Greed (FMA)

Greed is a character of the manga Fullmetal Alchemist, as well as the both anime adaptions and the 2022 live action adaption.
== Canon ==
===2003 Anime===
Greed was held prisoner in Lab 5 for over a century for breaking ties with his fellow homunculi and rebelling against Dante, but escapes during the Elric's investigation and subsequent battle at Lab 5. He joins up with a number of chimeras --former soldiers of Amestris turned lab experiments -- and establishes the Devils Nest Gang. Seeking further power and new forms of immortality, the gang kidnaps Alphonse Elric, which draws the attention of both Ed and Izumi and the Amestris military. The latter invade the Gang's home base and slaughters all of them except Greed and Martel. Greed returns to his creator, Dante, who drains his remaining red stone and leaves him in a weakened state to be confronted by Edward Elric, who cuts him down in battle.
===Manga and Brotherhood===
In the manga and the 2009 anime, Greed and his gang of chimeras are introduced at the Devils Nest Bar with less explanation of their backstory (though the chimeras are still former military, and Greed has still broken ties with his fellow homunculi). Similar to the old anime, they kidnap Alphonse Elric, which attracts Ed and Izumi's notice, as well as bringing Bradley with his contingent of the Amestrian military down on them. All members of the gang, including Greed, are killed in the ensuing battle. However, Greed's creator, the Dwarf in the Flask (aka Father), resurrects Greed to possess Ling Yao a short while later. At first, resurrected Greed is loyal to the homunculi, but as he regains more memories of his previous life, he once again rebels, and ends up allying with Edward Elric and helping defeat the Dwarf/Father.
===Live Action===
== Fandom ==
Greed is a very popular character among the broader fandom. In the mangahood fandom, his relationship with/possession of Ling is of particular interest among the fandom -- both Greelin (the character of Greed possessing Ling) and Greed and Ling together are popular subjects for fanworks. There are several prominent artists in the fandom who make primarily Greed or Greedling-centric fanworks, including humming-fly and cotgar2
=== Shipping ===
*Greed/Ling
*Greed/Kimblee (2003)
*Greed/Ed
*Greed/Ling/Lan Fan
===Tropes===
*Jerk with a heart of gold: Although he talks a big game about being selfish and desiring to own everything, his actions show that he truly cares about his subordinates and allies, and he ultimately sacrifices himself for their victory. This is characteristic is a major part of his appeal among fans and often emphasized in fanworks.
*Greed Lives: many fans were sad about Greed's death (in both versions of canon) and come up with AUs in which he survives/comes back again
*Greed adopts: from taking the chimeras under his wing to his possessive-to-protective treatment of Ling and the Elrics parental interpretations of Greed are popular within the fandom. Including AUs where he takes the Elrics or even other characters under his wing. 
** Greed rescuing Nina Tucker and stabilizing her chimera form is one particular subtype of this AU
== Example Fanworks==
===Fanart===
* by crazytom666, 2018 -- fanart of Devils Nest era Greed 
* by bampshi, 2012 -- fanart of Greed, Ling, and Lan Fan
* by badjura, 2018
* by orb02, 2019
* by triptippy, 2015
*Fanart for "Experimental" by phantomrose96 (see fanfic section below):
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* fan comic by humming-fly, 2018
* Team Greed Comics: series of fancomic by humming-fly about what hijinks Greedling/Greelin, Ed, Heinkel and Darius might have gotten up to during the timeskip while they were camping in the wildnerss/on the run from the government: , 
* by funnybido
* by humming-fly -- a Greed Lives AU to the ending of Brotherhood
* by karinamorenoart, 2021
* by cotgar2, 2022
===Fanfic===
* by phantomrose96, a "Greed adopts Nina" AU
* by sherwoodfox -- Greed/Envy AU in which Envy rebelled with Greed and joined the Devils Nest Gang
* by Tierfal for kingdrafts -- Ling and Greed character study, upon Ling first getting possessed by Greed.
* by yoku_yoku -- post-canon Greed Lives AU set in Xing.
* by Cyriae -- AU in which Ling gains control of their shared body immediately once Greed possesses him.
===Meta===
* , by aeroknot and the10ne1yweird0
* by humming-fly, headcanons about Greed original purpose in manga/brotherhood version of canon
* by phantomrose96 -- includes several descriptions of Greed's character arc 
* by fma2003-fmab-stuff -- analysis of Ed and Greed's final fight in the 2003 anime
===Fanvids===
* , Greedling Artvid by siruoa
* by humming-fly
== Resources ==
*Greed on the FMA Fandom.com wiki
*Fullmetal Alchemist: Homunculi at TVTropes, has a section on Greed
* Greed (Fullmetal Alchemist) and GreedLing (Fullmetal Alchemist:Brotherhood) tags on AO3
* Greed filter on FFN
* Tumblr: #fma greed, #greed the avaricious, #greedling
*#Greed and #Greedling at Pixiv
==References==
Category:Fullmetal Alchemist Characters