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Zenan Plains - Site Discussion => Polling => Topic started by: ZeaLitY on December 27, 2004, 01:34:40 am

Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: ZeaLitY on December 27, 2004, 01:34:40 am
Vote!
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Teflon on December 27, 2004, 03:48:15 am
Robo 4 lyfe. :O
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Anonymous on December 27, 2004, 04:48:07 pm
it wont let me vote.  why?
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Radical_Dreamer on December 27, 2004, 05:51:18 pm
Try logging in.
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Hopeful Death on December 27, 2004, 06:32:17 pm
Chrono Trigger fans tend to pick Magus.

But we already know what the general populace prefers...

http://www.gamefaqs.com/poll/index.html?poll=1752
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Jasson Knight on December 27, 2004, 06:55:17 pm
Too bad we can't choose two or more.  lol  I have two favorites: Magus and Frog.  =)  ... Though for this poll, my fanboy side won out.
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: ZeaLitY on December 27, 2004, 07:48:40 pm
Dang, dang dang dang, you should NOT have to register to vote.

Crap, I need a new polling system.
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Symmetry on December 27, 2004, 10:23:28 pm
Chalk another vote up to the honourable Frog.
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Andrelvis on December 28, 2004, 05:32:32 am
My favorites are Frog and Ayla... But Frog first  :D
Title: FROG!!!
Post by: Schemer on December 28, 2004, 03:42:58 pm
yea buddy, frog all the way, he's the man...er..frog... but seriously he's the got the muscles to prove he's the best
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Trustique on December 28, 2004, 05:52:43 pm
Ayla
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: rusty404 on December 29, 2004, 01:12:15 pm
I hate frog so much. His theme made me angry and he was so damn useless in-game. I can see why other people like him, but still.

God, I hate him.
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Post by: Andrelvis on December 29, 2004, 03:55:56 pm
Hehe, funny, it's the exact contrary with me. I loved his theme more than I liked him, in fact I think it is one of the best music I've ever heard.
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Hiroshino on December 29, 2004, 07:17:16 pm
Magus. Without a doubt.
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Asuyuka on January 01, 2005, 03:15:47 am
It was a toss up of Lucca, Frog, Robo, or Ayla or Magus... or any of em! They're all so good!

I voted Lucca.... intelligent, cute, bold, and caring.... she has a wonderful storyline (but not as good as some of the others I could've chosen), her attacks are pretty decent (load her up on Magic Tabs, a Gold Stud, and a Flare.... you'll see what I mean!)... ^^
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Post by: Kenshin II on January 01, 2005, 06:45:11 pm
Frog all the way  :D
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Peaceman on January 04, 2005, 01:53:04 am
I still don't get why you guys even like Ayla!  She barely has any storyline.  She only has two are three really good scenes.  She has no depth!
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: sarua on January 10, 2005, 06:21:50 pm
Quote from: Peaceman
I still don't get why you guys even like Ayla!  She barely has any storyline.  She only has two are three really good scenes.  She has no depth!


What "depth" do you want from prehistoric human? Imho she is very logical character.
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Peaceman on January 10, 2005, 10:58:21 pm
well, yeah, but still...the other characters have so much more going for them!
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: V_Translanka on January 23, 2005, 05:03:37 pm
Magus, duh, I did a freakin' fanfic of the guy...

I like a lot of the others as well...I'm less inclined to go with Glenn though, he was always just far too emotionally (and Magically...and even physically he was 2nd or 3rd worst) weak. He relied too much on the kindness of strangers...or friends...man, did I just use a quote from Gone With the Wind?

Well, Magus...He had the greatest, and greatest abundance of, quotes.

There's a note here...Shall we burn it?

Classic! :wink:
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Post by: Anonymous on January 23, 2005, 07:13:07 pm
I voted Lucca.  Interest in science resonates with me.  Her relationship with Robo was really cute, though it includes all the cliches and oversimplifications that usually come with AI in popular fiction–which, incidentally, is why Lucca beat out Robo.
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Post by: YbrikMetaknight on January 23, 2005, 08:33:47 pm
Magus is probably the most interesting.

Marle is probably the cutest and most fun.

Frog/Glenn is probably the most useful - and easily the most tragic.

Lucca is probably the funniest.

Ayla is probably the strongest in battle.

Robo (ironically) has probably the deepest personality.

But for me, Crono is the coolest. He has lightning powers and uses katana for weapons. What could be cooler than that?
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Fox on January 27, 2005, 07:03:38 pm
Lucca. A mad scientist who's funny, pretty, smart, and powerful? What could be better?
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Post by: SilentMartyr on February 09, 2005, 04:14:18 pm
Crono, his personality is something I strive to uphold. The way he goes about the game, just no comparison. If I can be half the man he is I will die happy.
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Post by: pokemon_45_79_1 on August 18, 2005, 04:14:32 am
I like Crono because the game revolves around him. Crono happy personality is something because he never seems to feel sad. Crono is also one of the best fighters in the game. He almost compares to Magus except Magus does have a medium defense but not as high as Crono's.[/quote]
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Post by: Sir Frog on August 20, 2005, 06:35:31 pm
I, of course, as if you would ever think otherwise, have dutifully--and faithfully, if I might add, which I will, and have--added, that is--voted for my favourite character, whose namesake is, and was, and ever shall be, known by a series of four letters--the first of which corresponds to the sixth letter of the alphabet, the second the eighteenth, the third the fourteenth, and, ultimately, the ultimate letter corresponding ultimately to the ultmative note of the western musical scale: "Frog!"
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Post by: Azarath on August 27, 2005, 07:57:17 pm
It was diffucult for me. I absolutely love Magus, and Crono! But I went with the old school, fancy talking smart-ass that is Magus.
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Lord J Esq on September 09, 2005, 02:56:44 pm
I'm finally ready to vote for this! For the longest time I couldn't decide. And I'm still not sure that I would decide between just one character, but for this poll I voted for Ayla. It's between her and Lucca, who ironically are both characters I did not think terribly highly of when I first played the game. I couldn't stand Ayla's dialect, and Lucca fell flat.

But looking back into the heart of the story, and at the characters just itching to be seized upon by your imagination, I think Lucca and Ayla have the best stories to tell. In terms of personality I'm more like Lucca than the other six, but I chose Ayla because I think she is the single most underrated character in the game, and the single most elegant. Goodness knows I underrated her too...and for a long time. But I see now, in my wiser years, that her backstory is at least as compelling as anyone else's, although it's a bit more subtle to grasp. She is pivotal in the moment of human ascension to speciary supremacy in the world, and her vivacity saved the human species not only from a war of evolution, but from the catastrophe of Lavos.

She is a stronger person, from a simpler time, and to me she represents a world not in human prehistory but in the human future, a world of elegant logic, free from the corruption and deception of our own human weakness. Ayla's endearing virtue is that she understood that you do what you can, and you do what's best...and nothing less. If you succeed in that, you live. If not, you die. It is one of the only inviolable rules in the heavens above or on the Earth below...and one that her era recognized more clearly than we do, as though common sense were some lost, vestigial ability in our era. Now, of course, the definition of "best" is of course grounds for generations of debate yet to come, but the point is that I admire the fact that it never even occurs to Ayla to linger on emotional drama, or to try to manipulate or deceive people, or to do what's not best. She is incredibly disciplined in that regard.

But she also enjoys the sensual pleasures of life, which monotheistic religion has spent thousands of years trying to wipe from of the human condition. She seems to revel in every type of pleasure there is, and in that basic wisdom she both precedes our religious backwardness and represents its ultimate, inevitable defeat.

Ayla is a corporeal lick of fire who knows what she is about. That is more than most of us can say, for all our 65 million years of evolution.

And of course, I very much appreciate that Ayla is the strongest physical character in the game, and a woman. This was groundbreaking for RPGs of the day, and you still won't find it to be a terribly common theme even today. To some people who are driven by sexual desire or sexist derision, or both, Ayla is easy to objectify, but from her own behavior in the game it seems pretty obvious that Ayla just doesn't care about gender roles and the battle of the sexes. In fact, there's only one line in the whole game--the one about Kino being a man--that throws any sort of shadow over her magnificent ability to combine the modernly incompatible traits of being a woman and being, if you will humor the idiot, "on top." Truly, given the context of the player of the game, who lives in a sexist world in which Ayla would be utterly foreign, this club-wielding berserker is a symbol for all human beings, that, with passion and intelligence, and so much ambition varnished over in zeal, we can be who we are, and damn anyone who tells us No.

Definitely, the best character in the game.
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: SilentMartyr on September 09, 2005, 04:34:59 pm
Quote from: Lord J esq
I'm finally ready to vote for this! For the longest time I couldn't decide. And I'm still not sure that I would decide between just one character, but for this poll I voted for Ayla. It's between her and Lucca, who ironically are both characters I did not think terribly highly of when I first played the game. I couldn't stand Ayla's dialect, and Lucca fell flat.

But looking back into the heart of the story, and at the characters just itching to be seized upon by your imagination, I think Lucca and Ayla have the best stories to tell. In terms of personality I'm more like Lucca than the other six, but I chose Ayla because I think she is the single most underrated character in the game, and the single most elegant. Goodness knows I underrated her too...and for a long time. But I see now, in my wiser years, that her backstory is at least as compelling as anyone else's, although it's a bit more subtle to grasp. She is pivotal in the moment of human ascension to speciary supremacy in the world, and her vivacity saved the human species not only from a war of evolution, but from the catastrophe of Lavos.

She is a stronger person, from a simpler time, and to me she represents a world not in human prehistory but in the human future, a world of elegant logic, free from the corruption and deception of our own human weakness. Ayla's endearing virtue is that she understood that you do what you can, and you do what's best...and nothing less. If you succeed in that, you live. If not, you die. It is one of the only inviolable rules in the heavens above or on the Earth below...and one that her era recognized more clearly than we do, as though common sense were some lost, vestigial ability in our era. Now, of course, the definition of "best" is of course grounds for generations of debate yet to come, but the point is that I admire the fact that it never even occurs to Ayla to linger on emotional drama, or to try to manipulate or deceive people, or to do what's not best. She is incredibly disciplined in that regard.

But she also enjoys the sensual pleasures of life, which monotheistic religion has spent thousands of years trying to wipe from of the human condition. She seems to revel in every type of pleasure there is, and in that basic wisdom she both precedes our religious backwardness and represents its ultimate, inevitable defeat.

Ayla is a corporeal lick of fire who knows what she is about. That is more than most of us can say, for all our 65 million years of evolution.

And of course, I very much appreciate that Ayla is the strongest physical character in the game, and a woman. This was groundbreaking for RPGs of the day, and you still won't find it to be a terribly common theme even today. To some people who are driven by sexual desire or sexist derision, or both, Ayla is easy to objectify, but from her own behavior in the game it seems pretty obvious that Ayla just doesn't care about gender roles and the battle of the sexes. In fact, there's only one line in the whole game--the one about Kino being a man--that throws any sort of shadow over her magnificent ability to combine the modernly incompatible traits of being a woman and being, if you will humor the idiot, "on top." Truly, given the context of the player of the game, who lives in a sexist world in which Ayla would be utterly foreign, this club-wielding berserker is a symbol for all human beings, that, with passion and intelligence, and so much ambition varnished over in zeal, we can be who we are, and damn anyone who tells us No.

Definitely, the best character in the game.


(Giagantic roar of applause)

Nice to see someone else that appreciates her as much as I do.
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: V_Translanka on September 12, 2005, 08:57:24 am
Yeah, Ayla has a powerful Id & Superego that seem to really drive her actions...If I may get Freudian on yo ass.
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: BlueThunder on September 12, 2005, 11:54:40 pm
Frog is the best.He is awesome in the begging of the game.
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Lord J Esq on September 26, 2005, 03:32:28 pm
Quote from: SilentMartyr
(Giagantic roar of applause)

Nice to see someone else that appreciates [Ayla] as much as I do.

You are so going on my Good List! Well...I don't actually have a Good List. But this is the sort of post that makes my Compendium-morning. =)
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Kazuki on September 26, 2005, 05:06:24 pm
It was Frog...but now I have to say Lucca.

And Lord J that was a very interesting view of Ayla. Thank you for making me think today  :D .
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Dragoness on September 27, 2005, 01:04:14 am
My favorite is Frog.

He rules. ^_^
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Post by: Burning Zeppelin on September 27, 2005, 07:58:28 am
Im sorry, but ever since i lay an eye on Magus, i loved him more than Dhaos or Sephiroth. His coolness, and his weapon, not to mention story. Frog second.
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Post by: BlueThunder on October 24, 2005, 11:16:15 pm
Frog is also good because he is the first charecter I remember.
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Post by: Mystik3eb on October 24, 2005, 11:29:09 pm
*sigh* Crono, man. It's all about Crono. The fact that you can make him whatever you want...now that's the best right there.

Magus is lower down on my list. I just don't think he's that great. I see a Magus obsession to be the same as a Sephiroth obsession...bleh.
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: nightmare975 on October 25, 2005, 12:52:34 am
But Frog's music was the bomb!
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Mystik3eb on October 25, 2005, 01:14:38 am
Quote from: nightmare975
But Frog's music was the bomb!


Well, true. Actually I think it's got nothing on Courage & Pride =p
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Post by: Kazuki on October 25, 2005, 03:29:23 pm
Was Courage and Pride the music that played in the Guardian Castles? If so, then yeah. C+P>Frog's theme.
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Post by: SilentMartyr on October 25, 2005, 04:27:18 pm
Quote from: Kazuki
Was Courage and Pride the music that played in the Guardian Castles? If so, then yeah. C+P>Frog's theme.


Yes it was.
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Post by: Gaara on December 14, 2005, 05:58:26 pm
I like Glenn too, but Crono kicks more ass. I wish it would let you vote twice.
Title: Vote!
Post by: The Shadow on December 28, 2005, 05:54:23 pm
Although I voted Frog, Magus rules (I accidentatly clicked him instead Magus...).  At first, he's picture as this wizard of pure evil, spreading terror and darkness across the globe.  When he runs, he actually flies across the screen, and of course he has blue hair (every evil conquerer needs blue hair... It's like some sort of video game law).  Then, they show who he really is, a man obssesed with vengence against Lavos, the beast that deystroyed his home and family.  He ends up going over the dark side, but he doesn't care what side he's on... as long as lavos pays for what it has done...

cool...
Title: 1/1/05 - Who is your favorite Chrono Trigger character?
Post by: Paradox on February 01, 2006, 01:20:56 pm
Robo fo' sho' mofo... him or Ayla. I'm sorry to say my favourite characters of the CT game aren't the playable ones.
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Post by: babybatcloud on February 01, 2006, 07:50:56 pm
Crono all the way!!
Next would be Magus.  :D
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Post by: knightx on February 23, 2006, 12:00:49 am
Lucca is my pick mainly cause she makes her own final weapon and bombs to blow stuff up and u play with fire your gonna get burned. :lol:
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Post by: cupn00dles on February 23, 2006, 12:32:21 pm
Crono

Lightning+Katanas+Gohan`s hair style rule all >.>