Everyone loves an execution

Fullmetal Alchemist is Hiromu Arakawa's.

First anime handles Roy's killing the Homunculus very carefully. We see Roy set Pride on fire and then the camera cuts away. The camera only returns once Pride is dissolving into the floor. Roy is also exhausted, increasing our sympathy for him and dead Selim, and taking the edge off the fact that Roy has just repeatedly burned someone alive. Roy is basically put in the role of a torturer and executioner, but the one executed was not innocent, it's viewed by the audience as an act of solemn justice.  

In Brotherhood the camera gazes invasively as Roy torches Lust. We see her from every angle as she's regenerating and as she's being incinerated repeatedly. Every detail of her exposed viscera is shown to us by the unrelenting camera. As Roy is consumed by vengeful bloodlust, we are also consumed, because after all, Lust is just a monster--and worse, a feminine monster, so it's okay to destroy a monster, especially a monster who has done evil things. 

Brotherhood treated the Homunculi deaths as a nauseating spectacle. The story also expects us to sympathize with the humans destroying the monsters, feeding the characters', and the audience's---bloodlust and sadistic fascination with seeing torture and death in detail--that has its place in horror stories, but the story expects us to sympathize with Roy, the sadistic torturer and executioner, because he's the hero.

So here, I applied Brotherhood's logic to first anime. What do you think, dear readers?