History VideoGame / Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice

* AnAesop: Titles are meaningless. Calling yourself a Hero or a Super Hero in no way makes you heroic (and calling yourself an Evil Genius doesn't actually make you smart). Being good or evil isn't what you're ''called'', it's what you ''do.'' More than in the other ''Disgaea'' games, the characters are all way too hung up on "roles" that they must conform to (even if they make absolutely no sense, such as the school punishing those who attend its classes).

''Franchise/{{Disgaea}} 3: Absence of Justice'' is the third game in the TurnBasedStrategy series ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' by Creator/NipponIchi. It was released in 2008 for the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation 3}}.

Got an UpdatedRerelease called ''Makai Senki Disgaea 3 Return''/''Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention'' on the UsefulNotes/PlaystationVita.

* BlandNameProduct: Mao's ''[[UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable Slaystation Portable]]'' in English. In Japanese, it's [[UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable Death-OmegaStation Portable]].

* BonusBoss: About half the cast of the previous games, then offers whoever is missing as available downloads.
** On top of including all those, the Vita port also adds [[VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten Fuka and Desco]] as bonus bosses.

* {{Bishonen}}: Master Bigstar is a total send-up of the concept, complete with [[SuckMyRose roses]] and a constant cascade of [[BishieSparkle sparkles]].

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* GroomingTheEnemy: [[spoiler: Super Hero Aurum had been posing as Mao's butler, Geoffery, to guide him towards becoming a more powerful and evil overlord than his father had ever been so he could defeat him, believing he no longer had a purpose after defeating the strongest villain.]]

* PokeThePoodle: In the worst ending, Mao goes to the human world to wreak terror upon it, and you even get news reports on how Mao is conducting experiments on thousands of people. But when his former friends confront him, he claims he's just been switching street signs, hiding people's shoes and making prank phone calls and that Super Hero Aurum is lying about him. His old friends don't believe him. [[spoiler: Then his MoralityChain is murdered and he proceeds to wipe out literally everything but himself.]]

-->''The Netherworld, a world spoiled by spite, cruelty, blood soaked taboos, and boundless riffraff.''\\

-->'''Beryl:''' Calm down! Don't get too panicky! Kyoko, you go get the camera! Asuka, you prepare for the interviews!
-->'''Almaz:''' Um, do you mind ''not'' mocking us?

* TheMusical: While the first two games have more traditional eyecandy-for-the-sake-of-it sequences set to an AnimeThemeSong, the third game instead presents its opening as a showtune with of course completely contextual lyrics and the voice actors themselves singing. It manages to be [[ShoutOut evocative]] of ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', "Thriller", and "[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Hare Hare Yukai]]"...all at once.

** A couple of the teachers at Mao's school have...''deep''..feelings for their students. Of course we should probably expect this, seeing as they often ''are'' HornyDevils. Since it's the Netherworld, stuff like that may even be encouraged.

* SexyDiscretionShot: A [[HornyDevil Succubus]] teaches a class on how to "influence" people. We don't see her "lecture", just Mao's excited reaction... And [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments his attempts to imitate her moves]].

** Present during the story, as Mao thinks that to beat the Overlord, he must become a Hero and thus works to change his class to said title, and goes UpToEleven during the post-story, with characters trying to become the main cast so they have more screentime and other exclusive features.
** Goes UpToEleven during the event in which '''Captain Gordon, the Defender of Earth''' is recruited. Simply put, Mao is suspicious of Gordon being the real deal and checks Gordon's status screen, with his proof being that Gordon is wielding a weapon specified only for monster-types. Then to further prove his point, he dares Gordon to magichange, which Gordon accepts, only to plop on the ground as a lightsaber.

* UpToEleven: The LevelGrinding and {{Elite Tweak}}ing. The maximum character level is 9,999. ''Every single item'' can be leveled up by going through the item world. You can buy new items, go through ''their'' item world, and transfer the residents to your favorite equipment for more power. Every character has a class world, the residents of which are the same level as that character, and when you get through it their aptitude increases and you can spend a few thousand mana to upgrade their movement rate and throwing distance and such. Most of your random characters have several character tiers, which you must go through iteratively.

* DownloadableContent: In addition to making almost [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters every character from the past two games in the series plus other Nippon Ichi characters downloadable]], players can download [[ADayInTheLimelight Raspberyl Mode]], which takes place some time after the events of the main game with Raspberyl replacing Mao as the main character.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Character ''classes'', that is. ''Disgaea 3'' has more than any other game in the franchise, if only because there are now male and female versions of almost everything. ''Disgaea 4'' actually had to tone it down afterwards. However, the Vita re-release of ''Disgaea 3'' gave all character classes unique spells and skills, even between genders, so there is now actually a good reason to use all the different versions.

* PokeThePoodle: In the worst ending, Mao goes to the human world to wreak terror upon the it, and you even get news reports on how Mao is conducting experiments on thousands of people. But when his former friends confront him, he claims he's just been switching street signs, hiding people's shoes and making prank phone calls and that Super Hero Aurum is lying about him. His old friends don't believe him. [[spoiler: Then his MoralityChain is murdered and he proceeds to wipe out literally everything but himself.]]

* PokeThePoodle: In the worst ending, Mao goes to the human world to wreak terror upon the human world, and you even get news reports on how Mao is conducting experiments on thousands of people. But when his former friends confront him, he claims he's just been switching street signs, hiding people's shoes and making prank phone calls and that Super Hero Aurum is lying about him. His old friends don't believe him. [[spoiler: Then his MoralityChain is murdered and he proceeds to wipe out literally everything but himself.]]

* GroomingYourEnemy: [[spoiler: Super Hero Aurum had been posing as Mao's butler, Geoffery, to guide him towards becoming a more powerful and evil overlord than his father had ever been so he could defeat him, believing he no longer had a purpose after defeating the strongest villain.]]

-->'''[[spoiler:Aurum:]]''' You...! You dare insult me, the Super Hero?!
-->'''Mao:''' [[BigShutUp Shut up, you fool!]] You're no hero, nor human! [[YouMonster You're just miserable evil clutching to distorted justice.]] The human world is what you should've been protecting! The moment you stopped, you lost the right to be a hero! "A hero must act with courage to protect that which is precious!"

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A very small example at the start of the game that some players may miss -- if one tries to use the Classroom before it's made available, Plenair will say that "The classroom is closed for now, due to adult situations."

* TheCameo: The Tera spells in the UpdatedRerelease. Tera Star has Terra from ''VideoGame/RhapsodyAMusicalAdventure'', Tera Fire has Pirohiko from ''VideoGame/ZettaiHeroProject'', and Terra Wind has the Putties from ''VideoGame/PhantomBrave''. The Tera Ice spell is interesting; the character is from [[http://i45.servimg.com/u/f45/16/45/78/40/scan0016.jpg early concept art]] of ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories''. She was apparently supposed to be ''Rozalin's mom''.

* {{Earworm}}:
** The main theme. Especially the lyric-less version that plays in the main hub of the game. ''It will get stuck in your head for'' '''days'''.
** The Game Over theme, too.

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