Mulch Diggums

Mulch Diggums is a character in the 2020 film Artemis Fowl. He is a dwarf employed by Commander Root to break into Fowl Manor and rescue Holly Short.
==Background==
===Personality===
Diggums decided to turn to a life of crime at an early age. He is a wisecracker always ready with a joke and loves nothing more than a chance to put one over on the Lower Elements Police. His rivalry with Commander Root goes back decades. He is also the one who narrates the plots of the film, having decided to break the oath of secrecy by telling MI6 what happened.
Throughout the events of the film, Mulch Diggums is ordered by Commander Root to rescue Holly Short by breaking into Fowl Manor. Once there, however, he is distracted by a wall safe which turns out to contain the most valuable fairy treasure of all: the Aculos. While Holly and Artemis learn of their alliance, Diggums uses this distraction to steal the Aculos, and Commander Root then realizes Mulch's theft. Artemis later enlists Diggums' help when he needs to conduct a theft of his own.
==Role in the film==
Mulch is first seen being arrested by the police accusing him for his crimes where he was interrogated at the M16 Red Fort Interrogation Unit at the Thames Estuary in London where he was interrogated there. The interrogator talks to Mulch of what he was doing near Fowl Manor, telling him what exactly happened at Fowl Manor or he will be permanently imprisoned, to which Mulch replies that he is just a talented tunneler who stole the Aculos, which the interrogator replies to him, trying to explain to him what this object is precisely. Mulch replies to him that the Aculos is a weapon so powerful and mysterious which can barely be imagined, which the interrogator thinks he is lying which Mulch attempts to prove that the Aculos exists. He then tells Mulch that all he sees is that there was highly unusual seismic activity around Fowl Manor and reports from a crazed fisherman of fairies, which Mulch tells him that the fisherman saw something he wasn't meant to, which the interrogator tells him that he is a common thief who is affiliated with an uncommon thief, telling him about Artemis Fowl, the son of Artemis Fowl Sr., as Mulch plans to show the interrogator the infinite possibilities of magic by telling the story of Artemis Fowl so that he can prove it.
At Haven City, Mulch then narrates that this is the part where he takes part throughout the story at Haven City where he approaches a fairy named Holly Short whom he thinks that she would be his sidekick, but after Short found out that Mulch stole his wallet, she becomes furious of him for taking his stuff just before walking away. Later, the interrogator asks Mulch who is in his prison cell of what happened next, which the latter replies to him that Artemis Fowl captured a living fairy just as he tells him that Artemis wanted the Aculos to save his father, followed by Mulch saying that the fate of both worlds, the real world and Haven City, lies both in the hands of Artemis.
Mulch later continues telling the story, saying that the next piece of Artemis' plan was set in motion, knowing that the fairies are unable to enter Fowl Manor, telling the interrogator about the true hero of the tale of Artemis Fowl. Back in the story, Root tells Foaly to recruit Mulch who is arrested at Howler's Peak, the worst prison in Haven City where he was arrested for 164 years. Mulch, who is in his prison cell with a group of goblins, is seen listening to music that humans listen to while wondering which thoughts lie between the two impenetrable windows, telling one of them that tunneling is what he has to do as an occupational hazard just as the other goblins laugh at him just before telling the guards to release him from his cell. Showing him the fire, one of the goblins tells him that his species is fireproof just before a group of LEP officers release him from his cell while planning to negotiate with Commander Root who suddenly launches him into the real world. He later approaches Root who tasks him to dig his way into Fowl Manor and rescue Holly Short and while talking to her, he tells him that he wants to be normal like the rest of his kind and be accepted, which she replies to him that a giant tunneling dwarf is exactly what she needs immediately, telling him that he should either rescue Holly or he will go back to jail again. Just as Mulch continues explaining to Root about how long he was in jail just before Root tasks Foaly to get Mulch to do his task.
As Mulch enters Fowl Manor, Domovoi Butler notices Mulch inside, describing him as a large dwarf. Just as Mulch continues exploring the portrait gallery, he finds a portrait of Artemis' father and discovers a safe, the TXTL 5000, planning to open it which he suddenly opens it to reveal the Aculos inside. Suddenly when the troll arrives deployed by a group of L.E.P.RECON officers, Mulch swallows the Aculos and later confronts him in battle to which the troll suddenly falls from high below via chandelier, resulting the troll to be either killed or knocked down unconsciously. With Dom revived, Artemis asks Mulch if he has the Aculos, which he tells him that he has it. Just as the Time Freese collapses, Mulch manages to escape into Haven City to avoid getting killed during the collapsing effect.
Back at his prison cell, Mulch's interrogator gives him an opportunity to redeem himself so he can be free in exchange for capturing Artemis Sr., but the Fowls' helicopter break a hatch that allows Mulch to be freed from his prison cell while the interrogator sends a lockdown into the Interrogation Unit with Mulch being rescued by Artemis Sr, Domovoi, and Artemis Jr. with Holly flying alongside the Fowls' helicopter. They later fly into the sunset to continue their mission to hunt down Opal Koboi's associates.
==Gallery==
Artemis Fowl - Mulch Diggums.jpg
==External links==
*Mulch Diggums on Artemis Fowl Wiki.
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