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** ''Terminator Salvation'': This film takes place during the war with the machines and shares no ties to ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]''; its references to both ''Terminator 2'' and ''3'' are rather vague, with the first ''Terminator'' being more important to the movie's themes than the other two. Instead of repeating the story of someone going back in time, ''Salvation'' is primarily a [[Genre Shift|sci-fi war movie]]. John Connor is a respected officer within the human resistance, but he is not the leader, as several high-ranking officers question his claims of being [[The Chosen One]] by [[Time Travel]]. Connor sets out to end the war as quickly as possible (and locate a young Kyle Reese), but his quest reveals an awful truth: the [[Stable Time Loop]] is beginning to break apart. SkyNet's forces are showing sophistication and progress far ahead of schedule, and there are numerous other changes Connor never accounted for, all of which throw humanity's inevitable victory into question. One major anomaly is the appearance of Marcus Wright, a criminal who reportedly died before the war began, but turned up on his own in the present; Wright's role in the movie is practically an ''inverse'' of the series' central time-travel mechanic: instead of someone being sent from the future to the past, Wright comes from the past directly into the future.

* ''Terminator: [[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'': This television series' story follows the first two films, but [[Alternate Universe|overrides the canon third]] by having John and Sarah time-skip seven years. It follows the adventures of Sarah Connor, John Connor, a re-programmed Terminator named Cameron, John's uncle Derek, and various other continuing characters.

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