History Franchise / Disgaea

** ''Disgaea 6 Complete'' ([=PS4=], [=PS5=]) -- Includes all the DLC from the Switch version.[[index]]
* ''VideoGame/Disgaea7VowOfTheVirtueless'' ([=PS4=], [=PS5=], Switch)

* BoobsOfSteel: The [[CatGirl Felynn class]] are one of the best physical fighters in the {{Mook}} gallery, and sports the largest rack. Among story characters, you have [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Jennifer]], [[VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice Sapphire]], and recurring bonus character [[VideoGame/LaPucelle Prier]].

* BoobsOfSteel: Fight Mistresses, Armor Knights, Kunoichi, and Nekomatas. Also [[MagicKnight Magic Knights]] to a certain extent, though as their name implies, they're proficent with both magic and melee weapons. Sages show off their well-endowed figure with their NavelDeepNeckline dresses and are also some of the deadliest damage dealers in the series.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Sorcerers and Female Healers go barefoot, although it's harder to see in the case of the latter due to their long dresses.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Clerics (Female Healers). It's hard to see because of their normal sprites, but you can notice it during some of their attacks.

* GameGourmet: Each main game gives you access to more and more different foodstuffs as you progress through them. These range from normal things like gum, soda, and sardines, to "witch-like" things such as bat soup, rooster blood, frog sweat, caterpillar eggs, fried newts, and snake kidneys. (The latter ''should'' be expected of the different races of demons.)

* ''VideoGame/Disgaea7'' ([=PS4=], [=PS5=], Switch)

* BladeOnAStick: One of the options for weapons, and Etna's [[WeaponSpecialization preferred means of attack]].

** Valkyries, Lady Samurai, and Onmyo Monks use [[BladeOnAStick spears]]

* ArtifactName: In ''Disgaea 1'', Skulls were so-named for the full-head hoods they wore, and Cyclopes, the first tier of Galactic Demons, actually had a single eye each comprising their faces. Come the ''Complete'' remake, their sprites have since been swapped with those from later games, with the latter becoming a completely different monster altogether, first tier known in other games as Baciel, while also retaining their original stats and abilities.

* OurFairiesAreDifferent: Both ''Hour of Darkness'' and ''Alliance of Vengeance'' have a Fairy class but the two versions are quite different. The former's take are called "Faeries", look closer to TheFairFolk and need a cape to stop their magic from dispersing. The latter's version are called "Fairies" and look closer to the Disneyfied version (small {{Winged Humanoid}}s) but carry around a lantern that houses their {{overprotective|Dad}}, will o'wisp-esque fathers.

* BareYourMidriff: Thieves (always female). In ''Disgaea 1'' and ''Makai Kingdom'', the Warrior class also has a bared midsection, though from the second game onward they lose that trait.

* FiveManBand: In each game. The descriptions of the Prism Rangers also note such a dynamic:
*** Red: [[TheHero Prism Leader]]
*** Blue: [[TheLancer Cool Cat, rival of red]]
*** Yellow: [[TheBigGuy Loves eating curry]]
*** Green: [[TheSmartGuy Cowardly and Nerdy]]
*** Purple: [[TheChick Has the heart of a girl!]]

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: You can force Dark/Strategy Assembly bills to pass by [[BloodOnTheDebateFloor beating the Senators who voted Nay to death]]. A sufficiently-leveled army can pretty much run the Assembly without any fear of losing their control.

* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: Each Underworld has a Demon Overlord as the DimensionLord, with [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority heavy combat]] and politicking to determine who. (There may be attempts to pass this down to children, but it's complicated.) Demon Lords are the next level down, but still have great authority. There exist such titles as "Tyrant" or "Supreme" Overlord, but this approaches EldritchAbomination territory. While this title may be a BraggingRightsReward in the post-game, it has little effect on the plot for main characters.

* GiantWaistRibbon: The Knight class and Rozalin's dress both sport one.

* [[LightNovel/DisgaeaNovels Light Novels]]

* ExpandedUniverse: [[LightNovel/DisgaeaNovels The Disgaea Light Novels]]. Following the end of the ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness'' novelization, the next four novels introduce Laharl's relatives and Flonne's family as well as Gordon and Jennifer's daughter. Also, the novelization of ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 2|CursedMemories}}'', the fifth novel, takes place 120 years after the first novel (in the games, they're only three years apart).

* ''VideoGame/PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero'' (PSP) -- A PlatformGame {{Spinoff}} starring the titular [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Prinnies]]. Also, it's NintendoHard.

* [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Everything's Better With Prinnies]], dood! They even have [[{{Spinoff}} their own game]].

* GirlishPigtails: Etna, the Archer Class (adding MegaTwintails to boot), etc.

* GirlishPigtails: Fight Mistresses and later on Maids. Archers have the MegaTwintails going on alongside this.

* ImprobableHairstyle
** MegaTwintails: The current Archer design.

* {{Stripperiffic}}: though, unlike most examples, quite a few of the ''men'' are subject to this trope too -- [[ShirtlessScene shirts]] seem to be [[WalkingShirtlessScenea foreign concept in most Netherworlds]].

* ''VideoGame/DisgaeaRPG'' (JP:2019, EN:2021) (iOS, Android, Steam)

%%* HotScientist: The Professor

* HornyDevils: Succubi, naturally. Nekomata (and Flora Beasts), also being cute female ([[UnsettlingGenderReveal er, mostly]]) demons, are occasionally lumped in with them (usually when they show up together). Almost all the HornyDevils are drawn by the ''VideoGame/LaPucelle'' artist, making them stand out.

** Among the Mook gallery, though, there are subversions to this (counting their default colors used in official artwork; PaletteSwap only registering a higher tier). The Archers and Magic Knights have blue eyes (fitting, given that supplementary material cites them as being some of the nicer individuals), and the [[CatGirl Felynn]] skirt between blue and purple. Both male and female Samurai have black-colored irises, and the [[HornyDevils Succubi]] and Cheerleaders have light-pink colored eyes.

%%* HornyDevils: Succubi

* {{Gainaxing}}:
** Whilst most characters stand still when it's not their turn, the [=Kit-Kat=] and Succubus monsters, well, ''don't''.
** Averted in the case of the Succubus starting from ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 3| Absence of Justice}}'', where she got a new sprite, and in ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 4| A Promise Unforgotten}}'' for the Kit-Kat for the same reason (which may strike some as odd, considering that she got an...upgrade).
** Now played straight again in ''Dimension 2'' and ''Disgaea 5''.

* HyperactiveSprite: Succubus and Nekomata characters [[{{Gainaxing}} bounce around]] during their idle animation.

* GeoEffects

* BladeOnAStick: One of the options for weapons, and Etna's [[WeaponOfChoice preferred means of attack.]]

* HolyHandGrenade: A number of spells.
* HornedHumanoid: Many, ''many'' demons.

* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The Prism Rangers.

* RaygunGothic: The human world in the first game.

* RuleOfCool: Look at those special attacks!

* {{Stripperiffic}}: though, unlike most examples, quite a few of the ''men'' are subject to this trope too -- [[ShirtlessScene shirts]] [[WalkingShirtlessScene seem to be a foreign concept in most Netherworlds.]]

* StupidSexyFlanders: Characters of either gender can be charged and convicted of the crime of "Liking Girls" or "Liking Guys".

* SuperMovePortraitAttack: So iconically it provides the page image for that trope.
* SuperSentaiStance:
** The Prism Rangers are the obvious example, but they're certainly not the only ones. Flonne does, at one point, try to get Laharl and Etna to do one, with very limited success.
** The cast of the third game does one as well. See AllYourPowersCombined above.

* WeaponOfChoice: Largely averted, due to main characters choosing any weapon (save for monsters being stuck with the two monster weapon types), but weapon proficiency means some characters are better at some weapons than others.

* WidgetSeries: ...and those are some damn ''big'' widgets, I tell ya whut...

* DanceBattler: Cheerleaders
* DenialOfDiagonalAttack: Not only are Gunners unable to hit in diagonals with their WeaponOfChoice, guns, their unique skills can't hit diagonals either. However, they can learn the ''Flying Bullets'' Evility, which allows their basic attack to strike in diagonal directions, but it still doesn't apply to skills.
* DirtyCoward: Masked Heroes.

* ElegantGothicLolita: The Necromancer.

* WeaponOfChoice: Each class tends to have one or two weapons that they specialize in, though a few, like Majins, are good with almost anything.

* AlienLunch: A lot of of dual-recovery items are witch-like foods, including chicken blood, snake kidneys, caterpillar eggs, and even dried worms. Yes, worms dried out like beef jerky. (I guess you could call it an [[VideoGame/EarthwormJim earthworm Slim Jim]]?)

* AnAxeToGrind: Axes are a staple of combat.

** Warriors, Berserkers, and Beastmasters use [[AnAxeToGrind axes]].

* DownerEnding: Each game has at least one "bad ending," which normally [[EarnYourBadEnding requires more dedication]] than the ''good'' ending to get, as they are either gained by passing a certain bill or [[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption killing your own allies]]. In the first game, for example, you have to pass at least 100 bills in the Dark Assembly ''by force'' before the final battle. [[spoiler:This gives you an ending where Laharl wanders the Netherworld for eternity holding [[BalefulPolymorph the flower that Flonne got turned into.]]]]