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Line 1: {{work}} {{Multiple Works Need Separate Pages}} [[File:the-terminator_b_53.jpg\|frame\|He needs your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle.]] {{quote\|''That Terminator is out there. [[Implacable Man\|It can't be bargained with; it can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, EVER, until you are DEAD]]''~~\|'''Kyle Reese'''}}~~ \|'''Kyle Reese'''}} {{quote\|''[[Catch Phrase\|I'll]] [[Arnold Schwarzenegger\|be back]].''~~\|'''T-800'''}}~~ \|'''T-800'''}} '''''The Terminator''''' is an [[Implacable Man\|implacable killer]] with a [[Science Fiction\|Sci-Fi]] [[Justified Trope\|justification]] and an oft-imitated part of the pop-cultural pantheon. [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] portrayed the titular cyborg for three (and [[Fake Shemp\|a half]]) films, and his performance in the first film shot him into superstardom. Writer/director [[James Cameron]] was inspired to create the film after a dream he had when sick with a fever which involved a mechanical skeleton [[Out of the Inferno\|emerging from a wall of fire]] and chasing after him. Cameron, recalling how terrified he was, ended up crafting the story of ''The Terminator'' based around that one moment. Along the way, Cameron unintentionally (or so he says) plagiarized [[Harlan Ellison]]'s ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' story "Soldier" (but not, as commonly believed, "Demon with a Glass Hand" -- [[wikipedia:Demon with a glass hand\|source]]) for the plot; Ellison later found out and managed to get a cash settlement and an official acknowledgment in the credits. Ellison later said the trouble could have been avoided if Cameron had come to him first and offered a screen credit in the movie (which he would have offered for free). In the first film (''The Terminator''), Sarah Connor hears grave news during another average workday: a killer is hunting down everyone in town who shares her name. After two people in her home are murdered in an effort to find her, Sarah hides in a nightclub -- and when the killer catches up with her there, she's rescued by a mysterious stranger. The stranger, Kyle Reese, explains the [[Backstory]]: [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future\|in the near future]], man will create SkyNet, an artificial intelligence [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot\|which will promptly]] [[Turned Against Their Masters\|turn against its masters]] and attempt to [[Kill All Humans]] in the cataclysmic event which will be known as [[Faux Symbolism\|Judgment Day]]. Mankind will eventually defeat SkyNet, but at the last minute, SkyNet will send a T-800 Model Terminator (an [[Killer Robot\|android assassin]] wrapped in human flesh to give it the appearance of a human) [[Time Travel\|back in time]] to kill Sarah Connor and prevent the birth of her son, John (who will become the leader of the [[La Résistance\|human resistance]]). In response, Connor will send Reese into the past to [[Wayback Trip\|protect his mother and the timeline]]. After several dramatic battles and a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] from Reese, the Terminator is eventually killed in a [[No OSHA Compliance\|Smoke and Fire Factory]] -- but not before Sarah sleeps with Reese, [[Someone to Remember Him By\|thereby conceiving John Connor]] (which means John causes his own birth and creates a [[Stable Time Loop]]). In the second film (''Terminator 2: Judgment Day''), SkyNet sends a more advanced Terminator -- the [[Nigh Invulnerability\|nigh-invulnerable]], [[Voluntary Shapeshifting\|shapeshifting]] T-1000 Model -- to the past. (The T-1000 was far beyond almost any other future technology depicted in any of the films, but at the time, the CGI was [[Rule of Cool\|so mind-blowing, nobody really took the time to care]].) In response, Connor sends back a T-800 Model Terminator which is reprogrammed to protect his past self. Both Terminators arrive when John is ten years old and living with foster parents (Sarah was tossed into an asylum for trying to blow up a computer factory and talking about killer robots from the future). The T-1000 kills anyone it chooses to replicate, and when John figures out the T-1000 will attempt to replicate Sarah, he forces the T-800 to rescue his mother before the T-1000 can reach her. After being freed, Sarah -- now an [[Action Girl]] after [[Took a Level Inin Badass\|taking a few levels in Badass]] -- learns details of SkyNet's history from the T-800 and attempts to assassinate Miles Dyson, the man who will go on to create SkyNet (though she falters when she sees Dyson's family). Sarah, John, and the T-800 pump Dyson for information, which is when they learn Cyberdyne -- the company Dyson works for and, as revealed in a deleted scene from the first film, the owners of the factory where the T-800 is destroyed -- will build SkyNet using components from the original T-800 (making SkyNet itself part of the [[Stable Time Loop]]). The Connors, the T-800, and Dyson infiltrate Cyberdyne and destroy all of the computers, then steal the T-800 remains to try and thwart the creation of SkyNet...but the T-1000 is not far behind them. After several running encounters, both Terminators -- and the T-800 remains -- are dissolved in a vat of molten steel. From here, the series splits off into six [[Canon\|canons]] (not counting various comics crossovers, some of which include various [[DC Comics]] properties): Line 22 ⟶ 25: ** ''Terminator Salvation'': This film takes place during the war with the machines and shares no ties to ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]''; its references to both ''Terminator 2'' and ''3'' are rather vague, with the first ''Terminator'' being more important to the movie's themes than the other two. Instead of repeating the story of someone going back in time, ''Salvation'' is primarily a [[Genre Shift\|sci-fi war movie]]. John Connor is a respected officer within the human resistance, but he is not the leader, as several high-ranking officers question his claims of being [[The Chosen One]] by [[Time Travel]]. Connor sets out to end the war as quickly as possible (and locate a young Kyle Reese), but his quest reveals an awful truth: the [[Stable Time Loop]] is beginning to break apart. SkyNet's forces are showing sophistication and progress far ahead of schedule, and there are numerous other changes Connor never accounted for, all of which throw humanity's inevitable victory into question. One major anomaly is the appearance of Marcus Wright, a criminal who reportedly died before the war began, but turned up on his own in the present; Wright's role in the movie is practically an ''inverse'' of the series' central time-travel mechanic: instead of someone being sent from the future to the past, Wright comes from the past directly into the future. * ''Terminator: [[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'': This television series' story follows the first two films, but [[Alternate Universe\|overrides the canon third]] by having John and Sarah time-skip seven years. It follows the adventures of Sarah Connor, John Connor, a re-programmed Terminator named Cameron, John's uncle Derek, and various other continuing characters. * ''Terminator Genisys'': AnA ~~upcoming~~2015 movie, ~~at first it appears to be a [[Reboot]], showing~~where Kyle Reese being sent back to defend a "lost and scared" Sarah Connor... only for Kyle to discover he's been sent back into one of the many timelines that has already been thoroughly screwed-with by time travel shenanigans, and that Sarah is already a hardened [[Action Girl]] who's been mentored and protected by a reprogrammed T-800 series since she was a child. * ''[[Terminator: Dark Fate]]'':Continuing off from Terminator two, and consigning the previous three films to an alternate timeline, Terminator: Dark Fate revolves around a much older Sarah and her search for a young woman named Dani Ramos to help the fight against the machines. The major plot change is that John Connor was killed by another Terminator, and as a result he and Skynet were erased from existence, but they are not safe, as the military A.I Legion emerges with the same goal as Skynet. ''The Terminator'' (the original movie) was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2008. ''Terminator 2'' was added in 2023. ---- Line 32 ⟶ 38: * [[Badass Biker]]: The T-800 can't be any more [[Badass]] when wearing sunglasses, a black leather jacket, and riding a Harley Davidson all at the same time. * [[Ballistic Discount]]: The T-800 considers this the best way to complete a transaction. * [[Ballroom Blitz]]: Tech Noir [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4kfqmv2PoQ&feature=related gets blitzed], everyone stops their eighties style dancing and runs for the exits. Luckily, Kyle was able to "Zero" the T-800 as a result, so it was worth the few dead dancers. * [[Big Badass Rig]]: The T-800 chases down the protagonists in a cab-over 18-wheeler fuel truck. * [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Kyle's attraction to Sarah is what conceives John Connor in the first place. Line 40 ⟶ 46: * [[Concealment Equals Cover]]: [[Averted Trope\|Averted]], as during the Terminator's rampage through the police precinct, he can be seen killing officers by shooting through walls and desks with high-powered, automatic assault rifles and shotguns. Exactly as it would happen in real-life. * [[Darkened Building Shootout]]: The [[No OSHA Compliance\|Smoke and Fire Factory]]. * [[Death by Sex]]: {{spoiler\|Sarah Connor's roommate.}}. ** Also {{spoiler\|Reese. His fate is sealed the minute he and Sarah make love.}}. * [[Determinator]]: Both Kyle Reese and, of course, [[Incredibly Lame Pun\|De Terminator]]. * [[Dialogue Tree]]: Seen from the T-800's POV in one scene, when it considers its response options to someone inquiring about the smell in the apartment it's hiding out in. It eventually decides on a [[Precision F-Strike]]. Line 49 ⟶ 55: * [[Eye Scream]]: The T-800's "[[Self-Stitching\|self-repair]]" scene, where he fixes one of his eyes by mucking around in it with a pen knife. That whole scene was pretty gross. * [[Fan Service]]: [[Averted Trope]]; Sarah and Kyle have probably the most plot-critical sex scene of all time. ** Also played straight, though, in the form of male [[Fan Service]]. Watch the opening scenes of that movie (both Kyle and the T-800 are naked, courtesy of their time transport. They are both very, very well-built, and Kyle particularly stays at the least shirtless for a good long while) and tell me that wasn't intended as fanservice, on some level. * [[Film Noir]]{{context}} * [[Final Girl]]: Sarah Connor, clearly. * [[Finger-Twitching Revival]]: Reese shoots the Terminator several times with a sawed-off shotgun when it tries to move in on Sarah in Tech Noir. Shortly after it hits the floor, its fingers twitch, offering the audience their first clue that the big scary guy isn't human. * [[Foot Focus]] / [[Feet First Introduction]] * [[Foreshadowing]]: Unavoidable. It's a time-travel movie. * [[Gaia's Lament]]: A deleted scene would have had Kyle [[Manly Tears\|sobbing]] when he saw how beautiful the world used to be. Line 60 ⟶ 67: * [[Headphones Equal Isolation]]: Sarah's roommate Ginger is so busy rocking out on her headphones that she doesn't hear her lover being beaten to death by the Terminator in the next room. ** [[Fridge Brilliance\|What does that tell you about the quality of their sex]]? * [[Hope Spot]]: When the gas tanker explodes, supposedly taking the T-800 with it, Kyle and Sarah embrace and triumphant music swells all around them... until the Terminator [[Out of the Inferno\|rises from the flames]] and [[Oh Crap\|they realize]] that the killing machine is ''still coming''. ** Happens again after {{spoiler\|Reese's [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. Sarah gets a few seconds to mourn his death... and then the top half of the Terminator sits up and reaches for her.}}. * [[Implacable Man]]: The T-800. * [[The Kindnapper]]: Kyle Reese kidnaps Sarah Conner to save her from the titular character. Line 79 ⟶ 86: * [[Rescue Introduction]]: Kyle introduce himself to Sarah by extricating her from Tech Noir just as the T-800 closes in for the kill. * [[Ripped From the Phone Book]]: The Terminator doesn't just rip out the page, he begins to kill everybody on it. * [[Rule of Three]]: {{spoiler\|We think the Terminator is dead once, then twice, then finally it sticks when Sarah remembers to deliver a simultaneous [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]] and [[Precision F-Strike]].}}. * [[Run or Die]]: Definitely how the T-800 is treated -- attempting to take it in a straight-up fight is suicide. * [[Sacrificial Lion]]: {{spoiler\| Kyle Reese}} and Matt both went out fighting the terminator. * [[Sawed-Off Shotgun]]: Reese makes one from a pump-action shotgun he steals out of a police car. * [[Scannable Man]]: Reese and his concentration-camp tattoo. Line 90 ⟶ 97: *** ''[[Crapsack World\|Everyone]]'' in Kyle's flashback has varying degrees of Shell-Shockedness. * [[Shoot the Dog]]: What the Terminator invading Reese's base does in the future. Some televised versions edit that scene out. * [[Shown Their Work]]: [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] underwent weeks of weapons training before starting the film and wound up garnering a compliment from ''Soldier of Fortune'' magazine for his realistic handling of the weapons on camera (also something of a minor [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)\|Moment of Awesome]], because ''Soldier of Fortune'' usually ''ridicules'' movies for their unrealistic weapon handling). Schwarzenegger served in the Austrian Army (he actually went AWOL at one point to win his first bodybuilding competition), so he already had knowledge of firearms. Also seen when cars are hot-wired. * [[Slasher ~~Movies~~Movie]]: A textbook example of this genre. It is fundamentally the story of a (literally) [[Made of Iron]] [[Serial Killer]] who stalks his young female victims by picking their addresses out of a phone book. * [[Stable Time Loop]]: The events of the first movie set up a simple, self-contained time loop with Sarah and Kyle. Compared to [[Kudzu Plot\|the rest of the series as a whole,]], it's very straightforward, as evidenced by {{spoiler\|the photograph of Sarah Connor which Sarah gives to John to give to Kyle to describe to Sarah.}}. * [[A Storm Is Coming]]: In the final moments of the film, while Sarah is waiting at a gas station, a Mexican child takes her photo (the same one that Kyle later sees {{spoiler\|and falls in love with her from}}). Right after, the child mentions the incoming storm [[Bilingual Bonus\|in Spanish]], which the gas station attendant translates to Sarah as a storm is coming; the pregnant Sarah replies "I know." * [[Sunglasses Atat Night]]: [[Justified Trope]], because the Terminator uses them to hide his robot eye. * [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: "You're terminated, fucker!" * [[Time Travel Romance]]: One where the romance has a good deal of plot significance. Line 104 ⟶ 111: ** Though, a firearm would be of no use [[Immune to Bullets\|given the situation]]. * [[Uncanny Valley]]: [[Invoked Trope\|Deliberately invoked]] by Arnold's make-up artists. Not only is his face given a thin coating of some kind of shiny goop to give his skin a faux-artificial appearance, but his eyebrows were shaved to subtly creep out the viewer even more. * [[Unwitting Pawn]]: It's strongly implied that {{spoiler\|John Connor deliberately manipulated Reese into falling in love with his mother by giving him her picture. And then he had to send his own father back in time to certain doom, just to make shure he would exist to save the world. Reese never knew his true role in the bigger picture, never realizing he was fighting for his own son. Must have been heart breaking for John.}}. [[Shoot the Dog\|Pretty heavy...]]▼ * [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: The entire sequence at Tech Noir, a nightclub that could not be more '80s if it tried. ▲* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: It's strongly implied that {{spoiler\|John Connor deliberately manipulated Reese into falling in love with his mother by giving him her picture. And then he had to send his own father back in time to certain doom, just to make shure he would exist to save the world. Reese never knew his true role in the bigger picture, never realizing he was fighting for his own son. Must have been heart breaking for John.}} [[Shoot the Dog\|Pretty heavy...]] * [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]: "There's over 30 cops in this building. You're perfectly safe here." * [[Zipping Up the Bodybag]]: {{spoiler\|Kyle Reese.}}. == ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' == Line 114 ⟶ 120: * Actually, in real life, fuel tanks WON'T explode when you shoot them. Not even with a tracer round. So this is an example of a movie refreshingly choosing reality over explosions. Remember that the Terminator is still under John Connor's order not to kill anyone. * [[Action Girl]] / [[Action Mom]]: Sarah Connor [[Took a Level Inin Badass\|learned a lot between films.]] Sarah is arguably a [[Deconstruction]] of the [[Action Girl]] tropes, since she is both indisputably [[Badass]] and ''fundamentally'' screwed-up. Given that she's been forced to take antipsychotics (Thorazine is specifically mentioned) for at least two or three years for psychoses that she ''doesn't actually have'', or didn't when she was admitted to the mental hospital, the "screwed-up" part of that may be justified. Line 123 ⟶ 129: * [[Asshole Victim]]: The asylum attendant who licks Sarah's face while she's helpless and John's foster parents, Todd and Janelle. * [[Badass and Child Duo]]: Terminator and John. * [[Berserk Button]]: Silberman presses it hard when he refuses to transfer her to the minimum security wing so that John could visit her. She made a point that he promised her, if she shown improvement within 6 months she would get the transfer. Even going as far as denouncing her previously passionate view on the future and the Terminators as insane psychobabble. Silberman however is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to know that Sarah may be lying to gain trust and says flat out to her face that she's gonna stay in maximum for another 6 months. She even begs to at least make a phone call to him, which he denies her. She then proceeds to try to strangle him with his own tie, prompting the guards to restrain and Thorazine her. Since the camera kept rolling during their sezsion, it was implied that [[Jerkass\|Silberman]] [[Manipulative Bastard\|deliberately made her snap]]. ▼ * [[Bad to the Bone]]: The [[Trope Namer]] song plays as the T-800 is first shown in leather clothes. And [[Guns N' Roses]]'s "You Could be Mine" playing in the boombox John Connor is carrying in his bike might also fit.▼ ▲* [[Berserk Button]]: Silberman presses it hard when he refuses to transfer her to the minimum security wing so that John could visit her. She made a point that he promised her, if she shown improvement within 6 months she would get the transfer. Even going as far as denouncing her previously passionate view on the future and the Terminators as insane psychobabble. Silberman however is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to know that Sarah may be lying to gain trust and says flat out to her face that she's gonna stay in maximum for another 6 months. She even begs to at least make a phone call to him, which he denies her. She then proceeds to try to strangle him with his own tie, prompting the guards to restrain and Thorazine her. Since the camera kept rolling during their sezsion, it was implied that [[Jerkass\|Silberman]] [[Manipulative Bastard\|deliberately made her snap]]. * [[Big No]]: Sarah almost makes it out of the asylum, but she sees the T-800 walking out of an elevator. After saying "no" in a low tone of disbelief, it turns into this out of sheer terror. * [[Bishonen]]: John Connor as portrayed by [[Edward Furlong]] is a younger example of the trope. Line 153 ⟶ 158: * [[Final First Hug]]: John Connor and the T-800's heartbreaking farewell. * [[Finger Wag]]: The T-1000 issues one to Sarah at the climax. * [[Foe-Tossing Charge]]: Some poor passerby gets riddled with bullets for standing between the T-1000 and the T-800 when they open fire. * [[Foot Focus]] / [[Feet First Introduction]] * [[Free Wheel]]: After the truck gets shot. Line 201 ⟶ 207: *** Also, 'Casualties' doesn't mean dead, it can mean injured or wounded. So [[Wild Mass Guessing\|potentially]] 0.0 means 0 dead, 0 injured, and would always be the method of representing post fight kills no matter the weapon. * [[Made of Iron]]: ''Liquid'' Iron. T-1000 is even harder to stop than the T-800 from the first film. All they manage to do for most of the film is just ''slow it down''. * [[Making Use of the Twin]]: ''Twice'', in fact. The scene where the T-1000 turns into the hospital security guard right in front of the real guard is played by twins Don and Dan Stanton, and in the cut scene showing Sarah removing the T-800's CPU, that's no mirror; the Arnie head in the foreground is a fake, being operated on by Linda Hamilton's twin sister Leslie while the real Linda mimics her movements on the real Arnie for the reflection. Leslie also plays the T-1000 version of Sarah near the end of the movie. ** Three times, actually. She was the mother in the playground scene. * [[Mama Bear]]: Sarah Connor is the patron saint of the trope. * [[Manly Tears]]: "I know now why you cry, but it's something I could never do." Line 210 ⟶ 214: * [[Muggle Foster Parents]]: John's foster parents in the second movie fall under this. Their relationship with John is strained but they seem to avert the [[Abusive Parents]] trope. They're just frustrated by John's lack of respect for them more than anything else. * [[Murder by Cremation]]: More of an "assisted suicide" than murder, but still... * [[Next Sunday ADA.D.]]: Filmed in 1991, takes place when John Connor is 10, which would be 1995 or early 1996. * [[Not So Different]]: Sarah Connor has effectively ''become'' a Terminator by this point. Noticeable during the scene where she attempts to murder Dyson, where she performs their signature [[Ominous Walk]], as well as attempt to murder someone in the past in order to change the future. Sound ''familiar'', Sarah? Her realization of this causes her to suffer a minor breakdown. * [[Ominous Walk]]: The T-1000 does this multiple times, which ended up screwing him over in the end. Line 252 ⟶ 256: * [[Terrifying Rescuer]]: The T-800 showing up at the psyche ward to rescue Sarah is one of the more famous examples in film. * [[That's What I Would Do]]: How the T-800 knows that the T-1000 is staking out John's house. * [[Took a Level Inin Badass]] / [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: Sarah Connor, oh so very, '''very''' much. * [[Totally Radical]]: John teaching the T-800 how to talk like a human. The film actually made "Hasta la vista, baby" into a genuinely cool phrase, but "No problem-o" is still cringe-worthy. * [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: The pre-release publicity campaign involved releasing three trailers. The first, a teaser, showed a factory assembling a Terminator, step-by-step, then a close-up on an Arnie's face with the words "I'll be back" heard. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KfJ9kqRec4 The second trailer] revealed there were two terminators, but deliberately avoided spoiling the twist that the T-800 was the {{spoiler\|good}} guy. The final trailer, which did spoil it, was released shortly before the film's premiere and is now one of the most famous example of this trope. Line 261 ⟶ 265: Where exactly would you EXPECT him to reappear in the film? Do you think John would take some time off from being chased by a murderous shape shifting Terminator to give his friend a call? It isn't like he ever went back to his house. I think he had a little more important things to do. Deleted scenes show Miles Dyson had a daughter. Which makes her absence in the scene where Sarah tries to kill Miles a bit odd, since all the shooting would have certainly awakened her. * [[Workout Fanservice]]: When we first see Sarah Connor, she's doing some chin-ups off an overturned bed. * [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Averted mostly. T-800 ''does'' attack the female guard, but she simply gets pushed down, as opposed to the male orderlies, who get tossed into/through windows and concrete walls. ** She's also wearing one arm in a sling, so he may not have been reacting so much to her femaleness than to the fact that she was already injured. Not that he seems overly concerned with injuring people the rest of the time. Line 320 ⟶ 325: * [[Temporal Paradox]]: It's just about possible to buy that SkyNet had time to send back two Terminators before it was destroyed, but the narrative makes it clear that it was aware they'd failed when it sent back the third. Never mind that it's now a ''totally different SkyNet'' doing all this since the first was never built. * [[The Worf Effect]]: The badassery of the T-X is largely established by scenes where she wails on the T-850 and scenes where the T-850 complains she's better than him. * [[You Can See the Explosion from Orbit]]: At the end of the movie. == ''Terminator Salvation'' == Line 371 ⟶ 376: * [[Viral Marketing]] ''Welcome to [http://www.skynetresearch.com/ SkyNet Research]...'' "[https://web.archive.org/web/20110202230258/http://resistorbeterminated.com/ Resist or be terminated.]" * [[The Worf Effect]]: It seems like the Terminators (T-600 models) themselves seen in this film are subject to this: while they are certainly extremely deadly, they seem to tale far less punishment then the original film version did, which was stabbed, shot by heavy gunfire and blown up without any real damage except to it's cover, at least until they put a bomb literally in between it's joints to blow it in half. {{spoiler\|Then the ORIGINAL T-800 model shows up, and it takes a tremendous amount of damage before dying, shrugging multiple grenade launcher blasts to the body without even slowing down, tossing around Marcus with very little effort, getting molten lead dumped on him (which KILLED the T-1000) and then getting frozen in it, and it STILL doesn't die before seriously wounding John Connor.}} * [[Xanatos Gambit]]: {{spoiler\|1=SkyNet's plan in ''T4'' to destroy the Resistance by giving it a false shutdown signal for its machines.}} The preferable goal is for the group to use the information but if they don't their situation will get worse. Line 388 ⟶ 393: "I'll be back." (And he usually returns driving a vehicle into a building.) "There is no fate but what we make for ourselves." * [[Sean Connery Is ~~Going~~About to Shoot You\|Arnold Schwarzenegger Is ~~Going~~About Toto Shoot You:]]{{context}} * [[Backstory]] * [[Badass]]: Any of the terminators, but particularly the T-101. Reese was the first human badass and Sarah Connor [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]. ** And John Connor. In fact, very little of the ''Terminator'' movies [[World of Badass\|is not badassery.]] * [[Badass Longcoat]]: Kyle Reese and Marcus Wright. Line 442 ⟶ 447: {{quote\|'''John Connor:''' "We stopped Judgment Day." '''Terminator:''' "You only postponed it. Judgment Day is inevitable." }} * [[Homage]]: {{spoiler\|The [[Humongous Mecha]] scooping up humans and dropping them in cages, as in ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)\|The War of the Worlds]]''. And [[Transformers]] too, given the same robots' shapeshifting abilities.}} The Harverster's mounted gun fires, sounds and operates like the [[Predator]] shoulder Cannon. Same as the other Plasma guns the Machines use, although the Harvester makes the best resemblance. John Connor's Tracker sounds similar to the motion trackers U.S.C.M. used in [[Aliens]]. Line 466 ⟶ 471: ** Michael Biehn as Reese might count. * [[Laser Guided Tykebomb]]: John Connor * [[Literally Fearless]]: The titular Terminators, for the obvious reason that they lack organic brains. They only retreat if they feel they can't fulfill their tasks, but otherwise will jump headfirst even if it means their destruction is imminent. * [[The Load]]: Both Sarah and John Connor assume this role in the first and second movies respectively, the former initially being a relatively airheaded fast food waitress and the latter being a delinquent kid. Of course they both [[Took a Level Inin Badass]] in time for their next film appearances, mostly because of [[War Is Hell\|what they went through]]. * [[Lowered Monster Difficulty]]: The first terminator and T-X are damaged until they become only endoskeletons, and after that even lose their legs. * [[Made of Explodium]]: Subverted in ''T4'' in one scene where Marcus tries to take out a giant terminator by ramming a tank of gas into it and having Reese shoot the tank as they drove away. The tank of gasoline refused to explode until they finally tossed a lit flare at the leaking gas. Line 539 ⟶ 545: Amazingly enough, '''ten''' of the ''fifteen'' minutes that the T-1000 transformed onscreen were '''also''' his amazingly-articulate puppets rather than lazy CGI. As noted below, at the time, CGI was the novel ''expensive'' option, saved to be used with the T-1000's morphing effects. ▲* [[~~Bad~~Standard toPre-Ass-Kicking ~~the Bone~~Snippet]]: The former [[Trope Namer]] ~~song~~"Bad to the Bone" plays as the T-800 is first shown in leather clothes. And [[Guns N' Roses]]'s "You Could be Mine" playing in the boombox John Connor is carrying in his bike might also fit. * [[Stat-O-Vision]]: Standard for terminator [[Robo Cam\|Robo Cams]]. * [[Sunglasses Atat Night]]: This time, it has no justification apart from [[Rule of Cool]] and [[Mythology Gag]]. * [[Super Prototype]]: The T-1000 and the T-X. And in Salvation, the first T-800 in history can survive damages that would have destroyed the Terminators seen in the previous movies, such as being dipped in molten iron. [[Fridge Logic\|To be fair]], the previous Terminators were fully submerged in a huge vat of continuously heated, molten steel until they were destroyed. The T-800 in T4 only gets a blanketing coat of molten steel... you can see it cooling rapidly even before John uses cold air to solidify it all the way. Line 554 ⟶ 561: And yet, [http://io9.com/5191092/10-different-timelines-from-the-terminator-universe people] [http://io9.com/5192446/a-whiteboard-that-explains-terminators-entire-history try]. ** In ''T4'' how any of this works is not clear at all. * [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Sarah Connor. ** John Connor since ''Salvation'' uses ''T3'' as canon * [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: ''T2'' is pretty careful to imply the T-101 is the bad guy; the T-1000 is shown to be non-violent, apparently only knocking out a cop; Arnie instead goes the "violent barfight" route to getting clothes. Unfortunately, the advertising guys decided potential audiences ''really'' need to know Arnie was the good guy, making the whole setup pointless. 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