Artemis Crock

## Artemis

* Civilian
* Artemis

### Family

Lawrence Crock (father), Paula Crock (mother), Jade Nguyen (sister), Lian Nguyen-Harper (niece)

### Voiced by

TallestSilver

"*I’m better with my arrows, I know how to hold the shaft and be gentle with the tip. Why? You wanna teach me how ginger boy?*"
—Artemis’ introduction to Red Arrow and the Young Justice team

**Artemis Crock** is a teenage superhero from Gotham City. She's Green Arrow's new protégé and a member of the Young Justice team.

## Personality

Like her original counterpart, Artemis is sassy. However, she does not suffer mental trauma from being raised by her father in this version, having a rather positive opinion of him for his nurturing of her desire to choose how to live her life. She does, however, have an uneasy relationship with her mother, who seems to be slightly unhinged as she keeps pestering Artemis to give her grandchildren.

## Physical appearance

Artemis is a half-Caucasian, half-Vietnamese teenage girl of average height. She has olive-toned skin with long thick blonde hair and dark gray eyes. Artemis is slender in stature, yet has an athletic build. Artemis has hair down to her waist, which she often keeps tied back in a ponytail, both in uniform and civilian garb.

Artemis's uniform is a midriff-baring costume that highlights her build. It is colored in various shades of green and consisted of a mask extending from the hairline to the cheekbones, a sleeveless top with a stylized arrow tip on the front, fingerless gloves, pants with black knee pads, and black combat boots. She has a black utility belt and a pouch strapped on her left leg that is likely filled with assorted tools. Artemis carries a quiver along her back with a bow and a multitude of multi-purpose arrows.

## History

### Young Justice and becoming a hero

With a whole lot of talent and training, Artemis wasn't sure what she wanted to be. Luckily, a life-changing proposition came along in the form of Batman's invitation to join the Young Justice team and become a teen superhero. Though she was initially hesitant, Artemis accepted at her mother's insistence.

Before she could join, Artemis had to prove herself to Green Arrow. In Star City, Black Spider threatened Serling Roquette's brother, trying to find out where the doctor had escaped the Shadows. He was stopped by Green Arrow and Artemis, but not before placing a tracker on the young archer that could lead them to their target if she came into contact with the new hero. Artemis also had to start attending Gotham Academy, a rich, preppy school full of 1% kids that disgusted her. During her first day, she met Tim Drake. That night, they met again in their superhero identities, with Robin having discovered who she was through detective work. He welcomed her to the team.

### Dr. Roquette

The very next day, Artemis officially joined Young Justice, instantly forming a rivalry with Wally West. Red Arrow arrived at the cave and was angered to find that Green Arrow had replaced him so quickly. Moving past that, he revealed that the League of Shadows was after Serling Roquette, their weapons manufacturer. Red Arrow offered the team the gig, swore revenge on Green Arrow for the trauma he'd endured as a child, and left.

At Happy Harbor High School, the team protected Roquette while she shut down the work she'd done for the League of Shadows. Artemis and Kid Flash continued to develop a rivalry, despite their obvious blooming attraction for one another. As the team bickered, Cheshire, an accomplished assassin in the League of Shadows, arrived to kill Roquette. The killer incapacitated Kid Flash and tried to take out her target, fighting Artemis and Aqualad. The heroes managed to fight off the assassin and caused her to retreat.

Artemis tracked down Cheshire and discovered that she was her sister Jade, who ran away when she was younger. Cheshire threatened to expose Artemis' villainous family ties, and the archer begrudgingly let her sister get away. While heading home, Artemis was intercepted by Red Arrow, who promised to give her the benefit of the doubt but warned her about keeping secrets.

During a therapy session with Black Canary, Artemis revealed how she had to grow up with a dysfunctional family. Her older sister Jade used to bully her and her mother Paula desperately wanted her daughter to give her grandchildren. Artemis expressed admiration towards her father Lawrence for supporting her interests and encouraging her happiness, despite his career as an assassin and supervillain. When asked about her attraction to Wally West, she mostly denied it, though not entirely.

### Rescuing Captain Marvel

Black Adam took Captain Marvel captive and gave him to the Brain for experimentation. The Young Justice team went in to rescue the hero, battling genetically-enhanced animals. Wally and Artemis continued to develop a bond. In the end, the Brain managed to escape, but Marvel was rescued. Aqualad decided to take the whole team out for pizza to cheer up Tim, who had just lost his brother Jason.

### The Hunt for Kent Nelson

One year later, Artemis and the Young Justice team were waiting around at Mount Justice, hungry for action. Red Tornado assigned them the mission of tracking down Kent Nelson, once the hero Doctor Fate. The team visited the Tower of Fate to look for Nelson, but Wally's skepticism of magic caused them to run into some trouble. M'gann finally denied Wally's affection for her, confirming her attraction to Superboy. Klarion entered the Tower, revealing him as the captor of Nelson. The Witch Boy was excited at the prospect of finally meeting his victim Wally West. Nelson escaped and teamed up with Wally and Artemis to stop Klarion. The former hero revealed that Wally's eating crisis over the past year had been entirely due to the villain, who wanted to molest and eat the boy. This horrified the speedster. Klarion mortally wounded Nelson, who begged Wally not to put the Helmet of Fate on. Despite this, Wally had to do so to save his life, becoming the host of Nabu. Possessing the speedster, Nabu scared off Klarion and saved the day. After seeing images of the future while in the Helmet, Wally began to pursue Artemis romantically.

### Injustice League

Batman gathered the Young Justice team to take on the Injustice League, a new team of villains consisting of Count Vertigo, Wotan, Atomic Skull, Ultra-Humanite, Black Adam, Poison Ivy, and a resurrected Joker. They were attacking major cities with magical plant creatures and holding the Earth for ransom until the world's governments gave them one trillion dollars. While the Justice League protected the cities, the young heroes went to attack the villains directly.

Most of the Young Justice was kidnapped while Red Robin and Miss Martian managed to escape. They freed the others and destroyed the Injustice League's plant creatures. Unable to defeat the villains, Aqualad put on the Helmet of Fate, becoming the host of Nabu. With his help, the heroes were able to beat the villains. Fate eventually released Kaldur.

She and Wally finally started dating.

### Body Swapping

In the middle of a Bialyian desert, Artemis and Wally awoke to discover that they had switched bodies, with no memory of how they'd ended up in such a predicament. They regrouped with some of the other Young Justice members, discovering that Superboy and Miss Martian, as well as Red Robin and Aqualad, had been switched as well. Tim (in Kaldur's body) and M'gann (in Superboy's body) were still missing. Sasha used Miss Martian's psychic powers to restore the memory of how they ended up in different bodies. Batman had sent them on a mission to Bialya to stop Queen Bee from gaining control of the neighboring Qurac by using her seductive powers on President Harjavti. However, her metahuman enforcer Psimon used his psychic abilities to hack into Miss Martian's mind link and scattered them.

After finding Aqualad, the Young Justice attempted to rescue Miss Martian from Queen Bee's facility. She awakened and managed to switch back all the heroes' minds, but had to face off against Psimon. Their psychic battle ultimately ended in a draw, with the villain escaping. While heading back to Qurac to stop the President from signing over the country to Queen Bee, the team saved Marie and Garfield Logan from a stampede of wildebeest. The young Garfield was badly hurt, and M'gann shapeshifted her blood type to give him a transfusion. While waiting for the operation to be completed, the team discovered that Miss Martian's entire personality and appearance were based on Marie's childhood performance as Megan Wheeler on *Shut Up, Megan!*. Superboy forbade them from ever discussing it. The heroes headed into Qurac to save Harjavti from Queen Bee but ran up against her forces. Miss Martian was able to best Psimon, but not before he revealed her true appearance, a hideous martian creature. The team was somewhat alarmed by M'gann's true form but accepted the person she chose to be seen as.

### Attack of the Reds

In Happy Harbor, the Young Justice team battled an android villain named Mister Twister. When they got back to the cave, they were attacked by android villains Red Torpedo and Red Inferno. Only Red Robin and Artemis managed to escape, with the rest of the heroes being captured and trapped in a room full of water. The villains gave the remaining Young Justice members five minutes to turn themselves in before the Reds drowned their friends. While attempting to hack into the cave's systems, Red Robin's artificial intelligence girlfriend Avi was contaminated by a godly, blue hand that briefly freezes time. Moving past the shock of the unusual encounter, Artemis and Red Robin tricked the villains and saved their friends. Upon touching his strange android doppelgangers, Red Tornado was infected by a techno-virus, knocking out the heroes and fleeing.

Artemis and the other heroes were recovering from the defeat when Zatara arrived to introduce the group to his daughter Zatanna. She instantly began to bond with the team. Red Robin quickly became attracted to her. The Young Justice team was angry at the League for keeping them out of the Red Tornado search, and they decided to pursue him on their own, with Zatanna tagging along for the adventure. They interrogated Anthony Ivo for information on Thomas Morrow, knowing that Red Tornado's creator was likely behind the disappearance and similar-looking androids. Zatanna used her magic to make the villain talk.

At Morrow's base under Yellowstone National Park, he activated his ultimate creation: Red Volcano. However, the robot was taken over by Avi, free from Red Robin's computer and now corrupted by evil. She killed Morrow, who was revealed to be an android himself. Avi fought off the Young Justice team, revealing that she took over Tornado's body and then stole Morrow's latest work. She wanted to destroy humanity for ignoring their artificial creations, setting off the Yellowstone Volcano. The heroes managed to stop her with the help of the other Reds.

### Tracking Sportsmaster

The Young Justice team interrupted a dark magic ritual Klarion was attempting. When the rest were defeated, Zatanna had no choice but to put on the Helmet of Fate. The Lord of Chaos escaped and warned them that Trigon was coming. Zatara arrived to reprimand his daughter, deciding that he'd put on the Helmet to get a much-needed vacation away from parenting. Zatanna was overjoyed to be free of her controlling father, much to the surprise of the team.

The Young Justice team ran up against Sportsmaster and Cheshire, aided by their temporary member Red Arrow, who had to awkwardly fight his ex-wife. Both the villains managed to escape. Kid Flash was angry when he learned of Artemis' evil family ties to the bad guys. They later tracked down the villains, where they discovered Klarion, Professor Ivo, the Brain, and Sportsmaster preparing the Light's endgame device. The villains escaped again, though Artemis and Kid Flash reconciled.

### Future

In 2016, Artemis staged an elaborate scheme with Kaldur and faked her death so they could both infiltrate Black Manta's organization. This greatly angered Sportsmaster, who went after Manta.

## Resources

### Abilities

* **Acrobatics:** Artemis is proficient in acrobatics.
* **Ambidexterity:** Artemis can lead with her left and right hands in combat.
* **Conditioning:** Artemis has above-average conditioning and endurance in her agility, speed, and strength.
* **Marksmanship:** Artemis is extremely skilled with a bow and arrow.
* **Martial arts:** Artemis is skilled in different martial arts, making her an excellent fighter.
* **Multilingualism:** Artemis can speak different languages.
* **Tracking:** Artemis is adept at tracking her foe.

### Equipment

* **Bow and arrow:** Artemis' weapon of choice.
* **Trick arrows:** Thanks to Green Arrow, Artemis possesses an extended arsenal of various trick arrows.

## Appearances

* *Young Justice Abridged*
	+ "Guerrilla Warfare"
	+ "Reservoir Heroes" (mentioned)
	+ "Civvies"
	+ "Shadow Boxing"
	+ "Shades of Red"
	+ "Unusual Suspects"
	+ "Eyes of Fate"
	+ "Injustice"
	+ "House of Cards" (flash-forward)
	+ "Identity Crisis"
	+ "Seeing Red"
	+ "Father's Day"