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There are currently five main games in the series:
* ''[[Disgaea Hour of Darkness]]''
* ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]''
* ''[[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice]]''
* ''[[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten]]''
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And three [[Spin-Off]] titles:
* ''[[Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?]]'', a [[Platform Game]] [[Spin-Off]] starring the titular [[Everything's Better with Penguins|Prinnies]]. Also, it's [[Nintendo Hard]].
* ''Prinny 2: Dawn Of Operation Panties, Dood''
* ''[[Disgaea Infinite]]'', a [[Visual Novel]] game.
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* [[A Day in the Limelight]]:
** ''[[Disgaea Hour of Darkness]]'' has Etna Mode, where she accidentally kills Laharl and tries to cover it up.
** ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]] : Dark Hero Days'' has Axel Mode, where he desperately tries to reclaim his stardom and get work to support his family. Takes place before the main game.
** ''[[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice]]'' has the downloadable Raspberyl Mode, where she makes an attempt to become a teacher at Evil Academy.
*** The Vita port, ''Absence of Detention'', adds four more, each covering two characters; one for Kyoko and a Asuka, one for Sapphire and Almaz, one for Salvatore and Master Big Star, and one for the new character. (This leaves Champloo the only main cast member not to receive a story)
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** Purposely spoofed by the main cast of the third game when they do their own role call as the ''Evil Rangers'' after defeating Prism Red to make their victory all the more sweet.
** There's also an actual group known as the Evil Rangers in ''Dark Hero Days'', who are a group of appropriately colored monsters that act in a kid's show.
* [[Alternate Continuity]]: Though most of the sequels and cameos occur after the Best Ending of Disgaea 1, it's possible that ''[[Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?|Prinny]]'' takes place in a different continuity then the main series, judging by the presence of {{spoiler|Prinny Laharl}} as a boss fight.
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Axes are a staple of combat.
* [[Aliens Speaking English|Angels And Demons Speaking English]]
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* [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]: FLONNEZILLA!
* [[Badass Boast]]: You ever had your ass kicked by a book?!
* [[Bad Boss]]: Netherworld Prinnies are treated (with good reason) pretty badly, but Etna is sadistic enough to them to shock other demons in the ''[[Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?|Prinny]]'' games. Yukimaru and Rozalin comment about this in the second game.
* [[Beady-Eyed Loser]]: Laharl is drawn with his normal eyes in the beginning of the ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' manga, but after volume two his eyes have turned into this.
* [[Beehive Barrier]]: In the protecting spells for physical and magical attacks.
* [[Benevolent Boss]]: Both Mao and Laharl's dads were good to work under. Also Valvatorez
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* [[Book Ends]]: The English narration in the beginning of each game is {{spoiler|the voice for each respective game's [[Final Boss]].}}
** ''[[Disgaea Hour of Darkness]]'': [[Jamieson Price]] {{spoiler|as Seraph Lamington.}}
** ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'': [[Lex Lang]] {{spoiler|as Overlord Zenon.}}
** ''[[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice]]'': [[Dave Wittenberg]] as Geoffrey {{spoiler|AKA Super Hero Aurum.}}
** ''[[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten]]'': However, breaks this trend. The Narrator's voice does not resemble any character in the game, and is most certainly not {{spoiler|Judge Nemo.}}
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* [[Came Back Strong]]: You level up, then you reincarnate into a new body that starts with better stats.
* [[Cape Wings]]: Laharl's scarf. Also, most Nosferatu/vampires.
* [[Catgirl]]: You have the Felynn race, the ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' Bandits, [[Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?|Anise]], and the [[Stripperiffic|Beast Tamers]]. This does NOT include [[Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?|Cardamon]] because she's actually a [[Petting Zoo People|fox girl.]]
* [[Character Exaggeration]]: Arguable. But it's a general rule that any character that makes a cameo appearance outside of their debut game will be greatly exaggerated. For example, {{spoiler|When Laharl shows up in D2, he seems to have forgotten all of his character development at the end of the first game. Flonne's later appearances, particularly D4, dial-up her otaku-ness and make her much more of an airhead than she originally was. Mao's appearances in ''Disgaea Infinite'' and ''Disgaea 4'' also has he seemingly forget his character development and also portrays him as much more of a pervert. Among other examples.}}
* [[Chef of Iron]]: Mr. Champloo of ''Disgaea 3''. A [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Demonic Cooking Teacher Martial Artist]].
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** Also subverted when Dratti --one of Laharl's vassals who happens to be a big, scaly (and snarky) dragon-- points out that it's a she.
** Also lampshaded with one of the Flora Beasts you meet early in the second game, who happens to be named [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|Bridget]]...
* [[Cute Mute]]/[[The Speechless]]: Pleinair, but only when she's not a Dark Assembly guide. In ''[[Disgaea Hour of Darkness]]'', ''[[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice]]'', and in one of the chapters of the Disgaea manga, she is able to speak normally, but as one of the anchors in ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' and as a downloadable character in ''[[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice]]'' and the [[Updated Rerelease]] of ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'', she doesn't speak at all except for a few select instances. She was given a voice when she became a downloadable character, but her voice is inaudible.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: A major plot point of the four games is the nature of demons/angels as being supposedly "absolute evil/good", nature vs nurture, etc. For example, Flonne staying with Laharl during ''Disgaea'' to prove that he can love (and thus, isn't truly evil), Rozalin becoming more upset the more of the outside world she sees, etc.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Etna & Laharl.
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* [[Dracolich]]: Dragon Zombies.
* [[Dub Name Change]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|Who is this Akutare guy I heard about?]]
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Asagi is a test character that the [[Nippon Ichi|NIS]] team used to test the engine for another one of their games, ''[[Makai Kingdom]]''. (It is rumored she was going to be the main character for ''Makai Wars'', which was canceled and possibly rerolled into ''Makai Kingdom'', but this is not confirmed.) They liked her so much that they left her in as a bonus character, a "cameo from a game that they haven't made yet" ([[Demoted to Extra|or since]]). They've added her to every game since then -- including ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' and [[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice|3]] -- and she's become a sort of mascot for the company. She's even in the opening movie for ''Disgaea 3''.
** And in ''Prinny 2'' there is "Asagi mode", which makes her a main character of the half of the game.
* [[Eagle Land]]: '''Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth''' is so obviously American it hurts.
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* [[Evil Laugh]]: There are [[Evil Overlord|Evil Overlords]], thus it is [[Rule of Cool|required]].
* [[Evil Overlord]]: Plenty of them, [[Noble Demon|for a given amount of evil]].
* [[Expanded Universe]]: [[Disgaea Novels|The Disgaea Light Novels]]. Following the end of the ''[[Disgaea Hour of Darkness]]'' novelization, the next four novels introduce Laharl's relatives and Flonne's family as well as Gordon and Jennifer's daughter. Also, the novelization of ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'', the fifth novel, takes place 120 years after the first novel (In the games, they're only three years apart).
* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Healers. [[Word of God]] says that their beliefs require them to keep them closed.
* [[Fallen Angel]]:
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** Though they do it with magic and [[Ki Attacks]]. But they do hit pretty hard too, okay REALLY REALLY hard.
* [[Mythology Gag]]:
** The Rosenqueen Company, which runs the shops in all three games AND ''[[La Pucelle]]''. It is named for Etoile Rosenqueen, the [[Rich Bitch]] [[The Rival|Rival]] in one of [[Nippon Ichi]]'s early RPGs, ''[[Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure]]''. The strongest gun in both ''[[Disgaea Hour of Darkness]]'' and ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' is also named after Etoile, who was very fond of using guns herself.
** In a sort of Meta Example, Rosenqueen was also the name of their online store. Key word being was as it's since (sadly) dropped the name.
* [[New Game+]]: The game's bonus content tends to become unlocked after 2 or more play-throughs, which is good, cause for the most part the level requirements for even beginning to prepare for a NIS game's bonus content is several exponential orders of magnitude higher than the original bosses.
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** The demons tend to be more naughty and mischievous than anything else, despite what they might say. Except in the bad endings, {{spoiler|Demon deciding to kill AND EAT his little brother and sister, anyone?}}
** [http://www.animelyrics.com/game/disgaea/laharlsanbika.htm Laharl's theme] claims he is a great evil because he doesn't wash his hands after going to the bathroom and he plays with fire.
* Porting Disaster: Some fans consider ''Disgaea DS'' to be this. Pixelated graphics, removal of most voice acting, and sluggish performance compared to the [[
* [[Power Copying]]:
** Every time you spawn a new "player mook" in the first two games, it has to be the "Pupil" of an existing character (say, [[Breakout Character|Etna]]). If Etna stands next to her Pupil, she can now use any skills that Pupil knows—and, with enough uses, can even learn them permanently.
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