
He gets captured or imperiled so often that its surprising he isn't considered The Load by everyone.
Badass in Distress: Constantly, though always by Cutscene Incompetence. The Atoner: In Last Light, after most of the Dark Ones are killed.
In the game, though many of these weaknesses still apply to Artyom, he's a One-Man Army from the get go, who is able to mow down hundreds of men and mutants on his own, though he still gets his ass kicked a few times. Adaptational Badass: In the Metro 2033 book, Artyom is an Action Survivor who has almost no fighting experience when leaving the VDNKh station ( Exhibition in the games) and is only able to survive because he's a good shot, is relatively unaffected by psychic phenomena, has much more experienced companions helping him along the way and The Dark Ones are watching over him.Since he can receive any type of blood, all of his fellow Rangers donate their own blood to him to replace his irradiated blood. AB Negative: Artyom's blood type is mentioned to be AB Positive in Exodus, which becomes critical later when he suffers lethal radiation poisoning.
In the good ending, he is even promoted to the rank of Commander and chosen as the de facto commanding officer of the entire order. While neither he nor Anna are "formally" reenlisted into the Order, no one treats him any differently than as if he had never left and he even follows Miller's orders like before. This doesn't stick as fate isn't done with him and he finds himself back with the Rangers by the end of the first chapter of Exodus.
10-Minute Retirement: Between Last Light and Exodus he, along with Anna, resigns from the Rangers and moves back to Exhibition to search the radiowaves for outside survivors. He is soon called to adventure, however, to warn the rest of the Metro of the mysterious Dark Ones. The Player Character of Metro 2033, Last Light and Exodus, Artyom has lived most of his life in the underground Metro tunnels. While overall the original version of Metro: Exodus looked and sounded pretty impressive, it did have its not-unusual array of bugs, jank and performance issues, all of which have been par for the Metro franchise.Russian: Alexander Vilkov ( 2033), Vladimir Plakhov ( 2033 Redux, Last Light), Daniel Eldarov ( Exodus) It also miraculously avoided the open-world problem of too many meaningless side quests and expertly built tension out of ammo shortages, challenging combat and sweat-inducing stealth. Metro: Exodus had complex characters with intriguing motivations, a near-perfect mix of stealth, survival elements, and gunplay, and a well-written story that the game often demanded be paid attention to. It moved protagonist and player-character Artyom and a handful of other Metro alumni characters out of the Moscow tunnels and into several changing season’s worth of hostile, yet beautifully imagined, outdoor environments filled with a grotesque bestiary and desperate humans. Exodus delivered one of the year’s most richly textured open worlds. In 2019 the latter group was treated to one of the best games in the series, Metro: Exodus.
With its bleak vision of post-apocalyptic Moscow, dark sense of humor, memorable characters, and sometimes quirky shooter mechanics, the Metro franchise has garnered both detractors and a devoted legion of fans.