Terminator 2: Judgment Day
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day

1991Movie2 h 17 minR15 awards

Thriller
80
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb8.6Letterboxd4.3/5Metacritic759.1
80
GreatGoodWatch score
IMDb8.6Letterboxd4.3/5Metacritic759.1

Summary

Ten years after the events of the original, a reprogrammed T-800 is sent back in time to protect young John Connor from the shape-shifting T-1000. Together with his mother Sarah, he fights to stop Skynet from triggering a nuclear apocalypse.

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Shapeshifter BaggageRare · in 39 titlesThe T-1000 can shapeshift, but the T-800 explicitly says it cannot turn into anything with mechanically complex parts, nor can it gain or lose mass.Voodoo Sharkin 154 titlesInterviews and novelizations state that the T-1000 got to the past by being placed in a "flesh sac" that allowed it to fool the time machine.All 558 tropes

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Film 2 of 6 · after The Terminator · then Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

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