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4This page is for the main antagonists of the ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' manga series and its anime adaptation ''Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood'', strange humanoid monsters called Homunculi that scheme from the shadows. Along with the Homunculi themselves, a few of their allies are on this page too. '''Note''': For the page about the characters from the 2003 anime, see [[Characters/FullmetalAlchemist2003 here]].
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11!!The Homunculi
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14!!In general, the Homunculi display the following tropes:
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18* AchillesHeel: Homunculi will be immobilized if their red nodes are pierced, which is used to capture Greed. This is zig-zagged with the Philosopher's Stones, which will simply regenerate their bodies if ripped out but will shatter and kill them if the souls are depleted.
19* AlwaysChaoticEvil: With the exception of Greed (as well as Sloth and Gluttony, depending on your view) every Homunculus is a cruel, sadistic creature who views human life as disposable pests and are never presented as redeemable.
20* 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 [[HumanoidAbomination obviously inhuman]].
21* AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of a sin or aspect of human nature, and also a facet of Father's personality.
22* ArtificialHuman: All of them except [[spoiler:Wrath]] were created by Father in order to create pawns and means for Father to achieve perfection. [[spoiler:Father himself was the very first artificial human.]]
23* BadassFamily: An evil family nonetheless, consisting of superhuman artificial humanoids with varying powers and their PhysicalGod of a father. When a Homunculus shows up, expect the fight to be a brutal one.
24* BlindObedience: [[TokenHeroicOrc Greed]] is the only Homunculus who even thinks about deviating from Father’s wishes.
25* BornAsAnAdult: More or less, from what we see from the 2nd Greed's creation, Homunculi have sentience, intelligence and awareness of their powers once made, and with the exception of the human-based Wrath, they don't age or have childhoods.
26* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: The Homunculi are forbidden by Father from killing any sacrifice candidates or even potential ones. Lust and Envy remark on this when they spare Ed in Lab 5. That said, several of them end up going for a killing blow for one reason or another.
27** Lust [[spoiler:impales Roy fully intending to let him bleed out, was willing to tear Alphonse to literal shreds for getting in her way of killing Hawkeye, and angrily goes for a killing blow on Mustang while he was burning her to death.]]
28** Gluttony goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge [[spoiler:for Lust's death trying to get at Roy]] and doesn't care at all Ed and Alphonse are in the cross-fire until Envy shows up and chews him out that he can't eat any of them.
29** Envy [[spoiler:upon being stuck in Gluttony's stomach with Ed and Ling decides there's no point in keeping up with the charade since said stomach is all but inescapable and they're all dead anyways. Ed punching them in the face for some EvilGloating is the final straw to convince them to go OneWingedAngel for the kill, and only Edward figuring out [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique human transmutation]] will let them escape stops them from forcibly adding him to their [[AndIMustScream Philosopher's Stone]].]]
30* DarkIsEvil: Often decked out in black, lurk around in shadows, and are {{Eerie Pale Skinned Brunette}}s. Also evil as they come, and are demons.
31* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:All seven of Father's creations are defeated in ways that reflect each of the respective deadly sins they represent.]]
32** [[spoiler: Lust is burned to death by Roy Mustang, a well-known womanizer.]]
33** [[spoiler: Gluttony is eaten alive by Pride.]]
34** [[spoiler: Envy commits suicide, unable to bear their repressed jealousy of humans. They do so by destroying their Philosopher Stone, the only possession they had that humans didn't.]]
35** [[spoiler: Sloth dies from over-exhaustion from trying to kill the Armstrongs.]]
36** [[spoiler: Wrath dies in peace after being defeated by Scar, whose character arc is about overcoming his own anger.]]
37** [[spoiler: Pride is defeated by the short-tempered Edward after attempting to steal his body, despite believing that humans are inferior. He then loses his memories and powers, beginning a humble existence as a human child.]]
38** [[spoiler: [[DefectorFromDecadence Greed]] [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself]] to help defeat Father and dies happily fulfilled, finally contented not by power but by the friendships he made in life.]]
39* TheDreaded: The heroes are terrified of them all due to their powers and resiliency in fighting, with Wrath, Pride, and Lust, in particular, living up to their reputation in combat.
40* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Pride, Lust, Envy and Sloth have unnaturally pale skin with black hair.
41* EmbodimentOfVice: The Homunculi are the embodiments of Father's SevenDeadlySins.
42* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: The main reason the Homunculi do what they do is that they love their father. Father just uses them for his goal, as their love makes them loyal to the end.
43* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Pride and Wrath had a fondness for each other and both of them cared for [[spoiler: Mrs. Bradley]] while Lust, Gluttony, and Envy were close to each other to the point where Envy was enraged over [[spoiler: Lust's death and Gluttony sought vengeance against her killer, Mustang.]]
44* EvilGloating: Except for the dim Gluttony and generally-too-lazy-to-talk Sloth, all of them are frequent practitioners of this.
45* EvilNephew: [[spoiler:Given that their creator, Father, is technically the brother to Ed and Al Elric, the homunculi qualify as their nephews and niece despite being hundreds of years older. This is parodied in a 4Koma Panel comic in the manga]].
46* EvilWearsBlack: Lust, Gluttony, Envy, Sloth, and Pride wear black, although in Brotherhood it's more of dark brown.
47* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: The Homunculi are all siblings, born from Father's body, and the whole family works together over the course of hundreds of years to bring his EvilPlan to fruition (though Greed, who ''was'' in on it, eventually defects).
48* FantasticRacism: With the exception of Greed and possibly Sloth, all of them look down on humans (considering them inferior beings) and/or show varying levels of open spite towards humans, ranging from mere annoyance (Sloth) to full-blown misanthropy (Pride, Envy, and Lust).
49* FatalFlaw: Their belief that they are infallible. While the Philosopher's Stone that powers each homunculus gives them incredible powers and enhanced senses, this lends itself to arrogance, which in turn leads to a tendency to underestimate their foes. Homunculi tend to endure attacks and [[HealingFactor heal]] with the Stone's limited supply of human souls rather than dodge, and even stop to boast about how superior they are to humans in the middle of fights which, as Mustang demonstrates during his [[CurbStompBattle "fight"]] against Envy, [[TalkToTheFist is not a good idea]].
50** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with Wrath. Because he was originally a human who became a human/homunculus hybrid, Wrath has enhanced senses but lacks the HealingFactor of the other homunculi. However, this is precisely what makes him so dangerous. He knows he has only one life, and so trained rigorously over the course of several decades to become an incredibly powerful military combatant; and while he does take great pride in being a homunculus, [[PragmaticVillainy Wrath doesn't stop to brag about how unbeatable the homunculi are in the middle of a fight]].
51** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] with Sloth, who is so lazy that he can't be bothered to think for himself and [[JustFollowingOrders just follows orders]]. Instead, Sloth's FatalFlaw is his laziness which prevents him from being something more.
52* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: The [[TokenHeroicOrc only good Homunculus, Greed the Avaricious]], [[HeroicSacrifice selflessly gives his life to help end]] [[BigBad Father]]. The rest of the Homunculi were [[AlwaysChaoticEvil pure evil monsters who delighted in killing humans]] and needed to be permanently put down. Pride is left as the SoleSurvivor but only because his [[DeathOfPersonality amnesia]] means he’s no longer an active threat.
53* HealingFactor: Can recover from fatal injuries without much problem. [[spoiler:However, "killing" them enough times exhausts their factor and renders them dead for real. Due to the method of his creation and the effects on his body it had, Wrath is the exception]], [[WhyWontYouDie not that he needs it]].
54* TheHeavy: The Homunculi as a whole are the main villains and their actions drive the plot, from the start of the Ishvalan war to Hughes' death. Father is the one commanding them, but he doesn't take an active role until much later.
55* HumanoidAbomination: All are evil creatures made through unnatural means with superhuman powers fueled by a stone that's filled to the brim with disembodied souls screaming in despair. For varying definitions of "humanoid:"
56** Lust and Wrath could both pass as normal humans, [[spoiler: and indeed do]]. Greed, aside from his sharpened teeth, looks human too (at least when his Ultimate Shield is down). [[spoiler: Considering Wrath and the 2nd Greed were made by combining a human with a Philosopher’s Stone and Lust’s purpose is to be an attractive seductress, this makes sense.]]
57** Gluttony and Sloth are still vaguely human, but their unnatural physiques [[note]] Gluttony is unnaturally stout with arms too long and legs too short for his body, Sloth is a ten-foot tall muscle-bound hunchback. Both also have white dots for eyes, with Sloth's right eye being replaced with a red node. [[/note]] give away that they're not normal.
58** Outright subverted with Father, Pride, and Envy. [[spoiler: They all wear human-looking masks, but Father is a black BlobMonster who was originally a small, orb shaped cyclops, Pride is an amorphous mass of razor-sharp shadows adorned with countless eyes and teeth, and Envy is a green-skinned, quadruped FleshGolem the size of a house.]]
59* TheIlluminati: [[spoiler:The demonic leaders of a government controlling conspiracy.]]
60* KarmicDeath: Nearly all of the ways that they are killed are either clearly ironic to their sin or a reference to [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Dante Alighieri]] who made punishments that were more subtly or symbolically ironic.
61** The first Greed was impaled face down (as per Dante) then melted down for his most valuable part.
62** Lust was incinerated (as per Dante) by a known womanizer.
63** Gluttony was eaten alive by Pride.
64** During Envy's final fight with Mustang, they had their eyes burned out (as per Dante), before ultimately pulling out their own heart out of self-hatred rather than live as a Homunculus to avoid the humiliation of being pitied by the very humans they hated so much.
65** Sloth died after expending all his energy in a long and grueling fight (as per Dante).
66** Atheistic Wrath was killed by the rageful but religious Scar who survived the genocidal war that Wrath instigated (who got the opening when the sun (the symbol of God, which one of Wrath's victims said would fall on him) blinded Wrath (as per Dante)). Also, Wrath gets dismembered during the final fight with Scar (as per Dante).
67** Father, whose horrible deeds came about only because he wanted freedom and all the knowledge in the world, was dragged back into the darkness whence he came.
68* KnightOfCerebus: The Homunculi are dangerous and deadly as a whole, but three of them in particular showcase how things can turn south in a heartbeat:
69** Envy [[spoiler:murdering Hughes]] steers the story into darker territory, showing that nobody is safe from the Homunculi and just how high the stakes are.
70** Lust's encounter with Mustang and Havoc gives the viewers a good idea of exactly how [[NighInvulnerable dangerous]] and [[HealingFactor durable]] the Homunculi are by catching both men by surprise, paralyzing Havoc, and nearly killing them, setting a darker tone and proving that the Homunculi cannot easily be killed and should not be taken lightly at any point, no matter how ineffective they might seem. [[spoiler:She would've easily killed Hawkeye and Alphonse had she been more practical and murdered Mustang instead of letting him die slowly and painfully.]]
71** Things always turn bad for the heroes the moment Pride shows up. After his identity is revealed, he's almost never played for laughs (save for when Ed finds out who he is and he [[{{Troll}} calls him a "little alchemist"]]).
72* LackOfEmpathy: With the possible exception of [[AntiVillain Greed]], they either [[KickTheDog enjoy harming humans]] or simply don't care, and in cases where they have a MoralityPet, have no empathy towards anyone else. Pride is so devoid of empathy that he views the other Homunculi as lowly as the other Homunculi view humans. And while Father shows a measure of affection for his "children", he has even ''less'' empathy for humankind than they do. As a comparison, Envy has, on multiple occasions, laughed openly at the "foolishness" of humanity. When Ling Yao accuses him of doing the same, Father simply tells him that, much like humans see themselves above insects and worms, [[HumansAreInsects he sees himself as so far above humanity]] that he literally feels ''nothing'', not even contempt, towards them.
73* LiteralSplitPersonality: The Homunculi are sentient embodiments of Father's SevenDeadlySins, which he separated from himself to become perfect and pure. Rather than destroying the beings created by this separation, he kept them around as his children to do his dirty work for him.
74* LogicalWeakness:
75** Despite their incredible powers, the Philosopher's Stones that power them are still a finite energy source, meaning they can be beaten through [[ZergRush sheer attrition]], [[spoiler:such as Mustang repeatedly incinerating Lust and Envy until they couldn't regenerate anymore. Even [[BigBad Father]] isn't able to hold out for more than a few minutes against the combined assault of Ed, Izumi, Mustang, Armstrong, Greed/Ling, Lan Fan, Darius, Zampano, and the [[BadassArmy Briggs troops]].]]
76** Aside from those abilities, their bodies are functionally identical to a normal human's, meaning they're susceptible to most anything humans are, [[spoiler:such as, again, Mustang burning Lust and Envy, or Olivier and the Briggs Troops [[HumanPopsicle freezing Sloth]].]] They're also capable of starving to death without ordinary food if there is no way to replenish their Philosopher's Stones.
77** Envy's transformations are limited by what they know about the person they turn into. When they try to kill Hughes by turning into Maria Ross, Hughes sees through their disguise because they missed the fact that Maria has a mole on her face and it’s implied they can’t mimic other people’s voices without hearing what they sound like. Similarly, they can only turn into someone physically, so any knowledge the user has they have to guess or make up if they want to stay hidden.
78** Greed's Ultimate Shield is formed by him reinforcing his body with a layer of carbon. Naturally, once Ed figures this out, he realizes he can transmute the carbon into a different, more fragile substance and injure Greed.
79** Wrath lacking the other Homunculi's HealingFactor means that he's dead for real if he gets killed... even if it takes him considerably longer to get there than most humans.
80* TheMagnificent: All of Father's children have a title that further demonstrates their respective sins. In order of oldest to youngest, there's: Pride the Arrogant, Lust the Lascivious, Greed the Avaricious, Envy the Jealous, Sloth the Indolent, Gluttony the Voracious, and Wrath the Furious.
81* MasculineFeminineAndrogyneTrio: In earlier chapters, the Homunculi most active against the heroes are Lust (who resembles a beautiful woman), Gluttony (who resembles a fat young man), and Envy (who has an androgynous appearance, has an AmbiguousGenderIdentity that is never really clarified, and is always referred to with gender-neutral writing). During this time, the three usually appeared as a trio. They are as diverse in body types and attitudes as well.
82* MyMasterRightOrWrong: [[HappilyMarried Wrath genuinely loves his wife]], Pride recognizes Mrs. Bradley as a [[NiceGirl good human being]] and [[HappilyAdopted enjoys being her son]]. That doesn’t stop either Wrath or Pride from sacrificing her for Father’s sake.
83** Envy and Gluttony are [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes furious that Lust was killed]] but refrain from seeking vengeance because [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou Father wants Roy Mustang alive]].
84* NighInvulnerable: As {{Humanoid Abomination}}s, each with a unique ability and every one possessing an ''insane'' HealingFactor, even Gluttony is this by default. The only exception is Wrath, who only has the one life and no HealingFactor, though he gets around this by being [[OneManArmy insanely difficult to injure or kill]].
85* NoBodyLeftBehind: Their bodies crumble into ash when they die, [[spoiler: except Wrath, since he was born a human.]]
86* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Whilst they are indeed Homunculi, they also are much like the Demons seen in Christian mythology, as they originate from [[{{Satan}} Father]], embody the Seven Deadly Sins, are essentially eldritch beings, and can even possess people [[spoiler:(as shown with Führer King Bradley)]].
87* OurHomunculiAreDifferent: They appear human but are in fact artificially made by Father to carry out his will through the use of a PhilosophersStone. The exceptions to this are [[spoiler:Wrath and second Greed, who were both created by injecting a human with a stone]]. Father himself was made when [[spoiler:an ancient civilization used alchemy to bring him from beyond the Gate and bind him to our world with Hohenheim's blood]].
88* PersonalityPowers: Most of them have powers related to the [[SevenDeadlySins sin]] they embody and by extension [[spoiler:which aspect of Father's personality they were created from]]. Gluttony has [[spoiler:a pocket dimension inside him that he can suck things into]], Greed has a shell made of black diamond, Lust has fingers that turn into spears which can penetrate anything (giving an otherwise [[MostCommonSuperpower extremely womanly]] character a twisted layer of androgyny), and Envy can shapeshift. Pride's powers don't really have anything to do with Pride objectively, but they do within the context of the story, as he was created in the image of Father's original form. Sloth [[spoiler:has the ability to shrug off pain because he is "too lazy to feel it"]]. Wrath has the ability to predict an opponent's moves & calculate the probability of the success of battle tactics in an instant, showing [[TranquilFury the calm, frightening aspect of war's wrath]].
89* PoweredByAForsakenChild: More like powered by a forsaken population of countless souls (Philosopher's stones).
90* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: Father created them decades apart. The most extreme difference in age is Pride at 350+, and Wrath in his sixties (or Gluttony at 160+ for pure Homunculi and not [[WasOnceAMan former humans]]).
91* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Father's first six children (Pride, Lust, Greed, Envy, Sloth, and Gluttony) were created centuries ago, while Father himself is over 400 years old. Wrath and the Second Greed avert this rule.
92* RedEyesTakeWarning: Lust, Greed, and Envy have irises between red and purple with slit pupils which were inherited from the Dwarf in the Flask, Pride also has these red eyes in his shadows and Gluttony has a red eye in his imperfect gate. In one of the openings there's a picture with all of the (currently known) Homunculi with half their face in a shadow and just one glowing red eye.
93** In addition, all the Homunculi at one point have their eyes turn into glowing red dots. Whether this is an art style choice by the anime for dramatic effect or actually a feature they have is unclear.
94* RedRightHand: Their ouroboros tattoos.
95* SevenDeadlySins: Each of their code names ([[spoiler:only King Bradley and Selim have names to the public eye, and Lust goes by Solaris at one point]]) is named after one because they are split from Father in order to become the perfect being. Almost all of them are defeated in manners similar to the punishments in ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', with the exception of Envy.
96* TheSociopath: With the exception of Greed, all of them cover at least one of the following evils; display [[LackOfEmpathy no guilt]] to [[KickTheDog their crimes]], often [[EvilGloating gloat about it]], have a [[TheHedonist pathological need for stimulation]], are [[AxCrazy batshit insane]], [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate others]] to no end, [[ConsummateLiar lie about everything]], [[{{Sadist}} enjoy the sufferings of others]]. [[ForTheEvulz Envy]], [[BloodKnight Lust]], and [[SmugSnake Pride]] are the biggest ones, but what prevents some of them from truly falling into these is their VillainousFriendship and love for their {{Morality Pet}}s.
97* StrongFamilyResemblance: With the exception of Wrath and Pride, [[spoiler:who masquarade as humans]] all the hommunculi share traits in their appearence. Most notably dark hair, clothes that are either black (in the manga) or dark brown, and red nodes somewhere on their body.
98* StupidEvil: [[NoNonsenseNemesis Excluding Wrath]], most of the Homunculi can’t stop themselves from [[UnderestimatingBadassery underestimating enemies that are serious threats]], dragging out fights [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim they could easily win]], and leaving themselves vulnerable to attacks just because they can [[HealingFactor heal]].
99* SuperiorSpecies: With the exceptions of [[TheBabyOfTheBunch Gluttony]] and [[LazyBum Sloth]], they all believe themselves to be superior to humans by default, to varying degrees. Greed doesn't believe this is particularly important and remains [[AffablyEvil affable]] towards humans. Wrath is simultaneously critical and [[VillainRespect respectful]] towards humans. Lust, Envy, and ''especially'' Pride are the best examples, often ranting about how pathetic humans are. Pride believes himself to be superior to other Homunculi and does not hesitate to [[spoiler:kill Gluttony when he decides the latter is more useful as a power source for himself]]. Finally, Father believes humans are so inferior to himself that they don't even deserve negative recognition from him.
100* SystematicVillainTakedown: They're each defeated one at a time leading up to the final confrontation with Father. That said, [[spoiler: Envy ultimately chooses to commit suicide and Greed pulls a HeelFaceTurn and goes out in a HeroicSacrifice at the very end]].
101* TangledFamilyTree: [[spoiler:Father is technically Ed and Al's much-older half-brother, and his 'children,' the Homunculi, are their nephews and niece/s despite being older. In one of the omakes they even try and beg a couple of years of pocket money out of their 'uncles'.]]
102* TerribleTrio: Lust Envy and Gluttony form this dynamic early on, with lust taking the lead in their schemes while Envy and Gluttony do more of the grunt work and fighting.
103* TooCleverByHalf: In any other circumstances, their [[spoiler:framing Maria Ross for Hughes's murder would come off as pure brilliance. They almost manage to tie that loose end up with quick strings to ensure Maria is swiftly convicted and executed. There's just a problem: Roy Mustang sees through the framing, manages to save Maria by faking her death under the pretense of burning her, and fools them into thinking he will no longer avenge Hughes]].
104* TrueCompanions: When you get right down to it, the Homunculi boil down to a big, happy, evil family. Envy, Lust and Gluttony were quite possibly the closest among them, however, and were almost always seen together. As you can imagine, [[spoiler:both Gluttony and Envy are horrified when Lust dies. Gluttony is left sitting there doing nothing but sobbing and Envy is quick to rage at King Bradley for letting it happen]].
105** Subverted, however, with Pride, who [[spoiler: absorbs Gluttony in a bid to obtain his powers, and generally looks down upon the others as inferiors. Double Subverted with Wrath, who Pride seems to view (ironically, considering their disguises), as a younger brother and is fairly kind towards him.]]
106* UndyingLoyalty: With the exception of Greed, who rebels against this, the Homunculi display varying degrees of zealous loyalty to their Father.
107* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The sheer extent that the Homunculi do this really can't be overstated: They regularly have scientists develop new methods of producing Philosophers Stones, then murder them all and [[HumanResources use them as the ingredients for the new stones]]. They slaughter all of Greed's henchmen when they side with Greed after he splits from them. Greed himself is [[spoiler:destroyed and recreated without his memories]] for refusing to work for them. [[spoiler:Kimblee]] is absorbed by Pride when the latter decides his only remaining use is as a power booster. Hell, Barry the Chopper does a HeelFaceTurn expressly because he understands that they're going to murder him once he's not useful anymore. Most notably, [[spoiler:the military high command has been promised that when Father [[HumanSacrifice activates the nationwide transmutation circle for the mass human sacrifice]], they'll be in the safe zone and become gods with him; when the time actually comes, Father doesn't even bother trying to inform them and simply begins the ritual, having always intended for them to die with everybody else.]] [[spoiler: Even one of their own, Gluttony, is absorbed ruthlessly by Pride in order to obtain his power.]]
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111->[[Characters/FullmetalAlchemistFather See here]].
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115!!Lust the Lascivious
116!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KikukoInoue (JP), Creator/LauraBailey (EN, Funimation), Muriel Hofmann (EN, Animax)[[labelnote:Other Languages]]Elena Díaz Toledo (Latin America), Vanessa Alves (BR, Álamo), Carol Valença (BR, IST), Stefania Patruno (IT), Creator/JankaSolecki (HUN)[[/labelnote]]
117[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lust_fma_1.png]]
118->'''Affiliation:''' Homunculi\
119'''Speciality:''' [[AbsurdlySharpClaws Ultimate Spear]]
120->''"Bloodshed gives way to more bloodshed. Hatred breeds more hatred. Until all of the violence soaks into the land, carving rivers of blood. And no matter how many times it happens, they never learn. Humans are made up of violent, miserable fools."''
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122The homunculus who personifies Father's lechery. Lust is a seductress of both immense beauty and cruelty who acts as Father's emissary to his pawns and chief assassin. Her ability is the Ultimate Spear, which allows her to extend her fingers to use them as lances or turn them into claws.
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124* AbsurdlySharpClaws: Her primary weapon, which has earned her the InUniverseNickname "the Ultimate Spear".
125* AloofDarkHairedGirl: She has RavenHairIvorySkin, a cold attitude, a very cynical and pragmatic view of the world as a whole, and [[TheVamp the capacity of being as deadly as she is beautiful]].
126* AuthorAppeal: In addition to [[{{Hunk}} muscular men]] (see Armstrong), the author has acknowledged that she really likes drawing [[BuxomBeautyStandard buxom women such as Lust]] ("Women should be ''va va voom''!").
127* AxCrazy: A bit more polite about it than, say, Envy, but it's made pretty obvious that her "lust" is a lust for violence and murder. To drive the point home, she's the only Homunculus who is not against killing sacrifice candidates (something that even Envy knows isn't allowed), although it took a hell of a lot to push her to that decision.
128* TheBaroness: Sexpot version. She's normally cold and collected, but she's also a SoftSpokenSadist and a BloodKnight.
129* BeastAndBeauty: With the FatBastard Gluttony, though in a brother/sister manner rather than a sexual one.
130* BeautyIsBad: Obviously.
131* BigBrotherBully: Downplayed sister example. While she doesn't pick on her younger siblings apart from occasional banter with Envy, she seems outwardly apathetic to Sloth being forced to work on digging a tunnel and even seems to mock him.
132-->'''Greed:''' And where is Sloth the Indolent these days?.
133-->'''Lust:''' I'm sure he'd love to be here slacking off.
134-->''(Cut to Sloth digging a tunnel)''
135-->'''Lust:''' But we have to keep him working.
136* BitchInSheepsClothing: As Havoc's girlfriend, Solaris, Lust was apparently charming, sweet, and attentive, and was very supportive of him as he got used to living in Central. Havoc is understandably a bit shocked when she turns out to be an evil quasi-immortal being who [[spoiler:''literally'' stabs him in the back, and then goes on to try to kill Mustang, Hawkeye, and Alphonse]], all the while thoroughly enjoying herself.
137* BloodierAndGorier: [[spoiler:Her death is ''far'' less graphic in the manga than in ''Brotherhood'', which freely displays her body getting burned to the bone over and over again.]]
138* BloodKnight: She enjoys fighting and killing humans. This may be why she's called "Lust"; most notably, she takes an almost sexual pleasure in seeing the riots in Liore and is {{implied|Trope}} to have done the same in the Ishvalan Civil War.
139* BondVillainStupidity: After [[spoiler:stabbing Mustang and Havoc, she leaves them to bleed out on the floor without bothering to actually watch them die]]. Cue her surprise when [[spoiler:Mustang returns to kill her, having [[HealItWithFire seared his wounds closed]]]].
140* BrainsAndBrawn: The Brains to Gluttony and Envy's Brawn.
141* BuxomBeautyStandard: She has pretty impressive breasts, though it only gets brought up once in the main story, plus that one ''omake'' when she used them to smash walnuts.
142-->'''Mustang:''' I can see how she tricked you. You've always been a sucker for big boobs.\
143'''Havoc:''' I'm sorry, sir. ''[cue CherubicChoir]'' I just love them so much!
144* CardCarryingVillain: Enjoys being evil.
145* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: For Gluttony, in a villainous example. He is too childish to be trusted to go out on his own, so Lust normally keeps him at her side, keeping him in check and telling him what to do. When she isn't available, the task falls to other homunculi.
146* CombatSadomasochist: In her battle with Roy Mustang, Lust combines flirting with trying to kill him, even as he keeps killing her. At one point, she comments "Didn't anyone tell you it's rude to put your hand between a woman's breasts?" -- at this time, Roy is [[KillItWithFire setting her on fire]], and also has his hand inside of her chest, trying to destroy her Philosopher's Stone. As she dies, she makes a comment about appreciating being killed by a strong man like him.
147* CombatStilettos: She's a DarkActionGirl in a black pair of high-heel boots. Justified, since her ability means she doesn't have to be quick on her feet, able to slice through anything that comes to her and extend her spears to kill opponents at a distance.
148* CoolBigSis: Seems to be this for Team Homunculi, as the most reasonable and approachable out of the three eldest (Lust, [[AloofBigBrother Pride]], and [[TheStoic Father]]). Gluttony openly adores her and usually tags along with her, Envy gets along better with her than anyone else and chooses to spend their downtime hanging out with her and Gluttony, her exchange with Greed implies that they had their own friendly banter going back in the day, and Wrath even seems to [[spoiler:be gearing up to kill potential candidates to help Lust before arriving too late]].
149* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Gets hit with walls of flames until she dies.]]
150* DarkActionGirl: Beautiful, cruel, and seductive, she's the [[TheSmurfettePrinciple only female]] of the Homunculi and uses her FemmeFatalons as penetrating spears. Her "lust" is one for violence, murder, and sadism. Along with Wrath and Pride, Lust appears to be one of the better fighters among the homunculi. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for her and very fortunately for everyone else, before she can stick around to cause even more trouble she runs into one of the few characters with the firepower to permanently kill homunculi. Mustang killing her convinces Wrath he should be used as a candidate, and the homunculi make arrangements to hold Mustang in check for the rest of the series.]]
151* DeadpanSnarker: Has a sharp sense of humor to go with her fingers and frequently gets snarky: "Oh no, did I get your ignition gloves all wet? Silly me." When Ed prepares to fight her and Envy only to find his automail arm had been busted in a previous fight, Lust catches on first with a wry "Technical difficulties?"
152* DeathByIrony: In a few ways.
153** [[spoiler:She is killed with fire by Roy Mustang to protect Riza Hawkeye. Their relationship, while selflessly loving and supportive, is never portrayed as sexual, and the military anti-fraternization law has trained both parties to keep their feelings in check – making it essentially the opposite of a lustful relationship.]]
154** [[spoiler:Out of sadism, she gravely injures Mustang and Havoc and leaves them to die, but by doing this, she gives Roy enough time and privacy to cauterize the wounds and prepare for a counterattack. Her lust for causing extended, painful death only serves to set up her own.]]
155** [[spoiler:Finally, Lust's effectiveness in battle comes from her berserk, wild thirst for cruelty, yet her killer only remains on his feet as he calmly burns her to death because he is completely focused on ''saving'' someone.]]
156* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:Her last act before she finally concedes defeat? Lunge at Mustang with pure killing intent]].
157* {{Determinator}}: Takes a ridiculous amount of punishment before she even starts to consider dying.
158* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[LampshadedDoubleEntendre Her main attack is called the "Ultimate Lance" and can penetrate anything]].
159** [[spoiler: Not to mention her dying moments talking to Roy. She sounds turned on talking about his eyes going wide in agony.]]
160* DyingCurse: [[spoiler:She spends her last breaths to tell Roy that he's still going to lose.]]
161-->'''Lust:''' [[{{Foreshadowing}} I look forward to the day when those eyes will be wide with agony. It's coming... it's coming]].
162* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Her hair's as black as the night and her skin is white as paper. For a character made out to be very beautiful, this serves to let the audience know she's not one of the good guys.
163* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: This is Lust's only major redeeming quality. She cares for and looks out for the other Homunculi and seems to genuinely view them as a family. In particular, she has a big-sister relationship with both Gluttony and Envy, and spends a significant amount of time looking after (and essentially babysitting) Gluttony due to his simple-mindedness. [[spoiler:It's also worth noting that the Homunculi's infighting greatly increases after her death, suggesting she was the member keeping them united.]]
164* EvilGenius: She is the best in her group at manipulating people and one of the more strategic of the Homunculi. Keep in mind, she was orchestrating multiple events like Father Cornello all around the country for ''centuries''.
165* {{Expy}}: Obviously takes a few cues from ComicBook/{{Mystique}}, being a deceptive, manipulative, sadistic not-quite-human female who has no problems using sex appeal to get what she wants.
166* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:She takes her death remarkably well]].
167-->'''Lust:''' [[spoiler:You killed me... I hate losing, but there are worse ways to die than at the hands of a man like you... I love how cold and focused your eyes are... I look forward to the day that those eyes are wide with ''agony''...]]
168* FanDisservice: While fighting [[spoiler:Mustang]], Lust looks like she's about to pull down her dress only for her to rip open her chest cavity to expose her Philosopher's Stone.
169* FatalFlaw: Her sadism gets the better of her, [[spoiler: which bites her in the ass ''hard'' with Mustang. If she had been more pragmatic and just killed him right away instead of letting him live to suffer, he wouldn't have caught her by surprise and incinerated her to death.]]
170* FauxAffablyEvil: Oh, so much. She can come on so damn sizzling and flirty before the knives come out.
171* FemmeFatalons: She has ten knives only a moment away.
172* FormFittingWardrobe: Her outfits always accentuate her voluptuous figure.
173* FreudWasRight: She's named after the sin typically associated with sex and her weapon is the Ultimate Spear, which can penetrate ''anything''.
174* GirlyBruiser: She has long glossy hair, wears [[MakeUpIsEvil red lipstick]], a LittleBlackDress, HighClassGloves, and CombatStilettos. She's also a [[SoftSpokenSadist sadistic]] BloodKnight who uses her FemmeFatalons as penetrating spears.
175* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler:As Mustang kills her, she regains her calm and accepts her defeat, remarking that she hates losing but there are worse ways to die than to [[WorthyOpponent him]].]]
176* TheHeart: This is what Lust really inherits from Father: the capacity to experience, understand, and enjoy emotion. Out of all the Homunculi, Lust has the greatest and most complex sense of humor, takes the most enjoyment out of interacting with and fighting others, and -- in her guise as "Solaris" -- demonstrates the most creativity in playing the emotions of others to her advantage. The opening of Chapter 38 shows that Father relied on Lust for insight on the rest of his pawns. [[spoiler:After her death, the Homunculi are visibly shaken and show difficulty in working together as well as they used to, which suggests that Lust was the glue keeping them together]].
177* TheHeavy: Splits this role with Envy and Gluttony being the most prominent Homunculi, they fall out of this role after [[spoiler:her death]].
178* HighClassGloves: She wears black opera gloves with red trim.
179* ImpossibleHourglassFigure: She has a [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uMWJOmeznhg/hqdefault.jpg quite slim waist framed by voluptuous curves]]. Justified as she's a homunculus, not a human, and is the living embodiment of the sin she's named for.
180* ImpossiblyLowNeckline: She wears a LittleBlackDress below her armpits. Technically speaking, she and at least some of the other Homunculi are naked because their "clothes" are really part of their body, as shown when they're injured and their clothes regenerate with the rest of them.
181* InSeriesNickname: "Ms. Ultimate Spear", by Greed.
182* IntimateMarks: As befitting her character, her Ouroboros mark is right on her cleavage.
183* {{Jerkass}}: While [[FauxAffablyEvil more polite about it]] than [[AxCrazy Envy]] and [[SmugSnake Pride]], Lust is a haughty creature who looks down on humans as lesser beings than her and loves torturing and murdering people out of sheer sadism.
184* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: She's an elegant and self-possessed DarkActionGirl in a LittleBlackDress, HighClassGloves, and CombatStilettos.
185* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:The first homunculus to die in the manga and ''Brotherhood'', after Mustang repeatedly set her on fire.]]
186* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:Roy Mustang roasts her ''eight times'' to make sure she's permanently dead. He sees her Philosopher's Stone shatter just as her lance is an inch from spiking through his head.]]
187* LadyOfWar: She's as graceful and composed as she is devastating, and she [[BloodKnight lives for the chaos that is war]].
188* LightIsNotGood: Her fake name, Solaris, is associated with the sun. Also adds to all the sun/god foreshadowing regarding [[spoiler:Father's ultimate ambition.]]
189* LittleBlackDress: She usually wears a long, off-the-shoulder black dress with an ImpossiblyLowNeckline.
190* LongHairIsFeminine: She is the only female of the Homunculi and has the longest hair of them down to her hips.
191* {{Lust}}: Well, duh! In her case it seems to be a lust for violence and sadism rather than being sexual in nature (though she's an [[LustObject ''object'' of lust]]) and uses the lust she inspires in others to further her goals. She’s perhaps the lone Homunculi who doesn’t show any signs of the sin she embodies in a traditional sense.
192* MadeOfIron: Even for a Homunculus, the woman is tough. No particular explanation is given.
193* MakeUpIsEvil: She always wears red lipstick, befitting for TheVamp.
194* ManipulativeBitch: Her primary methods as Father's emissary, being sultry and silver-tongued while stabbing you in the back.
195* MisanthropeSupreme: Though Lust seems to show signs of FantasticRacism in her disdain for humanity, in her [[spoiler:final appearance]], she refers to herself as human multiple times, indicating her hatred is one born of pessimism as opposed to prejudice.
196* MsFanservice: She is TheVamp with {{long|HairIsFeminine}}, glossy RavenHairIvorySkin, an ImpossibleHourglassFigure, and a low and sultry voice courtesy of Creator/LauraBailey. Aside from her regular LittleBlackDress with an ImpossiblyLowNeckline and a VaporWear, her outfit as Solaris covers her upper body but accentuates her BuxomBeautyStandard figure. In fact, all of her appearances are fanservice to some degree.
197* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: "She's dust... I definitely cremated her." Sorry, Roy...
198* NumberTwo: PlayedWith. Early on in the series, she's the one who personally coordinates the Homunculi's efforts to manipulate alchemists to advance the plot. However, this is later {{downplayed|Trope}} once it's revealed that Wrath [[spoiler:is King Bradley and is doing this on a national level]] and that Pride [[spoiler:is posing as his kid and is the true personal coordinator of the Homunculi's individual approach to alchemists]]. She's high ranking amongst the Homunculi being their most intelligent and charismatic member, but ultimately Wrath and Pride hold more importance in Father's plans.
199* OfCorsetsSexy: Well, it's hard for her to wear anything without becoming automatically sexy on her. But, going for corsetry only emphasizes certain assets.
200* OppositeSexClone: To an extent. There's some FanDisservice when you notice how she has some of Father's features.
201%%* PlatonicLifePartners: With Gluttony.
202* {{Pride}}: Very much so, despite it not being "her" sin.
203* 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 the ''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.
204* RavenHairIvorySkin: Like all of the Homunculi, Lust has pale skin in contrast to her black dress and hair. Despite possessing the abilities to turn her fingertips into extremely sharp extendable blades, her most dangerous attributes is her cunning and beauty which she uses to manipulate men into doing what she wants.
205* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Envy's red. Lust is nearly as cruel and sadistic as Envy, but she is more [[SoftSpokenSadist soft-spoken]].
206* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:Played with. She's one of the best fighters among the Homunculi (second only to Wrath and Pride), yet is killed fairly early to show that Mustang means business. It's worth noting that her death is also the first real setback that Father has suffered in four hundred years. Her death also confirms that the Homunculi can be slain for good and that their regeneration abilities have their limits.]]
207* {{Sadist}}: It's clear that she loves seeing her opponents die slowly and painfully; there are some heavy implications that this is what she lusts for. At one point, she inflicts fatal wounds on her victims but doesn't give them the mercy of finishing them off, instead walking off cruelly smiling to leave them to bleed out in agony and wallow over how they've failed their friends.
208* TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction: [[spoiler:Poor, paralyzed Havoc...]]
209* ShowingOffYourPowers: [[spoiler: Upon finally obtaining the power of Truth, Father creates a miniature sun in his hand to show his status as essentially a god, and later gives an even bigger display by shamelessly breaking the laws of alchemy to resurrect and kill the citizens of Xerxes, horrifying everyone. ]]
210* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Aside from potentially [[AmbiguousGender Envy]], Lust is the only female Homunculus in the group ''and'' the only female villain in the manga/''Brotherhood''.
211* SoftSpokenSadist: In contrast to her fellow Homunculi, Lust almost never raises her voice, even in battle. This makes her just as creepy and deadly since it makes it hard to guess what she's thinking.
212* SpiesAreDespicable: Acts as a spy in honeypotting Havoc, and is a gratuitously cruel and sadistic killer who clearly enjoys causing both mental and physical suffering in people.
213* StatuesqueStunner: Usually depicted as taller than most human men and very beautiful.
214* StarterVillain: She’s the most prominent of the Homunculi early on, as well as the first one to die.
215* StupidEvil: Just like Envy, she absolutely cannot help herself when it comes to being wantonly and gratuitously cruel and sadistic and gloating about her latest plan or something awful she did, and also like Envy, her inability to know when to shut the fuck up and stop antagonizing people who no one in their right mind would try to anger winds up costing her dearly.
216* SultryBangs: Her hair will often drape over her right eye in the seductive Creator/VeronicaLake fashion.
217* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Averted. [[spoiler:In their first encounter, Roy has no qualms with interrupting her when she's talking. With a bullet. Twice.]]
218* TeamMom: To [[TeamKids Gluttony]], who sees her as his mother and takes it ''really'' badly when [[spoiler:Mustang kills her]].
219* TsurimeEyes: She has narrow, upwards-arching eyes, signifying her pride as a homunculus and making her appear perpetually seductive.
220* TheVamp: As one of the primary agents of the BigBad, she uses her incredible beauty and cunning mind to manipulate men, often killing them once they are no longer useful. Her design perfectly calls up the classic image, with flowing black curls and a slinky black dress, as well as smoky makeup.
221* VaporWear: She clearly doesn't wear a bra with her LittleBlackDress low-cut, befitting for TheVamp. During her final moment, there's a brief moment where the viewer can see her half-naked butt, heavily implying that she doesn't wear panties. Technically speaking, she and at least some of the other Homunculi are naked because their "clothes" are really part of their body, as shown when they're injured and their clothes regenerate with the rest of them.
222* VillainousBreakdown: The only time she ever loses her cool is when [[spoiler:Roy obliterates her with fire. Lust charges at him, '''''screaming in fury,''''' with her claws aimed at his head and pure murder on her mind. It's a sign of how badly she wants him dead by now that she isn't in the mood anymore for toying with him. Realizing she's been killed, she gives him a long and icy DeathGlare before recollecting herself enough to admit it's not too bad to lose to a man like him.]]
223* VillainousFriendship: With Gluttony and, to a lesser degree, Envy.
224* WeakButSkilled: In relative comparison to the other Homunculi. Lust doesn't favor brute strength, but rather her intellect, charisma, and fighting prowess.
225* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:[[DownplayedTrope A mild example]], but she dies rather suddenly and much earlier than any other Homunculus (the others all survive until the last arc); and contrary to her incarnation in the 2003 anime, her character doesn't get much CharacterDevelopment.]]
226* WhatBeautifulEyes: A really, really creepy variant of this trope directed at Roy. [[spoiler:After he kills her, she tells him that she admires how cold and focused his eyes are... and she wants to see those eyes ''go wide with agony'']].
227* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: "I've sent [[FatIdiot Gluttony]] and [[HairTriggerTemper Envy]]. They will not fail."
228* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Her reaction when Roy calls her a monster after showcasing her abilities and Philosopher's Stone. She claims that the Homunculi are "the next link in the evolutionary chain" of humanity.
229* WolverineClaws: Yup. Ones that are as sharp (if not sharper) than the trope namer's.
230* WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler: She seems to respect Mustang as one, going by her final words.]]
231* WouldHurtAChild: While with Marcoh in the manga, a little girl enters the room and is nearly stabbed by her sharp claws. She then threatens to behead her if Marcoh doesn't comply to the homunculi orders.
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233
234[[folder:Gluttony]]
235!!Gluttony the Voracious
236!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TetsuShiratori (JP), Chris Cason (EN)[[labelnote:Other Languages]]Gonzalo Fumero (Latin America), César Marchetti (BR), Raffaele Fallica (IT)[[/labelnote]]
237[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gluttony_9.png]]
238->'''Affiliation:''' Homunculi\
239'''Speciality:''' [[ExtremeOmnivore Eating Everything]] / [[BlackHoleBelly Imperfect Gate]]
240->''"Can I eat him now?"''
241
242The homunculus who personifies Father's voracity. Gluttony is a 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.
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244* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: The manga is what’s canon, and Brotherhood follows the manga closely, it can’t be denied that 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist Gluttony took the death of his Lust much much harder.
245* {{Acrofatic}}: Surprisingly quick for his size. Lampshaded - a notable example was when Ed and Al managed to trap Gluttony in a hole, only for him to jump right out.
246* AffablyEvil: He's actually relatively friendly and good-natured towards people he's not fighting or looking to eat. He even [[spoiler:apologizes to Al for eating his brother (which he actually wasn't supposed to do to begin with) and leads him to Father with the intention of helping get him, Ling and Envy out of his stomach]].
247* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Gluttony's brutal and painful death by Pride's hands is incredibly gut-wrenching, given that he's one of the least actively-malicous homnuculi and that he did nothing to warrant being betrayed by his own family.]] Even the main characters could only watch in horror as the scene unfolded.
248* AmbiguouslyBrown: In both animes, Gluttony is drawn with browner skin in comparison to his siblings.
249* ArchEnemy: Gluttony really has it for Col. Mustang [[spoiler:since he was responsible for killing Lust]]. So when Dr. Knox causally utters Mustang's name, Gluttony wastes no time on trying to devour him in order to avenge [[spoiler:Lust]]. Unfortunately for him, however, [[spoiler:he is eaten and killed by Pride before he can get a chance to face Mustang again]].
250* AvengingTheVillain: [[spoiler:He's deeply saddened by Lust's death and develops a strong grudge against her killer. So much that he goes OneWingedAngel and chases after him with the intention of devouring him.]]
251* AxCrazy: Zigzagged. Depending on the situation, he can either chase tirelessly his opponents while grinning madly or simply remain rather calm and ask if he can eat people.
252* TheBabyOfTheBunch: He's the youngest Homunculus who isn't human-based, has the most childlike demeanor, and is babysat by the others.
253* BackForTheDead: After his regeneration powers were depleted, he was revived by Father. [[spoiler:However not long after finally returning, he's eaten by Pride.]]
254* BackFromTheDead: Scar once exhausted his HealingFactor and killed him for real. However, Father was nearby and able to resurrect him with all his memories without much trouble.
255* BaldOfEvil: In contrast to the other Homunculi who have hair.
256* BeastAndBeauty: With Lust. It's not romantic though, being [[BrotherSisterTeam brother and sister]].
257* BellyMouth: In his OneWingedAngel form. It's actually an imperfect Gate of Truth.
258* BerserkButton: Hurting Lust in front of him will almost ensure that you'll get eaten.
259* BewareTheSillyOnes: He currently provides the trope image.
260* BigEater: As per his "sin", he is never, ever full.
261* BlackHoleBelly: For all his eating, his admittedly already-rotund figure never changes. Rather unusually, there's actually a diegetic reason given: [[spoiler:everything he eats ends up in a pocket dimension, since he's a failed attempt at artificially creating a Gate of Truth.]]
262* BrainsAndBrawn: The Brawn to Lust's Brains.
263* TheBrute: Very strong, none too bright, and used by Father and Lust as a living wrecking ball.
264* ButtMonkey: He takes the most damage out of the Homunculi. This becomes important when he runs out of soul energy to regenerate right when he is needed to stop Al and Scar from fleeing Father's lair.
265* CharacterCatchphrase: "Can I eat him/her?"
266* CurbstompBattle: On the receiving end by [[spoiler:a now Automail armed Lan Fan]], and Ling.
267* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:He is eaten by Pride.]]
268* DumbMuscle: Gluttony has no real understanding of really anything on how to fight. All he does is throw himself around and try to eat things. And he complains if he can't eat them.
269* EatTheEvidence: Gluttony is often assigned to devour people or evidence related to the Homunculi's plans. He devours Father Cornello so Envy can pose as him, and then Cray when he stumbles upon the charade. [[spoiler: Also ate the alchemy stones from Xerxes to hide that it was Father who destroyed the city.]]
270* EldritchLocation: His stomach is a dimension whose floor is enveloped in a river of blood, with massive stone pillars with fires on top of them... and as [[spoiler: Envy]] reveals, there is no exit.
271* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first appearance has him devouring the chimera that Cornello had created and after seeing him, he drops the remaining leftovers and he enthusiastically asks Lust if he can eat him, which he proceeds to do after Lust kills him, despite her orders not to do so.
272* ExtremeOmnivore: He's the embodiment of Father's gluttony.
273* FaceDeathWithDespair: [[spoiler:Gluttony, devoured by his eldest brother, spends his 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.]]
274* FatBastard: Played with. Gluttony is rather docile and nice when left alone, but still follows his evil superiors' commands. As well, he doesn't exactly need external prompting to [[ImAHumanitarian want to eat people]], so...
275* FatIdiot: As stupid as he's fat, basically having the smarts and the personality of a child under ten years old.
276* FeedItABomb: Ling throws a bomb down his throat before capturing him.
277* 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 entrusted on missions by himself, 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]].
278* TheHeavy: Splits this role with Envy and Lust being the most prominent Homunculi, they fall out of this role after [[spoiler:Lust's death.]]
279* HorrorHunger: He has an endless appetite, and it drives him to (but ''definitely'' [[ExtremeOmnivore does not limit him to]]) crave humans. Although he does limit himself to humans other Homunculi allow him to eat (except in Cornello's case).
280* HumanoidAbomination: About on par with Pride and Father in this regard; the other Homunculi are feasibly attractive [[HumanoidAbomination humanoids]], but Gluttony? He's a physically repulsive bottomless pit whose stomach leads to another dimension.
281* HungryMenace: Normally he's docile and really AffablyEvil, but when he's given permission to eat something he becomes very dangerous.
282* IronicEcho: Is always asking if he can eat someone, sometimes directing the question to his would-be victim. [[spoiler:After absorbing Gluttony and gaining his ravenous hunger, Pride teasingly asks Greed, "Can I eat you?"]]
283* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Who would have expected that Gluttony would end up being eaten by someone else (and by Pride of all people)? Still, his death is PlayedForHorror, as Ed and 2nd Greed found it disturbing]].
284* LetsGetDangerous: Face it, Mustang -- he's one of the Homunculi. You should have expected him to be a NotSoHarmlessVillain.
285* LightningBruiser: Manages to keep up with [[SuperSpeed Wrath]] and [[BadassNormal Ling]].
286* LogicalWeakness: Tying him up tightly while he's regenerating to immobilize him makes sense especially with his round body.
287* MoralityPet: Seems to be this to Lust, as she's genuinely fond of him and looks after him. Also to Envy to a lesser extent, who goes out of their way to rescue Gluttony at one point.
288* MonsterMisogyny: A downplayed and innocuous case, but he mentions preferring to eat girls because [[WomenAreDelicate they're more tender]].
289* TheNoseKnows: Has a very good sense of smell, which makes him dangerous during Greed's group's fight with Pride, as without light to see him, Gluttony has the advantage.
290* NoSell: [[spoiler: Mustang's [[PlayingWithFire flame alchemy]] is one of the Homunculi's [[KryptoniteFactor Kryptonite Factors]] and what ultimately defeats both Lust and Envy, but when he tries throwing fireballs at Gluttony, Gluttony just harmlessly swallows them.]]
291* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Easily the most docile of the Homunculi when not hungry or fighting, but once he realizes that Mustang's the one who [[spoiler:killed Lust]], he goes ''ballistic''.
292** 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.
293* ObliviouslyEvil: Gluttony is not much eviler than a great white shark. Why is he still so dangerous? Have a look-see below.
294* OneTrackMindedHunger: He's just hungry and completely unaware of concepts like morality.
295* OneWingedAngel: His chest can open up in a fanged mouth. Unusual for the trope is that he can change back.
296* OverlyLongTongue: That thing is huge! It's also the location of his Ouroboros mark.
297* PlatonicLifePartners: With Lust.
298* PowerLimiter: His personality is essentially this. Otherwise, he would stand just below Father in terms of threat level. If he had Greed’s personality, it would be a wildly different story. As it stands, he’s essentially a self-moving eldritch cannon.
299* PowerfulButIncompetent: Gluttony is a 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.
300* PsychopathicManchild: Gluttony is a ridiculously strong ArtificialHuman over 90-years-old with the temperament and intelligence of a young boy and stuck in the infant phase of [[ExtremeOmnivore wanting to shove everything in his mouth.]] Throughout most of the series, he's reliant on his "keeper" Lust to do the thinking for him (his main input being to ask her if he can eat people). He sees her like his mother and [[spoiler:when she dies, the poor guy suffers a nervous breakdown; and though in the manga he is still able to function properly, he did not forget her death, going after Mustang for revenge and tearfully calling for her upon death.]]
301* PunchClockVillain: A twisted example. Despite embodying his Father's gluttony, Gluttony is a near invincible overweight manchild who would rather eat and spend time with Lust like a child to his mother than actively hurting anyone beyond eating them and obeying his creator's orders. Which makes his [[spoiler:ultimate demise of getting eaten by Pride, calling out to Lust (who died earlier in the series) to help him much more disturbing and pitiable.]] He still can get pretty unhinged in his search for humans.
302* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:"Roy Mustang... '''killed Lust!'''"]]
303* SayMyName: '''MUSTAAAAAAAAANG!!!'''
304* ShooOutTheClowns: Easily the most comical Homunculus, [[spoiler:he's killed right before the climax kicks off.]]
305* TeamKids: He's the most childish homunculus, has a mother-son dynamic with [[TeamMom Lust]], and is one of the least malicious among the homunculi. [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Doesn't stop him from being a threat.]]
306* TopHeavyGuy: His legs are tiny compared to the rest of his body, though his big belly arguably makes him more of a Middle-Heavy Guy.
307* ToServeMan: He'll eat anything, but humans are his favorite "food".
308* UndyingLoyalty: Towards Lust. He's understandably heartbroken when [[spoiler:she dies]]... and understandably ''[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge furious]]'' when he [[spoiler:encounters her killer]]...
309* UnskilledButStrong: In a manner similar to Sloth, Gluttony does not have any real fancy tricks aside from his Imperfect Gate. He uses his massive physical strength to win so he can devour them.
310* UnstoppableRage: Despite being strung into a ball with steel cables and completely helpless, the mention of Mustang [[spoiler:(the one who killed [[TheHeart Lust]]),]] makes him enraged enough to break through the cables and jump straight into OneWingedAngel mode.
311* VillainousFriendship: With Lust.
312* VillainousGlutton: Well, ''[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin duh]]''.
313* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Pride uses his shadows to [[DeathByIrony eat him]] after deciding that he's nothing but a hindrance to the homunculi's plans]].
314[[/folder]]
315
316[[folder:Envy]]
317->[[Characters/FullmetalAlchemistEnvy See here]].
318[[/folder]]
319
320[[folder:Greed]]
321!!Greed the Avaricious
322!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuichiNakamura (JP), Creator/ChrisPatton (EN)[[labelnote:Other Languages]]Salvador Pérez (Latin America), Alexandre Marconato (BR, Álamo), Marco Antônio Costa (BR, IST), Gabriele Calindri (IT)[[/labelnote]]
323[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/greed_human.png]]
324[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see his Ultimate Shield form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/greed_fma.png[[/labelnote]]]]
325->'''Affiliation:''' Homunculi (formerly)/Devil's Nest\
326'''Speciality:''' [[NighInvulnerability Ultimate Shield]]
327->''"You humans think greed is only about money and power. But don't forget: everybody wants something they don't have. So I want money, women, status, fame, and everything else in this world! And I want eternal life!"''
328
329The 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 (specifically a century ago). 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.
330-----
331* AchillesHeel: His Ultimate Shield [[InstantArmor deploys quickly]], but still not instantly. His HealingFactor also takes priority over Ultimate Shield, and he can't regenerate and harden at the same time. Someone who can SpeedBlitz him can slice him off before he fully hardens, and keep cutting him down without giving him chance to fully regenerate or harden, and eventually deplete his stone's power.
332* AdaptationDyeJob: Of sorts. In the ''Brotherhood'' anime and any media that draws from it, Greed's shirt is a reddish black and isn't part of his ultimate shield. But in the manga it's clear that his 'shirt' is not only the same color as his shield, it literally ''is'' a part of it, which he keeps active at all times.
333* AffablyEvil: In a series filled with many types of horrible villains, Greed stands out as the only villain who really ''is'' a nice guy. He is undeniably the most polite, classy, and the least violent Homunculus of all. Also, unlike other villains, Greed technically isn't evil, just [[{{Greed}} willing to do whatever he thinks is necessary to get what he wants]]. In the manga, he might actually [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] this, since it shows more of the backstory supporting how he [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold cares about]] [[BenevolentBoss his subordinates]]. He also tries to make a deal with Ed -- he teaches him how to bind his soul to an inanimate object and he'll teach Ed how to create an homunculus.
334--> '''Greed''' (to a captured Alphonse): The name's Greed, and I want to be your friend.
335* AmbitionIsEvil: {{Inverted|Trope}}, his ambition was what drove him to separate from Father and become an AntiVillain [[spoiler:and later an AntiHero]].
336* AntiAntichrist: His Father is an EldritchAbomination Satanic Archetype, and Greed has fallen out with the old man long ago. Because he is "greedy", Greed isn't interested in his Father's plans, and because of his massive ego, wants to accumulate a large number of followers, unlike Father, who views humans as insects that serve only to create philosopher's stones. For bonus points, Greed even gets a CrucifiedHeroShot before dying.
337* AntiVillain: Greed may be a selfish bastard, but he [[BenevolentBoss values and cares deeply for his followers]]. He's also the only [[TokenHeroicOrc Homunculus who doesn't resent humans nor is a cold-blooded mass murderer]][[note]]Gluttony and Sloth count as well, as one is hungry all the time and the other is too apathetic to care about anything and both are simply following orders[[/note]], actually being a nice guy to some extent (unless you attack him upfront like). Anyone would be forgiven for wanting to work under him. [[spoiler:It's no surprise that he later becomes an AntiHero after being resurrected by Father]].
338* BadGuyBar: The Devil's Nest, his hideout.
339* BenevolentBoss: To his minions -- or, as he calls them, "possessions". He treats them well and shows concern for them (he is far better than Father in this regard).
340* BigNo: In the original Japanese manga he shouts "NO!" in English when Father asks if he'll return to his side.
341* BlackEyesOfCrazy: In his GameFace Ultimate Shield form.
342* BookEnds: [[spoiler:Is both the first and last of the "sin" Homunculi to die in the series.]]
343* BrassBalls: Defying Father took guts. Doing so while chained up and about to be melted down? Even more so. He continues to do this as he's CookedToDeath.
344* ByronicHero: Has elements of this. A greedy but rebellious being, Greed listens to no one but himself. Not even Father can make Greed truly obey him. To this end, Greed only acts on his whims without much regard to others. He also shows some charisma as he is able to attract followers, not least thanks to his [[AffablyEvil socializing]] nature.
345* CarbonSkin: Greed's signature power is his "Ultimate Shield"; he can cover himself in a malleable, but nigh-impenetrable suit of graphene. Bullets and explosions can't do squat to him, and he's especially dangerous in a one-on-one fight. Conversely, [[spoiler: after Father reabsorbs him, Greed performs an AssimilationBackfire by using the same power to convert Father's flesh into brittle graphite, severely weakening him.]]
346* CharacterCatchphrase:
347** "I'm called Greed because I'm greedy. I want money, I want power, I want women, I WANT EVERYTHING!"
348** "There's no such thing as 'no such thing.'"'''Note''': Translated in the English dub as "Nothing is impossible".
349* TheCharmer: Is probably more this than a flat-out [[TheCasanova Casanova]], given his affable nature and [[WouldntHitAGirl reluctance]] [[ChivalrousPervert to fight women]].
350* CodeName: The Ultimate Shield.
351* CombatSadomasochist: Implied, to some extent. He gets a ''huge'' kick out of demonstrating that he can come back from getting his head knocked clean off, and when Izumi alchemically kicks his face in so his shield crumbles, he looks ''way'' too thrilled about it. There is also an official illustration where he appears to be trying to make a pass at Riza, undeterred at all that she's got her gun pointed at his face.
352* CoolShades: Wears a pair of circle-lensed shades. Well-fitting for his archetype as an unscrupulous slick-talker.
353* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Is melted down in a vat of molten metal while LaughingMad.]]
354* CulturedBadass: We reiterate, he's the most polite, and classy of the Homunculi. And is incredibly durable in a fight, too.
355* TheDandy: He's fashionable, charming, vain and prefers not to get his hands dirty.
356* DarkIsNotEvil: When he defects from the other Homunculi and eventually sides with the good guys.
357* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Ends up feeding another's greed by being boiled down for his most valuable part.]]
358* DeathlessAndDebauched: Downplayed. He's the only one of the homunculi no longer in Father's service, instead being driven by his own insatiable greed. In Greed's debut, he's seen lounging around with women on either side and is also rather vain, refusing to use his Ultimate Shield to protect his face because he finds it unattractive.
359* DefectorFromDecadence
360* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler:He mocks Father and his siblings and [[LaughingMad laughs like a madman]] as Father kills him]].
361* TheDogBitesBack: The only Homunculus to openly rebel against Father.
362* DramaPreservingHandicap: Of the psychological variety -- his vanity keeps him from covering his good-looking face with the Ultimate Shield if he can ''possibly'' avoid it, [[spoiler:even when fighting ''[[OneManArmy Wrath]]'']].
363* EvilLaugh: Greed isn't as evil as the rest of his family but hoo boy does he love pulling that maniacal laughter.
364* EvilSoundsDeep: His voice is very deep in the original Japanese version, though not in the dub. This is also inverted, as the 2nd Greed has an even deeper voice but gets increasingly more heroic.
365* EvilVirtues:
366** His greed translates into intense protectiveness towards his minions/friends because he considers them to be possessions. Thus, threats against them are seen by him as "stealing".
367** He's also oddly modest. He makes it a point to show off his Ultimate Shield and healing powers to prove that there's no way an ordinary person can take him down, but he also says that those are really the only things that make his body special compared to regular humans.
368* FangsAreEvil: Has shark-like teeth and when he activates his Ultimate Shield over his face, he gets two long razor sharp tusks. Subverted in that he's more of a WildCard.
369* FanOfTheUnderdog: That is to say, humans and the occasional chimerae.
370* TheFightingNarcissist: He prefers not to extend his Ultimate Shield over his head since it tarnishes his appearance.
371* GameFace: He looks ''very'' different when he extends the Ultimate Shield over his head.
372* {{Greed}}: Obviously. He wants everything.
373* TheHedonist: His innate nature is to compulsively desire all things of value. It just so happens that most of these things are luxuries.
374-->'''Greed:''' "See, I'm ''Greed''; I want everything you can think of! Money and women! Power and sex! Status, glory! I demand the finer things. And, of course, I ''crave'' eternal life."
375* HeelFaceTurn: Had his in the backstory. What we see is more of a Heel-[[WildCard Tweener]] [[TheReveal Reveal]].
376* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: A variant, since the Ultimate Shield is less armor than it is a part of him, but he never extends it to cover his head, and rarely even his neck, unless he absolutely has no other choice. He says it's because it obscures his pretty face ([[GameFace and to be fair, it does]]), so this also makes his vanity a DramaPreservingHandicap.
377* HideYourOtherness: Downplayed. Greed is actually pretty upfront about being a homunculus, but compared to the other homunculi, he also seems to make more of an effort in his everyday life to ''look'' like a mostly normal human. Greed strongly dislikes getting fully armored up by his shield, which makes his head take on a demonic skeletal appearance. He also wears a vest that hides the node-like red markings that are very visible on the other natural homunculi, and wears sunglasses that obscure his wine red eyes and HellishPupils. Given that he actually wants to get along with humans, this makes sense.
378* ImmortalitySeeker: Greed kidnaps Alphonse to find a way to potentially achieve this for himself, as his ability to heal any injury and live exponentially longer than a normal human isn't good enough for him.
379* InconspicuousImmortal: Greed is the only homunculus to not partake in his family's scheme for Amestris, having cut ties and ran away long ago. He lives in Dublith with a gang of chimeras posing as humans, and while he wants to own the whole world, has a far more normal life than any of the other homunculi.
380* InnocentlyInsensitive: In the manga, Greed interrogates Alphonse about how he attained his immortal body. Al responds by mentioning he's unsure how it happened and that Ed would need to be asked, but "he's... not here now". Greed misunderstands the comment to mean that Ed is ''dead'' and, rather than get upset about losing his avenue to immortality, he promptly ''tries to apologize'' to Al for bringing up a sensitive topic. Probably the defining example of how AffablyEvil he is.
381* InSeriesNickname: "Mr. Ultimate Shield", by Lust and "Mr. Greed", by Bido.
382* InsistentTerminology: Those in his gang are his "possessions".
383* InstantArmor: He can rearrange the carbon in his skin to turn it hard as diamonds. He calls this his Ultimate Shield, and normally it makes him durable even by ''[[NighInvulnerable Homunculi]]'' standards, but Ed initially beats him by transmuting it into a graphite matrix instead, so that it turns super-fragile.
384* ItsAllAboutMe: While a more positive spin could be placed on his actions than the one on that page (see trope below), he is, by the nature of the sin he represents, undeniably a massive egomaniac.
385* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's a greedy bastard for sure (it ''is'' his name) but he's also shown to genuinely care for his subordinates and have a sense of honor, even if he tries hard to deny it by saying the "possessions" must be in top condition. Also worth noting is that by having the chimeras work for him, he was accepting those who would've very likely otherwise been shunned from society. In fact, Dolcetto and Martel's conversation with Alphonse in the manga implies that he was the one who busted them out of the lab, to begin with.
386* ALadyOnEachArm: How he's introduced.
387* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: When he gets his arm cut off? A mildly interested glance and a small 'oh'.
388* MoralityPet: His ''possessions.'' [[spoiler:This later extends to Edward and Ling.]]
389* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Has sharp, shark-like teeth and shows them off in a wide grin.
390* MrFanservice: Tall, muscular, handsome (in a devillish way), vain, flirtatious, promiscuous and charming.
391* NighInvulnerability: His special ability, the Ultimate Shield, is made of carbon arranged in its toughest molecular form: diamond.
392* NoIndoorVoice: Speaks near exclusively in a booming baritone in the Japanese version. In the manga, his speech doubles tend to be similarly bolded.
393* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: Learns this the hard way when Ed realizes his Ultimate Shield can be alchemically converted to brittle graphite, and again moments later when Ed discerns that Greed can't shield himself and regenerate simultaneously. The latter weakness is [[spoiler:exploited by Bradley, who methodically whittles away at his flesh too quickly for him to heal himself.]]
394* OddlySmallOrganization: Despite his often-stated interest in world domination, he's never had more than a handful of followers.
395* PerpetualSmiler: He has a much larger range of expressions than most examples but thanks to his AffablyEvil nature, he's often smiling, even while engaged in combat and royally pissed off.
396* ReallyGetsAround: Mentions women and sex as part of his hedonistic desires and indulgences. Notably, this makes him the only Homunculus (including Lust!) with a clear interest in sexuality.
397* RegretEatingMe: Has this rant once it becomes apparent what Father is going to do to him.
398-->'''Greed''': If that's what you want, Dad! Just don't blame me if you get a stomachache! ''You did it to yourself!''
399* ShowingOffYourPowers: When Al is skeptical of Greed's claims of being a near-immortal Homunculus, Greed has one of his henchmen smash half of his head off with a hammer just so he can demonstrate his power to resurrect himself from fatal injuries. Not much later, he shows off the full extent of his Ultimate Shield when Ed assumes it can only cover his hands, revealing it can cover the totality of his body.
400* SirSwearsALot: Due to his tough guy gangster image, his language ties with Envy as the most foul of the homunculi. He's even introduced FlippingTheBird for no apparent reason.
401* SlasherSmile: He has unusually pointy teeth which very much resemble those of a shark, which combined with his sharp eyes makes his typical friendly/ambitious smile veer into this territory. It really shows whenever he gets into a fight, though, as he has a tendency to pull an almost manic grin. Said grin is also a permanent feature of his full Ultimate Shield form; it has no lips, so his teeth are always on display.
402* TheStarscream: Greed was this to Father [[DownplayedTrope in a way]], being the only homunculus to rebel against him by running away, and was DefiantToTheEnd when recaptured.
403* StoneWall: The Ultimate Shield easily makes him the most durable character in the series. However, he is nowhere near as fast and as strong as [[spoiler:Wrath/Bradley]].
404* TakeOverTheWorld: His ultimate goal in life.
405* TokenGoodTeammate: For the Homunculi. Greed is the only one of them who is capable of empathy, who is not a mass murderer or a sadist, and who is not in on Father's plan for genocide. Also, while his siblings [[FantasticRacism disdain humans]] and [[BadBoss treat them]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness like expendable pawns]], Greed welcomes followers of any kind and [[BenevolentBoss greatly cares for them]] ([[HiddenHeartOfGold something he won't admit]]).
406* TokenHeroicOrc: Rather than blindly obeying his creator, his greedy nature got the better of him, and he'll do whatever it takes to get what he wants. He's AffablyEvil and treats his gang of human followers well, rather than as pawns to be sacrificed. He's also the only homunculi to not regard humans as inferior beings; at worst he only boasts that a human's raw power can't compare to his ultimate shield.
407* TooKinkyToTorture: He says Lust can penetrate him with her Ultimate Spear whenever she wants.
408* TransformationIsAFreeAction: His Ultimate Shield isn't actually instant. Someone with sufficient speed can exploit the gap as he hardens his body and take him out with contemptuous ease.
409* TranquilFury: Even in his most enraged state, Greed never quite fully drops his veil of indifference.
410* TrueCompanions: What he, no matter how he denies it, had with his chimeric "possessions" before their deaths.
411* UnskilledButStrong: Greed's Ultimate Shield is an incredibly powerful ability. However, while not a poor fighter, Greed's combat skills are very inferior to Wrath's.
412* VillainousWidowsPeak: This is the kind of hairline he has.
413* VillainsNeverLie: "It's my policy to always tell the truth."
414* WhiteSheep: The only homunculus who isn't either a casual murderer/psychopath, nor does he see humans as beneath him.
415* WildCard: As befits a creature devoted solely to his own desires.
416* WillNotTellALie: Part of his personal creed.
417* WolverineClaws: Not nearly as impressive as Lust's of course, but he gains some razor sharp claws in his Ultimate Shield.
418* WouldntHitAGirl: Too classy for it. Though in all honesty, he probably would've fought Izumi if pushed enough, making this a downplayed case.
419[[/folder]]
420
421[[folder:2nd Greed '''(SPOILERS)''']]
422!!"Greedling"
423!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YuuichiNakamura (JP), Creator/TroyBaker (EN)[[labelnote:Other Languages]]Savador Pérez (Latin America), Alexandre Marconato (BR, Álamo), Marco Antônio Costa (BR, IST), Maurizio Merluzzo (IT)[[/labelnote]]
424[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ling_yao_greed.png]]
425->'''Affiliation:''' Homunculi (formerly)/His Own Crew\
426'''Speciality:''' [[NighInvulnerability Ultimate Shield]] / [[BareFistedMonk Martial Arts]]
427->''"The way I see it, greed is no different than hope… The problem is, you humans are always trying to apply a hierarchy to greed – what’s noble to desire, what’s taboo.''
428
429A reincarnated Greed inhabiting the body of Ling Yao. He was originally meant to act as Father's bodyguard and watchdog, but, following an incident involving Bido, all of the original Greed's memories flooded back into his head. Like the first Greed, he too went rogue, and he eventually formed his own crew with Darius, Heinkel and Edward.
430----
431* AffablyEvil: At first, until his HeelFaceTurn where he's generally a decent guy.
432* AntiHero: He becomes this, after defecting from the Homunculi for a second time. By the end, he's debriefing a hodgepodge crew of fighters, many whom he barely knows if at all, about what to expect in the final battle with Father, and makes it a point to lecture against the injured or incapacitated from trying to go out to the battlefield. He gets irritated by the amount of people who still insist on risking their necks, and even gets into an argument with ''[[IronLady Olivier Mira Armstrong]]'' about the fact she's no longer in fighting condition. His tone is acerbic and flippant, but he definitely comes off as being concerned about their well-beings.
433* ArmorPiercingResponse: Gives one to Edward when discussing the pros and cons of greed that he wasn't able to refute.
434-->'''Greed:''' You humans think that greed is all about money and power, [[JerkassHasAPoint but everyone wants something they don't have,]]
435* BackFromTheDead: An unusual variant as Father "absorbed" him and then later injected him into Ling. At first you could think of him as a different person from the original, with Greed himself trying to assert that, but he eventually regains the first one's memories.
436* BadassLongCoat: Starts wearing one after he gets Ling's body.
437* BashBrothers: A most weird variation with Ling, as they share the same body. That said, later on the two "tag switch" to exploit each other's strengths. A more normal version of the trope is him with Edward.
438* BenevolentBoss: Technically, as he still calls his friends "possessions", but whether they're truly henchmen in more than name only is debatable.
439* BigDamnHeroes: Gets a big moment in episode 54 when [[spoiler: Bradley returns, slaughters most of the Briggs men and is about to do the same to Buccaneer and Falman, until Greed makes his entrance with a couple [[PreAsskickingOneLiner Pre-Asskicking one liners]] to boot, and proceeds to give Bradley the fight of his life]]
440* BigNo: After killing Bido triggers him to regain the memories of the rest of his fallen comrades, it leads him into an [[HeroicBSOD Anti-Heroic BSOD]].
441* BookEnds:
442** [[spoiler: Greed is both the first and last of the 'sin' homunculi to die over the course of the story]].
443** [[spoiler: Greed's possession of Ling begins with Ling telling him that he's letting it happen because he wouldn't be able to face Lan Fan without a philosopher's stone after she cut off her arm for him. In the end, Greed vacates Ling's body by entering Father's arm which had impaled Ling, and ordering Lan Fan to chop it off. In other words, the resurrected Greed lives and dies by Lan Fan's hand]].
444* ByronicHero: He starts off like this -- Charismatic, rebellious, and mainly acts on his own whims. His conversations with Ling also resemble internal conflict. However, he loses the villainous aspects of it post-CharacterDevelopment.
445* CameBackStrong: The original Greed was hopelessly outmatched by Wrath/Bradley. After returning in Ling's body, he's a much better fighter. In fact, he even goes as far as to engage Wrath/Bradley extending his Ultimate Shield only over his arms and still gives him the brawl of his life. Unlike the original Greed and his men, Ling and Lan Fan were both able to escape Bradley's pursuit at one point. Most Homunculi, including the original Greed, tend to be UnskilledButStrong; skill and ingenuity obviously go further than strength when taking on King Bradley. So really it's more "Came Back Skilled," having assimilated some of Ling Yao's conditioning, training, reflexes, etc. by taking his body.
446* CradlingYourKill: Does this to Bido after killing him. {{Justified|Trope}} [[ItMakesSenseInContext in context]].
447* CulturedBadass: Like his predecessor, he's a fairly diplomatic and generally mannered individual. Until you piss him off, that is.
448* DarkIsNotEvil: He dresses in all black and talks like an upstart mafia boss, but he's really a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.
449* DeadpanSnarker: Even more sarcastic than before, due to his quicker temper.
450* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Greed, a living embodiment of selfish desire, died performing the ultimate act of selflessness, sacrificing himself to make Father weak enough to kill him. And in his last words, he stated that he had gotten all that he could ever want.]]
451* DefectorFromDecadence: As soon as he recovers his {{genetic memor|y}}ies he promptly resumes his previous life's rebellion against Father and Bradley.
452* DefiantToTheEnd: ''Again''. [[spoiler:He just laughs at Father while he transmutes his body's carbon composition into that of charcoal, making him so fragile he is easy to kill]].
453* DemonicPossession: Of Ling.
454* TheDogBitesBack: Again. As always.
455* DramaPreservingHandicap: He ''still'' is reluctant to just instantly go full Ultimate shield in fights out of vanity, even though this is precisely what got the original Greed killed. He only gets serious enough to break out the full shield onscreen once.
456* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Even more so than the original. [[spoiler:He dies while performing a HeroicSacrifice to protect Ling, then [[HoistByHisOwnPetard turning Fathers' own actions against him]] when the villain devours him by transmuting his body into charcoal to make him easy to destroy]].
457* DyingSmirk: [[spoiler:Mocks Father while also contently realizing that he already had what he always wanted -- friends]].
458* EvilLaugh: Even when fighting on the heroes side, Greed can't help but laugh like a crazed madman.
459* EyesAreMental: When Ling is in control, the eyes are black (or closed.) When Greed is in control, the eyes are red.
460* FanOfTheUnderdog: He basically outright admits that he feels this way about humans.
461* FightsLikeANormal: Aside from his diamond-hard skin, his only combat abilities are Ling's fighting skills. This is why the first Greed got his ass kicked by Wrath ''despite'' the iron hard skin, and why he does much better.
462* {{Foil}}:
463** To both Ling and [[spoiler:Wrath]].
464** Edward too--they share arrogance and an UsefulNotes/OedipusComplex.
465** [[spoiler: To Envy. They both desire friendships like the ones humans have, but while Envy represses their wish and acts out of spite, Greed is able to admit his longing and actually make friends with Ling, Ed, Lan Fan, and his various Chimera henchmen. Both Homunculi also die by suicide, but while Envy does it out of pain because they can't bear facing their repressed jealousy, Greed makes a HeroicSacrifice to help his friends and dies content.]]
466* GameFace: ''Very'' rarely, because of his vanity.
467* GeneticMemory: Recovers the original Greed's memories through [[spoiler:the shock of killing the original Greed's buddy Bido.]]
468* GhostMemory: Greed and Ling can see each other's memories to some degree.
469** When Greed starts to see flashes of his previous life, Ling is able to comment upon the memories and give Greed a WhatTheHellHero speech to accelerate the remembering process and reorient Greed's priorities.
470** When a slightly disoriented, and raging Greed attempts to kill Wrath out of revenge for what happened to his previous lifes' comrades, he experiences memory flashbacks. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, you see that it's not just his old memories he's seeing, but also ''Ling's''. It's implied that it's Ling's memories of fighting Wrath that allow Greed to hold his own against Wrath, when previously Greed was completely outclassed by him.
471* {{Greed}}: Unlike many of his siblings, he channels his vice into positive ends instead of letting it consume him, but he is still a creature of appetite and ambition.
472* 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, witnessing the sorrow of his companions at his demise and knowing he will be mourned and remembered.]]
473* HairTriggerTemper: If there's one personality trait about him that's different than the first Greed, it's this. He maintains a level of professionalism, but, where the first Greed came off as being relatively unruffled [[TranquilFury even in a state of fury]], this Greed has a noticeably more volatile temper and is more inclined to show displeasure or start shouting.
474* HeelFaceTurn: A ''very'' quick one -- he was in Father's employ no more than a month. And it simply took him killing Bido to do so, as doing it caused him to recover his memories.
475* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Gets himself sucked into Father despite Ling's best efforts to stop him in order to pull off his DefiantToTheEnd MadeOfPlasticine ploy.]]
476* HunterOfHisOwnKind: Upon [[spoiler:regaining his memories]] and turning on his "family."
477* IJustWantToHaveFriends: [[spoiler:What turns out to be his truest desire.]]
478* InsistentTerminology: Still calls his friends and henchmen "possessions". [[spoiler:Well, until the end, anyway.]]
479* InstantArmor: His ultimate shield. After all, he shares the same powers as the original.
480* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:The living embodiment of greed itself, yet what he wants most is TrueCompanions. The value of the human soul indeed. He also dies after saving someone's life (Ling's), sacrificing himself to help take down his creator and dies satisfied after having found and obtained what he really wanted (friends) while thanking them. Another big thing to note from the same example is that the literal embodiment of avarice and greed, meant to perpetually want more and never be satisfied, ultimately dies completely satisfied and content with what he has.]]
481* ItsAllAboutMe: Downplayed. Greed can be genuinely nice, but he's still a complete egomaniac.[[spoiler:In theory.]]
482* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Variation. Greed careens over the side of a wall with Wrath clinging to his hand and Lan Fan catches him [[spoiler:with her newly installed automail arm.]] The weight is so heavy it basically starts tearing Lan Fan's arm out of its socket and Greed actually insists her to let him go because of it. Not unlike how Ling refused to leave her behind over 6 months ago, [[{{Subverted}} Lan Fan refuses to let the Homunculus inhabiting Ling's body fall]].
483* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: More obvious than the original incarnation, as he was very quick to accept Darius, Heinkel and Edward into his crew and continued to be very protective of them. Still tries to ''act'' like a JerkAss, with mixed results.
484* LightningBruiser: His Ultimate Shield already makes him the [[NighInvulnerability toughest character]] in the series. He also destroys a truck with one arm and [[OneManArmy easily defeats a squad of Central's soldiers]]. Oh and this time, he's strong enough to fight on almost equal terms with Wrath. As for speed, he manages to keep up with and dodge most of [[spoiler:Pride's and Wrath's]] incredibly fast attacks, even at one point [[FlashStep showcasing the easy-to-miss speed]] that [[spoiler:Sloth]] possesses.
485* MadeOfPlasticine: If he were to take his abilities in the opposite direction. [[spoiler:Which he used to weaken [[BigBad Father]], who was in the middle of absorbing him, quite a bit.]]
486* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Greed takes on a few of Ling's quirks, most prominently a propensity for hopping buildings to get around, and resting in high places.
487* MoralityPet: His "possessions", even more so with Ling and Edward.
488* MorphicResonance: Whenever Greed's in control, it seems like Ling's body starts to evoke the look of the original Greed, such as the eyes having heavier outlines and larger irises, and sometimes even the jawline appears broader. In ''Brotherhood'', they actually have different voice actors, which implies a change of vocal cords. [[VoicesAreMental Probably.]] Mostly, this seems to be a stylistic choice to help differentiate the two.
489* MotiveDecay: He starts out, just like the first incarnation, claiming he doesn't care about anything except obtaining everything in the world for himself. Then after [[spoiler:getting his original incarnation's memories back]] his personality shifts and he starts showing genuine displays of concern for other characters, even actively making decisions to keep people he barely knows out of harm's way. Nonetheless he ''still'' intermittently whiplashes back to his original 'ItsAllAboutMe' attitude and running off with his own agenda all the way into the final battle. It ends up making him look either like he's only putting on an act or he's got a terrible case of not realizing his behavior isn't matching up with his motives. [[spoiler:In truth, as time wore on, Greed became confused about what he truly wanted in life]].
490* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:When Greed kills Bido, whom he is unaware is the last of his former minions, the incident, combined with Ling's reprimanding, affects him so much it triggers his memories to come back.]]
491* NobleDemon: At first as Father's lackey, where he still held no grudges towards the people he was assigned to kill. After a WhatTheHellHero moment from Ling, he [[HeelFaceTurn gets better]].
492* NominalHero: Subverted. While he does say he's fighting for [[TakeOverTheWorld his own reasons]] post-HeelFaceTurn, it becomes clear that he has a surprising regard for human life (which is only improved with Ling's presence).
493* NotSoDifferentRemark:
494** Just before their final assault on Central, Greed lectures Ed on their similarities -- Ed is motivated by hope and Greed by avarice, and what are hope and greed but different words for desire? Now, if we take into account [[spoiler:what Greed truly desires and what Ed is willing to do without alchemy for]], this takes on a new meaning.
495** The original Greed once mocked Ed for being the type of person who can handle taking a beating himself but goes [[BerserkButton nuts]] when people he cares about get hurt. Guess what happens when this Greed [[ItsPersonal remembers what happened to his subordinates?]]
496** From another angle, in a recent chapter, Father commented on how much Greed reflects his own motivations, indicating ironically that the same qualities that made Greed fight alongside the "good", make Father truly evil.
497* OddFriendship: Probably the strongest hint of his true desire. His closest friends are the last people you'd expect to be hanging out with a Homunculus, especially Edward.
498* OddlySmallOrganization: The group he and Ed put together is ''even smaller'' than the original's. [[spoiler:A definite, blatant foreshadow of his truest desire.]]
499* OneManArmy: Together with Ling, he utterly demolishes Bradley's entire platoon; soldiers, weapons, vehicles and all.
500* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:His final death can be seen as this for taking over Ling's body for so long. When Father absorbs Greed into his arm, Greed has Lan Fan chop it off so a) Father can't possibly absorb Ling as well anymore and b) so he can [[TakingYouWithMe wreak havoc in Father's body]].]]
501* RegretEatingMe: [[spoiler:Makes good on his first form's threat after being reabsorbed, when he turns Father into charcoal to allow Ed to deal the finishing blow.]]
502* RelationshipUpgrade: Non-romantic variety with Ling. (See VitriolicBestBuds below.) After the TimeSkip, Greed uses Ling's [[FirstNameBasis first name]] and calls him "partner", or "brat" when in {{Jerkass}} mode. That's a huge change compared to the times when Ling was callously referred to as "that guy" or "the owner of this body".
503* TheScream: [[spoiler:After killing Bido triggers his old memories to return.]]
504* SharingABody: Greed and Ling's relationship starts out as standard DemonicPossession, but after a lot of FightingFromTheInside, willingly trading the body back and forth, and gaining a healthy respect for each other, it evolves into this.
505* ShipperOnDeck:
506** [[spoiler:While Ling and Lan Fan lay the hurt on Gluttony in the dark, Greed sits back inside Ling and watches, commenting on how Ling's "quite the stud, having a fine woman like her hidden away."]]
507** He compliments Ed on his choice of "possessions" after meeting Winry.
508* SixthRangerTraitor: To the Homunculi. Joins them late, betrays them early.
509* SlasherSmile: Shows this off when he's particularly gung-ho about an opportunity.
510* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:To Father, who certainly wasn't expecting the Second Greed to regain his old memories and betray him a second time. Not only does Greed betray Father but he also joins the heroes to fight against him. Greed managed to weaken Wrath (greatly helping Scar) and helped the Briggs soldiers hold the Central fort. He was also crucial in the final battle as he managed to absorb some of Father's souls and distracted him long enough for the heroes to make him use up his Philosopher's Stone shield. Most importantly, after being [[YouWillBeAssimilated absorbed]] by Father (who at this point, still couldn't die due to his regeneration abilities), Greed '''greatly''' [[AssimilationBackfire damages him]] by using his carbonization powers to turn Father's shell into [[MadeOfPlasticine charcoal]], thereby rendering Father unable to regenerate. All that was needed left to destroy Father afterward was a single punch from Edward]].
511* SuperToughness: Has the same InstantArmor powers as the original.
512* TakeOverTheWorld: His ultimate goal in life. [[spoiler:... Supposedly.]]
513* TokenEvilTeammate: For the protagonists after his HeelFaceTurn. This is played straight before quickly being subverted. Initially, Greed only had [[TakeOverTheWorld ulterior motives]] for joining them. However, in spite of this, he kept doing good and noble deeds like protecting his chimera men and defending the Briggs soldiers from Wrath. In the end, Greed [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself to save Ling]] while at the same time [[TakingYouWithMe greatly damaging Father from the inside]].]]
514* TokenHeroicOrc: After Father kills him and uses his essence to [[DemonicPossession turn Ling into a new Greed]], the combination of getting his [[spoiler:old memories back and Ling continually FightingFromTheInside eventually leads him to join the heroes]].
515* TrueCompanions: What he, no matter how he denies it, had with his chimeric "possessions" before their deaths. [[spoiler:And ultimately, the one thing he desired the most.]]
516* {{Tsundere}}: His devil-may-care charisma masks it, but honestly, what else can you call the fact he'll bend over backward to save his comrades but insist it's only because they're his "''possessions''"?
517* UnscrupulousHero: As the series progresses, in spite of his own words, he actually starts to perform heroic deeds of his own free will. He rescues his chimera men from Pride, fights Wrath on behalf of the Briggs soldiers, and even ''takes leadership'' in the final fight against Father. Later, [[spoiler:he makes the ultimate sacrifice when he [[HeroicSacrifice gives his own life]] to ensure Ling's protection and [[TakingYouWithMe help defeat Father]]]].
518* VillainsNeverLie: Not really a villain, but he still never lies and is quite proud of that fact. [[spoiler:Subverted for the only time to spare Ling from being dragged along in his HeroicSacrifice.]]
519* VitriolicBestBuds:
520** With Ling. Their friendship forms off-screen during the TimeSkip, but we see bits and pieces of it when they argue and banter while working together against Pride and Gluttony. And later [[spoiler:Greed ''lies'' to save Ling's life, and Ling has a heartbroken expression when Greed dies]]. It's an OddFriendship considering their peculiar state of body, but personality-wise, they are quite compatible.
521** He becomes this with Ed as well, carrying over from Ling's own dynamic with the Fullmetal Alchemist.
522* VoicesAreMental: He and Ling have different voice actors, and whoever's in control gets to talk. Since the process of becoming Greed did have ''some'' [[MorphicResonance physical effects on his body]] and might alter his vocal cords, this is much more forgivable than most examples, but it's still rather obvious.
523* WhatTheHellHero: [[spoiler:Gets this harshly from Ling after killing Bido, which pushes him into his MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment.]]
524** On a less dire scale, Ling gives these kinds of comments to Greed just about every time Greed starts falling back into his megalomaniac rants in spite of any recent heroic behavior.
525* WildCard: Even more so than the first, as he outright joins the good guys after defecting from Father. [[spoiler:Kind of. He thinks he isn't but his actions say otherwise.]]
526* WolverineClaws: Gains these in his Ultimate Shield just like the first one; poor [[spoiler:Bido]] gets impaled by them.
527* WouldntHitAGirl: "I don't fight women; I'm not that kind of guy." Granted, he has never fought a woman before, so it's only implied.
528* YourSoulIsMine: [[spoiler:Father tries this on Greed after he loses control of God. [[DyingMomentOfAwesome It backfires as Greed ends up weakening him by turning most of his body into graphite, forcing Father to kill him to try to stay alive.]]]]
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531[[folder:Wrath ('''SPOILERS''')]]
532!!Wrath the Furious / President Führer King Bradley
533!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HidekatsuShibata (JP), Creator/HidenobuKiuchi (JP - young), Ed Blaylock (EN), Christopher Bevins (EN - young)[[labelnote:Other Languages]]José Granadillo (Latin America), Luiz Antônio Lobue (BR), Ulisses Bezerra (BR - young), Raffaele Fallica (IT), Paolo de Santis (IT - young)[[/labelnote]]
534[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wrath_fma.png]]
535->'''Affiliation:''' Amestris Military/Homunculi\
536'''Rank:''' Führer\
537'''Specialty:''' [[MagicalEye Ultimate Eye]] / [[MasterSwordsman Swordsmanship]]/ [[SuperSoldier Military Tactics]]
538->''"God you say? Now this is intriguing. How much longer do you think your 'God' plans to wait before unleashing his fury? Just how many more thousands of lives must I take before he decides to strike me down?"''
539
540The homunculus who personifies Father's fury. Unlike his siblings, he was created by combining an existing human with a Philosopher's Stone. The puppet through whom Father rules Amestris, Wrath is a cold-hearted nihilist who [[BloodKnight lives only for battle.]] For more information on him, see [[Characters/FullmetalAlchemistMilitary Military]] under Führer King Bradley. He's a WalkingSpoiler, so all entries for this character are unmarked.
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542* AbsurdCuttingPower: He can cut a sword through a tank round flying directly towards him without even losing momentum.
543* ActuallyPrettyFunny:
544** After Ling breaks through Greed's consciousness to snap at him for underestimating humans, he finds it extremely amusing, to the point that he doesn't even tell Father about it.
545** When he witnesses Mustang [[spoiler:refuse to perform human transmutation in order to save Riza's life]], a move he didn't expect, he states that it infuriates him that can't predict humans, but he has a smile on his face which indicates that he's at least humored by this.
546* AffablyEvil: Not to the extent of Greed, but he's pretty friendly and courteous when you get to know him, and despite his nihilism and contempt toward humanity none of it appears to be an act. Despite being loyal to Father to the end, he holds a certain amount of sincere respect and amusement toward the humans going against Father's plans.
547* AnArmAndALeg: Scar kills him by cutting off both of his arms so he bleeds out.
548* AmbiguousSituation: Is Wrath's soul that of the man he once was, or that of whoever was sacrificed to create his Philosopher's Stone? Wrath himself doesn't know.
549* ArchEnemy: Becomes this to several people for various reasons.
550** To Mustang for being his direct competition for the title of the Fuhrer, and for splitting apart his crew and forcing Riza to be his personal assistant.
551** To Scar for ordering the Ishvalan Genocide.
552** To Ling for maiming Lan Fan and embodying everything he hates in a ruler.
553** To Greed for killing his friends.
554** Finally, to Lan Fan and Fu for causing her to cut off her arm, [[spoiler:and for killing the latter.]].
555* AttackAttackAttack: His technique, as suits his sin, is to rush in aggressively with rapid stabs and slashes, exploiting every weakness and opening. Best demonstrated during his arrival in Central City, where he cuts a straight path through tanks and soldiers alike to reach the rooftop.
556* BadBoss: What else would you call a leader who tries to sacrifice the people of his nation in order to fulfill his adopted father's goals? Including his own top generals who he presumably helps trick into thinking that being complicit in Father's goals would help them gain immortality.
557** Surprisingly enough, {{Downplayed|Trope}}, if not averted when he forces Riza to become his personal assistant. He looms the fact that she is a hostage over her head, but otherwise is not abusive in any way, and speaks with her cordially and professionally.
558* TheBadGuyWins: Wrath is the only villain who got everything he wanted by the time of his death: he successfully completed his part of Father's plans (not caring that Father tossed him aside afterwards) and got to fight to his heart's content against the humans who he admired. While he did note the irony in how he died, he was completely satisfied with everything he did and how he died. Wrath furthermore got some happiness in the form of choosing and actually loving his wife, which is something unplanned by Father, and it's clear that Mrs. Bradley still cared for him even after she found out about what happened in the aftermath of the Promised Day. Also, while he did not care for his public image, Wrath ended up being praised as a hero after death to avoid public backlash, so he didn't even get any public condemnation. In a series where those who died satisfied have either switched sides or did something to help the protagonists, Wrath is the only antagonist who ''never'' changes from being a brutal villain yet got to both live the end of his life and die on his own terms.
559* BadassBoast: Wrath delivers a pretty badass line from time to time, usually in the middle of kicking ass.
560** "Do they really expect me to make a complete mockery of myself by entering through the back door of my own palace?"[[note]]Done while calmly walking to the front gate of Central H.Q, which has taken over by the Briggs army, before slaughtering the Briggs army guards and their tank stationed in the front gate[[/note]]
561** "Not exactly my weapon of choice, but I guess I'll have to make do."[[note]]He got his saber taken away and chose to procure a pair combat knives from a dead soldier, he still manages to kick ass.[[/note]]
562** "Take a good look... See what kind of shape I'm in right now? Who among you would care for the illustrious honor of taking down the Führer of Amestris? A Chimera? The outsider? Mustang's dog? Or perhaps... you'd all like to come at me at once?[[note]]Said before the Chimeras, May Chang, and Riza Hawkeye. By this point, Bradley has lost his Ultimate Eye, has a nasty stab wound in the gut, several gunshot wounds, and suffering from severe blood loss. None of the aforementioned people dared to take up his challenge.[[/note]]
563* BerserkButton: Fighting without personal convictions - i.e. not sticking by your words. He does not respect the Ishvalans who try to hide behind their God as opposed to them personally striking him down. And after hearing of Scar being the pious avenger of the Ishvalans, only to practice ''alchemy'' and betray his principles, he goes on a MotiveRant on Scar's "hypocrisy" and how he's disappointed that Scar "abandoned his faith so easily."
564* TheBerserker: Wrath's fighting style in general is completely relentless with rapid slashes and sword stabs with his incredible speed. Though unlike most examples he isn't exactly rampaging in typical berserker fashion and remains for the most part controlled yet attacks with nonstop aggression. However, during his final fights Wrath decides to go out with a bang destroying all enemy forces and knowing he doesn't have too long to live against Scar he loses his calm composure to now roaring in a rage.
565* BigLittleBrother: The youngest of the Homunculi, yet the oldest looking, since unlike the others he can age.
566* BloodKnight: After Father summons his five sacrifices, Wrath (by now grievously injured by Ling Yao) is no longer needed, so he throws himself into one final battle to the death against Scar.
567* CharacterDevelopment: Goes through a subtle one of these in his view on humans. He initially finds all humans beneath him and is proud of being a homunculus, but his experiences with fighters like Ling and Scar make him reconsider that view. By the end of the series he respects humanity as a whole, even though he firmly stays on Father's side.
568* 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 treads 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.
569* CoDragons: With Pride, to Father.
570* CombatClairvoyance: By way of his [[MagicalEye Ultimate Eye]], [[IAmNotLeftHanded though he only uses it when really challenged]].
571* ComplimentBackfire: Extra materials reveal he wasn't taught how to talk to women growing up, so his date with his future wife ended with her slapping him. Wrath then went to Lust and Envy for advice, but badly misinterpreted the instructions to compliment her body, resulting in Wrath telling the future Mrs. Bradley she had a nice ass and earning him another slap.
572* CoolSword: Averted. Despite being the greatest swordsman in the series bar none, he fights with simple, undecorative military spadroons. When they are lost or broken, he just replaces them.
573* CreateYourOwnHero: If he hadn't ordered the genocide against the Ishvalans, Scar may have never stumbled upon the Homunculi's plans.
574* CurbStompBattle: Any fight he participates in turns into this, with him doing the curb-stomping. [[OneManArmy There is a reason]] [[TheDreaded why most characters fear him.]] He easily stomped the first Greed and the chimeras. In fact, for him to be defeated, he had to be half dead.
575* CutlassBetweenTheTeeth: Does this when both his arms are cut off before being defeated by Scar.
576* DeathByIrony:
577** Wrath states during the Ishvalan campaign that he believes there is no God. During the fight of his life, a sunbeam from the solar eclipse (the symbol of God in alchemy) temporarily blinds him and gives Scar a fatal opening.
578** During the Ishvalan Genocide, an Ishvalan priest had proclaimed that God's wrath would befall him for what he'd done, but Wrath coldly rejected it and says that "it's the hand of man, not God, that we have to worry about." In the end, he was killed by the alchemically deconstructive touch of an Ishvalan who'd repeatedly proclaimed to be the messenger of God, and had been partaking in {{Wrath}} by taking revenge on those he believed responsible for said genocide.
579** Wrath, the effective embodiment of violence and vengeance, offers Lan Fan a chance to finish him off and avenge her grandfather. She refuses, invalidating his SocialDarwinist worldview and allowing him to die peacefully.
580** Wrath's last moments are spent talking about how much he loved his wife[[note]]He ''chose'' Mrs. Bradley, which is notable considering how his life had been planned and controlled by others since birth.[[/note]] and how humans made his life worth living. He dies with no trace of hate or anger in his words or on his face.
581* DeepCoverAgent: Set up and molded by Father's conspiracy into the seeming savior of Amestris.
582* {{Determinator}}: If slashing the man who dealt you a killing blow with a blade held in your mouth even as you're dying doesn't count, nothing will.
583* DramaPreservingHandicap:
584** Wrath can ''still'' kick serious ass despite being out of his prime by a good degree. None of the other characters could beat him at his best. In order for Scar even to be on equal footing with him, Wrath had to be ''half dead''.
585** Unlike the other Homunculi, he doesn't have a HealingFactor.
586* TheDreaded:
587** A prime example is seen during the Promised Day. The Briggs men have won, while Wrath had his train blown up in the middle of a bridge several episodes earlier, presumably killing him, and in any case leaving him missing in action. Then his voice, perfectly calm and even pleasant, is heard over the radio, telling them that now he's back, and he's rather displeased with what's been happening in his absence. Everybody who hears the broadcast looks to have just [[OhCrap soiled themselves]]. Even [[LadyOfWar Olivier]] looks completely unnerved by his return.
588** The ''Brotherhood'' anime uses some AdaptationExpansion to take this up to eleven in the same scene: the crew inside the Briggs tank -- which is all but stated to be TheJuggernaut by Amestrian military standards -- is so frightened by Wrath's InstantDeathRadius that they throw the tank into reverse when he gets too close. He can make a ''tank '''run away from him.'''''
589* DualWielding: He often dual-wields and has been seen carrying up to four spare swords.
590* DueToTheDead: An interpretation of why he dislikes crying at funerals - as far as he's concerned, he sees the death of a soldier as a sombre and silent occasion that requires the utmost respect, including respect for their honorable accomplishments in life, and their duties being performed to excellence.
591* EmpoweredBadassNormal: He's a human-homunculus hybrid, so he's in a league of his own. He had to be the best of the best in order to become such a hybrid.
592* EpicBattleBoredom: He has a few very epic duels and battles, but he typically remains calm and impassioned. Justified, as his reflexes and perception are so heightened that it would be almost impossible for most opponents to even land a hit on him.
593* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He loves his wife. To what degree is unclear, but he deliberately ''chose'' to marry her -- practically the only choice he ever had.
594* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Subverted. He is genuinely surprised when he witnesses Mustang [[spoiler:refuse to perform human transmutation to stop Riza from bleeding out]], stating that he was under the impression that all humans were weak-willed and could never learn a lesson properly, before admitting defeat that he was wrong in this notion.
595* EvilChancellor: Positioned as this [[VillainWithGoodPublicity with good publicity]] in order to best administer what he embodies: Father's Wrath.
596* EvilIsPetty: Guess why he was trembling at Maes Hughes's funeral? He was shaking with anger at [[spoiler:the noise a crying Hughes's daugher Elicia was making as her father was being buried]].
597* EvilOldFolks: Not quite as old as typical examples, but by the time of his death, he's arguably as evil as the worst of his allies.
598* EvilVirtues: By all accounts, he is more akin to an AtLeastIAdmitIt attitude, no matter what he does. His rants towards the Grand Cleric explicitly states that the Ishvalans should stop waiting for divine intervention to justify striking him down, and personally make an effort to kill him. His rant towards Scar suggests that despite his anti-religion sentiment, that he at least stick to his religious principles that he himself preaches. By that same token, he never espouses a greater cause for participating in Father's plot, and he never sugarcoats his genocide of the Ishvalans either.
599* ExactWords: Right after Hughes was murdered, he visited the Elrics and told them 'not to involve any more people in their investigation, treat everyone as potential enemy and trust no one', and that 'when the time comes, they will be working for him'.
600* FatalFlaw: He's literally named for it. It's worth noting that while his head on assault on the Briggs men is both awesome and kills a lot of opposing forces, at the end of it the Briggs men and Greed still hold the gate and greviously wound him in the process, making his head-on assault a tactical and strategic failure. Critically, the first person to wound Bradley does so by waiting for the perfect moment, displaying patience, the virtue opposed to wrath.
601* FeelingTheirAge: As the only homunculus who ages, he complains that his sixty-year-old body can't quite keep up with his eye the way it used to. Considering he's ''still'' TheJuggernaut and TheDreaded to his enemies in his old age, his combat prowess in his younger years must have been ''terrifying'' to behold.
602* 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. It should be noted that Wrath was far more effective and lethal than his siblings, amassed the largest named character kill count, never failed any of his given objectives or fell prey to personal personality weaknesses.
603* FlatEarthAtheist: Wrath is pretty critical of the idea of God's existence for someone in on a plan to literally devour him. Though Wrath's words suggest he is more critical of religion and turning to God for assistance than the literal idea.
604* FragileSpeedster: Only in relation to the other Homunculi, as despite being insanely fast and strong, he's the only one without regenerative abilities. He can still take more abuse than any human in the series, it's just that you only need to kill him once. As he himself explains to Mustang, he only has one soul inside of him, unlike the others.
605* {{Foil}}: To Scar. Both are EmpoweredBadassNormal through Alchemy, have red eyes (though only Wrath's left is red), both are TheDreaded, and as Wrath himself put it, "warriors without names". On the other hand, Scar fights with his [[BareFistedMonk bare hands]] and Alchemical powers while Wrath relies on impeccable swordsmanship, and Scar is a BadassPreacher while Wrath is a FlatEarthAtheist. Fittingly, their final battle is against each other.
606* GeniusBruiser: A MasterSwordsman and OneManArmy who also mastered strategy, tactics and political science as part of his training.
607* GlassCannon: Comparatively. He can't regenerate like his Homunculi brethren, so he only needs to be killed once, just like a normal human. It still took the combined efforts and sacrifices of a few key characters to ''weaken'' him for that death to happen.
608* AGoodWayToDie: Ironic isn't it? The embodiment of Wrath is at peace with himself when he dies.
609* HappilyMarried: To Mrs. Bradley. Their marriage was not mandated by Father. It was one of the few choices he was allowed to make on his own.
610* TheHeavy: After the deaths of Envy, Lust, and Gluttony, he and Pride pick up this role.
611* HeroKiller: Out of all the Homunculi, Wrath has the highest kill count. He kills Isaac [=McDougal=], Buccaneer, and Fu. Though [=McDougal=] was depicted as a villain at the time.
612* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: After his death, the heroes can't risk exposing the truth about him or his crimes, as doing so could cause a civil war due to Bradley's good reputation within the country. They're forced to do this to him, something none of them would have likely have enjoyed to do.
613* HollywoodAtheist: His rants about how the Ishvalan genocide should have shown Scar that "there is no God in this world!" He also sneers at the Grand Cleric Logue Lowe's attempt to stop the genocide by surrendering himself to their judgment and mocks his faith before ordering him executed.
614* HopeBringer: For the villains. The Briggs army has successfully taken over Central headquarters and has started celebrating. Then he arrives, eliciting an OhCrap moment from everyone in Central and a massive morale boost for the Amestris Military. He then proceeds to [[CurbStompBattle slaughter anybody who dares stand in his way.]]
615* IaijutsuPractitioner: Because he's so fast, it's often impossible to see him attack until he's actually done it.
616* IAmNotLeftHanded: The MagicalEye under that EyepatchOfPower gives him CombatClairvoyance. [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower He rarely needs it.]] Even after Greedling blinds it, he proves to be as deadly as ever.
617* ImplacableMan: Trying to stop him is a very good way to get killed. When Scar blasts his arms off, he attacks him ''[[CutlassBetweenTheTeeth with a sword held in his teeth.]]'' At one point, he's outnumbered 5 to 1, and the group of five warriors feel they have ''no chance'' to win.
618* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Although it does help to be a Homunculus with superhuman abilities. He takes out a ''tank'' (!) armed only with his saber and later defuses a grenade.
619* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Downplayed, but he seems to mellow slightly whenever someone around him displays anger towards him. Notably, when Greed snaps at him ([[spoiler:Wrath made a disparaging comment against humans, and Ling took back control of his own body for an instant, just to tell him to [[ShutUpHannibal shut up]]]]), he finds it amusing and doesn't report it to Father.
620* InstantDeathRadius: He favors bladed melee weapons (longswords and knives so far, with a grenade thrown in once), and thanks to his ImplausibleFencingPowers plus CharlesAtlasSuperpower, going toe-to-toe with him in melee is a ''very'' bad idea. Even [[ColonelBadass Roy]] noted that he's confident enough to hold his own against two State Alchemists with just a single sword.
621* IWasQuiteALooker: Not that he's [[SilverFox bad-looking now]], but he was quite the {{Hunk}} [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ZCjsPKtJo-Y/S_S6hL0KYTI/AAAAAAAABpM/1V_ku-sB_OY/s1600/young+Bradley.jpg back in the day]].
622* KarmicDeath: He claims that God doesn't exist; seconds later, the sun blinds him with the light, allowing him to be killed by Scar, one of the Ishvalans who survived Wrath's genocide.
623* KnightOfCerebus: The story takes a significantly more sinister turn the moment it's revealed that Bradley is a homunculus and that the homunculi have infiltrated the leadership of Amestrian military and government as well. He takes a step further in the territory in the flashback episode focusing on the Ishvalan genocide which demonstrates the horrors of war endured on both sides. Finally, when Wrath takes the center stage in the final arc of the series, he single-handedly makes it bloodier as well, killing two of the heroes (Fu, Buccaneer) and nearly killing Scar as well.
624* LaserGuidedKarma: One of his victims told him that "God's wrath will fall upon you". Wrath laughed it off. During his final battle with Scar, Scar gets the opening to defeat him when the sun (the symbol of god) blinds Wrath just as he's raising his blades to deliver the coup de grace.
625* TheLastDance: Prior to his fight with Scar, he had already been fatally wounded by Buccaneer and Ling Yao. Add to that that he already realized that he had already served his purpose for Father, Wrath knew full and well that his battle with Scar would probably be his last.
626* LightningBruiser: He's very powerful and extremely fast, enough to even dodge near-point blank gunfire, and, despite lacking regeneration, is still extremely hard to take down.
627* LogicalWeakness: As a Homunculus whose Philosopher's Stone contains only a single soul, Wrath does not share the regenerative capabilities of his brethren. He is also subject to age, albeit very slowly, and admits that his body doesn't move the way it used to. Most importantly, his MagicalEye is still hindered by physical obstructions to sight; all of the above details play a part in his eventual defeat.
628--> '''Buccaneer:''' That Philosopher's Stone might have given you the eyes of a god, but even you can't dodge an attack if you can't see it coming!
629* MagicalEye: Under the eyepatch. It shows his Ouroboros tattoo and grants him super reflexes.
630* MasterSwordsman: Compared to him, every other sword-user in the series can only claim to be "good" at it. It is also implied that he can wield ''any'' bladed weapon proficiently, although he prefers heavy sabers above everything else, demonstrated when he takes on 2nd Greed and Fu with a pair of combat knives and won.
631* MeaningfulName:
632** More than justified by his {{Backstory}}; a man named "King" who was literally born, bred, and groomed to be a ruler. That he was ''given'' the name "King" instead of earning the right to call himself that is evocative of his PuppetKing and {{Tykebomb}} status as well.
633** His title of "Wrath the Furious", while not indicative of his attitude, is a brutally apt description of his [[AttackAttackAttack combat style]] and ferocity in battle.
634* NeverBringAGunToAKnifeFight: His skill with edged weapons is more than enough to kill soldiers with firearms.
635* NeverFoundTheBody: Twice.
636** At one point a train carrying him from the East back to Central is bombed, and Bradley is declared missing. You better believe he turned up in Central, alive and none the worse for wear because his eye allowed him to see a quick path out of the wreckage.
637** When being held up by Ling, a Briggs soldier shoots him in the shoulder, causing him to fall into the water below. It's later revealed that he swam to an open grate, and shows up to face off against Scar.
638* NiceJobFixingItVillain:
639** If he hadn't ordered the genocide against the Ishvalans, Scar may have never stumbled upon the Homunculi's plans. Subverted in that it was Father's plan.
640** Had Wrath reported the incident where Ling briefly took over Greed-2's body, Father most likely would have killed Ling and prevented Greed-2's eventual betrayal.
641* NoNonsenseNemesis: While most of the other Homunculi and villains spend a lot of time scheming, explaining their world views, pondering philosophy, espousing their superiority or toying with their victims, Wrath gets straight to business. When he sees a threat he targets it immediately and efficiently, either with strategic political machinations or incredibly quick and lethal swordsmanship. What little banter he does have during his fight scenes tends to be cordial and to the point.
642* ObviouslyEvil: Played with. His heavily-lined face, burly mustache, and dramatic eyepatch serve to make him very ominous-looking, but his initially-goofy demeanor seems to subvert the trope. Later, [[DoubleSubversion he turns out to be every inch the dangerous, evil badass that his looks imply]].
643* OhCrap: That look on his face when he just realized that he'd just received his first wound ''ever,'' which later proved instrumental in his defeat.
644* OlderThanTheyLook: He's sixty years old, but looks twenty years younger due to the Philosopher's Stone in his body delaying his physical aging, which only catches up to him once he dies. Being a Homunculus, however, he is the youngest among his purebred Homunculi brethren, who are no younger than one hundred years old.
645* OneManArmy: Takes out a tank and a few soldiers armed with just a saber and a pipe bomb.
646* OurPresidentsAreDifferent: A mix of Action President and PresidentEvil, though he at first appears to be President Personable.
647* PersonOfMassDestruction: OneManArmy variant. He can't blow you up the way most State Alchemists can, but that won't stop him from slaughtering all of you individually.
648* PetTheDog: Often shows up to [[AFatherToHisMen visit his men in the hospital]] and despite being one of the Homunculi, who generally hate all humans, he loves his wife.
649** He's also the only person who remembers Falman's promotion to lieutenant.
650* PoliteVillainsRudeHeroes: The most pleasant and friendly of the Homunculi, but still a bad man. Others include: Father, Kimblee, The Gold-Toothed Doctor, Cornello, Raven, Tucker, [=McDougal=] (to an extent), [[AmbiguousInnocence Gluttony]], etc.
651* RasputinianDeath: He got stabbed in the gut, lost his eye, shot twice, 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.
652* {{Revenge}}: If you take a shot at Wrath and you're within range of whatever weapon he has in hand, he ''will'' hit back before he even bothers to change his expression. Possibly a nod to the biblical sin of wrath mainly having to do with vengeance; after several Briggs soldiers try to aid Greed by turning their guns on Wrath, he mercilessly cuts them down within a few panels.
653* ShadowArchetype: To no less than three characters: Ling (authority figures), Greed (humans who were turned into Homunculi), and Scar (warriors without names). To a lesser extent, Roy.
654* SilverFox: He's sixty years old, but has a strong, athletic build and a full head of thick black hair. He easily looks like he could be a fit forty-something.
655* SingleStrokeBattle: He can effortlessly kill people with one swipe of his sword.
656* StealthPun: His name is pronounced ''Furor'' President King Bradley.
657* TheStoic: He's quite calm and collected, even when in action.
658* StrawNihilist: Granted, almost all the Homunculi are this, but Wrath in particular can't go five minutes without pontificating about how worthless all systems of morality are and how the very concept of hope is a lie.
659* SuperReflexes: His [[TrainingFromHell superior training, decades of experience]] and [[SuperSenses Ultimate Eye]] give him supernatural precision and reflexes. It's impressive enough that he can deflect machine gun fire and bisect tank rounds with a sword, but the fact that he can weave between shards of shattered glass in midair and sidestep minuscule flecks of steel flying off of clashed blades is incredible. He's so quick and sharp that his fight scenes with mere humans are often rendered in BulletTime so you can actually see what he's doing.
660* SuperSenses: Wrath's Ultimate Eye is literally eyesight to the LogicalExtreme. ''Nothing'' it sees, no matter how small, distant, or mobile, can escape Wrath's perception, and the ouroboros iris's lack of motion suggests that it doesn't need to focus. However, it has the same limitations as a normal eye; it can't see past obstructions, its field of view has the same limitations and blind spots, it can still be overloaded with explosive light, and it's still susceptible to EyeScream.
661* SuperSoldier: Essentially what he was raised to become.
662* SuperSpeed: He can blitz through entire platoons of soldiers and cut through them as if a RazorWind just passed, despite being well past his prime. He can even dodge gunfire from near point blank and [[IaijutsuPractitioner slice opponents in the time it takes for them to blink.]]
663* TemptingFate: In the final moments of his battle with Scar, he rants how there is no god. Just as he's about to get the final blow in, the eclipse breaks and a bit of the sun shines into his eyes and provides the distraction needed for Scar to finish him off.
664* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: The only non-violent way for him to express why he's called "Wrath".
665* ThisWasHisTrueForm: A fairly minor version as while dying, he suddenly ages to the point that he looks like a sixty-year-old would be expected to.
666* TranquilFury: Looks extremely calm when killing.
667* TykeBomb: He was raised from birth as a candidate for the Führership. King Bradley may or may not be the same person as the boy who was raised for that candidacy. He doesn't know whether his soul was the original or if it came from the Philosopher's Stone.
668* UnstoppableRage: In his final battle with Scar he finally loses his usual calm facade and decides to go all out screaming in a fury. Truly living up to his name for his last stand.
669* VillainousBreakdown: A subtle one, but his rant against Scar sounds almost like desperation in that Wrath can't understand why someone won't act out the role he planned for them. In this case, an Ishvalan who's willing to use alchemy just to beat him. Not only that, the idea that Scar would use Alchemy despite his religion, bothers him enough to where he can only start shouting at him.
670* VillainousValor: Despite being the only Homunculus who can't regenerate, Wrath happily throws himself into batle against many times his numbers, regardless of how outgunned he might be. He even fights with a deliberate handicap most of the time, keeping his Ultimate Eye covered for most of his fights in order to challenge himself.
671* VillainWithGoodPublicity: So good that the heroes ''never'' fully dispel it, instead covering up his role in the affair by knowing the people would never buy that he was an inhuman, genocidal tyrant in the service of a megalomaniacal monster.
672* WalkingSpoiler: The fact that several parts of his entry are completely whited out in regards to his identity should be a big enough cause for this. When Wrath ''does'' finally show up, it turns the whole of the manga on its head.
673* WeakButSkilled: Compared to the other Homunculi.
674* WorfHadTheFlu: The only reason Scar has a chance of victory in the final battle is because Wrath is already fatally wounded ''and'' his Ultimate Eye is out of action. Even then, he nearly wins. WordOfGod confirms that Father would have won if he wasn't old, which gave the heroes the chance to land a hit on him with some strategic planning.
675[[/folder]]
676
677[[folder:Sloth]]
678!!Sloth the Indolent
679!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/FumihikoTachiki (JP), Creator/PatrickSeitz (EN)[[labelnote:Other Languages]]Gary Matos (Latin America), Faduli Costa (BR, Álamo), Vanderlan Mendes (BR, IST), Dario Oppido (IT)[[/labelnote]]
680[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sloth_48.jpg]]
681->'''Affiliation:''' Homunculi\
682'''Speciality:''' [[SuperSpeed Speed]] / SuperStrength
683->''"What a pain..."''
684
685The homunculus who personifies Father's indolence. Sloth is a hulking brute and not particularly bright. He's absent from most of the series as he is busy doing his creator's dirty work. Incredibly lazy, he has to be forced to work non-stop or he'll doze off. Father's workhorse and, after Greed goes AWOL, bodyguard.
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687* AchillesHeel: Although simply attacking it won't kill him instantly, his head is his weak spot and will cause him the most pain.
688* AndIMustScream: He was forced to dig out a nationwide underground transmutation circle and kept in line by his ruthless brother Pride. By the time he's seen in the manga, he's [[BodyHorror bleeding from his nails]] from overwork. Speaking of: in the manga his mouth is closed looking depressed, while in the anime his mouth is agape in misery and exaustion.
689* BrilliantButLazy: Sloth puts a tremendous amount of time and energy into digging an elaborate transmutation circle beneath the country. While he could hypothetically question the need for the circle or whether he should things on his own without Father's input, it would be a mistake to expect any kind of serious reflection from Sloth.
690* TheBrute: A classic example; a big, strong, and weak-willed thug for Father to order around.
691* BullfightBoss: His super speed is largely used to charge forward in a hard, short, straight line, though whether this trajectory is a limit of his power or due to his own unwillingness to think things through is not clear. This means that while he is incredibly fast, his movements are linear and predictable. As Armstrong points out, anticipating his attacks is only a matter of waiting.
692* CabinFever: Notable for its aversion. It's all but stated that ''because'' he's lazy and prefers to go without thinking about anything much, he ''can'' be made to focus on a single task for years at stretch without going stir-crazy or deviating (beyond trying to go to sleep, that is).
693* ChainedByFashion: You'd think those massive chains would slow him down...
694* ChainPain: He swings them around in the FinalBattle.
695* CharacterCatchphrase: "What a pain." and "Can I rest now?" Sometimes translated as "too much work."
696* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Sloth dies for good after a prolonged, physically taxing fistfight with Major Armstrong, who vowed to never run from evil again after his own sloth prevented him from acting on his conscience during the Ishvalan War. The heroes who supported Armstrong during the fight -- his sister Olivier, Izumi and Sig Curtis, and the nameless military defectors from Central Command -- ignored their own sloth ([[BystanderSyndrome apathy]], [[RetiredBadass domestic simplicity]], [[JustFollowingOrders the ease of following the chain of command]]) in favor of doing what was right.]]
697* DumbMuscle:
698** If he even has a vocabulary beyond twenty words, he never feels the need to use it. He'd also much rather let other people do all that strenuous thinking for him (which is why he gets used for the more physical tasks).
699** Possibly subverted. It's difficult to tell if Sloth is legitimately unintelligent or if he just doesn't care, but the singlehandedly digging out an entire perfectly shaped transmutation circle over an entire nation would take a huge degree of geometrical knowledge, so he may fall under BrilliantButLazy.
700* EarlyBirdCameo: Gets a two-panel appearance thirty-four chapters before he's incorporated into the plot.
701* TheEeyore: Sloth never finds joy in anything besides sleep, to the point where almost the only thing he says throughout the entire story is "What a pain."
702* EpicFlail: When he fights, he swings the heavyweights on the ends of his chains.
703* EvilSoundsRaspy: In the Italian dub, Sloth's voice is a CreepyMonotone with a raspy voice, as if he speaks so little his vocal cords have become rusty.
704* ExtremeDoormat: Does whatever Father tells him, simply because it's too much effort to argue with him.
705* FantasticRacism: Downplayed if not averted all together. Given his simplistic and apathetic attitude, he never voices disdain for humans so it's unknown if he even views humans as a species as beneath him. He is the only Homunculus loyal to Father to do this.
706* FasterThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:His size and lazy attitude make it easy to think he's slow. Then he gets serious and breaks out the SuperSpeed.]]
707* FatalFlaw: Naturally, his laziness. [[spoiler:It's revealed in his final fight that Sloth is actually super-fast, making him one of the most dangerous Homunculi to face in combat. In hindsight, this means that if he just used this ability to his advantage or actually put some thought into his combat strategies, he could conceivably have won every fight in which he participated before this, but actually using his super-speed and thinking both require too much effort. He likely would have been able to help the heroes if he had realized Father's true intent. He reflects the sin of Sloth not in terms of bare labor, which he does quite well, but in waste of potential, as he refuses to see himself as anything more than his initial station and refuses to be something more.]]
708* FlatCharacter: Deconstructed. Sloth's laziness and lack of depth is precisely what makes him so dangerous. He lacks the very specific and emotional sadism of Envy or Pride, instead performing his actions simply because he was told to. He therefore reflects his sloth in his sheer apathy and inability to realize that he could be something greater.
709* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:He dies happy that he has an excuse not to work anymore.]]
710* HeavySleeper: When he's out for the count, getting him back on his feet takes ''massive'' amounts of bullying from Pride. Heck, even a tank barely registers as an alarm clock for him.
711* HiddenDepths / RageBreakingPoint: For as much as he is defined by and controlled by his laziness, he will actually forget about his laziness and become a {{Determinator}} when made sufficiently angry, [[spoiler: such as in his battle against the Armstrongs, where he vows to kill Olivier after her attacks irritate him one too many times; after that, he actually takes the fight seriously and focuses. Doesn't help him much, though.]]
712* HulkSpeak: Repeats... phrases... Repeats... phrases... with... pauses... Always.
713* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Sig Curtis and Louis Armstrong throw him against the ceiling, causing him to crash down on a spike protruding from the ground, slaying him for good.]]
714* {{Irony}}: His sin makes him the least difficult for Father to convince to do the arduous and thankless task he does. Lust would much rather witness the bloodshed after manipulating people into madness or spearing them with her fingers. Gluttony just wants to eat people and protect Lust. Pride rivals Father himself in both deviance and arrogance. Wrath was converted to be a war general and Envy created to ruin people's lives, and both would be pissed off at being asked to do something so menial as digging a tunnel the whole time instead. And most strikingly, Greed is too ambitious and has too many scruples deep down to even remain in Father's employ.
715* TheJuggernaut: And, how. Once he gets his orders and bearings, he's like an unshakable cannonball on acid. He will not stop trying to do what he (eventually) gets around to doing. At one point, the heroes fight him by shooting him with tanks and he reacts with annoyance at the pain.
716* LaboriousLaziness: Maybe one of the most extreme examples. Sloth spends most of the series in chains, forced to perform thankless, back-breakingly hard physical labor. Why? He's too lazy to argue the point or say no to Father. It's easier to just obey orders and work.
717* LazyBum: In a physical and moral sense. Not only is Sloth constantly falling asleep, but he lacks the willpower to say "no" to the other Homunculi, and usually goes through objects and people rather than around them. In a weird (and fitting) way, his laziness is what makes him dangerous.
718* LetsGetDangerous: When he reveals [[spoiler:his SuperSpeed]].
719* LightningBruiser: [[spoiler:When he wants to move, he [[FlashStep can move so fast that he can't be seen]].]]
720* MadeOfIron: More so than the others as it can shrug off bullets with no visible damage like nothing, unlike the other Homunculi. They do annoy him.
721* MadnessMantra: ''"Too... Much... Work..."''
722* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: When being attacked by heavy artillery he causally and quietly says "ouch".
723* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Has shark-like teeth similar to Greed.
724* NiceJobFixingItVillain: One of his attacks pops Major Armstrong's dislocated shoulder back into place, causing the Major to get his second wind and begin beating the crap out of him.
725* NighInvulnerability: One of the strongest characters in the series due to his raw strength and undoubtedly one of the strongest of the seven Homunculi defense-wise. Anything less than a tank round won't even slow him down.
726* NonMaliciousMonster: Deconstructed horribly. He doesn't even want to fight anyone and he just wants to sleep. However, he's also too lazy to go against orders or think for himself, making him no less dangerous than his brethren. If he attacks people, it's normally because they are annoying him. Despite this, his attacks are incredibly vicious despite being rather uninterested in it.
727* ObliviouslyEvil: He has no idea that, by digging the tunnel network, he's helping [[spoiler:a GodhoodSeeker turn every human in the country into a PhilosophersStone powerful enough to overpower [[{{God}} Truth]]]], because he's too lazy to put any effort into thinking for himself and is obeying orders. He doesn't even ''want'' to dig the tunnel network, he would much rather sleep. He only does it because he was ordered to [[spoiler:and because his ruthless brother [[TheDreaded Pride]] keeps a close eye on him to ensure he completes his task]].
728* PerpetualFrowner: Given his lazily depressive and cynical personality, he is often seen with a large frown while baring his sharp teeth. He only smiles twice in the series, [[spoiler: once when he finished digging the tunnel he was set out to build, and another during his death.]]
729* PowerfulButIncompetent: He is a near-immortal homunculus, and he's shown to be significantly stronger physically. He takes the appearance of a colossal muscular behemoth, and his skin is so tough that he's impervious to bullets, and it takes a significant amount of effort to even damage him. Oh yeah, he's also [[spoiler:the self-proclaimed fastest homunculus, and can move so fast, that he can't be traced by the human eye.]] However, true to his sin, he is extremely lazy and sluggish, thus wasting his potential strength and making him a very poor fighter. [[spoiler:In addition, he can't even use his immense speed properly, and he's so uncoordinated that he ends up randomly dashing into walls.]]
730* PunchClockVillain: All Sloth wants to do is sleep. Of course, that lack of malice doesn't make him any less dangerous to the innocent people who get in his way.
731* ShadowArchetype: To Major Armstrong. Both are huge male beings who tower over their siblings and possess immense strength and toughness. Armstrong's greatest regret is that he didn't fight against the Ishval genocide because he lacked the will to do so. Sloth lacks the will to fight against anything he's told to do.
732* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite appearing the least of the Homunculi, it's Sloth's actions that kicks off much of the climax of the story [[spoiler:being the one responsible for creating the nation-wide transmutation circle for Father.]]
733* SmashMook: How he's used by the others, due to his immense strength and unwillingness to put any effort into thinking ahead.
734* StrongFamilyResemblance : While he shares the same dark hair and clothing and red nodes as most of his siblings, sloth also shares some features that his other siblings have. For example, he has sharp triangular teeth like Greed, long stringy hair like Envy, and small white eyes like Gluttony.
735* SuperStrength: Ironically, despite his laziness, he's likely the physically strongest of the Homunculi.
736* SuperToughness: Shrugs off bullets without a scratch. He's definitely one of the more durable characters, if not quite as indestructible as Greed with his shield up.
737* SuperSpeed: [[spoiler:He's the fastest Homunculus and surprises the Armstrong siblings with a grueling speed assault and becoming very difficult to dodge.]]
738* TooFastToStop: [[spoiler:Despite his super speed, his hatred of hard work means he has very little practice with it and is very unwieldy with it, often crashing.]]
739* TragicVillain: Sloth's entire existence was devoted to a single purpose, [[spoiler: digging out the transmutation circle used to sacrifice the Amestrian population.]] which he painfully worked on for almost his entire 160-year life. He is utterly blind to Father's wrongdoing, and doesn't even seem to recognize his actual intent, which is only partly to blame on his laziness. When he is first seen in Briggs, he lumbers around and barely attempts to fight anyone. [[spoiler: When he dies, he is revealed to be both horrified of dying and staying alive, because he considers both to be too much effort.]]
740* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: When he accidentally crushes the traitorous Brigandeer General Fox in an attempt to kill Olivier, he awkwardly and casually comments about the mess he made.
741* WalkingShirtlessScene: He wears no shirt and only suspenders.
742* WeakWilled: His FatalFlaw and primary villainous characteristic. Sloth isn't dangerous because of his motivations, but because of his unwillingness to put in the effort to think for himself and come to his own conclusions. As a result, he goes along with whatever his "family" tells him to do, and never even considers ''not'' going along with their plan.
743* WeHardlyKnewYe: Has the least screentime out of all the Homunculi.
744* UnskilledButStrong: His size and strength mean he packs a terrifying punch, more so with SuperSpeed, but he never put in the effort to become a capable fighter.
745[[/folder]]
746
747[[folder:Pride ('''SPOILERS''')]]
748!!Pride the Arrogant / Selim Bradley
749!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YukoSanpei (JP), Creator/BrittneyKarbowski (EN)[[labelnote:Other Languages]]Karina Parra (Latin America), Ítalo Luiz (BR, Álamo), Júlia Castro (BR, IST), Silvana Fantini (IT)[[/labelnote]]
750[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/pride_fma_9.png]]
751->'''Affiliation:''' Homunculi\
752'''Speciality:''' [[CastingAShadow Shadow Manipulation]]
753->''"No matter where you are, I will be watching...from the shadows."''
754
755The 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. Even in comparison to other Homunculi, he shows a total hatred for humanity and often pesters homunculi for not being racist enough. 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.
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757* AchillesHeel: He can only use his shadow powers in the presence of light, as total darkness isn't exactly conducive to shadows. His shadows can also be destroyed under intense enough light, such as a flash bomb. This is quite ironic since pride is associated with Lucifer, whose name means "bringer of light".
758* AdorableAbomination: A mass of deadly shadows that’s the incarnate of arrogance and evil, contained in the form of a child.
759* AintTooProudToBeg: By the time Edward enters his insides as a philosopher stone, being at Ed's mercy, he desperately begs for Ed to stop.
760-->'''Edward''': I caught you! You're mine!\
761(He grabs Pride, causing images of Bradley and his wife to appear in his eye.)\
762'''Pride''': Stop this. Stop this. PLEASE STOP!!!!!!!!
763* AllYourPowersCombined: Fittingly, his shadows have powers connected to those of his siblings, including {{Absurdly Sharp Blade}}s (Lust), the ability to devour things and people (Gluttony), the ability to possess people's bodies (Envy), NighInvulnerability (Greed), SuperStrength and SuperSpeed (Sloth) and highly keen vision (Wrath).
764* AloofBigBrother: How Envy describes him in the manga. For all that Pride has [[StrongerSibling incredible power]], Envy is outraged that he wasn't around to protect Gluttony from getting kidnapped and says that he's never there when the other homunculi need him. What we see of him before this backs this up; he only shows up to chew Envy (and Gluttony) out for their failures, then calls Envy an impudent brat and tells them to be quiet before they can even begin to argue with him. Despite knowing about the intruders at their base, Pride doesn't seem to intervene to help Lust deal with them, not even to save Lust.[[note]]Though perhaps he had more trust in her ability to handle it when he went to go collect Envy and Gluttony, as she did seem to have killed Mustang and Havoc initially.[[/note]] He ''is'' shown to be [[PetTheDog lenient with Wrath]].
765* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Near the end of the series, Ed asked why Pride blindly follows [[BigBad Father]]. Although he followed with a ShutUpKirk, that marks the beginning of his VillainousBreakdown.
766-->'''Ed:''' Explain it to me... Why are you so eager to be his willing lap dog? He's wearing you ragged, breaking you down, and he doesn't even care!\
767'''Pride:''' Why should I care if Father doesn't? I am not a puny weakling like you are. I am one of the Homunculi! [[ShutUpKirk What do you know, human?!]]
768* AttentionWhore: Doesn't seem to like the fact that he's always ignored by Father and tries to advance Father's plan as much as possible on his own.
769* AxCrazy: Downplayed. He can be pretty unhinged when he massacres his enemies with his shadows, but he retains his cool.
770* BadassInANiceSuit: A miniature version--Pride's early appearances as Pride have him wearing a suit. He's subject to TheCoatsAreOff later, but his default outfit in the process remains a nice dressy look, with a waistcoat, button-up shirt and dress shoes.
771* BadPowersBadPeople: The most unrepentantly evil Homunculus is the one who uses living shadows to mercilessly tear his opponents to pieces and eat your soul.
772* BelatedLoveEpiphany: It's implied that he realizes within the last second of his old life that he really did love his adopted family, given he sees them in his mind's eye.
773* BeneathSuspicion: Despite Selim Bradley's ties to the military/government (his father is the PresidentEvil), it comes as a shock when he's revealed to be Pride, one of [[OurHomunculiAreDifferent the Homunculi]] because he [[Really700YearsOld appears to be]] [[DeliberatelyCuteChild an adorable child]].
774* BerserkButton: He has two related ones; questioning or mocking his UndyingLoyalty to Father, and being called a puppet or a pawn. When Ed does both in his final fight with Pride by calling him "Father's eager lapdog" and pointing out that Father doesn't actually care about his "eldest son" at all and only sees him as another pawn to be used, Pride starts ''screaming'' with rage. Although to be fair, his outburst was likely also due to stress and/or pain, as he was seriously wounded and close to death at that point.
775* BigBrotherBully: With the exception of Lust who doesn't interact with, and Wrath who he has a decent relation with, Pride has presumably menaced the homunculi enough for them to dread him.
776** Greed considers him a monster and Pride mockingly considers eating him.
777** Envy is visibly terrified when he scolds them for causing a scene in public.
778** Sloth '''does work''' because he knows Pride will get involved if he doesn't.
779** Gluttony is also terrified when Pride scolds him along with Envy. Oh and he also eats Gluttony who is pleads for his life.
780* BigBrotherIsWatching: Literally and figuratively. Pride’s abilities grant him near omnipresence which he uses to keep tabs on everyone in the government, his younger siblings, and the underground tunnel network. Anywhere there is a shadow, Pride could be watching and listening. Becomes a plot point when he reveals himself to Hawkeye, who can only speak in coded messages to Mustang else she be found out. See also the page quote.
781* BigBrotherMentor: In a weird sort of way he seems to view himself as one to Wrath, who is the youngest of the Homunculi. Pride even promises not to tell Father when Wrath admits to enjoying the unexpected trouble the humans are causing them, which may be the [[PetTheDog kindest thing]] he's done for any of his siblings.
782* BitchInSheepsClothing: When acting as Selim, he's a bright and friendly little boy. However, his true personality is one of a cruel and arrogant monster.
783* BlindObedience: Pride follows all of Father's orders without question, regardless of if they make sense or if they put him in grave danger, because, in his own words, "it's only natural for a child to obey their parents."
784* BodyHorror: His body begins to flake apart with transmutation marks when he uses it to force Mustang into performing human transmutation. At first his left cheek withers rather slowly, but after receiving a headbutt from Ed, his decay extends to his entire eye, leaving uncovered his insides, full of screaming souls.
785* ButForMeItWasTuesday: He confesses to Kimblee that [[DeathByIrony he devoured Gluttony]], and does so in a very callous manner like it was any other mundane activity.
786* CannibalismSuperpower: [[SuperpowerLottery As if creating tons of razor-sharp shadows wasn't enough]], he gains the powers of anyone he absorbs, be they Homunculi or human. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Though it ultimately bites him back in the ass]].
787* CastingAShadow: His power to materialize and control shadows. ''Lots'' of razor-sharp and far-reaching shadows.
788* CoDragons: With Wrath, to Father.
789* CombatTentacles: He can turn his shadows into pretty much anything: blades to tear, multiple minuscule hands to restrain his opponents, giant mouths...
790* CompulsorySchoolAge: He looks like a child and goes to school, but he is actually the oldest of the Homunculi at over 300 years old.
791* CreepyChild: His humanoid form, after his true nature is revealed.
792* CuteIsEvil: He's an [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abomination]] that can effortlessly rip people apart with his [[LivingShadow Living Shadow]], and he has the body of a small child.
793* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Before turning Roy into a human sacrifice, he admits he would have preferred to not force anyone through the "Gate" since it takes a large toll on him, leaving him in a near death state.
794* DarkIsEvil: Well, ''yeah''. Ironically, he's as disserviced by complete darkness as anyone else, as it leaves him unable to use his shadow powers, leaving him unable to defend himself.
795* DeathByIrony:
796** Gets ''really'' close to this when Heinkel[[note]]a lion chimera; a group of female lions is called a [[{{Pun}} pride]][[/note]] mauls him in complete darkness, which takes away all of his homunculus powers and doesn't make him much better than prey. Pride has to consume Gluttony in order to keep his container from breaking.
797** He is defeated by Edward Elric, whose entire character arc revolves around the sin of pride and getting back in touch with humility. Even though Pride cements himself as an AssholeVictim by trying to possess Edward (something he'd previously done to Alphonse), Ed ''still'' does not violate his rule of ThouShallNotKill and treats Pride's remains with the kind of dignity Pride would never show to Ed.
798** For all his pride in being a homunculus, it's the ''sin'' of pride -- corrupt self-interest and justification of any self-serving action, no matter how contradictory -- that undoes him. When his body starts falling apart due to his VillainOverride below, he attempts to possess the body of a creature he looks down on (Ed, a human) to save himself. This act of hypocrisy is [[EvenEvilHasStandards one of the few transgressions]] that Kimblee doesn't tolerate, so he reasserts himself within Pride and gives Ed an opening to defeat Pride.
799** Pride's also the only homunculus who never quite dies... but being spared by, reborn as, and raised among the humans he despised without any memory of his homunculus pride is probably the most humiliating fate he could have imagined.
800* DeathOfPersonality: Pride is, for all intents and purposes, killed after Ed's battle erases his memories, leaving only a tiny baby with no memory of his former life (beyond a love for his mother). A very interesting variant, as well -- Pride's ''Death'' of Personality leads to Selim's ''Birth'' of Personality (technically speaking, "Selim Bradley" only existed as a false identity of Pride's before that point).
801* DeliberatelyCuteChild: His gambit to make sure nobody knows who he is.
802* DevourTheDragon: Repeatedly. Pride callously murders Gluttony, Kimblee (though in this case, he was already dying), and the Gold-Toothed Doctor to gain their abilities and/or knowledge. To make it creepier, he wasn't actually doing it to be mean for the sake of it -- he was imitating his father! (Along with advancing Father's agenda)
803* DirtyCoward: Kimblee accuses him of being one, and it holds water considering that, mere minutes after explaining his hatred of humans, Pride attempts to pull a GrandTheftMe on Ed, one of said humans, to save his own life.
804-->'''Kimblee''': You try to take a lesser being you despised as your container, just to escape your own predicament. You... are ''hideous''.
805* DissonantSerenity: Compared to his Selim persona, he's extremely calm in both intimidation and murder and has zero regards for his victims. [[ButForMeItWasTuesday He talks about how he devoured Gluttony to Kimblee as if it was a normal thing to do.]]
806* TheDogWasTheMastermind: The most dangerous Homunculus of all is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld little Selim Bradley]], the son of King Bradley. The biggest clue to his identity is his speech patterns in the original Japanese, [[LostInTranslation which wouldn't get through to an American reader]].
807* TheDragon: To Father, fitting as his most powerful offspring. Before facing Father, Ed takes it upon himself to battle Pride, where he is able to win while maintaining his policy of not killing enemies. This penultimate challenge marks Ed as finally being ready to take on the now God-powered Father.
808* DramaPreservingHandicap: His VillainOverride to make Mustang the final Sacrifice near the final battle burns through his supply of Philosopher's Stone greatly, to the point where the Elrics point out that Pride actually attempts to dodge attacks rather than use his shadows to counter attacks and his body begins to disintegrate.
809* TheDreaded: ''No one'' enjoys the idea of dealing with Pride, considering both his abilities and his cruelty. Even Greed considers him to be a monster. Gluttony is utterly horrified when Pride decides to eat him for his powers and all he can do is ''beg'' for him to stop. Also, the only reason Sloth is digging the circular tunnel around Amestris is because Pride told him to and he's too scared to say no. Hell, let this sink in for a moment; even ''Wrath'' is afraid of this guy, and Wrath is the only one of his siblings Pride actually likes.
810* EldritchAbomination: Even by homunculus standards, this guy is something else. He's an amorphous mass of shadowy tentacles with eyes and teeth that follow you everywhere. Selim is merely his street clothing.
811* EnfanteTerrible: Looks like a child, is the personification of arrogance and evil.
812* 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 Wrath and seems to realize that ''she'' was the one who gave him the love he secretly craved but never got from Father.
813* EvilAllAlong: Selim Bradley was a façade from the start. Pride's mass of shadows are his true form, and his human body is a hollow container.
814* EvilCannotComprehendGood:
815** Subverted. Alphonse points out that a glaring flaw in the Homunculi's plan to use him and Ed as sacrifices is that they could've easily fled to another country or something. For all his blatant misanthropy, Pride admits that there are some genuinely selfless humans out there who are willing to give up everything to protect the things they love, such as Wrath's wife, who once tried to save Pride from being hit by a car. He says Ed and Al are a step up from them. The Homunculi knew they would never have abandoned Amestris and, in fact, went as far as to bring the fight to them.
816** Played straight on a micro scale. After being defeated by Ed, Pride is convinced that [[ThouShaltNotKill the Fullmetal Alchemist]] will kill him. Kimblee calls him out on it.
817--->'''Pride''': He'll kill me!\
818'''Kimblee''': If you think that, then you ''really'' don't understand Edward Elric.
819* EvilCostumeSwitch: As Selim, he wears a light blue jacket and necktie. After his true identity is revealed, his human form replaces them with a black outfit.
820* EyeScream: Due to forcing Roy to pass through the Gate and a headbutt from Ed, his eye ends up crumbling away in transmutation marks,
821* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: As Selim he appears as a kind and cheerful boy that idolizes his father and appears to be unaware of his true nature. In truth, he's Father's ruthless and cruel right-hand man.
822* 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 killing or eating his allies when they are no longer of use to him.
823* FateWorseThanDeath: Considering Pride's loathing of humans and "lower beings", this is how pre-memory wipe Pride would regard his fate at the end of the series.
824* FauxAffablyEvil: Even after his true identity is revealed Pride will still sometimes act like a friendly child even if he is about to do something chilling. Like eating Gluttony.
825* {{Foreshadowing}}:
826** 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 with his back shown to the audience. Instead, Volume 16 introduces Selim Bradley who turns out to be the new Homunculus.
827** Selim often talks about his ''father'' and how much he admires him... he doesn't mean Bradley.
828* GameFace: Once his identity is revealed, he's drawn with much sharper, edgier features in contrast to Selim's rounded, almost chibi looks. Especially apparent after he eats Gluttony.
829* GrandTheftMe: Attempts this on Ed. Backfires when Kimblee stops him and Ed invades him instead.
830* GoodEyesEvilEyes: TaremeEyes as Selim, TsurimeEyes as Pride.
831* TheHeavy: He and Wrath pick up this role after Lust, Gluttony and Envy are taken out.
832* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: For most of the series, he isn't seen at all (he doesn't even appear in Father's lair). Only his voice is heard sporadically... until his reveal to Riza Hawkeye.
833* HeelFaceMindScrew: In the course of destroying Pride, Ed somehow knows to rip out Pride's true form, a helpless, miniature baby. As a result, Pride has no memories of his past and is purged of his malicious personality, and this, coupled with being raised by Mrs. Bradley, means that he becomes the good little boy [[BecomingTheMask he had previously pretended to be]].
834* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: Like Wrath up there, Pride is subject to this after the final confrontation, the people being led to believe that "Selim Bradley" was merely an innocent boy who tragically lost his life in the uprising.
835* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Turns out absorbing [[MoralSociopathy Kimblee]] wasn't a good idea.
836* {{Hypocrite}}:
837** 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 one of his own siblings when the tables are turned on him, yet condemns Greed for rebelling against the Homunculi.
838** "I can't believe you could treat your own brother with such hostility, Greed! Honestly, I might have to eat you!"
839** Pride sees almost everyone around him as disposable pawns and will willingly devour his own Homunculi siblings [[CannibalismSuperpower to obtain their powers]] if it's [[ItsAllAboutMe to his own benefit]], a line that [[EvenEvilHasStandards even Envy doesn't cross]]. However, Pride becomes enraged when Edward points out that Father sees him as a disposable pawn himself, having abandoned him to create more Philosopher's Stones while his eldest son was severely weakened and in pain.
840* IJustWantToBeLoved: His VillainousBreakdown begins when Ed points out to him that his Father really doesn't care about him. It's also the reason Mrs. Bradley is the only human he actually likes since she treats him with genuine love.
841* ImAHumanitarian: Likes to eat his allies when they are no longer of use ([[{{Irony}} Gluttony]] and a dying Kimblee). 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.
842* ImprobableInfantSurvival: He is the only homunculus who looks like a child, and also the only homunculus who survives... sort of. Additionally, when the other Homunculi fight they are frequently wounded, [[GoodThingYouCanHeal usually graphically]], but not so much with Pride, who just gets scuffed up a bit. The latter may be justified, as Pride is considered the most powerful of the bunch.
843* InconspicuousImmortal: Appears to be just a normal kid with no knowledge of his father's true nature as Wrath. It's just an act, though...
844* 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, because Selim Bradley is heavily protected.
845* InsaneTrollLogic: He tells Kimblee that his devouring Gluttony (to obtain the latter's powers) is not murder because both of them are facets of Father's original personality. Given that he talks about eating Gluttony with his shadows [[ButForMeItWasTuesday as if such an act is completely normal]], it's left ambiguous if he's using a flimsy excuse to justify killing one of his own kind to protect his ego, or if he's so narcissistic that he honestly believes he's done nothing wrong.
846* ItsAllAboutMe: Played with. On one hand, Pride's a malignant narcissist with a huge LackOfEmpathy for both humans and his siblings. However, he's genuinely loyal to Father and acts only at his discretion; Ed even calls him out for seeking no purpose beyond being a dutiful son.
847* {{Irony}}: Despite being the embodiment of arrogance, Pride's character ultimately boils down to being a subservient YesMan to his father.
848* KnightOfCerebus: The series was already pretty dark at first, but once it's revealed that Father wasn't the only shadow bumbling around, things get even more unnerving. When he isn't playing the part of Selim, Pride is played as a serious threat at all times, even when he's poking fun at Ed's height insecurity, and ''nobody'' wants to deal with him. Things tend to quickly go bad for the good guys whenever he takes the stage and he's pretty hard to kill even when he can't extend his shadows. He's essentially a recurring horror villain.
849* LackOfEmpathy: Pride is considered exceptionally cruel [[EvenEvilHasStandards even by the other Homunculi]] and has nothing but contempt toward the human race. Aside from Father, Wrath, and Mrs. Bradley, he only cares for himself (and fulfilling Father's goals to any cost by extension) and will gleefully backstab his own siblings if it means he can gain an advantage.
850* LaserGuidedKarma: In the end, Pride eating Kimblee and trying to possess Ed end up blowing up in his face. Disgusted at his hypocrisy, Kimblee holds him in place and prevents him from stealing Edward's body. And Ed pays him back for trying to destroy his personality by entering into his body as a Philosopher's Stone and destroying all of his memories (except his love for his mother). For added irony Pride being raised as a human child, with his memories (and Pride) erased is from his original perspective a FateWorseThanDeath.
851* LastOfHisKind: Lost memories notwithstanding, he is the only Homunculus to survive the events of the story.
852* LittleBigBrother: Pride is the oldest of Homunculi and looks like a child while his younger "siblings" look way older.
853* LivingShadow: His true form: A mass of eyes and smiles.
854* LossOfIdentity: After his "death", he is reborn with the mind of an innocent child.
855* LoveRedeems: Mrs. Bradley's love specifically. It's the only reason his innocent rebirth is allowed to stick.
856* MadeOfIron: Even amongst the other Homunculus Pride's durability is insane. After Ed short circuits the lights in the area they are all fighting in Heinkel spends the next several minutes desperately trying to kill him while he has lost access to his powers. While Pride IS hurt by the constant bombardment Heinkel ends up wearing himself out and Selim has very few visible injuries.
857* MeaningfulName: [[SdrawkcabName Selim is "miles" backward.]] Pride can only extend outward beyond Selim and the nationwide transmutation circle, his two containers, in an immediate area with limited light.
858* MoralityPet: Aside from Father and Wrath, the only being he really cares about, even a little, is Mrs. Bradley — and that only began after she risked her life to save him and he grew curious about the concept of playing 'family'.
859* MyGrandsonMyself: Pride has pretended to be the adopted son of an important government official as Selim Bradley ever since the founding of Amestris. What better way to innocuously keep tabs on what the government is doing?
860* {{Narcissist}}: Unsurprisingly. Pride can care about other people if he really, really tries (see Wrath, Mrs. Bradley, and Father), but he's far more interested in himself, to the point of bordering on out and out psychopathy.
861* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: ''Pride the Arrogant''.
862* NoOntologicalInertia: One of his few weaknesses, as when a base of his shadow is blocked off, the rest of the shadow disintegrates.
863* NoSell: A subtle example, but one that shows off just how powerful he really is. It's not impossible to break through his shell, but '''damn''' does it take a lot of time and power! Whereas all the other Homunculi have been hit with horrible lacerations or killed repeatedly in gruesome ways, Pride managed to tank a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from [[PantheraAwesome Heinkel]] with some light scuffs on his "skin" and rips on his clothes. The kid literally just gets up and dusts himself off before glancing at him like "Ya done yet, bro?"
864* ObviouslyEvil: He's named after the worst of the SevenDeadlySins, [[CastingAShadow control shadows]] like nobody's business, and is TheDragon for [[SatanicArchetype Fa]][[BigBad ther]]. Yeah, no way he's one of the heroes.
865* OhCrap: Has a major one when Kimblee reappears and screws him over near the end.
866* ParanoiaFuel: Goes out of his way to provide an InUniverse example for Riza Hawkeye. He could be literally ''anywhere'' there are shadows to listen in on conversations, even if he's "supposed" to be miles away.
867* PerpetualSmiler: Pride's shadows almost always are smiling whenever they are attacking or watching someone. If Pride's shadows ever start frowning you know things [[LetsGetDangerous are about to get serious.]]
868* PowerCopying: The CannibalismSuperpower variant, a decidedly dark one. He uses it to get Glutonny's sense of smell and Kimblee's alchemic knowledge.
869* PowersDoTheFighting: Being able to use shadows from anywhere and everywhere allows him to use them to fight by themselves.
870* {{Pride}}: Of course. His full name is "Pride the Arrogant".
871* PrideBeforeAFall: Feel free to laugh.
872* {{Sadist}}: Relishes in causing suffering to others and mocking them while fighting. Like calling Ed tiny.
873* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: At three hundred, the oldest Homunculus besides Father.
874* SiblingYinYang: Subtly has this with Wrath.
875* ShapeshifterBaggage: Seemingly played straight, unlike Envy above. Drawing his shadow back into his "container" doesn't seem to affect his weight or mass at all, despite the fact that the shadow itself is large enough to extend throughout the tunnel of the nationwide transmutation circle. One could make the argument that they are mass-less and weight-less due to being shadows, but the manga and ''Brotherhood'' treats them as indeed having substance. Of course, he ''is'' an EldritchAbomination.
876* SlasherSmile: Gains one after eating Gluttony and his shadows feature numerous large smiles and [[EyesDoNotBelongThere eyes]].
877* SmallNameBigEgo: Due to his arrogant, smug and narcissistic personality, Pride is the perfect name to describe this half-pint jerk.
878* SmugSnake: What else would you expect from someone whose ''name'' is ''"Pride the Arrogant"''? He can [[SmugSuper back up his boasts for the most part]], at least until his defeat.
879* SoreLoser: For all his talk about how strong he is he can be downright petty when he's at a disadvantage. During the confrontation in the forest he's furious when the heroes manage to free Al from his grasp and when he realizes that the heroes have managed to turn the tables he devours Gluttony to replenish his power.
880* StrongFamilyResemblance:
881** Pride's shadows greatly resemble Father's true form. Hohenheim even comments on it, stating that Pride's name is fitting since his creator made sure they looked identical.
882** Selim, meanwhile, looks an awful lot like King Bradley when he was a kid.
883* StrongerSibling: Compared to his younger siblings, he's far more powerful.
884* SuperpowerLottery: He's TheDreaded for a reason. Between his Homunculus-standard HealingFactor, his [[CastingAShadow shadow manipulation]], near-omnipresence in the National transmutation circle and his {{Cannibalism Super|power}}{{power Copying}}, Pride has pretty much won the lottery. Barring Van Hohenheim and Father (who could almost qualify as PhysicalGods), Pride is far and away the most powerful character ever seen. Much like Wrath, for him to be defeated he has to be in an already dying state. When Heinkel fought him he was only able to land blows because the lights were out; once the lights are on Pride immediately overpowers him
885* TautologicalTemplar: Pride is incredibly self-righteous and will constantly come up with flimsy rationalizations for all of his evil actions, [[InsaneTrollLogic such as saying him eating Gluttony doesn't actually count as murder because they were both part of Father to begin with.]] Interestingly, he's the only Homunculus that bothers to even try to justify their actions at all, as the others are all {{Straw Nihilist}}s who just believe [[AboveGoodAndEvil they can do whatever they want because they can]]. Pride's warped sense of morality is likely due to his arrogance - he's too narcissistic to acknowledge that anything he does could be considered wrong.
886* TeamKiller: Devours both Gluttony and Kimblee so that he could take their Philosopher Stones for himself.
887* ThisWasHisTrueForm: Non-lethal example; after Ed defeats Pride and its body crumbles to dust Ed pulls out a small baby, that Ed spares and places on top of his coat, which he identifies as Pride's true form.
888* {{Troll}}: Enjoys teasing Ed about his height while under the disguise as King Bradley's cute, innocent, and of course well-guarded son. He even delights in the fact that it annoys Ed.
889* TsurimeEyes: In contrast to his Selim persona's TaremeEyes. This helps establish that Selim is his container and not a real child under possession.
890* UhOhEyes: His GameFace has purple eyes with very small pupils.
891* UndyingLoyalty: Nearly every single thing he does, he does to further Father's plan.
892* TheUnreveal: We never do find out where his ouroboros is, or if he even has one.
893* VillainousBreakdown: He finally snaps from his cool composure when Ed calls him out on his blind loyalty to Father, who doesn't give a shit about him. In response, Pride gets livid and after viciously flailing Ed against the floor, gets even more mad due to his worsening condition causing his left eye to crumble down and tries to take over Ed's body to survive -- which leads to Kimblee stopping him and pointing out his hypocrisy, causing him to break down and becoming increasingly scared and desperate as Ed is about to finish him off and "dies" screaming hysterically and begging for his life.
894* VillainOverride: In the final battle he forces Roy to perform human transmutation, but it weakened him severely, enough for him to be defeated a few chapters later.
895* VoiceOfTheLegion: As Pride, he speaks with an eerie voice akin to this.
896* WalkingSpoiler: Possibly even more so than Wrath. His identity as Selim does that.
897* WeaksauceWeakness: [[WeakenedByTheLight Bright flashes of light can hurt him]] and his shadow-based powers are useless in complete darkness and outside of the national transmutation circle and Central Area. More subtly, he can use his shadow tendrils to commit espionage by listening, but he can't use them to ''see'', so Hawkeye exploits this to get a coded message across to Mustang, who pieces it together on paper.
898* WellDoneSonGuy: Implied to be one of his main reasons for leaving himself in the verge of death for Father's sake when Ed asks why he obeys Father in the first place, pointing out that Father doesn't really care about him.
899* WorfHadTheFlu: The only reason Ed manages to "kill" Pride is because Pride had weakened himself enough by using up a massive number of his stored-up souls [[VillainOverride to force Mustang to perform human transmutation]]. With his body breaking down on him, he attempts to possess Ed's body to save himself, resulting in Kimblee's intervention and Ed being in the right position to take him down from within. Heinkel was also able to fight him purely because there was no light; once they're brought back Pride wastes no time in overpowering him.
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906[[folder:Solf J. Kimblee]]
907!!Solf J. Kimblee
908!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroyukiYoshino (JP), Creator/EricVale (EN)[[labelnote:Other Languages]]Víctor Díaz (Latin America), Nestor Chiesse (BR), Paolo Sesana (IT)[[/labelnote]]
909[[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/solf_j_kimblee_4.png]]
910->'''Affiliation:''' Amestris Military (formerly)/Homunculi\
911'''Rank:''' Major (formerly)\
912'''Specialty:''' [[HavingABlast Explosive Alchemy]] / PhotographicMemory
913->''"The one thing worse than death is to avert your eyes from it! Look straight at the people you kill, don't take your eyes off them for a second, and don't'' ever ''forget them, because I promise that they won't forget you."''
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915[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Crimson Alchemist]], a former State Alchemist who participated in the Ishval war. Kimblee is a sociopath and a sadist. His alchemical specialty is transmuting things into [[HavingABlast explosives]].
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917* AdaptationalNiceGuy: ''Brotherhood'' leaves out an important detail of Kimblee's time in Ishval, one that paints his [[BaitTheDog seemingly humanizing interactions with Winry]] in a much more sinister light. [[spoiler:A general who was angered by the Rockbells treating injured Ishvalans ordered Kimblee to kill them and MakeItLookLikeAnAccident. Despite his admiration for the Rockbells' dedication, Kimblee accepted the order and would have killed them if Scar hadn't done so first.]]
918* AffablyEvil: A very, very sinister example. He is a thoroughly demented and vicious man, but sincerely polite and pleasant in conversation, honest and straightforward in his intent and bears no ill will to his victims and enemies. Despite or perhaps because of his [[BlueAndOrangeMorality radical philosophies]], he deeply respects people who demonstrate integrity and conviction, and holds deep contempt for hypocrites and cowards.
919* AgentPeacock: Compared to many of the hyper-masculine muscle-bound soldiers, Kimblee is small, thin, neat, polite, and fixated on art and beauty (even if he has a very unconventional idea of it.) He's also one of the most powerful, competent and feared of state alchemists.
920* TheAntiNihilist: He may be nihilistic, but he finds this more liberating than anything. Rather than berate those around them for holding beliefs and dreams in a meaningless world, he actually ''applauds'' them. In fact, his BerserkButton is anyone betraying their own code, dream or duty out of convenience or cowardice. He only has respect for people with strong convictions, even if they oppose his own, and nothing but contempt for any who betray their own convictions, even if they're on the same side.
921* ArchEnemy: To Scar. Ironically, [[spoiler:he is severely wounded by the chimera Heinkel and absorbed by Pride, instead of Scar getting to contribute to his demise.]]
922* AssholeVictim: As charming and [[VillainousValor courageous]] as he is, Kimblee is still a mass-murdering lunatic who took part in genocide, killed Scar's family, and is complacent in a plan to sell out humanity. [[spoiler:No tears should be shed when Heinkel rips his throat and Pride chews him up while mocking his helplessness.]]
923* AxCrazy: A subdued version. He's classy, intelligent and philosophical, but without a doubt psychotic. That said, [[MadBomber he really loves blowing stuff up]].
924* BadassBookworm: He's a State Alchemist. It comes with the territory. He gets to show it off while chasing Scar, easily deducing Scar's location and then managing to barely survive a fight with him despite being years out of combat practice.
925* BadassInANiceSuit: A dangerous man who looks pretty dapper in a white suit. It adds to his creepiness.
926* BadassLongcoat: He wears a long white coat once released from prison.
927* BadPowersBadPeople: He blows people up and turns harmless objects into time bombs. It's hard to be heroic with that.
928* 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. The Berserk Button was so strong that despite being a consumed soul inside Pride, one of thousands of screaming ones, he manages to over power and cripple Pride for abandoning his principles and... pride.]]
929* BirdsOfAFeather: He's the only human who Pride and Envy have taken to, which says a lot about his (lack of) morality.
930* BloodKnight: Based on what we see of Ishval through flashbacks, and the way others react to him, the only person who could probably rival his kill count is [[KillItWithFire Roy.]] Kimblee might have even made it just as far as Mustang in the military with his, how shall we put it, ''impressive'' career in that 'conflict' had he not started [[MadBomber blowing up people]] [[UnfriendlyFire on his own side.]] [[spoiler:Too bad he decided he wanted to keep that Philosopher's Stone they gave him to test out...]]
931* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Kimblee takes the phrase "you do you" to a sociopathic extreme. He values holding true to one's personal moral code or chosen role, regardless of an ideal's conventional morality or of any contradictions between value sets. In turn, he respects those with these strong convictions and has ''no'' respect for both hypocrites and people who abandon their ideals for convenience.
932* BreakTheHaughty:
933** 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. However, [[spoiler: he finds it altogether pleasant to be a soul surrounded by thousands of screaming suffering souls inside Pride, which would drive any other to madness and is fully aware when he witnesses Pride abandon their principles.]]
934** PlayedForLaughs in the 4koma comic theater. Kimblee was left catatonic after encountering Garfiel.
935* BreakingSpeech: He gives three of them during the Ishval campaign, the biggest being the one to Hawkeye and Mustang, explaining how they knew the odds of killing someone when they put on the uniform, and that the only way they could honor those they killed was to remember them, since their victims would never forget what they did. He also gives one to Ed during their battle, Alphonse during ''their'' battle, and [[ShutUpHannibal attempts to deliver them to]] Scar and Major Miles.
936* ButForMeItWasTuesday: An inversion. Kimblee's policy in life is to never forget the faces of those he kills as a form of professional pride, and he proves that he means this literally. When Scar asks if Kimblee remembers him, not only does Kimblee say he does, he also perfectly recites the district in the city where he encountered him, notes that one of the Ishvalans bore a family resemblance to Scar, and remembers the exact placement and severity of the wound that took the life of Scar's brother.
937* CardCarryingVillain: He makes no excuses and feels no remorse for the copious amount of slaughter and destruction he's gleefully wrought over the years, and he completely embraces his actions and urges with honesty and pride. In fact, taking full responsibility for every life he's deliberately extinguished is an integral tenet of his bizarre [[BlueAndOrangeMorality personal philosophy]].
938* ChekhovsGunman:
939** In the manga, he is alluded to, mentioned offhand, and shown in blurry panels for a couple years worth of chapters before he finally begins to play an important role in the story.
940** In ''Brotherhood'' he makes a handful of appearances in early episodes, including the ''first episode'', and appears in some flashbacks.
941* ColonelKilgore: Kimblee got a real kick out of his time at the front, and was disappointed when the war came to a close. Given his SocialDarwinist beliefs, this isn't surprising.
942* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Gets his throat torn open by Heinkel, and left to bleed out while paralyzed. Then Pride walks over and proceeds to mock how ironically weak and lowly he was in the end, before slowly consuming him with his shadows and absorbing his soul for his Philosopher's Stone.
943* TheDeadHaveNames: A variant. While learning the ''names'' of his victims would be implausible, Kimblee makes a point of remembering all of their ''faces'' in his professional capacity as a soldier.
944* DealWithTheDevil: Heavily implied [[spoiler:during the scene in which he asks Ed to help him find Scar and Dr. Marcoh and create another Philosopher's Stone where they are. He tells Ed that he "staked the very essence of [his] being" to see how the homunculi's games would play out]].
945* 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. Also inverted in that he inflicts this upon Pride as his consciousness fails to dilute or break within the mass of screaming souls inside the humunculis, which instead delights him and allows him to cripple Pride when he abandons his principles later on.]]
946* {{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 screaming suffering souls where one loses their sense of self and individuality. His sheer force of will (and sheer sadistic nature, where he finds the screaming souls to be delightful) allows him to maintain his individuality and help Ed take Pride down.]]
947* DevourTheDragon: After being [[spoiler:mortally wounded by Heinkel, Pride decides to eat him to recharge some of the power in his Philosopher Stone which he would have lost fighting Alphonse.]]
948* DressedToKill: Kimblee is a BadassInANiceSuit who gets to show off how much he enjoys blowing things (and ''people'') up.
949* TheDogBitesBack:
950** A [[AssholeVictim victim]] of this trope via Heinkel.
951** [[spoiler: On the other end of this trope, Kimblee gets the last laugh on Pride, the Homunculus who devoured him.]]
952* DragonWithAnAgenda: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. He never tries to betray the Homunculi, but he says the only reason he chose their side is because they will let him do what he want, namely killing people.
953* EstablishingCharacterMoment: While he does have a few moments in flashbacks, his first appearance in the present has him seemingly plant a bomb on his prison warden...[[{{Troll}} only to reveal it's just a toy, and suggests the warden might give it to his kid.]] While this might come across as just a sick joke to non-fans, for those who watched the ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', it's an indication that this Kimblee is a little different from 2003 Kimblee, who was a MisanthropeSupreme who definitely 1) would have blown up that warden, and 2) would not have known enough about the warden to know he had a kid.
954* EvenEvilHasStandards:
955** Kimblee's a complete lunatic, yes, but his [[BlueAndOrangeMorality unique code of conduct]] means that he despises hypocrites. When Pride [[spoiler:declares his intent to possess Ed's body to save his own life mere minutes after declaring his hatred of humanity, Kimblee helps Ed take him down]], unable to tolerate Pride's cowardice and hypocrisy:
956---> '''Kimblee:''' You try to take a ''lesser'' being you despised as your container, just to escape your own predicament. You... are ''hideous''.
957** He's also offended when Ed mistook him for a pedophile after he complimented Winry.
958* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Subverted. Kimblee lives to cause mayhem and bloodshed, but [[spoiler:when Pride cries out that he's going to be killed, Kimblee's soul scolds "You do not understand Edward Elric!"]] Though he doesn't exactly understand the ''desire'' to be good -- expressing confusion towards soldiers who lament killing -- as much as he does people who adhere to a conviction of goodness in spite of all obstacles.
959* EvilCounterpart:
960** Towards Scar, in the sense that both of them specialize in alchemy based around destruction, both were involved in the Ishval Civil War (Kimblee as one of the soldiers who took part in the genocide, Scar as one of its victims), and both invoke LightIsNotGood. This was perhaps shown at its best when [[spoiler:Scar pointed out how their situations were reversed from what happened with Ishval, with Scar having abandoned his path of vengeance while Kimblee's obsession with Scar never waned]].
961** You can throw Roy in that mix too and make it a three way thing: same kind of [[PersonOfMassDestruction alchemy]], same war, etc, with Scar as a victim, Roy as a victimizer with [[TheAtoner regrets]] and Kimblee as a victimizer who thoroughly enjoyed himself.
962* EvilGenius: He's highly intelligent and has of a philosophic side.
963* {{Expy}}: Arakawa has stated he was based on Alex from Creator/AnthonyBurgess's ''Literature/AClockworkOrange''. To a reader who's familiar with both works, one can definitely see the resemblance...
964* FakeDefector: He's ordered to cause bloodshed at Briggs to [[spoiler:carve the final crest of blood. But even with Central forces assigned there, the men of Briggs are impossible to subvert. So Kimblee pretends to go over to Drachma, enticing them to launch an enormous assault on the fort. The Briggs forces wipe them out, fulfilling the requirement of violent death.]]
965* FalseReassurance: Towards Winry on the subject of her parents' deaths. He might be a crazed and sadistic mad bomber, but he isn't a flat-out dishonest person.
966* FedoraOfAsskicking: Wears a sleek white fedora, and is one of the most powerful alchemists in the series.
967* GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler:Seconds before Pride is destroyed, and absorbed Kimblee simply walks away into a herd of souls, while doffing his hat and smirking at Pride.]]
968* HavingABlast: Causes anything -- from buildings to the air around him -- to become unstable, resulting in giant explosions.
969* HeCleansUpNicely: He debuts as an unkempt prisoner, but once freed he starts wearing a stylish suit.
970* HeroKiller: Came reeeeeally close to making this literal with Ed, and is feared by everyone who knows his reputation from Ishval. He lives up to it.
971* TheHeavy: Father has him freed from prison after Lust's death so he can replace her as this, since none of the remaining Homunculi are quite up to the task [[note]] the others are either incapable of interacting with normal people (Gluttony and Sloth), have other assignments (Wrath, Pride, and Sloth), or are too stupid or impulsive (Envy, Gluttony, and Sloth) [[/note]].
972* HiddenDepths: He is, without question, a crazed BloodKnight MadBomber. He is also intelligent, respects the Rockbells for their tenacity [[spoiler:even when assigned to kill some of them]], and generally demonstrates a certain PetTheDog quality... often before, or even combined with, an even bigger KickTheDog moment.
973* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:The Philosopher's Stone he drops during his battle with Edward is picked up by one of the chimeras he abandoned for dead and delivered to Alphonse Elric, who uses it in their final battle with Kimblee, and with it eventually defeats him.]]
974* HumiliationConga: Of a pride-crushing type. Upon arriving in Briggs, Kimblee receives near-fatal injuries from battling Scar and ends up needing to escape the fight. While helpless in the hospital, he gets menaced by the Ishvalan Major Miles. Later, he encounters Scar yet again and fails to kill or even capture him, even though Kimblee is ordered by the Homunculi to kill Scar. While he is destroying the surroundings in an ineffective attempt to attack Scar, Scar remarks how this meeting is opposite from their first meeting, when it was Kimblee looking down upon Scar. Later, Heinkel fatally wounds Kimblee and Pride looks on, remarking how weak humanity is while Kimblee is immobile and unable to even speak, let alone resist Pride's consuming of his body.
975* IDieFree: An unusual example in that [[spoiler:he was absorbed by Pride but retained his sense of self inside the sea of souls.]]
976* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: He's impaled during his first fight with Scar.
977* JerkassHasAPoint: As brutal as it was, he was right to scold Roy and Riza for their reluctance to kill people. Why did they join the military if they weren't prepared for that possibility?
978* JustFollowingOrders: He follows the orders to commit the Ishvalan genocide without a second thought and he is disappointed when he sees others fail to do the same. Kimblee sees it as a soldier's job to follow orders, no matter what they may be.
979* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler:Just as Scar was about to kill him, Kimblee breaks the rail between them so the train would continue without Scar riding, allowing him to get treatment. Although, he voiced his obvious displeasure before doing so.]]
980* LackOfEmpathy: [[MadBomber Solf J. Kimblee]] seems to have been written as a serious look at real-life sociopathy. He seems to be aware of his differing mentality from others and therefore goes to great lengths to [[FauxAffablyEvil disguise it]], but at the end of the day he's still an amoral guy who honestly doesn't believe that there's any moral difference between [[SociopathicSoldier slaughtering people as a soldier]] and saving them as a doctor; to him both are just doing their job (which, if they do well, he applauds equally). Essentially, Kimblee defines his bizarre twisted code of morality based on how much a person follows through on their beliefs or occupation; his psychopathy is too extreme for society's rules to matter to him. While he ''can'' demonstrate a certain amount of respect for another person, it's always in a very detached way, and he's completely incapable of feeling genuine empathy. There's a reason both Pride and Envy like him.
981* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:Scar assaults Kimblee with a pipe, wounding him near-fatally in the same place where Scar's brother was wounded because of Kimblee's attack.]]
982* LastNameBasis: ''Everyone'' calls him 'Kimblee.' It's wholly forgivable if you didn't even know 'Solf' was his first name, since the only time you'd have been likely to hear it was when another character referred to him as 'Solf J. Kimblee.'
983* LightIsNotGood: Kimblee mostly wears a white suit, and the alchemical circles tattooed into his hands involve the sun and moon, both symbols of light. To say nothing of how he gives the impression of being a friendly and charismatic man. This probably makes the moment [[spoiler:he is eaten by Pride, a shadow based homunculus]] quite significant. [[spoiler:And in turn, Kimblee interfering with Pride long enough for Ed to defeat the latter could be considered as the light pushing back the darkness long enough to ensure its defeat.]]
984* LovesTheSoundOfScreaming: Expresses this sentiment in an Ishval flashback. He seems to take it as the sign of a job well-done. [[spoiler:It's also why he didn't get subsumed by the screaming souls in Pride's Philosopher's Stone.]]
985* MadArtist: Likes to make things explode in a manner he considers "beautiful" and even criqued his own explosions in the manga while he was murdering Ishvalans.
986* MadBomber: A minor character even [[LampshadeHanging refers to him as a mad bomber]] at one point.
987* ManOfWealthAndTaste: He may not be a great guy, but ''damn'' is he stylish.
988* MaskOfSanity: Heavily implied to have feigned sanity to enter the military, and he manages to fool some characters like Winry into believing he's kind and sane. Only in the action do others realize how insane he is.
989* MoralSociopathy: A very [[BlueAndOrangeMorality blue and orange version]]. For all his sadism and disregard for human lives, he does have some honor -- largely based on honesty and duty -- and abides seriously by it and respects whoever fills these values; indeed, by the end, [[spoiler:his own existence is expendable, and he prefers to distract Pride and subsequently have his own soul vanish than having to "live" inside of a hypocritical homunculus]].
990* MyCountryRightOrWrong: He claims this, but seems to view it as an excuse for his sadism more than anything.
991* MysteriousMiddleInitial: Whatever the 'J' stands for, we never find out.
992* NobleDemon: An unusual example. He's far from "good", but Kimblee operates completely within his own set of morals, [[BlueAndOrangeMorality twisted though they may be]]. He takes his personal ideals so seriously that he won't hesitate to help his enemies or betray his superiors if doing otherwise would compromise his personal code of honor.
993* NotInThisForYourRevolution: Pretty much what he tells Isaac in the first episode of ''Brotherhood'' when Isaac tries to recruit Kimblee's help in his own subversion of the government. Kimblee makes it very clear that he did not murder his superiors to rebel against the military for Ishval. Kimblee actually ''[[AxCrazy enjoyed]]'' his time in Ishval, and killed his superiors [[MadBomber merely because "he could."]]
994* PersonOfMassDestruction: He ends the whole Ishvalan War by himself with a Philosopher's Stone. Much later, he does this to the whole Drachman Army ''WITHOUT alchemy'' but through political deception alone!
995* PetTheDog:
996** His aforementioned admiration of the Rockbell family for their devotion to duty seems real and he appears to have a soft spot in his heart for Winry. This particular dog petting doesn't earn him many points, though, since [[spoiler:he ignores that Winry is in danger once Scar triggers his rage.]]
997** [[VillainRespect He commends Armstrong for sticking to his beliefs and because of it chooses to save him from court martial...]] by blowing up Ishavalan survivors that Alex had saved in front of his eyes (the policy is to kill all Ishvalans). He can KickTheDog ''and'' PetTheDog all at once.
998* ThePhilosopher: Mixed with {{Sadist}}. Kimblee tends to wax poetic about life and alchemy, but in a way that's reminiscent of a SerialKiller.
999* PhotographicMemory: As Scar points out after meeting him for the second time, Kimblee's memory is frighteningly accurate.
1000* PowerTattoo: Has the transmuation circles needed for his trademark explosions tattooed on his palms.
1001* PsychoForHire: Does the things he does for his own reasons, ([[BlueAndOrangeMorality whatever those are]]) but getting to murder folks along the way is a nice bonus.
1002* RedemptionEqualsDeath: {{Downplayed|Trope}} [[spoiler:Kimblee's last act is coming in to save Edward when Pride is just about to beat him. Even though it wasn't done out of care for Edward there is a clear heroic tint to it with him respecting Ed's adherence to his ideals.]] Notably one of the final [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C6MHoxvmF9M/TmYPt6T5WWI/AAAAAAAAC3o/AK3YdCjXYEA/s0/002.jpg group shots]], featuring all the heroic characters fist bumping has Kimblee in it, something that surprises Lieutenant Ross.
1003* RightlySelfRighteous: A very dark, [[SociopathicSoldier sociopathic]] and [[BlueAndOrangeMorality twisted]] version. He absolutely hates hypocrites and often praises enemies who stick to their convictions to the bitter end, even as he kills them. He has no problem killing civilians and innocents if ordered, and takes personal pride in doing a good job at it. Those who try to argue morality with him often gets shut down with a BreakingSpeech against which they don't have a good response to, sometimes [[HeroKiller bloodily]]. Ultimately, this mindset is also what makes him decide that humans, not Homunculi, are worthy of survival, and screws Pride over for being such a hypocrite.
1004* {{Sadist}}: Basically an AxCrazy spree killer somebody handed a uniform.
1005* ScarilyCompetentTracker: The main reason why Father has him released from prison is due to his terrifying skills and instincts as a master tracker, needing his help in hunting down Scar and Marcoh. No matter what evasion tactics Scar employs, Kimblee is almost always one step behind him.
1006* ShadowArchetype: Towards Ed. Both are famed alchemists, but Ed sees himself as the [[ChronicHeroSyndrome champion of the people]] who wants to help others while Kimblee is an unapologetic SocialDarwinist who is admittedly self-centered.
1007* SharpDressedMan: His suit and hat combo is pretty nice.
1008* SlasherSmile: Very frequently... particularly when trolling others, killing people, or about to blow something sky-high.
1009* SocialDarwinist: Definitely believes this under the ethos "the strongest party wins in the end" and why he doesn't take that much part in the conflict. However, he does hold his standards in regards.
1010* TheSociopath: A high-functioning and ''very'' self-aware psychopath with a decidedly unusual worldview.
1011* SociopathicSoldier: Type II, with flashes of Type I.
1012* SolarAndLunar: Kimblee has a transmutation circle tattooed on both of his palms, the right represents the sun and the left represents the moon. The reason he claps his hands to transmute is that slamming opposites together like that causes an explosive reaction.
1013* SpannerInTheWorks: Managed to screw over Pride, even in the afterlife.
1014* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Solf/Zolf, J./Jay, Kimblee/Kimbley/Kimbly/Kimberly/Kimberley. Also, while it doesn't have to do with actual ''spelling'', the translation of his State Alchemist title is a subject of debate. The word ''guren'' in Japanese means "crimson", but the kanji used to make up the word in his title means "red lotus". It can be inferred that "red lotus" is his truest title, however, due to the flower being a symbol of fiery explosions much like the ones he specializes in creating. Noting that crimson simply refers to a particular shade of dark red, some TakeAThirdOption and go with "crimson lotus".
1015* StepfordSmiler: Despite being totally AxCrazy Kimblee is remarkably calm and pleasant most of them time always with a bemused smile on his face. It takes imminent death to get him to change that expression.
1016* StomachOfHolding: Has kept a Philosopher's Stone or two in his stomach at times, which he can regurgitate.
1017* StrawNihilist: He holds absolutely no value in human life or his own, sans dedication to ideals or concepts like honor, professionalism, or duty. He's more concerned about his suit getting dirty than people being killed. As such he sees no problem killing as many people as he wants and takes joy in doing so because it fits his concept of art.
1018* TakeAThirdOption: Played with. When Al rejects a binary choice between two outcomes and say that he would rather have both, Kimblee points out that the actual negation of such a binary choice is both or ''neither''.
1019* ThrillSeeker: A core part of Kimblee's character is how much he gets a kick out of causing death and destruction and how much he feels putting his life on the line is what it means to be alive. As such, he'll join anyone who lets him cause as much destruction as he wishes such as the case with the Homunculi and has no problem risking being killed afterwards if it proves exciting enough.
1020* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: [[spoiler:He's able to retain his mind inside of Pride's Philosopher Stone because he finds the screams of his fellow victims soothing. Taking advantage of this, he immobilizes Pride which allows Ed to finish him off.]]
1021* {{Troll}}: Once pranked a {{Mook}} by [[WhyAmITicking transforming his watch into a time bomb]]... which turned out to be a cuckoo clock. [[spoiler:At least in the manga, there's a "BAM" sound effect offscreen as soon as Kimblee leaves - although it might just be the sound of the prison's doors closing]].
1022** It's implied in the manga, and confirmed in the anime, that he used the power of the ''[[AmplifierArtifact Philosopher]] [[PoweredByAForsakenChild Stone]]'' to pull that prank, effectively meaning he sacrificed human souls for a gag.
1023* VillainousBreakdown: Though a suppressed one, Kimblee does not take kindly to Scar's observation of the tables having turned.
1024* VillainousDemotivator: Knowing that the [[BadassArmy Briggs soldiers]] all wish him dead, he brings four chimeras with him as EliteMooks. [[spoiler:All four change sides on him almost as soon as it becomes a viable option due to Kimblee abandoning them to die; one [[TheDogBitesBack eventually causes his death]].]]
1025* VillainousFashionSense: Flashy and maybe even gaudy, at times, but that all-white suit is at the very least a fashion statement.
1026* VillainousFriendship: He works well enough with Pride who banters with him [[spoiler:after Kimblee frees him from a dome meant to contain him in, at least until Pride eats him when [[{{YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness}} when he's injured.]]]] He's also surprisingly chummy with the misanthropic Envy, but then again it's not that surprising given that both are psychopathic sadists, with Kimblee even admitting that he loves their cruelty.
1027* VillainInAWhiteSuit: He takes to wearing a classy white suit after his release from prison. One of the signature men in white in anime and manga.
1028* VillainsNeverLie: Kimblee has an [[BlueAndOrangeMorality odd sense of honor]] and follows it to a T. Unlike every other villain in the series, he's honest about his motivations and doesn't sugarcoat anything. It may explain why his {{breaking speech}}es work so well.
1029* VillainousRescue: Kimblee, of all people, is the one who saves Edward's ass from Pride. [[spoiler: It's not so much he cared what happened to Edward, but more that Pride was willing to betray his own belief that homunculi were superior to humans. This pisses off Kimblee's soul enough for him to assert himself within Pride, forcing Pride into a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind long enough for Edward to turn Pride's own attack back on him.]]
1030* VillainRespect: Towards Ed, due to the Fullmetal Alchemist's strong personal convictions. After witnessing Ed's unwavering adherence to his ThouShaltNotKill rule during their fight in a mineshaft, Kimblee expresses his admiration for it... right before [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice bombing Ed all the way down to the bottom with a nasty injury]]. [[spoiler:He intervenes in the fight between Pride and Ed later on when Pride tries to [[{{Hypocrite}} possess the body of a "lesser being"]], and, right before Ed finishes Pride off, Kimblee gives an IronicEcho to his fight with Ed as his last act.]]
1031* WarriorPoet: Evil version, Kimblee is a top-notch State Alchemist who has a poetic view of the world, but is also a huge sociopath.
1032* WhiteShirtOfDeath: When Heinkel chomps down on Kimblee's throat and his suit is promptly stained with his own blood, Pride proceeds to point out how the suit's new color fits Kimblee.
1033* WickedCultured: Look at him. Then look at his suit. Then listen to his voice.
1034* WorthyOpponent:
1035** Even though they're on opposing sides and have completely opposite moral codes, Kimblee respects the Elric brothers, Ed in particular, for steadfastly adhering to their beliefs against killing. [[spoiler: In Ed's final fight with Pride, Kimblee ends up siding with Ed over Pride, because the latter abandons his ideals out of his desperation.]]
1036** Deconstructed; even though Kimblee respects Ed and Al, they are still ''opponents'' and he still tries to kill both of them, [[spoiler:coming very close to succeeding with Ed.]]
1037* XanatosSpeedChess: No one modifies plans on the fly quite the way that Kimblee does. It's why [[TheChessmaster Father]] keeps him around.
1038* YinYangBomb: His favored attack method as his symbols stand for the opposite forces of the Sun-fire-gold and Moon-water-silver fused to create explosive energy.
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1040
1041[[folder:"Gold-Toothed Doctor"]]
1042!!"Gold-Toothed Doctor"
1043!!!'''Voiced by:''' Bon Ishihara (JP), Mark Stoddard (EN)[[labelnote:Other Languages]]Manuel Bastos (Latin America), Walter Cruz (BR)[[/labelnote]]
1044[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doc_profile.png]]
1045->'''Affiliation:''' Amestris Military/Homunculi\
1046'''Speciality:''' Biological Alchemy
1047
1048Not a Homunculus, but a human in cahoots with them. A mysterious alchemist working for Father, this unnamed doctor is a master of biological alchemy.
1049-----
1050* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:No one was weeping when Pride transmutates him in order to make Roy a sacrifice.]]
1051* BadassBookworm: An old skinny man who nevertheless shows no fear when confronted by [[PersonOfMassDestruction Roy]], [[BadassBookworm Ed]], [[HeroKiller Scar]], [[ColdSniper Riza]], and the Chimeras, stays totally cool under fire, and manages to defeat them through careful planning and the judicious use of {{Elite Mooks}}. He's repulsive, but that earns him some badass cred.
1052* BodyHorror: Whoever he paid to bling out his mouth must be pretty creepy indeed, but it gets a whole lot worse. [[spoiler:After being pushed through the Gate, he ends up as a hideously deformed "ball" of flesh.]]
1053* ChekhovsGunman: He's first seen [[spoiler:performing the fusion of a human with a Philosopher's stone]] in Bradley's flashback, but becomes quite important later on.
1054* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Gets run through with one of Pride's shadows, partially absorbed for Pride to take his knowledge of Human Transmutation, and finally transmuted into a grotesque, mangled ball of bio-matter as material for Roy's forced transmutation attempt. Which, keep in mind, is ''still twitching and moaning.''
1055* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:The prideful, remorseless scientist is coldly used as a tool and an alchemic resource by Pride the homunculus, then discarded and forgotten by the plot once he has nothing else of scientific merit to offer.]]
1056* DirtyCoward: Despite acting relatively calm earlier, drawing his transmutation circle in the midst of a fight between the heroes and his EliteMooks, the second Jerso manages to get a hold of him he loses all of his cool and begins screaming and panicking. It's downplayed however, as he's still willing to put himself in danger by working in the same room as the heroes rather than just sending his men from afar.
1057* EliteMooks: Controls the failed Führer candidates and uses them as his muscle, acting as the [[BrainsAndBrawn brains to their brawn]].
1058* EvilCannotComprehendGood: He is unable to understand how Mustang could refuse to perform human transmutation and revive Hughes when the SadisticChoice alternative is to watch Hawkeye bleed to death from having her throat slit, a wound inflicted on Goldtooth's own orders. It's because Mustang knows trying to resurrect the dead will always result in failure and severe consequences, and he wants to prove that humans ''can'' learn from their past mistakes.
1059* EvilGenius: A more traditional version than Lust being a scientist that runs experiments on humans for Father.
1060* EvilIsNotAToy: It never occurred to the doctor that his many deals with the Homunculi might come back to haunt him, or that there was nothing stopping them from turning on him when he was no longer useful.
1061* EvilOldFolks: Older even than Bradley and it shows.
1062* FauxAffablyEvil: Maintains a cheerful and even somewhat jokey demeanor while throwing his subordinates to die against the heroes and [[spoiler:slitting Riza's throat.]]
1063* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:Implied -- he's not present in the usual omakes that show the dead characters, hinting that he's still alive in that deformed "ball." Not that he didn't deserve it.]]
1064* FishEyes: Behind his glasses. These ones are ''not'' funny in the slightest, however, and only serve to make him look more unbalanced.
1065* {{Foil}}: To Kimblee. Both are sadistic, misanthropic alchemists who aid the Homunculi in destroying humanity, but while Kimblee is a man in his prime who often goes toe-to-toe with the heroes and has devastating powers, the Doctor is an elderly man who specializes in twisted experiments and isn't much of a fighter. Also, while Kimblee is at least outwardly charming and has some (very loose) scruples, the Doctor barely hides what a monster he is and has no veneer of nobility whatsoever.
1066* ForcedTransformation: [[spoiler:Is transformed into a bloated, hideous ball of flesh.]]
1067* ForScience: A scientific genius without an ounce of morality or decency.
1068* FourEyesZeroSoul: Complete with the ScaryShinyGlasses, even underground with dim lighting!
1069* GoodPowersBadPeople: He knows medical alchemy, but is a MadDoctor who loyally serves Father because it gives him a chance to do terrible things ForScience!.
1070* HateSink: He lacks the redeeming qualities of the Homunculi. He is the only one of their human allies who knows Father's plans to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, something he doesn't seem to care about. Responsible for the creation of Wrath, he killed the first twelve failed candidates and turned the rest into mindless EliteMooks, all of whom he treats as expendable pawns. He not only slits Riza's throat in an attempt to force a SadisticChoice on Roy but also disgusts both Roy and Zampano with his smug belief that the failed candidates must have been grateful to him for taking them in, feeding them, educating them and giving them the meaning of existence. No tear is shed [[spoiler:when Pride turns on him by using him as an alchemic resource, leaving him a hideous ball of flesh.]]
1071* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: It becomes obvious that this guy has practiced human transmutation for years while totally evading Truth (and the toll) by passing the price along. [[spoiler:When Pride finally voids it, it's not easy to pity him. Also, by using him as the ingredient and not as the alchemist, it clearly shows that he never could have succeeded at opening the portal and coming back under his own steam: the guy could only cheat.]]
1072* LackOfEmpathy: He treats everyone else around him as pawns and as things for him to experiment on. He also doesn't care if his allies seek to eradicate all of Amestris.
1073* LightIsNotGood: He dresses in white and is very evil.
1074* MadDoctor: He's called a doctor and does even do some healing. But, you'd need brass balls like Kimblee's to take it calmly because he's so obviously a bit ''wrong''.
1075* MadScientist: The alchemic equivalent.
1076* MisanthropeSupreme: Sides with the Homunculi, who seek to eradicate all of Amestris and regard his species as lower than insects.
1077* NoNameGiven: We never find out his name.
1078* OlderThanTheyLook: Although disheveled and ugly, the doctor looks to be in his late 60s or early 70s, even though he created [[spoiler: King Bradley]]. Given that he looked to be in his 30s or 40s when [[spoiler:he injected Bradley with a Philosopher Stone when he was in his 20s]] he should be in his 80s or 90s. Averted in the manga where he looks his age.
1079* RiddleForTheAges: No name given, no clue where he came from, how he became the way he did or why he even works for the Homunculi. He's just... there.
1080* ScaryShinyGlasses: That picture up there.
1081* SlasherSmile: Constantly sports one.
1082* SmugSnake: Altogether too pleased with himself about his various bastardly actions.
1083* TheSociopath: He does horrible things ForScience and [[ForTheEvulz the Evulz]] [[LackOfEmpathy without a shred of guilt]], treats everyone else around him as pawns and as things for him to experiment on, [[SmugSnake has a grandiose sense of his own worth]], and doesn't care if his allies seek to eradicate all of Amestris.
1084* SurroundedByIdiots: Outright calls the Senior Staff of Central Command unreliable for failing to get 5 sacrifices ready for the Promise Day, especially since they only went after those who took the bait.
1085* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Shou Tucker. Both are portrayed as sociopathic {{Hate Sink}}s, commit horrific experiments ForScience and have ScaryShinyGlasses. Unlike Tucker, however, the Gold-Toothed Doctor is admittedly far more competent at his job.
1086* TwinkleSmile: Courtesy of his gold tooth. The result is creepy as hell.
1087* UndyingLoyalty: If anything positive can be said about him at all (and "positive" probably isn't the right word), it's that he seems to be the most genuinely loyal of Father's human minions. Whereas Kimblee just follows his own whims and the Central Command are in it for Immortality, this guy outright calls immortality a stupid prize and is helping the Homunculi for the sake of service. Even when Jerso captures him, he yells that he won't let them interfere with his master's plans. Whether he's deluded enough to think he'll be spared or he's just that much a misanthropic fanatic is unclear though.
1088* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Dies with very little (but effective) characterization after only appearing in a few scenes through the series.]]
1089* WeHaveReserves: Discards his EliteMooks like the expendable pawns they are.
1090* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: An example of the "more useful dead" variation. He was in charge of readying the five sacrifices needed for the Promised Day. [[spoiler:When he fails to get Mustang to perform human transmutation and as such become the fifth and final sacrifice, Wrath and Pride swoop in, mortally wound the doctor, and use him as the raw material in a transmutation that they force upon Mustang.]]
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1092
1093[[folder:Raven]]
1094!!Raven
1095!!!'''Voiced by:''' Katsuhisa Houki (JP), Creator/ChrisAyres (EN)[[labelnote:Other Languages]]Alí Rondón (Latin America), Hamilton Ricardo (BR, Álamo), Élcio Romar (BR, IST), Natale Ciravolo (IT)[[/labelnote]]
1096[[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/raven_33.png]]
1097->'''Affiliation:''' Amestris Military\
1098'''Rank:''' Lieutenant General\
1099'''Specialty:''' Military Tactics / Deception
1100
1101A high-ranking member of Central Command, Lt. General Raven was once an honourable and capable soldier. In his old age however, he has become obsessed with the fear of death, and obtaining immortality for himself. He is a willing and enthusiastic participant in the [[AncientConspiracy Homunculi conspiracy's]] plotting, and acts as Central Command's face.
1102----
1103* AmbiguouslyBrown: He's not of Ishvalan descent but has similarly dark skin.
1104* BeardOfEvil: Has a small beard and is one of several evil members of Central Command.
1105* BlatantLies: When ordering the Briggs soldiers to place Sloth back in the hole and close it up, he tries to pass him off as a chimera, though even someone not familiar with the ArtificialHuman would know there's far more to the giant than that.
1106* BrokenPedestal: To Mustang, who once viewed him as a superior worth looking up to.
1107* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Stabbed through the arm, slashed, and then buried alive in concrete.
1108* DealWithTheDevil: Makes one with Father and offers one to Olivier.
1109* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler: He's fatally wounded by Olivier Armstrong in an act of vengeance for the soldiers she lost in Sloth's tunnel – the same soldiers who Raven viewed as acceptable losses – and dies while buried in some wet concrete at Briggs' bottom level, placing him quite literally beneath even the lowliest of Briggs soldiers.]]
1110* DirtyOldMan: What with his hitting on Olivier. A comment in the manga from a waitress at Madame Christmas' bar also reveals he was a frequent customer, and she describes him as "creepy".
1111* EvilOldFolks: His evilness is caused by his fear of death due to his old age.
1112* FallenHero: Apparently he used to be a kind and very good leader who placed the needs of his men first. Now he's a InsaneAdmiral who wants immortality. Lampshaded by Olivier when she gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
1113--> '''Olivier''': Growing old is truly terrifying, isn't it? You would know, General: before you became so afraid of your own mortality, I'm sure long ago you had an earnest love for your country.
1114* FauxAffablyEvil: Appears to be a jovial older man, but is really a petty, selfish letch.
1115* GeneralFailure: Has become one by the time of his appearance.
1116* HateSink: He's a willing member of Father's plan to create Philosopher's Stones out of countless people, tries to abandon Olivier's men inside Sloth's tunnel, and is incredibly letcherous towards Olivier when trying to make her join the AncientConspiracy.
1117* ImmortalitySeeker: Willing to do anything to escape death.
1118* InsaneAdmiral: Raven is selfish, egotistical, lecherous, megalomaniacal, and more than a little stupid -- and that's without getting into his involvement in an AncientConspiracy aimed at the destruction of Amestris. This is typical for members of Central Command who are given their positions based on their willingness to betray their country.
1119* ItsAllAboutMe: Motivated entirely by his own self-interest (AKA immortality).
1120* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:After admitting to Olivier that "the weak will become the foundation of the strong" and that the men of Briggs' will be among them, Olivier pushes him into cement after stabbing him in the arm meaning he literally is the foundation for the strong]].
1121** [[spoiler: Also invoked by Olivier, who refers to the severed arm of one of her men that Raven wrote off, apparently going out of her way to stab the same arm on Raven.]]
1122* {{Lust}}: Seems to be his big sin, both in sexual terms, and in terms of lusting after more life. Fittingly enough, [[spoiler:this sin of his is ultimately what causes his demise; Olivier takes advantage of his sexual lust by sweet-talking him into revealing his true colors. Once he does this, she kills him]].
1123* MeaningfulName: Ravens in folklore are often portrayed as sly, crafty, and duplicitous.
1124* MortalityPhobia: He is motivated to join the conspiracy out of his fear of death, especially by old age.
1125* TheQuisling: Like the rest of Central Command, he aids Father in his plan to make a Philosopher's Stone out of the souls of everyone in Amestris in return for immortality.
1126* SlasherSmile: Usually pulls one of these off right before he offers someone immortality. Most pronounced in one of the {{Eye Catch}}es.
1127* SmugSnake: Acts like he's some grand master in the plot, but really is just a pawn.
1128* UnwittingPawn: He, along with the rest of Central Command, are these to Father.
1129* VillainousCrush: A creepy one on Olivier. She uses this to her advantage by sweet-talking him into revealing his plan and then [[spoiler:killing him to take his seat]].
1130* WeCanRuleTogether: Tries it on Major-General Armstrong. It doesn't work out very well for him.
1131* WeHardlyKnewYe: Granted we did learn a little about him.
1132[[/folder]]
1133
1134[[folder:Mannequin Soldiers]]
1135!!"The Mannequin Soldiers"
1136[[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mannequin_soldier.png]]
1137->'''Affiliation:''' Homunculi\
1138'''Specialty:''' Cannibalism
1139
1140Not referred to as Homunculi, but are similar in being another group of {{Artificial Human}}s. They are hideous, one-eyed, cannibalistic and hard to kill monsters created by inserting Philosopher's stones in artificial bodies. The Military Conspiracy planned to use them as an unstoppable army, but when released, things didn't exactly go as planned...
1141-----
1142* AchillesHeel: [[spoiler:As Olivier Armstrong shows, destroying their jaws leaves them unable to hurt anyone, as they depend on their jaws to attack.]]
1143* AxCrazy: They lunge towards humans to eat them alive in an animalistic fashion.
1144* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: They eat several participants in the GovernmentConspiracy and prompt the troops loyal to Central to pull a HeelFaceTurn to have help fighting them off.
1145* {{Cyclops}}: They have one eye, which makes them look extremely unsettling.
1146* EliteMooks: Much more durable and dangerous than [[spoiler:the regular soldiers, as they manage to slaughter entire groups in very little time.]]
1147* {{Expy}}: Of [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Mass-Production Evas]].
1148* FromACertainPointOfView: The officer who decides to release them informs they will be loyal to their father. This almost certainly means they will only obey orders from Father, and unsurprisingly, the officer is immediately devoured by them.
1149* GoneHorriblyWrong: They were made so that they could be used to help TakeOverTheWorld but once released, they turned on any human who was nearby.
1150* HorrorHunger: They try to eat any and all people they come across. Some of them do so while calling their victims "Papa" or "Big brother".
1151* HiveMind: They seem to have one to some degree, as others will react when one of them is injured and they scream in unison.
1152* ImAHumanitarian: Sickeningly yes. They'll crunch down on a human with gusto. It's all they do upon their activation.
1153* MonkeyMoralityPose: Three of them do this in one of ''Brotherhood'''s eyecatches.
1154* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Also referred to as "the Immortal Legion".
1155* NeckSnap: May kicks one Mannequin Soldier in the head hard enough to break its neck. Unfortunately for her, it just simply snaps it back into place.
1156* NightOfTheLivingMooks: They have the same story role as zombies, being a massive tsunami of bodies slowly advancing and eating everything in sight (though ''much'' more dangerous than the typical zombie).
1157* NighInvulnerability: Because these things aren't human, normal attacks have no effect. Scar's usual tactic of YourHeadASplode doesn't work and neither does firearms. Mustang's Flame Alchemy on the other hand though...
1158* NonHumansLackAttributes: Their groins and chest are flat and featureless. Makes their FullFrontalAssault much less adult-rated. Funnily enough, in an omake of the manga, Father scolds them for not having underwear.
1159* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Each one of them contains a Philosopher's stone, [[TorturedMonster whose souls are writhing in constant agony]].
1160* PsychopathicManchild: They creepily evoke children in the way they cry out in pain and to voice their hunger. Some of them actually do contain children's souls, such as one that was ''calling for its mommy''.
1161* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: A sure way to kill them is by destroying their heads (or by burning them). Fitting, because they have some zombie-like traits.
1162* TorturedMonster: All of them are the souls of sacrificed humans forced into mannequins that can't die normally. When they are first awakened, they let out a scream that carries through the tunnels under Central.
1163--> '''Mannequins''': ''It hurts...''
1164* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: Upon their activation, they devour those that had unleashed them and proceed to attack all the military in Central.
1165* WhiteAndRedAndEerieAllOver: This color scheme is one of many visual features that make the "Mannequin Soldiers" so unsettling: in addition to being freaky, featureless {{Cyclops}} that attack in waves like zombies, they are also chalky white with red stripes down their bodies.
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