The Terminator is a cybernetic android assassin created by the rogue artificial intelligence Skynet. In the original Terminator film, this deadly machine was sent back in time to 1984 to assassinate Sarah Connor, would-be mother of John Connor, the leader of the Human Resistance. It was eventually destroyed, but not before killing a great number of innocent people. However, its mission is prevented early on when the timeline is altered in the events of Terminator: Genisys.
This T-800 is portrayed by Brett Azar with digital makeup used to make him resemble Arnold Schwarzenegger who played the character in the first Terminator film.
History[]
When the Resistance attack Skynet's main complex in 2029, the sinister computer activates a T-800 infiltrator and sends it back in time to 1984. Its mission: to terminate Sarah Connor, the mother of John Connor, before John is born. After arriving in Los Angeles in 1984, the T-800 approaches a gang of hooligans and demands their clothing. Before the killing machine can hurt anyone, it is addressed by someone from behind, a figure that resembles an older version of the T-800. The two androids fight while Sarah Connor watches them from a high vantage point through the scope of a sniper rifle. When her Guardian gets out of her line of fire, Sarah takes the shot and fires a round through the enemy Terminator's power cell, causing it to shut down.
Sarah and Pops recover the inactive Terminator, intent on destroying it so that its technology cannot be used to create Skynet. On the way to their hideout, they find Kyle Reese who is fighting for his life against a T-1000. They save Kyle, but the T-1000 follows the trio back to their hideout: an abandoned warehouse across town. The T-1000 sheds a small fragment of its polyalloy which slivers into the chassis of the disabled T-800 and reactivates it. As the T-1000 goes after Sarah and Pops, the T-800 attacks Kyle.
Destruction[]
Kyle fires a grenade round at the android which destroys its organic sheath, soon followed up by an armour-piercing round that severs the robot's head. After Pops has destroyed the T-1000 by melting it with acid, he and Sarah do the same with the T-800's remains, leaving no trace of it behind and thus preventing anyone from finding it and using it to develop Skynet.