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== Ling Yao ==

'''Affiliation:''' Kingdom of Xing/Clan Yao<br />'''Rank''': 12th Prince of Xing<br />'''Speciality:''' Swordsmanship/Martial-Arts

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** {{spoiler|[[Badass Abnormal]]}}: {{spoiler|After accepting Greed}}

* [[Benevolent Boss]]: Ling might run off on them a lot, but he really does care a great deal about his bodyguards and is very protective over them. See also [[A Father to His Men]] and [[Reasonable Authority Figure]].

* [[Big Eater]]

* [[Big Screwed-Up Family]]

* {{spoiler|[[Enemy Within]]: Greed... sort of.}}

* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: He does this deliberately, because he's aware his eyes are [[Good Eyes, Evil Eyes|"shifty"]].

* [[Fainting]]: Has a habit of doing this. Mostly it's from genuine hunger and exhaustion, but on other occasions, it seems to be part of his [[Obfuscating Stupidity]].

* [[Funny Foreigner]]: Well, he's funny and he's a foreigner.

{{quote|''"So Sori! I no understand much language of this countwi!"''}}

* [[Good Counterpart]]: to King Bradley. Their philosophies on what it means to be a leader are the complete reverse of each others. {{spoiler|The parallel's become even stronger when Ling becomes the only other human-based homunculus, but unlike Bradley who in the process of becoming Wrath burned out most of the souls in his philosopher's stone, possibly including his original soul, Ling maintains his individuality in Greed. Also interesting to note is Bradley's former status as 12th Fuhrer candidate and Ling being the 12th son of the Emperor.}}

* [[Good Eyes, Evil Eyes]]

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Willpower]]: Cunningly inverted, he willingly gives up his body to Greed without a fight (which incidentally helps in the long run, as his lack of struggle prevented the philosopher's stone he received from burning out most of its power), but he has enough willpower to maintain his consciousness. From thereon Ling uses a combination of patience and willpower to occasionally wrestle back control of his body from Greed, at least until they start acting more in tandem.}}

* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: Kinda.... given his tendency of latching onto anyone he thinks might be able to help him achieve his goals, he winds up allied with a plethora of different people at different points of the story whether it's intentional or not. He's definitely at heart a "good guy", however.

* [[The Illegal]]

* [[Immortality Seeker]]: Ling's reason for coming to Amestris is to find the secret to eternal life (or at least, seems like it, so that his clan can win the Emperor's favor before he dies). {{spoiler|He gets his wish, but it comes with a price...}}

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Extremely convincing when pretending to be [[Idiot Hero|a complete moron]] - ''even while displaying window-crossing stealth bordering on [[Offscreen Teleportation]]''.

* [[King Incognito|Prince Incognito]]

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]

* [[Say My Name]]: ''LAN FAAAAAAAN!!!''

* [[What Were You Thinking?]]: {{spoiler|After his [[Deal with the Devil]], of course.}}

* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Is apparently 15 years old when introduced to the story (a bit younger than Ed), and thus technically a [[Kid Hero]], although he looks like a fully grown adult and is [[Wise Beyond Their Years|mature beyond his age]].

 

== Lan Fan ==

'''Affiliation:''' Kingdom of Xing/Clan Yao<br />'''Rank''': Bodyguard<br />'''Speciality:''' Martial-Arts/Weapons Expert/Stealth

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* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[Badass Adorable]]: Without her mask, she's rather cute.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: During {{spoiler|The second fight with Gluttony}}.

* [[Blade Below the Shoulder]]: {{spoiler|Has a blade on her automail.}}

 

== May Chang ==

'''Affiliation:''' Kingdom of Xing/Clan Chang<br />'''Rank''': 17th Princess of Xing<br />'''Speciality:''' Medical Alkahestry/Martial-Arts

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** [[Little Miss Badass]]: See [[Plucky Girl]] below.

* [[Bottomless Magazines|Bottomless Knife Brace]]: You may be wondering where she gets all those throwing knives. This trope is averted by [[Fridge Brilliance]] in that she simply transmutes more from available material.

* [[Child Prodigy]]: Expert at alkahestry and martial arts, and she is still not a teenager yet.

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]: Like most other people of Xing.

 

== Fu ==

'''Affiliation:''' Kingdom of Xing/Clan Yao<br />'''Rank''': Bodyguard<br />'''Speciality:''' Martial-Arts/Weapons Expert/Stealth

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== Tim Marcoh ==

'''Affiliation:''' Amestris Military (formerly)<br />'''Rank''': Major (formerly)<br />'''Speciality:''' Medical Alchemy/Biological Alchemy

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== Yoki ==

'''Affiliation:''' Amestris Military (formerly)<br />'''Rank''': 1st Lieutenant (formerly)<br />'''Speciality:''' Not a Damn Thing

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== Curtis Butcher Shop ==

 

'''Affiliation:''' None<br />'''Rank''': A housewife!<br />'''Speciality:''' Martial-Arts/Alchemy without an Array

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* [[Badass]]

** [[Badass Bookworm]]: Of course.

** [[Handicapped Badass]]: She's missing several of her internal organs and randomly coughs up [[Blood From the Mouth]]. She is also one of the most frakkin' epic characters in the entire series.

* [[Blood From the Mouth]]: Tends to happen at random, completely freaking out everyone around her. Which, [[Dark Comedy|in a very rare form of this trope]], is usually [[Played for Laughs]].

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "''I'm a housewife!''"

** Near the end of the series she deliberately changes it to "I'm an ALCHEMIST!" indicating her intention of giving a good asskicking for the final battle.

** {{spoiler|[[Weak but Skilled|Comparatively Weak, but Skilled]]: She can ''aikido'' you in the air with little effort even if you're stronger than her. Just ask Sloth.}}

* [[Dreadlock Rasta]]

* [[Training From Hell]]: She subjects the Elric brothers to this, to the extent that the very mention of her name makes them tremble with fear. Which is nothing next to the training she endured. It involved {{spoiler|Mt. Briggs and [[Everything's Worse with Bears|fighting bears]]. Which we get to see more of in the 3rd OVA.}}

 

'''Affiliation:''' None<br />'''Rank''': None<br />'''Speciality:''' Super-Strength

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{{quote|Voiced by: Seiji Sasaki (JP), Bob Carter (EN)}}

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* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[Berserk Button]]: Other men hitting on his wife is just about the only thing that can drive him to violence.

 

== Pinako Rockbell ==

'''Affiliation:''' None<br />'''Rank''': None<br />'''Speciality:''' Mechanic

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{{quote|Voiced by: [[Yoshino Takamori]] (JP), Yuuki Mitsugi (JP - Young), Lydia Mackay (EN)}}

* [[I Will Wait for You]]

* [[May-December Romance]]: With Hohenheim.

* [[Missing Mom]]

* [[Posthumous Character]]

 

== Barry the Chopper ==

'''Affiliation:''' Amestris Military/Homunculi<br />'''Rank''': Prisoner #66<br />'''Speciality:''' Knives/Swordsmanship

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* {{spoiler|[[Death by Irony]]: Killed by his own body.}}

* [[Dual-Wielding]]

* [[I Have Many Names]]: Not that anyone cares.

* [[Interplay of Sex and Violence]]: He measures the attractiveness of women on how much he wants to "chop" them -- voluptuous characters like Lust and Riza are to his taste, but [[Ambiguous Gender|Envy]] was far too stringy.

* [[Laughably Evil]]: Let's face it, he's more or less devoid of redeeming qualities, but ''damned'' if he isn't funny. He becomes more [[Affably Evil]] later on.

* [[Honor Before Reason|Murder Before Reason]]: His original body, now a mindless zombie, constantly chases him on orders from the Homunculi. Being close to him affects his blood seal and threatens to destroy both of them. But rather then stay the heck away from it, Barry gleefully chases it because he finds to the idea of murdering his own flesh to be [[Nightmare Fetishist|really cool]]. {{spoiler|Too bad he got killed in the process.}} This is later made extra-ironic in that {{spoiler|given the eventual [[Synchronization|relationship]] Al is shown to have with his body (which is in the gate), killing his own body would have likely caused his soul to be destroyed anyway}}!

* [[Psycho for Hire]]

* [[Serial Killer]]

* [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]: His main reason for leaving the Homunculi is because they regarded him as such.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: The Homunculi tried to do this to him. {{spoiler|It took a while, but they ultimately succeeded.}}

 

== The Truth ==

'''Affiliation:''' Truth<br />'''Speciality:''' Everything

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** {{spoiler|Consider that Roy was seen as the only alchemist who passed through the gate to actually recover from the injuries Truth inflicted on him, Truth may not have kicked the dog as hard as it seems.}}

*** {{spoiler|He didn't. Saying he took Roy's eyes is a misnomer. He merely took his eye''sight'', something that Truth, being God, probably knew could easily be rectified in good time.}}

*** [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: What he does to {{spoiler|Father}} in the end.

* [[King of All Cosmos]]

{{quote|I am "the world". Or perhaps "the universe". I am "God". I am "Truth". I am "all". I am "one". And...I am ''you.''}}

* [[Shadow Archetype]]: Though in an odd way. It is the approximate size of anyone attempting to converse with it. {{spoiler|And in chapter 108 when Homunculus talks to it, Truth takes the shape of a small sphere, just like Homunculus.}}

* [[Slasher Smile]]: Its only genuine facial feature.

** {{spoiler|It gives a genuine, non-slasher one as part of his hearty congratulation when Ed achieves the "truth behind the truth" and gives his own gate as toll for his Al}}.

* [[Petting Zoo People]]

 

'''Affiliation:''' Amestris Military (formerly)/Devil's Nest<br />'''Rank''': Black-Ops (formerly)<br />'''Speciality:''' Super-Strength/Hammer

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* [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]]

 

'''Affiliation:''' Amestris Military (formerly)/Devil's Nest<br />'''Rank''': Black-Ops (formerly)<br />'''Speciality:''' Knives/Flexibility

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* [[Spared by the Adaptation]]: Subverted, in the first anime, she becomes a supporting character for a few episodes, and even travels with the Elrics, before {{spoiler|getting stabbed to death by Bradley...while she was hiding inside Al's armor.}}

 

'''Affiliation:''' Amestris Military (formerly)/Devil's Nest<br />'''Rank''': Black-Ops (formerly)<br />'''Speciality:''' Swordsmanship

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* [[Undying Loyalty]]

 

'''Affiliation:''' Devil's Nest(formerly)<br />'''Rank''': None<br />'''Speciality:''' Agility

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** Hell, Zampano and Darius even help out taking down {{spoiler|Father}}.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: This must be the reason why Kimblee doesn't bother to help Darius and Heinkel from the mineshaft collapse, which leads to their [[Heel Face Turn]].

 

'''Affiliation:''' Amestris Military<br />'''Rank''': Operative<br />'''Speciality:''' Super-Strength/Quills

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* {{spoiler|[[Reverse Mole]]}}: {{spoiler|After joining the heroes, he seems to be revealed as [[The Mole]] and calls Envy to alert him of their location. Actually he never turned on the heroes, and the call was a trick to lead Envy into a trap.}}

* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]

 

'''Affiliation:''' Amestris Military<br />'''Rank''': Operative<br />'''Speciality:''' Agility/Adhesive Saliva

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* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Zampano.

* [[Scary Black Man]]: Averted. Jerso is actually a pretty cool guy.

 

'''Affiliation:''' Amestris Military/Greed-2<br />'''Rank''': Operative<br />'''Speciality:''' Super-Strength

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* [[My Name Is Not Durwood|My Name Is Not Gorilla]]

 

'''Affiliation:''' Amestris Military/Greed-2<br />'''Rank''': Operative<br />'''Speciality:''' Marksmanship/Agility/Super-Strength

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== Minor Characters ==

'''Affiliation:''' Homunculi<br />'''Speciality:''' Weapon Alchemy

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* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Killed by Lust and Gluttony after his defeat, which was engineered to further their plans).

 

'''Affiliation:''' Amestris Military<br />'''Rank''': Major<br />'''Speciality:''' Biological Alchemy

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* [[Not So Different]]: Tries to pull this on Ed. [[Subverted Trope|He doesn't really make the best case, however.]]

* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]

* {{spoiler|[[Stepford Smiler]]}}

 

'''Affiliation:''' None<br />'''Rank''': None<br />'''Speciality:''' None

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* {{spoiler|[[Body Horror]]}}: {{spoiler|Her own father fuses them both into a sick parody of a humanoid dog, that's literally in constant pain due to the man's incompetence.}}

* [[Cheerful Child]]: Nina

* {{spoiler|[[Kill the Cutie]]}}

* [[Missing Mom]]: Nina's mother left the family two years ago. {{spoiler|It later turns out that the chimera that starved to death was her mother}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]}}

 

'''Affiliation:''' None<br />'''Rank''': None<br />'''Speciality:''' Super-Strength

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* [[Kawaiiko]]

* [[Killer Rabbit]]: Looks sweet and harmless, but thinks it's cute to see her brother and sister beating the crap out of each other and destroying the family home; oh, and she [[Instrument of Murder|throws pianos]].

* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Fairly shy around Havoc in the bonus chapter, and according to Alex, doesn't have many men interested in her because of that.

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Relatively minor compared to the other characters. It's either "Katherine" or "Catherine."

* [[Waif Fu]]

 

'''Affiliation:''' None<br />'''Rank''': None<br />'''Speciality:''' None

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* [[Cheerful Child]]: Maes has every right to be showing off his daughter.

* [[Daddy's Girl]]: Elicia.

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic BSOD]]: Poor, poor Elincia at her dad's funeral. And later '''poor''' Gracia, after speaking to Ed and Al.}}

* [[Housewife]]: Gracia.

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Elicia/Elysia, Gracia/Glacier

 

'''Affiliation:''' Ishval<br />'''Rank''': Scholar<br />'''Speciality:''' Destructive Alchemy/Medical Alchemy/Alkahestry

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* {{spoiler|[[Chekhov's Gun]]: His research notes are vital in overriding Father's anti-alchemy buffer, and in teaching Scar how to use reconstruction alchemy.}}

* [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Older Brother]]: To Scar.

* [[Fan Nickname]]: Scarbro.

* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: Believes people are capable of working together to bring out the good in each other, and this is a large part of his motivation for {{spoiler|studying alchemy}}.

 

'''Affiliation:''' Amestris<br />'''Rank''': Civilian medics<br />'''Speciality:''' None aside from their medical skills.

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