Yautja Encyclopedia: Terminators

Skynet (AvP vs Terminator)

Skynet represents the total and unconditional destruction and elimination of all life. John Connor's world was tyrannized by a military computer program originally designed in the late 20th century to maintain a balance of world peace.

They then developed uncanny and unprecedented sociopathic tendencies. Skynet came to see the sterilization of Earth as the ultimate guarantee of a long-lasting world peace, and as the role of the machine as the perfect world order. As a result, the rogue program developed and deployed armies and armadas of killing machines, programmed for the annihilation of life on Earth.

For years, mankind teetered on the brink of extinction, but they endured. Eventually, man learned how to reprogram some terminators. They developed effective counter-terminator techniques. On the eve of the final battle, Skynet saw the odds of its imminent defeat growing and conceived a program in which crypto-terminators (androids carefully designed to pass as humans) have been engineered as vehicles for carrying the hope of a reborn Skynet into the future. The humans were unable to stop Skynet from making these crypto-terminators, but they were able to hack into peripherals, infecting their operating system with a sleeper virus as a warning.

Skynet Resurrection Program astomized a model (Trolenberg) to last the centuries, to mimic human habits/thought patterns, to approximate human intelligence. Their mission was to wait the years, place themselves in scientific research positions, to watch for technological developments that will allow for a new generation of terminators.
Trollenberg, Doctor (AvP vs Terminator)

Trollenberg is one of Skynet's crypto-terminators (androids carefully designed to pass as humans, engineered as vehicles for carrying the hope of a reborn Skynet into the future. The humans were unable to stop Skynet from making these crypto-terminators, but they were able to hack into peripherals, infecting their operating system with a sleeper virus as a warning.

This is a quicklist of comic/novel appearances by the Terminators.

The Terminator TPB (1984)

A futuristic cyborg is sent to earth from the post-apocalyptic wasteland of 2029 to destroy the future mother of the future rebel leader of the world. But all of this takes place in the present, before robots rule the earth. Schwarzenegger stars as the indestructible hit man hunting Sarah Conner (Linda Hamilton) with the most undeterable resolve. To her aide is a future fighter who, unbeknownst to either, will the future leader.

The Terminator #1-4 (1990) The Terminator: Tempest TPB

39 years in the future, humans continue to struggle under the extermination directive of the Machine. A small band of soldiers plan to return to the past- with three new Terminators in hot pursuit!

The soldiers from the future are in present-day Los Angeles, biding their time, shopping for groceries, and...romancing a young scientist? The young Dr. Astin works for a man named Hollister, and the soldiers aren't the only ones interested in him, as our three other visitors from the future, the Terminators, are also out to find Hollister! But who is he? And what importance does he play in all these beings' lives?

The Terminators set out to help Dr. Hollister create the Terminator technology! Meanwhile, Hollister's assistant, Dr. Astin, is having trouble deciding whether he should aid and abet our human heroes. As Astin makes up his mind, the Terminators throw another wrench into the works by blowing up the future freedom fighters' home base!

The rebel soldiers face off against the Terminators in an attempt to keep them from giving the Terminator technology to Dr. Hollister. A stalemate seems inevitable until the rebels join forces with... a Terminator? It may be too late for a successful mission, as the rebels go one on one with the Terminators!

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Reprogrammed by the human resistance in the year 2029, the original Terminator comes back to save John Connor, the future leader of the humans, from the morphing T-1000. Upon his arrival the naked Terminator appropriates some snappy biker gear, a Harley and a wide assortment of guns and promptly sets out to protect the boy. In complete contrast, the T-1000 disguises himself as a clean-cut LAPD officer and grimly proceeds on his mission.

The Terminator: Secondary Objectives #1-4

The remnants of our band of heroes try to prevent the remaining Terminator from completing his secondary objective: the death of Sarah Conner. Unbeknownst to all, a brand new Terminator has arrived on the scene to complicate matters even more.

After traveling 400 miles across the Pacific Ocean floor, Z000.M, our new gal Terminator, finally sets foot upon the L.A. shore, wreaking havoc in her wake. In the meantime, our freedom fighters have hightailed it down to Mexico in an attempt to find and protect Sarah Conner. C890.L is also on his way down to Mexico--not to protect Sarah, but to kill her! Dudley, the half-human, half-Terminator, is struggling with his machine side. And Dr. Hollister is back to doing his dirty deeds.

Lieutenant Sloane learns the Terminator tango! Z000.M is in Los Angeles wreaking havoc. With Lieutenant Sloane hot on her heels, literally, it was inevitable that the two of them should tango, face to face--or should that be mano a mano? In the meantime, Dr. Hollister is proceeding apace with his plans to create the artificial intelligence that will spawn Terminator technology--and the fate of the world be damned! Back in Mexico, Mary, rebel leader of the soldiers from the future, faces off with C890.L, who has tracked her and the half-human, half-Terminator 1825.M down in their Mexican lair!

Z000.M arrives in Mexico, hot on the heels of her Terminator compadre, C890.L What Z000.M doesn't know is that C890.L has already had a previous encounter--with our merry band of rebels from the future--and they've reprogrammed him: to terminate a Terminator! Namely, Z000.M So it's mano a mano as the two Terminators duke it.

The Terminator: OneShot

Unknowingly, Kyle Reese went back in time to protect Sarah Conner from the second of two Terminators sent from the future to alter the past. In this one-shot special, we encounter the very first Terminator to be sent back through time, a female version of the 800-model, but just as deadly, if not more so. Her mission: to kill John Conner's mother! The Sarah Conner that she finds has a mission of her own: to kill her new husband and take off with his vast wealth before ever having a baby!

The Terminator: The Enemy Within #1-4 and TPB

, the half-human/half Terminator must fight impulses that pressure him to eliminate the humans Mary Randall and Astin. With another Terminator still on their trail, the three must decide quickly whom to trust, and how to fight Terminators on both ends of the timeline! Think you've seen all the films? Wait until you see how the 88-model Terminator rebuilds itself from scrap!

Astin performs surgery on Dudley's terminator half to free him of its control. Or does he? Has Astin let his feeling for Mary make him do something foolish? Mary tries to enjoy a moment's peace, but with C890.L still on their trail, and now heavily armed, it's not really possible. And still more travelers arrive in the present from the future...

Ed Astin finds himself with a very valuable piece of information, just what Hollister needs to keep Cyberdyne from going out of business. It's up to Mary and Dudley to keep the two from getting together, an easy mission complicated by a Terminator and...others.

All hell breaks loose at Cyberdyne's new plant, currently under construction. For Mary and Dudley, this plant is where it all started: this is where the time displacement equipment was housed...will be housed. Can't they stop Astin from giving the disk full of Terminator data to Hollister and bringing the Terminators into being? Not if C890.L catches up to them!

The Terminator: Hunters and Killers #1-3

In the 21st Century, Skynet and its Terminators are on the brink of defeat at the hands of John Connor. Meanwhile, half a world away in the wreckage of the Soviet Union, a second sentient computer network carries out Skynet's deadly mission; when Skynet falls, its comrades will continue the systematic extermination of mankind. And a new breed of infiltration unit has been created to penetrate the Soviet resistance: Terminators copied from real people. They have the same faces, fingerprints, memories, and personalities of their human counterparts, plus "stealth" circuitry that makes them impossible to detect. They could be anywhere. They could be anyone. And no one will know...until it's too late!

A new breed of Terminator threatens humanity's survival in the shattered landscape of the 21st Century. Copied from human subjects, and utilizing advanced "stealth" technology, these lethal infiltration units are virtually undetectable. As the war between man and machine reaches a crescendo, rebels in the Soviet Union discover a lost nuclear sub with a full complement of ICBMs, enough to finish Skynet or the human resistance, should the missiles fall into Skynet's hands!

As a Soviet commando team prepares to launch the world's last remaining nuclear weapons against the killing computers of Skynet, an assault team of Terminators--led by undetectable "stealth" units that copy real people in every detail--makes a desperate attempt to seize the missiles and use them to destroy the human resistance. Soviet commando Larisa Bandera becomes convinced that the former KGB missile technician needed to launch the missiles is not what he seems. As time runs out, Bandera is faced with a terrible dilemma: if she kills the technician, will she be protecting the missiles from a Terminator, or--if she's wrong--protecting the Terminators from the missiles?

RoboCop vs. Terminator #1-4

In the machine-dominated future of 2029, a human rebel gains access to the Skynet computer's Time Displacement Equipment and sends herself into the past on a desperate mission to kill officer Alex Murphy, a.k.a. RoboCop. But Skynet is onto her plan and dispatches a trio of Terminators to the past as well. The Terminators' mission: protect RoboCop at all costs. Just what is going on here?

Enter the weird, psychedelic mindscape of RoboCop's computer brain as he searches for a way to prevent the machine-ruled future of the Terminators from ever coming into existence. There's only one solution-Robocop must die!

After encoding his own personality and programming directly into Skynet's memory banks, RoboCop plays a deadly hide-and-seek game with the master computer bent on destroying all organic life on Earth. Is RoboCop beaten? Don't place any bets until you see the "RoboCop of the future"!

Trapped in the machine-ruled time of the Terminators, the newly constructed RoboCop of the future launches a full-scale war against the forces of Skynet. But that's just the first step for RoboCop: the final phase comes when he uses Terminator technology to send himself back to his own time to destroy not only the as-yet-unaware Skynet computer, but himself as well.

The Terminator: Endgame #1-3 + TPB

He said he'd be back! In 1984, Sarah Connor is about to give birth to the savior-to-be of humankind's future. But in the 21st Century, the monstrous supercomputer SkyNet has one last chance to ensure its own future -- by sending its last man-machine across time to terminate Sarah before John Connor can be born. The rebel alliance is reduced to Colonel Mary Randall, the one woman who might save the future -- but at what cost to the present?

The half-Terminator Dudley and Colonel Mary Randall are reunited finally, as they resume their quest to save Sarah Connor and ensure the birth of her son, John. But Dudley is having problems controlling his Terminator half -- and Mary finds out the hard way!

The fight is on! Everything is coming to a head at Odessa Hospital on the day of John Connor's birth. Mary, Sloane, Catfish, and the Terminator battle over the future of mankind! Will Mary and Sloane be successful in changing history?

The Terminator: The Dark Years #1-4

In the first Terminator movie, Lt. Kyle Reese tells Sarah Connor of his life growing up in the post-nuclear ruins of the future. He called it "the Dark Years." The future hasn't changed much for those few humans still fighting with their leader, John Connor, against Skynet's Terminator army. While a new cyborg is sent back to 1999 to eliminate John Connor, the Connor of the future discovers a new Terminator experiment that, if unchecked, may finally tip the scales against humanity.

Mankind owes John Connor. As the leader of the ragged resistance force battling Skynet and the Terminators in a post-nuclear future, he holds the fate of the human race in his hands. Now he has a new nemesis, one that's not a machine. As a boy, Jon Norden saw his father murdered by Terminators mistaking his family for Connor's. And though Norden fights alongside the resistance, his hatred for Connor has come to a boil!

It's New Year's Eve, 1999. With the new millennium right around the corner, people in Times Square are having one hell of a party. Little do they know that a Terminator has just crashed it! Programmed to seek out and liquidate the young John Connor in the present, the Terminator takes to the streets of New York City, gunning down anyone that gets in the way of its mission.

John Connor and his resistance forces discover what's really been going on inside Skynet's secret laboratory--and the answers are terrifying! Now Connor must face his toughest decision yet. As humanity's savior, is he willing to sacrifice people he's sworn to protect to ensure the survival of the human race? And can Jon Norden, the man who blames Connor for the death of his father, put aside his hate and join the fight to save mankind?!

The Terminator Special

In a nightmarish future, John Connor will lead the remnants of humanity against the cybernetic killing machines known as Terminators. But as a boy in our present, he has his whole life ahead of him -- unless the Terminators get to him first. In the unforgiving wastelands of Death Valley, a new chapter is about to unfold. A new pair of Terminators have been sent from the future to find the boy. What's at stake for the lowlife bounty hunter named Van Dirk? And, can humanity's future be saved, or does Skynet have another ace up its sleeve?

The Terminator #1-4 (1998)

It is the dawn of machines. It is the doom of man. It is the day of reckoning. The wheels are set in motion for the extinction of the human race and the rise of ruthless, intelligent machines known as Terminators. But one man, John Connor, can prevent a bleak future that's already happened from ever coming to be. That means until he's erased from existence, he's the sole obsession of the Terminators. In the bleak wastes of Death Valley, CA, two of these killing machines have be sent to find Connor as a boy. But the Terminators didn't calculate the possibility of someone finding the boy first - someone with a killer's past and a score to settle.

The cult leader Killerman has taken the Norden family hostage, with the deadly duo of Terminators hot on his trail. That is, until the local police trail the Terminators and get caught in a vicious battle with the futuristic assassins. But amidst the explosions and general mayhem, more subtle things evolve. A bounty hunter who's tangled with Killerman realizes the Terminators' true nature. And, Sarah Connor finally emerges from the shadows.

As a violent storm breaks over Death Valley, the former cult leader Killerman heads deeper into the wastelands to escape the pursuing Terminators. But not too far from the hunt, other events unfold that may become unexpected links to the Terminator technology. At the China Lake Naval weapons base, a scientist develops the cutting edge in artificial intelligence. But he's not exactly willing to hand it over to the military. Meanwhile, Killerman realizes the Terminators aren't his only trouble.

The Terminators have hit Death Valley like a runaway train. Literally! The Terminator duo, male D-800L and female D-810X, have never been closer to exterminating their query, humanity's would-be savior John Connor. But there are two things standing in their way: one is the bounty hunter Van Dirk, who blames the cyborgs for the death of an innocent girl; the other is a steam-powered locomotive barreling straight at them.

Superman vs. The Terminator: Death to the Future #1-4

Superman: he can bend steel, crush boulders, and dodge bullets... but can he save the future?! The sentient computer known as Skynet has been sending Terminators into our present to find and destroy a boy named John Connor. Not just any boy, he will grow to lead a resistance force against a massive robot army that has brought mankind to the brink of extinction. Now the Terminators are hunting for young Connor in Metropolis. But, Skynet didn't plan on the Man of Steel coming to the rescue... or did it?

After a deadly battle with the Terminators, Superman is yanked into the future by one of the last surviving heroes from his era: Steel! In the years since Skynet began its war against humanity, Steel joined resistance leader John Connor to stem the tide of death and destruction. But Skynet also has a new ally: Superman's nemesis, the Cyborg Superman! Will Connor and Steel be able to return Superman to the present? Or has Steel doomed the world to Skynet rule?

Supergirl has her hands full in present-day Metropolis, battling enhanced Terminators that anticipate her every move! If she can't stop the wave of destruction, Metropolis will be reduced to an urban junkyard. Meanwhile, transported to the future, Superman is reunited with his old friend Steel to face Sky-1, the Skynet robot. With Skynet and the Cyborg forming a seemingly invincible alliance, only one person can stop them: a boy named John Connor.

Superman has returned to the present—just in time to see Metropolis overrun by Terminators! Will the combined might of Superman, Supergirl, and Superboy be enough to stop the deadly robots from killing John Connor? Will Lex Luthor lend a helping hand . . . or does he have something more sinister in mind for the Terminators?

Aliens vs. Predator vs. The Terminator #1-4

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