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* [[Aerith and Bob]]: In a series with [[Loads and Loads of Characters]], this couldn't be avoided.
* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: Despite the canonical good ending of the first game's implications that he's matured into a straight hero, Laharl's [[Disgaea Infinite|most recent non-cameo]] appearance places his character back at his [[Tsundere]] [[Noble Demon]] stage, where he [[Card-Carrying Villain|strives to be evil]] despite himself.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: These games are quite fond of parodying subjects from anime and RPG cliches to [[Space Opera
* [[Air Guitar]]: Asagi has this as her idle animation in ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]''.
* [[All Your Colors Combined]]:
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* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: General feature of most demons.
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]:
** The Succubus and [[Catgirl|Nekomata]] races in the first game, the plant-girls in the second. Notable because the Succubus and Nekomata characters (as well as Jennifer) were drawn by a different
** Also subverted when
** 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.
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** In ''Disgaea 4'' {{spoiler|there's Artina who died 400 years ago, then comes back as an angel.}}
* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]:
**
** Also played straight with Prinnies.
* [[Deceased Parents Are the Best]]
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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
** 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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* [[Escape Rope]]: Mr. Gency's Exit.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: This is a recurring theme between the games, along with [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]] and [[Noble Demon]].
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: A few have shown up, and often were [[Badass Princess
* [[Everything's Better with Penguins|Everything's Better With Prinnies]], dood! They even have [[Spin-Off|their own game]].
* [[Evil Is Petty]]: The majority of the demons aren't so much evil as they are simply jackasses, and their most nefarious deeds amount to stuff such as not washing their hands before dinner. Most of them [[Even Evil Has Standards|end up appalled]] at the [[Complete Monster|genuinely evil characters]].
* [[Evil Laugh]]: There are [[Evil Overlord
* [[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).
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* [[Genre Relaunch]]: This series is along with [[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]] is co-credited with saving the entire SRPG genre.
* [[Genre Savvy]]:
** Nearly '''everyone.''' Even
** As is Mao, who attempts to use take advantage of his knowledge of tropes. For example, if only a Hero can defeat a [[Big Bad]] Overlord, he'll become a Hero. This ends up being [[Wrong Genre Savvy]].
* [[Geo Effects]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
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* [[Humans Are Flawed]]: Demons and to a lesser extent angels tend to be very critical of humans, viewing them as [[Puny Earthlings|weak]] or [[Humans Are Morons|stupid]] at best or [[Humans Are Bastards|complete bastards]] at worse, though the main character does eventually meet decent humans.
* [[Hyperactive Sprite]]: Succubus and Nekomata characters [[Gainaxing|bounce around]] during their idle animation.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Several characters on several occasions, mostly played for comedy. Mao in the 3rd game is particularly fond of the ball,
* [[Immortal Immaturity]]: Angels and demons can become several thousand years old, but since time flows differently in their dimensions, they age 100 times slower then normal and act exactly as old as they look.
* [[Informed Equipment]]: You can see your characters weapons, but not their armor. Played further with monsters which also don't shown the equipped weapons, which leads to having everything from sardine bones to, er, naughty tentacles.
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** THE [[Infinity+1 Sword]] is the Yoshitsuna sword, its base states are significantly superior to all others of any type, not that you need it to break the game.
*** To Illustrate just how much of a game breaker this sword is, among other benefits, it has a range of 5 panels. No need to actually get close to your opponents anymore, just stab 'em from across a gap, or have your [[Mighty Glacier]] character stand between you and them!
*** This is actually broken in the latest games. Yoshitsuna isn't the ultimate sword, it's the next-to-best sword. (The "best" sword, the Baal Sword, doesn't have the bonus to range that the Yoshitsuna has, making it less useful.) And in [[Makai Kingdom|one of the spinoffs]], Yoshitsuna wasn't a sword at
*** A producer who is, of course, named Kobayashi Yoshitsuna.
* [[Instant Runes]]: Any time any kind of spell (or spell-like effect) is used, they show up.
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* [[Little Miss Snarker]]: Etna yet again.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]:
** The three games have just enough special characters that join so that you don't really have room to use generic characters. Most of these special characters join at a low enough level that it's pointless to use them, however. The third game has an
** The downloadable content goes even farther, offering nearly ''every playable Disgaea character ever'' (and some that weren't), as well as a crapload of other [[Nippon Ichi]] characters, from ''[[Phantom Brave]]'', ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'', and ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]''.
* [[Love Chart]]: Both of 'The World Of Disgaea' artbooks contain such a chart with arrows, though the only relationship that is described with the word “Love” over the arrow is that between Laharl and Flonne, and even then [[Ship Tease|a question mark is thrown at the end]].
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** Taken to its logical extreme in ''[[Disgaea Infinite]]''. Just to give an idea of ridiculous some of the scenes are, one has Flonne and Jennifer perform a flying trapeze act to hand off a blu ray followed by Gordon smacking said blu ray with a nail-filled baseball bat into Thursday in order to have it play. Another has Laharl using lasers to straighten out posters.
* [[Muscles Are Meaningless]]:
** Just take a look at the picture
** Averted in-game. Muscle items give often large HP boosts.
** Though they do it with magic and [[Ki Attacks]]. But they do hit pretty hard too, okay REALLY REALLY hard.
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* [[Power Fist]]: The magichange fist weapons.
* [[Pretty in Mink]]: The fur-trimmed robes worn by the lady healers. Might even be a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Final Fantasy X|Lulu's outfit]].
* [[Punch-Punch-Punch Uh-Oh]]: Generally speaking, the [[Bonus Boss
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: The main cast of every game in the series.
* [[Rain of Arrows]]: The ultimate attack for bow users.
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* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]]:
** If a prinny gets enough cash, it can skip the workload needed to pay off its sins.
** Also an in-game mechanic - to get the Dark Assembly to pass bills in your favor, you can bribe them with items (which items they want are dependent on their rarity... so it's quite possible a given assembly member will heavily desire a copy of the starting weapon and hate your [[Infinity+1 Sword]]). There are [[Elite Tweak
* [[Sentai]]:
** Parodied in the form of the Prism Rangers and then parodied again in [[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]] with the ''Evil Rangers'' {{spoiler|aka Mao and co.}}
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** Unfortunately for the Prinnies who end up in the Netherworld, this can rapidly descend into [[Yank the Dog's Chain]] depending on who you have to work for, especially if your boss is named [[Bad Boss|Etna.]]
* [[True Companions]]: One such group forms by the end of each game, though the more stubborn characters refuse to admit it.
* [[Unusable Enemy Equipment]]: Cloned characters cannot have their items stolen. However, using a special item that steals items ''on death'', "Dropouts" from ''Disgaea 3'' can. Whether or not this is a bug is up to the
** The weapon you're talking about, the Puppy Paw Stick, was intentionally added into the game to cut down on the grinding. Considering that the final challenge of the game has well over 400 million HP and around 50 to 75 million in stats, they knew you needed every advantage, though recent patches cut down the PPS' chance to steal items.
* [[Unusual Ears]]: All demons have 'em, but the humanoid non-demon characters don't.
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** Gii!
** Dood!
* [[Video Game Stealing]]: You can steal items from just about any monster, and taking these items away actually has a discernible effect on their
* [[Violence Is the Only Option]]/[[Violence Really Is the Answer]]: The fundamental rule that all Netherworlds thrive on.
* [[Weakened by the Light]]: The ''Prinny'' games confirm that demons get stronger the closer it is to midnight and that weaker demons are up at daytime and stronger demons are up at nighttime. This might indicate that weaker demons are up at day time to avoid stronger demons.
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