History Film / Terminator2JudgmentDay

** PlayedWith with the T-1000 robot. When it first appears, it attacks a police officer and is later seen apparently wearing a police officer's uniform, implying that it stole the uniform from the officer. It's later revealed that it copied the uniform using its own body.

* MuggedForDisguise: When the Terminator walks into a biker bar to steal his clothes, we see a RoboCam view of him scanning the bikers [[RuleOfFunny and the waitresses]] until he finds one whose clothes match his size.

* CoolGuns: The T-800's cut down Winchester 1887 shotgun and the Mini-Gun it wields later on.

* GunPorn: ''T2'' showcases nearly all of the CoolGuns ever made -- and then some.

-->'''Dyson''': How were we supposed to know?\\
'''Sarah''': Yeah, right. "How were you supposed to know?" Fucking men like you built the hydrogen bomb. Men like you thought it up. You think you're so creative. You don't know what it's like to really create something; to create a life; to feel it growing inside you.\\
'''John''': Mom...\\
'''Sarah''': All you know how to create is death and destruction...\\
'''John''': Mom! We need to be a little more constructive here, okay?

* TuckAndCover: Aomeone shields a child this way in Sarah's dream. Since it is against a nearby nuclear explosion, it has no effect.

** When Janelle is talking with John over the phone, she can be seen stretching her arm out with a peculiar flicking sound accompanying it. When the T-800 reveals to John that the T-1000 already got to them, it turns out that "Janelle" was the T-1000, and "Janelle" stretching her arm was the T-1000 killing Todd with a [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice blade through the mouth]].

* NothingButSkulls: The opening 'Future War' segment features an apparent ''carpet'' of nothing but skulls, seemingly specifically so Skynet's mecha can symbolically crush them beneath their feet and treads as they engage Resistance troops in yet another bitter firefight. A ShoutOut to this can be found in the losing [[FullMotionVideo cinematics]] of ''VideoGame/WingCommander III'', with a [[MegaNeko Kilrathi]] foot in combat armor doing the crushing.

*** The T-800 cleans house at the bar to get the biker's clothes and ride, but doesn't actually kill anyone, unlike his brutal introduction in the first film. This is a clear tip that this is not the T-800 programmed as before, especially when he gets the cool BadToTheBone treatment. Tellingly, Janelle and Todd are still alive when the T-1000 questions them, with Todd mentioning "a big guy" having arrived earlier, whereas the previous T-800 model broke into Sarah's mother's house to kill her mother and find her location.

* StrawFeminist: Debatable. Sarah Connor was twisted by her experiences in the first film and subsequent incarceration in a mental institution (where she was shown on screen as being sexually assaulted by a male staff member). During her explanation of Judgment Day to Miles Dyson, she goes on a rant that could be interpreted as her letting out her rage loose on his entire gender, saying that "men like him" built the hydrogen bomb, doesn't know what it's like to truly create something (using her conception of John as a positive example), and that he's only capable of building inventions used solely for destroying things. This is made even more uncomfortable by the fact that Sarah's own son is present for her rant.

'''John:''' MOM!We need to be a little more constructive here. Okay
** Two things are worth pointing out, first is that is that the terms "man" or "men" despite often being used in specifically masculine contexts, have also been commonly used when referring to humans in general (for example the term "mankind" also refers to human women). Additionally Sarah's rant against Tyson in a previous version of the script was far more explicitly anti-male (and sexualised) in tone, and the apparent removal of more explicitly gendered dialogue could indicate that the plan to depict Sarah having negative views on men was cut at the last minute, and that her aggressive bragging about her pregnancy could thus be recontextualized as a hyped up Sarah getting carried away with expressing her pride at being a mother. [[note]]The original version of her rant is as follows. '''Sarah''': Yeah. Right. How were you supposed to know? Fucking men... all you know how to do is thrust into the world with your... fucking ideas and your weapons. Did you know that every gun in the world is named after a man? Colt, Browning, Smith, Thompson, Kalashnikov... all men. Men built the hydrogen bomb, not women... men like you thought it up. You're so creative. You don't know what it's like to really create something... to create a life. To feel it growing inside you. All you know how to create is death... you fucking bastards. '''John''': Mom, Mom, we need to be more constructive here. I don't see this as a gender-related issue[[/note]]

* {{Facepalm}}: John does this during Sarah's StrawFeminist rant.

* StrawFeminist: Sarah Connor was twisted by her experiences in the first film and subsequent incarceration in a mental institution. During her explanation of Judgment Day to Miles Dyson, she lets her rage loose on his entire gender, saying males know nothing about creation and are only capable of destroying things. This is made even more uncomfortable by the fact that Sarah's own son is present for her rant.

'''John:''' MOM!