, using the cube to erase all evidence he was ever involved.]]

--> "Yes, sir," said Trouble, and fired.
** ([[spoiler: Root's horrible replacement, Sool, has just given the order to blow Holly's shuttle out of the air - the justification being that she supposedly killed the Commander). Foaly is arguing with Sool in Trouble's earpiece. Trouble and Holly ''were'' friends, but he doesn't have ''any'' of the proof about her innocence. So he fires... a comlink.]])
** Not to mention his defense of Police Plaza in ''The Arctic Incident''. Managing to keep the enemy off ''without working weapons'' until the heroes could win the day. [[BadAss Bad. Ass.]]
* Artemis's MemoryGambit and then his nonchalant entrance to the shuttle, memories intact.

* 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.
* Of course, Opal's escape plan deserves mention. [[spoiler: She broke out of jail in such a way that no one would even realize she was gone until she revealed herself.]]
** This then rolled right into her revenge plan, where [[spoiler: she frames Holly for Root's murder, and makes it so that even if Holly escapes, no one will believe her claim that Opal escaped.]]

* 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.
Minerva gets one where she's able to kidnap Number 1 and wisk him away before Holly can do anything. Artemis knows this, doesn't bother to do anything and afterwards, applauded her.
** 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 whole book is one CMOA after another"
The Hostage exchange on Taipei 101, Artemis is able to pull off a gigantic BatmanGambit, save Minerva, extract Number 1 and initially get cleanly away from Billy Kong's Hit squad.

** 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.

* 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.

* Artemis beating the Extinctionists at their own game in the courtroom scene, fighting for [[spoiler: Holly's survival.]]

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 ends up destroying most of the giant steps and burries Kobi alive.

* In 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.

* The climax of ''The Last Guardian'': [[spoiler:Artemis, with an unconscious Holly in tow, appears to surrender to Opal as she is about to unlock the second seal on the Berserker Gate. Not willing to pass up a chance to gloat, Opal indulges herself and gives a typical villainous lecture. Artemis argues and states he could make a plan using Holly's magic to stop the spell. Opal mocks Artemis by waving Holly's hand over the magical off-button of the lock, stating that the seal can only be broken by Opal only due to DNA coding. Turns out Holly isn't actually Holly, and Opal just placed her clone's hand (from book 4) to dispel the gate. Artemis manages to pull off the ultimate BatmanGambit with nothing else left in his arsenal.]]
** This also gives big props to [[spoiler: Nopal, who managed to derail the final evil plan of the series and save the world while appearing in a grand total of four scenes in two of the eight books and not speaking a single line of dialogue.]]
** Not forgetting what happens ''after'' that: [[spoiler:The gate being dispelled means that a magical corona will trap every fairy in there and take their soul to the afterlife. As Artemis has a fairy eye, this includes him, leaving his physical body dead. ''However'', through a combination of his humanity and sheer willpower, his spirit manages to remain on Earth, and he arranges for Foaly to make a clone through a DNA sample he'd left on Holly by kissing her. His spirit merges with the clone, meaning Artemis has ''come back from the dead''.]]
** An IronicEcho, considering Opal earlier mentioned to herself that even Fowl couldn't do that.
* How could people forget Mulch's most awesome moment in the series? [[spoiler: He takes control of a '''freakin' troll''' and rides it]] to rescue Holly and Artemis.
* Engineer Kolin Ozkopy is a two-shot character who at first seems to be merely the victim of a horrible PunnyName. That is until he [[spoiler: stares down a super-charged Opal, realizes she is about to kill him and manages to mock her badly enough that she remembers it for the rest of her life.]]

* Artemis informs the group that to destroy the Beserker Gate [[spoiler: they will need a super-laser. One of which he has in his barn. No one else is surprised to here this, though Butler is quite annoyed that Artemis built it when he was supposed to be exercising.

* Beckett Fowl [[spoiler: punched Opal /i while being possessed by one of her minions.i//]]