History NightmareFuel / Terminator2JudgmentDay

* Shading into FridgeHorror, when we see the motorcycle cop pull up to the T-1000, the scene ends with the T-1000 telling him "Say, that's a ''nice'' bike." Knowing the T-1000's [[KillAndReplace standard operating procedure]], that was almost certainly the [[TheLastThingYouEverSee last thing]] ''that'' guy ever heard.

** And that's ''exactly'' what that terrified pilot does.
** Made even worse by the fact that we have no idea if he survived his fall or not.

** If the viewer has only realised this by the time they got to the fridge, this says more about the viewer's cognitive abilities than the film itself.

** Mixed with some UnfortunateImplications: Miles, a calm and (from what anyone else knows) completely harmless black man, is violently attacked in his home by Sarah, who as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed person in paramilitary garb. . .[[ANaziByAnyOtherName Does this remind you of anything?]]

*** Sounds like you're the racist here actually, noticing that. I thought it was a desperate attempt at saving the future, not some weird nazi parallel. Do you ever stop thinking about adolf?

** To add one more bit of horror to this abomination (as if it needed more): expanded universe material reveals WHY the T-1000 isn't the standard troop of Skynet: ''even Skynet is afraid of them'' because of how smart and fast learning they are.

* An escaped mental patient with a history of violence and known to have previously attacked tech companies launches an attack on one of the biggest ones. She is aided by both her delinquent son and a man who matches the description of a cop killer from 1984 that was apparently immune to any conventional weapons, and who's still taking their bullets without flinching. Just try to tell these guys they overreacted by sending ''[[HowManyAllOfThem everybody and everything they had]]'' after him. No, they didn't: even ''that'' wasn't enough.

* The T-1000, full stop, and also doubling as ParanoiaFuel. Let's recap -- it can be anyone it touches, allow it to impersonate your family and your friends to get to you. It can become ''other'' objects, so that chair or that table in the corner could well be him, and when someone sits down on it it's sampled them so now it can look like them. It can perfectly mimic human expression and emotion to blend in perfectly with normal society. It understands how to actually ''look'' for you by getting pictures and asking people where you are and searching for your personal data on computers. It understands how to manipulate people like torturing them or playing to their fears. When it finds you, it doesn't need a weapon, it ''is'' a weapon, turning its fingers and hands into knives, blades or hooks as it chases you down. Like the other Terminators, it ''will not stop'' until you are '''dead''', and destroying it is pretty much impossible unless you have a vat of molten metal nearby. And on top of it all, he's a cop chasing a child. Able to be anyone, anywhere, without being detected, never stopping, impossible to reason with, and all it wants to do is kill you -- it's about as basic and terrifying as a boogeyman can be.

** There is also the image of him facing the screen running: the smooth, mechanical stride and the stone faced determination on his face with absolutely no sign of fatigue is the stuff of nightmares as a relentless killing machine who is after you.
** Robert Patrick's performance as the T-1000 is what makes the character really come together. He can pull off regular human speech almost normally, but the tone and delivery are just barely cold and lifeless enough (even when he's trying to sound pleasant) that it doesn't quite sound human. It's like a vocal uncanny valley effect, and it works so well that it makes the T-1000 way more terrifying than if they had given him a HALL-9000 style conversational tone.

* Miles's situation. Even without finding out that his work was indirectly responsible for the rise of a malevolent machine out to exterminate humanity and the nuclear holocaust it unleashes, this was just your regular office worker, working late at home, surrounded by his loving family, when a a violent escaped mental patient starts ''shooting up his home with an assault rifle with his young boy just barely outside the line of fire.'' Then said escaped mental patient breaks into the house itself, hellbent on killing him--and, for all he knows, his family--and he has absolutely no idea why this nightmare is happening to his family.
** Mixed with some UnfortunateImplications: Miles, a calm and (from what anyone else knows) completely harmless black man, is violently attacked in his home by a blond-haired, blue-eyed woman in paramilitary garb. . .[[ANaziByAnyOtherName Does this remind you of anything?]]

* An escaped mental patient with a history of violence and known to have previously attacked tech companies launches an attack on one of the biggest ones. She is aided by both her delinquent son and a man who matches the description of a cop killer from 1984 that was apparently immune to any conventional weapons, and who still seems to just tank bullets without flinching. Just try to tell these guys they overreacted by sending ''[[HowManyAllOfThem everybody and everything they had]]'' after him; no they didn't: even ''that'' wasn't enough.

** What makes it scarier is that at first, Miles, like his wife are [[{{Squick}} grossed out]] seeing this man before him cutting his own arm up. But upon seeing the endoskeleton arm, which looks like the exact same its arm he's been studying. His look is a mix of awe from being able to see the finished result to [[OhCrap sheer terror.]]

** Mixed with some UnfortunateImplications: Miles, a calm and (from what anyone else knows) completely harmless black man, is violently attacked in his home by a blond-haired, blue-eyed woman in paramilitary garb. . .

** Almost making things worse is the potential ParanoiaFuel; what if Dr. Silberman is deliberately stymying her efforts to free herself because he knows she's ''not'' crazy, but the thought of having to admit that he was wrong, that the mechanical, time-travelling monsters she spoke of really do exist, is just too personally horrifying for him? That is, he's ''choosing'' to [[HeadInTheSandManagement ignore reality]] and is forcing Sarah, one of the last hopes for humanity, to be imprisoned here, just so he can cling to his delusions of ignorant bliss?

* An escaped mental patient with a history of violence and known to have previously attacked tech companies launches an attack on one of the biggest ones. She is aided by both her delinquent son and a man who matches the description of a cop killer from 1984 that was apparently immune to any conventional weapons, and who still seems to just tank bullets without flinching. Not a story I'd want to be in the middle of.
* The T-1000, full stop, and also doubling as ParanoiaFuel. Let's recap -- it can be anyone it touches, allow it to impersonate your family and your friends to get to you. It can become ''other'' objects, so that chair or that table in the corner could well be him, and when someone sits down on it it's sampled them so now it can look like them. It can perfectly mimic human expression and emotion to blend in perfectly with normal society. It understands how to actually ''look'' for you by getting pictures and asking people where you are and searching for your personal data on computers. It understands how to manipulate people like torturing them or playing to their fears. When it finds you, it doesn't need a weapon, it ''is'' a weapon, turning its fingers and hands into knives, blades or hooks as it chases you down. Like the other Terminators, it ''will not stop'' until you are '''dead''', and destroying it is pretty much impossible unless you have a vat of molten metal nearby. And on top of it all, he's a cop chasing a child. Able to be anyone, anywhere, without being detected, never stopping, impossible to reason with, and all it wants to do is kill you -- it's about as basic and terrifying as a boogeyman can be.
** Perfectly summing it up is when John calls his foster parents, and the T-1000 has taken their place. The ''only'' reason he isn't lured into a trap is because the T-1000 forgot to look at the dog's collar.

** It's bad enough the first time, when it simply fades to white and we later have Sarah recounting what happens to the people struck by the light to her psychiatrist. What's worse is the Special Edition, where we see Sarah having a reprise of it while gathering weapons in Mexico; here, we get to ''see'' the people, and Sarah herself, incinerated and then vaporized -- that's where this page's header image comes from.

* InUniverse Fuel for T2. An escaped mental patient with a history of violence and known to have previously attacked tech companies launches an attack on one of the biggest ones. She is aided by both her delinquent son and a man who matches the description of a cop killer from 1984 that was apparently immune to any conventional weapons, and who still seems to just tank bullets without flinching. Not a story I'd want to be in the middle of.