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List of characters in the Terminator franchise

List of characters in the Terminator franchise is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand List of characters in the Terminator franchise rather than just read about it. In short: The following is a list of characters, their plot lines and their performers in the Terminator film franchise consisting of six films. A list specific to the characters, their plot lines and their performers as presented in the television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles can be found at List of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles characters; including supporting characters, and important villains.

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Reference excerpt

The following is a list of characters, their plot lines and their performers in the Terminator film franchise consisting of six films. A list specific to the characters, their plot lines and their performers as presented in the television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles can be found at List of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles characters; including supporting characters, and important villains.

Overview

M indicates a model with the actor or actress's likeness served as a body double. L indicates the actor or actress lent only their likeness for the film.

Cast and crew

Original continuity (1984–2009)

Battle Across Time continuity (1984–1991, 1996)

Genisys continuity (2015)

Dark Fate continuity (1984–1991, 2019)

TSCC continuity (1984–1991, 2008–2009)

Family tree

Kate Brewster Katherine "Kate" Connor (née Brewster) is a fictional character from the Terminator films. She is portrayed by Claire Danes in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and Bryce Dallas Howard in Terminator Salvation. Danes had previously been asked about returning for another film, and responded, "I don't think so. I felt sort of kidnapped by the production." When Charlotte Gainsbourg was unable to take the role due to scheduling conflicts, she was replaced by Howard.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Kate is a veterinarian in the present day and is engaged to Scott Mason; however, she is hesitant of marrying him. In the film, it is stated that just prior to the events of Terminator 2, she had a teenage makeout session with John Connor that might have led to a relationship, had the events of T2 not occurred. Scott is killed by a Terminator known as the T-X, and Kate evades it with the help of John and a reprogrammed T-850. Her father, USAF Lieutenant General Robert Brewster, is the program director for Cyber Research Systems (CRS) and is overseeing development of Skynet. Through of her relation to Robert, Kate had trained in combats, and has access to her father's military contacts that would be pivotal to the formation of the Resistance in the future. Kate, John, and the Terminator set off to CRS to stop her father from activating Skynet. They arrive too late, however, and he is killed by the T-X. Kate and John reach a hardened fallout shelter in the Sierra Nevada mountains and are able to survive Judgment Day. They use communications equipment within the facility to contact survivors and start a Resistance force. The T-850 reveals that after it assassinated John Connor in the future, Kate Brewster captured and reprogrammed the machine. Having succeeded John as leader of the Resistance, she then sent it back in time to protect their past selves.

Terminator Salvation In 2018, Skynet's war has ravaged the Earth. Kate is John Connor's wife and is pregnant with his child. She is also a physician within John's unit, and later leads a rescue squad for him and others.

Robert Brewster Lieutenant General Robert Brewster— portrayed by David Andrews in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines — is Kate's father and a primary target for the T-X. As the program director at Cyber Research Systems (CRS), he took over development after obtaining Cyberdyne Systems' remaining assets. He is supervising the development of digital defense systems for the United States military, including Skynet. Brewster is hesitant to activate Skynet, as it would have unprecedented control over the country's unmanned defenses, including nuclear missiles. When a computer virus spreads around the world, Brewster is pressured by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to activate Skynet so it can destroy the virus, unaware that Skynet itself is it. Upon activating Skynet, Brewster is mortally wounded by the T-X to prevent him from interfering with the A.I.'s takeover. After giving the location of the Crystal Peak bunker, he entrusts John to take care of Kate before dying of his wounds. John Connor surmised that, had the events of Terminator 2 not occurred, he would have met General Brewster through Kate. Consequently, had Brewster activated Skynet on August 4, 1997, John’s ties to Kate’s family would have placed him at the center of the AI's launch—irrefutably validating his mother’s warnings and cementing his destiny.

Cameron

Cameron, portrayed by Summer Glau, is a Cyborg of an unidentified series sent back through time to protect John and his mother. She is shown to be the most advanced machine in terms of mimicking human emotions is also capable of eating. Her role is similar to that of the Terminator's from Judgement Day and Rise of the Machines. She is exclusive to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

John Connor

Sarah Connor

Danny Dyson Danny Dyson is the son of Miles and Tarissa Dyson, and appears as a child in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, played by DeVaughn Nixon, and an adult in Terminator Genisys, played by Dayo Okeniyi. In Terminator 2, after Sarah Connor attacks the Dysons in an attempt to kill Miles and stop him from creating Skynet, Danny shields his father and begs Sarah not to kill him. After Sarah relents out of guilt and the Terminator reveals the truth to Miles and Tarissa, John takes Danny to his room for his safety. In Terminator Genisys, where the timeline has been altered by Skynet since the events of 1973, by the year 2017, Danny has become the president of Cyberdyne Systems and is heading the creation of Genisys, which is a disguised Skynet, with help from both John Connor, who has actually been turned by Skynet into the T-3000 and sent to the past to ensure Skynet's rise while the Dysons remain unaware of the coming threat.

Miles Dyson

Ginger Ginger (portrayed by Bess Motta) was Sarah Connor's roommate and best friend in 1984. She is an avid fan of music and could frequently be seen carrying a walkman. She, along with her boyfriend Matt were killed by the T-800 when it came to Sarah's apartment looking for her. The character of Ginger was originally written as an Aerobics Instructor, which in turn, was an occupation of Motta's at the time. A Gym scene depicting Ginger as an instructor was present in the original script, but was never filmed.

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