Sarah Connor (Terminator)

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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.

Dark Fate

Overview

Personality and attributes

Powers and abilities

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.

Films

Video games

Appearances

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

External Links

• Terminator Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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