B-BUT THEY ARE BABIES... | Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Episode 4 Reaction 

_Cause this ain’t Dr. Dolittle nor Polly the Parrot._

I was thinking this exact same thing when I started the video. XD

She did, RAPIDLY

Me: "Oh, my sweet summer child."

I mean, we kinda get that towards the middle of the series

the horrible realisation...and becuase of memes, of all thngs

All is right in the world I guess?

What that's the meme thing mean!?

@@elimDBZ People would indirectly make references to it. Like putting a long wig on their big white dog. This would lead to horrified reactions from people that know and confused reactions by people that didn't.

MEMES, THE DNA OF THE SOUL

my girlfriend happened to see that scene as I watched it years ago. it's the only thing she knows about this show. lololol

The twist reveal in the 2003 FMA series was way crazier. We had several episodes to meet the tuckers and get to know them and get attached. and then wham right out of left field.

And the Elrics spent much longer living with them.

Honestly, people overexaggerate how traumatic this episode is. It just one episode, it's nowhere near enough for the viewer to actually care about the characters. All that happens is that they introduce shifty looking guy with a dubious past achievement, show the daughter and the dog, and state that he is about to lose his livelihood and status if he doesn't make something impressive. It's so heavily telegraphed, you have to be media-illiterate to not expect something horrible to happen. Not enough time to breathe, to make the audience let their guard down.

I was scrolling thru channels back in the day and stopped on Adult Swim. I had never seen FMAB before and this was the first episode I ever saw. Needless to say, I did not sleep well that night.

Correction: She put a little "In memoriam" panel at the end of each volume, showing all the characters that died in that section with halos and wings. Even the villains. The only exception to this is Tucker, who is shown burning in hell.

Scar: "Please grant these poor, lost souls everlasting peace and salvation." Arakawa: "You meant the dog and the girl, right?" Scar: "Obviously. The alchemist is a monster, not a human."

@@ben-san9677 Scar: "Even the other alchemist may have a shred of humanity. This thing is an aberration a herecy made flesh."

@@AugustoEL Transmuting your own child into a chimera simply to keep your rank? I think that even some of the homunculus would be disgusted at this.

I think in the original anime he became a chimera by a certain individual but became even more crazy

It's a mistranslation, in the manga it was just two souls, no mention of human. Implying Tucker's in hell.

@@someone2Utoo the last page of the chapter shows him burning in hell in the manga

​@@johnpaullogan1365 And out of all the characters that die, is the ONLY character in Hell

Ha! yeah dog lover! Obviously Shou isn't a human soul! 🤣

I think we all know what happens in the next episodes...

this episode is an example as to why we do have science ethics comissions in real life. Because if we dont, this shit starts happening irl.

@@michajastrzebski4383 100% Science would be so much easier if we just ignored all ethics for a moment. It's so incredibly attractive of an idea. But just...no...

me: "very poor choice of words"

me: "im so, so very sorry for what you are about to see...."

Monkey’s Paw ensues

I bet Scar was like "This guy turned his own daughter into this? I killed him too quickly."

Because the beast might be able to rock your shit. If you’re here to assassinate a dude, safest option is to pop the guard dog

She'll totally adore a certain kid we all know about. He's totally a cute little dork.

​@@machicommentsectionyeah, I agree. He's a bit prideful in my point of view

She's basically Big Mom in One Piece lol

@@machicommentsection He's just a bean.

Imagine if she watched the 2003 anime

And the way she dies in the original is also sooo much more brutal

And the Elric brothers also spent way more time with her, as they lived in the same house, instead of visiting (at least that's how it felt to me)

Cannot be *overstated.

She also helps deliver Hughes' daughter iirc

Yeah but that one bit sadly doesnt give one a reason to see the OG versus the cannon brotherhood.

You see how often chat spams the Sweat and OH Fuck emotes at the beginning? They tried to warn her but she had no clue!

@@chaoscontroller316 "Bro I want talking animals!" *Chat actively freaking the fuck out in the background*

Chat is STRESSED

She doesn't watch emotes while she watches so we can spam all we like but she won't see anything coming lol. Watching this live was so much fun.

Seeing chat getting stressed was hilarious

you know its intense when people who haven't watch FMA still knows of this trauma scene lol

I totally forgot that it was the 4th episode.

Oh man you guys should watch episode 6 and 7 of the original anime It hits way harder

@@ImmaLittlePip do not recite the trauma to me i was there when it first aired

@@Vattgh3rn Same I was a child watching the 2003 anime lol

AS HE SHOULD ;-; FUCK'EM

GOOD!

Definitely would get the comparison of Brock and Sanji for sure even if Brock is NO WHERE near as down bad for women as Sanji. He gets twitterpated and blushes, but that's a lot more normal in comparison. Vinsmoke's a full tornado and nose bleeds that affected the freaking plot of a particular arc

Yup because even though she's still young, she'd still have some intellect. Whereas the dog was a beast, it has no higher cognitive function like a human. Imagine Having your intellect stolen from you, your mind mired in mental sludge where you struggle to even form sentences... Horrifying

@@TheJamieellis Likely why it was such a success this time, the ingredient being a child's mind mixed with a beast, taking an adult who's more developed intellectually to be reduced to less than what they were but still conscious to it probably caused such trauma which was the reason his wife wanted to die. Atleast I like to think so cause Tucker likely DID make a big breakthrough, but goes to show not all positive scientific breakthroughs are good if you have a shred of empathy towards other beings. Sometimes things are better left unturned, even though I hate to admit there's some horrific breakthroughs in our history that has later led into other fields that have been just massively positive medically. Goes to also show life is complex with morality.

It hurt more, because both Nina and the dog loved the dad, so even if their thought was mixed, they still love him and cry when he got killed.

@@prinstyrio0 i believe tucker specifically said a younger mind was more able to adapt

Having not gotten to the part in this episode yet, I predict that this will be the worst episode for her

Though I think this the most infamous episode. But still, yeah, plenty of trauma.

muwhahahahahaha

Nah, this episode is definitely the peak of FMAB's trauma mountain

​@@quest9905​It's the trauma peak, but its anything but a downhill slope after this. We get a few more ridges that approach the top, and one of them has a weather forecast for rain

With her mother. Shou Tucker on the other hand, that filthy parasite is gone in hell alone.

Have you read the manga?

There's a meme that shows the Devil welcoming Tucker to hell. DEVIL: Do you know why you're here? TUCKER: Was it because of what I did to my wife, my daughter, or my dog? DEVIL: 📞😶 Um...God...HE'S here.

Tucker in general is super chilling in that one. If you know, you know.

Even more important: the build up. We spent actual time with the Tucker family.

Always makes it hard to recommend FMA because the watching order I liked best is a little bit of original FMA then all the rest of FMA:B.

Fma I like it's more mature themes I love both series they are so different yet feel like they give you the whole picture

​@@user-gw3bs2in5i Spoiler Tucker chimera

It felt rushed compared to the 2003 episodes.

But wouldn't this be more accurate to the manga?

granted the crawling does show how much he valued that over his own daughter and dog

But that's the thing. On the 2003 version he says "Either I'm screwed without science or I'm screwed with science. I decided to be screwed with science" So, from the scene it's clear how much he values money(like this version) but it also shows how much he values science. And his discussion with Ed on 2003 is about how the advancement of science, the desire to prove that he could do things, is exactly like Ed. That sure, Ed wanted to resurrect his mother, but also that he believed Ed was driven to prove he was able to do something seemingly no other alchemist ever did - human alchemy. My point is, that version of Shou was much more level-headed and, maybe because of it, much more of a psychopath. And the discussion with Ed was deeper than this verson's@@sarafontanini7051

yeah but they were trying to do a faithful adaptation. it was only one chapter n the manga so drawing it out over more eps would have required inventing a lot more material out of thin air

I saw it 15 years ago catching up with the 03 version... It just never leaves.

She'll definitely regret that, indeed.

Oh God no

most of them are nazi war criminals though.

I think the original it slogs too much to be as impactful as it is, honestly that arc in the original anime has pretty bad pacing

You still get all the new trauma from the 2003 version.

@@tiryaclearsong421 not really brotherhood rushes through these early arcs while 2003 took it's time developing them Also 2003 is a lot more cruel and darker than brotherhood Whole brotherhood injects gags to the drama 2003 plays it mostly straight while adding small subtle humor to it

@@kraunkkremlin5986 You're kinda right but 03 has its moments where it gets just as comedic as brotherhood but those moments are certainly less common

_Used to be_ babies. 😅

In a weird way, Brotherhood sort of assumes you've seen the original anime in some places.

also to be fair to them liore, this and some other stuff that was multiple episodes in '03 were only a single chapter in the manga. the beginning of the manga feels rushed too. in order to spread it out and go slower they would have had to pull material out of their butts like the original did and the entire reason brotherhood was created was to do a faithful adaptation of the manga

Which one?

@@something-g99 The one with Hughes

​@@something-g99 It's a terrible day for rain.

@@tiryaclearsong421 What do you mean? It's not raining

It isn't raining is pretty traumatic as well. And she is going to lose it again.

Actually she might have a similar experience I did finding 10 more upsetting in a different way. It's just too relatable.

@@tiryaclearsong421 fair point.

This

I feel like the original 2003 anime was harder to watch all around, overall darker, and paced differently. I’m one of the few that prefers FMA over FMAB

​@@sanbrochill9399 I honestly am the same but I think watching both gives you a complete package

@@sanbrochill9399 I'm personally one of those "both is good" people

Dude Nina has been haunting even people who haven’t seen FMA

And it's just the beginning...

Rite of passage before you can call yourself an "anime fan" is to witness the fate of Nina.

Doesn't matter which version you watch FMA 2003, the manga or brotherhood It all hits hard

Gotta say though, a small sick part of me always like to occasionally say "Ed...Ward" near my friends

Ay, bias alert. What about the other shows? Gotta make time in the schedule for stuff besides Fullmid Alchemist pal.

Oh yeah, about Hughes tho .......

In the 2003 anime it goes over both arcs but gives them an extra episode to breathe

@@redboi8913 oh I'm awere I luke both version of this show equally😅

You could not call this "blind faith" in science lol. What the fuck does that even mean?

@@yersiniapestis5237 as in hes a little too obsessed with science to a dangers degree much like many who often have completely blind faith in a religion can be obsessesive over there beliefs to a dangerous degree

@@zom8979 That doesn't answer the question. Science isn't a belief, it's a practice.

I'm not going to say it specifically, but there's another death that is probably more sad.

@@xenoemblem7 Yeah, that’s the other one people make memes about the most 😅

The Cow Goes Moo The Pig Goes Oink The Dog Goes "Ed..ward"

I think they expect us to have seen both the 03 and the manga so they just gloss over it

i don't feel he ever got that much more time in the manga. definitely more than here but not by that much

I think the 2003 version was a bit closer to that. And then Ed walks in after Nina's fate. It just kept going honestly.

2003 had its issues but God damn what it did right, it did RIGHT!

my contractor has a tattoo of her with words saying "I got that Dog in me."

Not burnt Torn inside out

@@kraunkkremlin5986 that's even worse

​@@ALLHAILSUNSETYOUTH2 2003 anime is a lot more brutal and has a very mature theme to it It doesn't shy away from dark themes

She has to watch the clone wars first to get some of the references and characters that appear