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* [[Cutscene Power to the Max]]: Laharl {{spoiler|blows up a space armada}}.
* [[Deal with the Devil]]: In an Etna Mode chapter break, she offers to beat up bullies harassing a 7-year old kid, in exchange the kid's servitude as a prinny after he dies. Seeing as this is [[Bad Boss|Etna]], a nearby prinny immediately objects.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: At the end of the tutorial, you have five party members: Laharl, Etna and three Prinnies. After that, you have two sources of new party members: creating generic units in the Dark Assembly, and recruiting storyline bosses.
** Also a game mechanic: you can recruit enemy monsters by tossing them into the base panel if your units still in it can beat them. A decent alternative to stealing if you don't feel like leveling up a Thief. However, as this doesn't work on humanoid enemies, you can't get any non-monster weapons this way. Seeing as the only way to get some of the more powerful weapons is to steal them, you're better off creating a Thief.
** Also a mechanic for creating monsters to fight for your side. Any generic monster can also be created in the Dark Assembly, just like generic classed units. However, you can only create anything you've killed in battle. Moreover, the cost for creating a monster depends on how many you've beaten: the more you defeat them, the cheaper it is to make one for your side.
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]: Laharl makes quite a bit of progress in this direction, but never completely stops being an arrogant brat.
* [[Departure Means Death]]: Angel Trainees cannot survive in the Netherworld unaided for long periods of time. The fourth chapter centers around this when Volcanus steals Flonne's pendant that stabilized her.
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* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: "From now on, your name is Mid-boss!" Notably, ''everyone in the game'' calls him that after that scene, and his name in dialogue boxes changes as well.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Laharl.
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: Demons are nominally evil, at least most in the game consider themselves so. Most of the enemies in the game are other demons as well as a few other evil characters. It is not until the last fight of the main story that you fight anyone who is pretty much good.
* [[Expy]]: Aside from having tighter pants and a much prettier face, Mid-Boss' sprite resembles a recolored Alan from ''[[La Pucelle]]''.
* [["Failure to Save" Murder]]: Kurtis' family got killed and he personally holds Captain Gordon accountable for this, even though the latter wasn't involved in this in any way. As far as Kurtis is concerned, though, Gordon didn't do his job as a Defender of Earth and should be replaced.
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** The scene actually spoofs itself: {{spoiler|Kurtis}}'s [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment is instantly undermined by his newfound status as a [[Butt Monkey|Prinny]], and nearly gets laughed off the stage by the heroes before they finally accept his help.
* [[Peninsula of Power Leveling]]: Several. Which is natural, given the insanely high level cap. One level in particular is peppered with Succubi and Kit-Kats, and aside from one square at the far end of the map, ''everyone'' is invincible. So the trick becomes to lob the monsters onto one another, creating one much stronger femme fatale which can be trapped in the single vulnerable square and [[Scratch Damage|whittled down]].
** An even more effective one is in the Cave of Ordeals
** At the highest levels (mostly useful for embarking on a career of making maxed-out Divine Majins with 185,000 stored levels; not really that useful for regular play), Beauty of Evil. It can be cleared in 45 seconds if you're properly prepared, and in so doing, provides the highest XP-to-time ratio in the game. Since this is ''Disgaea'', players have gotten BoE runs down to a mathematical formula for maxing out your characters as efficiently as possible.
* [[Pet Monstrosity]]: Chapter 7 involves helping a kid find his pet zombie. Etna also kept zombies as pets when she was a child.
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** {{spoiler|Rain pepper on earth so people can't stop sneezing}}.
** {{spoiler|Give human kids an addicting video game to deprive them of their sleep}}.
* [[Winged Humanoid]]: Flonne, though outside of one of her attacks, in which they spread out and grow, she's never seen actually flying with them. Etna also has wings, and in ''Disgaea 2'', demonstrates that they actually grow to 3 times their normal size to allow for flight. Official art and a cutscene in ''Disgaea 2'' also reveal that Laharl has a pair under the cape
* [[With a Friend and a Stranger]]: Laharl, Etna and Flonne.
* [[With Catlike Tread]]: When Flonne infiltrates Laharl's castle, she loudly provides sound effects.<ref>Whoosh! Nin nin nin!. Wumph!</ref>
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** And near the finale, {{spoiler|Lamington, as a reminder to the viewer that he truly is a badass, does this to Vulcanus by turning him into a flower as punishment for his sins (in ''[[Makai Senki Disgaea]]'', he turned him into a frog) when Vulcanus gets a [[Villainous Breakdown]] upon finding out that he was an [[Unwitting Pawn]] and tries to kill him after he has served his purpose of bringing peace between Celestia, the human world and the Netherworld. Serves that mad archangel right}}.
* [[You Never Asked]]: For most of the game, Jennifer is relegated to being [[The Smart Guy]], [[Fan Service]], and cheering from the sidelines. Once she's [[Mind Control]]led and uses her [[Suddenly Always Knew That|Kung Fu skills]] on the main cast, '''Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!''' asks her why she never told him about that before. [[You Never Asked|He Never Asked]].
** Though this is no surprise to the player unless they never used her once she joins the party.
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