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* SavedByTheCoffin: The Terminator carries John Connor and Kate Brewster through a hail of bullets and out of harm's way in a steel coffin.

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* PlotHole / WritersCannotDoMath: Right in the opening narration there is a goof as John mentions he was 12 during the previous movie - not only it's canon that he was 10 (it even appears in John's file the T-1000 looks up), but that would set it in 1997, the same year of Judgment Day!
* PreMortemOneLiner: “You are terminated.”

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* PlotHole / WritersCannotDoMath: Right in the opening narration there is a goof as John mentions he was 12 13 during the previous movie - not only it's canon that he was 10 (it even appears in John's file the T-1000 looks up), but that would set it in 1997, the same year of Judgment Day!
** It also doesn't help that John mentions Sarah suffered from leukemia for three years before dying, which would correctly set the events of ''T2'' in 1994.
* PreMortemOneLiner: “You "You are terminated."
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* TheWarHasJustBegun: Almost said verbatim by John in his closing narration:
-->[[YouCantFightFate Maybe the future has been written]]. I don't know; all I know is what the Terminator taught me; [[DoNotGoGentle never stop fighting]]. [[HopeSpringsEternal And I never will]]. '''The battle has just begun.'''
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** When Katherine Brewster (whom, unbeknownst to herself and the audience at that point, the T-850 must obey), says "Drop dead, you A**HOLE," the T-850 responds: "I am unable to comply."

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** When Katherine Brewster (whom, unbeknownst to herself and the audience at that point, the T-850 must obey), says "Drop dead, you A**HOLE," asshole," the T-850 responds: "I am unable to comply."
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* GoryDiscretionShot: When Scott gets killed by the T-X, there's only the sound of a buzzsaw, his scream and then a blood splatter on a family photo of his.
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* BigShutUp: From the BMW driver after getting rear-ended by John.

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* BigShutUp: From the BMW driver after getting rear-ended by John. John also delivers one to Kate during the car chase.
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* PoliceAreUseless: The police who attempt to intervene in the T-X's rampage are swiftly terminated, inadvertently giving her a gun and even some cars to control in her pursuit of John Connor and/or his lieutenants.
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* NeckLift: T-850 deliberately does this on John at one point to get the latter to stop pouting like a {{manchild}}.
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That line doesn't count as this trope, as it ends with "you bitch!"


* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Delivered by Kate Brewster in the magnetic tunnel :
--> '''Kate''': Just die, you bitch!
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* GodivaHair: When the T-X first arrives, her naked breasts are covered by her long curly hair.

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* BigDamnHeroes: Just as the T-X arrives at Crystal Peak...the T-850 comes, ramming her with a ''helicopter''. "I'm back!"

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* BigDamnHeroes: Just as the T-X arrives at Crystal Peak... the T-850 comes, ramming her with a ''helicopter''. "I'm back!"



* CaptainObvious: After the car they were driving gets shot up and has its top half shorn off by a semi trailer:

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* CaptainObvious: After the car hearse they were driving gets shot up and has its top half shorn off by a semi trailer:



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: What's that? You're currently being attacked by some computer virus and don't know what to do next? Then, you get a call from your chairman telling you to execute an advanced AI called Skynet. ''Right...''

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: What's that? You're currently being attacked by some computer virus and don't know what to do next? Then, you get a call from your chairman telling you to execute an untested advanced AI called Skynet. ''Right...''



* ProductPlacement: The T-X gets an idea for its BreastExpansion from a Victoria's Secret billboard.

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The T-X gets an idea for its BreastExpansion from a Victoria's Secret billboard.billboard.
** John and the Terminator refuel at an Arco gas station and AM/PM minimart.
** The scene with the T-X recovering from getting knocked off the heroes' hearse prominently features a trailer for Xenadrine EFX (a weight-loss pill) throughout.



* UnconventionalVehicleChase: John Connor flees the scene in a veterinary van belonging to his future wife. The T-X hacks then hacks into several police cars she can operate remotely, while driving a tow truck herself. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator then steals a police motorcycle and pursues as well. Shortly afterwards, he abandons the motorcycle and falls onto a fire truck, where he promptly pushes out the occupants and continues to give chase in his new vehicle.

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* UnconventionalVehicleChase: John Connor flees the scene in a veterinary van belonging to his future wife. The T-X hacks then hacks into several police cars she can operate remotely, while driving a tow an oversized crane truck herself. Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator then steals a police motorcycle and pursues as well. Shortly afterwards, he abandons the motorcycle and falls onto a fire truck, where he promptly pushes out the occupants and continues to give chase in his new vehicle.
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* SeriesContinuityError: The Terminator refers to itself as a "T-101". ''There's no such thing as a T-101''. He's internally an 800-series terminator. Arnie's ''external appearance'' is a Cyberdyne Systems Model 101.

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* SeriesContinuityError: The Terminator refers to itself as a "T-101". ''There's no such thing as a T-101''. He's internally an 800-series terminator. Arnie's ''external appearance'' is a Cyberdyne Systems Model 101. His official name is a Cyberdyne Systems Series 850, Model 101, or T-850 Model 101 for short.
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** In addition, John states "we took out Cyberdyne over 10 years ago", which is incorrect; the attack on Cyberdyne happened in 1995, while T3 takes place in 2004 which makes it only 9 years since.
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** Film/TerminatorDarkFate once again disregards this continuity and goes in its own direction.

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** Film/TerminatorDarkFate ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'' once again disregards this continuity and goes in its own direction.
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** And later: [[spoiler: "There was never any stopping it."]]
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* BigShutUp: From the BMW driver after getting rear-ended by John.

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director is already mentioned. and also Edward Furlong wasn't asked to reprise his role, he was turned down cause of history of substance abuse and he wasn't looking in good enough shape to be a movie star anymore these days.


* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Director, in this case. In the director's commentary for the T-X / T-850 fight scene in the toilets, Mostow comments that the two "literally weigh a ton." No, they do not. If they did, they would leave footprints in almost any material, would collapse the suspension of almost any vehicle they got into, and would be unable to use elevators or stairs. In ''T1'', a hydrolic press smashed a T800, but the T850 can hold up a huge blast door with one hand, and manage to wrestle and blow up the TX at the same time.

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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Director, in this case. In the director's commentary for the T-X / T-850 fight scene in the toilets, Mostow comments that the two "literally weigh a ton." No, they do not. If they did, they would leave footprints in almost any material, would collapse the suspension of almost any vehicle they got into, and would be unable to use elevators or stairs. In ''T1'', a hydrolic press smashed a T800, but the T850 can hold up a huge blast door with one hand, and manage to wrestle and blow up the TX at the same time.



** This may have been because actor Edward Furlong was 13 when he played John in T2, as well as him being too big and doing things too advanced for a normal 10-year-old.
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* TheKindnapper: The T-850 kidnaps Kate Brewster to save her from the T-X.

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* TheKindnapper: The T-850 kidnaps Kate Brewster to save and hands her from over to John's custody (without him being aware of it) since Katherine would become a central figure in the T-X.war against Skynet.
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** This may have been because actor Edward Furlong was 13 when he played John in T2, as well as him being too big and doing things too advanced for a normal 10-year-old.
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* ExactWords: [[spoiler: As he lays dying, Kate's father Robert tells her and John about Crystal Peak, a nearby military facility. John asks if that's where Skynet's system core is, and Robert says that it's their only chance. When they finally reach it, they find that it's a fallout shelter. Their only chance to survive Judgment Day.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: See [[spoiler: ICannotSelfTerminate below. The Terminator responds to Kate's request because she's actually authorized to give him commands.]]

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See [[spoiler: ICannotSelfTerminate below. The Terminator responds to Kate's request because she's actually authorized to give him commands.]]]]
** As the T-850 explains that there's no known way to take down the T-X, [[spoiler:he's removing one of his fuel cells and it explodes, after he had just explained that his fuel cells are highly explosive when ruptured]].

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* MythologyGag: The whole sequence reintroducing the T-850.

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The whole sequence reintroducing the T-850.



** The T-X's death scene is nearly identical to the death of the original Terminator from the first film, complete with the classic line "You are terminated!"

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** The T-X's death scene is nearly identical to the death of the original Terminator from the first film, complete with the classic line "You are terminated!"terminated!".
** After the truck gets wrecked, a passerby tries to see if T-X is okay, but unlike when this happened with the T-1000 in the climax of ''T2'', the guy runs away when he sees T-X's checking her weapons.
** During the fight in the military base, T-X walks past a bunch of restroom mirrors and briefly turns to look at her reflections with confusion, likely detecting movement in her visual sensors. This is a reference to when the T-1000 did the same thing when it saw a chrome store mannequin resembling itself during the mall fight in ''T2''.

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* BittersweetEnding: With heavy emphasis on the bitter. [[spoiler:The film heavily implies that YouCantFightFate, overriding the more hopeful tone of the previous film, with John and Kate realizing they are powerless to stop Skynet's nuclear assault on humanity. It's also heavily implied that John will be unable to avert his fate of dying at the hands of the T-850 in the future. At the same time, John will still be able to fulfill his destiny and defeat Skynet, giving humanity a chance to rebuild.]]

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With heavy emphasis on the bitter. [[spoiler:The film heavily implies that YouCantFightFate, overriding the more hopeful tone of the previous film, with John and Kate realizing they are powerless to stop Skynet's nuclear assault on humanity. It's also heavily implied that John will be unable to avert his fate of dying at the hands of the T-850 in the future. At the same time, John will still be able to fulfill his destiny and defeat Skynet, giving humanity a chance to rebuild.]]
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T-X didn't kill Kate, might not have found Elizabeth Anderson, and there were several names on the list after Kate and her father who T-X never got around to


** [[spoiler:The T-X fails its primary objective, but successfully kills off all of John's future lieutenants.]]

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** [[spoiler:The T-X fails its primary objective, but successfully kills off all several of John's future lieutenants.]]
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** [[spoiler:The T-X fails its primary objective, but successfully kills off all of John's future lieutenants.]]

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The woman who came to the vet about her dog, we last see her lying on the ground wounded; and we don't even know what was wrong with her dog. Also, the JerkAss who's car got trashed, which he deserved. Not that either matters, since Judgment Day was about to happen.


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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The woman who came to the vet about her dog, we last see her lying on the ground wounded; and we don't even know what was wrong with her dog. Also, the JerkAss who's car got trashed, which he deserved. Not that either matters, since Judgment Day was about to happen.
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**Film/TerminatorDarkFate once again disregards this continuity and goes in its own direction.
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* AllThereInTheManual: In the novelisation:

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* AllThereInTheManual: In the novelisation:{{novelisation}}:
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* BathroomBrawl: T-850's fight against T-X results in the total destruction of a public restroom at Edwards Air Force Base. Highlights include T-850 ripping a urinal off the wall and whacking T-X with it, shoving her through several stalls, and T-X [[GroinAttack grabbing him in the junk]], picking him up and ramming him through the wall.
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* FutureBadass: Most of the people TX goes after; Kate is a veterinarian, Jose Barrera is a BurgerFool employee, and Bill and Elizabeth Anderson are throwing a WildTeenParty, but all were destined to be influential enough to the future of the resistance that killing them was judged likely to make a difference with John Connor off the grid.


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* UncertainDoom: Elizabeth Anderson is TheGhost when T-X arrives and shoots her brother, right before heading upstairs looking for Elizabeth. While she likely would have been killed by T-X, the large number of people at the party might have made identification difficult and it's unclear if TX was able to find the right girl and kill her before moving on to the next name on the list (Kate).

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