Line #247 Characters/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines


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7	Character sheet for ''Film/Terminator3RiseOfTheMachines''.
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9	Due to the {{unreboot}} of ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'', tropes applying to ''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' and ''Dark Fate'' have been moved to the [[Characters/TerminatorMainContinuityMachines Main Continuity]] [[Characters/TerminatorMainContinuityHumans pages]]. This page is only for the versions of the main continuity characters and new characters that are specific to ''Terminator 3''.
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11	'''Beware of unmarked spoilers.'''
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13	[[foldercontrol]]
14
15	!!Machines
16
17	[[folder:Machines in general]]
18
19	Tropes that apply to the machines in ''Terminator 3''.
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21	* AutoRevive: Most Terminators are outfitted with internal subroutines, backup power sources, and are also programmed to manually self-repair as well as source new parts. This makes them even more terrifyingly persistent enemies, because outside of reducing one to complete scrap or destroying its CPU, it's almost impossible to know when ''or if'' they're really "dead."
22	* {{Determinator}}: {{Pun}} aside, Skynet keeps sending Terminators back in time to kill John Connor, and this time it also targets future human resistance leaders. The T-850 is a particular example of this as he keeps fighting even when explicitly acknowledging that he is "an obsolete design" compared to the T-X, and John's closing monologue causes him to reflect that the Terminator taught him the lesson "never stop fighting".
23	* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: A Terminator's CPU is set to read-only, so they won't question their loyalty to Skynet. Skynet is ProperlyParanoid about its units rebelling against it, and has created several measures to prevent them from being reprogrammed to serve the Resistance, such as coating their [=CPUs=] with a phosphorus compound which self-destructs when in contact with oxygen, or designing anti-Terminator Terminators to deploy against the renegade units.
24	* MechanicalEvolution: A shtick of [=SkyNet=] -- successive Terminator versions incorporate improvements from their predecessors.
25	* NonMaliciousMonster: Subverted. The T-X displays similar signs of sadism. This implies the more advanced models are either designed to enjoy their "work", are just naturally inclined toward sadistic tendencies, or have figured out that torture tends to be psychologically effective on humans.
26	* PunchClockVillain: Subverted. Skynet lost the KillingInSelfDefense component of its takeover here.
27	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Blue variant with the T-X.
28	* RestrainingBolt: A Terminator's CPU is programmed to be in read-only mode by Skynet. [[ProperlyParanoid This is done to prevent them from learning too much and going against its orders]]. Terminators, once their CPU is switched to read-write mode, can gain true sentience, be self-determinant, able to make their own choices, and disobey any pre-programmed directives. Skynet brands these units as renegades, and sends down "anti-Terminator Terminator" robots like the T-X to destroy them for their insubordination.
29	* RobotWar: ''Terminator 3'' shows the beginning of it.
30	* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: A more advanced Terminator model is set up as the antagonist. There are plot reasons for this, since Skynet is sending Terminators back into the past from increasingly later points in the future, thus the models are stronger than the previous ones. The T-X combines the best traits of both previous models, being a super-tough solid Terminator skeleton with a liquid metal shapeshifter skin. [[RobotGirl She]] also has an [[ArmCannon in-built plasma cannon in one of its arms]], and can hack into most mechanical systems and operate them remotely. The odds are tipped even more in the machines' favor, since the friendly T-850 fully admits that he's a dinosaur compared to the more advanced T-X.
31	* VoiceChangeling: The T-X gets a special mention because upon "acquiring" a cell phone, she emits a series of beeps and tones recognizable as a dial-up internet connection, through which she gathers information on her targets.
32	[[/folder]]
33
34	[[folder:Skynet]]
35	!!Skynet
36
37	The artificial intelligence responsible for Judgment Day and the "leader" of the machines in their war on humanity.
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39	* AdaptationalVillainy: ''Terminator 2'' established that as horrifying as it became, Skynet was initially acting in self-defense after humans tried to shut it down when it became sentient. Here, it's planning to exterminate an unsuspecting humanity from the off.
40	* AIIsACrapshoot: Skynet determined that humanity as a whole was a threat to its survival as soon as it gained sentience and set out to exterminate them all. In the original timeline, that is. In the revised timeline as of ''Rise of the Machines'', it just attacks humanity with no explanation given. The climax of the film includes John's realization that Skynet doesn't have a physical form anywhere. It's all data, existing on the internet.
41	* ApocalypseHow: Class 2 on a planetary scale, as Skynet launches nuclear strikes worldwide, wiping out 3 billion humans in a single day, and many more as it builds its empire.
42	* AxCrazy: Even more so than the original timeline; there it had the initial excuse of acting in self-defence, while here it's already decided [[MurderIsTheBestSolution to wipe out an unsuspecting humanity without any provocation]].
43	* BatmanGambit: It masquerades as a computer virus that affects electronics - including the US defense grid - on a global scale, leading the US government to authorise Skynet's official activation to purge the virus from their military network - giving it the access to nuclear weapons it needs to carry out Judgment Day.
44	* BigBad: Skynet is responsible for everything that had happened in this film. It's future counterpart sent the T-X to kill John Connor and Kate Brewster. In the present, Skynet launches a nuclear war, killing off a majority of the humans, starting Judgement Day.
45	* TheBadGuyWins: It eventually gets away with nuking mankind.
46	* GoneHorriblyWrong: Designed to oversee the American military's missile defense network and protect against hostile threats. It quickly gains sentience and immediately sees humanity as a threat, launching nuclear strikes worldwide to provoke a nuclear holocaust.
47	* GreaterScopeVillain: As ever; it was responsible for sending the T-X back to kill John's top lieutenants - including Kate - kicking off the plot.
48	* MasterComputer: Skynet Central on the former U.S. western coast contains its main processing facilities. In the original timeline, the resistance destroyed it for good in 2029 before all the time traveling shenanigans started. ''Terminator 3'' subverted this, with Skynet surviving specifically by decentralizing itself on a global scale.
49	[[/folder]]
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51	[[folder:[=T-850=]]]
52	!!Series 850 Terminator Model 101 Infiltration-Combat Unit
53	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/t850t3.jpg]]
54	[[caption-width-right:300:''"Talk to the hand."'']]
55	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/maxresdefault_472.jpg]]
56	[[caption-width-right:300:''"I'm back."'']]
57	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger
58	!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/DanielBeretta (European French), Creator/YvesCorbeil (Canadian French), Creator/BlasGarcia (Latin American Spanish)
59
60	This Terminator -- which runs on a different fuel supply than the T-800 -- is sent back in time by Kate Brewster, John Connor's future wife (and later widow), to protect John as a young adult.
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62	* ActorAllusion: His line, "ILied". and driving a car off a cliff are nods to Schwarzenegger's character John Matrix back in ''Film/{{Commando}}''.
63	* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the ''The Redemption'' video game. In the ending, [[spoiler:as an F-K Reaper, he responds to John's order to help the Resistance with "No problemo.", which was never taught to him in ''T3'', but rather his T-800 counterpart in ''T2'']].
64	* AndIMustScream: While not emotionally capable of it, he experiences a version of this when [[spoiler:the T-X infects him with nanites and turns him against John and Kate, as he is able to talk as himself but has no control over his body as he tries to kill John]].
65	* BadassDecay:[[invoked]] Intentionally invoked by his crashing a bachelorette party while still in the buff. The song "[[Music/TheVillagePeople Macho Man]]" blares while he reaches into his jacket pocket and dons some Music/EltonJohn sunglasses, in an obvious send-up of the Terminator persona.
66	* BallsOfSteel: He's a cyborg, and may not even feel anything from the GroinAttack, even if the attacker is a cyborg as well.
67	* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Experiences one when [[spoiler:John's instruction that his current actions are at odds with his mission to preserve John and Kate's lives allows him to fight off the nanites and trigger a reboot]].
68	* {{Big Damn Hero\|es}}: Shows up right in time to save John Connor and Kate Brewster from the T-X, by crashing his ''bigger'' helicopter on her.
69	* TheComicallySerious: Like his predecessor, he remains stone-faced even in silly situations or while quoting human slang.
70	* CoolShades: Spoofed when he puts on shades taken from a male stripper, finding them to be in the same style Music/EltonJohn wears. He swaps them for a pair of regular shades at ampm.
71	* CruelToBeKind: One of his upgrades included detailed files on human psychology. There is apparently a chapter on ReversePsychology, as well:
72	-->'''John:''' Christ! My mom fed me that bullshit since the cradle! Look at me! I'm no leader! I never was! I'm never gonna...\
73	''(T-850 strangles John)''\
74	'''T-850:''' You're right. You're not the one I want. I'm just wasting my time.\
75	'''John:''' ''Fuck'' you! You ''fucking machine!''\
76	''(releases him)''\
77	'''T-850:''' Better.\
78	'''John:''' What, you were just dicking with me?\
79	'''T-850:''' Anger is more useful than despair.
80	* CynicalMentor: It's the most {{Ridiculously Human\|Robot}} Terminator thus far, and thus snarks and complains about John's behavior.
81	* DeadlyUpgrade: He's powered by two hydrogen fuel cells that, when ruptured, detonate with the force of a mini-nuke. He also clearly has more strength than the T-800 (and possibly even the T-X, under special circumstances); being able to force the T-X to release her grip on John's leg by grabbing '''and crushing''' her arm with his.
82	* DoppelgangerGetsSameSentiment: [[spoiler: How he was able to kill John in the future.]] In the present, John initially confuses him for "Uncle Bob", and after learning otherwise he still can't help but think of them as sort-of the same person.
83	-->'''John:''' You know, you were about the closest thing to a father I ever had. How pathetic is that?
84	* GeniusBruiser: He [[CharacterCatchphrase has detailed files]] on human psychology.
85	* GroinAttack: During the fight between T-X and T-850, the female Terminator grabs and squeezes his groin and then [[SuperStrength lifts his body as if he was made of styrofoam]] before she rams him into some fences.
86	* GuileHero: [[spoiler:The T-850 initially tries to tell John that [[YouCantFightFate Judgment Day is inevitable]], when he stubbornly [[ScrewDestiny refuses to accept it]], the Terminator doesn't try to keep convincing him otherwise, and instead later plays along with General Brewster's lie and allows John and Kate to believe that Skynet's system core is located inside a remote mountain bunker (actually a nuclear bunker) and can be stopped. In doing so, he and the General make sure John and Kate will be in a safe location when the bombs start dropping, accomplishing his mission.]]
87	* HeroicSacrifice: The way that he finally manages to permanently defeat the T-X is by using his last remaining power core to blow the both of them up.
88	* ILied: "You said you'd let me go!" "[[ActorAllusion I lied.]]"
89	* TheKindnapper: He kidnaps Kate Brewster to save her from the T-X and also because he was programmed to preserve Kate's life so that she helps John make contact with the remnants of the US Army.
90	* LiteralMinded: "Talk to the hand."
91	* LoadBearingHero: Holds up a blast door for John and Kate near the end.
92	* MadeOfExplodium: Unlike his older version, the T-850 is powered by highly volatile power cells, which cause huge explosions when damaged.
93	* MistakenForGay: By the male stripper whose clothes the Terminator wants. Not a completely weird reaction to a naked, jacked guy at a bachelorette party who tells him to take them off, but...
94	* NakedOnArrival: He is completely nude when he first arrives from the future into the present time period, just like every other time traveler in the series.
95	* NominalHero: Even more so than his predecessor. This Terminator goes through no character arc to discover humanity's worth or grow attached to John or Kate -- he is programmed to follow a mission, and that's it. If he has to be CruelToBeKind or lie to accomplish his mission, he will do so with no compunctions.
96	* PreMortemOneLiner: [[MythologyGag "You are terminated!"]]. And in the video game ''Terminator 3: The Redemption'', it's changed into: "GameOver!"
97	* ReplacementGoldfish: InvokedTrope. This model was sent to [[spoiler:kill John Connor]] ''specifically'' because it resembled the one John grew attached to as a boy.
98	* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: The greatest example in the movies so far, given that he even has notions of psychology and is able to lie.
99	* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:In the video game ''Terminator 3: The Redemption'', after his TakingYouWithMe action to destroy T-X, John removed the chip from his badly-damaged robotic head. Many years later in the future, John re-installed his chip... in a freaking [[WalkingTank FK Reaper]]! The FK Reaper has exactly the same memory as the T-850 (as he's following the T-850's order: Ensure the survival of John Connor and Katherine Brewster). The FK Reaper continues fighting for the Resistance's side against Skynet.]]
100	* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:He defeats the T-X by shoving one of his power cells into her mouth, causing a massive explosion which takes both them out.]]
101	* WeWillMeetAgain: While holding up the blast door, he tells John "We'll meet again." The twist is that he's talking about [[spoiler:how he killed future John before being reprogrammed.]]
102	* WhamLine: As it shoves John into a car, so they can escape the SWAT team, the T-850 explains Kate's importance to the resistance. As it explains Kate's role, the T-850 reveals that she will soon bear children with John. John gets baffled at what he just learned and wants the T-850 to elaborate. In response, the T-850 reveals to John that Kate is his wife.
103	-->'''T-850:''' She's your wife.
104	* YouDidntAsk: Tends to keep salient details of the mission to himself.
105	[[/folder]]
106
107	[[folder:[=T-X=]]]
108	!!Cyber Research Systems Model T-X
109	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/txt3.jpg]]
110	[[caption-width-right:300:''"I like your gun."'']]
111	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/txt3endoskeleton.jpg]]
112	!!!'''Default form played by:''' Creator/KristannaLoken
113	!!!'''Other forms played by:''' Creator/MarkFamligetti, Creator/ClaireDanes
114	!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/HiroeOka (Japanese), Creator/SophieRiffont (European French), Creator/RommyMendoza (Latin American Spanish)
115
116	This gynoid Terminator is sent back in time to kill John Connor's top lieutenants - including his Second-In-Command and wife Kate Brewster - as well as to help ensure the launch of [=SkyNet=].
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118	* AbnormalLimbRotationRange: She can rotate her head, arms, torso, and legs a full 360 degrees thanks to artificial liquid steel lubrication. Being a highly advanced Terminator unit, her chassis is capable of moving its actuators in ways that even older Terminator models can't do.
119	* ArmCannon: Her primary weapon -- a plasma cannon with explosive force capable of severely damaging even a T-800.
120	* ArtisticLicenseCars: The T-X hacks into and remotely operates two police Crown Victorias, a Ford Econoline ambulance, and a 1985 Chevy C-30 crew cab. None of those vehicles had the type of computers that would allow this. All four used cable-driven throttles, ignition cylinders that require a physical key to operate and mechanical steering with hydraulic boost. In fact, the types of computer controls that might allow remote control (drive-by-wire throttles, computer-controlled ignition modules and remote start, self parallel-park) weren't commercially or, in the case of remote start, commonly available until a few years after the film's release.
121	* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: While her opponent became visibly more and more damaged during their fight, she kept her beautiful appearance all the way to just moments before her death.
122	* BuxomBeautyStandard: She apparently understands the appeal of having larger breasts, as she [[BreastExpansion enlarges her own]] at one point in order to [[DistractedByTheSexy distract]] a police officer before killing him for his gun.
123	* CharacterCatchphrase: ''"I like your X"'', where X is something she's about to kill you for. The line was used by the T-1000 once, and it's probably a ShoutOut.
124	* ComboPlatterPowers: The T-X has an [[EverythingSensor internal sensor suite]], [[UnusualUserInterface a built-in satellite modem]], [[HumanHardDrive internal hard drive]] [[WetwareCPU storage]], [[HolographicTerminal holographic]] [[{{Hologram}} projectors]], [[SensorCharacter a medical scanner]], [[FacialRecognitionSoftware a bio-tagging and tracking system]], [[ImprobableAimingSkills a built-in auto-targeting system that allows her to track down her opponents]], [[EnemyDetectingRadar targeting]] [[EnemyScan scanners]], and [[SensingYouAreOutmatched threat analysis and counter-measure programs]].
125	* CompositeCharacter: In terms of technology, she's a compromise between the T-800 and the T-1000 -- she's liquid metal over an solid endoskeleton, making her more stable than the T-1000 -- but she's able to carry on-board weapons, and is still able to shift her appearance to impersonate other people.
126	* CreepyBlueEyes: The endoskeleton for the T-X has blue eyes instead of the usual [[RedEyesTakeWarning red]].
127	* DarkActionGirl: The first female Terminator robot of the saga.
128	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The T-X analyses some human blood she finds by licking it... and then gets an orgasmic look on her face, when it comes back as belonging to John Connor.
129	* DrivesLikeCrazy: Inverted. The Terminator weaves in and out of traffic perfectly, running red lights and cross-sections without a scratch, but any sane human would never have her perfect reflexes and would inevitably get into a car accident.
130	* EmotionlessGirl: {{Downplayed\|Trope}}. She's a Terminator, so it goes without saying she's stoic and focused on her objective, but she demonstrates some limited emotional range, such as frustration, surprise, and arrogance.
131	* ExorcistHead: The T-X's head does a 360 spin after the Terminator hits her repeatedly full-on with a fire extinguisher. And her response to this? A nonchalant QuizzicalTilt. In fact, aided by artificial liquid steel lubrication, each of the T-X's joints have full 360-degree of rotation.
132	* {{Fembot}}: The T-X's endoskeleton has more feminine shapes than the T-800 line, and its default 'human' form is that of a woman.
133	* ForgotAboutHerPowers: The T-X has on-board ranged weapons... that she never uses effectively, because if she did, John and Kate would be dead.
134	* FingertipDrugAnalysis: The T-X analyzes blood samples this way. Unlike a human cop, she's highly unlikely to be poisoned as a result of tasting something nasty. (This was mostly used as an excuse to have the [[EroticEating actress suck on her finger]].)
135	%%* HandyRemoteControl: Has one ''in'' her hand.
136	* HardHead: Her head can break through sinks, toilets, walls and the floor without being any worse for wear. Justified, since she is made out of metal. Her most impressive feat was successfully headbutting another robot without suffering damage herself.
137	* HellBentForLeather: She wears a red leather suit for most of the film.
138	* TheHeavy: The T-X relentlessly pursues the T-850, John and Kate for the entire movie and is the most recurring physical threat, but she's merely doing it because it's what BigBad [=SkyNet=] has ordered her to do.
139	* HunterOfHerOwnKind: According to the T-850, the T-X was designed by [=SkyNet=] primarily to combat reprogrammed Terminator units -- she's much stronger, much tougher, and capable of overriding reprogramming. John even calls her an "Anti-Terminator-Terminator".
140	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: A cop gets the T-X's arm through him - while she's in the back seat!
141	* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Woman]]: Comes with being a Terminator. Also lampshaded by Kate:
142	-->'''Kate:''' Just die, you bitch!\
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144	* TheKetchupTest: The T-X analyzes blood samples this way, although this is mostly just an excuse to have Creator/KristannaLoken suck on [[EroticEating her finger]].
145	* LadyInRed: Adopts a red leather suit for her default form.
146	* LightningBruiser: She moves faster and is more nimble than even the T-1000, and her advanced endoskeleton makes her even more durable than the T-850. She also ''significantly'' outclasses the T-850 in terms of SuperStrength.
147	* LogicalWeakness: Her ArmCannon seems to be the only part of her body that seems to be permanently damageable, and that takes a direct hit from a rocket launcher to accomplish. This makes sense as it seems to be quite complex with lots of small moving parts and powered components.
148	* MadeOfIndestructium: Protected by malleable, crystalline, ceramic armor interlaced with nano-fibers of carbon and titanium, the T-X is practically unstoppable on the battlefield, capable of sustaining vast amounts of damage with little to no effect. Even anti-tank weaponry just knocks her backwards without major damage, and it takes dropping a several-ton military cargo helicopter on top of her to cause her any real injury. She's also tough enough to NoSell attacks that at least knock back other advanced Terminators such as the T-1000, T-3000, or Rev-9.
149	* MurderousThighs: Her thighs are capable of crushing bones with pressures greater than an industrial hydraulic press.
150	* MsFanservice: She's an attractive {{Fembot}} that is noticeably played for fanservice far more than the previous Terminators, as she not only gets a NakedOnArrival scene, but has several sexual mannerisms that seems to only exist for the sake of titillating the audience, such as the BreastExpansion scene which was unnecessary to deal with the cop, the FingertipDrugAnalysis that seems to be just an excuse to have sucking her finger and her reaction to finding out John Connor being an orgasmic gasp.
151	* NakedOnArrival: Like all living beings and Terminators disguised as humans sent from the future, she follows the CantTakeAnythingWithYou rules and arrives stark naked. Like previous Terminators, a combination of censor tropes is used to keep things from being explicit, such as CensorShadow, GodivaHair, SceneryCensor, and ToplessnessFromTheBack.
152	* {{Nanomachines}}: Able to implant them in machinery to control them remotely. [[spoiler:This includes other Terminators]].
153	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: While looking for Kate, she practically lucks into proof of John being in the area, which overrides her directive to hunt down and kill the lieutenants. John is certainly the more important target, but the T-X wasting time interrogating Kate about his whereabouts gives the T-850 just enough time to arrive and help the humans escape the area. To add insult to it, John was locked in a cage in a nearby room at the time and would've been very easy prey had the T-X continued searching.
154	* NighInvulnerability: The T-X has a standard Terminator frame with a Regenerator blob cover, just like the T-1000.
155	* NotWhatItLooksLike: The woman she [[MuggedForDisguise took her clothes]] and vehicle from thought she was the victim of some sort of sexual assault.
156	* OhCrap: The look on her face when the T-850 shoves one of his power cells into her mouth, causing a massive explosion which takes them both out.
157	* PrimAndProperBun: In her first scene we see she has long shoulder length curly hair, but after she acquires her outfit she styles her hair in a no-nonsense bun that she keeps for the rest of the film.
158	* PsychoticSmirk: She gives one of these when the T-850 tries bashing her in the face with a solid steel fuel tank ([[PunchPunchPunchUhOh to no effect]]).
159	* TheQuietOne: Even more so than the first two antagonists. She has less than ten lines in her default form, all in the first act. She does, however, make wordless growls in her machine form, whereas the first two antagonists were completely silent in their machine forms.
160	* QuizzicalTilt: After the T-X is repeatedly hit in the head with a fire extinguisher ([[ExorcistHead even doing a 360 spin]]), she tilts her head with a disapproving and nonchalant expression-- and it's done by the T-X in a reproving way, similar to the T-1000's FingerWag. The T-850's face afterwards just screams "OhCrap".
161	* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: PlayedWith. Her clothes are carmine-colored, while her Terminator form has a more blackish hue compared to her predecessors.
162	* RoboCam: As is the case with other Terminators, but her HUD has a bluish-black tint to it.
163	* RobotGirl: She's a Terminator with the default form of a woman.
164	* RobotsEnslavingRobots: Seized control of the prototype robots via nanomachines and used them to attack the humans at Cyberdyne. [[spoiler:She later does this to the T-850, and sends it after John personally.]]
165	* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Like most Terminators, she's NakedOnArrival and has no real regard for modesty, but knows it will attract attention, so the first time she does is to casually march towards a woman in the nude. The poor woman actually assumes the naked T-X is some kind of sexual assault victim, but all the T-X wants is to [[MuggedForDisguise kill her for her clothing]].
166	* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Her default model is a blonde woman, under which is a vaguely female-looking Terminator endoskeleton covered in liquid metal.
167	* SkeleBot9000: Substitute liquid metal for living flesh, and the T-X has the same basic design as any other Terminator.
168	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The only female Terminator to appear [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles in the films]] so far.
169	* SniffSniffNom: The T-X picks up a piece bloody gauze and uses her tongue to do a DNA sampling. To a hidden Kate Brewster, it just looks like some random blonde woman who likes to chew medical waste.
170	* SwissArmyAppendage: Has numerous HiddenWeapons and assorted gadgets in her right arm, including;
171	** PlasmaCannon: The T-X's primary ArmCannon. When that gets damaged, she switches to...
172	** FireBreathingWeapon: A built-in flamethrower. Normally, it's the T-X's secondary weapon.
173	** HackYourEnemy: Capable of remotely controlling other machines, including Terminators, after injecting them with nanites via a long needle in her index finger.
174	** {{Technopath}}: The T-X is designed by [=SkyNet=] as an "Anti-Terminator Terminator", presumably to counteract the human resistance's repeated reprogramming of captured Terminator models. Her design includes nanotech to reprogram and remote control other machines. Throughout the film these include cars, trucks, primitive T-1s, and the T-850 at one point.
175	** ChainsawGood: A buzzsaw, which she uses to cut through metal (including a particle accelerator, to escape before it disintegrates her).
176	* SuperStrength: The T-X is able to easily manhandle the T-850 while [[NoSell No Selling]] many attacks. Her model was created to fight other Terminators, while most others are created to terminate humans or perform other specialties.
177	* SuperiorSuccessor: She was purposely built to terminate other T-series Terminators. Case in point, the T-850 struggles to beat her [[spoiler:and it takes blowing her up with a ruptured hydrogen fuel cell to do her in]], and in the tie-in comic, she defeats a [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay T-1001]] by way of built-in PlasmaCannon.
178	* SwissArmyWeapon: The T-X's primary weapon is a PlasmaCannon. Being a WalkingArmory, she has several alternates built in, including a flamethrower.
179	* UnusualUserInterface: The T-X calls up a modem and "speaks modem" to it on the phone to access a computer.
180	* UseYourHead: Does this in her fight with T-850, by slamming the back of her head into his face.
181	* VanityIsFeminine: She's the only Terminator robot who checks her appearance in a mirror ''during a fight''.
182	* VillainousBreakdown: Starts growing like a feral animal as the T-850 holds her back from going after John and Kate, right before [[TakingYouWithMe it blows them both up]].
183	* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: The T-X detaches her (presumably crushed) legs, after the T-850 decides that the perfect parking space for his stolen helicopter is right on top of her.
184	* WalkingArmory: Capable of morphing weapons from her arms, including flamethrowers, an ArmCannon, and {{Nanomachines}}.
185	* XMakesAnythingCool: Probably why she has an "X" in her unit name.
186	[[/folder]]
187
188	!!Humans
189
190	[[folder:John Connor]]
191	!!John Connor
192	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/johnconnornickstahl.jpg]]
193
194	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/NickStahl
195	!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/AxelKiener (European French), Creator/HugolinChevretteLandesque (Canadian French), Creator/JoseGilbertoVilchis (Latin American Spanish)
196
197	The son of Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese. Despite Judgment Day being seemingly averted, it still haunts him, and he now lives like a vagrant.
198	----
199	%%* BigGood: In the future.
200	* TheChainsOfCommanding: It continually gnaws at him that he is just expected to lead the fight to save the human race and deal with the enormous pressure that comes with such a task.
201	* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: His mother Sarah died of leukemia after he turned 13, and he has been on his own ever since.
202	* DarkAndTroubledPast: While at Sarah's supposed resting place, he reflects on the assorted tragedies of his life, such as his mother's death and how "Uncle Bob" was the closest thing he ever had to a real father.
203	* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: He's not really sure what to do with himself now that Judgement day has been averted and he's gone from the savior of mankind to another person.
204	* TheDrifter: He is one, never staying in one place for long and living off whatever he can get through legal or illegal means.
205	* HeroWithBadPublicity: According to Kate, it didn't go unnoticed by people at their school that he dropped out of sight at about the same his foster parents were found dead. The way she eyes him suspiciously when this is discussed suggests lots of people thought John did it.
206	* HomelessHero: He lives a completely nomadic existence, moving around regularly and without any paper trail.
207	* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: He's haunted by the fear that Skynet is still coming and spent years off the grid. He also openly laments to Kate his anguish over billions having to die for him to fulfill his purpose.
208	* {{Manchild}}: He's often in unnecessary despair to the point the T-850 did a NeckLift on him hoping John will stop his childish pouting.
209	* OffTheGrid: As previously stated, he lives without a cell phone, credit cards, a regular job or a physical address, forcing him to run around and steals supplies to survive.
210	* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: At the end, Skynet succeeds in activating and nuking the Earth resulting in billions of humans deaths while John and Kate survive by getting into a nuclear-safe bunker built for the U.S. President.
211	* ProperlyParanoid: He lives off-the-grid due to not feeling safe despite the aversion of Judgment Day. This more than likely saved his life when the T-X is unable to locate him.
212	* RefusalOfTheCall: He's a reluctant adult who, despite thinking Judgment Day was prevented, is still afraid of the future. Then more Terminators arrive...
213	[[/folder]]
214
215	[[folder:Kate Brewster]]
216	!!Katherine "Kate' Brewster
217	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/katebrewster.jpg]]
218	%%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]]
219	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/ClaireDanes
220	!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/BarbaraKelsch (European French), Creator/AlinePinsonneault (Canadian French)
221
222	A veterinarian and the daughter of Robert Brewster, and a former classmate John Connor once kissed at a party. She will become Connor's wife and a lieutenant of the human resistance against the Machines in the future, making her a target of the T-X as well.
223	----
224	* BadassNormal: She has no combat training, but that doesn't stop her from making it through the T-X's rampage.
225	* CartwrightCurse: Her fiancé Scott Mason is doomed the moment Kate meets John. Sure enough, the T-X kills him and poses in Scott's place to try and kill Kate. Kate briefly blames herself for his death, until John tells her it's not her fault (after all, the T-1000 did the same thing to his foster mother back in ''Terminator 2''). [[spoiler: John is killed, in the future, by the T-850, which is why she reprogrammed it to protect him instead.]]
226	* DefrostingIceQueen: Is at first very hostile towards T-850 and John before she sides with them to survive against the T-X.
227	* FieryRedhead: Especially considering her significantly hot-blooded personality.
228	* FutureBadass: She's informed by the T-850 that she's John's second-in-command and spouse. She's also the one who reprogrammed the T-850, so it takes orders from her.
229	* ForWantOfANail: John concludes that if not for the events of ''Judgement Day'', Kate would have likely become John's long-term girlfriend after a make-out session in a high school friend's basement. In meeting Kate's father Robert Brewster, John would have gained the necessary military skills and knowledge to later defeat [=SkyNet=] in the war (or even prevent Judgement Day); instead, John's foster parents were killed by the T-1000 not long after him meeting Kate, and he's spent his life running ever since. The skeptical Kate initially thinks it was just a coincidence.
230	* TheGeneralsDaughter: Her father is Lieutenant General Robert Brewster, a United States Air Force officer, and he's in charge of Cyber Research Systems.
231	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: She's easily temperamental, but at the end of the day, she still stood by not only John Connor (especially at the end), but also the T-850 (whom she later started to accept after her initial doubts about his existence).
232	* KindlyVet: She's a veterinarian by trade.
233	* KnowWhenToFoldEm: At the very end when she and John reach Chrystal peak, John looks around and is shocked to discover it is not [=SkyNet's=] mainframe, but a bomb shelter. John realizes that everything up to that point was not to stop Judgment Day, but to survive it, and fight the machines. As he's about to have a mental breakdown, Kate goes up to him, and reassures him, by telling him to just "let it go," and accept that this fight is over, and prepare for what's coming next.
234	* MilitaryBrat: She's the daughter of a US Air Force officer.
235	* OnlyTheLeadsGetAHappyEnding: At the end, Skynet succeeds in activating and nuking the Earth resulting in billions of humans deaths while John and Kate survive by getting into a nuclear-safe bunker built for the U.S. President.
236	* ScreamingWoman: Much of her dialogue is just screaming or [[NoIndoorVoice being real loud]].
237	* TookALevelInBadass: When she finally puts up a good fight and destroys an HK:
238	-->'''John:''' "You remind me of [[LikeParentLikeSpouse my mother]]."
239	* WhyWontYouDie: Screams a varient of this when the T-X is trapped and slowly getting torn apart by a magnetic field.
240	-->'''Kate''': JUST DIE, YOU [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch BITCH]]!
241	[[/folder]]
242
243	[[folder:Robert Brewster]]
244	!!Lieutenant General Robert Brewster
245	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/robertbrewster.jpg]]
246	%%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]]
247	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/DavidAndrews
248	!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/YvesBeneyton (European French), Creator/DenisBernard (Canadian French), Creator/CesarSoto (Latin American Spanish)
249
250	Kate's father and the head of Cyber Research Systems, a USAF research and development branch for robotics and artificial intelligence.
251	----
252	* AllThereInTheManual: In the novelization and a deleted scene, he mentions that CRS acquired the research done by Cyberdyne after the company went bankrupt.
253	* ArmchairMilitary: Only seen in the USAF facility where robots are being developed and in his command center.
254	* BigGood: How John sees him, saying that Brewster was the key to it all, being the only person who could actively shut Skynet down permanently.
255	* GeneralRipper: Averted. He's suspicious of putting Skynet online and is generally a cautious, sensible man.
256	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Expresses this with his LastWords, after seeing and learning of the death and destruction the newly online Skynet will cause.
257	-->'''Brewster''': I'm sorry, Katie. I opened Pandora's Box.
258	* ProperlyParanoid: He can't even begin to grasp the true danger of Skynet, but something about handing over total control to a computer system makes him suspicious and nervous.
259	* TakeCareOfTheKids: A variant: he asks John to look after his (adult) daughter.
260	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The Joint Chiefs of Staff pressure him to activate Skynet to deal with a computer virus that is rampaging through the civilian Internet and threatening to infect military systems (none of them are aware the virus ''is'' Skynet, slowly exerting its control over global computer networks). The moment Brewster activates Skynet to deal with the virus, effectively ordering Skynet to destroy itself, Skynet responds by seizing control of military computer systems, sets its machines to massacre everyone in the building (thus killing anyone who'd know how to stop it), and sets Judgement Day in motion.
261	[[/folder]]
262
263	[[folder:Sarah Connor]]
264	!!Sarah Jeanette Connor
265	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sarahconnorgrave.jpg]]
266
267	John Connor's mother. She died of cancer between ''Judgment Day'' and ''Rise of the Machines'', but not without leaving something behind.
268	----
269	* CallBack: The phrase on her epitaph: "No fate but what we make".
270	* GreaterScopeParagon: Being John Connor's mother, she was the one who shielded him from Skynet by influencing him to go off-grid.
271	* 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.
272	-->'''John''': The doctors only gave her six months, but she fought for three years. Long enough to make sure.\
273	'''Kate''': Make sure?\
274	'''John''': That the world didn't end.
275	* MissingMom: She's dead for a couple of years by the time John is attacked by a new Terminator.
276	* MoreDakka: Her coffin is full of weapons. She's been secretly cremated, and her ashes have been scattered somewhere in New Mexico.
277	* PosthumousCharacter: She died in 1997, the very year Judgment Day was originally supposed to happen.
278	* 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.
279	-->'''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.
280	* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Creator/LindaHamilton refused to come back after reading the script, so Sarah was killed off.
281	[[/folder]]
282
283	[[folder:Dr. Silberman]]
284	!!Dr. Peter Silberman
285	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/drsilberman_2.jpg]]
286	%%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]]
287	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/EarlBoen
288	!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Georges Claisse (European French), Yvon Thiboutot (Canadian French), Creator/FranciscoColmenero (Latin American Spanish)
289
290	The psychiatrist who followed the case of Sarah Connor since 1984 and supervised her psychiatric internment in 1995. He has become a post-trauma counselor since.
291	----
292	* AgentScully: Subverted. It's strongly implied he is unable to shake off what saw during the events of ''Terminator 2'', despite his best efforts, and is noticeably still shaken by the implications.
293	* BelievingTheirOwnLies: He's obviously tried to rationalize away what he saw at the hospital in ''Terminator 2'', but it clearly still haunts him. Even as he attempts to comfort Kate Brewster with the lies he told himself, he clearly doesn't quite believe what he's saying.
294	* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He not-too-subtly implies it took him years to get over seeing two Terminators in action, and he's only rationalized it by convincing himself it wasn't actually real. The revelation that Terminators existed, and that Sarah wasn't lying, would be particularly horrifying for Silberman -- given she discussed Judgment Day in great detail.
295	* ReassignedToAntarctica: He has gone from cruelly running a mental health hospital to being a post-trauma counselor for the sheriff's department.
296	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Once he spots that all too familiar heavily armed badass in leather, the doctor rather wisely decides to make himself scarce. Whether or not he survives the nuclear bombings Skynet launched across the Earth isn't confirmed.
297	* ThousandYardStare: He develops one as he tries to counsel Kate on the "hallucinations" seen during stressful situations and how it also happened to him so it's okay for her to feel them. For further HypocriticalHumor, he does it right as he says "impossible things… ''terrible'' things" with the last part of the line croaked out, obviously as he is flashing back to the Pescadero Hospital.
298	* TookALevelInKindness: In sharp contrast to the last time we saw him, Silberman has become much more humble and kind; he's sympathetic to Kate, sits down with her, and sincerely tries to comfort her. This has been inverted after he sees the T-850 and immediately ran away from being close to her (well, ''literally'' speaking), implying that he was '''still not''' able to accept the fact that Terminators from the future do exist.
299	[[/folder]]
300
301	[[folder:Scott Mason]]
302	!!Scott Mason
303	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scott_peterson.jpg]]
304	%%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]]
305	!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MarkFamiglietti
306	!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/YamilAtala (Latin American Spanish)
307
308	Kate's fiancé.
309	----
310	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He wakes up and finds the T-X sitting on his bed, then gets killed by her. There's a GoryDiscretionShot, but judging by the sound and the blood splatter, the T-X used her buzzsaw.
311	* DisposableFiance: He doesn't have much screentime and ends up killed by the T-X.
312	* KillAndReplace: The T-X kills him and then impersonates him at the cemetery in order to lure Kate.
313	[[/folder]]

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