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1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
2	** The movie's opening theme, "Chasing Hearts" by Miwa, has a bouncy rhythm and nostalgic mood that makes it endlessly listenable.
3	** The ending theme, ''Good Luck My Way'' by Music/LArcEnCiel, is a worthy companion to the band's songs for the 2003 anime and ''Conqueror of Shamballa''.
4	** Taro Iwashiro's score is another worthy orchestral addition to the franchise's discography. It easily stands equal alongside Michiru Ōshima and Akira Senju's scores from the 2003 series and ''Brotherhood''.
5	* CaptainObviousReveal: [[spoiler:It is pretty obvious that Atlas is the fake Ashleigh and Herschel is the real Ashleigh. It's noticeable when Atlas has a scar that looks like he is stealing a face and Herschel having no facial skin under his mask]].
6	* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:[[AxCrazy Atlas]] is a [[AmbitionIsEvil power-hungry]] Lieutenant in the Cretan military assigned to guarding the Crichton alchemist family. Murdering the parents for their research on the Sanguine Star, Atlas also [[FaceStealer skins the face]] of their older son Ashleigh to take on his identity. Years later, as "[[TheHeavy Melvin Voyager]]", Atlas breaks out of prison using an explosion to find Ashleigh's sister Julia, posing as her brother to manipulate her and her group, the Black Bats, into helping him create the Star. Using the transmutation circle around Table City, Atlas [[ManipulativeBastard tricks the Bats]] into committing terrorist attacks, thinking they are fighting for their country Milos, before betraying them, killing their leader--his own co-conspirator--and countless Amestrian soldiers to create the Star with their deaths.]]
7	* MagnificentBastard: "[[ColonelBadass Colonel Herschel]]", born Ashleigh Crichton, was once a young alchemist born in Milos until his family was driven out by the country's alchemist-hating people, his parents' killed by their power-hungry guard Lieutenant Atlas and his face mutilated by the monstrous man. Joining the Cretan military with a mask, Ashleigh rose in the ranks and plans to subvert Atlas' schemes and claim the Sanguine Star to [[WellIntentionedExtremist remake the world]]. Easily [[OutGambitted outplaying]] and murdering his hated foe, Ashleigh comes within mere moments of victory before being stopped and when his sister Julia gives her leg to save his life, peacefully withdraws to atone for his actions.
8	* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Colonel Herschel stepping in to reveal his true identity-and send Atlas straight to hell.]]
9	* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: If Atlas using Julia and lying to her in order to create a Philosopher's Stone isn't bad enough, then there's him murdering her parents and stealing her brother's face when they were both still children, whom he was supposed to be protecting]].
10	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Despite having a Philosopher's Stone and [[spoiler: a citywide transmutation circle]] the film has no connection with the Homunculi plot of Brotherhood and [[spoiler: Father's role as the creator of the Philosopher's stone. Given the time frame matches with the destruction of Xerxes, he could have been the one behind Milos' creation of the sanguine star before going on to found Amestris.]]
11	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: People from Milos trying to reach Table City are shot down, and the whole issue of deporting illegal immigrants and the fact that most people from Milos (at least the ones whom name we know) are named with [[PhenotypeStereotype Mexican-sounding]] names, like Carlos, Santos, Julia, Miranda, Raúl, Anita, Pedro and Gonzalez. Not to mention the flashback scenes of the people of Table City being conquered by one people, then another, both times being conscripted into the defender's army to try and stop them.

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