![]() ![]() Turns out, he has to keep a pretense to hide his more ambitious goals in the military. On top of all that, he has no qualms about burning someone in cold blood. Beneath the Mask: When we are introduced to him, one can understand why Edward hates his guts: he is a glory hound, kissing up his higher-ups' asses, ridiculously arrogant and a shameless womanizer.Him just losing his sight did teach him something valuable, but he didn't commit the hubris of transmutation to warrant losing his eyes in a side story, there was an alchemist who lost his eyes trying to bring his friends' daughter back, reinforcing this notion. However, he was truly forced to perform human transmutation (specifically, Pride used energy from his own Philosopher's Stone while using the Gold-Toothed Doctor's knowledge to more-or-less force Roy through the Gate). Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Mustang only loses his sight after meeting Truth, rather than his actual eyes.Beard of Sorrow: While grieving Hughes' death, he lets himself go.Be All My Sins Remembered: He wants to become Führer so that he can make sure the war criminals from the Ishval genocide face justice for what they have done.Battle Couple: With fellow soldier Riza, unofficially, due to the military's anti-fraternization rules.He wears a white long coat during his time in Ishval. Badass Longcoat: Wears a long black coat on his uniform.Badass in a Nice Suit: He always wears a uniform with a dress shirt underneath and when he switches to his civilian clothes he prefers a very dapper look.Badass Fingersnap: One of the most famous examples in fiction and provider of the trope image when he snaps the friction he creates between his fingers provides the ignition for his flame alchemy.Incinerated Lust and curb-stomped Envy with no effort, and he actually had to be injured twice and blinded in the final battle against Father to preserve the drama. Probably the most powerful of all the State Alchemists. Badass Bookworm: In the same vein as Ed.Mustang: You told me I couldn't kill you. Badass Boast: To Lust: "You said it takes more than that to kill you, right? Then I'll just keep killing you until you die!" The English Dub version of this is just as awesome.Back-to-Back Badasses: With Riza under the Fifth Laboratory and in the most official artworks drawn by Hiromu Arakawa.According to Riza, his ultimate goal would most likely lead to him getting tried and quite possibly put in jail for what he did in Ishval - and he's just fine with that. ![]() The Atoner: His main motive for becoming Führer is to ensure that nothing like Ishval ever happens again.Adaptational Comic Relief: Inverted Brotherhood removes some of Roy's sillier moments from the Manga and the Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) note in particular his manic "I love dogs!" speech and him declaring that when he's Führer, all female officers will be required to wear TINY MINISKIRTS, making him come off as comparatively more serious.Unfortunately for his enemies, this no longer applies after the Promised Day, when his portal-visitation leaves him able to perform the "clapping alchemy" - no circle, no gloves. However, it's imperative to finish him off in this weakened state, before he can find other ignition sources. Either remove, destroy or wet them, and he can't create the necessary spark for his Flame Alchemy. Achilles' Heel: His spark-cloth gloves.The Ace: Easily the best State Alchemist in terms of combat power, made Colonel before he was 30, has a loyal team, manages to assemble powerful allies to help him, and he has the highest homunculus body count.
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