Greed & Ling - Greed is Hope (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) 

Maybe ambition gone too far? But love ur videos bro

Insatiable of Anything Blood, Money, Power. People will do anything to get what they want no matter the cost.

Amazing

greedisgood

greed is what we don't have, our willingness to attain it. i think that it's important that greed isn't shame

Agreed.

He also called 'Greed' the 'selfish bastard who wants it all'

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YES, that makes so much more sense. It always bothered me in a way I couldn't figure out! Ty for your help with this

All the peices just fell into place perfectly when I read this comment. Thank you.

Greed is such a amazing written character man I just finished watching this show again and this shit is still amazing

That was such an iconic scene for anime. FMA:B was truly ahead of its time

​​@@eligreg99It's great, yeah. But how is it ahead of its time?

@@mikeexits If the show were to drop now it would’ve been a hit. That’s what that means

greed is such a great character. i just finished the show for the 4th time , it never fails to amaze me

Archetypes are pretty dang cool.

Same thought when he showed up and he ended my favorite character along w Greed

Nah, selflessness is greed on anothers behalf.

@jamesiewalters2360 Expound on this please.

@@aSUGAaddiction Bro didnt reply so ima have a whack at it I think selfishness is greed because when you help someone there will always be your own selfish reasons to do so. Greed in this instance sacrificed himself because he didn't want others to die. Since he wanted them to live, he committed the ultimate sacrifice to obtain what he wanted, so in a way despite him giving his life away he still was selfish to the end. "Greed on another's behalf" is a odd way of phrasing it but I think this is what they were trying to get at.

Yes. The 7 deadly sins, or capital sins, in my understanding, are not always evil (or morally wrong), but rather they are traits intrinsic to humanity that are "dangerous" and _could_ lead you to sin if you aren't careful about it - really, really careful. They can't be gotten rid of entirely and are to be heavily controlled and tempered. Greed/Ling portrays this with the intense back-and-forth self-reflection that Greed and Ling do. Ling tempers Greeds... greed.

@@HyperManSP nothing but truth

​@@HyperManSPFacts. Ling Yao tempered Greed's Avarice.

Nothing is all good or all bad, virtue can become sinful and sin can become virtuous.

Agreed

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One of the best*

​@@Hell-Spawn-Al-Simmonsit's boring

@@homosapien7316 how?

It's one of those anime where you can rewatch and still find something new. A hidden nuance you didn't notice before cause you didn't look at it from the same perspective. I think that's what makes it so attractive. It has various themes, fleshed out characters, and underlying implications that you really have to pay attention to in order to understand the full picture of what she was trying to convey with her story. Theres also actual references to alchemical history which is just next level tbh.

Well I’d like to think greed is a vice that can make someone highly successful. Most of the most successful people always have the desire to want things more than the other person and was not concerned with how they had achieved or how much success they had tasted (or eaten). Not wanting to rest on your past laurels and never being satisfied. Gluttony is like greed but with actually using the things that you’ve been greedy with

Absolutely they can. I always liked FMA framing the seven sins as "desires" that can ruin a person if taken to excess. But they are an innate and necessary part of the human condition. We have greed being hopeful and a desire to protect all you have, regardless of how much control you have over them. But we also can have: (and please forgive the tangent, I've spent a lot of time thinking about this over the years) Wrath - the enactor of justice, the righteous fury that brings low those whom destroy all around them. Envy - recognizing in others the things you lack and (possibly) the desire to improve yourself to gain them Pride - acknowledgement of everything thing you are and have done, giving one a standard they hold themselves to and strive to meet as well as being able to recognize a job well done so one can move on to other projects. Also is a feeling of accomplishment and fulfillment upon doing well. Gluttony - the very essence of over indulgence, but can also mean choosiness and a standard of "must be this good before I accept it" In positive lights such excess can be gathered and then spread to those around you. And used sparingly it can create pockets of excessively enjoyable times amidst an otherwise hard and interesting life Lust - finding indulgence and pleasure in all things, loving oneself and others around you enough to take pleasure in every moment. It can make the mundane enjoyable, and the wonderful spectacular. And lastly Sloth - quite literally the desire to rest and recharge. It's also an aspect of self that let's you stop worrying about what you can't control. If you can't change it, don't put your energy into a futile effort and don't waste brain power worrying. Instead realize there are smaller, simpler things you can do to help things elsewhere and by extension, might actually help in small ways with the big problem you can't fix. These are all I've thought about, and I'm sure there are other, better examples out there.

Netflix already made three live-action FMA movies.

​@@Idea_of_LustreAnd they're all Genuinely terrible.

Wow wow, how cool. How interesting that someone also has an interpretation like that! I am currently watching Brotherhood for the third time and watching it again I got to thinking that the development and / or message that the character of greed is not only limited to that greed is not inherently bad (as he tells Edward) but also the importance of showing our true feelings or open up emotionally (and therefore show vulnerability). The character denies all traces of vulnerability and loses the opportunity to connect properly with others because despite his interest in relating to others, he ends up doing so superficially and therefore feeling lonely or empty, as he says on certain occasions, this happens because he does not recognize or accept what he really wants and instead decides to fill the void with other things (money, fame, status, women, etc.) and in the process ends up deceiving himself but still feeling the same way, that is, the avoidance of vulnerability, only keep the person safe in the short term because in the medium and long term they end up isolating him. So I feel that his character arc as well as the message he gives is also about how important it is to open up to others because by showing ourselves vulnerable we can be able to accept ourselves and once we accept who we are we can build healthy relationships with those around us, I think it looks good because in brotherhood we are shown the importance of human bonds and how it is important to support each other. Sorry for my bad English, it's not my native language haha and for going overboard with my comment but I think it's an interesting topic plus, I love the greed character!