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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]]:
** 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]].
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: Kyle Reese, justified in that he
** He also instinctively drives cars at night ''without'' the headlights on, as doing so in the future would draw Aerial Hunter-Killers.
* [[Enemy Rising Behind]]: This is how we get the first look at the Terminator's real body.
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** [[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
* [[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]]:
* [[Run or Die]]: Definitely how the T-800 is treated -- attempting to take it in a straight-up fight is suicide.
* [[Sawed-Off Shotgun]]: Reese makes one from a pump-action shotgun he steals out of a police car.
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** 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,]] it's very straightforward, as evidenced by
* [[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
* [[Sunglasses At Night]]: [[Justified Trope]], because the Terminator uses them to hide his robot eye.
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: "You're terminated, fucker!"
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** Well, its common to leave ammo on sale on the counter so the customer can see them, but he is [[Too Dumb to Live]] due to the fact that he runs a gun store (where guns have no trigger locks) without carrying a firearm himself.
** 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-
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: The entire sequence at Tech Noir, a nightclub that could not be more '80s if it tried.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: It's strongly implied that
* [[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.}}
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