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Solf J. Kimblee ( ゾルフ・J・キンブリー) is a major antagonist of the fantasy manga series, Fullmetal Alchemist, and its 2009 anime adaptation, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
Kimblee, also known as the Crimson Lotus Alchemist (紅蓮の錬金術師) was one of the state alchemists and Amestrian soldier. He serves as the agent of the homunculi and helps them achieve the Father's goal. Kimblee is also a veteran of the Ishvalan War and a war criminal with a disdain for morals and psychopathic tendencies. He's the arch-enemy of Scar and Alphonse Elric.
He was voiced by Hiroyuki Yoshino in Japanese and by Eric Vale in English.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
- As one of the state alchemists during the Ishval Civil War, he was enthusiastic about carried mass destruction and the mass murder of civilians. In addition, he was the only soldier who did not find the conflict traumatic and genuinely enjoyed doing his work of bringing death.
- He fatally injured Scar and his brother.
- When his superiors demand the stone back, Kimblee refuses and kills them all, keeping stone for himself.
- When he was imprisoned, he showed no guilt and was very proud of his actions in Ishval.
- After being released from prison by the Homunculi, he starts working for them and begins hunting Scar.
- In Baschool he generates a tremendous explosion, which causes Edward Elric to be impaled on a metallic pole and abandons his two chimeras Darius and Heinkel in a collapsing mine.
- He initiates bloodshed of Drachma soldiers at Briggs to complete Father's Nationwide Transmutation Circle.
- He rescues Pride from the dome and severely wounding Heinkel.
- He was never truly loyal to his country or homunculi.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- Despite the many people he's killed, he appears to have a twisted respect for the fallen, as he makes sure to remember the faces of everyone he kills, remembering the specific city and district of where he killed Scar's brother and family as well as the severity of the wound he inflicted on Scar's brother. He even tells Roy to never look away when taking lives and remember the people he would kill, because they would never forget him.
- He is genuinely affable to the Elric brothers and respects them for their commitment to their principles, even though he doesn’t agree with them himself. This is shown through him briefly halting his fight with Alphonse to debate with him on their philosophies, and with his acceptance at Edward letting Pride live, even tipping his hat to him as a final gesture of goodwill.
- He has moral standards against hypocrites, being genuinely disgusted by anyone who opposes their principles and he would never go against his own.
- While not a redemption, his final act of saving Edward from Pride and allowing Pride’s Philosopher’s Stone to be destroyed is ultimately too preventing for him to be Near Pure Evil and makes him On and Off. This is because he did so knowing it would cost him his life despite being content living in the Philosopher’s Stone, making it a genuinely heroic act motivated by his repulsion from Pride’s hypocrisy about how much he values humans.
Trivia[]
- While the manga and 2009 anime version of Kimblee is Inconsistently Heinous, his 2003 anime version is Pure Evil due to lacking his counterpart's code of honor or helping Ed defeat Pride, only living to cause explosions and make people suffer.
External Links[]
- Solf J. Kimblee on the Villains Wiki
- Solf J. Kimblee on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki
- Solf J. Kimblee on the Fullmetal Alchemist Wiki
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 Inconsistently Heinous
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