History TearJerker / ChronoCross

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtvKTCVC93E Prisoners of Fate]]", from the soundtrack. It's the song that plays when you fight Miguel, Leena's father, trapped forever in the Dead Sea unless you kill him and unfreeze it, as well as the BonusBoss fight against Riddel's possessed lover Dario. The song itself is an extremely melancholy melody that emphasizes how hopeless the situation is.

-->({{Beat}}, cue [[SadBattleMusic unforgettably-tragic bgm]] that [[BackgroundMusicOverride plays throughout the upcoming boss fight]])

* [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Miguel’s story. Accompanying a friend whose son had fallen deathly ill,]] they are blown off course by a storm[[note]]started by Schala trying to reach out to Serge[[/note]] and end up in Chronopolis. Miguel has serious reservations about entering, but Wazuki insists and they encounter the Frozen Flame. While the Flame heals Serge, Miguel is captured during their escape and is forced to stay there for the next 14 years guarding it. The fight with him, accompanied by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpnRWYutQy8 music fittingly enough called "Prisoners of Fate"]], really seals his credentials as a TragicMonster. And then it's revealed that he's Leena's DisappearedDad, too.

* The '''entire Dead Sea arc''' boils down to this, with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz-licfHtcs tragic music]] accentuating said emotions '''very well''', especially when Chrono Trigger fans recognize some familiar characters in child-form, concluding beautifully at the end where CT fans '''REALLY''' get hit in the feels.

* The '''entire Dead Sea arc''' boils down to this, with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2hBHZ1Qmkk tragic music]] accentuating said emotions '''very well''', especially when Chrono Trigger fans recognize some familiar characters in child-form, concluding beautifully at the end where CT fans '''REALLY''' get hit in the feels.

* The entire sequence where you revive Kid's memories as a child might come as a '''''massive''''' PlayerPunch for those who played the first game. You find yourself in Lucca's home, an orphanage, set ablaze by Lynx and you have to fight monsters to save Kid. While you fight your way through you find Gato, completely destroyed and some of the drawings made by the children who lived there. ([[CallBack "Robo made the forest green!"]]) The real punch in the gut however comes in the end when a six year old Kid and Serge are watching the orphanage burn and Kid, completely taken by grief begs not to be left alone... then Serge vanishes leaving her behind.

* The entire sequence where you revive Kid's memories as a child might come as a '''''massive''''' PlayerPunch for those who played the first game. You find yourself in Lucca's home, an orphanage, set ablaze by Lynx and you have to fight monsters to save Kid. While you fight your way through you find Gato, completely destroyed and some of the drawings made by the children who lived there. ([[CallBack "Robo made the forest green!"]]) The real punch in the gut however comes in the end when an infant Kid and Serge are watching the orphanage burn and Kid, completely taken by grief begs not to be left alone... then Serge vanishes leaving her behind.

-> '''Magus''': So, you mean to say that no matter how hard I strive—no matter how strong I grow—there is nothing I might do to save you? What purpose, then, does this existence serve? ...Hmph. If this is to be the way of things, then let me abandon all that was and fade away as well. Should a part of me somehow even then remain, then perhaps that will be the birth of something new—something with greater meaning than all this.

*** As of the Radical Dreamers edition, this is further elaborated in a secret text-only ending. Guile's memory as Janus has been recovering, and it is established that he accompanied Serge and Kid to the Darkness Beyond Time to save Schala. However, he does so unconvinced that they can save Schala without actually killing her, and is only agreeing to help because he's been putting it off for so long. Whether or not he's right depends on how you interpret the game's Golden Ending.

* "The People Left Behind", from the soundtrack. It's the song that plays when you fight Miguel, Leena's father, trapped forever in the Dead Sea unless you kill him and unfreeze it, as well as the BonusBoss fight against Riddel's possessed lover Dario. The song itself is an extremely melancholy melody that emphasizes how hopeless the situation is.

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* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5nelkxMKQ The People Left Behind]]", from the soundtrack. It's the song that plays when you fight Miguel, [[spoiler:Leena's father, trapped forever in the Dead Sea unless you kill him and unfreeze it]], as well as the BonusBoss fight against [[spoiler:Riddel's possessed lover Dario]]. The song itself is an extremely melancholy melody that emphasizes how hopeless the situation is.

* The HappyEndingOverride of ''Chrono Trigger'' and the implied fates of the crew. Crono, Marle, and Lucca are all quite likely dead, and Robo gets terminated during the game. There is also no mention of Magus (aside from Lucca's letter to Kid, which is tearjerking in its own right), leaving his fate up in the air as well.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZG8rPzR5ds Game Over Screen]], It tells you of how Serge is never born in the world. It's not just the screen, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXssq6Hff8A BUT ALSO THE MUSIC]]

* The entire sequence where you revive Kid's memories as a child might come as a '''''massive''''' PlayerPunch for those who played the first game. You find yourself in Lucca's home, an orphanage, set ablaze by Lynx and you have to fight monsters to save Kid. While you fight your way through you find Gato, completely destroyed and some of the drawings made by the children who lived there. The real punch in the gut however comes in the end when an infant Kid and Serge are watching the orphanage burn and Kid, completely taken by grief begs not to be left alone... then Serge vanishes leaving her behind.

* What happens if you take Draggy to Fossil Valley: He finally meets his mother...as a skeleton.

* The entire sequence where you revive Kid's memories as a child might come as a '''''massive''''' PlayerPunch for those who played the first game. You find yourself in Lucca's home, an orphanage, set ablaze by Lynx and you have to fight monsters to save Kid. While you fight your way through you find Gato, completely destroyed and some of the drawings made by the children who lived there. The real punch in the gut however comes in the end when an infant Kid and Serge are watching the orphanage burn and Kid, completely taken by grief begs not to be left alone...then Serge vanishes leaving her behind.

Tearjerking moments in ''VideoGame/ChronoCross''.

* [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Miguel’s story. NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Accompanying a friend whose son had fallen deathly ill,]] they are blown off course by a storm[[note]]started by Schala trying to reach out to Serge[[/note]] and end up in Chronopolis. Miguel has serious reservations about entering, but Wazuki insists and they encounter the Frozen Flame. While the Flame heals Serge, Miguel is captured during their escape and is forced to stay there for the next 14 years guarding it. The fight with him, accompanied by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpnRWYutQy8 music fittingly enough called "Prisoners of Fate"]], really seals his credentials as a TragicMonster. And then it's revealed that he's Leena's DisappearedDad, too.

* [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Miguel’s story.]] [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Accompanying a friend whose son had fallen deathly ill,]] they are blown off course by a storm[[note]]started by Schala trying to reach out to Serge[[/note]] and end up in Chronopolis. Miguel has serious reservations about entering, but Wazuki insists and they encounter the Frozen Flame. While the Flame heals Serge, Miguel is captured during their escape and is forced to stay there for the next 14 years guarding it. The fight with him, accompanied by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpnRWYutQy8 music fittingly enough called "Prisoners of Fate"]], really seals his credentials as a TragicMonster. And then it's revealed that he's Leena's DisappearedDad, too.

* [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished Miguel’s story,]] and the fight with him later, especially with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpnRWYutQy8 the music that accompanies it]], fittingly enough called "Prisoners of Fate". And then it's revealed that he's Leena's DisappearedDad, too.

* The fight with Miguel, and the events leading up to it, especially with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpnRWYutQy8 the music that accompanies it]], fittingly enough called "Prisoners of Fate". And then it's revealed that he's Leena's DisappearedDad, too.