The Book
- Nausea Fuel: Just the concept of Svoboda's reusable condom.
- Tough Act to Follow: If Artemis seems a bit of a letdown after The Martian, it's unfair to blame Andy Weir, who couldn't be expected to duplicate The Martian's runaway success. Thankfully he more than made up for it with Project Hail Mary.
The Comic
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- Awesome Ego: You've got to be a bit full of yourself to look at Wonder Woman and decide that not only could you do better but that she doesn't even deserve the title. Artemis was also popular enough to carry her own spin-off miniseries and be brought back from the dead and from being retconned out of existence in the New 52.
- Complete Monster: Requiem: Dalkriig-Hath is a lord of Hell who rules over thousands of souls with torturous cruelty. Hath keeps a harem of women for him to rape and torture at his leisure, subjecting Artemis herself to this fate. When his top general Belyllioth loses in a fight, Hath has her whipped thousands of times as punishment, and then tries to sentence Wonder Woman to the same fate when she saves the general. Having manipulated the Hellender team into unwittingly doing his bidding, Hath sends many demons to terrorize humanity before opening a portal to Earth and immediately slaughtering most of the Hellenders. Hath then proclaims his intent to create a new horrific kingdom of Hell on Earth itself by killing thousands of humans and using their souls as his meat puppets, and in the process Hath hopes to recapture an escaped Artemis to rape her into submission once again.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Introduced as an Anti-Hero Substitute of Diana in the '90s, Artemis was killed off but resurrected due to her popularity as a Foil to Diana. She has since become one of the most popular and iconic Wonder Woman characters.
- Fan Nickname: Temi, especially preferred by those who love her more middle eastern appearance under Phil Jimenez's pen.
- Les Yay: Has a few moments of these with Diana, this scene from Artemis: Requiem coming to mind.
◊ Her relationship with Akila in Red Hood and the Outlaws also has elements of this. - My Real Daddy: Despite his run being rather contested, many fans praise John Byrne for bringing Artemis back to life and expanding more on her character. Phil Jiminez and Scott Lobdell are also credited with adding more complexity to Artemis.
- Older Than They Think:
- She is not the first Amazon character in Wonder Woman with the name Artemis. In a Wonder Woman Vol 1 story by Dan Mishkin, just a few years before the first DC reboot, Circe reanimated the remains of an ancient Amazon warrior who went by the name Artemis to fight Diana.
- Many fans complained about the New 52 Wonder Woman comic replacing Artemis with an Amazon named Aleka who was also a redhead with a misandrist streak and a harsh temper. Ironically, Artemis herself is a replacement for a redheaded Silver Age Amazon named Orana who temporarily took Diana's place as Wonder Woman and died. The major difference is Artemis came back to life.
- So Bad, It's Good: Few people who remember Artemis: Requiem do so for how excessively 90's it was.
- WTH, Costuming Department?:
- Artemis has gone through some horrific costumes, including that one with a band of spikes around the thighs which for some reason didn't tear open her otherwise bare upper-legs as she walked. This horrendous joke of a costume, which included as the centerpiece a French-cut bathing suit, can be seen in Artemis' folder here.
- #177 has Artemis in a in an outfit◊ that consists of a revealing top, baggy pants and what appears to be a golden strap-on attached to her belt.
