
It has one purpose: kill Sarah Connor.Įven after Kyle Reese – Sergeant Tech-Com, DN38416 – detonates a pipe bomb in its pelvis, shearing the endoskeleton in half, it will not stop. It has been shot, in a car crash, and, finally, been engulfed in the middle of a fuel tank explosion.īut it keeps coming. It has proven to be easily capable of withstanding gunfire from regular firearms, explosions and heavy impact it seems to be virtually indestructible. The human flesh that surrounds its endoskeleton is a necessity for travelling through time, and the perfect camouflage for perhaps the most merciless assassin in cinema history. The Terminator blurs the line between man and machine. Living tissue over the titanium and tungsten skeleton makes it a cybernetic organism or “cyborg”. An infiltration unit – fully-armored, microprocessor-controlled with a hyperalloy combat chassis. It is the T-800– Cyberdyne Systems model 101. “In the few hours we had together, we loved a lifetime’s worth.” – Sarah Connor on Kyle ReeseĪ gleaming endoskeleton, with piercing red eyes, emerges from a fiery wreck. “No, she’s making a statement Look, if you want to wait, there’s a bench over there.” “I’m a friend of Sarah Connor Could I see her please?” “You still don’t get it, do you? He’ll find her! That’s what he does! That’s all he does! You can’t stop him!” – Kyle on the T-800 It’s very important that you live.” Sarah and Kyle But outside, it’s living human tissue: flesh, skin, hair, blood – grown for the cyborgs.” – Kyle Reese on the T-800

Underneath, it’s a hyperalloy combat chassis, microprocessor-controlled. “The Terminator’s an infiltration unit: part man, part machine. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear and it absolutely will not stop… ever, until you are dead!” – Kyle on the T-800 Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. “The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire.
