sorry to be late to the party but FMA is pretty mind fucking for what it is, Anime or manga form i can't read/watch that little girl been chimera'd without feeling crappy or a little sick, and i've seen a guy i work with loose all his fingers and i just picked up my phone and called an ambulance (put his hands in the hedge trimmer own fault)
FMA mind fuckary time line, Mum dies from some unknown illness (tuberculosis seems to be what jp's like to kill there characters off with) > Al and Ed bring back there mother > Al gets taken and Ed loses a leg > Ed trades his arm for his brothers soul > after some how not bleeding out to death scribed the soul on the armor then Al takes them to Winry's house > Winry's granny then Curb stomps the abomination to death > shit happens and oh your a state employed Alchemist (Auto mail drilled into your nerves and bones while the muscles slowly grows and pushes the nerves into the cold steel) whats the first mission we see? Pope anal beads is robbing from the dumb whats does he do to stop them? throws a lion at them > after beating the pope (ok he's not a pope) we see lust drive her nail into his brain and watch a few drops of blood drip from her fingers > next few chapters are normal and life seems to be going better for Al and Ed then they start looking up human trasmutaion stuff and find a man who seemed kind and caring with a young daughter, they come back the following day to find he made a talking chimera "wow this is great!" proclaims Ed "Big...bro..ther...?" painfully says the beast, within the blink of an eye Edward has this once kind caring man on the floor smashing his skull in with his auto mail arm, and that's the first 20 chapters of the manga only gets sicker from there on :D