Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 18 Reaction

To be fair it was a pretty poor effort from the show to make people believe that Mustang killed Ross. At the very least to add a couple of second of flashback to Roy in the war following orders or something. I think that could have gone a long way to make people believe it. So far it has been a couple of seconds during 16 episodes, so it's obviously fair not to remember it. So I think me and the others just tried to remind you to , just in case you didn't remember, that from what we knew, Mustang will kill if ordered to do so. He even said that to Ed as well in Ep. 4, and that he may need to do it himself too.

Those sub-titles are lowkey spoiling, they really didn't have to add Ross name when she first called out Ed's name, it gave it away before we saw her, same thing when they revealed that the girl Roy was talking on the phone was Hawkeye instead of us finding that out by ourselves.

Even if Ed figured out that Scar killed Winry's parents, I don't think he would ever try to kill him for it. Ed absolutely despises the idea of killing people, no matter who they are. He probably wants Scar to be held accountable for other stuff that he did as well, like Nina and any members of the military who weren't involved in the war, including Ed himself, who Scar still tried to kill, but not by personally murdering him for revenge.

I don't disagree with you but like the characters themselves are always criticizing their past actions and involvement in literal genocide so it's fine if ppl just wanna talk about it imho. It just adds more depth to the characters.

It was pretty obvious Roy didn't kill her. I'm 100% with LM reactions on this. If you pay close attention to the character that has been set up for the past 16 or so episodes i don't know how anyone could assume Roy actually executed Ross in a damn ally. Also it was off screen...

next two should be released at the same time

LMAOO best thumbnail yet

look, while i LOVE these episodes i have to say that the highlight is hawkeye's in that outfit + the headphone thing + the rifle i'm a simple lesbian, i do simp for hawkeye looking like this. probably the most attractive a character has looked/will look in this entire anime... and i'm not one for simping for animated characters lol i mentioned this before but the reason i immediately liked annie as a character in AOT is because she kinda reminded me of hawkeye i don't think you've missed anything about the war, but at this point it's safe to assume that most people who's been in the military for years might have participated in the ishvalan war really REALLY exited for the following episodes, ngl

"I'm not so sure, there is an emperor there". Well, and here in Amestris we have a Fuhrer. No country is perfect

It’s true that the show hasn’t gone in full details about the war at this point. But keeping your hands clean is a luxury that you can’t really afford when you are a soldier in a war so it’s pretty much safe to assume that mustang ( alongside all the other like Armstrong, Hawkeye, even Hughes) aren’t angels and have done at least some morally questionable things in the past. Roy being considered a hero of the war support this idea as well since we know that in the end, the goal was to wipe out all the ishvalans (it was mentionned in ep 5 I believe) so in this context I’ll let you imagine what a soldier has to do to be considered a « hero of the war ». However these kind of nuances are one of the reasons why this show is so good and it’s a good thing that the author wasn’t afraid to dive deep into these kind of subjects, since she chose to make the military one of the main focus of the story.

As for the bad things Roy did during the war, you’re right that there’s a lot you don’t know yet, but more has been implied that you might be forgetting. In episode 5, when we first learned of the war, Roy described alchemists being used as “human weapons”, and his words were overlaid with imagery of other alchemists (and himself) killing civilians. It was a while ago, so I’m not surprised you didn’t remember that specific part, though again you’re also right that there is a lot you don’t know about the war yet. So that’s all I’ll say on it for now!