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Crono

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“ What ARE you two doing?! I thought you said something about a nice little slide show? ...How about into the "now"? „
~ Crono's only two lines of dialogue in the SNES translation

Background

Crono is the silent protagonist in Chrono Trigger. He lives with his mother in Truce in the Present. His personality matches that of the conventional hero archetype and he is willing to place his life on the line for the sake of others.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Crono’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!
Crono was born sometime prior to 1000 AD to a woman named Gina and an unnamed father in the city of Truce. In his youth, Crono befriended a girl named Lucca. In the year 1000 AD, on the day of the Millennial Fair, Crono met Princess Nadia in disguise as Marle, though he did not know it at the time. Together, they enjoyed the fair's festivities until the unveiling of Lucca's new invention, the Telepod. Always faithful to his friend, he agrees to test the device despite the potential danger. The transportation was successful, however, when Marle wanted to tests it, she is sent back in time. Crono bravely decides to follow her, and the ensuing quest has him rescuing her lost ancestor Queen Leene to ensure Marle's existence in modern times. He, Lucca, and Marle all return to the present, after which Lucca suggests he escort Marle home, as she has work to do.

Returning Marle home back to Guardia Castle, he is accused of kidnapping her in attempts to thwart the throne. Represented by Pierre in a trial, Crono is sentenced to death by the Chancellor, regardless of whether he is found guilty or not guilty. Lucca frees him seconds before he is brought to the Guillotine and together, they flee the Prison Towers. On their way to Guardia Forest, Marle tags along and the three travel to the Future via an open Time Gate. Investigating the area in search of a means to return home, Crono and his friends find food supplies for the inhabitants of Arris Dome, where he also meets his descendant Doan and learns that the ruined future was caused by Lavos. He vows to save the planet from destruction through the use of time-travel. Shortly after, he assists a robotic robot named Robo in deactivating a Derelict Factory to find a way home.

while Entering the time Gate, he arrives at the End of Time where he receives magical abilities. With the aid of these powers and the powers of his allies, Crono successfully reforges the Masamune by acquiring Dreamstone in Prehistory and attempts to slay the Fiendlord, Magus, whom he believes is the root of Lavos's presence in the timeline. This leads him back to Prehistory where helps the Iokans destroy the Reptites, thus securing the evolution and prosperity of the human race whose lives were jeopardized by these sentient lizards. Directly afterward, he realizes Lavos was not summoned by Magus but is an alien species who fell from the sky in this time period. Attempting to follow the beast to the crater it created by landing, he is transported to the Antiquity era.

In the Antiquity time era, he rescues Melchior from the Mountain of Woe and subsequently attempts to rescue Schala, the innocent Zeal Princess who is being exploited by her mother, Queen Zeal. When Crono confronts Lavos in the Ocean Palace of the Kingdom of Zeal as a result of the rescue mission, he sacrifices himself to save everyone present. With time travel, his friends manage to replace him at the moment before he dies with a clone received from the Millennial Fair in 1000 A.D., saving his life. While the other six playable characters have many lines of dialog, Crono's responses to events are usually implied only through reaction and gesture, often for comedic effect, which wrongfully depicts him as insincere at the moment of his resurrection. Returned to normal, Crono and two others confront Lavos, destroy it, and return peace to Guardia. After, Crono travels back in time to rescue his mother who haphazardly stumbled into a Time Gate.

There are some points where he's shown to have strong romantic feelings for Marle. At one point where he's knocked out, he has a dream where Marle is his wife. The PlayStation, DS, and Windows versions of Chrono Trigger include an FMV scene at the end that shows Crono and Marle getting married. While a second FMV depicts the fall of Guardia Kingdom in the year 1005 A.D, it is unknown what happened to him during this event.

In the entire game, Crono never talks except in Ending 12: Memory Lane.

It is possible that he and Marle are still alive during the events of Chrono Cross, as Doan (Crono and Marle's descendent) still exists in the new timeline of the year 2300 A.D. although it's also possible that both of them died in the fall of Guardia, but were survived by any children that they may have had during their five years of marriage.

Chrono Cross

Crono's fate is alluded to in Radius's statement about the Kingdom of Guardia is no longer being peaceful. Like Marle, he is very likely alive as referenced in Lucca's letter about her friends. Three times in this timeline, a version of him appears as one of the Ghost Children along with Marle and Lucca. The first time, he states that the future in which Earth is ruined by Lavos is going to be brought back into being due to the interference of Serge, who caused the Home World and Another World split. The second time is in an illusory space at Terra Tower, in which Belthasar enlightens Serge's party about some of the affairs of the Dragons. Crono's final appearance in Chrono Cross comes immediately before the final battle of the game. Crono tells Serge that Wazuki was turned into Lynx by FATE, and along with his fellow "Ghosts," the other two members of the original time-traveling group, implores Serge to destroy Lavos once and for all.

General Information

Name: Crono

Origin: Chrono Trigger

Sex: Male

Age: 17

Classification: Time Traveler, Swordsman, Adventurer

Species: Human

Occupation: Unknown

Status: Unknown (The fate of Crono after the ending of Chrono Trigger is unknown with Chrono Cross alluding to him being killed by Lynx and Harle but with no direct confirmation being given. Along with this, in Chrono Cross there exists a Crono, Lucca, and Marle all deceased from a timeline where they lost to Lavos, no longer existent)

Alignment: Neutral Good (Crono and his team are time traveling warriors who want to prevent a future where Lavos destroys everything, with their methods being noted as selfless due to them preventing a disaster from a time period they technically wouldn't even be apart of since it's far away from their time)

Codex Statistics

Key: Early Game | Pre-Vortex | Post-Vortex

'Grade: B | S | S

Tier: 8-B | High 6-A. Higher with Epoch. Holds a Universe-sized object with the Chrono Trigger | At least 2-C

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: City Block level (Can fight and defeat Yakra who can cause massive earthquakes just from screaming and moving. Can easily knock out guards, has a sword that "strikes like lightning", can harm Fiendlords whose army laid waste to an entire village) | Multi-Continent level (Crono and co. use weapons using the sun stone’s power which is stated to have “near infinite power” defeated Lavos whose awakening caused destruction to the entire planet, making a bleak future, which turned the sky black which relates to atmosphere destruction, which ranges from 10^26 joules to 10^29 joules depending on the type of atmosphere destruction). Higher with Epoch (One-shotted Lavos' shell, though it destroyed itself in the process). Holds a Universe-sized object with the Chrono Trigger (Has a small condensed universe within it that's able to view all infinite realities)| At least Universe level (After becoming one with the Steel Shade in the vortex he fought Dream Devourer Lavos and was capable of harming it. Dream Devourer Lavos was capable of devouring dreams from an alternate dimension. Dreams are alternate universes in Chrono. Gains a sword made from dreams)

Durability: City Block level | Multi-Continent level (Can tank giant metal blades falling on him and took hits from Lavos, including his rains of destruction) | At least Universe level (Could withstand an attack that devours alternate universes)

Striking Strength: City Block Class | Multi-Continent Class| At least Universe Class

Lifting Strength: Unknown: True Class | Unknown: True Class | Unknown: True Class

Travel Speed: Peak Human | Superhuman (Covered large distances in a short period of time around each time period), Faster Than Light with the Epoch (The Epoch uses its speed to travel through time, being described to "transcend time") | At least Superhuman, Faster Than Light with the Epoch

Attack Speed: Peak Human | Unknown: Undefinable (Can tag Lavos who flew to Earth from a distant star system in around 20 seconds. Can tag Queen Zeal who exists in the black omen which flows across all temporal dimensions and transcends space-time, existing outside of the flow of time itself. Along with the black omen being stated to “straddle time”) | Unknown: Undefinable (Could tag Dream Devourer Lavos, who exists in a plane beyond the borders of time)

Reaction Speed: Peak Human | Unknown: Undefinable | Unknown: Undefinable

Stamina: Superhuman (Was able to keep fighting through continuous battle sequences without tiring. Even at 1 HP they can still attack at full strength), Higher with various equipment (Various equipment increase stamina)

Range: Extended Melee, Tens of Kilometers with Omnidirectional Lightning Attacks (His lightning attacks can come from storms and can fill an entire screen), Universal with the Chrono Trigger, Multiversal++ with Epoch (Can travel across alternate timelines which there are infinite of)

Intelligence: Genius Intelligence in combat (Able to come up with various sword techniques on the fly without any real training. Frog comments that Crono has the makings of a great swordsman, Frog is a better sword fighter then Cyrus, the "Hero" Knight of Guardia. Defeated a trained swordsman Slash in combat)

Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Acrobatics (Very acrobatic, can jump extremely high and do various flips), Weapon Mastery (Is skilled with his various katanas), Vehicular Mastery (Can drive the Epoch, ride Dactyls, and ride Jet Bikes), Time Paradox Immunity (Alternate Timeline; Magus can meet an alternate timeline version of himself, with other characters most likely being able to do the same. Grandfather Paradox; Remembered Marle even after she was erased from time due to her ancestor being killed resulting in her never existing. Was aware that the Black Omen was not always there, unlike everyone else who assumed the Black Omen always existed there. Unaffected by Lavos' temporal shifts. Fermi Paradox; Changing a future in the Chrono Verse causes said future to be erased from existence though characters like Robo still exist even after defeating Lavos and causing the erasure of the future timeline from ever happening. Casual Loop; Is unbound by the causality loop of fate that attempts to force a cycle to continue), Magic (Is a user of one of the four basic elements of universe, that being lightning/heaven), Non-Standard Interaction (Can harm spectors & shadows, who can’t be harmed by guns or blades), Immortality Negation (Type 7; Can kill skeletons), Summoning (Can call upon friends from different time periods to come to their time period), Attack Reflection (Should scale to the other party members who reflected Dalton's magic), Acausality Negation (Causality Immunity; Can fight and harm the denizens of the black omen, which transcends time and space and exists outside of it’s flow making it exist simultaneously in all time periods at once, Gaspar, the Guru of time describes the black omen as "straddling time"), Subjective Reality & Observation (Type 2; In the world of Chrono Cross the world is stabilized by the observations of the one who views it with each world having it's own observer, along with this in one's dream exists truth, the observation of many made supercomputer's such as FATE once they sealed away the dragon gods become literal gods of fate in the world), Dreaming Existence (Everyone in existence is born from a dream and returns to dreams, with them borrowing the power of Lavos to materialize those dreams[1], dreams are a the manifestation of reality itself and every single thing is dreaing the dream of "life" itself and those things are just a dream of the dream of the planet where all things return to Zuran, the sea of dreams), Flight (With Cyclone, whirls about the enemy, striking others nearby allowing him to momentarily stay in the air), Air Manipulation & Energy Manipulation (With Wind Slash, hits all enemies in a line with a wave of energy), Lightning Manipulation (With Lightning, attacks an enemy with lightning and Lightning II, attacks all enemies with lightning), Statistics Amplification (With Cleave, deals double damage to an enemy), Resurrection (With Raise, revives a KO'd ally), Afterimage Creation (With Frenzy, strikes the enemy 4 times in succession), Holy Manipulation (With Luminaire, attack all enemies with holy light, Crono's ultimate magic).


Resistance to Extreme Heats (Can move around in a volcano just fine), Space-Time Manipulation (Unaffected by Lavos' temporal shifts), Temporal BFR (If Crono is sent through time he is sent to the End of Time where he can access points in time to return due to possessing a gate key), Lighting Manipulation/Holy Manipulation (Has a natural resistance to lightning/holy due to it being his element), Fire Manipulation (Can withstand the fire Lucca puts on him during fire whirl), Time Manipulation (Can enter the End of Time), Pain (Even at 1 HP the party can proceed to attack at full strength), Precognition (Type 3; Janus foresaw the death of Crono through the black winds though in some timelines Crono comes out defeating Lavos at Ocean Palace and not dying)

Equipment


  • Mop: The Mop is Crono's weakest weapon, basically a joke weapon. It has an attack power of 1, despite it being a wooden weapon akin to his Wooden Sword.
  • Wooden Sword: The Wooden Sword is Crono's starting weapon. It has an attack power of 3.
  • Bronze Blade: The Bronze Blade is Crono's second-level weapon. It has an attack of 7.
  • Steel Saber: The Steel Saber is Crono's third-level katana. It has an attack of 15.
  • Silver Sword: The Silver Sword is Crono's fourth-level weapon. It has an attack of 20.
  • Thunder Blade: The Thunder Blade is Crono's fifth-level weapon. It has an attack power of 25.
  • Crimson Blade: The Crimson Blade is Crono's sixth-level katana in Chrono Trigger. It has an attack power of 30 and increases the magic stat by 2.
  • Mammoth Tusk: The Mammoth Tuskis Crono's seventh-level weapon. It has an attack power of 40.
  • Slasher: The Slasher is Crono's eighth-level katana in Chrono Trigger. With an attack power of 43 and a speed stat boost of 2.
  • Primeval Blade: The Primeval Blade is Crono's ninth-level weapon. It has an attack power of 70.
  • Zanmato: The Zanmato is Crono's tenth-level katana in Chrono Trigger. It has an attack power of 90 and does 1.5x damage to magical beings.
  • Vajra Sword: The Vajra Sword is Crono's eleventh-level weapon in Chrono Trigger. It has an attack power of 110.
  • Empryean Blade: The Empyrean Blade is Crono's twelfth-level katana in Chrono Trigger. It has an attack of 125.
  • Yaksha Blade: The Yaksha Blade is a weapon in Chrono Trigger and is Crono's thirteenth-level katana. It has an attack power of 135.
  • Swallow: The Swallow is Crono's fourteenth-level katana in Chrono Trigger. It has a base critical hit rate of 30% and increases speed by 3.
  • Onimaru: The Onimaru is Crono's fifteenth-level katana. It has an attack power of 150 and a base critical hit rate of 20%.
  • Slasher II: The Slasher II is Crono's sixteenth-level weapon. It has an attack of 155 and has a base critical hit rate of 22%.
  • Icewyrm: Icewyrm is Crono's seventeenth-level katana in Chrono Trigger. It has an attack power of 160 and a base critical hit rate of 40%.
  • Suzaku: The Suzaku is Crono's eighteenth-level katana in Chrono Trigger. It has an attack power of 170 and its critical hits do 4x the damage as a normal attack, though it has a base critical hit rate of 7% as a trade off.
  • Rainbow: The Rainbow is Crono's most powerful weapon in the SNES/PSX versions of Chrono Trigger. It is forged by Melchior using the Rainbow Shell and Sun Stone. When equipped, the sword is pinkish-blue. On a critical hit, a radiant rainbow trails off the blade. It critical hits 70% of the time and its attack power is 220. Paired with the Prism Spectacles, Crono will annihilate the battlefield with mere basic attacks that turn into frequent critical hits.
  • Dreamseeker: The Dreamseekeris Crono's strongest weapon in Chrono Trigger (DS). Obtained after beating the Dream Devourer who is able to be fought after all three Dimensional Vortexes are beaten. It has an attack power of 240 and it has an extremely high base critical hit rate of 90% (which exceeds the Rainbow's 70%).

Notable Techniques


  • Sword Slash: Crono runs up to the enemy striking them fiercely with his katana.
  • Critical Hit: Crono jumps over to the enemy and hits them twice with his sword dealing devastating damage.
  • Counter-Attack: When equipped with certain accessories Crono will counter when an enemy attack him without taking up a turn.

Other

Standard Tactics: Crono's style of fighting is mixed with sword fighting and his magic element, with equipment he uses to defend from various physical attacks and magical spells. Crono is naturally better fighting with a team so he normally will summon his friends across time to help him in combat and do various team attacks. If the enemy proves very powerful, he might use the Epoch to ram it.

Weaknesses: As Crono's Magic element is Lightning/Heaven/Light, he takes high damage from Shadow element attacks. Though this is mitigated by various armors and headgears.

Note: The 50% of damage absorption does not mean they absorb 50% of the damage and take the other 50% of damage, it means that they convert 50% of the damage into health, while the other 50% is neglected.

References

  1. ↑ [Young Woman]
    Beings that are born of dreams, must
    return to them...
    The power of Lavos can make hopes
    and dreams come true...
    [Young Woman]
    Born of dreams, returning to dreams......
    Beings such as that exist as well.
    At times, human prayers and desires borrow
    the power of Lavos-sama and materialize.

Battle Records

None.

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