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Homunculi

In General

• Achilles' Heel: The remains of their human selves weaken and immobilize them. Greed, Lust, Sloth, and Pride are all killed thanks to this weakness.
• Adaptational Backstory Change: In the manga/Brotherhood, the homunculi were created by Father from the aspects of his personality which they're named for. In this series, the homunculi are each the result of a human transmutation. This means they have more distinct backstories, personalities, and connections to the main characters.
• Adaptational Badass: In the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, killing a homunculus was a matter of running down their lives. It was a difficult feat, but could be done. In the 2003 anime, killing a homunculus was impossible without either having their remains on hand or opening a portal to the other world, as without either of those means they would revive endlessly.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: In the manga and Brotherhood, the homunculi each have a Philosopher's Stone core, and the souls contained within their stone are the source of their regenerative abilities. Owing to their different origin, this is played slightly differently here; instead of being made from a Philosopher's Stone, the homunculi consume red stones ^note  incomplete, less powerful Philosopher's Stone which sit in their stomach and grant them regeneration and humanoid shapes.
• Adaptation Origin Connection:
  • Ed & Al's transmutation of their mother and Izumi's of her stillborn son were events unrelated to the homunculi in the manga/Brotherhood. Here, those events are what created Sloth and Wrath.
  • Lust's connection to Scar and Envy's to Hohenheim are also inventions of the anime.
• Adapted Out: The manga/Brotherhood versions of Sloth and Pride don't appear. Father's role as the Big Bad and the homunculi's master is likewise taken by Dante.
• Artificial Human: Naturally.
• Back from the Dead: They're unsuccessful attempts to do this.
• Came Back Wrong: Goes hand in hand with the above trope.
• Clone Angst: They're essentially clones of people that alchemists have attempted to revive via human transmutation, and a big source of their angst is whether they're copies of said people or distinct beings in their own right. Mostly applies to Lust and Sloth.
• Connected All Along: Most of the homunculi turn out to be related to various heroic characters.
• Legacy Character: It’s implied that Dante has had many different homunculi serving under them throughout the years and that when one dies the next one to be created takes their name/sin. Aside from Envy and possibly Greed, each of the current seven is likely just the most recent to bear their respective name.
• Meaningful Name: They all embody the sin they're named after.

Lust

Lust

Voiced by: Yuko Sato (JP), Laura Bailey (EN)^{Other Languages}Mari Luz Olier (Spain), Elena Díaz Toledo (Latin America), Vanessa Alves (Brazil), Suzanne Sindberg (French)

"Where did I come from, and where am I going?"

As beautiful as she is deadly, Lust acts as The Corrupter amongst the homunculi, tempting others into trying forbidden alchemy. Like all homunculi, she's a result of human transmutation, namely the failed transmutation of the woman loved by both Scar and his brother.

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• Absurdly Sharp Claws: Her primary weapon.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Her desire to become human causes her much angst that didn't exist in the manga/Brotherhood version.
• Adaptational Heroism: The arrogant Smug Snake sociopath of manga/Brotherhood this Lust is not. Though she's still largely villainous initially, an expanded role and Character Development make her considerably more sympathetic (and less sadistic) in comparison to her manga/Brotherhood counterpart. She even pulls a Heel–Face Turn.
• Adaptation Personality Change:
  • Manga/Brotherhood Lust is a sadist who looks down on humans as inferior to homunculi. Here, Lust is a Punch Clock Anti-Villain who actually wants to become human.
  • She's also colder and more introspective than manga/Brotherhood Lust, who was a bloodthirsty Smug Snake.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Unlike in the manga, where she is mortal enemies to both parties, Lust eventually becomes an ally to both Scar and Ed. She also never encounters Mustang, Havoc, or Hawkeye directly here.
• Affably Evil: Unlike her manga counterpart, this Lust is relatively friendlier and more sympathetic, and she's also willing to work with the Elric brothers.
• Age Lift: Lust was one of the oldest homunculi in the manga at over 250 years old (with Envy teasingly calling her an “old hag”), but here she was created only 12-15 years ago, though still Born as an Adult.
• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Stoic, with black hair and pale skin. She also seems very melancholic.
• Anti-Villain: All she desires is to regain the memories of her human life.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Edward doesn't believe Lust's goal of becoming human since, as a homunculus, she's got power and near-immortality, so why would she want to give that up to be human? Lust simply asks why Ed is trying to get Al to be human again since, as a living suit of armor, he's got power and near-immortality too. Ed is stumped on this, and Lust says her and Al's situations are the same.
• Ascended Extra: She gets much more Character Development and plot-relevance here than in the manga, where she dies early.
• The Baroness: At first, though she did kick Wrath's ass without breaking a sweat.
• Beast and Beauty: With Gluttony.
• Beauty Is Bad: She is as deadly as she is beautiful, although she ultimately turns out to be the only homunculus to make a Heel–Face Turn (until Wrath makes his in the movie, that is).
• Become a Real Boy: Her primary motivation is that she wants to become human, even more so than the other homunculi do.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Scar. Not helping matters is the fact that she's the homunculus of his brother's fiancee, and that he (Scar) had a crush on her when she was alive.
• Beta Test Baddie: The strongest example amongst the homunculi. Lust states she feels incomplete without a soul and is driven by a desire to become human. She repeatedly goes out of her way to connect with the past of whoever she was intended to be a resurrection of.
• Blood Knight: She loves the thrill of a fight and has an almost sexual delight from it, being most noticeable by her first encounter with Scar.
• Brains and Brawn: The Brains to Gluttony.
• Broken Bird: She becomes one after Scar dies, since she lost the last living connection to her old life and betrayed her fellow homunculi with nothing to show for it.
• Clone Angst: Wonders about her past existence as a human.
• Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: 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 dies, Gluttony goes completely out of control.
• Combat Stilettos: She's a Dark Action Girl 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.
• Composite Character: She takes over manga/Brotherhood Greed's role as the (first) homunculus who pulls a Heel–Face Turn.
• The Corrupter: She initially influenced people to create the Philosopher's Stone.
• Crucified Hero Shot: Dante pins her to a wall in this position as punishment for betraying her, showing Lust's Heel–Face Turn.
• Dark Action Girl: Despite her immaculate looks, she is not above fighting or getting her hands dirty when she needs to, and she's one of the most active antagonists. However...
• Dark Is Not Evil: Her otherwise unnerving appearance notwithstanding, she's an Anti-Villain at the very worst, and her motivation for obeying her master is the hopes of being able to reconnect with her past as Scar's brother's fiancée. Lust is more of a straightforward villain at the start of the anime and kills people in cold blood, but she gradually drifts into this as her character develops. It culminates in the Heel–Face Turn she pulls later.
• Death Means Humanity: She angsts quite a bit about her existence as a homunculus and longs to be human again. Re-establishing connections with Scar, the brother to her human self's deceased fiancée, slowly pushes her to make a Heel-Face Turn and eventually decide to help the Elric brothers defeat her kin. Wrath finds out, however, and kills for betraying them. In her final moments, Lust realizes that dying makes her feel more human than anything, and that perhaps this was what she wanted all along.
• Death Seeker: Lust's death shows that the true reason she wanted to become human was so that she could be able to die.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: From being burned by Roy Mustang in the manga to instead being stabbed to death by Wrath for her betrayal in this version.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: She desires to be a human greatly.
• Dude Magnet: Naturally, and uses her beauty and charm to her advantage. Scar and his brother loved the human she was based on, and Lujon had stronger feelings for her than his own fiancee.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: 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.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She and Gluttony care a great deal for each other. She also grows to care for both Scar and the Elric brothers.
• Evil Genius: She is the best in her group at manipulating people and one of the more strategic of the homunculi.
• Femme Fatale: A lesser version, but she does exploit her beauty to get men such as Lujon to do her plans.
• Foil: To Sloth. Unlike Sloth, Lust strongly wants to reconnect with the memories of the person she was based on, whereas Sloth wants to be free of her memories as Trisha.
• Form-Fitting Wardrobe: Her outfits always accentuate her voluptuous figure.
• Girly Bruiser: She has long glossy hair, wears purple lipstick, a Little Black Dress, High-Class Gloves, and Combat Stilettos. She's also a sadistic Blood Knight who uses her Femme Fatalons as penetrating spears.
• The Heavy: She’s the most visible and recurring villain in the first half of the series. As she becomes more sympathetic and the other homunculi gain prominence, she falls out of this role.
• The Hecate Sisters: Lust is the Maiden to Sloth's Mother and Dante's Crone.
• Heel–Face Turn: Prompted by Scar's death and lasts until her own.
• Hidden Depths: "Reunion of the Fallen" shows that Lust has a surprising skill in teaching alchemy, as she was able to teach Lujon to become a more powerful alchemist despite not being able to use alchemy herself. Considering her master is the second most powerful and knowledgeable alchemist in the world, Lust naturally learned from the best.
• Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Her hair will often drape over her right eye.
• High-Class Gloves: She wears black opera gloves with red trim.
• Hoist by Their Own Petard: Ends up being sealed and subsequently killed by Wrath with the same transmutation circle she created for Sloth.
• I Die Free: Realizing in her last moments that dying is more human than anything, she accepts it.
• Impossibly-Low Neckline: She wears a Little Black Dress 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.
• Intimate Marks: As befitting her character, her ouroboros tattoo is right above her cleavage.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: She is one of the deadliest of the homunculi and always does it in a black cocktail dress.
• Lady of War: She's as graceful and composed as she is devastating.
• Legacy Character: It’s mentioned a few times that Lust is not the first homunculus to bear the name.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The Dark to Winry's Light, even though they don't meet at all.
• Little Black Dress: She wears a long, strapless black dress with an Impossibly-Low Neckline.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: Her hair goes down to her hips.
• Lust: Not only does she inspire lust in others, acting as a muse to alchemists, but her character is defined by a lust for humanity and knowledge.
• Makeup Is Evil: She always wears deep violet lipstick.
• Manipulative Bitch: She encourages people to go after the Philosopher's Stone. Lujon's death, however...
• Masculine, Feminine, Androgyne Trio: The feminine with Envy and Gluttony.
• Meaningful Name: She's extremely beautiful and, at least at the start of the series, uses her looks to occasionally influence others to do her bidding.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: She betrays Dante after realizing that the latter never intended to make her or any of the other homunculi human.
• Ms. Fanservice: Par the course, being a busty woman with the Raven Hair, Ivory Skin look, an Impossible Hourglass Figure, and a low and sultry voice courtesy of Laura Bailey.
• No Name Given: The woman she was based on is never named, just like Scar and his brother.
• Of Corsets Sexy: The top of her dress resembles a corset, and she's the resident Ms. Fanservice.
• Pretty in Mink: She's shown wearing a mink coat fairly often.
• Punch-Clock Villain: She serves her master for the goal of achieving humanity and with character development, she’s willing to work against them.
• Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: She has flowing black hair and pale skin.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Envy's red.
• Redemption Equals Death: She gets killed shortly after making a deal with the Elric brothers.
• Spared By Adaptation: In the manga and Brotherhood, she dies early on, being the first homunculus to do so. Here, she survives until the tail end of the series, dying in episode 47.
• Statuesque Stunner: Usually depicted as taller than most human men and very beautiful.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Starts off just as sadistic as her manga counterpart, and ends up becoming a nicer person by the time she dies.
• Tsurime Eyes: She has narrow, upwards-arching eyes, making her appear perpetually seductive.
• The Vamp: 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.
• Vapor Wear: Lust is pretty obviously not wearing anything under her dress, showing off her ample bust.
• Wolverine Claws: Lust's primary weapon is her fingers, which extend into blades.

Gluttony

Gluttony

Voiced by: Yasuhiro Takato (JP), Chris Cason (EN)^{Other Languages}Jesús Rodríguez (Spain), Gonzalo Fumero (Latin America), César Marchetti (Brazil), Thierry Kazazian (French)

A simpleton who loves to eat, and will eat anything. Has an odd, symbiotic relationship with Lust and acts as her companion and bodyguard, and is never seen acting independently. Of all the homunculi, his "life" is never examined. It is implied that his master made him specifically to create Philosopher's Stones.

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• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Manga Gluttony was upset when Lust died, but here he becomes downright catatonic because of it.
• Adaptational Badass: In The Conqueror of Shamballa he has a separate One-Winged Angel form that did not exist in the manga, making him a much more dangerous threat.
• Adaptational Wimp: Since Father does not exist in this adaptation, Gluttony is not an attempt to create a working Gate of Truth. Still doesn't make him any less dangerous, though.
• Acrofatic: Can make great leaps and run on all fours quickly despite his weight.
• Affably Evil: Much like in Brotherhood.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Not only does he take Lust's death much harder this time around, but Dante sentences him to a fate so bad that his death in Conqueror of Shamballa is almost seen as a Mercy Kill.
• Ambiguous Innocence: He seems to be utterly incapable of moral thought and acts like a child.
• Ax-Crazy: Becomes this in the finale when Dante turns him into a mindless eater by removing his reason (which is bonded to his ouroboros symbol) in order to extract the Philosopher's stone inside Alphonse.
• Bald of Evil: As seen above, not a hair on his head and not a white spot on his soul (if he had one).
• Beast and Beauty: With Lust.
• Berserk Button: Does not respond well to "his" Lust being harmed.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Much like his manga counterpart. Taken up to eleven after Dante takes away his reasoning and thought processes.
• The Brute: He serves as the muscle the other homunculi order around, and lacks any higher agenda or motive.
• Despair Event Horizon: After learning about Lust's death, he loses the motivation to do anything but just sit there and mumble her name. Dante fixes that for him.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Transmuted by Al to open a portal to our world instead of being devoured by Pride.
• Dumb Muscle: Clearly not one of the homunculi's best and brightest, but despite being overweight, he's a very powerful character.
• Eldritch Abomination: In Conqueror of Shamballa he has devolved into a mindless mass of limbs and mouths trying to eat everything he comes across.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Lust is the only person he actually cares about, and her death hits him hard. He even refers to her as "his" Lust.
• Extreme Omnivore: Gluttony is able to near-instantly devour anything, from people to metal to brick walls.
• Fat Bastard: He's a big guy and rather sadistic when it comes to eating people, but other than that, he's more oblivious than outright malicious.
• Flat Character: Compared to the other homunculi, Gluttony's backstory isn't explored much, which gives him the least personal conflict of them. We also have no idea of his human origins, or if he even had any.
• Gone Horribly Right: Dante essentially takes away his mind because he is mourning Lust so badly that he is too depressed to eat the new Philosopher's Stone as instructed. The result unsettles even Envy, and turns the childlike Gluttony into a terrifying, mindless monster that ultimately attacks and kills Dante, his own master.
• I'm a Humanitarian: He enjoys eating people, as first made clear with Father Cornello.
• Masculine, Feminine, Androgyne Trio: The masculine with Lust and Envy.
• Meaningful Name: His most prominent trait is how he's always hungry, can eat literally anything regardless of composition, and his stomach is apparently bottomless.
• Obliviously Evil: Doesn't seem to see anything wrong with eating people alive.
• One-Winged Angel: A creepy white Eldritch Abomination in the movie.
• Older Than They Look: And act. Despite his relatively young appearance and childish personality, he's actually the third oldest homunculus. Contrast this with Brotherhood where he was the second youngest homunculus.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After Lust dies, Gluttony refuses to eat.
• Psychopathic Man Child: He has a very childlike personality and finds death and destruction entertaining.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: It's implied that this is why he ambushes Wrath in the movie, as revenge for him killing Lust.
• Tragic Monster: It's heartbreaking how sad he gets after Lust's death. It gets worse when Dante transmutes away all of his thought processes so he can't think of anything besides eating, making him "pure" and leaving him a mindless monster whose only purpose is to devour.
• Slasher Smile: As one can see, he grins widely at the prospect of getting to eat someone.
• Undying Loyalty: While he always has this toward Lust, it's especially prominent here—the poor guy is utterly lost without her after her betrayal and eventual death. He refuses to do anything until he finds out where she is, and all but shuts down after learning that she's dead. Even upon having his mind erased by Dante, it's implied that he still retained his childlike love for Lust (as shown by how ruthlessly he attacks Wrath in the film).
• Villainous Glutton: He practically embodies hunger-related tropes; if it exists, he can eat it, period.
• Vocal Evolution: In the dub; his voice sounds less raspy over time.

Envy (SPOILERS)

Envy

Voiced by: Mayumi Yamaguchi (JP), Wendy Powell (normal) and Mike McFarland (true form) (EN)^{Other Languages}Ana Jiménez (Spain), Ivette García (normal) and Héctor Indriago (true form) (Latin America), Sílvio Giraldi (Brazil), Hervé Grull (French)

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A misanthropic, psychopathic shapeshifter with a hate-on for the entire human race and a sneering contempt for the other homunculi, Envy is the field commander of the homunculi and their main heavy-hitter, as well as the right-hand of the mastermind. If Envy can Kick the Dog, he will do it with pleasure.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: Envy's hair is black in the manga and Brotherhood, but it's green here.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: This Envy has a more personal connection to the Elric family, since he's the homunculus of Hohenheim's firstborn son, making him Ed and Al's half-brother. This means that despite having less screen time and lines than his manga/Brotherhood counterpart, 2003 Envy ironically has a more central role in the series.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Not as extreme as some of the other homunculi, but it's there. The manga/Brotherhood Envy is a Powerful, but Incompetent bully who can barely contain their sadism and is constantly undermined by their short-sightedness and terrible fighting skills. 2003 Envy is a cunning Manipulative Bastard who actually has the bite to back up his bark. This means that Envy winds up a credible threat until the end instead of being reduced to The Chew Toy.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • In the manga and Brotherhood, Edward and Envy are enemies, no doubt, but no more so than any of the other heroes and homunculi; if anything, Envy is rather dismissive of Ed. Here, they have a deep mutual hatred, not to mention they're really half-brothers.
  • Envy's hatred of Hohenheim is also an invention of the anime, and a consequence of this series' different backstories for both characters.
• Adaptational Attractiveness: This Envy has fuller hair, his features are more delicate and his eyes are thinner, giving him a more mature look. This fits Envy's more impressive personality as this version can actually back up all his talk, making him genuinely confident and even somewhat suave. Between his true forms, 2003's Long-Haired Pretty Boy look and the manga/Brotherhood's worm-like appearance, the former is the clear victor. This even applies to this Envy’s One-Winged Angel form; while manga/Brotherhood Envy turns into an Eldritch Abomination of a repto-mammalian predator made of the screaming, degenerated remains of the Xerxians, this Envy gets turned into a serpentine dragon.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Manga/Brotherhood Envy is a poor fighter who frequently goes Clipped-Wing Angel, mainly relying on the strength of their true form and shapeshifting to distract and escape enemies. This Envy is an excellent fighter who doesn’t need anything more than his preferred form to challenge the heroes; he's able to defeat Greed and King Bradley, characters manga/Brotherhood Envy would've stood no chance against. He even kills Ed, although it doesn't stick.
  • Manga/Brotherhood Envy is also one of the lower-ranked homunculi, initially being subservient to Lust, who’s one of the three highest ranking homunculi alongside Pride and Wrath, and never rising above their status as The Brute. Here, Envy is Co-Dragons with Pride as the homunculi's field commander and is above Lust in the ranks.
• Adaptational Heroism: A very minor, isolated case. Unlike in the manga, Envy wasn't responsible for kickstarting the Ishbalan War. That said, the ultimate responsibility for the genocide is still the homunculi's, and given Envy wants to Kill All Humans, he certainly would have done what his manga/Brotherhood counterpart did if Dante had ordered him to.
• Adaptational Intelligence: This version of Envy is much more intelligent and manipulative than his manga counterpart, who was little more than a shortsighted, brutish bully.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Manga/Brotherhood Envy was already one of the evilest characters in the series, yet here, he's even worse. He doesn't even care for the other homunculi, unlike mangahood Envy, who was enraged at Lust's death. Mangahood Envy was also ultimately pitiable, while 2003 Envy is a spiteful sadist until the end.
• Adaptational Karma: Inverted. In the manga and Brotherhood, Colonel Mustang eventually discovers that it was Envy who murdered Hughes and responds by incinerating the homunculus. Here, Mustang never learns this and Envy never directly answers for the murder.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: Envy lacks his manga counterpart's One-Winged Angel form of an enormous, green-skinned monster. Doesn't qualify as Adaptational Wimp though, since Envy is overall a much better fighter here and his true form ultimately didn't help him that much in the manga.
• Antagonistic Offspring: To Hohenheim, due to being the failed human transmutation of his firstborn son.
• Age Lift: Envy in the manga/Brotherhood is the middle child of the homunculi at 175 years old and looks and acts around Edward's age, even insulting Greed and Lust for being older than they are. This Envy, however, is the eldest at over 380, was transmutated at his human death of 18 years, and accordingly behaves much more maturely.
• Agent Peacock: He's an elegant Dance Battler and even prettier than his genderless manga counterpart along with being a cunning manipulator, The Dragon and the most powerful homunculus after Pride.
• Arch-Enemy: For Edward, and the feeling's mutual as it is revealed that Envy is the homunculus of Dante and Hohenheim's son, and he does not like being replaced. As such, he personally goes out of his way to ensure the Elric brothers goes through hell (but mostly Ed).
• Ax-Crazy: This is a guy who gets his kicks out of mass-murder, Mind Screw and Kick the Dog.
• Badass Boast: "Keep trying Ed, I'm much stronger than you!"
• The Bad Guy Wins: He manages to (temporarily) kill Ed, gets to go through the Gate, and ultimately succeeds in killing Hohenheim. If any FMA 2003 villain succeeded in their goal, it's Envy.
• Beta Test Baddie: And he takes it very, very poorly.
• Berserk Button: Mentioning Hohenheim.
• Big Brother Bully: Of the "family" their master insists the homunculi act like, Envy is the oldest, and while he's actually pretty friendly with the others as long as they're following orders, he has very little patience and lashes out into verbal and physical abuse towards Pride, Wrath and Gluttony for saying or doing things he doesn't like. The way he sadistically toys with Greed and pre-Face–Heel Turn Wrath, and tries to return the former to his Fate Worse than Death, stands out. With the reveal of Hohenheim as his father, his cruelty towards the Elric brothers also qualifies him as a Big Brother Bully towards his human siblings.
• Cain and Abel: He holds a personal grudge against the Elric brothers (mostly Ed), who are his own half-brothers. He even succeeds in eventually killing Ed, albeit temporarily.
• Came Back Wrong: Like all homunculi, he came back as an unhinged shell of his former self. Being Hohenheim's first son makes him even more pissed off about his resurrection, as Hohenheim "abandoned" him for Ed and Al.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He tells Al that unlike the other homunculi, he is very much aware that Dante has no intention of helping him and he doesn't care. The only reason he has for working for Dante is so he can kill as many people as possible.
• Character Death: In Conqueror of Shamballa, when the Thule Society transmute his body to open a gate to Amestris. Notably, he's the final homunculus to die, making him the first and last of his kind.
• Co-Dragons: With Pride; while Pride controls Amestris as King Bradley, Envy is the Big Bad's right-hand and final line of physical defense.
• Composite Character: Shares many traits with manga Pride; he's both the eldest and cruelest of the homunculi to the point of abusing his younger "siblings", holds the deepest contempt of humans, usually speaks in a calm voice, and has the closest bond with their master.
  • Much like Father, he's a product of Hohenheim and thus related to the Elrics by blood, essentially being their half-brother.
• Consummate Liar: As a shapeshifter, he naturally lies to toy with others and to keep up his disguise.
• Contralto of Strength: Envy's voice is a deep yet feminine one and he is a serious threat to the cast, especially Edward.
• The Corrupter: Plays a major role in screwing up Wrath and making him eat the red stones, mostly for his own entertainment.
• Crossdressing Voices: In Japanese and English he's voiced by women (though still deep and raspy enough to sound convincing as an effeminate man) in his preferred form. Occasionally, his normal voice even slips out when disguised as other people, such as Bradley. This is invoked for creepiness and to provide a contrast from the baritone voice of his true form.
• Dance Battler: Quick, agile and spins pirouettes around Ed during their final confrontation.
• Deadpan Snarker: What sense of humor he has left is extremely sardonic.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the manga, they die by crushing their Philosopher's Stone out of shame after being pitied by Ed, while here he is transmuted into a portal to Amestris after Hohenheim commits suicide in his jaws.
• Dragon Their Feet: Thanks to crossing through the Gate, Envy survives into Conqueror of Shamballa, where he faces down with Ed again before dying with Hohenheim after the Thule Society captures and restrains him.
• Dragon with an Agenda: At the end of the series, he admits that he serves Dante solely in order to kill as many people as possible.
• Driven by Envy: It's his name, after all. Specifically, he's jealous of the Elric brothers for being Hohenheim's favorite sons. Unlike his manga counterpart, he doesn't seem to give a hoot about humans in general; that's more Lust's domain.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Unlike the manga and Brotherhood, Envy is explicitly male. That doesn’t change that his preferred form’s appearance, voice, and dress sense are all quite feminine. Pretty much the only thing that gives away his true gender is his lack of breasts. His original appearance is more masculine but still a Long-Haired Pretty Boy.
• Effeminate Voice: Envy is a very androgynous male (with even his "true" form being a Long-Haired Pretty Boy) and uses a feminine voice. This, however, is intentional on his part. He occasionally subverts this trope, usually when upset, and switches to a more masculine voice.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Averted. Envy is largely apathetic towards Dante, viewing her less as his mother and more as a means to which he can get his revenge on Hohenheim and the Elric brothers. When she seemingly does the job for him, he throws a temper tantrum about it.
• Evil Is Petty: Though he has a lot more self-control than in the manga, he’s not above going against plans or orders just to Kick the Dog, especially to spite the Elrics.
• Extremity Extremist: Envy fights almost entirely with kicks.
• Face of an Angel, Mind of a Demon: Envy's preferred form is admittedly "adorable,", as he himself puts it, but he's a creature of pure spite.
• Foreshadowing:
  • His motivation of hating Hohenheim (as well as his identity as Hohenheim's son) is foreshadowed heavily throughout the series, with him repeatedly referring to the Elrics as "the sons of that bastard."
    Envy: (to Ed) But I can never forgive you, and there will never be a time when I am able to forgive you for carrying that bastard's blood in your veins!
  • When taunting Edward about his height, Envy asks if Edward wants him to shapeshift into a taller version of him. It turns out that “a taller version of Ed” is basically what Envy’s true form is, thanks to him being the Elrics’ older half-brother.
• Freudian Excuse: His father, Hohenheim, "abandoned" him. It's a Downplayed Trope in the end, as it doesn't excuse his blatant disregard for his fellow homunculi or his utter sadism and hatred toward humanity.
• Gender Bender: Averted, as his preferred form is simply feminine. However, he does have the ability to shift to female forms at will and does so before killing Hughes in the form of his wife.
• Gender Flip: While the Envy of the manga/Brotherhood is referred to with masculine pronouns for the sake of convenience, they’re entirely Otherworldly and Sexually Ambiguous, and possibly a case of No Biological Sex. This Envy has the same androgynous preferred form as the manga/Brotherhood counterpart, but his true form is male.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Naturally. He's specifically jealous of the Elric brothers (especially Ed) for being able to receive Hohenheim's love, which he never got.
• The Heavy: Their master may be the Big Bad, but Envy and Pride move the plot along by personally coordinating the activities of the other homunculi with the Amestrian military.
• Hate Sink: Envy's nothing but a cold, spiteful sadist whose greatest desire is to murder his own father.
• Hero Killer: He kills Hughes and ultimately Ed, though Al undoes the latter.
• Horrifying the Horror:
  • Even he seems more than a little disturbed when Dante transmutes Gluttony's reasoning away and turns him into a mindless eating machine. It's not clear, however, if his shock is at what Dante did or what Gluttony became.
  • Soon after, he's unsettled when Ed manages to cross through the Gate of Truth.
• Humanshifting: While Envy in the manga is also frequently shown transforming into animals or using Shapeshifter Weapons, this Envy is almost exclusively shown disguising himself as humans or other homunculi, and using his combat prowess and super strength to fight instead. However, he does turn his arm into a blade to kill Edward, and transforms into a dragon while passing through the Gate.
• Immortality Begins at Twenty: Envy died when he was eighteen and became a homunculus incapable of aging. It's unknown how old his preferred appearance is supposed to be, but his true form down not give away how old he really is.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: His belief that the homunculi are better than humans stems largely from his status as a Beta Test Baddie, and his envy of others' good fortune. Unlike in the manga, he does not receive a spec of pity for this.
• It's All About Me: Everything is for him only. Even his loyalty to the Big Bad is self-serving.
• Jerkass: This homunculus takes the word "asshole" to a whole new level. Cruel, sadistic and merciless to the end, this version of Envy stands out from his manga counterpart by having no regard to even his siblings.
• Karma Houdini: In the original series, where he successfully kills Ed and leaves through the Gate. Averted in Conqueror of Shamballa, where he gets trapped in the form of a dragon and is captured and tortured by the Nazis, though he gets the final satisfaction of Hohenheim dying by his hand.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Downplayed, but he finally bites the dust in the The Movie. While he does get his wish of killing Hohenheim, it isn't particularly long-lived, as he dies immediately after.
• Kick the Dog: He's a big fan of kicking people when they're already down, literally.
• Knight of Cerebus: Out of all the antagonists in the series, Envy is the one who most often sets the more serious plot in motion, and whenever he appears, things really get dark. This includes him killing Hughes, which drives the point even further how dangerous the homunculi really are and subjects his siblings to a horrendous domestic abuse. Envy is also taken far more seriously than any other antagonist in the series (who are mostly curb-stomped in battle), further cementing his status when he is revealed to be the half-brother of Ed and Al and thus their most personally connected antagonist from all other villains.
• Lack of Empathy:
  • He's a huge sadist who loves to rub salt in the wound. Needless to say, he doesn't feel bad about it.
  • This attitude even extends to his fellow homunculi: he's greatly annoyed by Wrath mourning Sloth and Gluttony mourning Lust.
• Lean and Mean: Whereas he's more muscular in the manga.
• Lightning Bruiser: He can easily punch craters into solid pavement, push around Alphonse like a rag doll and tear down stone walls in his dragon form, while being fast and agile enough to dodge all of Greed's attacks and even knock down King Bradley/Pride, the show's resident speedster, before the latter could even react.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: During the final confrontation with Ed, he reveals that he is the incarnation of Hohenheim's first son with Dante, and is thus, at least on an emotional and spiritual level, Ed and Al's half-brother... And then mortally wounds Ed while the former is distracted by this.
• Manipulative Bastard: Even without his shapeshifting, Envy is very good at getting people to do what he wants, demonstrated by how he corrupts Wrath from an innocent Wild Child into a monster.
• Masculine, Feminine, Androgyne Trio: The androgyne with Lust and Gluttony.
• Meaningful Name: Much more so than the other homunculi. His entire character is based around jealousy, especially of Ed and Al for being Hohenheim's "replacement" sons.
• The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: During Conqueror of Shamballa, Envy has been been trapped as a dragon for two years in the other world. While fighting Ed, Envy no longer taunts him - only yelling that he wants Ed dead. Besides that, he mainly growls and roars with little sign of his former personality, suggesting that he's gone a little bonkers.
• Misanthrope Supreme: Utterly contemptuous of people, and convinced that their lives have no real value, and will callously murder any human who gets too close. He even looks forward to world where humans are extinct and there are only homunculi.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: He's svelte yet endowed with Super-Strength, punching craters into the floor.
• No Name Given: His human name from when he was Hohenheim and Dante's son is never revealed.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Post-Villainous Breakdown in Conqueror Of Shamballa when he gets stuck in the shape of a dragon.
• Omnicidal Maniac: In lieu of killing Ed and Hohenheim, he enjoys causing widespread misery. He even says as much after he kills Ed:
  Wrath: He's... dead?
  Envy: That's right, he's setting the pace. For every human to follow. Now we'll kill off each one of them until only homunculi are left!
• Patricide: One of his goals in life which he ultimately achieves, being the direct cause of Hohenheim's suicide.
• Practically Different Generations: He's the incarnation of Ed and Al's half-brother, despite being about 4 centuries older than them.
• Posthumous Sibling: He's Ed and Al's older half-brother who died four hundred years before they were born. While his homunculus self is still around, whatever sort of person he was as a human is likely long gone.
• Psycho for Hire: Works for the Big Bad because it gives him the chance to hurt as many people as possible. He admits that if those opportunities ever vanished he'd seek new employment.
• Rage Against the Heavens: Rage Against the Gate of Truth, anyway. In the final episode, he forces open the Gate and demands that it take him to Hohenheim. The Gate complies.
• Related in the Adaptation: He is Ed and Al's half-brother through their father, Hohenheim.
• The Resenter: See Beta Test Baddie above.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: He admits his torment of the Elric brothers is a way of taking revenge on his father, Hohenheim, for abandoning him in favour of them.
• Rule of Symbolism: His transformation into a dragon resembles (a). the homunculi's ouroboros tattoos and (b). the biblical Leviathan, described by St. Thomas Aquinas as the demon of envy.
• Samus Is a Girl: Unlike in the manga and Brotherhood, Envy is never actually referred to by gendered pronouns in this version, likely to hide that his true form is that of Dante and Hohenheim's biologically male son. That said, his preferred form has a noticeable lack of breasts and is presumably male.
• Scaled Up: Turns into an enormous dragon while crossing through the Gate. He proceeds to get stuck like this because alchemy and homunculus powers do not work in the other world.
• Shadow Archetype: Serves as one to Wrath who shares his fashion sense and personality, but not his level of evil. One could argue that he serves as one to Ed, if the former's anger ever turned to resentment.
• Shape Shifter Guilt Trip: His go-to move.
  • In his duel with Ed, he transforms into several of Ed's deceased friends, such as Dr. Marcoh, Hughes, and Trisha/Sloth. It doesn't work... until Envy shows his true face.
  • It does, however, work on Hughes, who can't bring himself to attack once Envy takes on Gracia's form.
• Shapeshifter Mode Lock: After having crossed over the Gate into our world where alchemy doesn't work, he is stuck in the last form he took while still traversing the Gate, a giant serpentine dragon.
• Shapeshifting Trickster: Envy is portrayed as far more intelligent than his manga counterpart and often relies on tricking his opponents and combat pragmatism than brute force to further his plan like in the manga. During a fight with Ed, despite already being a skilled fighter, he transforms into a variety of people to shock the alchemist and give him an opening. It ends up working.
• Shapeshifter Default Form: Envy's preferred form is an androgynous one with long green hair and a low, feminine voice. However, it turns out this isn't actually his true form - that would be Hohenheim and Dante's son, the human he was transmuted from.
• Sissy Villain: A male psychopathic killer in a crop top and skort who enjoys looking young and cute, with long hair, an acrobatic fighting style, and an androgynous figure and voice to boot. It's especially noticeable next to his fellow homunculus Greed, who's more conventionally masculine and a ton more sympathetic.
• Slasher Smile: Frequently has one of these. He sports a notably huge one when killing Ed.
• Smug Super: Envy is extremely arrogant and gloats a lot. He’s also the strongest of the homunculi and able to defeat pretty much every opponent he faces.
• The Sociopath: Sadist? Check. Consummate Liar? Check. It's All About Me? Check. Lack of Empathy? Double check!
• Straw Nihilist: He hates humanity and even admits he's only working with Dante to kill as many people as he can, as well as torment the Elrics, unlike the other homunculi who just want to be normal humans.
• Super-Strength: Envy's secondary ability after shapeshifting. He effortlessly carries Al's armored body over his shoulder, cracks concrete by punching it, and flails Greed around one-handed.
• Superior Species: The only homunculus who doesn't really care about becoming human.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: Is responsible for poisoning Lujon's village with the fossil disease.
• Teens Are Monsters: Will be forever an eighteen-year-old due to being a homunculus.
• The Unfavorite: Envy is the result of the failed human transmutation of Hohenheim and Dante's son, and hates that Ed and Al are their father's favored "sons" while he was abandoned.
• Villainous Breakdown:
  • Killing Ed doesn't exactly appease him, and he really loses it when he realizes Al will stop Dante's plans and, in effect, his own. After he's sent to the Gate while trying to stop Al from using the stone, Ed (who's a spirit at that point) informs him that Hohenheim is still alive. He forces the Gate open, screaming all the way and losing control of his powers 'til he's permanently turned into a dragon.
  • He also suffers a more minor one beforehand when Dante incorrectly tells him that Hohenheim is dead.
• Villain Decay: Envy is the deadliest homunculus in the series, but in Conqueror of Shamballa, he's totally sidelined by the Thule Society and sacrificed to open a portal between our world and the alchemic one.
• Vocal Evolution: In his earlier appearances, his voice sounds deep and smooth; by the end, it becomes more gravelly. And since he is voice acted by women, this gets a bit uncanny and creepy when his voice changes from being somewhat deep but still feminine to a very raspy masculine voice.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: His special ability allows him to turn into anyone he wishes, like Cornello.

Greed

Greed

Voiced by: Jun'ichi Suwabe (JP), Chris Patton (EN)^{Other Languages}Manuel Bellido (Spain, first apparitions), José Padilla (Spain, rest of the series), Salvador Pérez (Latin America), Alexandre Marconato (Brazil), Thierry Kazazian (French)

A homunculus so greedy he won't play second fiddle to anyone, even his creator, Greed is the "black sheep" of the homunculi and escapes from a state of Sealed Evil in a Can due to the Elrics. He later surfaces to trouble them. From his backstory we learn he's a failed transmutation by the homunculi's master of a lover who rebelled from the master’s rule, being uninterested in the master's egomaniac quest for the Philosopher's Stone.

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• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In the manga, he escaped his creator and went rogue for a century before being captured and temporarily killed off to be reincarnated in Ling Yao. Here he was imprisoned by Envy for 130 years and allows himself to die permanently so he can be free.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Greed is still one of the least malicious homunculi, but unlike his manga/Brotherhood counterpart, he doesn't live long enough to pull a Heel–Face Turn. However, he does tell Ed the secret to killing homunculi right before he dies and entrusts him with taking the others down.
• Affably Evil: Always polite and before his death, even tells Ed how to kill a homunculus.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Ed is clearly distraught that he had to kill him, and he makes sure to give the guy a proper burial.
• Bad Guy Bar: The Devil's Nest, his hideout.
• Benevolent Boss: To his minions.
• Code Name: He is occasionally referred to as "The Ultimate Shield", which also refers to a technique where he uses alchemy to cover his body in a nearly impervious shell.
• Death Seeker: By the time he finds himself alone at Dante's mansion and left vulnerable to be imprisoned again, it's implied that he just wants to end it all.
• Death by Adaptation: He only sticks around for a handful of episodes, whereas in the manga and Brotherhood he comes Back from the Dead and remains an important character until the end.
• Demoted to Extra: He gets a handful of important scenes, but Greed has less overall screentime in this version than he does in the manga and Brotherhood, since his first death is permanent.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Stabbed by Ed instead of being melted in lava by Father.
• Greed: Unlike Lust, who wants abstracts like meaning and humanity, Greed wants to own everything and seeks immortality to give himself the possibility of doing so. Most of all, he wants to be his own man and outlive Dante.
• Go Out with a Smile: His final moments alive have him smiling, satisfied that he has escaped Dante's clutches. Although this quickly changes when he convulses and finally dies with a Nightmare Face.
• I Die Free: Despite his lifelong goal of immortality, he ultimately decides he would rather die than be imprisoned again.
• Immortality: His goal in life.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Finished off by being run through.
• Irony: Greed's stated goal is to be immortal, which is technically lusting for something instead of being greedy. While it initially seems to fit in that immortality is just the means for him to have enough time to hoard everything else he wants, his final moments show his driving motivation was fear and/or hatred of Dante and he willingly forgoes his own life to spite her — again, not very greedy at all.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: He retreats when both Envy and Sloth corner him on Yock Island, stating, "I may be greedy, but I'm not a fool."
• Lean and Mean: He's not that mean, but he is on the lanky - though still muscular - side with long arms.
• Meaningful Name: He directly points out that his name refers to him wanting everything.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: His Ultimate Shield mode restructures the carbon in his skin into armor, rendering him near immune to stabbing or punching. Ed kills him by transmuting his skin into graphite and stabbing him before he can reform, a trick Greed's manga incarnation would later use against Father.
• Pragmatic Villain: Not as nice as manga Greed, but ambivalent towards the heroes and wants to be left alone with his designs. He crosses the brothers' path mainly because he believes Alphonse can teach him how to become immortal.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: His sclerae turn red in his Ultimate Shield form.
• Slasher Smile: In his normal form, he has shark-like teeth; his Ultimate Shield form is a more traditional example.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Despite having less screentime than his Brotherhood counterpart, he gives Ed the tools he needs to kill homunculi, which become very useful later.
• Strike Me Down with All of Your Hatred!: Pulls it on Ed as part of his suicide.
• Suicide by Cop: With the prospect of being imprisoned forever by Dante, he goads Ed into killing him, and with his last words, tells Ed how to kill homunculi.
• Take Over the World: His other goal in life.
• Taking You with Me: When the other homunculi flush him out of his hideout, he tries to murder Dante. When that fails, he passes that torch on to Ed.
• Thanatos Gambit: He lets Ed kill him in order to show Ed how to kill the other homunculi, giving Ed what he needs to take down Dante and the others.
• Villains Never Lie: "It's my policy to always tell the truth."
• Wild Card: He hates the Big Bad, but isn't joining the heroes either.
• Worf Had the Flu: He's weakened by Dante before Ed fights him, giving Ed the opportunity to strike Greed down.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: He refuses to fight back against Izumi, flat-out stating he has no intention of fighting a woman. He also backs down when confronted by Sloth.

Sloth (SPOILERS)

Sloth

Voiced by: Yoshino Takamori (JP), Lydia Mackay (EN)^{Other Languages}Chelo Vivares (Spain), Úrsula Cobucci (Latin America), Cecília Lemes (Brazil), Brigitte Aubry (French)

^{Click here to see her in her Juliet Douglas disguise}

One of the younger homunculi (and implied to be at least the second of her name by Greed), Sloth is the homunculi's inside spy in the Amestris military through her civilian identity as the Führer's secretary, Juliet Douglas. She is revealed to be the failed human transmutation of Trisha Elric.

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• Adaptation Origin Connection: The Elric brothers have a much more personal relationship with Sloth due to her being the failed transmutation of their mom.
• Ascended Extra: This version of Sloth has a more prominent role in the 2003 series due to having a personal connection to the Elric Brothers.
• Amnesiac Dissonance: The more time she spends interacting with Ed and Al, the more of the original Trisha's memories return to her. She's desperate to kill the boys before the memories return completely, "killing" her as she's replaced by their mother.
• Beta Test Baddie: Like Lust, she feels incomplete. Unlike Lust, she decides the best way to deal with it is by killing everyone connected with her former identity so she can become her own person.
• Blob Monster: Her body is comprised entirely of liquid, and bullets and swords simply go through her. Sloth was virtually unstoppable, even after the red stones were removed from her body. Had Wrath not fused with her, thus exposing her to Trisha's remains, Sloth would have succeeded in killing the Elrics. Ironically, she ends up being killed by Ed simply changing the water and carbon in her body into ethanol, causing her to evaporate. Her biggest strength likewise turned out to be her downfall.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: She is much more powerful than she looks, but true to her sin, she rarely uses her full power.
• Broken Bird: Because she feels that having been the Elrics' mother in her past life as Trisha, she feels that she isn't a complete person any longer. She also takes a younger person under her wing like many other BB's do, this person being Wrath.
• Combat Tentacles: Her water abilities often manifest as this, when she turns her arms into liquid.
• Composite Character:
  • Of Sloth and the homunculus who Ed and Al created when trying to transmute Trisha.
  • Her powers are also similar to Manga/Brotherhood Pride — both homunculi are even able to control Al's body by slithering inside his armor.
• Dark Action Girl: She's a mistress of her water abilities and, while not entirely up close like Lust, she's still a formidable opponent toward the Elrics.
• Dissonant Serenity: Sloth never bothers to emote particularly strongly, and as a result tends to remain calm and composed even as she's, say, suffocating someone to death.
• Dead Person Impersonation: Her official identity is Juliet Douglas, a soldier who fired the shot that started the war with Ishbal.
• Dying as Yourself: Maybe, if her last words (in which she tells the Elrics to take care of themselves) are anything to go by.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Has very light skin and dark hair, is extremely stoic to others, and can attack without breaking character.
• Elemental Shapeshifter: Unlike Envy, her shapeshifting powers are limited as a manifestation of her water powers.
• Emotionless Girl: Subverted. She tries to be this, but fails during her battle with the Elric brothers.
• Evil Is Petty: Wants to kill the brothers in order to prove that she's capable of having a life independent of Trisha.
• Faux Affably Evil: Downplayed. Whenever she's up against Ed or Al, expect her to act a lot like their mom even as she's trying to kill them.
• Foil: To Lust. Lust wants to embrace her memories of her former self, Sloth wants to escape from them.
• Gender Flip: Sloth in the manga turned out to be a male character.
• Go Out with a Smile: She's smiling serenely in her final moments, seemingly proud of her sons for managing to kill her.
• The Hecate Sisters: Sloth is the Mother to Lust's Maiden and Dante's Crone.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Coddling Wrath like her own child ends up backfiring. In trying to help her defeat the Elrics, he absorbs her remains into his body and then impulsively fuses with her, thinking they can combine their power. This winds up freezing Sloth in place and allows Edward to easily kill her.
• In Name Only: She's a totally different character from manga Sloth, with a different design, backstory, power-set, and gender. Justified, since by the time the anime had begun airing, Sloth hadn't appeared yet.
• Intimate Marks: Not quite on Lust's level, but her tattoo is on her collar bone near her bust.
• Kill It with Water: Has a liquid body.
• Lazy Bum: Both mentally and physically. Unlike the other homunculi, she never bothers to come to terms with her existence, and her combat style involves staying still as much as possible.
  • Notably, she's made of water, a substance known for usually taking the path of least resistance.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Works on Al. Subverted in that she is convinced that she is not their mother, and wants to prove otherwise by killing the Elrics; she uses the trope to mess with them, but doesn't believe it herself.
• Magic Pants: Her water-shifting does not seem to affect the dress she wears, although it does affect her secretary suit at one point.
• Making a Splash: Her power.
• Manipulative Bitch: Plays with Ed and Al's heads throughout their battle, actually convincing the latter to try and protect her.
• Meaningful Name: She's not slothful in the traditional sense (certainly not in her manga counterpart's interpretation) of mere laziness, but instead embodies apathy and wanting to take the path of least resistance to accomplish her goals. Rather than risking regaining Trisha's memories and having to continue living with them, she would prefer to kill Ed and Al to minimize the chances of growing to love them and possibly losing her own agency.
• Not So Stoic: When it involves Wrath.
• Offing the Offspring: Her life's goal is to murder Ed and Al, her former self's sons, so that she can have her own life.
• Parental Substitute: Acts as Wrath's mother.
• Red Herring: Early on, she is heavily implied to be running the country for the Big Bad behind King Bradley's back and that she is the cause for a lot of the military's corruption. Turns out, however, that Bradley is just as in on the whole thing as she is.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: She's the blue to Wrath's red.
• Sexy Secretary: As Juliet Douglas.
• Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: Uses her resemblance to Trisha as a weapon against Ed and Al.
• Slime Girl: A non-Cute Monster Girl example. She can turn into slime, but she doesn't adopt the transparent girl look most slime girls have, instead usually keeping her human and slime forms distinct.
• Stepford Smiler: Her calm demeanor hides her identity crisis and desire to be a real human and not just an echo of Trisha.
• Tragic Villain: Seeing as how she was formerly the Elric brothers' sweet mother, it's upsetting to see her now trying to kill them just so she can become her own person. Moreover, during the battle with Ed, Sloth becomes increasingly unsure if she is their mother or not.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: She's not on Envy's level, but her water abilities make her capable of altering her appearance in various ways, such as appearing more human in her disguise and modelling herself after Izumi so Wrath will take her as a Parental Substitute.
• Water Is Womanly: A beautiful woman in a dress with long gloves who can alter her body into pure water.

Wrath

Wrath

Voiced by: Nana Mizuki (JP), Luci Christian (EN)^{Other Languages}Amparo Bravo (Spain), Inma Gallego (Spain, Conqueror of Shamballa), Héctor Indriago (Latin America), Fábio Lucindo (Brazil), Françoise Escobar (French)

^{Click here to see him post-series}

A hot-tempered, needy child, first discovered by Ed in a feral state, who underwent a Face–Heel Turn thanks to Envy. He is the failed transmutation of Izumi Curtis' dead son.

Wrath’s introduction is roughly when the series' narrative completely breaks away from the manga's.

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• Ambiguous Innocence: As a Wild Child, Wrath is completely ignorant of social norms before his Heel–Face Turn. For one thing, he can't seem to understand the difference between being dead and asleep.
• And I Must Scream: Being trapped beyond the Gate was not a fun experience for him.
• Artificial Limbs: Gets automail limbs after the final battle to replace the ones he got from Ed's transmutation.
• Ax-Crazy: Post Face–Heel Turn after Envy gave him red stones.
• The Berserker: After Gluttony, he's the one who's likely to charge into a fight without thinking.
• Berserk Button: Harming Sloth, as well as the sound of Rosé's baby crying.
• Beta Test Baddie: The way he views himself, though Izumi doesn't feel this way at all.
• The Brute: Of the Pint-Sized Powerhouse variant, sharing this role with Gluttony.
• Calling the Old Man Out: He calls out Izumi for having left him at the Gate. Given the context, Izumi is greatly distressed by the callout.
• Children Are Innocent: Before he's tricked into eating red stones, he's an innocent (albeit creepy) Wild Child.
• Composite Character: Like manga Pride, he's a particularly ferocious homunculus who initially appears to be an innocent child. He also takes over manga Envy's role as the excitable, reckless homunculus with Lovecraftian Superpowers. Furthermore, he's the resurrected form of Izumi's stillborn child from the manga, and takes Truth's role as the being at the Gate that steals Ed's limbs. Truth even shares his voice actor in Brotherhood.
  • Like Father, he's the only homunculus who has alchemical abilities. The similarities don't end there, though, as evidenced by their links to the protagonists. Just as how Father was brought to life through Hohenheim's blood and took his form, Wrath stole Ed's limbs to escape the Gate of Truth, essentially making them related.
• Creepy Child: While odd at first, Wrath becomes full-out psychotic post Face–Heel Turn... while still being a desperate Momma's Boy.
• Cute and Psycho: Post Face–Heel Turn, especially with his Slasher Smile.
• Death Seeker: In Conqueror of Shamballa.
• Decomposite Character: He becomes this to his sin in hindsight, since King Bradley is Wrath in the manga.
• Didn't Think This Through: He impulsively fuses his body with Sloth's so she can't leave him again, forgetting he ingested Trisha's remains to keep them out of Edward's hands. This leads to Sloth's death.
• Driven to Suicide: Implied in Conquerors of Shamballa.
  Wrath: Please... I just wanna go home... where Mommy is...
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Takes this up to eleven in the movie, where he's older and even more androgynous than in the anime.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: His extremely pale skin and black hair provide a sharp contrast between the healthy color of his human arm and leg.
• Enfante Terrible: Post Face–Heel Turn.
• Establishing Character Moment: His very first line of dialogue (not counting him crying when Izumi asks him who he is and where his parents are) is when the Elrics check up on him while everyone is asleep. It's a pretty big tip off that he's not a normal kid.
  Wrath: Everyone's dead, so I got bored! You wanna play?
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Towards Sloth and eventually towards his real mother, Izumi.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He views Sloth as his mother and is fiercely protective of her.
• Face–Heel Turn: When Envy feeds him red stones. And then he does a Heel–Face Turn in Conqueror of Shamballa.
• Fate Worse than Death: Izumi abandoned him at the Gate when he was just a baby, leading to his fury towards her during the story.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Though not as much as you'd think, he still goes for more of the rage-filled side of Wrath than the Tranquil Fury side of his King Bradley counterpart in the manga.
• Hellish Pupils: As most homunculi have, though he notably starts off having round pupils until he consumes the red stones, after which they shrink into a snakelike form.
• Heroic Sacrifice: A big one in Conqueror of Shamballa.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: An extremely tragic one that results in the death of his mother figure, Sloth. First he attempts to protect her by sealing away her Achilles' Heel inside himself. Then he tries to protect her by binding himself to her. This results in Sloth being exposed to her weakness and immobilized and killed.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Part of his character involves deep trauma from Izumi having left him at the Gate. As a result of that, Wrath seeks out maternal affection from Sloth. Once Sloth dies, he becomes bitter and depressed, and in Conqueror of Shamballa is a Death Seeker trying desperately to reunite with Izumi.
• Keet: Even when evil he's an energetic, playful child.
• Meaningful Name: He's prone to extreme mood fluctuations, the most common of which is rage. When he's not doting on Sloth, he's attempting to kill Ed or any baby whose cry he hears.
• Momma's Boy: His whole motivation is desire for maternal love, but after his corruption, he comes to hate his mother, Izumi, and takes Sloth as his mother figure instead. However, after Sloth's death and his Heel–Face Turn, he does accept his true mother and joins her in the afterlife.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: During his last battle with Ed, he manages to grab and absorb Trisha's remains to keep him from using them against Sloth. He later fuses himself to Sloth in the hopes of combining their powers to fight Ed, completely forgetting this fact. As such, Sloth is frozen in place and allows Ed to easily finish her off, much to Wrath's dismay.
• No Infantile Amnesia: He has memories of his transmutation from a stillbirth, remembers who Izumi is and hearing crying infants triggers post-traumatic episodes for him. Justified due to his artificial creation, and it's said that a homunculus' memories of their human life are transplanted from the person who performed their transmutation.
• No Nudity Taboo: Early on, justified due to being a Wild Child who had been left on his own since he was born.
• Parental Abandonment: Definitely how Wrath sees the situation. Izumi might disagree though.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Surprisingly strong for a little guy. Fitting, considering that he embodies the sin of wrath.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Sloth's blue as well as Envy's.
• Shapeshifter Weapon: His homunculus power is the ability to absorb matter and shape it however he wishes. He seems to prefer whips and spears.
• Slasher Smile: Constantly after his Face–Heel Turn, just like his big brother Envy.
• The Sociopath: Post Face–Heel Turn.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Zig-zagged. Izumi's baby is unambiguously dead in the manga, but here, he's resurrected as a homunculus. Then, he dies for real in the movie.
• Stupid Evil: Downplayed by at least being a formidable fighter, but is still impulsive and irresponsible.
• Teens Are Monsters: He's a little younger than Edward and Alphonse and, after being tricked into eating red stones, becomes cruel and temperamental.
• This Is Your Brain on Evil: He acts pretty harmless until he's fed red stones, at which point he is awakened as a homunculus and becomes hostile.
• Together in Death: He is last shown meeting up with Izumi's spirit at the Gate and embracing her.
• Tragic Villain: He desperately wants a mom, only to realize he had one in the movie. And if Envy hadn't corrupted him, he would've been a normal kid.
• Trauma Button: Suffers traumatic memories of being sealed in the Gate when he hears a baby crying.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: While he was ignorant of social norms and was a bit creepy, Wrath was a genuinely innocent child before Envy found him and tricked him into eating red stones.
• Voluntary Shapeshifter: He possesses the ability to transform his nonhuman limbs into other matter.
• Wild Child: Looks and acts a lot like a feral child, growing up in the Gate with nobody to care for him and then being discovered on an uninhabited island.
• Would Hit a Girl: Not only is he willing to fight his own mother, but he also attacks Rosé at one point and ends up being the one who kills Lust.
• Would Hurt a Child: Ironically, despite being one himself. He was more than willing to kill Rosé's baby at one point for triggering his Trauma Button.
• Wrong Context Magic: Thanks to having Ed's limbs, Wrath can use alchemy, allowing him to activate transmutation circles and improve his absorption abilities. Also, because he was transmuted from Izumi's baby, he left no remains that could be used against him.

Pride (SPOILERS)

Pride / Führer King Bradley

Voiced by: Hidekatsu Shibata (JP), Ed Blaylock (EN)^{Other Languages}Fernando Hernández (Spain), José Granadillo (Latin America), Luiz Antônio Lobue (Brazil), Yann Pichon (French)

Pride is the most powerful of the homunculi. He is alluded to only vaguely and isn't revealed until late in the series, where it turns out he's really Führer King Bradley, the ruler of Amestris.

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• Adaptation Name Change: Bradley is still a homunculus in the manga/Brotherhood, but he's Wrath rather than Pride.
• Adaptation Personality Change:
  • This version of Bradley takes great offense at affronts to his status or suggestions that he failed, such as Envy accusing him of being a Puppet King, or Hughes indirectly suggesting that his government administration failed or made oversights. He doesn't particularly care about the casualties. In the manga, Bradley openly admitted the fact that he was a puppet king and wasn't bothered by being one, so long as he helped his creator with his goals - warfare, discord, and death. Aside from the Adaptational Villainy below, this change mainly mirrors the change in the sin that his status as a homunculus represents - from Wrath to Pride.
  • Manga Bradley explicitly rejects the existence of God, while here he sees himself as an agent of God's will.
• Adaptational Badass: He's just as good a swordsman as manga Bradley but with typical homunculus healing too.
• Adaptational Villainy: He was still a clear villain in the manga, but in that, he was at least a relatively amiable man with a genuinely friendly demeanor. Here, however, he's a cold-hearted sociopath whose "kindness" is only skin-deep. This makes sense, though, when you consider the fact that this King Bradley represents the sin of pride instead of the sin of wrath, so him being selfish and cold-hearted comes naturally.
• Age Lift: He's neither the oldest nor the youngest of his brethren.
• A God Am I: Not God, but Pride considers himself equivalent to an angel enacting God's will.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Bradley appears to be a cool Reasonable Authority Figure and overall alright person until he turns out to be Pride.
• Character Exaggeration: Not as severe as Kimblee, but this version of Bradley has none of manga Bradley's sympathetic qualities and has his ruthlessness turned way up. He's a mean, vicious bastard and that's about all there is to him.
• Co-Dragons: With Envy; Pride controls Amestris for his master while Envy directly supervises the other homunculi.
• Combat Clairvoyance: Like his manga counterpart, his left eye grants him precognitive powers and superhuman senses.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Incinerated by Mustang instead of being killed by Scar.
• Dissonant Serenity: He's so certain of himself that he maintains his calm and jovial attitude even under the most unfitting circumstances, like while impaling Marta while she's hiding inside Al or fighting Roy Mustang to the death.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He is shown at one point telling a soldier to send flowers to Mrs. Bradley because she gets lonely when he's gone, and also has a nice father-son relationship with Selim. However, his relationships with them are downplayed compared to the manga (where Bradley's relationships with his family and the manga Pride's views on his Morality Pet are bigger parts of their characters), and ultimately subverted when Selim unknowingly brings Pride his human remains, causing Pride to snap and choke him to death in a cold rage.
• Evil Genius: Serves as the homunculi's deep-cover agent, and provides weapons, coordination and troops for the master plan.
• Eyes Always Shut: His eyes are normally shut, giving him a friendly, affable appearance. When they're fully open, he means business.
• Faux Affably Evil: Not quite like his manga Bradley counterpart who was more nihilistic, this Bradley's quirky Reasonable Authority Figure act only undermines what an arrogant and sadistic monster he is.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Lets Roy incinerate him once, just to test his healing abilities.
• Hate Sink: Lacks the redeeming qualities of his fellow homunculi and is an all-around unpleasant fellow to be around.
• The Heavy: Plays this role with Envy within his capacity as ruler of Amestris.
• Irony:
  • Has Instantaneous regeneration in this version, considerable since in both the manga and Brotherhood, Bradley lacks this feature because he struggled enough to reduce the stone to one soul, basically making him the same as a human, just as fragile, but tough as hell like the rest of the cast.
  • Murders his innocent son Selim in a fit of wrath. Come Brotherhood, it is revealed that Bradley is Wrath while "Selim" is his far more powerful older brother Pride.
• Jerkass: Once his true personality is revealed, his words are dripping with venomous contempt.
• Kick the Dog: His murder of poor Marta and Selim.
• Kill It with Fire: How Roy deals with him. After he's nothing but a puddle, he sets it aflame and throws Bradley's own skull in the fire as well.
• Lack of Empathy: His killing of Marta and nonchalantly congratulating Al on helping "trap" her illustrates this quite nicely in him.
• Magical Eye: His ouroboros is on his left eye, which is the "Ultimate Eye." As Bradley, he hides it from humans with an Eyepatch of Power.
• Master Race: As befitting the incarnation of Pride, he views homunculi as superior to humans (with himself as the greatest example of them, of course), and isn't interested in becoming more human. He also hates alchemists, because homunculi are The Soulless and can't perform alchemy.
• Meaningful Name: He's rather boastful of his skills as a military leader when fighting with Mustang in the final episodes, and is the sin with the greatest sense of personal freedom in being able to choose how he lives his life.
• Morality Pet: His son Selim, who he seems to regard as an exception to his general contempt for mankind. Right up until Selim makes an innocent mistake and Pride strangles him to death, calling him foolish.
• Narcissist: Not surprisingly, given his sin.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: As the Führer of Amestris, Bradley orders military conflicts and even a genocide in Ishbal. In addition to the horror of him doing so in the hopes a Philosopher's Stone will be created for Dante, Bradley also tells Mustang his quashing of dissidents and Isbalans has "purified" the population of Amestris.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: He can come back from being blown up entirely, letting Roy do it because he was curious about the outcome. Unlike many of the other homunculi, who could at least get slowed down without requiring their remains to be present, without his remains, there's no way to keep him down.
• Not So Stoic: When Selim ends up exposing him to his Achilles' Heel he instantly goes berserk and murders his own child.
• Number Two: The right-hand man for the homunculi's master, and the leader among the homunculi. Has many characteristics of The Dragon as well, given his status as the most powerful Homunculus; that position however is fulfilled by Envy.
• Offing the Offspring: Kills Selim for bringing his skull to him unknowingly while Roy and Pride are fighting. Bonus points for poor Selim not even knowing why he was being killed by his father.
• President Evil: Is Amestris' military dictator who manipulates his citizens with the end goal of sacrificing them to be turned into a new Philosopher's Stone for his master. To add to that, while his Wrath counterpart is mean-spirited and nihilistic, the Pride in the 2003 anime is a rather sadistic man who takes great pleasure in what he's doing.
• Pride: He doesn't even seem to consider the possibility that he could lose, and sees nothing wrong with keeping his greatest weakness right in his own home. His pre-fight speech indicates that he holds all of humanity in contempt and sees himself as an agent of God. Unlike his manga counterpart, whose 'pride' stems from being The Dragon and the one closest to the Big Bad, Pride in this incarnation is more focused on his own accomplishments as the leader of Amestris. Additionally, the homunculi's master considers the fact that he can age like a human to be one of the master’s proudest achievements, going so far as to call him said master’s "greatest masterpiece" and considering how old and conceited that master is, that's saying something.
• Pride Before a Fall: Fittingly enough, Pride meets his end after he left his one weakness in his own home to be discovered by his son.
• Related in the Adaptation: In the manga, Selim was Bradley's adopted son due to being another homunculus, Pride. Here, Selim appears to be Bradley's biological son, as there's no mention of him being adopted and Dante took great personal pride in Bradley being the closest homunculus to a flesh and blood human.
• Puppet King: Envy calls him one in the dub. Both he and his master take offense to that.
• The Unreveal: Similar to Gluttony, Pride's human life is never elaborated on.
• Sadist: Unlike his Bradley counterpart in the manga, he thoroughly enjoys the cruel actions he commits in the series, taking pleasure in being the superior species.
• The Sociopath: At least manga!Bradley was Affably Evil and genuinely polite to people even though he was Wrath. This Bradley, true to his sin, sees other people as inferior to him and his "politeness" is just a facade.
• Token Evil Teammate: The homunculi are generally more antivillainous and tragic than their manga counterparts, especially Lust, Sloth, and Wrath. Even Envy, for all his hatred and sadism, at the very least has a Freudian Excuse. Pride, on the other hand, is an arrogant, sadistic dick who exists solely to be hated.
• Villain Ball: He murders Selim for bringing his one weakness into the room where he is fighting Roy, thus ensuring that the item in question remains present and giving Mustang time to free himself.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Bigger on the "villain" in this version.
• Walking Spoiler: Knowing about his public identity as King Bradley gives away a huge twist in the series.
• Would Hurt a Child: Furiously kills his own son for unknowingly providing his Achilles' Heel to Roy by choking him to death.

The Mastermind (MASSIVE SPOILERS)

Dante

Old Dante voiced by: Kazuko Sugiyama (JP), Cindee Mayfield (EN)^{Other Languages}Ana María Simón (Spain), Isaura Gomes (Brazil), Danièle Hazan (French)
Lyra-Dante voiced by: Yumi Kakazu (JP), Monica Rial (EN)^{Other Languages}Elena Ruiz de Velasco (Spain), Angélica Santos (Brazil), Nathalie Homs (French)
Both Dantes voiced by:^{Other Languages}Rebeca Aponte (Latin America)

Dante wearing Lyra's body
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^{Click here to see her original form}

Near the end of the series, Dante is revealed to be the leader of the homunculi and creator of several, using them as pawns to retain her immortality. She is the former lover of Hohenheim and the mother of his first son, who currently serves her as the homunculus Envy. She takes over the body of Lyra, her apprentice and maid, to take a more active role in furthering her agenda.

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• Abusive Mom: To the homunculi in general and Envy in particular, whom she sees as a tool rather than a son. She only even directly acknowledges him as her son to use that fact to unbalance and taunt the Elrics. At best, she is apathetic; at worst, she is emotionally manipulative.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Not that Father was a nice guy, but Dante's motives are far pettier, causing widespread misery and death just to live longer. While Father isn't human and struggles with his inadequacies, Dante lords herself over fellow humans as someone superior.
  • Also, as loathsome as Father was, he never had any sexual desires for anyone like Dante did for Ed.
  • That said, Father's plans also have wider-reaching consequences, so while not as vile, his actions are still more devastating.
• Adaptational Species Change: Whereas Father is an Eldritch Abomination from beyond the gate, Dante is a human who has been able to survive by body-hopping.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Goes from being Hohenheim's artificially-created blood relative to his evil ex-wife.
  • By extension, that also makes her the Wicked Stepmother of the Elrics, as opposed to their uncle/half-brother.
• A God Am I: She believes herself above all humanity, justifying her and Hohenheim's existences as being worth the thousands of deaths they've caused because they have more knowledge than other people.
• Ambiguous Situation: Ultimately subverted. Her fate was somewhat left up in the air past the climax of the anime. Some assumed she was eaten by Gluttony, while others argued it was possible she was forced back into the lost city while trying to fend him off and managed to escape. We weren't given a concrete answer for years, only left with the knowledge that her body was nearing its end and Gluttony had her cornered in the elevator. However, it's heavily implied that Gluttony ate her alive, and Word of God eventually revealed in an interview that this was indeed the case.
• Bad Boss: She is incredibly cruel to the homunculi under her command, and uses empty promises to get them to do her bidding. In her eyes, the homunculi are tools who exist to do her bidding and can be discarded at a moment's notice (just ask Lust and Gluttony).
• The Baroness: A powerful, vicious woman who leads our main villains. Due to her body-switching prowess, she manages to be both the Rosa Klebb and Sexpot variants at different points.
• Big Bad: She is the mastermind behind the homunculi, who in turn drive the conflict of the series by causing the massacres at Ishbal and Lior, as well as the fossil disease outbreak.
• Black Widow: Implied. She mentions having been married many times, but having to "leave them" each time so the man in question wouldn't notice her decaying body. Given the type of person Dante is, "leave them" is probably code for "kill them."
• Body Horror: Like Hohenheim, due to centuries of Body Surfing, her soul has become weaker due to leaving small fragments behind every time she jumps. This causes her body to begin to rot, regardless of how young it is. To hide this, she, like Hohenheim, wears very concealing clothes, but even that can't hide the smell of rot. According to Hohenheim, even if she were to create a Philosopher's Stone, she would still be unable to escape this fate, and every time she jumps, it will take less and less time for her body to break down. She never really comes up with a solution for this and seems to be in denial.
• Body Surf: Dante plans to do this when she learns that her bodies are decaying at an alarming rate. Poor Lyra and Rosé.
• Breaking Speech: She gives one to Edward about Equivalent Exchange and how it's not true in her mind.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Edward asks he how many times she performed the Body Surf. She can only remember it's "somewhere below 10", but questions why is it important considering she destroyed countries to do it.
• Canon Foreigner: Dante is unique to the 2003 anime because it Overtook the Manga and, as a result, without Father, the anime needed a new Big Bad and mastermind behind the homunculi.
• The Chessmaster: Through Pride, she manipulates Amestris' politics and the entire population to suit her interests. Through the rest of the homunculi, she manipulates events on a much smaller, more personal level. However, as far as her plans at continued immortality goes, she is basically backed into a corner as each new body she possesses begins to rot much faster than the previous, with her current body rotting in a matter of months. In this regard, she seems to be mostly in denial, as her plan seems to just be to keep body-hopping without any plan to counteract the inevitable rot.
• Consummate Liar: She's a very, very good liar, perhaps one of her key traits that goes in-check with her rampant hypocrisy. In her first appearance, had it not been for her eerie signature theme, there would be NO reason to suspect her of being anything else but a wise, friendly old woman. She acted very sincere to Ed and Al, genuinely coming across as said kind old woman, even going as far as telling the brothers that she legitimately enjoys helping people and that she believes that the human race "needs alchemy more than they will ever know." As she said this to the brothers, she had already instigated the war in Ishbal in an attempt to create the Philosopher's Stone, had manipulated countless people through the homunculi, instigated the war in Liore, and almost had Ed create a Stone in Laboratory 5. The end a flashback with Izumi shows just how much of a liar she was: in a rare moment of honesty, she tells Izumi how she despises humanity and how she doesn't believe they are worthy of her love, and that humanity learning the full power of alchemy would be a "travesty", a complete 180 of her initial meeting with the Elric brothers. This even extends toward her own allies, as Envy heavily implies to Al that the rest of the homunculi (who, bar Greed, have shown her nothing but loyalty because of her promises) only think that Dante will turn them human and that she has no intention of doing so. Dante even says to Lust in Japanese whether or not she'll turn them human all depends on "how I'm feeling" (in other words, no).
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: Contrasting Adaptational Antagonist, technically speaking, but she acts as a philosophical foil to Father. Whereas he's male, a homonculus born from the Gate, and strictly holds to the idea of Equivalent Exchange in the face of Ed's criticism, she's female, human, and meticulously destroys Ed's belief in equivalent exchange by demonstrating that Rose's baby can do everything in its power to live yet be easily killed with no fair trade. Additionally, Father attempts to become a perfect being by extracting his seven vices through the creation of the homunculi before finally devouring Truth. Dante is an extremely petty individual whose schemes are no more grandiose than wanting to extend her own life, and she relishes in her hedonistic pleasures rather than attempting to purge herself of them.
• Death by Irony: She transmuted away Gluttony’s reasoning to make him easier to control. Instead, she made it so that no one can control him.
• Dirty Old Woman: Though she doesn't look the part after Body Surfing, she's a centuries-old woman who acts sexually predatory towards the teenage Edward and her vessels.
• Distaff Counterpart: Dante shares many similarities with Father, the Big Bad of the manga and Brotherhood who doesn't exist in the 2003 anime. At one point they both had close relationships with Hohenheim dating back several centuries, they both "shared" the secret of eternal life with Hohenheim by means of the Philosopher's Stone, and they both use the homunculi to rule Amestris as Shadow Dictators. Finally, they both have turned mass numbers of people into Philosopher's Stones in order to become "perfect" beings. Also, if the old woman seen in Central with her husband in Brotherhood during the Promised Day is any indication, at least one unnamed Amestrian was made direct victim to both of their immortality plots.
• Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Averted; she pretty much tells Ed that she's going to rape him once she switches bodies with Rosé. Ed's reaction, Dante's advanced age, and the circumstances of the whole situation make it clear that the viewers are not supposed to be congratulating Ed or calling him lucky.
• The Dreaded: Many of the homunculi are afraid of her, especially Gluttony. Even Lust flinches when Pride tells her that she'll have to "take her complaints up with the boss."
• Driven to Villainy: If the flashback dealing with her past is anything to go by, she was originally a far more sympathetic and kinder individual, and she deeply and genuinely loved Hohenheim. Once he left her side, she was forced to fend for herself and became so embittered that she ultimately resorted to horrific means to maintain her immortality. By the start of the series, she has gone way off into the deep end.
• Eaten Alive: Her fate at the hands of Gluttony.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Once she transfers herself to Lyra.
• Ephebophile: She lusts after the 15-year-old Edward and plans to force herself on him after taking over Rosé's body.
• Evil Is Petty: She's instigated the slaughters of thousands of people in order to try and live a few more years. Jeez. She also uses the Gate to rip Wrath's right arm and left leg off because she finds his cries for help annoying.
• Evil Matriarch: Though technically she's only Envy's mother, she acts like an abusive matriarchal figure for the other homunculi.
• Evil Mentor: To Izumi, though it's played with, as it's implied that Izumi didn't know she was evil until after her training was done.
• Evil Old Folks: Being 400 years old tends to do that with you. Double Subverted due to her initially appearing as an old woman before possessing a young woman's body. Still old in the end, though.
• Evil Smells Bad: Even before he learns she's evil, Edward is briefly unsettled by her smell, as her perfume is the same scent that his father used to wear. In truth, it's the smell of both Dante and Hohenheim's bodies rotting away.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Dante's last words (mitigated in the dub, which changed the wording) are her realizing too late how royally she screwed herself when she removed Gluttony's reasoning...
  Dante: Just calm down, we'll find you something to eat... wait, you can still understand me, right!?
• The Family That Slays Together: Due to her habit of making the homunculi act like a big, demented family. Subverted as the 'family' completely disintegrates at the end of the story and she doesn't care as her master plan is near completion.
• Fan Disservice: Lyra's body is very pretty, but unfortunately, we see how quickly it's started rotting.
• Faux Affably Evil: She organizes her homunculi minions like a family and defends Sloth from Envy's teasing when they first find her. Before being revealed as the Big Bad, she provides Izumi with medicine and provides the Elrics with some helpful guidance. However, it soon becomes clear that she only cares about herself.
• Foil: To Izumi, in a sense. Izumi is very quick to anger and physically violent but in the end remains a good person, while Dante is someone who is always calm no matter how angry she is, but relieves her anger through much more disturbing means and is a horrible person.
• Foreshadowing: The body we first see her in has pale green hair. The only other character in the show with green hair is Envy, subtly visually connecting the two, and it later turns out that Envy works for Dante and is her son, though green isn't either of their natural hair colors.
• Grand Theft Me: It's how she's stayed alive for hundreds of years.
• Hate Sink: Being petty, selfish and abusive, Dante represents the worst of humanity and is clearly not meant to be liked. With the tentative exception of Pride, all of her homunculus minions either hate or fear her, with even Envy seeing her less as a mother and more as a means to obtaining his vengeance against his father, and both of the Elrics are repulsed by her cruelty.
• The Hecate Sisters: Dante is the Crone to Lust's Maiden and Sloth's Mother.
• Hypocrite:
  • Dante callously tells Ed that people who work hard hardly get anything, but she whines like a sore loser once her own efforts are ruined. Then there's her spiel about the evils of mankind and the horrible things people would do to each other if they got their hands on something as powerful as the Philosopher's Stone, which falls a little flat when you consider that she herself has instigated what are the worst atrocities in Amestrian history.
  • She has had plenty of ex-husbands when living apart from Hohenheim, yet she was hurt when Hohenheim stated that Trisha was the only woman he ever truly loved.
  • She claims she deserves to live forever because she has more alchemical understanding than other people, but all her scheming to create Philosopher's Stones must be done because she lacks the alchemical ability to make them herself despite knowing the method to do so.
• I Control My Minions Through...: Promises, mostly; she promised power for Greed and Pride, humanity for Lust, Wrath and Sloth, revenge for Envy, food for Gluttony and the chance to become a State Alchemist for Lyra. In all cases, she was lying. In Gluttony's case, fear might also be a factor.
• Immortality Immorality: Making Philosopher's Stones requires sacrificing multiple lives and she's using them only to extend her own life. She couldn't care less about the people she set up to be killed.
• It's All About Me: In the end, she doesn't care about anything but her own immortality. While the family structure of the homunculi makes it look like she cares about them at first, it becomes very obvious by her treatment of them she really doesn't care for them.
• Knight of Cerebus: With her murdering Lyra after stealing her body and weakening Greed to where he can be killed, Dante signals a darker turn for the 2003 anime and things start becoming much more personal between her and the Elric brothers.
• Lack of Empathy: She doesn't care who she's hurting. She doesn't care she's stealing a young woman's ambitious dreams just to live a little longer. She doesn't care she's manipulating her son emotionally. She doesn't care about all the suffering she creates through Pride, like the Ishbalan genocide. In the end, she doesn't seem to care about anything but living longer.
• Laser-Guided Karma: She transmuted Gluttony's reasoning away when he was too grief-stricken from Lust's death to eat Al's stone and complete her plan. This came back to haunt her when the brothers thwarted her plan and she made to escape, only for him to eat his way through the bottom of the elevator and attack her since he now couldn't understand her. While it isn't shown onscreen, this was eventually confirmed to have lead to her Karmic Death (AKA being eaten alive by a crazed Gluttony).
• Lecherous Licking: When she invites Hohenheim to "enjoy" Lyra's body with her, clearly hoping he'll take her up on the offer.
• Love Makes You Evil: Her very first act of villainy was done out of love for Hohenheim. Things only got worse from there.
• Manipulative Bitch: Oh boy. Just looking at her own allies, she manipulates Envy's (her own son) desire to kill Hohenheim, Wrath's desire to have a mother, and Pride's leadership. Although being Co-Dragons with Envy, it's not so much Pride that she's manipulating, but Amestris' entire government as Pride is the nation's dictator.
• Meaningful Name:
  • In a series with antagonists named after the Seven Deadly Sins, a character with the name Dante would pretty much have to be their leader. Of course, it's made clear before her introduction (through Izumi's dialogue with the Elrics and Envy's with the other homunculi) that Dante is most definitely not the nice old lady that she seems to be. Considering some revelations made late in the series, it's entirely possible that she knew about this and took on the name herself.
  • The name Dante also means "eternal" or "everlasting." A very appropriate name for an Immortality Seeker.
• Misanthrope Supreme: She hates humanity and lords over Amestris from the shadows. She believes humans are very foolish and weak, therefore giving her, an immortal "perfect" being, the right to play with human lives as she wishes.
  Ed: Don't kid yourself, you're human just like us!
  Dante: Not anymore.
• Morality Pet: Surprisingly, Dante seems to like and respect Izumi to an extent, and is implied to regularly provide her with medicine despite their falling out. Doesn't hesitate to leave her behind forever when she transfers to Lyra's body, though. In the flashback, Izumi seemed ready to cry when she asked Dante if she loved anyone other than herself, so it's likely there was originally more attachment on her side.
• Narcissist: To quite ridiculous extremes. She's so convinced of her own self-importance that she rationalizes committing genocide in order to compel alchemists to create the stone for her to then steal due to her believing herself the only person deserving of its power.
• Never Mess with Granny: Double Subverted after The Reveal. While she physically looks like she's in her late teens to young adult, she's still over 400 years old and a very skilled alchemist.
• Never My Fault: Never once considers that it could have been her fault that Hohenheim left, referring to it by such ways as saying "Hohenheim of Light left my side" and treating it like an act of pure betrayal. The real reason he left, was mainly because of a mix of moral crisis and the fact that Dante herself was stark raving bonkers.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: She summons the Gate to steal Ed's arm and leg back from Wrath because he was annoying her with his constant crying. Doing so allows Ed to access it once his body in the alternate world is killed, pulling himself back to in front of Dante.
• Non-Action Big Bad: She lets the homunculi do all the work. Justified due to her rotting body, at the time.
• Nothing Is Scarier: We never actually see her be killed by Gluttony. Rather, the camera cuts to the eerily empty elevator arriving in Bradley's office after Gluttony charges her.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: She hardly seems like a force to be reckoned with when first introduced, but it becomes clear that she's one of the most powerful and deadly alchemists in the series.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Claims that humans would destroy the world if they had a Philosopher's Stone, so she's justified in killing anyone who knows how to make it then uses the Stone to prolong her own life. All so she can keep acting as the "guardian of mankind." Ed promptly calls her out on lying through her teeth. She just wants to live forever and isn't talented enough to make a Stone for herself. It doesn't help that her case essentially boils down to: I will stop humans from getting their hands on a Philosopher's Stone by killing thousands of them so a human will be desperate enough to make a Philosopher's Stone for me to steal, so I can live forever and keep stopping humans from attaining one.
• Old Master: Even more so than originally shown, as Dante and Hohenheim are the two oldest and most skilled alchemists alive, with 400 years of experience.
• Orcus on His Throne: Played straight at first, then averted. As an old woman, she remains confined to her mansion, presumably grooming Lyra to be her next vessel. After she takes over Lyra's body, however, she begins manipulating Lior through Rosé herself, and even "assists" Edward and Scar as something of a third-act party member.
• Parasitic Immortality: She's survived for centuries by stealing the bodies of others. However, every time she does it her vicitims suffer faster Possession Burnout, requiring her to accelerate her plans of gaining a new Stone to use to steal another body.
• Polite Villains, Rude Heroes: Dante's the polite villain to Edward's rude hero with a distinctly more polite and gentler speech pattern. What she says is not as gentle as her voice, though.
• Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: She had... plans for Ed once she took Rosé's body.
  Dante: I just want to be loved by the son of Hohenheim...
• Really 700 Years Old: Due to being a body surfer.
• Satanic Archetype: Her personality is a mixture of the Seven Deadly Sins, she looks down on humans as inferior and sees herself as above them. She is also indirectly responsible for bringing out the worst in humans through her manipulations of the Amestrian government, and she makes deals with others that ultimately benefit only herself, everyone else be damned.
• Seven Deadly Sins: Aside from her using this as a theme with her homunculi, she herself is a horrifying mixture of all seven—she's obsessed with preserving her youth and views herself as above humanity on the whole (Pride), sexually desires Hohenheim and plots to rape his son just to spite him (Lust), is a misanthrope who hates humans and does not hesitate to violently punish her Homunculi for minor slights (Wrath), has Pride, Envy, the people of Amestris and others do most of her work for her despite how powerful she is (Sloth), desires power (Greed), envies Trisha for having "taken" Hohenheim away from her and wants to see Hohenheim suffer for leaving her (Envy) and wishes to expand her life longer than she needs to (Gluttony).
• Shadow Archetype: To Ed, most effectively shown in their confrontation towards the end of the series.
• Shadow Dictator: She secretly rules Amestris using Bradley as a proxy.
• Showing Off the New Body: After taking the body of her young and beautiful student, Lyra. She even rolls up one of her sleeves and licks her arm after inviting Hohenheim to "enjoy" it with her. Subverted with the reveal that her new body is decaying very quickly.
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Dante tears Edward's belief in the law of equivalent exchange to shreds in episode 49 by flawlessly pointing out just how wrong his logic is, citing how others often put in equal or greater effort to someone else yet get no reward.
• Smug Snake: It's All About Me meets The Sociopath meets Evil Is Petty. Why yes, she does qualify. Why do you ask?
• The Sociopath: Dante has the superficial charm, grandiose sense of her own worth, Lack of Empathy, consummate lying and manipulation abilities, and irresponsibility.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist: Both as an old woman and in Lyra's body. She's got a polite speech pattern, a gentle voice and never shouts, only very rarely raising her voice. However, she's also got the ability to say horrific and monstrous things with that same gentle tone.
• Squishy Wizard: Remains this even once she has switched from an elderly to younger woman's body, relying on her mastery of alchemy and more combat-competent homunculi like Envy to protect her. It’s justified due to her body rotting rapidly, so she can’t afford to exert herself too hard.
• Straw Nihilist: Unsurprisingly so, given her superiority complex and lack of belief in equivalent exchange. Twice (first to Izumi, then to Ed) she rants about how humans are foolish and worthless, even describing humans to Izumi as "egotistical things beyond any redemption". To Dante, a human is only good as three things: Philosopher Stone fuel, somebody to make that Stone, or a "lover" (until she gets bored of you).
• Technicolor Eyes: The body we see the most of her in has purple eyes that match those of the homunculi. They originally belonged to Lyra.
• Tempting Fate: Her last words are her assuring Gluttony that she'll find him some food soon... Right before realizing that she is the food.
• Tranquil Fury: Even after Alphonse uses the Philosopher's Stone to revive Edward from the dead, essentially screwing Dante's chance of gaining immortality, she still doesn't lose her cool nor raises her voice, just angrily stomps up to Alphonse while ranting at him in a surprisingly calm voice, and later on still retaining enough of her rationality to create another plan. Too bad Gluttony is there to screw her for real.
• The Unfought: Ed and Al never engage in a true battle with her. She has a very brief struggle with Ed before starting her Breaking Speech, but it lasts for less than thirty seconds before Envy takes over. Instead of fighting them after her Evil Plan is derailed, she escapes and plans to order Pride to take her place. This is justified considering the state of her vessel. Of course, she never makes it to the surface to execute any of it, and even if she had, Pride had been killed by Roy at that point. So she was screwed either way.
• Vain Sorceress: No matter what you think of her personality and master plan, she's still an extremely powerful alchemist. She's also extremely petty.
• Villain Has a Point: The lecture she gives Ed and Al about how Equivalent Exchange is nothing but a wishful fantasy. The fact is that, yeah, she's right that there are a lot of times in life where the effort you put into something is disproportionate to what you get out of it (for example, she talks about how Ed, as a Child Prodigy, passed the State Alchemist exam with flying colors on his first try, while others had been slaving away and repeatedly failing it for years). Then there's The Reveal that death on Earth fuels alchemy in Amestris, which makes alchemy far from equivalent in nature. Hohenheim later gives Ed a more optimistic take on it.
• Villainous Breakdown: A pretty calm one as she tries to escape the underground city, trying hard to suppress her anger upon realizing both her effort to get a Philosopher's Stone has failed and that her body is corroding too fast to make another. Gluttony devouring part of the elevator and climbing up about to devour her causes her to reach a boiling point of a mixture of anger and fear as she attempts to defend herself.
• Walking Spoiler: The reveal that Dante is still alive, in Lyra's body, and the master of the homunculi only comes late in the series.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: After Gluttony attacks her in the elevator, the doors later open to show that no one is there, not even a trace of blood. Dante’s fate initially appeared to be left open to interpretation, but it's since been confirmed that Gluttony ate her.
• Wise Old Folk Façade: She first appears as a kindly old woman and the Elric's teacher, Izumi's, former mentor. In truth, she's a Body Snatcher who takes over her students since she's changed bodies so many times to stay alive that they decay after only a few years. She takes over her latest protege, Lyra, during the story.
• Would Hurt a Child: At one point she threatens to murder Rose's baby just to prove a point to Ed. She also does not hesitate to use said baby to open the Gate, though this doesn't actually harm it.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: To any body she jumps from.

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