Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
TV Show • 2009 • Animation
ReportThis tv show contains 86 potentially triggering events.
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Anonymous
In more ways than one. Combined with does a kid die"
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Anonymous
In the tunnel created by Sloth at Fort Briggs, horses are killed.
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queerwindbag
several animal-based chimera are killed, a couple human-based chimera are murdered.
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BlatantSharp
If you mean by illegal experiments, yes, very much.
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Anonymous
S1E12: Two characters are seen eating an animal they trapped and killed.
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Skryypt
black hayate got freaked out by the paranormal guys a bunch that counts
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oh boy does he.
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Episode 24, there is a scene with the Furor walking down a hallway or something. It will show a spooder web with a moth or butterfly flapping around. You’ll see the web long before you see the actual unmentionable. So once you see the web, look away until the scene with the Furor is over.
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JenniferJump
Does a snake chimera (a fusion between a human and a snake) count? If so, yes.
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SignerJ
There are ants during the flashback about Ed & Al's training. Later in that scene, someone eats some ants out of strong hunger.
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auracrazykoko
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"Leaving without saying goodbye" is something Hohenheim does multiple times throughout the series, including prior to his death.
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zokfzr
hohenheim....
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Finn
no- the closest thing i can think of is nina still having sympathy for her father even after he uses her as an experiment. but she is four and doesnt understand whats going on
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StrongFish91
Barry the Chopper convinces Al that his memories were faked and that he is a made-up person in episode 8. The consequences of this are explored in the next episode.
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queerwindbag
many characters are constantly under surveillance by one or more characters/organizations at different points of the series, as a looming threat
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DeenGray
Shou Tucker does an inhumane experiment on his four year old daughter.
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Anonymous
To name just a few:
Edward (15), Ling (15), Alphonse (14), and Mei (10) all experience serious/life-threatening injuries at various points in the series. Nina (5) is turned into a chimera by her father. Selim (though a few hundred-year-old homunculus, is presented to be around 9-10) gets brutally beaten at the end of the series.
Edward (15), Ling (15), Alphonse (14), and Mei (10) all experience serious/life-threatening injuries at various points in the series. Nina (5) is turned into a chimera by her father. Selim (though a few hundred-year-old homunculus, is presented to be around 9-10) gets brutally beaten at the end of the series.
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acreature
The main characters have a childhood friend who throws things at them (infamously hitting him with or throwing wrenches). It's used as a joke. Aside from that, a man uses his young daughter and her dog in an experiment in one of the most traumatizing situations for the MCs (and the fandom)
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MitchRastaff
one of the characters, Jean Havoc, is a smoker
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zokfzr
Jean Havoc is shown to have a somewhat severe nicotine addiction.
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queerwindbag
a few characters drink alcohol, and one is implied to abuse alcohol (has at least one alcohol binge but doesn't drink on screen)
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SymmetricOwl
One of the homunculi is tied to a post(?) and dunked in a boiling liquid, killing him
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zdy1994
Not in Brotherhood. Don't confuse this with the 03 version, where it is implied that a female character is.
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Finn
not in brotherhood or the manga, but it is in the 2003 anime. this page is abut brotherhood, though i figured it was worth mentioning in case anyone gets mixed up
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spencykings
At some point there is a shaving razor shown resting on a sink, but not in use.
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baharv89
No humans are shown losing their heads or having their heads destroyed, though some are implied to. But superhuman characters that have the ability to regenerate their (human looking) bodies get their heads destroyed and regrow them a number of times, most graphically in Episode 13 "Beasts of Dublith", this one in particular is shocking and happens suddenly and without warning
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zdy1994
Yes, at least twice on screen, maybe more, characters are rather graphically set on fire multiple times until their regenerative abilities stop working and they eventually die. Lots of screaming, so it obviously still hurts even though they aren't human. Also, mentioned quiet a few times, and a minor character is believed to have been burned alive, but this was faked.
One character is literally called the Flame Alchemist, and it's mentioned, and shown, that he used his abilities to help in a military sponsored genocide. He is haunted by this and did not enjoy doing it, so... ? He's not a totally awful person?
One character is literally called the Flame Alchemist, and it's mentioned, and shown, that he used his abilities to help in a military sponsored genocide. He is haunted by this and did not enjoy doing it, so... ? He's not a totally awful person?
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cloudy_minded
Not sure what all the yes’s are for. The only instance I can think of is in an early episode, when the villain’s attempt at magic backfires and mutilates his arm, which ends up twisted with embedded metal and visibly bent fingers. However the process itself isn’t shown, and he doesn’t act in very much pain. Multiple characters lose arms/legs, but I don’t think that counts.
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Main character is impaled by a big piece of debris
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AngelPrincess
A villian get stabbed and then burried alive in concrete
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baharv89
Episode 12: a starving child attempts to bite another child in a brief attempt at cannibalism, but is immediately rebuffed. Also, one supernatural character who usually takes on a human appearance "eats" both another supernatural character and a human, but with his supernatural "mouth" not with his human mouth.
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meowclure
A battle between Envy (who can regenerate) and Mustang (who can control fire) involves Mustang repeatedly burning Envy's eyes out as a form of torture, shown multiple times as Mustang specifically calls attention to how painful it must be. Definite yes on this one.
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DeenGray
When Shou Tucker fuses his daughter Nina with the dog. He did the same thing to his wife.
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cloudy_minded
It’s a very bloody anime, but it depends on what you consider excessive. There are repeat instances of slicing, stabbing, burning, impalement, amputation, exploding bodies, body horror, corpses, etc. A lot of this is due to monstrous villains that have naturally-regenerating bodies, but also lots of depictions of war/genocide, human experimentation, bloody brawls, and alchemy/magic-gone-wrong. Despite all this, it has a pretty positive tone.
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auracrazykoko
A character has their neck slashed late in the series. It is not directly on their throat but very close to it. Another is bitten on their neck and struggles to breathe.
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baharv89
Particularly worth noting is Ep 52 "Combined Strength" - extended sequence where a (villainous) character struggles to breathe after his throat has been ripped out while another (villainous) character speaks to him casually and callously
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zdy1994
And loses limbs, or gets impaled, or has their entire body disappear for a while.
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cloudy_minded
A monster-like character that regenerates is repeatedly and horribly burned specifically to cause pain. I don’t think there’s much gore, but lots of fire/explosions and screaming, and some specific body parts (eyes, tongue…) are burned. This is the only instance of torture I can think of. In Episode 53, I think.
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auracrazykoko
In addition to characters whose whole arms are replaced by prosthetics, at the end of the series a main character is impaled through both hands as a method of restraint
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auracrazykoko
One character loses limbs in alchemic accidents, another cuts off their own arm after it is injured badly in a fight. These are both graphic amputations. Several other characters are amputees and also have automail, or artificial limbs, and are sometimes shown without their automail.
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auracrazykoko
At one point, it appears a (villainous) character has fallen into a body of water and died, but the character survives the fall.
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queerwindbag
no actual seizures, but a few scenes of people convulsing that can be seen as similar to a seizure
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solros
Episode 08 "The Fifth Laboratory". In a brief phantasmagoric when a criminal retells his past, there is indeed a hanging shown.
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Anonymous
This one's infamous. Early in the series, a young girl is turned into a chimera by her father, and is later killed by Scar.
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CozplayLab
many people die in the series
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StrongFish91
Not in the official dub or in official subs. I can't speak for any fansubs though.
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Anonymous
The series began with the main characters' mom dying and them trying to bring her back to life and failing; it is pretty disturbing.
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DeenGray
Ed and Al’s mom died before the start of the show
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baharv89
Many kidnappings, hostage situations, entrapments, and imprisonments throughout, of and by both good and bad characters. Climax involves multiple named characters being supernaturally kidnapped and used as pawns.
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meowclure
During Episode 42, when Hohenheim enters the tunnel, there is a brief period of silence after he notices that an enemy is already present, before a sudden screeching noise as Pride (made entirely of shadows with teeth and eyes grotesquely mashed together) speeds out of the darkness to attack him. It can be quite frightening without warning.
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Finn
And they become these weird zombie things....
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SolaceE
One bath scene of a minor with nothing exposed. The other was a shower scene and not a minor, but only used to show an important tattoo on her back (no actual nudity in the show at all)
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Finn
ed and al spend some time on an island in the middle of a huge lake
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NegativeNoel
Very last episode, not animated.
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Anonymous
Greed possesses Ling's body (though he willingly agrees to it)
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MargaritaAndZinfandel
It depends on what you mean by ghost. The souls of dead people are shown and in most cases obviously in pain and/or screaming. There are no "ghosts" per say but the state of these souls is important to the plot
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queerwindbag
one character has a spit-based attack
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HylianPrincess97
In one episode, Ed gets sick and vomits twice, you hear the sounds but don't really see the vomit itself
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baharv89
Many, many instances of graphic sounds of characters getting slashed and stabbed, choking on blood, bludgeoned, blood gushing, etc, usually shown on screen as it happens but not always. I don't think there's any bone-crunching sounds though.
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CherryB0mb
The series is very anti imperialism
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BlatantSharp
There certainly is electricity, as various alchemical abilities appear in zaps of energy, but what it is meant to do is the opposite of therapy.
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CherryB0mb
The main character’s mother dies of an illness but it isn’t stated what it is. Due to the time period it’s most likely to be tuberculosis.
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spencykings
About halfway through S2E13, Reunion, there's a brief but explicit shot of a character being injected with something that is obviously extremely harmful.
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Anonymous
Characters frequently get injured, and wind up spending a surprisingly large amount of time in hospitals
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CherryB0mb
There is a character who is a serial killer and is portrayed as being mentally ill.
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wolves
Ed definitely seems to struggle with some degree of PTSD, and is shown to experience nightmares and flashbacks to previous traumatic events, usually accompanied by moments of panic. There are other examples, but this is the most prominent
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Finn
Kind of, one of the characters is stuck inside a body that quite literally isn't their own and expresses the distress this causes.
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BlatantSharp
This is much of what drives the Elric brothers to get their bodies back for the entire anime, after one losing an arm and leg, and the other losing his whole body — that his soul was attached to a suit of armor. Comparing to real life, clearly those who are severely injured or amputated have trouble accepting their bodies.
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graywolf2010
SPOILERS:
Envy technically dies by suicide when he rips out his philosopher’s stone.
Envy technically dies by suicide when he rips out his philosopher’s stone.
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Finn
a few of the characters deal with PTSD, though it's not explicitly stated
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Anonymous
One of the characters is binge eating.
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zokfzr
yyyeeeaaaa its a war anime. the soldiers have flashbacks and go through remembering the stuff they did. a non-soldier character, clearly has PTSD stemming from his country destroyed and race being genocided.
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auracrazykoko
Various scenes of characters in cramped spaces, including climbing through vents and going inside Alphonse’s armor.
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meowclure
There are a few instances where characters harm themselves, but it's not done out of usual circumstances or depression:
Examples such as a character tearing open her chest to reveal her Philosopher's Stone that allows her to regenerate, and shortly afterwards, Mustang uses Flame Alchemy to burn his own wound to cauterize it, while also carving a magic symbol into his hand in order to cast said Alchemy to fight back.
Examples such as a character tearing open her chest to reveal her Philosopher's Stone that allows her to regenerate, and shortly afterwards, Mustang uses Flame Alchemy to burn his own wound to cauterize it, while also carving a magic symbol into his hand in order to cast said Alchemy to fight back.
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fuchsiafuchsia
During a confrontation with Envy, Hawkeye tells Mustang that if he dies she will kill herself.
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CozplayLab
lots of lightning
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Finn
mostly low or mid-tier curse words, but i wouldn't show it to a young child
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Episode 11
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Amanda Skinner
Can't remember if it was specifically a miscarriage or stillborn, but the brothers' teacher attempted to bring her baby to life with alchemy.
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solros
Episode 11, "Miracle at Rush Valley". Nothing graphic or body-horror-like, but the situation is depicted as extremely stressful due to suboptimal circumstances as the mother is giving birth. Everyone involved is fine in the end.
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zdy1994
No, all pregnant women survive.
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mellaceemma
darius is gay and he survives--- http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Darius
(scroll down to trivia section)
(scroll down to trivia section)
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yeehawtime
(spoilers) One of the major villains, the leader of the country, has a visual and thematic resemblance to Hitler. Even his title is the same.
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solros
No hate-speech from the author directed toward a minority group, but plot-wise, the leader of the nation decrees mass genocide of a certain group of people.
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queerwindbag
recurring themes of amputees feeling "not whole" but overall positive towards disabled characters (which there are many of)
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queerwindbag
the character gluttony is constantly mocked for being fat. There are also many jokes about height and muscular body types.
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queerwindbag
there are no explicitly trans characters in the series, but a side character that can be seen as a transmisogynistic or homophobic stereotype.
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queerwindbag
no, but there are a couple characters that can be seen as racist caricatures of black people
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Finn
in the sense that one of the characters is immortal and thus 400ish years old
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Boop
There is a mildly sexualized character, but it is not done so in a creepy fanservice way.
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SignerJ
Ed and his love interest, Winry, are childhood friends. However, they never considered each other 'family'.
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SymmetricOwl
There are shower scenes where the characters are nude, but nothing "important" is shown.
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Finn
in episodes 1, 6, 8, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 36, 40, 42, 43, 44, 46, 48, and 49. watch the entire credits for the last episode to see everyone's endings too!
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zdy1994
The end is both happy at times and bittersweet. But I think it's a happy ending.
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Sowl
There isn't any plane. They don't exist (yet) in this show
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baharv89
Ep 52 "Combined Strength" - two superhuman characters are hit by a car but both are completely fine moments later. Ep 58 "Sacrifices" - a superhuman character is hit by a car but destroys the car and is completely fine moments later
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baharv89
No "car crashes" in how you would typically think of them. Worth noting: Ep 46 "Looming Shadows" - A train is blown up with people on it. Ep. 56 "Return of the Fuhrer" - a tank is destroyed with people in it. Ep 58 "Sacrifices" - two cars explode with people in them.
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Anonymous
The Silver Alchemist drowns after being attacked by Scar
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SignerJ
(SPOILER) In Ep. 33 "The Northern Wall of Briggs," during the train fightscene, a character gets impaled by a pipe.
(SPOILER) In Ep. 41 "The Abyss," a character is impaled after a large explosion in a mine shaft.
(SPOILER) In Ep. 41 "The Abyss," a character is impaled after a large explosion in a mine shaft.
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HylianPrincess97
Many of the charcters are military officers and use guns
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zdy1994
Not a nuclear explosion, but one character's alchemy is literally blowing things up. If you're uncomfortable with it, avoid watching anytime Kimblee is mentioned, cause he really enjoys what he does, and it's sickening.
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