Terminator 2 Wasted One Of The T-1000’s Darkest Powers

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While Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a sci-fi horror classic, the sequel does underutilize one of the legendary villain T-1000's most chilling skills. After the success of 1984's The Terminator, it seemed impossible for Terminator 2: Judgment Day to top the original sci-fi horror movie's success. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator villain, the T-800, was an instantly iconic figure, and the movie's relentless pace resulted in dozens of imitators, none of which could recreate its intensity and effectiveness.

However, Terminator 2: Judgment Day pulled off the task of reinventing the franchise with one ingenious twist, making Schwarzenegger's T-800 the hero this time around and forcing him to face down an even more evolved, ruthless, and unstoppable villain. Since a bigger, tougher Terminator model could well have looked silly thanks to the Schwarzenegger's already-imposing frame, Terminator 2: Judgment Day took the opposite approach and introduced a small, lithe, shape-shifting Terminator model who was much more unassuming and all the more lethal as a result. However, for all of the successful sequel's best qualities,Terminator 2: Judgment Day did underuse the T-1000's shapeshifting capabilities.

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The T-1000's unsettling cop disguise and the brief, creepy scene where the character mimics Janelle Voight, John's foster mom, show that the villain could pass himself as another person whenever he needed. While he does use this skill to imitate the asylum security guard Lewis and later to mimic Sarah Connor during the final battle, the T-1000 never thinks to take the form of Arnie's trustworthy T-800, nor does he consider imitating Sarah earlier in the movie when John