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* BemoaningTheNewBody:
** The Elric Brothers' goal is to find a way to restore their old bodies because of the consequence of their failed human transmutation. Edward lost his left leg, while Alphonse lost his whole body, and his brother had to sacrifice his right arm to bind Al's soul in a full set of armor. Al in particular suffers from his new body; while it's immortal to some degree and he doesn't have to suffer from human needs, it isolates him from others, since he can't eat alongside them and he can't sleep and thus spends the nights all alone while awake. In the end, [[spoiler:Al sacrifices his armor body to get Ed's arm right arm back, and Ed sacrifices his ability to use alchemy to get Al's body back, with Ed's lost left leg being a reminder of his sin]].
** In the manga and ''Brotherhood'': Zampano and Jerso hate the fact that they have been turned into chimeras. While they can shapeshift back between human and animal forms, they don't feel like real humans and want to find a way to get their old bodies back, which is why they agree to join Alphonse, Edward and their allies. By contrast, Heinkel and Darius actually like their chimera bodies due to practical reasons, and while they also join Edward and co., they don't have any interest to become fully humans again.
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* FearInducedIdiocy: An unnamed member of the corrupt Military Senior Staff unleashes the Mannequin Soldiers despite a similarly unnamed scientist's warnings that the tests aren't done yet. The arrogant and smug general gets killed when he tries to command the Mannequin Soldiers, while the scientist pulls out a gun that only briefly slows them down. The scientist is too paralyzed with fear to even try fleeing for his life, becoming the next victim.
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** The Ishval War arc flashback takes up a full volume (4 chapters) in the manga, but is streamlined into [[Recap/FullmetalAlchemistBrotherhoodE30TheIshvalanWarOfExtermination a single episode]] in ''Brotherhood'', with some key beats omitted [[note]] among them Scar and his brother's conversation about alchemy, Aurego providing support for the Ishvalans, Basque Grand [[UnfriendlyFire killing his superior]] for refusing the Ishvalans' surrender request, and Kimblee being assigned to kill Winry's parents only to discover Scar beat him to it [[/note]]. Some panels from the arc [[note]] such as Marcoh's head buried in his hands out of guilt or a hidden Envy looking gleefully at Kimblee's carnage [[/note]] were only animated as part of the third opening sequence, ''Golden Time Lover''.

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** The Ishval War arc flashback takes up a full volume (4 chapters) in the manga, but is streamlined into [[Recap/FullmetalAlchemistBrotherhoodE30TheIshvalanWarOfExtermination a single episode]] in ''Brotherhood'', with some key beats omitted [[note]] among them Scar and his brother's conversation about alchemy, Aurego providing support for arms to the Ishvalans, Ishvalans but refusing to accept their fleeing refugees once the genocide began, Basque Grand [[UnfriendlyFire killing his superior]] for refusing the Ishvalans' surrender request, and Kimblee being assigned to kill Winry's parents only to discover Scar beat him to it [[/note]]. Some panels from the arc [[note]] such as Marcoh's head buried in his hands out of guilt or a hidden Envy looking gleefully at Kimblee's carnage [[/note]] were only animated as part of the third opening sequence, ''Golden Time Lover''.
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* AllAccessibleMagic: {{Alchemy|IsMagic}} is the discipline of transmuting matter into other sorts of matter without changing its mass. It normally requires [[GeometricMagic inscribing a ritual circle]] which serves to confine that specific alchemical transmutation to itself. Its application is considered to be essentially an advanced type of science, and alchemists act as a combination of wizards, scientists, researchers, spec-ops and military officers.
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** Hiromu Arakawa thinks men should be muscular and big, and women should be bosomy and curvy. That probably won't surprise anyone. Alex (an extremely buff man) and Olivier Armstrong (his curvy older sister) exemplify this principle. Specifically, in one of the omake in volume 12, she writes, "Men should be buffed and women should be vavoom!" This is apparently because of her rural Hokkaido upbringing.

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** Hiromu Arakawa thinks men should be muscular and big, and women should be bosomy and curvy. That probably won't surprise anyone. Alex (an extremely buff man) and Olivier Armstrong (his curvy older sister) exemplify this principle. Specifically, in one of the omake in volume 12, she writes, "Men should be buffed and women should be vavoom!" This is apparently because of her rural Hokkaido upbringing.upbringing--growing up among farmers who do tough physical labor every day shaped her view of what a good-looking body is.
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* AccidentalDeclarationOfLove: Winry comments offhandedly she doesn't know why she's in love with Ed. He stops flailing around to ask her what she has just said, and she just brushes him off.

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