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Why did Skynet use nuclear weapons instead of biological weapons or viruses?
Why did Skynet use nuclear weapons against humans, and not biological weapons?
It is an AI. Nuclear blasts are as lethal to machines (due to EMP and radiation) as to humans. Also, they destroyed a ...
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Is Skynet from first Terminator the same as the one from Terminator 2: Judgment Day?
As future has changed in Terminator, did it also affect Skynet?
Is Skynet from Terminator 2: Judgment Day completely different, or, simply a stronger iteration that is trying to fix the errors ...
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What happened to the skin of the T-1000 and T-X terminators after they time-travel?
In the first Terminator movie, Kyle Reese explains to Dr. Silberman that only living organisms (or things encased within them) can go through time.
REESE: "You go naked. Something about the field ...
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Why do Terminators say "Get Out" when getting into a vehicle occupied by humans? [closed]
In "The Terminator", we see that the T-800 tells the trucker in training to "Get Out" of the truck. Was this James Cameron's attempt at being comical or did it have deeper meaning?
My assumption is ...
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Where did the name "T-800" come from?
After watching The Terminator and Terminator 2, I can't find any reference to Schwarzenegger's Terminator being called the "T-800". Yet I distinctly remember in promotional material, computer games, ...
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Why does every T-800 Terminator sent back look like this?
Why did they all look like this?
OK, OK, OK, I realize that the main plot to the story involved Arnold schwarzenegger as the actor so it had to look like this.
But my query is that in the first ...
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When was Judgment day in the Terminator Series?
When was Judgement day to happen or suppose to happen in EACH of the Terminator movies?
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I don't think we are told yet when Judgment day will be.
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Sarah Connor was always ...
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How did the Resistance manage to win the war and destroy Skynet in the future?
Skynet was forced to send a Terminator back in time to prevent John Connor's birth because the Resistance won the Future War and destroyed Skynet. We see the mission that resulted in Skynet's defeat ...
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What is the Terminator T-800 model made of?
What kind of metal is the Terminator T-800 model made of? Is it titanium or some other metal?
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How did Skynet obtain human skin and blood to build infiltrating Terminators?
When the Terminator in The Terminator damaged itself it cut the eye tissue revealing the robotic eye and put the human eye cover in a tray. In Terminator 2 when John, Sarah and Terminator were at the ...
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Why didn't T-1000 mimic T-800?
Well, T-1000 had touched T-800 a lot of times.
Both are cyborgs - not as easy to guess the trick as it was with John's stepmom and Sarah, where T-1000 failed portraying the human behavior and stuff.
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How did humanity continue to improve its technology after Judgement Day?
In the Terminator movies we see the resistance using advanced plasma weapons. It would be a surprise if humans had managed to develop that kind of technology in 2029 whilst coping with the trials of ...
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Can a Terminator feel affection?
In Terminator 2: Judgement Day we see the following exchanges of dialogue between John Connor and the T-800:
The Terminator: Why do you cry?
John Connor: You mean people?
The Terminator: Yeah.
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Did the T-850 self terminate?
In Terminator 2: Judgement Day, the T-800 tells Sarah that he "cannot self terminate". I had always assumed that this applied to all Terminators.
But as Jason Baker points out in his answer to ...
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How did the police learn that John Connor's foster parents had been killed?
In the movie Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the T-1000 kills Todd and Janelle, John Connor's foster parents. The killings take place on the evening of the day he, and the T-800, arrived in 1995. In ...
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Who was blamed for the death of John Connor's foster parents?
In Terminator 2, the T-1000 kills both of John Connor's foster parents.
Presumably, their bodies were discovered eventually. Officially, who was suspected of killing them?
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What happened to the chunks of Terminator that didn't get crushed?
In T1, Reece blows the lower half of the bare metal Terminator off with a pipe bomb. Pieces as big as a lower leg were visible after the explosion. The second film showcases the uncrushed arm and a ...
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Why did the Terminator need sunglasses?
In the original Terminator film, the eponymous villain procures a pair of dark glasses in order to hide his damaged eye socket and red eye.
In T2: Judgement Day, the T-800 makes a great show of ...
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Why was Skynet so intent on destroying humanity? [duplicate]
Note: For the purposes of this question, we will limit our discussion to Skynet a lá Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Several other Terminator-related questions have led me to wonder ...
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Was Skynet limited in how far into the past it could send back Terminators?
I have always wondered why Skynet only sends back one Terminator at a time, and why it keeps trying to assassinate targets who know they are being targeted. After the first Terminator was sent to ...
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How can John Connor send Kyle Reese back in time if Kyle Reese is already dead?
Okay, Kyle Reese dies in T1. Then in T2, when John and the Terminator are under the truck (fixing it) the Terminator tells him that, " you are going to send your father (Kyle Reese) back into time". ...
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Does the Terminator series put into consideration (or make use of the concept of) the Butterfly Effect?
There's a large body of works inspired by time travel and all that time-space continuum thing. But I wonder if the Terminator series ever brings up or puts into consideration the concept of the ...
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