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''Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories'' is the second game in the [[Turn
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-Man Army|slew one thousand Overlords in a single battle]]. Adell's solution to the problem is simple: get his mother to [[Dungeon Bypass|magically summon Overlord Zenon to the village]] and then [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|pound him into submission]].
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
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
* [[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 ''[[
** While Etna Mode was an [[Alternate Universe]], Axel's Dark Hero Days actually tell of what he did just before the plot. (In the post-game, the people who joined him can join Adell)
* [[Back From the Dead]]: {{spoiler|Zenon found a way to resurrect himself by converting a population's humanity into his life force. Those affected became demonic, but he refused to call them demons. "Altered Humans."}}
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** Tink is a victim of this, being turned into a demonic frog. In the good ending, he is eventually returned to normal as a bishonen butler.
* [[Barehanded Blade Block]]: Laharl does this to [[It Makes Sense in Context|protect himself from Flonne.]]
* [[Batman Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Fake}} Zenon chose to sponsor a {{spoiler|fake}} competition to erase all competitors for the throne. [[Spanner in
* [[Becoming the Mask]]: {{spoiler|Fake Zenon in the manga adaptation. Although taking Rozalin in as his daughter was still part of his revenge on the real Overlord Zenon, it's hinted several times during the final volume that he does actually care for Rozalin, especially during his death when he [[Heartwarming Moments (Sugar Wiki)|fondly remembers all the gifts he sent to Rozalin when she was still a child.]]}}
* [[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]].
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* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The four leaf clover seal on Rozalin.
* [[The Chew Toy]]:
** Axel. The universe does eventually decide to [[Throw the Dog
** Etna when she looses her levels, also, a nice [[Laser-Guided Karma]] in favor of the prinnies.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Taro.
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* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Rozalin, though this is powered by a [[Super-Powered Evil Side]].
* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: The gruesome death of {{spoiler|Taro and Hanako}} in the worst ending.
* [[Cursed
* [[Cutscene Power to
* [[The Dandy]]: Tink.
* [[Dark World]]:...the...um....Dark World; as well as the Land of Carnage.
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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
* [[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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* [[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)
** [[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice|Almaz and Princess Sapphire]]
** [[Phantom Brave|Marona and Ash]]
** [[Nippon Ichi|Pleinair]]
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* [[Exact Words]]: Rozalin is bound to Adell by the strict terms of a summoning ritual.
** 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
** 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-Out Dress]]. Motivation and personality wise though, they're very different.
* [[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.
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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 [[
* [[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
* [[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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* [[Internet Backlash]]: The NA DLC release. Not only did it suffer from bugs, but NISA also decided to cut out Gig, Dark Eclair, and Miabelle due to technical issues. This did not sit well with most fans.
* {{spoiler|[[Interspecies Adoption]]: Adell is a demon raised by humans.}}
* [[It Was
* [[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.
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* [[Large Ham]]: Overlord Zenon in the dub. {{spoiler|Both real and fake}}.
** In the Japanese version as well, being voiced by [[Norio Wakamoto]] and all... {{spoiler|The fake one, anyway.}}
* [[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 [[
* [[Lost in Translation]]: The bill to fight Zetta is "Meet The Strongest Overlord." Zetta's self-declared title in Japanese pretty much means that, so it ended up summoning him.
* [[Mana Drain]]: Fubuki.
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** 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.
* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: The story-relevant fight of Level 1000 Etna vs. Overlord Zenon happens completely offscreen.
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* [[Pimped-Out Dress]]: Rozalin.
* [[Pillars of Moral Character]]: Adell's requirement to live up to all his promises binds him like a ball and chain.
* [[Playing
* [[Power Fist]]: Lots of classes use unarmed strikes with weaponry -- and Adell, of course.
* [[Power Nullifier]]: Yukimaru.
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* [[She's a Man In Japan]]: The angel in Axel Mode.
* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: [[Tsundere|Oh yeah?! Well you're not my boyfriend either Adell!]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Disgaea
* [[Stay
* [[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
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Etna, since you're playing as heroes this time.
* [[Too Kinky to Torture]]: The angel who joins Axel in Axel Mode, who's only purpose for showing in the first place is to get hurt.
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** 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 [[Yandere]] and just plain being [[Spoiled Brat]]. The later games seem to make her the poster child for Tsundere in the [[Disgaea]] series (Or in [[Nippon Ichi]] games in general) with Hanako and [[Disgaea 3 Absence of Justice|Raspberyl]] both [[Lampshade Hanging|calling her out on it]] and even a database entry on the term in [[Disgaea Infinite]] that uses her as an example.
** Axel Mode adds in {{spoiler|Actress}}, who's even ''worse'' about hiding her feelings with all the [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|Suspiciously Specific Denials]].
* [[True Companions]]: The reason that Rozalin try to stop {{spoiler|Laharl to take away Etna is because she consider her one.}}
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* [[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?"
* [[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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