Dante is the main villainess of the 2003 anime series Fullmetal Alchesmist. She was true leader of the Homunculi who simply hoped to extend her life forever with Philosopher's Stone. She also had a plan to serve as the protector of humanity as a god, and preventing selfish humans from using the Philosopher's Stone for their own selfish actions, and ignoring the fact that she is human and not immortal and due to her body being in opposition to the result of her transferring to the bodies of many people so often.
She was voiced by Cindee Mayfield, and by Monica Rial while in Lyra's body, who also voiced Bulma in Dragon Ball Z Kai and Dragon Ball Super.
History[]
Background[]
At 400 years ago, Dante and her lover Von Hohenhein discovered immortality by creating the Philosopher's Stone, and they switched bodies to have their souls transferred to different bodies over and over again. Hohenhein and Dante had a son together who died during a poison by mercury. And as a result Hohenhein tries to revive his dead son just to create Envy, and Envy already hated Hohenhein so much that he did his personal mission to find and kill him. And some time later Hohenhein left Dante. And she took care of herself. Dante did his best to survive by extending his life through the Philosopher's Stone.
Fullmetal Alchemist series[]
Plot[]
Though a parasite soul, Dante gathers and creates minions who are the Homunculi and deceives them, believing that once they obtained the Philosopher's Stone for her, she would make them human. She had the homunculi minions watchicong over each step of the Elric brothers along their journey. And when he meets Hohenhein for the last time, he reveals why their bodies are rotting faster, and before banishing him. And after kidnapping Al, Dante explains to Ed about his past history with Hohenheim and the son they conceived, and before Envy kills him. Dante then destroyed everything in Gluttony's mind except his desire to eat, and Al had used alchemy to destroy his jaw. And since Dante had escaped in an elevator, during his speech about losing the Philosopher's Stone, and when Gluttony appears and chews on elevator floor, and trying to attack it, Dante tries to stop him from eating it. However, the elevator traces to the top floor with none of them inside it.
Personality[]
Dante is a god complex, and narcissistic and utterly misanthropic looking at humans and believing that they are unworthy of unraveling the secret of alchemy and the philosopher's stone, and when Ed tells her she's human like everyone else, she says no more. She also has self-preservation and wants the stone to sustain her life forever, and believing that the souls that died were worth it. She is also a hypocrite as she believes that those who work harder than others get nothing out of it. Despite the loyalry of her minions, Dante does not hesitate to punish those who turn against her, such as tearing Wrath's right arm and severing his leg, and ordered the capture of Lust. Even Envy that her appearance was based on her dead son, unaware of it, she also showed no sadness when he was lost in Alphonse's transmutation, showing that he was not a pawn to her.
She is calm, patient, and stoic, and without emotion, she loses no patience and raises voice, shows no anger, fear, alarm and surprise, even Envy told her about Hohenheim. She can, however, get mad sometimes this is seen in her humiliation defeat to Alphonse and escape in the elevator only to get eaten alive by Gluttony. She is also deceptive and manipulative witch, deceiving her minions with false promises of becoming human (except Pride and Envy), since she actually wants the Philosopher's Stone in order to continue cheating death.
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Trivia[]
- Dante is similar to Father who is Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood counterpart, as both are egomaniac with god complex, both have no emotions and both have a weak body in the end and are killed for it.
- An elderly woman nearly identical to Dante in her elderly form makes a brief cameo in episode 58 of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
- Dante's true appearance, however, is only seen in flashbacks, as both the old lady and Lyra are just victims having their bodies possessed by her.
- Dante was named after a Filipino American voice actor Dante Basco, whose well known for his role as the titular main hero Jake Long in American Dragon: Jake Long (2005-2008) and Prince Zuko in Avatar: The Last Air Bender (2005-2008).
- According to Dante, she has jumped from one body to another less than 10 times in over 400 years.