Terminator (character)

The Terminator is a robotic film character who features in the Terminator series.

Biography

The Terminator

The Terminator was a T-800 series of Terminator developed in the future timeline by Skynet. In its timeline, the artificial intelligence had developed this model of machine to serve as infiltrators designed to root out resistance from the surviving humans on the planet. However, it failed to completely eliminate the threat due to the leadership of John Connor and thus Skynet developed a new strategy. The Terminator was coated in an organic skin allowing it to survive time travel into the past of 1984 where it was tasked with eliminating Sarah Connor who was John Connors mother. The intention was to eliminate her before she could ever give birth to her son thus removing him from the timeline and ending his leadership of the resistance.

Rise of the Machines

A Terminator unit in 2032 was created by Skynet in the guise of the machine that protected John Connor in 1997. This was done so that it would lull him to lower his guard and allow the Terminator to successfully assassinate him. The machine succeeded on its assignment but was captured by the Resistance who reprogrammed it. The Terminator was then tasked with going back in time to 2004 to safe the life of John Connor and Katherine Brewster on the onset of Judgement Day. It had to contend with a T-X that had been dispatched with eliminating the two resistance leaders in the past.

Genisys

An alternate timeline saw parties in the future dispatch a reprogrammed Terminator back to 1973 to save the life of Sarah Connor from a T-1000 assassin sent by Skynet. The unit known as the Guardian managed to successfully sae Sarah's life though her parents were killed by the Terminator. Afterwards, it began to raise Connor by itself where it taught her how to defend herself against Skynet's assassins. It briefed her about future events and the birth of her son who had a role in Skynet's destruction. In those years together, Sarah formed a close bond with the Guardian who became almost a father-like figure to her and who she called Pops.

Dark Fate

It was revealed that Skynet had sent multiple Terminator units to assassinate John Connor in 1997. For years, Sarah Connor managed to keep her son safe but one such unit in the guise of 1984 model who succeeded in the machine. However, its mission was too late and Skynet was destroyed thus preventing the artificial intelligence from coming into power. Thus, the Terminator was deprived without purpose until he encountered a woman with a child being beaten by her abusive husband. The Terminator unit helped protect her and began aiding her in caring for her son where he took the name Carl. The pair came to be married with his wife unaware of his true nature whilst him caring for her along with his adoptive son caused him to learn to become more human. The infiltration program thus evolved with the Terminator becoming more human in his responses. Carl came to feel regret over his assassination of the young John Connor. Thus, he began to develop equipment that allowed him to track temporal displacement into the present with this being the sign of the emergence of a Terminator unit. Carl then leaked this information to Sarah Connor so that she could destroy the units in an effort to give her purpose and as part of his penance for murdering John Connor.

Notes

• The Terminator was created by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd where he was portrayed by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger and featured in the Terminator universe.

In other media

Video games

• In Terminator XI, the Terminator appeared as a playable character introduced in DLC content where he was voiced by actor Chris Cox.

Appearances

• The Terminator:
• Terminator 2: Judgement Day:
• Terminator: Salvation:
• Terminator: Genesis:
• Terminator: Dark Fate:

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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