History WMG / FullMetalAlchemist

* [[{{Megane}} His bad eyesight.]] [[TruthInTelevision Every recruits on army is required to have good eyesight,]] since you can't use gun without them. He pick his knife skills when his eyesight is still good, so he already adapted with them.

** Extra points for hanging Greed up [[CreepyCoolCrosses on a cross]] and then destroying him, so that he could return to the greater whole of his Father. He gets to analogue [[CryForTheDevil the Morningstar]] ''and'' a MessianicArchetype!

As mentioned in the FridgeBrilliance section, despite supposedly removing his sins, Father still acted as if he had them. It's likely that he didn't completely remove his sins, but rather removed the aspects of his sins that he saw as flawed or detrimental to his plans. To what extent likely relate to his sins
* Despite his sins being a flaw to him, Father showed pride in his character traits. He kept enough pride to motivate himself and likely justify his actions, but not enough to "lower" himself to humans. For a similar reason, he may have kept wrath in order to feel more comfortable with his callous disregard for human life.

* Different troper: What about Wrath?
** Patience is essential to any AncientConspiracy in the making, so Father couldn't afford to be easily angered. But would he allow those pitiful humans to interfere with his plans unpunished? No, he would come down on them ''hard''.

** Besides, we all know Havoc's [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/fullmetal_alchemist/v10/c038/30.html all about the busom]].

The 520 cenz are a lifeline. One that's subtle enough Roy won't be too proud to take it, and irritating enough to suit their VitriolicBestBuds dynamic. Ed's putting a minor thorn in Roy's side that he knows the Colonel won't be willing to leave unresolved, because for all their bickering they do care about each other.

* I don't know about them specifically, but there's definite evidence that the Xingese court might be a [[DeadlyDecadentCourt Deadly and Decadent one]]. Once they have learned [[PoweredByAForsakenChild how a philosopher's stone is made]], one of the Xingese characters (I believe May herself) notes their discomfort at going back to Xing with this information, because they know the response would be "Great, now let's just round up a few thousand peasants and get the show on the road."

We never see it because 1. She’s very vain and doesn’t like transforming into that 2. She was killed before she could unleash it, and 3. That wouldn’t be allowed in a shounen manga.

[[WMG: Hawkeye is related to [[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia Hungary]].]]

* Al is one of the FairFolk from ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies'', so he sees through magnetism.

Admit it, the first thing that came to mind after you saw him in [[ManInWhite that]] [[BadassInANiceSuit suit]] was that this fellow was one [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaAaFAnaZN4 Smooth Criminal.]] The only way his DyingMomentOfAwesome could have been any better was if he'd Moonwalked off into oblivion.

Because [[spoiler:Mustang didn't commit human transmutation]], Truth actually didn't (intentionally) take anything from him! Instead, Mustang lost his eyesight from staring into all the information contained behind the gate and trying to take it all in, in an example of TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow. His eyes saw too much, and lost their eyesight from it -- similar to how an [[Franchise/TheElderScrolls Elder Scroll]] can make one go blind.

Father suceeded in his plan and left Ed just as he left Hoenheim ages ago. Ed's "triumph" is just a HopeSpot. In reality, there is no Reverse Transmutation Circle or it otherwise fails, the victims of Father's Transmutation Circle are all DEAD. Father is now and always God and Ed shoulders the same burden of survivor's guilt that his father bore long ago, wandering the wasteland that used to be Amestris . . . all alone.

He did mention that he was supposed to be "the authority on Chimeras" and had already been a State Alchemist for two years, despite what an apparent hack he is. Since the Central guys are [[{{Jerkass}} really no better]] [[HateSink than Tucker]] [[TheSociopath himself]], they may have realized that Tucker's Furry Wife was still [[DamnedByFaintPraise marginally better]] [[YouDoNotWantToKnow than their previous Chimera experiments.]] Even if Tucker wasn't directly involved, he still served as a "creative consultant", and eventually the perfected process led to a fresh batch of PettingZooPeople. Tucker's next work came out so poorly because he was rushing to meet demands, and was [[IgnoredEpiphany initially reluctant to use his daughter and dog.]]

The Seven Deadly Sins were not originally seven: there were two more, Acedia and Vainglory, which ended up being folded into Sloth and Pride. However, as we see, Father ''didn't'' get rid of his vanity when he expelled Pride. As the Truth says, his true sin was his boastfulness, a part of Vainglory. If he had expelled this sin, instead of the other seven, he might have realized the error of his ways.

I'm basing this in part on speculation I read on another board. Pretty much, it seems like Father's goal is to open the Gate and storm the dimension where Truth-sama lives. They noted on that site how Pride's outline is identical to that of Truth-sama except that it's black rather than white and covered in eyes and mouths; and similarly, Father created Gluttony in an attempt to make a new Gate. So, my theory is that rather than being ''created'' in a flask, what Hohenheim's master actually did was more like demon-summoning and that Father was either previously kicked out of that dimension or else was separated from it by that ceremony. The way I see it, Truth-sama is a borderline evil god, but Father is much worse and the idea of Pride and Glutton's appearance is that they are a dark reflection of the Truth just as demons are often presented as a warped version of angels.

*** Actually read a Roy/Ed fic that was exactly that, and it wasn't revealed until halfway through the sex scene. {{Squick}} indeed.

* FMA actually challenges what the concept of "God" actually is by including all the religious references to Ishbal (a god that has abandoned its people, or may not even exist), Father Cornello's cult, the seeming lack of a majority religion in Amestris, and the complete blank that The Truth is. The gate does have the Kabbalistic tree on it, which has the 10 names of god, but in Kabbalah, those names are meditated upon in order to achieve ''understanding'' of what God is, not to mention that Ed and IZumi both called what was beyond the gate "The Truth". It's a really interesting narrative to follow since the author certainly included all of these mentions of religion for a reason.

Yes, May is as innocent as they come, but she's also a bit delusional and not the best judge of character. She decided Scar and Yoki were wonderful people way before they did anything remotely redeemable. In Chapter 57, Ran Fan almost gets into a fight with May, claiming it's her duty to wipe out evil. Maybe this goes beyond clan rivalry and the Chang clan is genuinely villainous, perhaps composed of bandits and criminals. The real reason they're dying off is they've all got bounties on their heads for their heinous crimes. I mean, what kind of clan lets a small girl journey across a treacherous desert by herself as part of a probably fruitless quest for immortality?

* [[{{Megane}} His bad eyesight.]] [[TruthOnTelevision Every recruits on army is required to have good eyesight,]] since you can't use gun without them. He pick his knife skills when his eyesight is still good, so he already adapted with them.

[[WMG: Al uses magnetism to move the suit of armour.]]
The soul is an "electromagnetic pattern", as described by [[ComicBook/WatchMen Professor Milton Glass]] & thus is able to create magnetic forces capable of manipulating metal. This is why bloodseals are only ever used on iron & not other chemicals present in blood. If it were not used on a metallic object, the subject would be unable to move. This may also explain how Al sees without eyes. He is actually "seeing" the effect things around him have on Earth's magnetic field or something like that.

** This troper says Havoc will meet Becky and cute sparkly love will ensue.
*** Still hope he and Sheska get together. They are pretty much meant for each other, as the pretty nerdy girl that gets unnoticed, and the guy that can't get a girlfriend because no girl really notices his qualities. They'll notice each other and make a geeky couple.