List of Fullmetal Alchemist characters

While trying to revive their mother, the brothers lost parts of their bodies, with Alphonse's soul being contained in a suit of armor, and Edward replacing his right arm and left leg with two sets of automail, a type of advanced prosthetic limb.

The author Hiromu Arakawa integrated several social problems into the story after talking to people who had suffered and lived through them, such as refugees, war veterans and former yakuza, or simply by watching news concerning those issues.

[4] On the other hand, most of the English voice actors from the first anime reprised their roles for Brotherhood with the exception of a few such as Aaron Dismuke (Alphonse) and Dameon Clarke (Scar) who are replaced by Maxey Whitehead and J. Michael Tatum, respectively.

Following Father's defeat, having gained a philosopher's stone, Lin returns to Xing and, with the experience he and Lan Fan learned from the people of Amestris, becomes the new emperor with the intent of uniting all the nation's segregated clans under his rule.[ch.

53] Being personifications of Father's darkest aspects, each named after one of the seven deadly sins and identified through an Ouroboros tattoo located somewhere on their bodies, Homunculi possess physical prowess with the long life and nigh indestructibility provided by their stones playing in their arrogance while seeing themselves as superior to humans.

34 "Father" (お父様, Otō-sama) is the creator of other homunculi and the series' main antagonist a cruel greedy homunculus with no regard for human life, likening them to insects.[ch.

31] He was originally known as "The Dwarf in the Flask" (フラスコの中の小人, Furasuko no Naka no Kobito) or "Homunculus" (ホムンクルス, Homunkurusu), a shapeshifter cyclops-like creature created eight centuries ago in the country of Cselkcess (クセルクセス, Kuserukusesu, "Xerxes" in the English anime) under the commission of its king to obtain infinite knowledge.[ch.

74] Unable to survive outside his flask, Homunculus formed an attachment to the young slave boy whose blood had been used in his creation, naming the lad Van Hohenheim while helping him rise in Cselkcesian society by teaching him to read, write and alchemy.

But Homunculus grew envious of the human race over their mutual emotional support for each other while being the only one of his kind, losing sight of his own gifts and talents while playing on the desperate King's desire for immortality.

75] After searching for the nearest area closest to the "center of the world", the now prideful and greedy Homunculus established Amestris under the title of "The Eastern Sage" and taught alchemy to its people for the sake of his master plan: engineering every war in the country's history to bring it into the form of a perfect circle with sites of bloody carnage at all the cardinal points—the necessary configuration for the transmutation of another Philosopher's Stone and repeat his actions in Cselkcess on a higher scale to open the Gate and become a "perfect being" with absolute freedom and all the knowledge by absorbing God.

Father manages to restrain his sacrifices and so he can gather enough souls into his body from Amestris's people to absorb the trans-dimensional entity beyond the Gate which he called "God" (神, Kami).

[7] IGN ranked him as the 10th best anime villain of all time, saying that he makes "for a kind of weird analogy with the Greek god Uranus where he's the father of the lesser powers who generally try to control humanity for their own goals and pleasures."

Upset and humiliated, Envy commits suicide by tearing out its Philosopher's Stone core and crushing it rather than live with the knowledge that a "lowly human" understood its personal plight.[ch.

When Envy learns that Hohenheim is still alive and on the opposite side of the Gate, the Homunculus forces his way through and permanently ends up in the form of a giant serpentine dragon upon reaching Earth.

49] Anything Gluttony consumes is transported to a stagnant, hellish dimension, which is filled with an endless repugnant sea of blood, and is littered with victims and artifacts from centuries before the start of the series.[ch.

[12] Cornello (コーネロ, Kōnero) is a charlatan who founded the Church of Leto in Liore, using an imitation Philosopher's Stone provided to him by Lust to present himself as a holy man so he can ultimately use his legion of followers to take over the country.

Appearing in the live-action film as a major antagonist, Tucker serves as an accomplice to a military coup planning to take control of Amestris after being arrested for his crimes.

Kimblee is also instructed to instigate a bloody conflict on the Drachmanian border to complete the Nationwide Transmutation Circle, feigning himself as a defector to trick the Drachma people into being led to slaughter during a full-scale attack on the fortress of Briggs.[ch.

During the civil war, he briefly berates a guilt-ridden Mustang for the latter's self-pity despite having freely chosen to become a state alchemist, advising him to remember the people he has killed not out of guilt, but out of accountability.

In his final moments, Kimblee turns Alphonse into a bomb, which prompts Scar to give the boy the Philosopher's Stone, and shamelessly gloats that he did this to him so that he would reflect on how pointless his journey has become.ep.

For his on-going protection, Barry becomes fairly loyal to Mustang's group, playing a major role in helping Maria Ross escape the country and even abandoning his murders altogether.

Ultimately sacrificing his life to return Edward home, Hohenheim forces himself to be fatally bitten by Envy, a homunculus that was based on his own deceased son with Dante, and used as a sacrifice to open the gate.

After seeing what Mustang was capable of during the Ishbal War with such ability, Riza begs Roy to burn the tattoo, fearing the damage future flame alchemists could cause.[ch.

As a final element of his comedic properties, he has the tendency to "sparkle", a trait apparently shared by the rest of his family; when first appearing in a scene or taking off his shirt, pink stars radiate from his body.[ch.

95, 97] Her most loyal soldiers include Miles (マイルズ, Mairuzu), who is a quarter Ishbalan, remaining in the military with the hope to someday change the country's perception of Ishbal; and Buccaneer (バッカニア, Bakkania), a large, heavyset man who has been shown with two different pieces of automail in the series.[ch.

Dolcetto (ドルチェット, Doruchetto, "Dorochet" in the first English anime) is a human Chimera who was crossed with a dog, giving him an enhanced sense of smell and an unwavering loyalty to Greed.

Zanpano and Jelso's fellow Chimeras, the gorilla-like Darius (ダリウス, Dariusu) and the lion-like Heinkel (ハインケル, Hainkeru), aid Edward after Kimblee nearly killed them in apprehending the Fullmetal Alchemist.

In the current storyline, the emperor is in failing health, and his children (of which there are 43, 7 implied to have been assassinated if not die of natural causes), whose families are not in good standing with one another, seek to earn his recognition in his final days.

Two of his children, Prince Lin Yao and Princess May Chang, go to Amestris in separate attempts to find the fabled Philosopher's Stone and gain immortality, hoping that doing so will convince the emperor to make them his successor.[ch.

Despite its ruthlessness, defined by the Father as an arbiter of order that puts the arrogant in their place, the Truth desires to teach alchemists humility and acceptance of their current situation while punishing those who intentionally seek its power.