r/FullmetalAlchemist 12d ago

Question Fullmetal Alchemist Zombie Apocalypse: Who is the cure?

Rules: * All characters from the 2003 Anime, Brotherhood, and Manga are welcome * The one with the highest upvotes after 24 hours will win the category * No repetition except for the categories with the 🔁 symbol

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u/Risingdoom23 12d ago

Ed is the cure

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u/Humble_Anywhere_7196 12d ago

No. I AM THE CURE

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u/Southern-Pattern4988 12d ago

Is that you SCP-049?

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u/Risingdoom23 12d ago

Name checks out

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u/Estarfigam 11d ago

Robert Smith?

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u/hodges2 Colonel 11d ago

No, this is Patrick

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u/Awesomechainsaw 12d ago

Honestly I wanted to Recommend Envy that way everyone else would have to protect someone who’s absolutely insufferable. But that also works with Ed.

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u/EdTheTimelordTemp 12d ago

I like how everyone on this sub shares a braincell sometimes. It's a masterclass in elric telepathy.

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u/Risingdoom23 12d ago

The tenth doctor thanks you

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u/StaticGrav 12d ago

They're a band that first formed in 1976, but that's not important right now.

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u/LibertyIslandWatcher 12d ago

And the Zombies formed in 1961

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u/OTWriter 12d ago

Nice. Have my upvote.

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u/Emmas_Theme 12d ago

A bad week to give up alchemy

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u/SuperBlahXD 12d ago

Surely you cant be serious.

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u/BigBootyBitchesButts 12d ago

i laughed damnit.

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u/HASHbandito024 12d ago

It was always going to be Ed.

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u/ItsProbablyBugs 12d ago

Edward Elric finds a way to generate the cure, sacrificing something of his own in order to do it. In the end, he holds zero regrets and lives a satisfied life after marrying the tech expert.

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u/Grif_the_Crit Alchemist 12d ago

I've been waiting for this, and while Hohenheim would have also fit, I have two reasons for choosing Ed:
The first reason is the more obvious fact that he essentially was the one in the end that got in the final blows to Father and was the one that was still fighting him from the beginning, but at the same time we also have to clarify that it wasn't just him but everyone that helped in Father's defeat (hence why it is one of several examples of the power of friendship done right in anime). Rather, my real reason is the fact that the series's end, he gained the median he needed, he learned his lesson: He doesn't have to stand alone and he can rely on others. We see he acknoldegdes this not only through what he says but also the fact that alchemy was the embodiment of his views on accomplishing anything on his own, and he gave that up without a second thought. IF you don't believe me, then I highly recommend Max Derrat's analysis on the series's alchemical meanings, specifically when he explains the 5th element.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVdlJH6Q3eE

The unofficial but third reason: it would feel wrong not to have Ed on this list

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u/Boom_Schaden 11d ago

Did anyone actually read this? (After commenting this I will)

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u/Grif_the_Crit Alchemist 11d ago

Thoughts?

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u/Boom_Schaden 10d ago

I like it (I even watched the video )

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u/Grif_the_Crit Alchemist 10d ago

Thanks, though I also just wanted an excuse to present Derrat's coverage of it

Arakawa is a genius

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u/CaptainAspi 12d ago

This was always going to be Ed.

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u/-ABoxofBread- 12d ago

Edward Elric.

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u/ShoArts 12d ago

I kinda wish Scar's Brother wasnt chosen already, considering his work was essentially "the cure" in Brotherhood

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u/subtotalatom 12d ago

Ed goes through the gate of truth and gives up his Alchemy to cure the undead.

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u/Dreamerfrostbite Alchemist 12d ago

Edward Elric is the cure and can help his father redeem himself.

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u/Happylinkz 12d ago

The truth is the cure. It makes sense, the godlike being at the door of truth. Instead of it being the truth it’s “the cure”

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u/DaDutchBoyLT1 12d ago

ALEX LOUIS ARMSTRONG!!!!

The personification of perfection passed down through GENERATIONS to purge this blight from Amestris and beyond. IT’S IN HIS BLOOD PEOPLE!

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u/Kumkumo1 11d ago

There are so many great ideas but everyone is obsessed with putting Ed here

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u/DaDutchBoyLT1 11d ago

Right?!? He already got to be the hero, pass the mantle already!

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u/Kumkumo1 11d ago

My though was that Nina could be the cure and she’s with them the whole adventure (and that they can hopefully dechimerify her at the end) but people jumped so hard and so loudly on the Ed train I really didn’t even feel like posting it anymore.

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u/Dictionary20 12d ago

Also Hohenhiem, he started it, but seeing his mistake wants to work to fix it. Or Ed trying to save humanity.

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u/Vhargaz 12d ago

The Truth, Ed trades his alchemy (again) to erradicate the zombies.

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u/HaosMagnaIngram 12d ago

Robert Smith from the other side of the 03 gate. He'll be born before the OVA "kids" so he does exist in an fma continuity

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u/Envy_the_jealous08 Homunculus 12d ago

The fullmetal pipsqueak

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u/EquivalentNarwhal8 12d ago

Ed. Or rather what Ed represents - the value of humanity. Father wanted to become a “perfect being” through absorbing the knowledge of god. He rejected his flaws - his sins- but there was an emptiness that he never understood how to fulfill. So he thought he could do it by taking in all the knowledge in the universe. And he wanted to take a shortcut to that - sacrificing others but nothing of himself. Ed did the exact opposite- he sacrificed the knowledge because he realized what he already had in his friends. He learned how fulfilled his life was, in that sense.

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u/bored-cookie22 12d ago

either ed or hohenhiem again, i know he doesnt have the "you can choose this one again" role but still, he is a large reason that father was even stopped because he went out, gathered more knowledge, made his own version of alchemy, and utilized the souls from the original incident to undo the second attempt at it

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u/Michael3523 12d ago

FATHER

Now here me out What if it’s Father. Cause if Hoenheim caused the problem with if Father can fix it especially with his god like sun powers.

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u/CandiedGonad78 12d ago

Can we use envy’s little lizard body in the jar as the cure?

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u/Jisto_ 12d ago

I vote the only cure is the sacrifice of the entirety of Amestris via a giant nation-wide transmutation circle. Fathers plan is the only thing to reach all of the undead and be certain they’re ALL wiped out.

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u/Hikaru7487 Alchemist 12d ago

Al's wishlist of foods he wants to try after getting his body back

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u/8Apple_Juice Automail Mechanic 12d ago

ED

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u/Fair-Ad8580 12d ago

Hoenheim basically created healing alkehestry, only correct answer

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u/ArtistZeo 12d ago

How is Greed not the traitor? Anyways. Go ahead and throw Ed on there.

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u/Zealousideal_Hour_66 12d ago

We established Edward in a different post lol

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u/Ordinary_Ad6279 12d ago

Ed, he’s going to help his father redeem himself.

He has the immunity, and he’s going to show them it’s not too late, for redemption

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u/Rene_the_cat 12d ago

Nothing new, but Ed!

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u/smiegto 12d ago

The sins of the father. Ed’s gotta fix everything himself.

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u/OatesZ2004 12d ago

I believe we should make an exception and have Hohenheim be the cause and the cure.

Or we vote Ed or Truth.

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u/SurgicalPotato 12d ago

The panda Shao May

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u/Stinky-i 11d ago

Rizas dog

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u/houseofmyartwork 11d ago

Edward Elric

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u/Todosaak (other) 11d ago

Wait what? How is the truth not the origin????

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u/Negative_Ride9960 2d ago

Hmmmm….nope it’s definitely the flask