Another theory about Lavos that MAY be interesting

[Burning Zeppelin]

Press the quote button dude.
Why does it really matter what part of Lavos is what? It's just another part of him, like we have different parts. But I would say the core. And about Mini Lavos, I would say it was just to small to show. That or it has more significant meaning...

[ChronoMagus]

Lavos Spawn hadn't begun genetic harvesting yet... (What is there to harvest?  Daddy or Mommy Lavos already harvested humans to the max extent and the remaining ones are defintely not dominant.  Whats left... mutants and rats?  Oh and I forgot the amazing lifeform called acid..) thus there simply was no fully developed core.  It was probably a nutrient sack or some other life organ, and personally I think it was a good thing the game developers did a good thing by sparing us from beating up a nutrient sack.  (What would its attacks be... Vitamin B rains from the heavens?)
Now to ethics.  Obviously the mastermind behind Lavos is this fully developed nutrient sack that has absorbed life for 65 MY and transformed into a hominoid being.  The shell is his tool of mass destruction, the bio-lavos (2nd part) is his internal defence system.  You could equate what Lavos did to that of a murder.  From our (humanity's and also the game's) perspective Lavos "broke into" the planet, and mass murdered all life.  Not just humans mind you... all life.  Yes there are the destitute humans, the rats, the sewer monsters, the mutants, and living acid, but that is nothing compared to the lush world of 1999 AD (Well the 1999 we get to see looks pretty decent).  The remaining Lavos Spawn would have probably killed them off as well.  So basically all we are doing is defending ourselves (and in effect the entire planet) from this genocide.

[GreenGannon]

Considering that Lavos was manipulating humanity of millions upon millions of years in evolution before finally killing us like the cattle it raised us as, I think we were perfectly justified in killing him.

[GrayLensman]

From Lavos's perspective, it was simply harvesting its crops, and humans were as significant as the bacterial culture in yogurt.

[GreenGannon]

Perhaps, but our perspective experienced it differently.

[GrayLensman]

Chrono Trigger is about the survival of the fittest, not the triumph of good over evil.

[GreenGannon]

I never said it was justified from a standpoint of morality, I simply said it was justified.

[Chrono'99]

Humans are conscious beings, they're not comparable to bacterial culture in yogurts.

[AuraTwilight]

And even if  we were comparable to Yogurt, let's not forget Schala's spiel at the end of CC about how all life, from big to small, is precious and invaluable :3

[Zaperking]

If Chrono Trigger is about the survival of the fittest, then Lavos should have won. Crono and co can  go straight to hell. They're not fit =.=

[Magus22]

u kno . . . why couldn't Lavos simply shoot Crono and Co. into time gates to prevent them from harming him?

[Radical_Dreamer]

If Chrono Trigger is about the survival of the fittest, then Lavos should have won. Crono and co can  go straight to hell. They're not fit =.=

Do you actually know what fitness means in a biological sense? Ayla, Crono, and Marle we know for a fact to be fit. Lavos is debatably fit. I'm not sure how fitness applies to asexual organisms.

[GreenGannon]

Crono seems to be pretty fit for his age.

Lucca, maybe. Although her intelligence should more than make up for that.

Marle, she seems to be about average in fitness. Standard for typical fantasy princess.

Frog, I'd bet. Although we've yet to see him use the power of an amphibians anatomy.

Robo, it depends on how powerful his technology is and how well he's maintained. Otherwise, moot point.

Ayla...no question about it.

Magus, not sure, although what he (potentially) lacks in muscles he definitely makes up for in magic. Or at least he did as a boss.

[Zaperking]

Lol, If you've ever looked at Magus, he's pretty beefy, like Crono nad Ayla Oo.

Anyway, survival of the fittest isn't just about power, but also intellegence.

And surely, you can't say Lavos is not fit when he has the power of the whole planet, and a bunch of kids finished him off, whom one was deleted and one was abducted and killed.

In proper perspective, Lavos is the one who should have won in the end if we had it all accounted in "survival of the fittest". The game makers wanted Crono and co to win, so they did. End of story.

[GrayLensman]

It doesn't matter how powerful Lavos was; the time travellers were able to defeat it.  The perfect analogy is an animal dying of a microbial infection.