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[+] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social -13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

The problem is that there are hundred of thousands of him IRL😭
Why are s like this‽😭

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[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

That’s not what this is about though…

It’s about Full Metal Alchemist… that’s the guy that merged his daughter and dog into a chimera. He also had done it to his wife prior to that.

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[+] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social -6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I know who he is. The problem is that people forget the allegory + warning FMA was always about.

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[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

It would be more an allegory about the human experimentation of imperial Japan if anything. Given its a Japanese Manga.

Neither of which have anything to do with America.

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[+] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social -9 points 3 months ago*

You, don't comprehend allegories very much huh.
is just continuing the experiments Nazis left off. I am not saying 731部隊 wasn't horrific, but nobody does anything to cease Shou Tuckers of our world.

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[–] BeUnique@lemmy.zip 80 points 3 months ago (13 children)

I may be dumb but I don't get it. From the comic strip alone it's not clear why Satan is calling God and I have no idea what he did? "Is it because of" can mean a lot of different things. Idk, maybe it's obvious and I'm just an idiot.

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 83 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

So the character in question is widely regarded as one of the most hated in all of anime…

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He was praised for creating a talking chimera, something that had never been done in alchemy before. Come to find out he used his wife in the experiment and then when his alchemy license was up for renewal he panicked as he had no notable achievements and then used his 5-6 year old daughter and family dog to create another one.

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

I still feel the hatred reading your summary of him.

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[–] Janx@piefed.social 1 point 3 months ago

Ah, thought he looked familiar.

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[–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world [S] 98 points 3 months ago (6 children)

It’s a reference to a particularly shitty character from Full Metal Alchemist

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[–] BeUnique@lemmy.zip 33 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Ah okay, I'm just not on the know. Thanks

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[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 21 points 3 months ago

I've watched this anime, read the manga, totally forgot about the character's appearance and didn't get the reference either. I was wondering if he was supposed to be some public figure who did something horrible to their wife, daughter, dog, and as usual I missed the news

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[–] pahlimur@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

He essentially kills his daughter and the dog to keep his job. He also killed his wife to get his job. Simple summary of the show.

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 months ago

He fuses his daughter and the family dog into this chimera.

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[–] StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today 14 points 3 months ago

Oh, that guy

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[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago

Before I remembered about him, I thought it was Steve Jobs.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago

1000004333

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[–] cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So there was this anime called 'fullmetal alchemist'.

The first scene is the then pre-teen main characters, two orphaned brothers, dismembered and splattered around the room after defying the laws of man and god in an attempt to resurrect their mother with illegal magic (the illegal impossible magic of the settings chemistry wizards is just organic chemistry. Organic chemistry is illegal and maybe cursed or ontologically evil or something) that went horribly wrong. It then cuts to a couple years later where the protagonist (now 14, and only diagetically glossing over the 'child soldier' of it all, as the absolute ruler of their vaguely Germanic central European military dictatorship is kind of a fatherly figure) with half his limbs prosthetic and his younger brother, a disembodied spirit bound to an old suit of armor, are working as military wizard-engineer maybe-counterintelligence are dismantling a cult in a city the state did some atrocities to a while back(also not glossed over. Lots of orphans, the local lady their dealing with us trauma-mute), and being kind of unnecessarily shitty about it. the audience finds out its part of a bigger conspiracy, and by the end of the episode a shapeshifter comes into town and replaces the cult leader they had exposed as a fraud and killed (claiming he was an imposter) the moment our heroes* leave.

This guy is from the episode where it becomes clear that the general tone of the show might be a little darker than previously suspected.

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[–] mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

Satan asked the question without realizing who he was talking to. Shou Tucker's response made him realize just who he was, and he was so bad that he needed to contact god for help.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 44 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

This guy didn’t even advance alchemy.

They already knew you could make human chimeras. All of his research was just shitty busywork they already did at the fifth lab

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

from what I remember, his fake breakthrough was that his intelligent chimeras didn't have any humans in them (they did).

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[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

This was essentially it. He conned people.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Actually yes, that might be it

I was not super into the show the first few episodes

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[–] Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago

This guy didn’t even advance alchemy.

Just like the real nazis' human experiments didn't gave us shit except, possibly, thalidomide.

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[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

He did advance Chimaera Research significantly and brought back a perfect soulless clone of his daughter back to life, though that never happened in Brotherhood

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

I only watched brotherhood

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[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ed... ward?

Edit: that downvote was deserved.

[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

Is this "Shou Tucker" that wide known?

I tried understanding this comic and wondered why you drew Lindsey Graham so young lol.

[+] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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[–] Hazzard@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

This is a reference to Full Metal Alchemist. It's a fairly common reference, if you've ever seen "Ed... ward" or something like it, this is the same reference.

(Spoilers ahead) In the anime/manga, he's studying how to create chimeras, and secretly, it's going very poorly. In a desperate attempt to get his research to work, he fuses his adorable daughter and her dog, believing only humans can make intelligent chimeras. It's also revealed he has prestige in the field only because his last successful chimera was made with his wife. It's a tragic gut punch, and a rather infamous scene.