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The Terminator<\/b><\/i> series is an American science-fiction<\/a> action<\/a> franchise<\/a> created by James Cameron<\/a> and Gale Anne Hurd<\/a>. The franchise encompasses a series of films, comics, novels, and additional media concerning battles between Skynet<\/a>‘s synthetic intelligent<\/a> machine network, and John Connor<\/a>‘s Resistance forces and the rest of the human race<\/a>. Skynet’s most well-known products in its genocidal goals are the various terminator models<\/a>, such as the T-800 (Model 101)<\/a>, who was portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/a> from the original Terminator<\/i> film<\/a> in 1984, and similar units he also portrayed in the later films. By 2010, the franchise has generated $3 billion in revenue.<\/p>\n

The central theme of the franchise is the battle for survival between the nearly-extinct human race and the world-spanning synthetic intelligence<\/a> that is Skynet<\/a>. Skynet is positioned in the first film<\/a> as a U.S. strategic “Global Digital Defense Network” computer system by Cyberdyne Systems<\/a> which becomes self-aware. Upon activation, it immediately perceives all humans as a “security threat”, and formulates a plan to systematically wipe out humanity itself. The system initiates a nuclear first strike<\/a> against Russia, thereby ensuring a devastating second strike<\/a> and a nuclear holocaust<\/a> which it anticipates will instantly wipe out much of humanity. Indeed, it does, with approximately 3 billion casualties \u2013 more than half of the total human population at the time \u2013 in the resulting nuclear war<\/a>. In the post-apocalyptic aftermath, Skynet later builds up its own autonomous machine-based military capability which includes the Terminators<\/a> used against individual human targets and, therefore, proceeds to wage a persistent total war<\/a> against the surviving elements of humanity, some of whom have militarily organized themselves into a Resistance. At some point in this future, Skynet develops the ability of time travel<\/a>, and both it and the Resistance seek to use this technology in order to win the war; either by altering or accelerating past events in Skynet’s favour, or by preventing or forestalling the (present) apocalyptic timeline.<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n

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