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** You know the scene where Maes [[OverprotectiveDad threatens his daughter's friends with a cocked gun]]? While it works as CrossingTheLineTwice BlackComedy, it's actually [[CrossingTheLineTwice Crossed The Line Thrice]], making it more hilarious and somehow SugarWiki/{{heartwarming|Moments}}. You see, [[spoiler:he didn't really want to harm those little guys, he's just mildly threatening them.]] If you notice, [[spoiler:he is considerably more skilled with knives than with guns. Every kill he made is by using knives, and he never made a successful shot with a gun. Even in the manga, [[DefiantToTheEnd his last attempt to spit on Envy]] is made by using a knife. While everyone on Ishbal brings rifles, he's consistently using knives.]] It's very probable that he did that stunt just to get a good laugh, even for the boys, [[spoiler:when they realize he's just kidding and they're not in any danger]].

** As King Bradley talks with Mustang in his office, he mentions how the reason he was shaking during [[spoiler:Maes Hughes's funeral]] was out of anger because of [[spoiler:Elicia's crying]]. When Roy brings up Selim in turn, he states that Selim is better behaved and responds to Roy's what-if about Selim finding out his own father's [[spoiler:a homunculus]] by saying that Selim will never be a weakness in his life. Well, of course he's not scared of his son being used as a weak point by his enemies when [[spoiler:his "son" is actually his oldest and most powerful brother in disguise]]. [[spoiler:Assuming the first anime's "Pride of Dante" incarnation of Bradley is any indication, if Selim was actually King Bradley's son and not a several hundred year old being who he's actually subservient to in the pecking order of the Ouroboros homunculi, King would understand how human children behave and thus would never shake in TranquilFury at Elicia during the funeral in the first place.]]

** As King Bradley talks with Mustang in his office, he mentions how the reason he was shaking during [[spoiler:Maes Hughes's funeral]] was out of anger because of [[spoiler:Elicia's crying]]. When Roy brings up Selim in turn, he states that Selim is better behaved and responds to Roy's what-if about Selim finding out his own father's [[spoiler:a homunculus]] by saying that Selim will never be a weakness in his life. Well, of course he's not scared of his son being used as a weak point by his enemies when [[spoiler:his "son" is actually his oldest and most powerful brother in disguise]].

* Bradley from the manga and ''Brotherhood'' getting mad at Elise for crying at her father's funeral even though the anime incarnation does no such thing. Being an actual father, Pride!Bradley knows how children behave, unlike Wrath!Bradley who's son has a several hundred year old being masquerading as his son.

* Bradley from the manga and ''Brotherhood'' getting mad at Elise for crying at her father's funeral even though the anime incarceration does no such thing. Being an actual father, Pride!Bradley knows how children behave, unlike Wrath!Bradley who's son has a several hundred year old being masquerading as his son.

This is the page for the manga and ''Brotherhood''. For the 2003 anime, see '''[[Fridge/FullmetalAlchemistAnime here]]'''. FridgeLogic is on the [[Headscratchers/FullmetalAlchemist headscratchers page]].

*** There might be an even deeper reason for why Pride looks like Father's original form, and why that seemed to anger Pride (despite his argument to the contrary). Father's whole plan in Xerxes was to leave his flask, and leave his limited existence as the shadowy vapor he was at the time, so by giving Pride, the first Homunculus he made, something like that form, he was essentially giving himself a reminder that he was no longer like that, superior to his previous existence. Hohenheim was essentially telling Pride he's his father's favorite not because he's the ''best'' Homunculus, but because he's a living symbol of Father's own acheivment of gaining a superior human form. Pride is a symbol of Father's own "weakness" that he left behind, not of his superiority as a Homununculus.

** You know the scene where Maes [[OverprotectiveDad threatens his daughter's friends with a cocked gun]]? While it works as CrossingTheLineTwice BlackComedy, it's actually [[CrossingTheLineTwice Crossed The Line]] [[UpToEleven Thrice]], making it more hilarious and somehow SugarWiki/{{heartwarming|Moments}}. You see, [[spoiler:he didn't really want to harm those little guys, he's just mildly threatening them.]] If you notice, [[spoiler:he is considerably more skilled with knives than with guns. Every kill he made is by using knives, and he never made a successful shot with a gun. Even in the manga, [[DefiantToTheEnd his last attempt to spit on Envy]] is made by using a knife. While everyone on Ishbal brings rifles, he's consistently using knives.]] It's very probable that he did that stunt just to get a good laugh, even for the boys, [[spoiler:when they realize he's just kidding and they're not in any danger]].

** You know the scene where Maes [[OverprotectiveDad threatens his daughter's friends with a cocked gun]]? While it works as CrossingTheLineTwice BlackComedy, it's actually [[CrossingTheLineTwice Crossed The Line]] [[UpToEleven Thrice]], making it more hilarious and somehow SugarWiki/{{heartwarming|Moments}}. You see, [[spoiler:he didn't really want to harm those little guys, he's just mildly threatening them.]] If you notice, [[spoiler:[[KnifeNut he is considerably more skilled with knives than with guns.]] Every kill he made is by using knives, and he never made a successful shot with a gun. Even in the manga, [[DefiantToTheEnd his last attempt to spit on Envy]] is made by using a knife. While everyone on Ishbal brings rifles, he's consistently using knives.]] It's very probable that he did that stunt just to get a good laugh, even for the boys, [[spoiler:when they realize he's just kidding and they're not in any danger]].

* The [[MixAndMatchCritters chimeras]] are regular animals alchemically combined. Some chimeras [[TalkingAnimal talk]]. [[spoiler: A talking chimera indicates one of the 'animals' used to make the chimera was a ''human'']]. Long after the horrifying revelation this inevitably led to, the military went on to [[spoiler: display talking chimeras of their own, ''better'' talking chimeras, that were in fact basically still the human but with animal form and enhanced instincts]]. What Shou Tucker did gets even worse on one of two different levels now: either it was completely avoidable as well as pointless [[spoiler:and the military let him go ahead with it to keep their own secrets]] or they performed an autopsy on the first [[spoiler:dead]] chimera and found out [[spoiler:it had been human, thus kickstarting the whole human-chimeras plot]]. In either case, they also noticed that Tucker was an untalented idiot (thus also unfit for human transmutation), so they kept him in the dark while putting the gold-toothed doctor in charge. [[spoiler: Nina only suffered because the military didn't trust Tucker enough to get him involved.]]

* Olivier's dislike of her brother and Roy makes a lot more sense after she disdainfully refers to Roy as the Hero of Ishval, as well as calling her brother a coward. It's not only noted that she actively chose Miles because him being Ishvalan and Amestrian (among others), but prevented him from being recalled to Central along with the rest of the Ishvalan members of the military. From Olivier's perspective, Roy and Alex both went along with the genocide that she was going against the best she could, and when Alex realized how truly horrific the war was, he didn't turn on the members of the military who were gleefully killing Ishvalans (which even becomes his greatest failure.)

* The only thing that can break the law of equivalent exchange is a Philosopher's stone. Edward is one, according to the first point on this section. [[spoiler: Winry also broke it because she didn't expected anything for every good deed that she did. They truly deserve each other.]]

** Whenever the Truth takes something from someone, it takes the entire body part: Ed's leg, Al's body, Izumi's organs. On the other hand, [[spoiler:Roy]] only lost his eye''sight'', not an actual organ. [[spoiler:Since he didn't really commit the taboo, he got a lighter version.]] Crosses into FridgeHorror once you realize that [[spoiler:had he actually preformed human transmutation, he would have likely lost his eyes.]] Which is exactly what happened to Jude in the OVA ''The Blind Alchemist''

** Lust was a sin of Father, who's true form is [[spoiler:a little, genderless ball of shadow]]. Father would logically lack a sex drive, and thus [[spoiler:[[{{Asexual}} his Lust also would lack a sex drive]]]].

** Why is Greed the most moral of the homunculi? [[spoiler: Because Father didn’t actually purge himself of his greed, even if he thinks he did. The sun of greed motivates Father’s entire philosophy to consume God, so Greed fails to represent Father’s greed like the other sins.]]

* Everyone's Gate has its own unique design. For example, [[spoiler:Roy Mustang's resembles his flame transmutation array,]] implying that it represents not just the person, but their ''knowledge''. [[spoiler:Father's]] Gate is completely blank. No wonder Truth is so disgusted with him: in all his centuries of life, he has learned nothing.

*** It goes even further than that, upon further evaluation: [[spoiler: What Ed offers isn't just his ability to do alchemy, but his Gate, his connection with Truth/God/All/One. He isn't just sacrificing his ability to do alchemy, but severing his link with the Truth. He literally agrees to cut himself off from the rest of the universe, and ever "God" himself, to bring his brother back. He has given up a fundamental part of his humanity, something of infinite value, in exchange for something else of infinite value, the life and soul of his brother.]]

** The military accepts a 12-year-old Ed into its ranks, and the story justifies it. In his entrance exam, Ed used alchemy without a transmutation circle, which let Bradley know Ed had opened the Gate. [[spoiler:Since Lust knew that circle-less alchemy meant someone had opened the Gate, we can reasonably assume Bradley would know, too—and he could have received the order from Father if he didn't.]] Ed eventually discovers the actual purpose of the State Alchemist system: [[spoiler:to collect candidates for human sacrifice and keep in them under the military's control/on Father's leash. Since Ed has already performed human transmutation, Father would absolutely want him under his control.]] As the supreme leader of the military and the direct commander of the State Alchemists, Bradley only needed to say that Ed would pass for it to happen. Ed didn't pass because of his age or his talent, but [[spoiler:because it meant Father would gain a valuable piece in his plan -- and of their own free will, to boot. Father must have laughed.]]

** Anyone familiar with clickbait knows that the surest way to piss somebody off is to reveal some form of deception or injustice. Wrath's Ultimate Eye allows him to see straight trough the lies and deceptions around him.

* RealityEnsues when [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Aang]]/[[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2 Po]] finds out that his people were brutally massacred, and you have Scar. Plus there was no one around to comfort him as his brother sacrificed himself to save him.

* In the 2003 anime, Al's angst after Barry's BreakingSpeech is built up beforehand with him failing to remember one of the other kids in town while they're visiting Winry. Al's situation as a soul bound to armour [[SenseLossSadness denies him most of his senses]]...and smell is one of the most powerful memory triggers people have. No wonder some of his memories are a bit hazy.