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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: '''Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!''', of [[Sci Fi]] B Movies and TV shows like [[Flash Gordon Serial|Flash Gordon]], [[Buck Rogers]], and Commando Cody.▼
* [[Allergic to Evil]]: Angel trainees like Flonne sicken and die in the Netherworld without a protective pendant.▼
* [[Allergic to Love]]: Laharl has a big-time phobia for "happy feelings". One stage uses this against him and cuts his stats in half.▼
* [[Alliteration]]: The attacks Flonne and Etna use in Episode 2.
{{quote|'''Flonne:''' Prima Pretty Prippanica!
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'''Flonne:''' Berry Barrier Balidaire!
'''Flonne:''' Durian Dragon Dranyago! }}
▲* [[Affectionate Parody]]: '''Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!''', of [[Sci Fi]] B Movies and TV shows like [[Flash Gordon Serial|Flash Gordon]], [[Buck Rogers]], and Commando Cody.
▲* [[Allergic to Evil]]: Angel trainees like Flonne sicken and die in the Netherworld without a protective pendant.
▲* [[Allergic to Love]]: Laharl has a big-time phobia for "happy feelings". One stage uses this against him and cuts his stats in half.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: {{spoiler|Mid Boss/Vyers is actually Laharl's father}}, which is never stated outright in the game. There are several scenes that make it pretty obvious, however.
** Supposedly, the artbook confirms that {{spoiler|it was actually Flonne who killed Laharl}} in the Kill Hoggmeiser ending. The game itself doesn't state it, but the background of the credits and the name of the song that plays appear to imply the opposite.
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* [[Fridge Logic]]: The in-universe Prinny commentator in the DS version makes it its job to lampshade every possible instance of it.
* [[Fun Size]]: The trio is often drawn this way on promotional artwork.
* [[Gag Penis]]: And ''you can steal that sucker and [[Horse Wiener|equip it]]!''▼
* [[Gainaxing]]: Jennifer's sprite has a very noticeable "bounce" to it as she walks. Also, whilst most characters stand still when it's not their turn, the Kit-Kat and Succubus monsters, well, ''don't''.
** It's even worse in the anime where the camera does a close-up of said bounce at least once per episode.
** Marjoly also won't stand still when she's idle. Priere has similar treatment to Jennifer.
▲* [[Gag Penis]]: And ''you can steal that sucker and [[Horse Wiener|equip it]]!''
* [[God Is Good]]: Plays out similarly to the [[Anti-Hero]] part of the description on the trope page... with [[Tear Jerker|tragic]] and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]] results.
* [[Goldfish Poop Gang]]: Mid-Boss.
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* [[I Know Karate]]: Jennifer does. Hilariously, the Art Book even goes so far as to say that this makes her stronger than Gordon.
* [[I Made Copies]]: In episode 5 Maderas sends a challege to Laharl to contend for overlordship on the back of a embarrassing photo, he threatens to scatter copies of set photo all across the Netherworld if Laharl does not comply.
* [[A Lighter Shade of Black]]: Laharl the wannabe [[Evil Overlord]] vs. an [[Omnicidal Maniac]].▼
* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: At one point, Flonne steals Etna's role of providing a wildly inaccurate [["On the Next..."|preview]] of the next episode.
{{quote|'''Etna:''' "Flonne, whatcha doing?"
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* [[Large Ham]]: Mid-Boss is one, as is '''Captain Gordon, [[Large Ham Title|Defender of Earth!]]''', who apparently has [[No Indoor Voice]]. Vulcanus counts, as well.
* [[Lawyer-Friendly Cameo]]: The Prism Rangers, Thursday, and '''Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!'''
* [[Lethal Joke Item]]: The [[Horse Wiener]]. Even Laharl is afraid of it, though justifiably. How would you block it,
▲* [[A Lighter Shade of Black]]: Laharl the wannabe [[Evil Overlord]] vs. an [[Omnicidal Maniac]].
* [[Living Weapon]]: Longinus, the sentient spear who teaches you about weapon skills and mastery.
* [[Lord Error-Prone]]: '''Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!''' again.
* [[Love Freak]]: [[Trope Namer|Named for]] Flonne, who was very fond of talking about love and kindness, in contrast to Laharl and Etna, who are both demons and have no use for that stuff.
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* [[Magikarp Power]]: Flonne again. She starts out really weak, but if you assign Mages and Skulls as apprentices to her, she can learn magic abilities that surpass just about any other character you can create.
** In the sequels she goes beyond [[Magikarp Power]] and well into [[Game Breaker]] territory, toeing the line to [[One Man Party]] - and with some HP twinking she ''really can be''.
* [[Make It Look Like an Accident]]: {{spoiler|Rare benevolent variation. King Krichevskoy dying from choking on a black pretzel was merely what the people were told; he actually died of wounds sustained in battle.}}
* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|Seraph Lamington behind Archangel Vulcanus}}.▼
* [[Mini-Dress of Power]]: The girl mages.
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: In Episode 7, you have to bring back Aramis' zombies (including the one with the Horse Weiner). Episode 8 is a [[Tear Jerker]] in which even the battle music is depressing. In Episode 9 we meet none other than '''CAPTAIN GORDON, DEFENDER OF THE EARTH!''' . (Yeah, it's just fun to say.)
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* [[Symbol Swearing]]: Thursday.
* [[Take Me Instead!]]: {{spoiler|Laharl}} desperately tries to invoke this in the endings.
▲* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|Seraph Lamington behind Archangel Vulcanus}}.
* [[Theme Naming]]: Laharl, Etna, Lamington, Vulcanus, Vesuvius, Yasurl and Krichevskoy are all related to volcanoes ([[wikipedia:Lahar|lahar]], [[wikipedia:Mount Etna|Mount Etna]], [[wikipedia:Mount Lamington|Mount Lamington]], the Roman fire god/[[wikipedia:Vulcano|Vulcano]], [[wikipedia:Mount Vesuvius|Mount Vesuvius]], [[wikipedia:Mount Yasur|Mount Yasur]] and [[wikipedia:Klyuchevskaya Sopka|Kliuchevskoi]], respectively). Also the prinnies = [[wikipedia:Plinian eruption|plinian]], a type of eruption.
* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]: Mid-Boss says this after Laharl gives him his new nickname.
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* [[Transformation Sequence]]: Subversion - in the battle with the Prism Rangers, Etna shoots both Blue and Yellow into [[Non-Lethal KO|non lethal KOs]], leaving Red to fend for himself.
* [[Tsundere]]: Laharl comes pretty close to the textbook definition, when he finds Flonne's pendant, and when he follows her to Celestia.
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* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: {{spoiler|Laharl}} in the main ending of Etna mode. {{spoiler|The shot that supposedly killed him just knocked him out for four episodes.}}
* [[Unknown Rival]]: The sassy demon Vyers, whom the protagonists unflatteringly refer to as Mid-Boss.
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* [[Weird Moon]]: The red moon.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]: Laharl's ideas on what to do after becoming the overlord:
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* [[Winged Humanoid]]: Flonne, though outside of one of her attacks, in which they spread out and grow, she's never seen actually flying with them. Etna also has wings, and in ''Disgaea 2'', demonstrates that they actually grow to 3 times their normal size to allow for flight. Official art and a cutscene in Disgaea 2 also reveal that Laharl has a pair under the cape -- [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|and they're absolutely tiny]].
* [[With a Friend and a Stranger]]: Laharl, Etna, and Flonne.
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