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== ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' ==
* [[A-Team Firing]]: "Human casualties: 0.0". Despite aiming a minigun and several grenades at their feet. And blowing up several vehicles. Either the Terminator is really that good or the cops are [[Made of Iron|made of stronger metal]] than he is.▼
* [[A Boy and His X]]: A boy and his cybernetic killing machine.▼
** He visibly pauses to let the police officers flee when using the grenade launcher. The minigun does not cause a SINGLE POLICE CAR to actually explode; that's right, he NEVER HIT THE FUEL TANK with a damn MINIGUN. He even chases some police officers off by firing near their feet. But then, being a highly advanced robot, this might be the one time that it's justified. He was deliberately crippling their vehicles to prevent them from giving chase.▼
*** Actually, in real life, fuel tanks WON'T explode when you shoot them. Not even with a tracer round. So this is an example of a movie refreshingly choosing reality over explosions.▼
** Remember that the Terminator is still under John Connor's order not to kill anyone.▼
* [[Action Girl]] / [[Action Mom]]: Sarah Connor [[Took a Level In Badass|learned a lot between films.]]
** Sarah is arguably a [[Deconstruction]] of the [[Action Girl]] tropes, since she is both indisputably [[Badass]] and ''fundamentally'' screwed-up.
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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.
▲* [[A-Team Firing]]: "Human casualties: 0.0". Despite aiming a minigun and several grenades at their feet. And blowing up several vehicles. Either the Terminator is really that good or the cops are [[Made of Iron|made of stronger metal]] than he is.
▲** He visibly pauses to let the police officers flee when using the grenade launcher. The minigun does not cause a SINGLE POLICE CAR to actually explode; that's right, he NEVER HIT THE FUEL TANK with a damn MINIGUN. He even chases some police officers off by firing near their feet. But then, being a highly advanced robot, this might be the one time that it's justified. He was deliberately crippling their vehicles to prevent them from giving chase.
▲*** Actually, in real life, fuel tanks WON'T explode when you shoot them. Not even with a tracer round. So this is an example of a movie refreshingly choosing reality over explosions.
▲** Remember that the Terminator is still under John Connor's order not to kill anyone.
* [[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.
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* [[Bluff the Impostor]]
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: Overdone. Utterly. The T-800 unloads an entire fully automatic assault rifle straight into the T-1000's face.
▲* [[A Boy and His X]]: A boy and his cybernetic killing machine.
* [[The Cast Showoff]]: Reportedly, Sarah Connor using a shotgun one-handed was inserted because Linda Hamilton's pre-film training regimen had made her strong enough to work a pump-action with one hand.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: [[Gratuitous Spanish|"¡Hasta la vista, baby!"]]
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* [[Genre Shift]]: From the second movie onward, the Terminator movies became an action/sci-fi series while the first film was more of a standard horror movie with a sci-fi backdrop.
* [[Gentle Giant]]: The T-800, especially towards John.
* [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]]: [[Discussed Trope]] -- John is surprised that Russia will fire its nuclear missiles at the U.S., given that "Russians are our friends now;" the latter line was actually added late to the script following this happening in [[Real Life]]. Also, in the first Cyberdyne scene, a lollipop-licking employee is shown wearing a black souvenir T-shirt with the Russian coat-of-arms, implying that he went on a trip to Moscow, which was next to impossible before ''perestroika''.▼
** Those who saw ''T2'' in a movie theater in August of 1991, when the attempted Soviet coup d'état attempt was going on or had just been put down, laughed [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|a bit nervously]] when John says how Russia and America are now "friends."▼
* [[Go Out with a Smile]]: The T-800's encouraging final "thumbs up."
* [[Gratuitous Spanish]]: "¡Hasta la vista, baby!"
▲* [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]]: [[Discussed Trope]] -- John is surprised that Russia will fire its nuclear missiles at the U.S., given that "Russians are our friends now;" the latter line was actually added late to the script following this happening in [[Real Life]]. Also, in the first Cyberdyne scene, a lollipop-licking employee is shown wearing a black souvenir T-shirt with the Russian coat-of-arms, implying that he went on a trip to Moscow, which was next to impossible before ''perestroika''.
▲** Those who saw ''T2'' in a movie theater in August of 1991, when the attempted Soviet coup d'état attempt was going on or had just been put down, laughed [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|a bit nervously]] when John says how Russia and America are now "friends."
* [[Gun Porn]]: ''T2'' is one big showcase of just about all [[Cool Guns]] ever made and then some.
* [[Hairpin Lockpick]]: Sarah Conner uses unfolded paper clips to pick the locks on the straps holding her and the lock on the door of her room.
* [[Hand Signals]]: SWAT team leaders use them twice: to direct team movement during the infiltration of Cyberdyne, and to order that tear gas be fired at the 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.▼
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Sarah loses it when she sees the T-800, which looks ''exactly'' like the machine that chased her for days and killed her lover in the first film, and has probably haunted her nightmares ever since. Until this point, she believes she's in a [[Stable Time Loop]] in which no new players would arrive from the future, since that's what Reese told her. After this point, she knows things have been changed and she can keep changing them.
** 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.
* [[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.▼
* [[Hollywood Silencer]]: When Sarah Conner tries to assassinate Miles Dyson, she uses a Colt Commando CAR-15 assault rifle with a supressor. Not quite as silent as some examples, but still quieter than it would be in real life.
▲* [[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).
* [[Idiot Ball]]: The mental hospital personnel carries a few of these. When they try to stop Sarah from escaping, they couldn't care less about the shotgun-wielding bodybuilder who's coming towards them.
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