Random Terminator Fan Theories (12 items)

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  (#11) Jack And Rose From 'Titanic' Are Sarah Connor's Grandparents

  Cue the head explosion gifs. One truly insane fan theory about Terminator suggests Jack and Rose from Titanic are Sarah Connor's grandparents, and Jack is a time traveler. The fan who created the theory thinks Jack went back in time to keep Rose from killing herself, and therefore causes the boat to sink.

  See, if Rose had jumped off the back of the ship during her suicide attempt, the captain would have stopped the boat to look for Rose. If the ship had stopped, warm weather and ocean currents would've shifted the iceberg out of its way. And, if Jack never went back in time, the child he fathered with her never would have gone on to give birth to the resistance fighter who would try to stop Skynet. 
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  (#3) The Predator And Terminator Franchises Exist In The Same Universe

  Everyone knows Predator is one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time, but there's a small contingent of fans who believe the film, while perfect and beautiful on its own, is also prequel to the Terminator franchise. What could be better than cold-blooded metal daddies and hot-blooded muscle daddies converging? Probably nothing. But how do we get from point T to P?

  There's a cyborg in the Aliens Vs. Predator arcade game called Major Dutch Schaefer  who was "created to fight extraterrestrials,” much as Dutch the mercenary does in Predator. Cyborg Dutch's serial number is CDS-170A3. Does CDS stand for Cyberdyne Systems? It's possible, and if that means Dutch is an early T-800 (D-800?), well, it makes the greatest action movie of all time even better. 
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  (#2) Kyle Reese Killed John Connor By Schtupping His Mom

  One fan theory suggests that when the original John Connor sent Kyle Reese back in time, he may have unwittingly killed himself and created another John Connor. Before Sarah Connor knew about judgment day, she had a baby by some random guy, and that baby turned into a badass resistance fighter. When Kyle hooked up with Sarah, he managed to erase original John Connor from history, and create an entirely new one. That's why, by the time you get to T3, John is a wimp who's afraid he'll never be able to lead a resistance. 
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  (#7) Terminator Time Travel Only Works In Alternate Timelines

  A truly interesting fan theory about the Terminator franchise posits that all the time travel in the series only effects alternate timelines. As per this theory, each time someone (or something) jumps back into the past, he/she/it creates a new timeline. What's the proof?

  Obviously, the moment Skynet sent a T-800 back to the '80s; there wouldn't have been time for Kyle Reese to be sent back as well, it would have been over baby! Unless John Connor had knowledge of a Terminator going back far in advance of it happening, there's no way he could've sent Reese back in time to save his mother. And since Skynet is a machine network, there's no way for intelligence to slip out through loose lips. So, when Reese goes back, he's entering a different timeline than the one the T-800 entered. But there's also a T-800 in his timeline. So. There's that. 

  This theory asserts that the Terminator franchise's version of time travel only works if each character traveling to the past travels to an alternate timeline. If this is true, by the time viewers get to Terminator Genisys, there's been at least eight timelines. 
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  (#6) Skynet Sent Terminators Back In Time To Make Sure Skynet Was Built, Not To Kill John

  Did you ever think maybe Skynet didn't give a hoot about John Connor? The robots just need to exist, baby!

  Reddtor filets thinks the whole Terminator thing couldn't have existed if Cyberdine hadn't found the chip left over from a dead robot. Skynet likely knew this and pretended it was trying to kill Sarah Connor so John would send Kyle Reese back in time to help kill the T-800, specifically so it would drop an arm and chip. It turns out the best move would have been not to send Reese back and let Connor die so the Terminator would have just had to rot in the '80s. 

  Did that make your head hurt a little bit? The only slight problem with this theory is Skynet sending a Terminator back in time so Terminators can exist. Where did the Terminator that went back in time come from? Probably ties into Cameron's whole Biblical allegory thing and the inevitability of certain events. 
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  (#5) Skynet Created John Connor By Necessitating Kyle Reese's Time Travel

  Don't you get it, you guys? If Skynet had never sent a T-800 back to the past, John Connor never would have sent Kyle Reese back, and Reese never would have put a baby in Sarah Connor! Why didn't Skynet know this? It should probably send a T-1000 back to stop itself from sending back a T-800. Then again, it sent the T-800 to kill John Connor, meaning John Connor exists, so...where'd he come from the in the first place? The world must be caught in some kind of time loop. 

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