Terminator (franchise): Difference between revisions

* [[The Kindnapper]]: The T-800 kidnaps John Connor in order to save him from the T-1000.

* [[Kneecapping]]: After being explicitly ordered not to kill, the T-800 proceeds to neutralize a security guard this way, to John's dismay.

** Later, while attempting to flee the Cyberdyne building, the T-800 walks through a hail of SWAT gunfire and methodically kneecaps the lot of 'em.

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: A guard at the mental hospital commits a [[Squick|sexual assault]] on Sarah and harasses the other patients by tapping their door jambs with his nightstick. Guess who's the second casualty in that scene?<ref> Not from the Terminator!</ref>

* [[Take the Wheel]]: The T-800 does this to Sarah and John.

* [[Technical Pacifist]]: The T-800, after John tells him he can't kill anyone.

'''T-800:''' (examines the guard, who is still yelling in agony) He'll live. }}

* [[Technicolor Death]]: The T-1000's death is a notable example of a [[Shapeshifter Swan Song]], but it becomes even more spectacular when the T-1000 starts to do things like split into two heads, form into a mouth, and ''turn inside out'' as it tries to save itself.

* [[The Nudifier]]: The fact that [[Time Travel]] does this is extremely averted, as the Terminator keeps not only his clothes, but his bike, his [[Cool Shades]], and his shotgun. Probably [[Enforced Trope]], since this ''is'' a theme park attraction.

* [[Stop Helping Me!]]: When John and the Terminator are trying to outrun a Hunter-Killer's laserfire.

'''Terminator:''' John, please stop helping. }}

* [[You Do NOT Want to Know]]: The Terminator when John asks why they're headed ''towards'' Skynet headquarters.

* [[Determinator]]: Not only the [[You Keep Using That Word|titular]] terminators but also many human characters including Reese, Sarah Connor, and John Connor. Kate Connor also counts in terms of emotional trauma.

* [[Do Androids Dream?]]: It's implied that when freed from [[Robots Enslaving Robots|Skynet's control]], even Terminators are capable of learning to understand humanity.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: ''T4'' makes SkyNet's death camps for humans very eerily reminiscent of the Holocaust, with one prisoner even referring to the HK Transports that take them to the facility as "cattle cars."

** Oddly enough, the art book indicates that the inspiration were literal cattle cars. The quote from production designer Martin Laing in the book: "There's nothing sadder than seeing a cattle car go by with all these sad eyes of the cattle staring back at you. So it was on a drive down the freeway of Albuquerque that I came up with the idea that people in the future are being used and abused like cattle, so let's use the same device."

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Reese, Miles Dyson, the Terminator in T2 and T3, and Marcus Wright.}}

* [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act]]

'''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]]''. And [[Transformers]] too, given the same robots' shapeshifting abilities.}}

* [[Knight Templar]]: General Ashdown in ''Salvation''.

* [[Large Ham]]: John Connor in ''Salvation.''

** Just to add: seeing Bale's [[Memetic Mutation|infamous]] rant on the set [[Hilarious in Hindsight|turns]] every scene of him yelling at someone in the movie [[Narm|hilarious]].

** Michael Biehn as Reese might count.