Film Theory: How Much is YOUR SOUL Worth? (Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood)

[@nino0365]

The Film Theorists you should do how much money did phineas and ferb has spent during their summer.

[@beefnoodlegaming]

OMG THAT WOULD BE AMAZING!

[@user-dq5xg2zk8j]

Yes .. YES PLZ

[@user-dq5xg2zk8j]

Those two mustve spent more monwy than exist in our world

[@Areinu]

With Phineas and Ferb there is enough theory fodder to create whole channel and sustain it for years.

[@rpk6639]

Guy Nino I THOUGHT OF THE SAME THING BUT THE QUESTION"how rich is phineas and ferb?".

[@dustypaladin9216]

Is no one going to mention the fact that king bradly is not immortal. It was a major thing that bradly could age and couldn’t regenerate and that flaw is the only reason that he was killed.

[@Merennulli]

That wasn't a limitation of the stone, but a limitation of his human body. The same was likely going to be true of Greed.

[@Ivhn]

Ik this is late but nobody mentioned that each homunculus got a different amount of souls so his calculation of Lust's amount of soul is wrong Lmao

[@Merennulli]

@@Ivhn We actually don't have any confirmation on the number each received and he does mention in the video that he's assuming an equal number based on his own rationale.

[@Sesshomaru474]

@@Merennulli "That means each homunculus contains exactly 1/14th of souls that Father started with." His assumption was that it was divided by 14 for the 7 sins and 7 virtues. He made no assumptions that each 7 sin got the same amount and there is a confirmation with King Bradly, didn't he mention how many souls he had to fight to keep ownership of the body? Also he doesn't count the fact how many times Lust has died beforehand.

[@Merennulli]

@@Sesshomaru474 8:39 "so we can assume-" he directly states that it's an assumption that the vices and virtues are equal and thus each of the 14 divisions are equal. Bradley didn't give a specific number. In Episode 26, Bradley calls them "countless" in the dub and "many" in the sub translations. Quite frankly, there's nothing to go off of one way or another to contradict or support his assumption. We know Father is stronger than Hoenheim since Hoenheim allegedly isn't good at fighting and has deposited an unknown number of philosopher stone souls to make his own circle, we know he had humans sacrificed for other experiments and could have added to his own stone over the years. We know he's been powering alchemy for all of Amestris. We know he created his own body the first time and like Hoenheim, his body hadn't aged before creating the Homunculi. We also don't see him suddenly become greedy when re-absorbing the first Greed. We don't know how many times he or Lust died prior to the series or what the running cost is. There are simply too many unknowns. But the assumptions Matpat made are plainly stated. We know it can't be accurate because of the unknowns, but he worked with what he had to make something he thought would be entertaining. We. All. Know. This. That's the baseline assumption for this, or any other analysis of fiction, that the one speaking can only be as accurate as his assumptions and what the series gives us. And like most fiction, FMA plays fast and loose with the numbers. While it gives an exact number of souls in Hoenheim, every division is an unknown number, every power use is different enough not to give a baseline, and we have no idea how many other incidents they have been through or what their work costs them. A few examples: Sloth dies far more easily but has far more mass and has just spent a long time manually digging a tunnel. Pride is the "most powerful". Pride and Gluttony consume people, potentially adding to their power source. Gluttony was a failed experiment to create an eye of truth that has opened on a few occasions and connects to a void world of blood and ruins. Envy gets his powers back after being defeated through what should be far smaller stones, and survives without a stone because he's different in a vague way. There's no comparing energy use in-universe, so all he can work with is his assumption.

[@graceprice1035]

Fun fact the English voice actors of Roy Mustang and Lust are married those arguements must be fun

[@actualhumanraccoon9326]

Trumbus Wumblehunk and Llama Barley if I remember correctly.

[@devongene9584]

they're WHAT

[@MarcosVinicius-mp7xu]

Travis Willingham and Laura Bailey, they're awesome

[@ermacmacro7136]

Fjord and Jester

[@tuna393]

I saw a comment saying that travis would go out of the room because he couldn’t bear hearing his wife scream when she voiced lust in agony

[@LTCloud9]

You forgot to take into consideration how much energy Lust uses to regenerate her Giorgio Armani low cut designer dress.

[@sophiea7]

Underrated comment

[@antoinepolnareff8970]

That only weigth for like 2 extra Kg

[@coffeecoffee2096]

@@antoinepolnareff8970 i dont tink clothing would weight 2 kg more like idk(500gr-700gr)

[@antoinepolnareff8970]

@@coffeecoffee2096 It was a complet Gala dress with his respective bra and briefs. That's a lot more heavy than normal clothes

[@coffeecoffee2096]

@@antoinepolnareff8970 oh ok

[@lival2381]

Actually, Lust died many times before that episode, so that complicates the calculations.

[@x-wing9805]

@@risulomusic maybe she died many times before the series

[@nobleokami9746]

No one care

[@reportsoldier1636]

roy brown stop acting like a normie

[@Shadowll101]

Risulo Risulo She still has to heal those stabs, so souls wasted. And that new number can mean quite a lot and can show that souls contains much more power/energy than Mat’s current calculations.

[@bobbybobertson9738]

she was most likely killed and stabbed a lot more than what was shown on screen as well

[@someone4650]

Souls are expensive, they cost like an arm and a leg And like 1 whole brother too.

[@thethunderdrone7256]

Some One lol

[@thebigshit3962]

Stolen Jokes... get worse each time they are told

[@someone4650]

I'mBored Hey, why don't you come up with one then :P

[@pokechatter]

Actually, the arm was just the price to attach Al's soul to the armor.

[@Dinkerdoodle]

too soon

[@ilikenougat8892]

Can we appreciate how Roy could kill 4,256 people with ONE BLAST!?

[@Shadowbuster-if7ui]

Isn't that what he was doing on war anyway many times?

[@inanjarif1388]

Aren't those people already dead? Y'know,with the whole "soul sacrifice" thing?

[@Shane_A_M]

I’m sure the ishfallens do

[@melanierose4140]

@@inanjarif1388 In the philosopher's stone? No, not really. Ed's father talked to them and convinced them to help him defeat father. He mentions in the video his father talked to the people inside him.

[@sabrinaattwood510]

Well souls not people

[@asianpersuasian3758]

Matpat, applying science to a show where the main antagonist swallows god and a teenager still beats him

[@gavinbrown216]

To be fair, he could barely control god at that point and he was turned into graphite

[@Pokreal]

Yeah, but let’s not forget he’s a 🧚magical boy 🧚

[@churchill903]

@@Pokreal I like your funny words magic man

[@Pokreal]

@@churchill903 BAHAHA

[@BookEatPeople]

Ah yes anime logic

[@gameherom8091]

"Of course this wasn't what the creator intended, but damn it, we're exploring it anyway" 10/10

[@viktorichannel2116]

I love how Mattpat uses soul eater souls for this

[@chrisdenke2914]

Same

[@Sparrow_Bloodhunter]

I miss soul eater, I hope it comes back eventually

[@chrisdenke2914]

@@Sparrow_Bloodhunter amen

[@Sparrow_Bloodhunter]

@@chrisdenke2914 so I looked it up, the average 13 episode anime costs 2 million dollars to produce. soul eater was a 50 episode series meaning it likely costed 10 million to make. now if they choose to remake it like they did with fullmetal alchemist brotherhood they'd likely have to double it's runtime to fit all the content that is missing from the manga, therefore it would likely cost 20 million dollars to produce a 100 episode remake of soul eater. if you happen to know any millionair weebs maybe try asking them to remake it, unfortunately I only know poor people.

[@chrisdenke2914]

@@Sparrow_Bloodhunter nice math my guy

[@snurt256]

Immortality in various anime: -Seven orbs of literally just being the Triforce but in more pieces -Stealing human souls -A power that has all the other powers -Literally a rock in the shape of a face

[@caleblange2213]

Yo angelo

[@Bighomie39]

What's poppin my anime Aussie

[@akumaking1]

So no phylacteries?

[@sugnoma667]

With spikes don't forget the spikes

[@Shimanas527]

in the first Legend of Zelda there were 9 triforce pieces

[@aidanbeesley3221]

Minor problem with MatPat’s Math: Lust actually regenerates 11 times, two before the great roast

[@davidmcfall9169]

three, actually, if you count the time mayes hughes daggers her face.

[@narutogon2306]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKvQfY1qhK17j80 He doesnt really know Im doing this anyway it's about hunter x hunter opening with fullmetal alchemist opening melissa. By any chance don't spread dislike? Only send this a couple of times and that is one of the reasons why I stopped watching him, his theories are mostly wrong

[@robbieaulia6462]

"the great roast" That made my day, thank you.

[@fin5887]

I think the value of a soul would probably be closer to 490 terajoules, to account for that and any other off screen regeneration

[@SomeoneYouDontKnowOfficial]

I'm glad you made this, time to see if I got ripped off when people sold me their souls...

[@zap4th368]

lucifer?

[@Celemimphar]

No, it's Someone You Don't Know. (/s)

[@SomeoneYouDontKnowOfficial]

Dang, 654 Terajoules per soul?! And I was at 1st thinking I got the short end of the stick!

[@soulfularts6088]

Someone You Don't Know 😭😂

[@SomeoneYouDontKnowOfficial]

zap 4th not yet ;)

[@rikacheer]

Maybe I'm an idiot, but Lust's fight with Mustang wasn't the only time she took damage. If we're assuming souls are used up when they're used to heal, she would have less than the 38,000 at the beginning of the fight. Technically, depending on if she took damage off screen, she could have a LOT less. So, There is still hope for you, Immortal Theorist.

[@RMills646]

And as well the homunculi have been around for centuries, so surely a lot of souls were used up in that time too

[@Yashael341]

Perhaps it's not that the souls themselves are used up, but that their energy is consumed. He might better have said some odd number "souls' worth of energy". I make this distinction because there is the possibility that she's restoring her energy (but not the souls. Or maybe the souls?) through some unknown means. It's been a long time since I've watched the show, but this is my explanation as to why Matpat can make his calculation from one scene. Just one more thing to consider.

[@rollercoasterwolfboy6795]

@@Yashael341 But You should take into account that a philosopher stone stores the souls as energy, thus, the amount souls and energy are equivalent (because they are the same thing). So, the more energy Lust consumes the more souls she’s using up. We also know that she has to consume those souls to stay alive for that long and to transmute, so the amount of souls Roy would have consumed would’ve been far less than what Mat had calculated, regardless.

[@V1G4M1]

Yeah, like just earlier for example he ripped the stone out of her, destroying 1 whole body as well

[@Yashael341]

We can argue equivalency of souls and energy (actually this argument convinced me to rewatch the series, I'm just not to that point yet), but the point still stands that in the intervening years, the homunculi may have "replenished" their energy somehow. I don't think it was ever stated that they only had what was contained in their stones at conception. If so, I'm sure they would've used that all up just living as long as they did. MatPat had to make at least some assumptions here in order to have anything to calculate at all.

[@11338325]

Just wanted to add that while Father (aka Homunculus) TRIED to purge himself of the Seven Deadly Sins (heavy emphasis on TRIED), he still retained a trace amount of them: He desires for becoming a perfect being (Lust); devours souls with no self-control (Gluttony); seeks power at all costs (Greed); prefers to let others do his bidding for him while being incredibly incompetent and doing little to nothing to further his own goals over hundreds of years (Sloth); feels anger towards any opposition, principally Hohenheim (Wrath); has a desire for a family like humans (Envy); views humans as "ants" (Pride). However, given the general vagueness of these behaviors, as well as his dispassionate demeanor compared to both prior to the creation of and after the death of the homunculi, seems to imply that he did get himself purged of his sins.

[@Cassieniemann2541]

Matpat: “that more closely follows the original comic.” Manga fans: so you have chosen death.

[@Courtney-dg9iq]

I knew it was coming and it still hurt

[@kwabzycomposer]

I mean factually MatPat is still correct so idk how to feel ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@carmelorosario155]

They'll call it "uncultured" despite it being the same thing, just in a different language.

[@PercyKqv]

hey cmon, we're not that bad. We would've just politely corrected him (Read: gave him millions of articles telling him how manga and comics aren't the same thing)

[@cyberous775]

Pulls out Kirito swords

[@glassy5350]

Voldemort :- why didn't I think of that Me:- that's why I told you subscribe to the film theorists

[@spider-manys2934]

Thats what i told him

[@lunauuray559]

He never listens

[@FlorianFlorian573]

Um he did. Remember the first book. (This is a joke)

[@ilik3ducks89]

BlackSlayer - GAMER he did try that it’s just that he was literally out getting the philosopher stone in the dirt Harry Potter book/movie

[@windums560]

Maybe he did lose his ears to

[@alexodom358]

didn't you forget to calculate the energy loss over the years before the series began and the energy spent on all of her regenerations during the show?

[@Warriorette12]

Alex Odom The only thing that changes is that his calculations only result in the MINIMUM amount of energy, which still isn’t a bad baseline to calculate

[@alyssahayes1716]

Plus if it’s adding mass would her stabby fingers use up souls?

[@Euphoria965]

That would barely add up to anything

[@davidcaldwell6651]

If that was true, it would actually increase the power of souls, by lowering the amount used up to do the same task, meaning there would be more power per soul in that case.

[@youtubestuff683]

She did die a couple times before mustang killed her

[@Yuushiinix]

"Pretty intense spoilers." Whoops, lemme go watch Brotherhood for the 5th time just so I'm ready.

[@MrHaganenoEdward]

5th time? Noob.

[@chillsahoy2640]

Ed...ward?

[@Punaparta]

I mean, it's an excellent story, so going over it again isn't even a path that you'd regret. Although I prefer the manga.

[@Punaparta]

How do you watch a 64-episode anime by accident?

[@jadedfire4351]

AstroLuxray same XD

[@Bransbow]

MatPat: *makes 15 minute theory about how Ed's human formula is completely wrong and could never make a human* Also MatPat (4:52): "It matches real life one for one!"

[@SimplyTato]

for real ;d

[@milkwoman8133]

I think he means the elements included, not the amount of each lol

[@mukasafatima4327]

finally someone points it out, i was going crazy

[@SW-rd6bg]

Haha the humans in our world and the FMA world are the same. Ed and Al’s breakdown of the components of those bodies are what’s wrong (just like how ppl thought the Sun moved around the earth. Just because it’s the commonly accepted knowledge of the time doesn’t mean it was scientifically accurate to reality)

[@supercanadian0640]

According to Mr. Krabs, 62 cents

[@strongraider1014]

The Ace Of Spades best comment I've seen this week

[@zzbo2334]

The Ace Of Spades here before 500 likes

[@animation4blueberrywolfsyu250]

Comment of the month

[@mjod3668]

The Film Theorists _ go away

[@bloodstoneore4630]

The Ace Of Spades 62 cents

[@CurseKaiser]

Don’t let this distract you from the fact that Eugene Krabs sold spongebobs soul for 62 cents

[@joecrazy9896]

_WolfSquad _ Mr. K would have taken a nickel if that was all the Flying Dutchman had.

[@nolanbell1681]

My soul is priceless, my soul has no value

[@dracoxiii6188]

Sooo, can I have it then? I'd like to have a spare to charge my DS with...

[@udyproductions6059]

Nolan Bell so it’s free? 😏

[@BrookerBracker]

PhantomOfLegend do you think he could’ve gotten more?

[@anenbychick]

''Philosofer stone IS people!'' 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙨

[@cubedgecko9394]

This my friends is why in america the first harry potter book is the sorcerer's stone not philosopher's stone no offence. :)

[@diobrandocinematicuniverse4450]

Oof

[@diobrandocinematicuniverse4450]

Also #DDM the communism theme is playing in my head when I were my ushanka hat

[@queenbloxar]

well they are all equal. equally put into a stone to be used as a battery.

[@helenwalter6830]

I feel like the 'insurmountable cost of a human soul' is the philosophical point of the show- and also that humanity is strong because of their ability to connect with others and grow as people.

[@TimeturnerJ]

Matpat: Worries about triggering anime fans. Also Matpat: Calls a manga series "comics".

[@tranqle73]

Timeturner Probably intentional.

[@uwuwatsthis1746]

Timeturner *TRIGGERED*

[@brandonhlm2780]

Lets just ignore the fact that Comic and Manga mean the exact same fucking thing just localized in different regions, the fact people are actually getting this pissy over a word that is equal to what they are arguing agaisnt is baffeling, mat here MORE than likely just use the word comic as to not explain what manga is

[@MegaAgamon]

google translate manga please

[@gingainfinity1034]

Timeturner mat pat will die for this anime hersy

[@thestrangefishlikeentity9967]

You say it's impossible to maintain a stable relationship with that many people, and it is. However, he didn't have to maintain a stable relationship, he just said he learned their names.

[@AJJJJJJJJJJJJ]

as a no life minecraft player its pretty hard to remember every player name ( i know about 50,000 player names that are 16 characters long containing letters and numbers and theoretically i met 150,000 players indirectly or directly ) but i would still say its possible as long as you spent a minimum of 5 hours for each person

[@hydibraun]

Actually he probably learned there name convinced the should to help him and than moved on to the next one there is no memorization involved.

[@badbeardbill9956]

He's has like 400 years to talk to them.

[@zadiel9570]

TheStrangeFishlikeEntity he said he made relationships whith them if you watched the anime ,they are the ones who help him to beat father

[@katelynpeck7484]

AJ GAMING he is an adult not a kid though

[@Neuroticmancer]

Kim Jong Un's gonna make a philosophers stone now isn't he?

[@mcbeliefff]

no

[@revuconsfection5689]

Neuroticmancer That will be funny yet terrifying to see.

[@KATSU_M]

I'd be terrified

[@mrman7391]

yes yes he is

[@angelicaokvist6875]

IF he had internet

[@osamudazai4323]

I LOVE THE FACT THAT YOU DID THIS! it's such a breath of fresh air to see a mainstream theorist well versed in anime and going that extra mile (a lot of channels stick to live action)

[@Willpower360]

What if there was an odd number of people in xerxes

[@danielle739]

William Xu I don’t want to get into THAT debate but you could count the unborn

[@matthewrandall2767]

My exact fucking thought

[@matthewrandall2767]

Actually there were because of hohemheim being an extra one

[@danilomoreira1648]

@@matthewrandall2767 hohemheim doesn't count

[@shezacuber6092]

@@danilomoreira1648 if you are talking about people in Xerxes,yes he is to be counted but if you only talk about the people in the STONE then he doesn't have to be counted

[@666melodeath666]

Edward Elric He PROTECC He ATTACC But most of all He aint bringing Mom BACC

[@TheBazoche]

that's cruel but it's facts....the truth hurts.

[@jvnnvh]

I hate how much i loved that

[@azuregriffin1116]

*I'm crying from laughter and sadness*

[@killuman637]

666melodeath666 .... ._.

[@Theghosthause]

Big brother Ed.

[@hyrulianwhovian5399]

This is a really good theory, don't get me wrong, and I will insta-click on anything FMA from this channel, but I'm pretty sure Lust uses up her souls way more often then just her fight with Mustang. Hughes stabs her in the head with a throwing knife, Hawkeye shoots her 24 ish times, not to mention that she is 250 years old. That still doesn't account for anytime she used her stone in the past. To be fair though, it would be basically impossible to factor all that in, and just to reiterate, I really liked this theory a LOT. Keep up the good work!

[@Slayer_Jesse]

Yeah agreed. There's no way she never had to regenerate before this, she's definitely used some power over the centuries.

[@Wanard4]

i would guess that she already used around 2/5th of her stone before last fight.

[@Seliennee]

Yeah, that's exactly what I was going to say.

[@ThrottleKitty]

Not to mention it's implied some got WAY more souls than others! It's implied Sloth got hardly any, and he dies after much less damage than any other, where as Pride, Gluttony, and Envy all got a lot more souls transmuted into them in the name of his "experiments".

[@deth7butler957]

i was just about to say that, good call out man.

[@itachiswill5263]

"wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah.....SPOILERS!" *Saves to watch later*

[@clouddd8053]

...does that mean you watched Brotherhood by now? Because it's amazing

[@itachiswill5263]

@@clouddd8053 yes, and it easily ranks in my top three anime of all time

[@clouddd8053]

@@itachiswill5263 thats good news! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😃

[@Mj783980]

One problem with your calculation is it assumes that Lust's "battery" was at 100% when she encountered Mustang even though we already know she has been using it, obviously to live, and also to use her powers as a homunculus. You also neglect the obvious signs of losses when regenerating, like all the light and arcing we see as homunculus regenerate, and assume that the stone is completely efficient when being used.

[@epitimyofmisery7783]

.........well shit

[@mariooiram7546]

That and all the time she was alive.

[@RappersInFan]

So, since cells in our body replace themselves entirely every 4 days to 1 year ( 8 year for fat, which she didnt obviously have that much ;) ), we can assume that she replaced herself every 6 months. That makes up about 500 COMPLETE regenerations throughout her lifespan. So it didnt took 9 bodies for the souls to be burnt, but 509!

[@EskChan19]

And that asssumes that untill she met Mustang noone has ever injured her before, or each of these regenerations would have to be accounted for too.

[@Netherdan]

But one can assume that they didn't use souls to stay alive by "regenerating" dead cells spending soul energy but just by physiological processes like eating, breathing, etc. So they would only need to spend one soul per average lifespan of their respective available ones. That would account for 3 to 5 souls throughout her 250 years lifetime

[@missgothfox6961]

Me: *looks a someone else’s soul* “five thousand dollars” Me: *looks at my own soul* “like five bucks”

[@PinkKittyOwO]

Matpat: Serious Spoilers ahead Me: Well good thing Ive watched the whole show...twice

[@captaincati8826]

lol 4 times

[@timjo221]

only twice? those are rookie numbers

[@PinkKittyOwO]

true true

[@yongmeili7071]

0 times😸😝

[@sakethnn7674]

9 times nd manga 4 times

[@AjTheCrayon]

no one literally no one. Matpat: Na-rud-oooo

[@hewhoyeet4953]

Its accent, you cant just expect people that arent native speaker to some language to spell every words right. Thats just wrong, the only thing we can do is teach them the right way, not joking about it. Yeah i know you probably made this comment as a joke but for me this kind of thing is a problem to our community. But hey its just a theory, A FILM THEORY

[@AjTheCrayon]

I'm fully aware of that fact now- a year later- from when this comment was made. I originally made it as a joke. And I agree it is a problem in the anime community.

[@tomasroque3338]

You are assuming Lust's first death was Mustang's first explosion. Since she's lived for hundreds of years, it's possible she's died before. You are also forgetting that Father has created more than 7 homunculi, as he re-creates them every time one of them dies.

[@kotinayler2856]

I actually punched my computer when I saw your image, that's strangely reallistic

[@ワラッセまけんし]

Tomas Roque i was thinking about that. And she use the stone to activate her claws too. The estimative of the video stand for a minimum energy.

[@wesleygorrell3266]

Tomas Roque also the fact that we actually witnessed Hughes get a headshot on Lust with a knife. Though it wasn't a confirmed "kill", she looked pretty dead to me before she revived.

[@I25mI25]

A headshot with a knife is, at least with MatPats calculations, way easier to repair than half a body. Not saying anything against that she probably has died more than seven times, just that the amount of damage done to the body is important for the calculation based on mass, not the death itself. Even damage done by aging could be more expensive to repair over the span of multiple years than a simple knife to the head.

[@67tedward]

I'm not sure that the stone's have a fixed amount of energy either. I always assumed that they got overloaded by having to repeatedly regenerate in a short time, because there is a scene where gluttony uses up all his regeneration but survives, and later in the show has regeneration again. You could say father just gave him more souls, but that would also be assuming.

[@nataliyahpastel3890]

Mine is worth 2¢ and a piece of gum

[@Endershock1678]

Nataliyah Pastel Hey, at least you have one!

[@Ezmene]

Nataliyah Pastel finally something I can afford

[@tylerkidoivxmi7826]

Endershock1678 unlike me

[@MetalJunkie94]

A whole 2 cents huh?

[@steviemaster]

bought and i give you a pidgey pokémon card for it too!

[@esterlau464]

Him: original comics Me: ITS CALLED MANGA!!!!!

[@kani841]

THANK YOUU been waiting for someone to say this.

[@Julianicos]

i just call them Japanese comics

[@kajiitl]

I call tgem right left weeb dictionaries

[@kani841]

Typical Profile okay not gonna lie i laughed

[@foureyesisafish7968]

MANGA ARE COMICS. Manga just is the Japanese term for comic

[@Raymics]

Although the calculations seem legit here, there are some reasons that the whole theory could be wrong. for instance, Roy could likely not have been the first person to ever have injured lust enough to make her regenerate which means the estimate energy of a human soul could be wrong. Another instance, all the homunculus were at least 60+ which meant a certain amount of energy had to be used for their survival. But otherwise this is a great video!

[@Tilaic]

I imagine that since a person can live ~100 years off of just one soul. The conversion would be the same during periods of time where regeneration / powers aren't being used.

[@BlastMagicianYGO]

My major issue with this theory is that it assumes that lust had a fully charged philosopher's stone. That would imply that lust had never been injured or killed before. She was dealt a mortal blow at least once prior by Lt. Colonel Maes Hughes. That's not taking into account that it would mean the battery that keeps her alive does not deplete thorough continued use as well.

[@ShirmaAkayaku]

So MatPat would need to account for how much life she had at the time before getting burned? You got a point there, although I'm not to sure compare the mortal blow to being burned (only one burn though). Does she need as much energy to regenerate when going against Hughes?

[@EdgarN42595]

Shirma Akayaku I mean, she is technically killed and despite it being mortal to a degree. It's difficult to determine if it takes an entire soul or a portion of a soul to bring a homunculus back to life despite the way they died. Sloth died fewer times with more fatal wounds, aka concrete spike tru his skull, twice I think, and a few punches yet it was enough to destroy his stone.

[@TGNXAR]

Impalements, bullet channels, and related stabbings don't do much to a form. For US they are lethal, but they really don't do much in the way of actual mass displacement. Minimal use of energy for those. *QUITE* different from the simply MASSIVE damage Mustang was doing. He was shearing off 10s of kilograms of mass from her form (completely removing it that one time, when she had to totally regenerate from the stone in his hand) with every attack.

[@thomashutchinson2575]

Max Koski I was actually about to put the same thing until I saw your comment

[@houseofaction]

the stone's power only depletes when used for things such as regeneration, otherwise it is a limitless energy. the homunculi can only die from being killed, if they are never killed they would be alive for ever

[@Harddiskfail]

so philosopher's stones are soul-er-powered ?!

[@Cheekysquirel]

Harddiskfail they have pumpkin spice bleach now

[@yttrium_32]

Ha...ha..ha..

[@exilestudios9546]

god damn it barb

[@athenali3132]

nice

[@yasminmat753]

Harddiskfail disappointed ™

[@AshVXmc]

It's funny that Lust's voice actor and Roy's voice actor have married. Considering how many times they are trying to kill each other.

[@TetsuDeinonychus]

They jokingly keep track of how many times each of their characters have killed each other and bring up who's "ahead" at conventions. lol

[@cobweb8129]

a truly deadly power couple.

[@BookEatPeople]

Well they so have experience in rl

[@hailey5167]

Laura and Travis are the best duo honestly XD I watch them play dnd weekly XD

[@kiritoyuuki4324]

P

[@TheBlueBroadcast]

Full metal alchemist: a soul isn't judged by one price, thats the lesson we wanted to teach. MatPat: Are you sure about that?

[@Endershock1678]

How much is a soul worth? I don't know, I don't have one.

[@jupitersgodzilla7114]

Endershock1678 Same...

[@emeraldplayer4126]

Good one.

[@thomasthompson8629]

66 likes

[@lucifers.morningstar3805]

I ate mine, it was half sweet half spicy.

[@RandomCorvid]

so many gingers in this thread

[@soupepictrek1397]

3:57 Maybe then you'll finish Doctor Who part 3!

[@lazyninja1793]

3:58 As a person who is 600+ episodes in One Piece... I recommend a Philosopher Stone MatPat... It will be of use to you... One Piece will never end.

[@acedia4454]

oda said the wants to finish the manga as soon as possible in the near future in an interview a couple of days ago

[@daleykun]

He also said that Dressrosa was only about 60-70% of the story complete. I recon he'll finish about chapter 1100 or so.

[@waffleman2211]

Speaking of things that never end, what sorcery do you use to get so many likes on your comments everywhere you go, ninja? That's the real mystery

[@Zorooooooooooooooooooooooooooo]

One Piece is my favorite anime/manga.. I hope it never ends even though that's impossible

[@lazyninja1793]

I am just mind blown that One Piece actually does have an ending. I have watched it for years and just thinking about the fact that one day it will end is crazy.

[@IyaorIsis]

6:08 with the things mat says on a regular basis, the F.B.I must be standing outside his door 24/7

[@Snicklebeck]

Lust has already been alive for 200 years before her death. How many souls were lost in that large amount of time? Surely her death was not the only time she was forced to use her philosopher stone? Once you have calculated these numbers, are they consistent with the damage the other homonculi took? It seems like Sloth and Gluttony were killed far easier. I am also not convinced that Father was generous enough to give each of his children 1/14th of his souls. Despite having purged himself, he still has many of these sinful traits inside him, especially pride. If father had removed all the sinful souls, then he would have been unable to regenerate Gluttony in a way that he was still gluttonus. A better way to calculate this would have been to have measured the amount of energy it took to kill Hoenheim. We know for certain how many souls he was given and we know that he only used souls when it was absolutely necessary. We even know exactly how many souls he took out to make his giant transmutation circle because he addresses them by name.

[@absolutelynobody3698]

Tanner Tolman Asuuming that she lived for 400 years, and assuming she didn't eat, For the lifespan assuming the fma world is in the 1900 because of the lights then 400 years ago would be 1500. Then the average lifespan would be about 60 years. She has lived 6.66 souls You lose about 5 pounds a week water fasting so add a few more pounds because of no water and to 8 pounds. 1 year = 52 weeks 400x52=20800 weeks 20800x8= 166400 pounds Since E=mc2 that equals 24920064x10 to the 20th power of joules That's 2492006400000000 terajoules of energy That number divided by 654 is 3,810,407,339,449 souls. So she should of died a long time ago if she didn't eat cause she only has about 38,000 souls. But that's assuming that she didn't eat. And I'm an eight grader who is drinking Gatorade at 1 am on a weekend so most of this is probably wrong because I didn't check.

[@karsa_writer]

How many souls would she have burned if she did eat?

[@absolutelynobody3698]

Whitney Tolman 6.66 souls

[@bvzv]

Also, didnt lust died from hydrogen explosion before Mustang started roasting her?

[@Snicklebeck]

That and Mustang ripped the stone out of her forcing her to regenerate her entire body.

[@lazyninja1793]

Film Theory... My favorite anime. With the Theorist Alchemist FullMetal MatPat.

[@Username-wk7ni]

Lazy Ninja matweeb or Anipat

[@navivan768]

Lazy Ninja why not fullmetal pat instead

[@hamez6736]

funny thing is, i just finished the series a few minutes ago

[@jamlaminnswordhand5402]

READY STEADY CAN'T HOLD ME BACK READY STEADY GIVE ME GOOD LUCK READY STEADY NEVER LOOK BACK LET'S GET STARTED READY STEADY GO

[@user-dq5xg2zk8j]

He's a full metal theorist indeed . secretly working with alchemy and metal as we speak .. All in the name of theories and replacing fleshy meat limbs

[@mirabletest]

You're not taking in consideration her past "deaths"

[@andy54668]

How could he do that??

[@kellikay100]

I didn't see this but I commented the same thing

[@DalePWhyte]

He's calculated the energy needed to regenerate her whole body, even so, he forgot the time Mustang ripped the stone out of her chest and she regenerated around it, so instead of dividing by 9 it should have been 10

[@Foxintox]

@@andy54668 by taking into account her age (between 200 and 400 years) , the "recycle rate" of our body (how long it takes for your body to fully "shed" (dead cells etc.) which is about 5 years if i remember correctly, meaning that every atom in your body gets replaced within five years except for those in teeth and some neurons etc.) so you can find how many times she had to "regenerate" her body to live past a normal human life expectancy , even if it was atom by atom rather than the full regenerative thing when she gets burned .

[@andy54668]

@@Foxintoxthx but u didn't have to define recycle rate. I'm not that stupid.

[@angelicae.hernandez1315]

So what you're telling me is that I can make a small Philosopher's Stone with a decent amount of Uranium and knowledge about transmutation. Good to know.

[@elishamasih8145]

😰

[@HyrannoCraft]

At least a pseudo philosophers Stone..

[@springtrap8434]

you WHAT

[@E.S.A.M1.0]

Good luck finding that Uranium lol

[@daisychainz5788]

So you can transmute yourself from a viewer to a subscriber Me: No thanks, i don't really feel like losing a part of me and seeing the portal of truth

[@Rohan_Kishibaby]

DaisyChainz xD

[@alexisdean5992]

DaisyChainz I'd give up my kidney that's it

[@James35142]

DaisyChainz I'd do it. I'd love to clap transmute.

[@rhyssatterfield7487]

DaisyChainz but transmutation without a circle

[@rhyssatterfield7487]

James Tapp only one finger lost

[@dicerson9976]

7:00, well, considering most of the people he's talking about are, ya know, DEAD. I highly doubt he's exactly maintaining a stable relationship. Dunbar's number (which is actually averaged by most to be around 150) is about stable *relationships*. So not just their name, but who they are, what they do, and how they relate to and interact with everyone else you also maintain a stable relationship with. He's just learning their names, a single giant shopping list. That has to do entirely with long-term memory and his ability to recall such memories.

[@joshuaking3731]

Dicerson Almost. The souls are still living inside Von Hoenhime. He has conversations with them. Just before he brags to Father about how he learned the names of each and every one of them, he lists off about 7 names and then details what they did in life. A flourish, a son wanting to take over the family business, etc... However, the you are right in saying he isn't maintaining a "relationship" with them. It would be more like a king who knows the name of all of his subjects. He would know who they are and what they do, but could move on to learn about someone else. He isn't inviting them to dinner or anything, its just intell gathering from disembodied conciousnesses.

[@Kirasamui626]

Accurate or not. I couldn't imagine memorizing over 100,000 names. Heck I can barley remember the names of everyone at my work place.

[@stew2860]

Dicerson 536,000 is a number never even counted to by a human, it's not possible to remember that many NAMES

[@stew2860]

Dicerson as Matt said, there's a limit to what a human mind can do.

[@christiansmith804]

but for every name he must remember he has a extra soul of power

[@ASerpentPerplexed]

"And Lust looks, um... *zooms in on her chest* She looks, uh... She looks 'healthy' to me" - #PervPat 2017

[@entropias_gonos]

Seriously, wtf was that for? Lust is busty, or, at least she sports a cleavage. Big fucking whoop! Focusing on her breasts doesn't prove anything about her weight. And for the people who call it "a joke", seriously? You've ever heard anything more failed to produce laughter than this stinker? He just done fucked up yet again.

[@CommanderM117]

hopefully mustang didn't see this or mat would be dead man

[@entropias_gonos]

WilbaForce0017 what? She's not a child! Wtf are you talking about?

[@vizthex]

Hey she's hot.

[@Bluecho4]

Hey! Lust having a generous figure is an objective fact stated for the record! It doesn't mean perversion is what's happening here!

[@ev.is.evil9886]

ok but like this is incredibly inaccurate, the hummonculi constantly feed off of the stone to stay alive and every time lust has used her powers, every second she's existed and every time she's died has slowly been draining her stone, so we can't know for sure how much a soul is really worth plus, roy burned her before she fully regenerated every single blast

[@net_spider]

I think you'd also have to figure out how much of the souls were used over her lifetime before the Mustang incident: Damage she sustained, how long she has lived, and how much energy her abilities use. But anyway, kudos! ^_^ I really like what you've done here.

[@ryanakers1372]

ImpureKing His logic on the number of souls Lust had when she was created is good, but by using the number of times she regenerated against Mustang he calculated her stone`s energy at the time of her death instead of when it was first created. So when he divided the energy at the time of her death by the number of souls she started with his answer was off. Still he's proven the soul has an incredible amount of energy, whatever the real number is.

[@AliceTheSpider]

Well he also took the half of her mass which probably burned more than that. So least significant values probably evens out.

[@theotherguy4456]

Net_Spider Yeah but in all fairness that is impossible to calculate since to figure out how much energy she would have lost during that time he would need to know the precise amount of time she has existed all of her injuries during that time and the energy that is contained in a human soul to calculate how many souls she would still have so he could determine the amount of energy of a human soul. This means if he does not know the amount of energy of a human soul he could not accurately calculate the energy of a human Soul

[@wodahexe8400]

So, Lust got burned nine times. Is that including the mini explosion Mustang caused by throwing Havoc’s lighter into the room she was in?

[@robobuddy5745]

Yandere Alchemist or the knife wound to the head caused by Hughes?

[@tranqle73]

Yandere Alchemist Don't forget when she had to regenerate her ENTIRE body after Mustang tore her Stone out AFTER said explosion. And also when she got shot by Hawkeye, when Marcoh impaled her with a giant spike, Hughes throwing a knife in her head, and when she got shot in the leg and tore open her chest to show off her stone.

[@comora010304]

Gotta agree even mustang recognized the smell of burned bodies and totally forgot the knife to the knife to head lust recieved from hughes

[@spork1423]

that's possible

[@fredbyoutubing]

I thought, considering her behavior, she has probably been critically wounded other times outside this story

[@everettbyers9378]

If you had a philosophers stone maybe you would have enough time to complete doctor who part 3

[@MD-tv7rf]

Yes to true!

[@gflyr9838]

yes

[@thelamergamer1894]

SORCERER'S stone, you British fuck.

[@shorround]

The Lamer Gamer its in your name your lame

[@shorround]

Close up it’s a scam no du but why did you say howdy

[@Crucible24]

I was able to remember at least 200 of my friends during 7nth grade writing them down as they came in to my mind and it’s pretty fun to see just how much people I knew and talked to

[@Nex_Addo]

I think there's a better point of reference. Lust has been alive for several hundred years and has had to regenerate many times. She wouldn't be close a full 1/14th of the souls, and we have no way of knowing how used up her stone is. I think a better reference would be when Ed gets impaled and uses his own soul to heal himself. He states that it'll take a few years off his life, so maybe 1/20th of a soul, and from the area of the would you could estimate he probably has to regenerate around 250 grams of flesh to stop himself from bleeding out. Using your calculation as a base, 250 grams = 2 786 141 tera joules/280 = 9 950 tera joules = 1/20th of a soul. 1 soul = 199 010 tera joules of energy. This is about 300 times more than your estimate, which given the fact that those last few minutes likely made up a fraction of her souls makes some sense. It's a much more self-contained example; maybe very wrong, but another interpretation. Still, loved the episode, as always.

[@axelpaxel9432]

If I made a philosopher's stone I might be able to live long enough to see half life 3.

[@genuinelycantbeasked522]

u wont

[@jadensmith4607]

Axel paxel or KH3

[@Jebiwibiwabo]

they confirmed it is dead, rip

[@whyamihere0369]

Maybe you'd long long enough to make a better joke

[@daeneryswillbethequeen9718]

half life 3 is dead. Dota 2 is far more important and superior

[@oscargiese3516]

I really like your theory, but there is one problem: the thing with Lust. See, in the Manga the fight between Mustang and Lust is waaaayy longer, Lust gets shot by hawkeye somewhere in the battle etc. Aaand we don't know how often Lust died before the battle, and she did for sure. So the data your using in this case is kinda off. But the rest of the theory is pretty good, have some props and keep doing such awesome stuff

[@Yukazikii]

TheUndeclaredWinner Didn't Hughes kill (or damage) her with one of his ninja knives? And I remember Hawkeye shooting her a couple of times before Roy shows up :)

[@phillard8653]

That just means one human soul is even more powerful!!! :D

[@mangafan589]

TheUndeclaredWinner if you're using brotherhood than you are using the manga.

[@joshuajacobs7549]

Why didn't he use the Doctor Marcoh scene in the anime where he did experiment with his scientist to make the philosopher stone. Itll be much much better than using Lust death as it's waay too inconsistent

[@maddystephens1685]

I get your point, but MatPat bases most of his evidence off of the anime.

[@shadowdoesstuff8541]

Friend: *gets me into fma* Me: *sees what happened about Nina* Me: Talks about *NINA* Friend: Why Me: Because... NINA

[@thedungeonscrawler2318]

Nina's is not as bad as Maes Hughes' in my opinion

[@sodadile]

This is me but the 2003 version of Lust

[@PercyKqv]

never talk about Nina, that's the 1st rule of the Elric brothers

[@sophiea7]

N I N A 1 0 0

[@johnbailey5835]

Well the results shouldn't be too surprising because one soul has to sustain a human being (the most complex animal we know) for up to just over 100 years

[@sleepysera]

And that's assuming souls normally perish when people die, which isn't the case in almost all religions around the world and in FMA:B itsself (since the bodies of the people are long dead but the souls live on in the stones so they don't need a human body to exist). If souls are naturally immortal and can be reused for rebirth or never stop existing once they go to paradise/hell/etc., they are damn impressive~

[@boot_epik]

Is it the soul that's sustaining it or the food that is? Humans eat for a reason.

[@mrdredward129]

*on average 85 years

[@Zelink108]

HaichaoTeaLover Consciousness exists on a QUANTUM LEVEL, of course a soul is immortal, it’s energy, energy can neither be created nor destroyed, ever hear of the Lifestream from FFVII? The Gaia hypothesis? why are people having these pretentious arguments on what a soul is? Or are they the kind of people who take Frederick Nietzsche and his BS too seriously?

[@johnbailey5835]

@@mrdredward129 that's why I said up to, not on average

[@kenobadogomba376]

"How much is your soul worth?" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH what soul?

[@Bucketlord666]

Keno Badogomba mine is 0.00000000001 dollars

[@CrazyHand7894]

Are you perchance a ginger?

[@naeness]

XD This is too good.

[@jackchase5727]

Mom! Get the holy water!

[@Quincy_Morris]

The thing that makes a living person different than a corpse

[@SinerAthin]

Capturing and consigning 500k souls to eternal damnation? Damn, the Fullmetal Alchemist universe is darker than anything IRL xD

[@khorneberzerker7192]

SinerAthin These prostitute spam bots are even darker than that

[@khorneberzerker7192]

SinerAthin and more darker than that is warhammer 40k

[@SinerAthin]

That suffering lasted for only a limited time though, unlike the eternal damnation of the souls. I mean, ask yourself this Would you rather die 60 times over in various gruesome ways? Or die once, but have your soul consigned to suffer eternally in a never ending agony past the universe's end?

[@Snoflakes_1]

SinerAthin And then there's Negan

[@joefling2291]

SinerAthin I

[@LaineyKismet]

That intro was everything I didn't know I needed in my life but got anyway. MatPat you are the BEST ❤

[@revine9243]

Al's soul is worth Ed's right arm. :)

[@azurelegends2362]

No, it costed his arm to transfer his soul not make it.

[@kingdrake8150]

Ed did not recreate the soul of al. It's impossible and al could not remember things that edward didn't know. He just transfered the soul from the gate to the armor. He transfered the soul the first time to the thing that was supposed to be their mom. It costed his leg and then it transfered al's soul into the armor which costed his arm. Creating a soul is impossible

[@hattmannen5122]

and also a leg

[@geoshisan6349]

Jonathan Andersson He didn’t sacrifice a leg to transfer Al’s soul. He sacrificed his leg to try bring his mum back.

[@hattmannen5122]

@@geoshisan6349 hm, i saw full metal alchemists quite a while ago. Thanks for informing me

[@Nightmare77110]

Hey the looks like an infinity stone. “Thanos wants to know your location”

[@Blades500]

Nightmare the soul stone

[@rotz394]

Dammit, you blew our cover!

[@nichsulol4844]

thanos will asking eitri making him new gaunlet because he discovered this stone with extra chamber

[@DaRkLoRdZoRc]

I haven't watched FMA in a long time, but if souls contain a set amount of energy - and Father says in this video that souls are broken down to energy to make philosopher's stones - then couldn't you theoretically make a philosopher's stone out of *any* kind of energy if you were able to channel enough of it?

[@robbieaulia6462]

Does that mean we can create human life with just solar panels in FMA universe?

[@iodias]

The only problem with your math at 5:00 is that there is no way to account for the energy Lust expended *before* appearing on the show.

[@n0ame1u1]

The little pictographs he's using to represent souls are from Soul Eater. I'm irrationally proud of knowing that.

[@smiith5]

Same here, m8

[@Yal_Rathol]

and i'm irrationally annoyed that he's using a graphic from soul eater when souls from FMA are depicted as viscose red liquid, not blue spheres of light.

[@noahwilson3809]

Yal Rathol Well don't be annoyed, nobody knows what a soul truly looks like. There have been several depictions of what a soul is like throughout several religions throughout history. There is even an ancient word for "blood" that means "life force" or "soul". So for all we know our very soul is our blood. But we do know this: The soul is actually your own mind, your soul is your personality, emotions, memories, everything that makes you and individual.

[@Yal_Rathol]

Noah Wilson i'm an atheist, so i don't believe a soul of any type exists. i'm annoyed at the inconsistency, because there's a moment in FMA that shows souls as A: red, B: cloudy, floating masses of some fluid. then refined souls are shown as a sticky, viscous fluid that sloshes like wine and crystallizes in open air. meanwhile, soul eater souls are orbs of glowing power, and their size is metaphorical rather than literal. there are characters who's souls are larger than their bodies, such as blackstar, stein and kid, with the most extreme examples being the great ones, such as lord death who's soul is larger than the city they live in and asura, who's soul can reach the earth from the moon. granted, the moon in soul eater is much closer than in reality, but still. souls in FMA are all uniform as well. they all look the same, and if forced into physical form (such as on envy's true form), they always take androgenous, identical human forms with no special defining features. souls in soul eater are unique, usually displaying something about the character, such as asura's taking the form of inky black fluid, lord death's being sunshine yellow and having the points of his mask on it or maka's having wings, granting her special abilities. heck, kid's soul even changes form as he does, connecting his lines of sanzu draws completed lines on his soul as well. so it's less a matter of "nobody knows what a soul looks like" and more a matter of "this has depicted souls a certain way, and you chose to ignore that for some reason". 'course, the reason is that soul eater's souls are easier to edit into the video than FMA's are.

[@noahwilson3809]

Yal Rathol Alright then, thanks for sharing your point of view on the matter.

[@johnvoidec5170]

FMA creators DID intend it's audience to ask themselves what the cost of a soul is, the intro is inaccurate.

[@redacted6813]

I would assume that memorizing the names of half a million people people becomes _slightly_ easier when their souls are *literally* laid bare to you, every day, decade after decade.

[@astrangeone]

As much as I love FMA, that's the one point that annoyed me. He should have gone insane from the sheer amount of voices speaking to him. Same with Father (Father was one of the shadows from beyond the gate, given form by H's blood)...so Father's definition of sanity is a bit off. (His ending - "I just wanted to have all the world's knowledge! What did I do wrong?" made me think of a mad scientist trying something ethical and then justifying it.)

[@dontmisunderstand6041]

Watch FMA again, they're both clearly insane.

[@redacted6813]

Dont Misunderstand me when I say that's basically what happened.

[@berry-o-pokemob8428]

Not only that, the human brain can hold a lot of information, about 2.5 petabytes (or a million gigabytes), and considering he merely mentioned memorising every name of these people within him, thus they speak/connect with him everyday, I'd say it's possible

[@furrystarcat]

Also, he's not maintaining RELATIONSHIPS, he's just memorized the names, so Dunbar's number doesn't really apply.

[@matthewlightwood5412]

Hi MatPat. You probably won't see this but I just want to say thank you for making these videos. I've been watching them for about a year now and no matter how upset I am, your intro music and your upbeat tone always make me feel better. So..just thank you.

[@dumpsternest69]

i feel the same way! how are you doing 4 years later?

[@Dp-zl7jr]

You didn't account for any other injuries she recovered from, her initial creation, or how long the souls have been keeping her alive.

[@109Rage]

Which would only make the value of a single "soul" even greater, presumably. Then again, I somehow doubt she had experienced enough damage to need to replace so much matter. Most injuries (ie, ones that don't incinerate half your body) could hypothetically be fixed by "rearranging" you cells, instead of creating new matter. Up until this point in the story, FMA doesn't give us any reason to believe she's been under this kind of burden regularly, so I think it's reasonable to assume that Lust had the majority of her full capacity by that point.

[@krol9507]

This could be considered as a low estimate then.

[@blakestrike3905]

109Rage we cant assume that, if she has lived for many years we do know she got in fights, without fear of Death you may become wreckless so she could have expended alot if energy, also mat pat IS assuming a 100% extange but energy is likely lost in the process, still a fun idea

[@Dunkle0steus]

All Matpat's done is calculate how much energy was left in Lust's stone when she encountered Mustang.

[@eccentricthinker142]

But mass wise, it still isn't very much... I mean, several pounds of a dense metal, double that and the energy output is doubled, but you still are under a dozen pounds...

[@benntrowbridge]

This is a decent theory, I was with you, until you totally skipped over the other times Lust was killed before Mustang killed her all those times

[@CaptainLogix]

Vainquisher Exactly... I stopped watching from there onwards. Plus Father is still making Philosophers Stones, so it's hard to get the actual number of souls

[@unholyiiamas]

Yup, I thought of this also. Not a bad idea to try to calculate but not very accurate in execution.

[@Doubl3KiLLz]

I was thinking this too :/

[@egodeath613]

Vainquisher thank you

[@zerovista8158]

All so you have to take in count that before Mustang showed it Riza was shooting Lust over and over again until she ran out of ammo.

[@bandicootsauce4569]

The Philosopher's Stone is made of human souls? Shall we start the Harry Potter theories now, fanboys? (:

[@mafaldaviana9060]

That would make the sweet, friendly Nicholas Flamel a PSYCHO SERIAL KILLER!

[@vibevizier6512]

Voldemort's soul

[@spork1423]

the FMA brotherhood universe is much different than the Harry Potter universe

[@dogdog357]

Didn't Harry Potter come first?

[@moonyasnow36]

Crash's Underwear Haha! cx

[@jodiwilliams2602]

Matpat: How much is a soul worth? Red skull: Best I can do is 1 soul stone

[@JadeyCatgirl99]

0:26 "There was a taboo among theorists" but not anymore I guess.

[@luj6455]

It cost him an arm and a leg

[@clouddd8053]

@@luj6455 and some one else's body :\

[@TimeturnerJ]

You gotta adjust your numbers a little. Sure, Lust was burned 9 times, but those weren't the only times she had to regenerate. Also, you need to substract the souls she has already used up by living as long as she has, and account for times she may have had to regenerate during that time. Apart from that though? The calculations are totally valid.

[@mads_in_zero]

Not to mention that any time the Homonculi use their Alchemy (such as Lust's Ultimate Spear, or Greed's Ultimate Shield), they expend some soul energy too.

[@TimeturnerJ]

Sirmat There's that, of course.

[@panda-kunlovesyou330]

Timeturner not necessarily they are fake humans with powers beyond our expectations and Ho shows that once used souls are easily taken back like the whole greed situation

[@energeticcreeper7969]

Except as the designers obviously intended they are made of metal and from the colour it's probably steel which is almost 8 times the density of the human body. Using the same method father has 5.63048884714 TJs of energy.

[@andrewcarmichael2371]

Well, you kinda forgot the other times she “died”. But it’s still ALOT.

[@rom148]

and I'm sure her powers & being are fueled by the souls as well

[@marcoschavez173]

Old comment, I know, but also some energy has to be lost through keeping her looking the same and living past even an extended lifespan. The only homunculus who we could even consider as remotely giving some of that back would be Gluttony, since he eats so much he consumes plenty of energy that the stone could (possibly) use to extend his life.

[@carolmilan7061]

Actually, that could also imply not necessarily that she hasn't died before, but that was one of the many times she's died to that moment... like when Mustang kills her, he has to do it multiple times....

[@marcoschavez173]

Carol Milan this. Not to mention in this line of dialog she could solely be referring to the doctor, and his efforts to kill her, rather than speaking on her life as a whole.

[@magiconic]

Isnt there a scene in brotherhood where her stine gets pulled completely out, her body disintegrates, and fully regrows from the stone? Thats not only another death, but 2 according to matpat's theory.

[@theguythatexists2719]

Mat is forgetting the fact that lust also had to use some of the souls to repair damage before the fight and the amount of souls she needs to live that long

[@nu_raa]

This theory is awesome! However you didn't account for the energy spent on lust's additional years of life or the other times she was killed. Aside from the burning, in the same episode, she got blown up by mustang's lighter being thrown into the gas-filled room, shot by Riza and had a knife piercing her skull. Not to mention all the other injuries she must've sustained throughout her unnaturally long life.

[@Flaris]

Yeah, that is the biggest problem. But of course it is basically impossible to make a fully accurate theory here for that reason. There is no way to know how many souls Lust has left to use by the time that fight happens. Fun theory though.

[@AssassinLupus7]

Niksad I was just scrolling through the comments to see if anyone else mentioned that. Also, haven't they succeeded in creating any more stones in all the time since xerxes? It's been a while since I've watched FMAB, but how can we be totally sure of Lust's soul count to even start doing the math? That being said, this was still an interesting video.

[@sorwddeath]

Niksad well the thought process was that regenerating her whole body would be so much energy that the other ones did not a count for much energy ie it takes 100 energy to gen whole body but 5 energy for being shot or stabbed.

[@dennisperino8326]

Yup

[@nolensmith9125]

I was wondering about that.

[@lisquidsnake]

Naruto has 2 kids. One of them is a badass. The other's name is Boruto

[@khulmach9662]

Burn.

[@troger6895]

lisquidsnake OOOOOOO SHEET

[@hamzasaid3368]

When she destroyed boruto when they were kids feelsbad

[@qualitytrash6200]

I still can't get over that name....

[@Silentgrace11]

Man, it's dark outside, but even I can see all this shade being cast about.

[@superkamiguru2576]

1:57 be careful MatPat you don't want any weeb hate for calling a manga a comic

[@sblower9410]

well lets not BE hateful, we're just the ones trying to avoid it.

[@mwur6190]

It's been awhile, plus he's been doing more dc and marvel then anime. So I won't be salty. 😜

[@Dadan-dan]

SuperKamiGuru If only he said Manwha

[@daelenstonemeier490]

isnt it though

[@kieyvsquared6817]

SuperKamiGuru oh no the *"HORROR!"*

[@sodadile]

4:32 Me, a 2003 Lust stan: *Sobbing*

[@rayniajonson567]

Hey Matpat I just watched Dumbo and was wondering how big would his ears have to be to actually fly or if its possible at all. Cause you know "I've seen about everything when I see an elephant fly".

[@espoppelaars]

I would be interested in that!

[@triforce228]

A rough answer to your question is 15m (49ft) wingspan for a small 300kg (660 lbs) elephant, but the actual answer would include how fast Dumbo can take off and fly, so it would be between 0m (0ft) and 25m (82ft)

[@a.morphous66]

CRIMAFUYT You're not MatPat. Only MatPat does science here. Come back when you're MatPat.

[@ArexGamingDefunct]

2:15 Actually King Bradley (aka wrath) is not immortal. He aged and he would have eventually died (if not for Scar killing him first) because he had only one soul in his philosophers stone along with him being a human based homunculus.

[@stoplookingatmyname8200]

ArexGaming only one soul? I thought the mortality was only because of him being human based...

[@ArexGamingDefunct]

He can age and die instead of simply disintegrating like the others because he has a human based body. At the same time if he had more souls his life would be extended beyond its normal limit but he states it himself that he only has one (and that he does not know that that soul is originally his own or one from the stone)

[@azuregriffin1116]

Hmm. It's been a while since I watched FMAB.

[@lilythehumanfemale5038]

That still does not change the theory so I don't see how that matters. Althrough wrath is pretty awesome 🍉

[@kamronspencer4910]

ArexGaming but ling/greed can regenterate and wouldn't have aged despite being human based. It actually is because he fought his stone down to one soul that he can't regenerate and ages if he'd let the stone have control totally rather than fighting it he'd have ended up like ling who was possessed but still had those benefits

[@matthewcrites4197]

You should do an Attack on Titan theory about the severe physical strain the 3D maneuvering devices put on the body. Using the numbers on your Zelda hookshot theory, I've already calculated some basic numbers that makes the hookshot seem like a scratch on your skin.

[@criticold]

Mat Cat Someone already did that

[@exilestudios9546]

you know i really can't stand attack on titan it just seems like someone watched the battle of hoth in esb and said wow thats cool but you know what would make it cooler replacing the snow speeders with people using swords and the at-at's with giant naked people

[@dariusniederer856]

+

[@criticold]

It actually makes sense btw

[@dexis9412]

Already been done by Kyle hill on a channel called nerdist

[@Flight_of_Icarus]

Never ask a lady her weight, Matpat, even if it's to calculate the amount of energy she's using from her philosopher's stone to regenerate.

[@zi6231]

Dang.... This comment section is like a info and theory warzone.

[@StewTheDog]

the manga was better

[@fuyumi6845]

Yep

[@incaendium2335]

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[@trunkerbros6713]

Sans plant Shit dude thanks

[@robertpopescu48]

BONE appetite to everyone who tries this :)

[@jaaldecrga4470]

Robert Popescu *bone app the teeth

[@c0rmis]

I am gonna use tgis

[@incaendium2335]

+Jaaldecrga *bone apple tea

[@lunatheluma3804]

I like how he used a Soul from the anime soul eater instead of one from the anime Then again that may be because the show doesn't have soul art I don't actually know

[@luffygear34]

dagamerguyofawesome I NOTICED IMMEDIATELY AS WELL NO GOOD CROSS USING ANIME

[@soullessgamer2132]

well, there are the faces trapped in eternal despair, but he probably used the kishin egg because it was easier to edit with then a blob of faces

[@generalgarchomp333]

actually those were normal souls, kishin eggs were red with splotches.

[@bananachum1248]

dagamerguyofawesome a kishin egg is when the soul becomes evil and becomes red the ones MatPat uses are just regular souls

[@generalgarchomp333]

+BananaChum 12 exactly.

[@fortyonesix2028]

0:40 Hm.... *Sees the 3.5 dislikes* Well he wasn't wrong---

[@samd2612]

How do you get 3.5 dislikes???? Does someone have to half dislike?????

[@jaydon__bmore0717]

@@samd2612 he meant 3.5k dislikes

[@samd2612]

@@jaydon__bmore0717 who is k

[@lueezationlueezaming2928]

@@samd2612 k is used to represent "Thousand"

[@iantsang6618]

One soul... shows a soul eater soul... I was expecting a soul eater joke... 😞

[@midnightghost_2]

Smile all the while best anime ever!😍

[@zerokura]

i want a soul eater video...just not sure what it could be about hmm why madness give such a boost? i should read more of soul eater Not to see about sid dearth and how he came back as a zombie.

[@lovesanime88]

midnightghost_2 OMG YESSS

[@edgarlarios4718]

That's all well and good, but you have forgotten to take into consideration that Lust may not have been at her 100% health/strength before her death at the hands of Mustang because she was actively carrying out her father's orders beforehand.

[@abelludwig390]

Edgar Larios not to mention the fact that they have all already lived well beyond the average human life span. And I do believe list was the oldest?

[@germanelkapo1]

Edgar Larios but, the numbers are still high, it can be measured how many cells were regenerated trough her inmortal lifespan if she wasn't even hurt trough it, but only by knowing how many years of inmortality she lived, anything further than that is pure speculation, but the result would be really close to the actual answer

[@abelludwig390]

germán giacomazzi i would argue that they would be much much higher.

[@kilianb8540]

Such as when she interrogated Dr. Marco, and he sent a spike through her stomach. Then there is the fact Roy Mustang also INCARCERATED lust just before what mat pat showed; also, I wonder if ripping the philosophers stone out of lusts chest killed her as well. All in all it was a good idea, just poor execution

[@coolasiwanatabe1233]

and she already taken hits earlier from Mustang and his friend that would have killed her if she didnt have the souls.

[@Deity091]

When calculating the amount of souls each of Mustang’s explosions took from Lust you forgot to calculate how Hawkeye unloaded three different guns into her first not including any damage she took before that so the actual amount of souls each of mustang’s blasts took from Lust would be lower thus causing each soul’s energy to be higher

[@powderedphantom5765]

5:00 well not exactly because she used it previously to live for a few hundred years and that’s not even mentioning how much it could of been used when they where still in father