Post by Z451 on Apr 30, 2014 1:46:42 GMT
Laharl
Laharl is the main character of Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, and is the son of King Krichevskoy.
However, after awakening from a two-year slumber, he discovers that his father is dead and almost all of his vassals are gone (most of them are, in fact, trying to take Laharl's place, rather than trying to serve him).
As the rightful heir to the throne, Laharl sets out to take back the throne and proclaim himself as the true Overlord of the Netherworld.
Laharl is incredibly arrogant and always tries to prove that he is the strongest demon in the Netherworld.
He is, however, extremely powerful for his appearance, which, despite his age, is still that of a young teenage human child (his large hair antennae and billowing scarf are meant to mask this fact).
He has a weakness towards optimistic sayings (especially anything concerning the word "love") and women with sexy bodies.
Even after Laharl is crowned the new Overlord half way through the game, he is still referred to as "Prince" by Etna and all those who still remain in the Overlord's Castle.
He also appears to have an obsession with being "main character", due to the fact that in every canonical Disgaea game after the first, he always appears as a secret boss to either reclaim his position as main character or to simply gain more screen time.
In the alternate story Etna Mode in the PSP and DS versions, Etna kills Laharl as he wakes up by accident.
While playing this mode, the player will not have access to Laharl.
In order to prevent suspicion from Maderas, Etna places fake antennas on a Prinny and passes it off as Laharl.
By the end of Etna Mode, Laharl is actually revealed to be alive.
The shot that supposedly killed him only knocked him out and is later found by Etna in the Stellar Graveyard.
In the Disgaea manga, Laharl's personality slightly differs.
While he is selfish, arrogant, and is willing to use violence to solve his problems, he comes off more mature than his game counterpart, appearing to also be slightly smarter
(When Flonne tells Laharl that the Seraph believes demons have love too, Laharl reminds her that her mission to assassinate the Overlord was given to her by the same person).
Laharl also appears to hate his father even more in the manga as Laharl is often overshadowed by Krichevskoy, not to mention Krichevskoy's eccentric personality annoys him.
In the anime, Laharl has more memories of his father and was apparently often given subtle lessons by Krichevskoy to try to groom him into being a more compassionate demon, showing that he possibly had respect for him despite saying that he hated him like in the game and manga.
In general, the accepted ending is the good ending, in which Laharl spares Lamington's life and is stopped by Mid Boss before he sacrifices himself, allowing him to see Flonne become a Fallen Angel.
In the last episode of the anime, however, Laharl gives Overlordship to Etna, then he sacrifices himself in an attempt to revive Flonne, who was turned into a flower by Seraph Lamington for killing a Celestian Warrior.
This ending is similar to the normal ending of the game, except that Laharl succeeds in killing Lamington, who would've brought Flonne back to life had he been spared.
Like the normal ending, the anime ends with Laharl returning to the castle as a Prinny.
In Disgaea 2, Laharl makes a brief appearance, attempting to force Etna to come back to his castle.
Part of this reason, as seen in the optional battle against him, comes from the lack of Prinnies to cook for him, forcing him to eat mainly junk food.
Though he is initially successful in defeating her and the main characters, the power of Overlord Zenon forces Laharl to flee.
He also tries to make himself the main character of Disgaea 2 in the optional battles, but not only is he defeated, when given the chance to become a main character for over a minute, he is beaten up by Flonne and Etna.
When completing the final mission, Laharl joins after tasting Hanako's cooking since he is unable to make her his chef.
In Disgaea 3, Laharl appears before Mao, who Laharl assumes to be the legendary Overlord who stole his height as well as his screen time in Disgaea 3.
Mao, however, believes that Laharl is the legendary Overlord and the two fight, claiming that the loser will be considered the legendary Overlord.
They appear evenly matched until Almaz makes them realize that no matter how much they want to make each other the legendary Overlord, they won't get their stuff back, ending the fight.
Laharl, along with Etna and Flonne, joins the party and reveals to Mao that the legendary Overlord they have all been looking for is Baal.
In one of Disgaea 3's alternate endings, Laharl suddenly appears before Mao after he defeated Aurum, claiming to be his father.
Mao does not believe him at all, despite Laharl's supposed shock in Mao becoming a "loudmouthed punk".
Mao then fights Laharl in an attempt to expose him as a fake, but soon begins to believe that Laharl is his father.
However, Laharl reveals that he really wasn't his father after all, just an Overlord passing by who wanted nothing more than to get some screen time and take over the game.
In Disgaea 4, Laharl appears within the game's post-story, having been brought to Valvatorez's Netherworld against his will due to the power of Asagi.
As such, he has been appointed President by Asagi, which seems to get on Axel's nerves.
When he appears, he is having an argument with Etna, who was also transported transdimensionally against her will, and she is blaming him as the cause of an unknown "worldwide phenomenon" and taking away her beautiful body.
When he hears about Valvatorez being the new main character, he states that he shall always be the main character, and challenges Valvatorez.
After his defeat, he joins the party in his quest to eventually redeem his title as main character. He also appears when they confront Asagi, stating that the name sounds "familiar".
In Disgaea D2, Laharl is once again the main character and gets an updated design (he wears pants instead of shorts and wears finger-less gloves instead of gold bracelets).
The game is set 3 three years after the first game, but months before Disgaea 2, and once again focuses on Laharl's attempt at proving he is the Overlord (as many demons still believe he is unfit to take his father's place).
During the game, he discovers that he has a little sister named Sicily, who is a half angel/demon hybrid instead of a half demon/human hybrid.
He learns that the reason for this is because when his mother gave up her life to save his, she was pregnant with Sicily and was offered the chance to become an angel, but gave up that chance to her unborn child (who she named Sicily) so that the child may have life.
Despite his inital skeptisism, he comes to love his little sister, despite how much he openly denies it.
By the end of the game, he finally earns the respect from the demons of his Netherworld after saving it from transforming into a "new Celestia."
In Disgaea Infinite, Laharl is the victim of an attempted assassination attempt by an unknown character.
When Prinny travels to the past, Laharl is looking for a package that contains the Super Rare Pudding, a dessert that, by which the name makes obvious, is super rare, and Etna secretly ordered a cup of the pudding from Amazombie behind his back, so he goes off to find it and eat it before Etna does.
However, when he does find Flonne and Etna, they do not have the pudding (rather, Raspberyl (who hails from Disgaea 3) and Jennifer have the pudding, at which point they eat it), but the three find a pudding cup shaped object in Laharl's bedroom.
If Prinny is not possessing Laharl at the time he receives the object, Laharl, believing the item is the pudding, ingests the object, which is actually a fuel pack that Jennifer should have received.
Laharl subsequently explodes and dies, which leads Prinny to the past to find out who gave Laharl the fuel supply.
Aside from the Disgaea games, Laharl makes appearances in other Nippon Ichi games.
In Phantom Brave, Laharl is trapped in a Bottlemail and after meeting the main characters Ash and Marona, he constantly tries to make them his vassals by defeating them.
In Makai Kingdom, he is brought before Overlord Zetta after Etna and Flonne were defeated by him, and tries to show Zetta that he is the superior Overlord.
He makes a brief cameo appearance in Soul Nomad, albeit off-screen.
In the demon path, should the main character choose to call himself the Overlord over the Devourlord ("Eh, Overlord is fine I guess."), Laharl scolds him/her for taking such a title lightly.
He also appears in Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? in his Prinny form as a boss.
The exact details concerning his transformation are unknown.
In his Prinny form, his signature hairstyle has become antennas on his head, and he significantly lacks the word "dood" in his dialogue.
He's the first boss Prinny encounters when the Martial Tower is completed. He claims to have become more powerful, despite becoming a Prinny.
His moves consist of the Hip Pound that the player uses, as well as a meteor-crash style move.
However, like most Prinnies, Prinny Laharl can be picked up and thrown once stunned, effectively and instantly defeating him, even though he also sports the red scarf that supposedly protects a Prinny from instantly exploding.
In the end, he ends up complaining about how he "earned" the pudding cup he stole from Etna.
She then finds him and forces Laharl to return to her castle.
Through the entire span of his screen time, Prinny fails to recognize him as Laharl.
Laharl makes another appearance in "Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood!".
When you unlock Laharl's House, an event involving Laharl appears.
He is currently stuck inside a dome, later revealed to be a trap set by the Prinny Squad.
He busts out, and when approached by Prinny and the Prinny Squad, he challenges them to a fight.
After losing, he claims that the dome was his "vacation home", and the battle was just a test to see if they're worthy of his help.
Prinny Laharl then becomes playable for a specific stage, so long as you pay him in sweets.
In addition, Laharl is the only character to have canonically defeated Baal (he makes this statement in Disgaea 3 after meeting up with Mao) and also the only character whose reasons for killing Baal is purely personal (Baal was the cause of his father's death).
In Makai Kingdom, Etna and Flonne also state that Laharl has avenged King Krichevskoy, and that he would be pleased after Laharl defeats Baal, further strengthening the fact that their quest for Baal was fueled by personal vengeance.
Links
Wikipedia> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disgaea_characters#Laharl
Disgaea Site> www.atlus.com/dis/characters.html
Disgaea> disgaea.wikia.com/wiki/Laharl
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However, after awakening from a two-year slumber, he discovers that his father is dead and almost all of his vassals are gone (most of them are, in fact, trying to take Laharl's place, rather than trying to serve him).
As the rightful heir to the throne, Laharl sets out to take back the throne and proclaim himself as the true Overlord of the Netherworld.
Laharl is incredibly arrogant and always tries to prove that he is the strongest demon in the Netherworld.
He is, however, extremely powerful for his appearance, which, despite his age, is still that of a young teenage human child (his large hair antennae and billowing scarf are meant to mask this fact).
He has a weakness towards optimistic sayings (especially anything concerning the word "love") and women with sexy bodies.
Even after Laharl is crowned the new Overlord half way through the game, he is still referred to as "Prince" by Etna and all those who still remain in the Overlord's Castle.
He also appears to have an obsession with being "main character", due to the fact that in every canonical Disgaea game after the first, he always appears as a secret boss to either reclaim his position as main character or to simply gain more screen time.
In the alternate story Etna Mode in the PSP and DS versions, Etna kills Laharl as he wakes up by accident.
While playing this mode, the player will not have access to Laharl.
In order to prevent suspicion from Maderas, Etna places fake antennas on a Prinny and passes it off as Laharl.
By the end of Etna Mode, Laharl is actually revealed to be alive.
The shot that supposedly killed him only knocked him out and is later found by Etna in the Stellar Graveyard.
In the Disgaea manga, Laharl's personality slightly differs.
While he is selfish, arrogant, and is willing to use violence to solve his problems, he comes off more mature than his game counterpart, appearing to also be slightly smarter
(When Flonne tells Laharl that the Seraph believes demons have love too, Laharl reminds her that her mission to assassinate the Overlord was given to her by the same person).
Laharl also appears to hate his father even more in the manga as Laharl is often overshadowed by Krichevskoy, not to mention Krichevskoy's eccentric personality annoys him.
In the anime, Laharl has more memories of his father and was apparently often given subtle lessons by Krichevskoy to try to groom him into being a more compassionate demon, showing that he possibly had respect for him despite saying that he hated him like in the game and manga.
In general, the accepted ending is the good ending, in which Laharl spares Lamington's life and is stopped by Mid Boss before he sacrifices himself, allowing him to see Flonne become a Fallen Angel.
In the last episode of the anime, however, Laharl gives Overlordship to Etna, then he sacrifices himself in an attempt to revive Flonne, who was turned into a flower by Seraph Lamington for killing a Celestian Warrior.
This ending is similar to the normal ending of the game, except that Laharl succeeds in killing Lamington, who would've brought Flonne back to life had he been spared.
Like the normal ending, the anime ends with Laharl returning to the castle as a Prinny.
In Disgaea 2, Laharl makes a brief appearance, attempting to force Etna to come back to his castle.
Part of this reason, as seen in the optional battle against him, comes from the lack of Prinnies to cook for him, forcing him to eat mainly junk food.
Though he is initially successful in defeating her and the main characters, the power of Overlord Zenon forces Laharl to flee.
He also tries to make himself the main character of Disgaea 2 in the optional battles, but not only is he defeated, when given the chance to become a main character for over a minute, he is beaten up by Flonne and Etna.
When completing the final mission, Laharl joins after tasting Hanako's cooking since he is unable to make her his chef.
In Disgaea 3, Laharl appears before Mao, who Laharl assumes to be the legendary Overlord who stole his height as well as his screen time in Disgaea 3.
Mao, however, believes that Laharl is the legendary Overlord and the two fight, claiming that the loser will be considered the legendary Overlord.
They appear evenly matched until Almaz makes them realize that no matter how much they want to make each other the legendary Overlord, they won't get their stuff back, ending the fight.
Laharl, along with Etna and Flonne, joins the party and reveals to Mao that the legendary Overlord they have all been looking for is Baal.
In one of Disgaea 3's alternate endings, Laharl suddenly appears before Mao after he defeated Aurum, claiming to be his father.
Mao does not believe him at all, despite Laharl's supposed shock in Mao becoming a "loudmouthed punk".
Mao then fights Laharl in an attempt to expose him as a fake, but soon begins to believe that Laharl is his father.
However, Laharl reveals that he really wasn't his father after all, just an Overlord passing by who wanted nothing more than to get some screen time and take over the game.
In Disgaea 4, Laharl appears within the game's post-story, having been brought to Valvatorez's Netherworld against his will due to the power of Asagi.
As such, he has been appointed President by Asagi, which seems to get on Axel's nerves.
When he appears, he is having an argument with Etna, who was also transported transdimensionally against her will, and she is blaming him as the cause of an unknown "worldwide phenomenon" and taking away her beautiful body.
When he hears about Valvatorez being the new main character, he states that he shall always be the main character, and challenges Valvatorez.
After his defeat, he joins the party in his quest to eventually redeem his title as main character. He also appears when they confront Asagi, stating that the name sounds "familiar".
In Disgaea D2, Laharl is once again the main character and gets an updated design (he wears pants instead of shorts and wears finger-less gloves instead of gold bracelets).
The game is set 3 three years after the first game, but months before Disgaea 2, and once again focuses on Laharl's attempt at proving he is the Overlord (as many demons still believe he is unfit to take his father's place).
During the game, he discovers that he has a little sister named Sicily, who is a half angel/demon hybrid instead of a half demon/human hybrid.
He learns that the reason for this is because when his mother gave up her life to save his, she was pregnant with Sicily and was offered the chance to become an angel, but gave up that chance to her unborn child (who she named Sicily) so that the child may have life.
Despite his inital skeptisism, he comes to love his little sister, despite how much he openly denies it.
By the end of the game, he finally earns the respect from the demons of his Netherworld after saving it from transforming into a "new Celestia."
In Disgaea Infinite, Laharl is the victim of an attempted assassination attempt by an unknown character.
When Prinny travels to the past, Laharl is looking for a package that contains the Super Rare Pudding, a dessert that, by which the name makes obvious, is super rare, and Etna secretly ordered a cup of the pudding from Amazombie behind his back, so he goes off to find it and eat it before Etna does.
However, when he does find Flonne and Etna, they do not have the pudding (rather, Raspberyl (who hails from Disgaea 3) and Jennifer have the pudding, at which point they eat it), but the three find a pudding cup shaped object in Laharl's bedroom.
If Prinny is not possessing Laharl at the time he receives the object, Laharl, believing the item is the pudding, ingests the object, which is actually a fuel pack that Jennifer should have received.
Laharl subsequently explodes and dies, which leads Prinny to the past to find out who gave Laharl the fuel supply.
Aside from the Disgaea games, Laharl makes appearances in other Nippon Ichi games.
In Phantom Brave, Laharl is trapped in a Bottlemail and after meeting the main characters Ash and Marona, he constantly tries to make them his vassals by defeating them.
In Makai Kingdom, he is brought before Overlord Zetta after Etna and Flonne were defeated by him, and tries to show Zetta that he is the superior Overlord.
He makes a brief cameo appearance in Soul Nomad, albeit off-screen.
In the demon path, should the main character choose to call himself the Overlord over the Devourlord ("Eh, Overlord is fine I guess."), Laharl scolds him/her for taking such a title lightly.
He also appears in Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? in his Prinny form as a boss.
The exact details concerning his transformation are unknown.
In his Prinny form, his signature hairstyle has become antennas on his head, and he significantly lacks the word "dood" in his dialogue.
He's the first boss Prinny encounters when the Martial Tower is completed. He claims to have become more powerful, despite becoming a Prinny.
His moves consist of the Hip Pound that the player uses, as well as a meteor-crash style move.
However, like most Prinnies, Prinny Laharl can be picked up and thrown once stunned, effectively and instantly defeating him, even though he also sports the red scarf that supposedly protects a Prinny from instantly exploding.
In the end, he ends up complaining about how he "earned" the pudding cup he stole from Etna.
She then finds him and forces Laharl to return to her castle.
Through the entire span of his screen time, Prinny fails to recognize him as Laharl.
Laharl makes another appearance in "Prinny 2: Dawn of Operation Panties, Dood!".
When you unlock Laharl's House, an event involving Laharl appears.
He is currently stuck inside a dome, later revealed to be a trap set by the Prinny Squad.
He busts out, and when approached by Prinny and the Prinny Squad, he challenges them to a fight.
After losing, he claims that the dome was his "vacation home", and the battle was just a test to see if they're worthy of his help.
Prinny Laharl then becomes playable for a specific stage, so long as you pay him in sweets.
In addition, Laharl is the only character to have canonically defeated Baal (he makes this statement in Disgaea 3 after meeting up with Mao) and also the only character whose reasons for killing Baal is purely personal (Baal was the cause of his father's death).
In Makai Kingdom, Etna and Flonne also state that Laharl has avenged King Krichevskoy, and that he would be pleased after Laharl defeats Baal, further strengthening the fact that their quest for Baal was fueled by personal vengeance.
Links
Wikipedia> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disgaea_characters#Laharl
Disgaea Site> www.atlus.com/dis/characters.html
Disgaea> disgaea.wikia.com/wiki/Laharl
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Nippon Ichi Software, Inc> www.nisamerica.com/
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