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Several Overlords flock to one who has... *snort* tragedy befall him. Whether to help, take advantage, or just laugh, they are the most powerful beings in The Multiverse; and should one gain advantage over the others, they will rule all.

These are the principal players in the struggle for control of the Netherworld in Makai Kingdom: Chronicles of the Sacred Tome.


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    In General 
  • Affably Evil: Despite their statuses as monstrous rulers, the Overlords are for the most part civilized toward one another....at least by Eldritch Abomination standards. They do sometimes take potshots at each other and have agendas of their own, but there's less in-fighting than expected.
  • The Cameo: Alex, Petta, Pram and Zetta have all gone on to cameo in later Nippon Ichi titles to various degrees.
  • Card-Carrying Villain: Everyone except Trenia, per their status as Overlord.
  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Downplayed. Typically, a group of homicidal uber-psychos would be constantly flailing at each other for power. During the story however, the majority of the Overlords cling to Zetta out of curiosity rather than opportunity. When the trope does come up, it's typically for gags (often at Drake's expense).
  • Cosmic Entity: Every member of the cast is one of these, hanging out in the cosmic expanse between universes.
  • Defeat Means Playable: All of the Overlords except Trenia can be recruited in the Post-Game by beating their special stages.
  • Dimension Lord: Every member of the cast is, to varying degrees, uber-powerful lords of entire realms that they manage (Yes, even Drake). Trenia is also able to stand amongst them despite not being one herself, which confuses everyone at some point. Until it's revealed she's the spirit of the Sacred Tome; indirectly making her the Dimension Lord among even them.
  • Who Needs Enemies?: The truce between the Overlords is stable enough but the group is a melting pot of agendas. Zetta's a mindless conqueror skeptical of everybody but Babylon, Pram is scheming past everybody, Drake is constantly vying for power grabs, Alex ambushes Zetta repeatedly under the delusion he's The Rival, Salome hates everyone that isn't Zetta and Seedle hates everyone that isn't Seedle. The only two close to "nice" are Babylon and Micky and even they're seasoned conquerors with casualties under their belts. The Overlords can certainly get along, but everyone gives Zetta's plight the urgency of a drive-in movie and are obviously out for themselves through the whole thing.

    Zetta 

Zetta (The Most Badass Frickin Overlord in All The Cosmos)

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu (JP), Crispin Freeman (Initial release), Richard Epcar (Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories), Patrick Seitz (Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten onward, including Petta Mode) (EN)

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Zetta was once the most powerful overlord of all the Netherworlds. Due to a prophecy from the Sacred Tome that foretold of its destruction by his hands (which he accelerates by burning the book), Zetta loses his body and binds his soul to the Sacred Tome in order to save himself. Since he can no longer conquer the Netherworld by himself, he has to wish into existence a horde of Player Mooks to do his work for him.
  • Animate Inanimate Object: He is now a Book. The Book, but still a book.
  • Badass Boast: "I'M ONE BADASS FREAKIN' OVERLORD!!!!"
  • Badass Cape: So badass it seems to contain a piece of space!
  • Boisterous Bruiser: In Disgaea 4, he comes around looking for someone that can give him a good fight, and is quite a bit more friendly than in his own game.
    • It's likely that his Disgaea 4 appearance is set after the end of this game, which means it's more like Character Development.
  • Buffy Speak: "'Sacred Tome'? HA! More like... Sucky... Dumb... Thing."
  • Character Development: Grows from a selfish and idiotic Villain Protagonist to someone willing to forfeit his own life to save a loved one. Carried over in his cameo appearances in other games, where he is noticeably more affable.
  • Character Exaggeration: The Zetta Beam only appeared in a few cutscenes in Makai Kingdom — it was never usable for the player, even with his original body. It has since become his signature move in all of his cameo appearances in other Nippon Ichi titles. Additionally, the Zetta Beam also becomes more destructive — originally it was just a blast from the eyes, but when it next appears in Disgaea 2 it becomes a full-blown Wave-Motion Gun, and recently in Disgaea 4 it became a planet buster Kamehame Hadoken. In Disgaea 5, it quite casually destroys orbiting astral bodies, and is even the basis for multiple combination attacks he can do with Pram and Petta.
  • Cosmic Keystone: The premise of the game is that Zetta torches the previous one, forcing him to take over its role to keep everything afloat. He fails beautifully.
  • Demoted to Extra: Although Zetta appears in other Nippon Ichi titles as an Optional Boss and Optional Party Member, he always appears in his book form and not in his original body. This is finally averted in Disgaea 4 and Disgaea Dimension 2.
  • Doting Parent: Is very protective and supportive of Petta in other games, something which he is very bad at hiding.
  • Evil Laugh: Cranks these out a lot. In later games, it precedes one of his special attacks.
  • Eye Beam: ZETTA BEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAM!!!!!!!
  • Flaming Hair: An odd example in that his hair is shaped roughly like a normal mane of long hair, except that bits of it flicker and float off like a crackling fire.
  • Flanderization: Notable as one of the few NIS characters to actually subvert this trope in his later appearances when he has his body back.
  • Graceful Loser: He takes his defeat at the hands of Valvatorez rather well, mostly because he now has a rival that can keep up with him.
  • Hot-Blooded: Zetta is a "crush enemies now, think about it later"-sort of guy. Which makes him easy for someone like Pram to manipulate.
  • I Have No Daughter!: His initial reaction to meeting Petta. It takes him some time before he comes around to the idea that he has a daughter.
  • Large Ham: Of the shamelessly egomaniacal variety.
  • Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Zetta destroys his own Netherworld by acting on the astoundingly-stupid idea to torch the local Cosmic Keystone. Granted, he didn't think it would destroy his Netherworld (in fact he was trying to avert that) and he was tricked into it by an equally-unassuming Pram. The whole thing's Played for Laughs.
  • Milky White Eyes: In both human and book form.
  • The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: In the PSP Petta storyline, he stops Petta from killing Alex...because he wants to fight Alex himself.
  • Only Sane Man: Only when he's interacting with the wackier Overlords. Otherwise, he's plenty quirky himself.
  • Power Glows: In his human form (and how!). His hair flows like flame, and his every footstep sends electric crackles up his legs. He can also spark off a pretty impressive glow as a book too.
  • Purposely Overpowered: Pretty much every appearance he makes as a playable character, including (of course) in his A Taste of Power appearance in Makai Kingdom's prologue. Simply put, all his stats, aptitudes, and growth skills puts every single character to shame, giving credit to his boasts of him being the strongest Overlord in the cosmos.
  • Red Baron: The Most Badass Frickin Overlord in All The Cosmos!
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni:
    • The hot-blooded, impulsive Red to Pram's calm, manipulative Blue...
    • ...Unless he's around Alex, in which Zetta is the more-cynical Blue to his Unknown Rival Alex's Red.
  • Rip Van Winkle: In the PSP Petta storyline, his failed attempt to confine himself to the Sacred Tome causes him to get knocked out for a thousand years.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Zetta or Zeta.
  • Stats Dissonance: Enforced and Played for Laughs: As the Sacred Tome, Zetta keeps the amazingly-high stats his human form had in the prologue. He offers no power-benefit whatsoever when lifted as an item in-game. No curb-stomping Level 1 enemies with a cosmically-endowed paperweight for you!
  • A Taste of Power: At the start of the game, he's level 2000 and has a small collection of sword and dagger techs. After that, though....
  • Throw the Book at Them: He's...not really a good weapon, actually.
  • Took a Level in Kindness: Takes one throughout the game, and while his cameos in later games seem to undo this, all of his cameos in his human form seem to consistently play him as a lot more affable.
  • Tsundere: Fuka declares him the universe's biggest tsundere after seeing his interaction with Petta, his Kid from the Future.
    • He's a huge one for Salome as well.
  • Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Zetta effectively uproots his entire legacy within five minutes of the game and has to claw his way back to relevancy the hard way. He's also a Jerkass Card-Carrying Villain that massacres entire realms to take them over and his unwillingness to acknowledge other people screws him over constantly.
  • We Cannot Go On Without You: If he dies, the Dimension goes kablooie.
  • Worthy Opponent:
    • It's suggested that underneath the insults, he considers Alex to be this.
    • Thinks of Valvatorez as such after their battle in Disgaea 4.

    Pram 

Pram

Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi (JP), Amanda Winn-Lee, Erin Fitzgerald (Disgaea series) (EN)

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Pram is the snarky Oracle who predicted the death of the Netherworld. She spends most of her time alternating between trying to help Zetta get his body back and mocking him for his stupidity (sometimes these two overlap).
  • Black Eyes of Crazy: Subverted in that she's quite sane, but the sclera of her eyes is black.
  • Blue Oni: To Zetta's red. Also an inspiration for her character design, with cat ears placed like double horns and a slightly bluish tint to her white hair. However, that's only on the surface. Pram is actually one of the more short-tempered characters if insulted.
  • Cat Girl: It's not obvious in her standard portrait, but those are cat ears on her head. Her true form, shown at the end of the game, makes it more explicit, giving her Nekomata-like claws and a tail.
  • Chained by Fashion: Wears manacles on her wrists for no good reason.
  • The Chessmaster: It's pretty clear from the beginning that's she manipulating Zetta to some end (and reveling in it as the narrator). Carries over when she appears in other games. Anyone with potential is seen as a new "toy" for her to play with.
    • Smug Snake: The only reason why she can predict the future is that she read ahead in the Sacred Tome. Without it, she's just a regular Overlord.
  • Child Prodigy: Her actual age is undetermined, but she functions as this in the story — an Overlord of unusual power despite her youth and an equal desire to prove her strength in the eyes of the older generation. Her young age is probably the source of her easily bruised pride.
  • Even Evil Has Standards:
    • Pram may be an Oracular Urchin that hijacks the prophecies of a Cosmic Keystone For the Evulz, but she draws the line at separating Zetta from Salome once she realizes he still cares about her and assists in bringing her Back from the Dead in the Good Ending.
    • In the Bad Ending, she misinterprets Zetta and Salome's dynamic and assumes Zetta was abusively leeching off her power, causing her to attack him in an offended rage.
  • Hidden Buxom: She's noticeably curvier in her claws-out battle form, and the Disgaea RPG gave her a significant Fanservice Pack. Behold, and compare.
  • An Ice Person: Mostly in her later cameos. She can learn any of the elements in this game.
  • Improbable Age: In the Good Ending, Pram says she took the Netherworld from her father when she was just two.
  • Kill It with Fire: When she appears in the game, it's by an explosion that spawns smaller explosions.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: During the good ending, after realizing that Zetta still harbors feelings for Salome, she blames herself for starting the whole mess through rewriting the Sacred Tome.
  • One-Winged Angel: Grows out her wings and surrounds herself with a pyramid-shaped aura when serious.
  • Oracular Urchin: Pram is able to read the future and has no issues using that knowledge for nefarious purposes. Until Trenia gives her a deep talking-to, upon which she has a Heel Realization.
  • Prescience Is Predictable: Of course, she also cheated with some of her prophecies, but still.
  • Squishy Wizard: In gameplay. Very nice INT growth, but otherwise one of the weakest Overlords stat-wise.
  • Time Abyss: While the youngest of the overlords, in one of the bad endings, Pram kills Zetta and rules the cosmos for tens of billions of years, with no end in sight.
  • Token Mini-Moe: Among the Overlords. As a result of this, she also gets quite a lot of face time in the official art books.
  • Unexplained Recovery: Toward the end of the game, during her attempt to revive Salome, Seedle delivers a seemingly fatal blow to her, halting her efforts. By The Stinger, however, she's back on her feet.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: Talking to the characters in the Overlord's Castle near the end of the game reveals that Pram can do this, but she's only done it once in her whole life. It's somewhat implied she's trying to hide her more catlike features.
  • What the Hell, Overlord?: In the game's Bad Ending, she misinterprets Zetta's situation with Salome as mooching off of her power knowingly, flaunting it as his own. She takes up arms against him immediately, and tries to kill him.

    Salome 

Salome

Voiced by: Ai Orikasa (JP), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (EN)

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A former human who chose to become a demon rather than be reborn into the human world, Salome was once a pupil of Zetta's. However, she doesn't have as much power as most typical Overlords.
  • Anti-Gravity Clothing: No idea what holds up that thing behind her. She doesn't touch the ground, for that matter either.
  • Back from the Dead: Zetta is forced to kill her in an elaborate Suicide by Cop scheme. Thankfully, he's able to use the Sacred Tome to bring her back.
  • Blood from the Mouth: Salome coughs up blood a few times during the story, hinting at her ailment.
  • Delayed Reaction: When she meets Petta in the Updated Re-release, and after Petta states that she's Zetta's daughter, there is a very long pause where Trenia walks by before Salome responds by asking Petta to...
  • Feather Motif: When she first appears, she does so in a soft explosion of white feathers.
  • Final Boss: Salome is this to the main campaign, due to her feigning insanity so Zetta can aid her in committing Suicide by Cop.
  • Guest-Star Party Member: She's briefly an ally (not controllable, but non-hostile to you and hostile to your enemies) in the story mode when fighting Alexander, since the player isn't likely to be able to beat him on their own at that point.
  • Knight of Cerebus: The only non-comedic character besides Seedle. When she's on-screen, the tone ranges from somber to creepy.
  • The High Queen: Before her love for Zetta pushes her to the edge.
  • Hot Consort: Zetta admits he loves her in the end and in the credits she is seen wearing what looks like a wedding dress, strongly suggesting they did finally get married. Salome at (long) last became Zetta's ridiculously hot wife.
  • Hot for Teacher: It's heavily implied during the first chapters that she used to have a crush on Zetta while serving under him, an implication that lasts right up until the point she states it outright. Zetta seems a little too eager to deny he ever felt anything for her.
  • Informed Flaw: Is said to be getting weaker by the time she's appeared due to giving her mana to Zetta, but when fought as an Optional Boss, she's the same as when she's a Guest-Star Party Member.
  • Incurable Cough of Death: Starts leaking power, most often represented by this during cutscenes.
  • Lady of War: An elegant and powerful fighter with the best Attack bonus (170%) in the game.
  • Love Makes You Crazy: Declares that her and Zetta are destined to die together. This is intended to get him to kill her, take the rest of her power, and end her suffering, since she can't stop the transfer of mana now that she knows what it's doing to her. Thus, this is a Subverted Trope.
  • Love Martyr: Despite "leaving" Zetta when he neglected her for the sake of power, she gives her power to him to help him achieve his dream. This is killing her, and she wants Zetta to put an end to it.
  • Magic Knight: She has the stats for it if you want to do this.
  • Mana Drain: Narrative example. Salome's illness is the result of her mana slowly deteriorating. It's secretly going into Zetta; something he's in the dark about.
  • Ms. Fanservice: The only woman in the game who isn't a child or a talking head, and she's a voluptuous blonde.
  • Navel-Deep Neckline: Her dress is open in front down to her pelvis.
  • Obfuscating Insanity: See Love Makes You Crazy for the full story.
  • Worf Had the Flu: Her illness and giving Zetta her mana power makes her much weaker when she's fought at the end of the game, though she's hardly a pushover.

    Babylon 

Babylon

Voiced by: Takeshi Aono (JP) Alan Shearman (EN)

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The Dragon God Babylon is the largest and oldest of all of the Overlords in the Netherworld. His old age has made him senile, and he has a tendency to fall asleep in the middle of a conversation.
  • An Ice Person: Babylon's Finishing Move "Absolute Zero" is Ice-based.
  • Bishounen Line: Fights by turning into a human-sized entity, likely because his regular form is too big to fit on any of the game's maps.
  • Black Eyes of Crazy/Red Eyes, Take Warning: In both of his forms, but especially noticeable in his human form.
  • Brought Down to Badass: The One's curse has caused Babylon to lose his infinite Mana power and to grow senile, but this doesn't stop Babylon at all from destroying planets. By accident.
  • Dimension Lord: In his prime, Babylon ruled the entire universe. Too bad The One put an end to his reign.
  • Hades Shaded: In his human form, his skin color is gray.
  • Large and in Charge: He's an Overlord, and he's so big that all we usually see of him is his head.
  • Lethal Klutz: Due to his poor eyesight, Babylon has the unfortunate habit of destroying planets by bumping into them.
  • Mighty Glacier: As a unit, Babylon has high ATK, heavy weapon proficiencies and lackluster Movement range.
  • Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: He really doesn't mean to wantonly destroy planets, but, well, he's just so big and his eyes are going.
  • The Older Immortal: Eldest among Overlords and one of the only people Zetta shows respect to.
  • One-Winged Angel: In his Optional Boss battle... Though really you're fighting him in the past.
  • Our Dragons Are Different: Based on Chinese dragons and is MUCH bigger than the other dragons to appear in NIS games.
  • Retired Badass: Is the oldest of all Overlords, but has grown quite senile.
  • Snot Bubble: When he falls asleep, which occurs quite often.
  • Time Abyss: Babylon is the oldest Overlord, and considering Zetta and King Drake are tens of thousands of years old, that's saying something. When Zetta travels thousands of years into the past to battle him at his full power, he's still an old guy!
  • Token Good Teammate: While 'good' barely applies to Overlords, he's the only one besides Micky ( and Salome) that demonstrates any concern for others and is way more civil than the other cutthroats that make up the Overlords. His Optional Boss fight has him chiding Zetta over his lack of concern for his own life.

    Alexander 

Alexander (God of Destruction, Alejandro, Asshat)

Voiced by: Kenji Nojima (JP), Yuri Lowenthal (EN, Disgaea D2)

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Alex is the God of Destruction, and has developed a fierce ongoing rivalry with Zetta. Most of the time, he's directly tried to kill Zetta himself, but other times, he's employed the help of the Thunder God Raiden to do his work for him.
  • All There in the Manual: See the little child next to Alex in the game's credits? That's his little sister, who has no passing or mention in the actual game.
  • And Then What?: In one of the bad endings, Alex actually winds up destroying everything in his attempt to find an opponent as strong as Zetta. He didn't, and realized that in achieving victory over Zetta, he doomed himself to an empty and wasted life.
  • Big Ol' Eyebrows: Keeping with his "thunder god" theme, he's got the big, comma-shaped eyebrows you'd expect from many depictions of Raiden, the Japanese god of thunder. (Ironically, Raiden himself does not.)
  • Blank White Eyes: When shocked.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Alex is appalled once he learns how deep Seedle's hatred for Salome runs and actively holds Seedle back single-handedly so Zetta can confront her.
  • Fate Worse than Death: See And Then What? above.
  • Hot-Blooded: Just as much as Zetta. It's also why Zetta trusts Alex when he says he doesn't know a thing about the Sacred Tome. Alex is too much of a straight-shooter to lie, even to his rival.
  • Joke Character: Downplayed. Alex has impressive defenses and HP at the expense of sub-par attacking stats, which would make him an excellent Stone Wall...in a game where defense mattered. Between the inability of characters to block enemy movement and the One-Hit KO nature of the Post-Game, Alex is unable to do the thing he's built for and thus has to either fall back on a signature weapon his INT is too weak to wield (Drums), use a weapon only specific enemies are weak to (Fans) or use ATK-based weapons at the expense of his personal fighting style (Spears and Nunchakus); all while characters with better offensive power overshadow him.
  • Master of None: Alex joins the party as such. All of his offensive stats and Aptitudes are about as strong as those of third-tier Player Mooks (INT is his worst attacking stat) and his Weapon Fortes (Spear, Drum, Nunchaku, Fan) are all over the place. His only saving grace is his high HP Aptitude, which gives him Tank potential. His build makes him mediocre in every way.
  • Meaningless Villain Victory: In one of the bad endings. He kills Zetta and then realizes soon after just how hollow victory is without Zetta around to flaunt it to.
  • The Rival: Alex works far more like a shonen hero's rival than an actual villain.
  • Stone Wall: Downplayed. Alex has amazing HP, DEF and RES Aptitudes as well as mediocre ATK, but it comes at the cost of very finicky Weapon Proficiencies and mediocre starting stats. He's clearly designed to soak up punishment rather than deal it and his Finishing Move "Vanishing Bolt" relies on his INT, the Aptitude of which is a static 100%.
  • Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum: He's got a bad habit of trying to annihilate everything when he doesn't get his way (hence earning the "God of Destruction" moniker).
  • The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Alex makes it very clearly throughout the game that no one gets to kill Zetta but himself and will do anything to ensure that.
    • In the main storyline, Alex gets upset over Zetta getting cursed by The One and resolves to kill Zetta and settle their rivalry before the curse can. Later, he fights Seedle twice to prevent him from killing Zetta and allow Zetta to resolve his issues with Salome so that they can get back to their rivalry.
    • In the PSP Petta storyline, Zetta gets knocked unconscious for 1000 years and Alex spends all that time protecting Zetta just so he can fight him himself.
  • This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: "Who's the Overlord now, bitch!?"
  • This Is Unforgivable!: Once Seedle reveals his true colors, Alex abandons his rivalry with Zetta to knock Seedle off his throne.
  • Unknown Rival: Downplayed, since Zetta does acknowledge the fact that the two have battled time and time again. He just doesn't care about their rivalry as much as Alex does.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: Bares his chest constantly, only ever covering up with a shawl.
  • Wrong Genre Savvy: Everything about him makes it seem like he thinks he's in a shonen fighting anime.

    Seedle 

Seedle

Voiced by: Shūichi Ikeda (JP), Bob Papenbrook (EN)

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Seedle is the God of the Underworld. As Zetta himself puts it, "He was a kind, brave Samurai until he got lost in the Underworld, where he kicked enough ass to become head honcho."
  • Asskicking Leads to Leadership: According to Zetta, Seedle became ruler of the underworld by kicking enough ass.
  • Big Bad: Probably the closest to one in the game. He has no real role in the plot, however, until he tries to kill Salome.
  • Brutal Honesty: Unlike the other overlords, he doesn't even try to keep a veneer of civility or to to conceal that he's only around to laugh at Zetta's predicament. And because he knows Salome will show up to help Zetta sooner or later.
  • Dual Wielding: When one sword is just just not enough.
  • Evil Laugh: A mocking chuckle.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: In the English version. In the Japanese, he's a tenor that practically leers every word.
  • Eyepatch of Power: Prominently displayed on his right eye.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Inverted. Seedle makes no secret of his animosity towards the others (particularly Salome) and is surprised that they would even consider helping Zetta out. He only sticks around because he finds everybody's flailing funny.
  • Glass Cannon: Stat-wise, he's this - His HP is mediocre and his defenses are pitiful, but he has an impressive ATK Aptitude - two of his weapon-types and his Finishing Move rely on it.
  • Hell Has New Management: When he ended up in the Underworld, he kicked so much ass that he ended up becoming its Overlord.
  • Knight of Cerebus: He doesn't have any of the comedic quirks the other characters have. When funny things happen, he's either completely absent or ignoring it.
  • I Was Beaten by a Girl: When they were both still humans, Salome kills him during his struggle to rape her. To say that he was pissed would be an understatement.
  • Obviously Evil: While all the Overlords will talk about being evil, Seedle is the only one that actually looks the part. Not surprisingly, he's the only truly evil character in the game.
  • Plot-Irrelevant Villain: Despite being the most malicious character in the game, he had nothing to do with Zetta losing his body or receiving the One’s curse. Aside from making snide remarks as events unfold, his only role in the plot is using this incident as an opportunity to kill Salome. To drive the point home, not only is he Killed Offscreen, he’s never fought during the main game.
  • Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Tried to rape Salome back in their human days. She killed him and got burned at the stake for slaying a hero. That didn't please him, however, and he is looking to make Salome pay.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: Lots of demons have red eyes, but with Seedle, they can be taken as an actual warning.
  • Revenge: His motivation for helping Zetta — it will draw out Salome and give him a chance for payback.
  • Samurai: Of the "masterless ronin" variety.
  • Scars are Forever: Seedle appears to have a scar across his chest; he may have had it since his death because he was stabbed by Salome.
  • The Underworld: He is the realm's Overlord.
  • The Unfought: In the main game, he is never fought despite being the game's Big Bad, as both of his attempts to kill Zetta are thwarted by Alex. His only real fight with Zetta is as an Optional Boss, and it takes place before Salome gets involved with the plot.
  • Token Evil Teammate: Even compared to King Drake the Third, Seedle is an absolute sleaze. He's a depressing, sour man that constantly mocks everyone at every opportunity and treats everyone else like inevitable casualties. He's also Salome's rapist who spends the last episode trying to kill her a second time, even interfering in Pram's revival attempt, out of sheer spite.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: His torn robes are always draped down his arm, showing off battle scars.

    Valvoga 

Valvoga (Micky, Ophelia, and Dryzen)

Micky voiced by: Tesshō Genda (JP), Derek Stephen Prince (EN); Ophelia voiced by: Miki Narahashi (JP), Wendee Lee (EN); Dryzen voiced by: Takashi Nagasako (JP), Bob Papenbrook (EN)

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The Star Overlord Valvoga is often summoned into Netherworlds to fight would-be heroes as a "final boss". Valvolga consists of three independently-speaking parts: Micky, the head and torso; Ophelia, the upper body; and Dryzen, the lower body. Micky is supposed to be the brains of the group, but is often bullied into doing what Ophelia and Dryzen want because he's too timid.
  • Aerith and Bob: Even amongst Valvoga, Micky's name is really silly when compared to Ophelia and Dryzen.
  • Ambiguously Gay: Micky. His frightened animation is similar to a girl being afraid of a mouse and his English voice is given a stereotypical gay lisp.
  • Ax-Crazy: Dryzen.
  • Bishōnen Line: After his post-game battle, Micky takes over as the one being Valvoga and becomes a smaller and more defined version of himself, although Ophelia and Dryzen still exists in his mind.
  • Boisterous Bruiser: Dryzen.
    BABES! MONEY! ALCOHOL! GWAHAHAHAHAHA!
  • The Chessmaster: Supposedly, Ophelia is The One; a Neutral being who makes sure the Balance Between Good and Evil is maintained. The whole reveal is treated like a joke, however.
  • Hero Killer: Despite being one of the nicest characters in Makai Kingdom and probably the nicest Overlord of The Multiverse, in Zettai Hero Project, Valvoga is noted as such; the entire hero corporation was created to defeat him in the first place.
  • Magic Knight: One Overlord with the stats for it. Unlike fellow Magic Knight Salome though, his weapon-types are more isolated and build-oriented.
  • Minion with an F in Evil: Micky is possibly the nicest Overlord around. Pity his other halves bully him around...
  • Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Micky has four muscular arms, which makes it all the funnier when he makes a cringing gesture with them.
  • Nice Guy: Despite being the main body of a Physical God Ultimate Overlord, Micky is easily one of the nicest and most sane characters in the game. Too bad he's so spineless.
  • No Indoor Voice: Dryzen.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Later games of the NIS multiverse states that Valvoga was the one who killed Overlord Baal for good, the supposedly unkillable overlord. How this impossible feat happened is left up to our imagination. Though, Disgaea 4 contradicts this by having Baal appear anyway, albeit as free DLC.
  • One-Winged Angel: Valvolga's design is intended to be evocative of the final forms many final bosses transform into most RPGs. Ironically, his own final form hits the Bishōnen Line, becoming much smaller and humanoid than the evil god form he normally appears as.
  • Optional Boss: If Zetta musters up the mana, he can wish to fight Valvoga. Valvoga is also the Optional Boss for Zettai Hero Project.
  • Physical God: It seems he got promoted after Baal's defeat; Valvoga dropped the Dark Lord rank from Makai Kingdom and became Demon God in Zettai Hero Project.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: His description implies that he's this, since it says he's a popular 'final boss' despite actually being a pretty nice guy.
  • Sissy Villain: Downplayed with Micky. Micky is conflict-averse and In Touch with His Feminine Side; only a "villain" by proxy of being an Overlord and having a side-gig as various games' Final Boss. Ophelia and Dryzen both bully him for their less-moral gains and Zetta's opinion of him is bupkis. He gains the ability to assert himself if you beat him in the Post-Game, gifting you his Phantom Double as thanks.
  • Split Personality: Although all three halves are presented as independent beings, and Ophelia supposedly being the one might avert this; Micky finally voicing his opinion in his Optional Boss fight implies this trope, stating that he is Valvoga and the other two should do as he say; also, Valvoga's true form only resembles Micky; no traits from Ophelia and Dryzen are seen.
  • Token Good Teammate: Just like Babylon, Micky has next to no bad bone in his body (Bad limbs are another matter.) and is only with the other Overlords out of association. Micky is so kind in fact that Zetta actively looks down on him for it. It's his fellow components Dryzen and Ophelia that make up his more demonic tendencies.
  • Third-Person Person: Dryzen.
    DRYZEN PICKS ON MICKEY! GWAHAHAHAHAHA!

    King Drake III 

King Drake III

Voiced by: Norio Wakamoto (JP), Jamieson Price (EN)

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King Drake III is, uh...a "special" kind of Overlord. Most of the other Overlords don't think too highly of him, because he does a lot more talking and scheming than he's actually capable of.
  • Beast Man: A lion man.
  • Boisterous Bruiser: Talks the talk. Completely fails at walking the walk.
  • Black Eyes of Crazy: His eyes are similar to Pram's. Unlike Pram, he is a bit crazy.
  • Butt-Monkey: Not a single person takes him seriously and every single scheme he comes up with ends in failure. The only thing anyone is remotely interested in is his rather silly "true form".
  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: One of the only Overlords that actively partakes in this during the game. He enacts various schemes to wrestle power from the others and always fails.
  • Dirty Coward: Tries to sneak a wish into the tome while Zetta's asleep to win control of the Netherworlds, and then runs away crying when he's caught and called out as a coward for it.
  • Harmless Villain: No one takes him seriously because of this, despite most of the rest of the Overlords being mostly harmless Noble Demons themselves. He's a very unsuccessful schemer and very weak in a fight. The most he can do is attempt to talk a big game and run home crying when his plans crumble.
  • Incoming Ham: His entrance, which involves a boisterous speech, plenty of flexing, and explosions.
    "You have all waited so patiently, and now I have finally arrived! I'm the king of the universe, the galactic hero, the creator of all things decently sized. Say my name if you know it! I am... (Stuff Blowing Up in the background) KING DRAKE THE THIRD!"
  • Joke Character:
    • Drake has the best HP Aptitude of anything in the game and comes with some respectable Passives, but he's mediocre is every other area and two of his patron Weapons (Pies) and (Balloons) are of the "gimmicky, borderline-useless" variety. There's also better Hammer and Shovel-users out there. He'd make a great meat shield if this was a game in which defensive units could block the passage of enemies, but alas, this isn't one.
    • He also has a 10% intelligence affinity. 10%. Most first-tier fighter characters have at least 70%. He is possibly the dumbest character in the Nippon Ichi-verse.
  • Large Ham: Voiced by Norio Wakamoto, so of course.
  • Luke, I Am Your Father: Nothing like this is ever explicitly stated, but there's three important pieces of information:
    • First, in Chapter 8, Drake gives this retort to Pram.
    Drake: Look, if you hadn't taken my netherworld, none of this would have happened. Get it?
    • Second is this line from the Good Ending.
    Pram: I took the Netherworld from my father when I was only two!
  • Mistaken for Gay: When he confesses to trying to steal Zetta's "junk," Zetta calls him a sick bastard.
  • One-Winged Angel: Parodied. He attempts to unleash his true form, only for Zetta to see an image of an old man riding a scooter (see Shout-Out below). When he tries again and gathers power, Zetta is far more interested in that picture than King Drake's power.
  • Requisite Royal Regalia: Both crown and ermine cape.
  • Shout-Out/Actor Allusion: His 'true form' (which he quickly abandons in embarrassment) is drawn in the style of Sazae-san. Norio Wakamoto is a frequently used contributor to the anime.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: While having a big ego is practically a requirement for most Overlords, he's so ineffectual at being one despite the big game he talks.
  • Smug Snake: Downplayed, but present. He's a bit too boisterous to be openly smug and disdainful, but he clearly thinks he's smarter relative to the rest of the cast than he actually is, and he's a schemer (albeit with an unjustified confidence in his ability to pull it off).
  • Stone Wall: Just like Alex, Drake's high-HP, blah-attack stat spread nudges toward tanking damage. Or they would in a game where tanking was possible. Here, Drake's little more than a walking paperweight.
  • Team Rocket Wins: Subverted. Upon Zetta seemingly killing The One and being cursed for it, Drake picks up the corpse and tries to blackmail Zetta into relinquishing his Netherworlds in exchange for removing the curse. The other Overlords are actually somewhat fearful until Salome arrives and calls the bluff, forcing a prompt retreat.

    Trenia 

Trenia

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (JP), Brianne Siddall (EN)

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Trenia is a mysterious girl who appeared when Zetta's soul was bound to the Sacred Tome. She appears to be goofy and aloof most of the time, giving cryptic warnings to the other Overlords one minute, and casually strolling along and chasing after butterflies the next.
  • Cloud Cuckoolander: She is utterly unfazed by everything that goes on around her (including death threats) and will happily chase butterflies in the cosmic void at the drop of a hat.
  • Curtains Match the Window: A cool aqua blue pair of eyes to match her long hair.
  • The Ditz: Subverted. She knows exactly what's going on, she just acts clueless.
  • Foreshadowing: At the start of Chapter 6, Trenia is growing something in a cosmic garden plot. The following chapter is about Zetta massacring vegetables, most notably a Corn Man claiming to be "The One." As in, the arbiter of the universe.
  • God Was My Co-Pilot: Subtly influences the events of the story; most notably the myth of "The One."
  • Morality Chain: Discussed. One of the very first things Zetta does is declare this random girl he knows nothing about off-limits to the other Overlords. Even he isn't sure why he's doing this.
  • Mysterious Waif: Pram spends much of the game puzzling over just who she is, and the answer is integral to the plot.
  • Mythology Gag: Her bright costume colors reference Phantom Brave. Also, her calling out "Confine" when she returns to The Sacred Tome.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Considering she spent most of her life as a book, she would much rather chase butterflies than answer any questions posed to her with any meaningful answers.
  • The Omniscient: She's the physical embodiment of the Sacred Tome and is aware of the past, present, and future — so much so that Pram used to sneak a peak when she needed a good prophecy.
  • The Man Behind the Man: Trenia spends much of the story causing a variety of Meaningful Background Events: Most notably, she's the one that gave Alex a chance to prematurely conquer one of the barren Netherworlds meant for Zetta in defiance of Pram's future-telling and she could've helped Zetta at any point, but played dumb just so she could see what could happen (and enjoy her newfound freedom for awhile). A Cutaway Gag near at the start of Chapter 6 even implies that she personally grew "The One" that Zetta kills at the end of the following Chapter to deliberately invoke a Plot-Triggering Death...and that assumes she's not the reason the legend of "The One" exists at all.
  • The Unfought: Trenia can never be recruited as a unit or fought as a boss.. She does however serve as a cameo to explain why Baal is around.
  • Winged Humanoid: She has little blue demon wings, which is odd considering everyone thinks of her as just a normal girl.

    Petta 

Petta (The Most Badass Frickin Overlord in All The Cosmos' Daughter)

Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi (JP), Erin Fitzgerald (EN)

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A new character starring in the extra scenario called “Papa is the Strongest Overlord” in the port of Makai Kingdom for the PSP. Petta also went HD in the 6th DLC pack for Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten.
  • Authority Equals Ass Kicking: It's on her rank, it reads as Uchu Saikyo no Mao no Musume, which can adaptednote  in English as The Most Badass Frickin Overlord in All The Cosmos' Daughter.
  • Badass Adorable: She may look harmless, but she can wreck overlords with ease.
  • Badass Cape: A tiny one. You wouldn't be blamed for thinking it was just part of her dress.
  • Blush Sticker: On her second piece of artwork.
  • Combination Attack: Exa Beam, with her father in Disgaea 5.
  • Cool Crown: Hiding up in her hair, peeking out.
  • Cute Little Fangs: Barely noticeable except when she gets a closeup.
  • Daddy's Girl: She adores her father and wants to make him proud.
  • The Dragon: To Alex in her own story.
  • Eye Beams: PETTA BEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAM!!!!!!!
  • Flaming Hair: It practically moves on its own, just like Zetta's.
  • Girlish Pigtails: Has her constantly-waving hair done up in two massive pigtails.
  • The Gunslinger: In every game she's in, Petta is a long-range support-sniper that prefers Guns and Bows.
  • Kid from the Future: She claims to be Zetta's daughter from the future, which is confirmed in her mode. She has gone back in time to prevent the prophecy of Zetta destroying his own Netherworld and himself, as it would erase her own existence. Also, Salome is implied to be her mom.
  • Milky White Eyes: Her eyes have almost no color to them, but it's there if you squint.
  • Mini Dress Of Power: A fairly fancy one at that, with lace and ruffles.
  • Nice Girl: She's clearly not acquired Zetta's arrogance and pride, instead being very polite and kindhearted.
  • Pintsized Powerhouse: She is only about 110 cm. Her powers, on the other hand...
  • Ret-Gone: She's trying to avoid this.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Much like Zetta, there are Peta and Petta to be found around.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: She's essentially a mini, gender-swapped Zetta.
  • Superpowerful Genetics: Assuming she's Zetta's daughter (which she is), she's inherited her father's Eye Beams and her mother's Black Prison in Disgaea 4.
  • Theme Naming: "Peta" and "Zetta" are prefixes to units of measurement. 1000 to the 5th or 7th power, respectively.
  • Time Travel: See Kid from the Future. In the PSP game, she calls this ability "Time Slip". In Disgaea 4, one of her skills actually has her hit the enemy, then travel back in time one second and hit the enemy again.
    • Time Paradox: Then she travels back in time another second and hits the enemy again, and then all three Pettas blast the enemy with their Eye Beams before merging together.

     Spoiler Character 

The One is the universe's cosmic arbiter of order and the reason why Bad Endings aren't a thing. Maybe. Jury's still out on that. Whatever he is, only a certain senile Overlord has survived his curse.

  • Ambiguous Situation: The game leaves it open whether "The One" actually exists or if he's merely a cosmic boogeyman keeping ambitious Overlords in-line. There's evidence for both theories and whatever the answer is, Makai Kingdom isn't telling.
  • Framing Device: Babylon spends two entire Chapters panicking his face off to make clear how terrifying, important and terrifyingly important "The One" is to the story of the game.
  • God of Order: If the rumors are true, The One oversees the Universe's cosmic disputes and keeps the order.
  • Knight of Cerebus: Downplayed or Parodied, depending on how the game feels at certain points. The One's addition to the plot changes the tone of the game from light-hearted self-deprecative fun to a tense conspiracy...Not that it stops the game from making jokes, still.
  • Medium Awareness: According to legends, The One is the reason why most of Nippon Ichi's "Bad Endings" are non-canon.
  • Plot-Triggering Death: The death of "The One" (or at least the Corn Man claiming to be him) kick-starts the second-half of the game and forces everyone's agendas out into the open.
  • Present Absence: Played With. During Chapters 6 and 7, Babylon is fearful for the arrival of "The One," a cosmic judge that cursed him into draining his own Mana just to survive. Mentioning him sparks paranoia from all of the Overlords other than Zetta and Salome, and even she comes around eventually. The entire tail-end of the game happens because Zetta supposedly kills him and gets hit with the same curse; forcing Alex, Seedle and Salome into action. But, there's evidence that the corn was not "The One" at all, if they were even around - It was the idea that they may exist that forced everyone's hand, not the individual themselves...right?
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Deconstructed. "The One" is a seemingly-minor character nobody brings up until mid-way into the game, yet the mere mention of them kicks off numerous Disaster Dominoes that culminate in the game's final act...Until The Stinger reveals that the curse so integral to The One (at least the one placed on Zetta) was a Red Herring that forced him into Character Development and probably didn't exist at all; putting the very legitimacy of "The One" as a character into question. For all the talk surrounding this God of Order, they didn't actually effect a whole hell of a lot. Or did they?
  • The Unreveal: "The One" is supposedly a Corn Man that Zetta destroys. But The Stinger implies it's Ophelia instead. The game leaves it open as a gag.
  • Trauma Button: For Babylon, being the reason he's a shell of his former self. Just hearing about him turns the polite elder dragon into a quivering mess.
  • Walking Spoiler: Talking about "The One" means discussing the second-half of the entire game.

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