| NOTE: This article contains information about the T-800 terminator from the original film. Its heroic counterpart can be viewed here. |
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The Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 Series 800 Terminator, better known as the T-800 or the Terminator is the titular main antagonist of the 1984 sci-fi action film The Terminator, the first installment of the franchise with the same name.
It is a cyborg that Skynet created and sent into the past for the purpose of assassinating Sarah Connor so that her son, John Connor, who is the leader of a major resistance against Skynet, can never be born. As the T-800 gets sent to the past, it struggles to kill Sarah, due to Kyle Reese interfering with its assassination mission. Having to locate Sarah and Kyle's location, it goes looking for clues to bait them into revealing their hiding place.
Its Evil Ranking[]
What Makes It Heinous?[]
- As it arrived at the past, it established its villainy by getting into a fight with three punks, killing one of them by pulling his heart out when he tried to stab it, despite being completely invulnerable to knives.
- It stole guns from a gun store owner and then killed the owner when the owner told him he couldn't load his guns in the store.
- It threw a guy out of a phone booth so it could find Sarah Connor.
- It killed two women named "Sarah Connor" because of their names meeting the requirements to be killed as part of the programming.
- In the novel, it specifies that it dissects the bodies after killing them to look for anatomical specificities correlating to Sarah Connor's biology. This traumatises a witness who beholds the corpses in the aftermath.
- It broke into Sarah and Ginger's house, killing Matt and Ginger in the process, thinking she is Sarah.
- It illegally entered a nightclub without paying and crushing a bodyguard's hand for attempting to apprehend it.
- When it found her, it attempted to kill Sarah, until it got stopped by Kyle Reese's intervention.
- Failing to assassinate Sarah, it shot several bystanders to kill Kyle and Sarah.
- When it tried to murder Sarah as she is fleeing the nightclub, it ended up shooting and killing a bystander behind her.
- It chased after Kyle and Sarah, as they escaped from it with a car.
- It attacked and knocked out a police officer so it could steal the officer's car to chase down both Sarah and Kyle.
- Upon finding Kyle and Sarah, it tried to shoot them.
- It broke into a hotel room to use as a base.
- When it was denied entry to see Sarah Connor inside the police station, it rammed a car through the building and massacres 17 police officers.
- It murdered Sarah's mother and impersonated her voice to convince Sarah into revealing her location.
- Seeing Kyle and Sarah escape via truck, he chased them down and injured Kyle during the chase.
- It slammed a truck driver into his truck before hijacking the vehicle to continue the chase for Sarah.
- Even after getting burnt from the fire of the truck, it still continued to follow Sarah and Kyle inside Cyberdyne Systems.
- It was responsible for Kyle's death, as Reese sacrificed himself using a homemade pipe-bomb in an attempt to kill it.
- It crawled over Kyle's body to follow the injured Sarah and crushed her ankle, until getting crushed by a hydraulic pressure.
- Its machine parts ended up being used to advance Skynet's technology.
- It is posthumously responsible for traumatizing Sarah. The near-death experiences warped Sarah from an innocent civilian into a paranoid ruthless soldier. This also inadvertently led to Sarah being committed to an asylum and her son John being forced into the foster care system.
What Makes it Inconsistent?[]
- It completely lacked any form of moral agency, being only evil because of having to follow its programming to kill Sarah Connor and having no free will in its actions.
- It's made further evident by its complete lack of a personality, only engaging in conversations to get closer to its target. The novelization repeatedly stressed this, stating things along the lines of how if it was programmed to feel emotions, it would be irritated by its repeated failure to kill Kyle and Sarah.
- Further examples of it lacking malice beyond what's necessary to fulfil its programming to kill Sarah Connor is it initially told the punks to surrender their clothing and only killing after threat display, it didn't kill dogs, unlike the T-1000 who is sadistic, it beat up the truck driver while not killing him to take his truck, it told the passenger to "get out" instead of killing him and whilst potentially a comedic moment, it told the landlord "fuck you, asshole", which was assessed as the simplest and most convenient manner of deterring him, as opposed to killing him.
External Links[]
- T-800 on the Villains Wiki
- T-800 on the Terminator Wiki
- T-800 on Wikipedia
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