Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories/Characters

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For characters that appear in multiple games in the series, see the main character sheet.

Adell

Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa (JP), Shiloh Strong (EN)

Being anything but The Hero just isn't his style.

Main character of the second game in the series. He is a Hot-Blooded, red-headed Determinator who appears to be the last remaining human on Veldime, unaffected by Overlord Zenon's curse. Adell has a completely unrelenting sense of honor that should by all means mark him as cannon-fodder in the world he lives in, but miraculously doesn't. When Adell makes a promise, he will keep it, no matter what the universe throws at him. He also has the world's largest tie. Later in the game, it's revealed that the reason Zenon's curse didn't affect him is because he is in fact a demon. Both of his parents were benevolent demons that lived in Veldime, but after Zenon appeared and started affecting the world with his curse, they left Adell with his adopted parents and tried to kill Zenon to stop the curse. They were defeated and made into is his mind controlled slaves. He's never aware of this, however.

Tropes associated with Adell:

  • Battlemaniac: He'll deny it though.
  • Bodyguard Crush: His intentions to protect Rozalin until he can keep his promise to her in interpreted like this, to his fervent denials.
  • Brilliant but Lazy: Adell is entirely capable of being intelligent. He just doesn't feel like it most of the time because bashing problems into a fine red pulp is a lot easier.
  • Catch Phrase: These tropes are just his style.
    • Get him to talk about stealing, back-stabbing, or anything demonish. It will get stuck in your head.
  • Crippling Overspecialization: Played for laughs in Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice: he left Veldime after the end of Disgaea 2 because he doesn't know how to do anything but fight, and didn't get a job at Evil Academy because Hot-Blooded isn't a teaching skill (or rather, it is, but Mr. Champloo has that position filled already)!
  • Cutscene Power to the Max: Regardless of level, Adell will effortlessly block a Chaos Impact from a 1000-level Etna. The ensuing fight, however...
  • Detached Sleeves
  • Determinator: Adell actually deals extra damage against opponents of higher level than himself.
  • Does Not Like Girls: Due to a Deal with the Devil gone south. And it was with a Horny Devil at that.
  • Even Heroes Have Heroes: When Pleinair is made available as DLC, the scene where she is recruited has Adell ask for her autograph instead of challenging her to battle. Unfortunately, he gets so embarrassed by what he did, he runs to his room in tears.
  • Fan Boy: A 'Dark Hero Days' DLC reveals Adell to be a huge fan of Plenair. Rather than fighting her like other DLC characters, Adell will freak out and ask for her autograph, then hide in his room for two hours out of embarrassment, causing Plenair to join the group out of pity.
  • The Fettered: What would Adell be without his oaths? Especially since, as mentioned above, he's loathe to acknowledge his love of battle.
    • In the Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice DLC, one of Adell's Evilities prevents him from killing anyone below his level; any killing attack will instead drive the opponent's HP to One. This actually makes him great for Level Grinding characters well below his level, since they can just finish those enemies off.
  • Fiery Redhead: Both figuratively and literally.
  • Gameplay and Story Integration: Adell and Rozalin's combo attack chance rising as the story progresses, starting at 0% in Chapter 1 and ending at 99%.
  • Good Old Fisticuffs: Strongest with fist weapons.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: Adell has some facial scars he got off of a succubus, but they're on his cheeks and aren't particularly visible.
  • Happily Adopted: His parents and siblings are not his blood relations, but not only does he not care, he loves them as if they were, and it's regarded in kind by them.
  • Honor Before Reason: Rozalin finds her trust in him frustrating and insensible since he actually knows for a fact that she's been lying to him.
  • Hot-Blooded: To the point that his special attacks are Fire attribute.
  • Hotblooded Sideburns
  • Hunter of His Own Kind: Not that he realizes it. One would think that, being a demon, he'd notice the pointy ears, but no. He has apparently never looked under that hair of his.
    • Word of God says he actually has a birth defect that makes his ears human-shaped.
  • Idiot Hair: He has a massive red lock sticking up out of the top of his head... but he's actually not as dumb as he looks.
  • Idiot Hero: Subverted: Adell is actually quite intelligent; he just chooses to act in what people think is an idiotic manner.
  • If It's You It's Okay: Adell gets to a point where he doesn't hold Rozalin's incredible feminine sexiness against her. It takes a while.
  • I'm a Humanitarian: The worst ending.
  • Last of His Kind: Subverted. He's not as human as he thinks.
  • Midnight Blue Eyes
  • Oblivious Adoption: The adoption, he knows of. The fact that he's not human? Not so much.
  • Only Sane Man: Self aware of it too.
  • Overrated and Underleveled: He begins the game at level 1, as befitting the hero of an RPG. But he's already traveled all over the world of Veldime looking for Overlord Zenon, and Veldime has some pretty dangerous regions to search through. When he couldn't find the Overlord, he instead traveled all over Veldime again to collect the ingredients his mother needed to summon Zenon, which included killing a few mighty beasts. So, he's supposed to be much stronger in the story than his level in the game indicates (averts with a New Game+).
  • Playing with Fire: All of Adell's special attacks are fire-based.
  • Power Fist: His Weapon of Choice.
  • The Power of Trust: Adell probably believes in this even more than Flonne believes in love, which is really saying something.
  • The Promise: That promise he made to protect you? He'll keep it even if you turn out to be an All-Destroying Dimension Lord with amnesia. Provided the player isn't a douche.
  • Redheaded Hero
  • Self-Made Orphan Though he never learns about it. Probably the kindest thing to do is keep it that way.
  • She Is Not My Girlfriend: Around Chapter 10, Adell and Rozalin start going this way about each other. They don't fool anybody. As of Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten, they now have trouble convincing people that they're not married.

Etna: Awww, you have one of those kinds of relationship!

Rozalin

Voiced by: Yukari Tamura (JP), Wendee Lee (EN)

If nothing else, Rozalin is the most well-dressed character.

Daughter of Overlord Zenon who was extremely sheltered from the world before a botched (or was it?) summoning spell plucked her out of her mansion and dumped her in Adell's lap. Bound by the summoning contract, Rozalin has no choice but to comply and lead the way to her father, even though she is just as clueless as anyone else to his whereabouts. Because of this, Rozalin sets upon being as unhelpful as possible in hopes that she can get the offending Idiot Hero killed and return home. That is, at least, until Zenon starts targeting her as well...

Tropes associated with Rozalin:

Rozalin: I can teach those filthy students how to act like a perfect demon lord. For example, gloating at losers as they're walking away, or suggesting to poor, starving people that they should eat cake if they can't afford bread.
Mao: Hmm, those are actually very important things for a demon to learn.

  • Royal Blood: Subverted. She's actually born of a clan of Ninja, not an actual princess.
  • Small Girl, Big Gun: Normally, she uses some variation of a handgun, but for her Rose Thorns skill, she pulls out a pair of Gatling guns.
  • Spell My Name With A D: Her name in the Japanese version is "Rozalind" (although many people also think her name in the Japanese version is romanized as "Rozarindo"), while her nickname (any instance in the English version where she's called "Rozy") is "Rosalee".
  • Super-Powered Evil Side: If the seal on her is broken or weakened, her original memories return with her power. Doing so makes her powerful enough to give a beatdown on Laharl bad enough that he actually runs away as quickly as possible, but she then views everything as an enemy. Apparently, everyone Zenon has ever gotten close to betrayed her, thus "I am a being of solitude."
  • Tomato in the Mirror
  • Tsundere: She has characters calling her out on it and database entry in Disgaea Infinite that uses her as an example.
  • Tsurime Eyes
  • Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: She's pretty critical of Adell's recklessness and love of fighting.

Taro

Voiced by: Hiro Shimono (JP), Wendee Lee (EN)

Adell's adopted little brother. Has many aspects of a cow, including using milk as an attack. Has been a demon all his life and isn't particularly bothered. Kidnapped by Axel in Chapter 4.

Tropes associated with Taro:

  • Adorably Precocious Child
  • Ambidextrous Sprite: That band-aid appears on both sides of his face in cut scenes, depending on which way he's facing.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Adell, possessed by Zenon, brutally kills and devours him in the worst ending.
  • Happiness in Slavery: He will, under his own volition, become Rozalin's slave and his title will change to "Rozy's Slave".
  • Morality Pet: Both Rozalin and Axel show their kinder sides by making sure he's okay.
  • Precocious Crush: Why he becomes Rozy's Slave.
  • Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: His normal attack and "Crybaby Strikes" are him just flailing his fists around. But it's effective nonetheless, especially with him being a demon, and his counterattacking ability.
  • Stone Wall: Starts with low movement and jump, but has 130% modifiers in Defense and Resistance, and also possesses a self-healing move, making him an excellent tank.

Hanako

Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi (JP), Stephanie Sheh (EN)

Adell's adopted little sister. Biological little sister of Taro. Was born after Veldime was turned into demons, so has been a demon all her life and in fact enjoys being one.

Tropes associated with Hanako:

  • Age-Inappropriate Dress: She's 9.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: She shares Taro's fate in the bad ending.
  • Detractor Nickname: In the English version, she calls her brother 'Tardo'.
  • Future Badass: The final downloadable character is her 10 years in the future, and she has surpassed Etna in power.
  • Future Me Scares Me: Her 10 years older future self does not take kindly to being summoned and seriously intimidates her.
  • I Choose to Stay: In the good ending, she leaves to be Etna's apprentice and find a way to permanently become a demon, since Adell's success turned her into a human. Somehow, she reverts to her "modified demonic human" state in the Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice DLC.
  • Morality Pet: Etna's a lot nicer to her then she is to the rest of the party.
  • The Smart Guy
  • Supreme Chef: She's very good at cooking; everyone agrees. Everyone feels that way, including otherwise unpleasable beings such as Etna and Laharl. Which ensures she'll be treated well under Etna's tutelage.
  • Token Loli: She's 9.

Overlord Zenon

Voiced by: Norio Wakamoto (JP), Lex Lang (EN)

Why yes, he is voiced by Norio Wakamoto. Why do you ask?

Demon Overlord who is known as "The God Of All Overlords" because he once killed 99 other Overlords in straight fight, and 1000 overall. Since then, he hasn't been seen much by anyone, preferring to remain in hiding to avoid the masses of glory seeking demons coming challenge him, but apparently has raised Rozalin to be a perfect princess. For reasons unknown, he has also turned everyone in Adell's world into demons.

  • Back From the Dead: Actually pulls this twice during the course of the game. He's finally Killed Off for Real when the true Zenon vaporizes him.
  • The Battle Didn't Count: After you beat him, he just summons up more power from his curse and defeats your party.
  • Big Bad: Adell and the rest of the group are pursuing him in order to end the curse on Veldime or get revenge, respectively. Rozalin just wants to meet him though.
  • Captain Oblivious: Unless specifically told something, he's completely unaware of what's going on in the world or even in his tournament. So when the location of his castle is put on the news, the first thing he says upon meeting the party (after being attacked by multiple Overlords throughout the day) is "How does everyone know where I live?!".
  • Curb Stomp Battle: To Adell and company after the Final Battle and then when the real Zenon vaporizes him.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Inverted. Played straight in the manga.
  • Final Boss
  • Norio Wakamoto

Tink

Voiced by: Chihiro Suzuki (JP), Dave Wittenberg (EN)

Rozalin's childhood friend-turned-frog who joins the party on Rozalin's request. Tink has two personalities: one is generally polite and loyal, if quite cowardly. The other is a violent, foul-mouthed pervert with a penchant for swinging around a bat with a nail in it. Both of them are the resident Butt Monkey charged by the Netherworld court with the crime of his mere existence.

Tropes associated with Tink:

  • Batter Up: His "Nail Bat" attack, which would be pretty brutal if it wasn't shown as comic violence.
  • Bishonen: His human form.
  • Butt Monkey: He's constantly abused and attacked. Kinda deserves it too.
  • Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Probably not actually French, but close enough.
  • The Dandy: In his true form, he dresses well and looks pretty effeminate.
  • Dirty Coward: Complete with french accent!
  • Just a Stupid Accent: 'E speeks with ze French accent all ze time, oui?
  • Lightning Bruiser: His high movement and counterattacking, combined with decent attack stats.
  • Motor Mouth: His unique vocal trait in the Japanese dub.
  • Noblewoman's Laugh: Male froggish example.
  • Split Personality: He has a red and blue personality. The former is perverted and angry while the latter is polite and reserved, but both are still cowardly jerks. You can switch between them in combat: the red personality gets a boost from adjacent female characters while the blue form gets a more useful movement bonus, making him great for speeding through the item world quickly; it's tied with critical-health Mothmen for the longest possible movement.
  • Unlucky Childhood Friend

Yukimaru

Voiced by: Kana Ueda (JP), Lara Jill Miller (EN)

She's here to help, zam/de gozaru!

Ninja with a Verbal Tic who joins the group both in hopes of defeating Overlord Zenon and because she has the hots for Adell. While skilled, she is humble to the point of insecurity and prone to thinking of Seppuku as the first solution to her failures. Yukimaru is also on the lookout for her older brother, who is embarking on the same mission alone.

Tropes associated with Yukimaru:

Axel/Akutare

Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama (JP), Grant George (EN)

The once famous Dark Hero who has now fallen on tough times, Axel embarks on the seemingly impossible quest to regain his fame... a difficult task made even harder by the fact that everyone thinks he's dead. Also dead set on getting revenge the man who "killed" him: Adell. While something of a shameless rat bastard (it's what a Dark Hero does, after all), he is prone to being a Big Damn Hero. He will appear in Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten as the warden of Hades who is attempting to suck up to the government through the son of the Netherworld president.

Tropes associated with Axel:

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