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*** Creator/CharlesBaker replaced Josh Berry for Heymans Breda's sole line in OVA #1 as Berry had moved to New Mexico. His childhood self in OVA #4 was performed by Creator/LeahClark.
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*** Creator/CharlesBaker replaced Josh Berry for Heymans Breda's sole line in OVA #1 as Berry had moved to New Mexico. His childhood self in OVA #4 was performed by Creator/LeahClark. Clark also replaced Zarah Little as Selim Bradley for some vocalizations as Zarah was winding down her acting presence and was in L.A.
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*** Creator/CharlesBaker replaced Josh Berry for Heymans Breda's sole line in OVA #1 as Berry had moved away from Texas. His childhood self in OVA #4 was performed by Creator/LeahClark.
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*** Creator/CharlesBaker replaced Josh Berry for Heymans Breda's sole line in OVA #1 as Berry had moved away from Texas.to New Mexico. His childhood self in OVA #4 was performed by Creator/LeahClark.
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* RecastAsARegular: Cindee Mayfield voiced the black librarian lady who appeared twice (when Shou Tucker [[MoralEventHorizon merged his daughter and dog into a chimera]] and when Scar and the Homunculi's battle destroyed the Central Library) and the Xenotime pharmacist that kicked out Alphonse before being cast as Dante, who goes on to be revealed as the series' BigBad. Dante's second body, [[spoiler:Lyra]]], voiced by Creator/MonicaRial, also appeared as a voice-only cameo during the Blue Squad Train Heist alerting Mustang of the situation, plus the little sister of the paperboy who Scar held hostage while tracking the Elrics.
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* RecastAsARegular: Cindee Mayfield voiced the black librarian lady who appeared twice (when Shou Tucker [[MoralEventHorizon merged his daughter and dog into a chimera]] and when Scar and the Homunculi's battle destroyed the Central Library) and the Xenotime pharmacist that kicked out Alphonse before being cast as Dante, who goes on to be revealed as the series' BigBad. Dante's second body, [[spoiler:Lyra]]], [[spoiler:Lyra]], voiced by Creator/MonicaRial, also appeared as a voice-only cameo during the Blue Squad Train Heist alerting Mustang of the situation, plus the little sister of the paperboy who Scar held hostage while tracking the Elrics.
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** Wrath's actress Creator/LuciChristian had already played Marin in episode five plus Clara i.e. Psiren in episode ten. Creator/BobCarter, before voicing Sig Curtis, had already voiced Cornello’s NumberTwo Cray in the opening episodes.
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** Wrath's actress Creator/LuciChristian had already played Marin in episode five plus Clara i.e. Psiren in episode ten. Creator/BobCarter, before voicing Sig Curtis, had already voiced Cornello’s Cornello's NumberTwo Cray in the opening episodes.
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** Creator/MeredithMcCoy was Kyle in episode nine plus a bar maid in episode 14 before playing Lt. Maria Ross and Jim Foronda appeared as a Liore bar patron in the series premiere before playing Sgt. Denny Blosh.
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** Creator/MeredithMcCoy Meredith [=McCoy=] was Kyle in episode nine plus a bar maid in episode 14 before playing Lt. Maria Ross and Jim Foronda appeared as a Liore bar patron in the series premiere before playing Sgt. Denny Blosh.
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** In the Premium OVA Collection, some of the English cast were unavailable to reprise their roles and most of the side characters' sole lines did not warrant the cost of getting those respective performers back in. Therefore:
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** In the Premium OVA Collection, dubbed in 2009, some of the English cast were unavailable to reprise their roles and most of the side characters' sole lines did not warrant the cost of getting those respective performers back in. Therefore:
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*** Creator/DameonClarke had moved to Los Angeles to focus on his live-action career, so Scar was instead played by Creator/JMichaelTatum. Tatum would go on to become Scar’s definitive voice in ''Brotherhood'' since the Ishbalan was slightly older in the latter version plus Dameon still wasn't available to repise.
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*** Creator/DameonClarke had moved to Los Angeles to focus on come along with his live-action career, career in Los Angeles, so Scar was instead played by Creator/JMichaelTatum. Tatum would go on to become Scar’s definitive voice in ''Brotherhood'' since the Ishbalan was slightly older in the latter version plus Dameon still wasn't available to repise.
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* RecastAsARegular: Cindee Mayfield voiced the black librarian lady who appeared twice (when Shou Tucker [[MoralEventHorizon merged his daughter and dog into a chimera]] and when Scar and the Homunculi's battle destroyed the Central Library) and the Xenotime pharmacist that kicked out Alphonse before being cast as Dante, who goes on to be revealed as the series' BigBad. Dante's second body, [[spoiler:Lyra]]], voiced by Creator/MonicaRial, also appeared as a voice-only cameo during the Blue Squad Train Heist alerting Mustang of the situation, plus the little sister of the paperboy who Scar held hostage while tracking the Elrics.
** Creator/SonnyStrait played an angry citizen of Liore chastising the Elrics for attacking Cornello in the second episode before he voiced Maes Hughes. Similarly, Creator/RBruceElliott voiced a grizzled civilian at the pub Ed was gathering intel at in episode one, who reappears in the second, before being cast as Basque Gran.
** Before voicing Jean Havoc, ADR director Creator/MikeMcFarland voiced the cockateel chimera that Cornello had masquerading as Rose's late boyfriend Cain.
** Wrath's actress Creator/LuciChristian had already played Marin in episode five plus Clara i.e. Psiren in episode ten. Creator/BobCarter, before voicing Sig Curtis, had already voiced Cornello’s NumberTwo Cray in the opening episodes.
** Creator/EricVale appeared as a military negotiator in episode fourteen before debuting as Zolf J. Kimblee in the very next episode, though he wouldn't appear proper until episode twenty. Frank Archer's voice Creator/TroyBaker also had several throwaway parts in the first half of the series.
** Creator/MeredithMcCoy was Kyle in episode nine plus a bar maid in episode 14 before playing Lt. Maria Ross and Jim Foronda appeared as a Liore bar patron in the series premiere before playing Sgt. Denny Blosh.
** Creator/SonnyStrait played an angry citizen of Liore chastising the Elrics for attacking Cornello in the second episode before he voiced Maes Hughes. Similarly, Creator/RBruceElliott voiced a grizzled civilian at the pub Ed was gathering intel at in episode one, who reappears in the second, before being cast as Basque Gran.
** Before voicing Jean Havoc, ADR director Creator/MikeMcFarland voiced the cockateel chimera that Cornello had masquerading as Rose's late boyfriend Cain.
** Wrath's actress Creator/LuciChristian had already played Marin in episode five plus Clara i.e. Psiren in episode ten. Creator/BobCarter, before voicing Sig Curtis, had already voiced Cornello’s NumberTwo Cray in the opening episodes.
** Creator/EricVale appeared as a military negotiator in episode fourteen before debuting as Zolf J. Kimblee in the very next episode, though he wouldn't appear proper until episode twenty. Frank Archer's voice Creator/TroyBaker also had several throwaway parts in the first half of the series.
** Creator/MeredithMcCoy was Kyle in episode nine plus a bar maid in episode 14 before playing Lt. Maria Ross and Jim Foronda appeared as a Liore bar patron in the series premiere before playing Sgt. Denny Blosh.
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* TheOtherDarrin: In English, Creator/RobertMcCollum fills in as General Hakuro in Episode 14, depicting the military's subjugating Liore, for Creator/PhilParsons. It was likely an eleventh hour choice since Phil was still listed as his character in the English credits of said episode.
** In the Premium OVA Collection, some of the English cast were unavailable to reprise their roles and most of the side characters' sole lines did not warrant the cost of getting those respective performers back in. Therefore:
*** While Creator/AaronDismuke had gone through puberty, he still voiced the now-human Alphonse Elric for the [=OVAs=]. The kid version of Al that appears in OVA #4 was instead played by Creator/BrittneyKarbowski. Brittney also replaced Tierney Titus as Elicia Hughes’ laughter in OVA #3 as the latter had also grown up and was focusing on her education to become a child life specialist.
*** Creator/DameonClarke had moved to Los Angeles to focus on his live-action career, so Scar was instead played by Creator/JMichaelTatum. Tatum would go on to become Scar’s definitive voice in ''Brotherhood'' since the Ishbalan was slightly older in the latter version plus Dameon still wasn't available to repise.
*** Creator/CharlesBaker replaced Josh Berry for Heymans Breda's sole line in OVA #1 as Berry had moved away from Texas. His childhood self in OVA #4 was performed by Creator/LeahClark.
*** Gracia Hughes went from Lauren Goode to Creator/LydiaMackay, Trisha and Sloth's performer, since Goode was based out of Chicago, Illinois and couldn't make it out to Texas on short notice.
** In the Premium OVA Collection, some of the English cast were unavailable to reprise their roles and most of the side characters' sole lines did not warrant the cost of getting those respective performers back in. Therefore:
*** While Creator/AaronDismuke had gone through puberty, he still voiced the now-human Alphonse Elric for the [=OVAs=]. The kid version of Al that appears in OVA #4 was instead played by Creator/BrittneyKarbowski. Brittney also replaced Tierney Titus as Elicia Hughes’ laughter in OVA #3 as the latter had also grown up and was focusing on her education to become a child life specialist.
*** Creator/DameonClarke had moved to Los Angeles to focus on his live-action career, so Scar was instead played by Creator/JMichaelTatum. Tatum would go on to become Scar’s definitive voice in ''Brotherhood'' since the Ishbalan was slightly older in the latter version plus Dameon still wasn't available to repise.
*** Creator/CharlesBaker replaced Josh Berry for Heymans Breda's sole line in OVA #1 as Berry had moved away from Texas. His childhood self in OVA #4 was performed by Creator/LeahClark.
*** Gracia Hughes went from Lauren Goode to Creator/LydiaMackay, Trisha and Sloth's performer, since Goode was based out of Chicago, Illinois and couldn't make it out to Texas on short notice.
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* AllStarCast: Purposefully invoked for the English dub. The ADR directors, Creator/MikeMcFarland and Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard, sought out to give the series the respect they felt it deserved by going out of their way to cast as many big names as they could. Most notably, they managed to grab Creator/DameonClarke for Scar and Creator/ScottMcNeil for Hohenheim, two actors who normally only perform in either Canadian or Los Angeles-based works.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The series was originally planned on having a second season with Arakawa's input. However as staff at Bones were itching to start on ''Brotherhood'', the plans for the second season were reworked into the movie ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa''.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The series was originally planned on having a second season with Arakawa's input. However However, as staff at Bones were itching to start on ''Brotherhood'', the plans for the second season were reworked into the movie movie, ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa''.
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* ChildrenVoicingChildren: Alphonse in English is voiced by Creator/AaronDismuke who was only twelve at the time.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Creator/{{Funimation}} [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-05-31/funimation-fullmetal-alchemist-rights-expire-on-july-31/.102676 lost the rights]] to this series as well, on July 31st, 2016. Luckily as of January 1st, 2018, it returned to Netflix along with ''Brotherhood''.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
** Creator/{{Funimation}} [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-05-31/funimation-fullmetal-alchemist-rights-expire-on-july-31/.102676 lost the rights]] to this series as well, on July 31st, 2016. Luckily as of January 1st, 2018, it returned to Netflix along with ''Brotherhood''.
** Creator/{{Funimation}} [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-05-31/funimation-fullmetal-alchemist-rights-expire-on-july-31/.102676 lost the rights]] to this series as well, on July 31st, 2016. Luckily as of January 1st, 2018, it returned to Netflix along with ''Brotherhood''.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Not really screwed, per se, but despite still owning the rights to it at the time, Creator/AdultSwim never aired the series after ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' premiered.
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* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Not really screwed, per se, but despite ScrewedByTheNetwork:
** Despite still owning the rights to it at the time, Creator/AdultSwim never aired the series after ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' premiered.
** Despite still owning the rights to it at the time, Creator/AdultSwim never aired the series after ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' premiered.
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* ApprovalOfGod: Due to a mix of not wanting to tell the same story twice and the risk of [[OvertookTheManga overtaking the manga]], Arakawa encouraged and approved of the changes made to the story in the 2003 anime, even designing several characters for it. Heck, she liked some of the {{Canon Foreigner}}s so much that she ''added'' them to the manga!
* CrossDressingVoices: Ed and Al are voiced by women in Japanese, but not in English. Envy, however, is voiced by a woman in [[Creator/MayumiYamaguchi both]] [[Creator/WendyPowell versions]]. It contributes to [[ViewerGenderConfusion his/her/its/their]] creepiness quite effectively. Wrath also has a female voice actor in both [[Creator/NanaMizuki Japanese]] and [[Creator/LuciChristian English]].
* CutSong: "Melissa" (the first opening song) and "Undo" (the third) were unused in the North American airings of the series; "Ready Steady Go" (the second opening) replaced them instead, with the opening finally changing once "Rewrite" (the fourth) comes along in the final stretch of the series.
* DevelopmentGag: Creator/TravisWillingham originally auditioned to play Armstrong, and uses the voice he took on for that role in the line "I love dogs!"
* EnforcedMethodActing: Done a ''lot'' in the dub:
** Creator/VicMignogna on ''many'' occasions was not actually shown the entire script, and his lines were all recorded in chronological order. As a result, his surprise at what was on the other side of the GateOfTruth and what originally happened after the Shou Tucker incident, ''and'' Vic's sadness in the last few episodes, were legitimate reactions.
** When Al was hit with a teacup in one episode, a teacup was tossed at Creator/AaronDismuke's face.
* GodNeverSaidThat: Quite a few members of the manga/''Brotherhood'' fandom seem to think that the changes in the anime were made with no input from Hiromu Arakawa and that she disapproved--if not ''disowned''--the whole thing. In reality, Arakawa not only greatly approved of the changes, she ''actively encouraged them'' (mostly because she knew the anime would [[OvertookTheManga overtake the manga]] and the anime wouldn't have enough time to keep up).
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Creator/{{Funimation}} [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-05-31/funimation-fullmetal-alchemist-rights-expire-on-july-31/.102676 lost the rights]] to this series as well, on July 31st, 2016. Luckily as of January 1st, 2018, it returned to Netflix along with ''Brotherhood''.
** The original French dub which aired on Canal+ is the one fans tend to prefer, as they feel the abundance of coloquialisms and curse words made Ed's dialogue (among others) feel more natural and lively. It's become unfindable legally ever since the [=DVDs=] came out (with a lot of lines redubbed to make them tamer), but some people still managed to dig it up and make it available again on torrent sites.
* MarthDebutedInSmashBros:
** Quasi-example: the LicensedGame, ''VideoGame/FullmetalAlchemistAndTheBrokenAngel'', was released in the US just two and a half months after the anime's Creator/AdultSwim premiere, but was localized ''before'' the dubbing of the anime began; thus, all of the US voice actors were cast for and recorded the game before starting on the first episode.
** ''Broken Angel'' also played this straight with Alex Louis Armstrong, as the game featured him a full month before the episode with his first appearance in the anime aired on U.S. television.
* OvertookTheManga: A somewhat unusual case, in which the creator of the manga ''specifically asked'' the people making the anime to do this, since the manga was nowhere near being completed at the time the anime came out.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Not really screwed, per se, but despite still owning the rights to it at the time, Creator/AdultSwim never aired the series after ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' premiered.
** Creator/AdultSwim has also rarely, if ever, aired TheMovie.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The series was originally planned on having a second season with Arakawa's input. However as staff at Bones were itching to start on ''Brotherhood'', the plans for the second season were reworked into the movie ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa''.
* CrossDressingVoices: Ed and Al are voiced by women in Japanese, but not in English. Envy, however, is voiced by a woman in [[Creator/MayumiYamaguchi both]] [[Creator/WendyPowell versions]]. It contributes to [[ViewerGenderConfusion his/her/its/their]] creepiness quite effectively. Wrath also has a female voice actor in both [[Creator/NanaMizuki Japanese]] and [[Creator/LuciChristian English]].
* CutSong: "Melissa" (the first opening song) and "Undo" (the third) were unused in the North American airings of the series; "Ready Steady Go" (the second opening) replaced them instead, with the opening finally changing once "Rewrite" (the fourth) comes along in the final stretch of the series.
* DevelopmentGag: Creator/TravisWillingham originally auditioned to play Armstrong, and uses the voice he took on for that role in the line "I love dogs!"
* EnforcedMethodActing: Done a ''lot'' in the dub:
** Creator/VicMignogna on ''many'' occasions was not actually shown the entire script, and his lines were all recorded in chronological order. As a result, his surprise at what was on the other side of the GateOfTruth and what originally happened after the Shou Tucker incident, ''and'' Vic's sadness in the last few episodes, were legitimate reactions.
** When Al was hit with a teacup in one episode, a teacup was tossed at Creator/AaronDismuke's face.
* GodNeverSaidThat: Quite a few members of the manga/''Brotherhood'' fandom seem to think that the changes in the anime were made with no input from Hiromu Arakawa and that she disapproved--if not ''disowned''--the whole thing. In reality, Arakawa not only greatly approved of the changes, she ''actively encouraged them'' (mostly because she knew the anime would [[OvertookTheManga overtake the manga]] and the anime wouldn't have enough time to keep up).
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Creator/{{Funimation}} [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2016-05-31/funimation-fullmetal-alchemist-rights-expire-on-july-31/.102676 lost the rights]] to this series as well, on July 31st, 2016. Luckily as of January 1st, 2018, it returned to Netflix along with ''Brotherhood''.
** The original French dub which aired on Canal+ is the one fans tend to prefer, as they feel the abundance of coloquialisms and curse words made Ed's dialogue (among others) feel more natural and lively. It's become unfindable legally ever since the [=DVDs=] came out (with a lot of lines redubbed to make them tamer), but some people still managed to dig it up and make it available again on torrent sites.
* MarthDebutedInSmashBros:
** Quasi-example: the LicensedGame, ''VideoGame/FullmetalAlchemistAndTheBrokenAngel'', was released in the US just two and a half months after the anime's Creator/AdultSwim premiere, but was localized ''before'' the dubbing of the anime began; thus, all of the US voice actors were cast for and recorded the game before starting on the first episode.
** ''Broken Angel'' also played this straight with Alex Louis Armstrong, as the game featured him a full month before the episode with his first appearance in the anime aired on U.S. television.
* OvertookTheManga: A somewhat unusual case, in which the creator of the manga ''specifically asked'' the people making the anime to do this, since the manga was nowhere near being completed at the time the anime came out.
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Not really screwed, per se, but despite still owning the rights to it at the time, Creator/AdultSwim never aired the series after ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'' premiered.
** Creator/AdultSwim has also rarely, if ever, aired TheMovie.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The series was originally planned on having a second season with Arakawa's input. However as staff at Bones were itching to start on ''Brotherhood'', the plans for the second season were reworked into the movie ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa''.
