Heartwarming / Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance

• Chapter 4 starts with a yellow Prinny escaping Seraphina's pocket Netherworld with Sera's Prinny Squad in hot pursuit over stolen sardine curry. The prinny manages to outmaneuver the party at every turn, but gets surrounded by Lost Oozes and loses the curry. It turns out said Prinny only resorted to theft because her master (Usalia) started going without curry for too long, which due to her curse causes her to transform into a berserk beast. By the time the party catches up, said master has transformed and is shooping everything in sight. It's at that point Killia reveals he prepped an extra batch... and feeds it to the beast, even as it tries to club the curry out of his hands. This is a startlingly warm moment from someone previously depicted as an ice-cold drifter.
  • Just the fact that competent Prinnies who sincerely admire their masters exist, serving an Overlord who really does care about them, in contrast to the likes of Etna and Seraphina.
• Chapter 7 again involving Usalia. This time, its her You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech to Killia after hearing about his past self.
• Chapter 9 involves Red Magnus returning to Scorching Flame and learning all his minions defected to The Lost because of Magnus's treatment. Red Magnus starts a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against them, only to realize (thanks to Killia) he's really mad at himself for being such a poor Overlord. He sincerely apologizes to his old minions, vows to do better, and uses his newly-awakened powers to protect them from The Lost intent on sacrificing them.
• Chapter 10 goes all out on heartwarming moments, as the party ventures into Toto Bunny and Usalia almost drowns in nostalgia-induced torment.
  • The penultimate battle of the chapter has the party erasing another of Majorita's zombie hordes, with only one Rabbit Knight surviving destruction. Said Rabbit Knight lurches towards the party and gives Usalia a letter before finally falling apart. Said letter is a recipe for a special sweet curry, derived by Usalia's parents herself, and it is this recipe that helped her acquire a taste for curry in the first place. Killia reads the recipe and puts two and two together: the recipe is naught but a labor of love committed by Usalia's parents to help her deal with her curse, and they archived it in this letter to pass it on so she can make it herself after their untimely demise. It sinks in after this just how much Usalia's parents loved her, even in her worst moments, and how the inhabitants of Toto Bunny still see her as their adored princess.
  • Then the ultimate battle comes, and everything comes together. Majorita greets the party at the entrance and immediately summons Usalia's zombified parents to torture and/or kill her, knowing she would be too soft to strike them down. When the party disarms and stands down, Majorita gives the order to kill them... an order that they reject. After loudly urging they kill Usalia, only to hear them beg their daughter to fight, Majorita decides she's had enough and charges a death ball to kill Usalia herself... only for the two to jump in front of their daughter and take the blast in her place. Usalia realizes after this, in full, that they loved her to the very end. The only person who does not find this scene heartwarming in any way is Majorita, who loudly screams that love is a foolish sentiment, before summoning an assload of zombies in her anger to overwhelm and kill the party, her emotional armor having been violently breached by this moment.
• Chapter 11 puts the spotlight on Christo instead, and shows just how far he's come since he joined the party.
  • The chapter begins with fallout from the previous one, where Majorita lunges at Red Magnus only for Usalia to take the poisoned knife instead. At the onset, Usalia is left laying in bed with less than an hour to go, and no herbal remedy for the poison anywhere in the pocket Netherworld or on Toto Bunny. As time goes on, Christo decides to lay out his hand and orders the group to step aside... whereupon he unleashes angelic magic to cure the poison on the spot. For someone who started out seeing demons as nothing but pawns and meat shields, this is a significant sign that his viewpoint is falling apart.
  • Throughout the chapter, his superior buzzes in to inform him about the launch of the anti-Netherworld missile, Armageddon, and how it is drawing ever closer. As the chapter nears its climax, he eventually gets the nerve to give Celestial management (one of which he suspects framed him as a spy for Void Dark), through said superior, an ultimatum: either they abort the launch, or he feeds Celestia's whereabouts to Void Dark and assures at least mutual destruction. His wish is eventually granted, but it shows far more that he is seeing his colleagues as genuine friends now.
  • Usalia is implied to the first person to figure out that Christo isn't a demon. She doesn't care in the slightest. Given the aninosity between angels and demons, this is actually quite touching.
    • Christo later tries to tell Killia he's an angel. Killia cuts him off with a statement hinting they already know, but don't care because he's their ally and friend. Even in the post-game, his description continues to be Certain Giant Overlord, implying the group never told anyone he was an angel.
  • The final battle of Chapter 11 has Christo tipping his hand to dispel the Blood Magic that has taken control of Usalia and Red Magnus.
    • When Majorita outright accuses him of being an angel later, everyone else swears he's an Overlord. They are willing to lie through their teeth to protect Christo's secret.
• Chapter 12 has Killia's superpowered evil side unleashed by Seraphina throwing herself in front of an attack on him. It is subsequently subdued by Seraphina getting back up and saying she'd rather die to his evil side than leave him. He flashes back to Lieze before passing out. It's the first big hint Killia cares deeply for Seraphina.
• In the post game, Red Magnus challenges Killia to a duel. Killia lets him win so Red Magnus can call himself the Strongest Overlord. When Seraphina & Usalia scold him for throwing the fight, Killia explains why he didn't technically throw it: after all the work Red Magnus had put into rebuilding the Netherworlds, he had earned the title of Strongest Overlord.
  • The ending states the result of their duel was lost to time. Red Magnus won the title of Strongest Overlord from Killia and then didn't tell anyone out of respect to his rival-turned-friend.
• Void and Goldion's reunion in the post game. To elaborate: Void was beating himself up over his past misdeeds. Goldion replies that he's happy his son finally gets what Ultimate Demon Technique is all about.
• A similar event to above happens with Killia. This time, Goldion gives a You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech about what his teachings are truly about.
• The Disgaea D2 DLC levels have Laharl (and Killia who gets dragged along) frustratedly trying to get into his castle while Flonne, Sicily, and his vassals keep trying to kick him out for unknown reasons. Beating the scenario reveals that the reason everyone was trying to keep Laharl out of his castle was so they could hold a surprise birthday party for him. Laharl begrudgingly shows some affection towards his vassals in his usual way.
• Asagi's appearances have, ever since she first appeared, had her with the class 'Main Character?' and her literally forcing her way into the game. This game saw Asagi finally end it definitively, since her game just released.
• Complete has a cute way of integrating unlocking Pleinair with her job at the assembly. You literally spend your mana on "befriending Pleinair".
• An odd example lies with one of the Nether News reports: Someone attempted to interview someone of the Maid class, but the maid declined, stating that maids should live in the shadows of their masters. The report goes on to comment that she was a bad interviewee but compliments her for being an ideal example of a maid.