Etna had one when she used Laharl as bait for her blackmailer, told him that she had never truly been under his control and proceeded to give him an asswhooping so bad that he ended up literally begging her to let him become her slave if she only spared his life.
For this troper, Etna's moment came a little bit later - when she shoots two Prism Rangers in the middle of their Transformation Sequence. It's not a scene that's important to the plot, but it's still awesome.
Also a mild CMOH for her since she avoided killing them. shows a fair amount of Character Development, since before the last chapter, she'd have killed without blinking.
Also a crowning moment in-game: the boss battle against said blackmailer is right after a particular stage where you can level up VERY quickly - so your entire party and Laharl in particular is probably going to be vastly overleveled, resulting in a spectacular curb stomp battle, accompanied with amazing music.
The music in the background just clinches it. This game introduced me to Tsunami Bomb and they are still my favorite band.
Laharl gets some of the most brutal moments, such as obliterating the Earth fleet singlehandedly or leveling the Serpahic Sanctum in a fit of righteous rage... and, most particularly, the ending: "IF THERE IS A GOD, MAY HE HEAR MY PLEA! I, LAHARL, HAVE BUT ONE REQUEST: TAKE MY LIFE, IN EXCHANGE FOR FLONNE'S!" Come on, you know you got a little shiver at that.
"Your new name is Mid-boss".
Mid-Boss, incidentally, gets one, too. At the end of Chapter 13, as General Carter is getting away from the heroes and is panicking about how powerful demons are, Mid-Boss shows up and demands to know who Carter was referring to when he said that "he didn't tell me they were this powerful". Unfortunately, he quickly ruins the moment by congratulating himself for being so awesome.
He also has an attack that qualifies: Meteor Impact, where he jumps up into the air so damn high he's able to hijack a passing meteor and sends it towards his opponent while riding on top of it and laughing maniacally.
Flonne's speech against Vulcanus in the final chapter.
Speaking of Batman Gambits, SeraphLamington's gambit is very impressive starting from sending Flonne in an assassination mission while in reality is the beginning of his attempt to rebuild a bridge of peace between Celestia and the Netherworld and even added his treacherous second-in-command Vulcanus's own gambit into the mix with Mid-Boss the only person who knew about this gambit before its reveal. Impressive chain of Unwitting Pawns too, Captain Gordon, Defender Of Earth! -> General Carter -> Vulcanus -> Lamington.
Cursed Memories
Adell takes Heroic Willpower up to eleven when he willingly takes a giant-ass lightning bolt from a borderline-Eldritch Abomination Overlord Zenon (AKA, Rozalin) full force and barely even flinches. As we've said before: Nothing stops Adell from keeping his promises. Nothing
Axel's ridiculously crazy stunt that he pulls through the entirety of the last chapter of Disgaea 2 instantly promotes him from comic relief to Badass as he manages to get the one up on not only Overlord Xenon, but almost every Dimension Lord in the multiverse simultaneously.
The Disgaea fandom has concluded, upon reading the manga version of the Hopeless Boss Fight with Etna, that Manga!Adell is GAR to the point of absurdity. Yeah, he still technically loses (let's see you take a lvl. 1000+ boot to the head and survive), but not before delivering a kick so hard that it drills the Demon Lord's face two feet into the bedrock.
In the same manga, the Disgaea trio's Big Damn Heroes moment. Zenon captures Rozalin and has this huge Rifle Demon blast away Adell's family. All hope seems lost until Etna shows up and deflects the blast away with a single swipe of her spear. It doesn't end there because Laharl jumps out of a crowd of demons in his Skull robe disguise, burns it off in a way that would make Superman proud, and smashes the demon's face with a single punch. Then, to top it all off, Flonne, who was disguised as a kunoichi, quickly changes into her fallen angel outfit and delivers a barrage of love filled arrows.
Absence of Justice
Mao gets one for what is probably the most awesome defeat of a final boss ever: Kill him? Nah! Why kill him when you can make him your own personal lab rat for all of your gruesome experiments?
This is taken a step further when you realize what said final boss' motives are. Throughout all of Disgaea 3, Super Hero Aurum had been posing as Geoffrey, Mao's butler, and raising him to be the ideal Overlord, as he perceived it, all so he could become a hero again - either living as one by killing Mao or dying as one by losing to him in battle. For Aurum, obscurity was worse than death; by the time the battle was concluded in the good ending, Mao came to the decision that his father's murderer didn't deserve death.Say it with me:
Flonne'sBig Damn Heroesin which she is able to hold off the destruction of the moon. It's is also the moment in which she unveils her Humongous Mecha, Great Flonzor X.
Fenrich: What will praying do? What will it change? What kind of help will that be!?
Flonne: It's...LOVE! Praying will become the Power of Love!
One has to wonder what ratio of utter delusions, Unstoppable Rage, and sheer determination allows Fuka to be as fucking dangerous as she is, but it was pretty much narrowed down to those three ingredients (and maybe some actual acceptance of Desco) when she and the Hades Party fought - and defeated - Des X. Twice. Not only does the Token Human literally pulverize the monstrosity that shamed her family (by casting Desco into Hades and killing Fuka herself), but she has her final technique (Prinny Kaiser XX) unleashed by anger alone.
Speaking of which, there's also the conversation that led up to it. Extra credit to Artina for stalling additional hostilities long enough to let it flow.
Upon defeating the maliced-filled Nemo Valvatorez exclaims the following to God.
Valvatorez: Do you see now, God!? This is the power of demons, angels, and humans! A power that's much stronger than yours, the ties of our camaraderie!
