Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)/Tropes G-P: Difference between revisions

** Riza gets a minor one as well in an early episode when she pulls a gun and shoots at Barry the Chopper. God bless you and your dedication to realistic movement, Bones Animation Studio.

* [[Gaiden Game]]: Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel/Curse of the Crimson Elixir/[[No Export for You|The Girl Who Succeeds God]] are side-stories to the manga (even though they use some music from the first FMA series).

* [[Gambit Pileup]]: In later chapters, with {{spoiler|Roy, Olivier, and even Grumman's}} plans set in motion, it's hard to tell who's manipulating whom.

** Father and the Homunculi still have a hand in everything that is going on.

** Olivier Mira Armstrong also looks like this, but since her original position is actually border patrol with a ''hostile nation'', [[Justified Trope|it's kinda justified]].

*** Plus, her actual perspective is a combination of knowing that her soldiers are both [[Badass Army|more than tough enough to take it]] and [[A Father to His Men|unwaveringly loyal to her]].

** Subverted, when {{spoiler|he dies during one of the few times in the series when he ''isn't'' bragging about his family.}}

*** Then again, one of the last things he says to Envy {{spoiler|before she/he shoot's him is that he has a wife and daughter waiting at home for him. *sobs*}}

* [[Girl Next Door]]: Winry

* [[Giving Up the Ghost]]: Ed gets smacked so hard on the head by Winry's wrench and starts bleeding profusely to the point that he passes out. His soul starts to drift out of his head wound, and Alphonse grabs it so it doesn't get away.

* [[A Glass of Chianti]]: Not wine, but this trope seems to be invoked when Father drinks {{spoiler|the Philosopher's Stone residue after melting down Greed}} out of a fancy-looking chalice.

* [[Glory Hound]]: Several of the less sympathetic military officers.

** In chapter 106, {{spoiler|Kimblee, who helps Ed defeat Pride by restricting his movement, is seen doing this just before fading away}}.

** Chapter 108, {{spoiler|Hohenheim dies happily in front of Trisha's grave.}}

* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Wrath has an {{spoiler|evil scar over his [[Evil Eye]]}}. [[Meaningful Name|Scar]] has an antiheroic [[X Marks the Hero|scar]]. Roy gets a heroic scar on the back of his right hand when {{spoiler|he cuts a transmutation circle on it to incinerate Lust}}, and a huge burn that presumably scarred. Riza has a {{spoiler|burn scar on her back}} that is technically heroic, but subverts the trope in that it's ugly. Ed has a heroic scar where his automail arm connects, and another that appears repeatedly on his forehead.

* [[A God Am I]]: Father, even if {{spoiler|he's not human}} to begin with.

* [[Guinea Pig Family]]: {{spoiler|Shou Tucker and his wife, daughter, and dog.}}

* [[Guns Are Worthless]]: Used and Subverted. The Homunculi can be slain by them if killed enough times, though alchemy is much more effective since they can make them need more flesh regenerate. The {{spoiler|super, zombie soldiers released by Central can only be killed by destroying the crown of their heads}}, something that is nearly impossible to do with bullets alone. Hawkeye lampshades this trope in one chapter...

* [[Guyliner]]: Pride seems to develop this to highlight his evilness near the climax of the anime, also to go along with the [[Animation Bump]].

** Also, [[Evil Is Cool|Kimblee]].

== H ==

* [[Hammerspace]]: Winry keeps wrenches there, dutifully lampshaded by Al.

* [[Handicapped Badass]]: {{spoiler|Havoc}} during his "pension", who changed from paraplegic ex-soldier into {{spoiler|civilian smuggler who can ''smuggle artillery and such from a remote country into a militaristic country''}}.

** {{spoiler|[[Colonel Badass|COLONEL]] [[Eye Scream|ROY]] [[I Can Still Fight|MUTHAFUCKING]] [[Kill It with Fire|MUSTANG!!!]]}}

* [[Hands Off My Fluffy]]: {{spoiler|May saving Scar from the Elrics.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Happily Ever After]]}}

* [[Harmless Freezing]]: Averted. The whole Briggs episodes shows what could happen if you walk around with regular metals making contact with your skin or walking in snowstorm unprepared (hint: it's bad). {{spoiler|Then there's Sloth, but this is ''[[Nigh Invulnerability|a homunculus]]'' we're talking about....}}

* [[Heal It with Fire]]: Mustang. As said on the page, bonus points for doing himself. He also sears Havoc's wounds shut.

** [[Fridge Brilliance]] when you think about it though {{spoiler|being unregistered would prevent Father's minions from finding out Hohenheim has a family, let alone finding where Hohenheim lives}}

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: More than once.

** {{spoiler|Al}} really seems to like this. {{spoiler|He also gives up his chance to get his body back so he could fight in a strong state.}} And a couple of chapters before, {{spoiler|lets himself get trapped in a huge dome with Pride.}}

** And even earlier when {{spoiler|Fu tries to [[Taking You with Me|take Wrath down with him]], with [[Suicide Attack|several sticks of dynamite tied around his body]]. It was almost a [[Senseless Sacrifice]], since Wrath just cut the fuses (along with Fu's stomach), but it allowed Buccaneer to pull one of these off himself, finally wounding the homunculus}}.

* [[Hollywood Healing]]: Pretty much avoided. One notable instance is Mustang and Havoc's encounter with Lust. Roy takes many chapters to heal, and the scar from {{spoiler|cutting a sigil into his hand}} can be seen in much later chapters. Havoc is, of course, {{spoiler|paralyzed. He is shown in a photograph to be in rehab at the end of the manga}}.

** Also avoided in a somewhat odd example, in that the plume on Al's helmet is never restored after being in the Crocodile.

** {{spoiler|[[No Name Given|Bastard-doctor-with-the-gold tooth]] has one of his zombies slit [[Ship Tease|Hawkeye's]] throat to get Roy to do a human transmutation - he tells Mustang, in short, "You leave her like this and she'll bleed to death, but do a human transmutation and I'll cure her."}} Mustang initially {{spoiler|freezes up and can't make a decision, until Hawkeye gives him a help-has-come eye signal; then he refuses, keeping his cool until the Chimeras pull a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment. (Well, if you can call staring at her with tears in his eyes and begging her to answer him "keeping his cool"...it's difficult to say how he would have coped without the assistance of May's lifesaving alkahestry.)}}

** Inverted when {{spoiler|it's the "good guys," aka Mustang's team of rebels, that kidnap Mrs. Bradley}}. The hostage part of it is eventually subverted as well, when {{spoiler|they show her the Fuhrer's true nature and she allies herself with the rebellion, helping them gain the public's acceptance}}.

* [[Hot Dad]]: Hohenheim has quite a bunch of fangirls.

** ''Hohenheim?'' He is...''HOHO PAPA''!!!

** {{spoiler|Ed eventually, with Winry as his [[Hot Mom]] wife.}}

* [[Hot Mom]]: Trisha was quite the looker back when she was... Ya know... ''Alive.''

** {{spoiler|Winry eventually, with Ed as her [[Hot Dad]] husband.}}

** Izumi definitely counts, even if her baby died.

* [[Housewife]]: And God knows Izumi won't let you forget it!

* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Sig and Izumi

 

== I ==

* [[I Am Not Left-Handed]]: Late in the manga {{spoiler|Scar reveals that during the [[Time Skip]] he was able to complete his brother's research and duplicate his "creation" arm.}}

* [[Icarus Allusion]]: A parallel is drawn between Icarus and the Elric brothers, who believed they could successfully perform [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|human transmutation]] despite the fact that no one ever had before. Of course, they failed.

** Lampshaded slightly in the manga when Ed enthusiastically buys a length of red fabric to remake his coat, saying he 'needs all the luck and morale he can get'.

*** Ed used his armblade far more in the first anime which likely explains its popularity in the fanon. Also: It's really [[Badass|freaking]] [[Rule of Cool|cool]].

* [[Idiot Hair]]: Ed, who tries using it to cheat on his height! Especially hilarious when Olivier threatens to "cut off that ridiculous antenna."

** Mustang has one but it's easier to see from certain angles. (Mustang's appears to come and go, depending on the seriousness of the scene.)

* [[If I Do Not Return]]: When Ed prepares to transmute himself to {{spoiler|bust out of Gluttony's stomach}}. Ling gives the standard response.

** Captain Buccaneer gives such a request to General Armstrong. She doesn't follow through, giving the officer in charge of keeping track of the time they spend down there a broken watch.

** Scar himself [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this when appling the trope to {{spoiler|Roy Mustang during his [[Curb Stomp Battle|"fight"]] with [[Complete Monster|Envy]]}}.

* [[In-Series Nickname]]: Ed refers to Father as a "bearded bastard".

* [[I Got Bigger]]: Ed eventually grows from being the shortest of the main cast to a respectable height throughout the series.

* [[I Have Your Wife]]: Used several times by villains who keep the heroes, Ed and Roy in particular, on good behavior by threatening their loved ones. {{spoiler|Eventually turned back at them by Mustang's rebellion, which kidnaps Mrs. Bradley and shows her that her husband and his supporters are the bad guys, winning her over and helping them win support from the populace.}}

* [[The Illegal]]: Played for laughs with Ling, although it later serves the plot when Ling is in the right place at the right time ({{spoiler|I.E., in prison}}).

** [[Call Back|Mentioned again in chapter 108.]]

* [[Immortality Immorality]]: {{spoiler|Father}}. Plus the homunculi.

* [[Immune to Bullets]]: Lampshaded.

* [[Implacable Man]]: Sloth

** Also, Wrath. Seriously, the guy {{spoiler|breaks into a Briggs-overtaken Central HQ with nothing but his swords and a hand-grenade, ''[[Moment of Awesome|with which he promptly blows up a freakin tank]]''!}}

** Also, {{spoiler|Greed!Ling when he assaults Amestrian soldiers to honour Buccaneer's wish and Fu's demise. He even does the [[Shout-Out|notable]] [[Slow Walk]] and [[Out Of Inferno]] ala [[Terminator]] in the process.}}

* [[Improbable Age]]: Much is done to justify twelve-year-old Ed being accepted into the military.

** Although, in retrospect, [[Fridge Brilliance|it's obvious why that happened]]: In his State Alchemist test, Ed used alchemy without a transmutation circle, and because of this Bradley {{spoiler|(or Father, who controls Bradley)}} was able to tell he had opened the Gate. {{spoiler|As Ed once remarked, one function of the State Alchemist system was to collect candidates for human sacrifice, and Ed was an ideal candidate, so of course Father would want to keep him in his leash.}} As a dictator, Bradley's word is the law, so if he said that Ed be accepted to the military then Ed would be accepted.

* [[Incurable Cough of Death]]: Trisha

** Subverted with Izumi. She has the cough, and the blood everywhere, but she doesn't die from it. {{spoiler|Hohenheim partially heals her.}}

** {{spoiler|Well, it also requires the person in question to not be dead. (Al was not dead, only trapped at the Gate.) And for the person who gives up their alchemy to have another gate to be able to get out of, meaning the alchemist would need to have their soul connected to the person they tried to bring back.}}

* [[I Uh You Too]]: Even at the very end of the manga, ''some'' people ''still'' can't get over their chronic [[Cannot Spit It Out]] disorder.

'''Winry:''' ''(Confused, then [[Face Fault|frustrated]]).'' Argh, why are alchemists like this?]] }}

* [[I Want Them Alive]]: Justified and subverted. The Homunculi need alchemists that have tried human transmutation for their master plan, so they go out of their way to make sure they survive. They're not afraid to rough them up, though, and they will kill them if they prove too big a problem. They have multiple candidates, after all.

* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: Pinako, apparently, was pretty hot back in the day.

*** We get to see more of young Pinako in episode 27, one of the few high points of the [[Recap Episode]].

* [[I Will Wait for You]]: Trisha for Hohenheim {{spoiler|In an omake in the end of Volume 27, it is shown that Trisha is STILL waiting for him, despite having been dead for 10 years}}

 

== J ==

* [[Jerkass Facade]]: Mustang's an expert. And his teacher was {{spoiler|Grumman}}.

* [[Jigsaw Puzzle Plot]]: Various hints are dropped early on until it all starts coming together much later.

* [[Large Ham]]: ARMSTRONG'S HAMMINESS HAS BEEN PASSED THROUGH THE ARMSTRONG LINES FOR GENERATIONS!

* [[The Last DJ]]: Roy appears to be an inversion at first (has no morals and is only after promotions) but we eventually learn that he's a straight example, since part of his plan for what to do after taking over the country include ending the military dictatorship, which would strip away his own immunity from being charged with the war crimes he committed while "just following orders." Riza, who would likewise lose her immunity from the charges, fully supports his efforts. There's also Armstrong, who refuses to follow orders and kill indiscriminately in favor of his own sense of honor and justice, and he flat out gets told that's why he is never promoted.

** In the film ''Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos'', {{spoiler|Atlas}} did this to {{spoiler|Julia's brother}}, after all, he is [[Just a Kid]].

** Ling. When he's introduced, he doesn't seem to take anything seriously, he mooches food, and generally acts flippant. He's the last person you probably expect to put up a decent fight against {{spoiler|''Wrath''}} ''while carrying his injured bodyguard''. Is it any wonder he survived {{spoiler|being turned into a homunculus}}?

** Dr Marcoh defeats {{spoiler|Envy}} in ''a single transmutation''. Turns out a guy who can {{spoiler|create a philosophers stone}} also knows how to destroy one.

** And, of course, Ed sacrificing his right arm for Al.

*** Chapter 107: {{spoiler|Inverted when Al sacrifices his own soul to restore Ed's arm. Of course he does because Ed's automail arm was destroyed and Ed was pinned and about to be killed by Father.}}

*** It's simultaneously [[Darker and Edgier]] than the first anime though; it's bloodier and more graphic, the added backstory to some characters can make their ruthless actions more heinous and the morality grayer, two episodes are devoted to watching a genocide occurring, {{spoiler|the Homunculi are powered by the lost souls of ''an entire country's worth of people'', who were brutally sacrificed all at once for the purpose of becoming mindless energy, and that last event happens again ''to almost everyone ever mentioned in the plot''}}.

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: The very first villain faced is a megalomaniac priest who pretends to be a kind messiah like figure. From there, we also have [[God Is Evil|The Truth]], Fullmetal's version of God, who appears as a white form and is quite cynical and sadistic; [[Knight Templar|Scar]], who often wears white or other lively colours and has some religious symbolism attached to him; [[Axe Crazy|Solf J. Kimblee]], who also pretty much wears white and has light symbols that form the alchemical circle on his hands; Dolcetto, one of the chimeras following Greed, who isn't particularly dark and also wears white; [[Pride]], a living shadow-made [[Eldritch Abomination]] who's powers only works with a source of light; and [[Complete Monster|The Man In White]], a gold-toothed scientist who works for Father, who himself also has a lot of light symbolism, specially in the ''Brotherhood'' anime.

** Not to mention Father himself, who wears white robes and resembles Zeus and whose evil lair is more or less lit up until he sheds his human skin... Which leads one to believe that Father was the one emitting that light in the first place.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]

* [[Local Reference]]: An offhand comment about an "eastern island" from which Shogi was imported.

* [[Love At First Punch]]: It was implied by King Bradley's wife that they fell in love soon after she slapped him for his rudeness.

* [[Love Hurts]]: Mustang and Hawkeye have each been near-directly responsible for almost all the things in the other's life which cause him/her guilt and pain. Not on purpose, of course, but still. And in spite of this, it's made [[Ship Tease|ridiculously clear]] that [[Living Emotional Crutch|they pretty much can't live without each other]].

 

== M ==

* [[Magic by Any Other Name]]

* [[Manly Tears]]: Armstrong does it a lot (both for humor, and in all seriousness). Roy, once (almost twice). Ed, on occasion. Al has many moments where he ''would'' cry, but can't, due to his "condition." Hohenheim had a pretty spectacular [[Manly Tears]] moment {{spoiler|when Ed told him Trisha's last words. Ed}} was actually very weirded out at this reaction. Ling {{spoiler|after Fu's [[Heroic Sacrifice]].}}

** Roy's moment (blaming his tears on the rain, on a cloudless day) doubles as a brilliant metaphor; Roy is powerless, and useless in the rain. That's how he felt. Sniff. Also serves as a [[Ship Tease]] moment, since the only person who witnesses the tears is Riza - who agrees that yes, it is raining.

* [[Mauve Shirt]]: The Chimeras working for both Greed and Kimblee. {{spoiler|Kimblee's survived and pulled a [[Heel Face Turn]]. Greed's didn't}}.

** Roy's team, as well as Maria Ross and Denny Brosh.

* [[Miniature Senior Citizens]]: Pinako.

* [[Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot]]: Between the Elric brothers' attempt at human transmutation, {{spoiler|the murder of Maes Hughes, and the revelations about the Homunculi and their [[Massive Multiplayer Scam|massive]] [[Ancient Conspiracy|conspiracy]] for Father to [[Take Over the World]] [[Assimilation Plot|via containing every soul on earth]] [[A God Am I|plus the power of]] [[God]]}}, at least two points in the story could be considered either the minor crime or the major plot.

* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The series goes straight from an epic chase sequence involving Alphonse Elric, Roy Mustang, Barry the Chopper, Ling Yao, and several Homunculi to jokes about the [[Gag Boobs]] and then straight back.

** In Volume 10, an Omake makes fun of this:

'''Arakawa''': Sure thing...But can I keep [[Gainaxing|the boobs]] in?<br />

'''Editor''': '''Of course!''' You must keep the boobs in!<br />

** The fight between May and Lan Fan, with Knox putting them in their place, is entirely played for laughs. Then we have a flashback to Ishval and Knox talking about how he doesn't want to see kids killing each other. Whiplash enough to rattle brains.

* [[Mook Face Turn]]: ''All four of'' the Chimeras that were with Kimblee, after being saved by Ed and Al on different occasions. Not one of them had a name until they turned.

* [[Mook Horror Show]]: Lan Fan has a [[He's Back]] moment in which she shows that she's recovered from the loss of her arm by rescuing Ed and his group from Gluttony by cutting Gluttony to ribbons with the blade attached to her automail. It's an awesome scene, but it's initially shown from the perspective of Gluttony, an [[Obliviously Evil]] [[Psychopathic Manchild]] who is overwhelmed with pain and fear.

** Toward the end of the series, Mustang goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against Envy, and despite Envy being one of the most sadistically cruel characters in the series, you actually feel kind of bad for [[No Biological Sex|it]].

** [[Badass Teacher]] Izumi has a couple of scenes where she takes out soldiers while sporting [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]], and it's shown from their perspective.

** In a humorous example, at one point, Ed is being hunted by soldiers from Central Command after going rogue. In a scene shown from their perspective, an unseen Ed calmly takes out the group looking for him, finishing up with the unfortunate soldier who, when describing Ed, just ''had'' to note his [[Berserk Button|short stature]].

** May has acted as a morality pet for several people, but most often she's Scar's.

** Riza is occasionally this for Roy, in part because of the promise he extracted from her that she will be his conscience and shoot him if he strays from the righteous path. Particularly, {{spoiler|when he goes on his [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] against Envy for Hughes' death, she threatens to kill him because his vengeance is consuming him. She then informs him that once he's dead she will kill ''herself.'' He's brought up short by the fact that he's being lectured by Ed and Scar, a child and a guy who previously tried to kill him, but mostly by the fact that he's caused Riza pain again. He even says afterward, "It was the Lieutenant who brought me to my senses."}}

* [[Murder-Suicide]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]]. Riza tells Roy that she is willing to keep her word and shoot him if there is no other option, but then she'll kill herself too as she sees no point in living without him.

* [[Must Make Amends]]: The events of Fullmetal Alchemist all get their start when Ed and Al try to bring their dead mother back to life, and pay a terrible price. Their quest to set things right and get their bodies back is a major theme of the show.

** {{spoiler|Greed, who anguishes in an enraged manner when he regains his memories and realizes he killed the last of his former followers.}}

* [[My Greatest Failure]]: Nina for Ed and Al.

* [[Ninja]]: Lan Fan and Fu are as close as it's gonna get...

* [[No Conservation of Energy]]: Averted ''hard''.

* [[No Name Given]]: Scar and his brother.

** Hey, don't forget the "gold-toothed doctor".

* [[Non-Serial Movie]]: Appears to be the case with ''The Sacred Star of Milos'', considering that it involves an armored Al and new enemies.

* [[No Romantic Resolution]]: Few romances are actually resolved or given anything beyond subtext.

* [[Not Afraid of You Anymore]]: {{spoiler|Dr. Marcoh, in his takedown of Envy}}

* [[Not So Stoic]]: Riza, when {{spoiler|she thought Lust killed Roy}}. It was...[[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|impressive]].

* [[Ouroboros]]: All the homunculi (save Pride and Father) sport one somewhere: Lust - above her breasts, Gluttony - tongue, Envy - upper left thigh, Greed - back of his left hand, Wrath - left eye, Sloth - back of his right shoulder. Pride probably has one somewhere, we just never see it.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: ''Brotherhood'' replaced a good deal of the Japanese voice actors from the first anime. Two who returned ended up playing different characters. In contrast, the English dub retained nearly all of the original voice actors; the changes basically amount to Al, Scar, Hohenheim, Marcoh, and Breda.

* {{spoiler|[[Out-Gambitted]]}}: {{spoiler|Hohenheim}} inflicts this on {{spoiler|Father}} in {{spoiler|chapter 105}}. He clearly learnt from his past experience as an [[Unwitting Pawn]].

* [[Overprotective Dad]]: Hughes confronts a trio of ''three-year-olds'' who want to play with his daughter with ''a gun.'' Complete with [[Scary Shiny Glasses]].

 

== P ==

* [[The Paid for Harem]]: Greed's girls.

* [[Paint the Town Red]]: {{spoiler|Scar}} is the initially the biggest perpetrator of this {{spoiler|while he's killing State Alchemists}}, but {{spoiler|Wrath becomes an even bigger perpetrator of it after Scar's [[Heel Face Turn]].}}

* [[Pair the Spares]]: According to the picture montage in Chapter 108, {{spoiler|Al and May got together}}.

** To be fair, {{spoiler|the pairing has constantly been hinted at since early in the series.}}

* [[Papa Wolf]]: Hohenheim is one absurdly powerful and protective case of this, even if he doesn't act like it the first time we see him. Also Fu to Lan Fan, which makes him a ''Grandpa'' Wolf.

'''Fu:''' "''Oh ho! I've never seen him with my own eyes...'''So this is the man {{spoiler|who severed my granddaughter's arm}}!!!''' }}

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Ed and Al. It's worth noting that in ''Brotherhood'', it's stated that their mother died ten years before the present day events. As Al states their ages later, this means that they were orphaned at the ages of ''four and five''.

* [[Party Scattering]]: Fuhrer Bradley feels that Colonel Mustang and the people under him are capable of dethroning him, so at one point in the story, Bradley uses his position to reassign the entire Mustang group to far corners of the country, each doing a job they're not very good at. {{spoiler|They aren't reunited until near the end of the story with added allies, one of whom ''does'' kill Bradley and appoint Mustang as the new leader of the country}}.

* [[Patrick Stewart Speech]]: Multiple characters deliver these to the homunculi in response to claims of humans being foolish animals. {{spoiler|Envy ''[[Talking the Monster to Death|commits]] [[Driven to Suicide|suicide]]'' after hearing one too many of these}}.

* [[Pec Flex]]: Armstrong's manly physique has been [[Running Gag|passed down the Armstrong line for generations]]! (Looking at some of his sisters, it ''has''.)

* [[Percussive Maintenance]]: In episode 45, {{spoiler|Ling meets up with Ed after a fight with Wrath. In the middle of their conversation, Greed tries to take over Ling's body.}} Ed starts hitting him on the head to stop this from happening.

* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: Arguably, every State Alchemist can be considered this; Mustang even commented that their job is like an "artillery person who gets sent in when everything else fails". Father and Hohenheim also count.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Hawkeye with Black Hayate. Plus, [http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v668/Shirokage/FMA-omake/fma-omake06-02.jpg Scar really likes cats].

* [[Photographic Memory]]: Sheska and Kimblee. Falman may not be quite this level, but it's still described as being "so sharp it's scary."

* {{spoiler|[[Physical God]]}}: {{spoiler|1=Father after he literally ''ate'' the Truth/God. Among his powers are the ability to create a mini-sun in the palm of his hand (using nuclear fusion), the ability to fire tremendous energy blasts in front of him or above, and the power to control the weather itself}}.

* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]]: Ed ([[Berserk Button|just don't call him that]]) and May Chang.

* [[A Plague on Both Your Houses]]: {{spoiler|Lust}} gets a good one off at Roy. {{spoiler|Envy}}'s, meanwhile, probably sounded hollow even to himself considering the remainder of the scene.

** Mustang invokes this trope one hundred percent after one of his [[Moment of Awesome|most awesome comebacks]] in the series - specifically, when he {{spoiler|[[Big Damn Heroes|comes out of ''nowhere'']] and torches Lust. [[Determinator|While simultaneously dealing with a massively painful newly cauterized stab wound.]] [[Badass|That he sealed himself.]]}} Unsurprisingly, {{spoiler|after Lust dies,}} he collapses.

* [[Posthumous Character]]: Several. Trisha Elric, Scar's brother, Riza's father, and Winry's parents for starters.

* [[The Power of Blood]]: Used in Ed and Al's attempt to bring their mother back.

* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: Various scenes are either omitted or tweaked from the manga (be it time or budget), but ''Brotherhood'' stays quite spot on with the key elements.

** ''Brotherhood'' also condenses the events of the beginning part of the manga which were already covered in the first anime adaptation (before it [[Overtook the Manga]]). For example, {{spoiler|Hughes dies in episode 25 of 51 in FMA, but episode 10 of 64 in ''Brotherhood''}}.

* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]: Ed gets one inside of {{spoiler|Gluttony}}, during his and Ling's fight with Envy's {{spoiler|true form}}.

* [[Precious Puppy]]: Black Hayate.

* [[Proper Lady]]: Trisha might fit the bill.

** Gracia as well, although arguably that could be because we haven't seen that much of her.

* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Kimblee and Envy

* [[Psycho Strings]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IbQpHP03g "Tribute to W.C. I"], used when {{spoiler|Greed attacks Father out of ''nowhere'' in a futile last-ditch attempt to stop the countrywide transmutation circle from being activated}}.

* [[Public Domain Artifact]]: The Philosopher's Stone.

* [[Public Service Announcement]]: Don't get into cars with strangers. Really.

* [[Putting on the Reich]]: Amestris in general. The use of the title "Fuhrer" is just the most blatant.

 

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