History ReferencedBy / Terminator

* ''Literature/TheDrawingOfTheThree''. Roland Deschain possesses the body of SerialKiller Jack Mort, with a slight UncannyValley effect such as a CreepyMonotone and slight pauses while he works out what to say. Years later, a police officer who encountered him is watching ''The Terminator'' and starts shouting that Arnie's character is the same man, before dropping dead of a heart attack.

* ''Literature/TheDrawingOfTheThree''. Roland Deschain possesses the body of SerialKiller Jack Mort, with a slight UncannyValley effect such as a CreepyMonotone and slight pauses while he works out what to say. Years later, a police officer who encountered him is watching ''The Terminator'' and starts shouting that Arnie's character is the same man, before dropping dead of a heart attack.

* ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'': Flat showed ''Film/TheTerminator'' to [[SpeaksInShoutOuts Trim]][[SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids mau]], screwing up its programming that it now goes on occasional rampages believing that it was sent from the future by Skynet. Trimmau also being made of liquid metal (specifically mercury) and having the power of VoluntaryShapeshifting might also be a loose reference to the T-1000.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Eddsworld}}'' the 2003 short Recap/Edd originally had the ''{{Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay}}'' theme song in the beginning.

* ''WebAnimation/Eddsworld'' the 2003 short Recap/Edd originally had the ''{{Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay}}'' theme song in the beginning.

* ''Manga/{{Gigant}}'': When a group from the future explains that they traveled to the present to stop a rogue AI from taking control over the world, Rei comments that this reminds him of ''Terminator''.

* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** The [[Manga/DragonBall first series]] has a villainous android named Major Metallitron, who is [[TheAhnold an expy of the first movie's T-800]].
** ''Anime/DragonBallZTheReturnOfCooler'' and the Android Saga of ''[[Anime/DragonBallZ Z]]'' could also be read as references to the first and second ''Terminator'' films. One example would be Future Trunks resembling John Connor from the second movie.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'':
** The first series has a villainous android named Major Metallitron, who is [[TheAhnold an expy of the first movie's T-800]].
** ''Anime/DragonBallZTheReturnOfCooler'' and the Android Saga could also be read as references to the first and second ''Terminator'' films.

* In ''Videogame/DoomEternal'', if the Doom Slayer dies falling in lava, he will give a thumbs up like the T-800 being lowered into molten steel.

* ''VideoGame/MechanizedAttack'' have {{cyborg}} enemies whose skin peels off in a RoboticReveal moment, with their interiors looking a lot like the T-100's skeletal form. The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanized_Attack arcade flyer]] even lifts the likeness of 80s' Arnold Schwarzenegger as one of the characters.

** Mr. X, Nemesis, and the Tyrants in general have some inspiration from the Terminators. Nemesis has been explicitly stated to be based on the T-1000.
*** In ''Resident Evil: City of the Dead'', Claire gives Mr. X its name out of a list of other names including "Terminator".

* In ''VideoGame/AliensFireteamElite'', one of the available challenge cards is named "Won't Stop Until You're Dead" (referencing Kyle Reese's speech of the first film), and what it does is that it activates an endlessly-respawning [[HeavilyArmoredGoon Heavy Synth]] as an AdvancingBossOfDoom.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode [[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E8CandyIsDandyCatastrophe "Candy is Dandy Catastrophe"]], the blob monster reforms similarly to the T-1000.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E9GriftOfTheMagi Grift Of The Magi]]": When Homer, Bart, and Lisa [[KillItWithFire burn all the]] [[FauxFurby Funzo]] toys, one Funzo rises out of the flames like the T-800 from the first ''Terminator'' film. Thankfully, [[ItMakesSenseInContext Gary Coleman steps in and subdues it]].

* ''LightNovel/BakaAndTestSummonTheBeasts'' references the "thumbs-up while sinking in lava" scene.