Line #112 NightmareFuel/FullmetalAlchemist


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7	This cheerful story focuses on two kids who, respectively, lose an arm and a leg and a ''whole body'' while trying to bring back their beloved dead mother (the magnificent result of which is shown on the right).
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9	Though an idealistic series, a certain mangaka threw in some vivid portrayals of [[BodyHorror horrific biological mutations]], [[EldritchAbomination ridiculously murderous monsters]], {{serial killer}}s, [[WarIsHell utterly hellish warfare]], and [[JerkassGods a sadistic deity]].
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11	Ladies and gentlemen, Creator/HiromuArakawa presents ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist''. For examples from the first anime see [[NightmareFuel/FullmetalAlchemist2003 here]].
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14	* Basically every form of Human Transmutation results in you getting tossed through the Gate of Truth -- except for one form: Transmuting other people into a Philosopher's Stone. You pay no price -- it's all on them.
15	* Isaac [=McDougal=] from Episode 1 of ''Brotherhood''. From his powers, to his plan for Central, to his [[SlasherSmile increasingly unhinged]] facial expressions... augh. He mostly freezes people ''from the inside out'', and at one point, he knocks a guard over, and it looks like the guy ''[[LiterallyShatteredLives shatters into bits]]''. Then there's at least one case where he boils another guard's body fluids, and we're [[NothingIsScarier only shown his hand]], which is red and raw... And this guy claims he's just trying to get revenge on Bradley for Ishval.
16	* Episode 2 of ''Brotherhood'', "The First Day", is ''full'' of this. Ed and Alphonse's bodies disintegrating, the screaming, the blood...
17	* The ''thing'' that Ed and Al created when trying to bring back their mother. All those twisted limbs, the pulsating, [[NightmareFace the horrible gaping mouth, the eyes]] and that strained, gasping noise... It's like the creature was struggling to breathe.
18	** Its ribs were ''sticking out of its chest,'' and its limbs were halfway through its body in some places. And Al's soul was in its body. No wonder he blocked out that memory.
19	** The fact that... whatever it is wasn't actually Trisha is somehow both relieving and even more terrifying. On the one hand, Ed and Al didn't have to worry about their mom dying twice. On the other, ''two kids'' managed to create ''a complete EldritchAbomination''.
20	** The same can be said for Izumi Curtis. In her attempt to bring her stillborn baby to life, she ended up losing her sexual organs and left with a misshapen thing. She is very relieved when Ed tells her it's not her child, but she still brought an unholy creature into the world just like her pupils.
21	* Shou Tucker himself. The very thought that a man could transmute his ''wife'' and later his ''five-year-old daughter'' and her dog Alexander into a chimera is just nauseating in all sorts of ways. From Nina's garbled speech, ''she wasn't even fully aware of what had happened''. Worse yet, remember, the chimera is half-dog. It's hard to tell how much of her understanding is Nina’s or Alexander’s. And then Scar shows up and {{Mercy Kill}}s her.
22	** Also, Nina doesn't seem to be aware about what her dad did to her mom (at least not until Ed reveals the truth after seeing Nina as a chimera), which manages to be an unholy trinity of NightmareFuel, TearJerker, and ParanoiaFuel. Imagine someone you love doing that to your mother, while you're "blissfully" unaware, and they continue to simply ''pretend'' to care about you.
23	** When Roy Mustang tells Ed and Al about Tucker's first chimera, [[https://fma.fandom.com/wiki/Mrs._Tucker?file=Mother1.png there's a shot of a creature crouching in darkness]], its face a grimace of agony, as Roy sombrely adds that the only thing it ever said was "[[FateWorseThanDeath I want to die]]", and that it either managed to starve itself to death or got someone to MercyKill it. Even worse, until Ed and Al found out the AwfulTruth, ''no one'' realized what Tucker had done, and Mrs. Tucker spent her last days as a mutated experiment suffering horrific pain.
24	** Shou's complete [[ObliviouslyEvil obliviousness]] to the idea that he did anything wrong is frightening all on its own. Anybody with a healthy mind would immediately realize that performing these kinds of experiments on humans, especially their own loved ones, is beyond immoral. [[TheSociopath Sociopath]] extraordinaire Shou Tucker intellectually understood that he would be convicted as a criminal if he was found out (sure enough, that's exactly what happened when Ed and Al pieced it together), but not only did he think that what he did to his wife and daughter was ''acceptable'', [[EntitledBastard he expected to be]] ''[[EntitledBastard rewarded]]'' [[EntitledBastard for it]]. Remember, the only reason he was "rewarded" the first time is because he wasn't caught. In the ''Brotherhood'' anime, a scene is added after Ed is restrained by Al to keep him from beating Shou to death, where Shou picks up his State Alchemist pocket-watch and happily declares that he gets to ''keep his job''. Ed immediately kicks the pocket-watch out of his hands where it breaks, and tells him that there's no way in hell he'll continue to be employed by the Military now that his secret is out.
25	** Consider this: it's pretty easy to figure out that something is wrong with Shou long before TheReveal, what with Roy's sombre recount of what happened to the first chimera i.e. Mrs. Tucker, the ScaryShinyGlasses, and his asocial personality which does not escape his five-year-old daughter Nina's notice and leaves her feeling lonely. Yet the sheer depths of Shou's depravity in his obsession with remaining a State Alchemist is such that he ''still'' manages to be horrifying. A rare example of an ObviousJudas that still manages to shock viewers, because his actions are ''that'' horrible.
26	* Ed's nightmare after Nina's death is turned up to eleven in the ''Brotherhood'' anime. It features a front view of the NightmareFace of the resurrected "Trisha", while in the manga, it's only living Trisha with BloodFromTheMouth. What made it infinitely worse is that he tried to play it off as not so different.
27	** Said nightmare then features Nina and Alexander turning into the chimera Shou made.
28	* Scar's M.O. as an alchemist killer. His right hand takes you apart from the inside out, which looks way more graphic and painful in the manga. Tucker's blood bursts from parts of his body, complete with a shot of his blank, dead eyed face. And then he was about to do this to Edward. As in, ''[[WouldHurtAChild a child who had nothing to do with the war in Ishval]]!''
29	* Roy Mustang. Episode 53/54. What happens when Envy reveals he's the bastard who killed [[BestFriend Hughes]]? Roy's facial expression immediately changes into '''the DeathGlare to end all {{Death Glare}}s'''. Not to mention his personality does a complete 180, [[UnstoppableRage acting like a demon of unfathomable fury and rage has possessed him to torture and kill Envy in the most brutal, cruel, and frightening ways imaginable]]. Not to mention that after Envy tries to get Mustang to hesitate by ''[[TooDumbToLive imitating Hughes]]'', Mustang's glare actually gets ''worse.'' Then comes a barrage of flames to Envy, making the whole scene as terrifying as watching [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi The Emperor torture Luke Skywalker]] all over again.
30	** Not to mention, watching Roy char "Hughes" is rather unsettling. Even Envy was horrified that Roy could be so ruthless.
31	* The ways in which a Homunculus dies in the ''Brotherhood'' anime -- listening to them ''scream in terror'' as we see, in vivid, [[BodyHorror gory]] details, '''''each layer of the human body being rotted away layer by gruesome layer!'''''
32	* The inside of Greedling. Those huge, demonic screaming faces staring constantly at its victims behind a constantly-shifting, blood-red background.
33	** And Ling is ''still conscious'' inside of all that. True, he took in Greed willingly, but it's still amazing he stayed sane in all of that.
34	*** Also, notice when Ling is making the deal? We can see him grab and bite one of them!
35	* The armors with souls attached to them that were guarding Laboratory #5. There are sixty-six, or possibly even more revived souls like Barry the Chopper and the Slicer Brothers whose souls were sucked out of their bodies, in a process so painful that it prompts ''[[AxCrazy Barry the Chopper]]'' to say matter-of-factly that he wishes that the perpetrators had just executed him. Unsurprisingly, a vast majority of those souls are completely off their rocker, just like the... people... who brought them back.
36	* The fate of the first Greed. He got melted down to his core... [[CruelAndUnusualDeath slow and painfully]] in a vat of molten metal. To make it worse, the BigBad ''drank his remains''. Greed's reaction to this? '''[[LaughingMad Insane laughter.]]'''
37	* The making of the Philosopher's Stones... Which involves your body internally exploding and and getting your soul ripped out and trapped in a tiny, rock-sized container... along with probably a dozen more souls. ''And you are conscious. The whole time.'' Those screams of despair aren't there for no reason... And it has been done for centuries...
38	** When Ed and Al discover the truth about the Philosopher's Stone in Dr. Marco's research, they agree with him that this ''is'' the Devil's research and should have been destroyed.
39	* Maria Ross's "death". She gets flame broiled by Mustang in Episode 17, and her burnt corpse is very graphically displayed. [[FakingTheDead It was actually a cadaver created by Mustang]], but still...!
40	* Every single time Gluttony stares at the screen.
41	* Envy's true form. As if the idea of turning souls into Phlebotinum wasn't scary enough, this consists of seeing their [[NightmareFace distorted faces begging you for release from their tortured existence. A melting, dripping, mutating bodymash of emaciated faces begging for their mommies and/or death]]. The true form is upped to eleven in the anime. It's the way that all the faces are moving, all the time...
42	** During Ed's fight with Envy in this form, he hears one of the faces calling out "Big brother... wanna play?" Understandably, this immobilizes him due to reminding him (and the audience) of Nina Tucker.
43	** Envy's SleepModeSize. It's particularly abhorrent and uncanny. Looks like the hybrid of a maggot, a human fetus, a caterpillar, and some wide-eyed fish. It also somewhat invokes VaginaDentata.
44	** The disturbing imagery gets turned up even further in ''Brotherhood'' in the scene where Marcoh defeats Envy. Misshapen heads vomiting out misshapen heads and tortured screaming.
45	*** And then there's the almost ''half-melted''-looking Envy, writhing around on the ground while screaming for everyone [[DontYouDarePityMe to not look at]] him... ''augh''.
46	* Gluttony's true form is shown several episodes/chapters before Envy's. His entire front half ''splits open'', baring his open ribcage, which extends from his jawline to his groin and rakes forward. His entire lower jaw is gone, leaving tusk-like ribs near his jawline, and his exposed, Ouroboros-tattooed tongue slavering in the open air. Looking inside the opening reveals nothing but inky blackness and a single eye, almost exactly like the one in the Door of Truth. And then he goes on [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge an insane rampage]], ''erasing'' large sections of the landscape with what appears to be some sort of invisible KamehameHadoken, but is actually him ''extending his ribcage faster than the eye can see'' and swallowing whatever he catches. From the most cheerful, childlike, and seemingly least dangerous and malicious Homunculus, this was a ''nasty'' surprise.
47	** And then he ''eats'' Ed, Ling, and Envy, and we're treated to an inside view of his stomach; or rather, where everything he eats goes. It is an infinite, featureless plane, with chunks of all the evidence, ruins, and people Gluttony's ever eaten still intact inside. The plane is filled with a similarly infinite ankle-deep ''sea of blood.'' Worst of all is how, as Envy fatalistically explains, there is ''no way out''. The place is another dimension: literally infinite. The only thing normal people can do is wander in the sea of blood, waiting to die. Ed finds a way out, but that method isn't pretty either, and if it weren't for Envy's Philosopher's Stone, probably fatal.
48	* The episode... ''The Ishvalan War of Extermination''. It's as horrible and nightmarish as it sounds. We see Amestrian soldiers gunning down civilians of all ages en masse, the sheer horror of the genocide, and learn the scary reality of what it means to be a sniper from Riza Hawkeye herself. Seeing all the horror makes one understand why Scar despises Amestrians for much of the story.
49	* Pride, what with all the giant mouths and eyes as his true form inside a human child-looking container. And the anthropophagy. And the homunculus cannibalism. And all those {{Slasher Smile}}s after eating Gluttony. EnfantTerrible indeed. More so in ''Brotherhood'' than the manga, since apparently Creator/StudioBONES learned a bit when they animated ''Anime/SoulEater''; he grins like Medusa.
50	** As Gluttony dies pleading for Pride to stop and crying out in pain, Edward and Ling stare in pure horror and disgust, realizing just how ruthless Pride truly is.
51	** Especially in the anime, where he absorbs Kimblee... alive. Worst part is, you watch it from Kimblee's point of view, and those jaws... those horrible jaws... then... CHOMP.
52	** And in the end, when Kimblee reveals that he's still alive within Pride, because the sounds of all the people screaming in agony, non-stop, is like [[LovesTheSoundOfScreaming music to his ears]].
53	** Don't forget, all of this is coming from a kid, whose first appearance is gushing over Ed. When you re-watch it, all of Selim's interactions prior to being found out as Pride are incredibly creepy, akin to a predator toying with its prey.
54	* Here's one in the manga that is more psychological horror than a scary image, but still pretty scary. Riza discovers Pride's identity. Pride is a LivingShadow of eyes and mouths and likes to rip people to shreds or eat them (that's the visually scary part). What makes it even scarier, is that Pride can basically appear [[ParanoiaFuel anywhere there's a shadow]], so for several scenes, Riza is paralyzed with terror [[ProperlyParanoid just by seeing a shadow near her]], as Pride could devour her at any time and could hear everything she said. Luckily, she is able to pass a coded message to Mustang and escape from this, but it's still pretty horrifying she could die from a single misstep.
55	** Some chapters after that, the sight of him controlling Al's armor from the inside, [[http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i212/Kerrah_photos/PrideAl.jpg with shadows and eyes spilling from every crack]].
56	* What happened in Hohenheim's backstory. Realizing way too late that you may have made a ''huge'' mistake in helping your friend in the flask, just before everyone starts dropping like flies, an ENORMOUS eye opens up beneath you that sucks you in, and your body is disassembled while you shriek in fear and agony. And ''then'' waking up to discover that you're the only one still alive in your ENTIRE COUNTRY, have been manipulated into practically causing genocide against your own people and thus share responsibility of the horror -- and ''then'' discovering you've become immortal and the souls of half of the inhabitants of your country are within you, screaming in pain, sorrow and anger ''every minute''? TheScream says it best.
57	** Add to that his realization that because the Homunculus was made from his blood, it mirrored his own desires: When he was a slave, he wanted freedom and knowledge, at least subconsciously.
58	** The sounds of Xerxes' end. You can hear people crying out in fear or pain as the transmutation spreads -- then a shock wave runs from the center of the circle, and the cries stop. Dead.
59	* The Cyclops soldiers, which look like the unholy spawn of the [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Mass-Produced Evas]] and an especially ugly zombie. The ''Brotherhood'' anime has them all awaken with a chorus of horrible screeching. Like millions of souls screaming of unexplainable torture. Equally disturbing is their tendency toward creepy giggling and PsychopathicManchild behavior which along with some of them calling for their parents strongly implies the ravenous monsters contain children's souls.
60	* When Envy recreated his body using those said Cyclops soldiers. They basically devoured each other and then formed an abomination/blob.
61	* A small but still frightening moment comes just before Envy restores his body. Watching May run from all of the mannequin soldiers, with little to no help, looks like something out of a horror movie. If Envy had waited to absorb the mannequins, since watching them eat May wouldn't be out of character at all for the little sadist, then she would've been in for a rather gruesome fate.
62	* Father's 'true' form in Chapter 97, a black humanoid thing with huge eyes all over of his 'body', the mouth, and how the black goo-thingy came out of his body.
63	** It's not helped by the fact that he immediately eats his own skin in an animalistic way with only his mouth showing at first before revealing his eyes.
64	** It's implied that the blob is actually a small bit of Father's true form; there is a giant eye in the middle of the dark ceiling and when he absorbs all of Amestris, he's revealed to actually be this giant black cyclops. That thing had been living underneath Amestris for centuries.
65	* Chapter 102, when the Homunculi ''force'' Roy to open the Gate, and he loses his eyesight ''even though he didn't do anything''.
66	--> '''Mustang''': "What are you talking about? Are you ''with me,'' Fullmetal?"
67	--> '''Ed''': "Huh? What are you talking about..."
68	--> '''Mustang''': "It's pitch black... I can't see a thing. Where are we? Can you see any lights?"
69	* The... ''thing''... which was created from Pride using the Gold-Toothed Doctor as 'raw materials' for the transmutation. Sure, he deserved it, but ''still''...
70	* The Blind Alchemist Gaiden/OVA. Not just physical horror, either. The sheer psychological shock is pretty disquieting as well.
71	** To be more specific, Ed and Al hear word of an alchemist named Jude, servant of a noble family, who has successfully performed Human Transmutation to bring back their daughter Rosalie after her untimely death. For this, he has to pay a toll of both his eyes, rendering him incapable of seeing the smiles return to his masters' faces. The kicker? The Humbergang family is actually lying to him to spare his feelings. Not only did he fail to revive her daughter, they wind up adopting a young girl to pretend to be Rosalie in order to keep up the charade. Meanwhile, a room in the house now contains a bed hosting the zombified remains of what was brought back during the Human Transmutation. And given what we discover about Ed's attempt at reviving Trisha, it's not even the real Rosalie in that bed.
72	* Chapter 104. Everyone is dead. ''Everyone''. Havoc? Breda? Falman? Fuery? They're dead. The Briggs soldiers in Central and in the East? Dead. Winry? Dead. Pinako? Dead. Gracia and Elysia? Dead. The Ishvalans, the people in Rush Valley, the Youswell coal miners, every cast member that has ever made an appearance in the series is dead, their souls stored inside a monster. Their bodies? Empty like the people of Xerxes.
73	* Episode 61 "He Who Would Swallow God": after Father absorbs God instead of the normal intro song we're shown everyone whose souls were taken in complete silence.
74	* In ''Brotherhood'', they show the Ishval Massacre. The parts that show the Ishvalan civilians being trapped in the city and mowed down mercilessly while they scream for help (particularly images of the ''children'' being shot to pieces) is very haunting. The music and DeliberatelyMonochrome effect do not help.
75	* Father answers the question: "What if I was to give birth to ''humans''?" The humans he means? ''Hohenheim's friends from Xerxes'', who are emaciated and barely conscious as they walk with a ZombieGait while bursting from Father's humanoid body. The King is in there, still thinking that he is immortal. And then Father proceeds to nuke them all into oblivion. Those poor souls have been trapped for centuries in an endless torrent of crazed, screaming companions, only to abruptly obtain freedom -- giving them just enough time to see the world, and then be blown away to nothing.
76	** And that's only in the anime -- the manga's version of this scene was '''''somehow even worse'''''. Right before Father proceeds to vaporize the Xerxesians, you can see their bodies rapidly decomposing as they stumble about -- ''and they don't even seem to realize it the entire time''. Their [[EyeScream eyes begin]] ''[[EyeScream melting]]'' [[EyeScream out of their sockets]] and the King's jaw begins to fall off as he tries to talk to Hohenheim. Father reducing them all to ashes almost comes off like long overdue MercyKill for them.
77	** The characters' reactions to the sight of this says all that needs to be said about it: they're horrified at the sight before them, and Alphonse says aloud that everything about this is completely and utterly '''''wrong'''''.
78	** Half NightmareFuel and half TearJerker, but Izumi's reaction to the zombie ''baby'' trying to get her attention suggests that she's trying not to vomit from sheer emotional shock.
79	* In Chapter 106 of the manga, Pride's body is slowly falling apart from forcing Roy to open the Gate. So what does he decide to do? He makes a cut on Ed's face and forces his shadow arms inside to take over Ed's body as a new container. You can see the shadows force their way inside and slowly spread across Ed's face and shoulders.
80	** The ''Brotherhood'' version, where he gives his speech, then uncovers his eye to reveal that ''half his face is just a gaping hole into a raging storm of tormented, screaming souls''. And then some of his shadows stick out of where his eye socket should be! [[EyeScream OWOWOWOWOW.]] It's heavily implied that Pride feels no pain from that.
81	** Pride is really, ''really'' angry in that scene in sharp contrast to his normal unflappable self. Moments before he tries to take over Ed's body, he ''screams'' furiously at him, with that creepy VoiceOfTheLegion of his.
82	-->'''Pride:''' Why should I care if Father doesn't? I am not [[PunyEarthlings a puny weakling]] like you! I am one of the ''[[SuddenlyShouting HOMUNCULI!]]'' '''''[[EvilCannotComprehendGood WHAT DO YOU KNOW, HUMAN!?!?]]'''''
83	* In Chapter 107, Ed finally regains his right arm. This is a good thing, right? Except... if you look closely, you can see there are now automail parts ''fused into his flesh'' where the arm regrew. Not to mention the fact that it looks like it belongs on a malnourished beggar, particularly in contrast to his other arm.
84	* Father's original form, "The Dwarf In The Flask", because it seems like he's the embodiment of pure evil, and you don't even expect or even know it, more or less, is somewhat frightening.
85	* Father getting trapped in the gate by Truth. The ''Brotherhood'' episode came out, and watching Truth talking with a cold indifference while Father gets pulled in complete with him ''screaming and sobbing, asking for repentance''.
86	* When Lust is burned to death in Episode 19. Dear ''God,'' that scene. When Roy sets her alight the first two times she gasps in pain, then the third time we get a good look at what's left of her scorched face as she starts to scream. And then he does it again and again and ''again'' and she keeps screaming in utter agony. No doubt she deserves it, but ''damn'' is it hard to listen to.
87	** Just before Lust is completely incinerated, she lunges at Roy whilst roaring with rage. The [[https://shinmaru.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/lustcharging.jpg look on her face]] as she does so is ''[[NightmareFace terrifying]]''. It stands in sharp contrast to how calm and collected she usually is.
88	* Then there's Envy's turn to get burnt. The man known as Roy ceased to exist for a few moments, replaced by some wild primitive beast man that happened to look like him. And one of the first things he does is set Envy's eyes on fire! [[EyeScream "How does it feel to have the liquid in your eyes boil?!"]] Though he was talked back to his senses.
89	-->'''Envy:''' (''writhing in what can only be assumed to be horrible agony'') MY EYYYYYEEEESSS!!!! THEY'RE ''[[EyeScream GOOOONNNNE!!!]]''
90	* The moment in Chapter 107 when Greedling punches God!Father in the eye and it shows ''his hand stuck in his'' ''[[EyeScream eye socket]]''. [[EyeScream Nerves seem to be traveling from said eye-socket, under Greedling's skin, and up his arm, trying to take his Philosopher's Stone with him.]]
91	* Episode 41. The scene where Ed gets gored ''through the stomach'' by the beam. Edward's bone-chilling screams of pain as the Chimeras pulled it out of his stomach as he simultaneously healed himself. He was ''[[CastFromHitPoints burning through his soul]]'' to do so. This with him screaming in agony and trying desperately to [[{{Determinator}} focus through the pain]] for just long enough to seal his wound.
92	* ''The Sacred Star of Milos''. There was one hell of a cure for insomnia when the man we thought to be LongLostSibling of Julie Crichton, Ashleigh, reveals that he was actually a former bodyguard who murdered her parents, ripped off skin with the tattoo of half the Milos transmutation circle and the face of her brother and ''grafted'' both of them to his body. This was just after he impaled her friend and his underling with a sword that opens up to drain their blood so it could fill the city wide 3-dimensional transmutation circle, and before he ''tore'' off skin with the tattoo from his body so he could match it up with the one on her body. And we later find out not only was her real brother fully conscious when his face was ripped off, but he ''survived'' it when he appeared to give his identity thief a very painful death.
93	** ''Sacred Star'' also has the IndustrializedEvil of the city-wide transmutation circle. The ''entire city'' was built into a machine for mincing people and turning them into a Philosopher's Stone; we don't see what it does to the soldiers, but we do see a ''lot'' of blood going through the pipes. Notably, no homunculi seem to have been involved; the whole thing was, to all appearances, of purely human construction.
94	* The Gold Tooth Doctor's creepy SlasherSmile, from one of the most depraved characters in the series. Not only did he make the failed Wrath-would-bes monsters, the bastard slit Riza's throat, nearly killing her. She's left bleeding out on the floor as Roy is torn between screaming at Gold Tooth in rage and screaming for Riza to stay alive.
95	* While he is a bastard for being so willing to sacrifice most of Amestris just to become immortal and being a DirtyOldMan, General Raven really doesn't have any nightmarish qualities about him. However, one of the eyecatches of the episode wherein he's killed by Olivier Mira Armstrong shows [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZCjsPKtJo-Y/S9-VdSQnYvI/AAAAAAAABdU/80VZaOlpoS8/s1600/36-1.jpg Raven with this utterly sinister]] SlasherSmile, revealing his true nature.
96	* The Liore Riot. Even after Cornello's defeat, Envy ended up impersonating him and used his charisma to turn the populace into a howling lynch mob obsessed with bringing "the Father's word" to the world. Disagreements began, and what began as a simple riot became what is described as the ''single bloodiest conflict'' in the entire history of the world, full of massacres, destruction and ColdBloodedTorture. The fact that Liore is still around afterwards is nothing short than a miracle.
97	** It's even worse in ''Brotherhood'' than in the manga, since we see the riots ''immediately'' start at the end of the episode, and there's a ''huge'' raging mob outside the church... Not helping is how ''[[NiceGirl Rosé]]'' [[NiceGirl of all characters tries to pull a gun on the Elric brothers for what they did]].
98	** This isn't even the first time Envy has pulled this off. The powder keg that was the annexation of Ishval only descended fully into a war of extermination after Envy took the guise of a soldier who had been ''against the occupation'', offered a seemingly friendly smile to a child [[FridgeHorror to come across like the same guy]], then shot that child in cold blood. The fact he can do this kind of thing taking the visage of someone who's either been shamed or who would seem completely OOC doing what he intends to do with his look, yet still get all the desired effects is extremely frightening. Imagine your staunchly anti-war relative initiating a shootout at the local police department which goes so bad it sets an entire town into lockdown. '''[[ParanoiaFuel Envy can do that. In fact Envy gets his kicks that way.]]'''
99	** In a smaller (but nonetheless completely horrifying) instance, Envy uses this trick to get the drop on Hughes. Hughes had just escaped from Lust, seen through Envy's charade as Lt. Maria Ross, and palmed a knife to stab Envy with. Then Envy shapeshifts into Hughes' wife. The look of despair on his face right before he dies is heartbreaking. Well, except to Envy, who brags about it later on two separate occasions.
100	* Hughes' death, full-stop, from how ''sudden'' the scene was (in the manga, anyway; ''Brotherhood'' extended it a bit). The last thing Hughes sees before he dies is something that looks exactly like his beloved wife, smiling as she is about to murder him. Contrary to how happy he usually is to see her, the look on his face right before Envy pulls the trigger is pure horror and despair, and then he's gone. That is the last face the reader sees him make alive. The next shot of him is ''his blood-soaked corpse'', still lying in the phone booth with Envy long gone.
101	** Not helping is how Hughes had attempted to call Roy, only to get killed just before/as Roy answered the phone. Roy naturally freaks out after he calls Hughes's name and gets no answer for it, making for some in-universe NothingIsScarier.
102	* After Scar captures Tim Marcoh, he decides that it'll be easier to travel if Marcoh can't be recognized, so he ''[[FacialHorror blows the skin of his face off]]'', complete with lots of blood and a close-up of Marcoh's eye between his fingers that clearly shows ''[[{{Squick}} exposed muscle]]''. And he's ''crying from the pain''. All of this happens without the slightest bit of warning beforehand.
103	* When Envy confirms to Mustang that he's the one who killed Hughes -- ''and then shifts into Gracia again'', just to rub in the fact that Hughes was killed by someone wearing the form of his beloved wife. It's really quite dreadful to watch the face of the normally kind and gentle Gracia wearing a huge, demented grin as her husband's killer babbles about how great the 'utter shock, the dumb confusion' on Hughes' face was as he died. Naturally, this slams down ''hard'' on Mustang's BerserkButton.
104	* Mustang ripping the Philosopher's Stone out of Lust only for her body to regenerate around it. The [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fullmetal-alchemist-database/images/e/e0/Ep19_-_Lust_Regenerating.png/revision/latest?cb=20121013074837 image]] of it is ''not'' pretty, and serves to remind you that Lust is a monster in both the figurative ''and'' literal sense.
105	* In "Yet Another Man's Battlefield," a FreezeFrameBonus is one you may want to miss. When Maes Hughes shoots Heathcliff Erbe (who'd just shot Roy), the look on his face is one you'd never expect to see on the guy: unrestrained, sheer fury mirroring Heathcliff's own furious despair. Considering we never see anything quite like this with him, it's actually quite disturbing and terrifying to see, and makes one wonder what Maes might have gone on to do if Roy had been killed. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCWZ5Jxakts Take a look for yourself at 1:46.]]
106	** From the same: his response to Roy's ArmorPiercingQuestion at 3:16. That desperate look in his eyes gives away that yes, he has realized the horror of the guilt of which Roy speaks as well as how very little he can do about it now.
107	--> "Can you really hold the woman you love, with your blood-stained hands?"
108	** The incident weighs on both men so much that Roy has to ask for 30 seconds to recuperate and get back up and Hughes gives him that time, neither man moving a muscle. The sun was down at the start of the 30 seconds. It was up again by the time they finished. That's a hell of a weight to carry on your shoulders. It also makes it look pretty freaky when Roy, Maes, Gracia, and some walking soldiers seen in a far shot from above are the only ones moving in the train station scene afterward.
109	* When Scar is healed by his brother in Ishval, he is helped by Winry's parents and wakes up in a medical tent. In the last attack, he'd lost his arm... so you can understand his confusion and horror when it looks like he woke up ''with his brother's arm in its place''. No wonder he had a major FreakOut.
110	* Episode 27, ''Interlude Party'', or Hohenheim's flashback/dream episode, just for how... ''[[MindScrew weird]]'' it is. It starts out normal enough, looking like a flashback to an old conversation between Hohenheim and Pinako at a party of some kind. Then the younger Pinako makes reference to stuff she shouldn't know about yet (Ed and Al's transmutation attempt), Hohenheim starts fatalistically talking about how hopeless everything is while the other people there seemingly start dropping like flies, and Father randomly shows up at one point and attempts to give a BreakingSpeech to Pinako. And then he grabs her and ''rips her face off'', only for her to ''turn into Hohenheim''. And it's all interspersed with bits of previous episodes, just making it weirder. Sure, it's implied that Hohenheim may have drank himself to sleep, since there's a bottle next to him when he wakes up, but ''still''... It's one creepy BigLippedAlligatorMoment.
111	* In episode 14, “Those Who Lurk Underground”, the chimera Martel, who has jumped into Al’s suit of armor body in order to control him, is stabbed to death by Bradley. Granted, it’s not Al’s true body, and presumably he doesn’t feel anything physically, but still—having someone die while they’re literally inside of you is just straight up horrible (and all the more so when you remember that Al is just a young child, despite outward appearances).
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Context NightmareFuel / FullmetalAlchemist