Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)/Awesome: Difference between revisions

*** OH MY GOD. How the HELL did this troper miss that?!

* Doesn't the author herself, Hiromu Arakawa, deserve a mention for her story-telling? She took the concept of revenge, and clearly defined it, something that Masashi Kishimoto is still working on in [[Naruto]], and shows it through Roy Mustang and Scar as the story progresses.

** This editor must also give her props for her impressive use of [[Foreshadowing]]. You know your story is well-planned when ''the shape of a certain hallway'' turns out to be important.

** You know what?...I'm just gonna say it. Fullmetal Alchemist is a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for ''anime and manga as a whole''.

* When Gluttony attacks Scar from behind and Scar ''doesn't even turn around'', just reaches behind him and manages to grab Gluttony's head and toasts it.

* Oh god NO LOVE FOR LUST?! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?! She's one of the most [[Badass]] characters in the series. She blows things up. Nearly oneshots Roy's ENTIRE team (sure she may have failed but she gets points there). Hell, she fuelled the awesome during her battle with Roy. She also attacked Scar and nearly killed him, sparing the Elric brothers. And winning against Marcoh and threatning him. She was a walking CMOA when she existed.

* Barry the Chopper barging into the prison and swatting people aside (and terrifying them!) in order to bust the innocent Maria Ross out of there.

** Also, cottoning on to Mustang's girlfriend-code-talk right away when Mustang implies that he needs to use a safer telephone line to speak, was this and a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].

** They also earn an extra CMOA for actually accentuating a moment that's already been mentioned. Specifically, it involves Truth. Whereas in the Japanese version Truth's [[Voice of the Legion]] would be an accentuated form of whoever's voice Truth was speaking to at the time, Funimation had Truth strictly voiced by [[Luci Christian]]. {{spoiler|Except during Truth's shout of approval as Ed sacrifices his alchemy in episode 63 - [[Maxey Whitehead]] and [[Vic Mignogna]] took over as Truth right at that point in the conversation, creating the effect that Truth broke into a legion voice of Ed and Al out of sheer pleasure at seeing Ed's selflessness!}}

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''''"YOU'VE DONE IT! THAT'S THE RIGHT ANSWER! GOOD JOB! YOU BEAT ME! GO AHEAD! TAKE HIM HOME! THE BACK DOOR IS RIGHT OVER THERE! GOODBYE, EDWARD ELRIC!"'''''}}}}

* Where's the love for Isaac McDougal? {{spoiler|Sure, he shows up ''and'' dies in the first episode, but he STILL nearly destroys the military's headquarters, which we [[Foreshadowing|later find out]] is the home of the bad guys!}} And he does it ''all by himself.''

** And he didn't just happen to {{spoiler|target and nearly destroy the home of the bad guys}}. He knew EXACTLY what was going down. {{spoiler|Albeit in cryptic language, '''he essentially said as much, and Ed figured out what he meant halfway through the story'''}}. Pretty awesome for a filler character, eh?