Gluttony

Gluttony, also known as Gluttony the Voracious and Faux (False) Gate of Truth, is a character from the Fullmetal Alchemist series.
== Charactah Account ==
Gluttony is the embodiment of some of Father's gluttony. Often, he will be found eating a random person or creature's remains unless ordered to eat someone that poses a threat, or to remove evidence of the Homunculi's existence and plans. He is typically in the company of Lust.
Gluttony can eat virtually any substance in any amount at super-speed. He can consume an unlimited amount of matter in any form - solid, liquid or gas without experiencing harmful effects regardless of what he consumes or how much he consumes. He can eat/digest any form of matter regardless of size or shapes without harming his stomach or mouth. He is also capable of storing matter within his body and spitting it back out when the moment calls for it. Also regardless of how much he eats, he always maintains his health. Some of the few things he can't eat are Greed with his indestructible "ultimate shield," and Pride with his shadows.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Fullmetal Alchemist
* Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
* Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - 4-Koma Theater
* Fullmetal Alchemist: Premium Collection
* Fullmetal Alchemist: Reflections
* Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie - Conqueror of Shamballa
=== Manga ===
* Fullmetal Alchemist
=== Video Games ===
* Divine Gate
* Fullmetal Alchemist and the Broken Angel
* Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Curse of the Crimson Elixir
* Fullmetal Alchemist Trading Card Game
* Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
* Fullmetal Alchemist: Dream Carnival
* Fullmetal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy
* Fullmetal Alchemist: Sonata of Memories
* Fullmetal Alchemist: Stray Rondo
* Fullmetal Alchemist: To the Promised Day
* Monster Strike
== Trivia ==
* Gluttony noticeably has tanner and darker skin than his siblings, who all have very pale skin.
* A recurring theme throughout the series is that, whenever Gluttony is in a battle, he is killed an inordinate number of times in quick succession. In fact, if one includes the time he was reborn, Gluttony has died more than any Homunculus in the series.
** At one point he tells for his enemies to stop killing him as he was sick of dying constantly.
* Despite his inhuman appearance (especially in manga and movie), Gluttony is, with Greed, the least inhuman of the homunculi, getting angered from the death of his "babysitter" Lust and visibly getting sad from his mistakes.
** In both animes and manga, his feelings towards Lust have been a threat to the completion of plans of Father/Dante.
* Ironically, Gluttony meets his end being eaten by another, his eldest brother Pride. He is the second Homunculus to be killed by another of his kind, the first and third being Greed. However, while 'dead' in the human sense of the word, Pride (and likely Father and the other Homunculi) believed that two Homunculi simply became one again.
* 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 he is still pretty uncoordinated.
* Gluttony repeatedly collapsing and being revived as well as eventually being eaten by Pride can be seen as a reference to Circle 3 (Canto VI) of Dante's Inferno, where the gluttonous wallow in stinking mud under constant threat from the ravenous "guard-dog" Cerberus.
* Gluttony was voted as the 27th most popular character in a recent fan poll, making him the fifth most popular Homunculus.
* In the Conqueror of Shamballa movie, 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 nonstop storms and rain.
* Whenever Gluttony activated his Defective Portal of Truth in the 2009 anime and manga, he was always very angry (not counting the time his Portal was forced open by Ed for himself, Envy and Ling's escape). Whether this is a coincidence or his anger is a necessity to activate the form is unknown.
* Gluttony and Sloth both share the same type of eyes; rather than an iris or a normal shape, they are very tiny and blank in color. Perhaps not coincidentally, since both Homunculi share similar mentalities.
* Gluttony's Japanese voice actor in the 2009 anime series, Tetsu Shiratori, previously voiced Kain Fuery in the 2003 series.
* In the English Dub of the 2003 series, Gluttony spoke in a soft almost growl-like tone (similar to people who get irritated when they're hungry); in season four, Gluttony starts speaking in the same tone later used in the 2009 series.
* In both the manga/Brotherhood and 2003 anime storylines, Gluttony was created specifically to be used as a means to an end, but winds up being unsuccessful in both cases.
** Father created Gluttony in the hopes that he could somehow bypass the Gate toll by creating his own door. Instead, Gluttony's Gate was not a true Gate, and led to another, entirely separate void plane of existence, unrelated to Truth's domain.
** Dante made Gluttony with the intent of having him consume red water and human flesh and allowing it to condense into a Philosopher's Stone inside his body, thus bypassing the need for alchemy and the risks that came with it. (This is also why she made him such a simpleton and made it possible to take his mind away; such a tool doesn't need intellectual depth, it just needs to be hungry.) Although she didn't succeed as hoped, she was still able to use him to condense Al's Philosopher's Stone body down to a more manageable size without using alchemy and wasting the stone's power.
* Due to his nature, Gluttony is often paired with his fellow Homunculi; first and longest with Lust, then with Wrath, then Envy, and lastly, Pride.
** His pairing with Lust and Wrath may have been a reference to the medieval legend of John of Beverley who was tested by God by sending an angel and forced him to choose between three sins: Gluttony, Lust, or Wrath. The man chose Gluttony believing it was the least harmful, but Gluttony was both lustful and wrathful.
* His power to create a false gateway might be a reference to Gluttony being called a gateway sin as best shown in the legend of John of Beverly, as explained above.
* In the 2003 series, Gluttony is the only homunculus whose source human transmutation is never explored.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Gluttony at Fullmetal Alchemist Wiki
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