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* ATeamFiring: "Human casualties: 0.0". The T-800 manages to just suppress the police; he aims a minigun and several grenades at the police and blows up several vehicles, but wounding and disabling the police is all the machine could do, as this is enforced by John's "thou shalt not kill policy".
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* ATeamFiring: Ordered by John not to kill anyone, the T-800 - despite packing a minigun and grenades - merely inflicts disabling wounds and blows up vehicles. "Human casualties: 0.0". The T-800 manages to just suppress the police; he aims a minigun and several grenades at the police and blows up several vehicles, but wounding and disabling the police is all the machine could do, as this is enforced by John's "thou shalt not kill policy".
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* ApocalypseWow: Sarah's dream of Judgment Day, first described to the psychiatrist then shown. Involves her silently and helplessly screaming at a playground full of children to run for their lives (and getting an odd look from the parents...notably, one that is "Sarah Connor if she had ended up as the suburban housewife she might have become")), become"), until the first nuke hits over the city. "...then the shockwave hits...and...and they fly apart like leaves!" Also flying apart like leaves: Sarah's incinerated skeleton, still clinging to the playground fence.
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* PloiceBrutality: The T-1000. He acts, looks, and talks like a normal police officer, but this is just a cover to get close to John Connor and kill him
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* PloiceBrutality: The T-1000. He acts, looks, and talks like a normal police officer, but this is just a cover to get close to John Connor and kill him
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* VengefulVendingMachine: Inverted. A security guard orders a cup of coffee from a machine, and is pleased to have gotten a Full House, based on the cards printed on the cup (two Aces, two Jokers, and a "Wild Card"). [[{{Retirony}} He is killed by the T-1000 immediately afterwards.]]
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* FearsomeFoot: The film opens with the metal foot of a skin-free Terminator crushing a skull in an AfterTheEnd Los Angeles.
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* RevisedEnding: There's an ending where Sarah Connor reflected on her experiences many years after the events of the movie, as she watches her son playing with his daughter at a park. Cameron has stated that the Dark Highway ending was a better for the film since it better represented the ambiguous nature of the future. The playground ending would imply that the future was now set, and thus deterministic.
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* HeroicSuicide: T-800[[spoiler:The T-800 ally must kill himself at the end to destroy the last possible source of Terminator technology that could let people reverse-engineer Terminators and Skynet.]]
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** One should also note that Casualties does not simply refer to combatants being killed, but rather all costs of combat which includes injuries. In this case one side of the decimal point would represent deaths, the other side injuries. 0.0 indicates that not only did he not kill any of the officers he avoided causing any noteworthy injuries to them as well.
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* ApocalypseWow: Sarah's dream of Judgment Day, first described to the psychiatrist then shown. Involves her silently and helplessly screaming at a playground full of children to run for their lives (and getting an odd look from the parents...notably, one that is "Sarah Connor if she had kept being ended up as the suburban housewife she used to be")), might have become")), until the first nuke hits over the city. "...then the shockwave hits...and...and they fly apart like leaves!" Also flying apart like leaves: Sarah's incinerated skeleton, still clinging to the playground fence.
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* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: T-1000.Clearly the favorite form for the T-1000 Terminator to take is that of a Los Angeles patrolman. Not surprisingly, an LAPD cop was the first person the T-1000 encountered upon arrival from its time-travel. That form also avails the T-1000 to plentiful information and resources.
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* BadassBiker: Like the first film, the T-800, this time riding a Harley Davidson FLSTF Fat Boy, [[EverybodyOwnsAFord provided by Harley Davidson]] as ProductPlacement.
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* WallOfWeapons: Sarah Connor has an underground cache of weapons hidden in the desert. Not that we need convincing she's a BadAss by this point in the film. John Connor mentions this as well--"One thing about my mom... she always plans ahead."
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-->The Terminator: [to John] What's the dog's name? \\
John Connor: Max. \\
The Terminator: [impersonating John's voice] Hey Janelle, what's wrong with Wolfie? I can hear him barking. Is he okay? \\
Janelle (T-1000): Wolfie's fine, John. Wolfie's just fine. Where are you? \\
The Terminator: [hangs up] Your foster parents are dead.
John Connor: Max. \\
The Terminator: [impersonating John's voice] Hey Janelle, what's wrong with Wolfie? I can hear him barking. Is he okay? \\
Janelle (T-1000): Wolfie's fine, John. Wolfie's just fine. Where are you? \\
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The Terminator: [hangs up]
'''The Terminator:''' [''hangs up''] Your foster parents are dead.
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-->The Terminator: [to John] What's the dog's name? \\
John Connor: Max. \\
The Terminator: [impersonating John's voice] Hey Janelle, what's wrong with Wolfie? I can hear him barking. Is he okay? \\
Janelle (T-1000): Wolfie's fine, John. Wolfie's just fine. Where are you?\\
The Terminator: [hangs up] Your foster parents are dead.
-->The Terminator: [to John] What's the dog's name? \\
John Connor: Max. \\
The Terminator: [impersonating John's voice] Hey Janelle, what's wrong with Wolfie? I can hear him barking. Is he okay? \\
Janelle (T-1000): Wolfie's fine, John. Wolfie's just fine. Where are you?\\
The Terminator: [hangs up] Your foster parents are dead.
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* BulletsDoNotWorkThatWay: As John and the T-800 escort Sarah out of the asylum, a law enforcement officer drives up in his cruiser; Sarah proceeds to carjack him, firing a round through the windshield (not aimed at the officer) to show she means business. The bullet goes through the glass, and then disappears- the seats and rear window are unharmed. This might be a gaff of a different kind. The creators may have believed that police cars habitually use [[WeaponizedCar bulletproof glass]]. [[RealityIsUnrealistic They don't]], but Hollywood might [[HollywoodScience assume they do]]. If it did have bulletproof glass, the bullet might've ended up somewhere on the dashboard or bouncing around harmlessly in the cab.
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* TheWorfEffect: We see the T-800 (Arnold), the 6'2" unstoppable killer robot who for the whole last movie was one of the most menacing things ever put to film, get thrown around like a rag-doll by the considerably shorter and skinnier T-1000. Mainly at the end of the movie, though; earlier in the film he tends to keep the upper hand. For the most part, if its a gunfight, the impervious T-800 will win. If it's a fistfight, the intangible T-1000 will win.
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* NoMereWindmill: We are introduced to a crazy woman who is obviously a paranoid schizophrenic. She even believes that evil robots from the future are out to get her, imagine that. To the great surprise of everyone except the audience, it eventually turns out that the robots are real and Sarah is completely sane (although traumatized). She knows exactly what a terminator really is, a straight Type B of this trope.
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* ScrewDestiny: Sarah Connor, emphasized by her carving the words "NO FATE" into a table prior to setting out to stop Cyberdine.
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* TheNeedless: The T-800 acts a sentry for John and Sarah from night to morning without budging an inch.
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* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: T-1000. It takes a few times for John and co. to catch on.
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* AnthropicPrinciple: If the T-800 didn't happen to be in the same area as John Connor very briefly and identify him, it's quite likely the T-1000 would have found him first. It would have been a much shorter movie.
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* VillainsBlendInBetter: The T-1000 can look and act like any human it encounters, while the T-800 is easily recognizable to those who have already encountered one and survived, though the last bit could be quite rare apart from the protagonists.
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[=SkyNet=] sends a more advanced Terminator -- the [[NighInvulnerability nigh-invulnerable]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] T-1000 Model -- to the past. In response, John Connor sends back a T-800 Model Terminator that he has reprogrammed to protect his past self. Both Terminators arrive at a time when a ten-year-old John lives with foster parents and Sarah sits in an asylum after an attempt to blow up a computer factory. The T-1000 kills anyone it chooses to replicate, and when John figures out the T-1000 will attempt to replicate Sarah, he forces the T-800 to rescue his mother. After being freed, Sarah -- now an ActionGirl after [[TookALevelInBadass years of preparing for Judgment Day and beyond]] -- learns details of [=SkyNet=]'s history from the T-800 and attempts to assassinate Miles Dyson, the man who will go on to create [=SkyNet=]. Sarah eventually falters before she can pull the trigger, and after John and the T-800 arrive, the trio pumps Dyson for information. They learn that Cyberdyne -- the company Dyson works for and (as revealed in a deleted scene from the first film) the owners of the factory where Sarah destroyed the T-800 -- will build [=SkyNet=] after it reverse-engineers technology from the components of the original T-800 (which makes [=SkyNet=] itself part of the StableTimeLoop). The Connors, the T-800, and Dyson infiltrate the Cyberdyne building, steal the T-800 remains, and destroy all of Dyson's research in an attempt to thwart the creation of [=SkyNet=]. The T-1000 eventually catches up to the group, and after a lengthy battle inside an industrial factory, the T-1000, the remains of the original T-800, and the reprogrammed T-800 end up dissolved in a vat of molten steel.
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[=SkyNet=] sends a more advanced Terminator -- the [[NighInvulnerability nigh-invulnerable]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] T-1000 Model -- to the past. In response, John Connor sends back a T-800 Model Terminator that he has reprogrammed to protect his past self. Both Terminators arrive at a time when a ten-year-old John lives with foster parents and Sarah sits in an asylum after an attempt to blow up a computer factory. The T-1000 kills anyone it chooses to replicate, and when John figures out the T-1000 will attempt to replicate Sarah, he forces the T-800 to rescue his mother. mother.
After being freed, Sarah -- now an ActionGirl after [[TookALevelInBadass years of preparing for Judgment Day and beyond]] -- learns details of [=SkyNet=]'s history from the T-800 and attempts to assassinate Miles Dyson, the man who will go on to create [=SkyNet=]. Sarah eventually falters before she can pull the trigger, and after John and the T-800 arrive, the trio pumps Dyson for information. They learn that Cyberdyne -- the company Dyson works for and (as revealed in a deleted scene from the first film) the owners of the factory where Sarah destroyed the T-800 -- will build [=SkyNet=] after it reverse-engineers technology from the components of the original T-800 (which makes [=SkyNet=] itself part of the StableTimeLoop). The Connors, the T-800, and Dyson infiltrate the Cyberdyne building, steal the T-800 remains, and destroy all of Dyson's research in an attempt to thwart the creation of [=SkyNet=]. The T-1000 eventually catches up to the group, and after a lengthy battle inside an industrial factory, the T-1000, the remains of the original T-800, and the reprogrammed T-800 end up dissolved in a vat of molten steel.
After being freed, Sarah -- now an ActionGirl after [[TookALevelInBadass years of preparing for Judgment Day and beyond]] -- learns details of [=SkyNet=]'s history from the T-800 and attempts to assassinate Miles Dyson, the man who will go on to create [=SkyNet=]. Sarah eventually falters before she can pull the trigger, and after John and the T-800 arrive, the trio pumps Dyson for information. They learn that Cyberdyne -- the company Dyson works for and (as revealed in a deleted scene from the first film) the owners of the factory where Sarah destroyed the T-800 -- will build [=SkyNet=] after it reverse-engineers technology from the components of the original T-800 (which makes [=SkyNet=] itself part of the StableTimeLoop). The Connors, the T-800, and Dyson infiltrate the Cyberdyne building, steal the T-800 remains, and destroy all of Dyson's research in an attempt to thwart the creation of [=SkyNet=]. The T-1000 eventually catches up to the group, and after a lengthy battle inside an industrial factory, the T-1000, the remains of the original T-800, and the reprogrammed T-800 end up dissolved in a vat of molten steel.
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->''[[PreMortemOneLiner "Hasta la vista, baby!"]]''
-->-- '''The T-800'''
''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' (1991) is the second film in the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' franchise. Creator/JamesCameron returned to the director's chair for the sequel.
[=SkyNet=] sends a more advanced Terminator -- the [[NighInvulnerability nigh-invulnerable]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] T-1000 Model -- to the past. In response, John Connor sends back a T-800 Model Terminator that he has reprogrammed to protect his past self. Both Terminators arrive at a time when a ten-year-old John lives with foster parents and Sarah sits in an asylum after an attempt to blow up a computer factory. The T-1000 kills anyone it chooses to replicate, and when John figures out the T-1000 will attempt to replicate Sarah, he forces the T-800 to rescue his mother. After being freed, Sarah -- now an ActionGirl after [[TookALevelInBadass years of preparing for Judgment Day and beyond]] -- learns details of [=SkyNet=]'s history from the T-800 and attempts to assassinate Miles Dyson, the man who will go on to create [=SkyNet=]. Sarah eventually falters before she can pull the trigger, and after John and the T-800 arrive, the trio pumps Dyson for information. They learn that Cyberdyne -- the company Dyson works for and (as revealed in a deleted scene from the first film) the owners of the factory where Sarah destroyed the T-800 -- will build [=SkyNet=] after it reverse-engineers technology from the components of the original T-800 (which makes [=SkyNet=] itself part of the StableTimeLoop). The Connors, the T-800, and Dyson infiltrate the Cyberdyne building, steal the T-800 remains, and destroy all of Dyson's research in an attempt to thwart the creation of [=SkyNet=]. The T-1000 eventually catches up to the group, and after a lengthy battle inside an industrial factory, the T-1000, the remains of the original T-800, and the reprogrammed T-800 end up dissolved in a vat of molten steel.
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!This film provides examples of:
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Though it's hard to tell, the film is actually set in 1995, not 1991 (the only indications are John's age in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it glimpse at his record on a police computer). Because it doesn't feature futuristic elements and thus averts ZeeRust (instead simply saying it was four years ahead), it is one of the most accurate depictions of the future.
* ActionGirl / ActionMom: Sarah Connor [[TookALevelInBadass learned a lot between films.]]
* ActorAllusion: The T-800 hefting a minigun. "[[Franchise/{{Predator}} That's DEFINITELY you]]."
* AllOfThem: How many police?
* ApocalypseWow: Sarah's dream of Judgment Day, first described to the psychiatrist then shown. Involves her silently and helplessly screaming at a playground full of children to run for their lives (and getting an odd look from the parents...notably, one that is "Sarah Connor if she had kept being the suburban housewife she used to be")), until the first nuke hits over the city. "...then the shockwave hits...and...and they fly apart like leaves!" Also flying apart like leaves: Sarah's incinerated skeleton, still clinging to the playground fence.
** JamesCameron has mentioned getting mail after the film's release from nuclear physicists who commended him on [[ShownTheirWork the most realistic depiction]] of a close-up nuclear detonation put on film thus far.
* AssholeVictim: John's foster parent, Todd. Janelle not so much, she's loathed by John but she's not really shown as mean or obnoxious onscreen.
* ATeamFiring: "Human casualties: 0.0". The T-800 manages to just suppress the police; he aims a minigun and several grenades at the police and blows up several vehicles, but wounding and disabling the police is all the machine could do, as this is enforced by John's "thou shalt not kill policy".
* BadassAndChildDuo: Terminator and John
* BadToTheBone: The TropeNamer song plays as the T-800 is first shown in leather clothes. And Music/GunsNRoses's "You Could be Mine" playing in the boombox John Connor is carrying in his bike might also fit.
* BavarianFireDrill: The T-1000 prefers to disguise itself as a police officer.
* BewilderingPunishment: The man starting the research that leads to the Terminator has no clue why they are hunting him down.
* 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.
* BluffTheImpostor
* BoomHeadshot: Overdone. Utterly.
** The T-800 unloads an entire fully automatic assault rifle straight into the T-1000's face.
** The T-800's shotgun blast to the T-1000's face as they escape Pescadero (the mental hospital) in the elevator.
* ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his cybernetic killing machine.
* TheCameo: In the director's cut, Michael Biehn shows up as Kyle in a DreamSequence turned nightmare.
* TheCassandra: Sarah Connor.
* TheCastShowoff: Reportedly, Sarah Connor using a shotgun one-handed was inserted because Linda Hamilton's pre-film training regimen had made her strong enough to work a pump-action with one hand.
* {{Catchphrase}}: [[GratuitousSpanish "¡Hasta la vista, baby!"]]
** To further add to the joke, when the movie was dubbed in European Spanish, the line was changed to "¡Sayonara, baby!". In Mexican Spanish, the original line was kept in.
* ChainsawGripBFG: The [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgement_Day#Handheld_GE_M134_Minigun GE M134 Minigun]] used by the T-800 is the TropeCodifier.
* [[ChekhovsGun/{{Film}} Chekhov's Gun]]: Multiple examples
* ChekhovsSkill: John's pin cracking abilities.
* ChromeChampion: The T-1000's true form.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Averted during the foundry scene while the protagonists are trying to escape the T-1000. When they approach a vat of molten steel, Sarah says "Wait. No No. It's too hot. Go back."
* ConversationCasualty: The T-1000, disguised as John's foster mother, is talking to him on the phone, when the foster father interrupts her about their madly barking dog in the backyard. It promptly skewers him through the mouth with its morphing swordlike arm.
* CoolBike: The T-800's 1990 Harley Davidson Fat Boy FLSTF, donated by Harley Davison as a ProductPlacement.
* CurbStompBattle: The T-800's fistfight in the steel mill against the T-1000, due to the fact he has ''nothing'' that can even harm his liquid-metal opponent. A solid punch to the T-1000's face even ends badly for him!
* CurbstompCushion: The intro to ''Terminator 2'' shows an army of [=SkyNet=]'s robots slowly working their way across the battlefield, seemingly rolling over everything in their paths. Then we see a [[LaResistance human soldier]] standing over a crippled Terminator before finishing it off, followed by a flying Hunter Killer being blasted out of the air by another trooper. Of course, the effectiveness of LaResistance is the whole reason for [=SkyNet's=] time travel gambit to begin with.
* DeadlyDelivery: The T-800 carries a longbox that looks like it's full of roses. And it is, but it's also got a shotgun in it.
** This also qualifies as a VisualPun on Guns 'N' Roses, whose song "You Could Be Mine" is heard in the film (the video for said song also has a Terminator cameo).
* DeathIsTheOnlyOption: The T-800 at the end realizes he must destroy himself to prevent reverse engineering of his design, however he [[ICannotSelfTerminate cannot self-terminate.]] John Connor has to push the button.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: A computer in Cyberdyne asks John for a PIN Identification Number (Personal Identification Number Identification Number).
* DistantFinale: The director's cut has a 2037 HappyEnding where John is a senator and has a daughter. They are together with Sarah in a playground.
* DisturbingStatistic: "Three billion human lives ended on August 29, 1997."
* DownLADrain: When the T-800 first encounters and rescues John Connor from the T-1000.
* DungeonBypass: "She's in the cleanroom! There's no way out!" Oh yes, there is.
* ElevatorActionSequence
** Linda Hamilton apparently forgot her earplugs for this scene and incurred permanent hearing damage from all the gunshots fired in an enclosed space.
* ElSpanishO: John teaches the T-800 to say "no problemo".
* ExactWords: "I swear I will not kill anyone." After knee-capping a security guard: "He'll live."
* EyeScream: The coffee drinking guard in the hospital gets his eye stabbed by the T-1000.
* FinalFirstHug: John Connor and the T-800's heartbreaking farewell.
* FingerWag: The T-1000 issues one to Sarah at the climax.
* FootFocus / FeetFirstIntroduction
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before his/its true nature is revealed, the T-1000 shoots a brief puzzled glance at a silvery mannequin in the mall shop.
* FreeWheel: After the truck gets shot, doubles as a CatScare because our heroes fully expect it to be the T-1000 walking out of the flames in a CallBack to the first film.
* FromASingleCell: The T-1000 reassembles completely after being frozen and scattered once it's in liquid state again. Melting however...
** It still struggled after re-forming the first time, though. See ResurrectionSickness.
* GatlingGood: The T-800 uses a Minigun. It's the same one from ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'', with a modified grip.
* GenreShift: From the second movie onward, the Terminator movies became an action/sci-fi series while the first film was more of a standard horror movie with a sci-fi backdrop.
* GentleGiant: The T-800, especially towards John.
* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: {{Discussed|Trope}} -- John is surprised that Russia will fire its nuclear missiles at the U.S., given that "Russians are our friends now;" the latter line was actually added late to the script following this happening in RealLife. Also, in the first Cyberdyne scene, a lollipop-licking employee is shown wearing a black souvenir T-shirt with the Russian coat-of-arms, implying that he went on a trip to Moscow, which was next to impossible before ''perestroika''.
** Those who saw ''T2'' in a movie theater in August of 1991, when the attempted Soviet coup d'état attempt was going on or had just been put down, laughed [[FunnyAneurysmMoment a bit nervously]] when John says how Russia and America are now "friends."
* GoodVersusGood: The T-800 versus the police. Arnie wants to ensure the destruction of Cyberdyne, whereas the police merely do their job, stopping an apparent terrorist act.
* GoOutWithASmile: The T-800's encouraging final "thumbs up."
* GratuitousSpanish: "¡Hasta la vista, baby!"
* GunPorn: ''T2'' is one big showcase of just about all CoolGuns ever made and then some.
* HairpinLockpick: Sarah Connor uses unfolded paper clips to pick the locks on the straps holding her and the lock on the door of her room.
* HandSignals: SWAT team leaders use them twice: to direct team movement during the infiltration of Cyberdyne, and to order that tear gas be fired at the T-800.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Sarah stops attacking Miles Dyson when she realizes, from the horrified reactions of his wife and son, that she's acting like the merciless Terminators she hates so much.
* HeroicBSOD:
** Sarah loses it when she sees the T-800, which looks ''exactly'' like the machine that chased her for days and killed her lover in the first film, and has probably haunted her nightmares ever since. Until this point, she believes she's in a StableTimeLoop in which no new players would arrive from the future, since that's what Reese told her. After this point, she knows things have been changed and she can keep changing them.
** Also, when she gets a "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" moment in Dyson's house.
* HeroicRROD: The T-800 gets skewered through his main power supply by the T-1000 in the climactic fight. He has a backup battery though.
* HeroicSuicide: T-800
* HighSpeedHijack:
** One of the most {{badass}} examples in film history is a scene in which the T-1000 rams his tanker into the rear of the good guys' pickup truck and the T-800 responds by grabbing an assault rifle, walking from the back up the pickup to the front of the tanker, shoots the T-1000 through the glass[[hottip:*:As in - unloads the entire clip into the guy's ''face'']], grabs the wheel from the outside and makes it turn on its side and then rides the top of the sliding truck until it comes to a stop.
** A bit earlier, the T-1000 rides its motorcycle out through the window of a building and takes over a police helicopter while it's in the air. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5n3p97-tuQ here]].
* HijackedByGanon: Played with in a creative manner: The severed arm of the first T-800 is locked away at Cyberdyne. The camera shot implies that it's reaching from the grave.
* HonorBeforeReason: John Connor is an admirable example this trope -- he stops his mother from killing Dyson even believing it would prevent Judgment Day, and his idealism allowed a war for humanity's future to be waged and won without murdering a single innocent human being.
* HollywoodSilencer: When Sarah Connor tries to assassinate Miles Dyson, she uses a Colt Commando CAR-15 assault rifle with a supressor. Not quite as silent as some examples, but still quieter than it would be in real life.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: The TropeNamer.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: T-1000.
* InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves: TropeNamer.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Unstated when Sarah and the T-800 finally shake hands.
* JawDrop: Combined with DramaticDrop. The syringe cap Silberman was holding in his mouth drops to the ground when he sees T-1000 walk through the barred door. And I do mean ''[[ShapeShifting through]]'' the door.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For the entire first act of the movie, John Connor acts like your typical rotten little brat. He's crass, thieving, and has no respect for authority. He even gets a couple of well-intentioned rescuers needlessly beat up by the T-800 when crying for help, then dismissing them flippantly. However, John has the utmost respect for human life, ordering the T-800 to never kill (despite the complications this presents later) and then potentially endangering his own life to prevent Sarah from becoming a murderer herself.
* KickTheDog: A deleted scene has the T-1000 realizing it has been duped and killing John's dog Max. Mostly a SoundOnlyDeath with some blood on the collar.
* KidWithTheLeash: John Connor.
* KillAndReplace: The [[VoluntaryShapeshifter T-1000's]] S.O.P. is to kill a target and assume their appearance.
* KillItWithFire: The method that actually ''works''.
* KillItWithIce: The oft-copied (and parodied) liquid nitrogen scene.
* TheKindnapper: The T-800 kidnaps John Connor in order to save him from the T-1000.
* {{Kneecapping}}: After being explicitly ordered not to kill, the T-800 proceeds to neutralize a security guard this way, to John's dismay.
-->"He'll live."
** Later, while attempting to flee the Cyberdyne building, the T-800 walks through a hail of SWAT gunfire and methodically kneecaps the lot of 'em.
* LaserGuidedKarma: A guard at the mental hospital commits a [[{{Squick}} sexual assault]] on Sarah and harasses the other patients by tapping their door jambs with his nightstick. Guess who's the second casualty in that scene?[[hottip:* : Not from the Terminator!]]
** Also, the therapist who exploits Sarah so he can get on TV and be in medical journals is eventually left the only member of the hospital staff alive who knows exactly what's going on -- after years of telling Sarah she's insane for having a similar experience, who's going to believe him?
** Shown by the third movie, he never told anyone what he saw and convinced himself it didn't really happen.
* LecherousLicking: The male nurse who licks Sarah Connor's face.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Before he's reprogrammed by Sarah, the T-800 is accompanied by a drumbeat of hammered metal. The T-1000 has a creepier, ''{{Film/Jaws}}''-like theme.
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the first one, there's a lower body count thanks to the T-800's vow not to kill, the protector from the future is considerably less vulnerable than Kyle both physically and emotionally, and the general outlook for humanity is much more optimistic.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: The T-1000 after being frozen and shot.
* LudicrousPrecision: The somewhat infamous "Human Casualties: 0.0." What the decimal is for or how tenths of being dead would be calculated is not all that clear; the implication that the Terminator could half-kill someone twice and end up counting a whole kill without actually killing anyone leads to [[FridgeLogic a bad place where your brain turns to cottage cheese]].
** In the commentary, James Cameron acknowledges that the concept of 0.1 casualties is slightly nuts, but says that they tried it with just 0 and it looked dumb. 0.0 gives an "air of precision."
* MadeOfIron: ''Liquid'' Iron. T-1000 is even harder to stop than the T-800 from the first film. All they manage to do for most of the film is just ''slow it down''.
* MakingUseOfTheTwin: ''Thrice'', in fact. The scene where the T-1000 turns into the hospital security guard right in front of the real guard is played by twins Don and Dan Stanton, and in the cut scene showing Sarah removing the T-800's CPU, that's no mirror; the Arnie head in the foreground is a fake, being operated on by Linda Hamilton's twin sister Leslie while the real Linda mimics her movements on the real Arnie for the reflection. Leslie also plays the T-1000 version of Sarah near the end of the movie, and was the mother in the playground scene.
* MamaBear: Sarah Connor is the patron saint of the trope.
* ManlyTears: "I know now why you cry, but it's something I could never do."
* MasterOfUnlocking: John has a palmtop computer[[hottip:*:Specifically, an {{Atari}} [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Portfolio Portfolio]] with a code-cracking program he apparently uses to brute-force [=PINs=] on stolen credit cards. [[spoiler:Later, he uses the same program to crack door codes at Cyberdyne; in one of the comics, he was shown using the same program again to ''destroy [=SkyNet=]'', with the final prompt being "Easy money."]]
** Also it is said that Linda Hamilton, who took role preparation VERY seriously (just look at her), in fact picked both the harness lock and the door lock with pieces of a paper clip on-camera. She explicitly refused to imitate it, because she was given lockpicking training prior to shooting.
* MoodWhiplash: The T-800 cracking a joke on how it "needs a vacation" after destroying the T-1000 is pretty much immediately followed by its ICannotSelfTerminate scene.
* MuggleFosterParents: John's foster parents in the second movie fall under this. Their relationship with John is strained but they seem to avert the AbusiveParents trope. They're just frustrated by John's lack of respect for them more than anything else.
* MurderByCremation: More of an "assisted suicide" than murder, but still...
* NextSundayAD: Filmed in 1991, takes place when John Connor is 10, which would be 1995 or early 1996.
* NotSoDifferent: Sarah Connor has effectively ''become'' a Terminator by this point. Noticable during the scene where she attempts to murder Dyson, where she performs their signature OminousWalk, as well as attempt to murder someone in the past in order to change the future. Sound ''familiar'', Sarah? Her realisation of this causes her to suffer a minor breakdown. When John arrives to save Dyson, she says: "You came back to stop me", which is literally what Kyle Reese did to the original Terminator.
* OminousWalk:
** The T-1000 does this multiple times, which ended up screwing him over in the end.
** Sarah Connor performs one when she tries to assassinate Miles Dyson. Coming from her, it's naturally [[HeWhoFightsMonsters quite jarring]].
* OnceMoreWithClarity: The film opens with Kyle Reese's flashback nightmare from the first film, but goes a bit farther, showing that the humans were also managing to take down the machines in turn.
* OneBulletLeft: By the time of the climax, the T-800 has one grenade left for the grenade launcher. Guess what it ends up destroying.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Sarah Connor is shot in the leg and impaled in the shoulder and keeps on going. The T-800 shoots a large number of people in the knee and they're not seriously hurt.
* OneHandedShotgunPump:
** Done by Sarah at the foundry at the end. Justified in that she's wounded in the other arm.
** The lever action variant is done by the T-800 while riding his motorcycle.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: John invokes this ''three'' times.
** "Something's wrong, she's never this nice."
** He's wary of "Sarah" in the steel mill when she ''asks him for help'', not 24 hours after she berates him for helping her, confirmed when...
** Another "Sarah" (the real one) comes up behind the first and tells him to move out of her line of fire, something a Terminator wouldn't be too terribly concerned about.
** "Get down." With those two words, John (and the audience if TheReveal wasn't spoiled for them ahead of time) know who the good guy is.
* PapaWolf: The T-800 to John.
* PartialTransformation: The T-1000.
* PasswordSlotMachine
* PopTheTires: During the scene where the T-1000 (driving a truck) is trying to run over John Connor (on his motorcycle), the T-800 shoots out the left front tire of the truck. The T-1000 loses control and rams the truck into an overpass, causing the truck to explode.
* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: Sarah.
* RailingKill: T-1000.
* RebuiltPedestal: John learns that his mother wasn't made of bullshit after all.
* RefugeInAudacity: The T-800 walks into a [[BadGuyBar biker bar]] stark naked, then demands that a mean-looking biker hand over his clothes and his motorcyle.
* ResurrectionSickness: A very subtle example. Edited out of the theatrical release but included in the LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition, after being frozen, shattered, melted and re-formed at the steel mill, the T-1000 is shown struggling to keep its form. Its feet and hands keep "merging" into the floor and handrails, and its entire body refreshes itself from head to toe repeatedly.
* RewindReplayRepeat: The recording from 1984 of the original T-800 is replayed a couple times by the astonished police as the 1994 Terminator stalks through a mall.
* RousseauWasRight: The movie, surprisingly enough, is an action movie in which the entire goal of the protagonist was to save the world without killing a soul. The HeroicSacrifice of [=SkyNet=]'s creator really hit the point home.
* SandInMyEyes: John says Sarah is prone to this, which he suspects is in regards to Kyle.
* SceneryGorn: Shots of the city being nuked, and the future RobotWar scenes.
* SecondFaceSmoke: A biker does this to the T-800. [[MuggingTheMonster He regrets it.]]
* SelfMutilationDemonstration: John Connor orders the T-800 to show Dyson he really is a robot. The T-800 peels off the skin and muscle of his arm, only to look at the exposed endoskeleton dispassionately.
* SequelEscalation: ''Terminator 2'' is certainly bigger and full of explosions, but in one way this was averted; rather than the enemy just being an even bigger and badder Terminator, it's a leaner, less muscular, yet arguably a ''more deadly'' Terminator.
** It also averts BloodierAndGorier.
* ShapeShifterSwanSong: The T-1000 changes forms rapidly when it finally melts. That doesn't save it.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Sarah Connor again.
* ShoutOut:
** At one point, our heroes pull into a gas station. The pumps have "Benthic Petroleum" logos on them -- the company that owned the undersea oil rig in ''TheAbyss'', also written and directed by JamesCameron.
** The Terminator carrying a shotgun in a box full of roses is a reference to Music/GunsNRoses, who are in the soundtrack and a shout-out to ''Film/TheGodfather'', where Clemenza uses this concealment.
** An unusual example: James Cameron wrote both ''T2'' and ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and both movies include a scene where a character says something like: "I asked once the company where we got this ridiculously advanced computer and mechanical arm from[=/=]why we're going out in small groups to this random mucus-covered building in the middle of nowhere, and you know what they told me? DontAsk." As the scene in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' was cut (but restored in the Extended version), one could see the Miles Dyson scene as Cameron homaging himself.
* SmallStepsHero: John refuses to sacrifice a human life to save himself or prevent the BadFuture. In the end, he even teaches ''the Terminator'' himself to be one!
* SoftGlass:
** Justified when the T-800 is thrown through a window in the mall, and later when he punches through a car window.
** Played straight in several other instances with regular human beings, however.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: "[[CallBack Come with me if you want to live.]]"
* StealthPun: While searching for John, the T-800 is carrying a box of roses, which we find out when he confronts the T-1000 is where he hid his shotgun. Music/GunsNRoses did one of the music tracks for the movie.
* SteelEardrums: In the hospital, InUniverse, Sarah and John are completely unaffected by a shotgun and pistol being fired inside an elevator. In RealLife, Linda Hamilton put her earplugs in incorrectly, and suffered permanent hearing damage as a result.
* StopOrIWillShoot: Averted in the HeroicSacrifice of [[spoiler:Miles Dyson]]. The SWAT unit simply spots him walking in the central area -- ''without'' any weapon or the explosives detonator, mind you -- and immediately opens fire when he turns around.
* SuperToughness: The original Terminator.
* TakeAThirdOption: When the police have Sarah pinned down in the lab at Cyberdyne, John remarks that there's no way out. Cue T800 smashing through the wall.
* TakeTheWheel: The T-800 does this to Sarah and John.
* TechnicalPacifist: The T-800, after John tells him he can't kill anyone.
-->'''John:''' (after the T-800 kneecaps a guard) Hey, you promised!
-->'''T-800:''' (examines the guard, who is still yelling in agony) He'll live.
* TechnicolorDeath: The T-1000's death is a notable example of a ShapeShifterSwanSong, but it becomes even more spectacular when the T-1000 starts to do things like split into two heads, form into a mouth, and ''turn inside out'' as it tries to save itself.
* TechnologyPorn: All over the place. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbcmLPXuQzo teaser trailer]] qualifies for this trope alone.
* TerrifyingRescuer: The T-800 showing up at the psyche ward to rescue Sarah is one of the more famous examples in film.
* ThatsWhatIWouldDo: How the T-800 knows that the T-1000 is staking out John's house.
* TookALevelInBadass / TookALevelInJerkass: Sarah Connor, oh so very, '''very''' much.
* TotallyRadical: John teaching the T-800 how to talk like a human. The film actually made "Hasta la vista, baby" into a genuinely cool phrase, but "No problem-o" is still cringe-worthy.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The pre-release publicity campaign involved releasing three trailers. The first, a teaser, showed a factory assembling a Terminator, step-by-step, then a close-up on an Arnie's face with the words "I'll be back" heard. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KfJ9kqRec4 The second trailer]] revealed there were two terminators, but deliberately avoided spoiling the twist that the T-800 was the [[spoiler: good]] guy. The final trailer, which did spoil it, was released shortly before the film's premiere and is now one of the most famous example of this trope.
* TwoKeyedLock
* UnorthodoxReload: The T-800 cocks a lever-action shotgun by flipping it over his fingers while using the other hand to handle a motorcycle (only possible because the loop was modified). Also, Sarah using her SWAT-issue shotgun on the T-1000.
** Schwarzenegger commented during an interview that doing this nearly broke his fingers when he accidentally flip-cocked the unmodified gun instead of the prop gun specially modified to be flip-cocked in that shot.
* WeHaveTheKeys: The T-800 punches through a car window, then hot-wires the car. John flips down the windshield visor to reveal the keys. Apparently, he learns this since the second time he's required to steal a car, he gets in and flips down the visor…and finds the keys.
* WellDoneSonGuy: John is devastated and moved to tears when Sarah harshly chides him [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike for rescuing her]]. Sarah may be well-intentioned, but she also inflicts [[ParentalNeglect emotional abuse]] to a 10-year old boy. John is notably in need of affection and expected some bonding and acknowledgement, not callousness.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Averted. John makes the T-800 [[ThouShallNotKill swear not to kill anyone]], so as they face security guards and law-enforcement officers, the T-800 gives them non-fatal injuries, like KneeCapping (although John's not very happy about that). At one point, his targeting display even says "Casualties: 0.0".
* WhatTheHellHero:
** John calls the T-800 out on his deadliness, arguing his defense is a DisproportionateRetribution, but also on his kneecapping policy.
** John calls his mother Sarah out on her unheroic and ruthless ways. In the director's cut, he has to stop her from destroying the T-800, a massive asset.
* WouldHitAGirl: T-800 attacks the female guard, but she simply gets pushed down, as opposed to the male orderlies, who get tossed into[=/=]through windows and concrete walls.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: By the time they reach the guerrilla, an ironic thing happens. T-800 becomes more human, while Sarah becomes a Terminator, with sunglasses, black army clothes, and a desire to kill an innocent (the soundtrack when she goes off to kill Dyson even has the iconic metallic beats).
* [[{{YouShallNotPass/Film}} You Shall Not Pass]]: Sarah Connor tricks John into escaping without her, then stays behind to prevent the T-1000 from following and killing him.
* YouTasteDelicious: While Sarah is being held in the mental hospital an attendant licks her face while she's tied to a bed.
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-->-- '''The T-800'''
''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'' (1991) is the second film in the ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' franchise. Creator/JamesCameron returned to the director's chair for the sequel.
[=SkyNet=] sends a more advanced Terminator -- the [[NighInvulnerability nigh-invulnerable]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] T-1000 Model -- to the past. In response, John Connor sends back a T-800 Model Terminator that he has reprogrammed to protect his past self. Both Terminators arrive at a time when a ten-year-old John lives with foster parents and Sarah sits in an asylum after an attempt to blow up a computer factory. The T-1000 kills anyone it chooses to replicate, and when John figures out the T-1000 will attempt to replicate Sarah, he forces the T-800 to rescue his mother. After being freed, Sarah -- now an ActionGirl after [[TookALevelInBadass years of preparing for Judgment Day and beyond]] -- learns details of [=SkyNet=]'s history from the T-800 and attempts to assassinate Miles Dyson, the man who will go on to create [=SkyNet=]. Sarah eventually falters before she can pull the trigger, and after John and the T-800 arrive, the trio pumps Dyson for information. They learn that Cyberdyne -- the company Dyson works for and (as revealed in a deleted scene from the first film) the owners of the factory where Sarah destroyed the T-800 -- will build [=SkyNet=] after it reverse-engineers technology from the components of the original T-800 (which makes [=SkyNet=] itself part of the StableTimeLoop). The Connors, the T-800, and Dyson infiltrate the Cyberdyne building, steal the T-800 remains, and destroy all of Dyson's research in an attempt to thwart the creation of [=SkyNet=]. The T-1000 eventually catches up to the group, and after a lengthy battle inside an industrial factory, the T-1000, the remains of the original T-800, and the reprogrammed T-800 end up dissolved in a vat of molten steel.
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!This film provides examples of:
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Though it's hard to tell, the film is actually set in 1995, not 1991 (the only indications are John's age in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it glimpse at his record on a police computer). Because it doesn't feature futuristic elements and thus averts ZeeRust (instead simply saying it was four years ahead), it is one of the most accurate depictions of the future.
* ActionGirl / ActionMom: Sarah Connor [[TookALevelInBadass learned a lot between films.]]
* ActorAllusion: The T-800 hefting a minigun. "[[Franchise/{{Predator}} That's DEFINITELY you]]."
* AllOfThem: How many police?
* ApocalypseWow: Sarah's dream of Judgment Day, first described to the psychiatrist then shown. Involves her silently and helplessly screaming at a playground full of children to run for their lives (and getting an odd look from the parents...notably, one that is "Sarah Connor if she had kept being the suburban housewife she used to be")), until the first nuke hits over the city. "...then the shockwave hits...and...and they fly apart like leaves!" Also flying apart like leaves: Sarah's incinerated skeleton, still clinging to the playground fence.
** JamesCameron has mentioned getting mail after the film's release from nuclear physicists who commended him on [[ShownTheirWork the most realistic depiction]] of a close-up nuclear detonation put on film thus far.
* AssholeVictim: John's foster parent, Todd. Janelle not so much, she's loathed by John but she's not really shown as mean or obnoxious onscreen.
* ATeamFiring: "Human casualties: 0.0". The T-800 manages to just suppress the police; he aims a minigun and several grenades at the police and blows up several vehicles, but wounding and disabling the police is all the machine could do, as this is enforced by John's "thou shalt not kill policy".
* BadassAndChildDuo: Terminator and John
* BadToTheBone: The TropeNamer song plays as the T-800 is first shown in leather clothes. And Music/GunsNRoses's "You Could be Mine" playing in the boombox John Connor is carrying in his bike might also fit.
* BavarianFireDrill: The T-1000 prefers to disguise itself as a police officer.
* BewilderingPunishment: The man starting the research that leads to the Terminator has no clue why they are hunting him down.
* 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.
* BluffTheImpostor
* BoomHeadshot: Overdone. Utterly.
** The T-800 unloads an entire fully automatic assault rifle straight into the T-1000's face.
** The T-800's shotgun blast to the T-1000's face as they escape Pescadero (the mental hospital) in the elevator.
* ABoyAndHisX: A boy and his cybernetic killing machine.
* TheCameo: In the director's cut, Michael Biehn shows up as Kyle in a DreamSequence turned nightmare.
* TheCassandra: Sarah Connor.
* TheCastShowoff: Reportedly, Sarah Connor using a shotgun one-handed was inserted because Linda Hamilton's pre-film training regimen had made her strong enough to work a pump-action with one hand.
* {{Catchphrase}}: [[GratuitousSpanish "¡Hasta la vista, baby!"]]
** To further add to the joke, when the movie was dubbed in European Spanish, the line was changed to "¡Sayonara, baby!". In Mexican Spanish, the original line was kept in.
* ChainsawGripBFG: The [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgement_Day#Handheld_GE_M134_Minigun GE M134 Minigun]] used by the T-800 is the TropeCodifier.
* [[ChekhovsGun/{{Film}} Chekhov's Gun]]: Multiple examples
* ChekhovsSkill: John's pin cracking abilities.
* ChromeChampion: The T-1000's true form.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Averted during the foundry scene while the protagonists are trying to escape the T-1000. When they approach a vat of molten steel, Sarah says "Wait. No No. It's too hot. Go back."
* ConversationCasualty: The T-1000, disguised as John's foster mother, is talking to him on the phone, when the foster father interrupts her about their madly barking dog in the backyard. It promptly skewers him through the mouth with its morphing swordlike arm.
* CoolBike: The T-800's 1990 Harley Davidson Fat Boy FLSTF, donated by Harley Davison as a ProductPlacement.
* CurbStompBattle: The T-800's fistfight in the steel mill against the T-1000, due to the fact he has ''nothing'' that can even harm his liquid-metal opponent. A solid punch to the T-1000's face even ends badly for him!
* CurbstompCushion: The intro to ''Terminator 2'' shows an army of [=SkyNet=]'s robots slowly working their way across the battlefield, seemingly rolling over everything in their paths. Then we see a [[LaResistance human soldier]] standing over a crippled Terminator before finishing it off, followed by a flying Hunter Killer being blasted out of the air by another trooper. Of course, the effectiveness of LaResistance is the whole reason for [=SkyNet's=] time travel gambit to begin with.
* DeadlyDelivery: The T-800 carries a longbox that looks like it's full of roses. And it is, but it's also got a shotgun in it.
** This also qualifies as a VisualPun on Guns 'N' Roses, whose song "You Could Be Mine" is heard in the film (the video for said song also has a Terminator cameo).
* DeathIsTheOnlyOption: The T-800 at the end realizes he must destroy himself to prevent reverse engineering of his design, however he [[ICannotSelfTerminate cannot self-terminate.]] John Connor has to push the button.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: A computer in Cyberdyne asks John for a PIN Identification Number (Personal Identification Number Identification Number).
* DistantFinale: The director's cut has a 2037 HappyEnding where John is a senator and has a daughter. They are together with Sarah in a playground.
* DisturbingStatistic: "Three billion human lives ended on August 29, 1997."
* DownLADrain: When the T-800 first encounters and rescues John Connor from the T-1000.
* DungeonBypass: "She's in the cleanroom! There's no way out!" Oh yes, there is.
* ElevatorActionSequence
** Linda Hamilton apparently forgot her earplugs for this scene and incurred permanent hearing damage from all the gunshots fired in an enclosed space.
* ElSpanishO: John teaches the T-800 to say "no problemo".
* ExactWords: "I swear I will not kill anyone." After knee-capping a security guard: "He'll live."
* EyeScream: The coffee drinking guard in the hospital gets his eye stabbed by the T-1000.
* FinalFirstHug: John Connor and the T-800's heartbreaking farewell.
* FingerWag: The T-1000 issues one to Sarah at the climax.
* FootFocus / FeetFirstIntroduction
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before his/its true nature is revealed, the T-1000 shoots a brief puzzled glance at a silvery mannequin in the mall shop.
* FreeWheel: After the truck gets shot, doubles as a CatScare because our heroes fully expect it to be the T-1000 walking out of the flames in a CallBack to the first film.
* FromASingleCell: The T-1000 reassembles completely after being frozen and scattered once it's in liquid state again. Melting however...
** It still struggled after re-forming the first time, though. See ResurrectionSickness.
* GatlingGood: The T-800 uses a Minigun. It's the same one from ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'', with a modified grip.
* GenreShift: From the second movie onward, the Terminator movies became an action/sci-fi series while the first film was more of a standard horror movie with a sci-fi backdrop.
* GentleGiant: The T-800, especially towards John.
* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: {{Discussed|Trope}} -- John is surprised that Russia will fire its nuclear missiles at the U.S., given that "Russians are our friends now;" the latter line was actually added late to the script following this happening in RealLife. Also, in the first Cyberdyne scene, a lollipop-licking employee is shown wearing a black souvenir T-shirt with the Russian coat-of-arms, implying that he went on a trip to Moscow, which was next to impossible before ''perestroika''.
** Those who saw ''T2'' in a movie theater in August of 1991, when the attempted Soviet coup d'état attempt was going on or had just been put down, laughed [[FunnyAneurysmMoment a bit nervously]] when John says how Russia and America are now "friends."
* GoodVersusGood: The T-800 versus the police. Arnie wants to ensure the destruction of Cyberdyne, whereas the police merely do their job, stopping an apparent terrorist act.
* GoOutWithASmile: The T-800's encouraging final "thumbs up."
* GratuitousSpanish: "¡Hasta la vista, baby!"
* GunPorn: ''T2'' is one big showcase of just about all CoolGuns ever made and then some.
* HairpinLockpick: Sarah Connor uses unfolded paper clips to pick the locks on the straps holding her and the lock on the door of her room.
* HandSignals: SWAT team leaders use them twice: to direct team movement during the infiltration of Cyberdyne, and to order that tear gas be fired at the T-800.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Sarah stops attacking Miles Dyson when she realizes, from the horrified reactions of his wife and son, that she's acting like the merciless Terminators she hates so much.
* HeroicBSOD:
** Sarah loses it when she sees the T-800, which looks ''exactly'' like the machine that chased her for days and killed her lover in the first film, and has probably haunted her nightmares ever since. Until this point, she believes she's in a StableTimeLoop in which no new players would arrive from the future, since that's what Reese told her. After this point, she knows things have been changed and she can keep changing them.
** Also, when she gets a "MyGodWhatHaveIDone" moment in Dyson's house.
* HeroicRROD: The T-800 gets skewered through his main power supply by the T-1000 in the climactic fight. He has a backup battery though.
* HeroicSuicide: T-800
* HighSpeedHijack:
** One of the most {{badass}} examples in film history is a scene in which the T-1000 rams his tanker into the rear of the good guys' pickup truck and the T-800 responds by grabbing an assault rifle, walking from the back up the pickup to the front of the tanker, shoots the T-1000 through the glass[[hottip:*:As in - unloads the entire clip into the guy's ''face'']], grabs the wheel from the outside and makes it turn on its side and then rides the top of the sliding truck until it comes to a stop.
** A bit earlier, the T-1000 rides its motorcycle out through the window of a building and takes over a police helicopter while it's in the air. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5n3p97-tuQ here]].
* HijackedByGanon: Played with in a creative manner: The severed arm of the first T-800 is locked away at Cyberdyne. The camera shot implies that it's reaching from the grave.
* HonorBeforeReason: John Connor is an admirable example this trope -- he stops his mother from killing Dyson even believing it would prevent Judgment Day, and his idealism allowed a war for humanity's future to be waged and won without murdering a single innocent human being.
* HollywoodSilencer: When Sarah Connor tries to assassinate Miles Dyson, she uses a Colt Commando CAR-15 assault rifle with a supressor. Not quite as silent as some examples, but still quieter than it would be in real life.
* ICannotSelfTerminate: The TropeNamer.
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: T-1000.
* InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves: TropeNamer.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Unstated when Sarah and the T-800 finally shake hands.
* JawDrop: Combined with DramaticDrop. The syringe cap Silberman was holding in his mouth drops to the ground when he sees T-1000 walk through the barred door. And I do mean ''[[ShapeShifting through]]'' the door.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For the entire first act of the movie, John Connor acts like your typical rotten little brat. He's crass, thieving, and has no respect for authority. He even gets a couple of well-intentioned rescuers needlessly beat up by the T-800 when crying for help, then dismissing them flippantly. However, John has the utmost respect for human life, ordering the T-800 to never kill (despite the complications this presents later) and then potentially endangering his own life to prevent Sarah from becoming a murderer herself.
* KickTheDog: A deleted scene has the T-1000 realizing it has been duped and killing John's dog Max. Mostly a SoundOnlyDeath with some blood on the collar.
* KidWithTheLeash: John Connor.
* KillAndReplace: The [[VoluntaryShapeshifter T-1000's]] S.O.P. is to kill a target and assume their appearance.
* KillItWithFire: The method that actually ''works''.
* KillItWithIce: The oft-copied (and parodied) liquid nitrogen scene.
* TheKindnapper: The T-800 kidnaps John Connor in order to save him from the T-1000.
* {{Kneecapping}}: After being explicitly ordered not to kill, the T-800 proceeds to neutralize a security guard this way, to John's dismay.
-->"He'll live."
** Later, while attempting to flee the Cyberdyne building, the T-800 walks through a hail of SWAT gunfire and methodically kneecaps the lot of 'em.
* LaserGuidedKarma: A guard at the mental hospital commits a [[{{Squick}} sexual assault]] on Sarah and harasses the other patients by tapping their door jambs with his nightstick. Guess who's the second casualty in that scene?[[hottip:* : Not from the Terminator!]]
** Also, the therapist who exploits Sarah so he can get on TV and be in medical journals is eventually left the only member of the hospital staff alive who knows exactly what's going on -- after years of telling Sarah she's insane for having a similar experience, who's going to believe him?
** Shown by the third movie, he never told anyone what he saw and convinced himself it didn't really happen.
* LecherousLicking: The male nurse who licks Sarah Connor's face.
* {{Leitmotif}}: Before he's reprogrammed by Sarah, the T-800 is accompanied by a drumbeat of hammered metal. The T-1000 has a creepier, ''{{Film/Jaws}}''-like theme.
* LighterAndSofter: Compared to the first one, there's a lower body count thanks to the T-800's vow not to kill, the protector from the future is considerably less vulnerable than Kyle both physically and emotionally, and the general outlook for humanity is much more optimistic.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: The T-1000 after being frozen and shot.
* LudicrousPrecision: The somewhat infamous "Human Casualties: 0.0." What the decimal is for or how tenths of being dead would be calculated is not all that clear; the implication that the Terminator could half-kill someone twice and end up counting a whole kill without actually killing anyone leads to [[FridgeLogic a bad place where your brain turns to cottage cheese]].
** In the commentary, James Cameron acknowledges that the concept of 0.1 casualties is slightly nuts, but says that they tried it with just 0 and it looked dumb. 0.0 gives an "air of precision."
* MadeOfIron: ''Liquid'' Iron. T-1000 is even harder to stop than the T-800 from the first film. All they manage to do for most of the film is just ''slow it down''.
* MakingUseOfTheTwin: ''Thrice'', in fact. The scene where the T-1000 turns into the hospital security guard right in front of the real guard is played by twins Don and Dan Stanton, and in the cut scene showing Sarah removing the T-800's CPU, that's no mirror; the Arnie head in the foreground is a fake, being operated on by Linda Hamilton's twin sister Leslie while the real Linda mimics her movements on the real Arnie for the reflection. Leslie also plays the T-1000 version of Sarah near the end of the movie, and was the mother in the playground scene.
* MamaBear: Sarah Connor is the patron saint of the trope.
* ManlyTears: "I know now why you cry, but it's something I could never do."
* MasterOfUnlocking: John has a palmtop computer[[hottip:*:Specifically, an {{Atari}} [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Portfolio Portfolio]] with a code-cracking program he apparently uses to brute-force [=PINs=] on stolen credit cards. [[spoiler:Later, he uses the same program to crack door codes at Cyberdyne; in one of the comics, he was shown using the same program again to ''destroy [=SkyNet=]'', with the final prompt being "Easy money."]]
** Also it is said that Linda Hamilton, who took role preparation VERY seriously (just look at her), in fact picked both the harness lock and the door lock with pieces of a paper clip on-camera. She explicitly refused to imitate it, because she was given lockpicking training prior to shooting.
* MoodWhiplash: The T-800 cracking a joke on how it "needs a vacation" after destroying the T-1000 is pretty much immediately followed by its ICannotSelfTerminate scene.
* MuggleFosterParents: John's foster parents in the second movie fall under this. Their relationship with John is strained but they seem to avert the AbusiveParents trope. They're just frustrated by John's lack of respect for them more than anything else.
* MurderByCremation: More of an "assisted suicide" than murder, but still...
* NextSundayAD: Filmed in 1991, takes place when John Connor is 10, which would be 1995 or early 1996.
* NotSoDifferent: Sarah Connor has effectively ''become'' a Terminator by this point. Noticable during the scene where she attempts to murder Dyson, where she performs their signature OminousWalk, as well as attempt to murder someone in the past in order to change the future. Sound ''familiar'', Sarah? Her realisation of this causes her to suffer a minor breakdown. When John arrives to save Dyson, she says: "You came back to stop me", which is literally what Kyle Reese did to the original Terminator.
* OminousWalk:
** The T-1000 does this multiple times, which ended up screwing him over in the end.
** Sarah Connor performs one when she tries to assassinate Miles Dyson. Coming from her, it's naturally [[HeWhoFightsMonsters quite jarring]].
* OnceMoreWithClarity: The film opens with Kyle Reese's flashback nightmare from the first film, but goes a bit farther, showing that the humans were also managing to take down the machines in turn.
* OneBulletLeft: By the time of the climax, the T-800 has one grenade left for the grenade launcher. Guess what it ends up destroying.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Sarah Connor is shot in the leg and impaled in the shoulder and keeps on going. The T-800 shoots a large number of people in the knee and they're not seriously hurt.
* OneHandedShotgunPump:
** Done by Sarah at the foundry at the end. Justified in that she's wounded in the other arm.
** The lever action variant is done by the T-800 while riding his motorcycle.
* OutOfCharacterAlert: John invokes this ''three'' times.
** "Something's wrong, she's never this nice."
** He's wary of "Sarah" in the steel mill when she ''asks him for help'', not 24 hours after she berates him for helping her, confirmed when...
** Another "Sarah" (the real one) comes up behind the first and tells him to move out of her line of fire, something a Terminator wouldn't be too terribly concerned about.
** "Get down." With those two words, John (and the audience if TheReveal wasn't spoiled for them ahead of time) know who the good guy is.
* PapaWolf: The T-800 to John.
* PartialTransformation: The T-1000.
* PasswordSlotMachine
* PopTheTires: During the scene where the T-1000 (driving a truck) is trying to run over John Connor (on his motorcycle), the T-800 shoots out the left front tire of the truck. The T-1000 loses control and rams the truck into an overpass, causing the truck to explode.
* PrisonsAreGymnasiums: Sarah.
* RailingKill: T-1000.
* RebuiltPedestal: John learns that his mother wasn't made of bullshit after all.
* RefugeInAudacity: The T-800 walks into a [[BadGuyBar biker bar]] stark naked, then demands that a mean-looking biker hand over his clothes and his motorcyle.
* ResurrectionSickness: A very subtle example. Edited out of the theatrical release but included in the LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition, after being frozen, shattered, melted and re-formed at the steel mill, the T-1000 is shown struggling to keep its form. Its feet and hands keep "merging" into the floor and handrails, and its entire body refreshes itself from head to toe repeatedly.
* RewindReplayRepeat: The recording from 1984 of the original T-800 is replayed a couple times by the astonished police as the 1994 Terminator stalks through a mall.
* RousseauWasRight: The movie, surprisingly enough, is an action movie in which the entire goal of the protagonist was to save the world without killing a soul. The HeroicSacrifice of [=SkyNet=]'s creator really hit the point home.
* SandInMyEyes: John says Sarah is prone to this, which he suspects is in regards to Kyle.
* SceneryGorn: Shots of the city being nuked, and the future RobotWar scenes.
* SecondFaceSmoke: A biker does this to the T-800. [[MuggingTheMonster He regrets it.]]
* SelfMutilationDemonstration: John Connor orders the T-800 to show Dyson he really is a robot. The T-800 peels off the skin and muscle of his arm, only to look at the exposed endoskeleton dispassionately.
* SequelEscalation: ''Terminator 2'' is certainly bigger and full of explosions, but in one way this was averted; rather than the enemy just being an even bigger and badder Terminator, it's a leaner, less muscular, yet arguably a ''more deadly'' Terminator.
** It also averts BloodierAndGorier.
* ShapeShifterSwanSong: The T-1000 changes forms rapidly when it finally melts. That doesn't save it.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Sarah Connor again.
* ShoutOut:
** At one point, our heroes pull into a gas station. The pumps have "Benthic Petroleum" logos on them -- the company that owned the undersea oil rig in ''TheAbyss'', also written and directed by JamesCameron.
** The Terminator carrying a shotgun in a box full of roses is a reference to Music/GunsNRoses, who are in the soundtrack and a shout-out to ''Film/TheGodfather'', where Clemenza uses this concealment.
** An unusual example: James Cameron wrote both ''T2'' and ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' and both movies include a scene where a character says something like: "I asked once the company where we got this ridiculously advanced computer and mechanical arm from[=/=]why we're going out in small groups to this random mucus-covered building in the middle of nowhere, and you know what they told me? DontAsk." As the scene in ''Film/{{Aliens}}'' was cut (but restored in the Extended version), one could see the Miles Dyson scene as Cameron homaging himself.
* SmallStepsHero: John refuses to sacrifice a human life to save himself or prevent the BadFuture. In the end, he even teaches ''the Terminator'' himself to be one!
* SoftGlass:
** Justified when the T-800 is thrown through a window in the mall, and later when he punches through a car window.
** Played straight in several other instances with regular human beings, however.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: "[[CallBack Come with me if you want to live.]]"
* StealthPun: While searching for John, the T-800 is carrying a box of roses, which we find out when he confronts the T-1000 is where he hid his shotgun. Music/GunsNRoses did one of the music tracks for the movie.
* SteelEardrums: In the hospital, InUniverse, Sarah and John are completely unaffected by a shotgun and pistol being fired inside an elevator. In RealLife, Linda Hamilton put her earplugs in incorrectly, and suffered permanent hearing damage as a result.
* StopOrIWillShoot: Averted in the HeroicSacrifice of [[spoiler:Miles Dyson]]. The SWAT unit simply spots him walking in the central area -- ''without'' any weapon or the explosives detonator, mind you -- and immediately opens fire when he turns around.
* SuperToughness: The original Terminator.
* TakeAThirdOption: When the police have Sarah pinned down in the lab at Cyberdyne, John remarks that there's no way out. Cue T800 smashing through the wall.
* TakeTheWheel: The T-800 does this to Sarah and John.
* TechnicalPacifist: The T-800, after John tells him he can't kill anyone.
-->'''John:''' (after the T-800 kneecaps a guard) Hey, you promised!
-->'''T-800:''' (examines the guard, who is still yelling in agony) He'll live.
* TechnicolorDeath: The T-1000's death is a notable example of a ShapeShifterSwanSong, but it becomes even more spectacular when the T-1000 starts to do things like split into two heads, form into a mouth, and ''turn inside out'' as it tries to save itself.
* TechnologyPorn: All over the place. The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbcmLPXuQzo teaser trailer]] qualifies for this trope alone.
* TerrifyingRescuer: The T-800 showing up at the psyche ward to rescue Sarah is one of the more famous examples in film.
* ThatsWhatIWouldDo: How the T-800 knows that the T-1000 is staking out John's house.
* TookALevelInBadass / TookALevelInJerkass: Sarah Connor, oh so very, '''very''' much.
* TotallyRadical: John teaching the T-800 how to talk like a human. The film actually made "Hasta la vista, baby" into a genuinely cool phrase, but "No problem-o" is still cringe-worthy.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The pre-release publicity campaign involved releasing three trailers. The first, a teaser, showed a factory assembling a Terminator, step-by-step, then a close-up on an Arnie's face with the words "I'll be back" heard. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KfJ9kqRec4 The second trailer]] revealed there were two terminators, but deliberately avoided spoiling the twist that the T-800 was the [[spoiler: good]] guy. The final trailer, which did spoil it, was released shortly before the film's premiere and is now one of the most famous example of this trope.
* TwoKeyedLock
* UnorthodoxReload: The T-800 cocks a lever-action shotgun by flipping it over his fingers while using the other hand to handle a motorcycle (only possible because the loop was modified). Also, Sarah using her SWAT-issue shotgun on the T-1000.
** Schwarzenegger commented during an interview that doing this nearly broke his fingers when he accidentally flip-cocked the unmodified gun instead of the prop gun specially modified to be flip-cocked in that shot.
* WeHaveTheKeys: The T-800 punches through a car window, then hot-wires the car. John flips down the windshield visor to reveal the keys. Apparently, he learns this since the second time he's required to steal a car, he gets in and flips down the visor…and finds the keys.
* WellDoneSonGuy: John is devastated and moved to tears when Sarah harshly chides him [[ComplainingAboutRescuesTheyDontLike for rescuing her]]. Sarah may be well-intentioned, but she also inflicts [[ParentalNeglect emotional abuse]] to a 10-year old boy. John is notably in need of affection and expected some bonding and acknowledgement, not callousness.
* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Averted. John makes the T-800 [[ThouShallNotKill swear not to kill anyone]], so as they face security guards and law-enforcement officers, the T-800 gives them non-fatal injuries, like KneeCapping (although John's not very happy about that). At one point, his targeting display even says "Casualties: 0.0".
* WhatTheHellHero:
** John calls the T-800 out on his deadliness, arguing his defense is a DisproportionateRetribution, but also on his kneecapping policy.
** John calls his mother Sarah out on her unheroic and ruthless ways. In the director's cut, he has to stop her from destroying the T-800, a massive asset.
* WouldHitAGirl: T-800 attacks the female guard, but she simply gets pushed down, as opposed to the male orderlies, who get tossed into[=/=]through windows and concrete walls.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: By the time they reach the guerrilla, an ironic thing happens. T-800 becomes more human, while Sarah becomes a Terminator, with sunglasses, black army clothes, and a desire to kill an innocent (the soundtrack when she goes off to kill Dyson even has the iconic metallic beats).
* [[{{YouShallNotPass/Film}} You Shall Not Pass]]: Sarah Connor tricks John into escaping without her, then stays behind to prevent the T-1000 from following and killing him.
* YouTasteDelicious: While Sarah is being held in the mental hospital an attendant licks her face while she's tied to a bed.
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