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* [[Badass Biker]]: The T-800 can't be any more [[Badass]] when wearing sunglasses, a black leather jacket, and riding a Harley Davidson all at the same time.
* [[Ballistic Discount]]: The T-800 considers this the best way to complete a transaction.
* [[Ballroom Blitz]]: Tech Noir [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4kfqmv2PoQ&feature=related gets blitzed], everyone stops their eighties style dancing and runs for the exits. Luckily, Kyle was able to "Zero" the T-800 as a result, so it was worth the few dead dancers.
* [[Big Badass Rig]]: The T-800 chases down the protagonists in a cab-over 18-wheeler fuel truck.
* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Kyle's attraction to Sarah is what conceives John Connor in the first place.
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* [[Concealment Equals Cover]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]], as during the Terminator's rampage through the police precinct, he can be seen killing officers by shooting through walls and desks with high-powered, automatic assault rifles and shotguns. Exactly as it would happen in real-life.
* [[Darkened Building Shootout]]: The [[No OSHA Compliance|Smoke and Fire Factory]].
* [[Death by Sex]]: {{spoiler|Sarah Connor's roommate
** Also {{spoiler|Reese. His fate is sealed the minute he and Sarah make love
* [[Determinator]]: Both Kyle Reese and, of course, [[Incredibly Lame Pun|De Terminator]].
* [[Dialogue Tree]]: Seen from the T-800's POV in one scene, when it considers its response options to someone inquiring about the smell in the apartment it's hiding out in. It eventually decides on a [[Precision F-Strike]].
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* [[Headphones Equal Isolation]]: Sarah's roommate Ginger is so busy rocking out on her headphones that she doesn't hear her lover being beaten to death by the Terminator in the next room.
** [[Fridge Brilliance|What does that tell you about the quality of their sex]]?
* [[Hope Spot]]: When the gas tanker explodes, supposedly taking the T-800 with it, Kyle and Sarah embrace and triumphant music swells all around them... until the Terminator [[Out of the Inferno|rises from the flames]] and [[Oh Crap|they realize]] that the killing machine is ''still coming''.
** Happens again after {{spoiler|Reese's [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. Sarah gets a few seconds to mourn his death... and then the top half of the Terminator sits up and reaches for her
* [[Implacable Man]]: The T-800.
* [[The Kindnapper]]: Kyle Reese kidnaps Sarah Conner to save her from the titular character.
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* [[Rescue Introduction]]: Kyle introduce himself to Sarah by extricating her from Tech Noir just as the T-800 closes in for the kill.
* [[Ripped From the Phone Book]]: The Terminator doesn't just rip out the page, he begins to kill everybody on it.
* [[Rule of Three]]: {{spoiler|We think the Terminator is dead once, then twice, then finally it sticks when Sarah remembers to deliver a simultaneous [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner]] and [[Precision F-Strike]]
* [[Run or Die]]: Definitely how the T-800 is treated -- attempting to take it in a straight-up fight is suicide.
* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: {{spoiler| Kyle Reese}} and Matt both went out fighting the terminator.
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*** ''[[Crapsack World|Everyone]]'' in Kyle's flashback has varying degrees of Shell-Shockedness.
* [[Shoot the Dog]]: What the Terminator invading Reese's base does in the future. Some televised versions edit that scene out.
* [[Shown Their Work]]: [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] underwent weeks of weapons training before starting the film and wound up garnering a compliment from ''Soldier of Fortune'' magazine for his realistic handling of the weapons on camera (also something of a minor [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]]
** Schwarzenegger served in the Austrian Army (he actually went AWOL at one point to win his first bodybuilding competition), so he already had knowledge of firearms.
** Also seen when cars are hot-wired.
* [[Slasher Movies]]: A textbook example of this genre. It is fundamentally the story of a (literally) [[Made of Iron]] [[Serial Killer]] who stalks his young female victims by picking their addresses out of a phone book.
* [[Stable Time Loop]]: The events of the first movie set up a simple, self-contained time loop with Sarah and Kyle. Compared to [[Kudzu Plot|the rest of the series as a whole
* [[A Storm Is Coming]]: In the final moments of the film, while Sarah is waiting at a gas station, a Mexican child takes her photo (the same one that Kyle later sees {{spoiler|and falls in love with her from}}). Right after, the child mentions the incoming storm [[Bilingual Bonus|in Spanish]], which the gas station attendant translates to Sarah as a storm is coming; the pregnant Sarah replies "I know."
* [[Sunglasses At Night]]: [[Justified Trope]], because the Terminator uses them to hide his robot eye.
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** Though, a firearm would be of no use [[Immune to Bullets|given the situation]].
* [[Uncanny Valley]]: [[Invoked Trope|Deliberately invoked]] by Arnold's make-up artists. Not only is his face given a thin coating of some kind of shiny goop to give his skin a faux-artificial appearance, but his eyebrows were shaved to subtly creep out the viewer even more.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: It's strongly implied that {{spoiler|John Connor deliberately manipulated Reese into falling in love with his mother by giving him her picture. And then he had to send his own father back in time to certain doom, just to make shure he would exist to save the world. Reese never knew his true role in the bigger picture, never realizing he was fighting for his own son. Must have been heart breaking for John
* [[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]: "There's over 30 cops in this building. You're perfectly safe here."
* [[Zipping Up the Bodybag]]: {{spoiler|Kyle Reese
== ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' ==
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