History Characters / Disgaea

* {{Determinator}}: She's tried ''how'' many times to get her own game already? And she shows no sign of slowing down, which may be the cause of her becoming the...

* ChaoticEvil: The only actual ChaoticEvil character in Disgaea, though not necessarily the only evil one.

* CharacterDerailment: In her cameos, Overlord Prier acts extremely violent and bloodthirsty, going as far as to declare to turn an entire world into a "Sea of Blood" just because one person defeated her.
** CharacterRerailment: Starting with [[DownloadableContent Raspberyl Mode]] in {{Disgaea 3}}, it looks like she's starting to get better.

* FanNickname[=/=]MemeticMutation: Sea of Blood!Priere will come to your Netherworld and turn it into a Sea of Blood.
** Also [[FunWithAcronyms SoB!Priere]]

* {{Ensemble Dark Horse}}: As of the latest NIS poll, she is the second most popular character of ''all'' of NIS' creations, clocking in just behind Laharl. Unfortunately...

* {{The Woobie}} or the {{Butt Monkey}}: Some fans find her suffering hilarious. Others want to wrap her in a warm blanket and assure her that she'll get a game of her very own someday.

* EnsembleDarkHorse: The mother of all NipponIchi ensemble dark horses.
* GameBreaker: Very broken in both the first game and the third game. Given the long mission you have to do to get her in the third game, she's worth the trouble.
** In the UpdatedRerelease of the second game, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Plenair]] is a free {{DLC}} character. She starts at level 100, is available at the very beginning of the game, and joins without a fight. So long, any challenge for 90% of the main story...
* MemeticBadass: "Pleinair doesn't fly. She dodges the ground."

*** For the time being, Baal serves as the trope picture for BonusBoss.

* ''PhysicalGod''

The heroine of ''LaPucelle'', the game preceding Disgaea. Priere was a Demon Hunter who [[LikeABadassOutOfHell traveled too far into the Netherworld]] of her home world, and became too strong. You know that saying about HeWhoFightsMonsters? Well, that's what happened to Priere, who [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds accidentally found herself crowned the Overlord of another Netherworld]]. Since then, she seems to have embraced her new role as an ass-kicker (as you do) and shows up repeatedly as a BonusBoss. Originally, she was depicted as more evil and AxCrazy as an Overlord; but ContinuityDrift has softened her.

* CuteMute

!These are the characters that appear in multiple games in the ''{{Disgaea}}'' series. For characters specific to each game, see the character sheets for ''[[Characters/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Disgaea: Hour of Darkness]]'', ''[[Characters/{{Disgaea 2}} Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'', and ''[[Characters/{{Disgaea 3}} Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]''.

* DaveWittenberg: Current voice actor.

* GrantGeorge: Original voice actor.

''The'' Bonus Boss, Baal first appeared as a Demon ''Lord'' in ''LaPucelle''. He TookALevelInBadass in ''Disgaea 1'' where he became known as Supreme Overlord (or "Tyrant") and was the one who was ultimately [[spoiler:responsible for King Krichevskoy death; it was propaganda that blamed "black pretzels."]] In this game, he became a Prinny after his first defeat; it was assumed at the time that this was a reincarnation. Baal appears again in ''Main/PhantomBrave'', this time taking the form of a Mushroom-esque monster, an Eringer/Funguy. It was assumed at the time that he had gone through his reincarnation period as a Prinny, yet retained his incredible strength. More of his true nature became known in ''Main/MakaiKingdom'', Baal does not die when his body is killed, rather he merely finds other host bodies to inhabit and he is as old as the universe itself.. This became ''worse'' in ''Disgaea 2'' when he started getting more than one body. In ''Disgaea 3'', Baal has more of a storyline, he is stealing traits from various characters for some unfathomable reason.
Expect lots and lots of LevelGrinding to be anywhere near capable of fighting Baal, his HP tends to be in the millions.

* TheOtherDarrin: Their voice actors are constantly changing. It's actually explained in-universe in ''DisgaeaInfinite'' that they the Prism Rangers often die and the producers [[strike:search for]] kidnap possible candidates.

* Shout Out: [[PowerRangers Seriously?]]

Self-proclaimed heroes of justice, the Prism Rangers cameo in each of the main series of Disgaea games. They fight evil, [[ThePowerOfFriendship declare the power of love and friendship]], [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption and fail miserably in every one of their appearances]]. Really, they're not even on the protagonists' radar. [[ButtMonkey They are almost the human equivalent to Prinnies.]] But they mean well! Well, Prism Red does. And they're all pretty moronic. [[CrapsackWorld And this is Disgaea]]. [[InspirationallyDisadvantaged But they try]] ''[[InspirationallyDisadvantaged really hard]]''.

* MadeOfExplodium - Their human souls, combined with cheap crafted bodies, means Prinnies are highly unstable. Sufficiently jarring impacts cause them to explode. On the downside, this means you can't toss them around the grid for fine unit positioning, which is normally a useful tactic. On the upside, [[VideogameCrueltyPotential they make great impromptu weapons!]]

* MadeOfExplodium

** In Japanese, it's tagging a "-su" at the end of sentences. [[{{Woolseyism}} Definitely not as funny as "Dood!"]]

** In order to justify this, there is usually a ''stronger'' version of Baal lurking somewhere in the game

* TheAtoner: Prinnies are souls of dead sinners trapped in penguin suits, and must work at the Netherworld and Celestia to repent and be reincarnated. In Celestia they must do good deeds while in the Neatherworlds they do menial tasks for low pay in order to earn enough money.

* TheAtoner (Prinnies are souls of dead sinners trapped in penguin suits, and must work at the Netherworld and Celestia to repent and be reincarnated. In Celestia they must do good deeds while in the Neatherworlds they do meinal tasks for low pay in order to earn enough money)

* DaveWittenberg (Current voice actor)

* GrantGeorge (Original voice actor)

* VerbalTic (Dood!)

* BeyondTheImpossible (Baal takes the concept of the overpowered Bonus Boss. Progressively moreso in each installment)

* BonusBoss (Probably the ultimate example)

* BraggingRightsReward (Beating him usually results in little beyond a title change to Lord of Terror. Of course, if you ''did'' actually get anything from beating him, it'd be rendered useless simply on the basis that you already just beat the one guy literally one ''thousand'' times more powerful than anything outside of a NipponIchi game ever.)

* ChaoticEvil (The only actual ChaoticEvil character in Disgaea, though not necessarily the only evil one.)

* PowerLevels (Usually, he's anywhere from level 2000 to level 6000, but increase enemy levels or fight in a specific area)
* KillerRabbit (Not always, but always taken to the logical extreme when he is. Level 9999^23 ''prinny'', anyone?)

The heroine of ''LaPucelle'', the game preceeding Disgaea. Priere was a Demon Hunter who [[LikeABadassOutOfHell traveled too far into the Netherworld]] of her home world, and became too strong. You know that saying about HeWhoFightsMonsters? Well, that's what happened to Priere, who [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds accidentally found herself crowned the Overlord of another Netherworld]]. Since then, she seems to have embraced her new role as an ass-kicker (as you do) and shows up repeatedly as a BonusBoss. Originally, she was depicted as more evil and AxCrazy as an Overlord; but ContinuityDrift has softened her.

* EvilMakeover (And ''how''!)
* FanNickname[=/=]MemeticMutation (Sea of Blood!Priere will come to your Netherworld and turn it into a Sea of Blood)

* SpellMyNameWithAnS (Prier/Priere.)

* ADayInTheLimelight (No, she didn't get her own game yet, but she got the next best thing: An alternate mode in the sequel to [[{{Ptitlei5vi1q72}} Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?]] in which you play as her in her Prinny form.)
* AlliterativeName (Her full name, as shown in both PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero and it's sequel, is Asagi Asagiri)
* {{Bonus Boss}} (Specifically, the one Bonus Boss who has appeared in ''every'' NIS game since her initial appearance. Not even the mainstays like Laharl or Baal can boast this.)
* BreakTheCutie (Asagi seems to be getting increasingly insane with each game she shows up in that isn't hers.)
* {{Demoted to Extra}} (One of the most tragically hilarious cases ever.)
* {{Determinator}} (She's tried ''how'' many times to get her own game already? And she shows no sign of slowing down, which may be the cause of her becoming the...)
* {{Ensemble Dark Horse}} (As of the latest NIS poll, she is the second most popular character of ''all'' of NIS' creations, clocking in just behind Laharl. Unfortunately...)
* {{Failure Is The Only Option}} (Several fans have pointed out that if Asagi ever does get her own game, her main shtick goes 'poof'.)

* HeyItsThatVoice (Her Japanese voice actor switches with almost every appearance. Among those voice actors include KanaUeda, ChiwaSaitou, and KaoriMizuhashi.)

* {{Hostile Show Takeover}} (She figures if she can beat the main characters of the various games, she'll prove herself worthy of being a main character. Unfortunately, the inverse also holds - if she's gotten beaten seven times by a ''Prinny''...)
* {{Split Personality}} (Hinted at in her various appearances, but manifests itself most obviously in Prinny PSP)
* ThrowTheDogABone (The ending to Asagi Wars in Prinny 2. [[spoiler:She is reincarnated for her HeroicSacrifice as a Prinny and becomes the biggest idol in the Netherworld]].)
* {{Weapon of Choice}} (She's most commonly portrayed with a pair of handguns, but she's been known to supplement her arsernal with a bazooka and a [[EpicFlail flail whose head is as big as she is]].)

* {{The Woobie}} or the {{Butt Monkey}} (Some fans find her suffering hilarious. Others want to wrap her in a warm blanket and assure her that she'll get a game of her very own someday.)

* BewareTheNiceOnes (Moreso in art that may or may not be canon. While it's by the original artist, but doesn't quite fit with the canon, although eating Usagi isn't exactly very nice.)

* DiscOneNuke (Subverted in that she can only be obtained in a NewGamePlus; [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverted]] in that a NonStandardGameOver can be achieved by intentionally losing to the first boss of the game, allowing you to start a NewGamePlus in under half an hour. A bit of a [[Main/GameBreaker Game Breaker.]])
* EnsembleDarkHorse (The mother of all NipponIchi ensemble dark horses.)
* GameBreaker (Very broken in both the first game and the third game. Given the long mission you have to do to get her in the third game, she's worth the trouble.)

* MemeticBadass ("Pleinair doesn't fly. She dodges the ground.")
* OnTheNext (In ''Disgaea 2''. Usagi does all the talking, [[spoiler:later replaced by Axel after she eats Usagi]], then [[spoiler:when she's left alone due to Axel running off to save the day,]] in true CuteMute form, [[spoiler:she acts like she's reporting on the next chapter, visual aids and all, but doesn't say anything.]])

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[[caption-width:250:The hottest demon overlord!]]

* BeyondTheImpossible (Baal takes the concept of the overpowered Bonus Boss and turns it up to [[strike:eleven]] [[OverNinethousand Nine Thousand]]. Progressively moreso in each installment)

* PowerLevels (Usually, he's anywhere from level 2000 to level 6000, but increase enemy levels or fight in a specific area and he will literally be OverNineThousand)