Recap / Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood E 62 A Fierce Counterattack

• Attack! Attack! Attack!: Nearly all of the heroes still standing at this point in the show's climax have been run ragged through the battles of the Promised Day and sustained injuries from minor to more serious. Yet, no matter how badly they're hurting or how exhausted everyone is, they're still in the game as Father must be stopped.
• Clipped-Wing Angel: Father is still this following the events of the previous episode and Hohenheim's anti-Nationwide Transmutation Circle. He can't unleash his full power as he's desperately trying to keep the power of God under his control (and only has the rapidly dwindling Xerxian souls he already possessed). Even handicapped, however, he's still very dangerous.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Al transmutes his own Blood Seal in order to cancel out Ed's original transmutation during their failed attempt to bring Trisha back. With Al' soul returned to the Portal of Truth, Ed's 'transaction' is 'refunded' and Truth restore his right arm so he can stop Father.
• Horrifying the Horror:
  • Father becomes outright terrified of Ed during his counterattack.
  • A variation with Greed/Ling. Even they're left stunned at the ferocity of Ed's beat-down of Father.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Ed has spent the entire show refusing to employ lethal attacks or to take a life under any circumstances (though he came close to crossing the line here and there, such as with Shou Tucker). Now, with the loss of Al's soul, Ed's outright trying to murder Father.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: As they watch on Ed being cheered on by his collective allies while fighting Father, Ling uses this as an opportunity to drive home what Greed truly wanted in the world: friends. Greed sadly concedes that perhaps, power was never going to satisfy him.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Ed after Al's sacrifice. Ed's enraged, grief-fueled counterattack against Father puts all his other fights in the series to shame.
• Thou Shall Not Kill: Averted for the first and only time in the series with Ed. After Al's sacrifice, and after struggling to not cross this line throughout the series (such as with Shou Tucker especially), Ed's out for Father's blood.
• Worf Had the Flu: Hohenheim suffers the brunt of Father's alchemical nuke in the first half of the episode (as he protects Izumi from the blast with his own body). This all but depletes his own Philosopher's Stone (which had already taken a beating throughout the Promised Day) and sidelines him for the remainder of the fight.
• Zerg Rush: Everybody still standing vs. Father in the wreckage of Central Command. Justified, as these multiple, simultaneous attacks are forcing Father to defend himself and are preventing from unleashing another alchemical nuke.