Is it any consolation that we don't hear the scream?
- "Lavos" ramping up the Bad Ending of the original game even further by showing the complete destruction of the world in gruesome detail while the Big Bad himself revels in his victory. It's quite a sharp contrast to most of the other songs in the musical, even the more emotional ones.
- One of the first casualties appears to be Frisk.
- The closed captioning for the individual song's vid translates Lavos's screeches in a way that's different from the on-screen text in an initially humorous manner, as it's a translator trying desperately to process what Lavos is saying. But Lavos's voice is such a horrific manner of Black Speech that it malfunctions and instead shows various bits of info about the world, such as the population going down...
- In general, Lavos isn't as horrifying as he was in the original Chrono Trigger. He's far, far worse, and not just due to the more intricate sound and visuals at play. In the original, he was already a horrifying world-ending Eldritch Abomination straight out of a Lovecraftian horror, but was never truly treated as "evil" by the story— more so a force of nature than a character, since he was seemingly just following his Planetary Parasite biology. Here? He sings about how much he relishes (or will relish) the pain and suffering of the Earth's dying inhabitants once he emerges. Yep, no doubt about it— this Lavos is sapient, fully aware that his actions are causing immeasurable suffering, and enjoying every second of it.note
- And then there's his voice. Remember his infamous screech from the original game? The one that, as per another entry on this site, "gave an entire generation of gamers nightmares"? Well, luckily for you, this musical decided to translate it into English in the most horrifyingly authentic way it could think of: three different voices overlapped together, with the deepest sounding like it came from the darkest depths of Hell, culminating in something so utterly twisted, inhuman and eardrum-rupturing that it's as if Lavos himself is attempting to destroy the viewers' hearing. It almost makes the original screech seem benign by comparison. Sleep well, kiddies. Sleep well.Heavens cry, death from on high...
And now it's time to learn...
On this day, we see, we say...
That everything can burn...
At the end of days...
But the future refused to change...
But here...
We remain!
We remain!
WE REMAIN!- Evidently the people behind this musical considered Lavos a very hard role to audition for. They wanted him to be that terrifying.
- The sheer destruction wrought by the use of Lavos Needle, rendered as thin, superheated quills that may cause explosions from the sheer kinetic force, but more often just impale and ignite them. And they come in all shapes and sizes, from large enough to pin a jet to a building like a butterfly, to small enough to skewer a man through the eye and not kill him immediately. It's an attack clearly meant to cause as much destruction as possible while drawing out the demise of anyone caught in its way.
- And to confirm that Lavos' speaking and sapience isn't just artistic license done to convey the story as a musical, he finishes Schala's last verse in "Lavos Awakens", and during the reprise of the normal battle theme in "Lavos Beckons", Crono, Lucca and Marle even respond to him that they'll stop his "plan". And yet, in the latter case, Lavos still views himself as so above them that he refers to the three "cattle" as "they" instead of "you", as if he doesn't even register their attacks or consider them high enough lifeforms to be worth talking to. And then he rains hell on them from above before we get another lovely reprise of his theme, nightmarish imagery, sound and all.
- Sure, it's satisfying to see him undergo a full-blown Villainous Breakdown in "Last Battle", but the way the art shown of his Core form switches from a neutral pose to an infuriated one as the song starts is rather sudden, as is how he grabs Crono by the face.
- Glenn's scream when he's turned into Frog in "Frog's Theme - Reprise." Even worse when not watching the song's video as first-time listeners may not have an exact idea as to why he's doing so.
- Queen Zeal's deranged delight in wanting to inflict A Fate Worse Than Death upon the party after they're defeated by Dalton's Golem.
- Queen Zeal becomes especially creepy when you realize she has the same voice actress as Toriel, which was probably deliberate.
- "Lucca's House" shows the original timeline outcome of Lara's accident in... shockingly graphic detail, despite it being represented in black and white.
- The visuals of the accident are based on Lucca's PTSD flashbacks of the original event. The girl was so traumatized by it that she nearly falls into a Heroic BSoD when she realizes when she's gone back to.
