Gluttony

Gluttony (Japanese:グラト二ー, Guratonī) is the second homunculus to appear in the series, typically being in the company of Lust. He is a large, simple-minded homunculus whose thoughts rarely stray far from eating. He has powerful jaws, acidic saliva, and can and will eat almost anything. He particularly likes eating people, and the only way he can find enjoyment in a battle is if he believes he can eat his opponent afterwards. A running gag in the manga and anime is asking Lust (or any other Homunculi that he is partnered with) if he can eat someone. He even asks this question to the people he is fighting at that moment. He also told Wrath that he prefers girls (as in to eat, as he finds them soft and tasty). He also seems to share a bond with his partner Lust.

In the Manga & 2009 anime
Gluttony is the sixth Homunculus created by Father (according to Perfect Guidebook 2 ) and the failed product of Father's attempts to create a Gate of Truth. Gluttony first appears in the series in the second chapter of the manga, being confronted by Father Cornello alongside Lust. As usual, Gluttony asks if he can eat him, Cornello now being useless to the homunculi. Lust refuses to let him, but he ignores her, possibly thinking that it made little difference. He participates in the battle with Scar, having being able to detect "an Ishbalan cloaked in the stench of blood"- another of his own unique abilities. Sadly for him, Scar escapes, so Gluttony cannot eat him. Later, Gluttony is present in Father's lair when Greed is captured, who snidely remarks to Gluttony that he has not lost any weight, though Gluttony doesn't seem to mind, and is later honoured as one of Father's loyal children.

When Envy recognised Number 66 from the penetentiary attack, he and Gluttony are sent by Lust along with Barry the Chopper's reanimated body to kill the traitor, inadvertently falling into the trap set up by Roy Mustang, and Gluttony is forced to engage in a fairly unsuccessful battle, being reprimanded by Pride towards the end, and told to leave the scene. While this is going on, Lust is killed by Mustang, something an unhappy Gluttony doesn't find out until later.

After another battle with the Elrics, Gluttony is captured by the military and taken away. Realising that Mustang is present, Gluttony seeks vengeance for Lust's death, and opens his gate, breaks free, and tries to use this form to kill Roy Mustang, Lust's killer, though he makes the mistake of eating Edward Elric, Ling Yao and Envy instead. Hoping to make it up to Father, Gluttony takes Alphonse Elric to see him, where Ed and Envy are able to escape to. In the ensuing battle Gluttony runs out of energy and he is no longer able to revive himself. Father takes what remains of his Philosopher's Stone and recharges it. He then gives birth to Gluttony by allowing him to grow off of his own body.

After returning to life, he assists in the kidnapping of Al. After doing battle with Greed/Ling Yao and Lan Fan, Gluttony becomes severly weakened once again, "dying" several times. Pride, also injured and fearing eradication, realises that Gluttony became more of a hindrance long ago, and callously eats him to gain his Philosopher's stone. Gluttony's last words were him calling out for Lust to save him, saying that it hurts. Gluttony is the second Homunculus to die permanently (after his former partner Lust), though curiously not the second, but third to be featured "flying off to heaven" in the inner spines of the tankoban volume books. The first is the original Greed, who is comically shown ascending to heaven with his deceased subordinates, even though he was just reabsorbed into Father's body as a philosopher's stone to given birth to again.

Last Words:'' "No... don't...eat me... Help... Lust..." ''

In the 2003 anime


In the first anime, Gluttony's personality and appearance is identical to that in the manga, but his origins are altered. He is not a false Gate of Truth, and as such he cannot open his ribcage and swallow anything quite so easily. Of the seven Homunculi, Gluttony is the least developed, and almost nothing is known of his presumed previous life as a human. What is known is that he was intentionally created by Dante. He is one of the older Homunculi, being older than the current Pride, Lust, Wrath, and Sloth, but is younger than Envy and Greed. Of his siblings, as in the manga, it is Lust whom Gluttony cares about the most, much more so even than in the manga, and almost always appears alongside her, willing to do exactly as she says. Gluttony suffers from the constant desire to eat, which may contribute to his supposed desire to become human. After Lust's death, Dante transforms Gluttony into a mindless eating machine because his moping over Lust's death was annoying her, an act that ultimately backfires when he eats her. He appears again in Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa, having transformed into a large, multi-limbed monster since his appearance in the anime. He exclusively attacks Wrath (Lust's killer) during the movie, giving Alphonse Elric an easy opportunity to use Gluttony to create a gate to the other world. He and Wrath die at the same time and are the fifth and sixth of the Homunculi to die.

Last Words: "Where is she...? Where's Lust?!"

Powers and Abilities
True to his name, Gluttony is incredibly voracious, and seemingly unable to ever satisfy his hunger. However his eating abilities vary between the anime and manga. In the 2003 anime he can simply eat anything using his powerful jaws and acidic saliva. He also shows great strength and some skill in fighting, capable of disarming a skilled martial artist like Alphonse and even giving Scar some trouble.

In the manga, Gluttony is actually an artifical Gate of Truth which he can activate at will. When activating his gate, Gluttony's stomach and lower jaw opens up, revealing a large eye at its center and his ribs spread out to act as a border for the gate, doubling as extendable teeth. In this state Gluttony can consume everything in his gates eye's field of vision in an instant, which is then transported to an alternate dimension within himself. The space has no end and is filled with a shallow sea of blood littered with artifacts and remains of the things he has consumed, even remains of alchemic reactions.

The manga version also shows a highly developed sense of smell allowing him to track his targets with considerable accuracy, even allowing him to fight in the dark (although a bit clumsily).

Trivia

 * Including the time he was reborn, Gluttony has died more times than any other Homunculus.
 * Gluttony is the only Homunculus who actually feels sorrow over the death of another Homunculus, Lust. (Although Envy may be upset by her demise as well, it is more ambiguous.)
 * Ironically, Gluttony meets his end being eaten by another, his eldest brother Pride. He is the first Homunculus to be killed by another of his kind, the second being Greed.
 * In the 2003 series, Gluttony was shown to possess very strong acidic saliva. A trait he used to melt through metals and concrete with ease.
 * Through the course of the second anime, it has been demonstrated several times that despite Gluttony's size, shape, and weight, he holds a fair amount of agility, although still pretty uncoordinated.
 * Gluttony being eaten by Pride can be seen as a reference to Dante's Inferno, where the gluttonous are continually tortured by being eaten by Hell's guard dog Cerberus.
 * Being one of the two particularly dim witted Homunculi (the other being Sloth), he is usually babysat by other, more mentally capable Homunculi.
 * Gluttony was voted as the 27th most popular character in a recent fan poll making him the fifth most popular Homunculus.
 * In the Movie Conquer of Shamballa, Gluttony's form makes reference to the three-headed worm like monster, Cerberus, from the Divine Comedy in the chapter Canto VI. The monster was a worm-like monster with three heads that also ate dirt as well as the Gluttonous, surviving in a place with non-stop storms and rain.
 * It is interesting to note that, whenever Gluttony activated his Fake Gate of Truth in the 2009 anime and manga, he was always very angry (not counting the time his Gate was forced open by Ed for Ed, Envy and Ling's escape). Whether this is a coincidence or his anger is a necessity to activate the form is unknown.