History VideoGame / Disgaea2CursedMemories

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Fake 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."]]

* ACupAngst: Hanako wants to try hard to ''undo'' her [[BuffySpeak un-bustiness]]. Yukimaru also qualifies. Flat board comments strike (Etna) back once again.

* CampGay: The Director, who calls Axel "Axel darling" and refers to him as "the man I fell in love with".

** Axel gets it even worse.
* CampGay: The Director, who calls Axel "Axel darling" and refers to him as "the man I fell in love with" in addition to an ''extremely'' gay-sounding voice.

** Given that the game takes place primarily in the demon world, and demons are expected to solve all their problems with violence, it's also a good case of WhenInRome...

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Fake]] Zenon chose to sponsor a [[spoiler:fake]] competition to erase all competitors for the throne. [[SpannerInTheWorks Rozalin]] attending the competition in Adell's escort caused it all to backfire [[spoiler:to the point where he actually LOST to the intended target, Etna.]]

-->[[spoiler:'''Rozalin:''' *sob* Sh- Shut up... you're an enemy! I can't trust anyone...]]\\

** Compared to the first game, the translation for Disgaea 2 takes a lot of liberties. They rename Akutare to Axel, turn Etna being referred to as "Beauty Queen" into a running gag (in Japanese she was only ever called a demon lord), and otherwise inserted a bunch of pointless gags into the script.

** Etna when she looses her levels, also, a nice LaserGuidedKarma in favor of the prinnies.

** Etna also mentions at one point she knew of a demon lord that married a human [[spoiler:Laharl's parents.]]

* CooldownHug: [[spoiler:Adell hugs Rozalin to snap her back to her senses when her memories and persona of her previous life as Overlord Zenon are restored to prevent the possible slaughter that would have ensued because of it]].

** "Main Hero B", the Angel that joins Axel is a guy. Proof? Any Dark Sun (or Rozalin) effect that affects males affects him. They do NOT affect [[{{PlayerMooks}} Player Mook]] angels with the same sprite.

* DarkWorld: ...the...um....Dark World; as well as the Land of Carnage.
* DarkerAndEdgier: It still has much of the humour and wackiness that the first ''Disgaea'' enjoyed, but the story and characters take things a bit more seriously this time around. Take the opening sequence for example -- ''Disgaea'' involved Etna shooting Laharl to wake him up and casually telling him his dad died during his two year nap, this game begins with a summoning ritual so TheHero can kill the BigBad and stop a curse that's transforming the village into demons.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: In several ways. Most of the story characters have to beaten, or at least, foiled first. Downloadble characters (save one) have to be roughed up, and other extra characters that you can get in the UpdatedRerelease are initially [[BonusBoss Bonus Bosses]]. Further, you can capture monsters by tossing them into the Base Panel and whupping the tar out of them.

* {{Determinator}}[=/=]IdiotHero: Adell. He always fights face-to-face, and only uses GoodOldFisticuffs. Then again, this is Disgaea, where GoodOldFisticuffs involves punching people so hard they turn into a black hole, which then explodes.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Aside from the traditional punching of ridiculously overpowered demons, Adell defeats the apeshit DimensionLord/borderline EldritchAbomination [[spoiler:by frenching her.]] Granted, he nearly got a face full of lead for his effort, but it did work.

* DiscOneNuke: Pleinair. Being Level 100 and using her at early game will solve till everyone catches up.
* DisproportionateRetribution: The cause of the entire plot. [[spoiler:Fake Zenon loses a fight to Real Zenon. As revenge, Fake Zenon initiates an incredibly complicated plan that involves tracking down and kidnapping the innocent reincarnation of Real Zenon, then raising her as an air-headed, pompous fool. It's so crazy that it actually works, at least until Adell starts [[PullTheThread pulling the thread]]]].

* TheDogBitesBack: For treating them like crap, killing them whenever she's bored or angry, and for being a bitch in general, the prinnies waste no time in betraying Etna once a botched summoning turned her into level 1. Everyone else is surprised at how hard the prinnies are working just so they don't have to work for Etna again.

** [[EarlyBirdCameo Miabelle]] from Nippon Ichi's then-upcoming game Hymn Princess of Antiphona ([[NoExportForYou Japan only]])

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When you first meet the Prism Rangers, Prism Red says that [[spoiler:his demon detector says that Adell is a demon.]] Everyone says that it must be broken. [[spoiler:It isn't]].

** There's another one halfway through the game where Rozalin says [[spoiler:"...do you suppose he (The real Zenon) may have been tricked by the faker and is imprisoned somewhere...?"]]

** 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 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]].

* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: Adell does this to Rozalin after she totally wigs out in a battle against [[spoiler:Laharl]] and starts to attack her teammates. This is better when you realize that [[spoiler:she reverted back to [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Overlord Zenon]]]], meaning that [[spoiler:Adell just {{Bright Slap}}ped the ''God of all Overlords''. And it ''worked''.]]

* HopelessBossFight: Etna and Laharl during the main storyline. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope At least]], only in the first phase for the latter...]]

* HostileShowTakeover: After playing through the game a bit, various secondary characters will send proposals to the Dark Assembly to become the Main Character. If the proposal is passed -- and there's usually a very good chance of it happening -- a NonstandardGameOver is triggered (You get a cool item if you defeat it).

** Axel deserves specific mention, as well. Manages to roast his director with an explosion caused by his hotbloodedness, plus he's voiced by [[Creator/NobuyukiHiyama one of most hotblooded JP VAs around]].

* InterfaceScrew: 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.
* InterspeciesAdoption: Adell [[spoiler:is a demon raised by humans.]]
* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: [[spoiler:The summoning ritual wasn't as unsuccessful in summoning Overlord Zenon (aka Rozalin) as it initially seemed]].
* KangarooCourt: The Dark Court
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Don't mess with Adell's little brother Taro or little sister Hanako or he will kick your ass.

* LaserGuidedKarma: After getting insulted many times by Etna and she finally helps the party by giving them a fingernail of an Overlord that turns out to be a fake one...[[spoiler:the ritual goes horribly wrong and summons her while degrading her high level numbers to level 1. She is ''not'' pleased any]].
* LargeHam: Overlord Zenon in the dub. [[spoiler:Both real and fake]].

* LightningFireJuxtaposition: Adell, the FieryRedhead, and his UnknownRival, the self-proclaimed Dark Hero Axel. Adell's attacks are fire elemental and some of Axel's attacks include lightning (and he has [[YellowLightningBlueLightning blond hair and purple]] BigOlEyebrows shaped like lightning bolts)
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: 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 [=PS2=] 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 DownloadableContent.

* MediumAwareness: At one point in Disgaea 2, Etna checks her status screen to see what her title is.

* MythologyGag: The entire "Makai Wars" chapter of Axel's story; about a movie that has never been finished the past 100 years.

* NoFourthWall: Rozalin asks Adell where his confidence comes from; is he descended from heroes? is he level 100,000,000?
* NobleDemon: Axel might arguably be considered one, as a major motivation behind his actions is [[spoiler:his sick mother and siblings.]]

* OneWingedAngel: Played straight with Zenon [[spoiler:both the real AND fake; the second of the two]] is a bit of an AntiClimaxBoss, though.

* RandomNumberGod: Per Disgaea norm. Determines how many enemies/item/Geo Symbols appear in the Item World.
** In Dark Hero Days, the RNG is fond of placing a Level Sphere and a Mystery Gate on the same floor, forcing you to choose between them. It's often best to take the Sphere, unless you're there to grind Specialists or Pirates.

* RedemptionDemotion: 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 LampshadeHanging. This can also be subverted using the NewGamePlus 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.

* SamusIsAGirl [[spoiler:The real Zenon; either that or a GenderBender through {{reincarnation}}.]]

* SerialEscalation: 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 BonusBoss 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 UpToEleven 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.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: [[{{Tsundere}} Oh yeah?! Well you're not my boyfriend either Adell!]]

* SoundOnlyDeath: [[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.]]
* StayWithTheAliens: It's stated in the Good End that [[spoiler:Hanako remained a demon so she could apprentice under Etna.]]

* StepIntoTheBlindingFight: The ultimate skill of the [[HornyDevils Succubus]] class is called 'Nightmare', and it involves surrounding the enemy with darkness and launch an unseen beatdown. Can be seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilgik3s0tY4#t=03m03s here]].
* ThisCannotBe: Rozalin's response upon finding out that the "most powerful Overlord" in TheMultiverse is [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/MakaiKingdom a talking book]].]]

* TooKinkyToTorture: The angel who joins Axel in Axel Mode, who's only purpose for showing in the first place is to get hurt.

* TrueCompanions: The reason that Rozalin tries to stop [[spoiler:Laharl to take away Etna is because she consider her one.]]

** Rozalin although she skirts the line between major {{Tsundere}} and mild {{Yandere}} and just plain SpoiledBrat. The later games seem to make her the poster child for Tsundere in the Franchise/{{Disgaea}} series (Or in Creator/NipponIchi games in general) with Hanako and [[VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice Raspberyl]] both [[LampshadeHanging calling her out on it]] and even a database entry on the term in VisualNovel/DisgaeaInfinite that uses her as an example.

* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Tink attempts to hit on the CuteMonsterGirl in Adell's hometown only to find out it's actually a Cute Monster ''Guy''. For more fun, he's [[ShoutOut also named]] [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Bridget]].

* VillainDecay: Overlord Zenon is hyped throughout as an incredibly vicious and powerful Overlord and everyone wants a piece of him. [[spoiler:While ''she'' lives up to her expectations, the faker certainly doesn't. By the time Adell reaches him, he's already been defeated twice and encountered far more impressive and powerful foes. The pettiness of his motives and the real Zenon instantly nuking her faker only serves to make him more pathetic.]]

** Given than the game takes place primarily in the demon world, and demons are expected to solve all their problems with violence, it's also a good case of WhenInRome...

* WrongGenreSavvy: 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]].

* HopelessBossFight: Etna and Laharl during the main storyline.

* ManaDrain: Fubuki.

* BackFromTheDead: [[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."]]

''Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories'' is the second game in the TurnBasedStrategy series ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'', and was released in 2006 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2. It was later ported to the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable as ''[[UpdatedRerelease Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days.]]'' It's also coming to the PC via Steam, to be released in January of 2017.

** [[VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters Gig]] ([[NoExportForYou Japan only]] due glitches that occurred when he was downloaded)

** [[EarlyBirdCameo Miabelle]] from Nippon Ichi's upcoming game Hymn Princess of Antiphona ([[NoExportForYou Japan only]])

** Unless you have the US version. In which case, say goodbye to [[NoExportForYou Gig, Eclair, and Miabelle.]] Despite the fact that downloading [[GameBreaker Demon Lord Hanako]] unlocks Gig's Magichange data, and causes an [[HundredPercentCompletion impossibility]].

* [[spoiler:TheBigDamnKiss: After 13 chapters of UST, Adell embraces Rozalin in the good ending to calm her "True Overlord Zenon" form. She turns back to normal from Adell's CooldownHug, and the following dialogue occurs:]]

''Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories'' is the second game in the TurnBasedStrategy series ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'', and was released in 2006 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2. It was later ported to the UsefulNotes/PlayStationPortable as ''[[UpdatedRerelease Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days.]]''

* LightningFireJuxtaposition: Adell, the HotBlooded RedHeadedHero, and his UnknownRival, the self-proclaimed Dark Hero Axel. Adell's attacks are fire elemental and some of Axel's attacks include lightning (and he has [[YellowLightningBlueLightning blond hair and purple]] BigOlEyebrows shaped like lightning bolts)

* RedHeadedHero: Adell.
** And Etna, though calling her "Hero" [[HeroicComedicSociopath is stretching a bit]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: 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 PS2 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 DownloadableContent.

''Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories'' is the second game in the TurnBasedStrategy series ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'', and was released in 2006 for the PlayStation2. It was later ported to the PlayStationPortable as ''[[UpdatedRerelease Disgaea 2: Dark Hero Days.]]''

* VillainDecay: Overlord Zenon is hyped throughout as an incredibly vicious and powerful Overlord and everyone wants a piece of him. [[spoiler:While ''she'' lives up to her expectations, the faker certainly doesn't. By the time Adell reaches him, he's already been defeated twice and Adell encountered far more impressive and powerful foes. The pettiness of his motives and the real Zenon instantly nuking her faker only serves to make him more pathetic.]]

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 [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast God of All Overlords]] after he [[OneManArmy slew one hundred Overlords in a single battle]]. Adell's solution to the problem is simple: get his mother to [[DungeonBypass magically summon Overlord Zenon to the village]] and then [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer pound him into submission]].

* AdaptationalWimp: Rozalin in the manga. In the game she's an accomplished gunfighter and grows into a determined and dangerous woman [[spoiler: without even taking her SuperPoweredEvilSide into account]]. In the adaptation, she was never trained to fight at all (she had a guy for that) and can get emotional a little more easily than in the game, [[spoiler: and the real Zenon is never let loose]].

--> [[spoiler:'''Rozalin:''' *sob* Sh- Shut up... you're an enemy! I can't trust anyone...]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Adell:''' Stop talking and trust this.]]
--> [[spoiler:cue TheBigDamnKiss]]

--> You old men are all the same. No stamina. And now us girls have to find our own way to amuse ourselves.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: When you first meet the Prism Rangers, Prism Red says that [[spoiler:his demon detector says that Adell is a demon.]] Everyone says that it must be broken. [[spoiler: It isn't]].

* GiantWaistRibbon: Yukimaru, Fubuki, and Rozalin. That 3rd one is [[spoiler: foreshadowing her ancestry]].

* ImperfectRitual: To summon "the strongest demon", Adell needs the fingernail of an Overlord. He asks Etna (who previously slaughtered him and his party in a HopelessBossFight) for one of hers. She gives him a fake nail, because she's a demon and therefore a {{Jerkass}}. As a result, the ritual summons [[spoiler: Etna herself, reduced to level 1]].

* InterspeciesAdoption: Adell [[spoiler: is a demon raised by humans.]]

* SoundOnlyDeath:[[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.]]

* WhamLine: One from [[spoiler: the fake]] Overlord Zenon at the end of the game.
-->'''Zenon''': (Speaking to Rozalin) "[[spoiler: You've finally awakened... Overlord Zenon!]]"

** In the Japanese version as well, being voiced by NorioWakamoto and all... [[spoiler:The fake one, anyway.]]

* BonusBoss: Laharl, Etna, Flonne, and a bunch of other [[Creator/{{Nippon Ichi}} Nippon Ichi]] characters. The PSP remake adds more, for a total of ''twenty-six.''

* BonusBoss: Laharl, Etna, Flonne, and a bunch of other NipponIchi characters. The PSP remake adds more, for a total of ''twenty-six.''