Questions tagged [skynet]
the main antagonist in the Terminator franchise. Responsible for Judgement Day. A self-aware artificial intelligence program.
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SkyNet: all life or just humans?
I am watching Sarah Connor Chronicles and in the episode 'Alison from Palmdale' she encounters not just caged and unhappy humans (who have not been caged too long) but also unhappy animals including a ...
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Why was it necessary to destroy Skynet?
In Terminator 2: Judgement Day, why was it important for John Connor, his mother and the T-800 to destroy Skynet? From the sequels we find out that it didn't work anyway. So why not have the Skynet ...
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Does Skynet Feel Guilty?
I stumbled upon a reference from James Cameron stating that Skynet has felt guilty for 30 years with regards to the near extinction of human life. He even suggests that Skynet has used time travel in ...
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Why didn't the Resistance use EMP weapons to destroy the Skynet machines?
They are in the distant future, why didn't they use EMP weapons to destroy the Skynet machines? They could've used some sort of similar mass scale weapon to render the Skynet machines useless?
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T-800 model 101 - The first 800 model ever built?
Lately there is this one thing that has been bugging me, that I can't seem to find a clear answer to. The Schwarzenegger version of T-800 is the model 101, and every model 101 looks like him. Model ...
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How did Skynet become self-aware?
How did Skynet actually become self-aware? Was it a bug in Skynet's System-core programme, or did the programme simply evolve even beyond the imagination of its programmers?
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How did the Resistance manage to win the war and destroy Skynet in the future?
Skynet was forced to send a Terminator back in time to prevent John Connor's birth because the Resistance won the Future War and destroyed Skynet. We see the mission that resulted in Skynet's defeat ...
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From how many different timelines did SKYNET send Terminators back to kill a Connor?
Back? Back from where? From how many different timelines did SKYNET send a Terminator (or more) back in time in order to kill a Connor in the Terminator film franchise and the Sarah Connor Chronicals ...
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When did Skynet send back the T-1000?
After Skynet sent the T-800 back to 1984, the resistance defeated the machines soon after and took control of the time-travel machine. So when did Skynet even have the chance to send back the T-1000?
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How did Skynet rebuild infrastructure after Judgement Day?
Inspired by this question regarding how Skynet preserved itself during Judgement Day. It's easy to imagine that Skynet could preserve itself, especially considering it's a military AI that likely ...
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Why didn't the T-800 Arnold-bot fulfill its mission in the parking garage before the Police arrested Reese?
I'm looking for an in-universe answer as to why the T-800 chose to escape from its vehicle rather than terminate Sarah Connor after crashing the Police car into the parking garage wall just prior to ...
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Why didn't Skynet just build a base on Mars and shoot a nuclear weapon at Earth? [closed]
There's something that bugs me on Terminator: Skynet is a very advanced artifical inteligence. They've even developed time travel and hybrid terminators: machines with organs. So why make such ...
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Future time travel in Terminator movies
Something that I noticed about Terminator Genisys is that the time displacement technology designed by Skynet can send people to the future. In all previous Terminator movies, they only travel to the ...
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Why is Skynet so obsessed with John Connor?
So I just watched Terminator: Genisys. Then I watched videos explaining all the timelines. The explanations were all well and good and fairly similar across the websites. But this is what I don’t ...
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Why wouldn't Skynet use biologic/nanotec infiltrators?
In universe, why wouldn't Skynet use biologic/nanotec infiltrators (instead of Schwarzenegger)/subtle WMD to abolish mankind? Surely it would mean they'd win before we knew we were at war.
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