Lavos
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In the console role-playing game Chrono Trigger, Lavos is an alien being fallen from the skies in 65,000,000 B.C., its impact resulting in an ice age and it's eventual resurfacing in the apocalypse. Upon hitting the planet, it burrows into the depths of the planet so as to slowly gain strenth over millions of years, resurfaces in 1999 A.D. where it rains fire on the world, and climbs on top of a mountain (Death Peak) to produce offspring that seek to colonize other planets in the same manner. Its name is coined by Ayla in 65,000,000 B.C., roughly meaning "Big Fire".
By 12,000 B.C., a magical kingdom known as the Kingdom of Zeal comes into power by harnessing the power of Lavos with a machine known as the Mammon Machine to keep the kingdom prosperous and afloat above the frozen wastes of the world below. This proves to be the kingdom's undoing as Lavos becomes irritated when the Mammon Machine is moved to a power plant on the bottom of the ocean and arises to destroy Zeal and most of the planet (although not as severly as in 1999 A.D.). Lavos then once again burrows deep into the earth eventually becoming forgotten by humanity.
In 1999 A.D. on the Day of Lavos, it surfaces, causing fire to rain down upon the world. This time it devastates the futuristic human society, and by 2300 A.D., humans lived in scattered colonies, trying to survive against the burned out atmosphere.
After a party of adventurers discover time travel and the fate of humanity, they travel through time and eventually defeat Lavos, leading to the events of Radical Dreamers/Chrono Cross.
In the final battle between the heroes and Lavos in Chrono Trigger, Lavos has three different forms. The first form is the outer shell. It combines the attack patterns of nine different bosses from the game: Dragon Tank, Guardian and the Bits, Heckran, Zombor, Masamune, Nizbel, Magus, Azala and the Black Tyrano, and Giga Gaia. It is possible to skip this form by using the Epoch to smash through Lavos's outer shell.
Once you beat this outer shell, you fight the Inner Lavos. This battle is inside Lavos' shell. Inner Lavos has a body and two arms. You have to defeat the two arms first. After doing so, the main body shuts off its defense, allowing you to defeat it.
The third and final battle of the game is against Lavos Core. Lavos Core consists of three parts: a humanoid center, and two bits. In order to defeat Lavos, you need to defeat the right bit. Its defense is incredibly high, unless you defeat any of the other parts. Then, it temporarily lowers its defense, allowing you to damage it. Once you defeat Lavos Core, you go to one of the endings.
Lavos is also the final boss in the sequel to Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, except in the form of the Time Devourer, the result of the defeated Lavos assimilating Schala in the Darkness Beyond Time.
After the final battle, the party sees a glimpse of a shadow of Lavos's bit, leaving one to imagine that one of the bits might have regenerated (and survived), just before the warp back into the present.