| Domovoi Butler | |
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| Artemis Fowl character | |
| First appearance | Book 1: Artemis Fowl |
| Created by | Eoin Colfer |
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| Species | Human |
| Gender | Male |
Domovoi Butler (known until The Eternity Code as simply Butler) is a fictional character in the Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. Known for his skill and strength, he is the bodyguard and mentor of the main character of the series, Artemis Fowl II.
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Butler is a member of the Butler family, a family in the Artemis Fowl series best known for its relationship with the Fowls. The Butlers have been serving the Fowls as bodyguards since the Norman conquest.[1]
A Eurasian man with deep blond hair and blue eyes. He stands at almost seven feet tall and weighs 90 kilograms (200 lb), though his actual weight may be more than that given his considerable musculature. With his black suit and shaven head, he is described as "the essence of understated efficiency".[2] Like all Butlers, he was trained in Madame Ko's Bodyguard Academy, where he was trained in Cordon Bleu cooking, marksmanship, a blend of different martial arts, emergency medicine, and information technology.[3] He also has a blue diamond tattoo on one shoulder, thus indicating that he graduated from Madame Ko's Academy. His primary weapon is a SIG Sauer 9 mm handgun, but is known to carry an assortment of other weapons as well, including a derringer, several throwing knives, and a ball bearing cosh.
Little is known about Butler's family, besides his younger sister Juliet. It is revealed in Artemis Fowl and Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident that Butler's uncle (the Major) was Artemis Fowl I's bodyguard.[4] However, in the explosion of the Fowl Star, the Major was killed and his body turned up in a morgue. Also, in Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, it is revealed that Butler is the third best-trained martial artist in the world, after only to two people, and that he is related to one of them. However, it is never specified who this relative is.
In Artemis Fowl, it is revealed that Virgil Butler was the first Butler to be assigned to a Fowl, in this case Lord Hugo de Fole.
Butler is involved in many significant events during the series.
In the first book, during the siege of Fowl Manor, Butler disarms the elite squadron of the LEPretrieval fairy police force,[5] and becomes the first known human to fight a troll, win, and survive.[6]
In Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, Butler takes a bullet to the chest during an ambush by Jon Spiro and his colleagues. He is cryogenically cooled for several hours before being healed by Holly Short of the Lower Elements Police. The healing uses up some of his own life-force, making him appear and feel about fifteen years older. Afterward, he is subjected to a "selective mind wipe" by the Lower Elements Police to erase all fairy-related memories, as they viewed him and Artemis as a threat to fairy civilization (however, his memories are restored in Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception). Also, Butler was subjected to a 'Dewer' treatment, which was taking fat from a dwarf's behind (later, revealed as Mulch Diggums) and injecting it to another area to make him appear younger.
It is mentioned in the last few pages of Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony that twelve year old Minerva Paradizo gets Butler to start reading fiction. Artemis notices classics including Moby Dick, Gormenghast, The Art of War, and Gone with the Wind[7] on the book shelf of Butler's residence in the fictional village of Duncade, Ireland,[8] where he was awaiting Artemis's return.
A domovoi - literally, "he of the house" - is a house spirit in Slavic folklore.
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