So yes, Chrono Trigger follows the Kirby Superstar numbering strategy where something is counted towards 'Endings' if it has more in common with an ending than a pool of bleach. There's one more in the DS version, but the truest SNES one still hasn't been seen. Finally, the endings get right back to being interesting again. This one requires beating Lavos after recruiting Frog but before defeating Magus. Which means defeating Lavos despite going through all the effort to prepare Frog for that showdown he never gets. The Girl Talk Ending, in which Crono Shows Up and Says Something!! Availablity: Incredibly brief. Watch Schala open the sealed door to the throne room in Zeal (you don't actually have to attempt to open the door yourself, but you must watch her do so), then leave the palace and beat Lavos without first energizing the pendant. These endings are listed in the order they appear in the in-game ending browser of Chrono Trigger (DS) with the exception of the bad ending, which is listed first. Bad Ending: The Apocalypse. Method: Any except Ocean Palace, then lose to Lavos This ending allows you to witness, in real-time, the events recorded on the computer in 2300 AD.

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This page describes all of the endings that you can see in Chrono Trigger, with explanations of how to get each one. This page contains many spoilers.

Summary

Here is a brief list of how to get each ending. If you want to read adescription of what happens in each ending, scroll down.

• Bad Ending: Allow all of your characters to die inbattle.
• The Dream Project: Defeat Lavos during the first encounterat the Ocean Palace (only possible in a New Game + orby grinding), or defeat Lavos in a New Game + using the sparklein the telepod before saving Queen Leene and rescuing Marle.
• The Successor of Guardia: In a New Game +, use the sparkle in thetelepod after saving Queen Leene and rescuing Marle.
• Good Night: After you reach Spekkio for the first time and walk around the roomlike he asks, talk to the old man in the End of Time. Then,before going to 600 A.D., either use thebucket, or go through Heckran Cave and use the telepodto fight Lavos.
• Legendary Hero: After going through Heckran Cave and going to 600 A.D., use thebucket or telepod to fight Lavos.
• The Unknown Past: As soon as you get the Hero Medal from Tata, use the bucket ortelepod to fight Lavos.
• People of the Times: After recovering the stolen Gate Key and returning to the End of Timefrom 65,000,000 B.C., use the bucket or telepod to fight Lavos.
• The Oath: After giving Frog the Masamune and he becomes a fixed member of your party,use the bucket or telepod to fight Lavos.
• Dino Age: After defeating Magus in his castle, use the bucket or telepod tofight Lavos.
• What the Prophet Seeks...: After defeating Azala and BlackTyrano but before going to the Ocean Palace, use the bucket or telepod.
• Magus Summons Lavos: Let Magus kill you in the battle at North Cape.
• A Slide Show?: After watching Schala open the door with her pendant, but BEFOREpowering up your own pendant, use the bucket or telepod.
• Beyond Time: Defeat Lavos any time after resurrecting Crono.Whether you crashEpoch or not will change this ending, and there are many other variationsdepending on your choices during the game.
• Reunion: If you didn't resurrect Crono, defeat Lavos any time after theBlack Omen appears. Whether you crashEpoch or not will change this ending, and there are many other variationsdepending on your choices during the game.

Bad Ending

How to get it: Lose the game at almost any point. The only exceptions are whenLavos kills you in the Ocean Palace or if you die fighting Magus on NorthCape.

Lavos bursts from the ground, shooting spikes everywhere. A group of people in theTruce dome command centersee that Porre, Choras, and Medina have all been destroyed. Then their owndome is attacked and the director tells the operators to run away. Stunned,he stands there while the command center collapses around him. The planetis shown with explosions all over the surface, and it fades to black and white,with the message that 'the future refused to change.'

Beyond Time

How to get it: Defeat Lavos any time after resurrecting Crono.You can get an alternate version of this ending by using the gate in Lavosto return to the End of Time, then using Epoch to go to 1999 A.D.There are many other variations on this ending depending on choicesyou make during gameplay (explained in more detail below), so you'll want todo things differently in the New Game + to see everything.

Cronois awakened in his room (where your Poyozo Doll and clone will be if youhave them) by a soldier from Guardia Castle. Crono is to be executed. Inthe throne room, the King and the Chancellor (or Pierre if you didn't freethe Chancellor) discuss Crono's fate. Eventually, key figures from thevarious eras appear. The King knows Crono and his friends saved past,present, and future, and Crono is given a full pardon.

You'll see the Moonlight Parade in Leene Square. After a circuit around thesquare, you control Crono and Marle and can talk to people around thesquare, including Taban and Lara, who is either standing or sittingdepending upon whether Lucca changed history. To continue, go up to thetelepod.

All the characters go back to their original time through the gate.Magus will be there if you didn't kill him. If you killedMagus, Frog will be in human form as Glenn.

If you didn't crash Epoch to reach Lavos, Crono's cat(s)and Mom disappear through thegate. A soldier summons you to the King, who (one screen down) unveilsNadia's bell. Marle doesn't hang around. Taban sets off fireworks andthe credits roll. You see Epoch flying around (looking for Crono's momand cat(s)) and it flies by various eras and scenes (again, Magus is shownif you didn't kill him).

If you DID crash Epoch, Crono's cat(s) and mom don't appear at all. TheKing unveils the bell, Marle helps put it up but starts to float away withsome balloons. Crono grabs on to her and the two float away together overthe world map and some clouds, and into the moon, as the credits roll.

Reunion

How to get it: If you didn't resurrect Crono, defeat Lavos any time afterthe Black Omen appears.

Everyone wakes up atthe End of Time. Talk to the old man and he'll warn you to return to your owntime before the gates all close. Walk around and talk to everybody, andMarle will urge everyone to save Crono, but they are more interested inreturning to their own time.

There are several variations on what happens next, depending on whetheryou learned about the Time Egg from Gaspar already, and whether or notyou crashed Epoch. Marle goes to the Moonlight Parade and encountersGaspar and the other player characters. They depart to find Crono.

Eventually, Marle makes it back to Death Peak, whereshe seesCrono's shadow and rushes up to meet him.

The Dream Project

How to get it: Either defeat Lavos the first time you encounter it in theOcean Palace (probably impossible without a New Game + or some serious leveling up), or defeat Lavosat the very beginning of the New Game +, using the sparkle in the telepod. As stated earlier, for an additional challenge, wait until Crono is byhimself before Marle uses the telepod. This lets you face Lavos alone.

This ending takes place at the End of Time. There are a bunch of people and characters around. Check them all:they're actually the game designers in disguse who say variousinteresting/funny things. To the left of the eight pillars is a spot you canstep on that takes you to the Magus statue, which has more to say. If youwalk right and up from Epoch's dock, there are two more sprites. The eightpillars take you to different rooms, with more game designers in the formof sprites.

Once you've talked to everyone, talk to the old man again and he unlocksSpekkio's room. The door now leads to a chamber with the Dream Team. Talk to them all from left to right. The credits roll REALLY quickly ('sinceyou blew through the game so fast'), and 'The End' shows up.

The Successor of Guardia

How to get it: In a New Game +, after saving Queen Leene and rescuing Marle, use the telepod to fight Lavos.

In this ending, you end up in Leene Square, and can walkaround and talk to people. Everyone says strange things about Marlewearing a disguise, after which you hear a frog croaking sound. Go talkto the guards by the entrance and you find yourself in Guardia Castle. The King says some weird stuff, there's more croaking, and this time somehopping. He says he's found a wedding album from 600 A.D. You see thecredits, and an old movie of Leene and Frog getting married.

Good Night

How to get it: After reaching Spekkio for the first time and successfully walking aroundhis room like he asks, talk to the old man at the End of Time. At thispoint you can get this ending. You can either fight Lavos immediately by using the bucket, or you cango through Heckran Cave to reach the sparkle in the telepod in Leene Square(since there is no pillar in the End of Time to Leene Square when you first arrive.) Just make sure not to go to 600 A.D. after going throughHeckran Cave if you want this ending.

The credits roll and you see a Nu, afrog, and a Kilwala doing various silly things,and eventually all three fall asleep at the end.

Legendary Hero

How to get it: Use the bucket or the telepod after you arrive in 600A.D.the second time (after going through Heckran Cave and learning aboutMagus).

First, you see Roboemerging from a gate in a futuristic Leene Square, where he bumps intoAtropos. Then they appear on a ledge in a DenadoroMountain type area (another ending suggests that this is actually a regionin 'the new future,' i.e. a hopeful future where Lavos never destroyed theEarth).

Then the ending shifts to show Tata in the Guardia Castle throne room,with the King and a bunch of soldiers. Tata leaves to confront Magus. Butin Magus's Castle, Crono is sitting in the throne and Lucca and Marle drawtheir weapons against Tata while Crono laughs fiendishly.

The Unknown Past

How to get it: As soon as you retrieve the Hero Medal from Tata, use thebucket or the telepod and beat Lavos.

This ending shows various scenes that represent what would take place overthe normal course of the game, including Crono, Lucca, and Marle's entranceto the Mystics Village, the battles between humans and Reptites in 65 million B.C., and more.

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Finally, Robo runs around the screen before making 'The End' appear,and then he runs off screen.

People of the Times

How to get it: Beat Lavos after you recover the stolen Gate Key and return to the End of Time from65,000,000 B.C.

On a black background,the credits appear, and each screen shows snapshots of gamesprites from various eras.

The Oath

How to get it: Use the bucket or telepod after giving Frog the Masamuneand he joins you (at this point he is a fixed member of the party).

This ending starts in Lucca's house, where she is fixingRobo. Eventually Frog says that he has some unfinishedbusiness. He heads out to confront Magus on his own, and you see him fightOzzie, Flea and Slash, then see him meet Magus. The screen fades to blackwith the credits rolling, and you hear the sound of Frog and Magus fighting.At the end, you see alone figure atop Magus's Lair. There's no way to be sure whether it'sFrog or Magus.

Dino Age

How to get it: Use the bucket or telepod after defeating Magus in hiscastle.

The ending opens with the game's normal opening sequence of Mom wakingCrono up for the Millenial Fair,except Mom and Crono are Reptites. After that you seethe intro scenes of the game, where all humans are replaced by Reptites(and in the case of the Reptite who normally races around Leene Square,it's now a human). In other words, since you never destroyed the Reptites in the past, they defeatedthe humans and became the dominant species.The final screen shows Azala getting knocked down by thewords 'The End'.

What the Prophet Seeks...

How to get it: Defeat Azala but don't go to the Ocean Palace.

Frog approaches a statue of Magus. Then the prophet approaches Schala andQueen Zeal, who laughs evilly. Tata wanders around the pub while Toma drinksandFrog flexes his bicep. The prophet walks through a hallway in Zeal Palace withSchala and Janus, and Janus's cat Alfador meows at the prophet. The prophetarrives in the Ocean Palace.

Ayla drinks at the Millenial Fair while Robo, Crono, and Marle watch. Lucca watches a strange-colored Nu.

Magus flies down an elevator shaft in the Ocean Palace.

Lucca accidentally sets Crono's kitchen on fire while Crono, Crono'smom, and Marle look on. Robo plays with Crono's cats.

The prophet approaches the door to the Mammon Machine in the Ocean Palaceand says his famous lines:

If history is to change, let it change! If the world is to be destroyed,so be it!
If my fate is to be destroyed… I must simply laugh!!

Magus then warns Lavos that he is approaching.

Magus Summons Lavos

How to get it: Let Magus defeat you at North Cape.

Magus turns around and summons Lavos, and you hear Lavos's cry.

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How to get it: Use the bucket or telepod after you watch Schala open thedoor to the Queen's chamber in Zeal Palace, BEFORE powering up your ownpendant.

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Marle and Lucca appear and talk about boys,critiquing various male characters from the game as they walk by. Then Crono appears and actually talks!