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TheTerminatoris one of Hollywood ’s greatest picture villains ( and heroes ) but the inauspicious truth is Skynet ’s perfect killing machines only have a 35 % success charge per unit . Created by James Cameron , the titulary cyborg assassin debuted in 1984’sThe Terminatorand like a shot became iconic thanks to its star topology - making characterization by Arnold Schwarzenegger . After five sequels over the next 35 years , Skynet , the A.I. that doomed human race to a post - apocalyptical future , has sent multiple terminator back in time to down Sarah ( Linda Hamilton ) andJohn Connor ( Edward Furlong).But despite the Terminators ' lofty report , their runway record has been abyssal .
formally , Skynet sent four Terminators back in fourth dimension : the original T-800 inThe Terminator , the T-1000 ( Robert Patrick ) inTerminator 2 : Judgment Day , the T - X ( Kristanna Loken ) inTerminator 3 : Rise of the Machines , and John Connor / the T-3000 ( Jason Clarke ) inTerminator Genisys . InTerminator Salvation , Marcus Wright ( Sam Worthington ) was a homo / hybrid Terminator that break down to kill John Connor ( Christian Bale ) in the future . exterminator : Dark Fatehas revised the future apocalypse so that a different A.I. named Legion is human race ’s enemy , but Legion also ordered a Terminator called the Rev-9 ( Diego Luna ) to clock time travel and kill Dani Ramos ( Natalia Reyes ) . Despite their unlike name , Skynet and Legion are essentially the same matter . And yet , despite each new Terminator being more knock-down than the previous model - indeed , the Rev-9 combines the ability of the T-800 and the T-1000 and can split up itself into independent component - the Terminators routinely fail their Skynet / Legion - mandate missions .
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If Skynet and the exterminator were capable of embarrassment , they should be , because the results do n’t lie : the original T-800 failed to killSarah Connorin 1984 and was destroy by Sarah andKyle Reese(Michael Biehn ) . The T-1000 failed to kill John Connor inT2 , and the nanobot - infused John Connor / T-3000 inTerminator Genisysalso failed to kill his female parent Sarah ( Emilia Clarke ) and Reese ( Jai Courtney ) . In fact , inTerminator Genisys , Skynet transmit even more Terminators , including a T-1000 , to vote down the young Sarah and they all failed , thanks in part to Pops ( Schwarzenegger ) , a T-800 who keep open Sarah and decided to bring up the girlfriend himself . InTerminator Salvation ’s future , Marcus Wright also defied his Skynet - mandate orders and help John Connor destroy the epitome T-800 or else . last , Terminator : Dark Fate ’s Rev-9 dead failed to murder Dani Ramos .
However , Skynet has mark some grown win over John Connor too : InTerminator 3 , theT-101 ( AKA the T-850)killed John Connor ( Nick Stahl ) in the future before his wife Kate Brewster ( Claire Danes ) reprogrammed the cyborg and sent it to protect her from the T - X in the past . And inTerminator Genisys , the T-5000 wipe out John Connor in 2029 and then turned him into the T-3000 . Finally , Terminator : Dark Faterevealed that the T-800 who would later take the name Carl successfully assassinatedJohn Connorin 1998 . SinceT3,Salvation , andGenisyswerewiped out of canon byDark Fate , this means that Carl is the lone successful T-800 Terminator in the retool timeline .
Overall , the T-800s have a much more successful track record when they ’re reprogrammed to be ' good ' . The T-800 succeeded in its primary missionary post to protect John Connor inT2 , the T-101 saved John andKate BrewsterinT3 , and papa also saved Sarah and Kyle inGenisys . When Carl also decided to join up with Sarah , Dani , and her augmented human protector Grace ( Mackenzie Davis ) inTerminator : Dark Fate , the T-800 also succeed in keeping his supporter alive and ruin theRev-9 . Even though the ' good ' T-800s are always destroyed in the process , their fantabulous success rate ca n’t be faulted .
Meanwhile , Skynet ’s most successful Terminator model is actually the T - X. InTerminator 3,the Terminatrix ’s primary mission was to assassinate the future leaders of the human resistor in the past . The T - X killed every target except Kate Brewster and John Connor , but since the female murder bot also ensured thatJudgment Daytook place , Skynet came online , and 3 - billion humans were annihilate by atomic weapons , it ’s good to consider all of that a bounteous victory for Skynet - even if Kate and John live to fight another daylight . All in all , the T - X has to be considered the best Terminator when gauge by the stellar results it drive home . Skynet really dropped the ball by only make one instead of mass - producing the Terminatrix .
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