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** The Terminators in ''Genisys'' manage to deliberately invoke both [[Body Horror]] and [[Uncanny Valley]] for scary points.
* [[Only the Creator Does It Right]]: The Cameron-directed movies are much more highly regarded than the other two.
* [[Periphery Demographic]]: ''The E! True Hollywood Story'' on the first movie pointed out the love story attracted lots of women.
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: Bill Paxton is one of the punks.
* [[Ron the Death Eater]]: Some of Sarah's detractors can take it a little too far (see above). Most of them seem to have heard that the actor and director said the character was intended to have flaws and bad traits and turned that into "Sarah's the real monster in T2".
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** T1: Watch the background when the skeleton rises out of the fire. Someone partially stands and grabs the lever, pulling it down to lift the endoskeleton. There's also the scene when the Terminator preforms open-eye surgery with an incredibly fake Arnold head.
*** The endoskeleton itself is considered as such by several people. Largely with the poorly animated, poorly composited stop-motion model.
** T2: Happens in-story to the T-1000 after it recovers from being frozen and re-melted. Its morphing ability becomes damaged, causing it to involuntarily take on the appearance of things it touches (a striped railing, the patterned metal floor); also, its feet partially melt into what it's standing on, and its chrome form ripples through its "skin" a couple of times. This was only briefly shown in the theatrical edition, but expanded on in the [[
** Also occurs genuinely in a few other scenes like the bar brawl.
** T2 3-D: The motorbike prop sometimes doesn't work, so the Terminator actor arrives in the present on foot. This isn't so bad on its own, but the motorbike sounds can be heard anyway, and when he and John go through the time portal again, [[Ass Pull|they're suddenly on a motorbike]].
* [[Tear Jerker]]: {{spoiler|When Reese dies in the first film.}}
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5XWE6Y10sw This] deleted scene. When you stop and think about how much of a [[Crapsack World]] Kyle lives in...it gets to you.
** The second movie: As Sarah Connor was about to murder Dyson in cold-blood in front of his family, she realizes that she has become exactly like what she hates the most, and collapses weeping in guilt.
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXQTzJgU6qc&feature=related The "burning playground" opening], juxtaposed to Brad Fidel's gentle and heartfelt rendition of the "Terminator Theme" strikes just the '''right''' emotional nerves, reminding us of how important it is to save this world for the next generation.
*** "I know now why you cry, but it's something I could never do." [[Manly Tears|Grown Men Cried.]]
*** And the bit at the end, y'know, with his.. the thumb, and... the molten, y'know, [[Spaced|is there someone else?]]
*** Hell, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEMICfWLOig this entire sequence] is a [[Tear Jerker]]. It's VERY heartrending to see John pleading the T-800 not to go. Even after you consider that it was the closest he ever got to have a father figure. Doubles as a [[
**** The [[Final First Hug]] between the T-800 and John is pretty heartbreaking too.
** ''Terminator Salvation.'' {{spoiler|"Take mine. You said every man gets a second chance. This is mine."}}
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: In T4, the T-800 at the end has a digital rendering of young Arnold Schwarzenegger's head. Justified, because the real Arnold has aged noticeably since 1984 just like everyone else, and the CG effect is actually pretty appropriate for a robot.
** The movies tend to deliberately try to invoke this trope, the first movie was an especially masterful use of it to build terror and suspense. As the T-800's organics get more and more damaged, the effect becomes more like being chased by an unstoppable corpse monster.
** T-600s would be easily given away by their rubber skin.
** The T-1000 fits this trope for most of his screentime in T2. On the commentary, co-writer Bill Wisher points out that throughout the film, Robert Patrick, who plays the T-1000, moves like a human being but just a ''tad'' smoother (because he's a liquid creature). In the scene where he talks to John's foster parents and again when he arrives at the mental hospital to ask the night nurse to see Sarah Connor, he behaves like a normal person(even smiling in a natural way in the former scene), but still puts out a subtly menacing vibe. Being a more advanced terminator and remaining more true to James Cameron's original idea of the terminator as an under-the-radar infiltrator (he disguises himself as a ''cop'' for crying out loud), it's expected that he could more accurately mimic a human posture, mannerisms and demeanor, but still do so in such a way that there was still something "off" and spooky about him.
*** James Cameron mentioned in the "making of" video that part of why he cast Robert Patrick was because "he moves like a cat", and the T-1000 regards its environment in an almost feline way.
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