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** Before the ''Brotherhood'' adaptation, this was probably what many western fans immediately thought of when someone mentioned "''Fullmetal Alchemist''" rather than the original manga.
** And for many, it still is.
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: {{spoiler|Greed, Scar, Lust, Sloth}}
* [[Angst? What Angst?]]: Being {{spoiler|kidnapped and nearly killed by a serial murderer}} would traumatize most people for life, but {{spoiler|Winry}} seems to bounce back pretty quickly.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Hohenheim gets a lot more of it here than he did in Brotherhood, where he's seen as more unambiguously benevolent: is he a wise [[The Atoner|atoner]] who feels bad for {{spoiler|all the [[Body Surf|BodySurfing]] he's done}} or a suicidal [[Jerkass]] whose excuse to [[Parental Abandonment|abandon]] his children and wife Trisha doesn't cut the test and who {{spoiler|unintentionally helped the [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazis]]}}.
* [[Base Breaker]]: Envy and Wrath are two of the most polarizing characters.
* [[Complete Monster]]:
** Mugear wanted to use an extremely toxic chemical on pregnant women to produce an alchemic amplifier, after trying to produce it at the expense of the villagers' health and lives didn't bring the results and murdering the inventor of the chemical, after he tried to stop him from producing it by such horrible means.
** {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Dante]]}}: A 400 year old bitch with a penchant for [[Body Surf|Body Surfing]], she's stayed alive this long by jacking innocent people's bodies, ditching them when they start to rot, and repeating the process infinite. When her own Philosopher's Stone runs out, she sets in motion a plan to cause so much misery in Amestris that someone will be desperate enough to recreate the Stone, allowing her to steal it with no risk to herself. She's abusive towards her Homunculi "children", arranges for Ed to {{spoiler|kill Greed}}, jacks her own assistant's body, and finally, attempts to steal the body of one of heroes [[Love Interest|Love Interests]], who had been severely traumatized, solely so that she can screw him. Said hero is a teenager, and her ''ex-boyfriend's son''. She's never shown in a sympathetic light, and doesn't even have the excuse of not being human to protect her.
** [[The Dragon|Envy]]. His manga counterpart was [[Alas, Poor Villain|pitiful enough in the end]] to avert this trope. This version on the other hand, is not, and takes the former's evil and [[Jerkass|Jerkassery]] [[Up to Eleven]]. He's a malevolent sadist who gets his kicks out of ruining people's lives, crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]] with {{spoiler|Hughes' murder}} and then follows it up with a string of murders and mind games that end with {{spoiler|[[Hero-Killer|his killing Ed]]}}. He's got a [[Freudian Excuse]], but it doesn't come close to justifying his homicidal mania, and {{spoiler|he's a [[Karma Houdini]] to boot, gaining the death he'd always wanted while taking Hohenheim with him}}. Must be [[In the Blood]].
** {{spoiler|[[President Evil|King Bradley/Pride]]}}: You know he's not going to be a nice guy right off the bat, what with the whole {{spoiler|"military dictator"}} thing. It gets worse when you realise that he's the one who ordered the {{spoiler|genocide in Ishbal}} and worse still when he has those actions repeated in Liore. Then he crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]] with his murder of {{spoiler|Marta}} and [[Offing the Offspring|throttles his own son]], who had served as his [[Morality Pet]], to death in the finale, thus establishing himself firmly as a totally irredeemable bastard.
** [[Mad Bomber|Kimblee]]. A [[Psycho for Hire]], [[Nietzsche Wannabe]], and [[Misanthrope Supreme]] par excellence, he [[Loves the Sound of Screaming]] and isn't afraid to share it with you. He comitted genocide in Ishbal, blew up his fellow prisoners in order to escape from prison, betrayed [[Anti-Villain|Greed]] to Archer, tries to murder Al soon after his reinstatement, reenacts the Ishbal genocide in Liore, and finally {{spoiler|dies while trying to take Al and Scar with him}}. A truly appalling mix of rage, hatred, and pure nihilism.
** Unlike his goofy manga incarnation who became buddies with the main characters, this series' incarnation of Barry the Chopper is a serial-killing butcher played dead straight, with not a gag or a joke in sight.
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* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: Maes Hughes is very popular with the American fanbase, much to the surprise of the Japanese creators.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]:
** {{spoiler|Selim Bradley. A human boy in the first anime and King Bradley (Pride)'s adoptive son. Bradley kills him in a fit of rage in the finale.}} In the manga and the second anime, {{spoiler|Selim turns out to be Pride (Bradley is the manga's Wrath), oldest and deadliest of the Homunculi, and Bradley works for ''him''.}}
** In one of the flashbacks, a young Ling Yao can be seen, wearing sunglasses similar to Greed; while he has no important role in ''this'' anime, {{spoiler|he becomes the new Greed in ''Brotherhood'' and the manga}}.
** At the end of the (non-canonical) OVA "Kids", there is a prominently displayed photograph of an elderly Ed shaking hands with an important-looking, formally dressed man who bears a moderate resemblance to [[Barack Obama]]. (The OVA was made more than three years before he was elected President of the United States.)
* [[Iron Woobie]]: Ed, Al, Izumi, Mustang, Hawkeye, honestly, most of the good guys.
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Wrath and Scar
* [[Memetic Sex God]]: Everyone wants [[Evil Is Sexy|Lust]], no exceptions. [[Hot Mom|Sloth]] also fares well in this department.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Crossed by both Scar and the Homunculi. Envy crosses it with {{spoiler|the murder of Hughes}} enjoys dancing over it again and again. Depending on who you ask, {{spoiler|Bradley}}'s came with either {{spoiler|Marta or Selim's murder}}.
* [[No Yay]]:
** {{spoiler|Dante}} hitting on [[Freud Was Right|Ed]]. It gets even worse when you consider that she's mainly doing it to "be loved by the son of Hohenheim."
** There's also a bit of {{spoiler|[[Les Yay]] between Dante, in Lyra's body, and Rose}}...which [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|wouldn't have been that bad]], were it not for the fact that {{spoiler|Lyra's body [[Squick|was rotting]]}}
** And then there's the fangirls who ship [[Complete Monster|Kimblee]] with [[Sociopathic Soldier|Archer]]. As if the fact that they're both psychopaths wasn't bad enough, one of them is a ''half-mechanical [[Cyborg]]''!
* [[Stoic Woobie]]: Lust.
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