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* FauxAffablyEvil: Balewitch, one of Skynet's nastier Luddite collaborators, can do an excellent impression of a warm and caring grandmotherly figure when recruiting the clueless Ninel in betraying John Connor. When she drops the act after Connor's capture, she revels in being an unrepentant mass-murderer bent of reducing the human race by any means necessary.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Balewitch, one of Skynet's nastier Luddite collaborators, can do an excellent impression of a warm and caring grandmotherly figure when recruiting the clueless Ninel in betraying John Connor. When she drops the act after Connor's capture, she revels in being an unrepentant mass-murderer bent of on reducing the human race by any means necessary.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Despite a prominent role in the first book, Jordan Dyson completely disappears from the narrative around the midpoint of ''Rising Storm''. He's not even mentioned again, despite the running subplot of the Connors gathering allies who believe them in preparation for after Judgment Day.
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* FishOutOfTemporalWater: After being sent in the past, Serena is several times confused, impressed, or annoyed by the differences between this time and the future where she comes from. Humans in a "free" society like pre-apocalypse America behave in such bizarre and illogical ways -- but they do have "Human Resources" departments, which she finds hilarious.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Balewitch, one of Skynet's nastier Luddite collaborators, can do an excellent impression of a warm and caring grandmotherly figure when recruiting the clueless Ninel in betraying John Connor. When she drops the act after Connor's capture, she revels in being an unrepentant mass-murderer bent of reducing the human race by any means necessary.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: After being sentin to the past, Serena is several times confused, impressed, or annoyed by the differences between this time and the future where she comes from. Humans in a "free" society like pre-apocalypse America behave in such bizarre and illogical ways -- but they do have "Human Resources" departments, which she finds hilarious.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: After being sent
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** [=SkyNet=] learned a significant part of its anti-human prejudice from its Neo-Nazi programmer.
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** [=SkyNet=] learned a significant part of its anti-human prejudice from its Neo-Nazi programmer. It even thanks him for uploading all the texts on humans exterminating lesser beings (Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons, etc) before it kills him, citing their influence on its decision to do the same to humans.
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* ''T2: Infiltration'' (2001)
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* ''T2: Infiltration'' Infiltrator'' (2001)
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* AdaptationalExplanation: After the film's release, fans of ''Terminator 2'' would often wonder what happened to the arm Uncle Bob loses to the T-1000, as it isn;t destroyed at the end like the rest of the future technology. ''Infiltrator'' makes this a key plot point, with government agents recovering it from the steel mill seen in the climax and using it as one of the cornerstones of the resurrected Skynet project.
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* AdaptationalExplanation: After the film's release, fans of ''Terminator 2'' would often wonder what happened to the arm Uncle Bob loses to the T-1000, as it isn;t isn't destroyed at the end like the rest of the future technology. ''Infiltrator'' makes this a key plot point, with government agents recovering it from the steel mill seen in the climax and using it as one of the cornerstones of the resurrected Skynet project.
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* ArmedWithCanon: Kind of. While
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* ArmedWithCanon: Kind of. While
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* TheBadGuyWins: Despite all the Connors' efforts, the second book ends with [=Skynet=] becoming sentient and deciding to exterminate humanity.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Despite all the Connors' efforts, the second book ends with [=Skynet=] Skynet becoming sentient and deciding to exterminate humanity.
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* AdaptationalExplanation: After the film's release, fans of ''Terminator 2'' would often wonder what happened to the arm Uncle Bob loses to the T-1000, as it isn;t destroyed at the end like the rest of the future technology. ''Infiltrator'' makes this a key plot point, with government agents recovering it from the steel mill seen in the climax and using it as one of the cornerstones of the resurrected Skynet project.
* AdaptationalVillainy: ''Rising Storm'' takes the same tack as ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'', removing the element of Skynet's firing the nukes in self-defence from its film backstory in favour of it deciding to eliminate humanity as a threat after reviewing all the data. Notably, the book came out over a year before the film.
* AdaptationalVillainy: ''Rising Storm'' takes the same tack as ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'', removing the element of Skynet's firing the nukes in self-defence from its film backstory in favour of it deciding to eliminate humanity as a threat after reviewing all the data. Notably, the book came out over a year before the film.
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* MythologyGag: In ''Rising Storm'' a deckhand on the boat Dieter takes passage on is called Arnie, and is overhead to utter the famous "I'll be back" line.
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* MythologyGag: MythologyGag:
** In ''Rising Storm'' a deckhand on the boat Dieter takes passage on is called Arnie, and is overhead to utter the famous "I'll be back"line.line.
** ''Future War'' gives Sarah's "You're terminated, fucker!" line to John when he kills the Luddites that have just killed his girlfriend.
** In ''Rising Storm'' a deckhand on the boat Dieter takes passage on is called Arnie, and is overhead to utter the famous "I'll be back"
** ''Future War'' gives Sarah's "You're terminated, fucker!" line to John when he kills the Luddites that have just killed his girlfriend.
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* ShoutOut: When Sarah, travelling alone across the dystopian hellstate that used to be the American Midwest, encounters an evil biker gang, she exasperatedly wonder [[Film/MadMax where Mel Gibson is]] when she needs him.
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* YouCantFightFate: A recurring theme in the first two books. While the dates and details can be changed, the same sequence of events is fated to play out; Skynet WILL become sentient and kill billions on Judgment Day, and John Connor WILL rally humanity to defeat it. However hard the Connors and the I-950s try to change things, the timeline keeps springing back to variations on the original theme. By the end of the second book John, Sarah and Dieter grimly come to accept this and start preparing for life after Judgment Day.
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* YouCantFightFate: A recurring theme in the first two books. While the dates and details can be changed, the same sequence of events is fated to play out; Skynet WILL become sentient and kill billions on Judgment Day, and John Connor WILL rally humanity to defeat it. However hard the Connors and the I-950s try to change things, the timeline keeps springing back to variations on the original theme. By the end start of the second third book John, Sarah and Dieter grimly come to accept this and start preparing for life after Judgment Day.Day.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: As it grows its army of Terminators, Hunter-Killers and other war machines, [[BadBoss Skynet]] starts arranging "accidents" for all but the most useful of its Luddite followers.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: As it grows its army of Terminators, Hunter-Killers and other war machines, [[BadBoss Skynet]] starts arranging "accidents" for all but the most useful of its Luddite followers.
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* CloningBlues: Despite all being based on the same template, the I-950s have very different personalities, as it's implied the speed of the latter two's development has left some unaddressed personality defects. Clea regards Serena as arrogant, overconfident and sloppy in her work, while Alissa thinks Clea is overly emotional and "defective". Interestingly, Clea is the most introspective about her own flaws, recognising Alissa is probably the superior unit, but her lack of physical maturity leaves Clea on the leadership role.
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* CloningBlues: CloneAngst: Despite all being based on the same template, the I-950s have very different personalities, as it's implied the speed of the latter two's development has left some unaddressed personality defects. Clea regards Serena as arrogant, overconfident and sloppy in her work, while Alissa thinks Clea is overly emotional and "defective". Interestingly, Clea is the most introspective about her own flaws, recognising Alissa is probably the superior unit, but her lack of physical maturity leaves Clea on in the leadership role.
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* TemptingFate: After Sarah was caught in the successful attempt to blow up Cyberdyne again, she manages to work the system and get moved to a halfway house fairly quickly. She reflects that this is so much easier with a more gullible doctor and not being pumped full of drugs she doesn't need by the unlamented Dr. Silberman. Guess who turns out to be running the halfway house?
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* TemptingFate: TemptingFate:
** After Sarah was caught in the successful attempt to blow up Cyberdyne again, she manages to work the system and get moved to a halfway house fairly quickly. She reflects that this is so much easier with a more gullible doctor and not being pumped full of drugs she doesn't need by the unlamented Dr. Silberman. Guess who turns out to be running the halfwayhouse?house?
** In the third book, one of John's survivalist friends gets so frustrated with his community's refusal to acknowledge the dangers of the post-Judgment Day world that he almost wishes they'd be attacked. A few pages later, Skynet chooses their village as a test attack for its early Terminators to attack, and he loses his son in the ensuing massacre.
** After Sarah was caught in the successful attempt to blow up Cyberdyne again, she manages to work the system and get moved to a halfway house fairly quickly. She reflects that this is so much easier with a more gullible doctor and not being pumped full of drugs she doesn't need by the unlamented Dr. Silberman. Guess who turns out to be running the halfway
** In the third book, one of John's survivalist friends gets so frustrated with his community's refusal to acknowledge the dangers of the post-Judgment Day world that he almost wishes they'd be attacked. A few pages later, Skynet chooses their village as a test attack for its early Terminators to attack, and he loses his son in the ensuing massacre.
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* NoSocialSkills: In the second book Clea takes a job at a local fast food restaurant to train her in interaction with humans. Because of this trope, it goes very poorly. Her artificial over-cheeriness, dedication and doing everything to perfection only gets her labelled creepy by customers, hated by her co-workers and fired as soon as her employers can find an excuse. This is despite the fact that this particular I-950 line is considered stunningly beautiful by human standards! She's gotten much better at it by the time she infiltrates Cyberdyne.
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* PragmaticVillainy: While Skynet despises all humans and would rather do without any of them, it nurtures the militant Luddite movement and uses them to do it's bidding in exterminating humanity in the early stages of the war, as until it can get the Terminators and Hunter-Killers up and running it needs them as a disposable army.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: While the franchise has never been shy about having Skynet and its war against humans be analogous to the Nazis and the Holocaust, it's made even more explicit here. Not only is its creator an actual Neo-Nazi, but Skynet has actual death camps on the go almost immediately after Judgment Day, staffed by Luddite collaborators, where people are lured with the hope of food and water. On top of that, the Luddite methods of extermination until the camps are up and running sound disturbingly like those of the Einsatzgruppen in the Soviet Union in 1941.
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** Defied; I-950s have much more subtle cyber-components and so can pass the "dog test". While it's noted that dogs still won't like them, they won't immediately blow their cover. That said, the fact the MP dogs at Cyberdyne's military base location can't keep discipline around Serena, growling and baring their teeth, is a sign to a sufficiently-observant Major that something is not right with her.
** A woman notes that her dog ''hates'' her brand-new SUV. . . which just so happens to be controllable by Skynet.
** A woman notes that her dog ''hates'' her brand-new SUV. . . which just so happens to be controllable by Skynet.
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** Defied; I-950s Defied with the I-950s; they have much more subtle cyber-components and so can pass the "dog test". While it's noted that dogs still won't like them, they won't immediately blow their cover. That said, the fact the MP dogs at Cyberdyne's military base location can't keep discipline around Serena, growling and baring their teeth, is a sign to a sufficiently-observant Major that something is not right with her.
** A woman notes that her dog ''hates'' her brand-new SUV. . . which just so happens to be controllable by Skynet. Sure enough, it kills her mere paragraphs later.
** A woman notes that her dog ''hates'' her brand-new SUV. . . which just so happens to be controllable by Skynet. Sure enough, it kills her mere paragraphs later.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Unlike his appearance in ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'', where he's as unhelpful and in denial as ever, Dr. Silberman here has come to believe in the truth of what Sarah was saying after seeing the T-1000 in action. Despite Sarah's caginess as first, he's genuinely helpful to her and eventually helps her escape to Mexico in the second book.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Unlike his appearance in ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines'', where he's as unhelpful and in denial as ever, Dr. Silberman here has come to believe in the truth of what Sarah was saying after seeing the T-1000 in action. Despite Sarah's caginess as at first, he's genuinely helpful to her and eventually helps her escape to Mexico in the second book.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The Luddite terrorists that follow Skynet are only known by their codenames, save a brief snippet where Skynet refers to Balewitch by her real name.
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* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Deconstructed and looked at realistically. After Judgment Day one of Sarah's frequent issues is getting many of the survivors to change their worldview, particularly that they have to learn to defend themselves from other people either desperate to feed their own kids or hardened criminals used to talking what they want by force anyway. Numerous people insist they should share and that nothing like what she's describing could possibly happen in the civilised world, and that they won't even change their diet in one particular vegan case, ignoring that they can barely grow enough produce in Alaska in a good year, never mind a nuclear winter. Unusually for this trope, Sarah's self-aware enough to acknowledge she's had decades of survival training and getting used to the idea of killer robots coming after them, so it's not too surprising it's taking these people a hell of a lot longer than she hopes to get their heads in the game.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Of all people, it's John Connor who gets this at the start of "Future War", flatly disbelieving his mother and Dieter as evidence mounts that Skynet is active and well on its way to Judgment Day. In this case, it's John refusing to believe his [[TheLostLenore dead love]] Wendy failed to kill Skynet's sentience with her program, as if that's true she died for nothing.
