List of characters in Artemis Fowl

This is a list of characters in the Artemis Fowl novel series by Eoin Colfer.

Contents: Top · 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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Leon Abbot

Leon Abbot (born N'zall)
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 5: Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Demon
Gender	Male

Leon Abbot is one of the main antagonists in Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony. He is a demon who was against the time-spell at the battle of Taillte, and broke the circle of warlocks just as they were performing the spell. He and Qweffor, an apprentice warlock, were merged together by lava and magic, and was catapulted to the "near past" (most likely 2001). Abbot retained control of the body, and stole Qweffor's magic. On Earth, he learned the "secrets" of humans from Minerva Paradizo, who gave him a book and a crossbow to study. Finally, he went back to Hybras in the past, at the exact moment that the time-spell was put into effect, and took out the book and the crossbow, claiming to be the demons' savior. He used the magic stolen from Qweffor to mesmerize anyone who challenged him for the throne. At the end of the book he kills Holly, Nº1, and Qwan as they are preparing to perform the time spell, but they are brought back after Artemis shoots him from the future, stopping him from killing them in the past. This happens because of a time surge occurring because the original time spell is breaking up. At the end of the book Qweffor takes over Abbot's body. Abbot's consciousness is subsequently transferred to a guinea pig, to stop him from hurting anybody. Warlock interns enjoy throwing miniature swords to the guinea pig and watching it trying (and failing) to pick them up.

Abbot's demon name is N'zall, meaning little horn in ancient demon language, which caused a lot of resentment towards the older demons. For this reason, he started to call himself Leon Abbot, after the general in the book he brought back, Lady Heatherington Smythe's Hedgerow.

In The Lost Colony, Holly speculates that Leon Abbot suffers from acquired situational narcissism however in The Time Paradox, Eoin Colfer describes Abbot as "psychopathic". He may have meant this metaphorically however.

Amorphobots

In Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex, the Amorphobots are gelatinous robots originally intended to serve as a crew for a Mars probe designed by Foaly. They are taken control of by Turnball Root in order to direct the probe back to Earth so that they can rescue Turnball from prison.

Jerbal Argon

Dr. Jerbal Argon
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 1: Artemis Fowl
Last appearance	Book 7: Artemis Fowl: Atlantis Complex
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Gnome
Gender	Male

Jerbal Argon has his first appearance in Artemis Fowl, when he was asked to watch the video of Artemis Fowl and see if Artemis Fowl was lying when he said he could escape the time field. His fourth appearance was in Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, when he is shown at his clinic taking care of Opal Koboi, his "celebrity" patient, who is in a self-induced coma. He is not inclined to release Koboi because she has a fund in the hospital which would stop should she heal.

In book 7 he treats Artemis's Atlantis Complex at the end of the book.

He is called "Jerry" by his two best pixie custodians, the Brill brothers, who helped Opal Koboi escape. He later mentions that he hates to be called Jerry and feels he deserves some amount of respect around his own eponymous clinic, but didn't say anything because good janitors are "so hard to find", and that since they are pixie twins, even rarer.

His name is a pun on "verbal jargon".^{[citation needed]} Jargon is terminology, much like slang, that relates to a specific activity, profession, or group, e.g. psychiatrists. Argon is also a "Noble Gas" on the Periodic Table of Elements. It has been suggested that Argon's surname is Argon because he is noble, hence the noble gas; however that is disputed as, in the series, he does not represent noble characteristics. Coincidentally, his first initial and surname together spell the word "Jargon".

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Arno Blunt

Arno Blunt
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 3: Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Human
Gender	Male

Arno Blunt is a main character in the book Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code of the series Artemis Fowl.

He is a New Zealand bodyguard working for Jon Spiro, an American businessman. He has bleached blond hair, tattoos on his body and neck, and is first seen wearing a cut-off T-shirt and pirate earrings. He is not a man who likes to be forgotten, or ignored. During the course of the book he has all his teeth blown out and replaced with several sets of customized dentures - these include a porcelain set, sharpened to points, another (flat) porcelain set "for crushing stuff" and a strange set which are half filled with water and half filled with blue oil. In an attempt to kill Artemis, he fires the shot which Butler intercepts, nearly killing him. Angered at failing to kill the genius, he plans to ambush Artemis at the end of the book. He is caught before reaching Artemis, as Butler, masquerading as a spirit from hell, convinces him to confess. During the storyline, he is represented as everything Butler is not - brash, conspicuous and careless - despite the fact they both have the same job.

Mervall & Descant Brill

Mervall Brill
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 4: Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
Last appearance	Book 6: Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Pixie
Gender	Male

Descant Brill
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 4: Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
Last appearance	Book 6: Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Pixie
Gender	Male

The Brill brothers are twin pixies from Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception. Their actual names are Mervall and Descant Brill, or normally just "Merv" and "Scant". Although they are twins, Mervall is slightly older and considered smarter. Mervall and Descant each finish each other's sentences repeatedly. They have appeared on numerous fairy television shows, and have attained somewhat of a celebrity status in the Lower Elements, as fairy twins are extremely rare, and pixie twins are even rarer.

Merv and Scant are agents of Opal Koboi, and being perhaps the most competent and faithful of her henchmen, she placed them as janitors in the J. Argon clininc as part of her backup plan. They orchestrated a power failure and rescued her from the clinic, replacing her with a clone. They continue to serve Koboi throughout the rest of the book, performing tasks such as piloting and maintaining her shuttle, escorting and cooking.

However, Opal's personality changed greatly after her rescue, and she became intolerably paranoid and obsessive, taking out her anger on them. She even went as far to write a list of rules for them, such as bowing before her, not looking at her directly (claiming "it's bad for her skin"), passing wind, using slang, or thinking "too loudly" near her. The latter due to the fact she was starting to claim that she was psychic. Naturally, the Brill brothers became resentful of this, and only fear and the promise of Barbados kept them loyal.

Opal betrays them in the end by ejecting them from her shuttle against the chute wall, leaving them stranded in impact gel. Foaly later says they are picked up and were quick to betray her.

They appear again in The Time Paradox as their younger selves, helping the past Opal Koboi increase her magical powers by extracting the body fluids of supposedly extinct animals thrown down to them by the Extinctionists (who of course had no idea they were there). It's also implied that Opal attacked them, as at the end of one chapter, where Artemis escapes, Opal says that she has to blame someone, and they attempt to escape, but the last line of the chapter is: "They didn't run fast enough".

Butler

Main article: Domovoi Butler

Domovoi Butler is Artemis Fowl II's bodyguard. Along with Artemis Fowl II and Juliet, he is one of the few people who knows about the existence of fairies. He is the third deadliest man in the world, behind only one of his relatives and one other martial arts master. He defeated a troll in Artemis Fowl using an antique set of 14th century armor to protect himself and his sister Juliet Butler. His first attempt to defeat the troll was a failure when the troll spun him into the wall breaking Butler's spine and virtually every other bone in his body. He was knocked unconscious but woke up to find Captain Holly Short healing his wounds. After an incident in Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident he always carries a special pair of goggles that allow him to see fairies even when they are shielding. He was shot by Arno Blunt in Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code and nearly died (his heart stopped, but Artemis cryogenetically preserved his brain). He was then revived by Captain Holly Short. Before he lost consciousness, Butler told Artemis his first name, Domovoi (which was the reason he was later able to easily regain his memories that were wiped.) Being revived cost him about 15 years of his life and he had a kevlar patch mixed in with the skin over his chest which made it harder for him to breathe, which cost him some of his speed in running. The fairies later magically made it so that his loss of 15 years would not affect his life span.

Juliet Butler

Juliet is a charming, clueless type of girl that first shows up in book 1. She does not help much in the kidnapping of Holly Short but does occasionally keep a watch on her. She has also trained at a martial arts school like her brother Domovoi Butler and is extremely skilled at dispatching her opponent despite her size. She also failed to obtain the blue diamond tattoo of the bodyguards of Madame Ko's Academy. Fortunately, she no longer needed to have that when she decided not to become a bodyguard, became a professional wrestler and left for America at the end of The Eternity Code. She can hit any moving target with any weapon you give her. She also lost her memories in the end of "the Eternity Code" but was able to regain them when she was attacked by mesmerized wrestling fans while in a wrestling troupe , she was saved by Domovoi Butler.

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Caballine

Caballine is Foaly's love interest in Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony. She is a researcher for PPTV and a sculptor. Foaly got to know Caballine by talking about his mood blanket invention, and in the fifth book, he jogged with her every morning, except when there is an emergency.^[1] In The Time Paradox, it was revealed that Foaly and Caballine had become married during Artemis and Holly's three year absence due to time travel to and from Hybras.

Briar Cudgeon

Briar Cudgeon
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 1: Artemis Fowl
Last appearance	Book 2: Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Elf
Gender	Male

Lieutenant Briar Cudgeon was a psychopathic and power-hungry lieutenant in the LEP and had been planning to backstab Julius Root during the original mission at Fowl manor, hoping to replace his position as commander. He planned to use a troll to destroy the whole manor, so he could (in theory) rescue Holly Short after every other inhabitant of the mansion was dead. However, his plan backfired when the troll was defeated by Domovoi Butler, and he was "accidentally" shot by Root, using a tranquilizer finger dart invented by Foaly. The dart's sedative reacted with some illegal brain-enhancing drugs he was experimenting with, and the resulting side effects disfigured his once handsome looks. He was demoted to the rank of Lieutenant and given a job as a recycler.

In The Arctic Incident, Cudgeon began scheming against the LEP and Root, joining forces with Opal Koboi. He convinced the B'wa Kell goblin triad to start a rebellion. They almost defeated the LEP, but were stopped by Artemis Fowl II, Butler, Holly Short, Root, and Foaly. Cudgeon was foiled when Foaly managed to send an audio file to Artemis' mobile phone, revealing how Cudgeon had been planning to betray Koboi. Cudgeon died when, after his planned treachery was revealed, he became entangled in the safety rail of Opal Koboi's Hoverboy^TM, which Koboi had launched at him in rage, after which he inadvertently entered a plasma servicing hatch that Artemis opened. Ironically, this occurred after Cudgeon himself activated the plasma cannons, so he was "fried by a million radioactive tendrils" and was killed immediately. His preferred weapon in this book was a customized Softnose Redboy blaster, which he used in a failed assassination attempt targeting Koboi just before his death.

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Doodah Day

Doodah Day
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 5: Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Pixie
Gender	Male

Doodah Day is a pixie criminal legend who stars in the fifth book of the Artemis Fowl series, Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony. He is a fish-smuggler who nearly kills PI Holly Short with a multimixer as she chases him during her time as a Bounty Hunter. He later claims that all he meant to do was "scare her a little" because she was not meant to be chasing him.

His incredible driving skills lead to his being offered amnesty for his services. He helps Artemis Fowl and Holly Short retrieve No1 from Minerva. Three years later, Doodah Day is Mulch Diggums' partner in the Private Investigation firm, Short and Diggums.

He claims he can drive anything and has a device called the Mongocharger which uses a nuclear battery to boost any vehicle's power.

At the end of the book, he and Mulch Diggums team up to become private investigators, such as Holly and Mulch were at the beginning of the book.

He may have been the fish smuggler that Holly caught in the Artemis Fowl Files.

Mulch Diggums

Main article: Mulch Diggums

The Dwarf criminal, Mulch Diggums, is a friend and ally of Artemis, Holly & co. He also, however, occasionally engages in criminal activity. He faked his own death in Artemis Fowl by coming up with an ingenious plan. This ingenious plan was to fool Foaly that he died by a cave-in during his infiltration to fowl manor. He passed on his iris cam to a rabbit and killed it. This means that foaly's sensors on the iris cam will show the dead rabbit's life signs. Shortly after Mulch's "fake" death, Mulch tunnels his way up to the surface and steals some gold Holly was able to retrieve. After some time, Foaly ran a search for the gold and found hot spots in California. Mulch was actually living in a penthouse in California watching DVDs mostly 007 and occasionally went out stealing various Academy Awards and was later nicknamed "the Grouch" (after another well-known Oscar) by the media. He helped Artemis and friends to break them into Koboi's lab. Then escaping the Lower Elements Police again, he started living in Chicago working as a mobster in the Antonella family. The gang's next target was Artemis and company. But at the end, Mulch finally gets caught and goes to a fairy prison. Before he was imprisoned for his past crimes of stealing, Artemis gives his CD disk disguised as a gold medallion. Mulch has extraordinary talents that were granted by evolution. He is able to tunnel through dirt, has an accelerated digestion, have a luminous and sedative saliva, a motion sensitive beard hair that uses sonar, the gas produced by his digestive system contains special chemicals that makes him immune to decompression sickness(commonly known as the bends), spontaneous liquid absorbing pores that can be used to stick to walls (ideal for scaling buildings), and he is able to pass gas able to knock Butler over in Artemis Fowl. This gives him the ability to be "gas powered" in situations. He is an ideal creature for helping the LEP.

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Foaly

Main article: Foaly

Foaly the centaur is a paranoid technician, working for the Lower Elements Police. He is famous for wearing foil hats to protect against (as yet not invented) mind probes. His sarcasm annoys Commander Julius Root. He often refers to Root as Julius which annoys Root but Foaly cannot be fired from the LEP because if he is, human technology will catch up with fairy technology. His technical inventions help the LEP through dangerous missions. Good friends with Holly Short and Artemis Fowl, and is known to not get along with the famous dwarf, Mulch Diggums. Foaly invented the dart finger, which Root "accidentally" shoots Briar Cudgeon with in Artemis Fowl. Has a number of inventions such as : a. Iris Cam - was very useful in almost every book b. Retimager - was the reason they detected that Opal was loose and replaced by a clone. c. Titanium Pod - Ridden with the use of the magma flares and many more.

Angeline Fowl

Angeline Fowl
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 1: Artemis Fowl
Last appearance	Book 7: Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Human
Gender	Female

Angeline Fowl is a fictional character from the Artemis Fowl series. She is Artemis Fowl II's mother. After Artemis's father, Artemis Fowl I disappeared, Mrs. Fowl went into a depressed state, with the side effects of a person who had a sudden halt in narcotics usage. She is described as pretty in her normal state although in the first book she is suffering from schizophrenia and apparent bipolar disorder, suffering from hallucinations and delusions that caused her to think her husband's suit was actually her husband, that Artemis was her father and dress up in her wedding dress believing it to be the day she was married. While she was suffering from her depression, she had an aversion to Juliet Butler, to Artemis calling her "Mother" and to light. At the end of Artemis Fowl, Artemis Fowl gives half of the ransom money from the fairies back to Captain Holly Short to pay for a wish that Holly would heal Mrs. Fowl back to sanity.

In The Opal Deception, Artemis has changed drastically in his treatment of his mother. At the beginning of the series, he barely had a relationship with her, while at the beginning of the fourth book, he feels extreme guilt over lying to his mother in order to obtain a painting.

Angeline Fowl has made appearances, however short, in the first four Artemis Fowl books. (She is only vaguely referred to in The Lost Colony). While Artemis was stuck in Limbo toward the end of Book 5, Angeline gave birth to twins - Beckett and Myles. She is also told about the People by Butler, although it was revealed in Book 6 that she and Artemis Senior had been mesmerised by Artemis II to forget this. In Book 6, Angeline contracts a fatal illness known as Spelltropy, forcing Artemis Fowl II to travel back in time to recover the last known cure, the brain fluid of a lemur Artemis had made extinct when he was 10. It is later revealed that she was possessed by Opal Koboi, who wanted the lemur to increase her powers. At the end of the Book, Angeline knows about the existence of the People from Koboi's memories, and demands that Artemis II tells her everything. In book 7 she tries to make him act more like an ordinary teenager, making him call her 'mum' and wear jeans and a t-shirt with the word "Randomosity" on it.

Her name is often used by Artemis as a way to make an excuse to his principal of Saint Bartleby's School for Young Gentlemen. He once used her name in Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception by using a phone call by recording her voice and smoothening it out into an angry tone. Another time he had typed out an email with his mother's name to the principal in Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident.

Artemis Fowl I

Main article: Artemis Fowl I

The father of Artemis Fowl II, Artemis Fowl I is a rich Irishman who went missing in Murmansk, Russia for an extended period of time.^[2] The search for him is the plot behind Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, the second book in the series. He is mentioned throughout the series, but appears only in the Arctic Incident and the Time Paradox. He is described as a changed man in Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code when there are paragraphs of Artemis Fowl's diary. Fowl told Artemis II, "And what about you, Arty? Will you make the journey with me? When the moment comes will you take your chance to be a hero?" He does not want to devote his life to crime any more but believes he should spend more time with his family. He asks Artemis Fowl II if he will take that journey with him. Artemis Fowl does not respond as he does not know the answer to that question. He mulls over it several times in the book.

Artemis Fowl II

Main article: Artemis Fowl II

A criminal mastermind, Artemis Fowl II is the titular character of the books. He is one of the few humans to know about the existence of the fairies, the others being Butler and Juliet and later Angeline Fowl (from memories in Opal Koboi's brain).He is ambidextrious but his left hand is slightly better. He has the highest IQ in Europe, read a lot more pschycology textbooks than most psychiatrists, able to divert funds from other accounts into his own, become the youngest thief to steal the painting,The Fairy Thief, beat the European chess master in an online chess tournament, and forge quite a few works of art (some of them are from Van Gogh). He involuntarily swapped his left eye with Captain Holly Short during a travel from Limbo to Earth. His index finger and his second finger on his left hand are switched from his first time in a time tunnel. Fowl can fluently speak many languages including "Gnommish". ( The official Fairy language)^[3]

Orion Fowl

Orion Fowl
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 7: Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Human
Gender	Male

The Alter-ego of Artemis Fowl II. When suffering Atlantis Complex Holly shoots Artemis with a jolt of electricity and the impact forces out Orion, a carefree, optimistic alter ego who openly claims his love for Holly. When Orion is in control of Artemis's body, Artemis is able to see and hear everything that is taking place and yet has no control of his body or Orions actions. Artemis explains his alter-ego, Orion, as the Greek goddess Artemis's "mortal enemy... So in [Artemis's] mind Orion was free from the guilt [Artemis] harbored from various schemes."

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Grub Kelp

Grub Kelp
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 1: Artemis Fowl
Last appearance	Book 4: Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Elf
Gender	Male

Grub Kelp is a LEP corporal and the younger brother of Trouble Kelp. He appears to be terrified of almost everything and takes offense easily. In the third book, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, it is revealed that he attempts to lodge complaints regularly about petty issues. This is shown after he received a hangnail from Plexiglass vacuum cuffs, which have no sharp edges, while capturing four goblins while on patrol with Holly Short.

Grub often threatens Trouble with telling their 'Mommy' about the menial aspects of Trouble that bother him. He is notorious for wanting his mother, and claims to have single-handedly defeated Butler, the most dangerous human the fairies have ever been in contact with. According to Holly and the first book, Artemis Fowl, Grub's war story is actually just the story of Butler letting him go unharmed as a fisherman would a minnow. The details given in the book are that Butler wanted to send a message to the fairies trying to infiltrate Fowl Manor, and so gave the message for Grub to deliver.

Grub would like nothing better than to have a desk job for the rest of his life. This is clearly stated in Page 55 of Artemis fowl: The Opal Deception.

Trouble Kelp

Main article: Trouble Kelp

Trouble Kelp enters the series as a captain in LEPrecon, one who is constantly pestered by his younger brother, Grub. He does try to take care of Grub regardless of his annoyance, and when it comes down to desperate times, he thinks of Grub and his other subordinants before himself, which is probably one of the reasons he is one of the most decorated officers of the LEP. He is good friends with Holly, though this is not mentioned until about the third book. In book 7 it is revealed he went on a date with her. He makes several other appearances throughout the series and during Holly's three-year absence in The Lost Colony, he becomes Commander.

Opal Koboi

Main article: Opal Koboi

Opal Koboi is a narcissistic pixie genius and the main antagonist of the series. She uses her intelligence to indulge in criminal activities, such as in Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception.^[4] Foaly is often portrayed as jealous of her genius ideas and inventions. She is responsible for putting her fathers business out of business and founding her own company, Koboi Laboratories. She made her fortune in this business, which funded everything she did, and paid for her hospital care for a coma during the beginning of Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception. She attempts to create a war between humans and fairies and undergoes surgery in The Opal Deception. This includes getting a pituitary gland and rounded ears. However, getting a pituitary gland slowly reduced her magical abilities until at the end of Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception where she uses the last of her magic to mesmerize an Italian woman into thinking Opal was her daughter. Opal Koboi is responsible for the death of Commander Root and General Scalene. She almost killed Holly, Artemis and Butler as well.

Billy Kong

Billy Kong (born Jonah Lee)
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 5: Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Human
Gender	Male

Billy Kong is introduced in Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony. He was born in the early seventies, as Jonah Lee. His family lived in the beach town of Malibu, California, and his family was originally from Taiwan. His mother’s name was Annie, and his brother’s name was Eric. He has once killed a friend with a kitchen knife. He is also described as having colorful hair spiked up.

In the early eighties, when Billy Kong was still known as Jonah Lee, and when he was living with his mother and brother, his mother had to take up two jobs for a living. Jonah would be left with Eric, 16 years old at the time, in the evenings. One night, when Jonah was watching the television, Eric came home all bloody. This piqued Jonah’s interest, and Eric decides to tell his little brother a tale that will keep his little brother out of trouble and danger. Eric tells Jonah that he and his friends were attacked by demons— creatures who are human by day and monsters by night. According to Eric, they attack humans and are able to peel their faces off like masks. In truth, Eric had simply been seeing a girlfriend of the local gang leader, and the gang leader had found out. That night, the gang leader sent out his gang after Eric, and Eric had been hurt, but he still got away. He spouted the demon story so that Jonah would stay at home at night, keep the doors and windows locked, and not go outside at night and get in danger.

Eric was finally killed in a gang fight one night and Jonah was forced to believe that demons did not exist, beginning to realise his brother had made up the story. However, later as Billy Kong, he becomes involved in the demon-catching plan of Minerva Paradizo’s. This causes him to lose his grip on reality, and he believes once again that demons killed his brother. The specimen of the demon that Minerva abducts happens to be Nº1, a warlock demon who is not at all bloodthirsty.^[5] Billy Kong, the ever vengeful and violent murderer, decides to kill Nº1 and in the process not only jeopardises Fowl’s and Minerva’s plans, but also Nº1’s life.

The last mention of Billy Kong was when Butler (disguised, and with Minerva) turned him in to the police for an old murder in Taipei, where he is wanted by the police as Jonah Lee.

Dr. Damon Kronski

Damon Kronski is the leader of a cult called the Extinctionists, who believe that any species that does not directly benefit humanity must be wiped out. Every year he holds a conference in which Extinctionists capture the last member of a species, evaluate its usefulness to humanity, and destroy it if it is judged useless. At the age of ten, Artemis Fowl sold him the last silky sifaka lemur, the only source of a cure for a magical disease that would supposedly infect Artemis' mother several years later. After losing the lemur, Kronski captures Holly Short and makes her the centerpiece of his latest conference. Kronski falls out of favor amongst the Extinctionists when an older Artemis from the future claims that Holly is not a new species but a young human girl. His fall from power is completed when an embarrassing video of a young Kronski being attacked by a koala surfaces on the Internet. It is revealed that Kronski was mesmerized by Opal Koboi to help capture the silky sifaka lemur, whose brain fluid had magical time-manipulating properties. He is apparently in a catatonic state when Holly uses the last bit of her magic to cure his anosmia and the first smell he ever smelled in his life is from the nearby vats of liquid pigeon droppings (described as a "squared and negative equivalent to the joy of seeing for the first time, or the euphoria of a first step" and "taking a ball of poison, dipping it in thorns and manure, wrapping it in a poultrice of festering bandages, boiling the whole lot in a cauldron of unspeakably vile excretions, and shoving it up one's nose").

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Loafers McGuire

Loafers McGuire
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 3: Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Human
Gender	Male

Loafers was a Chicago mob hit-man sent to capture Artemis Fowl and bring him back, on behalf of the Antonelli crime family, hired out by Jon Spiro. Hailing from Kilkenny in Ireland, his real name is Aloysius McGuire, but he thinks Loafers sounds more Mafia-like than Aloysius. His five-foot frame is covered in tattoos, because "every time I complete a job, I get one." Loafers also carries a notebook of witticisms he has made—oddly enough, something Artemis Fowl considered compiling after being at a loss for words when Holly slugged him in the first book. Loafers was recruited with Mo Digence (Mulch Diggums under an alias). During the hit, Mulch betrays him to Artemis. Despite Loafers' attempts to gain control of the situation. Loafers was quickly subdued by Juliet and later mind-wiped without his tattoos, then relocated to Kenya as Nuru.

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Nº1

Nº1
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 5: Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony
Last appearance	Book 7: Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Demon (Warlock)
Gender	Male

Nº1 is an apprentice warlock demon (imp) Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony from the Artemis Fowl series by Irish fiction author Eoin Colfer.

Nº1 is a bit of an oddity, even for a warlock. He detests many demon traditions, including eagerness to warp and discrimination against imps. He even had nightmares about the spirits of the dead animals he had eaten coming to him and pleading. He first (accidentally) used magic in a dispute with Leon Abbot, the head of the demons, when he turned a wooden poker from the fireplace into stone and penetrated Abbot's armour after Abbot had challenged him to do so. Leon Abbot tried to kill him by mesmerising him to jump in the volcano on Hybras. This, however, failed to kill Nº1, instead successfully sending him to Earth.

He was then kidnapped by Minerva Paradizo. Before he was liberated, Nº1 developed the gift of tongues in a conversation with Billy Kong, in which he shrieked, "How can I talk straight, you son of a three-legged dog? I don't speak Taiwanese!" in perfectly fluent Taiwanese. He was liberated by Artemis and his allies, and later played a part in saving both Minerva and Hybras. He used his power of the "gargoyle's touch" to free Qwan, and was one of the five in the magic circle that brought Hybras back to Earth at the end of the book. He allowed Qweffor to seize complete control of Leon Abbot's body, to the delight of the newly freed warlock.

N˚1, though intelligent, is somewhat childish in many of his habits. He is shown to be quite naive at times, misinterpreting the implications of words said, or directed at him. He enjoys stating the obvious, and explaining things of little relevance. He is extremely docile, even by Warlock standards, and for a good portion of book five, possessed very little self confidence or pride, often wishing himself away when he was being bullied, rather than wishing the actual bullies away. However, at the end of The Lost Colony, he stands up against Abbot, thus implying that he was becoming stronger.

His mentor is Qwan. According to Qwan, Nº1 is the most powerful warlock ever to exist. On Hybras, Qwan states that "In 10 years, he will be able to move the island on his own", when at that time it took five magical beings to move the island. Foaly once said that he sounded like a cheap romance novel, as he talks with medieval vocabulary learned from the book Leon Abbot brought to Hybras and the fact he used an over-romanticized phrase in front of him ("...I have no idea where we are and where we're going, but I already feel more at home than I ever have"). When agitated, Nº1 uses a large number of synonyms to release his stress. He also has a soft spot for a demoness with red markings similar to his own, who he believes might be his mother.

In Time Paradox he plays the major role of sending Artemis Fowl II and Holly Short back in time and anchoring them so they can come back with the lemur.

In Atlantic Complex Turnball Root attempts to force N˚1 to keep his human wife, who is dying of old age, young forever.

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Minerva Paradizo

Main article: Minerva Paradizo

Minerva Paradizo was (in the beginning of Book 5) a 12 year old criminal genius who captures the imp Nº1 and tries to present him as her project for the Nobel prize award in Stockholm. She was younger than Artemis, but, due to him returning from Limbo three years late, is now the same age. She believes she can outsmart him when he tries to save the magical world from discovery. According to Butler at the end of book five, she has "become quite the beauty", and has developed feelings for Artemis.

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Qwan

Qwan
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 5: Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony Book 6: (mentioned)
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Demon (Warlock)
Gender	Male

Qwan is the last remaining member of the original ring of warlocks. He is the mentor of Qweffor and Nº1, and was imprisoned in stone with all the other warlocks (except Qweffor who was knocked into a volcano by Abbot) while trying to move Hybras into Limbo. Many years later he and the other warlocks were found by humans, who thought the warlocks were statues, and were then transported to Taipei 101 as part of an exhibit until Nº1 set Qwan free. Nº1 tried to free the others until Qwan informed him the rest had died. Qwan also guided Artemis, Holly, Nº1, and Qweffor in saving Hybras. Despite being over 10,000 years old chronologically, he has a spritely sense of humour similar to and on par with Foaly and Holly's. He is a master Warlock, and led the other Warlocks in the spell that lifted Hybras out of time.

Qweffor

Qweffor
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 5: Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Demon (Warlock)
Gender	Male

Qweffor is, as of Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony, Qwan's warlock apprentice. His body was merged with Leon Abbot's after Abbot pushed him into lava during the spell being performed to lift Hybras out of time. However, he temporarily gained control of Abbot's body and helped save Hybras. Nº1 allowed him to take permanent control of Abbot's body, to the delight of the apprentice, who admired Abbot's body, physique, and good genes. The only side effect was that this control was not complete. Qweffor had twitches, shakes and loss of bowel function until Abbot's soul was removed entirely and placed into a guinea pig. This condition became commonly referred to as "Abbot's revenge".

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Julius Root

Main article: Julius Root

Commander Julius Root is the Commander of the LEPrecon and has taken a slight dislike to Captain Holly Short but revealed a deep likening for her later in the series. He was killed in Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception in a trick by Opal Koboi.^[6]

Turnball Root

Turnball Root
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	First short story in The Artemis Fowl Files called LEPrecon
Last appearance	Book 7 Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Elf
Gender	Male

Turnball Root is the elder brother of Julius Root. Until recently, Turnball had only appeared in a short story featured in an exclusive edition of the Time Paradox but has recently been used as the evil master mind in book 7, the Atlantis Complex. In it he kills Commander Vinyáya, escapes from jail and attempts to kidnap Nº1 to grant his human wife Leonor eternal life. He fails and he and his wife die, piloting an ambulance with a bomb into a deep sea trench. Known accomplices are Unix the sprite, Bobb Ragby, a dwarf, Ching Mayle, goblin and Leonor, his human wife. In the course of the book, he uses thrall runes used to enslave. He uses one on his wife, on Vishby, his jail guard, whom he later kills and on Captain Holly Short and Artemis Fowl II. While Artemis escapes the runes power by goading Bobb Ragby into electrocuting him, therefore making Orion,who was free of the runes control, the dominant personality, Captain Holly Short does not , obeying Turnball and subsequently knocking out Juliet Butler and forcing Orion Fowl to shoot her with Turnballs chemical gun.

Turnball was previously a captain serving in LEPrecon, but was forced to quit after he tried to flood a section of Haven City in order to wipe out a competitor who was muscling in on his illegal mining operation. His younger brother stopped him just in time, which forced Turnball to flee to the surface and spend over five centuries on the run, during which he had ninety-six residences, including a villa near Nice. After the incident, Turnball had his own page in LEPrecon's Criminally Insane section.

In LEPrecon, Turnball lures his brother Julius into a trap while testing Holly Short in the Tern Islands, wishing to end Julius's endless chase for him. Along with his two cronies, Bobb Ragby and Unix B'Lob, he traps Holly Short and Trouble Kelp inside human residence on the island and sets Holly up for Julius to "tag" Holly (which would cause Holly to fail her test) while Bobb and Unix had their rifles turned at him. Holly, however, manages to warn Julius and capture Turnball. After being captured, Turnball attempts to commit suicide by swallowing one of his Tunnel Blue spiders, which would rip his body apart from the inside. However, Julius "saves" his brother by forcing some coffee down Turnball's throat, which kills the spider.

Turnball dies in book 7.

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General Scalene

General Scalene
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 2: Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
Last appearance	Book 4: Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Goblin
Gender	Male

General Scalene is one of the commanding triad of the B'wa Kell, a criminal group of goblins, in the Artemis Fowl series.

The B'wa Kell does various works of illegal smuggling of various human merchandise. Scalene is first featured in the second Artemis Fowl book, Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident where he is flattered by Opal Koboi and Briar Cudgeon with the exaggerated title of "general". Koboi manipulates and involves Scalene and his gang in her plan to seize control of Haven City. They smuggle human-manufactured batteries into the Lower Elements to power their softnose lasers which they use in their attack on the city. After the failure of the rebellion, Scalene is incarcerated at Howler's Peak Goblin Correctional Facility.

In the fourth book, Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, Scalene has a minor role when he is visited in prison by Boohn, one of his thousands of nephews. Boohn covers his uncle in his own shedded skin, therefore able to disguise Scalene and allow him to escape from Howler's Peak. Scalene is then mesmerized by a crazed Opal Koboi, whose wit was behind the whole escape. She straps Scalene to a bomb and attracts her enemies, Julius Root and Holly Short, to meet with the dazed Scalene, still under her hypnotic influence. Short and Root are led into the trap. When the bomb detonates, Scalene and Root are both killed instantly, while Short narrowly escapes.

Gola Schweem

Gola Schweem
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 4: Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception (mentioned)
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Unknown
Gender	Female

Gola Schweem is a fictional character from the book Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception. Schweem indirectly taught Opal Koboi to go into a self-induced coma. Koboi first successfully accomplished the feat at the age of fourteen. Opal Koboi uses this knowledge to become catatonic for eleven months, while planning the destruction of her enemies.

Holly Short

Holly Short
Artemis Fowl character
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Elf
Gender	Female

Main article: Holly Short

Captain Holly Short is a female elf who at first worked for the LEP as a LEPrecon(reconnaissance). She is exactly 3 feet tall and is slightly shorter than the average height but such small difference can be great for the fairies. Holly Short is a talkative and sarcastic elf with an auburn crew cut and hazel eyes, as well as the pointy ears and nut-brown skin typical of her species. In Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident she is said to be about eighty years old. Holly is the first and only female officer in the organization LEPrecon. Her relationship with Artemis Fowl changes dramatically throughout the series. Starting with a hostile and untrusting relationship and progressing into respect and friendship.

Ark Sool

Ark Sool
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 4: Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
Last appearance	Book 7: Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Gnome
Gender	Male

Ark Sool is a fictional character in Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl series of novels.

Commander Ark Sool was the highest-ranking gnome in the Lower Elements Police, introduced in Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception. An unusually tall and thin gnome, without the usual love of golden jewellery, like rings, necklaces and piercings, he is a strict and stubborn adherer to regulations. His no-nonsense attitude often pits him against the centaur Foaly, the fairies' chief technical advisor, and inadvertently causes Sool to assume that Captain Holly Short was the only possible murderer of Commander Julius Root.

There is a dwarf saying that he 'wouldn't know what to do if his pants was on fire and he had a bucket of water', and a description that he was 'the king of red-tape'.

Throughout the book, he narrow-mindedly pursues Short without considering other possible suspects. In reality, Short was innocent; she had been set up by the pixie genius and megalomaniac Opal Koboi as part of her plans for revenge. Even after Holly is cleared of the crime, Sool intends to keep a close eye on her to catch any infractions. His promotion to LEPrecon Commander compels Captain Short to leave the LEP so she can serve the Fairy People without having her every action scrutinized. It should also be noted that Sool has few friends due to his domineering nature, and was the only one of the eight tribunal members who found Captain Short guilty. In the fifth book, Sool lost his position as head of the LEP after it was revealed that he planned to allow the eighth Fairy family (Demons) to die off. His successor is Trouble Kelp.

In book 7, he is one of Captain Turnball's henchmen, looking after his wife until Turnball escapes from prison.

Jon Spiro

Jon Spiro
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 3: Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Human
Gender	Male

Jon Spiro is a character from the Artemis Fowl series appearing only in Book 3, Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code. He is a notorious fictional Chicago businessman who owns the communications company Fission Chips. He has a bodyguard by the name of Arno Blunt.

Jon Spiro is a wealthy and shady businessman. He is a powerful business man with mob connections and it is thought that his company made it to the top with stolen research, but it was never proven. Jon Spiro is a power-hungry megalomaniac. A perfect example of his power going too far is the fact that he had the ballroom doors of the sunken Titanic recovered from the ocean floor and brought to the Spiro Needle to be used as his office doors. The Spiro Needle, owned by Spiro, is the headquarters for Fission Chips. He is shown to get very angry at times, taking it out on others.

As one of his assistants reveals once, Spiro has a brother, but does not want to mention his brother's existence.

He is described as "a middle-aged American, thin as a javelin, and barely taller than Artemis Fowl himself." He usually wears a white linen suit—his trademark—and a large amount of gold jewelry. He also wears an ID bracelet, which was a "birthday present to himself". He is on a strict diet, wearing a vitamin dispenser on his belt. He is revealed to have "gut problems" suggesting he has Ulcerative colitis or Crohn's Disease. Both diseases are triggered by stress, fitting his personality.

Artemis Fowl arranges a meeting with Jon Spiro at a renowned seafood restaurant to discuss his invention called the C Cube. During the meeting, however, Spiro outwits Artemis by disguising assassins in the restaurant where they have lunch. He stole the C Cube and left Arno Blunt, his bodyguard, to kill Artemis and Butler. Near the end of the book he is set up by Artemis Fowl and arrested by a SWAT Team.

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Chix Verbil

Chix Verbil
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 1: Artemis Fowl
Last appearance	Book 7: Artemis Fowl: Atlantis Complex
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Sprite
Gender	Male

Private Chix Verbil is an amorous sprite who first appears in the latter pages of Artemis Fowl, the first book of the series by the same name written by Eoin Colfer. Chix, like all sprites, has wings, green skin, and loves to fly.

In the first Artemis Fowl novel, Chix Verbil has a very small role; all that is required of him is to:

• Blow up the door holding the troll, or as he says it "blowing the door off its damn hinges."
• Stand guard over the ransom money, which he fails to do.

The book says on Chix, "But Chix Verbil's ill-fated quest to impress the dames is, once again, another story. In this particular tale, he serves only one purpose. And that is to melodramatically push the detonate button. Which he does, with great aplomb."

In Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, Chix Verbil shows himself to be an amateur Don Juan, and practices his moves unsuccessfully on Captain Holly Short while on a routine surveillance shift on Chute E37, a closed Parisian pressure elevator. While doing a routine flyby and thermal scan, two grey moving objects are detected. Immediately, Holly Short is in communication with Foaly, who admits that someone may have defeated his system, because when the thermal scan finds a grey zone it means that there are no living organisms. Holly quickly commands Chix to fly up to the surveillance pod, but Chix is too busy attempting to flirt with his attractive Captain to pay much attention. At that moment, a laser fired by the B'wa Kell Goblin Gang punctures a hole through his wing.

Sprites have seven major arteries in their wings and the wound is large enough to have ruptured at least three. It is life-threatening due to sprites' limited healing powers. Holly risks her life to go into the firefight and drag Chix to safety. She heals the wound, but the injury prevents Chix from flying long distances again. The healing makes Chix pledge a debt to Holly. He is in the very low rank of Private in this book.

In the fourth book Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, Chix Verbil (now a captain) interviews kleptomaniac dwarf Mulch Diggums, who breaks into a shuttleport so that he can steal a shuttle. After telling Chix that Holly Short is alive but in danger and that Opal Koboi has escaped, Chix reluctantly allows Mulch to "knock him out" and steal a shuttle (fulfilling his debt to Holly, as Mulch was doing it to help her). Later, Chix then relays Mulch's message to Foaly, who checks on Opal Koboi's status, which leads to the discovery that the Koboi in the clinic was a clone, which prompts Commander Ark Sool to order the launch of the supersonic shuttle.

In book 7, he receives a message from Holly about the space probe heading for Atlantis. He does not tell Commander Kelp about it immediately because he thinks it's a prank message from his poker buddy Crooz.

Raine Vinyáya

Wing Commander Raine Vinyáya
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 1: Artemis Fowl
Last appearance	Book 7: Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Elf
Gender	Female

Wing Commander Raine ^[7] Vinyáya is an elf in the Artemis Fowl book series. She is on the fairy Council and is the council chairwoman of the covert organization, Section Eight.

Appearing in minor roles or briefly mentioned in most of the earlier books (completely absent from Eternity Code) where she is consistently supportive of Holly Short and Julius Root, Vinyáya's first major appearance is in Book 5: Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony in which Holly is recruited by Section Eight.^[8] Captain Short was one of her pupils for flying courses in the LEP Academy. She quipped in Holly's report that "she could pilot a shuttle pod through the gap between your teeth", both a compliment and a subtle jibe, in reference to the fact that the first time Holly flew a shuttle she crash-landed it within six feet of Vinyáya.

Commander Vinyáya also stops dyeing her hair by the fifth book, Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony, revealing her natural colour to be silver.^[8] According to Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, Vinyáya is an accomplished marksman, demanding an electric rifle to help shoot the goblins with; Trouble Kelp later comments that "she hadn't missed yet".

In book 7, Commander Raine Vinyáya is killed by a space probe commandeered by Turnball Root. It is revealed she has a brother called Tarpon Vinyáya, who is the warden in the prison at Atlantis who inadvertently allowed Turnball Root to escape.

It is revealed in the first chapter of "The Atlantis Complex", her first name is Raine.

Vishby

Vishby is a water elf prison guard who lives in Atlantis. He is first mentioned in the fourth book when he is guarding Mulch Diggums in a prison shuttle on its way to the jails in Atlantis. His second and last appearance is in The Atlantis Complex where he is a thrall of the criminal Turnball Root. As a thrall, he gets Turnball get all the materials he needed to escape jail.Vishby dies after Turnball leaves him to be crushed by his space probe in the 7th book.

Mikhael Vassikin

Mikhael Vassikin
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 2: Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
Last appearance	Book 2: Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Human
Gender	Male

Mikhael Vassikin is a member of the Russian Mafiya.,^[2] one of two assigned to the guarding of Artemis Fowl I in Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident. He also said to be very dangerous.

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Giovanni Zito

Giovanni Zito
Artemis Fowl character
First appearance	Book 4: Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception
Created by	Eoin Colfer
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Species	Human
Gender	Male

Giovanni Zito is a wealthy Italian and dedicated environmentalist. He is chosen by Opal Koboi as her adopted parent in "The Opal Deception", when she mesmerizes him into believing he is her father; using this, Koboi is able to obtain great technology to reveal the existence of fairies. Zito is Sicilian, and a very good friend of Artemis Fowl, as in the fifth book he gives him passes for an opera in exchange for a case of Bordeaux (so Artemis may witness a possible demon materialization).

See also

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• Butler family (Artemis Fowl)

References

1. ^ {{subst:AF Cite Book | publisher =Hyperion Books for Children | booknumber =5 | pages =yes | startpage =191 | endpage = | month =August | year =2008 }}
2. ^ ^{a b} "Prologue" (paperback). Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident. Artemis Fowl. 2 (1 ed.). Puffin. 2002. ISBN 0-141-31213-0. 
3. ^ "Chapter 16: Point of Impact" (hardback). Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony. Artemis Fowl. 5 (1 ed.). Puffin. 2006. ISBN 0-141-38268-6. 
4. ^ (hardback) Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception. Artemis Fowl. 4 (1 ed.). Puffin. 2005. ISBN 0-141-38164-7. 
5. ^ {{subst:AF Cite Book | publisher =Hyperion Books for Children | booknumber =5 | pages =yes | startpage =195 | endpage =206 | month =August | year =2008 }}
6. ^ "Chapter 3: Nearly Departed" (hardback). Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception. Artemis Fowl. 4 (1 ed.). Puffin. 2005. ISBN 0-141-38164-7. 
7. ^ http://www.artemisfowl.co.uk/downloads/atlantiscomplex_chapter1.pdf
8. ^ ^{a b} {{subst:AF Cite Book | publisher =Hyperion Books for Children | booknumber =5 | pages =yes | startpage =34 | endpage =53 | month =August | year =2008 }}