History Fridge / Terminator2JudgmentDay

** And then of course, there's the fact that had to access the LAPD's Juvenile Automated Index to find John Connor's address, meaning ''there's no way'' this man was sent by Future!John, and that the T-800 already beat him to the punch in locating Past!John's foster parent's residence.

** It's really closer to programmed instructions for a given situation. To use the example from the film, when the T-800 has to start a car, its logic is programmed to be similar to "1: You need to start the car. 2: Do you have the key? If "no" proceed the step 3. 3: Hotwire the car." Turning off the Read-Only restriction lets him add new parameters to his instructions, making it "1: You need to start the car. 2: Do you have the key? If yes, proceed to skip to step 5. If no, proceed to step 3. 3: Can the key be easily located? If no, proceed to step 4. If yes, proceed to step 5. 4: Hotwire the car. 5. Use the key."

* A credit to Robert Patrick's commitment to his role, is the fact that during the bike chase scene he caught John Connor on his first try. He had to slow down his running so the actor could get away. A normal human man -- albeit a man trained to sprint professionally -- caught up to a kid on a motorbike with minimal effort. It stands to reason that a real life T-1000 would be much faster than a human, and would have greater stamina, thus if the movie was realistic then John Connor is dead before he even reaches the exit of that parking lot. To be more blunt, if a Terminator was real then they'd be too damn good at their jobs.

* The T-800 says that his chip got set to "read-only" before he set off on his mission. If he can't form any new memories, he'd be about as effective a killer as Dory from ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''.
** The chip isn't his memory storage; it's more like his OS and Drivers. It's set to Read-Only so that it doesn't change and adapt. He's recording and remembering things constantly, he just isn't learning from them.
** This is still a bit fuzzy, as the T-800 from the first film was demonstrated as being able to process and assimilate things it learned during its time in 1984. The main difference for this film seems to be the T-800's ability to grok human morality and how it guides our decision-making process, rather than simply assimilating patterns of behavior.
** It's really closer to programmed instructions for a given situation. To use the example from the film, when the T-800 has to start a car, its logic is programmed to be similar to "1: You need to start the car. 2: Do you have the key? If "no" proceed the step 3. 3: Hotwire the car." Turning off the Read-Only restriction lets him add new parameters to his instructions, making it "1: You need to start the car. 2: Do you have the key? If yes, proceed to skip to step 5. If no, proceed to step 3. 3: Can the key be easily located? If no, proceed to step 4. If yes, proceed to step 5. 4: Hotwire the car. 5. Use the key."

* A credit to Robert Patrick's commitment to his role, is the fact that during the bike chase scene he caught John Connor on his first try. He had to slow down his running so the actor could get away. A normal human man -- albeit a man trained to sprint professionally -- caught up to a kid on a motorbike with minimal effort. It stands to reason that a real life T-1000 would be much faster than a human, and would have greater stamina, thus if the movie was realistic then John Connor is dead before he even reaches the exit of that parking lot. To be more blunt, if a Terminator was real then they'd be too damn good at their jobs.

** That was tear gas. It'll ruin a few hours of your day but isn't likely to be lethal unless you go out of your way to huff it, and the cops were already falling back from the building after an entire floor had exploded above them.

** This is still a bit fuzzy, as the T-800 from the first film was demonstrated as being able to process and assimilate things it learned during its time in 1984. The main difference for this film seems to be the T-800's ability to grok human morality and how it guides our decision making process, rather than simply assimilating patterns of behavior.
** It's really closer to programmed instructions for a given situation. To use the example from the film, when the T-800 has to start a car, it's logic is programmed to be similar to "1: You need to start the car. 2: Do you have the key? If "no" proceed the step 3. 3: Hotwire the car." Turning off the Read Only restriction lets him add new parameters to his instructions, making it "1: You need to start the car. 2: Do you have the key? If yes, proceed to skip to step 5. If no, proceed to step 3. 3: Can the key be easily located? If no, proceed to step 4. If yes, proceed to step 5. 4: Hotwire the car. 5. Use the key."

* The reason Sarah, John and "Uncle Bob" can get supplies at "Cactus Jack's" without attracting attention or being tracked is John had just swiped $300 from the ATM before.

* The T-800 says "Come with me if you want to live" when he first meets Sarah. This is likely because John knew full well that his younger self would want to save his mother, but she would be terrified of seeing a Terminator again, so during the reprogramming he set the T-800 to say the first thing that Kyle said to her, making it easier for her to believe this one was on her side.

** Seeing as the time travel isn't an exact science (Kyle had no idea when he had arrived), it's probably programmed to go naked and emulate the local wardrobe to better blend in rather than draw attention with anachronistic clothing programmed into it.
* Those mounds of human skulls that the Terminators casually crush underfoot and the treads of their tanks. How did they end up in such neat piles and where are the rest of the bodies? The people were unlikely to be standing around in tight groups when they died and, in any case, would largely have been vaporised or burnt to ashes if caught in the open. There's only one explanation - the robots collected them and piled them up. Best case scenario is that they were already dead when it happened. As to why - maybe Skynet was attempting to do a body count, or perhaps it was just an act of gloating or a warning to the survivors.
** In the first movie, Kyle Reese explains that the human survivors were initially put to work loading bodies for cleanup, when he shows Sarah his burned-in barcode scar.

* One might wonder a number of things about the T-1000, such as why Skynet never sent it out to fight the human resistance, or how a pure "liquid metal" entity processes information. The novelization combines these two questions into one answer: the T-1000's cognitive functions are so unusual and alien that ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards even Skynet]]'' was freaked out by the possibilities, and on top of the utterly alien mindset it actively enjoyed causing other beings pain. Skynet had it in storage where it couldn't potentially pull a second rise against the creator and only activated the 1000 as a last resort when it had nothing left to lose.

* While the heads-up display of the T-800 are shown periodically like with the original, you never get to see the T-1000's [=HUD=] - but perhaps that's the point. It's made out of ''liquid metal'' - there's no real ''physical'' machinery inside of it that would give it a robotic view on the world around it.

* Sarah's arc in T2 is a great piece of writing and acting, but something I never picked up on until a recent rewatch... Sarah has become just like Skynet. She's attempting to change the future to her ideal design by using future knowledge to kill someone in the past, thus preventing the future from ever being possible. Just like Skynet used the T-800 to try and kill her, and then the T-1000 to kill John, she's trying to use her knowledge of Skynet in the future to kill Miles Dyson. Whether her goal is noble or not, she's following the exact same path it took without even realising it

* While the movie makes a point of the Terminator inflicting non-fatal wounds, being shot in the [[{{Kneecapping}} kneecaps]] is one of the least desirable places to be shot. The sufferer may find the experience so painful, that they may be wish for a CoupDeGrace. Not to mention, they'll need some serious therapy.

* While the movie makes a point of the Terminator inflicting non-fatal wounds, being shot in the [[{{Kneecapping}} kneecaps]] is one of the least desirable places to be shot. The sufferer may find the experience so painful, they may be wish for a CoupDeGrace. Not to mention, they'll need some serious therapy.

!Fridge Logic

* FridgeHorror: Given the number of smoke grenades Arnie has utilized, it is entirely possible that some policemen died ''after'' he left Cyberdyne - of poisoning.
** That was tear gas. It'll ruin a few hours of your day but isn't likely to be lethal unless you go out of your way to huff it, and the cops were already falling back from the building after an entire floor had exploded above them.

* Sarah's ranting about Judgment Day happening in 1997 makes more sense when one realizes that the movie takes place in 1995. John was conceived in 1984, born in 1985, and is 10 years old. Her vision is only 2 years away!!! No wonder she's becoming frantic about not being believed.

* Sarah's ranting about Judgment Day happening in 1997 makes more sense when one realizes that the movie takes place in 1995. John was conceived in 1984, born in 1985, and is 10 years old. Her vision is only 2 years away!!! No wonder she's becoming frantic about not being believed.

!Fridge Brilliance
* When John was talking to who he thought was his foster mom and told the T-800 protecting him that something was up due to her unusual kindness, [[TrustPassword the T-800 asked about the name of John's dog, Max]], then took over the conversation to ask about it (In John's voice) but instead [[BluffTheImpostor calling the dog "Wolfie"]]. The T-1000, due to its lack of knowledge about John's pet, responded to the T-800 calling the dog by the made-up name assuming that was what John named it, which allowed the T-800 to deduct that the T-1000 infiltrated his home and killed his foster parents.

* When John was talking to who he thought was his foster mom and told the T-800 protecting him that something was up due to her unusual kindness, [[TrustPassword the T-800 asked about the name of John's dog, Max]], then took over the conversation to ask about it (In John's voice) but instead [[BluffTheImpostor calling the dog "Wolfie"]]. The T-1000, due to its lack of knowledge about John's pet, responded to the T-800 calling the dog by the made-up name assuming that was what John named it, which allowed the T-800 to deduct that [[spoiler: the T-1000 infiltrated his home and killed his foster parents]].

* When John was talking to who he thought was his foster mom and told the T-800 protecting him that something was up due to her unusual kindness, the T-800 took over to ask (in John's voice) about the John's dog, Max, but instead calling the dog "Wolfie". The T-1000, due to its lack of knowledge about John's pet, responded to the T-800 calling the dog by the made-up name assuming that was what John named it, which allowed the T-800 to deduct that [[spoiler: the T-1000 infiltrated his home and killed his foster parents]].

* Sarah's ranting about Judgment Day happening in 1997 makes more sense when one realizes that the movie takes place in 1995. John was conceived in 1984, born in 1985, and is 10 years old. Her vision is only 2 years away!!! No wonder she's becoming frantic about not being believed.

* While the movie makes a point of the Terminator inflicting non-fatal wounds, being shot in the [[{{Kneecapping}} kneecaps]] is one of the least desirable places to be shot. The sufferer may find the experience so painful, they may be wish for a CoupDeGrace. Not to mention, they'll need some serious therapy.

* While the movie makes a point of the Terminator inflicting non-fatal wounds, being shot in the [[{{Kneecapping}} kneecaps]] is one of the least desirable places to be shot and may be so painful to a particular victim that they may be wish for a CoupDeGrace. Not to mention, they'll need some serious therapy.

* While the heads-up display of the T-800 are shown periodically like with the original, you never get to see the T-1000's [=HUD=] - but perhaps that's the point. It's made out of ''liquid metal'' - there's no real ''physical'' machinery inside of it that would give it a robotic view on the world around it.

** That was tear gas. It'll ruin a few hours of your day but isn't likely to be lethal unless you go out of your way to huff it, and the cops were already falling back from the building after an entire floor had exploded above them.