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* GutturalGrowler: She lapses into this at times during ''Terminator 2'' when she's particularly upset. It becomes much more frequent by ''Dark Fate.''
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* VocalEvolution: Linda Hamilton gives her a softer voice in the first movie displaying her ShrinkingViolet innocence. In the sequel, she gives her a more assertive and commanding voice to fit her ActionMom status. By ''Dark Fate'' she's developed into a GutturalGrowler.
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* VocalEvolution: Linda Hamilton gives her a softer voice in the first movie displaying her ShrinkingViolet innocence. In the sequel, she gives her a more assertive and commanding voice to fit her ActionMom status. By ''Dark Fate'' she's developed into a GutturalGrowler.growler.
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!!Sarah Jeanette Connor
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!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Élisabeth Wiener (European French, ''The Terminator''), Véronique Augereau (European French, ''Terminator 2'', ''Dark Fate''), Creator/RihokoYoshida (Japanese, ''Terminator 2''), Yolanda Vidal ([=LatAm=] Spanish, ''The Terminator'' original dub), Mayra Arrellano ([=LatAm=] Spanish, ''The Terminator'' redub), Creator/LauraTorres ([=LatAm=] Spanish)
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!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Élisabeth Wiener (European French, ''The Terminator''), Véronique Augereau Creator/VeroniqueAugereau (European French, ''Terminator 2'', ''Dark Fate''), Creator/RihokoYoshida (Japanese, ''Terminator 2''), Yolanda Vidal ([=LatAm=] Spanish, ''The Terminator'' original dub), Mayra Arrellano ([=LatAm=] Spanish, ''The Terminator'' redub), Creator/LauraTorres ([=LatAm=] Spanish)
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* EightiesHair: Not quite as much as her friend Ginger, but still definitely qualifies in the first film. Sarah ditches it for a TomboyishPonytail in the sequel before going for a shorter and more practical length in her old age.
* ActionMom: In the second film, bordering on KnightTemplarParent. She's accumulated a decade's worth of military knowledge and experience that she intends to pass onto her son John. Deconstructed as it's shown Sarah neglected to give John the warmth he needed in his childhood, causing the boy to become bitter and disillusioned at a young age.
* ActionMom: In the second film, bordering on KnightTemplarParent. She's accumulated a decade's worth of military knowledge and experience that she intends to pass onto her son John. Deconstructed as it's shown Sarah neglected to give John the warmth he needed in his childhood, causing the boy to become bitter and disillusioned at a young age.
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* EightiesHair: Not quite as much as her friend Ginger, but still definitely qualifies in the first film. Sarah ditches Ditches it for a TomboyishPonytail in the sequel before going for a shorter and more practical length in her old age.
sequel.
* ActionMom: In the second film, bordering on KnightTemplarParent. She's accumulated a decade's worth of military knowledge and experience that she intends to pass onto her son John. Deconstructed as it's shown Sarah neglected to give John the warmth he needed in his childhood, causing the boy to become bitter and disillusioned at a young age.
* ActionMom: In the second film, bordering on KnightTemplarParent.
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** In the first film Sarah is guilty of this, as she dated a guy that treated her like dirt before she met Kyle. When she does meet Kyle, it's clear that she is unnerved by him, but still likes him, as proven when she tip toes around the question of whether or not he had a girlfriend, seconds before his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove. Lastly, as mentioned in ''Terminator 2'', she started going out with military personnel, mostly to learn things she could teach John, but given her history....
** She even reflects to herself how the Terminator was, in her opinion, the only suitable father figure while listing off the different ways a parent can abuse or neglect their child (which likely speaks volumes about the other men she met).
* AmbiguousDisorder: She seems to have taken up the mantle from [[ShellShockedVeteran Kyle]] by the second movie. A combination of [[GoMadFromTheRevelation cracking under the revelation of the future]] and her experiences in the first film leaving her traumatized have left her with a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder. She even shares the same symptoms Kyle displayed including verbal tics and recurring nightmares. By ''Dark Fate'' she's got even worse as a result of [[spoiler:losing John]] and has resorted to drinking to cope.
** She even reflects to herself how the Terminator was, in her opinion, the only suitable father figure while listing off the different ways a parent can abuse or neglect their child (which likely speaks volumes about the other men she met).
* AmbiguousDisorder: She seems to have taken up the mantle from [[ShellShockedVeteran Kyle]] by the second movie. A combination of [[GoMadFromTheRevelation cracking under the revelation of the future]] and her experiences in the first film leaving her traumatized have left her with a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder. She even shares the same symptoms Kyle displayed including verbal tics and recurring nightmares. By ''Dark Fate'' she's got even worse as a result of [[spoiler:losing John]] and has resorted to drinking to cope.
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** In the first film Sarah she is guilty of this, as she dated a guy that treated her like dirt before she met Kyle. When she does meet Kyle, it's clear that she is unnerved by him, but still likes him, as proven when she tip toes around the question of whether or not he had a girlfriend, seconds before his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove. Lastly, as mentioned in ''Terminator 2'', she started going out with military personnel, mostly to learn things she could teach John, but given her history....
** She even reflects to herself how the Terminator was, in her opinion, the only suitable father figure while listing off the different ways a parent can abuse or neglect their child (which likely speaks volumes about the other men shemet).
* AmbiguousDisorder: She seems to have taken up the mantle from [[ShellShockedVeteran Kyle]] by the second movie. A combination of [[GoMadFromTheRevelation cracking under the revelation of the future]] and her experiences in the first film leaving her traumatized have left her with a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder. She even shares the same symptoms Kyle displayed including verbal tics and recurring nightmares. By ''Dark Fate'' she's got even worse as a result of [[spoiler:losing John]] and has resorted to drinking to cope.met).
** She even reflects to herself how the Terminator was, in her opinion, the only suitable father figure while listing off the different ways a parent can abuse or neglect their child (which likely speaks volumes about the other men she
* AmbiguousDisorder: She seems to have taken up the mantle from [[ShellShockedVeteran Kyle]] by the second movie. A combination of [[GoMadFromTheRevelation cracking under the revelation of the future]] and her experiences in the first film leaving her traumatized have left her with a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder. She even shares the same symptoms Kyle displayed including verbal tics and recurring nightmares. By ''Dark Fate'' she's got even worse as a result of [[spoiler:losing John]] and has resorted to drinking to cope.
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* BurgerFool: She used to be a waitress for a restaurant in the first movie until Kyle had to hide her from Skynet.
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* BruiserWithASoftCenter: As of the end of the first ''Terminator'' movie, she became an established fighter herself (partially influenced by Kyle Reese), and even in her maddest moments, she's still very caring and considerate.
* BurgerFool: She used to be a waitress for a restaurant in the first movie until Kyle had to hide her from Skynet.
* BurgerFool: She used to be a waitress for a restaurant in the first movie until Kyle had to hide her from Skynet.
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* CharacterCheck: After learning to trust a Terminator with her son's life, Sarah witnesses another Terminator of the exact same model [[spoiler: kill her son]]. This causes her to revert back to her cold and violent nature.
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** By ''Dark Fate'' Sarah shares this status with Dani, as every single person the two women know have died over the course of the trilogy.
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* LadyOfWar: In the second movie. Sarah has devoted the last 10 years towards preparing John to be a military leader in the event of Judgement Day.
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* TheLoad: In the first movie, she starts off as a relatively airheaded fast food waitress. [[TookALevelInBadass She is forced to overcome this]] after [[spoiler:Kyle is gravely wounded.]]
* LogicalWeakness: Despite her impressive array of combat skills, she is still only human. By ''Dark Fate'' she defaults to providing ranged support for Grace and Carl and only intervening when necessary.
* LogicalWeakness: Despite her impressive array of combat skills, she is still only human. By ''Dark Fate'' she defaults to providing ranged support for Grace and Carl and only intervening when necessary.
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* TheLoad: In the first movie, she starts off as a relatively airheaded fast food waitress. [[TookALevelInBadass She is forced to overcome this]] after [[spoiler:Kyle is gravely wounded.]]
wounded]].
* LogicalWeakness: Despite her impressive array of combat skills, she is still only human. By ''Dark Fate'' she defaults to providing ranged support for Grace and Carl and only intervening when necessary.
* LogicalWeakness: Despite her impressive array of combat skills, she is still only human. By ''Dark Fate'' she defaults to providing ranged support for Grace and Carl and only intervening when necessary.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:AMatchMadeInStockholm: Averted, but implied that other people believe she's playing the trope straight, particularly Dr. Silberman. Justified in that, after being kidnapped by a "loon" spouting ridiculous stories about killer robots, Sarah herself has become an anti-technology terrorist that blows up places that build advanced computers. Even after the police come to try and get her to make a statement against the Terminator, from their point of view, later that same night, the same guy busts her out of the institution and, days later, she's joined forces with the guy to assault a Cyberdyne building.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: In ''Dark Fate'', [[spoiler:she watches "Carl" shoot John dead right in front of her eyes.]]
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: In ''Dark Fate'', [[spoiler:she watches "Carl" shoot John dead right in front of her eyes.]]eyes]].
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* PinkMeansFeminine: Spends most of the first film wearing pink clothes (both her waitress uniform and her main outfit). It's ditched as she hardens up.
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* PinkMeansFeminine: Spends most of the first film wearing pink clothes (both her waitress uniform and her main outfit). It's ditched as she hardens up.
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* SparedByAdaptation: In the original continuity, Sarah Connor died of cancer after the events of the second movie, with her son talking about it. After all but first two movies were made non-canon, Dark Fate killer off John Connor instead with Sarah coming back instead.
* StockholmSyndrome: Averted, but implied that other people believe she's playing the trope straight, particularly Dr. Silberman. Justified in that, after being kidnapped by a "loon" spouting ridiculous stories about killer robots, Sarah herself has become an anti-technology terrorist that blows up places that build advanced computers. Even after the police come to try and get her to make a statement against the Terminator, from their point of view, later that same night, the same guy busts her out of the institution and, days later, she's joined forces with the guy to assault a Cyberdyne building.
* StockholmSyndrome: Averted, but implied that other people believe she's playing the trope straight, particularly Dr. Silberman. Justified in that, after being kidnapped by a "loon" spouting ridiculous stories about killer robots, Sarah herself has become an anti-technology terrorist that blows up places that build advanced computers. Even after the police come to try and get her to make a statement against the Terminator, from their point of view, later that same night, the same guy busts her out of the institution and, days later, she's joined forces with the guy to assault a Cyberdyne building.
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* SparedByAdaptation: SparedByTheAdaptation: In the original continuity, Sarah Connor died of cancer after the events of the second movie, with her son talking about it. After all but first two movies were made non-canon, Dark Fate killer killed off John Connor instead with Sarah coming back instead.
* StockholmSyndrome: Averted, but implied that other people believe she's playing the trope straight, particularly Dr. Silberman. Justified in that, after being kidnapped by a "loon" spouting ridiculous stories about killer robots, Sarah herself has become an anti-technology terrorist that blows up places that build advanced computers. Even after the police come to try and get her to make a statement against the Terminator, from their point of view, later that same night, the same guy busts her out of the institution and, days later, she's joined forces with the guy to assault a Cyberdyne building.back.
* StockholmSyndrome: Averted, but implied that other people believe she's playing the trope straight, particularly Dr. Silberman. Justified in that, after being kidnapped by a "loon" spouting ridiculous stories about killer robots, Sarah herself has become an anti-technology terrorist that blows up places that build advanced computers. Even after the police come to try and get her to make a statement against the Terminator, from their point of view, later that same night, the same guy busts her out of the institution and, days later, she's joined forces with the guy to assault a Cyberdyne building.
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* UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: She had a pet iguana when she was Ginger's roommate. Ginger wasn't a fan of it.
* VocalEvolution: Linda Hamilton gives her a softer voice in the first movie displaying her ShrinkingViolet innocence. In the sequel, she gives her a more assertive and commanding voice to fit her ActionMom status. By ''Dark Fate'' she's developed into a GutturalGrowler.
* VocalEvolution: Linda Hamilton gives her a softer voice in the first movie displaying her ShrinkingViolet innocence. In the sequel, she gives her a more assertive and commanding voice to fit her ActionMom status. By ''Dark Fate'' she's developed into a GutturalGrowler.
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* CoolPet: She had a pet iguana when she was Ginger's roommate. Ginger wasn't a fan of it.
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* TheLoad: In the first movie, she starts off as a relatively airheaded fast food waitress. [[TookALevelInBadass She is forced to overcome this]] after [[spoiler:Kyle is gravely wounded]].
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* TheLoad: In the first movie, she starts off as a relatively airheaded fast food waitress. [[TookALevelInBadass She is forced to overcome this]] after [[spoiler:Kyle is gravely wounded]].wounded.]]
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: In ''Dark Fate'', [[spoiler:she watches "Carl" shoot John dead right in front of her eyes]].
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: In ''Dark Fate'', [[spoiler:she watches "Carl" shoot John dead right in front of her eyes]].eyes.]]
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* UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: She had a pet iguana when she was Ginger's roommate. Ginger wasn't a fan of it.
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%%* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: With Kyle in the first movie.
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* EightiesHair: Not quite as much as her friend Ginger, but still definitely qualifies in the first film. Ditches it for a TomboyishPonytail in the sequel.
* ActionMom: In the second film, bordering on KnightTemplarParent.
* ActionMom: In the second film, bordering on KnightTemplarParent.
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* EightiesHair: Not quite as much as her friend Ginger, but still definitely qualifies in the first film. Ditches Sarah ditches it for a TomboyishPonytail in the sequel.
sequel before going for a shorter and more practical length in her old age.
* ActionMom: In the second film, bordering on KnightTemplarParent. She's accumulated a decade's worth of military knowledge and experience that she intends to pass onto her son John. Deconstructed as it's shown Sarah neglected to give John the warmth he needed in his childhood, causing the boy to become bitter and disillusioned at a young age.
* ActionMom: In the second film, bordering on KnightTemplarParent. She's accumulated a decade's worth of military knowledge and experience that she intends to pass onto her son John. Deconstructed as it's shown Sarah neglected to give John the warmth he needed in his childhood, causing the boy to become bitter and disillusioned at a young age.
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** In the first film she is guilty of this, as she dated a guy that treated her like dirt before she met Kyle. When she does meet Kyle, it's clear that she is unnerved by him, but still likes him, as proven when she tip toes around the question of whether or not he had a girlfriend, seconds before his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove. Lastly, as mentioned in ''Terminator 2'', she started going out with military personnel, mostly to learn things she could teach John, but given her history....
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** In the first film she Sarah is guilty of this, as she dated a guy that treated her like dirt before she met Kyle. When she does meet Kyle, it's clear that she is unnerved by him, but still likes him, as proven when she tip toes around the question of whether or not he had a girlfriend, seconds before his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove. Lastly, as mentioned in ''Terminator 2'', she started going out with military personnel, mostly to learn things she could teach John, but given her history....
* CharacterCheck: After learning to trust a Terminator with her son's life, Sarah witnesses another Terminator of the exact same model [[spoiler: kill her son]]. This causes her to revert back to her cold and violent nature.
** By ''Dark Fate'' Sarah shares this status with Dani, as every single person the two women know have died over the course of the trilogy.
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* PinkMeansFeminine: Spends most of the first film wearing pink clothes (both her waitress uniform and her main outfit).
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!!Main Continuity
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!!Sarah Jeanette Connor
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too."'']]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Since then, I hunt Terminators, [[DrowningMySorrows and I drink until I black out]]. Enough of a résumé for you?"'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/LindaHamilton
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Élisabeth Wiener (European French, ''The Terminator''), Véronique Augereau (European French, ''Terminator 2'', ''Dark Fate''), Creator/RihokoYoshida (Japanese, ''Terminator 2''), Yolanda Vidal ([=LatAm=] Spanish, ''The Terminator'' original dub), Mayra Arrellano ([=LatAm=] Spanish, ''The Terminator'' redub), Creator/LauraTorres ([=LatAm=] Spanish)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheTerminator'' | ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' | ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate''
The mother of the future human resistance leader against the Machines, John Connor.
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* EightiesHair: Not quite as much as her friend Ginger, but still definitely qualifies in the first film. Ditches it for a TomboyishPonytail in the sequel.
* ActionMom: In the second film, bordering on KnightTemplarParent.
* ActionSurvivor: In the first movie; turning on the hydraulic press that kills the Terminator shows her transition to ActionGirl.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys:
** In the first film she is guilty of this, as she dated a guy that treated her like dirt before she met Kyle. When she does meet Kyle, it's clear that she is unnerved by him, but still likes him, as proven when she tip toes around the question of whether or not he had a girlfriend, seconds before his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove. Lastly, as mentioned in ''Terminator 2'', she started going out with military personnel, mostly to learn things she could teach John, but given her history....
** She even reflects to herself how the Terminator was, in her opinion, the only suitable father figure while listing off the different ways a parent can abuse or neglect their child (which likely speaks volumes about the other men she met).
* AmbiguousDisorder: She seems to have taken up the mantle from [[ShellShockedVeteran Kyle]] by the second movie. A combination of [[GoMadFromTheRevelation cracking under the revelation of the future]] and her experiences in the first film leaving her traumatized have left her with a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder. She even shares the same symptoms Kyle displayed including verbal tics and recurring nightmares. By ''Dark Fate'' she's got even worse as a result of [[spoiler:losing John]] and has resorted to drinking to cope.
* AntiHero: While Sarah was firmly an ActionSurvivor in the first film, come time for the second one, [[ShellShockedVeteran she's become unhinged]] suffering a nasty case of PTSD. Sarah attempts to ShootTheDog [[spoiler: and tries to kill Miles Dyson in front of his family.]]
* ArmsDealer: In the second film, John mentions she spent a lot of time running guns in Nicaragua.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Sarah nearly falls victim to this in ''Judgement Day'' when she tries to kill Miles Dyson, [[spoiler:almost shooting him in the back and then advancing into his house in a manner disturbingly similar to the Terminators; even when Miles' ''six year old son'' is begging Sarah not to kill his daddy, there is a moment where it genuinely seems like Sarah is going to kill a man who not only hasn't done anything yet but never set out to cause any harm in the first place]].
* BigNo: Sarah almost makes it out of the asylum, but she sees the T-800 walking out of an elevator. After saying "no" in a low tone of disbelief, it turns into this out of sheer terror.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: In ''Dark Fate'', she gets to quip "I'll be back" right before blowing up the Rev-9.
* BrokenBird: Second movie. Her attempts to stop Judgment Day have left her sanity somewhat in tatters and she is in a mental hospital at the beginning of [=T2=]. It's even worse in ''Dark Fate'', as [[spoiler: John was murdered before her eyes]].
* BurgerFool: She used to be a waitress for a restaurant in the first movie until Kyle had to hide her from Skynet.
* TheBusCameBack: [[BusCrash Written off]] between films after T2 and only appearing in [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles alternate]] [[Film/TerminatorGenisys timelines]] since, the original Sarah finally returns in ''Dark Fate'' after a 28-year absence.
* CassandraTruth: She's institutionalized for trying to prevent and talking about the future war with the machines. Played with, however, because she's still AxCrazy despite being right about that.
* CharacterDevelopment: She has two:
** In the first film, she is a ShrinkingViolet with self-doubt until Skynet specifically targets her by sending a T-800 while Kyle Reese is sent to protect her by her future son's orders. Even then, she still has doubts about herself when Kyle tells her about the amazing things John told about her, until Kyle and herself are on the last legs on their life and she manages to crush the T-800. This action allows Sarah to commit herself to raise her only son into the man he was in the future.
** While she TookALevelInBadass, she clearly did have problems with her communication skills, and often tried to date military personnel so they can teach something useful to John, not giving her son the affection he desperately needed, which was observed by the T-800. While initially distrustful towards the reprogrammed T-800 who is under future John's orders to protect his younger self (and nearly tries to destroy his CPU), she learns to trust the machine when he proves to be a valuable ally and is visibly disheartened when he has to be destroyed to prevent Skynet's creation and Judgment Day while finally hugging her son.
* CoolPet: She had a pet iguana when she was Ginger's roommate. Ginger wasn't a fan of it.
* CrazyPrepared:
** Enrique has been looking after some stuff for her. Said stuff is an utterly ridiculous number of guns, including large amounts of assault rifles, several machine guns, a grenade launcher, and a fucking ''[[GatlingGood minigun]]''.
** By ''Dark Fate'', she still carries heavy weaponry around in her cars and puts a lot of effort into avoiding detection.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: InvokedTrope. Sarah is right about the {{Killer Robot}}s from the future, but she's still become nuts by the time of ''Terminator 2''.
* DamselInDistress: The first film centered around Kyle going back to protect her from the T-800.
* DarkActionGirl: She can kick a major amount of ass, but it doesn't come without a lot of psychological scarring. Her time in a mental hospital did her no favors. Further, Cameron wrote the hospital escape scene to avert the FauxActionGirl trope--if anything, the Terminator's arrival was little more than a RedundantRescue, as Sarah was home free when he showed up.
* {{Determinator}}: She embraces her inner {{Determinator}} in the climax of the first movie, and practically ''becomes'' a Terminator in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', to the point she's halfway to shooting a defenceless, wounded man in front of his wife and children for something he ''hasn't actually done yet''. Even after that, she's still perfectly capable of firing a 12-gauge shotgun repeatedly after minutes earlier having an inch-thick metal spike rammed straight through her shoulder. In fact, if she hadn't run out of ammo, she would have destroyed the T-1000 herself, without the T-800's help.
* FantasticRacism: She develops this in regards to Terminators in general. In the first film, the first T-800 was sent to kill her, and also went out of his way to murder innocent people, including her friends and mother, along the way. After this incident, she immediately freaks out when she sees an identical T-800 - not knowing it was reprogrammed by future John to protect his past self - and was completely distrustful of him, to the point of nearly destroying his CPU. She eventually grew to trust him around John and was hesitant in destroying him to prevent [=SkyNet=] for good. ''Dark Fate'' unfortunately makes this stick when [[spoiler:another T-800 kills John in front of her, and her hatred of "Carl" is ''very'' justified]].
* FinalGirl: She's the last remaining "Sarah Connor" in Los Angeles by the end of the first movie.
* GoldDigger: SubvertedTrope. In the second film... sort-of. John says Sarah would "shack up with" any guy who looked like he had something worthwhile to teach John so that he'd grow up to be the competent leader she knew he was destined to be. However, he also says that Sarah would usually try and get her new man on board with the whole ScrewDestiny plan, only for them to think she's crazy and dump her. So yeah, she used a lot of guys, but under the circumstances, she still tried not to be abusive and wasn't doing it for selfish reasons.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: PlayedStraight. The director wanted to play with the audience's sympathies for her. Even though they already know that she's right about the BadFuture and the machine uprising, that hasn't made her the most sane person in the last nine years. [[spoiler:It doesn't get better for her, even by her twilight years.]]
* GoodIsNotNice: From the second film onwards. She can be quite ruthless when she wants to be, but she is fighting to save humanity overall.
%%* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: With Kyle in the first movie.
* GutturalGrowler: She lapses into this at times during ''Terminator 2'' when she's particularly upset. It becomes much more frequent by ''Dark Fate.''
* HairColorDissonance: Linda Hamilton's portrayal depicts her having dirty blonde hair, while Emilia Clarke's has [[AloofDarkHairedGirl dark brown]].
* HerHeartWillGoOn: At the end of the first movie, providing a popularizing template for the "left with child" version. It's actually a ForegoneConclusion; before she cuts him off, Kyle Reese tells her that the father of her son and future RebelLeader John Connor dies, but that she goes on to train John to fight back against the machines. It later turns out that Kyle is John's father; he and Sarah were only together briefly before he's killed protecting her, but she obviously cares deeply for him and she swiftly avenges him by [[TookALevelInBadass destroying the Terminator herself]]. The movie ends with a pregnant Sarah debating whether to tell John that Kyle is his father; she knows the future is going to be rough for humanity but also that she can guarantee their victory over Skynet.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: She practically became a Terminator herself, [[LampshadeHanging right down to her enemy's musical motif and choice of sunglasses]], when she tried to murder Miles Dyson in order to prevent Skynet's creation.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: She's wanted in the United States as a violent [[EvilLuddite anti-technology terrorist]], with more than enough crimes on her rap sheet to sentence her to life imprisonment. What almost no one realizes is that Sarah's motives, [[CassandraTruth however insane they may sound, are completely justified]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the second film. While she is prone to angry outbursts and paranoid, she truly does love John, not just because of the role he plays in the future, but also because he's her son.
%%* LadyOfWar: In the second movie.
* KnightInSourArmor: Decades of fighting Terminators and living as a wanted criminal have taken their toll on Sarah, leaving her a very bitter woman who still fights to protect humanity at ''any'' cost. [[spoiler:This is on top of her having to grieve for her son John, who was murdered in 1998.]]
* LadyDrunk: By the time ''Dark Fate'' rolls around, she's turned to copious amounts of drinking in order to deal with her issues.
* TheLoad: In the first movie, she starts off as a relatively airheaded fast food waitress. [[TookALevelInBadass She is forced to overcome this]] after [[spoiler:Kyle is gravely wounded]].
* LogicalWeakness: Despite her impressive array of combat skills, she is still only human. By ''Dark Fate'' she defaults to providing ranged support for Grace and Carl and only intervening when necessary.
* MamaBear: She'll do ''anything'' to protect John, almost to the point of being a KnightTemplarParent.
* MadonnaArchetype: With her son being the MessianicArchetype.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** [[spoiler:When her best friend/roommate Ginger and her boyfriend]] were killed by the Terminator in their apartment.
** Silently after the attempted hit on Dyson. Exacerbated by the fact that not only had she taken on a dimmer view on human life than the Terminator she was traveling with, but had adopted the MO of the Terminator that first tried to kill her. She almost killed a father in front of his wife and kid, something that hits her close to home after [[spoiler:losing Reese and almost losing John]].
* NeverMessWithGranny: She's well past 60 in ''Terminator: Dark Fate'', and she still packs heavy weapons just in case.
* OhCrap: Two notable examples in the second film. She gets a very subtle one when she's shown pictures of the new T-800 but she hides her reaction to it from the asylum orderlies. She gets a ''big one'' when the T-800 shows up during her escape from the hospital.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Twice in as many movies:
** ''Judgement Day'' solidified her CharacterDevelopment into a self-sufficient ActionGirl who- though somewhat unhinged- is capable of outwitting and overpowering her captors, and is well on her way to making good her escape... Until the sight of a T-800 strolling out of an elevator knocks her off her feet and sends her screaming back in the other direction, no less the helpless girl she was in the previous movie.
** In ''Dark Fate'' she vows never to call Carl, the T-800 that [[spoiler:killed John]] by name, so disgusted is she by his actions. So when she calls out to the badly damaged Carl by name as [[spoiler:Rev-9 chokes the life out of Dani]], begging him to save her, it's an indication of how things are moments away from going to hell. [[HistoryRepeats Again]].
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: In ''Dark Fate'', [[spoiler:she watches "Carl" shoot John dead right in front of her eyes]].
* ParentalAbandonment:
** Has a DisappearedDad in the first film and her mother [[spoiler: was killed by the T-800]].
** She herself is a MissingMom to John most of his life, with her being locked in a mental asylum and all.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Spends most of the first film wearing pink clothes (both her waitress uniform and her main outfit).
* TheProtagonist: Of the first two films. Kyle and the second T-800 are TheHero of the first and second films respectively, but she has about as much screen time (and certainly more dialogue than the latter), and the story is largely told from her viewpoint.
* SanitySlippage: A big part of her character arc in ''Terminator 2''. She's already mentally a mess by the beginning of the second film and progressively gets even worse. The introduction of a new T-800 physically identical to the one that tried to murder her and killed her lover coupled with the realization that Judgment Day is drawing closer cause her to start losing it, culminating in a particularly bad nightmare that causes her to nearly murder Miles Dyson in front of his wife and young son. Fortunately she stops just short of it after [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis realizing what she's doing]].
* ScrewDestiny: Is willing to commit ''cold-blooded murder'' to protect her son and stop Judgment Day. Bonus points for providing the trope image itself.
* ShellShockedVeteran: In the second film as a result of having lost her paramour to a cyborg that was hunting her down with the intent to kill her.
* SparedByAdaptation: In the original continuity, Sarah Connor died of cancer after the events of the second movie, with her son talking about it. After all but first two movies were made non-canon, Dark Fate killer off John Connor instead with Sarah coming back instead.
* StockholmSyndrome: Averted, but implied that other people believe she's playing the trope straight, particularly Dr. Silberman. Justified in that, after being kidnapped by a "loon" spouting ridiculous stories about killer robots, Sarah herself has become an anti-technology terrorist that blows up places that build advanced computers. Even after the police come to try and get her to make a statement against the Terminator, from their point of view, later that same night, the same guy busts her out of the institution and, days later, she's joined forces with the guy to assault a Cyberdyne building.
* TakeTheWheel: Is made to do this in both the first and second movie.
* TankTopTomboy: In the epilogue of the first movie, and then throughout the second movie, after she TakesALevelInBadass.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "You're terminated, fucker!" Also a PreMortemOneLiner and PrecisionFStrike.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Despite her being a CombatPragmatist, she's never taken the life of a human being. The one time she becomes a "terminator" to execute someone she thinks is the reason [=SkyNet=] exists, she can't bring herself to be an unemotional killer.
* TimeTravelRomance: One where the romance has a good deal of plot significance.
* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Sarah has a problem with Reese telling her of all the things she hasn't done yet.
* TookALevelInBadass: During the events between the first and second movie. It's deconstructed as it lands her in a mental hospital, and Sarah later admits that she's been a terrible mother to John.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Mentally stable mother-of-the-year she is ''not.'' By the time of ''Dark Fate'', she's devoid of any kindness whatsoever and treats even her closest allies like dirt.
* TookALevelInKindness: She regains a lot of her humanity by the end of the second film, and becomes a better mother to John in the process.
* {{Tsundere}}: In ''Judgment Day'', while it's clear she deeply cares about John, her parenting skills aren't exactly there. In ''Dark Fate'', she willingly chooses to help Dani because she reminded her of herself in Sarah's early years.
* TwoFirstNames: Her last name can be traditionally used as a given name.
* UngratefulBitch: Instead of hugging her own son and thanking him, she just checked if John was hurt and scolds him for trying to rescue her.
-->'''Sarah:''' You cannot risk yourself, even for me. You're too important! Do you understand?\\
''(John begins to cry. Sarah shakes her head in disappointment.)''\\
'''John:''' I had to get you out of that place. I'm sorry!\\
'''Sarah:''' I don't need your help. I can take care of myself.
* VocalEvolution: Linda Hamilton gives her a softer voice in the first movie displaying her ShrinkingViolet innocence. In the sequel, she gives her a more assertive and commanding voice to fit her ActionMom status. By ''Dark Fate'' she's developed into a GutturalGrowler.
* WrongfullyCommitted: At the beginning of the second movie, she is introduced being interrogated in a mental ward, having spent years in the mental facility after failing to convince the public of the impending judgement day (from the first movie) and attempting to bomb a computer factory to stop the apocalypse all by herself.
* YouKilledMyFather:
** In the first film [[spoiler: the T-800 killed Sarah's mother trying to find Sarah]].
** Then, in a more impactful way for her, [[spoiler:another T-800 kills John in ''Terminator: Dark Fate''. Cue IllKillYou]].
[[/folder]]
!! Other Continuities
[[folder:Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines]]
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John Connor's mother. She died of cancer between ''Judgment Day'' and ''Rise of the Machines'', but not without leaving something behind.
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* CallBack: The phrase on her epitaph: "No fate but what we make".
* GreaterScopeParagon: Being John Connor's mother, she was the one who shielded him from Skynet by influencing him to go off-grid.
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: Despite only being given six months to live when she was diagnosed with leukemia, Sarah survived longer than expected, just to make sure Judgement Day didn't happen when originally predicted.
-->'''John''': The doctors only gave her six months, but she fought for three years. Long enough to make sure.\\
'''Kate''': Make sure?\\
'''John''': That the world didn't end.
* MissingMom: She's dead for a couple of years by the time John is attacked by a new Terminator.
* MoreDakka: Her coffin is full of weapons. She's been secretly cremated, and her ashes have been scattered somewhere in New Mexico.
* PosthumousCharacter: She died in 1997, the very year Judgment Day was originally supposed to happen.
* ProperlyParanoid: Despite telling John otherwise, she never truly believed Judgement Day had been stopped, and left behind a weapons cache for John to use in the event her fears proved accurate.
-->'''John''': "Every day after this one is a gift" she told me "We made it. We're free." But I never really believed that. ''[looks at the weapons cache]'' I guess she didn't either.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Creator/LindaHamilton refused to come back after reading the script, so Sarah was killed off.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/LenaHeadey
!!!'''Aliases:''' Sarah Reese, Sarah Baum
The mother of John Connor, she was told that he will grow up to be the leader of the resistance against the malevolent A.I. [=SkyNet=]. Currently lives with John, Cameron, and Derek in Los Angeles, trying to stop the creation of [=SkyNet=].
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* ActionGirl: Knowledge of the coming apocalypse made her TookALevelInBadass, causing her to train in the use of many in the use of military-grade weapons and become an expert at handling survival situations.
-->'''Derek:''' Remind me again, why are the boys out here and the girls in there?\\
'''John:''' Because one of the girls is harder than nuclear nails.\\
'''Derek:''' [[BaitAndSwitch And the other one's a cyborg.]]
* ActionMom: One episode even has Sarah saying to the child she saved that while she's not a spy, she is a mom.
* AntiHero: She can be pretty ruthless when it comes to keeping John safe, which puts them at odds since John has a ChronicHeroSyndrome.
* BadassNormal: She's a mere human with combat training who regularly is up against Terminators.
* CartwrightCurse: Like John, everyone who loves Sarah dies. Kyle, her parents and roommate in the first film, and [[spoiler: Charley Dixon, Sarah's ex-fiancé]].
* CrazyPrepared: Sarah keeps concealed weapons scattered around the house, such as a shotgun hidden behind wallpaper, and a huge trunk of rifles and shotguns under everyone's respective beds. And the furniture is lined with kevlar.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Sarah is a terrible driver, because she's usually driving very fast away from a scene, and talking to her passengers. In the season 2 premiere, she's trying to talk to John and crashes the car.
* FantasticRacism: Doesn't waste an opportunity to express how much she hates Terminators and spends many a episode saying something hateful towards Cameron.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: She jumps from 1999 to 2007 in the pilot. Being in a world where technology is even more present only makes her even more paranoid.
%%* [[FourTemperamentEnsemble Five Temperament Ensemble]]: Sanguine
* HopelessWithTech: Justifiable, in that she sees every kind of technology as a path leading to the apocalypse, but she really is hopeless.
-->'''Sarah:''' ''[To Andy, when buying a cell phone]'' When I push these buttons, will someone talk to me?
* JerkassHasAPoint: While her treatment of Cameron is in no way nice or appreciative, she does have reason to distrust Terminators, especially the new breed who can fake emotions or glitch and try to kill them as Cameron ended up doing.
* TheLeader: Until the day comes that John must fulfill his destiny as the leader of the human resistance, his mom is the one calling the shots.
* LethalChef: Other than pancakes and PB&J, Sarah can't cook.
* MamaBear: Anything she does is to ensure John survives.
* ProperlyParanoid: Her paranoia often puts her at odds with her son, but she's proven to be right more often than not.
* TheProtagonist: Her name isn't in the title for nothing. This is ''her'' story.
* TiredOfRunning: Her utilitarian lifestyle has kept her on the run for her entire life and its clearly taking a toll on her.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Noticeably compared to the Creator/LindaHamilton version when it comes to treating allied Terminators.
* ScrewDestiny: She has already skipped her cancer death, so this becomes her motto.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: When Cameron informs Sarah of the death from cancer she would have faced in the original timeline had they not jumped 8 years through time over her death. This led her to see an oncologist and despite having no current signs of symptoms she adopted a strict regimen of exercise and supplements. But despite her best efforts, her health began to deteriorate slowly through the last half of Season 2.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Terminator: Genisys]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Everyone who loves me dies."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/EmiliaClarke (adult), Willa Taylor (child)
The mother of John Connor, who trained him from birth to fight against the machines. In the new timeline, Skynet tried to assassinate her at age nine, and she was saved by a Terminator she took to calling "Pops." By the time Reese meets her, she is a trained soldier who has been waiting for him her entire life.
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* ActionGirl: She can kick a major amount of ass due to her forced upbringing by a killer robot.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Creator/LindaHamilton's version has dirty-blonde hair, Emilia Clarke has dark brown hair.
* AdaptationalBadass: Thanks to being trained by a Terminator, she becomes much more competent than she was during the events of the first film.
* AdrenalineMakeover: Unlike her original timeline self, Sarah has a noticeable absence of EightiesHair. In 1984, she's got 21st century type hairstyles.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Cold, distanced, and seemingly as dark as her hair.
* AntiHero: Her upbringing made her a very unhappy person, and she is very resentful of being "destined" to do certain things.
* ArrangedMarriage: Played straight aside from the marriage. Sarah states that Kyle is "the one [she's] been waiting for all [her] life", giving their relationship sort of an "arranged marriage" vibe. We've never been given any indication that she's tried dating or seeing anyone else in the intervening years. However, the marriage part of it was technically never intended, as Kyle is supposed to sleep with her, father their son, and then die.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Kyle, with the hostility mostly generated on her part since she doesn't want to fall in love with him to then lose him like in the original timeline.
* BrokenBird: Having your parents killed when you're nine years old to then spend the rest of your life raised by a killer robot who lets you know about your harsh fate doesn't come without a lot of psychological scarring.
-->'''Sarah:''' Everyone who loves me dies.
* CartwrightCurse: See the above quote.
* CleavageWindow: The black jacket over low cut black top kind. Jacketless for the most of the movie, though.
* ColdSniper: During the scene where "Pops" confronts the T-800.
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: How she introduces herself to Kyle.
* CompositeCharacter: This Sarah integrates aspects of both Connors from ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' during the timeline of the first film.
* DaddysGirl: She's very close to her "Pops", who has raised her and protected her since she lost her family.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Kyle went to the past to protect her, only to find out she needs no protection.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She gradually warms up to Kyle.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: After Kyle, she's the second central character.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: The first shots of her are as she runs up a building to get a vantage point to snipe the T-800.
* FinalFirstHug: With "Pops" prior to the 2017 travel.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Once she arrives in 2017.
* HellBentForLeather: Played with. Despite her leather jacket was heavily featured in promo shots, She loses it to acid rather quickly and never got another one.
* LaserGuidedTykebomb: Once the Terminator adopts her at the age of 9, she is raised up to be a LadyOfWar.
* MandatoryMotherhood: Sarah's main importance, as we all know, is to become the mother of the savior of humanity, John. However, knowing full well that her importance is directly linked to the ultimate destruction of the world as we know it, Sarah wants no part of it. Further, Sarah now no longer has the same [[RescueRomance chemistry her former counterpart]] had with Kyle, who fathered John in the first movie. She seems to warm up to him at the end, but things leave off on an ambiguous note.
* MoralityPet: To "Pops". The way he cares about her shows he's not a mere killer robot.
* NakedOnArrival: Time travel forces her to do this.
* TheNapoleon: A 5'2" (1.57 m) stature and Sarah's HairTriggerTemper combine to create this effect.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her parents were killed by the T-1000 and the "Pops" T-800 serves as her ParentalSubstitute.
* RaisedByRobots: Sarah was raised by the Terminator sent to protect her after her parents were killed. She calls him "Pops".
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: Spending all this time off the grid with only a killer robot as company didn't help her social skills.
* ScrewDestiny: She wants to change the course of the timeline to prevent Judgement Day from ever happening and gain the right to live her life the way she wants.
-->'''Sarah Connor:''' The story of my life. Look, and it's not just "mating". I'm supposed to fall in love with him!
-->'''Pops:''' My files do not deal with love.
-->'''Sarah Connor:''' Shocker there...
-->'''Pops:''' You're being emotional.
-->'''Sarah Connor:''' This is ''my'' life! I wouldn't mind being consulted once in a while about how it's gonna go!
* SleevesAreForWimps: She loses her jacket after some acid drips on its sleeve, and spends rest of the movie in sleeveless tops.
* SmallGirlBigGun: She's 5'2" and she sure loves carrying assault rifles, sniper rifles, pistols, shotguns, grenade launchers...
* SourOutsideSadInside: Her harsh attitude is her way to keep others from getting close to her, as she doesn't want to lose people she cares about again.
* StarCrossedLovers: She knows she's destined to fall in love and conceive a child with Kyle but she knows that he's destined to die so she tries so hard to avert at least the former. Pops being a literal solid ShipperOnDeck with a BecauseDestinySaysSo type of programming doesn't help matters. Still, it's obvious that she gradually still becomes attracted to him.
* TimeTravelRomance: With Kyle. One where the romance has a good deal of plot significance. To the point Sarah knows it will happen and is attempting to avert it.
* {{Tsundere}}: The more she tries to resist being attracted to Kyle, the more she gets closer to him. She even says to Kyle that he shouldn't be too confident only because both embraced without clothes. Justified as she knows he's destined to die protecting her.
* TwoFirstNames: Her last name can be traditionally used as a given name.
* {{UnPerson}}: When she and Kyle are taken into custody by the SFPD for materializing naked on the freeway and causing an accident as a result, the inspectors who investigate them find Sarah particularly suspicious because they can't find any fingerprint or DNA matches on her, no facial recognition hits on driver's licenses or passports, and no hits on social media accounts, student [=ID=]s or credit cards.
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'''[[center: [- ''Characters/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'' | ''Characters/TerminatorSalvation'' | ''Characters/TerminatorGenisys'' -]]]'''
'''[[center: [- ''Characters/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' -]]]'''
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[[foldercontrol]]
!!Main Continuity
[[folder:Sarah Connor]]
!!Sarah Jeanette Connor
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"The hardest thing is deciding what I should tell you and what not to."'']]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too."'']]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Since then, I hunt Terminators, [[DrowningMySorrows and I drink until I black out]]. Enough of a résumé for you?"'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/LindaHamilton
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Élisabeth Wiener (European French, ''The Terminator''), Véronique Augereau (European French, ''Terminator 2'', ''Dark Fate''), Creator/RihokoYoshida (Japanese, ''Terminator 2''), Yolanda Vidal ([=LatAm=] Spanish, ''The Terminator'' original dub), Mayra Arrellano ([=LatAm=] Spanish, ''The Terminator'' redub), Creator/LauraTorres ([=LatAm=] Spanish)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheTerminator'' | ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' | ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate''
The mother of the future human resistance leader against the Machines, John Connor.
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* EightiesHair: Not quite as much as her friend Ginger, but still definitely qualifies in the first film. Ditches it for a TomboyishPonytail in the sequel.
* ActionMom: In the second film, bordering on KnightTemplarParent.
* ActionSurvivor: In the first movie; turning on the hydraulic press that kills the Terminator shows her transition to ActionGirl.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys:
** In the first film she is guilty of this, as she dated a guy that treated her like dirt before she met Kyle. When she does meet Kyle, it's clear that she is unnerved by him, but still likes him, as proven when she tip toes around the question of whether or not he had a girlfriend, seconds before his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove. Lastly, as mentioned in ''Terminator 2'', she started going out with military personnel, mostly to learn things she could teach John, but given her history....
** She even reflects to herself how the Terminator was, in her opinion, the only suitable father figure while listing off the different ways a parent can abuse or neglect their child (which likely speaks volumes about the other men she met).
* AmbiguousDisorder: She seems to have taken up the mantle from [[ShellShockedVeteran Kyle]] by the second movie. A combination of [[GoMadFromTheRevelation cracking under the revelation of the future]] and her experiences in the first film leaving her traumatized have left her with a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder. She even shares the same symptoms Kyle displayed including verbal tics and recurring nightmares. By ''Dark Fate'' she's got even worse as a result of [[spoiler:losing John]] and has resorted to drinking to cope.
* AntiHero: While Sarah was firmly an ActionSurvivor in the first film, come time for the second one, [[ShellShockedVeteran she's become unhinged]] suffering a nasty case of PTSD. Sarah attempts to ShootTheDog [[spoiler: and tries to kill Miles Dyson in front of his family.]]
* ArmsDealer: In the second film, John mentions she spent a lot of time running guns in Nicaragua.
* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Sarah nearly falls victim to this in ''Judgement Day'' when she tries to kill Miles Dyson, [[spoiler:almost shooting him in the back and then advancing into his house in a manner disturbingly similar to the Terminators; even when Miles' ''six year old son'' is begging Sarah not to kill his daddy, there is a moment where it genuinely seems like Sarah is going to kill a man who not only hasn't done anything yet but never set out to cause any harm in the first place]].
* BigNo: Sarah almost makes it out of the asylum, but she sees the T-800 walking out of an elevator. After saying "no" in a low tone of disbelief, it turns into this out of sheer terror.
* BorrowedCatchphrase: In ''Dark Fate'', she gets to quip "I'll be back" right before blowing up the Rev-9.
* BrokenBird: Second movie. Her attempts to stop Judgment Day have left her sanity somewhat in tatters and she is in a mental hospital at the beginning of [=T2=]. It's even worse in ''Dark Fate'', as [[spoiler: John was murdered before her eyes]].
* BurgerFool: She used to be a waitress for a restaurant in the first movie until Kyle had to hide her from Skynet.
* TheBusCameBack: [[BusCrash Written off]] between films after T2 and only appearing in [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles alternate]] [[Film/TerminatorGenisys timelines]] since, the original Sarah finally returns in ''Dark Fate'' after a 28-year absence.
* CassandraTruth: She's institutionalized for trying to prevent and talking about the future war with the machines. Played with, however, because she's still AxCrazy despite being right about that.
* CharacterDevelopment: She has two:
** In the first film, she is a ShrinkingViolet with self-doubt until Skynet specifically targets her by sending a T-800 while Kyle Reese is sent to protect her by her future son's orders. Even then, she still has doubts about herself when Kyle tells her about the amazing things John told about her, until Kyle and herself are on the last legs on their life and she manages to crush the T-800. This action allows Sarah to commit herself to raise her only son into the man he was in the future.
** While she TookALevelInBadass, she clearly did have problems with her communication skills, and often tried to date military personnel so they can teach something useful to John, not giving her son the affection he desperately needed, which was observed by the T-800. While initially distrustful towards the reprogrammed T-800 who is under future John's orders to protect his younger self (and nearly tries to destroy his CPU), she learns to trust the machine when he proves to be a valuable ally and is visibly disheartened when he has to be destroyed to prevent Skynet's creation and Judgment Day while finally hugging her son.
* CoolPet: She had a pet iguana when she was Ginger's roommate. Ginger wasn't a fan of it.
* CrazyPrepared:
** Enrique has been looking after some stuff for her. Said stuff is an utterly ridiculous number of guns, including large amounts of assault rifles, several machine guns, a grenade launcher, and a fucking ''[[GatlingGood minigun]]''.
** By ''Dark Fate'', she still carries heavy weaponry around in her cars and puts a lot of effort into avoiding detection.
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: InvokedTrope. Sarah is right about the {{Killer Robot}}s from the future, but she's still become nuts by the time of ''Terminator 2''.
* DamselInDistress: The first film centered around Kyle going back to protect her from the T-800.
* DarkActionGirl: She can kick a major amount of ass, but it doesn't come without a lot of psychological scarring. Her time in a mental hospital did her no favors. Further, Cameron wrote the hospital escape scene to avert the FauxActionGirl trope--if anything, the Terminator's arrival was little more than a RedundantRescue, as Sarah was home free when he showed up.
* {{Determinator}}: She embraces her inner {{Determinator}} in the climax of the first movie, and practically ''becomes'' a Terminator in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', to the point she's halfway to shooting a defenceless, wounded man in front of his wife and children for something he ''hasn't actually done yet''. Even after that, she's still perfectly capable of firing a 12-gauge shotgun repeatedly after minutes earlier having an inch-thick metal spike rammed straight through her shoulder. In fact, if she hadn't run out of ammo, she would have destroyed the T-1000 herself, without the T-800's help.
* FantasticRacism: She develops this in regards to Terminators in general. In the first film, the first T-800 was sent to kill her, and also went out of his way to murder innocent people, including her friends and mother, along the way. After this incident, she immediately freaks out when she sees an identical T-800 - not knowing it was reprogrammed by future John to protect his past self - and was completely distrustful of him, to the point of nearly destroying his CPU. She eventually grew to trust him around John and was hesitant in destroying him to prevent [=SkyNet=] for good. ''Dark Fate'' unfortunately makes this stick when [[spoiler:another T-800 kills John in front of her, and her hatred of "Carl" is ''very'' justified]].
* FinalGirl: She's the last remaining "Sarah Connor" in Los Angeles by the end of the first movie.
* GoldDigger: SubvertedTrope. In the second film... sort-of. John says Sarah would "shack up with" any guy who looked like he had something worthwhile to teach John so that he'd grow up to be the competent leader she knew he was destined to be. However, he also says that Sarah would usually try and get her new man on board with the whole ScrewDestiny plan, only for them to think she's crazy and dump her. So yeah, she used a lot of guys, but under the circumstances, she still tried not to be abusive and wasn't doing it for selfish reasons.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: PlayedStraight. The director wanted to play with the audience's sympathies for her. Even though they already know that she's right about the BadFuture and the machine uprising, that hasn't made her the most sane person in the last nine years. [[spoiler:It doesn't get better for her, even by her twilight years.]]
* GoodIsNotNice: From the second film onwards. She can be quite ruthless when she wants to be, but she is fighting to save humanity overall.
%%* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: With Kyle in the first movie.
* GutturalGrowler: She lapses into this at times during ''Terminator 2'' when she's particularly upset. It becomes much more frequent by ''Dark Fate.''
* HairColorDissonance: Linda Hamilton's portrayal depicts her having dirty blonde hair, while Emilia Clarke's has [[AloofDarkHairedGirl dark brown]].
* HerHeartWillGoOn: At the end of the first movie, providing a popularizing template for the "left with child" version. It's actually a ForegoneConclusion; before she cuts him off, Kyle Reese tells her that the father of her son and future RebelLeader John Connor dies, but that she goes on to train John to fight back against the machines. It later turns out that Kyle is John's father; he and Sarah were only together briefly before he's killed protecting her, but she obviously cares deeply for him and she swiftly avenges him by [[TookALevelInBadass destroying the Terminator herself]]. The movie ends with a pregnant Sarah debating whether to tell John that Kyle is his father; she knows the future is going to be rough for humanity but also that she can guarantee their victory over Skynet.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: She practically became a Terminator herself, [[LampshadeHanging right down to her enemy's musical motif and choice of sunglasses]], when she tried to murder Miles Dyson in order to prevent Skynet's creation.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: She's wanted in the United States as a violent [[EvilLuddite anti-technology terrorist]], with more than enough crimes on her rap sheet to sentence her to life imprisonment. What almost no one realizes is that Sarah's motives, [[CassandraTruth however insane they may sound, are completely justified]].
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the second film. While she is prone to angry outbursts and paranoid, she truly does love John, not just because of the role he plays in the future, but also because he's her son.
%%* LadyOfWar: In the second movie.
* KnightInSourArmor: Decades of fighting Terminators and living as a wanted criminal have taken their toll on Sarah, leaving her a very bitter woman who still fights to protect humanity at ''any'' cost. [[spoiler:This is on top of her having to grieve for her son John, who was murdered in 1998.]]
* LadyDrunk: By the time ''Dark Fate'' rolls around, she's turned to copious amounts of drinking in order to deal with her issues.
* TheLoad: In the first movie, she starts off as a relatively airheaded fast food waitress. [[TookALevelInBadass She is forced to overcome this]] after [[spoiler:Kyle is gravely wounded]].
* LogicalWeakness: Despite her impressive array of combat skills, she is still only human. By ''Dark Fate'' she defaults to providing ranged support for Grace and Carl and only intervening when necessary.
* MamaBear: She'll do ''anything'' to protect John, almost to the point of being a KnightTemplarParent.
* MadonnaArchetype: With her son being the MessianicArchetype.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** [[spoiler:When her best friend/roommate Ginger and her boyfriend]] were killed by the Terminator in their apartment.
** Silently after the attempted hit on Dyson. Exacerbated by the fact that not only had she taken on a dimmer view on human life than the Terminator she was traveling with, but had adopted the MO of the Terminator that first tried to kill her. She almost killed a father in front of his wife and kid, something that hits her close to home after [[spoiler:losing Reese and almost losing John]].
* NeverMessWithGranny: She's well past 60 in ''Terminator: Dark Fate'', and she still packs heavy weapons just in case.
* OhCrap: Two notable examples in the second film. She gets a very subtle one when she's shown pictures of the new T-800 but she hides her reaction to it from the asylum orderlies. She gets a ''big one'' when the T-800 shows up during her escape from the hospital.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Twice in as many movies:
** ''Judgement Day'' solidified her CharacterDevelopment into a self-sufficient ActionGirl who- though somewhat unhinged- is capable of outwitting and overpowering her captors, and is well on her way to making good her escape... Until the sight of a T-800 strolling out of an elevator knocks her off her feet and sends her screaming back in the other direction, no less the helpless girl she was in the previous movie.
** In ''Dark Fate'' she vows never to call Carl, the T-800 that [[spoiler:killed John]] by name, so disgusted is she by his actions. So when she calls out to the badly damaged Carl by name as [[spoiler:Rev-9 chokes the life out of Dani]], begging him to save her, it's an indication of how things are moments away from going to hell. [[HistoryRepeats Again]].
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: In ''Dark Fate'', [[spoiler:she watches "Carl" shoot John dead right in front of her eyes]].
* ParentalAbandonment:
** Has a DisappearedDad in the first film and her mother [[spoiler: was killed by the T-800]].
** She herself is a MissingMom to John most of his life, with her being locked in a mental asylum and all.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Spends most of the first film wearing pink clothes (both her waitress uniform and her main outfit).
* TheProtagonist: Of the first two films. Kyle and the second T-800 are TheHero of the first and second films respectively, but she has about as much screen time (and certainly more dialogue than the latter), and the story is largely told from her viewpoint.
* SanitySlippage: A big part of her character arc in ''Terminator 2''. She's already mentally a mess by the beginning of the second film and progressively gets even worse. The introduction of a new T-800 physically identical to the one that tried to murder her and killed her lover coupled with the realization that Judgment Day is drawing closer cause her to start losing it, culminating in a particularly bad nightmare that causes her to nearly murder Miles Dyson in front of his wife and young son. Fortunately she stops just short of it after [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis realizing what she's doing]].
* ScrewDestiny: Is willing to commit ''cold-blooded murder'' to protect her son and stop Judgment Day. Bonus points for providing the trope image itself.
* ShellShockedVeteran: In the second film as a result of having lost her paramour to a cyborg that was hunting her down with the intent to kill her.
* SparedByAdaptation: In the original continuity, Sarah Connor died of cancer after the events of the second movie, with her son talking about it. After all but first two movies were made non-canon, Dark Fate killer off John Connor instead with Sarah coming back instead.
* StockholmSyndrome: Averted, but implied that other people believe she's playing the trope straight, particularly Dr. Silberman. Justified in that, after being kidnapped by a "loon" spouting ridiculous stories about killer robots, Sarah herself has become an anti-technology terrorist that blows up places that build advanced computers. Even after the police come to try and get her to make a statement against the Terminator, from their point of view, later that same night, the same guy busts her out of the institution and, days later, she's joined forces with the guy to assault a Cyberdyne building.
* TakeTheWheel: Is made to do this in both the first and second movie.
* TankTopTomboy: In the epilogue of the first movie, and then throughout the second movie, after she TakesALevelInBadass.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "You're terminated, fucker!" Also a PreMortemOneLiner and PrecisionFStrike.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Despite her being a CombatPragmatist, she's never taken the life of a human being. The one time she becomes a "terminator" to execute someone she thinks is the reason [=SkyNet=] exists, she can't bring herself to be an unemotional killer.
* TimeTravelRomance: One where the romance has a good deal of plot significance.
* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Sarah has a problem with Reese telling her of all the things she hasn't done yet.
* TookALevelInBadass: During the events between the first and second movie. It's deconstructed as it lands her in a mental hospital, and Sarah later admits that she's been a terrible mother to John.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Mentally stable mother-of-the-year she is ''not.'' By the time of ''Dark Fate'', she's devoid of any kindness whatsoever and treats even her closest allies like dirt.
* TookALevelInKindness: She regains a lot of her humanity by the end of the second film, and becomes a better mother to John in the process.
* {{Tsundere}}: In ''Judgment Day'', while it's clear she deeply cares about John, her parenting skills aren't exactly there. In ''Dark Fate'', she willingly chooses to help Dani because she reminded her of herself in Sarah's early years.
* TwoFirstNames: Her last name can be traditionally used as a given name.
* UngratefulBitch: Instead of hugging her own son and thanking him, she just checked if John was hurt and scolds him for trying to rescue her.
-->'''Sarah:''' You cannot risk yourself, even for me. You're too important! Do you understand?\\
''(John begins to cry. Sarah shakes her head in disappointment.)''\\
'''John:''' I had to get you out of that place. I'm sorry!\\
'''Sarah:''' I don't need your help. I can take care of myself.
* VocalEvolution: Linda Hamilton gives her a softer voice in the first movie displaying her ShrinkingViolet innocence. In the sequel, she gives her a more assertive and commanding voice to fit her ActionMom status. By ''Dark Fate'' she's developed into a GutturalGrowler.
* WrongfullyCommitted: At the beginning of the second movie, she is introduced being interrogated in a mental ward, having spent years in the mental facility after failing to convince the public of the impending judgement day (from the first movie) and attempting to bomb a computer factory to stop the apocalypse all by herself.
* YouKilledMyFather:
** In the first film [[spoiler: the T-800 killed Sarah's mother trying to find Sarah]].
** Then, in a more impactful way for her, [[spoiler:another T-800 kills John in ''Terminator: Dark Fate''. Cue IllKillYou]].
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!! Other Continuities
[[folder:Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines]]
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John Connor's mother. She died of cancer between ''Judgment Day'' and ''Rise of the Machines'', but not without leaving something behind.
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* CallBack: The phrase on her epitaph: "No fate but what we make".
* GreaterScopeParagon: Being John Connor's mother, she was the one who shielded him from Skynet by influencing him to go off-grid.
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: Despite only being given six months to live when she was diagnosed with leukemia, Sarah survived longer than expected, just to make sure Judgement Day didn't happen when originally predicted.
-->'''John''': The doctors only gave her six months, but she fought for three years. Long enough to make sure.\\
'''Kate''': Make sure?\\
'''John''': That the world didn't end.
* MissingMom: She's dead for a couple of years by the time John is attacked by a new Terminator.
* MoreDakka: Her coffin is full of weapons. She's been secretly cremated, and her ashes have been scattered somewhere in New Mexico.
* PosthumousCharacter: She died in 1997, the very year Judgment Day was originally supposed to happen.
* ProperlyParanoid: Despite telling John otherwise, she never truly believed Judgement Day had been stopped, and left behind a weapons cache for John to use in the event her fears proved accurate.
-->'''John''': "Every day after this one is a gift" she told me "We made it. We're free." But I never really believed that. ''[looks at the weapons cache]'' I guess she didn't either.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Creator/LindaHamilton refused to come back after reading the script, so Sarah was killed off.
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[[folder:The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/LenaHeadey
!!!'''Aliases:''' Sarah Reese, Sarah Baum
The mother of John Connor, she was told that he will grow up to be the leader of the resistance against the malevolent A.I. [=SkyNet=]. Currently lives with John, Cameron, and Derek in Los Angeles, trying to stop the creation of [=SkyNet=].
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* ActionGirl: Knowledge of the coming apocalypse made her TookALevelInBadass, causing her to train in the use of many in the use of military-grade weapons and become an expert at handling survival situations.
-->'''Derek:''' Remind me again, why are the boys out here and the girls in there?\\
'''John:''' Because one of the girls is harder than nuclear nails.\\
'''Derek:''' [[BaitAndSwitch And the other one's a cyborg.]]
* ActionMom: One episode even has Sarah saying to the child she saved that while she's not a spy, she is a mom.
* AntiHero: She can be pretty ruthless when it comes to keeping John safe, which puts them at odds since John has a ChronicHeroSyndrome.
* BadassNormal: She's a mere human with combat training who regularly is up against Terminators.
* CartwrightCurse: Like John, everyone who loves Sarah dies. Kyle, her parents and roommate in the first film, and [[spoiler: Charley Dixon, Sarah's ex-fiancé]].
* CrazyPrepared: Sarah keeps concealed weapons scattered around the house, such as a shotgun hidden behind wallpaper, and a huge trunk of rifles and shotguns under everyone's respective beds. And the furniture is lined with kevlar.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Sarah is a terrible driver, because she's usually driving very fast away from a scene, and talking to her passengers. In the season 2 premiere, she's trying to talk to John and crashes the car.
* FantasticRacism: Doesn't waste an opportunity to express how much she hates Terminators and spends many a episode saying something hateful towards Cameron.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: She jumps from 1999 to 2007 in the pilot. Being in a world where technology is even more present only makes her even more paranoid.
%%* [[FourTemperamentEnsemble Five Temperament Ensemble]]: Sanguine
* HopelessWithTech: Justifiable, in that she sees every kind of technology as a path leading to the apocalypse, but she really is hopeless.
-->'''Sarah:''' ''[To Andy, when buying a cell phone]'' When I push these buttons, will someone talk to me?
* JerkassHasAPoint: While her treatment of Cameron is in no way nice or appreciative, she does have reason to distrust Terminators, especially the new breed who can fake emotions or glitch and try to kill them as Cameron ended up doing.
* TheLeader: Until the day comes that John must fulfill his destiny as the leader of the human resistance, his mom is the one calling the shots.
* LethalChef: Other than pancakes and PB&J, Sarah can't cook.
* MamaBear: Anything she does is to ensure John survives.
* ProperlyParanoid: Her paranoia often puts her at odds with her son, but she's proven to be right more often than not.
* TheProtagonist: Her name isn't in the title for nothing. This is ''her'' story.
* TiredOfRunning: Her utilitarian lifestyle has kept her on the run for her entire life and its clearly taking a toll on her.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Noticeably compared to the Creator/LindaHamilton version when it comes to treating allied Terminators.
* ScrewDestiny: She has already skipped her cancer death, so this becomes her motto.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: When Cameron informs Sarah of the death from cancer she would have faced in the original timeline had they not jumped 8 years through time over her death. This led her to see an oncologist and despite having no current signs of symptoms she adopted a strict regimen of exercise and supplements. But despite her best efforts, her health began to deteriorate slowly through the last half of Season 2.
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[[folder:Terminator: Genisys]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Everyone who loves me dies."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/EmiliaClarke (adult), Willa Taylor (child)
The mother of John Connor, who trained him from birth to fight against the machines. In the new timeline, Skynet tried to assassinate her at age nine, and she was saved by a Terminator she took to calling "Pops." By the time Reese meets her, she is a trained soldier who has been waiting for him her entire life.
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* ActionGirl: She can kick a major amount of ass due to her forced upbringing by a killer robot.
* AdaptationDyeJob: Creator/LindaHamilton's version has dirty-blonde hair, Emilia Clarke has dark brown hair.
* AdaptationalBadass: Thanks to being trained by a Terminator, she becomes much more competent than she was during the events of the first film.
* AdrenalineMakeover: Unlike her original timeline self, Sarah has a noticeable absence of EightiesHair. In 1984, she's got 21st century type hairstyles.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Cold, distanced, and seemingly as dark as her hair.
* AntiHero: Her upbringing made her a very unhappy person, and she is very resentful of being "destined" to do certain things.
* ArrangedMarriage: Played straight aside from the marriage. Sarah states that Kyle is "the one [she's] been waiting for all [her] life", giving their relationship sort of an "arranged marriage" vibe. We've never been given any indication that she's tried dating or seeing anyone else in the intervening years. However, the marriage part of it was technically never intended, as Kyle is supposed to sleep with her, father their son, and then die.
* BelligerentSexualTension: With Kyle, with the hostility mostly generated on her part since she doesn't want to fall in love with him to then lose him like in the original timeline.
* BrokenBird: Having your parents killed when you're nine years old to then spend the rest of your life raised by a killer robot who lets you know about your harsh fate doesn't come without a lot of psychological scarring.
-->'''Sarah:''' Everyone who loves me dies.
* CartwrightCurse: See the above quote.
* CleavageWindow: The black jacket over low cut black top kind. Jacketless for the most of the movie, though.
* ColdSniper: During the scene where "Pops" confronts the T-800.
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: How she introduces herself to Kyle.
* CompositeCharacter: This Sarah integrates aspects of both Connors from ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' during the timeline of the first film.
* DaddysGirl: She's very close to her "Pops", who has raised her and protected her since she lost her family.
* DamselOutOfDistress: Kyle went to the past to protect her, only to find out she needs no protection.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She gradually warms up to Kyle.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: After Kyle, she's the second central character.
* FeetFirstIntroduction: The first shots of her are as she runs up a building to get a vantage point to snipe the T-800.
* FinalFirstHug: With "Pops" prior to the 2017 travel.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Once she arrives in 2017.
* HellBentForLeather: Played with. Despite her leather jacket was heavily featured in promo shots, She loses it to acid rather quickly and never got another one.
* LaserGuidedTykebomb: Once the Terminator adopts her at the age of 9, she is raised up to be a LadyOfWar.
* MandatoryMotherhood: Sarah's main importance, as we all know, is to become the mother of the savior of humanity, John. However, knowing full well that her importance is directly linked to the ultimate destruction of the world as we know it, Sarah wants no part of it. Further, Sarah now no longer has the same [[RescueRomance chemistry her former counterpart]] had with Kyle, who fathered John in the first movie. She seems to warm up to him at the end, but things leave off on an ambiguous note.
* MoralityPet: To "Pops". The way he cares about her shows he's not a mere killer robot.
* NakedOnArrival: Time travel forces her to do this.
* TheNapoleon: A 5'2" (1.57 m) stature and Sarah's HairTriggerTemper combine to create this effect.
* ParentalAbandonment: Her parents were killed by the T-1000 and the "Pops" T-800 serves as her ParentalSubstitute.
* RaisedByRobots: Sarah was raised by the Terminator sent to protect her after her parents were killed. She calls him "Pops".
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: Spending all this time off the grid with only a killer robot as company didn't help her social skills.
* ScrewDestiny: She wants to change the course of the timeline to prevent Judgement Day from ever happening and gain the right to live her life the way she wants.
-->'''Sarah Connor:''' The story of my life. Look, and it's not just "mating". I'm supposed to fall in love with him!
-->'''Pops:''' My files do not deal with love.
-->'''Sarah Connor:''' Shocker there...
-->'''Pops:''' You're being emotional.
-->'''Sarah Connor:''' This is ''my'' life! I wouldn't mind being consulted once in a while about how it's gonna go!
* SleevesAreForWimps: She loses her jacket after some acid drips on its sleeve, and spends rest of the movie in sleeveless tops.
* SmallGirlBigGun: She's 5'2" and she sure loves carrying assault rifles, sniper rifles, pistols, shotguns, grenade launchers...
* SourOutsideSadInside: Her harsh attitude is her way to keep others from getting close to her, as she doesn't want to lose people she cares about again.
* StarCrossedLovers: She knows she's destined to fall in love and conceive a child with Kyle but she knows that he's destined to die so she tries so hard to avert at least the former. Pops being a literal solid ShipperOnDeck with a BecauseDestinySaysSo type of programming doesn't help matters. Still, it's obvious that she gradually still becomes attracted to him.
* TimeTravelRomance: With Kyle. One where the romance has a good deal of plot significance. To the point Sarah knows it will happen and is attempting to avert it.
* {{Tsundere}}: The more she tries to resist being attracted to Kyle, the more she gets closer to him. She even says to Kyle that he shouldn't be too confident only because both embraced without clothes. Justified as she knows he's destined to die protecting her.
* TwoFirstNames: Her last name can be traditionally used as a given name.
* {{UnPerson}}: When she and Kyle are taken into custody by the SFPD for materializing naked on the freeway and causing an accident as a result, the inspectors who investigate them find Sarah particularly suspicious because they can't find any fingerprint or DNA matches on her, no facial recognition hits on driver's licenses or passports, and no hits on social media accounts, student [=ID=]s or credit cards.
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