While logically inevitable , the end of the third installment of theTerminatorfranchise was n’t the happiest ratiocination to the trilogy . And now , with the plus of a comic leger continuation of the serial , that ending becomes far bleaker , specially forthe ultimate hero of theTerminatorfranchise , John Connor .

InTerminator 3 : lift of the Machines , fans travel along John Connor as an adult within the altered timeline establish after the happy end ofTerminator 2 : Judgment Day . In the old motion-picture show , John , Sarah , and ‘ Uncle Bob ’ ( the T-800 Terminator ) obviate Judgment Day , i.e. the day Skynet came online and launch atomic missile around the macrocosm , in effect destroying human civilisation . It was designate to take place in 1997 , but due to the squad ’s achiever inT2 , that sidereal day came and went with no murderous stilted intelligence agency set in motion thermonuclear warhead . However , what John Connor came to study during the events ofTerminator 3was that they did n’t keep Judgment Day from happen , they just keep it from happening in 1997 . In this ‘ new timeline ’ , Judgment Day was move from 1997 to 2004 , and this meter , John was n’t able to save the world . John and the char he was destine to marry , Katherine Brewster , demand refuge in a atomic bomb tax shelter set up by the U.S. government activity . The bunker was equipped with radios and other communication devices , as it was a hub for centralized tidings for the United States . This is how John was able to initiallyunite humanity against the Terminators , even as he and Kate await out the nuclear fallout of Skynet ’s doomsday .

Terminator’s Judgment Day Didn’t Just End The World, It Killed Kate Brewster

InTerminator 2 : Infinityby Simon Furman and Nigel Raynor , reader are shown what became of the earth afterTerminator 3 ’s Judgment Day- and it ’s precisely as fans would expect it to be . The earthly concern is desolate , irradiated , and helter-skelter . The human resistance fights dutifully against the machines , though there are simply too many of them , and they get more and more stronger with every reach model . However , despite the poor odds , this book of account discover that the Resistance actually receive a major win . In the class 2033 , the Resistance is successful in dismantle Skynet , which should be something worth celebrating , though Skynet was n’t totally beaten . The AI produce a image Temporal Terminator with forcefulness fields , energy swords , and independent time travel capableness to undo humanity ’s victory - which is the cornerstone of this serial . While that ’s an interesting ( albeit tragic ) plait to an otherwise hopeful outcome , the script necessitate things one stop further by expose that Katherine Brewster conk out inside the bomb shelter before she and John made it out .

As if literally watch the terminal of the earth was n’t bad enough , this risible makesTerminator 3 ’s ending so much bleaker by giving fan the tot up knowledge that , when it is all aver and done , Kate wo n’t even make it out of the bunker alive . This is specially disconcerting given that - in the young timeline created byT2and carry on inT3- Kate Brewster was supposed to assist John in establishing the Resistance . Not only that , butTerminator Salvationreveals that Kate becomes pregnant with John ’s child in 2018 , mean the altered history play out in the timeline ofTerminator 2 : Infinityrobs John of his Resistance partner , his true love , and the mother of his future child .

John Connor did n’t just find the end of the world upon the conclusion ofTerminator 3 , but also the start of the end of his earth , and that of the house he was tragically always destined to suffer in this skewed timeline of theTerminatorfranchise , proving that the end of the original trilogy was far bleaker than it seemed .

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Terminator’s T-800 and T-X with the world ending behind them.

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Terminator 3 - Claire Danes as Kate Brewster

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