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!!Enrique Salceda
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!!!'''Played by:''' Cástulo Guerra
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A Guatemalan friend of Sarah Connor who guarded her weapons cache in the Mojave desert in her absence.
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* HiddenSupplies: Has guarded Sarah's hidden arsenal for an unspecified amount of time.
* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: His favorite weapon is a Mossberg 590.
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!!Enrique Salceda
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!!!'''Played by:''' Cástulo Guerra
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A Guatemalan friend of Sarah Connor who guarded her weapons cache in the Mojave desert in her absence.
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'''[[center: [- [[Characters/TerminatorMainContinuityMachines Machines (Main Continuity)]] | Humans (Main Continuity) -]]]'''
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* LecherousLicking: He licks Sarah's face while she's strapped to her bed and sleeping.
* OrderliesAreCreeps: He's even the trope's picture.
* TeethFlying: When Sarah ambushes him, she aims straight at his face with her broom handle and he looses a few teeth as a result.
* WardensAreEvil: He has a penchant for inmate patient abuse.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Sarah gives him a thoroughly deserved beating when she escapes.
* LecherousLicking: He licks Sarah's face while she's strapped to her bed and sleeping.
* OrderliesAreCreeps: He's even the trope's picture.
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* BlatantLies: After warning John that a cop (the T-1000) is looking for him when they're at the Sherman Oaks Galleria's arcade, he goes back at the T-1000 andwears glasses.
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* EightiesHair: His hairstyle is a mullet (it's 1995, but the film was made in 1991, so it's a carryover from the era).
* BlatantLies: After warning John that a cop (the T-1000) is looking for him when they're at the Sherman Oaks Galleria's arcade, he goes back at the T-1000 and tries giving him a false direction. It doesn't work because the T-1000 has spotted both from afar and goes straight to John, shoving Tim aside.
* {{Delinquent|s}}: He has the same kind of delinquent behavior as John, notably partaking in the latter's robbing of an ATM and uses the money from it later on.
* BlatantLies: After warning John that a cop (the T-1000) is looking for him when they're at the Sherman Oaks Galleria's arcade, he goes back at the T-1000 and tries giving him a false direction. It doesn't work because the T-1000 has spotted both from afar and goes straight to John, shoving Tim aside.
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* EightiesHair: His hairstyle is a mullet (it's 1995, but the film was made in 1991, so it's a carryover from the era).
* BlatantLies: After warning John that a cop (the T-1000) is looking for him when they're at the Sherman Oaks Galleria's arcade, he goes back at the T-1000FourEyesZeroSoul: A pervert BedlamHouse warden who abuses his inmates and tries giving wears glasses.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Sarah gives him afalse direction. It doesn't work because thoroughly deserved beating when she escapes.
* LecherousLicking: He licks Sarah's face while she's strapped to her bed and sleeping.
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at his face with her broom handle and he looses a few teeth as a result.
*{{Delinquent|s}}: WardensAreEvil: He has the same kind of delinquent behavior as John, notably partaking in the latter's robbing of an ATM and uses the money from it later on. a penchant for inmate patient abuse.
* BlatantLies: After warning John that a cop (the T-1000) is looking for him when they're at the Sherman Oaks Galleria's arcade, he goes back at the T-1000
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A resistance soldier from the future, serving under the orders of John Connor. In the year 2029 he was sent back in time to the year 1984 to protect Sarah Connor from a T-800 Model 101 Terminator. He is the father of John Connor, through the result of a [[StableTimeLoop predestination paradox]].
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A resistance soldier from in the future, year 2029, serving under the orders of John Connor. In the year 2029 he He was sent back in time to the year 1984 to protect John's mother Sarah Connor from a T-800 Model 101 Terminator. He is revealed to be the father of John Connor, John, through the result of a [[StableTimeLoop predestination paradox]].
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* DecoyProtagonist: Of the entire franchise. He is TheHero of the first film, but Sarah is the true protagonist, and Reese dies before Sarah destroys the Terminator at the climax.
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* FutureBadass: Applies more to the fourth film than the first. The first film's Kyle ''is'' the "Future Badass". The fourth film is Kyle as a teenage kid just trying to survive in a nuclear wasteland.
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* FutureBadass: Applies more He became a soldier and learned how to deal with the fourth film than Machines in the first. The first film's Kyle ''is'' BadFuture he comes from, which is immsensely useful against the "Future Badass". The fourth film is Kyle as a teenage kid just trying to survive T-800 in a nuclear wasteland.1984.
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!!Sergeant Kyle Reese
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!!Sergeant Kyle ReeseReese, Tech-Com [=DN38416=]
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* NoNameGiven: The [[AllThereInTheManual only way]] you would know her name is from the {{novelization}}.
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* NoNameGiven: Her name is never pronounced in the film. The [[AllThereInTheManual only way]] you would know her name is from the {{novelization}}.
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A young woman who's targeted by the REV-9 Terminator.
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* SenselessSacrifice: Rather tragically, ''Terminator: Dark Fate'' renders his HeroicSacrifice meaningless in the long run. It only delays Judgment Day.
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!!Introduced in ''Terminator: Dark Fate''
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!!Daniella "Dani" Ramos
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!!Daniella "Dani" Ramos
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!!Daniella "Dani" Ramos
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* EightiesHair: His hairstyle is a mullet (the film was made in 1991, so it's a carryover from the era).
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* EconomyCast: She's She was played by Linda Hamilton's Creator/LindaHamilton's stunt double.
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/EdwardFurlong (pre-teen), (pre-teen in ''Judgment Day'', adult in ''Dark Fate''), Dalton Abbot (infant), Michael Edwards (adult), (adult in ''Judgment Day''), Jude Collie (pre-teen, ''Terminator: Dark (pre-teen in ''Dark Fate'')
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!!Sarah Jeanette Connor
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!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/LindaHamilton
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Élisabeth Wiener (European French, ''The Terminator''), Véronique Augereau (European French, ''Terminator 2'', ''Dark Fate'')
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheTerminator'' | ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' | ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate''
The mother of the future human resistance leader against the Machines, John Connor.
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* ActionSurvivor: In the first movie; turning on the hydraulic press that kills the Terminator shows her transition to ActionGirl.
* ActionMom: In the second film, bordering on KnightTemplarParent.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys:
** In the first film she is guilty of this, as she dated a guy that treated her like dirt before she met Kyle. When she does meet Kyle, it's clear that she is unnerved by him, but still likes him, as proven when she tip toes around the question of whether or not he had a girlfriend, seconds before his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove. Lastly in ''2'', she started going out with military personnel, mostly to learn things she could teach John, but given her history....
** She even reflects to herself how the Terminator was, in her opinion, the only suitable father figure while listing off the different ways a parent can abuse or neglect their child (which speaks volumes about the other men).
* AntiHero: While Sarah was firmly an ActionSurvivor in the first film, come time for the second one, [[ShellShockedVeteran she's become unhinged]] suffering a nasty case of PTSD. Sarah attempts to ShootTheDog [[spoiler: and even attempted to kill Miles Dyson in front of his family.]]
* BigNo: Sarah almost makes it out of the asylum, but she sees the T-800 walking out of an elevator. After saying "no" in a low tone of disbelief, it turns into this out of sheer terror.
* BrokenBird: Second movie. Her attempts to stop Judgment Day have left her sanity somewhat in tatters and she is in a mental hospital at the beginning of [=T2=].
* TheBusCameBack: [[BusCrash Written off]] between films after T2 and only appearing in [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles alternate]] [[Film/TerminatorGenisys timelines]] since, the original Sarah finally returns in ''Dark Fate'' after a 28-year absence.
* CassandraTruth: She's institutionalized to trying to prevent and talking about the future war with the machines. Played with, however, because she's still AxCrazy despite being right about that.
* CharacterDevelopment: She has two:
** In the first film, she was a ShrinkingViolet with self-doubt until Skynet specifically targets her by sending a T-800 while Kyle Reese was sent to protect her by her future son's orders. Even then, she still had doubts about herself when Kyle tells her about the amazing things John told about her, until Kyle and herself were on the last legs on their life until she manages to literally crush the T-800. This action allowed Sarah to commit herself to raise her only son into the man he was in the future.
** While she did TookALevelInBadass, she clearly did have problems with her communication skills, and often tried to date military personnel so they can teach something useful to John, and not giving her son the affection he desperately needed which was observed by the T-800. While initially distrustful with the reprogrammed T-800 who is under future John's orders to protect his younger self (and nearly tried to destroy his CPU), she learned to trust the machine when he proved to be a valuable ally and is visibly dishearten when he has to be destroyed to prevent Skynet's creation and Judgment Day while finally hugging her son.
* CoolPet: She had a pet iguana when she was Ginger's roommate. Ginger wasn't a fan of it.
%%* CrazyPrepared: Third movie, [[spoiler:posthumously]].
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: InvokedTrope. Sarah is right about the {{Killer Robot}}s from the future, but she's still nuts.
* DamselInDistress: The first film in centered around Kyle going back to protect her from the T-800.
* DarkActionGirl: She can kick a major amount of ass, but it doesn't come without a lot of psychological scarring. Her time in a mental hospital did her no favors. Further, Cameron wrote the hospital escape scene to avert the FauxActionGirl trope--if anything, the Terminator's arrival was little more than a RedundantRescue, as Sarah was pretty much home free when he showed up.
%%* {{Determinator}}: She becomes like this during the second movie.
* FinalGirl: She's the last remaining "Sarah Connor" in Los Angeles by the end of the first movie.
* GoldDigger: SubvertedTrope. In the second film... sort-of. John says Sarah would "shack up with" any guy who looked like he had something worthwhile to teach John so that he'd grow up to be the competent leader she knew he was destined to be. However, he also says that Sarah would usually try and get her new man on board with the whole ScrewDestiny plan, only for them to think she's crazy and dump her. So yeah, she used a lot of guys, but under the circumstances, she still tried not to be abusive and wasn't doing it for selfish reasons.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: PlayedStraight. The director wanted to play with the audience's sympathies for her. Even though they already know that she's right about the BadFuture and the machine uprising, that hasn't made her the most sane person in the last nine years.
%%* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: With Kyle in the first movie.
* HairColorDissonance: Linda Hamilton's portrayal depicts her having dirty blonde hair, while Emilia Clarke's has [[AloofDarkHairedGirl dark brown]].
%%* HerHeartWillGoOn: End of first movie.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: She practically became a Terminator herself, [[LampshadeHanging right down to her enemy's musical motif and choice of sunglasses]], when she tried to murder Miles Dyson in order to prevent Skynet's creation.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the second film. While she is prone to angry outbursts and paranoid as all hell, she truly does love John not just because of the role he plays in the future, but also because he's her son.
%%* LadyOfWar: In the second movie.
* TheLoad: In the first movie, she starts off as a relatively airheaded fast food waitress. [[TookALevelInBadass She is forced to overcome this]] after [[spoiler:Kyle is gravely wounded]].
%%* MamaBear: Almost to the point of being a KnightTemplarParent.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** [[spoiler:When her best friend/roommate Ginger and her boyfriend]] were killed by the Terminator in their apartment.
** Silently after the attempted hit on Dyson. Exacerbated by the fact that not only had she taken on a dimmer view on human life than the Terminator she was traveling with, but had adopted the MO of the Terminator that first tried to kill her. She almost killed a father in front of his wife and kid, something that hits her close to home after [[spoiler:losing Reese and almost losing John]].
* ParentalAbandonment:
** Has a DisappearedDad in the first film and her mother [[spoiler: was killed by the T-800]].
** She herself is a MissingMom to John most of his life, with her being locked in a mental asylum and all.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Spends most of the first film wearing pink clothes (both her waitress uniform and her main outfit).
* TheProtagonist: Of the first two films. Kyle and the second T-800 are TheHero of the first and second films respectively, but she has about as much screen time (and certainly more dialogue than the latter), and the story is largely told from her viewpoint.
* ScrewDestiny: Is willing to commit ''cold-blooded murder'' to protect her son and stop Judgment Day. Bonus points for providing the trope image itself.
* ShellShockedVeteran: In the second film as a result of having lost her paramour to a cyborg that was hunting her down with the intent to kill her.
* StockholmSyndrome: Averted, but implied that other people believe she's playing the trope straight, particularly Dr. Silberman. Justified in that, after being kidnapped by a "loon" spouting ridiculous stories about killer robots, Sarah herself has become an anti-technology terrorist that blows up places that build advanced computers. Even after the police come to try and get her to make a statement against the Terminator, from their point of view, later that same night, the same guy busts her out of the institution and, days later, she's joined forces with the guy to assault a Cyberdyne building.
* TakeTheWheel: Is made to do this in both the first and second movie.
* TankTopTomboy: In the epilogue of the first movie, and then throughout the entire second movie, after she TakesALevelInBadass.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "You're terminated, fucker!" Also a PreMortemOneLiner and PrecisionFStrike.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Despite her being a CombatPragmatist, she's never taken the life of a human being. The one time she becomes a "terminator" to execute someone she thinks is the reason [=SkyNet=] exists, she can't bring herself to be an unemotional killer.
* TimeTravelRomance: One where the romance has a good deal of plot significance.
* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Sarah has a problem with Reese telling her of all the things she hasn't done yet.
* TookALevelInBadass: During the events between the first and second movie. It's deconstructed as it lands her in a mental hospital, and Sarah later admits that she's been a terrible mother to John.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Mentally stable mother-of-the-year she is ''not.''
* TookALevelInKindness: She regains a lot of her humanity by the end of the second film, and becomes a better mother to John in the process.
* TwoFirstNames: Her last name can be traditionally used as a given name.
* UngratefulBitch: Instead of hugging her own son and thanking him, she just checked if John was hurt and scolds him for trying to rescue her.
-->'''Sarah:''' You cannot risk yourself, even for me. You're too important! Do you understand?\\
''(John begins to cry. Sarah shakes her head in disappointment.)''\\
'''John:''' I had to get you out of that place. I'm sorry!\\
'''Sarah:''' I don't need your help. I can take care of myself.
* VocalEvolution: Linda Hamilton gives her a softer voice in the first movie. In the sequel, she gives her a more assertive and commanding voice to fit her ActionMom status.
* YouKilledMyFather: In the first film [[spoiler: the T-800 killed Sarah's mother trying to find Sarah]].
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[[folder:Kyle Reese]]
!!Sergeant Kyle Reese
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Come with me if you want to live."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelBiehn
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Patrick Poivey (European French)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheTerminator''
A resistance soldier from the future, serving under the orders of John Connor. In the year 2029 he was sent back in time to the year 1984 to protect Sarah Connor from a T-800 Model 101 Terminator. He is the father of John Connor, through the result of a [[StableTimeLoop predestination paradox]].
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* BackupFromOtherworld: Appears to Sarah in a dream, warning her that the Terminators are now after John in the DirectorsCut of the second movie.
* BadassLongcoat: Justified, since he needs that coat to hide his SawedOffShotgun.
* BadassNormal: Makes his fight against an unstoppable killing machine much more badass.
* BodyguardCrush: Kyle's attraction to Sarah is what conceives John Connor in the first place.
* TheCameo: His one scene in the second film.
* ChildSoldier: He was born into a world with killbots attempting to destroy humanity, so yeah.
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: TropeNamer. It's the first thing he says to Sarah Connor after the Terminator attacks her, and it's the only reason she trusts him enough to escape with him.
* DeadPersonConversation: With Sarah in the second film.
* DeathBySex: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated.]] He survived growing up in prison camps, fought numerous battles as a member of Tech-Com, and helped win the final battle against Skynet... but he's killed the same day he loses his virginity to Sarah.
* DecoyProtagonist: Of the entire franchise. He is TheHero of the first film, but Sarah is the true protagonist, and Reese dies before Sarah destroys the Terminator at the climax.
* {{Determinator}}: He will ''not'' allow Sarah to die, no matter what. Not just because it's his mission, but because he loves her. This includes fighting the Terminator in melee combat, ''while he's dying from a bullet wound''.
* DisappearedDad: He is this to John Connor, having died before his son was born.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Without a doubt. Justified in that he learnt to drive AfterTheEnd. He also instinctively drives cars at night without the headlights on, as doing so in the future would draw Aerial Hunter-Killers.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]]. He's got plenty of experience fighting Terminators, but not with modern weapons.
* AFatherToHisMen: ''Possibly?'' In a flashback of the future he's shown sadly lowering his head when a soldier he's finding alongside dies. Although this may have just been because he liked her personally or something.
* FutureBadass: Applies more to the fourth film than the first. The first film's Kyle ''is'' the "Future Badass". The fourth film is Kyle as a teenage kid just trying to survive in a nuclear wasteland.
* GaiasLament: A deleted scene would have had Kyle crying when he saw how beautiful the world used to be.
* GlorifiedSpermDonor: He dies before the birth of his son, without even knowing that Sarah was pregnant... but he's from the future, and was close friends with John Connor in his own timeline, not even knowing that they were related.
* TheHero: Reese is not TheProtagonist of the first film (that's Sarah), but his efforts to protect her and battle the Terminator mean he qualifies as the hero of the narrative overall.
* TheHeroDies: He does not survive the final battle with the Terminator.
* HeroicSacrifice: The bomb he uses to bifurcate the Terminator is the same bomb that kills him in the end.
* IncrediblyObviousTail: He's very clumsy when tailing Sarah.
* IndyPloy: Just about everything he does. He's up against an unstoppable robot killer with nothing but a shotgun (and later, some pipe bombs), so he doesn't have any grand battle plan.
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: He tries this, collapsing from his gunshot wound after Sarah Connor has dragged him into the factory. By this time in the movie Sarah has [[TookALevelInBadass Taken A Level In Badass]], so she isn't buying it.
-->'''Sarah:''' Move it, Reese! On your feet soldier! ON YOUR FEET!
* TheKindnapper: He kidnaps Sarah Connor to save her from the T-800 sent to kill her.
* LateArrivalSpoiler:
** Reese doesn't survive the first film. This is a major point in the sequel, as watching him die has left Sarah utterly traumatised.
** He's the father of John Connor. The other films have made no attempt to keep this a secret.
* LoveBeforeFirstSight: Fell in love with Sarah after seeing her picture.
* MacGyvering: Makes pipe bombs out of mothballs and ammonia.
* MrFanservice: In the first movie. He arrives in 1984 naked showing his athletic body, he wears mostly [[SleevesAreForWimps short sleeves t-shirts]] and has some number of ShirtlessScene. Michael Biehn was in good shape back then.
* NakedOnArrival: As per Terminator rules, you have to be naked when traveling through time.
* NoPlaceForMeThere: A deleted scene has him breaking down in tears as he laments that he doesn't belong in the world of 1984, which to him feels like paradise compared to the hellhole future he comes from. And knowing it was all doomed just made it worse.
* OnlyAFleshWound: He gets shot by the Terminator while escaping from the police station, but manages to keep driving until their car runs out of gas. Later, he and Sarah hide under a bridge and when she finds out he's shot, he refuses medical attention and says it's "not bad". He's shot again later on, but this one is far more serious as it slowly saps his strength and contributes to his death later.
* PetTheDog: Reese instinctively allows the dog at the roadside hotel to sniff him. They use dogs to sniff out Terminators where he comes from.
* ProductPlacement: The film would like to let the viewers know that his shoes are made by Nike.
* RescueIntroduction: He introduce himself to Sarah by extricating her from Tech Noir just as the T-800 closes in for the kill.
* SawedOffShotgun: Justified. He steals a police shotgun early in the film and saws it down so that he can hide it under a longcoat.
* ScannableMan: Got his tattoo in a [=SkyNet=] work camp.
* SensoryOverload: In flashback, it's shown that the future Kyle is from is blasted and barren, with most of humanity occupying cramped and overcrowded tunnels. In a deleted scene, he tears up and tells Sarah that the sight of a forest, with all its greenery and plant life, is so beautiful it ''hurts'' to look at.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Undoubtedly so, given that he was in [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a SkyNet work camp complete with a tattoo]] before he was liberated by John Connor and even afterward spent all of his time either fighting against [=SkyNet=]'s machines or hiding from them.
* SlaveBrand: He has a barcode on his arm that was laser-burned from a robot concentration camp.
* StaircaseTumble: Falls down a metal staircase after blowing up the T-800's endoskeleton, which (combined with shrapnel from the bomb) kills him.
* SupportingProtagonist: He does have established characterization and a backstory about himself coming from the BadFuture fighting for LaResistance, but the film is mostly Sarah's story about her going from a [[TookALevelInBadass timid woman to an empowered and strong mother of a great resistance leader]] told from his viewpoint.
* SupernaturallyYoungParent: Thanks to the StableTimeLoop, his going back in time and sleeping with Sarah resulted in John--meaning he's younger than his son.
* TimeTravelRomance: One where the romance has a good deal of plot significance.
* TwoFirstNames: His last name is commonly used as a given name.
* UnwittingPawn: It's strongly implied that [[spoiler:John Connor deliberately manipulated Reese into falling in love with his mother by giving him her picture. And then he had to send his own father back in time to certain doom, just to make sure he would exist to save the world. Reese never knew his true role in the bigger picture, never realizing he was fighting for his own son. Must have been heartbreaking for John]].
* WakeUpFighting: He's shown drawing his shotgun the moment he wakes up.
* WithMyHandsTied: Averted; he knocks out a policeman with his hands cuffed behind his back, and apparently takes off the cuffs that way too, using the keys on the policeman's belt.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: PlayedForDrama when he loses his patience at Silberman and starts SuddenlyShouting and SpikingTheCamera.
* YouShallNotPass: He blows up the endoskeleton in his last action and tries to jump to safety, but to no avail.
* ZippingUpTheBodybag: Barring a dream sequence in the second film, this is the last we ever see of him in the original series.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Silberman]]
!!Dr. Peter Silberman
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"In technical terminology: he's a loon."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Earl Boen
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Sady Rebbot (European French, ''The Terminator''), Jean-Pierre Delage (European French, ''Terminator 2'')
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheTerminator'' | ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''
A psychologist who worked for the state of California and with the Los Angeles Police Department. He thought nothing of the so-called "delusions" shared by Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor other than being able to make a career from them being under his care.
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* AgentScully: Even more so in ''T2'', till he sees the T-1000 walk through the barred door. Though he leaves the police station just as the Terminator walks in and is not witness to the sheer carnage that occurs next.
%%* ButtMonkey
* DeadpanSnarker: Mocks Reese in a very straight, clinical way; he remarks that Skynet is attempting some kind of retroactive abortion and wonders why Reese didn't bring ray guns from the future with him.
* DrJerk:
** Highlighted in his nonchalant behavior towards a clearly distraught Sarah in the first film. The second film does not alter this assessment.
** Also highlighted in the fact that he plans on making his career on Kyle Reese in the first film--something he actually does before the second film. Our first scene with him is showing off his prize patient like a zoo animal.
** In the Directors Cut of [=T2=] it is strongly implied that he condones and even commands the orderlies to physically abuse Sarah, such as beating her until she takes her medication, though it is unclear if ''all'' his patients are mistreated this way or if he is just vindictive towards Sarah for how she has been treating ''him'' (e.g. stabbing him in the knee), but the fact that the orderlies do it without question (and that Sarah is visibly intimidated by them) doesn't speak well of him. This puts her belief that she had been promised visits from her son if her behaviour improved in a darker light- it's possible he was just stringing her along and never intended to let her see him even if she ''did'' genuinely improve.
* HeroicBSOD: Whilst "hero" is a stretch, Silberman does believe what he is doing is for Sarah's own good, which makes seeing the T-800 and T-1000 in action all the more horrifying.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: In the first movie he leaves the police station as the T-800 arrives, he happens to be looking at his pager right as the Terminator walks past him.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: He and the other hospital staff try to keep Sarah locked up because (in addition to being a cash cow for the doctor), they feel she's an AxCrazy paranoid maniac because she thinks {{Killer Robot}}s are out to get her and her son. They happen to be right about her state of mind, except for the bit where [[CassandraTruth she's correct]] [[ProperlyParanoid about all of that.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Once he spots that all too familiar heavily armed badass in leather, the doctor rather wisely decides to make himself scarce.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Already not the most sympathetic human character in the first film, he comes across as a bigger {{jerkass}} in ''Judgment Day'', in which he's strongly implied to be abusive towards Sarah.
* TurnTheOtherCheek: Even after years of having to deal with Sarah's repeated escape attempts, insults, and even physical attacks, he never once gets mad at her, shout at her, or even hold any of it against her. If Dr. Silberman is anything, he's a paragon of patience. {{Subverted}} in the Directors Cut where it is shown that the orderlies brutally mistreat and even sexually assault her, and Silberman is implied to not only know about but actually encourage at least some of it because he simply doesn't like her.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ed Traxler]]
!!Detective Lieutenant Ed Traxler
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I can hear it now. He's going be called the goddamned 'Phone Book Killer'."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Paul Winfield
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Jean-Claude Michel (European French)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheTerminator''
An honest, hard-working police officer from the Central Division of the LAPD. He is in charge of investigating a series of 'phone book killings' taking place across town and targeting women named "Sarah Connor".
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* DaChief: Unusually for the trope, he's very calm and clear-headed. And he does everything he can to protect Sarah.
* DecoyProtagonist: In the first act, he seemingly fulfills the role of the tritagonist of the film as the police detective investigating the killings made by the Terminator and trying to warn Sarah for her own protection (the deleted scenes that featured mostly his scenes further helps establishing him to be this). However, after bringing in Sarah and Kyle to the station, his arc ends with the Terminator massacring everyone in his station and fatally wounding him as Sarah and Kyle escapes.
* MoreDakka: He has a sidearm, but sees how the T-800 seems to be impervious to handgun bullets as it rampages through the police station, so he grabs a M16 carbine hoping it can work better. It's not any bit more effective and he ends up dead, if less immediately than Vukovich.
* NiceGuy: He's a polite and kind man who tries to help Sarah through a terribly traumatic experience.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** As soon as he gets the report of two women named "Sarah Connor" getting killed within hours of each other, he immediately deduces that they're dealing with a pattern SerialKiller. Traxler then tries to contact the remaining Sarah, and when that fails, puts out a news bulletin so that Sarah will call them. As soon as she does, he gives very clear instructions to not leave the public night club until he arrives.
** While the others are making fun of Reese, he's quite frightened by the possibility that Reese isn't lying or crazy. He even comes to believe Reese in a deleted scene when he's dying, telling him to protect Sarah and giving him his revolver.
* SacrificialLion: He plays a pivotal part in tracking down the Terminator (whom he thinks to be a human psychopathic serial killer) and protecting Sarah from him, which makes it hit harder when the Terminator ambushes his station and he himself gets fatally wounded about halfway through the film.
* SupportingProtagonist: In the first act, the actions of Kyle finding Sarah, Sarah herself being stalked and the Terminator hunting Sarah are told from his viewpoint in his scenes, especially in the deleted scenes that features him following the car chase between the Terminator and Sarah and Kyle.
* WrongGenreSavvy: While he certainly thinks someone is trying to kill Sarah Connor, he thinks they're dealing with a heavily armed psychopath with a BulletProofVest, not a time-traveling KillerRobot.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Hal Vukovich]]
!!Detective Sergeant Hal Vukovich
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/halvukovich.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Come on, Ed. That was loon talk. The guy's a wacko, right?"'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/LanceHenriksen
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Joël Martineau (European French)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheTerminator''
A Los Angeles Police Department officer and Ed Traxler's colleague.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Upon seeing a dying Traxler, whom he engages in SnarkToSnarkCombat with him throughout the film, he fires on the Terminator.
* MoreDakka: Like Traxler, he has a sidearm, but a M16 carbine seems to be a better option against the T-800 as it rampages through the police station. It's not.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: Gets a point-blank burst of assault rifle fire ''and'' a shotgun blast from the Terminator, [[GoryDiscretionShot offscreen.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Averted. He may be a sarcastic hardass, but he's just as professional as Traxler, and tries multiple times to call Sarah and warn her that she is in danger.
* ShooOutTheClowns: He's by no means a PluckyComicRelief, but does provide a reasonable amount of levity through his sarcastic quips. Once he dies, the film gets a ''lot'' darker.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Regularly engages in some with Traxler.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Similar to Traxler. He thinks the Terminator is simply a thug who is too hopped up on PCP to notice his injuries.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Ginger Ventura]]
!!Ginger Ventura
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gingerterminator.jpg]]
!!!'''Played by:''' Bess Motta
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/MaikDarah (European French)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheTerminator''
Sarah Connor's roommate and best friend. She and her boyfriend Matt Buchanan were killed when the Terminator came to their apartment looking for Sarah.
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* EightiesHair: A shining example, especially when she and Sarah primp themselves for some quality time.
* BestFriend: She was Sarah Connor's best friend in the early 1980s.
* DeathByIrony: Just a second after Ginger's murder by the Terminator, Sarah calls her and the answering machine says (with Ginger's voice) "Machines need love too"...
* DeathBySex: She had sex with her boyfriend minutes before the T-800 killed her.
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: She's rocking out on headphones in full volume making an after-nookie MidnightSnack while Matt is brutally thrown around by the T-800 in the bedroom.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: The T-800 shoots her six times with his AMT Hardballer .45 Longslide with LaserSight, all InTheBack, and five of which as she's down and crawling on the floor.
* MurderByMistake: She's on the brutal receiving end of this by the T-800, due to living in the same apartment as Sarah, the T-800 not having a clear picture of what Sarah looks like and Sarah not being there when the robot crashes in.
* OhCrap: When suddenly seing her dead boyfriend crashing through a door, followed by a tall and menacing dude with a gun (the T-800) going after her.
* SacrificialLamb: She's introduced as the best friend of Sarah, and her death is more impactful than the T-800's previous victims due to being quite likeable and how brutally she is murdered.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Matt Buchanan]]
!!Matt Buchanan
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!!!'''Played by:''' Rick Rossovich
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Patrick Préjean (European French)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheTerminator''
A friend of Sarah Connor and Ginger Ventura's boyfriend.
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* FullFrontalAssault: He tries to fight the Terminator off and wears only his underwear doing so, since he had no time to put anything on.
* DeathBySex: He had sex with Ginger minutes before the T-800 killed him.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Tries to hit the T-800 with a lamp. The robot {{no sell}}s his attacks, of course.
* OhCrap:
** Upon finding out he talked dirty to Sarah on the phone and not to Ginger.
** Upon seeing a tall and menacing dude (the T-800) enter his room. He quickly gets up and tries to fight him off nonetheless.
* PrankCall: Intended to call Ginger to have sex phone with her, not even announcing himself. Turns out Sarah picks up the phone, laughs and and says nothing while he talks about all the kinky things he wants to do to her. Then Sarah decides to answer, much to Matt's embarrassed confusion, and hands the phone over to Ginger.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Corporal Ferro]]
!!Corporal Ferro
!!!'''Played by:''' Jean Malahni
A soldier who dies in Reese's first BadFuture flashback
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* ChildSoldiers: According to the novelization she's only 15.
* EconomyCast: She's played by Linda Hamilton's stunt double.
* NoNameGiven: The only way you would know her name is from [[AllThereInTheManual the novelization]].
* RedShirts: She has basically no characterization and exists just to show [[MonsterMunch how terrifying the HK tank is]].
[[/folder]]
!!Introduced in ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day''
[[folder:John Connor]]
!!John Connor
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/johnconnor.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"The whole thing goes: The future's not set. There's no fate but what we make for ourselves."'']]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Skynet, the computer which controlled the machines, sent two Terminators back through time. Their mission: to destroy the leader of the human Resistance... John Connor. My son."'' -- '''Sarah Connor''']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/EdwardFurlong (pre-teen), Dalton Abbot (infant), Michael Edwards (adult), Jude Collie (pre-teen, ''Terminator: Dark Fate'')
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Emmanuel Garijo (European French)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' | ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate''
The leader of the human resistance against the Machines in the future, and the son of Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese.
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* AllLovingHero: As reviewer WebVideo/ConfusedMatthew notes, despite Sarah having raised him to be a resistance leader, throughout the film series John never fails to recognize the value of human life, indeed often putting his own life on the line to try to save people, sometimes who he barely even knows, and ordering the T-800 that protects him not to kill anyone. The fact this is such a consistent and natural part of his character, arguably makes him one of the greatest examples of this type of character in cinema history.
* ArchEnemy: He is this for Skynet, being the one who convinces the human race to rise up and liberate themselves. Skynet believes that if it can kill John before Judgement Day, then the entire rebellion will never happen.
* BigGood: He is fated to be one of these.
* {{Delinquent|s}}: He's disobedient to his parents, steals money from [=ATMs=], skips school, and hangs out with hooligans. This is basically him venting his frustrations against everything his mother taught him, which he believes to be a lie.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Of the second film. The Terminator and Sarah share the roles of TheHero and TheProtagonist between them in fighting the T-1000, while John has a separate character arc where he slowly learns how to become the leader that he will need to become to defeat Skynet.
* FinalFirstHug: With the T-800 that protected him.
* FutureBadass: This is the entire reason Skynet wants him dead. Note that he's badass as a pre-teen, but he takes it UpToEleven when he becomes leader of The Resistance in the future.
* TheGhost: The entire first film is about making sure that he will still exist to save humanity, but he never makes an appearance, being in gestation in his mother's womb at the end.
* HeelRealization: When he sics the Terminator on two guys and the Terminator tries to shoot one in the head, John is horrified about what he almost caused. WordOfGod states that it was this moment which cemented John's heroic nature.
* HeroicBastard: His parents were never married and his father was killed [[DeathBySex shortly after he was conceived]].
* HonorBeforeReason: Will '''not''' tolerate the death of even a ''single'' innocent human being, even if it means stopping a nuclear holocaust from happening.
* HopeBringer: As Kyle put it, "He taught us to fight, to storm the wire of the camps, to smash those metal motherfuckers into junk. He turned it around."
** James Cameron's original intentions for ''Terminator 2'' go even further than this. By teaching the Terminator to be human, he ends the StableTimeLoop and prevents the machine uprising, not just winning the war for humanity but making sure ''it never happened''.
* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: He initially believes his mother is crazy and that her supposed delusions robbed him of a normal life.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Starts off as a {{delinquent}} but does his best to avoid human casualties and genuinely cares about his mother.
* KidHasAPoint: In a DeletedScene, restored in the special edition, Sarah and John remove the T-800's chip, intending to reprogram him so he can learn human behavior. Sarah has other ideas and tries to smash the chip with a hammer, distrusting the T-800. John stops her, and in the ensuing argument, drops a line that prompts Sarah to give in:
-->'''John''': Look, Mom, if I'm ever supposed to be this great military leader, maybe you should start listening to ''my'' leadership ideas once in a while. 'Cause if my own mother won't, how do you expect anyone else to?
* KidWithTheLeash: Oh, are we all so very glad he made the T-800 take his vow of mercy...
* LaserGuidedTykebomb: He was raised from birth to defeat Skynet.
* MoralityPet: He tries to teach the Terminator not to kill people, and eventually succeeds.
* NomDeMom: Reflecting his status as a HeroicBastard (see above).
* OhCrap: When John first sees the T-800 in the mall, he goes bug-eyed. The novelization explains a bit more: John's mother had showed him news clippings and police video of the Terminator that had chased her. John later stopped believing in Terminators, but he still knew that guy was a cop-killer and psychopath. And now, here he was... coming right at him... ''with a shotgun''.
* PlayfulHacker: Gleefully exclaims "Easy Money" whenever he hacks into something.
* RebelLeader: His main plot in the story is to lead the future resistance against Skynet.
* StableTimeLoop: His existence is this; he was conceived by Kyle Reese, who was sent back in time by his older self to both save his mother and make sure he's conceived in the first place.
* TwoFirstNames: His last name can traditionally be used as a given name.
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[[folder:Miles Dyson]]
!!Miles Dyson
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[[caption-width-right:300: ''"I feel like I'm gonna throw up..."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JoeMorton
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Patrick Guillemin (European French)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''
The original inventor of the neural-net processor which would lead to the development of Skynet. He was the man most directly responsible for Judgment Day, although his work was clearly not intended to bring about that.
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* BlackAndNerdy: African American and computer wiz.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Strongly indicated in the [[DirectorsCut Special Edition]].
* HappilyMarried: Having a loving wife and family was already implied in the original cut, the special edition features a scene expanding on this.
* HeroicSacrifice: With his death, he blows up Cyberdyne.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: Standing in between the Connors and a heavily armed SWAT team was an extremely poor idea, and Miles is torn to shreds by the police's fire. He lives just long enough to help the Connors escape Cyberdyne.
* MustMakeAmends: Even though it's yet to happen.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction to the Terminator giving all the backstory on the robot war.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The computer system he created would eventually go on to wage war against humanity.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: His decision to help the heroes destroy his creation eventually leads to his death.
* SenselessSacrifice: Rather tragically, ''Terminator: Dark Fate'' renders his HeroicSacrifice meaningless in the long run. It only delays Judgment Day.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Miles wanted to make life a little better for humanity. Turns out his invention leads to the demise of billions.
* WideEyedIdealist: He's a far cry from the person you'd think would create [=SkyNet=]. Indeed he sees only the possible positives of his creation. This may even blind him to the military applications of his invention or to the dangers of removing humans from certain decisions.
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[[folder:The Voights]]
!!Janelle & Todd Voight
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%%[[caption-width-right:300:some caption text]]
!!!'''Played by:''' Jenette Goldstein (Janelle), Creator/XanderBerkeley (Todd)
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Régine Teyssot (Janelle, European French), Creator/PhilippePeythieu (Todd, European French)
!!!'''Appear in:''' ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''
The foster parents of John Connor while his mother was interned at the Pescadero State Hospital.
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* AbusiveParents: When calling them, John notices something's wrong, since Janelle is "never this nice" to him.
* AssholeVictim: They're guilty of negligence and mistreatment on John, and get murdered by the T-1000. John feels a little sorrow for a few seconds after T-800 breaks the news to him but quickly forgets about them.
* HateSink: Few sympathetic qualities are given to either, especially Todd. The T-1000 itself looks noticeably annoyed at Todd's talking before killing him off.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Todd ends up impaled in the head by the T-1000's arm, which morphed into a sword.
* KillAndReplace: The T-1000 killed Janelle at some point, without Todd noticing it, then took her place waiting for a phone call by John. Then he killed Todd.
* KilledOffScreen: The death of Janelle is not seen onscreen, and neither is her corpse.
* ParentalSubstitute: Since Sarah Connor has been deemed criminally insane and interned, someone had to take care of John. The Voights likely [[FosteringForProfit did it for money]].
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[[folder:Douglas]]
!!Douglas
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!!!'''Played by:''' Ken Gibbel
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/RichardDarbois (European French)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''
A staff member at the Pescadero State Hospital where Sarah Connor is detained.
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* FourEyesZeroSoul: A pervert BedlamHouse warden who abuses his inmates and wears glasses.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Sarah gives him a thoroughly deserved beating when she escapes.
* LecherousLicking: He licks Sarah's face while she's strapped to her bed and sleeping.
* OrderliesAreCreeps: He's even the trope's picture.
* TeethFlying: When Sarah ambushes him, she aims straight at his face with her broom handle and he looses a few teeth as a result.
* WardensAreEvil: He has a penchant for inmate patient abuse.
[[/folder]]
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Character page for the humans appearing in the continuity comprising ''Film/TheTerminator'', ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' and ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate''.
Character sheets for the entries that came between ''Judgment Day'' and ''Dark Fate'' have been moved on separate pages due to their AlternateTimeline[=/=]AlternateContinuity status induced by the {{Unreboot}} of ''Dark Fate''. For them, see the Main Character Index.
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[[foldercontrol]]
!!Introduced in ''The Terminator''
[[folder:Sarah Connor]]
!!Sarah Jeanette Connor
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"The hardest thing is deciding what I should tell you and what not to."'']]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it, for the first time, with a sense of hope. Because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too."'']]
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sarahconnorterminatordarkfate.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"My name is Sarah Connor. Never seen one like you before. Almost human."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/LindaHamilton
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Élisabeth Wiener (European French, ''The Terminator''), Véronique Augereau (European French, ''Terminator 2'', ''Dark Fate'')
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheTerminator'' | ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' | ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate''
The mother of the future human resistance leader against the Machines, John Connor.
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* ActionSurvivor: In the first movie; turning on the hydraulic press that kills the Terminator shows her transition to ActionGirl.
* ActionMom: In the second film, bordering on KnightTemplarParent.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys:
** In the first film she is guilty of this, as she dated a guy that treated her like dirt before she met Kyle. When she does meet Kyle, it's clear that she is unnerved by him, but still likes him, as proven when she tip toes around the question of whether or not he had a girlfriend, seconds before his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove. Lastly in ''2'', she started going out with military personnel, mostly to learn things she could teach John, but given her history....
** She even reflects to herself how the Terminator was, in her opinion, the only suitable father figure while listing off the different ways a parent can abuse or neglect their child (which speaks volumes about the other men).
* AntiHero: While Sarah was firmly an ActionSurvivor in the first film, come time for the second one, [[ShellShockedVeteran she's become unhinged]] suffering a nasty case of PTSD. Sarah attempts to ShootTheDog [[spoiler: and even attempted to kill Miles Dyson in front of his family.]]
* BigNo: Sarah almost makes it out of the asylum, but she sees the T-800 walking out of an elevator. After saying "no" in a low tone of disbelief, it turns into this out of sheer terror.
* BrokenBird: Second movie. Her attempts to stop Judgment Day have left her sanity somewhat in tatters and she is in a mental hospital at the beginning of [=T2=].
* TheBusCameBack: [[BusCrash Written off]] between films after T2 and only appearing in [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles alternate]] [[Film/TerminatorGenisys timelines]] since, the original Sarah finally returns in ''Dark Fate'' after a 28-year absence.
* CassandraTruth: She's institutionalized to trying to prevent and talking about the future war with the machines. Played with, however, because she's still AxCrazy despite being right about that.
* CharacterDevelopment: She has two:
** In the first film, she was a ShrinkingViolet with self-doubt until Skynet specifically targets her by sending a T-800 while Kyle Reese was sent to protect her by her future son's orders. Even then, she still had doubts about herself when Kyle tells her about the amazing things John told about her, until Kyle and herself were on the last legs on their life until she manages to literally crush the T-800. This action allowed Sarah to commit herself to raise her only son into the man he was in the future.
** While she did TookALevelInBadass, she clearly did have problems with her communication skills, and often tried to date military personnel so they can teach something useful to John, and not giving her son the affection he desperately needed which was observed by the T-800. While initially distrustful with the reprogrammed T-800 who is under future John's orders to protect his younger self (and nearly tried to destroy his CPU), she learned to trust the machine when he proved to be a valuable ally and is visibly dishearten when he has to be destroyed to prevent Skynet's creation and Judgment Day while finally hugging her son.
* CoolPet: She had a pet iguana when she was Ginger's roommate. Ginger wasn't a fan of it.
%%* CrazyPrepared: Third movie, [[spoiler:posthumously]].
* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: InvokedTrope. Sarah is right about the {{Killer Robot}}s from the future, but she's still nuts.
* DamselInDistress: The first film in centered around Kyle going back to protect her from the T-800.
* DarkActionGirl: She can kick a major amount of ass, but it doesn't come without a lot of psychological scarring. Her time in a mental hospital did her no favors. Further, Cameron wrote the hospital escape scene to avert the FauxActionGirl trope--if anything, the Terminator's arrival was little more than a RedundantRescue, as Sarah was pretty much home free when he showed up.
%%* {{Determinator}}: She becomes like this during the second movie.
* FinalGirl: She's the last remaining "Sarah Connor" in Los Angeles by the end of the first movie.
* GoldDigger: SubvertedTrope. In the second film... sort-of. John says Sarah would "shack up with" any guy who looked like he had something worthwhile to teach John so that he'd grow up to be the competent leader she knew he was destined to be. However, he also says that Sarah would usually try and get her new man on board with the whole ScrewDestiny plan, only for them to think she's crazy and dump her. So yeah, she used a lot of guys, but under the circumstances, she still tried not to be abusive and wasn't doing it for selfish reasons.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: PlayedStraight. The director wanted to play with the audience's sympathies for her. Even though they already know that she's right about the BadFuture and the machine uprising, that hasn't made her the most sane person in the last nine years.
%%* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: With Kyle in the first movie.
* HairColorDissonance: Linda Hamilton's portrayal depicts her having dirty blonde hair, while Emilia Clarke's has [[AloofDarkHairedGirl dark brown]].
%%* HerHeartWillGoOn: End of first movie.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: She practically became a Terminator herself, [[LampshadeHanging right down to her enemy's musical motif and choice of sunglasses]], when she tried to murder Miles Dyson in order to prevent Skynet's creation.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In the second film. While she is prone to angry outbursts and paranoid as all hell, she truly does love John not just because of the role he plays in the future, but also because he's her son.
%%* LadyOfWar: In the second movie.
* TheLoad: In the first movie, she starts off as a relatively airheaded fast food waitress. [[TookALevelInBadass She is forced to overcome this]] after [[spoiler:Kyle is gravely wounded]].
%%* MamaBear: Almost to the point of being a KnightTemplarParent.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** [[spoiler:When her best friend/roommate Ginger and her boyfriend]] were killed by the Terminator in their apartment.
** Silently after the attempted hit on Dyson. Exacerbated by the fact that not only had she taken on a dimmer view on human life than the Terminator she was traveling with, but had adopted the MO of the Terminator that first tried to kill her. She almost killed a father in front of his wife and kid, something that hits her close to home after [[spoiler:losing Reese and almost losing John]].
* ParentalAbandonment:
** Has a DisappearedDad in the first film and her mother [[spoiler: was killed by the T-800]].
** She herself is a MissingMom to John most of his life, with her being locked in a mental asylum and all.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Spends most of the first film wearing pink clothes (both her waitress uniform and her main outfit).
* TheProtagonist: Of the first two films. Kyle and the second T-800 are TheHero of the first and second films respectively, but she has about as much screen time (and certainly more dialogue than the latter), and the story is largely told from her viewpoint.
* ScrewDestiny: Is willing to commit ''cold-blooded murder'' to protect her son and stop Judgment Day. Bonus points for providing the trope image itself.
* ShellShockedVeteran: In the second film as a result of having lost her paramour to a cyborg that was hunting her down with the intent to kill her.
* StockholmSyndrome: Averted, but implied that other people believe she's playing the trope straight, particularly Dr. Silberman. Justified in that, after being kidnapped by a "loon" spouting ridiculous stories about killer robots, Sarah herself has become an anti-technology terrorist that blows up places that build advanced computers. Even after the police come to try and get her to make a statement against the Terminator, from their point of view, later that same night, the same guy busts her out of the institution and, days later, she's joined forces with the guy to assault a Cyberdyne building.
* TakeTheWheel: Is made to do this in both the first and second movie.
* TankTopTomboy: In the epilogue of the first movie, and then throughout the entire second movie, after she TakesALevelInBadass.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "You're terminated, fucker!" Also a PreMortemOneLiner and PrecisionFStrike.
* ThouShaltNotKill: Despite her being a CombatPragmatist, she's never taken the life of a human being. The one time she becomes a "terminator" to execute someone she thinks is the reason [=SkyNet=] exists, she can't bring herself to be an unemotional killer.
* TimeTravelRomance: One where the romance has a good deal of plot significance.
* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Sarah has a problem with Reese telling her of all the things she hasn't done yet.
* TookALevelInBadass: During the events between the first and second movie. It's deconstructed as it lands her in a mental hospital, and Sarah later admits that she's been a terrible mother to John.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Mentally stable mother-of-the-year she is ''not.''
* TookALevelInKindness: She regains a lot of her humanity by the end of the second film, and becomes a better mother to John in the process.
* TwoFirstNames: Her last name can be traditionally used as a given name.
* UngratefulBitch: Instead of hugging her own son and thanking him, she just checked if John was hurt and scolds him for trying to rescue her.
-->'''Sarah:''' You cannot risk yourself, even for me. You're too important! Do you understand?\\
''(John begins to cry. Sarah shakes her head in disappointment.)''\\
'''John:''' I had to get you out of that place. I'm sorry!\\
'''Sarah:''' I don't need your help. I can take care of myself.
* VocalEvolution: Linda Hamilton gives her a softer voice in the first movie. In the sequel, she gives her a more assertive and commanding voice to fit her ActionMom status.
* YouKilledMyFather: In the first film [[spoiler: the T-800 killed Sarah's mother trying to find Sarah]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kyle Reese]]
!!Sergeant Kyle Reese
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Come with me if you want to live."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/MichaelBiehn
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Patrick Poivey (European French)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheTerminator''
A resistance soldier from the future, serving under the orders of John Connor. In the year 2029 he was sent back in time to the year 1984 to protect Sarah Connor from a T-800 Model 101 Terminator. He is the father of John Connor, through the result of a [[StableTimeLoop predestination paradox]].
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* BackupFromOtherworld: Appears to Sarah in a dream, warning her that the Terminators are now after John in the DirectorsCut of the second movie.
* BadassLongcoat: Justified, since he needs that coat to hide his SawedOffShotgun.
* BadassNormal: Makes his fight against an unstoppable killing machine much more badass.
* BodyguardCrush: Kyle's attraction to Sarah is what conceives John Connor in the first place.
* TheCameo: His one scene in the second film.
* ChildSoldier: He was born into a world with killbots attempting to destroy humanity, so yeah.
* ComeWithMeIfYouWantToLive: TropeNamer. It's the first thing he says to Sarah Connor after the Terminator attacks her, and it's the only reason she trusts him enough to escape with him.
* DeadPersonConversation: With Sarah in the second film.
* DeathBySex: [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated.]] He survived growing up in prison camps, fought numerous battles as a member of Tech-Com, and helped win the final battle against Skynet... but he's killed the same day he loses his virginity to Sarah.
* DecoyProtagonist: Of the entire franchise. He is TheHero of the first film, but Sarah is the true protagonist, and Reese dies before Sarah destroys the Terminator at the climax.
* {{Determinator}}: He will ''not'' allow Sarah to die, no matter what. Not just because it's his mission, but because he loves her. This includes fighting the Terminator in melee combat, ''while he's dying from a bullet wound''.
* DisappearedDad: He is this to John Connor, having died before his son was born.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Without a doubt. Justified in that he learnt to drive AfterTheEnd. He also instinctively drives cars at night without the headlights on, as doing so in the future would draw Aerial Hunter-Killers.
* ExperiencedProtagonist: [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]]. He's got plenty of experience fighting Terminators, but not with modern weapons.
* AFatherToHisMen: ''Possibly?'' In a flashback of the future he's shown sadly lowering his head when a soldier he's finding alongside dies. Although this may have just been because he liked her personally or something.
* FutureBadass: Applies more to the fourth film than the first. The first film's Kyle ''is'' the "Future Badass". The fourth film is Kyle as a teenage kid just trying to survive in a nuclear wasteland.
* GaiasLament: A deleted scene would have had Kyle crying when he saw how beautiful the world used to be.
* GlorifiedSpermDonor: He dies before the birth of his son, without even knowing that Sarah was pregnant... but he's from the future, and was close friends with John Connor in his own timeline, not even knowing that they were related.
* TheHero: Reese is not TheProtagonist of the first film (that's Sarah), but his efforts to protect her and battle the Terminator mean he qualifies as the hero of the narrative overall.
* TheHeroDies: He does not survive the final battle with the Terminator.
* HeroicSacrifice: The bomb he uses to bifurcate the Terminator is the same bomb that kills him in the end.
* IncrediblyObviousTail: He's very clumsy when tailing Sarah.
* IndyPloy: Just about everything he does. He's up against an unstoppable robot killer with nothing but a shotgun (and later, some pipe bombs), so he doesn't have any grand battle plan.
* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: He tries this, collapsing from his gunshot wound after Sarah Connor has dragged him into the factory. By this time in the movie Sarah has [[TookALevelInBadass Taken A Level In Badass]], so she isn't buying it.
-->'''Sarah:''' Move it, Reese! On your feet soldier! ON YOUR FEET!
* TheKindnapper: He kidnaps Sarah Connor to save her from the T-800 sent to kill her.
* LateArrivalSpoiler:
** Reese doesn't survive the first film. This is a major point in the sequel, as watching him die has left Sarah utterly traumatised.
** He's the father of John Connor. The other films have made no attempt to keep this a secret.
* LoveBeforeFirstSight: Fell in love with Sarah after seeing her picture.
* MacGyvering: Makes pipe bombs out of mothballs and ammonia.
* MrFanservice: In the first movie. He arrives in 1984 naked showing his athletic body, he wears mostly [[SleevesAreForWimps short sleeves t-shirts]] and has some number of ShirtlessScene. Michael Biehn was in good shape back then.
* NakedOnArrival: As per Terminator rules, you have to be naked when traveling through time.
* NoPlaceForMeThere: A deleted scene has him breaking down in tears as he laments that he doesn't belong in the world of 1984, which to him feels like paradise compared to the hellhole future he comes from. And knowing it was all doomed just made it worse.
* OnlyAFleshWound: He gets shot by the Terminator while escaping from the police station, but manages to keep driving until their car runs out of gas. Later, he and Sarah hide under a bridge and when she finds out he's shot, he refuses medical attention and says it's "not bad". He's shot again later on, but this one is far more serious as it slowly saps his strength and contributes to his death later.
* PetTheDog: Reese instinctively allows the dog at the roadside hotel to sniff him. They use dogs to sniff out Terminators where he comes from.
* ProductPlacement: The film would like to let the viewers know that his shoes are made by Nike.
* RescueIntroduction: He introduce himself to Sarah by extricating her from Tech Noir just as the T-800 closes in for the kill.
* SawedOffShotgun: Justified. He steals a police shotgun early in the film and saws it down so that he can hide it under a longcoat.
* ScannableMan: Got his tattoo in a [=SkyNet=] work camp.
* SensoryOverload: In flashback, it's shown that the future Kyle is from is blasted and barren, with most of humanity occupying cramped and overcrowded tunnels. In a deleted scene, he tears up and tells Sarah that the sight of a forest, with all its greenery and plant life, is so beautiful it ''hurts'' to look at.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Undoubtedly so, given that he was in [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything a SkyNet work camp complete with a tattoo]] before he was liberated by John Connor and even afterward spent all of his time either fighting against [=SkyNet=]'s machines or hiding from them.
* SlaveBrand: He has a barcode on his arm that was laser-burned from a robot concentration camp.
* StaircaseTumble: Falls down a metal staircase after blowing up the T-800's endoskeleton, which (combined with shrapnel from the bomb) kills him.
* SupportingProtagonist: He does have established characterization and a backstory about himself coming from the BadFuture fighting for LaResistance, but the film is mostly Sarah's story about her going from a [[TookALevelInBadass timid woman to an empowered and strong mother of a great resistance leader]] told from his viewpoint.
* SupernaturallyYoungParent: Thanks to the StableTimeLoop, his going back in time and sleeping with Sarah resulted in John--meaning he's younger than his son.
* TimeTravelRomance: One where the romance has a good deal of plot significance.
* TwoFirstNames: His last name is commonly used as a given name.
* UnwittingPawn: It's strongly implied that [[spoiler:John Connor deliberately manipulated Reese into falling in love with his mother by giving him her picture. And then he had to send his own father back in time to certain doom, just to make sure he would exist to save the world. Reese never knew his true role in the bigger picture, never realizing he was fighting for his own son. Must have been heartbreaking for John]].
* WakeUpFighting: He's shown drawing his shotgun the moment he wakes up.
* WithMyHandsTied: Averted; he knocks out a policeman with his hands cuffed behind his back, and apparently takes off the cuffs that way too, using the keys on the policeman's belt.
* YouHaveToBelieveMe: PlayedForDrama when he loses his patience at Silberman and starts SuddenlyShouting and SpikingTheCamera.
* YouShallNotPass: He blows up the endoskeleton in his last action and tries to jump to safety, but to no avail.
* ZippingUpTheBodybag: Barring a dream sequence in the second film, this is the last we ever see of him in the original series.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dr. Silberman]]
!!Dr. Peter Silberman
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"In technical terminology: he's a loon."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Earl Boen
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Sady Rebbot (European French, ''The Terminator''), Jean-Pierre Delage (European French, ''Terminator 2'')
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheTerminator'' | ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''
A psychologist who worked for the state of California and with the Los Angeles Police Department. He thought nothing of the so-called "delusions" shared by Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor other than being able to make a career from them being under his care.
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* AgentScully: Even more so in ''T2'', till he sees the T-1000 walk through the barred door. Though he leaves the police station just as the Terminator walks in and is not witness to the sheer carnage that occurs next.
%%* ButtMonkey
* DeadpanSnarker: Mocks Reese in a very straight, clinical way; he remarks that Skynet is attempting some kind of retroactive abortion and wonders why Reese didn't bring ray guns from the future with him.
* DrJerk:
** Highlighted in his nonchalant behavior towards a clearly distraught Sarah in the first film. The second film does not alter this assessment.
** Also highlighted in the fact that he plans on making his career on Kyle Reese in the first film--something he actually does before the second film. Our first scene with him is showing off his prize patient like a zoo animal.
** In the Directors Cut of [=T2=] it is strongly implied that he condones and even commands the orderlies to physically abuse Sarah, such as beating her until she takes her medication, though it is unclear if ''all'' his patients are mistreated this way or if he is just vindictive towards Sarah for how she has been treating ''him'' (e.g. stabbing him in the knee), but the fact that the orderlies do it without question (and that Sarah is visibly intimidated by them) doesn't speak well of him. This puts her belief that she had been promised visits from her son if her behaviour improved in a darker light- it's possible he was just stringing her along and never intended to let her see him even if she ''did'' genuinely improve.
* HeroicBSOD: Whilst "hero" is a stretch, Silberman does believe what he is doing is for Sarah's own good, which makes seeing the T-800 and T-1000 in action all the more horrifying.
* MissedHimByThatMuch: In the first movie he leaves the police station as the T-800 arrives, he happens to be looking at his pager right as the Terminator walks past him.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: He and the other hospital staff try to keep Sarah locked up because (in addition to being a cash cow for the doctor), they feel she's an AxCrazy paranoid maniac because she thinks {{Killer Robot}}s are out to get her and her son. They happen to be right about her state of mind, except for the bit where [[CassandraTruth she's correct]] [[ProperlyParanoid about all of that.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Once he spots that all too familiar heavily armed badass in leather, the doctor rather wisely decides to make himself scarce.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Already not the most sympathetic human character in the first film, he comes across as a bigger {{jerkass}} in ''Judgment Day'', in which he's strongly implied to be abusive towards Sarah.
* TurnTheOtherCheek: Even after years of having to deal with Sarah's repeated escape attempts, insults, and even physical attacks, he never once gets mad at her, shout at her, or even hold any of it against her. If Dr. Silberman is anything, he's a paragon of patience. {{Subverted}} in the Directors Cut where it is shown that the orderlies brutally mistreat and even sexually assault her, and Silberman is implied to not only know about but actually encourage at least some of it because he simply doesn't like her.
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[[folder:Ed Traxler]]
!!Detective Lieutenant Ed Traxler
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I can hear it now. He's going be called the goddamned 'Phone Book Killer'."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Paul Winfield
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Jean-Claude Michel (European French)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheTerminator''
An honest, hard-working police officer from the Central Division of the LAPD. He is in charge of investigating a series of 'phone book killings' taking place across town and targeting women named "Sarah Connor".
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* DaChief: Unusually for the trope, he's very calm and clear-headed. And he does everything he can to protect Sarah.
* DecoyProtagonist: In the first act, he seemingly fulfills the role of the tritagonist of the film as the police detective investigating the killings made by the Terminator and trying to warn Sarah for her own protection (the deleted scenes that featured mostly his scenes further helps establishing him to be this). However, after bringing in Sarah and Kyle to the station, his arc ends with the Terminator massacring everyone in his station and fatally wounding him as Sarah and Kyle escapes.
* MoreDakka: He has a sidearm, but sees how the T-800 seems to be impervious to handgun bullets as it rampages through the police station, so he grabs a M16 carbine hoping it can work better. It's not any bit more effective and he ends up dead, if less immediately than Vukovich.
* NiceGuy: He's a polite and kind man who tries to help Sarah through a terribly traumatic experience.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** As soon as he gets the report of two women named "Sarah Connor" getting killed within hours of each other, he immediately deduces that they're dealing with a pattern SerialKiller. Traxler then tries to contact the remaining Sarah, and when that fails, puts out a news bulletin so that Sarah will call them. As soon as she does, he gives very clear instructions to not leave the public night club until he arrives.
** While the others are making fun of Reese, he's quite frightened by the possibility that Reese isn't lying or crazy. He even comes to believe Reese in a deleted scene when he's dying, telling him to protect Sarah and giving him his revolver.
* SacrificialLion: He plays a pivotal part in tracking down the Terminator (whom he thinks to be a human psychopathic serial killer) and protecting Sarah from him, which makes it hit harder when the Terminator ambushes his station and he himself gets fatally wounded about halfway through the film.
* SupportingProtagonist: In the first act, the actions of Kyle finding Sarah, Sarah herself being stalked and the Terminator hunting Sarah are told from his viewpoint in his scenes, especially in the deleted scenes that features him following the car chase between the Terminator and Sarah and Kyle.
* WrongGenreSavvy: While he certainly thinks someone is trying to kill Sarah Connor, he thinks they're dealing with a heavily armed psychopath with a BulletProofVest, not a time-traveling KillerRobot.
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[[folder:Hal Vukovich]]
!!Detective Sergeant Hal Vukovich
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Come on, Ed. That was loon talk. The guy's a wacko, right?"'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/LanceHenriksen
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Joël Martineau (European French)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheTerminator''
A Los Angeles Police Department officer and Ed Traxler's colleague.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Upon seeing a dying Traxler, whom he engages in SnarkToSnarkCombat with him throughout the film, he fires on the Terminator.
* MoreDakka: Like Traxler, he has a sidearm, but a M16 carbine seems to be a better option against the T-800 as it rampages through the police station. It's not.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: Gets a point-blank burst of assault rifle fire ''and'' a shotgun blast from the Terminator, [[GoryDiscretionShot offscreen.]]
* PoliceAreUseless: Averted. He may be a sarcastic hardass, but he's just as professional as Traxler, and tries multiple times to call Sarah and warn her that she is in danger.
* ShooOutTheClowns: He's by no means a PluckyComicRelief, but does provide a reasonable amount of levity through his sarcastic quips. Once he dies, the film gets a ''lot'' darker.
* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Regularly engages in some with Traxler.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Similar to Traxler. He thinks the Terminator is simply a thug who is too hopped up on PCP to notice his injuries.
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[[folder:Ginger Ventura]]
!!Ginger Ventura
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!!!'''Played by:''' Bess Motta
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/MaikDarah (European French)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheTerminator''
Sarah Connor's roommate and best friend. She and her boyfriend Matt Buchanan were killed when the Terminator came to their apartment looking for Sarah.
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* EightiesHair: A shining example, especially when she and Sarah primp themselves for some quality time.
* BestFriend: She was Sarah Connor's best friend in the early 1980s.
* DeathByIrony: Just a second after Ginger's murder by the Terminator, Sarah calls her and the answering machine says (with Ginger's voice) "Machines need love too"...
* DeathBySex: She had sex with her boyfriend minutes before the T-800 killed her.
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: She's rocking out on headphones in full volume making an after-nookie MidnightSnack while Matt is brutally thrown around by the T-800 in the bedroom.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: The T-800 shoots her six times with his AMT Hardballer .45 Longslide with LaserSight, all InTheBack, and five of which as she's down and crawling on the floor.
* MurderByMistake: She's on the brutal receiving end of this by the T-800, due to living in the same apartment as Sarah, the T-800 not having a clear picture of what Sarah looks like and Sarah not being there when the robot crashes in.
* OhCrap: When suddenly seing her dead boyfriend crashing through a door, followed by a tall and menacing dude with a gun (the T-800) going after her.
* SacrificialLamb: She's introduced as the best friend of Sarah, and her death is more impactful than the T-800's previous victims due to being quite likeable and how brutally she is murdered.
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[[folder:Matt Buchanan]]
!!Matt Buchanan
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!!!'''Played by:''' Rick Rossovich
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Patrick Préjean (European French)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/TheTerminator''
A friend of Sarah Connor and Ginger Ventura's boyfriend.
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* FullFrontalAssault: He tries to fight the Terminator off and wears only his underwear doing so, since he had no time to put anything on.
* DeathBySex: He had sex with Ginger minutes before the T-800 killed him.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Tries to hit the T-800 with a lamp. The robot {{no sell}}s his attacks, of course.
* OhCrap:
** Upon finding out he talked dirty to Sarah on the phone and not to Ginger.
** Upon seeing a tall and menacing dude (the T-800) enter his room. He quickly gets up and tries to fight him off nonetheless.
* PrankCall: Intended to call Ginger to have sex phone with her, not even announcing himself. Turns out Sarah picks up the phone, laughs and and says nothing while he talks about all the kinky things he wants to do to her. Then Sarah decides to answer, much to Matt's embarrassed confusion, and hands the phone over to Ginger.
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[[folder: Corporal Ferro]]
!!Corporal Ferro
!!!'''Played by:''' Jean Malahni
A soldier who dies in Reese's first BadFuture flashback
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* ChildSoldiers: According to the novelization she's only 15.
* EconomyCast: She's played by Linda Hamilton's stunt double.
* NoNameGiven: The only way you would know her name is from [[AllThereInTheManual the novelization]].
* RedShirts: She has basically no characterization and exists just to show [[MonsterMunch how terrifying the HK tank is]].
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!!Introduced in ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day''
[[folder:John Connor]]
!!John Connor
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"The whole thing goes: The future's not set. There's no fate but what we make for ourselves."'']]
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"Skynet, the computer which controlled the machines, sent two Terminators back through time. Their mission: to destroy the leader of the human Resistance... John Connor. My son."'' -- '''Sarah Connor''']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/EdwardFurlong (pre-teen), Dalton Abbot (infant), Michael Edwards (adult), Jude Collie (pre-teen, ''Terminator: Dark Fate'')
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Emmanuel Garijo (European French)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' | ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate''
The leader of the human resistance against the Machines in the future, and the son of Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese.
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* AllLovingHero: As reviewer WebVideo/ConfusedMatthew notes, despite Sarah having raised him to be a resistance leader, throughout the film series John never fails to recognize the value of human life, indeed often putting his own life on the line to try to save people, sometimes who he barely even knows, and ordering the T-800 that protects him not to kill anyone. The fact this is such a consistent and natural part of his character, arguably makes him one of the greatest examples of this type of character in cinema history.
* ArchEnemy: He is this for Skynet, being the one who convinces the human race to rise up and liberate themselves. Skynet believes that if it can kill John before Judgement Day, then the entire rebellion will never happen.
* BigGood: He is fated to be one of these.
* {{Delinquent|s}}: He's disobedient to his parents, steals money from [=ATMs=], skips school, and hangs out with hooligans. This is basically him venting his frustrations against everything his mother taught him, which he believes to be a lie.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Of the second film. The Terminator and Sarah share the roles of TheHero and TheProtagonist between them in fighting the T-1000, while John has a separate character arc where he slowly learns how to become the leader that he will need to become to defeat Skynet.
* FinalFirstHug: With the T-800 that protected him.
* FutureBadass: This is the entire reason Skynet wants him dead. Note that he's badass as a pre-teen, but he takes it UpToEleven when he becomes leader of The Resistance in the future.
* TheGhost: The entire first film is about making sure that he will still exist to save humanity, but he never makes an appearance, being in gestation in his mother's womb at the end.
* HeelRealization: When he sics the Terminator on two guys and the Terminator tries to shoot one in the head, John is horrified about what he almost caused. WordOfGod states that it was this moment which cemented John's heroic nature.
* HeroicBastard: His parents were never married and his father was killed [[DeathBySex shortly after he was conceived]].
* HonorBeforeReason: Will '''not''' tolerate the death of even a ''single'' innocent human being, even if it means stopping a nuclear holocaust from happening.
* HopeBringer: As Kyle put it, "He taught us to fight, to storm the wire of the camps, to smash those metal motherfuckers into junk. He turned it around."
** James Cameron's original intentions for ''Terminator 2'' go even further than this. By teaching the Terminator to be human, he ends the StableTimeLoop and prevents the machine uprising, not just winning the war for humanity but making sure ''it never happened''.
* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: He initially believes his mother is crazy and that her supposed delusions robbed him of a normal life.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Starts off as a {{delinquent}} but does his best to avoid human casualties and genuinely cares about his mother.
* KidHasAPoint: In a DeletedScene, restored in the special edition, Sarah and John remove the T-800's chip, intending to reprogram him so he can learn human behavior. Sarah has other ideas and tries to smash the chip with a hammer, distrusting the T-800. John stops her, and in the ensuing argument, drops a line that prompts Sarah to give in:
-->'''John''': Look, Mom, if I'm ever supposed to be this great military leader, maybe you should start listening to ''my'' leadership ideas once in a while. 'Cause if my own mother won't, how do you expect anyone else to?
* KidWithTheLeash: Oh, are we all so very glad he made the T-800 take his vow of mercy...
* LaserGuidedTykebomb: He was raised from birth to defeat Skynet.
* MoralityPet: He tries to teach the Terminator not to kill people, and eventually succeeds.
* NomDeMom: Reflecting his status as a HeroicBastard (see above).
* OhCrap: When John first sees the T-800 in the mall, he goes bug-eyed. The novelization explains a bit more: John's mother had showed him news clippings and police video of the Terminator that had chased her. John later stopped believing in Terminators, but he still knew that guy was a cop-killer and psychopath. And now, here he was... coming right at him... ''with a shotgun''.
* PlayfulHacker: Gleefully exclaims "Easy Money" whenever he hacks into something.
* RebelLeader: His main plot in the story is to lead the future resistance against Skynet.
* StableTimeLoop: His existence is this; he was conceived by Kyle Reese, who was sent back in time by his older self to both save his mother and make sure he's conceived in the first place.
* TwoFirstNames: His last name can traditionally be used as a given name.
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[[folder:Miles Dyson]]
!!Miles Dyson
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[[caption-width-right:300: ''"I feel like I'm gonna throw up..."'']]
!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/JoeMorton
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Patrick Guillemin (European French)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''
The original inventor of the neural-net processor which would lead to the development of Skynet. He was the man most directly responsible for Judgment Day, although his work was clearly not intended to bring about that.
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* BlackAndNerdy: African American and computer wiz.
* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: Strongly indicated in the [[DirectorsCut Special Edition]].
* HappilyMarried: Having a loving wife and family was already implied in the original cut, the special edition features a scene expanding on this.
* HeroicSacrifice: With his death, he blows up Cyberdyne.
* MultipleGunshotDeath: Standing in between the Connors and a heavily armed SWAT team was an extremely poor idea, and Miles is torn to shreds by the police's fire. He lives just long enough to help the Connors escape Cyberdyne.
* MustMakeAmends: Even though it's yet to happen.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: His reaction to the Terminator giving all the backstory on the robot war.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The computer system he created would eventually go on to wage war against humanity.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: His decision to help the heroes destroy his creation eventually leads to his death.
* SenselessSacrifice: Rather tragically, ''Terminator: Dark Fate'' renders his HeroicSacrifice meaningless in the long run. It only delays Judgment Day.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Miles wanted to make life a little better for humanity. Turns out his invention leads to the demise of billions.
* WideEyedIdealist: He's a far cry from the person you'd think would create [=SkyNet=]. Indeed he sees only the possible positives of his creation. This may even blind him to the military applications of his invention or to the dangers of removing humans from certain decisions.
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[[folder:The Voights]]
!!Janelle & Todd Voight
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!!!'''Played by:''' Jenette Goldstein (Janelle), Creator/XanderBerkeley (Todd)
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Régine Teyssot (Janelle, European French), Creator/PhilippePeythieu (Todd, European French)
!!!'''Appear in:''' ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''
The foster parents of John Connor while his mother was interned at the Pescadero State Hospital.
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* AbusiveParents: When calling them, John notices something's wrong, since Janelle is "never this nice" to him.
* AssholeVictim: They're guilty of negligence and mistreatment on John, and get murdered by the T-1000. John feels a little sorrow for a few seconds after T-800 breaks the news to him but quickly forgets about them.
* HateSink: Few sympathetic qualities are given to either, especially Todd. The T-1000 itself looks noticeably annoyed at Todd's talking before killing him off.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Todd ends up impaled in the head by the T-1000's arm, which morphed into a sword.
* KillAndReplace: The T-1000 killed Janelle at some point, without Todd noticing it, then took her place waiting for a phone call by John. Then he killed Todd.
* KilledOffScreen: The death of Janelle is not seen onscreen, and neither is her corpse.
* ParentalSubstitute: Since Sarah Connor has been deemed criminally insane and interned, someone had to take care of John. The Voights likely [[FosteringForProfit did it for money]].
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[[folder:Douglas]]
!!Douglas
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!!!'''Played by:''' Ken Gibbel
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/RichardDarbois (European French)
!!!'''Appears in:''' ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''
A staff member at the Pescadero State Hospital where Sarah Connor is detained.
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* FourEyesZeroSoul: A pervert BedlamHouse warden who abuses his inmates and wears glasses.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Sarah gives him a thoroughly deserved beating when she escapes.
* LecherousLicking: He licks Sarah's face while she's strapped to her bed and sleeping.
* OrderliesAreCreeps: He's even the trope's picture.
* TeethFlying: When Sarah ambushes him, she aims straight at his face with her broom handle and he looses a few teeth as a result.
* WardensAreEvil: He has a penchant for inmate patient abuse.
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