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* [[All There in the Manual]]: If you haven't played ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'', the plot will make even less sense. If you have played ''Chrono Trigger''... [[Mind Screw|well... um...]] you'll recognize some of the characters? The DS remake of ''Chrono Trigger'' has some added content that reinforces the link between the two games, however.
* [[Always Check Behind the Chair]]: All over the place.
* [[Always Save the Girl]]: The player has the option to choose Harle when she asks him to choose the world or her: if he picks her, she laughs and says she knows he's lying. Subverted in what looks like a [[But Thou Must!]] situation involving Kid early in the game -- the player can confess he isn't sure he ''can'' save the girl, leading to a different branch of the plot than if they jump at the chance to rescue her.
* [[Angst Coma]]: {{spoiler|Kid}} enters one after dicking about with the Frozen Flame.
* [[Another Dimension]]: The beginning of the game revolves around the main character being pulled from his "Home World" to "Another World", an alternate timeline where he's been ''dead'' for ten years.
* [[Anti
* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: In a game with 45 playable characters, you're only allowed three in battle, [[Can't Drop the Hero|and one of them must always be the main character]], except in [[New Game
* [[Armor-Piercing Slap]]: [[Girl Next Door|Leena]] and [[Mama Bear|Macha]] both have one as a Tech. So does ''[[Miles Gloriosus|Pierre]]''.
* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The Frozen Flame is the main one, but the Masamune also counts.
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* [[Boss Corridor]]: A pleasant example on Sky Dragon Isle: a long stairway decorated with greenery and plant life. {{spoiler|Later revisited as Terra Tower, with ghastly faces in place of the vines.}}
* [[Boss in Mook Clothing]]: The [[Flunky Boss|Beebas]] the first time you fight them. The game doesn't recognize them as a boss, but there are five of them, they will attack you ''between your attacks'', and have around 300 HP (very high at that point in the game).
* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: Getting all the playable characters. It requires you to play the game three times on the same file via [[New Game
* [[But Thou Must!]]: Notably averted with Kid, who you never actually have to recruit despite being a main character. She'll show up independent of the party at plot-important moments. [[Played for Laughs]] if/when you recruit Nikki; he offers to play a song for you, and your possible responses are "No thanks", "Nah", and "Maybe later".
* [[Canis Latinicus]]: The game translates "where angels lose their way" as "Angelus Errare". In fact, that phrase is not conjugated or declined. The correct translation would be "Quo angeli errant".
* [[Can't Drop the Hero]]: Until New Game+, that is, but his overworld model would not be replaced.
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* [[Cerebus Retcon]]: ''Chrono Cross'' acts as one to ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'' as a whole as part of its [[Deconstruction]] of ''Trigger'''s [[Time Travel]] storyline. In short, it explores the questions of what ''happens'' to timelines that are eliminated by time travel, an issue raised only briefly in ''Trigger''.
* [[Character Filibuster]]: This was scriptwriter Masato Kato's [[Magnum Opus]], and it shows.
* [[Character Level]]: Notably averted, and in a JRPG at that. Rather than using XP and levels, characters just gain raw stat points from enemies, and get more slots for elements from defeating bosses. See [[Anti
* [[The Chessmaster]]: ''Quite'' a few, but {{spoiler|Belthasar}} probably takes the cake.
* [[Cloning Blues]]: When it's revealed that {{spoiler|Kid is Schala's "daughter-clone"}}, she's unwilling to accept it at first. How it's resolved depends on your interpretation of the game's [[Gainax Ending]].
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* [[Funetik Aksent]]: Practically every character, due to disc space limitations -- rather than write out every character's dialogue for every possible situation, the programmers wrote algorithms for different verbal tics. An almost-tidy way to make different characters speak differently.
* [[Fusion Dance]]: The Time Devourer is a fusion of {{spoiler|Schala and Lavos}}. And {{spoiler|the Dragon Gods fuse once FATE falls}}.
* [[
* [[Gainax Ending]]: No surprise here, as Masato Kato ''did'' work for Gainax previously. The game's final [[Cutscene]] shows {{spoiler|the Time Devourer is defeated, you merged the worlds together again, and... now there's a girl running around Tokyo}}? Yea, good luck figuring ''that'' out. One of the developers has since explained that this ending is intended to make players "think about the reality of their own world", and that part of the ending is to make the player think that there might be a Kid in their world. Presumably a reference to the game's themes of alternate dimensions and such.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: There's at least half a dozen plans working at cross purposes throughout the game. In rough order of [[Unwitting Pawn]]-ness: the Arcadia Dragoons and Porre are trying to [[Out Gambit]] one another via Lynx, who is actually trying to {{spoiler|break the restrictions on FATE}}, while the dragon gods manipulate {{spoiler|Serge, so that he'll free them by killing FATE}}, ''all'' of which was part of a plan by {{spoiler|the Prophet of Time}} meant to result in the final defeat of the Time Devourer.
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* [[Joined Your Party]]: Those messages are personalized for each character's accent/verbal tic/gimmick. "Marcy, like, joined your party!" (has some [[Valley Girl]] speech patterns), "ZOAH JOINED YOUR PARTY." (speaks in [[No Indoor Voice|ALL CAPS, ALL THE TIME]]), and "Greco tagged into your party!" (is a [[Masked Luchador]]) come to mind.
* [[Justified Save Point]]: People pray to the Records of Fate for good luck. {{spoiler|It's a machine devised by FATE to experiment on her progeny}} and prevent them from interacting with {{spoiler|the outside world}}.
* [[Last
* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: Poshul and Pierre, two rather pathetic characters, get significantly powered up when equipped with the proper key items. Poshul only needs one, but Pierre needs ''three''
* [[Let's Play]]: [[The Dark Id]]'s [http://lparchive.org/Chrono-Cross/ playthrough] is as hilarious as it is informative, managing to be both critical and celebratory at the same time. Serge becomes a slacker who quickly becomes the [[Only Sane Man]] when confronted with transdimensional weirdness, Kid and Leena get along like a house on fire, the villains' nebulous objectives are repeatedly mocked, the [[Anvilicious]] [[Green Aesop|green aesops]] and "[[Humans Are Bastards]]" messages are soundly refuted, AND ZOAH BECOMES A FAN FAVORITE.
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** In Home Arni's tavern, some customers make a throwaway reference to the Radical Dreamers, Kid's gang in the titular game.
* [[Never Found the Body]]: Home World's Dragoons have all vanished, having gone on a quest for the Frozen Flame. {{spoiler|They're all dead, having been led to the Dead Sea and frozen by Lynx}}.
* [[New Game
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: Repeatedly. Serge ''[[Trope Namer|named the item]]'' on [[The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches]].
* [[Only the Chosen May Wield]]: Used with the Einlanzer.
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* [[Punny Name]]: Some of the monsters suffer from this. Many of the names fall into [[Incredibly Lame Pun]] territory as well. (A red-elemental canine monster named HotDoggity, anyone?)
* [[Recurring Boss]]: Lynx, who is fought five times: twice as Lynx and once each as {{spoiler|Serge (in Fort Dragonia), Dark Serge, and finally in his true form as FATE}}.
* [[Ret
* [[Ripple Effect Indicator]]: The Dead Sea replaces Chronopolis in Home World. As {{spoiler|Crono didn't stop Lavos}} in that timeline, Chronopolis likewise was never built; the sea changed to reflect that status.
* [[Sad Battle Music]]: "Prisoners of Fate" plays during the climax of the game's [[Wham! Episode]] in the Dead Sea. It culminates in a showdown against someone who ''really'' does not want to fight you, but will kick your ass seven ways to Sunday regardless. The same theme plays while fighting [[Bonus Boss]] Dario.
* [[Scenery Porn]]: And how! This game has some of the most astonishing hand-painted backgrounds of the [[Play Station]] era.
* [[Schizo
* [[Shout
** A very subtle one, but not to ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'': the "Sea Swallow", the name of Serge's initial weapon, was also the codename of the character Irene Lew in the NES ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' games, which the writer of the ''Chrono'' series had previously worked on.
** Gaea's Navel is likely a Shout Out to "[[Spell My Name With an "S"|Gaia's Navel]]" from ''[[Secret of Mana]]''.
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* [[Weapon Tombstone]]: Both Dario and his father Garai's graves (in their respective dimensions) are marked with the Einlanzer, a sword they both used. While Garai's Einlanzer is obtained through the course of the game no matter what, Glenn can retrieve Dario's after some [[Character Development]] and use them [[Dual-Wielding|simultaneously]].
* [[Weird Moon]]: Viper Manor's suspension bridge is overshadowed by two of these babies.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: Fort Dragonia; appropriate, as a [[Disc One Final Dungeon]]. Chronopolis is another example.
* [[Where It All Began]]: This works on multiple levels. The portal to the [[Final Boss]] is located at Opassa Beach.
* [[Where the Hell Is Springfield?]]: The El Nido archipelago is located somewhere in the ''[[Chrono Trigger (Video Game)|Chrono Trigger]]'' world, but the game never clarifies ''where'' in the world map it's located, particular in reference to the Zenan continent and it's oft-mentioned country of Porre.
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