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The Terminator (1984) KILL COUNT is the four hundred and twenty-ninth video of The Kill Count.
Overview[]
A cyborg is sent back in time from 2029 to 1984 Los Angeles; an assassin known as a Terminator, disguised as a human male and programmed to hunt and assassinate a woman named Sarah Connor. Separately, a human soldier named Kyle Reese also arrives, intent on stopping it, as they both steal ammunition and clothing. After searching for addresses in a telephone directory, the Terminator systematically dispatches women that share Sarah's name before tracking the actual Sarah to a nightclub, but she is rescued by Reese. The duo steal a car and escape, with the Terminator pursuing them in a stolen police car.
As they hide in a parking lot, Reese explains to Sarah that an artificially intelligent defense network known as Skynet, created by Cyberdyne Systems, will become self-aware in the near future and trigger a global nuclear war to bring humankind to its extinction. Sarah's future son, John, will rally the survivors and lead a successful resistance movement against Skynet and its mechanical forces. On the verge of the resistance's victory, Skynet sends the Terminator back in time to eliminate Sarah, thereby preventing John's birth. The Terminator is an efficient and relentless killing machine with a perfect voice-mimicking ability and a durable metal endoskeleton covered by living tissue for it to appear human.
The police then apprehend Reese and Sarah after another encounter with the Terminator. It then attacks the police station, killing several officers while hunting for Sarah. Reese and Sarah escape, steal another car and take refuge in a motel, where they assemble several pipe bombs and plan their next move. Reese admits that he has adored Sarah since he saw her in a photograph John gave him and that he traveled through time out of love for her. Reciprocating his feelings, Sarah kisses him, and they have sex, conceiving John. The Terminator locates Sarah by intercepting a call intended for her mother. She and Reese escape the motel in a pickup truck while it pursues them on a motorcycle. In the ensuing chase, Reese is badly wounded by gunfire while throwing pipe bombs at the Terminator. Sarah knocks the Terminator off its motorcycle but loses control of the truck, which flips over.
The Terminator, now bloodied and badly damaged, hijacks a tank truck and attempts to run down Sarah, but Reese slides a pipe bomb into the truck's hose tube, causing it to explode and reduce the Terminator to its endoskeleton. It pursues them into a Cyberdyne-owned factory, where Reese activates machinery there to confuse it, but it eventually discovers them. Reese then lodges his final pipe bomb into its midsection, blowing it apart, but at the cost of his life. Its still-functional torso then pursues Sarah, but she manages to lure it into a hydraulic press that she uses to destroy it once and for all.
Months later, Sarah, visibly pregnant with John, travels through Mexico, recording audio tapes to pass on to him. At a gas station, a boy takes a polaroid photograph of her, the exact one that John will one day give to Reese, and she buys it. The gas station owner comments that there is a storm coming and Sarah replies that she is aware, alluding to humanity's impending conflict against Skynet, before driving off towards it.
Deaths[]
Counted Deaths[]
- Soldier - Blown up by Hunter-Killer - 1 min in
- Punk Leader - Thrown into gate by T-800 - 6 mins in
- Street Punk - Punched through torso by T-800 - 6 mins in
- Gun Store Clerk - Shotgunned by T-800 - 14 mins in
- Sarah Louise Connor - Shot 6x & terminated by T-800 - 16 mins in
- Soldier - Blown up by Hunter-Killer - 19 mins in
- Gunner - Shot by flying Hunter-Killer - 19 mins in
- Matt - Used by T-800 for renovations - 31 mins in
- Ginger - Shot 6x & terminated by T-800 - 32 mins in
- Club Patron #1 - Caught in crossfire by T-800 - 35 mins in
- Club Patron #2 - Caught in crossfire by T-800 - 36 mins in
- Club Patron #3 - Caught in crossfire by T-800 - 36 mins in
- LAPD Officer #1 - I'll be backed up against the wall - 1 hr in
- LAPD Officer #2 - Gunned down by T-800 - 1 hr in
- LAPD Officer #3 - Gunned down by T-800 - 1 hr in
- LAPD Officer #4 - Gunned down by T-800 - 1 hr in
- LAPD Officer #5 - Gunned down by T-800 - 1 hr in
- LAPD Officer #6 - Gunned down by T-800 - 1 hr in
- LAPD Officer #7 - Gunned down by T-800 - 1 hr in
- LAPD Officer #8 - Gunned down by T-800 - 1 hr in
- LAPD Officer #9 - Gunned down by T-800 - 1 hr 1 min in
- LAPD Officer #10 - Gunned down by T-800 - 1 hr 1 min in
- LAPD Officer #11 - Gunned down by T-800 - 1 hr 1 min in
- LAPD Officer #12 - Gunned down by T-800 - 1 hr 2 mins in
- LAPD Officer #13 - Gunned down by T-800 - 1 hr 2 mins in
- LAPD Officer #14 - Gunned down by T-800 - 1 hr 2 mins in
- Traxler - Shot offscreen by T-800 - 1 hr 2 mins in
- Vukovich - Shot offscreen by T-800 - 1 hr 2 mins in
- Desk Body - Killed offscreen by T-800 - 1 hr 3 mins in
- Human Refugee #1 - Gunned down by Infiltrator Terminator - 1 hr 12 mins in
- Human Refugee #2 - Gunned down by Infiltrator Terminator - 1 hr 12 mins in
- Human Refugee #3 - Gunned down by Infiltrator Terminator - 1 hr 12 mins in
- Human Refugee #4 - Gunned down by Infiltrator Terminator - 1 hr 12 mins in
- Human Refugee #5 - Gunned down by Infiltrator Terminator - 1 hr 12 mins in
- Human Refugee #6 - Gunned down by Infiltrator Terminator - 1 hr 12 mins in
- Human Refugee #7 - Gunned down by Infiltrator Terminator - 1 hr 12 mins in
- Human Refugee #8 - Gunned down by Infiltrator Terminator - 1 hr 12 mins in
- Trucker - Roadkilled (maybe?) - 1 hr 27 mins in
- Kyle Reese - Shot, beaten, died of injuries after explosion - 1 hr 36 mins in
- The Terminator - Ton of shit, ultimately crushed by hydraulic press - 1 hr 39 mins
Non-Counted Deaths[]
- 3,000,000,000 Humans - Nuked by Skynet in the future (Number Confirmed in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
- Sarah Ann Connor - Killed by T-800 off-screen (news report)
- Sarah Connor's Mother - Possibly killed by T-800 off-screen.
Trivia[]
- This is the second appearance of Arnold Schwarzenegger on the Kill Count. His first appearance being Predator.
- This is also the first appearance of Linda Hamilton on the Kill Count, with the second being Children of the Corn.
- This is the third appearance of Bill Paxton on the Kill Count after Aliens and Predator 2.
- This is also the second appearance of Michael Biehn on the Kill Count as well after Aliens.
- This is also the second appearance of Brian Thompson on the Kill Count. His first being Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.
- And finally, it is also the 4th appearance of Lance Hendrickson on the Kill Count. His first 3 appearances being as Bishop in Aliens, and voicing him in Alien 3, and as Charles Bishop Weyland in Alien vs. Predator.
- This is the second James Cameron movie on the Kill Count, the first one being Aliens.
- This is the third appearance of the Killigami.
- In the numbers, multiple victims (ex. Gun Store Clerk, etc.) are in the wrong places, and there are only 32 body icons, even though there were 40 counted kills.