The Terminator story
A cyborg assassin sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 to kill Sarah Connor, whose son will one day become a savior against machines in a post-apocalyptic future.
11 total · 8 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| AI risk to civilization | major | In the near future, actually in 2029, robots were in the process of exterminating humans from the face of the Earth. |
| cyborg | major | The Terminator was a cyborg. |
| human vs. sentient machine | major | Sarah Connor and Reese versus the Terminator. |
| post-apocalyptic dystopia | major | Los Angeles of 2029 was a post atomic horror wasteland in which humans were in a desperate war for survival against machines. |
| romantic love | major | Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese fell in love. |
| time travel | major | Reese and the Terminator traveled back in time from the year 2029. |
| what if a killer was after me | major | Sarah Connor was being hunted down by the Terminator. |
| what if the fate of the world was in my hands | major | Sarah Connor's future son John was destined to be the leader of a resistance movement against a robot extermination of humans. |
| autonomous weapons system | minor | The Skynet autonomous computer defense system. |
| autonomous weapons system killing everyone | minor | It was explained that a computer defense system became intelligent and initiated a nuclear conflagration in an effort to destroy humanity. |