| “ | When you notice an insect on the ground, do you stop to consider it a fool? The life of an insect is so beneath you that it would be a waste of your time to even consider judging it. That would be an accurate summation on my feelings towards you humans. | „ |
| ~ Father's famous speech. |
| “ | I only wanted to obtain perfection. I wanted this world's knowledge for my own. Why should I be punished for that? What's wrong with craving knowledge? What's wrong with seeking perfection? | „ |
| ~ Father explaining his motives |
| “ | I can always create another stone. I'm not through, there are more! A billion humans I can draw energy from! | „ |
| ~ Father after underestimating Van Hohenheim. |
Father, originally known as Homunculus or The Dwarf in the Flask, is the main antagonist of the manga series Fullmetal Alchemist and its 2009 anime adaptation Brotherhood.
He is a homunculus created several hundred years ago who sought to obtain freedom outside the flask he was born in. He was created from the blood of Van Hohenheim, the father of the series' protagonists, Edward and Alphonse Elric. He manipulates the country of Amestris into starting wars all in order to create a nationwide transmutation circle and obtain the power of "God."
He was voiced by the late Iemasa Kayumi in the Japanese version, and by Kent Williams in the English dubbed version, who also voices Captain Kuro in One Piece.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- While it's true that Father started off as a slave desperate for freedom, his later actions subvert the sympathetic elements of his backstory.
- He manipulated the King of Xerxes into massacring his people in order to create a transmutation circle needed to create the Philosopher's Stone, but lied about where to stand, sacrificing the entire nation of Xerxes to create immortal bodies for himself and Van Hohenheim.
- He created the nation of Amestris and manipulated everything from the shadows by starting countless wars in neighboring lands and towns, all part of a plan to create an even larger Nationwide Transmutation circle to create another Philosopher's Stone and acquire the power of "God" as a perfect being.
- He created his seven Homunculus but held absolutely no care for any of them and never showed any grief over their deaths.
- He is also a hypocrite. Despite claiming he had separated his seven sinful qualities into homunculus and become morally perfect, he still possesses all of the seven deadly sins in reality and is much more sinister than any of his children.
- Pride: He sees himself superior to humans, looks down upon them and viewed them as filthy worms.
- Greed＆lust: Even he is already immortal and has immense power, he still desires for the power to become a real god.
- Wrath: He often becomes enraged when his plans aren't going in his way.
- Envy: He feels so insecure that he prefers taking the form as Hohenheim's body instead of his own.
- Gluttony: He devours countless people's souls more than he needs.
- Sloth: He sits back and orders his Homunculus to carry out his plan though he could do them easily with his god-like power.
- He led a project where several orphans were gathered and trained them to become the next homunculus and the country's leader in order to further manipulate the events of the country. Many of the participants subsequently died when given the Philosopher's Stone, as their bodies could not handle its power.
- He was responsible for the Ishvalan War, and ordered Envy to disguise himself as a soldier to shoot an innocent child to incite rebellion from the Ishvalans. This event eventually led to the infamous Ishvalan genocide.
- He only cared about keeping Edward and Alphonse alive because they'd seen The Gate and were thus needed for the Nationwide Transmutation Circle, and held no qualms about killing anyone else who wasn't vital to his plans.
- Father killed his son, Greed, by having him dropped into molten gold to melt him back down into a pure Philosopher's Stone when he rebelled against Father, then later recreated Greed by inserting the Philosopher's Stone into the body of Ling and erased Greed's memories which made him think that he isn't same person (though Greed's memories later came back).
- He sheds his only redeeming quality, caring about Hohenheim and helping him by giving him a name, knowledge, and immortality when Hohenheim comes to stop Father, who attempts to take Hohenheim's Philosopher Stone without hesitation.
- Father initiated the Nationwide Transmutation Circle, sacrificing the lives of more than 50 million people and absorbing the power of "God."
- Even after having obtained the power of "God," he didn't fix Pride, whose body was damaged when he forced Mustang to perform human transmutation, even though it would've been easy to do so.
- When Hohenheim undos the Nationwide Transmutation Circle and removes all the Amestrian souls, Father goes up to the surface and kills many more soldiers to turn them into energy for his Philosopher's Stone while subsequently abandoning Pride as well.
- He kills several more soldiers during their fight, and unleashes a powerful blast that nearly killed Edward and Izumi were it not for Hohenheim shielding them with his body.
- He attempts to steal Greed's Philosopher Stone, and after Greed reverses the Ultimate Shield to transform Father's body into a fragile carbon base, Father mercilessly kills Greed.
- When confronted by Truth, Father selfishly refuses to take any blame for his actions or the people he killed, saying there was nothing wrong with seeking perfection and failing to see how he never changed from his early days (which explains that his Gate is blank). Then, as Father is sucked back into the Gate, Father pathetically begs for his life and asks what else he should've done even though he'd ignored the answer to that question for so long.
Trivia[]
- Father doesn't appear in the 2003 anime adaption, but its certain he was replaced by Dante.
- At the time of the production of the 2003 anime series he was not fully introduced in the manga yet.
- In the Manga and 2009 anime of Brotherhood, he, alongside Shou Tucker and the Gold Toothed Doctor are the only three original villains of the Fullmetal Alchemist series to be Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Father on the Villains Wiki
- Father on the Fullmetal Alchemist Wiki
- Father on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
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