omigod, your brother said that??? i'm so glad he was wrong! i didn't even THINK of that!!! *hides in the corner* bad enough we lost hughes, but that would have been absolutely horrible! aaah!

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as for lust's death, i did prefer her anime death to her manga death... in fact, i preferred anime lust to manga lust, because in the anime she was a lot more...not evil. she just never struck me as the bad guy who WANTED to be bad, you know? like kagura from inuyasha, she always seemed to me like the character who was doing this for her own agenda and wasn't really bad underneath... but in the manga, she was just...mean... so i liked her anime death because it seemed more appropriate to her... but the manga death looked cooler.

Why did they have to kill Hughes? WHY???!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hughes. That made me CRY. Hughes was such a cool guy and like... I don't know.

The music was heart breaking, and then Elysia, dear god...

And well. It started to rain. That was so touching. Hawkeye should've said something to comfort him dammit.

*Sniff* READING THIS THREAD MAKES ME WANNA CRY SO BADLY!!!!!!!!!!! TTTTTTTTTTTTOTTTTTTTTTTTTT WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

I vote for Hughes too, like everyone else.

It was tragic alright!!! Also when there's a flashback between him and Roy!!! DAMN!!!

tokage: Yeah, he did...And it would kind of make sense with Roy following his best friend.. he was really convinced about that too. I started to become scared, because I always believe in the worst and FMA made that quite possible
Yup, I agree with the Lust part too. And I prefered the Lust in the anime also, even though she did something horrible to Lujon She was part good and seemed a little human in a way with all those memories...

Nemu: Yeah, exactly... although she kind of said (indirectly) with her comment that she understands him

Queen: Don't cry! It's really sad and all... but FMA would be missing something without those deaths. *big hug*

Kihaku: Yes, but she's so COLD. Dear god. XD; Can't she ever loosen up and just tell him straight out? Even near the END OF THE SERIES she's all stiff. She has a stick up the butt.

What! Oh no! I don't think I like that at all! I think she pretty much showed her true feelings when
and she even "let her hair down" . In my opinion

i loved that scene where

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they went to the market together...

too cute! XD

Yes! That's the part I meant!

She's going to be the death of him.

It's just... something about it all seems off to me. Oo;

Really? I wonder what you mean by "death of him" Huh? What do you think is missing? They're perfectly compatable and their personalities complete each other. plus the end proves a lot, and a lot of points

I don't know, something is just off, I can't put my finger on it. XD;

Martel's death sucked (shes half snake and she cant wiggle around a sword) and Archer's "death" had to bite ass (loosing half your head and still "living")

I cried SO hard at Hughes funeral. I think that was the most tragic death and it should be because Hughes is such a loveable character and if anyone said that he was annoying I would seriously travel to wherever they live and smack them over the head with Al's helmet.

Lust was my favorite character espeacially when she turned around in the end...then the next episode she dies. so that was the most tragic for me.

Nina, she was innocent, a victim of a psycopathic father. She was really cute, and that really sounds wierd, considering it came from a guy. She was very young, and was turned into a Chimera with Alexander. Then Scar came along. I think that they should've turned Shou Tucker into a chimera too, and then do the same thing to him. Then there's the part when Ed and Al found what was left of Nina/Alexander on the wall.

Well actualy And actualy in the mangsa, Scar DID get him...

definitely hughes's death, also because of the impact it had on the main characters. man, hughes death really made me cry. i didn't really for



i don't think that hawkeye could have said anything to him then that would comfort him, other than agreeing that yes, it was raining. i'm not sure how to put this but i think that any other words would have cheapened the moment. i think roy just needed to quietly cry and deal with the fact that his best friend was six feet under and not coming back.

as for the end of the series, hawkeye doesn't seem like the kind of person who would say something like "i love you" and "i'm so glad you're okay" that blatantly. what she said and did seems to fit her personality more -- saying things indirectly and conveying her feelings in a more subtle manner, being a companion to roy and taking care of him, killing his attacker, etc. i didn't really find her stiff at all when she was crying and screaming over his limp, bleeding body.

hm...it's ethier nina/alexander or hughes. hughes was a very important character in the show and he died when he was just about to solve everything! Nina was just a little inocent girl and her father turned her and alex into a chemira. Very sad...

nina and alexander's death just becuz of the way it happened. an innocent girl that luvs her father gets killed becuz she's used as a science experiment...i cried that episode i almost cried when hughes died too...*sniffle*

So far only I have voted for Trisha........Why?(Though I nearly went for Nina,I was torn.)

I voted for Hughes. I mean, he tried his best to get to the bottom of what was really going on and he did love Ed and Al in his own way, he was always so cool with them.

I miss Hughes

Hughes death was sooooooooooo sad, but Ninas was a slim second.

Hughes all the way...Elysia just has that effect on people doesn't she? Even after re-watching the episode and reading the manga, I still get goosebumps and teary...

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As for whether we can throw Ed's "death" into this:

Even though Ed isn't technically "dead" If not for the promise of the movie, I would have been very very depressed.
Sure he's alive in another world, but to everybody in the Amestris, he's as good as gone...that's pretty sad for me

y do the the nice character die? huges was like the best [except for roy nd ed] character. he is very friendly to ed and he has a WIFE AND CHILD.

I don't actually think he died in a bad way but and nina died a bad way too

I'm voting for Hughes too... it was so unexpected, during all the scene I was thinking "hey! they aren't going to kill him! they can't! he has a family!" but then they actually did it! In the funeral scene my eyes were full of tears

Somehow I was expecting Nina's death, she was just too kind and cute and I knew something really bad was going to happen... it was very sad, but I think that without her death Ed and Al wouldn't be the same, it marked their personalities.

Scar's death was very emotive...


I agree with Blueices about Ed, it I haven't knew about the movie, surely I would have got depressed

...a moment of silence.....


Hughes was a family man, a alchemist, an expert with knifes.
He made poeple luagh,cry, and sometimes even yell. But over all everyone loved him. Im sure you wonder WHY WHY?????? and this is what i wonder too...but he shall always be alive and well in our hearts *sniffle* T_T

You know, maybe his ghost could haunt Roy by constantly stuffing pictures of Elyisha in his face...

or repeatedly chanting "Hurry up and get a wife! Hurry up and get a wife!"

There is actually a Doujinshi just like that available at Cheez Doujinshi Scans....Its really cute...Hughes comes back and tries to figure out a way to hug his daughter.


He also smothers Ed and Roy

i have a question... who kills hughes????? tell me how it happans too....

Umm, maybe Hughes and Nina. Hughes helped so much Elric Brothers. And Envy killed him in form of his wife.
And Nina was so happy little girl, when Ed and Al came. And as a chimera, she couldn't quess what Scar was going to do.

uh... anybody???

It might be dangerous to spoil you here , but they really go in depth in the Hughes fanclub section...

Spoilers are really really bad for you! But if you must know
I'll tell you very very briefly:

His dearly beloved wife did. >_>;;



...yeah. ;;

Inyhoo, I'da voted for Roy's "death", but he didn't die. Thank God. Hughes' was personally by far the most sentimental and "WTF HOW DARE THEY ;_______;"-inspiring, but Lust did come in a close second. Someone spoiled me on Nina's death beforehand, so I wasn't all that surprised, but it was still freaking sudden. ;;

...am I the only one who feels sorry for Wrath's...er..."death"? From fairly carefree little boy to Homunculous?

-BMA

I do feel kinda sorry for Wrath becoming a Homunculus, but... I dunno, I also like homu!Wrath too. ^^v

Eh, Wrath in general didn't actually appeal to me that much. He seems too much like a momma's boy, and he's ugly...>>;;



...inyhoo. People die a lot in FMA, don't they? </obvious>

-BMA

wah my fault for asking. not yours, mine i iteraly put a sign in my room that has a picture of hughes on it and wrote"in memory os Maes Hughes"WWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!(x10) WHY HIM DANGIT!

Sorry, had to edit your post. It was tousling up the layout way too much. ;;

Something wrong with being a 'momma's boy'?

Really, there isn't an episode where doesn't happen anything bad. >.<

Most Tragic Death imo was hughes and then nina

I only got into Fullmetal Alchemist after watching the first few english verison on the Cartoon Network. After downloading the subtitle series I have watch only half of the series. To me Hughes death was the most tragic death. Without the protect of alchemy he did a good job of protecting himself.

Hughes without question. Everyone pretty much hit the nail on the head why too. What was really sad for me though is he reminded me of my dad and myself. IT really shook me up. Usually my favorite character dies, so I was expecting Roy to go. Never thought it would be Hughes because he did logistic missions. Plus, he was kind of like the dad the brothers never had. . in a way

For those who thought Hughes' death was tragic and have seen all the episodes, feel free to check out the Hughes topic in character discussion

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I'm getting good at these

The idea of me not crying during Hughes' death (and 20 minutes afterward) scares me.

Nina's death... Eh, I got used to it after watching the episode a few times. It actually wasn't all that tragic in the english dub. Her voice was getting on my nerves anyway.

Yeah. Maes death was shocking to me, I was co confused that I started to cry until I've seen the funeral. I was too small to remember my mom's burial, but I think, I was like his daughter then... I was 3...

You lucky ones, who can watch FMA from Cartoon Network. In Finland there is only DB and Hamtaro on CN channel. >.< And I can't watch even them, cause we don't have a digibox.. siiigh..
But it really is tragic when you have to tell somehow to your daughter, than her dad's dead.
Huges Death

To me Nina's death wasn't as tragic as the death of Hughes because you didn't get to know the character all so well. The military burial made his death even sadder. Not to mention his daughter asking why he was being buried when he still had work to be done.

Well, I agree. Hughes helped brothers and tried his best. Nina was just in two episodes, if I remember right.