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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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(#11) Jack And Rose From 'Titanic' Are Sarah Connor's Grandparents
Cue the head explosion gifs. One truly insane fan theory about Terminator suggests Jack and Rose from Titanic are Sarah Connor's grandparents, and Jack is a time traveler. The fan who created the theory thinks Jack went back in time to keep Rose from killing herself, and therefore causes the boat to sink.
See, if Rose had jumped off the back of the ship during her suicide attempt, the captain would have stopped the boat to look for Rose. If the ship had stopped, warm weather and ocean currents would've shifted the iceberg out of its way. And, if Jack never went back in time, the child he fathered with her never would have gone on to give birth to the resistance fighter who would try to stop Skynet.
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(#1) Skynet Is Creating An Infinite Loop In Order To Improve Its Technology
A really interesting theory about the time travel in the Terminator franchise declares that Skynet isn't too concerned with the whole John Connor conundrum. No way, you guys: these robots/AI just want to increase their tech. Basically it works like this - the machines develop something new, like a T-1000, and send it back in time, so new technology can be built from it in the past. This speeds the development of technology such that when time finally gets back to the future, Skynet has access to radically advanced weapons and other technology built from its formerly most cutting-edge developments. Or something like that.
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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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(#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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(#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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The "Terminator" movie series is a series of movies derived from the image of "Terminator". The story mainly revolves around the war between Skynet's artificial intelligence machine network and humans. I believe that the "Terminator" series is a sci-fi action enlightenment for many people. At least for me, I have watched the Terminator more than once during the holidays.
The "Terminator" series is one of the most iconic sci-fi action movies of all time. Indeed, James Cameron's bleak futuristic vision has attracted countless fans all over the world. The random tool shares 12 interesting Terminator fan theories that you must be interested in.
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