John Connor

John Connor
Terminator character
Edward Furlong as John Connor in Terminator 2:Judgment Day and T2 3D: Battle Across Time.
First appearance	Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Created by	James Cameron
Portrayed by	Edward Furlong (second film; child) Dalton Abbot (second film; child) Michael Edwards (second film; adult) Nick Stahl (third film; adult) Christian Bale (fourth film; adult) Jason Clarke (fifth film; adult)
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Gender	Male
Family	Kyle Reese (father) Sarah Connor (mother)
Spouse(s)	Kate Brewster(T3 & TS)
Children	Unborn child (TS)

John Connor
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles character
Thomas Dekker as John Connor in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
First appearance	"Pilot"
Last appearance	"Born to Run"
Created by	James Cameron Josh Friedman
Portrayed by	Thomas Dekker
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Aliases	John Reese John Baum
Gender	Male
Occupation	High school student
Family	Kyle Reese (father) Sarah Connor (mother) Derek Reese (paternal uncle) Cameron (guardian, confidant)

John Connor is a fictional character of the Terminator franchise. Created by writer and director James Cameron, the character is first referred to in the 1984 film The Terminator and first appears in its 1991 sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day initially portrayed by Michael Edwards (briefly as the older Connor) and then by teenage actor Edward Furlong throughout the remainder of the film; in addition, Linda Hamilton's real-life son Dalton Abbot played John as a toddler in a dream sequence. The character is subsequently portrayed by 23-year-old Nick Stahl in the 2003 film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and by 19-year-old Thomas Dekker in the 2008 television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Welsh-English actor Christian Bale portrays 33-year-old Connor in the film series's fourth installment, Terminator Salvation, and Australian actor Jason Clarke portrays a 44-year-old Connor, who becomes the T-3000 and serves as the antagonist of the film series's fifth installment, Terminator Genisys.

In the narrative of his fictional universe, John Connor is a messianic figure (born on 28th of February 1985) who will lead the Resistance to defeat an empire of robotic Terminators amassed by Skynet (the rogue military supercomputer) following Judgment Day (a cybernetic revolt doomsday event). When his mother Sarah Connor became the target of a time travelling Terminator unit (T-800 (Model 101)) in the first film The Terminator, John sent resistance fighter Kyle Reese to protect her, knowing Kyle and Sarah would later conceive John himself. With foreknowledge from his parents, John fends off Terminator assassination attempts in the second and third films before Judgment Day. In the fourth film, John fights with the Resistance in a post-apocalyptic setting after Skynet has taken over. As the series' central plot heavily involves the concept of time travel, the story of the character is often non-linear and portrays many possible outcomes, for example The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Terminator 3 both continue from the ending of Terminator 2 but are depicted as taking place in alternate timelines, while in Terminator Genisys (2015) revisits and changes the events of 1984's The Terminator.