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This is a short summary page for characters from the Fullmetal Alchemist manga series and its anime adaptation Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Note: For the page about the characters from the first anime, see Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)/Characters.

This page deals with the Main Characters of the series.

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Edward "Ed" Elric

Affiliation: Amestris Military
Rank: Major
Speciality: Martial-Arts/Weapon Alchemy/Alchemy Without an Array

The protagonist of the series. Seeks the secret of the Philosopher's Stone so he can undo the mistakes of his past of trying to bring back his mother to life. The truth behind the Philosopher's Stone, and the connection to the secrets behind the country he lives in drives the story.

Voiced by: Romi Park (JP), Vic Mignogna (EN)

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• Accidental Pervert: He almost sees Winry naked when she starts undressing, without realizing Ed is in the room with her.
• Adorably Precocious Child: Young Ed.
• Alliterative Name
• Anti-Hero: Type II.
  • Knight in Sour Armour
• Artificial Limbs: His automail, of course.
• Author Appeal: Hiromu Arakawa likes muscular men, which should come as no surprise seeing how extremely ripped Ed is for a too-short-for-his-age teen. And his remarkable tendency to rip off his clothing to show off his bare torso...
  • To be fair though, he has to lug around all of that auto-mail which probably helps with his physique, along with all of the fighting he does.
• Babies Ever After: With Winry.
• Badass: Very, very badass.
  • Badass Bookworm
  • Badass Long Red Jacket
    • The Coats Are Off: He doesn't take off his jacket, he rips it off.
  • Badass Long Hair
  • Badass Normal: After giving up his alchemy to save Al.
  • Handicapped Badass (technically, but his automail usually more than compensates)
    • Still handcapped, but has both arms now.
  • Badass Transplant
  • Retired Badass
  • Badass Boast: Extremely satisfying example in the last battle against the Father

Edward: Get up, you miserable fuck. It's time you learned why you're not in our league!

• Berserk Button: "WHO ARE YOU CALLING A TINY LITTLE BEAN SPROUT THE SIZE OF A GRAIN OF RICE!?!"
  • "LIKE I SAID, THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID!!!
  • "If you think I'll let you harm A HAIR ON HER HEAD...!"
  • "I HATE MILK!"
• Big Brother Instinct: His mission in life is to get his little brother's body back.
  • The probable reason for his being a near-Celibate Hero: "Love is a distraction."
• Bishounen: Especially in Brotherhood.
  • Especially more so in May Cheng's fantasies of him.
  • Long-Haired Pretty Boy
• Blade Below the Shoulder: His iconic armblade.
• Bratty Half-Pint: And yet the main character.
• Braids of Action: Rare male example
• Brought Down to Normal: Willingly sacrifices his ability to use alchemy to get back Alphonse.
• Butt Monkey
• Cannot Spit It Out: He'd rather recite the periodic table of elements at top speed.
• Cast From Lifespan: To keep from bleeding to death, Ed uses his own soul as a Philosopher's stone and shortens his lifespan by a few years to close a wound.
• Celibate Hero: He has to get Al's body back before even thinking about... HydrogenHeliumLithiumBeryllium...
• Child Mage: Started alchemy at a very young age.
• Child Soldiers: Received a State Alchemist's certification at the age of 12.
• Code Name/Red Baron: Fullmetal Alchemist
• Combat Pragmatist: In his own words, "There's no such thing as dirty in a fight."
• Cosmic Plaything: Is he ever. Though this does lead to a rather satisfying Call Back by Ed at the end of the series, "A lesson without pain is meaningless."
• Cross-Dressing Voices: In the original, averted in the dub.
• Cursed with Awesome: His artificial limbs have saved his life a lot.
• Curtains Match the Window: His golden hair and eyes are inherited from his father.
• Dead Little Sister: The whole human transmutation experience.
  • And later with Nina Tucker.
• Destructive Savior: On par with Major Alex Armstrong, if not THE poster child.
• Determinator: He was a Determinator when he was ten, and he hasn't changed since.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Twice. First against Pride, then against Father. The second one counts as punching out two deities at once.
• Disabled Love Interest: For Winry. They eventually marry.
• Does Not Like Guns
• Does Not Like Milk
• Earn Your Happy Ending: He gets his arm back, Al gets his body back, and he starts a family with his Victorious Childhood Friend, but WOW did he go through hell and back to get it.
• Expressive Hair
• Extra Ore Dinary: His and Al's alchemy specialty.
• Eyes of Gold
• Fan Service: Spends large amounts of time without a shirt on. And don't forget his shower scene.
• Generation Xerox: As flashback episodes ultimately show, he looks pretty much exactly like his father as a teenager, who was also an alchemic prodigy tramuitized by human transmutation.
  • Plus, according to a series of sketches of Ed aging done by Arakawa, he will look incredibly like his father by the time he gets to 40 or so.
• Good Is Not Nice: Even with all of his good qualities, you can't deny that Ed can be a real asshole.
  • Hair of Gold: Despite being an asshole, he's still a heroic guy.
• Grasp the Sun: Does this in two opening credits.
• Heroic Bastard: Despite living with his mom for years, his dad never actually married her.
• Heroic BSOD: Ed is the patron saint of this trope. If the slightest thing goes wrong, Ed goes spinning off into a BSOD.
• Hot Dad: He becomes one in the Grand Finale.
• Hurting Hero: Boy is he ever.
• Idiot Hair: He might not be an idiot, but Ed has a small "antenna" of hair which he intentionally sticks up to make himself appear taller.
• I Got Bigger: Somewhat. Goes from roughly 4' 10" when shown in the very beginning to about 5' 4" in the final battle a year later. Then once again to around 5' 9" in the epilogue, which is several years after that. A rare case in fiction of a teenager growing slowly in real time, slow enough in fact that you don't notice until you compare the differences over the course of thirty or so chapters. Amusingly enough, he only starts to grow once he stops complaining about how short he is.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die/It's All My Fault: This occurs three times over the course of the series to poor Edward; Alphonse losing his body, Nina's death, and then Hughes' death. In the case of Al's body, Ed completely blames himself to the point of fearing that Alphonse resents him.
• Insufferable Genius: Of Poirot-ean proportions.
• In the Blood: He can't stand his dad for abandoning his family and yet he abandons what constitutes his family in the way he shuts Winry and Pinako out of his life.
• The Ishmael: The story starts focusing on Hohenheim much more than on Ed halfway through. It doesn't help that Hohenheim's connection to the plot and the Big Bad is more personal, whereas Ed just happened to stumble into it by accident while doing his own thing concerning his brother. This is also a subversion, since Ed ultimately proves just as important, if not more so, to the story's resolution than his father.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: This trope more or less defines Ed.
• Large Ham: When annoyed. Minus the "large" part.
  • WHO'RE YOU CALLIN' A MOUSY LITTLE PIPSQUEAK?!
  • Also, in a gambit to lure out Scar to kill him, and by extension the Homonculi to protect him, Edward puts on a rather theatrical display of his alchemy.
• Laughing Mad: Does this briefly when he realizes trying to bring his mother back was a Senseless Sacrifice after digging up the remains of what he and Al created during the failed human transmutation.
• Majorly Awesome: State alchemist all have the rank of major. (Or higher).
• Life or Limb Decision: How he saved Al's soul from crossing over.
• Men Don't Cry: Excluding his backstory, Edward only ever cries once in the entire series, and those were Berserker Tears over Hohenheim trying to convince Ed to sacrfice him to bring Al back to life.
• Meaningful Echo: Of a sorts. The positions in the family photo of Hohenheim, Trisha, Ed, and Al are roughly repeated in the finale photo with Ed, Winry, and their two children. Well, except for Daddy Ed looking far more ecstatic than Hohenheim did.
• Mr. Fanservice: Not bad for a vertically-challenged double-amputee.
  • The vertically challenged part has changed - he is taller.
• The Napoleon: See Berserk Button... however, he eventually gets a growth spurt down the line!
  • But Al is still taller than him in the Babies Ever After photo, despite his body spending several years in an emaciated state. Ed just can't win...
• Nay Theist: Not only does he know for fact that God/Truth/Whatever He Calls Himself exists, his leg was stolen by it. That's the reason why his opinion of the guy is shit.
• Nom De Mom: He and Al are registered under their mother's last name.
• The Other Darrin: Aaron Dismuke couldn't reprise the role thanks to hitting puberty.
• Oblivious to Love: At first.
• Oedipus Rex: He blames Hohenheim's Parental Abandonment for his mother's death.
• Power Copying: Part of Ed's fighting style is adapting techniques he's seen other characters use. This includes Armstrong's "Strong Arm Spikes," Scar's Deconstruction Alchemy, Greed's carbon shield, and reversing Pride's attempt to possess him.
• Rank Up: Upon passing the State Alchemist exam. He is still called Mister Elric instead of Major Elric however, because according to Denny Brosh, State Alchemists possess a rank equivalent to a major. Most characters in the military call him by his first name or "Fullmetal".
• Rated "M" for Manly: The reason his duster is red? - he thinks the colour is Badass.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: He wears a red coat and has black cloths underneath but is not evil
• Redemption Quest: "I'm sorry Al. This is all my fault. So I promise that no matter what, I'll get you your body back."
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Alphonse and Mustang's blue.
• Scars Are Forever: Decides against regaining his leg as a reminder of his journey and the consequences of his actions.
  • Even after he gets his right arm back, he retains the brutal-looking scars from his automail surgery, as well as a couple of metal bits sticking out of his skin and presumably more inside him.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: With Winry. "She's my mechanic! Nothing more!"
• Shipper on Deck: Has been playing matchmaker to Ling and Lan Fan as well as Roy and Riza. You know it's sad when Ed can see it.
  • He also did this to Al and May (although it might have been unintentional) in chapter 104.
• Shirtless Scene: He loses his shirt so much that it's a wonder he bothers to wear one at all.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: With Al.
• Single-Target Sexuality: Apparently decides he wants to marry Winry at a young age, goes through a long period of Cannot Spit It Out during which he never shows the slightest interest in another girl, and eventually marries Winry.
• Suddenly Always Knew That: Apparently he can turn himself into a philosopher's stone to destroy homunculi from inside.
  • The ability to turn himself into a philosopher's stone was foreshadowed after his battle against Kimblee. Now, being able to use that ability to hijack homunculi...
• Teen Genius: Youngest state alchemist ever.
• Testosterone Poisoning: Most of what he makes through alchemy could look good in a Death Metal concert. Justified because he's a kid.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Absolutely refuses to kill people.
  • Technical Pacifist
  • Honor Before Reason: This trait nearly gets him killed against Kimblee.

"Die?! You just don't know anything about Edward Elric!"

• Took a Level In Badass: As if he already wasn't badass enough, Ed getting his right arm back leads to Father getting a complete No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
• Troubled but Cute
• Unstoppable Rage: Against Father, after Al's Heroic Sacrifice.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Mustang, Ling, and Scar, after the latter's Heel Face Turn. Let's just say anyone Ed befriends are likely to develop this type of relationship with him. Even his relationship with Winry is like this sometimes, though to a much lesser extent than the others listed.
• Wacky Marriage Proposal: To Winry. Still a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming though.
• Walking the Earth at the end, he goes west for more research and create a replacement rule for alchemy
• Wise Beyond His Years: While not as often as Alphonse, Ed does have tendency to display a high level of wisdom for someone his age.
• The Worf Barrage: He has on several occasions conjured an elaborate-looking spear from the ground. Until the fight with the Cyclops Army it would always be cut apart in moments. He's a much better fighter barehanded or with a blade transmuted from his automail's casing.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: To Scar regarding a relatively minor matter "Hearing you agree with me makes me mad for some reason..."
• You're Not My Father: Typically refers to his father as "Hohenheim," until the last chapter, when he tells Hohenheim "You're useless, Dad!" in response to his offering to sacrifice himself to bring Al back.

Alphonse "Al" Elric

Affiliation: None
Rank: None
Speciality: Martial-Arts/Balanced Alchemy/Trap Alchemy/Alchemy without an Array

Edward's little brother, he lost his body during an experiment that went horribly wrong and survives in the form of a suit of armour, his soul joined to it through the use of a blood seal.

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (JP), Aaron Dismuke (EN - 2003 Anime), Maxey Whitehead (EN - 2009 Anime)

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• Achilles' Heel: His blood seal is his one real weakness.
• Animated Armor
• Badass: Almost as much as his brother.
  • At the end of the story, with Hohenheim and Father gone and Ed's powers gone, Al is one of the most potentially powerful alchemists on the planet, alongside his teacher Izumi and Mustang, who added circleless alchemy to his already impressive alchemy skills.
• Badass Adorable: A sweet boy with a soft spot for kittens who is a living armor alchemist.
• Beware the Nice Ones
• Big Little Brother: He may be the youngest of the two protagonists, but his armour body makes him taller and more impressive than his older brother.
  • Despite getting a growth spurt, Ed is still shorter than him, even after Al gets his body back.
• Bishonen: He becomes a big-time Bishonen after he gets his body back and heals up.
• Blessed with Suck: He can't feel pain, he can't feel anything. He also doesn't need to eat, breathe, or sleep (which induces feelings of loneliness at night).
• Child Mage
• Child Prodigy: Might be even better then his brother at alchemy.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: After blaming himself for the deaths of Nina, Hughes and Martel, he seems unable to let anyone die, even if they're possible enemies and/or Al doesn't even know them.
• Corner of Woe: In contrast to his brother, making fun of Al's size or armor results in this.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: Averted in the dub of the first anime, where he was played by the then 12-year-old Aaron Dismuke. Played straight with Rie Kugimiya and Maxey Whitehead.
• Curtains Match the Window: In his human body.
• Cuteness Proximity: He's a Kindhearted Cat Lover, and wanted to keep Shao May when he found her alone.
• Eye Lights Out: whenever Alphonse's soul is unconscious, or being pulled over to the Gate, his eye-lights go out.
  • This seems to be for the audience only, since none of the characters including Ed seem to be able to tell the difference.
• Eyes of Gold: His human body has them, though they're less gold and more olive-colored compared to Ed and Hohenheim.
• Extra Ore Dinary: His and Ed's alchemy specialty.
• Gentle Giant: He looks intimidating but he's much nicer than his brother.
• Genius Bruiser: His metal body grants him greater than average strength which he uses in combo with his impressive alchemy.
• Glowing Mechanical Eyes
• Hair of Gold: His human body has it, though it's much darker than Ed's and borders on light brown.
• Heroic Bastard: like his brother.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Seeing as his blood seal was cracked, Ed had lost his right arm and Ed was pinned against a rock and about to have his life force drained by the Big Bad, he gives back his soul so that Ed could have his original right arm back.
  • Thankfully he gets better when Ed comes back to claim him.
  • Anyone who refused to get his body back, since he can't properly use it for combat, despite the fact that he desperately wanted that proper flesh and blood body for years, without getting too upset about it, deserves to be poster boy for this trope.
• Heroic Resolve

Al: "I won't leave you! I'm sick of watching people die, and I can't just sit back and take it anymore! I won't let anyone else get killed! Not when I can protect them!!"

• • I Let Gwen Stacy Die: Feels responsible for the deaths of Nina, Martel and Hughes.
• Important Haircut
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: He hids them in his armor so Ed won't insist he abandon them.
• The Needless: He cannot eat or sleep and it brings him much sadness and frustration on his quest to get his body back, especially because he essentially spends his nights awake alone while his brother and everyone else close to him sleeps.
• Nice Guy: In contrast to his brother.
• Nom De Mom: He and Ed are registered under their mother's last name.
• The Other Darrin: Aaron Dismuke couldn't reprise the role thanks to hitting puberty.
  • But a Continuity Nod when he did do the voice of young Hohenheim in Brotherhood.
• Parental Abandonment: He takes it much better than Ed does, though it seems as though he didn't fully comprehend the situation, either.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Edward's red. (One of two)
• Shipper on Deck: For Edward and Winry. "Brother is so youthful!"
• Sibling Yin-Yang: With Ed.
• Took a Level In Badass: To a point that he's just as badass as Ed!
• Walking the Earth: At the end he goes east to Xing. Which Ed teases him for.
• Wise Beyond His Years: Is far more level-headed than Edward.

Van Hohenheim

Affiliation: None
Rank: None
Speciality: Perfect Alchemy/Trap Alchemy/Immortality

The Elrics' father, a renowned alchemist who left them and their mother when they were little.

Voiced by: Masashi Ebara (JP - 2003 Anime), Unsho Ishizuka (JP - 2009 Anime), Scott McNeil (EN - 2003 Anime), John Swasey (EN - 2009 Anime), Daisuke Namikawa (JP - Young), Aaron Dismuke (EN - Young)

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• Animals Hate Him
• Badass Bookworm: He looks like he should be teaching in some school, but he's one of two Perfect Alchemists in the series.
• Badass in a Nice Suit
• Bishonen: Revealed to be this before he grew a beard.
  • He definitely fits the bill for Mr. Fanservice in his youth, but lacks the integral effeminate appearance of Bishonen.
• Born Into Slavery
• The Chessmaster: Has been setting up a response to Father's transmutation circle for years. No one, including the Big Bad, saw that one coming.
• Cloudcuckoolander: having all those souls inside him makes him kinda quirky.
• Convenient Terminal Illness: Averted, he is dying after the final batle, having used up all the souls inside him, but Ed refuses to sacrifice him.
• Cool Old Guy
• Curtains Match the Window
• Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You: He doesn't try to justify his actions, but left home after realizing that Father was preparing a larger version of the Xerxes transmutation circle.
• Dirty Old Man: He's called this for requesting Lan Fan to accompany him when the group splits up in the Third Laboratory. It's really so he can help her escape the lab and find Ling; he's intending on confronting Father alone.
• Disappeared Dad
• Everybody's Dead, Dave: The complete destruction of Xerxes. To top it off, at least in part it was his fault. No wonder he freaked out.
• Fan Nickname: Hohopapa.
• Go Out with a Smile he dies at Trisha's grave; the closest to a reunion he could make
• Hair Antennae
• Hair of Gold: As (one of two) Big Good it contrasts with the pale blonde of the Big Bad.
• I Am a Monster: (apparently his usual explanation to anyone who sees his Philosopher's Stone-derived powers)
• I Am Legion: A rare heroic example. He has also, over time, come to terms with each and every one of the innumerable souls within him, making him nearly impossible for Father to subsume like the other Philosopher's Stones.
• Last of His Kind of Xerxes
• Let's Get Dangerous: Pretty restrained with his power, but when he lets loose....
• Manly Tears: To highly dramatic effect, after hearing Trisha's last words.
• Meaningful Name: The full name given to him by Father is Theophrastus Bombastus van Hohenheim -- the real name of famous real-world alchemist Paracelsus.
• Mind Hive: Subverted. He has hundreds of thousands of Xerxian souls in him, but he is the dominant soul in the body. He has, however, managed to soothe all of the souls so they aren't consumed by despair and panic like souls in other Philosopher's Stones, and this allows them all to act with a singular purpose, as shown most prominently with the Umbral Circle failsafe.
• Mysterious Parent: We don't know much about him until later.
• Nigh Invulnerability: Thanks to his philosopher's stone its really hard to hurt him.
• Non-Action Guy: Despite his absurdly powerful alchemy and Nigh Invulnerability, he flat out admits being a pretty poor fighter. This results in him duelling Father by exhibiting impressing alchemic powers while stumbling around trying to stay on his feet.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: He doesn't want passerbys to know his true nature so he downplays it.
• Opaque Lenses
• Papa Wolf: "Don't you EVER mock my SON!"
• Power of Friendship: Part of at least two counter plans he has prepared, thanks to his Legion.
• Really Dead Montage: In Brotherhood, after his death at the very end of episode 63.
  • Which may count as a CMOA or CMOH for the Brotherhood producers. If you listen to the lyrics of the song, "Rain", you realize that this song not only was an epic final opening song, but is more or less Hohenheim's unofficial Image Song.
• Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Always looks like he's in his 40's to 50's, but is over 400.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: A warning light indicating he's about to get dangerous.
• Shipper on Deck: He pretty blatantly acknowledges Lan Fan's feelings for Ling when he tells her to go find him.
• Strong Family Resemblance: When he was younger, he looked almost exactly like Ed. That was four hundred years ago.
• Together in Death
• Unwitting Pawn: The original Homunculus tricked him into helping to obliterate his own civilization.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: So lonely and so depresssed over what happened in his past he was a Death Seeker, and yet immortal.

Winry Rockbell

Affiliation: None
Rank: None
Speciality: Mechanic

The Elrics' childhood friend and Ed's personal automail mechanic, who happens to have a crush on him.

Voiced by: Megumi Toyoguchi (JP - 2003 Anime), Megumi Takamoto (JP - 2009 Anime), Caitlin Glass (EN)

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• Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male: Subverted. Everyone horribly abuses Ed, even the men. Especially Major Armstrong (except that he doesn't know he's abusing him). And she only does so when she’s enraged at him. It’s averted when she accidentally breaks something that belongs to Ed, even if it’s hard to stay mad at someone who dresses like she does.
• Armor-Piercing Slap: Frequently given to Ed, usually in response to his automail being damaged. Justified in that she uses a wrench.
• Babies Ever After: With Edward.
• Badass Pacifist: She's pretty much the only major character without combat skills, but she manages to stand out as one of the braver characters through her sheer kindness and willingness to help others. Though having said that, she does have strong muscles.
• Bare Your Midriff: At times.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Ed. She does try to be nice to him though, and one could say that’s what counts.
• Berserk Button: Do not damage the automail she makes. Retribution will be swift.
  • Also, if you're Edward, do not refrain from drinking your milk.
• Birds of a Feather: It’s surprising how alike she and Edward are when you think about it.
• Blue Eyes
• Break the Cutie: Totally loses it when she found out who murdered her parents.
• Child Prodigy: She made Ed's first automail limbs when she was 11. Ed also says she was able to comprehend and read medical journals from a young age like he and Al did with alchemy books, which comes in handy when she has to deliver a child when no doctor is available.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome
• Fan Service Pack: Her figure becomes appreciably more curvaceous and feminine throughout the time in which Brotherhood takes place. Justified in that she goes from 11 to 15-16.
• Girl Next Door: Was this to Ed and Al growing up.
• Hair of Gold
• Heartwarming Orphan: Downplayed as she still had her grandmother and the Elrics have more sympathetic trauma.
• He Is Not My Boyfriend: Thought not quite as, ah, vehement as Ed is about it, she is quick to tell Rose that Ed is her childhood friend when Rose looks as if she's about to assume something else.
• He Will Not Cry, So I Cry for Him: Winry does this for Ed and Al at first, until Ed asks her to stop as it only makes things harder for him. They agree the next time she cries for them they'll be tears of joy. D'aww...
• Hostage Situation: The brothers specifically admit she is their weak point, as the villains of the story have, unfortunately for her, figured out.
• Hot Mom: She becomes one in the Grand Finale.
• If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him: Ed tells her something like this when she points a gun at Scar.
• Love Epiphany: When she gets on the train back to Rush Valley after the Scar incident, she gives the matter a lot of thought and comes to the realization that she's been falling for Ed for a long time.
• Ms. Fanservice: The bath scene in Lior. Dear Lord, the bath scene... Her normal working attire top appears to be just a tube top bra as well.
• Ms. Fixit Usually automail but other machines too.
• Plucky Girl: She's a lot more cheerful than the brothers, and just as brave.
• Replacement Goldfish: Being an orphan, she admitted to feeling this way toward Lt. Colonel Hughes for her dad, which made it all the sadder when he was killed.
• Shipper on Deck: Makes cracks at Al, regarding Mei.
• Shorttank
• Squee: When she gets to Rush Valley, oh boy does she go into fangirl mode!
• Super Strength: She more or less has this. How else could she wipe the floor with Edward?
• Tsundere: Type B; the more deredere variety. The only person she gets mad at is Ed.
• Vapor Wear: At least in the chapter where Ed almost watches her undress.
• Victorious Childhood Friend
• Wrench Wench: Page image! Never seen without a wrench and is the most skilled main character when it comes to machines.
• Wrench Whack: Her preferred method of punishing Ed (and on one occasion, Al) when he does something out of line, specifically breaking the arm that she made for him.

Scar

Affiliation: Ishval (formerly)
Rank: Monk (formerly)
Speciality: Destructive Alchemy/Alkahestry

A mysterious Ishvalan in a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the State Alchemists that annihilated his people.

Voiced by: Ryotaro Okiayu (JP - 2003 Anime), Kenta Miyake (JP - 2009 Anime), Dameon Clarke (EN - 2003 Anime), J Michael Tatum (EN - 2009 Anime)

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• Anti-Villain/Anti-Hero (type V) ---> Anti-Hero (Type III)
• Badass
  • Badass Boast: "Your only solace for my wrath will be damnation!"
  • Badass Preacher
  • Badass Transplant
• Break Them by Talking: "Just don't forget, it was you Amestrians that started the Ishvalan War!"
• Character Development
• Church Militant/Warrior Monk: He was a warrior-priest of Ishval during the war, and tried to do penance afterward through becoming a death-seeking avenger of God.
• Cool Shades
• Cuteness Proximity: He loves kittens and had an urge to pet Shao May.
• Dark and Troubled Past: The extermination of his people, his brother dying to save him, the scar on his face etc.
• Dark-Skinned Blond: It's an ethnic trait.
• Dead Older Brother
• Death Seeker: Implied, at least for a time. His goals seemed to be suicide by State Alchemist.
• Despair Event Horizon: Hovered on the edge for a long time. He could only justify living with vengenace.
• Easily Forgiven: Averted. Winry is willing to help Scar by treating his life-threatening injuries because it's what her parents would have done, but that doesn't mean she's forgiven him.
• Everybody's Dead, Dave: his refugee party is wiped out by Kimblee.
• Face Palm of Doom: His signature attack.
• Fan Nickname: Sexyhobo (popularized by a scanlation team).
• Freak-Out: He's usually quite cool and collected, but when he wakes up to find his brother has sacrificed himself to save him he loses it completely and undeservedly kills Winry's parents.
• "Get Out of Jail Free" Card: Despite the fact that his anger was justified and that he did kill many of the more unlikeable characters, and that he was never a bad guy to begin with, the fact still remains that Scar killed people who didn't have anything to do with the massacre and were simply trying to help everyone (the Rockbells, who admittedly were the one kill he truly regretted) or just because they were State Alchemists (although this did usually means they were either involved in that catastrophe or likely to be used for another one in the future). While he does get called out for his actions, at the end he's still a murderer who never had to pay for his crimes. Instead, see Redemption Earns Life for his fate.
  • Justified by the fact that Winry's not a killer, the Elrics at least understood the pain that drove him to this road, and the other military good guys felt their souls were blackened by what they did to his people and thus were in no position to judge him for his crimes. And that's before everyone realizes they were all manipulated by The Illuminati.
• Heel Face Turn: He wasn't evil to begin with, but he grew less violent and radical over time. Even Envy pointed out to him that he was teaming with a State Alchemist; Scar basically told Envy he knew and just didn't care anymore.
• Heel Realization: To be fair, he knew he wasn't exactly a good person for a while. But it wasn't until Winry agreed to heal his wounds despite her hatred for him (crystallizing a point his elders made about their decision to pursue nonviolence) that he comes to realize just where- and how grievously- he went wrong.
• Hero-Killer: His first encounter with Ed and Al ends with Ed's automail being shattered, and Al unable to move. Ed was saved only by Riza Hawkeye and Alex Armstrong's Big Damn Heroes.
• His Story Repeats Itself
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: When May decides to start hanging around.
• I Am Not Right-Handed: Hey Fuhrer, guess what. I can RE-FUCKING-CONSTRUCT now too!!
• Irony: Scar's quest for vengeance started because Amestrians slaughtered Scar's people. That quest ended with his working with Amestrians to save both peoples.
• Kick the Son of a Bitch: His victims include Sho Tucker and Giolo Comanche (an unrepentant State Alchemist who served in Ishbal). He also goes up agains Kimblee, who would have killed the Rockbells if he had not.
• Life or Limb Decision: When Scar lost his arm in a bomb attack, his brother replaced it with his own arm, and apparently bled to death in his place.
• Lightning Bruiser: His Weapon of Choice are his fists (well, his fist o' destruction) so in order to do much damage he has to get close enough to touch his opponent. Pair that with fighting mostly long-range opponents, and you either get really quick or really dead. He's probably the fastest human in the series, although Ed rivaled him when he had his Briggs automail.
• Mr. Fanservice: One word. GAR.
• Morality Pet: His kindness to May helps make him more likeable.
  • According to the Omakes, he also likes kitty cats. Awww.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Among his murders, Winry's parents are the only ones he feels genuine guilt and remorse over.
• No Name Given: More like he forsook his own name.
• Normally I Would Be Dead Now: Survives killing Wrath (no easy task) and even gives us some exposition in 106. While dripping blood out of... pretty much everything.
• Not So Different: While he and Ed have several differences, signs point to them being incredibly similar. Also, in the first anime, Ed notes that several people try to tell him that people say they're not so different, but, Scar never said it, and yet, Scar and Edward are still similar characters, even if they aren't aware of it.
  • Ed's not the only Elric brother that Scar has similarities to: A younger brother had his life saved by his older brother, who gave up his right arm to do so. Are we talking about Scar, or Alphonse Elric?
    • And if you add the fact the younger brother is the better fighter and more physically imposing than the older in both cases, well I have no idea...
  • Scar actually lampshades this about himself and Edward. The fact that he did so to encourage Mustang not to become as bitter as them did not amuse Ed.
• Only Known by Their Nickname / That Man Is Dead: He refuses to tell anyone what his real name is because he doesn't feel he deserves it anymore.
• Overdrawn At the Blood Bank: After his Crowning Moment of Awesome.
• Power Tattoo: The source of his alchemy.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted; in this case his eye color indicates his belonging to an ethnic group that was nearly wiped out in a civil war.
• Redemption Earns Life: He becomes a priest in the reforming Ishval, teaching the new generation about their people's culture alongside Miles.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: How he's introduced.
• Say My Name: "KIIIIIIIIMBLEEEEEE!!!"
• Scary Black Man: Good, God. This guy becomes the State Alchemist's bogeyman!
• Serial Killer: Until his Heel Face Turn.
• The Stoic: Not big on talking.
• Survivor Guilt: He deals with it by killing state alchemists.
• Talking to Himself: In the 2009 Festival special, there was a skit where Kenta Miyake acted for both Scar and Garfiel. Hilarity Ensues.
• The Un-Reveal: We never learned his real name!
• Tame His Anger: Probably the most noticeable one in the series.
• Trauma Conga Line: It all started when Kimblee attacks and Scar's brother gave up his arm to save his life. When he woke up and thought his brother is with him only to find out about his arm and the fate of his brother he freaks out and out of despair kills the Rockbells and went outside only to find Ishval destroyed.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With pretty much everyone after his Heel Face Turn, especially Ed.
• X Marks The Anti-Hero