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''Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories'' is the second game in the [[Turn Based Strategy]] series ''[[Disgaea (Franchise)|Disgaea]]'', and was released in 2006 for the [[Play Station 2]]. It was later ported to the [[Play Station Portable]] as ''[[Updated Rerelease|Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days.]]''
The game stars Adell, the only person unaffected by a devious curse that has transformed all of the human inhabitants of his home village into heartless demons. The source of the curse is Overlord Zenon, a enigmatic figure who became known as the [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|God of All Overlords]] after he [[One
Unfortunately the summoning ritual ends up conjuring Rozalin, Zenon's [[Spoiled Sweet]] daughter. Having accidentally kidnapped the only daughter of the most powerful Overlord in existence, it's a race for Adell to return Rozalin to Zenon before he tears the world apart looking for her. It's a shame that Rozalin is so sheltered that [[Upperclass Twit|she has no idea where her father actually lives]]. Meanwhile, [[Disgaea Hour of Darkness (Video Game)|Etna]] has decided to strike out on her own and is gunning for the title of God of All Overlords that Zenon possesses.
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Joining Adell are his two younger siblings, Taro and Hanako; Tink, Rozalin's childhood friend who has been [[Baleful Polymorph|Baleful Polymorphed]] into a frog; and Yukimaru, a [[Ninja]] girl who seeks revenge against Overlord Zenon for wiping out her clan, [[Verbal Tic|zam]].
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* [[Adorably Precocious Child]]: Taro. The Skulls have elements of this, but lack a clear-cut personality.
* [[Action Girl]]: Yukimaru, Etna.
* [[A Cup Angst]]: Hanako wants to try hard to ''undo'' her [[Buffy
* [[An Ice Person]]: The snow clan.
* [[Another Side Another Story]]: Much like Etna Mode in the handheld ports of the first ''Disgaea'' and the downloadable Raspberyl chapters in ''[[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice (Video Game)|Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice]]'', Axel gets his own story.
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* [[The Chew Toy]]:
** Axel. The universe does eventually decide to [[Throw the Dog A Bone|throw him a bone]] for all the crap it's put him through ([[Earn Your Happy Ending|though he had to work for it. Hard.]])
** Etna when she looses her levels, also, a nice [[Laser
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Taro.
* [[Cooldown Hug]]
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** Also, the flower monster in Adell's hometown.
*** [[Dropped a Bridget On Him|Named]] [[Guilty Gear|Bridget]]
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Rozalin, though this is powered by a [[Super
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: The gruesome death of {{spoiler|Taro and Hanako}} in the worst ending.
* [[Cursed With Awesome]]: Zenon's curse. While the negative effects (global amnesia, lack of conscience, Zenon can cast Life Drain on you) are pretty bad, Hanako points out that the deal of getting to be a demon is pretty sweet for anyone born and raised under it. {{spoiler|How sweet? Enough that she's a-ok with forgoing the chance to become human again for the opportunity to become the next [[Little Miss Badass|Etna]].}}
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* [[Determinator]]/[[Idiot Hero]]: Adell. He always fights face-to-face, and only uses [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]. Then again, this is Disgaea, where [[Good Old Fisticuffs]] involves punching people so hard they turn into a black hole, which then explodes.
** The game takes time to point out that Adell really isn't an [[Idiot Hero]] when he easily unravels the geo puzzle in the colosseum. The explanation given is that just because he prefers to rush in with his fists doesn't mean he's incapable of thinking it out when he needs to.
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Aside from the traditional punching of ridiculously overpowered demons, Adell takes a page from [[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)/Characters|Kyon's]] book and defeats the apeshit [[Dimension Lord]]/borderline [[Eldritch Abomination]] {{spoiler|by frenching her.}} Granted, he nearly got a face full of lead for his effort, but it did work.
* [[Dirty Coward]]/[[Fake Ultimate Hero]]: Axel runs away numerous times whenever he's getting his butt kicked. He also claims to be a famous "Dark Hero", but nobody really thinks of him as famous, except for the Director who's always following him around and probably has a [[Ho Yay|homosexual crush on him.]]
** It eventually gets revealed that the whole ''point'' of a Dark Hero is to be underhanded, sneaky, and repulsive: in other words, all the qualities that evil just loves. Though, judging from some of the other games, not ''[[Moral Event Horizon|too]]'' [[Even Evil Has Standards|repulsive]].
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** Also, the terms of the ritual was {{spoiler|to summon Zenon. They thought it screwed up and summoned "his daughter" instead. Noooo....it did exactly what it was supposed to.}}
* [[Expy]]: Adell's dad looks disturbingly like [[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Kimura-sensei]]. [[Scary Shiny Glasses]] included.
** Design-wise, Rozalin bears a lot of resemblance to [[Rhapsody a Musical Adventure|Etoile Rosenqueen]], both of them being the [[Lonely Rich Kid]] who hides [[More Dakka]] under a [[Pimped
* [[Fallen Princess]]: Rozalin. She goes from living in a huge mansion being attended to by hundreds of servants to essentially being stuck in the Netherworld version of a small Kansas town running around in the muck.
* [[Fan Service]]: The Nekomatas and Succubus are back and the Magic Knight got a breast size boost. Then we have the new human classes Kunoichi and Beast Tamer. If you want to go there, Flora Beasts as well.
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* [[The Dog Bites Back]]: For treating them like crap, killing them whenever she's bored or angry, and for being a bitch in general, the prinnies waste no time in betraying Etna once a botched summoning turned her into level 1. Everyone else is surprised at how hard the prinnies are working just so they don't have to work for Etna again.
* [[The Fettered]]: Adell.
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: Adell
** [[The Lancer]]: Rozalin (with elements of [[The Chick]] later)
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** 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 [[Crowning Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|retroactively awesome]] when you realize that {{spoiler|she reverted back to [[Super
* [[Giant Waist Ribbon]]: Yukimaru, Fubuki, and Rozalin.
* [[Goldfish Poop Gang]]: Axel is a one-man Goldfish Poop Gang.
* [[Good Bad Bugs]]: A possible Overlook bug, You can make the White Dragon party like you by going into a bill as Senator Adell where you're supposed to disapprove by spamming an item at them. They won't take the item, but their Likeness towards you goes up, which will carry on other bills.
* [[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
* [[Got Me Doing It]]: "Why is everyone speaking like her now, zam?"
** "Beauty Qu- er...Demon Lord Etna?! {{spoiler|From Zenon, of all people.}}
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* [[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]].
* [[He
* [[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.
* [[Hey
** [[Wendee Lee|Asagi, Rozalin, and Taro]] just stole another gig or three from starving voice artists.
** Huh. I never knew that [[Digimon|DemiDevimon]] was [[Ho Yay|into that.]] (Or at least implied.)
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* [[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 {{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.
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* [[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
* [[Only Sane Man]]: Adell.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Various characters have a different voice actor in Axel Mode.
* [[Peninsula of Power Leveling]]: Map 4-3, where nearly half of the map has enemies level up every turn.
* [[Pimped
* [[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.
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* [[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]].}}
* [[Throw the Dog A Bone]]: Axel.
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Etna, since you're playing as heroes this time.
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** Axel paraphrases the trope when Taro and Hanako are arguing over a candy bar.
* [[Vocal Dissonance]]: With the Japanese voices, Axel Mode's {{spoiler|Actress}} falls into this. [[Averted]] by her English voice.
* [[Well, Excuse Me, Princess!]]: Rozalin.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Disgaea 2 was originally going to star Laharl, Etna, and Flonne again, but according to [[Word of God]], they had felt that they had done everything that wanted to do with them and decided to create a whole new world with new characters and everything in order to bring in new people to the series.
* [[Who Dares]]: [[Bonus Boss|Should you decide]] to fight [[Makai Kingdom|Zetta]], his first words upon appearing are "Who dares summon me?"
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