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** [[James Cameron]] has mentioned getting mail after the film's release from nuclear physicists who commended him on [[Shown Their Work|the most realistic depiction]] of a close-up nuclear detonation put on film thus far.
* [[Asshole Victim]]: The asylum attendant who licks Sarah's face while she's helpless and John's foster parents, Todd and Janelle.
* [[Badass and Child Duo]]: Terminator and John.
* [[Bad to the Bone]]: The [[Trope Namer]] song plays as the T-800 is first shown in leather clothes. And [[Guns N' Roses]]'s "You Could be Mine" playing in the boombox John Connor is carrying in his bike might also fit.
* [[Big No]]: Sarah almost makes it out of the asylum, but she sees the T-800 walking out of an elevator. After saying "no" in a low tone of disbelief, it turns into this out of sheer terror.
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* [[The Comically Serious]]: The Terminator. "He's my Uncle Bob..."
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Averted during the foundry scene while the protagonists are trying to escape the T-1000. When they approach a vat of molten steel, Sarah says "Wait. No No. It's too hot. Go back."
* [[Conversation Casualty]]: The T-1000, disguised as John's foster mother, is talking to him on the phone, when the foster father interrupts her about their madly barking dog in the backyard. It promptly skewers him through the mouth with its morphing
* [[Curb Stomp Cushion]]: The intro to ''Terminator 2'' shows an army of SkyNet's robots slowly working their way across the battlefield, seemingly rolling over everything in their paths. Then we see a [[La Résistance|human soldier]] standing over a crippled Terminator before finishing it off, followed by a flying Hunter Killer being blasted out of the air by another trooper.
* [[Dead Ex Machina]]: The T-800.
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** Also, when she gets a "[[My God, What Have I Done?]]" moment in Dyson's house.
* [[Heroic RROD]]: The T-800 gets skewered through his main power supply by the T-1000 in the climactic fight. He has a backup battery though.
* [[Heroic Suicide]]: T-800.
* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: Sarah stops attacking Miles Dyson when she realizes, from the horrified reactions of his wife and son, that she's acting like the merciless Terminators she hates so much.
* [[Hollywood Silencer]]: When Sarah Conner tries to assassinate Miles Dyson, she uses a Colt Commando CAR-15 assault rifle with a
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: John Connor is an admirable example this trope -- he stops his mother from killing Dyson even believing it would prevent Judgment Day, and his idealism allowed a war for humanity's future to be waged and won without murdering a single innocent human being.
* [[Hot Amazon]]: Sarah is ''ripped'' when she's rescued from the hospital. Especially notable because Linda Hamilton isn't just fit and trim: she is battle ready and extremely well trained, which is most visible in her movements and posture (one of the obvious moments is when she runs inside hospital corridors).
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* [[Manly Tears]]: "I know now why you cry, but it's something I could never do."
* [[Master of Unlocking]]: John has a laptop with a code-cracking program he apparently uses to brute-force PIN numbers on stolen credit cards. {{spoiler|1=Later, he uses the same program to crack door codes at Cyberdyne; in one of the comics, he was shown using the same program again to ''destroy SkyNet'', with the final prompt being "Easy money."}}
** Also it is said that Linda Hamilton, who took role preparation VERY seriously (just look at her), in fact picked both the harness lock and the door lock with pieces of a paper clip on-camera. She explicitly refused to imitate it, because she was given
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The T-800 cracking a joke on how it "needs a vacation" after destroying the T-1000 is pretty much immediately followed by its [[I Cannot Self-Terminate]] scene.
* [[Muggle Foster Parents]]: John's foster parents in the second movie fall under this. Their relationship with John is strained but they seem to avert the [[Abusive Parents]] trope. They're just frustrated by John's lack of respect for them more than anything else.
* [[Murder by Cremation]]: More of an "assisted suicide" than murder, but still...
* [[Next Sunday AD]]: Filmed in 1991, takes place when John Connor is 10, which would be 1995 or early 1996.
* [[Not So Different]]: Sarah Connor has effectively ''become'' a Terminator by this point.
* [[Ominous Walk]]: The T-1000 does this multiple times, which ended up screwing him over in the end.
* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Sarah Conner is shot in the leg and impaled in the shoulder and keeps on going. The T-800 shoots a large number of people in the knee and they're not seriously hurt.
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* [[Technical Pacifist]]: The T-800, after John tells him he can't kill anyone.
{{quote|'''John:''' (after the T-800 kneecaps a guard) Hey, you promised!
'''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.
* [[Technology Porn]]: All over the place. The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbcmLPXuQzo teaser trailer] qualifies for this trope alone.
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** Deleted scenes show Miles Dyson had a daughter. Which makes her absence in the scene where Sarah tries to kill Miles a bit odd, since all the shooting would have certainly awakened her.
* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Averted mostly. T-800 ''does'' attack the female guard, but she simply gets pushed down, as opposed to the male orderlies, who get tossed into/through windows and concrete walls.
** She's also wearing one arm in a sling, so he may not have been reacting so much to her
* [[You Shall Not Pass/Film|You Shall Not Pass]]: Sarah Conner tricks John into escaping without her, then stays behind to prevent the T-1000 from following and killing him.
* [[You Taste Delicious]]: While Sarah is being held in the mental hospital an attendant licks her face while she's tied to a bed.
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