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Fullmetal Alchemist feats, power & lore analysis thread

Gluttony is an artificial portal of Truth, or really, a failed one. The dimension his stomach leads to exists between reality and Truth.
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(From chapter 51)

This realm is refered to as a dimension in the manga (the dub of Brotherhood refers to it as a reality).
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(From chapter 53)
 
Pride in his true form can rapidly travel through the tunnel system that makes up the giant transmutation circle below Amestris in an unknown but very rapid timeframe (across hundreds of miles).
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(From chapter 68)

He does this again when Hohenheim enters the tunnel.
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Pride easily destroys the stone constructs that Hohenheim sets up to block his way.
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(From chapter 78)

As for why Sloth must build the tunnel rather than Pride if Pride can so easily slice through/shatter stone, my own theory is that this is because the tunnel is Pride's flask, and it would die beyond it (thus, it needs someone else to extend the tunnel for it).
 
OtherGalaxy said:
but FMA being mostly debated in the earlier days of this hobby didn't help much
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Truth was being thrown out of debates on grounds of being a background "creator" non combatant like entity which always seemed stupid and hypocritical to me cause it's not like these kinds of fuckers were never used in scenarios ( Eru for example) and Truth is actually active through the story anyway ... He's the one who intervenes and punishes fuckers who try to revive people .

He doesn't do a lot but that's only because he plays by the rules that he created .
 
Sloth is the fastest hommunculus, and is noted to move at great speeds despite his size and weight. This would mean that Sloth can move faster than Pride, who can quickly travel across the entirety of Amestris. Thus, even if he can't react at these speeds, Sloth would produce a tremendous amount of kinetic energy.
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(From chapter 92)
 
Hiromu Arakawa herself read and approved the scripts for FullmetalAlchemist: Brotherhood (though not the animation).
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(From Fullmetal Alchemist: 20th Anniversary Book)
 
Good news! I have obtained the Fullmetal Alchemist guidebooks! If there's anything you'd like me to look into just let me know (though I can't promise there'll actually be anything)! Truth is what makes everything in the world the way it should be, and can even be described as the divine formula of God.
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The Truth of the world is God's formula
Truth is what makes everything in the world, including oneself, the way it should be; in other words, it is the formula for reconstructing the world. The Truth that Edward saw was the "memory of the birth of life," such as the history of the Earth, the state of cell division, and the growth of a fetus. In other words, Truth was the divine formula that resides in the body of a living being.
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Truth exists inside all living things, and thus there are just as many Doors of Truth. These Doors of Truth may exist to seperate the world of the body from the world of the soul.
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Truth exists in the bodies of all living beings, and so there are as many Doors of Truth. Those who open the Doors can catch a glimpse of the truth of the world in exchange for the toll of their own bodies. The Doors of Truth may seperate the world of the body and the world of the soul, allowing the soul to reside in the correct body.
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Each individual who opens a Door has their own unique door with unique patterns on them. The design on Edward's Door of Truth resembles the Tree of Life.
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The difference is probably due to the different doors for different people. The difference is due to the different information in the soul. The pattern and color of the door differs from person to person, and the individual soul.
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The design on Edward's door closely resembles a diagram called the "Tree of Life," which shows how life is made.
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Gluttony is a failed Gate of Truth, and his stomach gate leads to a dark space between reality and Truth.
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The Artificially Created Door of Truth
"Father" attempted to create the Gate of Truth using Gluttony as part of his research, but failed. The Gate leads to a dark space between reality and Truth, and he was unable to reach the correct space. The Gate of Truth should exist in all living beings, but it seems that no door exists in the bodies of hommunculi.
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The realm inside Gluttony's 'stomach' is infinite in size, and is refered to as a door to a pseudo-truth.
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The inside of the stomach is a dark, infinite space where the things we swallow are scattered - a door to a pseudo-truth.
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Father's anti-alchemy ability covers all of Amestris.
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When the Elric brothers confronted "Father" in the Central underground, not only they but also alchemists on the surface were no longer able to use alchemy. Alchemy in Amestris was based on a fragile foundation that could be sealed away with a single will from "Father".
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If he wanted to, he could instantly neutralize all the alchemists in Amestris. It was a safety measure to remove anyone who got in his way in case of an emergancy.
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Pride can move anywhere in the tunnels below Amestris instantly.
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Though the container is in the center, the main body can instantly move through the tunnels that run throughout the country.
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Sloth is the fastest hommunculus (which although he cannot control his movements, would make him faster than Pride or Wrath).
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A lazy, agile and extremely fast hommunculus
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He is naturally lazy and hates both life and death. Contrary to his stupid appearance, he has been given the power of "fastest speed.' Once he gets serious, no one can stop him.
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A respect thread for 2003 Edward Elric (created by doctorgecko in collaboration with lambentenigma & inverseflash, so all due credit to them).
 
A character very similar in appearence to Dante in her first form (from the 2003 FMA series) appears in episode 58 of Brotherhood.
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Episode 58: Sacrifices (2009 series)

Mustang must make a difficult choice: will he break alchemy’s greatest taboo? Or will he watch the person dearest to him die? Meanwhile, it grows ever more difficult to discern where Ling ends and Greed begins. Ed's group watch as he is transported away, and as they resume their fight against...
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In the 2003 anime, the energy source of alchemy comes from a parallel universe; whenever anyone in our world dies, they become energy to be used by alchemists in the alchemy world.
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Within the Gate, Ed sees a vision of advent of the nuclear bomb.
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The rocket designed by the Thule Society can travel at 11 kilometers per second in order to bypass the pressure within the Gate.
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In the 2003 anime, when Ed moves through the Gate to our world, there's a brief shot from outer space.
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From the DVD booklet that came with The Conqueror of Shamballa, the description of parallel worlds implies there to be many more beyond the two that we know of (due to atoms existing in certain probabilities rather than in absolutes), meaning that there could be as many parallel worlds as there are atoms in the universe (an unfathomable, potentially outright infinite number). However, we only have confirmation of two parallel worlds existing.
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The Spear of Longinus is said to have the power to control the world. Also, Eckhart's Rockets can move at 11km per second.
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When Father meets Truth (after being defeated by Edward Elric), not only does Truth refer to itself as the Universe and God, but Father doesn't know who Truth is (something Father should have known had he fully absorbed the Truth). As another note, Father's Gate is blank.
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(From chapter 108)
 
Another hard counter to 'Truth was absorbed by Father' is the fact we see Truth during the final battle (when Father still has the Gate of the World) absorbed; Truth is shown to be completely fine (and infact, seems more interested with what Ed would sacrifice to get Al back than with whatever Father took from him).
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(From chapter 107)
 
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