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Priere
Voiced by: Mai Nakahara (Japanese), Jennifer Hale (English)
In a bonus ending, she (accidentally) becomes a Demon Overlord by defeating so many demons in the Dark World that they unanimously elect her as their leader. In a strange twist of canon, this version of Priere has shown up as a cameo (and frequent Optional Boss) in every Disgaea game since then. It is ultimately explained in the Updated Re-release, which elaborates upon the events that follow the original ending.
Tropes Associated with Priere:
- Badass Adorable: Has her moments, particularly with one of her facial shots.
- Badass Arm-Fold: Does this when she gets pissed.
- Beneath the Mask: Priere always tries to look strong and not look weak, especially in front of Culotte.
- Blank White Eyes: When shocked or stunned, along with Sweat Drop.
- Cool Big Sis: To the orphans in town. Eclair also refers to her as "Big sister."
- Cross-Popping Veins
- Fiery Red Head: A red-head with a serious temper issue. The trailer even says she's "in need of a serious attitude adjustment."
- Fireball Eyeballs: When angry or feeling particularly pumped up about something.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: She has a nasty uppercut that is powerful enough to not only launch an opponent to the moon, but also obliterate it, and that is without being an Overlord. Priere is a badass Action Girl.
- Groin Attack: Her Coup de Grace, a really nasty kick to the groin. Considering that her kicks can smash through iron doors, this isn't something you want to be on the receiving end on. Later games modify it into a Megaton Punch.
- Hartman Hips/Impossible Hourglass Figure: Depending on the Artist.
- Kewpie Doll Surprise: When shocked.
- Kick Chick: Priere's primary weapon is her baton, but she's just as likely to kick ass with her powerful legs. Her kick is capable of smashing through iron doors.
- Mama Bear: Priere doesn't take kindly to people who threaten her little brother.
- Morality Chain: Eventually starts holding Croix's chains.
- Naughty Nuns: In her defense, Father Salade gave her the clothes.
- Nun Too Holy: For someone aiming to be The Maiden of Light, she sure likes her violence and rudeness.Culotte: But if you think about it,
you'd make a much better demon lord than a Maiden of Light… - Promotion to Parent: Although they grew up in a orphanage, Priere tries to act like a mother figure for Culotte.
- Second Love: For Croix.
- Spell My Name With An S: In the original Mastiff release of La Pucelle, she is named "Prier", while Atlus and NISA uses the name "Priere" in the Disgaea series. Even Japan seems unsure if her name is supposed to be Prier or Priere, using both names on the same official website for Ragnarok and in official materials. The Switch port of Ragnarok, despite being published by NISA as part of NIS Classics Vol. 3, uses "Prier" like the Mastiff release. Meanwhile, Disgaea RPG opts to use both names for her different forms with the demon-hunting nun being referred to as "Prier", while the demon Overlord is referred to as "Priere".
- Sweat Drop: So many times she has her own personal animation.
- When She Smiles: According to Alouette.You always looked the prettiest when you were smiling.
- Why Can't I Hate You?: Priere feels this about Angelique.
- Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: When frustrated.
Tropes associated with Overlord Priere:
- Alternate Character Interpretation: Many of the games allow for this. In the original Disgaea 2, Ragnarok hadn't been made yet, so Priere's dialogue was pretty evil, threatening to cover the world in an ocean of blood. In other games, she was friendlier, and then finally in Ragnarok, there is an ending in La Pucelle where she turns into an evil Demon Overlord, and an ending where she turns into a good Demon Overlord. In Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten, she switched between the two and you could select whether she would have good or evil sounds in battle.
- Amazon Brigade: Often turns up with a small group of female-only demons backing her in her cameo appearances.
- Ascended Extra: Overlord Priere was just a joke in the original game, basically making fun of how her rude and violent personality is more befitting of a demon Overlord than the messianic Maiden of Light. However, her cameo appearance in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness used her Overlord form instead of her human form, and would continue to appear as an Overlord in subsequent games. This lead to the addition of a new scenario in Ragnarok, which now takes her transition into a demon Overlord much more seriously than the original joke ending.
- Bad Powers, Bad People/Bad Powers, Good People: Her powers are directly channeled through Goddess Calamity, the same source of the Dark Prince's power. Whether she is good or evil depends on if she mastered herself or if she fails.
- Beat the Curse Out of Him: She does this to Croix, purifying the self-loathing out of him and allowing him to retain his Dark Prince powers.
- Blood Knight: Even with the appearances that tone down her evilness, she does seem a little more fight-happy as an Overlord.
- Creepy Child: Initially takes the form of one in Ragnarok — specifically, a younger Priere.
- Dark Messiah: Turns into this in the good ending, purifying the Dark Prince and saves the world without Alouette dying like in the normal game. She even calls herself the Maiden of Darkness, as a darker but still good counterpart to Alouette.
- The Dark Side Will Make You Forget: Seems to have happened to her in some of the Cameo appearances, and can happen to her in the Overlord Priere story of the remake of La Pucelle.
- Demon of Human Origin: She became a demon to obtain the power to save Croix and her friends. Whether she succeeds or not depends on the ending you get. In the Maiden of Darkness ending, she saves everyone, including Alouette, but due to her being a demon now, she can no longer stay with them and leaves for the Netherworlds. At least Croix is with her.
- Enemy Within and Enemy Without: Pulls off both in Ragnarok. Unusually, she appears as an Enemy Without first.
- Evil Costume Switch: And you thought her first outfit was bad enough...
- Evil Laugh: She has a sprite for one but she has no in-battle voices. She does, however, have one in Disgaea 4, and, yes, it does sound
like a certain other character voiced by Mai Nakahara. - Fallen Hero: She can become one if any ending but the Golden Ending is obtained as killing her brother and friends, and losing Croix completely breaks her, leading her to give in to her rage and destroy her world. After her fall, she becomes so infamous that most demons recognize her as the human who became a demon for the sake of power.
- Fanservice Pack: She was a premier Ms. Fanservice to begin with, but as an overlord, her already large bust and curvaceous figure are exaggerated further.
- Fiery Redhead: Even moreso now that she's a demon.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Priere becoming an Overlord has become infamous throughout the Nippon Ichi multiverse, especially in the Netherworlds where she is often described as a former human who became a demon due to a strong desire for power.
- Glass Cannon: When Priere becomes an Overlord, she trades defense for attack. If you thought being hit by magic hurt before…
- Horned Humanoid: Her transition into a demon came with curved demon horns.
- Megaton Punch: She and Croix finish Noir off with these in Ragnarok's best ending.
- Ms. Fanservice: Just look at that picture!
- Noble Demon: In the good ending.
- Power Gives You Wings: After becoming a demon, Priere grew a pair of size-shifting black bat-like wings. They remain in a small size when she's calm, but when someone ticks her off, they'll extend to their full size.
- Stripperiffic: By all accounts, something as simple as a good breeze should be enough to reveal her nipples.
- Superpowered Evil Side: Early on, Priere's Overlord powers manifest as a younger version of herself, who tries to tempt her into giving in and embrace her full power. When she and her friends dive inside her heart, each of Priere's reasons to become an Overlord manifests as a demon version of her, each stronger than the last. When she meets the strongest reason (Her grief over Alouette being the Maiden of Light instead of her, and her fears that she's trying to force her to kill Croix), she's unable to fight back anymore and transforms into a demon.
- Depending on her actions in that route, Priere either loses herself to her power and murders her friends, or she regains her sanity and gains full control of her power.
- You Kill It, You Bought It: She developed Overlord powers after killing 1000 demons in the Netherworlds.
- Winged Humanoid: Her transition into a demon came with large bat wings.
Culotte
Voiced by: Kaori Mizuhashi (Japanese), Jill Talley (English), Mc Kenzie Atwood (English, Ragnarok)
- Adorably Precocious Child: He's more mature than Priere, despite being her much younger brother. He's not really taken seriously by anyone, however. He's also the cutest thing you've ever seen.
- Blank White Eyes: Has these shocked or stunned, along with a Sweat Drop.
- Deadpan Snarker: Usually directed at Priere, which tends to leave him with a bump on the head in retaliation.
- I Miss Mom: He's reduced to wailing out for him and Priere's parents after their deaths.
- Improbable Weapon User: Attacks with fruits, lollipops, mushrooms, and bombs.
- It's All My Fault: Blames himself for Priere becoming a Demon Overlord on the Overlord path, since he joked about her being more suited to being a demon than the Maiden of Light.
- Only Sane Man: The closest thing to one.
- No Infantile Amnesia: Subverted - Culotte explicitly says he can't really remember anything about his mother and father, who died when he was five years old.
- Precocious Crush: On Alouette.
- Post-Kiss Catatonia: Even if it was just on the cheek.
- Shy Finger-Twiddling: Does this when he's embarrassed.
Alouette
Voiced by: Hikari Tachibana (Japanese), Colleen O'Shaughnessey (English)
- By-the-Book Cop: She's a quintessential demon hunter, as you'd expect the Maiden of Light to be.
- Corporal Punishment: She tends to hit Priere in the head with her book when she does something wrong. Which is to say, a lot.
- The Empath: She can sense people's emotions and determine if they are evil or good.
- Equivalent Exchange: Alouette's memory spell on the Dark Prince.
- First-Name Basis: Priere and Alouette agree to call each other simply by their names in chapter 3.
- The Fundamentalist: She has some traces of this in the beginning; she gets much better.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Very mildly, but she admits to herself that she is a little jealous of Priere and Culotte's family bond.
- Mini Dress Of Power: Lampshaded by Priere.And you're wearing a micro-mini under your robe!
- Mysterious Waif: A mysterious, amnesiac girl with immense power who was taken in by Father Salade. Unsurprisingly, she turns out to have been the Maiden of Light all along.
- Older Than She Looks: Turns out she's actually older than Salade.
- Principles Zealot: She clings to the Goddess' teachings to the point where she is willing to execute a wild beast for harming humans in self-defense. She eventually starts growing out of it.
- Spared by the Adaptation: Unlike the original ending, she survives in La Pucelle Ragnarok...well, in most endings.
- Throw the Book at Them: One of her specials is whacking the opponent over the head with a thick book. She often does this to Priere as well.
- Who Dares?: How dare you question the Holy Book?!
Croix Raoul
Voiced by: Toshihiko Seki (Japanese), Quinton Flynn (English)
- Amnesiac Dissonance: Croix's a bit rough around the edges, but he's certainly a lot better than the Dark Prince was prior to meeting Angelique.
- Badass in Distress: In the final chapter.
- BFG: One of his final attacks involves a big bazooka.
- Crusading Widower: As the Dark Prince.
- Dark and Troubled Past
- Expy: of Trigun's Nicholas D. Wolfwood, being a gritty wanderer with sunglasses, a Dark and Troubled Past and a cross-shaped gun (though Croix's aren't nearly as massive). Some promotional art of him even uses poses reminiscent of those from the manga.
- First Love: Angelique.
- Guns Akimbo
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He has his moments, as lampshaded by Priere.
- Love Redeems: Both his first and second love has redeemed him through love.
- Morality Chain: As Priere is his Morality Chain to prevent becoming the Dark Prince, he himself is Overlord Priere's Morality Chain.
- Nice Guy: Priere describes him as cheerful and dependable.
- Older Than He Looks Hundreds of years old, in fact.
- Recurring Dreams
- See You in Hell: One of Croix's battle stock phrases.
- Smoking Is Cool: If you played the Japanese version, that is.
- Sunglasses at Night: Or in a cave, temple, demon world, wherever. Croix only takes off his Cool Shades to demonstrate surprise about something or when he unleashes his Superpowered Evil Side.
- Sweetie Graffiti: He and Angelique had carved their names on a tree in this manner.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: As the Dark Prince.
Eclair
Voiced by: Natsuko Kuwatani (Japanese), Amber Hood (English)
- Beta Couple: She and Homard to Priere and Croix.
- Combination Attack: While most of the cast have unique attacks when partnered with certain characters, Eclair is the only one who has one with herself, temporarily splitting up with Dark Eclair so the two can thrash their foe together.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Just wanted to be free, really. In fact, once Eclair comes to terms with her darker side, the two form a sister-like relationship.
- Expy: Of Princess Gradriel from Princess Crown.
- Enemy Within: Soon confronts her Superpowered Evil Side.
- Evil Costume Switch: Dark Eclair◊, dropping her princess dress for a form-fitting leotard.
- Eyelid Pull Taunt: Done by Dark Eclair.
- Hidden Buxom: Dark Eclair shows that Eclair has bigger breasts than her princess dress lets on.
- I Just Want to Be Normal: Really resents her position as nobility.
- Leotard of Power: As Dark Eclair.
- Meaningful Name: While the word is commonly associated with a certain pastry, Eclair is French for lightning or flash. All of her attacks in both forms are lightning-based.
- Multiform Balance: When Eclair, who normally specializes in defense, transforms into Dark Eclair, she gets a massive boost to her attack and mobility in exchange for her defense.
- Shock and Awe: Her specials are all lightning-based.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: This is how Eclair thinks of her two halves, like two sisters of light and dark. In fact, when the two reconcile, Dark Eclair's first order of business is to declare herself the older sister.
- Superpowered Evil Side: Develops due to the stress of training to be Queen and the Maiden of Light at such a young age.
Homard
Homard
Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese), Christopher Cook (English), Austin Lee Matthews (English, Ragnarok)
- Canon Character All Along: On the surface, the reveal that he's actually a prince from another land doesn't seem like a big deal. In Chapter 7, it is revealed that Homard's real name is "Potemkin". In the third Rhapsody game, Memories Of Marl Kingdom, Princess Kururu and her mother Cornet, the main character of Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure, talk about what to name her child and Cornet suggests "Potemkin" if Kururu gives birth to a boy, making him related to the main characters of the previous series.
- Cool Ship: It flies and has a main cannon.
- Dual Wielding: Has a pair of rapiers, used for cutting and slashing.
- Encyclopaedic Knowledge: It is lampshaded that he knows a lot about Mt. Champignon and it's hinted that he know a lot about everything because he is a world-traveling air pirate.
- Eyepatch of Power
- Gentleman Adventurer: Being an air pirate is his excuse to go on adventures while trying to find the demon that crippled his father.
- Hook Hand: Not Homard himself, but his second in command Yattanya.
- Hot-Blooded: What else do you expect from someone voiced by the King of Braves?
- I Want to Be a Real Man
- King Incognito: At the end of the game, it is revealed that he is not only engaged to Eclair but also secretly a prince from another land. While not outright stated, there are hints that he's specifically the prince of Marl Kingdom.
- The Magnificent: "The great Captain Homard".
- Mythology Gag: His entire crew is made up of Series Mascots from the Marl Kingdom series. Papillon is a fairy puppet much like Cornet's Kururu while the rest of the Chocolat Gang are Nyankos, Mooks who serve Marjoly and Akujo. It's heavily implied that he is the son of Princess Kururu and Cello, the main characters of Ballad of the Little Princess and the daughter and (adopted) son of Cornet and Akujo, respectively.
- Sky Pirate
- So Beautiful, It's a Curse: "Oh, why must I be so devilishly handsome?!".
- They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: "Don't call me Boss. It's Captain."
Father Salade
Voiced by: Takashi Nagasako (Japanese), Phil Proctor (English)
- Badass Boast: Trust us, he has the skills to back it up."Do you think you can take on Salade the Demon Killer?"
- Corporal Punishment: He hits Priere from behind for being late.
- Dirty Old Man: Who do you think picked Priere and Alouette's outfits?
- Good Old Fisticuffs: Can punch out Demon Lords barehaded.
- Henpecked Husband: Probably a very mild example, but Culotte mentions Salade could never stand up to his wife, and Salade answers that it is true and that he would rather be fighting demons.
- Made of Iron: Can easily shrug off one of Priere's kicks... including her Groin Attack.
- Real Men Love Jesus: Loves Goddess Poitreene.
- Save the Princess: His dream as a boy.
- Silver Fox: His character design sketches shows him when he is shirtless and hatless, and he's very buff.
Noir
Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita (Japanese), James Horan (English)
- Bad Boss: He treats his enemies with more respect than his underlings, and actually kills some of them, not that they don't deserve it.
- The Chessmaster: Plays all of the other characters so well that it takes nearly the entire game for anyone to do much more than inconvenience him slightly.
- Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: Tricks the Dark Prince and attempts to use him to take the powers of the Goddess of Darkness.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
- Eviler than Thou: And you thought the Dark Prince would be the main villain of this story, didn't you?
- The Evils of Free Will: Noir's basic motivation. First, he watched a bunch of angry townsfolk murder his demon-loving mother because they could. Then he suffered at the hands of abusive demons because they could. Finally, he realized that both humans and demons were the same: stuck-up, stubborn individuals with their own unique viewpoints who pretend to be just like everyone in their group while violently lashing out at anyone they disagree with, and no community can ever be at peace because no two beings will ever be perfectly harmonious, and the revelation drove him mad. Now he seeks to suppress individualism by killing everyone else.
- Expecting Someone Taller: Culotte imagined the head of the Church of the Divine Mother was scarier.
- Fantastic Racism: On the receiving end from both demons and humans.
- Faux Affably Evil
- Half-Human Hybrid
- Hates Everyone Equally: His ultimate goal is to "Put Them All Out of My Misery". The only person he loves is dead, and his philosophy claims he would have grown to hate her anyway.
- High Priest
- I Lied: No, Dark Croix, Noir was just using you the whole time, he didn't want to help you take revenge.
- Nature Lover: He kills one of his minions who was attempting a Taking You with Me because the attack would burn down the forest. Gives some insight into how little he cares about his underlings.
- Noble Demon: His father, according to his mother, was a pretty good guy.
- One-Winged Angel: Noir has two of these forms. His Dark Noir form has a shriveled and twisted body, with bleached hair, blank eyes, bat-like wings and no legs. His final form before he's finished off is a bulky and muscular dark-skinned humanoid with a massive pair of tusk-like horns hanging from his back, really big eyebrows and spikes on his shoulders.
- Orphan's Ordeal: His mother was killed right in front of him by other humans; that was a very bad idea on their part.
- Power Floats: He has the ability to float.
- Sexy Priest: No The Casanova, but he is good-looking and charismatic.
- Together in Death: Even after all he has done, Priere shocks everyone present by praying to the maiden of light to cleanse Noir of his sins so that he can see his mother again.
- Utopia Justifies the Means: Though as it turns out, said utopia was solely for his benefit.
