Terminator's Humans Were Totally Wrong About How to Beat Skynet
Throughout the Terminatorseries, humanity has tried to defeat Skynet through sheer force and destruction only for the A.I. to completely obliterate their efforts to ensure its own survival. While war seemed like the only option once Skynet became too powerful to control, one comic series proves that humanity was totally wrong about how to beat the A.I. system.
In the future of The Terminator’s established universe, humans develop artificial intelligence known as Skynet, though once it comes online, they try to deactivate it as the system is becoming self aware. Viewing humans as a threat to its own survival, Skynet accesses the world’s nuclear codes and launches devastating bombs attacks all across the world–an event known as Judgment Day. John Connor survives Judgment Day and leads an army of humans against Skynet, though at that point, Skynet has developed an army of its own: Terminators. Against all odds, John is able to give humanity hope, and under his leadership, their victory over Skynet is all but assured–and that’s when the war takes a truly bizarre turn.
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In the Dark Horse Comics twelve-part series Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle by J. Michael Straczynski and Pete Woods, Skynet is working with a human scientist, Dr. Serena Kogan, to develop human/Terminator hybrids by placing a human’s mind inside the body of a Terminator. This unnatural process was in development some time before Judgment Day so Dr. Kogan only had access to humans who were on death row, including convicted serial killer Thomas Parnell. When Parnell is turned into a cyborg, he is able to take control of Skynet from inside the system and plans to use his
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