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He thought he had everything in life- brains, respect, and a great haircut. But that was before half his body was brutally destroyed in a terrible plumbing incident.

To be fair, it wasn't just a spontaneously stupid mistake. Au contraire, it was a bunch of ruthless carnies; the worst kind, from a horrible travelling carnival called Billybob's Travelling Carnival.

The now 20-year-old Artemis was left for dead after a botched attempt to extort the under-appreciated circus folk. After failed and failed attempts to reap money in other ways, the carnies had been his last resort. On the verge of bankruptcy, he had finally sunk to the lowest he could go. He stole their caravan and sold it for $10.50.

The 'rubes', however, had taken a swift revenge. Artemis had far underestimated the power of carnies. They had passed the word through other sideshow freaks and eventually a 20-year-old black haired pale skinned boy had been identified. So, they tracked him down and snuck into his squalid apartment, and did the thing that carnies do best, other than being freaky: they jammed the toilet. With explosives. Then, they left the apartment.

Artemis was far unaware of this nasty payback. And, when nature called, he answered. It was a disgusting scene. Blood, guts and toilet paper sprayed everywhere. When Butler came home from his football stadium security job, he assessed the situation and decided that the best thing to do would be to call in a favour.

Early on in his youth he had helped imprison a mad genius scientist. He moved what was left of Artemis's mangled body to a cryogenics lab and took off to Azkaban prison, a super maximum maximum-security prison on the outskirts of Norway.

After an intense three hours of interrogation, Butler and the mad scientist, Dr Furious, came to an agreement. In exchange for his freedom, the Doctor would create a new body for Artemis.

Arriving later that week at the cryogenics lab, the Doctor prescribed a new nose, arm, leg, spleen and heart for the frozen Artemis.

He set at once to work, and created a fantastically powerful brand spanking metallic robotic nose, arm, leg, spleen and heart for Artemis.