Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories: Difference between revisions

** And, at one point, Hanako asks Rozalin if she could one day become as strong as Etna. Rozalin tells her she could become even stronger. {{spoiler|Cue ''Dark Hero Days'', which features [[Future Badass|Demon Lord Hanako]], widely considered to be the best unit in the game.}}.

** And, of course, as mentioned under [[Exact Words]]: {{spoiler|Mom cast a spell to summon Overlord Zenon. They got Rozalin.}}.

* [[Gameplay and Story Integration]]: {{spoiler|Overlord Zenon made good use of the "reincarnate to atone for sins" command.}}.

** Also, {{spoiler|your crimes and penalties actually ties into the ending you get into the game.}} {{spoiler|It makes sense, given that the worse ending implies that the player played Adell as a [[Complete Monster]] who kept committing crimes and killing allies left and right. Whereas the Good End actually reflects on how the player cared about your allies.}}.

** 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, and Rozalin.

* [[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.}}.

** "Beauty Qu- er... Demon Lord Etna?! {{spoiler|From Zenon, of all people.}}.

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

* [[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.

** Partially subverted by the [[New Game+]] system and ability to [[Level Grinding|Level Grind]]—you: you ''can'' win these fights, if you spend weeks preparing for them, and doing so in ''Disgaea 2'' gets you a [[Nonstandard Game Over]].

* [[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 (Youyou get a cool item if you defeat it).

** 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.}}.

* [[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]].

* [[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}}.

* [[Interface Screw]]: The map during battle against {{spoiler|fake!}}Zenon is oriented at a forty-five degree angle, compared to the rest of the game's maps (likely for the visual aesthetic), and your directional controls are altered to match.