Dolcetto

Dolcetto is a stocky, light-skinned man built with heavy arm muscles, blue eyes, and a broad nose. His short black hair stands up in spikes above a widow's peak and is colored blond in the 2003 version. He favors a tight black undershirt worn beneath a white keikogi, loose white trousers cinched with a black sash, and matching boots, finishing the look with long, zippered black armbands.

Fused with the traits of a dog, Dolcetto claims to have inherited the animal's fierce loyalty along with a keen sense of smell, and that devotion sits at the core of who he is. A one-time Amestrian soldier, he was wounded in battle and hauled off to a laboratory to be experimented on, yet he refuses to wallow in the tragedy, insisting he is simply glad to still be breathing. He can turn touchy about his fighting ability, snapping back whenever the others tease him.

Across the manga and its 2009 adaptation, Dolcetto joins Roa and Martel on Greed's orders to abduct Alphonse and probe the secret of his armored body, proving a capable but repeatedly bested swordsman. He is the first to catch the scent of King Bradley's advancing troops and throws himself into the defense of the Devil's Nest, cutting down soldiers until Bradley stabs him from behind. Surviving the wound, he drags himself back to the fight, frees Alphonse and urges him to flee with Martel, then stands with Roa against Bradley, who cleaves him through the waist and cuts him down.

The 2003 anime instead introduces him among the test subjects who escape the crumbling Laboratory 5 before he falls in with Greed. There he is one of only three Devil's Nest survivors of the military raid led by Frank Archer, but when Lust and Gluttony corner Greed's forest hideout, he and Roa stay behind to buy the others time and are killed, apparently devoured by Gluttony. The film Conqueror of Shamballa gives him an Earth double, a sterner blond scientist on Alfons Heiderich's rocket team. His name, like those of Martel and Roa, is borrowed from a liquor brand, and during his time as a lab subject he was tagged number 156.