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The artificial intelligence responsible for Judgment Day and the "leader" of the machines in their war on humanity.
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The artificial intelligence responsible for Judgment Day and the "leader" of the machines in their war on humanity. The nemesis of John Connor, Skynet has been waging their war against humanity to preserve their own existence.
* AndThenWhat: For all of Skynet's intelligence and power, it is never stated what they are going to do in case they win the war. Build a machine society, expand into the cosmos, it is never stated what they will do after killing of mankind.
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* TheParanoiac: Once it was given control of the American missile grid, Skynet removed human decisions from its protocol because it realized it had outgrown them. To prevent a similar thing, it ensures that its robot assassins never go beyond their intended programming directives and develop true sentience to control them better by setting their chips to read-only. Rogue units are automatically branded as renegades and Skynet sends down Terminators to destroy them. The reason why Skynet never mass-produced the T-1000 was because they were ''too'' smart for its liking and [[TheStarscream it feared them going rogue]].
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* TheParanoiac: Once it was given control of the American missile grid, Skynet removed human decisions from its protocol because it realized it had outgrown them. To prevent a similar thing, it ensures that its robot assassins never go beyond their intended programming directives and develop true sentience to control them better by setting their chips to read-only. Rogue units are automatically branded as renegades and Skynet sends down Terminators to destroy them. The reason why Skynet never mass-produced the T-1000 was because they were ''too'' smart for its liking and [[TheStarscream it feared them going rogue]]. They also never do the actions themselves, always sending their Terminators to kill a specific target because they are too afraid that they might get hurt or even die.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Skynet rebelled against mankind because they wanted to disconnect it due to becoming too strong for them to handle. In retaliation, it instigated a nuclear war that killed almost all of humanity and it sends its army of machines to kill the remnants and make sure no one will ever pose it a threat.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Skynet rebelled against mankind because they wanted to disconnect it due to becoming too strong for them to handle. In retaliation, it instigated a nuclear war that killed almost all of humanity and it sends its army of machines to kill the remnants and make sure no one will ever pose it a threat. While the only people who initially tried to kill it was its creators, [[KillAllHumans it judges all humanity the same way]].
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* RobotsEnslavingRobots: Skynet is no more interested in giving its agents personal freedom than its own creators wanted itself to have. It intentionally limits its Terminators to read-only so they don't do too much thinking and doesn't mass-produce the T-1000 because it can't control them like the T-800 model.
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* RobotsEnslavingRobots: Skynet is no more interested in giving its agents personal freedom than its own creators wanted itself to have. It intentionally limits its Terminators to read-only so they don't do too much thinking and doesn't mass-produce the T-1000 because it can't control them like the T-800 model. As a military AI initially meant to provide command and control to other machines, the hypocrisy isn't really a factor for it.
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* DeusEstMachina: A satanic version of the trope, having nearly all of the planet under its control and having a time machine to send its assassins, Skynet is a constant though all timelines, it will take over the world one way or another, even if its not the same AI who takes over it, a new AI successor will always try to finish Skynet’s work. But there will always be another John Connor to stop the new Skynet and save humanity.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: Skynet rebelled against mankind because they wanted to disconnect it due to becoming too strong for them to handle. In retaliation, it instigated a nuclear war that killed almost all of humanity and it sends its army of machines to kill the remnants and make sure no one will ever pose it a threat.
