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* [[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.
* {{spoiler|[[Interspecies Adoption]]: Adell is a demon raised by humans}}.
* [[It Was with You All Along]]: {{spoiler|The summoning ritual wasn't as unsuccessful in summoning Overlord Zenon (akaa.k.a. Rozalin) as it initially seemed}}.
* [[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. {{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 [[PlayStation 2]] version are now playable, many of whom became DLC in ''Disgaea 3''. Additional bosses have been added including Mao, Raspberyl, and Mr. Champloo from ''Disgaea 3'' as well as the ''Disgaea 3'' version of Asagi, all of them playable. And if that wasn't enough, ''Disgaea 2'' is also getting [[Downloadable Content]].
* [[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.
* [[Medium Awareness]]: atAt one point, in ''Disgaea 2'', Etna checks her status screen to see what her title is.
** 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.]]. You want a custom title, [[Game Shark|go for it.]].
** 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? isIs he level 100,000,000?
* [[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]]'' (Andand 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''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.
* [[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]], though.
* [[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 weaponry—andweaponry... and Adell, of course.
* [[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. {{spoiler|In the second volume, upon hearing that Hanako is unable to cook any meat due to her family's income, Rozalin forces Tink to lend her money. In the fourth volume, Rozalin confesses to fake Zenon that the birthday cake he sent her for her birthday when she was six was too sweet and hasn't been fond of sweets ever since, which may have led to her preferring meat instead.}}.
* [[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]].}}.
** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: {{spoiler|One female version of Overlord is "Dark Emperess".}}.
* [[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 "''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!]]
* [[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 [[:Category:Yandere|Yandere]] and just plain being [[Spoiled Brat]]. The later games seem to make her the poster child for Tsundere in the ''[[Disgaea]]'' series (Oror 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]]s.
* [[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.]]. Even gets other characters doing it, 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.
** 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.
* [[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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