ITT armor plot-induced villainous retardation.
WHY didn't she just finish her job and simply kill the half-gook colonel once and for all? Is it really that fun to play the sadistic bitch and leave people to suffer a slow and painful death but at the same time giving them a chance to survive?
Not to say all the unnecessary damage she deliberately took just because she had a gazillion of souls to fuel her core stone.
It's not plot armor, it was hubris. The homunculi looked down on humans and imagined themselves invincible, which led to their downfall. It's a common trope going all the way back to Ancient Greek drama.
>is it really that fun
Yes, for psychopaths. Which they were.
A better question is why didn't they lock up all the necessary sacrifices the moment they could somewhere underground and keep them there until they were needed?
There was absolutely zero explanation given as to why ed and al were given free roam by father and the homunculi.
2003 Lust >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Brotherhood Lust
Because he was a sacrifce.
This is a better plot hole.
The same for Rosine and most Apostles.
Had her stopped playing cat and mouse, that demonic butterfly should have easily swept Guts into oblivion in the very first dive.
>human beings evading and surviving living meteors at supersonic speed
she didn't expect that Roy could kill her
well yeah
though only her, Gluttony, and Sloth were better in the 03 version
Father acted as if everything was perfectly under control all the fucking time. This triggered me a little bit.
to be fair Gutts is a durable fucker
Brotherhood Sloth had no real effort put into him.
you'd think the character of sloth wouldn't be so lazily written.
Oh you.
I could buy it if they handwaved it away as their needing free experiences or something right up until the end but they never do.
There's just no reason why Ed couldn't have been locked away in a dungeon the instant they got wind of him. They already demonstrated the ability to capture him if they wanted.
Also nice quints
They probably thought there was no way they could be defeated and that Ed and Al's efforts were meaning less.
Sloth was barely a character in Brotherhood.
Yet they went to the effort of silencing people like Hughes so that falls flat. Clearly they knew they could fail.
Ed and Al repeatedly put themselves in danger though and at many points came close to death.
The homunculi are total retards. I'd wager all the smart decisions were made by gold tooth.
His endurance is astounding, yes, but in all honesty he could only have survived this with that magical armor he gets later. A moth-meteor the size of a house breaking three times the sound barrier would kill anyone without even physical contact, let alone dragging them across the sky. But whatever because anime.
He was a guy that was born from a corpse
not too many normal humans live after being born from a corpse
Wasn't 2003 sloth made of water or something?
considering the first fma anime wasn't really canon, I'm not surprised errors unfolded
They thought they had covered everything up but they missed Marcoh's notes. I don't think they knew Ed and Al had them. That gives them room to be cocky I think.
The homunculi have different virtues and faults in both versions. While some may fall into angst territory in the 2003 version, they have more character development than in the manga and Brotherhood, where many of them were simple minded evil minions. However the big master plan of the final boss wasn't well developed by Arakawa yet and the story started becoming diffuse and anticlimactic, filled with plot holes.
The nature of the homunculi also seemed too vague. Why were they named after the deadly sins? Does that meant only seven could have been created? How much damage could they take before being destroyed? Or were they completely indestructible without their remains? If Wrath had Ed's (perfectly human) arm and leg, why could he regenerate them? Why Envy was so powerful? Literally the strongest character, had no remains, no explanation for his sheer strength nor limitations to the variety of powers he could copy, etc.
>Why were they named after the deadly sins?
In the manga? Because they are the discarded parts of Father he though were unnecesary to become perfect. Hence, Sins.
She was Trisha Elric turned into a half-amnesiac, batshit crazy water elemental. Also pretty much by far the strongest homunculus, except, maybe, for Envy. She was responsable for some of the most disturbing murders in the first series, flooding the lungs of a lot of soldiers and making them implode. Was turned into ethanol and evaporated.
No, no. That makes complete sense in the manga. It's in the first series where they lose context.