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* [[BFG]]: Rozalin's "Rose Thorn" special ability uses a [[Gatling Good|chaingun]] to deliver [[Death of a Thousand Cuts|several successive hits]] to a group of enemies with [[More Dakka|a shower of bullets]].
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]:
** Spoofed
** Played straight in the manga where Etna deflects an incoming beam from a monster followed up by Laharl and Flonne bursting into the scene with their signature attacks.
** Also played straight (though [[Lampshaded]]) by Axel. In fact, for a [[Noble Demon|self-proclaimed rat bastard]], he sure gets quite a few of these.
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* [[Cooldown Hug]]
* [[Crossdresser]]:
** "Main Hero B", the Angel that joins Axel is a guy. Proof? Any Dark Sun (or Rozalin) effect that affects males affects him. They do NOT affect [[Player
** Also, the flower monster in Adell's hometown.
*** [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|Named]] [[Guilty Gear|Bridget]]
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** A subtler one is the fact that {{spoiler|Adell's ears are covered by his hair, making it impossible for the player to tell if he's human or demon. It did make it easy for the player to initially believe that Adell was the only human left on Veldime}}.
** There's another one halfway through the game where Rozalin says {{spoiler|"...do you suppose he (The real Zenon) may have been tricked by the faker and is imprisoned somewhere...?"}}
**
**
* [[Forgot I Could Fly]]: Subverted. Rozalin can fly, but not for long enough to help when she falls off a cliff.
* [[Weirdness Magnet|Freak Magnet]]: Adell, who lampshades it. Several times.
* [[Funny Background Event]]: While Rozalin discusses whether or not to let Adell die in Chapter 3, Adell is busy having a fight on-screen.
* [[Gameplay and Story Integration]]: {{spoiler|Overlord Zenon made good use of the "reincarnate to atone for sins" command
** Also,
** Rozalin and Adell start out hating each other, and this is reflected by the fact that as the game begins they only have a 1% chance of engaging in a Team Attack together. As the story progresses, and they grow closer, this slowly climbs to 99%. If you get DLC Almaz and Sapphire for ''Dark Hero Days'', they too have a 99% chance of team attacking, due to them {{spoiler|being married by the end of ''Disgaea 3''}}.
* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Adell does this to Rozalin after she totally wigs out in a battle against {{spoiler|Laharl}} and starts to attack her teammates. This becomes [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|retroactively awesome]] when you realize that {{spoiler|she reverted back to [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Overlord Zenon]]}}, meaning that {{spoiler|Adell just [[Bright Slap]]ped the ''God of all Overlords''. And it ''worked''
* [[Giant Waist Ribbon]]: Yukimaru, Fubuki
* [[Goldfish Poop Gang]]: Axel is a one-man Goldfish Poop Gang.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Adell has an x-shape scar on his cheek. {{spoiler|Explained later as a [[Deal with the Devil]] gone sour. And the cause of his [[He-Man Woman Hater]] tendencies
* [[Got Me Doing It]]: "Why is everyone speaking like her now, zam?"
** "Beauty Qu- er... Demon Lord Etna?! {{spoiler|From Zenon, of all people
* [[Gratuitous English]]: In the Prism Rangers bonus battle, Prism Orange parodies this concept by speaking entirely in Engrish. In the original Japanese version, he spoke like a stereotypical foreign Japanophile.
** As well as in White Tiger, Axel's theme.
* [[Guys Smash, Girls Shoot]]: Adell is proficient in hand-to-hand combat, while Rozalin is skilled with guns.
* [[He-Man Woman Hater]]: Adell really doesn't like girls, though {{spoiler|he eventually makes an exception for Rozalin}}.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]:
* [[Hello, Nurse!]]: Rozalin. She even boosts the stats of adjacent male characters in an aversion of [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]].
* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: Mostly averted by Adell, who fights with his fists because to do otherwise is "just not his style". [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|You can hand him a sword anyways
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Adell will protect anyone and ''everyone'' he makes a promise to, no matter what it takes. His shameless sense of honor also works as an in-game combat bonus: his attacks get stronger against enemies at a higher level than him.
** Yukimaru frequently attempts seppuku whenever she thinks she failed her mission. She gets over it.
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: Etna and Laharl during the main storyline.
** Partially subverted by the [[New Game+]] system and ability to [[Level Grinding|Level Grind]]
* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]: After playing through the game a bit, various secondary characters will send proposals to the Dark Assembly to become the [[Main Character]]. If the proposal is passed—and there's usually a very good chance of it happening—a [[Nonstandard Game Over]] is triggered (
* [[Hot-Blooded]]: Quite a few characters, but Adell especially. He can even ''set enemies on fire'' through sheer hot-bloodedness.
** Axel deserves specific mention, as well. Manages to roast his director with an explosion caused by his hotbloodedness, plus he's voiced by [[Nobuyuki Hiyama|one of most hotblooded JP VAs around]].
* [[Hot Mom]]: Adell's mom. Just try to ignore that little third-eye thing.
** If you include some sketches from Harada and the manga, {{spoiler|Rozalin's Mom and Serion, Adell's real mom, in her true form qualify
* [[I Am a Humanitarian]]: Adell in the worst ending.
* [[Idiot Hair]]: Adell's [http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff210/serlyserly2/Disgaea%202/Concept-1.jpg character design notes] go as far as explicitly labeling it as [[Idiot Hair]].
* [[Idol Singer]]: Axel has his own rock band—and film crew!
* [[Immortality Begins At Twenty]]: Unlike the rest of the worlds in the series, demons native to Veldime mature like humans.
* [[The Immune]]: Adell is the only human in the world who isn't affected by Zenon's curse {{spoiler|because his parents are demons, and so is he}}.
* [[Inevitable Tournament]]: Spread across two chapters.
* [[Instant Plunder, Just Add Pirates]]
* [[Insult Backfire]]: Any derogatory statement about Mom's lack of conscience will invariably be met with, "Damn straight, I don't -- Zenon took it. Now either go kick his ass or shut your trap."
* [[Interface Screw]]: The map during battle against
* [[It Was with You All Along]]: {{spoiler|The summoning ritual wasn't as unsuccessful in summoning Overlord Zenon (
▲* {{spoiler|[[Interspecies Adoption]]: Adell is a demon raised by humans.}}
* [[Kangaroo Court]]: The Dark Court.▼
▲* [[It Was with You All Along]]: {{spoiler|The summoning ritual wasn't as unsuccessful in summoning Overlord Zenon (aka Rozalin) as it initially seemed}}.
* [[Knight Templar Big Brother]]: Don't mess with Adell's little brother Taro or little sister Hanako, or he will kick your ass.▼
▲* [[Kangaroo Court]]: The Dark Court
▲* [[Knight Templar Big Brother]]: Don't mess with Adell's little brother Taro or little sister Hanako or he will kick your ass.
** Same for Axel and his little bro. He will willingly give up fame and fortune to tear your ass apart if you threaten him.
* [[Large Ham]]: Overlord Zenon in the dub.
** In the Japanese version as well, being voiced by [[Norio Wakamoto]] and all...
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: The PSP version of ''Disgaea 2'' is looking to beat ''Disgaea 3'' in this aspect. Alongside the returning playable characters, the optional bosses that were originally not playable in the original in the [[PlayStation 2]] version are now playable, many of whom became DLC in ''Disgaea 3''. Additional bosses have been added including Mao, Raspberyl
* [[Lost in Translation]]: The bill to fight Zetta is "Meet The Strongest Overlord
* [[Mana Drain]]: Fubuki.
* [[Medium Awareness]]:
** When asked about why her title is "Beauty Queen" and not "Demon Lord", she claims to have hacked it ages ago.
*** Awesomely enough, they actually [[Techno Babble|store your title as a string instead of a reference to a list somewhere
** When Adell insists that he is going to beat Zenon, Rozalin asks why he's so overconfident; does he have an extremely high level or something?
* [[Mega Twintails]]: The archers get a new hairstyle in this game, which consists of this.
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: "You aren't alone. You have friends that care about you... and Etna."
* [[Mythology Gag]]: The entire "Makai Wars" chapter of Axel's story; about a movie that has never been finished the past 100 years.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: When the game generates a random name for a character, one possibile outcome is '''Deathsatan'''.
* [[National Stereotypes]]: The English dub version of Tink. With the accent in mind, his title of Dirty Frog likely refers to more than just his shape and his lechery.
* [[Noble Demon]]: Axel might arguably be considered one, as a major motivation behind his actions is {{spoiler|his sick mother and siblings
** Rozalin is just a snob at times; she honestly cares about Adell's family. As for Adell, well, as Etna puts it; they have one of ''[[Tsundere|those kinds of relationships]]''.
** For all her display, Etna does let Adell go when she beats him, and it's a [[Nonstandard Game Over]] if he beats her only because it drives the plot [[Off the Rails]]. If you're paying attention, you'll also notice that she takes the hit from Zenon's super blast in the ending in order to protect Hanako.
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: Rozalin asks Adell where his confidence comes from; is he descended from heroes?
* [[Now Buy the Merchandise]]: In ''Dark Hero Days'', Aramis, Badman
* [[Obvious Beta]]: ''Dark Hero Days'
* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: The story-relevant fight of Level 1000 Etna vs. Overlord Zenon happens completely offscreen.
* [[Ojou]]: Played straight with the [[Tsundere]] Rozalin.
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: Played straight with Zenon {{spoiler|both the real AND fake; the second of the two}} is a bit of an [[Anticlimax Boss]]
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Adell.
* [[Peninsula of Power Leveling]]: Map 4-3, where nearly half of the map has enemies level up every turn.
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* [[Pimped-Out Dress]]: Rozalin.
* [[Playing with Fire]]: Adell.
* [[Power Fist]]: Lots of classes use unarmed strikes with
* [[Power Nullifier]]: Yukimaru.
* [[The Power of Love]]: {{spoiler|Adell fixes the (un)[[Heroic BSOD|HeroicBSODing]] Rozalin with a quick smooch
* [[Precocious Crush]]: Taro on Rozalin. [[Wendee Lee|Both voiced by the same person
* [[Princess Classic]]: Rozalin partly fits this, at least at first.
* [[Promoted to Unlockable]]
* [[Rainbow Motif]]: The Prism Rangers.
* [[Real Men Eat Meat|Real Princesses Eat Meat]]: In contrast to Etna's [[Sweet Tooth]], Rozalin is a meat and potatoes girl.
** Referenced a couple of times in the manga adaptation.
* [[Redemption Demotion]]: When Etna first shows up, she is an extremely powerful boss-type character that's impossible to defeat on most first playthroughs. She reappears later on in the game, but is reduced to level 1 and given crappy equipment, and she forces herself into Adell's party to gain her levels ''back''. Their initial exchange upon her return is rife with [[Lampshade Hanging]]. This can also be subverted using the [[New Game+]] feature which allows for your previous party members to rejoin at the level they were during your last playthrough, how does this affect your series well, if your Etna was at level 9999 and had all the best weapons and armor then she'll rejoin your group in that chapter at this level.
* [[Redheaded Hero]]: Adell.
* [[Restart At Level One]]: Etna, due to a summoning ritual gone bad.
** In a more meta-example, {{spoiler|the level 1900 Zenon reincarnating as a noncombative young girl, who is indeed level 1 and completely clueless about battle when the story starts
* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: Rozalin's childhood is extremely similar to that of (I kid you not) the Buddha.
* [[Samus Is a Girl]] {{spoiler|The real Zenon; either that or a [[Gender Bender]] through [[Reincarnation]]
* [[Save the Princess]]: Subverted. Axel makes the assumption that Princess = [[Damsel in Distress|Must Be Saved]], even if said princess is with her "captor" willingly (Rozalin). The situation ended in comical pain.
* [[The Scrappy]]: An in-universe example. Just EXISTING is a crime for Tink. Considering how obnoxious he can be (especially when his red personality is dominant) though, it's hard to disagree with the game.
* [[Seppuku]]: Yukimaru is a little too eager to commit suicide after 1) your group defeats her, and 2) the odds against surviving an encounter with the {{spoiler|fake}} Overlord Zenon don't look good. Adell has to talk her out of it both times.
* [[Serial Escalation]]: The original ''Disgaea 2'' has a way of constantly making each challenge worse than the last. Starting from the first fight with Axel culminating in the [[Bonus Boss]] Baal, but every time each battle not only gets consistently harder, geo effects are played with, enemy equipment is pushed to its limits, and eventually stats are just ridiculously allocated on the enemies. It finally gets [[Up to Eleven]] when Pringer X is introduced on the port
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: [[Tsundere|Oh yeah?! Well you're not my boyfriend either Adell!]]
* [[She's a Man In Japan]]: The angel in Axel Mode.
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Disgaea/Shout Out|Has its own page
* [[Sound-Only Death]]: {{spoiler|The Worst Ending has a post credits sound only epilogue where you can hear Hanako trying to reason with the now possessed Adell. It gets worse from there when in the Japanese audio, you can hear Adell kill both Hanako and Taro, then eat them complete with the gory sound of there flesh being torn apart
* [[Stay with the Aliens]]: It's stated in the Good End that {{spoiler|Hanako remained a demon so she could apprentice under Etna
* [[Stealth Insult]]: Axel Mode's Evil Pink specializes in this.
* [[This Cannot Be!]]: Rozalin's response upon finding out that the "most powerful Overlord" in [[The Multiverse]] is {{spoiler|[[Makai Kingdom|a talking book]]
* [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]: Axel.
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Etna, since you're playing as heroes this time.
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{{quote|''Because I loooove being hurt. <3''}}
** It seems he named himself "Main Hero B" just so that the demons would have an excuse to hurt him.
* [[Tsundere]]: Adell's mom. One minute, she speaks cheerfully to her little children, and the next minute, she's chewing out her husband for things said by the giant monstrous mole on his chest.
** Rozalin might also count, although she skirts the line between major [[Tsundere]] and mild [[
** Axel Mode adds in
* [[True Companions]]: The reason that Rozalin try to stop {{spoiler|Laharl to take away Etna is because she consider her one
* [[Twice Shy]]: {{spoiler|Adell and Rozalin
* [[Unknown Rival]]: Axel.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Yukimaru, zam. [[Most Annoying Sound|All the freaking time, zam
** It makes more sense in Japanese. What she does is add "de gozaru" at the end of every sentence, which is an archaic way of speaking and often crops up with jidaigeki involving ninjas.
* [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show]]: Real Overlord Zenon. Also Adell in the infamous worst ending.
* [[Violence Really Is the Answer]]: Adell's justification for why he solves most of his problems by [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|punching their source to dust]], even though [[Brilliant but Lazy|he's actually pretty smart]]: beating the crap out of things IS the most efficient solution. A short look at the entire series makes it hard to disagree.
** Given that the game takes place primarily in the demon world, and demons are expected to solve all their problems with violence, it seem's like adjusting to the environment.
** Axel paraphrases the trope when Taro and Hanako are arguing over a candy bar.
* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: With the Japanese voices, Axel Mode's
* [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]]: Rozalin.
* [[Who Dares?]]: [[Bonus Boss|Should you decide]] to fight [[Makai Kingdom|Zetta]], his first words upon appearing are "Who dares summon me?".
* [[Worth It]]: Axel says this in not so many words after {{spoiler|attracting the vengeance of almost ''every overlord ever'' for the "Fake Zenon" stunt he pulled in the last chapter}}. One of the last images the game gives us is {{spoiler|Axel riding off with dozens of fangirls and an expression that just screams, "''So'' fricking worth it!"}}.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Adell assumes that he'll be able to beat Zenon despite his low level because he's the only human in Veldime who hasn't been affected by Zenon's curse, and thus he must be the main hero character who triumphs against all odds. {{spoiler|He's wrong in regards to ''why'' he's immune to the curse, but the confidence he gains from his [[Determinator]] attitude certainly contributes a lot to his eventual victory}}.
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