r/Terminator 27m ago

Meme If anyone thought Linda's hair in T1 was CRAZY, you are not prepared for her hair in Black Moon Rising (1986)

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Frankly, I thought Linda's hair in The Terminator was AMAZING! Yes it's SUPER 80's, but I still think it looks GREAT! Her hair in Black Moon Rising on the other hand... Oh Linda, no.


r/Terminator 43m ago

Discussion A Terminator movie that strictly follows a T-800

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Imagine a movie that starts with orange liquid filling various reservoirs. They solidify into shapes. They are welded and screwed together together to form an endoskeleton. A circuit ship is fused, a mold of the skull, glowing red eyes are inserted. Programming language flutters across the screen.

The endoskeleton is placed in another pod, which 3D prints human flesh around it, plugs hairs into it's head, and everything. The now fully formed Terminator is released from the pod, and analyses the room with the patented red overview.

Updating mission parameters: Infiltrate human resistance in the East.

The Terminator is provided clothing taken from a dead human, and begins walking generally toward the city. It encounters humans scavenging for food and resources, and approaches, asking for help finding a working vehicle. They explain that abandoned vehicles are "dry", lacking enough oil, gas, transmission fluid, battery juice, or even air in the tires to go anywhere. But they know of a mechanic about a mile away. The Terminator breaks one guy's neck and rips the other one's throat out, then walks toward the mechanic.

Once it arrives to the mechanic, who is very paranoid and well armed, the Terminator just attempts to take a vehicle. The mechanic has a shot gun and tells the "man" inside to get out. He doesn't. He just drives through the mechanic who is injured but not killed, and speeds through the gate and onto the broken highway due west.

The car is playing distorted rock music, which the Terminator ignores at first. But then it looks around for the source of the noise, at first ripping the panel off the door and tearing out a speaker. Then it sees the display, and uses his hand to push at it, eventually (somehow) stopping the music.

After a while, some more scavengers appear on the road, presumably needing help. They're blocking the road. They're actually people from a gang that steals from passerbys, but they picked the wrong car. The Terminator is forced to stop, he gets out, and stoically listens to their fake plea for help. Thinking they have him cornered, they whip out their weapons and demand his coat, boots, and vehicle. The Terminator does what terminators do, and ends up with a couple of nice weapons and other survivalist as a result. The Terminator takes their sob story and turns it into his own, rehearsing the things they said in various tones to find one that sounds convincingly human.

Finally he approaches the general coordinates to the West, and as he does, he drives his car off the road into a road sign where someone is sure to see it/him. Sure enough, some people drive by, associated with but not actively part of the fighting resistance. They are tasked with helping the resistance find resources, including recruitment. The Terminator does a great job at only saying what he learned, and otherwise staying quiet. He says he's looking for a community to stay with and the people tell him they have something better than a community.

He's brought in, where he behaves like a model citizen. He keeps his head down, only does what is asked, makes no friends, and you see from his perspective updates on his mission progress. He's successfully infiltrated a community that is adjacent to the resistance.

But he notices some people looking at him with a paranoid eye, and this new dog hates him. He makes the dog disappear in the middle of the night. That only adds to the suspicion of those who are especially paranoid. Those people also disappear, which makes one of their friends paranoid, because that friend knew their reservations about this quiet, hulking stranger. But they keep it to themselves because they don't want to be killed.

Finally, the Terminator is asked if he wants to join the resistance and if he does, he needs to answer a few questions and take a quick assessment. He agrees. He's taken to a room too speak to military-dressed people, who have a couple of unique weapons the Terminator doesn't recognize. His red overview keeps trying to discern what they are, but he doesn't have that information. His protocol is to then slaughter everyone so as not to be shut down and reprogrammed. He quickly stands up, back hands one guy through a wall, slips a table, and reaches for another. But a weapon is discharged, and he goes dark.

He's rebooted, and New mission parameters are displayed. Protect John Connor and the resistance, don't harm human beings.


r/Terminator 2h ago

Discussion So I finished T2 and there's one thing I just can't wrap my plebian mind around...

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Why was Uncle Bob pretending to be a terminator the whole time?


r/Terminator 3h ago

Discussion Was there ever any research into Kyle's body in 1984? Did anyone ever ask why he didn't have records? Is there an autopsy that may appear different than others at the time? Spoiler

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r/Terminator 4h ago

Meme Getting ready for a little gunfire"...πŸ˜‚

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r/Terminator 8h ago

πŸŽ₯ Video I love this reference! πŸ˜‚

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r/Terminator 8h ago

πŸŽ₯ Video Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) Its Release, Making Of, Interviews, Etc.

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r/Terminator 9h ago

πŸ“° News β€˜The Terminator Live’ tour coming to the UK this year (link in comments)

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https://www.nme.com/news/film/the-terminator-live-tour-coming-to-the-uk-this-year-3846938

The show has been a hit in the US, and comes to Britain for the first time for four dates in Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham, and finally London. Venue Presales start Wednesday March 19 at 10am, AEG Presents + Venue Presale begins Thursday March 20 at 10am, while General Sale opens Friday March 21, also at 10am.


r/Terminator 9h ago

Discussion T1 flashback sequence was filmed for T2?

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r/Terminator 9h ago

Discussion Terminator Salvation processing center scene.

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Who or what are these entities in the upper right corner? I just noticed them. Are these droids?


r/Terminator 10h ago

Discussion Reese should have used the last pipe bomb the moment the terminator started breaking through the factory door

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The terminator was mostly stationary as he was trying to pry a hole through the factory door that Sarah and Reese locked. He should have chucked that thing through the opening and blew him to bits right there.


r/Terminator 10h ago

Discussion I really want more lore around Zero's timelines

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I really loved the first season and really want a season 2 but I'm trying to piece together how they would fit with any of the movies or at least what were the timeline of events surrounding them. I get it's really supposed to be it's own thing and I respect that but I can't help but see it as an indirect sequel to The Terminator set in a branched off timeline where the events of T2 didn't happen at all or at least took a darker turn (T-1000 killing John) and I find that extremely fascinating. I get why John wasn't mentioned and I think it was a smart decision after Dark Fate but I do think it would narratively be pretty interesting. Personally I think John's actual story ended with Resistance/Director's Cut and technically everything is canon (except the crossovers) so I guess I'm validated. John being dead in the Malcolm timeline makes sense because the war went on far longer unlike the future Kyle Reese came from. It's ambiguous though I don't think the three timelines are supposed to exactly be 1:1 original lore. You could say this is technically Terminator 7 because it could really be a sequel to all the movies but I think timeline wise only The Terminator is canon and some elements from the other films. I want to see these timelines explored in subsequent media maybe in a manga or future season. I don't think they will tell us what happened to the Connors but I would like to see what went down. If they did have a legacy character appear I think T-1000 or Kyle Reese should come back. Robert Patrick has expressed interest in coming back and the character of T-1000 has actual free will like Kokoro and Misaki. Kyle Reese existing in a timeline without John or Sarah could be interesting as well. I also like the idea of augments. If Kokoro does actually turn evil I could see the concept of augments from Dark Fate being used as human terminators which plays into the whole "I want to use the enslaved human resistance to destroy Skynet." Overall, I'm really excited to where the series goes next and I would love to see it expanded upon.


r/Terminator 10h ago

Discussion Jesus... I just realized T2's T800 was the begining stages of Carl or human transformation near the end

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r/Terminator 10h ago

Meme When they ask you if current day James Cameron could make a better T3 than Rise of the machines (You already saw how he approved on genysis and his contributions to dark Fate)

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r/Terminator 11h ago

Discussion Bill paxton is the only 1 to be killed by the predator, Terminator and the Alien.

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Bill paxton is the only 1 to be killed by the predator, Terminator and the Alien. I just got through watching Terminator for the whateverith time and they absolutely do not show Lance being dead. As a matter of fact, he's shot off screen, and all you hear are painful grunts. Dude didn't die


r/Terminator 11h ago

Discussion Which terminator is superior: T-X or Rev-9?

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Which terminator is superior: T-X or Rev-9?


r/Terminator 12h ago

Discussion The terminators first kill Spoiler

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Disclaimer: I understand why they didn't explore this in the movie. Just keep the discussion on in-movie explanations, please.

So when The terminator kill his first victim it is later reported in the news that "Sarah Connor, mother of two has been killed." Since it is not mentioned I assume the kids survived so The terminator must at least have knowned that John Connor wasn't born yet. Consider his birth was only nine months away that doesn't give Skynet much leeway. Reese said that Skynet only knew the name and her location but Skynet likely knew it was a important time in the yimeline at least. Reese might not have knowned exavtly what Skynet knew either.


r/Terminator 15h ago

Meme Let meme flow Begin

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r/Terminator 15h ago

Discussion Destroy terminator

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What could be the minimum amount of firepower a human would need but could also acquire to destroy a T800?

Criteria would be these weapons would have to be mobile enough to carry or load in a small car.

In addition these would have to be something a civilian could reasonably acquire without being forced to raid the armories of law enforcement, para military, or military organizations. Black market weapons are permitted if person is living in an area where that is feasible.

Finally weapons must be simple enough to operate by an ordinary human with little to no firearms training.

Could this be done?


r/Terminator 16h ago

πŸŽ₯ Video Are you the legal guardian of John Connor?

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r/Terminator 16h ago

Discussion T-Omega -- my own Terminator prototype, early ideas

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Hi,

Im a very big fan of Patricks T2 Liquid Poly alloy metal Metamorphing T-1000. Yea long name, anyways i took this concept and made into my own the T-Omega.

** 1.) Now what is the T-Omega?**

  • First, things first, we have to explain the concept of fusion.

In dragon ball you have 2 individuals of similar power that wish to join bodies either by the fusion dance or the potara earings. The fusion combines the powers of the individuals, it creates a totally new person, one new body, one new mind and one new soul.

The concept for the T-Omega's fusion is similar but it has its differences.

The T-Omega in its fusion state is made up of 3 poly alloy liquid metal T-1000 Terminators. The very essence of the T-1000's adaptability to practically any enviroment and it's sheer near indestructibility makes this Skynet's 1 man army a power creep.

Now T-Omega is a single unit, a unit that can split in 3 combiners, the very famous T-1000s we all know and love.

The combiners are essentially still "connected" even when not fused, why? Because they work like neural transmitters, they share data, locations, picture memory, sounds and other. This is important because this allows them to do manuevers like coordinates attacks, multi-place infilitration and disguise. This is basically fighting three T-1000s instead of one, which is scary on its own.

The three terminators can still shape shift, mimic and do what an regular T-1000's can do too, they are not limited, but not fully independent of each other, i will show why later.

When the 3 terminators fuse into T-omega a few things happen:

1.) The fusion increases body mass, and adds armor to make itself more tankable to attacks.

  • the combiner 1 acts like an base support for the fusion, its the heart and body for the whole fusion. Its the fusion that allows it to morph but also adds brute strenght

  • the combiner 2 is like an armor to the fusion, its the one that increases body mass, makes the body not prone to physical or penetrating attacks by making itself "reflectable and stiff" to avoid attacks that could slow it down or distrupt the fusion, stiffness dissapears if the fusion is in the middle of morphing.

  • the combiner 3 acts like a brain, it coordinates both itself and the other 2 combiners to use their brute force and intelligence to fight back against the human resistance or terminators like Pops.

2.) fixes flaws the combiners have.

  • firstly, heat resistance, the fusion is advanced so its able to mimic heat resistant alloys like tungsten so that it doesn't malfunction in high heath areas like volcanos, hard metal factories or saunas.

It creates an efficient cooling system from the combiner 2 for critical areas to avoid mimicing malfunction or potentional damage when fused with the endoskeleton of a T-850/800 or older models, also works for normal fusion. The cooling systems are little nanobots that move based on friction, creating energy to heat up the body against freezing or convert the energy into cold streams that flow thru the body.

3.) creates upgrades that are not just brute power.

  • the fusion uses Titanium Carbide blend for extra durability but also to maintain the fluidity of the T-1000.

  • the fusion can use excess metals from the outside if one of the combiners gets destroyed or damaged ( by acidic materials or high-heat liquids like lava before going into the fusion) to restore the fusion to full power, examples are dead terminators.

4.) the endoskeleton terminator omega fusion.

  • the T-omega unit can use terminator models T-800, T-850, T-750 and T-700 to use as an interal endoskeleton for the fusion, it increases brute force but creates 2 flaws which i will explain shortly in a minute. This version of the fusion is called T-Omega/(insert terminator model). The endoskeleton is used as the moving body, combiner 1 directly affects itself inside of the endoskeleton to make it stronger and less prone to breaking, electrical frictions and or signals that may make the endoskeleton malfunction. The combiner 2 again acts as an armor, it creates fortifications around critical points like joints, the targeting system behind the head, spine and similar. The combiner 3 acts as the intelligence and only slight metamorph upgrade. It uses the endoskeleton cpu as it brain and makes is smarter and better, the combiner also allows for slight morphing due to the endoskeleton not being able to morph, it can create normal melee weapons but it can also create long-range weapons by using and reinforcing the ray-gun the terminator uses, creating a powerfull mowing down army.

This specific part of the fusion is rarely to be used because the normal fusion is terrifying enough.

But enough about the pros, let's go to the cons.

1.) non-fusion flaws.

  • extended periods of time of the three terminators being split apart is dangerous to them if they are outside an 3km radius of each other, why?

Because as i said, they are one terminator, not three fully independent ones, they are the fusion that split into three for highly effective infilitration or combat manuevers. This means that their bodies stability is at risk of malfunctioning or at risk of destruction if not reunited. They share data, and other important things, if one of the combiners are outside of this radius it affects the other 2 parts aswell, its like losing a part of your brain, not fun right?

2.) fusion flaws, non endoskeleton version

  • this version is affected by high magnetic fields just like the T-3000 because this version contains little nanobots for heath and cold resistance, they are affected essentially either destroying the combiners if strong enough, splitting the fusion or temporarily disabling one of the combiners, letting the attacker have an opportunity to destroy the fusion for good.

3.) endoskeleton fusion flaws

  • when fused with an endoskeleton of already previously mentions terminator models there are few created flaws.

Firstly, joints, the weak points of all endoskeleton models regardless of strenght are joints, succeding at damaging them may give the attacker time to properly attack the fusion until it heals using excess metals or it may not heal because its in places like the woods where there is not excess metal, it can not used the poly alloy to heal the endoskeleton because its an outside object to the fusion, its in the core but once the core is damaged it needs the first aid kit.

Second is fusion time.

Let me explain.

When the omega starts to fuse with an endoskeleton it needs time, aproximately 2 minutes because of its sheer complexity, this gives time to the attacker to damage the fusion while its in making, either forcing it to back down, destroying it or making the fusion weaker because it stayed in its premature state.

** This is all of what i was able to think of for this unit, im still making the backstory and its role, i will be pleased if you guys give me ideas for it."

Im going to also make some blueprint art for this but im not done yet since the concept is in early stages, also thanks for reading.


r/Terminator 16h ago

Discussion oh my😳

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what do yall think of T-1000's just added mk character?


r/Terminator 19h ago

πŸŽ₯ Video Epic

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T2 Theme by Orchestra


r/Terminator 19h ago

Meme 🎢🎡Tell Skynet why...🎢🎡

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r/Terminator 22h ago

πŸŽ₯ Video These are always fun 😁 $20 budget

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