While he’s the face of the franchise, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 ends up somehow dying in every movie but 2015’s Terminator Genisys. Schwarzenegger has played many memorable roles over the course of his acting career, but the T-800 is arguably his signature character. That’s even despite the T-800 technically being multiple characters, different versions of the same Skynet model of Terminator with differing programming and abilities. Arnold’s T-800 may look similar movie after movie, but each and every one of them is a different being.
Since Schwarzenegger tends to play heroes, his characters in movies don’t actually die that often, but judging by the T-800, when they do, it happens a lot. At least in the first Terminator movie, the T-800 is the villain, so the audience is rooting for Arnie’s muscle-bound cyborg to meet its end. In every other Terminator entry that the T-800 dies in, the audience has been made to grow attached to the machine capable of learning as it spends more time with people.
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It remains to be seen if Schwarzenegger, now 73 years old but still in better shape than most, will return to play yet another T-800 variant in Terminator 7, if and when that follow-up ever materializes. Until then, it’s time to look at Terminator Genisys, the one time Arnold’s T-800 survived the…
