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| NOTE: Only information based on the Metro video game series version of Artyom should be added as the novel version of Artyom was not approved as Inconsistently Admirable. |
| “ | My mother told me I'd grow up to be a good man. 'Artyom', she said. 'My light'. And I believed her. When I spared a life, I believed her. And then when I kill, believed her. It was a lie. These things I have done. My hands are blackened with blood. My soul is damned to purgatory. If I could have my time again, I would, and then maybe I could become a good man. | „ |
| ~ Artyom expressing regret for the murders he has committed. |
Artyom Alekseyevich Chyornyj is the main protagonist of the Metro series. He is an experienced survivor who has lived in a post apocalyptic world for his entire life but now that he is a Ranger he wishes to end the wars inside the metro's and help other people by bringing them to a refuge location at Lake Baikal due to the order's mission involving helping others. In the alternate ending however Artyom is killed alongside Miller and Anna buries the both of them while overlooking the lake and decides to spend the rest of her life at Lake Baikal to honour Artyom's memory.
He was voiced by Oleg Mirochnikov in Metro 2033, and by Chris Parson in the remaster and sequels.
His Good Ranking[]
What makes him Admirable[]
Metro 2033[]
- Helped out the residents of Turgenevskaya (Cursed) station from the unrelenting threat of the mutants, which in return saved the rest of them from being slaughtered.
- Prevented the Communist "deserter" from being executed by the commissar.
- Rescued the three Communists within the Frontline level from the Fourth Reich soldiers, despite not being sided with the faction.
- Stopped the threat of the Dark Ones in the first game (Metro 2033) by allowing Miller and the rest to fire the missiles to the Botanical Gardens, in spite of Artyom later regretting the said decision, as he could only look in horror.
Metro Last Light[]
- He later rescued the Baby Dark One from the Nazis and subsequently later from the Red Line Army under Korbut's leadership.
- Artyom would later uncover the true cause behind the outbreak, which was caused by Korbut's bioweapon, in Oktybryskaya station, where he would rescue Anna from Lesnitsky, at the cost of him later catching the virus when he reluctantly accepted his orders.
- Later spared both Lesnitsky and Pavel Morozov from their doomed fates, despite being a threat, with the Baby Dark One remarking how sparing the latter allowed Pavel to understand forgiveness after he betrayed Artyom to Korbut.
- Saved the mother Bear and later her cubs from the Watchmen pack, even though the former attacked Artyom.
- Stopped General Korbut (a PE villain) and his Red Line Army from entering through D6 from their rather vicious attempts to take the bioweapon during the bloody Battle of D6, with the former's last-ditch effort to steal it and unleash genocide against the inhabitants of Metro. His efforts was what stopped Korbut's heinous plans for good.
Metro Exodus[]
- Saved Yermak and later Anna from the Hanza, after uncovering the organisation's deceitful nature of killing any outsiders and their deceptive propaganda campaign of "warning" the Moscow Metro residents of Moscow being under "NATO Invasion". He later joins with Miller and the rest of his Spartan Rangers to defect from the Hanza by destroying Hanza's armoured train, leading to the crew escaping Moscow.
- Saved Katya and Nastya from Silantius and the Church of the Water Tsar in Volga, as well as with him sparing the cultists, which in return granted the Aurora Crew safe passage to leave Volga peacefully.
- He and the rest of Miller's team stopped the Cannibals and its leader The Doctor (another PE villain) within the unfinished Yamantau bunker by destroying their communicators, which in return permanently stopped the Cannibals from luring any unsuspecting victims to be eaten by them.
- He later spared and saved all of the tribal slaves from the Munai-bailer's grip in Caspian desert, as well as stopping The Baron's (a PE villain) operations, which in return inspired the resistance fighter Giul to fight against the rest of them to save her own people from being chattel.
- After sparing all of the Pioneers, a splinter group from the Children of the Forest, during the Taiga chapter, as well as killing the Forest Master, who had terrorised the entire area for long, it was his pacifistic actions that allowed Alyosha and the Aurora Crew to negotiate with Olga to leave the valley, as Olga pointed out that they only needed passage.
- Despite the extreme amount of radiation that he went through in Novosibirsk during his venture to the Institute to obtain the experimental drug Renergan-F for Anna, as well as with the Blind One chasing him, he was able to retrieve it and make out of the place alive, with Miller's help, who would later sacrifice himself by giving him his own dose of anti-rad.
- He later becomes the new commander of the Spartan Order, unanimously, and in his final dialogue during Miller's funeral in Lake Baikal, he would be soon inspired by Miller's words to help out the residents of Moscow in the future, as its leader.
What makes him Inconsistent[]
- He is a grey zoned character that commits morally questionable acts at times such as hijacking a boat with the Aurora Crew not caring that it was a civilian convoy.
- He is lethal as he can kill many people throughout the series with this being shown the most explicitly in Metro Exodus.
- Artyom has insufficient personality to qualify as Near Pure Good as his only lines of dialogue are in loading screens or cutscenes with him being mute during gameplay which gives him Moral Agency Issues also.
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Artyom Alekseyevich Chyornyj | Sviatoslav Konstantinovich Mel'nikov | Samuel Taylor | ||