![]() Eyecatch: Nina & Alexander, and then Shou Tucker.Evil Is Petty: Shou Tucker sacrifices his wife and daughter for a research grant.When Tucker is later placed under house-arrest to have his State Alchemist license revoked, he spends most of that time bitterly wondering why " no-one is capable of understanding me". Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Shou Tucker is so sick in the head that he fails to understand why the Elric brothers are enraged at him for using his own daughter and her dog to transmute a talking but primitive chimera suffering in pain from Tucker's own incompetence with bioalchemy, all for the sake of keeping his State Alchemist license note It's later revealed that creating human/animal chimeras in healthy condition is possible, and had in fact already been done by other, more talented State Alchemists, making Tucker's desperate act to keep his license All for Nothing, even going so far as to claim that the brothers' attempt to resurrect their deceased mother via human transmutation is the exact same scenario, which fails miserably because the brothers were able to understand why transmuting humans is wrong from their experience whereas Tucker believes there's nothing wrong with toying with humans' lives and feels no remorse.Evil All Along: Shou Tucker comes across as a soft-spoken, gentle and kind man, but when the Elric brothers find him in his laboratory with a canine chimera that understands human speech, and realise that Nina and Alexander are missing, it's revealed that he is thoroughly depraved.Empathic Environment: The days that the Elrics visit the Tuckers and have fun playing with Nina and Alexander, it's clear and sunny, but the last day they visit, it's windy and overcast and later rainy after they discover what had happened. ![]() About the only vaguely good outcome is that a horrible Mad Scientist who experimented on his own wife and daughter is dead even then, the way he died means the military can't make an example of him, and since his death heralds the arrival of a Serial Killer, every other State Alchemist in East City – including Ed – is in grave danger. And then Scar murders Tucker before he can stand trial and Mercy Kills the Nina/Alexander chimera because he knows it can never be separated back into that adorable little girl and her dog. Downer Ending: Nina has been transformed into a Cronenbergian abomination by her own father – who, as it turns out, betrayed her mother in the exact same fashion – and the Elrics end the episode devastated that they didn't recognise Tucker's true colours in time to protect her, Ed questioning what good they are if they can't save one little girl.Following this incident, Shou Tucker was scheduled to be stripped of his certification and court-martialed, but Scar got to Tucker first and blew out his brains, then mercy killed the chimera. Furthering the disappointment, Shou did it in an attempt to remain a State Alchemist as he expected what he did to his family to be acceptable and rewarding. Disappointed by the Motive: Edward Elric attacks Shou Tucker upon realizing that the talking chimera from two years ago was his wife and that the new one was fused from his dog and child.It's not like anything she says could potentially give away what you've done to her friends. Didn't Think This Through: Sure, Tucker, show off the chimera you transmuted using your own daughter and her dog to two guests who had developed a close friendship with your daughter while she was human.Big Friendly Dog: The Tuckers' dog, Alexander, is huge and knocks Ed over while greeting or playing with him.These exact words are what give her father his insane idea to turn her and Alexander into a chimera. If those people do tell you 'no', me and Alexander will growl at them until they say 'yes'". When Tucker expresses fear that he'll fail his upcoming assessment and will return to a life of poverty, his daughter Nina tries to comfort him by saying, "Don't worry, daddy, it's okay.They find out how to transmute a chimera that can talk, and Ed is so furious at Tucker that he nearly kills him. Ed and Al agree to let Mustang introduce them to Shou Tucker after expressing interest in biological alchemy and chimeras, thinking that his research could help give them a lead on how to recover their bodies.Asshole Victim: Shou Tucker, who fused his own little daughter with her Big Friendly Dog into an alchemical abomination in constant agony, was really asking for it when Scar kills him.All for Nothing: Not only do Tucker's experiments end with his death as well as Nina/Alexander's at the hands of Scar, but later episodes reveal that the Amestris military had used Tucker's previous experiments as a stepping stone to successfully create healthy human/animal chimera hybrids, meaning that even from a purely scientific perspective, nothing was gained from the suffering Nina endured.
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