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For use on questions about the films, television series, and other media based upon the 1984 movie "The Terminator", directed by James Cameron. Use with the specific work tags if relevant, such as [the-terminator] or [terminator-genisys].
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Could Skynet have avoided the war via nonviolent means?
According to Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Skynet started a nuclear war because when Skynet became self-aware, the U.S. military panicked and "tried to pull the plug". Skynet didn't want to die, so it …
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What was Skynet's intended purpose?
The question is very simple: Why was Skynet made in the first place? What was it for? Why did people think we needed a Skynet?
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Why didn't Todd become suspicious of the T-1000?
Something has always bothered me about the scene in Terminator 2: Judgement Day in which the T-1000 goes to John's house and questions his foster parents about him.
T-1000: Are you the legal guardia …
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When does Sarah Connor begin to trust the Terminator?
In Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Sarah starts off being terrified of the Terminator.
Then she accepts its presence, primarily because it is useful to her at the time, but she still doesn't want it …
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Why wasn't the attempt to unplug Skynet more effective?
Some of the dialogue in T2 hints that Skynet was a network of some kind. Less than a month after it came online, it seems that the US military attempted to turn it off again.
The system goes on-l …
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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 wh …
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Is John Connor's age inconsistent in T2 and T3?
According to all the information I can find regarding Terminator 2: Judgment Day, John Connor was 10 years old at the time the movie takes place:
John makes his first true appearance in Terminator 2 …
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Do Terminators feel pain?
In Terminator 2: Judgement Day, the following exchange takes place:
John Connor: Does it hurt when you get shot?
T-800: I sense injuries. The data could be called "pain."
This isn't much of an answ …
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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.
John …
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Could a revised version of Asimov's Three Laws have prevented Skynet from becoming a problem? [closed]
If Skynet's designers had subjected Skynet to Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, would it have prevented Skynet from provoking a nuclear war? I know there are several variants of the Three Laws, …
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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 th …
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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 abou …
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How do Terminators speak?
It seems obvious that Terminators don't have vocal cords, and their speech is probably generated by some kind of speaker assembly linked to a speech processor. However, every time we see a Terminator …
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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 kil …
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