The T-800 slams on the brakes of his SWAT fan to bring down the T-1000, who has commandeered a helicopter. The next round moves to the highway, and goes from hand-to-hand combat to vehicle-to-vehcile. Another close range shotgun blast by our beloved T-800 blows the T-1000 off the car. The T-1000 responds by turning it’s hands into blades, attempting to pry the elevator door open and, later, slice and dice it’s way into their escaping car. The T-800 rallies with several shotgun blasts (one at close range to the head, creating that famous split skull shot) that slow the T-1000 enough so the T-800, Sarah and John Connor can get into the elevator. The T-1000 shoots the T-800 with a MP5 submachine gun. Although this was before the age of text messaging and the subsequent acronym craze, the T-800 definitely makes a WTF? face when it finds itself outmuscled. The T-800 is unfazed! In hand-to-hand combat between the two, the T-1000 is stronger and faster, pummeling the T-800 repeatedly. The T-1000 responds by shooting the T-800 with a Browning Hi-Power pistol in the back. Shooting the T-1000 with the shotgun has limited effect, however. The T-800 opens up his box of roses to reveal a shotgun (a hat tip to the film’s soundtrack, by Guns & Roses). It’s liquid metal construction allows the T-1000 to regenerate, even after suffering massive damage.Īt a mall in Los Angeles, the T-800 and the T-1000 trade shots. The T-100 (Robert Patrick) is made entirely from a liquid metal called mimetic poly-alloy, which allows it to deform and take any shape it touches that’s around the same size. It’s “brain,” a neural net processor, can upload vast troves of data instantaneously, allowing to it become an expert sniper, soldier, medic, or whatever the situation might call for. The T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is cybernetic organism, with living tissue grafted onto a hyper-alloy endoskeleton.
Terminator battle from T2, when Arnold's severely outmatched T-800 had to go fist-to-liquid-metal-fist with Robert Patrick's nasty T-1000. Here's our Fight Card from the first major Terminator v. While on paper, there is simply now way a T-800 or T-850 could defeat a T-1000, a TX (from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) or whatever the hell John Connor becomes in Terminator: Genisys, the crafty robotic assassin/protector has survived largely due to cleverness and an uncanny sense of timing.
Now he’s back in Terminator: Genisys, and once again his outmoded, outgunned T-850 will have to go up against some vastly superior machines. The T-800 (upgraded to a T-850 in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines) has often been the Good Terminator, embodied by Arnold Schwarzenegger until Terminator Salvation. Since T2, while the humans have done their fair share of fighting, it’s been the battles between the Terminators that have been the most devastating. That’s the way the world James Cameron created began to work in the second installment in the franchise, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, where Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 was not the villain (as he was in the 1984 original), but the savior, coming to protect Sarah (Linda Hamilton) and John Connor (Edward Furlong) from the new, liquid metal T-1000 (Robert Patrick).
The Terminators-you can’t live with them, you can’t live without them.