Frank Archer (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Frank Archer is a male anime and manga character who features in Fullmetal Alchemist.
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Biography
Frank Archer (Japanese: フランク・アーチャー, Hepburn: Furanku Āchā)
He accompanied Major General Hakuro at Central Command during a visit. Archer later shared a train with Major Alex Louis Armstrong, the Strong-Arm Alchemist, discussing the Lab 5 incident and his tactics to "get to the bottom of it". Archer and Armstrong speak to Sig Curtis at his shop while Winry Rockbell and Mason talk in the back about Armstrong not being himself. As Winry runs in, Archer quickly interrogates her finding the Fullmetal Alchemist Edward Elric's location. After Fullmetal is attacked by Bido, Archer approaches him and asks him to come down to South HQ for questioning. Edward refuses and leaves to pursue Bido. When Archer and Armstrong catch up to them, they see him on the roof with Wrath. Archer looks through the scope of his shotgun and sees the Ouroboros on the heel of Wrath's foot. Armstrong uses alchemy to detain Wrath and simply tells Edward and his brother Alphonse to leave, taking Wrath to South HQ. While torturing and interrogating Wrath, Izumi Curtis breaks in and saves her 'son'. Archer and Armstrong pursue her and attempt to stop her, Envy takes Wrath and tries to run. Ed and Al fight Kimblee and Bido, the fight ends with a destroyed South HQ and Wrath having tasted Red Stones. Archer gives Kimblee the offer of rejoining the military, which he accepts.
Archer leads the attack on the Devil's Nest which is a success and Archer saves Edward and Izumi. It concludes with Archer gaining Kimblee and Tucker as allies and having them reinstated into the Amestrian Military with their past crimes being exonerated. Archer becomes a Colonel and leads 7,000 men to take over Reole. There, Archer meets with Ed and tells him to sneak in and hunt down Scar. Later on, Archer orders Tucker to make chimeras, which he plans on sending with Kimblee to kill Scar so the soldiers can go in unchallenged. Archer is later approached by the Flame Alchemist Colonel Roy Mustang, Lieutenant Riza Hawkeye, and Armstrong who attempt to detain him, but he has Tucker and the chimera distract them so he can escape and leave with the 7,000 soldiers who he leads to their deaths after ignoring Edward's warning not to go into Reole, and barely escapes alive himself.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Lt. Colonel Archer is cool, calm, and collected, with a love for violence and war. He dreams of becoming a hero on the battlefield, viewing it as a way to rise up the ranks of the military. To this end, he does whatever is necessary to please his superiors and always ensures that his actions earn him some publicity.
Archer develops an interest in the military's various projects, such as the homunculi, the chimera, and the Philosopher's Stone. His ambitions of gaining the latter cause the left half of his body to be used in its creation, forcing him to undergo automail modification to regain his mobility.
After meeting the sadistic Crimson Alchemist Solf J. Kimblee at the Southern Military Headquarters, he gives him an offer to have Kimblee exonerated for his past crimes and being reinstated back into the military. Ultimately, once Kimblee accepted the offer, Archer makes him his assistant, along with recruiting the Sewing-Life Shou Tucker to his cause to have Tucker create Chimeras for him.
Lt. Colonel Archer is one of the few military figures that know of the Führer's secret. He doesn't mind that his country's leader is a homunculus and merely takes orders as if he were taking them from a human.
Archer has a history of sexualising his coworkers. When he was confronted by his secretery after innapropriately touching her, he threatened to call a hitman on her.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Frank Archer was an original character created for the 2003 anime series and had never appeared in the Manga.
- The character was voiced by actor Shō Hayami in the Japanese series and by actor Troy Baker in the English dub.
Appearances
- Fullmetal Alchemist:
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