Line #6 TearJerker/ChronoCross


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3	* 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 epic background music, complete with OminousPipeOrgan, PlayingTheHeartStrings (verging on PsychoStrings at times), and (synthesized) operatic voices doesn't help.
4	** When Serge finds Kid in the back room, if you look closely, there's an object on the floor between Kid and Lynx. ''[[PlayerPunch It's Lucca's glasses]]''.
5	* The HappyEndingOverride of ''Chrono Trigger'' and the implied fates of the crew. Crono, Marle, and Lucca are all quite likely dead, and Robo gets killed 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.
6	** The Chrono Trigger DS port has the answer: Magus, after failing to free Schala from the Dream Devourer (the Time Devourer's immature form), questions the meaning of his existence and surrenders all trace of his self, saying if a part of him still yet remains, perhaps it will become something greater. Even if you take him with you, though, he never recalls his sister.
7	---> '''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.
8	** As of the Radical Dreamers edition, this is further elaborated in a secret text-only ending. The details are vague, but it seems Guile had been deliberately ''avoiding'' remembering his past, somehow vaguely aware of both how dark and how sad it was. Upon realizing that the girl in the Time Devourer was one of the two things he ''does'' remember (the other being Zeal itself), he decides to cast away his fears and help Serge and Kid, stopping just short of the final battle itself.
9	* [[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=YUPbMd2fbp8 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.
10	* The ending, where Kid sadly declares that she'll always search for Serge, and the credits reveal that she's in our world, doing just that. The music just makes that scene.
11	* 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 [[PlayerPunch hit in the feels]].
12	-->A.D. 1000 \| Nadia's Bell \| May our prayers for peace ring on for eternity...
13	-->({{Beat}}, cue [[SadBattleMusic unforgettably-tragic]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUPbMd2fbp8 bgm]] that [[BackgroundMusicOverride plays throughout the upcoming boss fight]])
14	-->'''Familiar Ghostly Child:''' But Nadia's Bell will never be heard again... Never...
15	-->'''Lucca Child Ghost:''' We... No... Everyone worked to save the planet's future for nothing... It's all because of you! You killed it! You...!!! So many lives were supposed to be saved... This planet was to be healed with love, hope, and dreams...!
16	-->'''Marle Child Ghost:''' How could you? How could you do such a thing...!? It's all your fault that the world is going to end up like this! It's all your fault, Serge!!! Murderer!!!
17	* If, on a NewGamePlus, you defeat the Time Devourer before assaulting Terra Tower, then the Dragon God joins forces with the demi-humans and the dwarves and slaughters the humans of El Nido. [[CallBack And Harle leaves flowers on Serge's grave on Cape Howl. Bellflowers.]]
18	* Bring Karsh to visit Home-World Zappa. Prepare to weep.
19	* Harle's characterization by the end of the game is a far cry from the flirtatious, seemingly uncaring jester she first appears as. Apparently, she even helped Lynx burn down Lucca's orphanage. However, as the game goes on, Harle begins to [[CharacterDevelopment change]], especially after Serge and Lynx switch bodies. Harle's [[VillainessesWantHeroes flirting with Serge]] turns into genuine feelings, which directly conflict with her true mission: she's actually a seventh, [[TragicMonster hidden Dragon]], and therefore trying to get the Frozen Flame for the Dragon God. She eventually [[HeelFaceDoorSlam becomes so reluctant]] to carry out her mission, she [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone breaks down crying]] and disappears. Harle's last real appearance in the game has her being forced to carry out her mission, but at the same time begging Kid not to drag [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy Serge]] and the other characters down with her. When this doesn't work, Harle gives Serge one last goodbye, and then goes to merge with the Dragon God.
20	* Rosetta's death, [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential if you allow it to happen]].
21	* The talk you overhear between Doc and Orlha while Kid is poisoned and he laments he can't save her is both this and a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment\|s}}, again helped by the music in question. It becomes just a TearJerker during the scene when you take Orlha to Home World and she gets to visit her dying twin sister Tia during her last moments.
22	* What happens if you take Draggy to Fossil Valley: He finally meets his mother... as a skeleton.
23	* When visiting Home World after Serge's body is stolen, you can meet and recruit the Home version of Zappa the blacksmith. However, in this world, Zappa is closing up shop -- the strain of the Porre occupation of Termina, plus the disappearance of his son (Karsh) was too much for him. What makes this sadder is Karsh perished in the Dead Sea 3 years prior, and his parents don't know what became of him...but the player can lighten their burden by [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments reuniting them with Karsh's Alternate World equivalent]].
24	* 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]]
25	* "[[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 boss fight against Riddel's possessed lover Dario. The song itself is an extremely melancholy melody that emphasizes how hopeless the situation is.
26	** Composer Yasunori Mitsuda has reportedly said that he himself was brought to tears upon seeing exactly how the piece was used, particularly in the Dead Sea sequence and the associated nostalgic imagery from ''Chrono Trigger''.
27	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-xrTeCB0hg Leaving the Body]]", played over Dario's grave, is quite poignant...and made all the better for foreshadowing its powered-up heroic remix, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKaCk7wn13U Dragon Rider]]."

Context TearJerker / ChronoCross