Movies - T-800

	Movies - T-800

The T-800 (full designation: Cyberdyne Systems
Series 800-850 Model 101) is an android, programmed to kill, in the fictional universe of the Terminator
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The T-800 was to be the ultimate weapon devised by the military supercomputer Skynet to be used against the remaining human resistance. It was thought that a machine designed to the specifications of the human skeleton, and subsequently wrapped in specially grown flesh and tissue, would be able to infiltrate military structures disguised as a human and, subsequently, terminate human life from within the outpost. Every aspect of this android is geared toward infiltration without detection. Not only does it look human, but it sweats, smells, bleeds and can even mimic specific human voices perfectly. However, dogs can sense the machine's presence and are often used at guarded checkpoints to detect one entering the area. Also, the original Terminator script mentions that distortion in the electronic devices (specifically, television receivers) evident when the Terminator is in the close proximity, probably caused by its power source, is another give-away.

To aid in its role as a killer, its endoskeleton is constructed from a hyperalloy to form a combat-chassis, and thus is rendered essentially immune to small arms fire (pistols, rifles, etc.) In the books made on the basis of the terminator franchise it is said that the alloy used for construction is titanium-tungsten (Ti-W) steel. Nominal duration of its power source batteries is 120 years. However, a T-800 has the ability to enter into a reduced-power mode. In this setting, its hydraulic servomotor strength is limited to 50% of normal capacity, and its vision is limited to infrared only. In this setting, a T-800 can function far beyond its normal 120 year span. The T-800 power cell may be similar to the modern day RTG device, which uses nuclear decay to produce energy.

The android foot soldiers, seen in the future war sequences in Terminator 2 and Terminator 3 are endoskeletons of two makes: the T-800 and its predecessor, the T-500. These T-800 units are not built with the time-consuming and delicate process of applying live tissue. Instead, this "infantry" version of the T-800 endoskeleton is faster and easier to produce in large numbers. In the special edition of Terminator 3, the endoskeletal infantry was also reported to include T-850 endoskeletons. Whether this was a canonical revision or an addition with the advancement of technology is unclear.

A Series 800 Terminator, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, was the antagonist in the original Terminator
film along with a counterpart from the future war (played by Franco Columbu) and the protagonist of the second and third Terminator films.

The original Terminator sent to eliminate Sarah Connor in 1984 was destroyed at the end of the first Terminator movie, but the remains were not destroyed (after first being recovered from Cyberdyne) until the end of the second movie when John Connor threw them into a vat of molten steel.

A deleted scene from T3 reveals that Model 101 used as its physical template an Air Force Chief Master Sergeant William Candy. However, this scene is uncharacteristically humorous for the Terminator films (even considering the escalating use of humour in the two sequels) and also explicitly indicates that the Terminators were developed by human beings before Judgement Day, rather than being purely creations of Skynet as previously indicated. Not only does this make little sense, it contradicts information provided in the previous two films, such as that earlier T-600 model terminators with easily-spotted rubber skin existed in Kyle Reese's future timeline before the development of the 101 T-800 (see below). The only possible explanation for this disparity is that it is somehow a result of the shifting of the timeline which occurs between T2 and T3. However, the fact that the scene was deleted suggests that its content was deemed by its makers to be either too blatant a violation of Terminator canon, too humorous in tone, or both.

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