History Awesome / TerminatorDarkFate

[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[GratuitousSpanish ¡Tomaste todo lo que tenía, cabrón! Y ahora...]] '''I'm gonna kill you, fucker!'''"'']]

* The reintroduction of Sarah, who's portrayed by none other than Creator/LindaHamilton, after the opening flashback. [[BigDamnHeroes Dani and Grace are cornered by both components of the Rev-9, and then, all of a sudden, an SUV arrives into the scene and knocks the Rev-9's endoskeleton away. She then steps out of the car and repeatedly shoots the Rev-9's liquid component with an automatic shotgun, sending it hurtling off a bridge. A rocket launcher is what she uses next to propel the Rev-9's endoskeleton towards a car.]] And as Sarah drops a grenade from the bridge towards the Rev-9's liquid component, what does she say to Grace and Dani? ''[[BorrowedCatchphrase "I'll be back"]]''. She then has an UnflinchingWalk and a DramaticGunCock as an explosion occurs.

* Sarah's reintroduction after the opening flashback. [[BigDamnHeroes Dani and Grace are cornered by both components of the Rev-9, and then, all of a sudden, an SUV arrives into the scene and knocks the Rev-9's endoskeleton away. She then steps out of the car and repeatedly shoots the Rev-9's liquid component with an automatic shotgun, sending it hurtling off a bridge. A rocket launcher is what she uses next to propel the Rev-9's endoskeleton towards a car.]] And as Sarah drops a grenade from the bridge towards the Rev-9's liquid component, what does she say to Grace and Dani? ''[[BorrowedCatchphrase "I'll be back"]]''. She then has an UnflinchingWalk and a DramaticGunCock as an explosion occurs.
** Gets more awesome when you consider the [[CallBack weaknesses of previous terminators]]. the T-1000 was often knocked back by shotgun fire, and the most reliable weapon against the T-800 from the first film was explosives. Sarah systematically met both halves of the Rev-9 with the most effective weapons for fighting their skynet equivalents, before setting the liquid metal component on fire and going to watch it for signs of life. If it had been anything like a Skynet terminator she might have destroyed it there and then.

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** Dani [[LookADistraction directs the Rev-9's attention to her]], while Sarah shoots it with a shotgun.

--->'''Rev-9''': [[NotSoDifferent You and I were built for the same purpose.]] Legion is the only future.\\

[[caption-width-right:350:''"Tomaste todo lo que tenía, bastardo! Y ahora... '''I'm gonna kill you, fucker!'''"'']]

* As [[BrokenBase controversial]] [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment as it is]], the fact that "Carl" managed to do what [[Film/TheTerminator the first T-800]] and [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay the T-1000 couldn't]]: ''[[HeroKiller killing John Connor]]'' is pretty damn impressive. On top of that, it took the first two Terminators numerous high-speed chases and battles just to ''get to'' their targets, while Carl only had to waltz up from behind Sarah and shoot John twice.

[[caption-width-right:350:''Tomaste todo lo que tenía, bastardo! Y ahora...'' '''I'm gonna kill you, fucker!''']]

** "Carl" holds his own with nothing but a metal bar and a few well-timed tackles.

** This exchange really prepares us for the ass-whooping that will be delivered.
--->'''Rev-9:''' I know she's a stranger to you. Why not just let me have her?\\
'''Sarah:''' Because we're not machines, [[PrecisionFStrike you metal motherfucker]]!

* An offscreen one but its pretty much stated that (as with Skynet) humanity already won in the future. In other words the machines rose, attacked and Dani kicked its arse a good fifteen years quicker than John ever managed.

--->'''Rev-9:''' I know she's a stranger to you, but why not just let me have her?\\

** "Carl" holds his own with nothing but a metal bar and a few well-timed wall smashes.

** When everybody else is incapacitated, Dani takes the Rev-9 on all by herself and holds her own (her odds are helped thanks to the Terminator having been reduced to its weaker endoskeleton and limping). She expends the last of Sarah's shotgun ammo on the machine, and then bludgeons it thrice. You can see the moment she becomes the future leader of the Resistance.

** When everybody else is incapacitated, Dani takes the Rev-9 on all by herself and holds her own (her odds are helped thanks to the Terminator having been reduced to it's weaker endoskeleton and limping). She expends the last of Sarah's shotgun ammo on the machine, and then bludgeons it thrice. You can see the moment she becomes the future leader of the Resistance.

* Grace revealing how, as a child, she'd been confronted by a gang of thugs in the ruins of a city when a now grown Dani rescued her. Dani easily took down two of them while the third pulled a gun on her. After pointing out how a gunshot would just bring the Terminators down on them, Grace proceeds to give a speech on how they need to fight together, not do Legion's job and wipe each other out. In moments, she's converted these scavengers to join the army she's putting together and leads them outside where a dozen others are coming out of hiding. TookALevelInBadass indeed.

** Grace uses a single heavy chain to a ''very devastating'' level. She swings it so much that she can bisect the Rev-9's liquid metal skin multiple times. Just the sounds of the spinning chain and slow motion implemented should be enough to convince you of her power.

* It might not even hit you until a while after the movie ends, but until "Carl" shows up rather late into the film, this is a badass, hard hitting action movie about three female heroes, all of whom prove themselves perfectly deserving of living up to the likes of Kyle Reese and the second film's 101. And then it even flips the assumption that Dani's situation is simply a copy of Sarah's, revealing that she doesn't need to have a son to be the savior of the future, ''she'' is the savior all on her own. And all this is presented without any kind of big speech about feminism or anything, just as a natural thing that's going on.

* Just when it seems like a malnourished Grace will give up her power source to Dani in order to stop the Rev-9, [[BigDamnHeroes Carl makes his entrance onto the scene]] by sliding down the dam's wall and giving Grace her last drug cocktail syringe.

** Grace uses a single heavy chain to a ''very devastating'' level. She swings it so much that she can bisect the Rev-9 multiple times. Just the sounds of the spinning chain and slow motion implemented should be enough to convince you of her power.

* As [[BrokenBase controversial]] [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment as it is]], the fact that "Carl" managed to do what [[Film/TheTerminator the first T-800]] and [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay the T-1000 couldn't]]: ''[[HeroKiller killing John Connor]]'' is pretty damn impressive.

* Diego Ramos temporarily defeats the Rev-9 by dropping a huge engine on it, pinning it.