This symbolizes how, despite gaining the freedom and means to gather knowledge like he wanted, he chose to squander both by focusing on power instead of learning compassion and human value like Ed did, ultimately learning nothing in the end. Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: His Door of Truth manifests as being completely blank, like a pair of stone slabs that hadn't been carved into yet.All he can do is to cry and scream as he's stripped of his freedom and individuality, but as Truth pointed out, he wanted to be God - so it is the fate he desired and had been working towards, all along.

Happens to him again and for keeps when the Truth claims him after his stone is depleted.After absorbing Greed again in the end for his Philosopher's Stone, Greed rebels from within by turning Father's body into frail graphite.Archnemesis Dad: To Greed after he joins the heroes to stop Father's plans, as well as wanting payback for causing his friends' demise.Arch-Enemy: To Van Hohenheim after killing the entire population of Xerxes to achieve immortality and the reason Hohenheim left his family is to stop Father from absorbing God.Once Scar activates a circle that nullifies it, Ed and Al resume throwing things at him. This is because all the Amestrians have to go through a layer of his Philosopher's Stone to draw on energy. This only applies to Amestrian alchemy, so people who use Alkahestry like Scar or May Chang are immune to this. Not just the alchemy of one person, but all the alchemy in the country. Antagonistic Offspring: In a bizarre way, he's this to Hohenheim, who gave him lifeblood but later actively works to undermine him.

Alternate Company Equivalent: This video by Max Derrat identifies him as Mercurius, an alchemical god who served as an inspiration, except that Father is more likely just a tiny piece of Mercurius.Furthermore, whereas everyone else gets a Gate representing everything they've learned, gained, and people they're connected to, Father's is blank, hammering in what the Truth tells him: in the end, Father ultimately never did anything but steal from others, and thus has nothing at all to show for his time with the freedom he so coveted. In the end, he's simply sent right back to where he originated from. All for Nothing: Everything that he did was for the sake of gaining true freedom.This is averted in the manga where no one pities him. After being absorbed by God after his defeat, Hohenheim shows pity for him as he's dying, remembering how he once used to only desire freedom from his flask. Alas, Poor Villain: In Brotherhood, and only in Hohenheim's eyes.In the manga, he simply screams when the heroes watch him be absorbed by the Truth, whereas in the anime he shouts that he only wanted freedom and knowledge, followed by a reaction shot of Hohenheim looking at him in pity. Adaptational Sympathy: As noted below, Brotherhood plays his final fate more tragically than the Manga does.

He sheds no tears when they die one by one, and before the final battle, he flees his lair while leaving Pride behind. As for the rest of Homunculi, he isn't outwardly cruel but more so distant and neglectful. Although they do later come back, it shows how Father is willings to manipulate his children. He later resurrects Greed while purging his memories. After Greed refuses to rejoin Father's plans, he decides to melt him down to a Philosopher Stone in what looks like molten metal: possibly gold.

Abusive Parents: He raises his children specifically to act as pawns in his plan and likely feels no parental attachment to them.

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