T-800
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| The name or term "Terminator" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, seeTerminator (disambiguation). |
- T-800 units areSkynet-aligned cybernetic organisms from theGeneration 1 continuity family.
Hailing from a war-torn future,Skynet's legions of mechanicalCyberdyne SystemsModel 101 Series 800 Terminator Unitsarerobots in disguise... but not in the way that you're thinking! In their base form, these mass-produced androids make up the bulk of Skynet's army, immensely durable soldiers capable of shrugging off most small-arms fire. What really gives them the edge, however, are their infiltration abilities: when sheathed in a layer of vat-grown artificial flesh, these robots are able to pass themselves off as living, breathinghumans,right down to their synthetic blood. Although this trick is of negligible use against theDecepticons,itdoesallow them to be sentbackwards in timeto carry out "termination" missions without attracting undue attention.
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Transformers vs. The Terminator
The T-800s were created at some point after1984,following the initial Decepticon invasion ofEarth.To fight back, humanity united underSkywatch,an international anti-Transformer alliance, and developed theSkynetsupercomputer network and an army of human-built, anti-Transformer hardware that included the T-800s. Although Skynet's robotic troops were versatile fighters, able to overwhelm the aliens with their numbers, their efforts proved insufficient andMegatron's forces eventually conquered the planet and destroyed humanity. Skynet only survived by feigning surrender, but secretly began constructing a time machine that would allow it to retroactively win the war.Enemy of My Enemy Part Two
By the year2029,Skynet had completed itstime displacement deviceas its dwindling armies of T-800s andT-8000sfought a losing battle against the Decepticons. A group of T-800 robots activated a specially-designed member of their kind—augmented in the organic flesh that would let him travel backwards in time—and brought him toOmega Base,Skynet's final stronghold against the enemy. The T-800 had only moments before the Decepticons caught on to the ruse and attacked, their onslaught effectively ending Skynet,Enemy of My Enemy Part Onebut not before this Terminator was able to travel backwards in time to carry out his final mission: destroy the Cybertronians before they could ever awaken, and ensure that Skynet itself came into being.Enemy of My Enemy Part Two
This Terminator arrived in the year1984,in the city ofLos Angeles,mere hours before the fateful eruption ofMount St. Hilary.The T-800 promptly disguised itself by killing a trucker and taking his clothes—in the process, inadvertently saving the young waitressSarah Connor.After commandeering the man's truck, the Terminator kidnapped her and ordered her to guide him to the volcano inOregon.The pair drove to Oregon and discovered that the volcano had already begun erupting; undeterred, the T-800 veered their truck off the road and drove it straight into theArk,taking the time to shoot down aSky Spyprobe as he did so. Though the impact revealed to Sarah that her kidnapper was a robot, the Terminator drove their truck right into the heart of theArkand prepared to kill the recently awakened Decepticons before they could jeopardize his future.Enemy of My Enemy Part One
Though outmatched and outnumbered by his foes, the Terminator's pre-programmed knowledge of Cybertronian weakpoints let him momentarily blind Megatron and hold his own against the Decepticons, withstanding attacks fromSoundwave,Starscream,andSkywarpbefore Sarah Connor's attempts to escapeRavageled to her accidentally reactivating the stillstasis lockedbody of Optimus Prime. Together withBumblebee,the pair helped turn the tide and provoked the Decepticons into retreating, but the battle left many of their comrades dead or injured. Though reduced to his metal endoskeleton, the Terminator turned his wrath on the two Autobots before Sarah convinced him to stand down. The Terminator then explained the nature of his mission and the circumstances behind him traveling through time; Optimus Prime pointed out that, based on his story, the Terminator's intervention must havealreadychanged history, and offered to help him stop the Decepticons here and now... a proposition that the Terminator grudgingly accepted.Enemy of My Enemy Part Two
AfterArcee,Ratchet,VelocityandWheeljackhad been reactivated, a process that the Terminator had not aided in, the T-800 found himself placed under Arcee's watch who took him to theArk's armory for new weapons. After replicating a Cybertronian firearm scaled to his size, the Terminator helped himself to a handful of Cybertronian explosives, surreptitiously scattering them around the mountain's perimeter before Bumblebee and Sarah Connor called the Autobots to aCyberdyne Systemsfacility under attack by the Decepticons. Facing off againstRefraktor,the T-800 hurled his last explosive at the Decepticon's face whereupon he detonated all of his pilfered bombs, both killing the Decepticon and detonating theArk.It was then that Starscream cornered the android, having worked out the truth of his existence and threatening to undo his timeline by exterminating the Cyberdyne Systems staff.Enemy of My Enemy Part Three
Though a quick scan confirmed that all of Starscream's hostages were expendable to Skynet's creation, the T-800 agreed to work with the Seeker. Riding in his cockpit, the android watched the SIC gun down Soundwave before he was launched at Megatron. Even with Cybertronian weaponry at point-blank range, the Terminator was no match for the Decepticon leader who contemptuously hurled him back at Starscream, the crash downing both. Pinned beneath his ally, the Terminator was tended to by Sarah Connor before Starscream, having overheard the unit's promise to finish its anti-Cybertronian mission, reverted to robot mode, the transformation sheering off the Terminator's legs. Before the Seeker could destroy the T-800 however, he was shot by a still alive Soundwave whom the Terminator and Sarah turned their own artillery on, finishing him. Tossed from Autobot to Autobot, the Terminator was then hurled by Arcee into Megatron's open wound, firing his weapons directly at the tyrant'ssparkand destroying him. The victorious Autobots soon returned to theArkonly to discover the Terminator's duplicity, Arcee cursing him, but Optimus took the opportunity to propose a truce between Autobot and Decepticon, musing that the unit had ultimately fulfilled his mission of stopping the Cybertronian war.
Left within Megatron's spark chamber, the Terminator's burnt remains were recovered by Skywatch who used his corpse to reverse-engineer a new line of T-800 robots, overseen by a new version of Skynet cast in Megatron's likeness.Enemy of My Enemy Part Four
Notes
- The T-800 is, of course, the iconic eponymous character type from theTerminatorfranchise, portrayed byArnold Schwarzenegger.To wit,Sarah Connorrefers to the T-800 as a "psycho German" prior to learning of his nature as a cyborg. (Schwarzenegger is actually Austrian.)
- Tesshō GendaandRyūzaburō Ōtomohave dubbed the T-800 in Japanese.
External links
- Terminator line of robotsat Wikipedia
- Terminatorat Wikipedia
- T-800at the Terminator Wiki
