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But, on top of her career success, she doesn’t shy away from her more tender feelings and cries easily for her friends. She’s a damn good mechanic, succeeding in a male-dominated field, and she’s unabashedly proud of her skills. She could have so easily fallen neatly into the “love interest” category, and even though the two eventually harbor romantic feelings for one another, there’s so much depth to her character that it seems secondary. Take Winry, Edward’s childhood best friend.

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Instead, the series lets the ladies be complex, fully fleshed-out human beings. The best part about Brotherhood is that it doesn’t just rely on a generic “badass women” to fill the “strong female characters” trope and call it a day. In fact, there are so many women who are fully fleshed out, both as main and supporting characters, that it’s almost an embarrassment of riches (if there was anything embarrassing about representation, which there isn’t). The show takes place in a military setting, which could easily rely on male soldiers to get the storytelling done, but Brotherhood doesn’t fall into that trap. The first time I watched Brotherhood, the depth of representation took me by surprise. Fullmetal Alchemist has the subtitle “Brotherhood,” which is accurate insofar as it portrays the story of two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, but it’s inaccurate in that it fails to highlight the contributions of the consistently awesome and diverse women in the cast of characters.

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