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Terminator: Dark Fate

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Terminator: Dark Fate	comment	Terminator: Dark Fate is the sixth film in the Terminator franchise, directed by Tim Miller (of Deadpool fame), written by Billy Ray, David S. Goyer, Justin Rhodes and Josh Friedman, and based on a story by James Cameron, Tim Miller and David Ellison. It marks James Cameron's return to the franchise in some creative capacity after a long absence, his first contribution to it since the Universal Studios attraction Terminator 2 3-D: Battle Across Time way back in 1996.27 years after Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the Rev-9, an advanced hybrid Terminator (Gabriel Luna), is sent from the future in order to terminate a young Mexican woman named Dani Ramos (Natalia Reyes). A human cyborg from the same future named Grace (Mackenzie Davis) and Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) come to her aid, as well as an old T-800 Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), for yet another fight for humanity's future.The film is a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day (whose US TV rights are currently held by the North American distributor of Dark Fate, Paramount, a result of the studio acquiring Spelling Entertainment Group, including Worldvision Enterprises, in 1999), ignoring Rise of the Machines, Salvation, Genisys and The Sarah Connor Chronicles, in an Un-Reboot that dismisses all of these works as alternate timelines. It was released in Europe on October 23, 2019, and was then released in the USA on November 1, 2019.The film bombed in the box office, marking the first time that a collaboration between Paramount and 20th Century Fox did so; their previous collaborations - Braveheart, Titanic, Napoleon Dynamite (via Fox Searchlight Pictures), and Reno 911!: Miami - were all successes relative to their budget, with the former two winning the Best Picture Oscar and Titanic once holding the record for highest-grossing film worldwide (and was coincidentally directed by Cameron).Previews: Teaser, Trailer (preview 1, preview 2, preview 3, preview 4, preview 5, preview 6).
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Let's put it like this: out of the five characters that are on the poster serving as this page's image, only two of them live to see the end - them being Sarah and Dani. Beyond that, John Connor himself dies at the very start of the film, Dani's family sans her dog are dead not long after, and it is implied Dr. Silberman had died years before the film's events.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Neil Corbould, the special effects supervisor, plays the man whose shed the Rev-9 crashes into.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts: Both the Mexican police and the U.S. Border Patrol take delight at examining Grace's body nude.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Big time, especially after the much lighter Terminator Genisys. While not without humor and action, it's darker than even the first film, and even more gritty than Salvation.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_16aa40e6	type	ItIsDehumanising
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_16aa40e6	comment	It Is Dehumanising: In a deleted scene, Dani throws this at Sarah while talking about Carl. Possible a throwback at the Just a Machine trope Sarah threw at John in the second film.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_17fe1048	type	Naked on Arrival
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_17fe1048	comment	Naked on Arrival: Once again, being naked is required to travel in time, as both Grace and the Rev-9 can attest.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_18ce8f1d	type	Full-Frontal Assault
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_18ce8f1d	comment	Full-Frontal Assault: Following her arrival in the 21st century, Grace nonlethally defeats 3 armed cops while in the buff (quite literally, her actress is ripped).
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_191babbc	type	Trampled Underfoot
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_191babbc	comment	Trampled Underfoot: The Rev-9 is implied to have walked over a framed glass photo of Carl's family once. He does so a second time for good measure while searching for clues. This doubles as a Call-Back; every villainous Terminator callously walks over something in the previous Cameron films.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_19b6f396	type	Alternate Timeline
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_19b6f396	comment	Alternate Timeline: The SkyNet timeline is no more, Legion arose in its place. And so did Dani as leader of the human resistance with John Connor having died as a teen.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_19e41d8f	type	And This Is for...
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_19e41d8f	comment	And This Is for...: This becomes Carl's last words.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_1bc2e445	type	End of an Age
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_1bc2e445	comment	End of an Age: Even with Legion rising up in the future, it is confirmed multiple times that SkyNet is gone for good, wiping out the ultimate villain of the franchise. The T-800s are also all gone - the last one was Carl who had sacrificed himself to destroy the Rev-9.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_1cf08d1d	type	Hollywood Encryption
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_1cf08d1d	comment	Hollywood Encryption: Downplayed. Sarah can't track down who is sending the coordinates of arriving Terminators because the anonymous number who does so is very encrypted. That is, until Grace can decode it with her cybernetic implants. After all, both sender and decrypter are using future tech for it.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_1f963842	type	Bloodier and Gorier
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_1f963842	comment	Bloodier and Gorier: Hearkening back to the franchise's R-rated roots after several lighter movies and a network TV show, the film is a lot more violent and has more graphic imagery. Grace's skin appears to have a subdermal mesh, which you can see with every bit of damage she takes.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_241ca0d8	type	Back for the Dead
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_241ca0d8	comment	Back for the Dead: John Connor returns for the sole purpose of being killed by Carl.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Dani is this to Sarah - an ordinary young woman who in the space of a few days meets killing machines from the future, loses her family and all traces of her normal life, and learns she has a destiny that will save humanity. Sarah even lampshades it, stating that once she was Dani when Grace asks why she's helping. Legion is this to SkyNet. Both are A.I.s originally intended for the prosperity of mankind, but instead causes Judgment Day—the Class 2 which ends up killing over three billion people and more, in order to shape up a war against the surviving human resistance via creating and deploying hordes of hunt-and-kill cyborg assassins, Terminators. The only difference between the two are the names. Grace is this to Kyle Reese - a Resistance soldier from the future who personally knew and idolized the leader of the Resistance, volunteered to go back in time to safeguard their leader, and ultimately performs a Heroic Sacrifice to fulfill their mission.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles opened with Sarah's nightmare of John being killed by a Terminator. Come this movie, it's happening for real. The shot of the T-800's visuals shutting down is almost identical to Uncle Bob's final moments in T2, and the following shot of his red eye fading to black is similar to the original Terminator's death in the first film. Dani watching the young Grace through the wires of a playpark mirrors Sarah's nightmares in T2, except with a more hopeful spin. The idea of Judgment Day still occurring but with the details changed eerily mirrors T2 Trilogy, which established that while the dates and players could be altered, neither the Connors nor SkyNet could prevent the historical sequence of Judgment Day, the near extinction of humanity or the machines' eventual defeat from playing out. In fact, much of the film mirrors the T2 Trilogy, if not outright inspired by it. John and Sarah are first introduced laying low in South America (Guatemala in the film, Paraguay in the novels), and John is very definitely based on Edward Furlong's portrayal from Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Grace is rather similar to the I-950 Infiltrators introduced in those novels, though sponsored by the Resistance instead of SkyNet. Sarah being Crazy-Prepared and usually having the right tool for the job to hand to deal with Terminators is also prominent in that trilogy, as is her allying with an Arnold Schwarzenegger character (though in the films, it was Dieter Von Rossbach, the physical model for the T-800, while in the film it's the same T-800 who killed John). Sarah (and John's) status as wanted fugitives in the United States was a major obstacle to their efforts in the Trilogy, as well, yet they both (mostly Sarah) had a web of contacts on both sides of the law. The novels even include a Terminator bluffing its way through a metal detector (though it had a falsified medical card to help). Sarah should not have been surprised that a Terminator could also be a good father, as she thought the same thing in T2. The T-800 models have traditionally worn dark glasses. Carl actively decides against this when preparing to leave his house. Once the Rev-9 falls into a house, it is playing Dwight Yoakam's "Guitars and Cadillacs", the same song in the bar from the opening of Judgment Day. For the final battle against Rev-9, Carl uses a piece of metal as a club like Kyle Reese did in the first movie and loses his left arm as Uncle Bob did in T2. Just like the guardians from the other Terminator movies (Kyle Reese, Uncle Bob, T-850, Marcus and Pops) Grace and Carl die at the end. Much like Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, the energy core of a good cyborg is used to defeat the evil one, and both the heroic and villainous Terminators die simultaneously in an explosion, with the former outliving the latter by a few moments before expiring as well. And just like with the third film's last shot, Carl only has one optic operational by the time of his death. In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines the T-850 notes that it was selected to kill John in the future of that film precisely because of John's emotional attachment to its particular model. Here we indeed see the younger John hesitate when confronted by the Uncle Bob-looking T-800 instead of fleeing - a moment of indecision that costs him his life. The final scene, where Dani and Sarah watch Grace (as a little girl) playing, knowing her destiny, is a callback to a similar scene in The Sarah Connor Chronicles, which like this one happens after the older version, there Derek Reese, died in a Heroic Sacrifice. This film follows the idea that Judgment Day is 'inevitable' and can only be postponed, which was a major theme in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. The key difference of course is that in that film Judgment Day is caused by a new version of SkyNet, while in this film it's a new AI altogether. In Carl's armory shed, a couple of Ithaca 37 shotguns and an Uzi, weapons used by the T-800 in the first film during the first car chase and the Tech-Noir massacre, are shown. To assert the Rev-9's Implacable Man status, Grace says "You put a hundred cops between you and a Terminator, you get a hundred dead cops." This was also true of the T-800. Grace tells Dani that the latter's future self once told her "There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.". The Commander possibly realizing who Grace is seems to parallel John meeting Kyle and realizing who he is in Terminator Salvation. Grace being fitted with cybernetics after nearly dying is similar to what was done to Marcus in Terminator Salvation. Carl ages over the years thanks to his organic skin, like Pops in Terminator Genisys.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_272abb98	comment	Shoot the Shaggy Dog: What this film appears to render Terminator 2 as, although not quite to the same extent as most other Alternate Continuities. The Connors and Uncle Bob have succeeded in permanently derailing SkyNet's creation and averting Judgement Day, but another Terminator that SkyNet had sent catches up with the Connors and kills John, whilst Legion rises in Skynet's place to cause Judgment Day 20 years later. At least the actions of T2 gave humanity another 20 years of relative peace (even if humanity put those 20 years to use creating the technology that would give rise to Legion), and at least the actions of T2 proved both that the future can be changed and that Skynet's creation can be wholly derailed (albeit with another crapshoot A.I. and Robot War occurring in its place).
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_289ed9a0	type	Town Girls
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_289ed9a0	comment	Town Girls: Sarah is the masculine, Grace the androgyne and Dani the feminine part of the trio.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_2f62653b	type	Borrowed Catchphrase
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_2f62653b	comment	Borrowed Catchphrase: Sarah's the one who says "I'll be back" this time.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_32d0784e	type	Stop, or I Will Shoot!
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_32d0784e	comment	Stop, or I Will Shoot!: Having taken over a surveillance drone station and detected the main characters doing a Border Crossing, the Rev-9 informs Border Patrol that they are armed and dangerous cartel gunmen and that deadly force is authorized. Fortunately the authorities give them a chance to Put Down Your Gun and Step Away; Grace and Sarah are entirely willing to start a shootout until Dani forces the issue by surrendering herself.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_348e5217	type	Lap Pillow
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_348e5217	comment	Lap Pillow: Dani falls asleep on Grace's lap during a travelling scene. It serves to help cement Grace as genuinely caring about Dani not just being her assigned guardian.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_35b8b13f	type	Collateral Angst
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_35b8b13f	comment	Collateral Angst: By director Tim Miller's own admission, John Connor's death was done specifically to create fuel for Sarah's angst.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_36dcbe1c	type	Switch to English
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_36dcbe1c	comment	Switch to English: The first half of the film takes place in Mexico, and yet many Mexican characters find convenient excuses to switch to English even among themselves —Dani's brother Diego has pop star aspirations, so they practice with each other; their boss at the car factory is an American named Craig who will only speak English; a panicked pharmacist switches to English because he hears Grace speak it, and so on. As a result Sarah, established in previous films to be fluent in the language, says only a few words in Spanish.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_374c339d	type	I'll Kill You!
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_374c339d	comment	I'll Kill You!: Sarah to Carl for killing John.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in the film is a T-800 named Carl, who shares the name of his character Carl Hauser from Total Recall (1990).
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_3962ed76	type	Take the Wheel
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_3962ed76	comment	Take the Wheel: During the big car chase, Grace tells Diego to take the wheel so she could take care of their pursuer.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid Sarah takes Dani's phone and immediately throws it out the window so the Rev-9 can't use it to track her. She keeps her own phone in a foil packet so it can't emit a GPS signal. Carl gets his family to leave, knowing the Rev-9 will inevitably track Dani to his house. He's already prepared them for the possibility that his Mysterious Past might catch up with him, and also has a room full of weaponry against the possibility that society will collapse, which is shown in the Bad Future that Grace comes from.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_3b113b7	comment	Sarah Connor's Character Development into gaining begrudging respect and admiration for the Terminator is reversed back to being a Terminator-hater (albeit understandably) after John's death.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_3b3d8430	type	The Constant
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_3b3d8430	comment	The Constant: A pretty dark one. There is literally no reason why the REV-9 is a SkeleBot 9000 that looks perfectly similar to a T-Series, even when it was designed by an entirely different supercomputer, other than as a symbol that some things never change.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: When the Terminators aren't in the picture, ordinary humans prove to be less than admirable. Dani and her brother have to deal with their boss replacing them with machines, Grace mentions her father getting killed over a can of peaches and Grace herself was nearly lynched as a child before getting rescued by future Dani. And, of course, they will keep trying to invent sophisticated AIs for the military.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_3e01fd7	type	Arrow Catch
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_3e01fd7	comment	Arrow Catch: Played with. The Rev-9 throws a rebar at Dani that Grace is barely able to deflect enough so it misses her and impales her brother instead. Rev-9 successfully catches one piece of rebar that Grace throws at it.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Grace reveals Dani became this to her in the future, which is part of why she's so adamant about keeping her alive. Ironically, this future version of Grace becomes a protective mother figure to Dani as they run away from the Rev-9 together.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: Grace, due to being so focused on protecting Dani. When she has her Naked First Impression, she steals the clothes of a man who was trying to help her. Later, when the Rev-9 has her on the ropes, Sarah does a Big Damn Heroes - only for Grace to steal her vehicle to get Dani out of there.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Dani and Sarah survive and Carl kills the Rev-9 (and himself), but the former has lost her father and brother, not to mention Grace, who along with Carl died to save her, and in the final scene the two women watch the current version of Grace, a little girl, play in a park while knowing what awaits her. Carl's family also lost their protector and John is still dead. Worse, despite Rev-9's destruction, Legion will still rise and cause Judgment Day, killing billions before its ultimate defeat at Dani's hands.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_4127eb1	type	Shut Up, Hannibal!
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_4127eb1	comment	Shut Up, Hannibal!: At the start of the final battle, when the Rev-9 asks Sarah why the group can't hand over Dani to him, Sarah's response is, "We're not machines, you metal motherfucker!"
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_421ae215	type	Mysterious Past
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_421ae215	comment	Carl gets his family to leave, knowing the Rev-9 will inevitably track Dani to his house. He's already prepared them for the possibility that his Mysterious Past might catch up with him, and also has a room full of weaponry against the possibility that society will collapse, which is shown in the Bad Future that Grace comes from.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: John Connor is killed in the opening minutes of the film. What makes it even more tragic is that the film establishes that the SkyNet Bad Future has already been prevented thanks to the events of T2, meaning that John's death was completely unnecessary and doesn't change anything.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_4508b16b	type	The Guards Must Be Crazy
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_4508b16b	comment	The Guards Must Be Crazy: The Rev-9 enters the border patrol's detention despite having an unfamiliar face and triggering the metal detector, simply by virtue of being polite and claiming to be a war veteran to with a metal hip replacement, all because he's in an uniform and Affably Evil.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_465966a3	type	Drop the Hammer
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_465966a3	comment	Drop the Hammer: In her first battle with the Rev-9, Grace uses a sledgehammer to great effect, sending the Rev-9 flying with each strike.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: In the Bad Future SkyNet-controlled Terminators and HK's are shown Storming the Beaches. A Terminator sees a little girl cowering behind the wreck of a crashed helicopter and proceeds to Kill All Humans before we cut to the current future with children playing on the same beach and no-one dying until the Carl Terminator enters and kills John Connor.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_4c7e3b7	type	Construction Vehicle Rampage
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_4c7e3b7	comment	Construction Vehicle Rampage: In the car chase scene, the Rev-9 Terminator pursues Dani, Grace and Diego in a dump truck fitted with a bulldozer blade.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: John Connor, the hero of the resistance and center of the franchise up until this point, is killed off in the opening scene.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_4de1a4f7	type	Improvised Weapon
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_4de1a4f7	comment	When Grace collapses from overexertion on the dam, she urges Dani to remove her power source as an Improvised Weapon despite the fact that it will kill her. The arrival of Carl only delays this.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: During the plane scene, Dani is in acceptance over birthing a child who will one day become the leader of the human resistance and save the world from Legion, just like Sarah Connor's situation against SkyNet a few years ago. But then, Grace drops this line, leading Sarah and Dani to realise Dani herself is the leader:
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Right in the opening scene. During the flashback prologue, Sarah is seen sitting down watching John order a drink in peace. Right behind her, another T-800 slowly walks up, a Dark Reprise of the previous one's Leitmotif from T2 playing... as he goes to point a gun at John.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: Living with a family of its own makes Carl the T-800 realize how wrong it was in killing John. It attempts to make up for it by first sending Sarah co-ordinates to hunt other incoming Terminators, then joins the fight to take down the Rev-9. When performing its Heroic Sacrifice, it even says "For John" just before expiring.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: SkyNet, in hindsight. Turns out the Terminators in the first two films weren't the only ones it sent back, with fatal results for John. Carl has gathered a cache of weapons that is impressive even by Texas standards.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_514491f	type	Job-Stealing Robot
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_514491f	comment	Job-Stealing Robot: Neither Dani nor her brother are happy to learn that the latter's factory worker job in a car assembly line has been taken over by an industrial robot literally overnight. The incident indirectly saves Dani's life when the Rev-9 walks directly to her workplace, only to find her brother there while Dani herself is reading the foreman the riot act in his office.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: The Terminator started with Sarah riding a moped through a peaceful suburb before retreating across the border by the end of the film. Here, she makes the opposite journey; she starts out living in Central America and ends the film riding in a jeep through a peaceful suburb. Carl's first appearance portrayed him as a man on a mission: exterminate John Connor in 1998. He does this, and as Sarah tries to take his shotgun, he knocks her off without even glancing at her and walks away. His death has him lying against a dying Rev-9, having fulfilled his atonement, as seen when he utters his last words "For John". The last thing he sees is Sarah's face, zooming in on it as his vision shuts down.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: To Terminator 2. Having survived that film, John and Sarah are hiding out in Guatemala when another T-800 appears - sent as a backup by SkyNet - and kills John. In a larger sense, while Sarah and John stopped SkyNet in T2, this film has a new AI - Legion - rise in its place, resulting in a new Judgment Day and Future War several decades later than those of the original films.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: All the companies at the beginning (production companies Skydance and Tencent, domestic distributor Paramount, and international distributor Fox) are in flickering CRT/videotape images fitting the Stock Footage of Sarah's angry asylum interview from Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which was interspersed with each company shown. A Freeze-Frame Bonus has the 20th Century Fox and Paramount logos briefly change into the 1981-1994 and 1986-2003 variants respectively, fitting of the year Judgment Day was released (1991).
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_558245a7	comment	Redshirt Army: The Border Patrol agents are horribly slaughtered by the Rev-9.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_571bfe2	type	Super Serum
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_571bfe2	comment	Super Serum: Done in spirit if not technically. Grace needs a cocktail of drugs including insulin and adrenaline in order to maintain her enhancements, she specifically says she is built for maximum burnout because there is no such thing as a protracted fight with a Terminator. Thus we still get that image of her being injected with something and then bouncing back to her feet in seconds.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_57702a08	type	Digital Deaging
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_57702a08	comment	Digital Deaging: Used in the beginning to recreate Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, and Arnold Schwarzenegger post Judgment Day.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_59657f84	type	Trapped in a Sinking Car
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_59657f84	comment	Trapped in a Sinking Car: Sarah and Dani are trapped in a Humvee that has dropped into a reservoir. The pressure issue gets resolved by the pursuing villain using his superpowers to rip out one of the doors. Sarah ejects a parachute onto him which gives her and Dani a chance to exit the car and surface.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_5b979c61	type	With My Hands Tied
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_5b979c61	comment	With My Hands Tied: Sarah knocks out a federal agent and a couple of guards with her hands cuffed behind her back (also serves as a Call-Back to the first film where Reese did the same to a policeman).
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_5c1d5030	comment	Grew Beyond Their Programming: After accomplishing his mission, Carl, seeking a new purpose, settles down and raises a family, learning empathy, remorse, and drapery.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: The Rev-9 is smart enough not to use sheer brute force to get everything he wants; he poses as a Border Patrol official to get access to a detainment facility, and simply asks local law enforcement for a loan of a police helicopter. At one point he even tries persuasion to get Dani's protectors to hand her over to him.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_5d19c2f6	type	Dying to Be Replaced
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_5d19c2f6	comment	Dying to Be Replaced: John Connor is summarily killed off in the opening minutes of the film. Turns out that Daniella Ramos is now the chosen one instead.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_5da3f522	type	Big Brother Is Watching
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_5da3f522	comment	Big Brother Is Watching: The first Terminator film to really capitalize on this. The Rev-9 is able to track Dani through networked surveillance systems, cell phone signals, and hacked drones. Sarah is also Properly Paranoid by keeping her cell phone in foil-lined chip bags.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_5dcaeeb7	type	SomethingTheyWouldNeverSay
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_5dcaeeb7	comment	Something They Would Never Say: When the Rev-9 turns up at his house posing as a friend of "Daniella Ramos", her father is suspicious as her friends all call her Dani. The Rev-9 makes a point of remembering this when he's impersonating Dad.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_5dff009d	type	As Long as There Is Evil
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_5dff009d	comment	As Long as There Is Evil: Humans keep developing advanced AIs for war no matter what Sarah Connor has done in the past to cripple Cyberdyne beyond repair. Hence Legion rising instead of SkyNet, and Judgment Day happening all the same, just later.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Carl killed John for a SkyNet that will no longer exist. That existential crisis and gaining a family of its own lead to it developing a conscience over its actions, even expressing regret, and assisting Sarah in hunting down other Terminators coming from the future. This makes Carl unique, as unlike the T2, T3 and Genisys versions it was not reprogrammed to follow different objectives, but consciously decided to act against its programming.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Dani's brother Diego is along for the first major action sequence of the film, dying after being impaled on a piece of rebar after crashing their truck. As much as they can the movie tries to set him up as an important supporting character up until that point.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The movie ends with Dani going off with Sarah to prepare for the war against Legion, but hopes to prevent Judgment Day from happening or at least to keep Grace from dying for her again.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: At the beginning of the film, eagle-eyed viewers can spot Sarah's truck nearly running into Grace's time bubble. Look closely during the car chase scene, after the Rev-9 repeatedly throws rebar towards Grace's, Dani's and Diego's car. Diego, the driver, can be seen with his body slumped forward. This is the first and only hint that Diego was mortally impaled by one of the rebar.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Both Grace and Carl die to finally kill the Rev-9.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_650a309b	type	Forgot About His Powers
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_650a309b	comment	Forgot About His Powers: Mild example. In the brief future scene showing the human resistance fighting off Terminators, the Rev 7 models are shown to be far more aggressive and animalistic than the ostensibly more advanced Rev 9, sprouting Combat Tentacles from their liquid metal and impaling soldiers with impunity. Such an asymmetric fighting style would undoubtedly be useful when your only opponents are a Super Soldier from the future and an aging Action Girl, yet the Rev-9 never uses anything more complicated than spikes and blades. It's possible his specific model was focused more on infiltration rather than combat, but this is never outright stated.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_659ef759	comment	To assert the Rev-9's Implacable Man status, Grace says "You put a hundred cops between you and a Terminator, you get a hundred dead cops." This was also true of the T-800.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_674fcb07	type	Signature Line
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_674fcb07	comment	Signature Line: Carl saying, "I won't be back." Even people who hated Dark Fate consider it to be quite a poignant take on the franchise's most famous line.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_68186dcd	type	Double Tap
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_68186dcd	comment	Double Tap: Carl shoots John Connor in the chest with a shotgun, then walks up and shoots him again point blank just to be sure.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_6a6760fa	type	The Power of Hate
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_6a6760fa	comment	The Power of Hate: Sarah Connor's preferred method of firearms instruction. While Grace and Carl are giving Dani helpful technical advice about her pistol stance, Sarah plucks the handgun from Dani's hands, replaces it with a semi-auto shotgun, pulls off one of her ear protectors and whispers "A Terminator has just killed your whole family. What do you do?" Dani proceeds to obliterate every watermelon on the firing range with one shot each.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley: Possibly intentional. As convincing as the de-aging effects were in the prologue, there's something not quite right about the T-800's face, as if to set him apart from his more heroic predecessors.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Carl. Karl means "man" in Nordic languages, representing the T-800's new life as a human being.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_6f27f4ba	type	Surveillance Drone
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_6f27f4ba	comment	The Rev-9 turns a Surveillance Drone into one by making it crash on the Mexican border location where Dani, Sarah and Grace are arrested by border patrols.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_7040b6bc	type	Understatement
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_7040b6bc	comment	Understatement: Quoth Sarah. "I'm wanted in a couple of states. 50, to be exact."
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_704d7e91	type	No Ontological Inertia
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: Subverted. SkyNet was officially destroyed in Terminator 2, but the various Terminators sent back to kill John did not disappear. One, "Carl", succeeded several years later, but the conflict of killing someone to preserve a future that no longer exists is partially responsible for his Heel–Face Turn.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_70f7063d	type	Unflinching Walk
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_70f7063d	comment	Unflinching Walk: Sarah casually tosses a grenade off the bridge onto the Rev-9, says she'll be back, then goes down to finish it off while the explosion erupts behind her.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Even more prevalent than in the previous T2 sequels: even with SkyNet and John out of the picture, Suspiciously Similar Substitutes Legion and Dani Ramos arise to carry out the same sequence of events - nuclear annihilation during Judgment Day, the Robot War, the leader inspiring the human resistance, the machines' defeat - that have been in play since the original films. Humans keep developing autonomous military AIs that will prove dangerous and inevitably go rogue, and Sarah can't do anything about it. Blowing up Cyberdyne merely slowed down technological progress and the dream of replacing humans with robots for specific tasks keeps going, as the movie shows from the harmless industrial robot replacing Diego at the factory to the increased use of drones for surveillance and, of course, new secret defense software that get conceived later and later and more advanced each time.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_727177df	type	Teetering on the Edge
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_727177df	comment	Teetering on the Edge: The plane-ejected Humvee with the heroes inside comes to a hold on the edge of a damn. After a few seconds, it tips over and drops halfway down where it's being held in place by a rope. Then the villain appears on top of the dam which prompts Grace to Cut the Safety Rope. The Humvee drops down into the reservoir and a Trapped in a Sinking Car situation ensues.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_72e54916	type	Retired Monster
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_72e54916	comment	Retired Monster: The T-800 that kills John integrates into human society, having fulfilled its primary mission, and acquires a wife and adopted son - in time, coming to realise how wrong it was to kill John.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_740ff9d0	type	Metal Detector Checkpoint
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_740ff9d0	comment	Metal Detector Checkpoint: The Rev-9 is Impersonating an Officer and enters a border patrol facility with one of these. He surrenders his gun, but his metal body naturally sets it off. He claims that he is a war veteran with a metal replacement hip, which the guard believes and lets him through.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_7464705c	comment	Grace tells Dani that the latter's future self once told her "There's no fate but what we make for ourselves.".
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_7520c9dd	type	SkeleBot 9000
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_7520c9dd	comment	The new Terminator, the Rev-9, has a metal endoskeleton and a liquid metal "skin" (much like the T-X in Rise of the Machines). Unlike the T-X, this one's liquid metal skin can detach itself from the endoskeleton and move on its own in humanoid form like a T-1000.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: As per tradition, Carl the T-800. When the others discover he has a wife and stepson, he offers a list of his good husband qualities, which include changing diapers without complaining and ends with "I'm extremely funny" in Machine Monotone. Justified later by his military-grade discussion of why a little girl's room should have cute curtains rather than solid-color ones.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_77315f4f	type	You Have to Believe Me!
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_77315f4f	comment	You Have to Believe Me!: Dani delivers the line straight when trying to convince a border officer that they're being hunted by a Killer Robot. She doesn't believe Dani of course, until she sees the Rev-9 in action. Averted when the Coyotes express similar skepticism, so Grace proceeds to halve a fly in mid-air with a knife. And averted when Grace first meets Dani and Diego; she only tells them the bare minimum (Run or Die) until they've witnessed enough of her fight with the Rev-9 to believe everything else.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_7a3dd888	type	Real Men Wear Pink
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_7a3dd888	comment	Real Men Wear Pink: Carl, the T-800 killer cyborg from the future, took up a job selling drapery. He shares the story of one sale where the customer wanted blank drapes for a child's bedroom and he asserted, in stock-Terminator intensity, "DON’T DO IT. You need butterflies, polka dots, balloons."
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_7b50237d	type	Distinction Without a Difference
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_7b50237d	comment	Distinction Without a Difference: After waking up in an infirmary at a border patrol facility, Grace asks one of the guards "where do you keep the prisoners?"; said guard nervously responds that they're called "detainees". Grace isn't particularly interested in the distinction.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_7f413791	type	Wall of Weapons
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_7f413791	comment	Wall of Weapons: Carl the older T-800 has one in his garage. He justifies it saying that there is a high probability of societal collapse regardless of a Robot War and the weapons are necessary to protect his family. "Also... this is Texas."
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_806acfa7	type	Breaking the Bonds
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_806acfa7	comment	Breaking the Bonds: Grace with her Super Strength breaks handcuffs twice.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: When talking about his life with a human family, Carl states that he is "reliable, a very good listener, and extremely funny". That last part is hilariously dissonant given that T-800s are usually The Comically Serious.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_80b57bec	comment	Super Soldier: Grace refers to herself as enhanced, but an examination done by doctors shows her to be heavily retrofitted throughout her body with skeletal, muscular and dermal implants, and you can see the surgical scars all over her body. It's implied this is a semi-regular thing done to soldiers in the future resistance, and she is capable of going toe-to-toe with the Rev-9 for short bursts.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_850e84d5	type	Eye Awaken
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_850e84d5	comment	Eye Awaken: When the T-800 comes to life again during the Final Battle.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Dani's family dog is the only survivor of the Ramos family sans Dani herself, and yet he only pops up for about one scene.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_8eb3d48f	type	Revisiting the Roots
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_8eb3d48f	comment	Revisiting the Roots: The movie is pared down almost to the essentials that made the original film; it's more of a survival story where the focus is rooted in escaping or stopping the unrelenting machine trying to kill one person. There is some conversations about temporal paradoxes, but unlike every other film no effort is made to actually stop the potential future. The Rev-9 itself, one of the most advanced Terminators yet seen in the franchise, feels a lot less reliant on high-tech tricks compared to the T-X or the T-3000.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: A nonlethal example. The police officers (who are implied to be corrupt) who encounter Grace after her arrival in the present make fun of her and attempt to not only arrest her, but the couple who found her and asked them to help her. Grace gives them a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown in response.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_9075ac17	type	Just a Machine
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_9075ac17	comment	Just a Machine: As she did in Judgment Day, Sarah tries to invoke this on Dani about Carl. This time, however, Dani throws it back at her.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_95befc94	type	Terminator Twosome
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_95befc94	comment	Terminator Twosome: Despite hopes that Dark Fate would finally shake up the Terminator formula, the film follows the same basic premise as previous films. A robotic assassin is sent from the future to kill an important figure in the past, who has to be protected by other characters sent from or aware of the future. This time, though, John Connor is swapped out for Dani and SkyNet is swapped out for Legion. Although, if you happen to count Grace, it more or less becomes a Terminator Threesome in some form. The opening scene provides a certain realistic reason as to why this trope exists, the ability to defend yourself against such a relentless, remorseless killer requires you to be aware you are being hunted in the first place, the assassin/bodyguard dichotomy. Since there was no protector this time, "Carl" walks up and casually shoots John at close range, acting so fast Sarah had no time to react and certainly with not enough firepower to slow it down.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: Sci-fi elements aside, John's death in the hands of another Terminator, as his mother Sarah is not only utterly powerless to stop her son being gunned down in front of her, but he bleeds out in her arms as his killer simply walks away. The fact the killer has a familiar face only makes it worse.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The Rev-9, while Legion (SkyNet's successor in this new timeline) is the Greater-Scope Villain.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_986dad9a	type	Killer Robot
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_986dad9a	comment	Dani delivers the line straight when trying to convince a border officer that they're being hunted by a Killer Robot. She doesn't believe Dani of course, until she sees the Rev-9 in action.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_98c80fe5	type	Hour of Power
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_98c80fe5	comment	Hour of Power: Grace's cybernetics are designed for very intense bursts of energy, the only way for her to keep up with the Rev-9. But she needs to rehydrate and be injected with a drug cocktail otherwise she will collapse from the adrenaline spike. While a ferocious warrior, it doesn't take much for her to become a liability.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_99a12edd	type	Cyborg
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_99a12edd	comment	Cyborg: Grace is an augmented human - far stronger and faster than normal humans, with subdermal armour, a built-in targeting system and a power source to keep her going. Crosses into Body Horror territory, as she has visible surgical scars all over her body in the present, while a team of doctors who examine her while she's temporarily unconscious in the present marvel at the fact she's still alive despite all the metal implants and modifications inside her.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The Job-Stealing Robot at the beginning. It shows that humans will keep searching for ways to replace manpower by machines in plenty of fields from industry to the military, and sure enough, blowing up Cyberdyne merely delayed the technical progress that ultimately allows a new AI to arise and cause Judgment Day. During Grace’s flashback to her injuries and augmentation surgery, she briefly glances at a small device being prepped for the surgery. It’s later revealed that this is her Thorium fission power source, which Dani pulls out of Grace to kill the Rev 9. Grace notably keeps quiet when Sarah assumes that the Rev-9 is hunting Dani for the same reasons that the original T-800 was hunting her (that her yet-to-be-conceived child will become leader of the human resistance in the future). Grace later admits that Sarah is wrong; Dani's child won't become the savior, but rather, Dani herself. When Carl asks Grace who tattooed the coordinates to his house on her body, Dani walks in.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: The Rev-9 proves to be far more durable than any Terminator yet seen. It gets hit in the head repeatedly with a sledgehammer hard enough to crack the concrete beneath it, has an engine block dropped on it, is hit by multiple cars, gets blown up by an anti-tank rocket, has an entire magazine of 5.56mm rounds unloaded into its face, and falls thousands of feet out of a plane twice with no damage. It takes shoving it into a hydroelectric turbine to actually cripple it and having its head melted into slag by a weaponized Thorium fission reactor to finally finish it off.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_9da6354b	type	Reality Has No Subtitles
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_9da6354b	comment	Reality Has No Subtitles: In the German dub at least, most of the film's intro up until the point where Grace and Dani meet for the first time has the characters converse in completely untranslated Spanish. It left more than a few viewers wondering if they accidentally walked into the wrong showing.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_9eaf2be0	type	Three-Point Landing
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_9eaf2be0	comment	Three-Point Landing: A time travel bubble forms in mid-air, and when it bursts a naked Rev-9 falls to the ground and lands in a three-point crouch, in contrast to his human opponent.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: The T-800, apart from having the world-famous Terminator theme, again has his own audio cue - this time, a much darker, more menacing reprise of his "iron hitting metal" tune in Judgment Day. Rev-9 also has his own motif, featuring slow, pounding drums accompanied by a sinister-sounding synthetic hum that almost sounds like an urgent alarm.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_a0b0840c	type	More Expendable Than You
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_a0b0840c	comment	Dani insists on waiting until Sarah gets on board the helicopter despite the Rev-9 also running towards them at the same time. Sarah barely gets on board in time, and finds herself agreeing with Grace that Dani should not risk her life to save hers.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: An notably understated one. After years of aimless wandering following the successful termination of John Connor and the eventual raising of Mateo, Carl began to understand what it had done to Sarah. While it cannot genuinely feel remorse or regret in the same manner a human can, it makes clear that it sent coordinates of incoming Terminators to Sarah's cell phone to give her purpose; as close to atonement as a Terminator is capable of getting.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: Dark Fate ignores Rise of the Machines, Salvation, Genisys and The Sarah Connor Chronicles, dismissing them as taking place in alternate timelines. It's intended to be the Terminator 3 that James Cameron always intended to follow up Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_a44cd048	type	Meet the New Boss
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_a44cd048	comment	Meet the New Boss: The facts that seem to be a universal constant no matter how crazy time travel gets is that there will always be a Judgment Day, a War Against the Machines, an evil Master Computer and a Human Resistance with a near-mythical leader. Who will end up fitting the specific roles, that is what is uncertain... not to mention that it makes the players more expendable than they expected to be.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_a6fa41b	type	Recycled Premise
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_a6fa41b	comment	Recycled Premise: Dark Fate's basic plot and story beats are near identical to the first and second Terminator movies, the only major difference being that the future savior they're trying to protect is not John Connor but a teenage girl.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_a7c91a10	type	Meaningless Villain Victory
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_a7c91a10	comment	Meaningless Villain Victory: As heartbreaking as it is, John's death is ultimately this for SkyNet; by that point, Judgment Day had been delayed considerably, and SkyNet itself had been destroyed before it could achieve sentience. John Connor would never grow up to oppose SkyNet, but SkyNet itself would also never come to be.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_aa88f109	type	Humanity Is Infectious
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_aa88f109	comment	Humanity Is Infectious: Terminators, by dint of being infiltrators who must learn and thus mimic human behavior, can end up Becoming the Mask. By the end of T2, Uncle Bob had learned empathy, and even more, sympathy towards humans. Carl, who has lived among them for over 20 years, has "grown a conscience" as Grace puts it, cares for a family of his own, and even expresses his own form of love towards them and sorrow for his own actions.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Grace hot-wires a pickup so that she, Dani, and Diego can run from the Rev-9. Moments later she steals Sarah Connor's truck, presumeably the same way.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: Uncle Bob sacrificed himself so that the final T-800 CPU in existence couldn't be used to rebuild SkyNet. This film reveals that he wasn't even the last Terminator, and also proves that a Terminator of the exact same model can integrate in human society without triggering another SkyNet. John's character arc of reconnecting with his mother Sarah is tragically rendered moot when he is killed off almost immediately after the events of T2. Sarah only got to spend a few years happily with her son at best. Sarah Connor's Character Development into gaining begrudging respect and admiration for the Terminator is reversed back to being a Terminator-hater (albeit understandably) after John's death. Judgment Day had been prevented (or at least postponed), but a new AI named Legion goes rogue just as easily as SkyNet did, causing a similar Bad Future. SkyNet sent multiple Terminators to locate and kill John Connor but the third only succeeds after SkyNet's existence is undone. This is actually a source of existential regret for "Carl", who comes to understand why his actions were wrong only after years of having no further purpose to fulfill.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_b0a91b69	type	Convection, Schmonvection
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_b0a91b69	comment	Convection, Schmonvection: In the final battle, the Rev-9 gets exposed to so much heat and fire that its liquid metal half, which was not affected by ordinary fire, is destroyed. About a minute later, Dani takes it on in hand-to-hand combat and does not get burned.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_b22fdc19	type	Stacked Characters Poster
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_b22fdc19	comment	Stacked Characters Poster: The poster shows the cast stacked up in a column, with the villains on the bottom and the heroes on top.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_b6060b7	type	Run or Die
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_b6060b7	comment	And averted when Grace first meets Dani and Diego; she only tells them the bare minimum (Run or Die) until they've witnessed enough of her fight with the Rev-9 to believe everything else.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: Carl the T-800 successfully kills John in the opening scene, but did so for a SkyNet that had been successfully erased from the timeline. With no further directive, it found itself protecting a woman and her son from an abusive father, and became a Parental Substitute for that family. It came to recognize the evil it had done, and assisted Sarah as a mysterious Mission Control to hunt down other time-displaced Terminators. When they finally meet up with it, it says it has rejected its previous directives of its own accord and found new purpose in opposing other Terminators, including the Rev-9.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_b9c673a6	type	Market-Based Title
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_b9c673a6	comment	Market-Based Title: Marketed as Terminator: New Fate in Japan.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_bc0346e2	type	Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_bc0346e2	comment	Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight: Taken to the logical extreme; Carl the T-800 comes from SkyNet's now-erased timeline, and as such is considerably less advanced than the partially-liquid metal Rev-9, which comes from Legion's future where Judgment Day happened over two decades later (thus logically resulting in a more advanced AI which designs commensurately more advanced troops to support it). Despite this, Carl proves surprisingly effective against the Rev-9, even being the one to deal the killing blow to his future equivalent.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c09dbbbb	type	Weaksauce Weakness
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c09dbbbb	comment	Weaksauce Weakness: Grace’s cybernetics grant her superhuman abilities but unfortunately also make her dependent on a cocktail of medications to survive. Justified, as she explains that her abilities are designed for short, intense bursts, as against a Terminator-like the Rev-9 the combat usually doesn't last more than a few minutes either way. Her repeatedly surviving encounters with the Rev-9 with the help of Sarah and Dani and the resulting aftereffects are pretty unexpected for her.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c1408ad1	type	Oppressive Immigration Enforcement
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c1408ad1	comment	Oppressive Immigration Enforcement: The Terminator sent to kill Dani impersonates a Border Patrol agent in order to try to kill her in the detention camp where she, Grace, and Sarah have been confined after being caught trying to cross the US-Mexico border. The genuine border control agents meanwhile are depicted as being uncaring, cruel, and lecherous.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c253090a	type	Big Blackout
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c253090a	comment	Big Blackout: This is how Legion dealt with humanity. It killed the power everywhere, let humans stew for a while and turn on each other as society broke down, then sent in the robots to mop up after humanity did half the work for it.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Sarah when John is shot down by a T-800 (Carl).
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Sarah is, understandably, appalled by the thought of working alongside the T-800 that killed her son, but accepts it for the time being in order to ensure Dani's future. Grace isn't thrilled by the prospect of working alongside Sarah either, viewing her as a liability in her mission of protecting Dani.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c420a553	type	We Can Rule Together
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c420a553	comment	We Can Rule Together: The Rev-9 recognizes Carl as being another Terminator and right before the final fight proposes working together since they must be related. Carl refuses, explaining he is from a future that no longer exists. As little as the Rev-9 can emote, the realization that the future can change does seem to trigger a look of surprise.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c4e0fcff	type	Story Reset
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c4e0fcff	comment	Story Reset: Ignores all movies after Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The shot of Grace's arm muscles tearing is meant as an homage to a similar scene in Ghost in the Shell.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_c93a6560	comment	Look closely during the car chase scene, after the Rev-9 repeatedly throws rebar towards Grace's, Dani's and Diego's car. Diego, the driver, can be seen with his body slumped forward. This is the first and only hint that Diego was mortally impaled by one of the rebar.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_cc7fae30	type	Outside-Context Problem
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_cc7fae30	comment	Outside-Context Problem: Carl for the Rev-9. Carl, being a SkyNet creation that comes from a less advanced future, fares far better against the ridiculously-advanced Rev-9 than Dani's other protectors, but he comes from a future that never happened, so neither Legion nor the Rev-9 would have any data on a T-800. Though cosmetically similar, they're different machines that function differently. When the Rev-9 and Grace fight, it's a rapid, fluid, kinetic style with lots of Combat Parkour and dodging. Carl instead relies on the old Terminator hand-to-hand standard, grabbing his opponent and slamming them into things, with power that the Rev-9 can't counter. During their fight on the crashing C-5, the Rev-9 seems surprised by how strong and resilient a T-800 is and shows hesitance it never displays when fighting Grace. In the dam fight, the T-800's chassis is strong enough to completely No-Sell the cutting power of the Rev-9's liquid metal blades.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_cda0c781	type	Revealing Skill
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_cda0c781	comment	Averted when the Coyotes express similar skepticism, so Grace proceeds to halve a fly in mid-air with a knife.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_cda501da	type	Killed Off for Real
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_cda501da	comment	Killed Off for Real: If you're hoping for a Time Travel shenanigans that could prevent the death of John Connor, prepare to be disappointed.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_ce68d46b	type	Next Sunday A.D.
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_ce68d46b	comment	Next Sunday A.D.: The film was released at the tail-end of 2019, while its story takes place at some nebulous point in 2020.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: Both Terminators end up losing limbs, Carl somehow reattaches his.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_d4385289	type	Dog Pile of Doom
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_d4385289	comment	Dog Pile of Doom: A bunch of officers try this on the Rev-9. Instead of throwing them off, he impales them with spikes coming out of his body.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: An interesting version occurs when the Rev-9 meets Carl. The Rev-9 comes from a future where SkyNet, and thus the T-800 series, never existed, yet he shows remarkably little surprise about running into another Terminator of a completely unknown make. Partly justified of course by the Rev-9 being a machine regardless of how well he can fake emotions, but you'd still expect a bit more interaction between them than the Rev-9 briefly trying to use a "Not So Different" Remark on Carl and beating the crap out of each other.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_daba19f1	type	Portal Cut
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_daba19f1	comment	Portal Cut: When Grace arrives in the present, her time travel bubble cuts through the bridge she arrived on, causing her to fall through it.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Sarah hunts down and kills Terminators coming from the future, while Grace survived the hardships of the future war and destroyed multiple Rev-7 Terminators on her own. Dani is growing into one by the end, facing down the damaged Rev-9 solo.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: The entire movie is built on a pretty big series of ones. Despite SkyNet being truly gone in this timeline, eventually someone else invents another AI, Legion, which ends up taking over the world, inventing time travel and Terminators (which look nearly identical to the Cyberdyne Terminators, oddly enough) and attempting another time travel assassination plot against the leader of the human resistance, all with no actual connection to the previous SkyNet AI. You Can't Fight Fate to the extreme.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: John Connor ends up being this, not just for the film but for the overall future war, in that Carl shoots him dead only three years after the events of Judgment Day.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: The film implies that, despite the absence of John Connor and SkyNet, the future still unfolds with a rogue AI nearly exterminating humanity during Judgment Day before a lone human leader unites humanity to defeat it for good — leading it to try and defeat its nemesis via changing the past to ensure they were never a threat to begin with.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e06d3a98	type	In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e06d3a98	comment	In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves: When asked why he has so many weapons, Carl states that, AI rebellion or nor, there's an estimated 74% chance for a society collapse. He also mentions that they are in Texas. SkyNet has been destroyed but humanity has simply created another AI for military purposes, this time for cyberwarfare.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e099f0de	type	I Will Only Slow You Down
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e099f0de	comment	I Will Only Slow You Down: Given that Dani is crucial to the future survival of the human race, the inevitable Cold Equation rears its ugly head. When Dani's brother is impaled by a rebar, Grace has to force her to abandon him because the Rev-9 is about to run them down in a car. Dani insists on waiting until Sarah gets on board the helicopter despite the Rev-9 also running towards them at the same time. Sarah barely gets on board in time, and finds herself agreeing with Grace that Dani should not risk her life to save hers. When Grace collapses from overexertion on the dam, she urges Dani to remove her power source as an Improvised Weapon despite the fact that it will kill her. The arrival of Carl only delays this.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e1cc36	type	The Bait
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e1cc36	comment	The Bait: Knowing a Terminator is fixated on its goal of tracking down the target, the main characters reluctantly agree to use Dani to lure it into a trap. Inevitably this proves easier said than done.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e3d06d0c	type	Bash Brothers
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: Done in several different ways. The Rev-9 can split apart from a Nigh-Invulnerable robot skeleton and an autonomous liquid metal shapeshifting core, which allows for some more interesting action sequences where they work together to achieve their goal. But the presence of Sarah Connor, Carl the T-800 and Grace allows for a combination of different fighting partners.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e43b42ea	type	We Need a Distraction
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e43b42ea	comment	We Need a Distraction: While escaping from the detention centre, Grace turns on the fire alarm (enabling Sarah to turn on her captors) and opens the detention cages so the guards will be busy with a horde of escapees.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: With its ability to separate into both an endoskeleton form and a liquid metal one, the Rev-9 is essentially the original film's T-800 and T2's T-1000 blended into the one model.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e6b3e4f2	type	Chain Pain
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e6b3e4f2	comment	Chain Pain: Grace uses a chain as a whip against the Rev-9 in the final battle.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e8b0f099	type	Dark Is Evil
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil: The Rev-9's endoskeleton and liquid metal skin are made of dark black metal, in contrast to Grace's golden sub-dermal armour and the general franchise's history of a more shiny chrome for the various Terminators.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License – Geography: Flip-flopped: The first police cars shown are labelled Policía Municipal - CDMX (Mexico City does not have municipalities) while the later car chase actually shows a proper CDMX SSP police car (or at least, a model painted to the exact color scheme used in Mexico City). The scenes set in Mexico City will stick out like a sore thumb for Mexico City residents, mostly how fast they get from Mexico City proper to a major rural looking highway instead of an inner-city highway. A couple of Freeze-Frame Bonus scenes show that the road signage does indeed show real destinations that a Mexico City highway would have (Texcoco, Toluca, Querétaro) as well, and a later map seen by the Rev-9, showing the train route they take to Laredo is pretty accurate.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: When the Rev-9 has Grace on the ropes during the motorway fight, Sarah shows up just in time to temporarily keep it at bay with superior firepower.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Sarah has literally saved the world several times; just how many depends on how you tally up the various timelines. As a result she's wanted in all fifty states and has her own episode of "America's Most Wanted."
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_edd714c9	type	Subverted Catch-Phrase
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_edd714c9	comment	Subverted Catchphrase: Instead of "Come with me if you want to live", it's "Come with me, or you're dead in the next thirty seconds.", which in itself is borrowed from the first words Grace heard from Dani ("Shoot me and we'll all be dead in ten seconds."). Carl, the T-800 that helps Dani, muses he "won't be back" when talking about abandoning his home and family to help battle the Rev-9.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_efbfe117	type	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_efbfe117	comment	Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: Sarah hates Carl so much she complains when Carl shields her from bullets simply since he touched her. Which does make sense since Carl killed John.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Carl is the T-800 that killed John in the opening scene, later spending 20 years supporting his own family and coming to regret its actions. He assisted Sarah in tracking down other Terminators from the future, sending her messages with the tagline "For John." He eventually sacrifices itself to destroy the Rev-9 with Grace's power cell and its last words are "For John."
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_f4a3140c	type	Survival Mantra
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_f4a3140c	comment	Trailer-only. A shot of Sarah glancing around burning debris, while a quieter version of the Terminator theme plays, references the exact same thing that happened to the first instalment, after Kyle Reese attempted to blow up the T-800 with a bomb in the latter's oil tanker. On top of that, Sarah begging for "Carl" to get up and help Dani references Sarah repeatedly yelling to Kyle "On your feet, soldier!" after he was weakened from that explosion.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Legion to SkyNet, by design. After the Connors stop SkyNet's birth in T2, Legion rises in its place to assume all of Skynet's familiar characteristics - causing Judgment Day, hunting down humans in the future, losing the future war and sending a Terminator back to change everything. Dani seems to be this to John Connor: in his absence she's the one who whips the remnants of humanity into fighting shape, and from there into the army that defeats Legion. The ending implies that this is justified, as she has Sarah as her mentor, just as John originally did. Grace is a mix of Kyle Reese and Marcus. Like Kyle, she is directly related to the person she is sent back in time to protect, and like Marcus, she is a human converted into a cyborg. Like both Kyle and Marcus, Grace sacrifices herself to protect her charge. The Rev-9 is very similar to the T-X from T3. Both are advanced Terminator models that consist of a conventional robotic endoskeleton coated in a liquid metal skin. The only real significant difference between the two is that the Rev-9's endoskeleton and skin can separate and operate independently and it lacks the built-in weapons of the T-X. In addition, despite being built by a completely different AI from SkyNet, Rev-9's robot form looks very similar to the original Terminators.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_f729e5bc	type	Sequel Goes Foreign
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_f729e5bc	comment	Sequel Goes Foreign: All previous Terminator films were set in and around Los Angeles, in both present-day and future. Dark Fate has a good chunk of its runtime happening in present-day Mexico, follows a Mexican protagonist and involves border crossing issues.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_f88f2449	type	Downer Beginning
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_f88f2449	comment	Downer Beginning: The film starts out with the murder of John Connor.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_fb9afaab	type	Attack Drone
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_fb9afaab	comment	Attack Drone: The new Terminator, the Rev-9, has a metal endoskeleton and a liquid metal "skin" (much like the T-X in Rise of the Machines). Unlike the T-X, this one's liquid metal skin can detach itself from the endoskeleton and move on its own in humanoid form like a T-1000. The Rev-9 turns a Surveillance Drone into one by making it crash on the Mexican border location where Dani, Sarah and Grace are arrested by border patrols.
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Terminator: Dark Fate / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Terminator: Dark Fate / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: After Grace wakes up at the border facility, she asks a female officer where the new prisoners are kept. The officer then informs her that they aren't prisoners... they are detainees.
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