Terminator (character)

T-800 / T-850 Terminator "Uncle Bob" / "Pops" / "Guardian"
Terminator character
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, portrayed as the Cyberdyne Systems Series 800 Resistance Infiltrator «Model-101, Version 2.4»
First appearance	The Terminator
Created by	James Cameron & Gale Anne Hurd
Portrayed by	Arnold Schwarzenegger (1984, 1991, 2003, 2009*, 2015) Roland Kickinger (2009) Brett Azar (2015) *Archive Footage Only
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Nickname(s)	Model 101 T-101 The "Arnold" Terminator
Aliases	Uncle Bob (second film) Guardian (fifth film) Pops (fifth film)
Species	Android (biorobotics)
Occupation	Assassin (first film, fourth film and fifth film) Bodyguard (second film, third film and fifth film) Construction worker (fifth film) Infiltrator
Manufacturer	Cyberdyne Systems
Model	Series 800 Terminator Model 101 (first, second, fourth and fifth film) Series 850 Terminator Model 101 (third film)

Series 800 Terminator Model 101 (first, second, fourth and fifth film)

The Terminator (also known as T-800 and T-850) is a fictional character from the Terminator franchise portrayed by both Arnold Schwarzenegger and numerous actor stand-ins digitally overlayed with Schwarzenegger's likeness. The Terminator itself is part of a series of machines created by Skynet for infiltration-based assassination missions, and while an android for its appearance resembling a human, it is described as a cybernetic organism for consisting of living tissue over a robotic endoskeleton.

The first appearance of the Terminator was as the titular antagonist in The Terminator, a 1984 film directed and co-written by James Cameron. While the original Terminator was destroyed, other androids using the same "mold" that made them look like Schwarzenegger — said physical template was described in-universe as the "Model 101" — are featured in the sequels. In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Terminator Genisys, Schwarzenegger is the protagonist instead of the antagonist, pitted against other Terminators sent by Skynet. In Terminator Salvation, the T-800 appears briefly as a T-RIP (Resistance Infiltrator Prototype) CGI model and T-800. In the context of the stories, the plot device of having various robots looking the same provides a certain continuity for the human characters by exploiting their emotional familiarity with a particular "human" visage associated with each "model".