Random Terminator Fan Theories (12 items)

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  (#9) 'T3' Is A Parody Of The Franchise

  Redditor ogwalt is very certain Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is a parody of the franchise, rather than an actual Terminator movie. For instance, Arnold gets his clothes from a strip club routine, and his sunglasses aren't the normal cool guy sunglasses, but silly star-shaped novelty sunglasses. The scene is clearly a parody of the scene in T-2, in which he tears up the biker bar. 

  The violence in Rise of the Machines is so over the top it's likely a wink at T-2's full bore (amazing) insanity. Rise of the Machines also has constant references to the original films that happen ironically. It's like the Mel Brooks Terminator movie. Maybe this theory is right. 

  The theory also suggests Terminator Salvation is the middle film in a trilogy that starts with Terminator and ends with Terminator 2. Which is a little harder to swallow. 
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  (#5) Skynet Created John Connor By Necessitating Kyle Reese's Time Travel

  Don't you get it, you guys? If Skynet had never sent a T-800 back to the past, John Connor never would have sent Kyle Reese back, and Reese never would have put a baby in Sarah Connor! Why didn't Skynet know this? It should probably send a T-1000 back to stop itself from sending back a T-800. Then again, it sent the T-800 to kill John Connor, meaning John Connor exists, so...where'd he come from the in the first place? The world must be caught in some kind of time loop. 
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  (#8) Skynet Doesn’t Want To Kill John Connor, It Wants To Discredit Him

  This is the one Terminator fan theory that kind of make sense of the wonky timeline in the series. As per this theory, the Terminator movies make more sense when you realize Skynet isn't actually trying to kill John Connor. The reason it keep sending robots back is to make him a worse leader, and mess with his timeline so he's no longer the badass he is in his original timeline. Basically they're trying to sabotage him and ruin his revolution, rather than martyr him. 
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  (#2) Kyle Reese Killed John Connor By Schtupping His Mom

  One fan theory suggests that when the original John Connor sent Kyle Reese back in time, he may have unwittingly killed himself and created another John Connor. Before Sarah Connor knew about judgment day, she had a baby by some random guy, and that baby turned into a badass resistance fighter. When Kyle hooked up with Sarah, he managed to erase original John Connor from history, and create an entirely new one. That's why, by the time you get to T3, John is a wimp who's afraid he'll never be able to lead a resistance. 
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  (#7) Terminator Time Travel Only Works In Alternate Timelines

  A truly interesting fan theory about the Terminator franchise posits that all the time travel in the series only effects alternate timelines. As per this theory, each time someone (or something) jumps back into the past, he/she/it creates a new timeline. What's the proof?

  Obviously, the moment Skynet sent a T-800 back to the '80s; there wouldn't have been time for Kyle Reese to be sent back as well, it would have been over baby! Unless John Connor had knowledge of a Terminator going back far in advance of it happening, there's no way he could've sent Reese back in time to save his mother. And since Skynet is a machine network, there's no way for intelligence to slip out through loose lips. So, when Reese goes back, he's entering a different timeline than the one the T-800 entered. But there's also a T-800 in his timeline. So. There's that. 

  This theory asserts that the Terminator franchise's version of time travel only works if each character traveling to the past travels to an alternate timeline. If this is true, by the time viewers get to Terminator Genisys, there's been at least eight timelines. 
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  (#4) The Terminator Movies Are Happening In Reverse Order

  According to the original Terminator film, the T-800 was sent back in time as a last ditch effort to kill John Connor after humans beat robots in the future. Redditor ChairmanGoodchild believes this means the first robo-assassin that went back in time was the T-X from Rise of the Machines. When the T-X failed to report back to Skynet in the future, the robots sent the T-1000 back. When it was tossed into a vat of liquid metal, they sent the T-800 back to kill Sarah Connor. Then the machines finally disappeared from the future. 

  If you're wondering how Sarah Connor has memories of the T-800 in Terminator 2 when Terminator hasn't happened yet, it's because it already happened for her; the timeline of her life is moving forward, despite the timeline of Terminators moving backwards. If you're wondering why each new Terminator sent back in time is an older model than the last one in this theory, well, that's a tougher nut to crack. 

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