Characters

The Aerugo War is a prolonged conflict fought along the southern frontier of Amestris against its neighbor Aerugo. Though Amestris holds the upper hand through raw military might, Aerugo refuses to yield, committing nearly its entire army…

In the world of Fullmetal Alchemist, an alchemist is a practitioner who studies and performs alchemy, a discipline rooted in chemistry, physics, and old alchemical theory. Closer to scientists than sorcerers, alchemists also need an inborn…

Alexander is the large white dog of the Tucker household and the constant companion of young Nina Tucker. Gentle and playful despite his booming bark, he becomes one of the series' earliest tragedies when Nina's father fuses the two of…

Alexandre is an Amestrian infantryman who served under Roy Mustang during the brutal Ishval Civil War. Years later he remains stationed in the East under General Grumman, ready to take up arms again the moment his old commander moves…

Alex Louis Armstrong, celebrated across Amestris as the Strong-Arm Alchemist, is a towering State Alchemist and officer of the national military. Born into the proud Armstrong line, he pairs immense muscle and inherited combat alchemy with…

Alfons Heiderich is a young German rocket scientist who appears in Conqueror of Shamballa, the film that closes the 2003 anime. Kind and easygoing, he bears a startling resemblance to Alphonse Elric and becomes a close friend to Edward on…

Alphonse Elric, usually called Al, is the younger brother of Edward and the second lead of Fullmetal Alchemist. A botched attempt to revive their dead mother cost him his entire body, so Edward bound his soul to a hollow suit of armor.…

Amue Armstrong is the second daughter of the noble Armstrong house of Amestris, ranking just below her eldest sister Olivier and above her sister Strongine. Like her siblings she is a towering, powerfully built figure, yet the story gives…

Arlen Glostner is a non-playable character from the video game Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Curse of the Crimson Elixir. An aging archaeologist devoted to ancient civilizations, he is gruff and set in his ways, yet still burns with an old…

Armony Eiselstein is a budding alchemist and the central original character of the 2003 game Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel. A cheerful, hardworking student of Edward Elric, she carries a hidden secret tied to her own origins and…

The Armstrong family is an illustrious noble house of Amestris whose members have served the national military across many generations. Famous for their towering strength, boastful pride, and signature glimmer, they have held influence in…

Major Arzen is the chief villain of Fullmetal Alchemist: The Prototype, the early draft that preceded the main series. A callous official fixated on gaining an immortal body, he lords over a poor town with an incomplete Philosopher's Stone.

Ashleigh Crichton is the central villain of the film The Sacred Star of Milos and the elder sibling of Julia Crichton. Born to Milosian alchemists, he survives a brutal attack that costs him his face, then swallows a hidden Sanguine Star…

Aston Martins, dubbed the Thunder Alchemist, is a State Alchemist who appears only in the Game Boy Advance title Stray Rondo. A gifted swordsman fascinated by the samurai code, he fought in the Ishval war and later joins a special squad…

Atlas is the secondary antagonist of The Sacred Star of Milos and the security chief once tasked with guarding the Crichton family. A calculating Cretan officer, he betrays the very people he was meant to protect in a long scheme to seize…

Bald is a senior figure in Blue Squad, an Amestrian extremist faction based in the east. Armed with a rifle-concealing automail arm, he hijacks a train to ransom a general for his imprisoned leader, only to discover the Elric brothers…

Barry the Chopper, code-named Number 66, is a former serial killer whose soul was fused into a suit of armor to guard Laboratory 5. Loud, bloodthirsty, and oddly cheerful, he outlives the lab's collapse and drifts into Mustang's orbit,…

Basque Grand, the Iron Blood Alchemist, is a high-ranking Amestrian officer and a decorated veteran of the Ishval war. Feared for both his alchemy and his fists, he becomes one of the earliest State Alchemists struck down by Scar's…

Belsio is a farmer in the town of Xenotime and a longtime friend of Nash Tringham. Alone among the town's residents, he rejects the idea of chasing wealth through the Philosopher's Stone, and he later helps the Elric brothers uncover the…

Berthold Hawkeye, known simply as Master Hawkeye, is the reclusive alchemist who trained Roy Mustang and, more distantly, Riza Hawkeye's own estranged father. Brilliant but secretive, he tattooed his complete flame alchemy research onto…

Bido is a gecko-based human chimera and one of Greed's loyal followers out of Devil's Nest. Timid yet devoted to his friends, he survives the massacre of the gang and searches desperately for answers, a quest that ends in a heartbreaking…

The Black Bats are a militant resistance group featured only in the film The Sacred Star of Milos. Led by Miranda, they take their name from the bat-like gliders and dark suits their fighters use to strike down on their enemies from above.

Black Hayate is the pet Shiba Inu belonging to Riza Hawkeye and the unofficial mascot of Mustang's unit. Rescued as a puppy and raised under strict discipline, the loyal dog even proves able to sniff out homunculi, which earns him a joking…

The Black Ops Division is a covert unit of the Amestrian military created solely for the 2003 anime. Officially unacknowledged, it carries out assassinations and espionage, secretly steered by the homunculi to provoke the wars that keep…

Blau is a minor antagonist from the first Fullmetal Alchemist console game, the Broken Angel title released for the PlayStation 2. He is one of a trio of alchemist brothers, alongside Gelb and Rot, whom Edward and Alphonse Elric must fight…

The Blue Squad, also styled the Eastern Liberation Front, is a militant political faction operating out of eastern Amestris. Notorious for strikes against the central government, the group is best remembered for a hostage crisis aboard a…

Bobby is one of the engineers who keep the fortress of Fort Briggs running under Major General Armstrong. His technical instincts prove crucial when unexplained noises hint that something is stirring beneath the northern stronghold.

Brutus and Barker are a pair of small-time hustlers who run a rigged arm-wrestling booth in the automail town of Rush Valley. Their scam collides with the Elric brothers and Winry Rockbell, and the encounter ends in humiliation for the con…

Captain Buccaneer is a towering, automail-armed soldier of Fort Briggs and one of Olivier Armstrong's most trusted officers. Fierce, loyal, and fond of intimidating weaponry, he gives his life on the Promised Day to help bring down the…

Cain is the late boyfriend of Rose Thomas and a former resident of the town of Reole. Named only in the 2003 anime, his death and the false promise of his return become the lever Father Cornello uses to bind Rose to his church.

Camilla is a mysterious alchemist and bounty hunter who appears in the first Fullmetal Alchemist game for the PlayStation 2, the Broken Angel. Chasing Professor Eiselstein's Philosopher's Catalyst to preserve her youth, she hides behind…

Cathrine Elle Armstrong is the youngest of the four Armstrong daughters and the baby sister of Olivier and Alex Louis Armstrong. Demure in manner yet blessed with the family's freakish strength, she has a soft spot for men as muscular as…

Central Command is the supreme authority of Amestris, the seat from which the Fuhrer and his generals rule the nation's military dictatorship. Behind its walls, a secret cabal spent decades plotting the country's destruction in exchange…

The Central Researchers are a shadowy team of scientists who engineered Amestris' Fuhrer candidates. Working under the Gold-Toothed Doctor, they raised and tested subjects for compatibility with the Philosopher's Stone, a program that…

Charlie is an infantry sergeant from the eastern reaches of Amestris who fought through the Ishval war. A steadfast supporter of Roy Mustang, he answers the call again years later, playing a key part in the coup Mustang launches against…

Chiko is a cat from the town of Dublith, cherished by a young girl named Menny. Her death in childbirth becomes a quiet lesson on the limits of alchemy when Menny turns to Izumi Curtis in hope of bringing her back.

In the world of Fullmetal Alchemist, a chimera is a living organism produced when an alchemist fuses two or more different creatures into a single hybrid, blending the traits of each source. The kanji reads as synthesised beast, though its…

Clara is a 2003-anime original who leads a double life in the canal city of Aquroya: an unassuming working woman by day and the masked burglar Psiren by night. Beautiful, athletic, and trained in alchemy, she crosses paths with the Elric…

Claudio Rico is a central figure turned antagonist in the Wii games Prince of the Dawn and Daughter of the Dusk. Presented as the crown prince of Aerugo, he is in truth an impostor: a vengeful criminal who seized the real prince's identity…

Clause is a young girl introduced in the 2003 anime, a resident of Linter Village who first meets the Elric brothers while consumed by grief and rage over her older sister's death. Prickly and boyish at the start, she softens into a warmer…

Clause's Father is a background figure from the 2003 anime, a villager of Linter Village who appears during the Elric brothers' early travels. He is the parent of the tomboyish girl Clause and of an older daughter lost to the tragedy…

Claves Fagott is a minor character from the Game Boy Advance title Sonata of Memories. An older Amestrian alchemist, he is known chiefly as the mentor of Lute Zaxophone and for a name drawn, like his pupil's, from musical instruments.

Father Cornello is a fraudulent priest and early antagonist in Fullmetal Alchemist. Presiding over the Leto cult in the desert settlement of Reole, he dresses Philosopher's Stone alchemy up as holy miracles to gather fanatics, scheming to…

Corniche Royce, nicknamed Cony, is a State Alchemist introduced in the Game Boy Advance game Stray Rondo. A sheltered young woman eager to see the world, she earns the title of the Tuning Alchemist and specializes in healing alchemy.

Brother Cray is a deacon of the Leto church in Reole and one of Father Cornello's most devoted believers. Convinced his faith is real, he never grasps that Cornello is a fraud, and his blind loyalty drives him to attack the Elric brothers…

Cremin, also rendered Klemin, is a Brigadier General in Amestris' Central Command and a secret conspirator in Father's plot for the Promised Day. Craving immortality, he betrays his own countrymen and issues merciless orders during the…

The Creta border war is an ongoing military conflict along Amestris's western frontier, pitting the nation against its neighbor Creta. Amestris commits only its Western forces yet steadily grinds down the Cretan army through sheer…

Croco-Boars are a breed of chimera featured in the video game Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel. Fusing crocodile and wild boar, they are the earliest chimera the Elric brothers face in the game and turn up in several varieties.

Damiano is a rank-and-file Amestrian infantryman who joined Roy Mustang's command in the final days of the Ishvalan war and later rallied to his colonel's cause when talk of a coup reached the eastern ranks.

Dante is the ancient mastermind behind the 2003 anime, an alchemist who cheated death for four centuries by hopping from body to body and who pulls the strings of the homunculi in a ceaseless hunt for the Philosopher's Stone.