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* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The Frozen Flame, obviously. Lots, and lots, and [[Overly Long Gag|looooots]] of [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|DOOM]].
* [[Author Tract]]: '''KING ALPHARD ZEAL, [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|BITCHES]]!!!'''
* [[Back
* [[Bad Future]]: Happens multiple times, as time travelers keep screwing with the timeline.
* [[Badass]]: Again, Glenn and Magus. King Zeal also counts, considering that, unlike the rest of his family, {{spoiler|he's able to control Lavos}}.
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* [[Butt Monkey]]: Dalton.
* [[But Thou Must!]]: Most of the time the player is offered a choice of what to do, the end result is the same regardless of what he picks. When asked to save Ayla or attack the [[Big Bad]], the hero will actually refuse one of the choices and pick the other anyway.
** Subverted in the Mystic-Porre conflict in the Middle Ages -- whichever of the three options Glenn chooses (support the Mystics, support the Porreans, or remain neutral) will have a direct and obvious affect on the game's future.
** There's also a particular case in a side quest: you have a choice to refuse doing something, but soon after you'll be forced to do something else to achieve the same goal.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: If you watch the [[YouTube]] videos, whenever something shows up incomplete or erroneous, one of the developers will usually have a note pop up: "''Uh... 2%!''"
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* [[San Dimas Time]]: [[Hand Wave|Hand Waved]] by stating that the stationary Time Gates travel forward through time at the speed of the normal passage of time. And if someone goes back in time to a year that the Gates don't "currently" exist in (even if they existed there when the characters were five years younger), Gates cannot be found. This has the effect of ensuring that events in all Gate-connected timelines are happening at a concurrent speed from and equal interval to one another, so that time actually elapses while time travelers are away for the same duration as other people wait for them. This form of [[San Dimas Time]] is only averted using a Time Egg (one was originally used to save Crono in ''Chrono Trigger''). Lucca and Belthasar can make imperfect semi-stable Time Eggs, but only Gaspar can make perfectly stable ones.
* [[Urban Legend of Zelda|Schala Lives]]: Schala is saved early in the game, seeming to derail the events of ''[[Chrono Cross]]''. {{spoiler|But derailment is averted. She is later mortally wounded, and sent to the Darkness Beyond Time. In the ending, Magus sees her attached to an apparition of Lavos, but can't remain there long enough to save her. He then saves King Zeal so that he can learn the remaining Zealian arts that he never got to learn because of the (original!) Ocean Palace incident, ending with learning how to open a Gate so that he can go to th Darkness Beyond Time and save Schala. Once he does, [[Updated Rerelease|he then meets]] '''[[Updated Rerelease|a]]''' [[Updated Rerelease|past version of the party from around the time Lavos was defeated, which then]] [[Take Up My Sword|fights the Dream Devourer in his place]] [[Updated Rerelease|before everyone is sent away and he wipes his own memory]].}}
* [[Screwed by the Lawyers]]: There's controversy as to whether or not the cease-and-desist was a publicity stunt.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Early in the game, a woman in Medina Square sings the opening lyrics from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKc6a0dPSPM "And Forever"], the ending music of the anime ''[[The Big O]]''. She later belts out (in Japanese) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8jTH7ZDoSo "Kaze wa Mirari ni Fuku"], the ending theme to ''[[Trigun]]''.
** {{spoiler|In his last moments,}} Dalton says one of [[Bleach|Grimmjow]]'s greatest lines.
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** Averted in ''Flames Of Eternity'', probably because killing {{spoiler|him}} off was rather pointless. In return, {{spoiler|he and Ayla}} get an extra kid who {{spoiler|invents the game of Backgammon}}.
* [[Technicolor Science]]: The Vision Serpent, for one.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Lucca, shown during the Flame Trial.
* [[Villain Forgot to Level Grind]]: But he was so strong he didn't really need to. King Zeal is fought three times through the game -- a [[Hopeless Boss Fight]] at the beginning, a [[Bonus Boss]] [[The Battle Didn't Count|that doesn't count plotwise]] later, and {{spoiler|phase one of the final battle}} with the same stats each time. {{spoiler|Of course, he gets a [[One-Winged Angel]] form, too.}}
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