History WebVideo / ChronoTriggerTheMusical

** While "Robo's Theme" is pretty upbeat and optimistic, its reprise towards the end of "Prometheus Unbound" cranks the optimism up to eleven, when after defeating Mother Brain for good, Robo once again declares his loyaltly to his new friends and reaffirms his intention to help them build a better future for humannity.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Note that the below examples may eventually cease to

* DarkerAndEdgier: Not exceptionally dark, but it is darker compared to the game it was based on. Musical numbers often put more focus on the danger humanity is in, the main characters are horribly distraught after they learn Magus didn't create Lavos, so their efforts to stop him didn't save the future.
* DrinkingContest: Played straight with the original game in how Crono must win the Dreamstone from Ayla.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole:

* AdaptedOut: Several bosses do not appear at all: The Dragon Tank, the Guardian, and Heckran for the first half.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The musical skips the encounter with Marle as Queen Leene being erased from history and Lucca realizing she's Princess Nadia entirely. As one of the first major plot points in the game, it's a big one. As other songs hint at this connection, it remains to be seen if this scene will be in the full script.
** "The Story So Far" summarizes the events of the plot between songs, so presumably they will be included in the full musical once all the songs are complete.

* CurbStompBattle: Nizbel II is on the receiving end of one in "Tyranno Rebellion."

* AdaptationDistillation: Multiple endgame sidequests are merged together for the sake of pacing, with the Rainbow Shell in particular being acquired from Ozzie's Fort as Magus, Frog and Ayla raid the place. They also seemingly acquire Cyrus' cape (based on Magus' dialogue), connecting it to Frog's endgame sidequest. Considering the Rust Tyranno wouldn't be able to sing and the sidequest with Cyrus' Grave probably would've dragged the pacing down a lot.
* AdaptationalCurves: Ayla is depicted as being [[AmazonianBeauty extremely muscular]] and [[StatuesqueStunner quite tall]] in her artwork, when in-game she's not quite at that level of buffness or tallness.

** Weirdly enough, Magus during "Battle with Magus". While his lines about the weak deserving to die fits with his game characterization, he also has many lines that imply that he wants to summon Lavos to destroy the world and drive humanity to extinction. The very next song, "Lavos' Theme Reprise", subverts this as it rerails his motivations to wanting to summon Lavos to kill the monster himself for revenge, as in the game.

* AdaptationalWimp: The Chancellor/Yakra XIII is a pretty tanky boss in the game, having about 18,000 HP. Here? He dies literally moments after revealing his true form.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: The musical skips the encounter with Marle as Queen Leene being erased from history and Lucca realizing she's Princess Nadia entirely. As one of the first major plot points in the game, it's a big one. As other songs hint at this connection, it remains to be seen if this scene will be in the full script.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Unlike in the game, "History, Our Story" shows the protagonists are highly distraught after defeating Magus, and learning he only summoned Lavos, rather than creating him, so they have no have no idea how to go about stopping Lavos.

* IronicEcho: "Broken Machine" has the R-Series robots belittling Robo as one. By the end, as Crono and Lucca destroy the last of them they boast that they will save the future and they see are "broken machines."

* ANaziByAnyOtherName: The Reptites, who on top of their desire to KillAllHumans, flat out call their war on humans a FinalSolution.
* BadassBaritone: You wouldn't expect a humanoid frog to have such a ''ridiculously'' manly voice. In fact, Glenn's voice is ''less'' deep and imposing when he was a human.

* BrawnHilda: Ayla in the accompanying artwork within her songs is drawn as much larger and more muscular than her original art/sprite.

* IAmSong: "Robo's Theme", "Frog's Theme" and "Ayla's Theme" introduce their characters and establishe their core traits.

* AdaptationalCurves: Ayla is depicted as being [[AmazonianBeauty extremely muscular]] and [[StatuesqueStunner way taller]] in her artwork, when in-game she's not quite at that level of buffness.
* AdaptationalExpansion: A number of characters get more fleshed out due to the musical numbers giving them more dialogue in a scene. Chrono most notably gets a personality instead of being a HeroicMime.
* AdaptationalVillainy:

** Mystics/Fiends often have lines about humanity "won't live to see the dawn".

* CardCarryingVillain:
** The Mystic/Fiends seem to be proud of how evil they are, and often have lines involving things like covering the sky in darkness or setting the whole world on fire.

* IronicEcho: "Broken Machine" has the R-Series robots belittling Robo as one. By the end, as Chrono and Lucca destroy the last of them they boast that they will save the future and they see are "broken machines."
* IAmSong: "Robo's Theme", "Frog's Theme" and "Ayla's Theme" introduce their characters and establishes their core traits.

* JumpedAtTheCall: Chrono in the "Chrono Trigger" theme. After seeing how Lavos caused the BadFuture, he eagerly jumps at the chance to start the real adventure.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Most songs during a fight have the heroes talking about how they are going to win. "Broken Machine" has Chrono and Lucca delivering {{badass boast}}s about how they will destroy the R series robots for assaulting Robo, their voices dripping with anger.

** Battle with Yakra" has Yakra boasting how thanks to Magus, the Fiends/Mystics are going to take over the world and destroy humanity, with Chrono, Lucca and Frog claiming that they'll put an end to his and Magus' plans.

* ShutUpHannibal: The R series robots in "Broken Machine" open up by singing about how Robo was defective and needed to be reset. Chrono and Lucca's opening lyrics in response ''No more games, go down in flames'', showing they don't care what the robots have to say, they are going to kill them.

* TraitorShot: In "Manolia Cathedral", the nuns at first appeared to be deep in a serene prayer... and after Chrono and Lucca walk past them, they give a hint of {{Slasher Smile}}s.

* AdaptationalCurves: Ayla is depicted as being [[AmazonianBeauty extremely muscular]] in her artwork, when in-game she's not quite at that level of buffness.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Lavos, instead of being an [[BlueAndOrangeMorality indescribable]] EldritchAbomination, is [[{{Sadist}} sapient and actively malicious]].

* IAmSong: "Robo's Theme" and "Ayla's Theme" introduce their characters and establishes their core traits.

* IAmSong: "Robo's Theme" and "Ayla's Theme" introduces their characters and establishes their core traits.

* OhCrap: Crono's reaction to Ayla wanting to face off in a DrinkingContest for the Dreamstone.