I say we can expect Mustang back as the bitch we love him as, in the military, as the commander/Fuhrer/whatever it'll be called. That and Hawkeye and him will probably get married, and she'll be right below him in rank, or even better, as his secretary. Personally, the first time I heard Fuhrer I thought of Hitler, though that was probably the point, since y'know, the two sides of the gate seem to run parallel and it's right before WWII in "our side of the gate", so to speak.

i'll bet you that a lot of the characters at the end of the series will be in the movie. Most definetly Wrath will be in there. But we know that Envy will be in it too trying to find his father, hohenheim of light. And maybe lyla and gluttony because we were purposely not shown what heppened to them in the elevator at the end.

Awww.. it's so sweet in the manga that he tries to save her...

I mean the whole "get AL back into his body thing... It doesn't matter anymore.

sure there is room for a sequel with the open stories such as envy, gluttony and dante, ed studying rocket science and al studying alchemy. maybe we don't know how it'll turn out for all of them, but i dont really want to know. a series about ed trying to get into space? wouldnt really live up to the first series imo...

i think ending a series like that is better than a "everyone lived happily ever after" ending, it's nice to know that they all still have things to pursue.

There are several theories pertaining 鋼之鍊金術師's world, and a popularly-held belief is that the world of alchemy is an alternate universe that somehow forked from our world, or one that is related to our world. The basis for this conclusion? We know that Christianity had existed once in the world of alchemy and we are told that the religion has been dead for over 400 years.

But knowing that Christianity has been dead for over 400 years in the world of 鋼之鍊金術師, consider the fact that the Hohenheim and Dante are at least 400 years old. In fact, we know that Hohenheim and Date were persecuted by the Church. Was it coincidence or was there something more to it? Did the creation of the Philosopher's Stone distort what we now believe is real? Could it be that the Philosopher's Stone split reality into two dimensions? After all, why does alchemy exist in one world but the other depends on technology?

Recall the scene with the gate in episode 49. As Ed passes through time and space and goes into "truth vision" mode, we see lots of images: dinosaurs, World War I blimps, World War II Japanese troops, the detonation of the atom bomb, a United States flag, 天安門/Tiananmen Square, 毛澤東/Mao Zedong, the World Trade Center ruins, scenes from 鋼之鍊金術師 that are out of place, and events that have not even happened yet. According to the subs from Shinsen-Sonchou, Hohenheim says that alchemy is powered by the lives of people from our world (hereafter "real world"). Is it possible that cataclysmic events such as wars, 9/11, the Asian tsunami, and so forth power alchemy, while we depend on raw energy and fuel sources (as automail does not work in the real world)? Is that the truth behind truths?

• Dante and Hohenheim were both in a world which Christianity had still existed, and we are told of witchhunts and some sort of plague.
• The Philosopher's Stone was made by Dante and Hohenheim; soon, Christianity falls out of existence.
• Based on Dante's love letter, it's been over 400 years since the Philosopher's Stone was made, and the world has moved onto some sort of industrial age.
• Within 400 years, Christianity lost its believers, the industrial revolution occurred, and the Philosopher's Stone was created over and over again.

Conclusion: We don't know enough yet. I like to believe that Shambala/Paradise has something to do with this, such as linking the two universes. For one thing, the creation of the Philosopher's Stone requires the ability to use alchemy. But perhaps pre-Philosopher's Stone, people were able to use alchemy in the "real world." Perhaps there was only one world (and thus explains the miracles of Jesus Christ). Perhaps only Dante (or Hohenheim) knows ...

Incredible theory. I agree with the whole "world splitting up after the creation of the Philospopher's stone" thing. That could explain why we see archaeological evidence all over the world of people who never met attempting alchemy.

I mean just think about it. People were researching alchemy up until Issac Newton's time and the early 1800s (Newton himself dabbled a bit in alchemy and supposedly got mercury poisoning.) The egyptians, too, were looking into it. That's easily over 3,000 years of people who were born at different times, at different places, and all looking for the same exact thing.

maybe alchemy does exist in the "real world" but people have forgotten it. Maybe Ed doesn't have to resort to the whole "space time continum"/ rocket thing.

meh....head hurts....

Well the thing is.. that alchemy in our world never worked like it did in the series and its not that people have forgoten about it...Chemistry and Physics took over it becuase it was more accurete than alchemy.