Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)/Characters

A short summary page for characters from the 2003-2004 Fullmetal Alchemist anime. For the character sheet dealing with the manga and the second anime, see Fullmetal Alchemist.

Main Characters

Edward Elric

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)

Adaptational Attractiveness: He's attractive in the manga too, but his facial shape is different.
Afraid of Needles
Alliterative Name
Angst: So much. Justified in that the things he was going through weren't exactly a cakewalk.
Anti-Hero: Type II->Type III
Artificial Limbs: His automail.
The Atoner: Wants to make up for Al losing his body.
Author Appeal: A carryover from the manga. 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.
Badass
- Badass Bookworm
- Badass Long Hair
- Badass Longcoat/Bring My Red Jacket/The Coats Are Off
- Badass Transplant
- Handicapped Badass
Berserk Button: WHO ARE YOU CALLING A TINY LITTLE BEAN SPROUT THE SIZE OF A GRAIN OF RICE!?!
- Laying a hand on his brother is not the best of ideas either.
Big Brother Instinct: His mission in life is to get his little brother's body back.
Bishonen
- Long-Haired Pretty Boy
Blade Below the Shoulder: When he transmutes a blade to his automail arm.
Bratty Half-Pint: Sometimes, sometimes not.
Butt Monkey: First it was Played for Laughs, and then it wasn't.....
Byronic Hero: Something of a younger version of this trope. He's even more of one in this adaptation, considering the fact that he's more introspective and brooding.
Celibate Hero: This or Chaste Hero, but more likely he ignores Winry and Rose than is completely unaware.
Child Mage
Child Prodigy
Child Soldiers: Received a State Alchemist's certification at the age of 12.
Code Name/Red Baron: Fullmetal
Combat Pragmatist: "All's fair in war, pal. Everyone knows that."
Cosmic Plaything: He only manages to get a Bittersweet Ending after everything that happened to him and Al.
Cross-Dressing Voices: His Japanese seiyuu is Romi Park.
Cursed with Awesome: Even Ed admits his automail has come in handy and saving his life on many occasions.
Curtains Match the Window
Dark and Troubled Past: The series starts with a flashback showing the most significant part of it.
Dead Little Sister: The whole human transmutation experience, followed by the Nina incident.
Determinator: He was a Determinator when he was ten, and he hasn't changed since. Sometimes it's what leads to his problems, rather than what solves them.
Destructive Savior
Dies Wide Open
Does Not Like Milk
Expressive Hair
Extra Ore Dinary: What his alchemy specializes in.
Eyes of Gold
Fan Service: His shower scene and the one shirtless scene with all his limbs.
Genre Savvy
Grasp the Sun: Does this few times in various opening credits and the very last scene of this series.
Heroic Bastard
Heroic Blue Screen of Death: Might as well be the patron Saint of this.
Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted. After being resurrected from death, Ed does this to save Al, but doesn't actually die.
Hero Insurance: Subverted. Is forced to repair what he damages during a duel with Mustang without alchemy.
Honor Before Reason: Turns down a chance to create the Philosopher's stone so he doesn't kill anybody.
Hurting Hero: Oh so much.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Envy actually KILLS him like this. Al gets him better.
Insufferable Genius: Sometimes.
In the Blood
It Gets Easier: Ed at first refused to kill anybody. Then he fights and regrets killing Greed, but later kills Sloth with cold precision. By the time he gets to fighting Envy, he has no qualms whatsoever about killing him.
It's All My Fault: Believes he's responsible for Al losing his body.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: This trope more or less defines Ed. Although it seems like a lot of the "jerk" is a Jerkass Facade.
Knight in Sour Armor
Life or Limb Decision: How he saved Al's soul from crossing over.
Majorly Awesome
Men Don't Cry: Except twice when Nina dies and then when Ed's soul, at the Gate of Truth, realizes Al just sacrificed his life. He wakes up crying and asks why before noticing Al isn't there.
Mr. Fanservice
My God, What Have I Done?: The result of trying, and failing, to resurrect their mother. Also, Edward's response to seeing the graves of people in Lior can be interpreted as this, because they were partly as a result of his intervention in the first two episodes.
The Napoleon: See Berserk Button
Oblivious to Love
Oedipus Complex: He blames Hohenheim's Parental Abandonment for his mother's death.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Just don't say it to his face.
Rank Up: As a State Alchemist, he became the equivalent of a Major at age 12.
Redemption Quest: Ed's mission in life is to get Al's body back.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Al's Blue and Roy's Blue.
She Is Not My Girlfriend
Shirtless Scene: As noted above.
Sibling Yin-Yang
Teen Genius
Trapped in Another World: Unwillingly at the end of the series and then by choice at the end of the movie.
Troubled but Cute
Thou Shall Not Kill: Until his confrontation with Greed.
- Technical Pacifist
Tsurime Eyes
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Roy Mustang
What an Idiot! He and his brother tried to perform human transmutation after seeing a few notes left behind from his father, and maybe a few months to a year at best of training with Izumi. YES ED THAT WAS A GREAT IDEA!
Wise Beyond His Years Zigzagged. He has moments where he goes from wisest in the room to whiny spoiled manchild in a matter of seconds.

Alphonse Elric

Edward's little brother, he lost his body during an experiment that went horribly wrong. He 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)

Achilles' Heel: His blood seal is his one real weakness until he becomes a Philosopher’s Stone, at which point even falling into a river doesn’t erase it. Overusing his own alchemy will cause him to fade away, though.
Adaptational Angst Upgrade
Adaptation Dye Job: From blond to dark blond.
Animated Armor
Badass: Alphonse isn't as inclined to fight as Edward, but when he does, he will kick your ass.
Badass Longcoat/Bring My Red Jacket Dresses exactly like Ed in The Movie.
Beware the Nice Ones: Subverted. At first it seems like he's going this route with Wrath, but he becomes aware of how vengeful he is behaving, doesn't like it, and resolves to make sure that nobody else would be able to carry out their revenge. In fact, it's his main motivation for going to Ishbal, since he's no longer certain about whether or not he should try to get his body back.
Blessed with Suck
Big Little Brother
Bishonen: In The Conqueror of Shamballa
Child Mage
Child Prodigy
Corner of Woe: His version of Ed's Berserk Button. Calling him a "tin can" pretty much results in this.
Cross-Dressing Voices
Cuteness Proximity: Can we blame him for wanting to keep that kitty?
Dark and Troubled Past: Same as Edward.
Dying Moment of Awesome which overlaps with Crowning Moment of Awesome when he achieves the first successful human transmutation bringing Ed back from death and destroying his own body as the Philosopher's Stone in the process.
Expository Hairstyle Change: In The Movie, twice. At first he grows his hair out like Ed to be like him, but toward the end we see him with his hair cut in the same style as it used to be.
Extra Ore Dinary: Like Ed, his alchemy is specialized on this.
Gentle Giant
Genius Bruiser
Glowing Mechanical Eyes
Heroic Bastard
Heroic Sacrifice: To save Ed from death knowing he may not survive as a living Philosopher's Stone
Innocent Prodigy: Alphonse was this before his soul was placed in a suit of armor and then again at the end of the series.
I Will Find You: Determined to find Ed at end of the series. In the movie, his travels were due to his search for Ed, whose whereabouts are unknown.
Kindhearted Cat Lover
Made of Iron: Literally.
Older Than They Look: In The Movie. He's one year younger than his brother, but looks like he's a thirteen-year-old when Ed is 18. By the ending, though, it seems he's grown out of this trope.
Parental Abandonment: He takes it much better than Ed does.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Ed's Red.
Sibling Yin-Yang
Tareme Eyes:
Teen Genius
Trapped in Another World: By choice at the very end of the movie with Ed.
Took Several Thousand Levels In Badass
Why Am I Ticking?: Kimbley does this to him near the end.
What an Idiot! He and his brother trying human transmutation with practically the bare minimal knowledge/comprehension of alchemy. There was also him falling for Shou Tucker's trap at the end to use him to try and resurrect his daughter, and then there was his EXTREMELY IDIOTIC moment where he saved Sloth from the homonculus trap transmutation circle. His actions not only got himself captured and both he and Ed's lives put at risk yet again since Sloth was manipulating his feelings against them, but doing so also ends up leading to Lust being caught and killed by Wrath since she was separated from them and Wrath found her weakness.
Wise Beyond His Years Zigzagged. He and his brother both have moments where they say or act incredibly wise, only to remind us that they're still pretty much children in the next moment.

Winry Rockbell

The Elrics' childhood friend, and Ed's automail mechanic.

Voiced by: Megumi Toyoguchi (JP), Caitlin Glass (EN)

Adaptation Dye Job: Her bandanna is red, despite being green in the manga.
Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male
Berserk Button: Don't insult or ruin her automail.
Blue Eyes
Child Prodigy: Built sophisticated automail at a young age.
Dark and Troubled Past
Demoted to Extra: While other girls had their roles ascended, Winry appears less than in the manga.
Gadgeteer Genius
Girl Next Door: The Elric brothers as children argued over who would marry her.
Girls Throw Wrenches Harder Than The Villains
Heartwarming Orphan
Lovely Angels: With Sheska
Miss Fixit
Plucky Girl
The Not Love Interest: Although some certainly see subtext, her relationship with both brothers remains purely platonic. Even so, it's explored quite extensively.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Sheska's Blue.
Shorttank
Squee: Her reaction to any other automail. Especially Rush Valley's.
They Will Not Cry So I Cry For Them
Tsundere: More of the Type B variety. She's sweet and kind, but once Ed sets her off...
Unlucky Childhood Friend: Quite debatable, as WMG can show, but it appears to be this.
Wrench Wench

Scar

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

Voiced by: Ryotaro Okiayu (JP), Dameon Clarke (EN)

Adaptational Attractiveness: See Mr. Fanservice below.
Anti-Villain
Badass
- Badass Transplant: How he got his right arm.
Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: He creates the much sought after Philospher's Stone by taking the lives of countless soldiers.
Cool Shades and Sunglasses at Night
Dark and Troubled Past
Dark Messiah: To the people of Lior, along with Rose.
Dark-Skinned Blond
Death by Adaptation: He lives in the manga.
Dead Older Brother.
Everybody's Dead, Dave
Face Palm of Doom: His preferred method to kill.
Heel Face Turn: He wasn't evil to begin with, but he grew less violent and radical over time.
Hero-Killer: At first.
Hidden Heart of Gold
Mr. Fanservice: Especially notable due to his radically changed character design (to make him look younger), and the fact that he's at least 8 years younger than he is in the manga and "Brotherhood".
Noble Demon
No Name Given: More like he forsook his own name.
One-Hit Kill: He can touch your arm and make your brain explode. He still has to touch flesh, however, a fact that Ed capitalizes on. When touching materials such as metal, it has to be the kind of matter he thinks it is, or else his ability will not work (Ed changes the metal of his automail arm in his last encounter).
Only Known by Their Nickname
The Other Darrin: In the dub of the Chibi Party OVA, he's voiced by J Michael Tatum (it carried on to Brotherhood).
Person of Mass Destruction
Power Tattoo
Redemption Equals Death
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted, in this case his eye color indicates his belonging to an ethnic group that was nearly wiped out.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Serial Killer
The Stoic
Survivor Guilt
The Unfettered
The Un-Reveal: His name is never revealed.
Villain Protagonist: Later on, of the Anti-Villain variety.
Your Head Asplode: How he kills people.

Military

Roy Mustang

A colonel in the military, he is the third most important protaganist in the series behind the Elric brothers. He seeks to become the Fuhrer so he can fix the country, and spread his ideals to the people. And by that, we mean make all the women in the military wear miniskirts.

Voiced by: Tohru Ookawa (JP), Travis Willingham (EN)

The Atoner: His main motive for becoming Fuhrer is to ensure that nothing like Ishbal ever happens again
Beard of Sorrow: During his suicidal moments.
Big Damn Hero: His He's Back moment in Conqueror of Shamballa when he saves his men and the city at Central command after having been away up north.
Bishie Sparkle: In episode 13.
Code Name/Red Baron: The Flame Alchemist
Badass: One of the biggest in the series.
- Badass Bookworm
- Badass Longcoat
- Colonel Badass
Cuteness Proximity: His reaction to Black Hayate, as mentioned above.
Dark and Troubled Past: Has a really dark one. See Driven To Suicide below.
Death Seeker: Used to be.
Driven to Suicide: He's stated he would kill himself, if he had the guts. In fact, as a young soldier in Ishbal he was this close to eating his own gun after killing Winry's parents and had to be stopped by Marcoh.
Drowning My Sorrows: Possibly to the point of alcoholism.
Eye Scream
- Eyepatch of Power
"Get Out of Jail Free" Card
Good-Looking Privates
Handsome Lech
He's Back: See Big Damn Hero up above.
Hero Insurance: Subverted. Is forced to repair what he damages during a duel with Edward without alchemy.
Hurting Hero: Never got over what he did during the Ishbalan war.
Interrupted Suicide: Marcoh stops him.
Jerkass Facade
Kill It with Fire: Part of being The Flame Alchemist.
Knight in Sour Armor To the point he considered suicide.
Large Ham: Ed even lampshaded this when he gave his own impersonation of Roy.
- Even more hilariously, for said funny moment in the dub Travis Willingham drew inspiration from his failed audition for...Armstrong.
Men Don't Cry: Tries to pass this off at Hughes' headstone after the funeral.
Papa Wolf: Is angered when Pride kills Selim.
Person of Mass Destruction
Playing with Fire: His alchemy.
Post Dramatic Stress Disorder: After defeating Pride.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Ed's Red. Color Coded for Your Convenience with their coats.
Sand in My Eyes
Stuff Blowing Up: He is The Flame Alchemist.
Supporting Leader
Tall, Dark and Handsome
Tricked-Out Gloves: How he uses his alchemy.
Useless Superpowers: "Colonel, you're worthless when it's raining."
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Ed.
Weaksauce Weakness: Wet gloves usually mean he can't use his alchemy.
World of Cardboard Speech: After tracking down Ed and Al late in the series, he tells them about how he contemplated ending his own life once after executing the Rockbells, but then resolved never to follow unreasonable commands again. He tells them he came after them by his own choice, then demands to know why they ran away rather than trust him.
You Can Barely Stand: His final confrontation with Pride.

Riza Hawkeye

Roy's trusted second-in-command and bodyguard, Lt. Hawkeye's calm, collected demeanor and remarkable sharpshooting skills earn her the respect and fear of her fellow officers.

Voiced by: Michiko Neya (JP), Colleen Clinkenbeard (EN)

Action Girl
Badass Normal
Cold Sniper: Subverted; while not overly affectionate, she's far from cold.
Cry Cute: In the final episode, when she thinks Mustang is dead.
Good-Looking Privates
The Gunslinger
Pet the Dog: Black Hayate's owner...though her idea of training him is a bit shocking.
Puss in Boots
The Stoic
Sugar and Ice Personality

Fuhrer President King Bradley

The ruler of Amestris. Fuhrer is his military title, he is also the President of the Nation. His name is King, it isn't a title. He came to rule Amestris after leading his nation out of a bloody civil war and setting up a military dictatorship. He is also the Homunculus Pride and Dante's second-in-command. And in The Movie it turns out he's the alternate universe's version of Fritz Lang. Who knew?

Voiced by: Hidekatsu Shibata (JP), Ed Blaylock (EN)

Badass: He's impressively badass, even without taking into account he's 60 and a powerful homunculus.
- Badass Grandpa
- Badass Moustache
Beware the Nice Ones
Blood Knight
Character Exaggeration: Not as severe as the Kimbley example below, but Pride/Bradley has none of Wrath/Bradley's sympathetic qualities, and has his ruthlessness turned Up to Eleven. He's a mean, vicious bastard and that's about all there is to him.
Dissonant Serenity: Very much.
Dual-Wielding: Against Roy.
Eyepatch of Power
Evil Eye
Evil Genius: Serves as Dante's deep-cover agent, and provides weapons, coordination and troops for the master plan.
Good Thing You Can Heal: Lets Roy incinerate him once, just to test his healing abilities.
Implausible Fencing Powers: Although it does help to be a homunculus with superhuman abilities.
Irony: Has Instantaneous regeneratiion in this version, considerable since In both the manga and Brotherhood, he lacks this feature because he struggled enough to reduce the stone to one soul, basically making him the same as a human, just as fragile, but tough as hell like the rest of the cast.
Kick the Dog: His murder of poor Marta.
Kill It with Fire:How Roy deals with him.
Lack of Empathy:His killing of Marta and nonchalantly congratulating Al on helping "trap" her illustrates this quite nicely in him.
Morality Pet: His son Selim. Right up until he strangles him.
Number Two: Dante's right-hand man, and the leader of the homunculi. Has many characteristics of The Dragon as well, given his status as the most powerful Homunculus; that position however is fulfilled by Envy.
Obfuscating Stupidity:
Offing the Offspring: Poor Selim.
President Evil
Pride: He doesn't even seem to consider the possibility that he could lose to Roy. His pre-fight speech indicates that he holds all of humanity in contempt.
Putting on the Reich
Villain Ball: Murders Selim for bringing his one weakness into the room where he is fighting Roy, thus ensuring that the item in question remains present. Moron.
Villain with Good Publicity
Would Hurt a Child: His own son to boot.

Maes Hughes

A rather quirky officer working in the records department. He develops something of a parental relationship with the Elric brothers, and assists both Mustang and the Elric brothers in their respective missions. Contrary to his appearance, he is not a man to trifle with.

Voiced by: Keiji Fujiwara (JP), Sonny Strait (EN)

Lieutenant-Colonel Badass: Hides it well, but is one underneath it.
Disconnected by Death
Doting Parent: So much so that he's the current poster-boy for the trope.
Fatal Family Photo: But for most of the series, they're just annoying family photos he keeps shoving in everyone's face!
Heel Face Turn: His alternative universe counterpart does this in Conqueror of Shamballa.
He Knows Too Much
Hot Dad
Killed Off for Real
Knife Nut: A heroic example!
Let's Get Dangerous: Seems harmless, but do not let him get near a knife.
Obfuscating Stupidity or Bunny Ears Lawyer: He's either an incredibly skilled investigator and knife expert who hides his skill behind a facade of being an overbearing gushy father and husband, or he really is an overbearing and gushy father and husband who is also an incredibly skilled investigator and knife expert.
Overprotective Dad
Perma-Stubble
Sacrificial Lion
Sickeningly Sweethearts: Towards his wife and his daughter. Heck, one of his Image Songs is a duet with Elysia that Tastes Like Diabetes.

Alex Louis Armstrong

Major Alex Louis Armstrong, the Strongarm Alchemist! Heir to the Armstrong fortune!

Voiced by: Kenji Utsumi (JP), Christopher Sabat (EN)

Author Appeal: A carryover from the manga
Badass
- Major Badass, as a matter of fact.
Badass Mustache
Bald of Awesome
The Big Guy
Bishie Sparkle
Catch Phrase / Running Gag: This catchphrase has been passed down the Armstrong line for generations!
Hot-Blooded
Genius Bruiser: A state alchemist is a genius by definition, and his alchemy happens to be more physical than most.
Gentle Giant
Large Ham
Majorly Awesome
Manly Tears
Military Brat
Officer and a Gentleman
Person of Mass Destruction
Punny Name
Shirtless Scene: And how. It would be easier just to list all the times he kept his shirt on!!
- That's basically every scene involving him. It'd be better to count how long it takes him for him to get rid of the shirt.
  - According to rumour, Armstrong is never onscreen for longer than 30 seconds without removing his shirt and/or showing off the physique that's been passed down the Armstrong line for generations!

Frank Archer

An official from the military court who replaces Maes Hughes after his untimely death. Unlike his predecessor, he is an incredibly cold and vicious man and is known for his love of war.

Voiced by: Show Hayami (JP), Troy Baker (EN)

Ambiguously Gay: Archer seems very content on having Kimbley work under him as a personal assistant, and they are both heard humming the exact same tune, implying they must have to spend a lot of time together. The lines are also changed in the dub to have Archer launch his attack in Lior because Scar thought he could do what he wanted, where in the sub Archer launches his attack because Scar killed Kimbley. Ed even lampshades it in the sub.
Arm Cannon: After his restructuring, his mechanical arm features a built-in machinegun.
Canon Foreigner: Is completely original to the 2003 anime.
Colonel Badass: He certainly thinks he's one of these, although the fandom might disagree. To be fair to him, he is very cool under fire, at least before his upgrades. Still, not nearly as Badass as he thinks he is.
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Okay, he was already pretty damn evil, but his automail restructuring did not help the situation, making him more unstable than ever.
Cyborg: After he loses half his body in the Liore campaign, he is rebuilt as one of these. Includes most of his body on that side, as he was effectively bisected down the middle. Now how the Hell did they pull that off in the 1920s? Related tropes include:
- Artificial Limbs: One arm and leg. The former has a machine gun attached.
The Dragon: To Pride, arguably.
Dropped a Bridge on Him: Shot in the back by Hawkeye while attempting to murder Roy.
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
General Ripper
Glory Hound
Good-Looking Privates: He's an evil son of a bitch, but at least he's an attractive one, albeit in a rather cold kind of way. At least, before he received his injury in Lior.
Manipulative Bastard: Attempts to be one, with some success, but largely relies on his position and government connections rather than genuine ability. Still reasonably effective though.
My Government Right Or Wrong: Is fully aware that Bradley is a homunculus and honestly doesn't care. He remains loyal to the end.
Obstructive Bureaucrat: Often uses his position to frustrate Roy and the brothers' investigations.
Obviously Evil
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Kimbley's Red.
Sanity Slippage: Loses quite a bit of his cool after his rebuilding.
Smug Snake: Right down to the smugly superior tone of voice. Of the relatively high-functioning variety, though, as he's not that incompetent.
Sociopathic Soldier
The Sociopath
War Is Glorious: His driving belief.
We Can Rebuild Him: See Cyborg, above.
We Can Rule Together: He offers Izumi a chance to join the military in global conquest. Predictably, she tells him to shove it.

Basque Grand

A Colonel during the Ishbal Civil War, who was in charge of it. He was pretty much just your generic General Ripper (even if he didn't become a real General until after the war). He shows up mainly to give Ed top secret information, sometimes in front of a bunch of Red Shirts. He gets killed when Scar simply walks up to him and kills him. Ironically, the current picture is not of Basque Grand, but of Envy impersonating him.

Voiced by: Shin Aomori (JP), R. Bruce Elliott (EN)

Asshole Victim: Was a major Jerkass and dies at Scar's hand.
Badass Mustache
Colonel Kilgore: Turned into one by the anime.
General Ripper
Made of Iron: He's called 'The Iron Blood Alchemist' for a reason.
Mr. Exposition: His main role is to tell Ed the secrets of the Amestrian Goverment.
Person of Mass Destruction

Jean Havoc

One of Mustang's closest subordinates. Before joining the army he was just your typical country boy.

Voiced by: Yasunori Matsumoto (JP), Mike McFarland (EN)

Vato Falman, Kain Fuery, and Heymans Breda.

Mustang's other subordinates, a trio of officers that fill out various functions. Their loyalty to Mustang is unquestionable.

Falman voiced by: Takehiro Norozono (JP), Kyle Hebert (EN)
Fuery voiced by: Tetsu Shiratori (JP), Kevin M. Connoly (EN)
Breda voiced by: Tomoyuki Shimura (JP), Josh Berry (EN)

Brilliant but Lazy: Hinted at with Breda considering his skill at strategy games.
Eyes Always Shut: Falman
Fan Nickname: Roy-tachi.
Greek Chorus: On occasion.
Mauve Shirt: Not quite. They serve a greater role to the story than most shirts, but they're hardly players in the game.
The Short Guy with Glasses: Fuery
The Smart Guy: Fuery would be this, if it weren't for the fact that both Breda and Falman are easily his equal in intelligence, if not smarter. Still, he is the resident communications expert.
Spock Speak: Falman
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Breda is afraid of dogs.

Maria Ross

Armstrong's subordinate. Serves as one of Edward and Alphonse's bodyguards during their investigations in Central.

Voiced by: Mitsuki Saiga (JP), Meridith McCoy (EN)

Armor-Piercing Slap: To Ed.
Big Damn Heroes
Cooldown Hug: To Ed.
Different As Night and Day: With Denny.
Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Again, to Ed.
Good-Looking Privates
Mauve Shirt
Those Two Guys: With Denny.

Denny Brosh

Ed and Al's other bodyguard, his carefree nature combines unexpectedly well with his serious partner Maria.

Voiced by: Misao Harada (JP), Jim Foronda (EN)

Cannot Spit It Out
Different As Night and Day: With Ross.
Idiot Hair
Mauve Shirt
Spell My Name with an "S": His last name can be alternatively be spelled "Bloch", but it also requires a different pronunciation.
Those Two Guys: With Ross.

Scheska

A young and cute librarian with a prodigious visual memory. Her investigations will come handy more than once...

Voiced by: Naomi Wakabayashi (JP), Gwendolyn Lau (EN)

Ascended Extra: She's only prominent in one or two chapters early on in the manga and never appears again; here, however, she continues investigating Hughes' death against Mustang's wishes until she became something of a second heroine next to Winry.
Brainy Brunette
Bookworm
- Cute Bookworm
Butt Monkey
Captain Ersatz: Of Yomiko Readman from Read or Die, but without any paper manipulating powers.
Genius Ditz
Good-Looking Privates
Hot Librarian
Lovely Angels: With Winry.
Meganekko
Photographic Memory
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Winry's Red.
Spell My Name with an "S": Scheska? Schezka? Schieska...?

Homunculi

Lust

As beautiful as she is deadly, Lust is eventually revealed to be the failed transmutation of the woman loved by both Scar and his brother.

Voiced by: Yuko Sato (JP), Laura Bailey (EN)

Alas, Poor Villain Lust in this version committed many crimes in pursuit of her goal, which in this version was to become human. She was even wise enough to realize that Dante was never going to honor the deal and use the Philosopher's Stone to make her or any of them human, so she decides to try helping Ed and Al by assisting them in taking down the other humonculi. With her help they manage to weaken Sloth, but thanks to Sloth manipulating Al, she escapes and then Wrath arrives and thanks to him being able to use alchemy, uses the same method to drain all the red stone shards from Lust, and then he executes her. Before dying, she relents that maybe one of the reasons she was so desperate to become human was, because she both feared and longed for death, hoping that she might gain a soul which would mean she was free.
Anti-Villain When she finally realizes that Dante is just manipulating them, she becomes this until her demise.
Artificial Human A Homonculus.
Badass Long Hair
Beast and Beauty: With Gluttony.
Beta Test Baddie
Broken Bird She does some terrible things over the course of her life, and we find out that it was all because of how desperate she was to become human.
Cloning Blues: Wonders about her past existence as Scar's brother's lover.
The Corrupter: She initially influenced people to create the Philosopher's Stone.
Dark Action Girl: Initially. Then she gets offed by Wrath, of all people.
Desperately Looking for a Purpose In Life: Sorta.
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: As for most homunculi.
Face Heel Door Slam See High Heel Face Turn. Upon defecting, she helps Ed trap and weaken Sloth, but thanks to Sloth manipulating Al, she manages to escape and Lust is left to deal with Wrath. At first she had the upper hand, but he trapped her in the same way they used to weaken Sloth, and then Wrath executes her.
High Heel Face Turn She's the first to begin to question if Dante is really going to uphold her end of the bargain, but after hearing the conversation between Hoenheim and Dante about their bodies and how Dante wants to use the Philosopher's Stone to continue to switch to new bodies, she turns on Dante and the other Homonculi in favor of helping Ed and Al, hoping that they will truly make her human if she did.
Femme Fatale
Femme Fatalons
Manipulative Bitch: She does encourage people to go after the Philosopher's Stone. Lujon's death, however...
Ms. Fanservice Helloooooooooooooooo... Her name is LUST what do you expect?
Pinocchio Syndrome: This seems even more important to her than the other homunculi.
Pretty in Mink: Just look at the pic!
Raven Hair, Ivory Skin: She is nice compared to her manga counterpart.
Redemption Equals Death: She gets "sealed" shortly after making a deal with the Elric brothers.
Tall, Dark and Bishoujo
Vapor Wear
Wolverine Claws

Gluttony

A simpleton who loves to eat, and will eat anything. Has an odd, symbiotic relationship with Lust.

Voiced by: Yasuhiro Takato (JP), Chris Cason (EN)

Anti-Villain: It's heartbreaking how sad he gets after Lust's death, and when Dante transmutes away all of his thought processes so he can't think of anything besides eating, making him "pure" and basically lobotomizing him.
Beast and Beauty: With Lust.
Big Eater
Extreme Omnivore: He practically embodies the trope.
I'm a Humanitarian
One-Winged Angel: A creepy white Eldritch Abomination
Psychopathic Manchild
Villainous Glutton
Vocal Evolution: In the dub; his voice sounds less raspy over time.

Envy

A misanthropic, psychopathic shape-shifter, with a hate-on for the entire human race, and a sneering contempt for the other Homunculi. If he can Kick the Dog, he will. Turns out that he's really the failed transmutation of Hohenheim's first born son, the oldest Homunculus and The Dragon to the Big Bad.

Voiced by: Mayumi Yamaguchi (JP), Wendy Powell (EN)

Adaptational Badass: Manga!Envy is a poor fighter who frequently goes Clipped-Wing Angel and never rises above its status as The Brute. Anime!Envy is The Dragon, an excellent fighter, and a Hero-Killer to boot.
Ambiguous Gender: Despite being very androgynous, he is revealed to be Hohenheim and Dante's dead son..
Antagonistic Offspring: To Hohenheim.
Ax Crazy: Utterly so. This is a guy who gets his kicks out of mass-murder, Mind Screw, and Kick the Dog.
Bare Your Midriff
Beta Test Baddie
Blond Guys Are Evil: In his real form, which closely resembles a younger Hohenheim.
Cain and Abel: With Ed and Al. Especially Ed. Even goes as far into this trope's namesake to kill Ed, albeit he gets resurrected by Al.
Came Back Wrong
The Corrupter: Plays a major role in screwing up Wrath, mostly for his own entertainment.
Cross-Dressing Voices
Dance Battler: Quick, agile, and spins pirouettes around Ed during their final confrontation.
Co Dragon: Serves this function for Dante.
Dragon with an Agenda: At the end of the series, he admits that he serves Dante solely in order to kill as many people as possible.
Driven by Envy: Of the Elric brothers in particular, and humanity in general.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Played with. Whether he really gives a damn about Dante or not is sort of up in the air.
Freudian Excuse: His father, Hohenheim, "abandoned" him.
Green-Eyed Monster: Towards the Elric brothers, especially Ed.
The Heavy: Dante may be The Big Bad, but Envy and Pride move the plot along by personally coordinating the activities of the other homunculi with the Amnestris military.
Hero-Killer: Like all the homunculi, but even moreso, being a feared combatant who can take on or outmatch any of the heroes. He kills Hughes and, ultimately, Ed.
Inferiority Superiority Complex: His belief that the homunculi are better than humans stems largely from his status as a Beta Test Baddie, and his Envy of others' good fortune.
It's All About Me: Everything is. Even his loyalty to the Big Bad is more or less self-serving.
Jerkass: An extreme version. Even if you don't consider him a Complete Monster, you cannot deny he's this.
Karma Houdini:Sure, he dies in the movie when he's sacrificed to open the portal between Ed's world and the real world, but for someone who killed two major characters, instigated a bloody uprising in one city, and caused a lethal epidemic in a small village, he gets off scott-free.
Kick the Dog: All the damn time.
Lack of Empathy
Luke, I Am Your Father: He is the incarnation of Hohenheim's first son with Dante, and is thus Ed and Al's half brother.
Manipulative Bastard
Meaningful Name: Much more so than the other homunculi. His entire character is based around jealousy.
Misanthrope Supreme: Utterly contemptuous of people, and convinced that their lives have no real value.
Daddy Issues
Nietzsche Wannabe
Patricide: One of his goals in life.
The Resenter
Shadow Archetype: Gains one in Wrath; one could argue that he serves as one to Ed.
Shape Shifter
Shapeshifter Baggage
Shapeshifter Guilt Trip: Repeatedly
Slasher Smile: Always has one of these.
The Sociopath: Hair-Trigger Temper? Check. Enjoys the sufferring of others? Check. Consummate Liar? Check. It's All About Me? Check. Lack of Empathy? Double check!
Superior Species: The only homunculus who doesn't really care about becoming human.
Teens Are Monsters: Will be forever a eighteen-year-old.
The Unfavorite: Envy is the result of the failed human transmutation of Hohenheim and Dante's son, and hates that Ed is the "favored one".
Villainous Breakdown: Killing Ed doesn't exactly appease him, and he really loses it when he realizes Al will stop Dante's plans and, in effect, his own. After he's sent to the Gate while trying to stop Al from using the stone, Ed (who's a spirit at that point) informs him that Hohenheim is still alive. He forces the Gate open, screaming all the way and losing control of his powers till he's permanently turned into a dragon.
Vocal Evolution: In his earlier appearances, his voice sounds deep and smooth; by the end, it becomes more gravelly.
Voluntary Shapeshifting
You Gotta Have Green Hair

Greed

A Homunculus so greedy he won't play second fiddle to anyone, even his creator, he is a failed transmutation by Dante of a lover.

Voiced by: Junichi Suwabe (JP), Chris Patton (EN)

Affably Evil
Anti-Villain
Bad Guy Bar: The Devil's Nest, his hideout.
Badass
Benevolent Boss: To his minions.
Code Name: The Ultimate Shield
Cool Shades
Demoted to Extra: Killed off a few episodes after he is introduced.
Handsome Lech
Hero-Killer
Immortality: His goal in life.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Finished off by being run through.
Suicide by Cop: With the prospect of being imprisoned forever by Dante, he goads Ed into killing him, and with his last words, tells Ed how to kill homunculi.
Slasher Smile: In his normal form, he has shark-like teeth; his Ultimate Shield form is a more traditional example.
Take Over the World: His other goal in life.
Villains Never Lie: "It's my policy to always tell the truth."
Wouldn't Hit a Girl: "I have no intention of fighting a woman."

Sloth

As the Fuhrer's secretary Juliet Douglas, she infiltrates the inner reaches of the military. She is revealed to be the failed human transmutation of Trisha Elric.

Voiced by: Yoshino Takamori (JP), Lydia Mackay (EN)

Anti-Villain: Depending on your point of view.
Battle Butler: Is the Fuhrer's secretary.
Beta Test Baddie
Broken Bird
Combat Tentacles
The Dark Chick
Dead Person Impersonation/Invented Individual: Her official identity is Juliet Douglas, a soldier who fired the shot that started the war with Ishbal. It's not quite clear if she took over the identity of an actual soldier or merely if that identity is simply made up.
Dying as Yourself: Maybe, if her Famous Last Words (in which she tells the Elrics to take care of themselves) are anything to go by.
Elemental Shapeshifter
Emotionless Girl: Subverted. She tries to be this, but fails.
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
Evil Is Petty: Wants to kill the brothers in order to prove that she's capable of having a life independent of Trisha.
Evil Matriarch: Uses her resemblance to Trisha as a weapon against Ed and Al.
Foil: Arguably, to Lust.
Kill It with Water: Has a liquid body.
Kuudere
Lazy Bum: Takes the easy way out in a moral sense and rarely moves in fights, actually committing murder with one hand while sipping tea with her other at one point.
Boys I Am Your Mother: Works on Al. Subverted in that she is convinced that she is not their mother, and wants to prove otherwise by killing the Elrics; she uses the trope to mess with them, but doesn't believe it herself.
Making a Splash: Her power.
Manipulative Bitch: Plays with Ed and Al's heads throughout their battle, actually convincing the latter to try and protect her.
Not So Stoic: When it involves Wrath.
Offing the Offspring: Her life's goal is to murder Ed and Al, her former self's sons, so that she can have her own life.
Parental Substitute: Acts as Wrath's mother.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue to Wrath's red.
Stepford Smiler: Type A
Sugar and Ice Personality
Tragic Villain

Wrath

A hot-tempered, needy child, revealed to be the failed transmutation of Izumi Curtis' dead son.

Voiced by: Nana Mizuki (JP), Luci Christian (EN)

Anti-Villain
Artificial Limbs: Gets automail limbs after the final battle to replace the ones he got from Ed's transmutation.
Ax Crazy
Bare Your Midriff
The Berserker
Beta Test Baddie
Creepy Child
Cross-Dressing Voices
Cute and Psycho
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette
Enfante Terrible
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Towards Sloth and eventually towards his real mother, Izumi.
Foot Focus: Justified due to his Ouroborus tattoo being on the sole of his right foot.
Hair-Trigger Temper
Heroic Sacrifice: In The Conqueror of Shamballa.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Well, Sloth's petard anyway. During his last battle with Ed, he manages to grab and absorb Trisha's remains. He later fuses himself to Sloth, freezing her in place and allowing Ed to finish her off.
Momma's Boy
Parental Abandonment: Definitely how Wrath sees the situation. Izumi might disagree though.
Red Oni, Blue Oni : Red to Sloth's blue.
Shadow Archetype: It's debatable, but his appearance, dress, behaviour and backstory are all very similar to Envy's. Wrath eventually becomes a better person though, whereas Envy...yeah.
Slasher Smile: Constantly.
The Sociopath
This Is Your Brain on Evil: He acts pretty harmless until he's fed red stones, at which point he is awakened as a`homunculus and becomes hostile.
Together in Death: He is last shown meeting up with Izumi's spirit at the Gate and embracing her.
Wild Child: Looks and acts a lot like a feral child.

Pride

Probably the most advanced of Homunculi in that he can age. He's actually the Fuhrer King Bradley, the ruler of Amestris.

Beware the Nice Ones
Co Dragon: Serves this role for Dante along with Envy.
Faux Affably Evil
The Heavy: Plays this role with Envy within his capacity as ruler of Amnestris.
President Evil
Villain with Good Publicity
Would Hurt a Child

Others

Dr. Tim Marcoh

A state alchemist who served in Ishbal, and creator of the red crystals. Due to his experience in the war he deserts the military, living a quiet life as a country doctor, until trouble comes knocking on his door.

Voiced by: Koji Totani (JP), Brice Armstrong (EN)

The Atoner
Back-Alley Doctor: In a small country town, and very competent.
Bus Crash: He is last seen not even halfway into the series when Lust and Gluttony break into the hotel he's at to hold him hostage. He is mentioned frequently throughout the series after that, but it isn't until the penultimate episode that he is revealed to have been eaten by Gluttony.
Death by Adaptation
Death Seeker
Defector From Decadence

Izumi Curtis

Mentor to the Elric brothers, she taught them both alchemy and martial arts, both of which she is a master. Despises State Alchemists. Easily the most Badass character in the series.

Voiced by: Shoko Tsuda (JP), Christine Auten (EN)

Action Mom: Or more accurately, Action Teacher.
Badass Teacher
Blood From the Mouth: Usually comes with her Incurable Cough of Death.
Death by Adaptation:In between the end of the series and the movie.
Dreadlock Rasta
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Indicates sickliness rather than creepiness.
Happily Married
Housewife: Insists that's all she is.
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Her husband Sig is easily twice her size and can match muscles with Armstrong.
Incurable Cough of Death: Due to her failed attempt at human transmutation to revive her stillborn child. Most of her organs were taken as payment and, as later revealed by a doctor, her remaining ones have taken up the slack.
Juggle Fu: Shown to do this with a book while training Ed and Al in a flashback.
Mama Bear: To her students and Wrath, who is the incarnation of her dead son.
Sexy Mentor
Stepford Smiler: She acts strong and all, but hid from almost everyone the terrible and heartbreaking reason why she coughs up blood.
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: In the movie, anyway.
Together in Death: Her spirit meets up with Wrath after he sacrifices himself to open the Gate.
Tough Love: Her treatment of the Elrics. Upon learning the two had committed human transmutation, she beat the crap out of them and then hugged them.
- Tsundere
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. Considering who her alchemy teacher was, she probably had some hellish training herself.

Zolf J. Kimbley

A former State Alchemist who participated in the Ishbal war. Kimbley is a psychopath and a sadist, believing that "people are empty, worthless beings". He does, however, have some respect for the chemical properties of human beings: he specializes in transmuting things and people into explosives.

Voiced by: Yuji Ueda (JP), Eric Vale (EN)

Arch Enemy: Scar's. Although Kimbley himself seems much more fixated on Al at times.
At Least I Admit It: He thinks everyone else is just pretending that their lives have meaning.
Axe Crazy: If you're within about a mile of this bastard, start running now.
Bad Powers, Bad People: He turns you into a bomb by making physical contact. Yeah, no way he's going to be one of the heroes.
Badass Long Hair
Blood Knight
Character Exaggeration: Manga!Kimbley is an affably evil, philosophical Darwinist with a streak for sadism and a love of explosions. The anime version of Kimbley (which was the first to be featured as a shown character) really only had those last two traits--that last one tweaked into a love of making people into explosives--and they were all there was to him. Justified, since when the 2003 anime was being made, Kimbley had yet to appear in person for more than one or two panels...and all there was to base his character on was the implications that the Ishbal campaign had for him.
Colonel Kilgore: To a ridiculous degree.
The Dragon: Comes very close to being Archer's.
Eyes of Gold
Famous Last Words: "I want him to have time to focus on how meaningless his efforts have been."
For the Evulz
Go Out with a Smile: He smiles about having transformed Al into a bomb when he finally dies.
Having a Blast
Just Following Orders: Happily during the Ishbal Massacre.
Lack of Empathy
Loves the Sound of Screaming
Mad Bomber
Majorly Awesome: When he was a state alchemist.
Misanthrope Supreme: His belief that people are fundamentally hollow has convinced him that killing them for fun is perfectly fine. To give credit where it's due, he holds himself in the same contempt, and doesn't seem to care if anyone kills him.
Mysterious Middle Initial
Nietzsche Wannabe: "We're all empty. We're all worthless."
Person of Mass Destruction
Playing Against Type: Holy shit, Mr. Ueda.
Psycho for Hire: He's only in the army for the chance to kill people, and takes it well beyond even the most Sociopathic Soldier. He doesn't even have any real loyalty in him; he just likes to hurt people.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Red to Archer's Blue.
Slasher Smile: Very frequently.
The Sociopath: A very nasty, low-functioning sociopath.
The Unfettered: Psychotic variant.
Why Am I Ticking?: His alchemy, although the victim doesn't really have time to notice that they're ticking.

Barry the Chopper

A serial killer that goes after young women, he gets taken down by Edward (after a rather terrifying encounter) and arrested. He ends up as one of the guards of the hidden laboratory used to create the red stones.

Voiced by: Kentaro Ito (JP), Jerry Jewell (EN)

Ax Crazy
Character Exaggeration: Somewhat, in the manga he still plenty crazy but is fairly reasonable and even helps the heroes for a bit. Here, he's just irredeemably evil as after the prison complex goes down. He just finds new work as a mercenary all so he can hurt people.
Cross-Dressing Voices: An interesting example. Barry is normally voiced by a male in both the Japanese and English versions, but while disguised as a woman in the Japanese version, however, he is given a female seiyuu.
Hannibal Lecture: Gives one mighty lecture to Al, leaving the poor boy questioning his own existence.
Larynx Dissonance: Dub only, when he's crossdressing.
Psycho for Hire
Serial Killer
Slasher Smile
Villainous Crossdresser

Rose Thomas

A young girl that the Elrics meet in Lior. She is an orphan whose lover, Cain, has recently died. The High Priest Colonello has promised to revive him, and she becomes very disillusioned when Edward exposes him as the fraud that he is. However, things got even worse as time passed...

Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (JP), Colleen Clinkenbeard (EN)

Ascended Extra
Break the Cutie And how!
Broken Bird: What she becomes after the deals that broke her.
Chekhov's Gunman: Who would think that the girl from Lior would become such a big part of Dante's plans?
Child by Rape: More accurately, her child is implied to have been by rape.
Crystal Dragon Jesus: She becomes the Holy Mother of Lior.
Cute Mute: Post-Break the Cutie
Grand Theft Me: What Dante wants to do to her.
Hot Shounen Mom: So beautiful and adorably cute as a mom that even the normally Oblivious to Love Edward could not help but blush as he danced with her.
The Ophelia: Dante either places Rose in a state of hypnosis or drugs her. In addition to the other terrible events that traumatized her, this makes poor Rose nearly catatonic, vacant, and either completely still or dancing. But she gets better.
Rape as Drama. Not only that, but she got pregnant as a product of said rape. She still kept her baby.
Teen Pregnancy
The Tragic Rose: Dead boyfriend, implied rape, mute, dead parents, unrequited love, alone except for her baby, and taken hostage. How was YOUR day?

Hohenheim of Light

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

Voiced by: Masashi Ebara (JP), Scott McNeil (EN)

The Atoner
Badass: What little we see of his power, shows him to be an incredibly powerful alchemist.
- Badass Long Hair
Cloudcuckoolander
Death Seeker
Disappeared Dad
The Faceless: At first.
Fan Nickname: Hoho
Hard Light: He can transmute light as an alchemical material, thus earning himself the nickname "Hohenheim of Light".
Immortality Immorality
Light'Em Up
Light Is Not Good: Played with. He was known as "Hohenheim of Light" for centuries, and he likely pulled a number of Grand Theft Mes over the years, but he's always portrayed as kind and sympathetic (except by Ed), and very repentant of his past.
Mysterious Parent
Stoic Spectacles

Dante

An elderly woman who lives in a mansion in the woods with her current student Lyra, and Izumi's alchemy teacher. As the entry shows, the canny reader might suspect something. Revealed to be the creator of the Homunculi, using them as pawns to retain her immortality. She is the former lover (possibly wife) of Hohenheim and the mother of his first son, who currently serves her as the Homunculus Envy. She then takes over poor Lyra's body to make her goals come true...

Voiced by: Kazuko Sugiyama (JP), Cindee Mayfield (EN)

Abusive Mom: Arguably, to Envy, whom she sees as a tool rather than a son. At best, she is apathetic; at worst, she is emotionally manipulative.
Big Bad
Body Surf: Dante plans to do this when she learns that her bodies are decaying at an alarming rate. Poor Lyra and Rose.
The Cameo: Dante pops up in episode 58 of Brotherhood, as well as in the "Let's Nab Oprah!" episode of The Boondocks.
The Chessmaster
Driven to Villainy: If the flashback dealing with her past is anything to go by, she was originally a far more sympathetic individual, and she deeply and genuinely loved Hohenheim. Once he left her side, she was forced to fend for herself and became so embittered that she ultimately resorted to horrific means to maintain her immortality, slowly turning her into the Complete Monster we see in the current timeline.
Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Once she transfers herself to Lyra.
Evil Is Petty: She's murdering thousands of people in order to try and live a few more years. Jeez.
Evil Matriarch: Toward the homunculi.
Evil Mentor: To Izumi
Evil Old Folks
Expy:Dante shares many similarities with Father. Both, at one point, had close relationships with Hohenheim dating back several centuries. Both "shared" the secret of eternal life with Hohenheim by means of the Philosopher's Stone. Finally, both plan to turn mass numbers of people into Stones in order to become "perfect" beings.
- It is also important to note that Dante and Father, despite their shared desire to become a perfect being, have very different personalities and characterizations. Dante is a petty, horrendously selfish human who relies on emotional abuse to control her minions, whereas Father is a calculating, almost godlike creature who has literally shed his emotions.
Faux Affably Evil: She organizes her homunculi minions like a family and defends Sloth from Envy's teasing when they first find her. Before being revealed as the Big Bad, she provides Izumi with medicine and provides the Elrics with some helpful guidance. However, it soon becomes clear that she only cares about herself.
Gory Discretion Shot: Greed finds her old body in a rather bad state (it's not shown exactly how).
Grand Theft Me
Hypocrite: Dante callously tells Ed that people who work hard hardly get anything, but she whines like a sore loser once her own efforts are ruined.
- Not to mention her spiel about the evils of mankind and the horrible things people would do to each other if they got their hands on something as powerful as the Philosopher's Stone fall a little flat when you consider that she herself has instigated what are presumably the worst atrocities in Amestrian history.
Immortality Immorality
It's All About Me
Just Desserts
Lack of Empathy: It's All About Me when you're Dante.
Manipulative Bitch
Meaningful Name: In a series with antagonists named after the Seven Deadly Sins, a character with the name Dante would pretty much have to be their leader. Of course, it's made clear before her introduction (through Izumi's dialogue with the Elrics and Envy's with the other homunculi) that Dante is most definitely not the nice old lady that she seems to be. Considering some revelations made late in the series, it's entirely possible that she knew about this and took on the name herself.
Misanthrope Supreme
Narcissist: To quite ridiculous extremes.
Never Found the Body: Because Gluttony devours her, of course. Before the movie aired, a few fans thought it was a case of He's Just Hiding and expected her to return somehow, but it's been confirmed that she's dead.
Nietzsche Wannabe
Not So Harmless: She hardly seems like a force to be reckoned with when first introduced, but it becomes clear that she's one of the most powerful and deadly alchemists in the series.
Old Master:Even at Dante's advanced age Izumi seems to be respectful of her. And that was only what she showed as a public persona.
Really Seven Hundred Years Old: Due to being a body surfer.
Shadow Archetype: To Ed, most effective shown in their confrontation towards the end of the series.
Showing Off the New Body: After taking the body of her young and beautiful student, Lyra.
Smug Snake: It's All About Me meets The Sociopath meets Evil Is Petty. Why yes, she does qualify. Why do you ask?
The Sociopath
The Family That Slays Together
The Unfought: Ed and Al never engage in a true battle with her. She has a very brief struggle with Ed before starting her Hannibal Lecture, but it literally lasts for less than thirty seconds before Envy takes over. Instead of fighting them after her plans get derailed, she escapes in order to get Pride to take her place. Most likely justified, though, considering the state of her vessel.
Vain Sorceress
Villainous Breakdown: She has a surprisingly calm one during her escape on the elevator.
Walking Spoiler

Lyra

A young state alchemist who serves as the enforcer of Lieutenant Yoki during her first appearance. Later on in the series, she reappears as the newest student of Dante.

Voiced by: Yumi Kakazu (JP), Monica Rial (EN)

Blow You Away: She has wind-based alchemy powers.
The Cameo: Shows up briefly in the movie. This could probably count as another example for Dante, as well.
Defrosting Ice Queen
Grand Theft Me: Suffers this at the hands of Dante.
Heel Face Turn: After leaving the military and becoming Dante's student, she acts much more friendly and apologizes to the Elrics for her actions.
Zettai Ryouiki: Miniskirts and boots version.

The Chimeras

Law, Dorochete, Bido and Marta. Half-human, half-animal beings created through illegal alchemical proceedures, they worked for the military in specialist roles before finding much more fulfilling work with Greed.

Law voiced by: Yuji Ueda (JP), John Gremellion (EN)
Dorochete voiced by: Yasunori Matsumoto (JP), John Burgmeier (EN)
Bido voiced by: Greg Ayres (EN)
Marta voiced by: Rumi Kasahara (JP), Tiffany Grant (EN)

Petting Zoo People
Playing with Syringes: After all of the horrible experiments performed on them, they aren't inclined to be loyal to the State Military
Punch Clock Villain/ Anti-Villain: Every one of them is a likable mook
Sixth Ranger /GuestStarPartyMember: Marta joined the brothers for a while.
Spell My Name with an "S"

Shou Tucker

The “Sewing Life Alchemist,” whom Ed and Al meet with while Ed is studying for his State Alchemist exams. Ed stays at his house during that time and plays with Nina, but shortly after he passes, Tucker transmutes Nina and Alexander into a chimera. He is said to have been executed for this crime, but ends up in the military’s employ, working on a way to bring Nina back.

Ascended Extra
The Atoner: Doesn’t come off as very sympathetic, though, given how terrible his crime was and the fact that he is committing many more crimes to undo what he did.
Body Horror: Takes on the form of a chimera when he's seen again.
Evilutionary Biologist
Four Eyes, Zero Soul
Guinea Pig Family
Karma Houdini: Arguable. His transmutation failed to bring Nina back, thus causing him to lose what was left of his sanity, but he otherwise receives no punishment.
Lack of Empathy
Mad Doctor
Mad Scientist
Not So Different: Tries to pull this on Ed, but it doesn't work.
Scary Shiny Glasses
Spared by the Adaptation: Ends up very dead very fast in the manga.

Conqueror of Shamballa

Dietlinde Eckhart

The chairman of the Thule Society who acts as the primary antagonist of Conqueror of Shamballa. She sees the people of Edward's world as monsters and believes that they must be slaughtered.

Voiced by: Kazuko Katou (JP), Kelly Manison (EN)

Absolute Xenophobe
Axe Crazy
The Baroness
Big Bad
Evil Laugh
Fantastic Racism
Irony / Karmic Death: Once she reaches Ed's world, she starts ranting how the people of that world are monsters just due to the fact that they can use alchemy so easily. Ed and Al manage to send her back through the Gate, leaving her in a monstrous state in front of her owBlavatsn troops. She is quickly gunned down because she looks like a monster.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: Her name is based off of Dietrich Eckhart, a member (though not chairman- possibly he was only an associate) of the Thule Society and a leader and co-founder of the German Workers Party, which later became the National Socialist German Workers Party. He was a major influence on Adolf Hitler and saw him as the Dark Messiah Germany had been waiting for.
- She is probably also based on Helena Blavatsky, who co-founded the Theosophical Society which preceded the Thule, and founded the Theosophy occult system. All three were antisemitic Jerkasses who melded the idea of Aryan supremacy with mystical elements, though the real Eckart less than the ladies.
Shoulders of Doom
Those Wacky Nazis
Too Dumb to Live
Villainous Breakdown
Villainous Fashion Sense: Those shoulder pads!

Noa

A young gypsy woman whom Ed encounters in our world.

Voiced by: Miyuu Sawai (JP), Leah Clark (EN)

All of the Other Reindeer (So much that she aids the Thule Society thinking that, if she reaches Amestris, she won't be discriminated against there.)
Dark Magical Girl
Heel Face Revolving Door: At first she's a good person, if rather...odd. Then, she helps the Thule Society because she believes they'll help her reach Amestris. Then she turns against them when she realizes how evil they really are.
Heroic BSOD: "Take me with you!!"
Hot Gypsy Woman
Mind Probe: Has the power to read the minds of those she touches.
The Mole
Spell My Name with an "S": Her name is often spelled "Noah", which might put her in the Name's the Same and Meaningful Name categories.
Token Minority
Woman in White

Alfons Heiderich

A boy whom Edward also becomes friends with in our world. He has a huge and beautiful dream and needs to fulfill it soon... because he's dying of an illness.

Voiced by: Shun Oguri (JP), Jason Liebrecht (EN)

Bishonen
Dying Moment of Awesome: Via Heroic Sacrifice
Hot Scientist
Identical Stranger: Looks and acts quite a bit like Al.
Ill Boy
Incurable Cough of Death: A little more realistic case: he's literally a rocket scientist, and the fumes from the rocket fuels he was creating have destroyed the poor guy's lungs. As it turns out, that isn't what eventually kills him. It's Rudolf Hess.
Teen Genius
Tragic Dream
Your Days Are Numbered

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