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<u>'''''NOTE: This page is only about the evil T-800 Model 101, not it's [[w:c:hero:Terminator (800 Series, Model 101)|heroic]] [[w:c:hero:T-800 (Terminator Genisys)|counterparts]]. The Terminator Series which this Terminator makes part of and is named after can be found here: [[T-800 (Series)]].'''''</u>
'''''Important Note: This article is ONLY for the VILLAINOUS T-800 from the original film and his EVIL reincarnation in ''Terminator Genisys'', NOT his heroic reincarnations in the sequels.'''''
 
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Terminator (T-800).jpg|Human Flesh (Mainstream)
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T1-t800-film-factorychase-1.jpg|Endoskeleton (Mainstream)
|fullname = Terminator (800 Series, Model 101)
 
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T-800 Human Body Terminator Genisys.png|Human Flesh (Genisys)
|alias = The Phone Book Killer
 
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Tg-originalt800-film-endo2.jpg|Endoskeleton (Genisys)
|origin = ''The Terminator'' (1984)
 
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|occupation = Assassin, Infiltrator and Terminator.
 
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|fullname = Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 Series 800 Terminator
|skills = A hulking body of almost indestructible metal with super-human strength, unlimited endurance, and unstoppable durability, a skilled gunmen, marksman and huntsman, highly intelligent.
 
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|alias = T-800<br>
|hobby = Killing anyone who stands in his way.
 
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Terminator<br>
|goals = To cease John Connor from existing by terminating his mother Sarah (first film), to change the future, also winning the war on Earth to [[Skynet]] and the machines, and to kill both the older T-800 and Kyle Reese (fifth film) (all failed).
 
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The Phone Book Killer <small>(by Ed Traxler)</small><br>
|type of villain = Complete Monster, Mass Murderer}}{{Quote|I'll be back.|The Terminator's famous quote.}}'''The Terminator''' is the titular main antagonist in the 1984 film ''The Terminator''. This specific model 101 was a design made by [[Dr. Serena Kogan]] and sent back through time by the super computer [[Skynet]], which had touched off nuclear war and took over the world in its aftermath. Its mission was to kill Sarah Connor, the mother of resistance leader John Connor, before her son could be born.
 
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The Other One Like You <small>(by Miles Dyson)</small><br>
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The First Terminator <small>(by the T-800/"Uncle Bob")</small>
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|origin = ''{{W|The Terminator}}''
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|occupation = Terminator Assassin
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|skills = {{Scroll box|Genius-level Intelligence<br>
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'''Bionic Physiology:'''<br>
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Superhuman durability<br>
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|goals = Change the future to win the war for [[Skynet]] and the machines <small>(all timelines)</small><br>
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Erase John Connor from existence by killing his mother Sarah Connor <small>(Mainstream Timeline)</small><br>
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Terminate The Guardian, Sarah and Kyle Reese <small>(''Genisys'' Timeline; all failed)</small>.
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|type of villain = Mechanically Modified Assassin}}
   
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{{Quote|I'll be back.|The T-800 to the police officer - it's most famous quote and, by extention, one of the most iconic movie quotes of all time.}}
He did make a appearance in the fourth film as [[T-RIP]] (the climatic antagonist of the film) before returning in the fifth film ''Terminator Genisys''.
 
   
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The '''T-800''', also as known as the '''Terminator''', is the titular main antagonist of the 1984 sci-fi action film ''{{W|The Terminator}},'' the first installment of the Mainstream Timeline of the {{W|Terminator (film series)|''Terminator'' franchise}}.
The T-800 is played by '''Arnold Schwarzenegger '''and is one of Arnold's most famous roles in his cinematic career. In ''Terminator: Genysis'', his body double was performed by '''Brett Azar''' in using CGI technology.
 
==Personality==
 
Unlike most other Terminators (includes its heroic counterpart that sent eleven years later) who could exhibit emotional attachment, frustration, shock, fear and a sense of humour, this T-800 was extremely emotionless, cold, violent and ruthless. It almost never showed any facial expression beyond a cold and flat face, and it usually only spoke when it meant to engage others for information or when it intended to throw unwanted attention off of itself. The T-800 was noted to have an "attitude problem," tending to physically throw others out of its way to get past them or to use a phone booth. The T-800 was also very brutal and completely merciless, and was quick to killing when others in any way didn't cooperate with its plans and demands. The explanation of this Terminator's near-blank personality and the said "attitude problem" is likely due to its learning capabilities for human emotion that would've enable him to blend in human society better never unlocked even until it's destruction.
 
   
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It is a Terminator of Model 101 which, as it's name suggests, is part of the [[T-800 (Series)|T-800]] series and is a design made and sent back through time by the supercomputer [[Skynet]], which had touched off nuclear war and took over the world in the aftermath. It's mission was to kill Sarah Connor, the mother of the Resistance leader named John Connor, before her son could be born.
Like most Terminators, the first T-800 was single-mindedly and inhumanly relentless in completing its mission at all costs, to the point that it continued its pursuit of Sarah Connor without giving up, even when it lost its skin sheath and its legs in the process.
 
   
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In ''The Terminator'', it was portrayed by {{w|Arnold Schwarzenegger}} (who also played [[Douglas "Doug" Quaid/Carl Hauser|Carl Hauser]] in ''{{w|Total Recall (1990 film)|Total Recall}}'' and [[Mr. Freeze (Batman & Robin)|Mr. Freeze]] in ''{{w|Batman & Robin (film)|Batman & Robin}}'') in it's human disguise and by an animatronic in it's endoskeleton form. In ''{{W|Terminator Genisys}}'', it was portrayed by {{w|Brett Azar}} using CGI technology for both it's human disguise and endoskeleton forms.
Despite its almost-blank personality though, the Terminator did still possess just enough social information to calculate what the best verbal response with which to throw off unwanted attention was. It was also intelligent and resourceful enough to calculate multiple different methods of tracking down and/or killing Sarah Connor; from pursuing and murdering all Sarah Connors named in a phonebook, to impersonating Sarah's mother over the phone in order to obtain her location, to attempting to run Sarah down with a commandeered truck.
 
   
==The Terminator==
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==Biography==
 
===Origins===
 
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The precise origin of the Model 101 is unknown. What is known about it, however, is that it's template is a presumed deceased human with a bodybuilder physiology and a German accent. The Model 101 would be used by [[Skynet]] for one of the [[T-800 (Series)|T-800s]].
Dr. Serena Kogan's research started the cybernetic organisms, living tissue over the metal endoskeleton. The model 101 came from Serena Kogan's knowledge due to her having the key to [[Skynet]]'s salvation.
 
   
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When John Connor and the Resistance smashed Skynet's defense grid, Skynet had this T-800 of Model 101 sent back through time to kill his mother Sarah before she gave life to him, using the Time Displacement Equipment. The Resistance managed to send a human soldier, Kyle Reese, back through time to protect Sarah Connor. He knew how to recognize her because John Connor had once given him a picture of her.
The initial series of terminators, the 600, had rubber faces and were easy to spot. Their programming was to infiltrate and exterminate human settlements. In order to further this goal, Skynet replaced this series with the 800, which had living human tissue over a metal endoskeleton. The terminator was part of this series.
 
   
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===Mainstream Timeline===
When John Connor and the resistance smashed Skynet's defense grid, Skynet had this model 101 sent back through time using time displacement equipment. The resistance managed to send a human soldier, Kyle Reese, back through time to protect Sarah Connor. He knew how to recognize her because John Connor had once given him a picture of her.
 
===Arrival===
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=====Arrival=====
After emerging from the time displacement sphere at 1:52 PM at the Griffith Observatory, the naked Terminator arrived on Los Angeles. It then confronted 3 thugs roaming the observatory, who then took interest in him. The terminator requested one of the thugs to surrender their clothing to him, much to their refusal. They attacked the terminator, before the latter overpowered them, managing to kill 2 of them in the process while forcing the remaining thug to surrender his clothing to him, who does out of fright. It then stole a car & then drove off to a nearby gun shop to buy some weapons, before finally killing the shop owner in the process & then proceeds in its way to eliminate its target: Sarah Connor.
 
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After emerging from the time displacement sphere at 1:52 AM at the Griffith Observatory, the naked Terminator arrived on Los Angeles. It then confronted three thugs roaming the observatory, who then took interest in him. The Terminator requested one of the thugs to surrender their clothing to him, much to their refusal. They attacked the terminator, before the latter overpowered them, managing to kill two of them in the process while forcing the remaining thug to surrender his clothing to him, who does so out of fright. It then stole a car and then drove off to a nearby gun shop to obtain some weapons, before finally killing the shop owner in the process and then proceeds in its way to eliminate its target: Sarah Connor.
   
===Phone Book Killer===
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=====Phone Book Killer=====
As most of the records were lost in the nuclear war, The terminator didn't know Sarah Connor's middle name, and looked her up in the phone book. There were three Sarah Connors living in Los Angeles, and the terminator went down the list alphabetically. Luckily for the future, ''the'' Sarah Connor was the last on the list. this method led the police to investigate the "phone book killer," as the press called it.
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As most of the records were lost in the nuclear war, The Terminator didn't know Sarah Connor's middle name or where she lived, so it looked her up in the phone book. There were three Sarah Connors living in Los Angeles, and the Terminator went down the list alphabetically. Luckily for the future, ''the'' Sarah Connor was the last on the list. This method led the police to investigate the "Phone Book Killer", as the press called it.
   
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The Terminator then went to the apartment of the last name on the list; Sarah J. Connor where it killed Sarah's roommate Ginger and her boyfriend Matt. He then heard Sarah on the answer machine who was hiding in a nightclub called TechNoir when she noticed Reese following her. After searching through Sarah's belongings, it found her university ID and after getting a clear image of the target, set off to track her down.
The terminator and Reese both caught up with Sarah Connor in a night club, where Sarah had called the police when she noticed Reese following her. Reese and Sarah escaped and hid in a parking garage, where he explained everything that had happened in the future and his purpose to her. They were spotted by the terminator, but the police got to them first. The terminator backed off, not wanting to create a scene and to treat its injuries in a safe location.
 
   
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The Terminator and Reese both caught up with Sarah Connor at the night club, where Sarah had also called the police. Reese and Sarah escaped and hid in a parking garage, where he explained everything that had happened in the future and his purpose to her. They were spotted by the Terminator, but the police got to them first. The Terminator backed off, not wanting to create a scene and to treat its injuries in a safe location.
===Police Massacre===
 
After the terminator had stripped the wounded flesh from his skeleton and disguised the gaps in his disguise, it proceeded to the police station where Reese and Sarah were being held. It massacred many police officers in its attempt to reach Sarah Connor, but Reese and Sarah managed to escape. They made their way to a motel, where Reese cooked up some pipe bombs in the room's kitchen. The Terminator then found Sarah's mother at her place by using her address book.
 
   
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=====Police Massacre=====
It killed her, then waited for Sarah to call. Sarah eventually called from the motel room, and the terminator mimicked her mother's voice, convincing Sarah to give it the motel's phone number, which the terminator promptly called, asking for the address. That night, Sarah and Reese made love, conceiving John Connor.
 
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After the Terminator had stripped the bullets from his wounded flesh and disguised the gaps in his disguise, it proceeded to the police station where Reese and Sarah were being held. After being refused entry, it massacred many police officers in its attempt to reach Sarah, but Reese and Sarah managed to escape. They made their way to a motel, where Reese cooked up some pipe bombs in the room's kitchen. The Terminator then found Sarah's mother at her place by using her address book.
   
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It killed her and then waited for Sarah to call. Sarah eventually called from the motel room, and the Terminator mimicked her mother's voice, convincing Sarah to give it the motel's phone number, which the terminator promptly called, asking for the address. That night, Sarah and Reese made love, conceiving John Connor.
===Final Chase===
 
The terminator caught up with Sarah and Reese at the motel, pursuing them on a motorcycle while they were in a pickup truck. Reese threw a pipebomb at the terminator, which knocked it off its motorcycle. The truck had turned over, and Sarah and Reese began to run on foot. A tanker truck ran over the terminator, which got up, took over the truck, and continued its pursuit. Reese managed to throw a pipe bomb into a tube on the side of the truck which blew it up. The terminator emerged from the flames with all of its flesh gone.
 
   
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=====Final Chase=====
Sarah and Reese fled into a factory, later revealed to be Cyberdyne Systems in the second film. The terminator killed Reese, and pursued Sarah Connor as she crawled into a hydraulic press. When she climbed out the other side, Sarah turned on the press which caused the terminator to be crushed making their first mission fail also avenging the deaths of the humans he had killed.
 
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The Terminator caught up with Sarah and Reese at the motel, pursuing them on a motorcycle while they were in a pickup truck. Reese threw pipe bombs at the Terminator to slow it down, but got caught by the cyborg's gunfire. However Sarah managed to use the back of the truck to knock Terminator off its motorcycle.
   
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The truck had turned over, and Sarah and the now injured Reese began to run on foot. A tanker truck ran over the Terminator, which got up, took over the truck, and continued its pursuit. Reese managed to throw a pipe bomb into a tube on the side of the truck, which blew it up. The Terminator emerged from the flames with all of its flesh burned away to reveal its metal endoskeleton.
==Legacy==
 
In ''Terminator 2: Judgement Day'', it is revealed that Cyberdyne Systems covered up the terminator's existence. It's arm and CPU survived the press, and were given to resident scientist Miles Bennet Dyson to work on, unaware of its origins. He used the CPU to create a new neuro-net processor, which formed the basis for Skynet.
 
   
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Sarah and Reese fled into a factory, later revealed to be Cyberdyne Systems in the second film. Reese sacrifices himself to destroy it with his last pipe bomb, killing himself, injuring Sarah, and blowing the Terminator in half. The Terminator survived as a one-armed legless torso and pursued Sarah Connor as she crawled into a hydraulic press.
==''Terminator: Genisys''==
 
The same Terminator once again appeared in the fifth film ''Terminator: Genysis'', as the reverted quaternary antagonist & its role as the main antagonist of the first film were completely altered.
 
   
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When she climbed out the other side, Sarah gloated "You're terminated, f**ker!", and turned on the press which caused the Terminator to be crushed beyond repair, making Skynet's first mission fail and also avenging the deaths of the humans it had killed.
The T-800 was seen being pulled from an assembly line and then walking to a giant Time Displacement Chamber to be sent back to the year 1984 in order to kill Sarah Connor. As soon as it emerged in the past, it confronted three thugs who took interest in him while it demanding of their clothing. Before it could proceed to attack them however, another Model 101 (known as "The Guardian") confronted it, saying "''You won't be needing any clothes.''" and "''I've been waiting for you.''" before engaging it with a shotgun & a brutal fight with him, before being ironically pinned down by its supposed target Sarah Connor. To prevent the events of the second film from happening. Sarah & The Guardian took the deactivated terminator with them to dismantle it.
 
   
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====''Terminator 2: Judgment Day''====
Before they could destroy it, it was reactivated by a mimeticpolyalloy from [[T-1000 (Genisys)|T-1000]], also sent to kill Sarah Connor prior to the events of the film. As the T-1000 pursued Sarah, the T-800 attacked its supposed victim Kyle Reese & pursued him on Sarah's safe house, while managing to lose its skin sheath in the process from a grenade launcher. It was then killed off by Kyle by shooting it on the neck, causing it to be decapitated. After killing the T-1000, Sarah & The Guardian extracted its CPU to activate its time displacement equipment to sent Sarah & Kyle into the future while the Guardian destroyed the remains of the T-800 in an acid bath.
 
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{{Quote|'''Miles''': The chip! Do you know about the chip?<br>'''Sarah''': What chip?<br>'''Miles''': [to Sarah] They keep it at the vault at Cyberdyne. [to the T-800] It must be from The Other One Like You.<br>'''T-800''': The CPU from The First Terminator.<br>'''Sarah''': Son of a b*tch, I knew it!<br>'''Miles''': They told us not to ask where they got it.<br>'''Sarah''': Those lying f*uck!<br>'''Miles''': It's scary stuff. Radically advanced. I mean, it was smashed, it didn't work, but it gave us ideas took us in new directions, things we would've never th-- [cuts himself for a moment] All my work was based on it.<br>'''T-800''': It must be destroyed.|The conversation between the T-800, Sarah and Miles, which revealed that Skynet was created from the first T-800's remains.}}
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T-800TS.jpg|T-800 toy.
 
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Unfortunately, it turns out that Cyberdyne Systems covered up the Terminator's existence. It's arm and CPU survived the press, and were given to resident scientist Miles Bennet Dyson to work on, unaware of it's origins. He used the CPU to create a new neuro-net processor, which formed the basis for Skynet. Eventually both the hand and the CPU were taken by the now 10-year-old John Connor, Sarah and another T-800 that was reprogrammed to help with the Resistance and were destroyed for good in a vat of molten steel to ensure that Skynet never took over the future.
446px-T800_T1_extra.JPG|Future T-800
 
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Trjs6765678.jpg|T-800 as appeared in ''Terminator Salvation''
 
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===''Salvation'' Timeline===
Terminator_assembly.png|Activate Model 101.
 
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T-800 OVERLOOK Town before attack.jpg|T-800 overlooking the city before finding some clothes and began the hunt as seen in ''The Terminator''.
 
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====''Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle''====
T-800's I'll Be Back before.jpg|T-800 saying ''I'll be back''. before unexpectedly...
 
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In 2029, before Skynet's main facility in Colorado was breeched by the Resistance force led by John, [[Dr. Serena Kogan]] programmed the T-800 to kill Sarah Connor in 1984, and the Terminator traveled to the past by using the Time Door to complete it's mission. Shortly after the Resistance captured the Time Door, however, Kyle Reese was sent to destroy the T-800 and protect Sarah, so it has the same fate of it's Mainstream Timeline counterpart.
car smash T-800.jpg|...unexpectedly smashed a stolen car into the police station.
 
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T-800 rises from flames baby.jpg|T-800 rises from the flames as seen in ''The Terminator''.
 
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===''Genisys'' Timeline ===
T 2291.jpg|The T-800 gets crushed by a hydraulic press, which causes his first demise.
 
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====''Terminator Genisys''====
1024838-i2-tr-ff-057-1200.jpg|The T-800 talks to the punks.
 
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The T-800 was seen being pulled from an assembly line and then walking to the Time Displacement Equipment to be sent back to the year 1984 in order to kill Sarah Connor. As soon as it emerged in the past, it confronted three thugs who took interest in him while it demanded one of their clothing. Before it could proceed to attack them, however, another Model 101 T-800 (known as "The Guardian") confronted it, saying "You won't be needing any clothes." and "I've been waiting for you." before engaging it with a shotgun and a brutal fight with him, before being ironically pinned down by it's supposed target Sarah Connor. To prevent Skynet's creation and Judgement Day from happening, Sarah and The Guardian took the deactivated Terminator with them to dismantle it.
Who's There.jpg|The T-800 turns his neck to find out who it is.
 
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1984 Terminator.jpg|The Terminator in ''Terminator: Genisys''
 
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Before they could destroy it, it was reactivated by a drop of mimetic polyalloy from the [[T-1000 (Genisys)|T-1000]], also sent to kill Sarah Connor in 1973 by the [[T-5000|Skynet]] from an alternate timeline. As the T-1000 pursued Sarah, the T-800 attacked its supposed victim Kyle Reese and pursued him on Sarah's safe house, while managing to lose it's skin sheath in the process from a grenade launcher. It was then destroyed by Kyle by shooting it on the neck, causing it to be decapitated. After killing the T-1000, Sarah and The Guardian extracted it's CPU to activate it's TDE to send Sarah and Kyle into the future while The Guardian destroyed the remains of the T-800 in an acid bath.
1024838-i4-tr-ff-059-1200.jpg|The T-800 damaged during the fight.
 
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==Other Media==
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The T-800 appears in the game as a DLC guest character. After being assigned to kill Sarah Connor, the T-800 finds itself in the Mortal Kombat universe. Upon getting reprogrammed by Jax Briggs, it defeats [[Kronika]] and uses the Hourglass to stop the war between humanity and the machines. Knowing it's knowledge will threaten the realms, the T-800 jumped into the Sea of Blood to make sure no one tempers with time again.
Termin g-originalt800-film-endoskeleton-015.jpg|The T-800 after having his skin all burned off.
 
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As one would expect, there are many interactions based on whether the T-800 got reprogrammed or not. Some intros have him act hostile towards humans and his counterpart while other intros have him express his desire to protect humanity. This is an accurate take of how the timeline's work in the movies as some versions of the T-800 are still evil.
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In the game, the Terminator acts differently as while he isn't as chatty as most of the cast, he does engage in conversations with his opponents. Furthermore, while he never screams in pain or make any sound aside from intros and taunts, he does flinch and react like the other combatants. This decision resulted in some fans feeling disappointed as they feel this is an inaccurate depiction of the character. Some even called out Ed and his team for being lazy. Otherwise, most aspects of the Terminator gained heavy praise.
The Terminator's second death.jpg|The T-800's second demise by getting his neck shot off by Kyle.
 
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terminator_046.jpg|T-800 in the comics.
 
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==Personality==
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{{Quote|Listen and understand. That Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with... It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. And it absolutely will '''not''' stop! Ever! Until you are dead!|Kyle Reese explains the T-800's resilience to Sarah Connor.}}
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Unlike most other Terminators (including other from the 800 series, and it's heroic counterparts that appeared in T2 and ''Genisys'') who could exhibit emotional attachment, frustration, shock, fear and a sense of humor, this T-800 was an extremely emotionless, single-minded and cold individual. It almost never showed any facial expression beyond a cold and flat face, and it usually only spoke when it meant to engage others for information or when it intended to throw unwanted attention off of itself. The T-800 was noted to have an "attitude problem", tending to physically throw others out of its way to get past them or to use a phone booth. The T-800 was also very brutal and completely merciless, and was quick to killing when others in any way didn't cooperate with its plans and demands. The explanation of this Terminator's near-blank personality and the said "attitude problem" is likely due to its learning capabilities for human emotion that would have enable him to blend in human society better never unlocked even until its destruction. The reason for this is that Skynet set all the CPU's of it's T-800 Terminators to read only in order to prevent them from learning too much and risk potentially turning against Skynet.
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Like most Terminators, the first T-800 was single-mindedly and inhumanly relentless in completing its mission at all costs, to the point that it continued its pursuit of Sarah Connor without giving up, even when it lost its skin sheath and its legs in the process. As mentioned above, this willpower extends to whomever the Terminator must protect/kill.
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Despite its almost-blank personality though, the Terminator did still possess just enough social information to calculate what the best verbal response with which to throw off unwanted attention was. It was also intelligent, entrepreneurial and resourceful enough to calculate multiple different methods of tracking down and/or killing Sarah Connor; from pursuing and murdering all Sarah Connors named in a phonebook, to impersonating Sarah's mother over the phone in order to obtain her location, to attempting to run Sarah down with a commandeered truck.
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==Quotes==
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{{Scroll box|{{Quote|Nice night for a walk.|The T-800's first lines after seeing the punks.}}
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{{Quote|Your clothes. Give them to me, now.|T-800 to the punks.}}
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{{Quote|Wrong.|T-800 as he kills the gun shop owner.}}
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{{Quote|Sarah Connor?|T-800 before killing the wrong Sarah Connor.}}
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{{quote|F--k you, a--hole.|T-800 learns to swear from the punks, spoken to a janitor.}}
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{{quote|Give me your address there.|T-800 goads a Tiki Motel staff member to exposing Sarah Connor's location.}}
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{{Quote|Get out.|T-800 telling a man to get out of a tank truck, also its last words in the film and, by extention, the Mainstream Timeline.}}}}
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===''Terminator Genisys''===
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{{Scroll box|{{Quote|'''T-800''': Nice night for a walk.<br>'''Punk''': Wash day tomorrow. Nothing clean, right.<br>'''T-800''': Nothing clean. Right?<br>'''Punk Leader''': [snaps his fingers to see if it would blink it's eyes] Yeah, I think this guy's a couple cans short of a six pack.<br>'''T-800''': Your clothes. Give them to me, now.<br>'''Punk Leader''': [pulls out a pocket knife] Hey, f--k you, a--hole.<br>'''The Guardian''': You won't be needing any clothes. [removes it's hood once the T-800 scans it] I've been waiting for you.|T-800 demanding clothes from the punks before being confronted by The Guardian, also it's only words in the film and, by extention, the ''Genisys'' Timeline.}}}}
   
 
==Trivia==
 
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*In ''The Terminator'', the T-800's living tissue was somewhat suffering from necrosis after injuries that sustained during the chase and gunfight against Kyle Reese while searching Sarah's mother's address through her address book at a safehouse where it was hiding at. This was shown where his face has become pale and had some flies sit on his face. Even at this point, the janitor whom nearly caught the Terminator commented on the smell of decay from its rotting flesh, asking, "Hey, buddy, got a dead cat in there, or what?".
[[File:T-800_with_rotten_flesh.jpg|thumb|284px|Terminator's rotting organic face due to injuries at hands of Kyle.]]
 
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**The film's novelization explains that it has a real heart to plumb blood into the skin to keep it fresh, and it was ruptured when Kyle shoot at the chest several times at the night club, thus preventing blood from being plumbled into it's outer skin and causing it to rot. However, this was contradicted by the sequel, which revealed that Terminator don't have internal organs, let alone a heart. In fact, the [[T-H]]s from the ''Salvation'' Timeline are the only Terminators to have internal organs.
*In ''The Terminator'', T-800's living tissue was somewhat suffer necrosis after injuries that sustained during the chase and gunfight against Kyle Reese while searching Sarah's mother's address through her address book at a safehouse where it hiding at unlike other Terminators that later appeared in the next films. This was shown where his face has become pale and had some flies sat on his face. Even at this point, the janitor whom nearly caught the Terminator comment the smell of decay from its rotting flesh, asked, ''"Hey, buddy, got a dead cat in there, or what?"''
 
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**Another explanation for the living tissue rotting is likely due to the Terminator having bled out completely after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds during the Police Station Massacre (even though the bullets did little to no damage to it's endoskeleton underneath). It is implied that the biological covering was still in it's prototype stages, and not yet capable of healing, since subsequent T-800s came with living tissue that could heal, as noted in ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' and ''Terminator Genisys''.
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*The T-800 endoskeleton holding a pipe bomb in its hip is used as the image for the T-831 "Heavy Combat Chassis", while the T-800 Endo face close-up after rising from fire is used as T-882 "Tactical Command Unit" from ''The Terminator Collectible Card Game''.
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*In the original script the Terminator was supposed to steal a car at the beginning of the film. The scene involved the Terminator observing an elderly woman getting into a car and as she saw the Terminator she panicked and put it into reverse hitting a trash can then correcting herself put it into drive and sped off. The Terminator then enters the car, puts it into reverse then into drive mimicking the woman's actions. This was cut from a later script.
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*Mel Gibson turned down the role of the Terminator, simply feeling he wasn't right for the part. After seeing the film, he praised Arnold as a much better choice.
==See Also==
 
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*O.J. Simpson was considered for the Terminator, but was passed over by Cameron because he and the producers feared he was "too nice" to be taken seriously as a cold-blooded killer. In 1990 (before Simpson's first trial) Dark Horse Comics printed issues using his likeness.
*[http://hero.wikia.com/wiki/Terminator_(800_Series,_Model_101) Terminator (800-Series, Model 101) in Heroes Wiki]
 
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**The iconic catchphrase almost became "I will be back" because Schwarzenegger thought it sounded more machine-like without a contraction; he also felt "I'll" sounded too feminine. It was the one major disagreement between Schwarzenegger and James Cameron, and all Cameron had to say to that was "I don't tell you how to act, so don't tell me how to write.".
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Villain Overview

I'll be back.
~ The T-800 to the police officer - it's most famous quote and, by extention, one of the most iconic movie quotes of all time.

The T-800, also as known as the Terminator, is the titular main antagonist of the 1984 sci-fi action film The Terminator, the first installment of the Mainstream Timeline of the Terminator franchise.

It is a Terminator of Model 101 which, as it's name suggests, is part of the T-800 series and is a design made and sent back through time by the supercomputer Skynet, which had touched off nuclear war and took over the world in the aftermath. It's mission was to kill Sarah Connor, the mother of the Resistance leader named John Connor, before her son could be born.

In The Terminator, it was portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger (who also played Carl Hauser in Total Recall and Mr. Freeze in Batman & Robin) in it's human disguise and by an animatronic in it's endoskeleton form. In Terminator Genisys, it was portrayed by Brett Azar using CGI technology for both it's human disguise and endoskeleton forms.

Biography

Origins

The precise origin of the Model 101 is unknown. What is known about it, however, is that it's template is a presumed deceased human with a bodybuilder physiology and a German accent. The Model 101 would be used by Skynet for one of the T-800s.

When John Connor and the Resistance smashed Skynet's defense grid, Skynet had this T-800 of Model 101 sent back through time to kill his mother Sarah before she gave life to him, using the Time Displacement Equipment. The Resistance managed to send a human soldier, Kyle Reese, back through time to protect Sarah Connor. He knew how to recognize her because John Connor had once given him a picture of her.

Mainstream Timeline

The Terminator

Arrival

After emerging from the time displacement sphere at 1:52 AM at the Griffith Observatory, the naked Terminator arrived on Los Angeles. It then confronted three thugs roaming the observatory, who then took interest in him. The Terminator requested one of the thugs to surrender their clothing to him, much to their refusal. They attacked the terminator, before the latter overpowered them, managing to kill two of them in the process while forcing the remaining thug to surrender his clothing to him, who does so out of fright. It then stole a car and then drove off to a nearby gun shop to obtain some weapons, before finally killing the shop owner in the process and then proceeds in its way to eliminate its target: Sarah Connor.

Phone Book Killer

As most of the records were lost in the nuclear war, The Terminator didn't know Sarah Connor's middle name or where she lived, so it looked her up in the phone book. There were three Sarah Connors living in Los Angeles, and the Terminator went down the list alphabetically. Luckily for the future, the Sarah Connor was the last on the list. This method led the police to investigate the "Phone Book Killer", as the press called it.

The Terminator then went to the apartment of the last name on the list; Sarah J. Connor where it killed Sarah's roommate Ginger and her boyfriend Matt. He then heard Sarah on the answer machine who was hiding in a nightclub called TechNoir when she noticed Reese following her. After searching through Sarah's belongings, it found her university ID and after getting a clear image of the target, set off to track her down.

The Terminator and Reese both caught up with Sarah Connor at the night club, where Sarah had also called the police. Reese and Sarah escaped and hid in a parking garage, where he explained everything that had happened in the future and his purpose to her. They were spotted by the Terminator, but the police got to them first. The Terminator backed off, not wanting to create a scene and to treat its injuries in a safe location.

Police Massacre

After the Terminator had stripped the bullets from his wounded flesh and disguised the gaps in his disguise, it proceeded to the police station where Reese and Sarah were being held. After being refused entry, it massacred many police officers in its attempt to reach Sarah, but Reese and Sarah managed to escape. They made their way to a motel, where Reese cooked up some pipe bombs in the room's kitchen. The Terminator then found Sarah's mother at her place by using her address book.

It killed her and then waited for Sarah to call. Sarah eventually called from the motel room, and the Terminator mimicked her mother's voice, convincing Sarah to give it the motel's phone number, which the terminator promptly called, asking for the address. That night, Sarah and Reese made love, conceiving John Connor.

Final Chase

The Terminator caught up with Sarah and Reese at the motel, pursuing them on a motorcycle while they were in a pickup truck. Reese threw pipe bombs at the Terminator to slow it down, but got caught by the cyborg's gunfire. However Sarah managed to use the back of the truck to knock Terminator off its motorcycle.

The truck had turned over, and Sarah and the now injured Reese began to run on foot. A tanker truck ran over the Terminator, which got up, took over the truck, and continued its pursuit. Reese managed to throw a pipe bomb into a tube on the side of the truck, which blew it up. The Terminator emerged from the flames with all of its flesh burned away to reveal its metal endoskeleton.

Sarah and Reese fled into a factory, later revealed to be Cyberdyne Systems in the second film. Reese sacrifices himself to destroy it with his last pipe bomb, killing himself, injuring Sarah, and blowing the Terminator in half. The Terminator survived as a one-armed legless torso and pursued Sarah Connor as she crawled into a hydraulic press.

When she climbed out the other side, Sarah gloated "You're terminated, f**ker!", and turned on the press which caused the Terminator to be crushed beyond repair, making Skynet's first mission fail and also avenging the deaths of the humans it had killed.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Miles: The chip! Do you know about the chip?
Sarah: What chip?
Miles: [to Sarah] They keep it at the vault at Cyberdyne. [to the T-800] It must be from The Other One Like You.
T-800: The CPU from The First Terminator.
Sarah: Son of a b*tch, I knew it!
Miles: They told us not to ask where they got it.
Sarah: Those lying f*uck!
Miles: It's scary stuff. Radically advanced. I mean, it was smashed, it didn't work, but it gave us ideas took us in new directions, things we would've never th-- [cuts himself for a moment] All my work was based on it.
T-800: It must be destroyed.
~ The conversation between the T-800, Sarah and Miles, which revealed that Skynet was created from the first T-800's remains.

Unfortunately, it turns out that Cyberdyne Systems covered up the Terminator's existence. It's arm and CPU survived the press, and were given to resident scientist Miles Bennet Dyson to work on, unaware of it's origins. He used the CPU to create a new neuro-net processor, which formed the basis for Skynet. Eventually both the hand and the CPU were taken by the now 10-year-old John Connor, Sarah and another T-800 that was reprogrammed to help with the Resistance and were destroyed for good in a vat of molten steel to ensure that Skynet never took over the future.

Salvation Timeline

Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle

In 2029, before Skynet's main facility in Colorado was breeched by the Resistance force led by John, Dr. Serena Kogan programmed the T-800 to kill Sarah Connor in 1984, and the Terminator traveled to the past by using the Time Door to complete it's mission. Shortly after the Resistance captured the Time Door, however, Kyle Reese was sent to destroy the T-800 and protect Sarah, so it has the same fate of it's Mainstream Timeline counterpart.

Genisys Timeline

Terminator Genisys

The T-800 was seen being pulled from an assembly line and then walking to the Time Displacement Equipment to be sent back to the year 1984 in order to kill Sarah Connor. As soon as it emerged in the past, it confronted three thugs who took interest in him while it demanded one of their clothing. Before it could proceed to attack them, however, another Model 101 T-800 (known as "The Guardian") confronted it, saying "You won't be needing any clothes." and "I've been waiting for you." before engaging it with a shotgun and a brutal fight with him, before being ironically pinned down by it's supposed target Sarah Connor. To prevent Skynet's creation and Judgement Day from happening, Sarah and The Guardian took the deactivated Terminator with them to dismantle it.

Before they could destroy it, it was reactivated by a drop of mimetic polyalloy from the T-1000, also sent to kill Sarah Connor in 1973 by the Skynet from an alternate timeline. As the T-1000 pursued Sarah, the T-800 attacked its supposed victim Kyle Reese and pursued him on Sarah's safe house, while managing to lose it's skin sheath in the process from a grenade launcher. It was then destroyed by Kyle by shooting it on the neck, causing it to be decapitated. After killing the T-1000, Sarah and The Guardian extracted it's CPU to activate it's TDE to send Sarah and Kyle into the future while The Guardian destroyed the remains of the T-800 in an acid bath.

Other Media

Mortal Kombat 11

The T-800 appears in the game as a DLC guest character. After being assigned to kill Sarah Connor, the T-800 finds itself in the Mortal Kombat universe. Upon getting reprogrammed by Jax Briggs, it defeats Kronika and uses the Hourglass to stop the war between humanity and the machines. Knowing it's knowledge will threaten the realms, the T-800 jumped into the Sea of Blood to make sure no one tempers with time again.

As one would expect, there are many interactions based on whether the T-800 got reprogrammed or not. Some intros have him act hostile towards humans and his counterpart while other intros have him express his desire to protect humanity. This is an accurate take of how the timeline's work in the movies as some versions of the T-800 are still evil.

In the game, the Terminator acts differently as while he isn't as chatty as most of the cast, he does engage in conversations with his opponents. Furthermore, while he never screams in pain or make any sound aside from intros and taunts, he does flinch and react like the other combatants. This decision resulted in some fans feeling disappointed as they feel this is an inaccurate depiction of the character. Some even called out Ed and his team for being lazy. Otherwise, most aspects of the Terminator gained heavy praise.

Personality

Listen and understand. That Terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with... It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. And it absolutely will not stop! Ever! Until you are dead!
~ Kyle Reese explains the T-800's resilience to Sarah Connor.

Unlike most other Terminators (including other from the 800 series, and it's heroic counterparts that appeared in T2 and Genisys) who could exhibit emotional attachment, frustration, shock, fear and a sense of humor, this T-800 was an extremely emotionless, single-minded and cold individual. It almost never showed any facial expression beyond a cold and flat face, and it usually only spoke when it meant to engage others for information or when it intended to throw unwanted attention off of itself. The T-800 was noted to have an "attitude problem", tending to physically throw others out of its way to get past them or to use a phone booth. The T-800 was also very brutal and completely merciless, and was quick to killing when others in any way didn't cooperate with its plans and demands. The explanation of this Terminator's near-blank personality and the said "attitude problem" is likely due to its learning capabilities for human emotion that would have enable him to blend in human society better never unlocked even until its destruction. The reason for this is that Skynet set all the CPU's of it's T-800 Terminators to read only in order to prevent them from learning too much and risk potentially turning against Skynet.

Like most Terminators, the first T-800 was single-mindedly and inhumanly relentless in completing its mission at all costs, to the point that it continued its pursuit of Sarah Connor without giving up, even when it lost its skin sheath and its legs in the process. As mentioned above, this willpower extends to whomever the Terminator must protect/kill.

Despite its almost-blank personality though, the Terminator did still possess just enough social information to calculate what the best verbal response with which to throw off unwanted attention was. It was also intelligent, entrepreneurial and resourceful enough to calculate multiple different methods of tracking down and/or killing Sarah Connor; from pursuing and murdering all Sarah Connors named in a phonebook, to impersonating Sarah's mother over the phone in order to obtain her location, to attempting to run Sarah down with a commandeered truck.

Quotes

The Terminator

Nice night for a walk.
~ The T-800's first lines after seeing the punks.
Your clothes. Give them to me, now.
~ T-800 to the punks.
Wrong.
~ T-800 as he kills the gun shop owner.
Sarah Connor?
~ T-800 before killing the wrong Sarah Connor.
F--k you, a--hole.
~ T-800 learns to swear from the punks, spoken to a janitor.
Give me your address there.
~ T-800 goads a Tiki Motel staff member to exposing Sarah Connor's location.
Get out.
~ T-800 telling a man to get out of a tank truck, also its last words in the film and, by extention, the Mainstream Timeline.

Terminator Genisys

T-800: Nice night for a walk.
Punk: Wash day tomorrow. Nothing clean, right.
T-800: Nothing clean. Right?
Punk Leader: [snaps his fingers to see if it would blink it's eyes] Yeah, I think this guy's a couple cans short of a six pack.
T-800: Your clothes. Give them to me, now.
Punk Leader: [pulls out a pocket knife] Hey, f--k you, a--hole.
The Guardian: You won't be needing any clothes. [removes it's hood once the T-800 scans it] I've been waiting for you.
~ T-800 demanding clothes from the punks before being confronted by The Guardian, also it's only words in the film and, by extention, the Genisys Timeline.

Trivia

  • In The Terminator, the T-800's living tissue was somewhat suffering from necrosis after injuries that sustained during the chase and gunfight against Kyle Reese while searching Sarah's mother's address through her address book at a safehouse where it was hiding at. This was shown where his face has become pale and had some flies sit on his face. Even at this point, the janitor whom nearly caught the Terminator commented on the smell of decay from its rotting flesh, asking, "Hey, buddy, got a dead cat in there, or what?".
    • The film's novelization explains that it has a real heart to plumb blood into the skin to keep it fresh, and it was ruptured when Kyle shoot at the chest several times at the night club, thus preventing blood from being plumbled into it's outer skin and causing it to rot. However, this was contradicted by the sequel, which revealed that Terminator don't have internal organs, let alone a heart. In fact, the T-Hs from the Salvation Timeline are the only Terminators to have internal organs.
    • Another explanation for the living tissue rotting is likely due to the Terminator having bled out completely after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds during the Police Station Massacre (even though the bullets did little to no damage to it's endoskeleton underneath). It is implied that the biological covering was still in it's prototype stages, and not yet capable of healing, since subsequent T-800s came with living tissue that could heal, as noted in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator Genisys.
  • The T-800 endoskeleton holding a pipe bomb in its hip is used as the image for the T-831 "Heavy Combat Chassis", while the T-800 Endo face close-up after rising from fire is used as T-882 "Tactical Command Unit" from The Terminator Collectible Card Game.
  • In the original script the Terminator was supposed to steal a car at the beginning of the film. The scene involved the Terminator observing an elderly woman getting into a car and as she saw the Terminator she panicked and put it into reverse hitting a trash can then correcting herself put it into drive and sped off. The Terminator then enters the car, puts it into reverse then into drive mimicking the woman's actions. This was cut from a later script.
  • In the original script after killing the first wrong Sarah Connor, the Terminator was originally gone to eat a Candy Bar in order to maintain its organic flesh.
  • Mel Gibson turned down the role of the Terminator, simply feeling he wasn't right for the part. After seeing the film, he praised Arnold as a much better choice.
  • O.J. Simpson was considered for the Terminator, but was passed over by Cameron because he and the producers feared he was "too nice" to be taken seriously as a cold-blooded killer. In 1990 (before Simpson's first trial) Dark Horse Comics printed issues using his likeness.
  • For a time, James Cameron considered Lance Henriksen for the role of the T-800, and even based some of his early sketches of the Terminator on Henriksen's likeness before turning down the idea (see the Gallery page).
  • Jürgen Prochnow was originally considered for the role, but was passed over in favor of Schwarzenegger.
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't think much of the initial screenplay and was only going to do it for the money and because he felt a contemporary film would be beneficial to his career.
  • Prior to filming, Schwarzenegger spent weeks learning to reassemble, dismantle, reload and fire every weapon used in the film without looking at the weapon. The result was a more robotic feel towards the weapons handling which added to the eeriness of his performance.
  • On the set of The Terminator, Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to avoid Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton as much as possible since the Terminator was trying to kill them, not forming connections.
  • The famous line, "I'll be back," was originally scripted as "I'll come back.".
    • The iconic catchphrase almost became "I will be back" because Schwarzenegger thought it sounded more machine-like without a contraction; he also felt "I'll" sounded too feminine. It was the one major disagreement between Schwarzenegger and James Cameron, and all Cameron had to say to that was "I don't tell you how to act, so don't tell me how to write.".
    • The line (or some variant of it) has since gone on to be used in every Terminator movie, thus far.
  • The T-800's human face was used as the digital make-up for the T-RIP's face in Terminator Salvation.
  • The security camera images featuring the T-800 shown to Sarah Connor in T2 were not taken from the original film. They were new photographs of Schwarzenegger wearing the same clothes and Gargoyles sunglasses.
  • Brett Azar stood in for the Terminator during filming, however, he was edited out and completely replaced with the digital Terminator model, rather than having Arnold Schwarzenegger's face superimposed over his own. Azar also portrayed the young Guardian with digital makeup. The digital version of the Terminator has been stated to consist of over 1 million polygons.
  • There is a dropped idea for T2 featuring two T-800s of Model 101 fighting each other. The idea was not used on-screen until Genisys.
  • The Terminator's wreckage shown on screen in Terminator 2: Judgment Day are the endoarm and a damaged CPU chip only. The whereabouts of the rest of the remains is unknown. However, in the mobile game Terminator Revenge, it was stolen by a group of environmental scientists, while in the comic The Terminator: 1984, it was destroyed by Sarah Connor, Kyle Reese, and Ben Oliver.
  • In the video game Duke Nukem 3D, the level "Freeway" features a crushed Terminator inside a hydraulic press and the protagonist will say "Terminated" upon seen it.
  • The T-800 Endoskeleton Arm is featured as an Epic Back Bling that is bundled with the Sarah Connor Outfit in Fortnite Battle Royale.
  • The Terminator is ranked #22 on AFI's list "100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains".
  • The Terminator faced RoboCop in ScrewAttack's DEATH BATTLE and lost.
  • Although Terminator was Arnold's first role as a main villain, it was not the first villainous role; in The Long Goodbye Arnold starred (then credited as Arnold Strong) as a brutish bodyguard of a loan shark.
  • The human disguise of it's Mainstream Timeline incarnation is the icon of the Deletion Candidate template on this wiki.

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Dire Wolf | Harvester | Hydrobot | HK-Aerial | HK-Bomber | HK-Scout | HK-Tank | I-950 | Moto-Terminator | Nightmare Terminator | T-000 | T-1 | T-20 | T-47 | T-70 | T-90 | T-101 | T-400 | T-500 | T-600 | T-700 | T-790 | T-799 | T-800 (Terminator | Future Terminator | T-RIP | New Terminators) | T-808 | T-850 (Resistance) | T-888 | T-900 | T-950 | T-1000 (Genisys) | T-1001 | T-1002 | T-2018 | T-3000 | T-4800 | T-5000 | T-1000000 | T-H | T-Infinity | T-Rex | T-X | T-XA

MIR
HK-Aerial | TS-300

Legion
HK-Aerial | Rev-7 | Rev-9

Collaborators
Charles Fischer | Dr. Serena Kogan | Thomas Parnell

Others
Bertram Hollister | Douglas | Ed Astrin | Kurt Viemeister | Margos Sarkissian

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Main Villains
Blaze | Daegon | Dark Kahn | Havik | Kronika | Onaga | One Being | Quan Chi (2nd Timeline, New Era) | Shang Tsung (2nd Timeline, New Era) | Shao Kahn (2nd Timeline, General Shao) | Shinnok

Secondary Villains
Cetrion | D'Vorah | Dark Raiden | Frost | Geras | Goro | Kano | Kintaro | Mileena | Noob Saibot (New Era) | Sektor | Sindel | Skarlet

Other Villains
Baraka | Chameleon | Cyrax | Drahmin | Darrius | Dairou | Ermac (Order of Darkness) | Erron Black | Hotaru | Hsu Hao | Jade | Jarek | Kabal | Kira | Kobra | Kollector | Mavado | Moloch | Motaro | Nitara (New Era)| Rain (New Era)| Reiko | Reptile | Scorpion | Sheeva | Smoke | Tanya | Titan Havik | Tremor | Triborg

Undead Villains
Jade | Jax | Kabal | Kitana | Kung Lao | Kurtis Stryker | Liu Kang | Nightwolf | Sindel | Smoke | Sub-Zero

Guest Star Villains
Alien | Catwoman | Darkseid | Deathstroke | Freddy Krueger | Homelander | Jason Voorhees | John Rambo | Joker | Kratos | Leatherface | Lex Luthor | Omni-Man | Peacemaker | Predator | Terminator

Non Playable Villains
Barakion | Female Ermac | Female Reptile | Female Scorpion | Female Sub-Zero | Fire Cage | Firefly | Forrest Fox | Frostbite | Guard of Thunder | Janet Cage | Jataaka | Jawspell | John Khaner | Johnny Savage | Kang Quan | Katara Vala | Kia | Kitana Khan | Klockodile | Lin Kuei Grandmaster | Lizard Queen | Lucifer | Malebolgia | No Face | Oni Warlord | Quan Li | Quantum-Chi | Quinn | Red Dragon | Reiko Starr | Rojack | Ruutuu | Scorp Lao | Screen Demon | Sento Storm | Shao-Zero | Shock Priestess | Stung Lao | Tasia | Warlord

Evil Races
Centaurians | Demons | Dragons | Hellspawn | Kytinn | Oni | Shokan | Tarkata | Tormentors | Wraiths | Zombies

Evil Organizations
Army of Darkness | Black Dragon Clan | Brotherhood of Shadow | Cyber Ninjas | Dragon King's Army | Festival of Death | Forces of Darkness | Kahn Guards | Masked Guards | Red Dragon Clan | Shaakans | Shadow Assassins | Shadow Priests | Tekunin | The Deadly Alliance

Movies
Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins (1995): Shang Tsung | Goro
Mortal Kombat (1995): Shang Tsung | Kano | Goro | Sub-Zero | Scorpion | Reptile | Shao Kahn
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation: Shao Kahn | Sindel | Shinnok | Mileena | Motaro | Sheeva | Ermac | Jade | Baraka | Cyrax | Smoke | Scorpion | Sub-Zero | Reptile | Rain
Mortal Kombat: Rebirth: Shang Tsung | Sub-Zero | Reptile | Baraka
Mortal Kombat: Legacy: Gadsen | Liu Kang | Baraka
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion's Revenge: Scorpion | Quan Chi | Shang Tsung | Goro | Shao Kahn | Kano | Baraka | Reptile | Moloch | Motaro | One Being
Mortal Kombat (2021): Shang Tsung | Sub-Zero | Mileena | Reiko | Kano | Kabal | Goro | Reptile | Nitara
Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms: Shao Kahn | Shinnok | Shang Tsung | One Being | Scorpion | Lin Kuei Grandmaster | Sektor | Cyrax | Mileena | Smoke | Reiko | Kintaro | Jade | D'Vorah | Baraka | Li Mei
Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind: Kano | Shang Tsung | Kabal | Kira | Kobra | Erron Black | Ferra and Torr | Drahmin | No Face | Tremor | Jarek | Kronika
Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match: Shinnok | Sareena | The Director | David Doubldy | Jataaka | Kia | Drahmin | Moloch

Shows
Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm: Karbrac | Hideyoshi | Komodai | Oniro | Ruby | Zaggot | Zara | Zenkaro
Mortal Kombat: Conquest: Bannak | Baron Reyland | Cilene | Jola | Kebral | Kiri and Ankha | Noob Saibot | Quan Chi | Queen Kreeya | Peron | Qali | Shang Tsung | Scorpion | Reptile | Siann, Mika and Sora | Sub-Zero | Vorpax

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Marvel Comics
Official comics
Doctor Doom | Mystique | Galactus | Namor | Quicksilver | the Winter Soldier | Stegron | the High Evolutionary
Events
Thanos | Chitauri | Galactus
Skins/Cosmetics
Black Widow | Deadpool | Doctor Doom | Mystique | Sentinels (Marvel) | Eddie Brock/Venom (SSU)| Taskmaster | Thanos | Loki | Carnage (SSU)| Dark Phoenix | Norman Osborn/Green Goblin | Rogue | the Prowler | Scarlet Witch
Miscellaneous
the Tinkerer | Mysterio

DC Comics
Batman/Fortnite
Catwoman | Harley Quinn | Deathstroke | The Batman Who Laughs | Lex Luthor | the Joker | the Penguin | the Riddler | Mr. Freeze | Killer Croc | Man-Bat | Clayface | Kite-Man | Killer Moth | Bizzaro | Parasite | Cheetah | Giganta | Captain Cold | Professor Zoom | Trickster | Rainbow Raider | Chemo | Blackfire | Monsieur Mallah | the Brain | Deadline
Skins/Cosmetics
Catwoman | Harley Quinn | Black Manta | the Joker | Poison Ivy | Green Arrow | Deathstroke | Bloodsport | Starro | Peacemaker | King Shark | Polka Dot Man | The Batman Who Laughs | Black Adam
Miscellaneous
Trigon

Star Wars
Events
the First Order/Sith Eternal (Emperor Palpatine | Kylo Ren | First Order Stormtroopers) | the Galactic Empire (Emperor Palpatine | Darth Vader | Stormtroopers/the 501st Legion) | the Sith (Emperor Palpatine | Darth Vader | Darth Maul)
Skins/Cosmetics
the First Order/Sith Eternal (Sith Troopers | Kylo Ren) | the Galactic Empire (Stormtroopers/the 501st Legion | Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader) | Boba Fett | Fennec Shand | Black Krrsantan | the Sith (Darth Vader | Darth Maul)
Miscellaneous
the Knights of Ren | Jango Fett | the Separatists

Assorted Movie/TV reps
Skins/Cosmetics
the Demogorgon | the Predator | the Terminator/T-800 | Skynet | Xenomorphs | Rick Sanchez | Toxic Rick | Dude | Morty Smith | Frankenstein's Monster | Paul Atreides | Imhotep | Sentinels (The Matrix) | Cobra Kai | Henrietta Knowby | Omni-Man | Bender Bending Rodríguez | the Hypnotoad | the Decepticons (Megatron) | Michael Myers | Peter Griffin | Ernie the Giant Chicken |
the Foot Clan (Shredder) | Krang |
Miscellaneous
High Table | Sandworms | Dark Ones | T-1000 | Lock, Shock and Barrel | Hawkins National Laboratory (Martin Brenner)

Video game reps/"Gaming Legends"
Skins/Cosmetics
Psychos | Kratos | Glinthawks | the Umbrella Corporation | Jinx | Ghosts | Pilgor | Demons
Miscellaneous
Necromorphs | Cult of the Tree

Anime reps
Skins/Cosmetics
Kurama | Sasuke Uchiha | Gaara | the Akatsuki (Itachi Uchiha) | Orochimaru | Manda | Vegeta | Beerus | Piccolo Jr. | the Red Ribbon Army | Eren Yeager | Goku Black | Frieza | Cell |
Miscellaneous
the Akatsuki (Hidan)

Miscellaneous
Sun Wukong | John Cena | The Rogue LAROI | The Beast