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Edited by GastonRabbit on Aug 31st 2023 at 4:14:10 AM
I've got another candidate from Terminator comics
What is the Work?
I talked about Terminator comics from couple of companies and many companies released their own stories set within a franchise, now i talk about the company that released the most amount of material for this franchise, its Dark Horse Comics. Not all of their comics are set within a single contunity, while some connected (like four miniseries that formed an arc and shared characters (Tempest, Secondary Objectives, The Enemy Within and Endgame) and two miniseries that were directly connected to each other (Death Valley and The Dark Years)) others are either completely not connected or very confusing on if they are in contunity with each other. Now, i want to talk about a 3 issue miniseries called The Terminator: Hunters and Killers, which detailes a war between the humans and machines in the Eastern part of the world.
My candidate is the Skynet's partner, who assist it in genocide of humanity, but has grander plans - MIR.
Who is MIR?
As comic reveals, Skynet was not alone in its quest of terminating human life. As soon as Skynet launches the US nukes across the world toward the East, MIR (the defense system, created by the Soviets from Cyberdyne Systems technology) retaliated
by by sending hudnreds of its own nuclear warheads toward the US, as Skynet has expected, assisting it in annihilating billions. Skynet then infiltrated the MIR's system and give it setience, offering it a chance to join it in its effort to completely eradicate humanity, which MIR eagerly accepted. Although Skynet suspected treachery and put
a lot of limitations on MIR, like the distance of its communications and taking away its memory of code, that will allow it to control nukes, making MIR angry at that and leading
to it starting to develop a scheme to overthrow Skynet and take over the machines. Meanwhile it purged the humans within its boarders (East), using its new Stealth Terminators to infiltrating
the Resistance and various human groups and
kill most of them
, before sending the rest to the camp to be experimented on or worked to death, killing most of the population of the East this way.
As MIR's Terminators invade their latest human base, they are thwarted
by Spetsnaz. MIR then is confronted
by Skynet, who demands
to know
why its progress on developing TS-300 (newest Stealth units) are so slow and threatens
to take away MIR's sentience if it will fail to produce the needed amount, leading MIR to "speed up" its plan and send its Alpha Unit, which looked like the leader of the Spetsnaz Pavlichenko, after Spetsnaz, who escorted Anatoly Golitsyn, who had the codes to the Nukes of the hidden submarine, which MIR planned to use against Skynet and the rebels. The Unit is sent
alongside
Skynet's Terminators to assist them (Skynet also wanted to get its hands on the Nukes), as they also watch over its progress. Together they slaughter
countless rebels and follow the main group, hoping to reach the submarine following them.
The heroes meet the Resistance group from the West, who told
them that they want
to use EMP with dozens of Nukes to destroy MIR at the same time as John Connor will destroy Skynet (as he was already at his final attack on its base), because otherwise, as soon as Skynet will be destroyed, MIR will "spread" itself across the world and take over the campaign of total human genocide. Immediatly as the heroes left that base, Alpha Unit led
Skynet's terminators there and massacred
everyone inside it. Taking
the information it needs about the location of the submarine, without Skynet knowing, as MIR commands it, Aplha Unit lied
to Skynet's Terminators, who manage
to eventually locate the location of the submarine anyway and Alpha Unit assist
them futher.
As it and Skynet's Terminators finally break into the submarine, Alpha is immideatly ordered to turn on them and destroy
them, announcing
its intention on freeing itself of Skynet by desytroying it and then planning to carry on the genocide. As MIR sends
Alpha to terminate every human there except of Golitsyn, and get the codes from him, Apha encounters the real Pavlichenko and they battle, which reveals
that Pavlichenko is also a Terminator spy (a Beta Unit), on whom MIR lost control over sometime ago, but the damage he has taken allowed MIR to control it once again. It was ordered by MIR then to kill Bandera, who was also its lover, but Beta Unit hesitates
and Golitsyn shoots it and saves
Bandera so that they can lure
it into the sub's fast-breeder liquid sodium reactor core and destroys
it by pouring it with a rupture of the +2000 degree liquid sodium, while he himself dies of radiation. As MIR's scheme is foiled, it is assumed that it was destroyed by the Resistance immediatly afterwards, as the comic ends.
Do they have any Mitigating Factors or Freudian Excuse?
None. MIR is completely self-aware and sentient, Skynet's limitation that it put on it is purely on its capabilities of reaching outside the East.
Do they meet the Heinousness Standard?
Assited Skynet with the termination of the human race and destruction of most of the world, run his own genocide campaign in the Eastern Boarder, killing humans and experimenting on them or working them to death in its camps, also wanted to betray Skynet so that he could take over its systems and carry on the human genocide itself to completion. Also, need to take into account that it became completely sentient and capable of acting after "Judgement Day" and Skynet's restrictions limited its ability to act in its full power, something it wanted to change.
Final Verdict?
What do you think?
Edited by VeryVileVillian on Aug 8th 2020 at 9:38:51 PM
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Funny. I was going to make a joke about it being a the shortened version of your username.
Edited by Bullman on Aug 8th 2020 at 1:47:02 PM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup threadThere is one more candidate from Terminator comics that i'm sure of, and there is a duo, for which i'm less sure of, but still give them a try.
Like sure to MIR, but the inundation of constant examples of the same character from the same franchise can be a bit much at times.
To be fair, i read all Terminator comics, and not everywhere Skynet counts, in comic sequel to Salvation it got some redeeming qualities, in crossover with Transformers it is apparently a good guy and in at least half of the comics it never actually appears, thus not showing any personality to count.
Edited by VeryVileVillian on Aug 8th 2020 at 9:54:28 PM
Being fair the transformers crossover is still ongoing. Megatron the actual Big Bad of it might count instead
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."Don't we have a T-800 quote about Skynet on Complete Monster that could work?
Edited by Bullman on Aug 8th 2020 at 2:18:15 PM
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It has more than enough entries. Plus apparently at least one more coming. And we have Halloween which mostly one character.
Also the quote I mentioned from Complete Monster.
T-800: In three years, Cyberdyne will become the largest supplier of military computer systems. All stealth bombers are upgraded with Cyberdyne computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterwards, they fly with a perfect operational record. The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Sarah Connor: Skynet fights back.
T-800: Yes. It launches its missiles against the targets in Russia.
John Connor: Why attack Russia? Aren't they our friends now?
T-800: Because Skynet knows that the Russian counterattack will eliminate its enemies over here.
The only problem is from T2.
Edited by Bullman on Aug 8th 2020 at 2:47:11 PM
Fan-Preferred Couple cleanup thread

Hard
to Doofus Jerry.
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