Artemis Fowl/Awesome

"Holly: "Pull.""
 * Artemis and Butler manage to have these moments en masse, though Foaly isn't too far behind either.
 * Butler in book one.
 * He didn't take it on "bare-handed" at all. He took it on  Which is even better.
 * The book itself got one
 * I was wondering what Artemis was doing looking for The Booke in the first place.
 * 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?"
 * The whole "The Lost Colony" is one CMOA after another
 * One personal favorite: Butler holding a trained killer with deadly martial arts to the wall, then throwing him across the room for Holly to shoot in mid-flight.

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

"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."
 * And as an addendum to that:

""Yes, sir," said Trouble, and fired."
 * The Lost Colony, when Artemis  I know, that scene is kinda tough to explain.
 * Doesn't make it any less awesome, though. Let me try to clarify:
 * In laymans terms, he shot a laser backwards in time.
 * The Opal Deception.


 * 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. Bad. Ass.
 * The climax of The Arctic Incident is a brilliant CMOA for Foaly.  All from inside a locked cell. It's probably the only adventure in which Artemis relies entirely on someone else's plan to save the day.
 * In The Atlantis Complex when  Only Artemis Fowl.
 * In The Opal Deception Holly pilots a shuttle Yes, being an ace pilot is a necessary plot skill.
 * In The Opal Deception Holly pilots a shuttle Yes, being an ace pilot is a necessary plot skill.