History Characters / FullmetalAlchemistHomunculi

The homunculus who personifies Father's arrogance. The eldest and deadliest of his siblings, Pride serves as Father's second-in-command, as well as the minder of the tunnel network, which he patrols, slaughtering anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path. His usual form is a massive shadow with multiple eyes and mouths, rather similar to Father's original form as the Dwarf in the Flask. As befitting his name, Pride is incredibly cruel and narcissistic, and very rarely shows any emotions beyond self-satisfaction and contempt. He is able to hide his true nature as his alter-ego, Selim Bradley. He's a WalkingSpoiler, so all entries for this character are unmarked.

* AintTooProudToBeg: At Ed's mercy, he desperately begs for Ed to stop.

* CreepyChild: His humanoid form.

* TheFakeCutie: Pretends to be a sweet and kind young boy. This is all a cover up for his true nature which is a cruel little monster who has a habit of eating his allies when they are no longer of use to him.

* {{Sadist}}: Relishes in causing suffering to others and mocking them while fighting.

!!Pride the Arrogant / Selim Bradley

'''Speciality:''' [[CastAShadow Shadow Manipulation]]

'''Speciality:''' [[ AbsurdlySharpClaws Ultimate Spear]]

'''Speciality:''' Ultimate Spear

'''Speciality:''' Eating Everything/Imperfect Gate

'''Speciality:''' Ultimate Shield

'''Speciality:''' Ultimate Shield/Martial Arts

'''Specialty:''' Ultimate Eye/Swordsmanship/Military Tactics

'''Speciality:''' Speed/Super-Strength

'''Speciality:''' Shadow Manipulation

'''Specialty:''' Explosive Alchemy/Photographic Memory

* RasputinianDeath: He got stabbed in the gut, lost his eye, shot, and lost a lot of blood while trying to escape, yet he still managed to scare five people, all of whom were competent fighters. Even Scar barely managed to defeat him - he admitted that if the guys who shot him and stabbed him hadn't softened Wrath up for him, he would have lost.

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Unlike the others, Gluttony has to be paired up with one of the other homunculi for any task so that someone smarter is around to do the thinking for him, as his perpetual immaturity and lack of self control would be disastrous if he's entruested on missions by himeslf, leading to this dynamic. That chore usually falls to [[CoolBigSis Lust]], but the rest (excluding Greed and Sloth, who are irresponsible themselves for different reasons) have also filled in that role and Gluttony is invariably the Foolish Sibling to their Responsible. Yes, even [[StupidEvil Envy]].

* RasputinianDeath: Inevitable since the Homunculi effectively have multiple lives. In the words of her killer [[spoiler:Roy, "I'll keep killing you until you die".]] Over the course of ''Brotherhood'' episode where she dies: [[spoiler:She is shot in the head, torn apart by an explosion in a small room, literally has her heart ripped out causing her body to disintegrate and have to completely reform, and then is shot several more times.]] After all that it still takes [[spoiler:getting her body completely incinerated]] ''nine times'' before it's finally over.

* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Envy's red.

* SpiesAreDespicable: Acts as a spy in honeypotting Havoc, and is gratuitously cruel and sadistic killer who clearly enjoys causing both mental and physical suffering in people.

The homunculus who personifies Father's voracity. Gluttony is simpleton who loves to eat and will eat ''anything''. A surprisingly agile heavy-hitter who plays backup to the other Homunculi as needed. He has a near symbiotic relationship with Lust, reminiscent of a child's love for his mother.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Mrs. Bradley is the sole human to whom Pride shows any sympathy. Right before his DeathOfPersonality by Ed's hands, Pride sees a vision of a smiling Mrs. Bradley and seems to realize that ''she'' was the one who gave him the love he secretly craved but never got from Father.

** Volume 15's OnTheNext section mentions that a new Homunculus will be introduced in Volume 16. Most people think it's Sloth but he was actually introduced briefly earlier in the series. Instead, Volume 16 introduces Selim Bradley who turns out to be the new Homunculus.

** For all his talk about how worthless humans are, he is willing to steal Edward's body just to keep himself from dying. This disgusts [[BlueAndOrangeMorality Kimblee]] into stopping him from within. He's also willing to devour his own siblings when the tables are turned on him.

* ImAHumanitarian: Likes to eat his allies when they are no longer of use ([[{{Irony}} Gluttony]], Kimblee, and the creepy gold-toothed doctor). Disturbingly, after he eats Gluttony, Pride comments on inheriting Gluttony's ravenous hunger for people. However, he doesn't think of it as cannibalism, but rather as absorbing them into his collective mind.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Subverted. When Selim runs into the Elric brothers at the library, he calls Ed "The Tiny Alchemist." In the moment, it comes off as a young child not understanding that he's being a nuisance. Watching the scene with Selim's true identity in mind, though, it becomes clear that Pride knew exactly what he was doing and was enjoying taunting Ed, especially since Ed couldn't fire back.

* PowerCopying: The CannibalismSuperpower variant, a decidedly dark one.

The homunculus who personifies Father's avarice. Greed is so selfish that he won't play second fiddle to anyone, not even his creator -- so he defected from the other Homunculi a long time before the story began. He commands a group of chimeras that he freed himself, to which he refers as his possessions. He seeks true immortality, so he catches Al to learn how to apply it to himself. His hideout is the Devil's Nest. Unlike the other Homunculi, he doesn't despise or consider himself superior to humans, and while he's still selfish and ruthless, he's by far the most decent of his kind.

* FaceDeathWithDespair: [[spoiler:Gluttony, devoured by his eldest brother, spends his [[FaceDeathWithDespair final moments]] crying out how it hurts, begging not to be eaten, and calling out for the long-dead Lust to save him. [[AlasPoorVillain Gluttony's death is a case of this trope played for sympathy]], as all the heroes who witness it are shocked and disgusted by Pride's actions.]]

* HappinessRealizedTooLate: [[spoiler: Greed has spent his life trying to own everything in an attempt to fill what he likens to a feeling of emptiness inside him ever since he was born. However, as Father kills him, Greed belatedly realizes he's happy with the relationships he has formed, satisfying the feeling of emptiness and allowing him to ultimately be at peace in his final moments.]]

* FightsLikeANormal: The other Homunculi have rapid regeneration, [[LovecraftianSuperpower inherent alchemical abilities]] and nigh immortality. Wrath only has heightened perception, superhuman reflexes, and enhanced ''human'' physiology, and he ages normally and can't regenerate. Being relatively limited in power and far more vulnerable than his kin, he resorts to tactics and swordsmanship to win his battles. He's still vastly more powerful than any normal human but is practically BadassNormal by homunculus standards.

* BerserkButton: He's got two: Being looked down upon, and people betraying their own beliefs/being hypocrites. For the former, he maintains a façade of good-natured politeness, even when killing people by the hundreds, but during [[spoiler:his hunt for Scar, this façade melts for the first time when Scar, standing atop a building, comments on how he and Kimblee (looking up at him from the ground) were now in the exact opposite positions of when they first met. An enraged Kimblee warns him to watch his mouth, and prepares to use his alchemy, ignoring the fact that Scar had Winry as a "hostage".]] The second shows through when Kimblee looks kind of pissed when [[spoiler:Pride tries to consume Edward, essentially ditching his ego and [[{{Irony}} pride]] as a homunculus by taking a "lesser being". Amused, Kimblee was not.]]

** Not as large-scale as [[spoiler:what happens to Father or Pride]], but still a rather disturbing fate. His face as [[spoiler:he realizes Pride is going to devour him]] says it all.

* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Kimblee, a firm believer in "survival of the fittest" who wants to see whether humans or homunculi are superior, is killed in two bites: one to the throat from Heinkel, whose chimera features come from a famous apex predator, and one from Pride, the first and arguably most powerful homunculus, who had been his most frequent ally up to that point.]]
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler: Say what you want about Kimblee, but he refuses to give up. Even after being killed, then consumed by Pride, and his soul sent into a sea of souls where one loses their sense of self and individuality. His sheer force of will allowing him to maintain his individuality and help Ed take Pride down.]]

** This also applies to his power. He seems like one of if not the weakest homunculi given that his fights usually involve him [[{{CurbStompBattle}} repeatedly dying and regenerating]]. However his ability of being a false Gate of Truth allows him to be impervious to Mustang's flame, and gives him the power to one shot any character in the series, including homunculi, as shown when he accidentally swallows Envy.

* PowerfulButIncompetent: Gluttony is near-immortal homunculus, who can easily overpower most human characters with his massive bulk. And when he gets angry he can turn his jaw and ribcage into a fake Portal of Truth which can teleport anything and anyone in his way into a dimension between reality and Truth, from Mustang's extremely powerful flame alchemy, to other homunculi, as he accidentally swallows Envy. However he's very childish and dim-witted, and although agile, he's also a rather sluggish fighter. As a result, he's usually takes a [[GoodThingYouCanHeal lot of abuse when fighting characters]] to the point where he almost dies from exhausting his regenerative abilities.

* DirtyOldMan: What with his hitting on Olivier.

* EvilSoundsRaspy: In the Italian dub, Sloth's voice is a mix of CreepyMonotone and GutturalGrowler, as if he speaks so little his vocal cords have become rusty.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Ultra-proficiency at swordsmanship to the point where he can draw and strike in the space of someone blinking. He apparently worked at this for sixty long years, not only [[TheSpartanWay surviving]] the selection process but coming out on top. He's also inhumanly strong and insanely fast, able to cut down anything short of diamond-like carbon (including the threads of a tank) and move fast enough to slice opponents before they can even react. The most important thing to point out is that this is Wrath that is already past his prime. One could only imagine what kind of monster he was when he was at his peak.

* EvilIsSexy: {{Invoked|Trope}}. Jean Havoc has a brief discussion with Roy Mustang about how she was able to... distract him.

* MrFanservice: Tall, muscular, handsome (in a devillish way), vain, flirtatious, promiscuous and charming. May qualify as [[invoked]] EvilIsSexy, though he's more morally grey.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Ultra-proficiency at swordsmanship to the point where he can draw and strike in the space of someone blinking. He apparently worked at this for sixty long years, not only [[TheSpartanWay surviving]] the selection process but coming out on top. He's also inhumanly strong and insanely fast, able to cut down anything short of diamond-like carbon (including the threads of a tank) and move fast enough to slice opponents before they can even react.

* AmbiguousSituation: [[BigBad Father]] calls [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent himself and his children Homunculi]], but it’s unclear [[EldritchAbomination what Father actually is]] and [[RiddleForTheAges we never find out how he was made]]. Human-based Homunculi are a clear case of SymbioticPossession. Non-human Homunculi are HumanoidAbominations.