Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories: Difference between revisions

 

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* [[A-Cup Angst]]: Hanako wants to try hard to ''undo'' her [[Buffy-Speak|un-bustiness]]. Yukimaru also qualifies.

* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: {{spoiler|Fake Zenon}} in the Manga.

* [[An Ice Person]]: The snow clan.

** Etna when she looses her levels, also, a nice [[Laser-Guided Karma]] in favor of the prinnies.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Taro.

* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: When you magichange in the remake, you only have 2 turns to wield the monster-weapon (3 if you pass the once-per-resurrection bill for the monster). If the computer magichanges enemy monsters, they keep them forever.

* [[Continuity Nod]]:

** Etna also mentions at one point she knew of a demon lord that married a human {{spoiler|Laharl's parents.}}

** Flonne's final technique, Flonnezilla, is a reference to a gag in the first game.

* [[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 Mooks|Player Mook]] angels with the same sprite.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: The cause of the entire plot. {{spoiler|Fake Zenon loses a fight to Real Zenon. As revenge, Fake Zenon initiates an incredibly complicated plan that involves tracking down and kidnapping the innocent reincarnation of Real Zenon, then raising her as an air-headed, pompous fool. It's so crazy that it actually works, at least until Adell starts [[Pull the Thread|pulling the thread]]}}.

** Also, if you win the first fight against Laharl, he ''destroys the entire world''.

* [[Downloadable Content]]: So far, [[Updated Rerelease|Dark Hero Days]] will let you recruit...

** [[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters|Gig]] ([[No Export for You|Japan only]] due glitches that occurred when he was downloaded)

** [[Future Badass|Demon Lord Hanako]]

** Unless you have the US version. In which case, say goodbye to [[No Export for You|Gig, Eclair, and Miabelle.]] Despite the fact that downloading [[Game Breaker|Demon Lord Hanako]] unlocks Gig's Magichange data, and causes an [[One Hundred Percent Completion|impossibility.]]

* [[Dropped a Bridget On Him]]: Tink attempts to hit on the [[Cute Monster Girl]] in Adell's hometown only to find out it's actually a Cute Monster ''Guy''. For more fun, he's [[Shout-Out|also named]] [[Guilty Gear|Bridget.]]

** It should also be noted that the Angel who joins up in Axel Mode is affected by abilities and effects that only affect ''male'' characters.

* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Subverted with Adell. Well, sometimes, anyway.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: {{spoiler|The true Overlord Zenon was about to become this due to reaching the upper levels of demonic power. Then things got complicated...}}

* [[Empty Promise]]: Adell's parents promised to come back from fighting the [[Big Bad]]. The result? Their dejected son will never break a promise because of it. ''Ever''.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Most "true" demons refer to Veldime inhabitants as "Altered Humans."

* [[Fetish]]: When summoning Saphire as DLC in the PSP release, it's noted that since Adell summoned two princesses, he must have a thing for them.

* [[The Fettered]]: Adell.

* [[Five-Man Band]]:

** 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.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Etna, though she didn't have much of a choice.}}

* [[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.]] Barring slower weapon rank growth, he does fine with them.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Now Buy the Merchandise]]: In ''Dark Hero Days'', Aramis, Badman, and Mao all shill the Dark Council for ''[[Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?]], [[Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman]]'' (And its sequel), and ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' respectively. Amusingly, their petitions that you watch their commercials always have 100% approval and will pass even if you cheat to make the Council vote no. It's a great way to get items, though.

* [[Obvious Beta]]: ''Dark Hero Days's'' DLC was released with so many crippling bugs and glitches that they had to ''take it down'' from PSN so they could fix them.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Adell.

* [[Peninsula of Power Leveling]]: Map 4-3, where nearly half of the map has enemies level up every turn.

* [[Pillars of Moral Character]]: Adell's requirement to live up to all his promises binds him like a ball and chain.

* [[Playing with Fire]]: Adell.

* [[Power Fist]]: Lots of classes use unarmed strikes with weaponry—and Adell, of course.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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 "Disgaea 2 Dark Hero Days" as a boss who is just overall ridiculously difficult, but even after winning the player is forced to refight 8 of him with maxed out stats in every category or the battle doesn't count in the dark record.

* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: [[Tsundere|Oh yeah?! Well you're not my boyfriend either Adell!]]

* [[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.}}

* [[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]].}}