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'''Disgaea''' is a series of [[Turn
There are currently four main games in the series:
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And three [[Spin-Off]] titles:
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* ''Prinny 2: Dawn Of Operation Panties, Dood''
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All four games are highly regarded by enthusiasts of [[Turn
The first two games both have [[Updated Rerelease|PSP remakes]], with the NA localization of the first entitled ''Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness'', and a DS remake of that remake, ''Disgaea DS''. Afternoon of Darkness is known for its [[Another Side Another Story|Etna Mode]], a "What If" story where Etna accidentally ''kills'' Laharl, and takes over as the main character. The localization of ''Disgaea 2'' PSP is entitled ''Dark Hero Days'', complete with its own Etna Mode variant (This time telling what happened before the game started) starring the Dark Hero, Axel. And finally, a PSP Vita remake of ''Disgaea 3'' has been announced, entitled ''Absence of Detention'', which includes all the DLC from the [[
All four main games have been adapted into manga and a series of [[Disgaea Novels
This series is the [[Trope Namer]] for:
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* [[Absurdly High Level Cap]]: Max level is 9999, although only a fraction of this is needed to get through the stories of the games.
* [[A-Cup Angst]]: Etna and Flonne get emotional if their underdeveloped breasts are brought up.
* [[A Day in
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*** 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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* [[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
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: These games are quite fond of parodying subjects from anime and RPG cliches to [[Space Opera|Space Operas]] and [[Super Sentai]].
* [[Air Guitar]]: Asagi has this as her idle animation in ''[[
* [[All Your Colors Combined]]:
** The Prism Rangers, a parody of [[Sentai]] shows like ''[[Power Rangers]]'', would have 'transformed' were it not for Etna [[Talk to
** And Prism Black, aka {{spoiler|Adell}}. After winning that title Rozalin expresses a desire to be Prism Pink.
** 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
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: Axes are a staple of combat.
* [[Aliens Speaking English|Angels And Demons Speaking English]]
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* [[Apologetic Attacker]]: Flonne occasionally exclaims "Oops! Pardon me!" when attacking.
* [[Art Evolution]]: Primarily in Harada's use of color and shading. [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100814001842/disgaea/en/images/5/55/D1_Laharl_Cut-In.jpg Compare] [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100813234915/disgaea/en/images/7/71/Laharl_Bust.png Laharl] in Hour of Darkness to his appearances in [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100615012632/disgaea/en/images/7/7a/Laharl_Disgaea_2_Bust.jpg later] [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100822202035/disgaea/en/images/3/3a/I_chr_011_m.jpg games]
* [[Attack of the
* [[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
* [[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
* [[Black Mage]]: Nearly every game has set caster classes.
* [[Blade
* [[Blood
* [[Bonus Boss]]: Disgaea(and many [[Nippon Ichi]] titles) love this trope in general. The most famous of such is Overlord Tyrant Baal who makes frequent appearances throughout each of the Disgaea titles as a monstrous super side boss, always around the area of 4000+ in levels at minimum. Baal is not the only example, as past Disgaea characters make appearances as powerful bosses, other characters from other Nippon Ichi titles (such as Priere) are also bonus bosses, and the list could continue. Most bonus bosses cannot just be fought either, it requires usually fulfilling certain requirements (i.e. for ''Disgaea 2'' Zetta requires 10 dark sun maps, and the port to the PSP requires Champloo and Raspberyl defeated, and all 16 treasure maps found to fight Mao).
* [[Bonus Dungeon]]: There are quite a few of them in all of the games, including a system to create an infinite number of random dungeons.
* [[Boobs of Steel]]: The [[Catgirl|Felynn class]] are one of the best physical fighters in the [[Mook]] gallery, and sports the largest rack. Among story characters, you have [[Disgaea Hour of Darkness
* [[Book Ends]]: The English narration in the beginning of each game is {{spoiler|the voice for each respective game's [[Final Boss]].}}
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* [[Boring Invincible Hero]]: Spoofed. Characters are [[Medium Awareness|thoroughly aware]] of Main Character privileges, and will often try to [[Hostile Show Takeover|steal your spotlight.]]
* [[Butt Monkey]]: The Prinnies are an entire ''race'' of butt monkeys. Mid-Boss is also an example, though much moreso in the anime and especially the manga than in the games.
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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 ''[[
* [[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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** Just about any character can do combination attacks with any other character, in the third game this is taken to absolutely absurd levels.
** And parodied in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4m1DUVrRcM&feature=response_watch Galaxy Omega Star scene], which features no less than three unsuccessful combination attacks before [[Autobots Rock Out|the ass-kicking music cues the successful one]].
* [[Continuity Nod]]: One of the endings in ''[[
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: Prinnydom. Basically, human souls are forced to dress as penguins and ''literally'' pay for their sins through nonstop, menial labor.
* [[Cool Gate]]: Dimensional gates warps the main characters to selected locations.
* [[Council of Angels]]: Celestia.
* [[Crap Saccharine World]] (The situations in each game can be quite serious despite the quirky characters and humor)
* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: Barbara Goodson (Rita Repulsa from ''[[Power Rangers]]'' and Alcyone from ''[[
* [[Cut-In]]: So iconically it provides the page image for that trope.
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Laharl & Etna.
* [[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 artist -- Yoshiharu "[http://homepage3.nifty.com/aws/ Ryoji]" Nomura -- the artist who did the characters and art for the Marl Kingdom / ''[[
** 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 ''[[
* [[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 ''[[
** 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
* [[Everything's Better
* [[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 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
* [[Eyes Always Shut]]: Healers. [[Word of God]] says that their beliefs require them to keep them closed.
* [[Fallen Angel]]:
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* [[Gainaxing]]:
** Whilst most characters stand still when it's not their turn, the Kit-Kat and Succubus monsters, well, ''don't''.
** Averted in the case of the Succubus starting from ''[[
* [[Genre Relaunch]]: This series is along with [[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]] is co-credited with saving the entire SRPG genre.
* [[Genre Savvy]]:
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* [[Glass Cannon]]: Every single character in the [[Bonus Level of Hell|post-game content]]. The long and short of it (see [[One Stat to Rule Them All]] below) is that after a certain point, you are simply never, ever going to be able to survive more than a hit or two from the bosses, and gameplay descends to trying to get your numbers high enough to instantly kill the enemies before they instantly kill you.
* [[God Guise]]: Vulcanus does this to Flonne in Etna mode.
* [[Going Through the Motions]]: The cutscene artwork. In ''[[
* [[Gold and White Are Divine]]: Most angels.
* [[Good Is Not Dumb]]: Sereph Lamington, a [[Chessmaster]] grade example.
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** For starters, ''Disgaea 2'' has [[Norio Wakamoto]] ''and'' [[Nobuyuki Hiyama]] in the Japanese track.
** The American version has [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Rita Repulsa]] as Laharl.
*** With Laharl, it's also a case of [[Memetic Mutation|Hey, Listen!]] [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
** Japanese '''[[Nobuo Tobita|Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth]]''' is, [[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam
** Mao's [[Vic Mignogna|English voice]] is essentially [[Ouran High School Host Club
* [[Holy Hand Grenade]]: A number of spells.
* [[Horned Humanoid]]: Many, ''many'' demons.
* [[Horny Devils]]: Succubi, naturally. Nekomata (and Flora Beasts), also being cute female ([[Dropped a Bridget On Him|er, mostly]]) demons, are occasionally lumped in with them (usually when they show up together). Almost all the [[Horny Devils]] are drawn by the ''[[
* [[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.
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* [[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 alternative -- Loads And Loads Of '''Generic''' Characters -- it contains male and female versions of every generic NPC that was in ''Disgaea 1'' and 2, ''as well'' as generic characters from some other NIS games.
** 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 ''[[
* [[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]].
* [[Love Freak]]: Flonne, the [[Trope Namer]], is completely obsessed with love.
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* [[The Multiverse]]: Each game is considered to be in its own universe or series of universes, but dimensional portals abound. This makes for easy cameos from other games in the series.
* [[Mundane Made Awesome]]:
** A lot of the characters' ultimate special attacks, such as the Prism Cannon example above, seem to operate entirely on [[Rule of Cool|Coolness]] and [[It Runs
** Taken to its logical extreme in ''[[
* [[Muscles Are Meaningless]]:
** Just take a look at the picture above -- Do any of them ''really'' look like they could blow up the world?
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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 ''[[
** 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.
* [[No Cure for Evil]]: [[Word of God]] states that Celestia has something of a monopoly on healing magic, and that demon healers are either fallen angels or descended from them.
* [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished]]: Almaz in the Almaz ending of the [[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice
* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]: Triggered by a loss to Mid-Boss in the first game, or to Axel in the second (these also count as [[Multiple Endings]]). There are also multiple instances in the games of winning "unwinnable fights" thanks to the [[New Game+]] mode. Some of these cause Nonstandard endings. In other instances, these are caused by the hero having too many Ally kills, which allows unusual plot choices that end the game (refusing to show mercy where in the "real" plot you do, for example).
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Most characters are well aware that they're in a video game series.
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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.
** This system is abandoned from ''Disgaea 3'' onward in favor of the more convenient Class World system, where any character can share their spells and abilities with another.
* [[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
* [[Punch-Punch-Punch Uh-Oh]]: Generally speaking, the [[Bonus Boss|Bonus Bosses]] have stats so high that there are two outcomes to attacking them -- either they die in one hit, or you do 0 damage. If you attack and do 0... [[Oh Crap|Uh oh.]]
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: The main cast of every game in the series.
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** Among the Mook gallery, though, there are subversions to this (counting their default colors used in official artwork; [[Palette Swap]] only registering a higher tier). The Archers and Magic Knights have [[Blue Eyes]] (fitting, given that supplementary material cites them as being some of the nicer individuals), and the [[Catgirl|Felynn]] skirt between blue and purple. Both male and female Samurai have black-colored irises, and the [[Horny Devils|Succubi]] and Cheerleaders have light-pink colored eyes.
* [[The Red Mage]]: Prism and Galaxy mages can use attack spells of all four elements.
* [[Reference Overdosed]]: The series [[Disgaea
* [[Reluctant Warrior]]: Flonne hates fighting, but does so to help Laharl. {{spoiler|Later cameos show she's all too willing to fight for anime DVD collections, too.}}
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Look at those special attacks!
* [[Running Gag]]: During the tutorials, when one of the characters chooses to end turn (Either accidentally or on purpose to prove their point), the main character is helplessly surrounded and attacked by the remaining enemies much to the annoyance of the main character.
* [[Royal Brat]]: Prince Laharl, much to his vassals' annoyance.
* [[Say It
** The best possible reaction (generally only possible with lots of judicious bribing) in the Dark Assembly is "Loves" with a heart after it. Etna and Sapphire use hearts to cheerfully punctuate death threats.
** Most of the female monsters use them, as well; succubi, in particular.
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** 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|Elite Tweaks]] dependant on getting as many assembly members in your pocket as you can.
* [[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.}}
** ''Dark Hero Days'' has its own Evil Rangers, which is a popular kid's show at the time. Interestingly, the [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|first five are Red, Black]], [[Shout-Out|Blue, Yellow, and Pink]], while the [[Sixth Ranger|sixth one is Green]].
* [[Serial Escalation]]: It nearly matches ''[[
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Disgaea
* [[Simple Score of Sadness]]: It's an entire game full of peppy, upbeat songs... and then there's "Sorrowful Angel".
* [[Slap-On-The-Wrist Nuke]]: Even the most outrageously destructive attacks leave the terrain unscathed, and can cause surprisingly little damage in the wrong conditions. The fight animations play to completion regardless of how effective the attack is, so it is not uncommon to see an elaborate cutscene of a character getting hit so hard that they literally become a black hole and explode...followed by "Miss".
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** The Prism Rangers are the obvious example, but they're certainly not the only ones. Flonne does, at one point, try to get Laharl and Etna to do one, with very limited success.
** The cast of the third game does one as well. See [[All Your Powers Combined]] above.
* [[Sweet Tooth]]: Laharl and Etna both have enormous sweet teeth, and the former's confiscation of the latter's expensive snacks is a frequent point of contention between the two, particularly in ''[[
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]] (Most battle scenes begin with lots of dialogue between the characters, and can be skipped. Etna hangs a lampshade on it on the tutorial level of the first game. Flonne actually scolds Laharl for even suggesting they attack before a later opponent finishes explaining his motivations.)
* [[Thieves' Guild]]: The profile for the rogue class states the existence of one.
* [[Throw the Dog
** The idea of the Prinny sytem is sorta built on this. Sure, they were rat bastards in their former life ([[Heroic Sacrifice|well, most]]), but the universe has given them another chance. For those that realize this, and get past the laziness that seems to be inherent in Prinnies, they work their asses off to either work off the bad karma gained, redeem themselves, or [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|gain enough coin]] to earn that chance, and the potential to be better beings in the next life. The idea that the universe is so willing to give all the chance to be better is...well...uplifting.
** Exemplified in ''[[
** 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.
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* [[Video Game Stealing]]: You can steal items from just about any monster, and taking these items away actually has a discernible effect on their performance -- for example, steal an archer's bow, and they're a sitting duck. ''Disgaea'' Thieves can even steal stats! It's pretty much the only way to level them up, since their growth and aptitude rates are far inferior to other created characters. Thieves in ''Disgaea 2'' are more balanced, and can also use their thievery skills to inflict [[Standard Status Effects]].
* [[Violence Is the Only Option]]/[[Violence Really Is the Answer]]: The fundamental rule that all Netherworlds thrive on.
* [[Weakened
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Largely averted, due to main characters choosing any weapon (save for monsters being stuck with the two monster weapon types), but weapon proficiency means some characters are better at some weapons than others.
* [[We Have Reserves]]: Sort of. You're restricted to only 10 of your units on the field at any one time, including corpses which [[Final Death|you cannot revive]] [[Death Is Cheap|until the end of the battle.]] However, the game does absolutely nothing to stop you from tossing your worn-out, beaten, nearly-dead husks of units back into your home base and bringing out new ones. A sometimes legitimate strategy is to attack with a set of [[Fragile Speedster|fragile speedsters]] and [[Glass Cannon|glass cannons]], then throw them back into the home base before they can be killed off, and bring them around for another pass next turn.
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