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Recap / Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood E 31 The 520 Cens Promise

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Tropes present in this episode include:

  • Bait-and-Switch: After being released from prison, Kimblee transmutes his former guard's watch into a ticking time bomb. After the guard freaks out and attempts to get it off to no avail, it reveals itself to be a harmless toy.
  • Body Horror: A minor case, but Scar uses his destruction alchemy to strip away the skin from Marcoh's face so that after it heals, he would be unrecognizable, making their journey easier.
  • Cruel to Be Kind: There might have been some malice in his act when Scar used his powers of deconstruction to strip away Marcoh's face. But he mostly does it so that once May heals him, he'll be unrecognizable and be able to travel incognito.
  • Eyecatch: Roy Mustang and Solf J. Kimblee.
  • Spotting the Thread: The central flaw of 'Fake Marcoh's Death' plan is that he and Scar had to kill one of the Chimeras and use Marcoh's bio-alchemical skills to transmute it into a facsimile of his body. There's no way to cover up the disappearance of that Chimera and Envy quickly realizes the likely meaning of said absence.

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