| rdfs:comment | - Terminator is an American science fiction franchise that comprises five films, a television show, novels, comic books, video games, and tie‑in merchandise. Primarily created by James Cameron, the franchise mainly centers around the battles between Skynet's artificially intelligent machine network and John Connor's Resistance forces and the rest of the human race. The titular "Terminator" refers to the various infiltration-combat autonomous robots, notably the Model 101 T-800 unit, portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, manufactured by Skynet in its war against humanity. The original film was written by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd, with additional uncredited input from William Wisher, and directed by the former, who returned with the same duties for the first sequel, Terminator 2: Judgmen
- Terminator ist ein amerikanisches Science-Fiction-Franchise bestehend aus fünf Filmen, einer Fernsehserie, Romanen, Comicbüchern, Videospielen und zugehörigen Merchandise. Es wurde primär vom Filmregisseur James Cameron erschaffen und dreht sich um den Überlebenskampf zwischen Menschen und Maschinen. Die künstliche Intelligenz namens Skynet mit seinen Maschinen kämpft gegen die Menschen des „Widerstands“, darunter deren Anführer John Connor. Zeitreisen um den Atomkrieg („Tag des jüngsten Gerichts“) oder den „Krieg gegen die Maschinen“ zu beeinflussen oder abzuwenden sind eine häufig anzutreffende Thematik.
- The Terminator is an implacable killer with a Sci-Fi justification and an oft-imitated part of the pop-cultural pantheon. Arnold Schwarzenegger portrayed the titular cyborg for three (and a half) films, and his performance in the first film shot him into superstardom. Writer/director James Cameron was inspired to create the film after a dream he had when sick with a fever which involved a mechanical skeleton emerging from a wall of fire and chasing after him. Cameron, recalling how terrified he was, ended up crafting the story of The Terminator based around that one moment. Along the way, Cameron unintentionally (or so he says) plagiarized Harlan Ellison's The Outer Limits story "Soldier" (but not, as commonly believed, "Demon with a Glass Hand" -- source) for the plot; Ellison later found
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| abstract | - The Terminator is an implacable killer with a Sci-Fi justification and an oft-imitated part of the pop-cultural pantheon. Arnold Schwarzenegger portrayed the titular cyborg for three (and a half) films, and his performance in the first film shot him into superstardom. Writer/director James Cameron was inspired to create the film after a dream he had when sick with a fever which involved a mechanical skeleton emerging from a wall of fire and chasing after him. Cameron, recalling how terrified he was, ended up crafting the story of The Terminator based around that one moment. Along the way, Cameron unintentionally (or so he says) plagiarized Harlan Ellison's The Outer Limits story "Soldier" (but not, as commonly believed, "Demon with a Glass Hand" -- source) for the plot; Ellison later found out and managed to get a cash settlement and an official acknowledgment in the credits. Ellison later said the trouble could have been avoided if Cameron had come to him first and offered a screen credit in the movie (which he would have offered for free). In the first film (The Terminator), Sarah Connor hears grave news during another average workday: a killer is hunting down everyone in town who shares her name. After two people in her home are murdered in an effort to find her, Sarah hides in a nightclub -- and when the killer catches up with her there, she's rescued by a mysterious stranger. The stranger, Kyle Reese, explains the Backstory: in the near future, man will create SkyNet, an artificial intelligence which will promptly turn against its masters and attempt to Kill All Humans in the cataclysmic event which will be known as Judgment Day. Mankind will eventually defeat SkyNet, but at the last minute, SkyNet will send a T-800 Model Terminator (an android assassin wrapped in human flesh to give it the appearance of a human) back in time to kill Sarah Connor and prevent the birth of her son, John (who will become the leader of the human resistance). In response, Connor will send Reese into the past to protect his mother and the timeline. After several dramatic battles and a Heroic Sacrifice from Reese, the Terminator is eventually killed in a Smoke and Fire Factory -- but not before Sarah sleeps with Reese, thereby conceiving John Connor (which means John causes his own birth and creates a Stable Time Loop). In the second film (Terminator 2: Judgment Day), SkyNet sends a more advanced Terminator -- the nigh-invulnerable, shapeshifting T-1000 Model -- to the past. (The T-1000 was far beyond almost any other future technology depicted in any of the films, but at the time, the CGI was so mind-blowing, nobody really took the time to care.) In response, Connor sends back a T-800 Model Terminator which is reprogrammed to protect his past self. Both Terminators arrive when John is ten years old and living with foster parents (Sarah was tossed into an asylum for trying to blow up a computer factory and talking about killer robots from the future). The T-1000 kills anyone it chooses to replicate, and when John figures out the T-1000 will attempt to replicate Sarah, he forces the T-800 to rescue his mother before the T-1000 can reach her. After being freed, Sarah -- now an Action Girl after taking a few levels in Badass -- learns details of SkyNet's history from the T-800 and attempts to assassinate Miles Dyson, the man who will go on to create SkyNet (though she falters when she sees Dyson's family). Sarah, John, and the T-800 pump Dyson for information, which is when they learn Cyberdyne -- the company Dyson works for and, as revealed in a deleted scene from the first film, the owners of the factory where the T-800 is destroyed -- will build SkyNet using components from the original T-800 (making SkyNet itself part of the Stable Time Loop). The Connors, the T-800, and Dyson infiltrate Cyberdyne and destroy all of the computers, then steal the T-800 remains to try and thwart the creation of SkyNet...but the T-1000 is not far behind them. After several running encounters, both Terminators -- and the T-800 remains -- are dissolved in a vat of molten steel. From here, the series splits off into five canons:
* The original -- but deleted -- ending of Terminator 2 sees a still-living Sarah Connor watching John (now a United States Senator) and her granddaughter play on a playground similar to the one she saw in her dreams. The ending takes place in 2029, when the war they successfully averted would have been won; an intact, futuristic Washington D.C. can be seen in the background. James Cameron felt this was too much of a definite, deterministic wrap-up for a film centered around the idea of "there is no fate but what we make for ourselves".
* Sources disagree as to whether Cameron changed the ending because he himself had plans for a third Terminator movie before he lost the rights. In most interviews, he's explicitly said he felt the series ended well with the second film and would have stopped production of the third film if it was in his power. The rumors came from some of the people who have worked with him.
* Some say Cameron favored this ending, but executives made him change it to leave the franchise open for a possible sequel.
* After the second film, but before the other films and television series were considered, a small number of comics were produced. Many of these depicted the future after the apocalypse.
* T2 3-D: Battle Across Time: A Universal Studies attraction also created before the other films and television series. It's a combination of a live show and a 3-D movie. The plot involves Sarah and John Connor having to, for no given reason, prevent the apocalypse again. A T-800 shows up and takes John back to the future with him somehow. The two of them make their way past robots like the Hunter-Killers as they break into Skynet and fight the T-1000000, giant liquid-metal spider terminator. John Connor ends up returning to the present while the T-800 stays behind to self destruct and destroy Skynet's core.
* Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines: The third film begins with SkyNet's takeover apparently averted -- the date Reese cited for Judgment Day has come and gone -- and John Connor living off the grid to ensure he can't be tracked down. Another shapeshifting Terminator appears (a T-X Model), this time with a female appearance; like the previous film, a reprogrammed T-850 (functionally very similar to the T-800, but powered by hydrogen fuel-cells which explode if ruptured) arrives to protect John Connor. Sarah Connor is now dead, but John returns to the fight alongside his wife-to-be Kate Brewster. After narrowly failing to prevent the activation of SkyNet, John switches goals to destroying the AI's computer core before it can initiate Judgment Day. The head of the SkyNet project gives John and Kate the address and entrance codes for a military bunker, which he says is their only hope. After a last battle with the T-X, the couple manages to get into the bunker -- which is not the site of SkyNet's hardware core, but a nuclear fallout shelter. SkyNet is software, not hardware, and it can run on any computer network; it's already too late to disable it, which means Judgment Day was only deferred, not prevented. John and Kate's only hope is to use the communications nexus in the bunker to coordinate the emerging resistance. As the film ends, SkyNet launches its takeover, decapitating the governments of the world with a tactical nuclear strike.
* The comics produced in the long gap between Terminator 2 and Terminator 3 ran with the idea of SkyNet sending more than two Terminators back; the T-800 and the T-1000 were simply the last two it sent back. Dozens were sent before SkyNet's fall; since the "time bubble" was a late development in its time travel technology, most of these Terminators wound up entombed in buildings and machinery, while others barely remembered what they were supposed to be doing when they arrived in the past.
* Terminator Salvation: This film takes place during the war with the machines and shares no ties to The Sarah Connor Chronicles; its references to both Terminator 2 and 3 are rather vague, with the first Terminator being more important to the movie's themes than the other two. Instead of repeating the story of someone going back in time, Salvation is primarily a sci-fi war movie. John Connor is a respected officer within the human resistance, but he is not the leader, as several high-ranking officers question his claims of being The Chosen One by Time Travel. Connor sets out to end the war as quickly as possible (and locate a young Kyle Reese), but his quest reveals an awful truth: the Stable Time Loop is beginning to break apart. SkyNet's forces are showing sophistication and progress far ahead of schedule, and there are numerous other changes Connor never accounted for, all of which throw humanity's inevitable victory into question. One major anomaly is the appearance of Marcus Wright, a criminal who reportedly died before the war began, but turned up on his own in the present; Wright's role in the movie is practically an inverse of the series' central time-travel mechanic: instead of someone being sent from the future to the past, Wright comes from the past directly into the future.
* Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: This television series' story follows the first two films, but overrides the canon third by having John and Sarah time-skip seven years. It follows the adventures of Sarah Connor, John Connor, a re-programmed Terminator named Cameron, John's uncle Derek, and various other continuing characters.
* Terminator Genisys: A reboot of the franchise that retcons the first four films.
- Terminator is an American science fiction franchise that comprises five films, a television show, novels, comic books, video games, and tie‑in merchandise. Primarily created by James Cameron, the franchise mainly centers around the battles between Skynet's artificially intelligent machine network and John Connor's Resistance forces and the rest of the human race. The titular "Terminator" refers to the various infiltration-combat autonomous robots, notably the Model 101 T-800 unit, portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, manufactured by Skynet in its war against humanity. The original film was written by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd, with additional uncredited input from William Wisher, and directed by the former, who returned with the same duties for the first sequel, Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). The films have grossed over $1.4 billion at the box-office worldwide. The first film was conceived from a nightmare Cameron had, with acknowledged inspiration from the works of Harlan Ellison, and released in 1984 to wide commercial and critical success. However, legal troubles and creative differences have led to the rights being passed on to different production companies for every subsequent film. In 1996, T2 3-D: Battle Across Time, a theme park attraction, opened in Universal Studios Florida, and has since expanded to other Universal Parks & Resorts locations; it is still operating today. In 2008, a television series titled Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles premiered as an alternate continuation to the first two films, as opposed to following up from the last two films, but was canceled after two seasons. Additionally, numerous novels, comic books, and video games expanding upon the Terminator universe have been produced over the years.
- Terminator ist ein amerikanisches Science-Fiction-Franchise bestehend aus fünf Filmen, einer Fernsehserie, Romanen, Comicbüchern, Videospielen und zugehörigen Merchandise. Es wurde primär vom Filmregisseur James Cameron erschaffen und dreht sich um den Überlebenskampf zwischen Menschen und Maschinen. Die künstliche Intelligenz namens Skynet mit seinen Maschinen kämpft gegen die Menschen des „Widerstands“, darunter deren Anführer John Connor. Zeitreisen um den Atomkrieg („Tag des jüngsten Gerichts“) oder den „Krieg gegen die Maschinen“ zu beeinflussen oder abzuwenden sind eine häufig anzutreffende Thematik. Der Titel „Terminator“ bezieht sich dabei auf die autonomen Infiltrations- und Kampfeinheiten, welche von Skynet eingesetzt werden um seine Feinde zu eleminieren (im Franchise „terminieren“ genannt). Das ikonischste Modell ist das T-800 Modell 101 welches im Film Terminator von Arnold Schwarzenegger gespielt wurde und über weite Strecken das Franchise prägte.
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