Why Every Terminator Movie Features A Crawling Terminator
Every Terminator installment manages to work a crawling Terminator into its story at some point, and there’s a secret significance to the recurring image that crops up throughout the iconic sci-fi franchise. Despite sharing the titular robotic star, the Terminator movies do not have a lot in common with each other. Across six movies, the Terminator franchise has changed its tone, genre, age rating, and timeline numerous times over.
With its brutal opening scene killing off John Connor, Terminator: Dark Fate was a gory, hard-R action movie akin to the original unrelenting 1984 thriller. However, its immediate franchise predecessor Terminator: Genisys was a lighter, PG-13 rated sci-fi story that focused more on timeline-twisting than gore or a downbeat tone. Before that, various Terminator installments attempted to turn the franchise into a post-apocalyptic war movie, a gory slasher horror, and a surprisingly sweet story of the Connor family.
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As such, it is surprising to see the same identical image crop up in every Terminator movie in some form or another. The image isn’t series hero John Connor being killed off, even though both Genisys and Dark Fate used this twist, and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines’ cut Connor assassination would have improved the movie. Instead, it is the recurring sight of a wounded Terminator model crawling toward its target after sustaining massive damage, remaining undeterred despite its imminent death. The same image occurs throughout the series in different guises, and there’s a surprising secret reason for this.
Whether it is the T-800 in the original Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day, the T-X in Terminator: Rise
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