Terminator Genisys story
The film follows Kyle Reese, a soldier in a post-apocalyptic future with a war against the machines led by Skynet, who is sent from 2029 to 1984 by John Connor, leader of the Human Resistance, to protect his mother Sarah. When Kyle arrives in the past, he discovers that the timeline has been altered and Sarah has been raised by a reprogrammed Terminator.
21 total · 10 major · 11 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| AI risk to civilization | major | In the year 2029, humans were in a desperate war for survival against robots led by the Skynet automated defense system. |
| coping with aging | major | The T-100 Terminator coped with being old, but he was adamant about not being obsolete. |
| cyborg | major | The old but not obsolete Terminator was a cyborg whose fleshy parts had aged at a normal rate. |
| father and daughter | major | The Terminator was like a father to Sarah. Note she called him "pops". |
| human vs. sentient machine | major | Sarah and Kyle versus Skynet and the John Connor cyborg thing with the help of an old, but not obsolete Terminator. |
| mind-computer merging | major | Skynet transformed John Connor into a super human cyborg thing. |
| mother and son | major | Sarah Connor and John Connor. |
| sentient computer | major | Skynet. |
| shapeshifter | major | The protagonists dispatched a shapeshifting T-1000 model Terminator. The John Connor entity also had shapeshifting abilities. |
| time travel | major | The Terminator and Kyle Reese were send back in time from 2029 to 1984. It turned out that another Terminator had arrived 10 years prior and prepared Sarah for the war that was to come. Sarah and Kyle traveled from 1984 to 2017. |