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In Full Metal Alchemist, Greed was imprisoned for 140 years (I think, please
correct if wrong). My question is:

**Who sealed Greed? How was he sealed/what type of transmutation/technique was
used, and why was he sealed away for so long?**

I am pretty sure I'm missing something, but I don't understand what.


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How did Dante or the Homonculus seal Greed the first time?


I'm not sure if all your questions can be answered, but...

[The wiki](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Greed) states that Envy sealed him in the
bowels of the Fifth Laboratory, and the [lab's
page](http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Fifth_Laboratory) states that it "served as an
alchemical prison and stasis field." This implies that something was used to
limit his movement or abilities, although we may never know exactly what may
have done that. I'm guessing it is technical alchemical knowledge that we did
not need to know, and so none of it was shown.

Or perhaps the walls there were just too much for Greed to dig through, so he
could have simply been locked inside a room for 130+ years until Barry sets
off the explosives that finally free him. It's an anime mystery that gives us
fans a topic of conversation!


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Greed was sealed by Evny under Dante's orders because of his namesake, he got
too greedy and rebelled against her.

How he was sealed was that a Transmutation Array was drawn on the walls of his
cell and the skull from the body of the human he once was is centered on one
of the walls, i think the array is different to the one Dante uses to drain
Greed of the Red Stones and more of an amplifier for the paralysis inducing
effects of a Homonculi's remains has.

When the array shuts down because of the damage to the lab (seen when the
array isn't lit up) Greed is able to move around more freely and even takes
his skull with him so while me may have still been weakened from having his
remains nearby he's not as weak as he was when the array was active.

However that's speculation on my account of the array in the room, we do know
in the 2003 anime Homonculi are weakened when they are in the presence of
their remains (or in Wrath's case a reminder of when he died), Greed's skull
is used to keep him trapped and that the array made him weaker when it was
active than what just the skull did.

We also know the array in lab 5 doesn't work in the same way as the one in
Dante's residence when Greed visits her as when it activates he vomits up the
Red Stones, considering how long he was trapped he would have been near death
if he had kept vomiting Red Stones as we see just how bad of a shape he is in
when he was in Dante's trap for even a few minutes.


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