History Fridge / ArtemisFowl

* In The Lost Colony, Abbot forces the demons to maintain a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy highly militaristic culture]], and makes specific effort to educate young demons to become {{Blood Knight}}s. What triggers the warp phase? ''Bloodlust''. Also? ''"When an imp warps, that's the end of any magic they may have had."'' What does Abbot fear the most? What is the only challenge to his [[CharmPerson authority]] on the council? ''A warlock''. ''He's deliberately arresting the only threat to his rule.'' Unlucky for him, No.1 turned out an ActualPacifist.

* Artemis never takes out his iris cam while showering in EC. This either (1)Fuels the fire for the Holly-Artemis ship as it says she's watching through the iris cam, or (2)[[HoYay Ho Yay]] between Foaly and Artemis, which has been mentioned by certain people.

* In the first book, in order to [[spoiler: escape the effects of the bio bomb]], Artemis, Butler, and Juliet mix sleeping pills with champagne, an alcoholic beverage. Wasn't that basically how the the late HeathLedger bought the farm, that is, by mixing sleeping pills with alcohol?

** Most versions of the Orion myth say he was Artemis' lover. This [[HoYay was not lost on the fandom]].

* [=[AC spoilers]=] In "The Atlantis Complex", Artemis claims that his alter ego is Orion because in the Greek myth, Orion was Artemis' mortal enemy and she summoned a scorpion to kill him. That's completely wrong. One version says that he hunted alongside Artemis until he got bloodthirsty and vowed to hunt every animal on Earth... Think about that for a second, Orion fought ''alongside'' Artemis- And what is Orion hunting? ''Holly's heart''. Why would Artemis not want Holly to know that they are fighting along side each other? Well, considering that it's ''Artemis''... Of course, it could still just be a lack of research, but....

** A lot of versions also say that [[FanDumb Eoin Colfer was actually correct about this]]. The myths vary.

* Also not lost on the fandom: That part of the Last Guardian where Eoin Colfer says Trolls are smart.
** Which actually make sense sort of, Lets take the Chimpanzee, considered to be the smartest non-human animal. But what most people don't know is that Chimpanzees are EXTREMELY violent and aggressive-in that one of the first thing they do when they fight is literally RIP THE GENITALS OFF. Not to mention they actually are willing to KILL a chimp baby in order to have sex with a female. Trolls given their primate-like description are probably similar to chimpanzee in behavior, they can be intelligent, its just that they prefer to fight and are hyper-violent.



!!FridgeLogic
* Despite going [[{{Anvilicious}} on and on]] about how [[GreenAesop humans destroy the environment]], fairies are still using gas engines in the first book, and presumably have been for ''way'' longer than the humans have, so ''they'' would be responsible for most of the pollution in the world, not humans. [[{{Hypocrite}} And fairies are supposed to be way more advanced than humans, so they have no excuse - we, at least, are starting to phase fossil fuels out.]] May also be FridgeBrilliance, since the fairies are often shown to be not nearly as superior as they think they are, although this is never stated.
** Well, there are a lot less fairies, so most of the pollution probably is still humans, by virtue of our sheer numbers. There are numerous hints throughout the series that it's a lot less black and white than the fairies seem to think.
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** Which actually make sense sort of, Lets take the Chimpanzee, considered to be the smartest non-human animal. But what most people don't know is that Chimpanzees are EXTREMELY violent and aggressive-in that one of the first thing they do when they fight is literally RIP THE GENITALS OFF. Not to mention they actually are willing to KILL a chimp baby in order to have sex with a female. Trolls given their primate-like discription are probably similiar to chimpazee in behavior, they can be intelligent, its just that they prefer to fight and are hyper-violent.

** Already addressed in the Headscratcher page, odds are Artemis didn't actually mix sleeping pills with Champagne, but was probably some extremely powerful sedative(as sleeping pills don't provide instant knock out). He was just talking about celebrating with Champagne because he knows that if he told Butlers that it was a sedative he would subconsciously fight it off and considering they had literally ''seconds'' before the bio-bomb is launch he couldn't risk that.

* In the first book, in order to [[spoiler: escape the effects of the bio bomb]], Artemis, Butler, and Juliet mix sleeping pills with champagne, an alcoholic beverage. Wasn't that basically how the the late HeathLedger bought the farm, that is, by mixing sleeping pills with alcohol?

** A lot of versions also say that [[FanDumb Eoin Colfer was actually correct abouut this]]. The myths vary.

** Well, there are a lot less fairies, so most of the pollution probably is still humans, by virtue of our sheer numbers. There are numerous hints throughout the series that it's a lot less black and white than the fairies seem to think.

* In many time travel stories, when a person is threatened to be erased from existence because interference in the past sets off a chain reaction of events that causes their present selves to not exist, they usually just fade out of existence and reality simply changes along with their vanishing, [[NoLawOfConservationOfEnergy with complete disregard for the fact energy cannot be created nor destroyed]]. Eoin Colfer ingeniously demonstrated an obedience to the Law of Conservation of Energy by showing what most likely would happen if you killed your past self while they were in the present a la GrandfatherParadox. You "cease to exist" alright, but reality does not change around you, and "ceasing to exist" equals [[MadeOfExplodium blowing up like a nuclear bomb]].

* In many time travel stories, when a person is threatened to be erased from existence because interference in the past sets off a chain reaction of events that causes their present selves to not exist, they usually just fade out of existence and reality simply changes along with their vanishing, [[NoLawOfConservationOfenergy with complete disregard for the fact energy cannot be created nor destroyed]]. Eoin Colfer ingeniously demonstrated an obedience to the Law of Conservation of Energy by showing what most likely would happen if you killed your past self while they were in the present a la GrandfatherParadox. You "cease to exist" alright, but reality does not change around you, and "ceasing to exist" equals [[MadeOfExplodium blowing up like a nuclear bomb]].

* In many time travel stories, when a person is threatened to be erased from existence because interference in the past sets off a chain reaction of events that causes their present selves to not exist, they usually just fade out of existence and reality simply changes along with their vanishing. Eoin Colfer ingeniously demonstrated an obedience to the Law of Conservation of Energy by showing what most likely would happen if you killed your past self while they were in the present a la GrandfatherParadox. You "cease to exist" alright, but reality does not change around you, and "ceasing to exist" equals [[MadeOfExplodium blowing up like a nuclear bomb]].

* Despite going [[{{Anvilicious}} on and on]] about how [[GreenAesop humans destroy the environment]], fairies are still using gas engines in the first book, and presumably have been for ''way'' longer than the humans have, so ''they'' would be responsible for most of the pollution in the world, not humans. [[{{Hypocrite}} And fairies are supposed to be way more advanced than humans, so they have no excuse - we, at least, are starting to phase fossil fuels out.]] May also be FridgeBrilliance, since the fairies are often shown to be not nearly as superior as they think they are, although this is never stated.

* Also not lost on the fandom: That part of the Last Guardian where Eoin Colfer says Trolls are smart.

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* [=[AC spoilers]=] In "The Atlantis Complex", Artemis claims that his alter ego is Orion because in the Greek myth, Orion was Artemis' mortal enemy and she summoned a scorpion to kill him. That's completely wrong. One version says that he hunted alongside Artemis until he got bloodthirsty and vowed to hunt every animal on Earth... Think about that for a second, Orion fought ''alongside'' Artemis- And what is Orion hunting? ''Holly's heart''. Why would Artemis not want Holly to know that they are fighting along side each other? Well, considering that it's ''Artemis''... Of course, it could still just be a [[DidNotDoTheResearch lack of research]], but....

!!FridgeLogic
* In Book 2 I believe it was, Artemis claimed he couldn't make a fingerprint copy with his perfect memory gel. Why couldn't he make the inverse copy, and then press gel against that copy to reverse the inverse copy? It would create a fingerprint identical to the original.
** An inverse copy of an inverse copy wouldn't be accurate enough, I suppose.
*** Or memory gel can't copy other memory gel and just sticks to it instead
**** Why not just get a thin piece of memory gel and then flip it over?
***** Because it would be a flat. The gel scanner needed ridges. Even if you thin it out, the reverse side would still be flat.
** Book 3, by the way. ''The Eternity Code''.
** I was always bugged by why it was reversed to begin with. Shouldn't the gel's pattern have matched Spiro's thumb ridge-for-ridge?
*** There were ridges where there should have been valleys and valleys where there should have been ridges. It was the wrong way around. If you need a visual example, get some clay or Play-Doh or something and press a coin into it. See how the imprint is basically a mirror image of the coin? It's the same basic concept.
** They're using the flip side, and despite their genius, can't think why they can use the right side.
*** Spiro's thumb has the print right way around. Side A of the memory gel, which they press against his thumb, has his thumbprint in reverse. Side B of the memory gel is either smooth, or has a smudged skin pattern from whichever person took the thumbprint. What "flip side" and "right side" are you talking about?
*** Thankyou! That was bothering me, but I couldn't figure out how to word it.
*** But the whole point of memory latex is that it makes a perfect copy on the outside of the bandage, so that they can be hidden and (presumably) allow the wearer to operate fingerprint sensitive stuff without removing a bandage. Put it on, the bandage reads the thumb print and reshapes the other side to be the same as the thumb. So side B would look exactly like Spiro's thumb!
**** Where did you get that information? I'm fairly certain that they ''never'' said that in the book.
*** Alternatively, it would have just collapsed when pressed to the thumb reader. Artemis' plan was never to use the memory gel, it was to use Spiro's thumb. It's just that his plan was ''also'' to trick the fairies into helping him, because he knew they would never go along with it.

!!FridgeHorror

* [=AC spoilers=] In "The Atlantis Complex", Artemis claims that his alter ego is Orion because in the Greek myth, Orion was Artemis' mortal enemy and she summoned a scorpion to kill him. That's completely wrong. One version says that he hunted alongside Artemis until he got bloodthirsty and vowed to hunt every animal on Earth... Think about that for a second, Orion fought ''alongside'' Artemis- And what is Orion hunting? ''Holly's heart''. Why would Artemis not want Holly to know that they are fighting along side each other? Well, considering that it's ''Artemis''... Of course, it could still just be a [[DidNotDoTheResearch lack of research]], but....

* In "The Atlantis Complex", Artemis claims that his alter ego is Orion because in the Greek myth, Orion was Artemis' mortal enemy and she summoned a scorpion to kill him. That's completely wrong. One version says that he hunted alongside Artemis until he got bloodthirsty and vowed to hunt every animal on Earth... Think about that for a second, Orion fought ''alongside'' Artemis- And what is Orion hunting? ''Holly's heart''. Why would Artemis not want Holly to know that they are fighting along side each other? Well, considering that it's ''Artemis''... Of course, it could still just be a [[DidNotDoTheResearch lack of research]], but....