Sarah Connor (Terminator)

Sarah Connor is a female film character who features in Terminator.

Biography

Rise of the Machines

Sarah Connor

Living an ordinary life, her life was forever changed on May 12th, 1984 when unbeknownst to her Sarah came to find herself being pursued by a relentless cyborg killer called a Terminator. The machine was a Series 800 Model 101 Infiltrator unit sent from the future for reasons completely unknown to her. She was rescued from the Terminator by time-traveling soldier Kyle Reese, who explained that in the future, an artificial intelligence called Skynet would be created by military software developers to make strategic decisions. The program became self-aware, seized control of most of the world's military hardware, including various highly-advanced robots, and launched an all-out attack on human beings — the Judgment Day. However, a man named John Connor eventually led the human Resistance group Tech-Com to victory, only to discover that in a last-ditch effort, Skynet had developed a time travel mechanism and sent a robot killer back in time in an effort to destroy John Connor's family before he could be born. John Connor was Sarah's future son, and Connor sent back a trusted soldier, Reese, to protect his mother at all costs. During their brief time together, Sarah fell in love with Reese. Reese became the only hope protecting her from the Terminator and her only companion as they fled together. The Terminator killed a number of people in order to get to Sarah Connor, including two other women in the Los Angeles area who shared her name, her mother and Ginger. Initially, she was unaware that Reese himself had been in love with her from afar, having been given a picture of her by John Connor, and having always admired her legendary strength and resilience. They shared a night of intimacy that resulted in the conception of John. Their relationship was cut short when Reese died fighting the Terminator in a Cyberdyne factory; Sarah, in turn, crushed the Terminator in a hydraulic press. Though Reese's death deeply saddened her, his sincerity and courage inspired Sarah to carry on and develop the necessary skills and abilities that would make her a suitable mentor and teacher to John.

Genisys

A T-1000 was sent back to 1973 with the mission to terminate Sarah as a 9-year-old. To counter this, a T-800 was sent to protect her. Although her parents were murdered at her father's cabin, she was saved by the T-800. In the following years, the T-800, referred as "Pops" by Sarah, trained her for combat and informed her about Judgment Day and her role in defeating Skynet. Over the years she looks to him as a father figure, naming him "Pops." Together, they prepare for the arrival of Kyle Reese in 1984. Once the original T-800 arrived in 1984 to terminate Sarah, she and Pops quickly dispatch him with Pops fighting the T-800 while Sarah took it out with a 50 caliber sniper rifle. Meanwhile, Reese arrived expecting the timeline, thinking he was there to save the helpless waitress version of Sarah. Instead, he found himself immediately pursued by the T-1000. He was saved by Sarah and Pops. Sarah informed Reese that the timeline had been reset and she wanted his help in preventing Judgment Day from happening. When Reese saw Pops, he assumed the T-800 was hostile and attempted to destroy him, forcing the Terminator to knock him out. When Reese later regained consciousness, Sarah explained that Pops was reprogrammed and sent from the future, though she did not know who sent him as all information in his memory had been erased so Skynet could not target whoever sent him. The T-1000 tracked the trio to their safe house but ends up being destroyed by an acid trap set by Sarah and Pops. Sarah then revealed to Reese that she and Pops had created a rough version of the Time Displacement Equipment and they plan to travel to 1997 to stop the creation of Skynet and Judgment Day. However, because of the influence of time traveling, Judgment Day was now set to occur in 2017. This was revealed to Sarah by Kyle, who gained memories of the alternate future while traveling back in the TDE. At first, Sarah did not believe him, but he managed to convince her. Pops stayed behind in 1984 due to damage to his outer skin, while Sarah and Kyle traveled forward.

Both Sarah and Kyle ended up manifesting in the middle of a highway and were immediately arrested. While in custody, they learned about an app called Genisys, which Kyle remembered from his alternate memories that "Genisys" was a new form of Skynet. John Connor arrived the hospital and helped them escape. It seems that John traveled back in time right after Kyle did. It is during this time that John accidentally revealed to Kyle that Kyle is his father. Pops showed up and shot John, revealing that John had been transformed into a T-3000 Terminator by Skynet in the guise of Alex. Sarah, Kyle, and Pops managed to escape John with Sarah noting that John Connor is no longer humanity's last hope, but Skynet's last hope. The trio went to a safe house to collect weapons in order to destroy Genisys. While stocking up, Kyle confronted Sarah about the fact that she lied to him about John's parentage. She told him that John was the one who really manipulated him as John did so to ensure his own existence. Kyle admitted to being in love with Sarah, but she pushed him away because she said that she was afraid that he would die like in the previous timeline. John tracked them to their safe house and they proceeded to run from him using a stolen school bus. John caught them on the Golden Gate Bridge where he sabotaged the bus, causing the bus to crash. Sarah and Kyle were saved by Pops, but they survived and were arrested again and transferred to a police station for further interrogation. This time, they were helped by Detective O'Brien, who remember them from 1984 as he was saved by Kyle and Sarah. On the way out, they ran into the young Kyle Reese, who was afraid of all the gunshots. Sarah told him to run and not look back. After a helicopter chase with John, they went to the Cyberdyne building, where Genisys was being created. John came for them and almost killed them, but Pops slowed him down by trapping both of them in an electromagnetic field created by the prototype Time Displacement Equipment. While the two was struggling, Sarah and Kyle rigged the building with explosives. At the last minute, Pops was thrown into a pool of Mimetic polyalloy before John was killed by the electromagnetic field. Sarah and Kyle managed to find shelter in a bunker right as the building explodes. Trapped in the bunker, Sarah and Kyle believed they are about to die due to the lack of air, but they were saved by Pops, who had just been repaired and upgraded by the Mimetic polyalloy. The trio went to the home of the young Kyle Reese, making sure he knew that Genisys is Skynet. This completed the loop for the adult Kyle's memories. Sarah mentioned that she could now choose the life she wanted before she and Kyle shared a kiss, indicating that she still chose to be with him. Sarah, Kyle, and Pops then drove off.

Dark Fate

In 1998, when Sarah and John were at a bar in Livingston, Guatemala, one of the remaining T-800s sent back from the future successfully found them and terminated John. In the next nearly two decades, Sarah hunted down every Terminator sent back from the future whenever she received a mysterious text that gave her coordinates of the Time Bubble. In 2020, after she received another two text messages, she headed to the place where Grace Harper arrived. Grace's time bubble appeared in front of her car before falling from the bridge. Sarah began to think that she was clued into the fact that she changed the future, but it may not have worked the way she thought because these new things were coming back in and they were terrible. Later, Sarah found Grace and Dani Ramos, a car factory worker, cornered by a Rev-9 Terminator on a bridge. Sarah temporarily neutralized the machine and saved the duo. Grace and Dani fled the scene in Sarah's car, forcing her to abandon the Rev-9 and follow them. After acquiring another car, Sarah found Dani and an unconscious Grace at a pharmacy with a bag of stolen medicines. Sarah took them to a motel, throwing Dani's phone out the window on the way to avoid being tracked. At the motel, Sarah put ice on Grace's body to cool her down and injected her with a mixture of the medicines, despite not knowing how much of each to use. As Dani mourned the death of her father and brother, Sarah advised that funerals and goodbyes wouldn't help, and that she had to learn to live with it. Sarah attempted to interrogate Grace at gunpoint after sending Dani outside and locking the door. However, Grace quickly overpowered her upon waking up and let Dani inside. Sarah learned that Grace was not a machine, but an enhanced human sent from 2042 to protect Dani.

Sarah introduced herself to the duo and convinced Grace that they needed to work together to survive. Sarah learned from Grace that in this new future, an artificial intelligence named Legion had risen up against humanity. When Sarah told Dani and Grace about the mysterious texts, Grace tracked the sender to a place outside Laredo, Texas, which matched the coordinates tattooed on Grace. The group decided to go to Felipe Gandal, Dani's uncle who worked as a coyote, to cross the border. On the way to Felipe, Sarah listened to Grace's story of the future and remarked that Dani was targeted by the machines for the same reason she was: giving birth to a future leader of humanity. After reaching Felipe and crossing the border, Sarah, along with Dani, Grace, and Flacco, was arrested by the United States Border Patrol, who had been tipped off by the Rev-9. Sarah pretended that Dani was her granddaughter with a medical condition in order to stay close to her. The Rev-9 crashed a surveillance UAV into the ground to kill Dani, but the group made it out alive with only Grace getting knocked unconscious.

Overview

Personality and attributes

One incarnation of her came to be saved by a Terminator who effectively became a father figure to her who she named Pops.

Notes

• Sarah Connor was created by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd where she was portrayed by actress Linda Hamilton and she featured in the setting of the Terminator universe.

In other media

Television

• In Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Sarah Connor appeared in the setting of the live-action television series where she was portrayed by actress Lena Headey. Two years had passed since the events of T2 and the Connors have settled down with a man named Charley Dixon, to whom Sarah is engaged. However, Sarah experiences a terrifying dream that depicts John being killed by a Terminator, which prompts her to abandon Charley, despite John’s protests. She and John move to Red Valley, New Mexico which John describes as a "Hick town". While John enrols at his new school, Sarah attends to their new safe-house, creating a concealed aperture in the wall for hiding the weapons. John later returns home, expressing his dislike of their new life and mentions the out of date technology in his computer class. Sarah scolds John for taking computer classes, concerned that he might get caught "hacking", despite his admission that the class switch wasn’t his fault. Settling down, she asks him if he met any "pretty girls", to which John replies "no", but she sees through his lie and gives him a sly smile.

Appearances

• Terminator:
• Terminator 2: Judgement Day:
• Terminator: Genisys:
• Terminator: Dark Fate:

External Links

• Terminator Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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