How does Mustang fight in the end of Fullmetal Alchemist with injured hands?


Somewhat trivial, but here goes: in Fullmetal Alchemist, we see Mustang's
hands get pinned down by Bradley's swords when Wrath and Pride are trying to
force him to do human transmutation and open the gate. Given this, how does he
manage to participate in the fight against Father later (probably in chapter
107 or a slightly earlier chapter) given that his "attack" requires use of his
hands (and that he doesn't seem to start using circleless transmutation until
he has to fend off a counterattack)?




This is just a scenario of the _shounen_ genre doing whatever it feels like.
Biologically, he would have taken serious damage to bones, nerves, muscles,
etc. when his hands were stabbed through. But in anime, particularly in the
_shounen_ genre, characters can often overcome this type of thing with
relative ease.

Take, for example, a scene from _Shingeki no Kyojin_ ( _Attack on Titan_ )
wherein one of the characters literally has a plank stabbed through a lung,
and still manages to somehow sit up—dragging the plank through their
body—while spurting blood everywhere.

In Mustang's case, there is no evidence that he was healed in any fashion
(such as by May Chang), nor that he is impervious to hand pain in any way. He
is simply able to do this because the mangaka decided it was necessary to the
story. That's the power of _shounen_!




This is just a scenario of the _shounen_ genre doing whatever it feels like.
Biologically, he would have taken serious damage to bones, nerves, muscles,
etc. when his hands were stabbed through. But in anime, particularly in the
_shounen_ genre, characters can often overcome this type of thing with
relative ease.

Take, for example, a scene from _Shingeki no Kyojin_ ( _Attack on Titan_ )
wherein one of the characters literally has a plank stabbed through a lung,
and still manages to somehow sit up—dragging the plank through their
body—while spurting blood everywhere.

In Mustang's case, there is no evidence that he was healed in any fashion
(such as by May Chang), nor that he is impervious to hand pain in any way. He
is simply able to do this because the mangaka decided it was necessary to the
story. That's the power of _shounen_!

