Fullmetal Alchemist: 10 Most Powerful Villains, Ranked

It may be true that performance levels in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood they're tame compared to what shonen anime fans have seen of their ilk Naruto or My Hero Academiabut villains in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood they are still terrifying threats. They also benefit from some clever designs to make the most of their limited performance levels in the grand scheme of things. These antagonists, mostly homunculi, are brilliantly written to terrorize their human enemies throughout Amestris.

Seeing as how these villains are often pitted against mere soldiers with rifles or common state alchemists, it's easy to see how envy and greed only need one supernatural weapon and the Philosopher's Stone to wreak havoc. That helps Fullmetal Alchemist: BrotherhoodThe villains are cunning enough to use ambushes or fight battles on their own terms to make themselves appear even stronger than they really are, all to benefit the father's plans.

Gluttony is more useful to his strong senses

Gluttony ended up in Pride's stomach

Starving Gluttony is the weakest of the land's most powerful villains due to his clumsy fighting style. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. He does have an ace in the hole via the fake Portal of Truth on his chest that swallowed Ed, Ling, and Envy at once, but even that doesn't allow Gluttony to compete with the strongest villains.

Gluttony managed to die twice in the anime, the first time by serving him the Philosopher's Stone. The second time, Pride got fed up with Gluttony and ate him to gain his strong sense of smell. That's Gluttony's real power, and it can be useful, but it still doesn't make it much.

Lust mixes the perfect spear with seduction to support the father

Lust couldn't handle Roy's flames

Unlike brutal fighters like Gluttony and Sloth, Lust is an anime assassin who prefers precision and surprise when fighting. However, her arsenal of tricks is somewhat limited, and Lust can be defeated if characters like Colonel Roy Mustang come up with the right countermeasures. If Lust's best tricks don't work the first time, then he's in a tough spot.

Aside from some moderate leadership abilities among the homunculi, Lust has two main strengths on her side: Seduction and the Supreme Spear. In the first case, Lust tricks people, often men, into letting their guard down or telling her things they shouldn't. The Ultimate Spear is Lust's offensive weapon, extending her fingers to stab through anything.

Sloth boasted incredible speed, but rarely used it

Direct attacks from laziness were often easy to counter

Unlike its homunculus, gluttony, sloth is a clumsy brute that tends to telegraph what it's doing. That being said, Laziness is more effective in battle than Gluttony because its best weapon is even better than Gluttony itself. When pushed, sloth can move with astonishing bursts of speed, as seen during the Battle of Promised Day.

What's more, Sloth may lack Wrath's vicious bloodlust, but it's still braver and more dedicated in battle than Gluttony. Regardless of his reluctance to exert himself, Sloth can be pretty cold-blooded and lacks gluttonous playfulness or fear on the battlefield. However, Laziness lacks any subtlety or tricks, so his clever enemies can bypass his strengths and destroy him.

Envy gets the jump on his enemies with Shapeshifting

However, his giant form is just a giant target

Envy is one of several threats Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood villains who rely on both clever tricks and sheer superhuman strength to fight for their father. Like Lust, Envy often tricks people into stealing information or tricking people into letting their guard down, but Envy is even better at it. As a shapeshifter, Envy can fool anyone, not just men looking for a date.

Envy's shape-shifting is effective for sabotage, espionage, and even psychological warfare, as seen when she mentally shattered Maes Hughes with her two disguises. In terms of physical combat, Envy is moderately effective with his many animal or blade manifestations, not to mention his giant lizard form. However, enemies like Roy Mustang only see this shapeshifter's giant form as a bigger and easier target.

Greed outlasts his enemies with an ultimate shield

Greed can also run and jump quite far

Greed debuted in Dublith's sewers wielding the Ultimate Shield, the counterpart to the Ultimate Spear and the Ultimate Eye. Notably, Greed's ability to harden his skin with carbon atoms is an offensive and defensive tool in one package, allowing him to deflect enemy attacks while crushing his targets with diamond-hard claws.

Greed is also quite the martial artist, able to take on Edward Elric and Izumi Curtis, all with the advantage of his head-to-toe Ultimate Shield. To top it all off, Greed is able to jump and run with admirable agility and speed, as seen during his rampage in Promised Day as the redeemed anti-hero in Ling Yao's body.

Solf J. Kimblee can level entire city blocks with his alchemy

Up close, Kimblee is more vulnerable

With the power of the various Philosopher's Stones he received and stole, Solf J. Kimblee became an absolute terror to both civilian and military enemies. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. He was one of the most destructive and sadistic state alchemists in the Ishval Civil War due to his incredible blast alchemy.

Kimblee also used his merciless ways to curry favor with Edward Elric in this northern mining town, a testament to Kimblee's expert mind games, along with his advanced tracking abilities. No one can outrun or fool Kimblee for long, so extraordinary measures are needed to stop him. One option is melee combat, an arena where Kimblee is somewhat lacking.

Scar used deconstruction alchemy to massacre his American enemies

Scar later put his talents to work against anger

Scar the Ishvalan Avenger wasn't always a villain Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhoodbut he's had the role long enough to rank among anime's most dangerous antagonists. First, Scar is one of the most physically gifted characters, human or homunculus, with his strong build and honed fighting skills.

Scar's right arm is filled with tattoos from his alchemist brother, allowing Scar to destroy almost anything up close, from flesh to streets to walls and more. This ability is perfectly suited to Scar's melee talents, and in emergency situations, Scar tears up the ground to cover his escape. It's a winning combination that allowed Scar to kill many State Alchemists until the heroes finally captured him.

Wrath dominates the battlefield with deadly blade strikes

Ultimate Eye ensures that anger never misses its target

Wrath is a deadly anime swordsman with Ultimate Eye, ruthless attitude and years of experience on the battlefield. Normally, Wrath commands the Amestris army as King Bradley, but if he has to get his hands dirty, carnage will ensue. Without the benefit of his supernatural left eye, Wrath is quite dangerous with his sabers and virtually unstoppable with Ultimate Eyes.

Wrath's cold precision and vicious tactics ensure he can take down any enemy in his sights, even overcoming the likes of Greed's Ultimate Shield and constant regeneration. Notably, Wrath's Philosopher's Stone is too weak to regenerate his flesh, making him the most fragile homunculus, but that doesn't matter when no one can land a blow on him.

Pride combines the talents of his six siblings in one package

Pride can only be destroyed from within

Of all of Father's creations, Pride is the oldest and most dangerous, being more like six homunculi rolled into one. His most distinctive feature is his shadowy body covered in eyes and mouth, but he is otherwise a fusion of the other homunculi. It has Laziness's speed, Greed's resistance, and Lust's piercing abilities, among others.

Přideo's body, whether the shadow body or Selim Bradley's container, cannot be destroyed by physical force, which is a real conundrum for any of Edward Elric's teams. Even Van Hohenheim could only contain the Pride, not destroy it. In the end, Ed defeated Pride when he transformed into the Philosopher's Stone to fight Pride's soul one-on-one.

Father almost destroyed all of Amestris as a prospective God

Humanity united against the father to take him down

The single scariest villain of all Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood it is also most important to be a father yourself. He has come a long way since he was a small homunculus in Xerxes and is now a Hohenheim-like humanoid with titanic alchemical powers. Among other abilities, Father can shape vast amounts of matter without moving and can create matter out of thin air.

Such is the power of Father's huge Philosopher's Stone, which consists of roughly 500,000 souls for continuous power. Later, during the climax of the Promised Day, the father became nearly invincible as a younger version of himself, able to create the sun and fend off the army's attacks with his barrier. It took continuous attacks and sabotage by Greed before the father was finally defeated, and even then it was close.