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Ein cooler Typ
Nov 26, 2013

by FactsAreUseless
why doesn't he transform into, like, anyone else on the planet, so the good guys don't immediately recognize him

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Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

Recognise in mug mybanys

Bishop
Aug 15, 2000
I think it might only be able to mimic poo poo it has touched

Bishop
Aug 15, 2000
Also I think it was a movie about time traveling robots

Otacon
Aug 13, 2002


doesnt he transform into ripley at the end tho

Stick Figure Mafia
Dec 11, 2004

cuz he pretty

The Bible
May 8, 2010

He shouldn't have even been able to go back in time by in-universe rules. He was entirely metal.

Also, artificial skin on a nuke, blah blah blah

Sweaty IT Nerd
Jul 13, 2007

Bishop posted:

Also I think it was a movie about time traveling robots

Yeah, the answer is Robert Patrick is a cool guy.

Flannelette
Jan 17, 2010


Question 2. why doesn't he transform into the cop he encounters first instead of simply transforming into his clothes.

Otacon
Aug 13, 2002


Flannelette posted:

Question 2. why doesn't he transform into the cop he encounters first instead of simply transforming into his clothes.

you mean carl winslow?

Mr.Pibbleton
Feb 3, 2006

Aleuts rock, chummer.

The Bible posted:

He shouldn't have even been able to go back in time by in-universe rules. He was entirely metal.

Also, artificial skin on a nuke, blah blah blah

In the comics Skynet sent back a terminator and a fat dude full of guns one time.

Otacon
Aug 13, 2002


sugar enriched flour, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, polysorbate 60, and yellow dye number 5

that is what the terminator is made from

RennZero
Oct 10, 2007

"Get in."
why doesn't skynet just send more than one terminator back at a time? they could just invade the past with an army of terminators and be like, well, yup, we run this poo poo now.

Pulp Can Move
Oct 4, 2012
it's weird how he has to physically touch a person to mimic him/her, but only in the most marginal way possible. like, that security guard at the nuthouse stepped on him with his shoes, and he's able to map the guy's body right down to the hairs on his head? he should at least have to touch a titty or some butt skin or something.

Otacon
Aug 13, 2002


and how come the terminator even has a wrist mounted self destruct thing anyway, i mean how often would such an advanced piece of machinery even need to kill itself? never made sense to me as a kid

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.
I really didn't like that they gave the terminator a comedy sidekick played by Rob Schneider

Flynn Taggart
Jun 14, 2006

Ein cooler Typ posted:

why doesn't he transform into, like, anyone else on the planet, so the good guys don't immediately recognize him

He's cocky

Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



RennZero posted:

why doesn't skynet just send more than one terminator back at a time? they could just invade the past with an army of terminators and be like, well, yup, we run this poo poo now.

My friend had an idea for a movie where they send back on Terminator every day since the day Sarah Connor was born. That way if the first one fucks up, the next day there are two, then three.

The movie itself would just be Babies Day Out but with an army of Terminators.

Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:
Why the gently caress would the studio hire 10 different actors to play the same roll ya Dingus!!

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot
because of white male priviledge

Alan Smithee
Jan 4, 2005


A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms.

Enthusiasms, enthusiasms...
you should watch It Follows, that's basically the entire premise

TontoCorazon
Aug 18, 2007


Ein cooler Typ posted:

why doesn't he transform into, like, anyone else on the planet, so the good guys don't immediately recognize him

He should have smiled a little. That would have put people at ease and lowered their guards.

Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo

Bishop posted:

Also I think it was a movie about time traveling robots

It's this

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax
when the terminators are fighting on the catwalk at the end why doesn't it collapse under the sheer weight of them

Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo

TacticalUrbanHomo posted:

when the terminators are fighting on the catwalk at the end why doesn't it collapse under the sheer weight of them

Because it's a loving movie, dummy

TacticalUrbanHomo
Aug 17, 2011

by Lowtax
loving lol if gnarly doesn't probate someone in this thread with the probation reason just "hasta la vista, baby"

Yolomon Wayne
Jun 10, 2014

You call it "The Big Bang", but what really happened is
Grimey Drawer
He doesnt have enough material to transform into an average cop.

The Bible
May 8, 2010

Mr.Pibbleton posted:

In the comics Skynet sent back a terminator and a fat dude full of guns one time.

But why bother? Just cover the guns in that fake skin Arnold had that let him time travel. Or a massive nuclear bomb.

Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



The Bible posted:

But why bother? Just cover the guns in that fake skin Arnold had that let him time travel. Or a massive nuclear bomb.

Skynet can only change the future so much without making it so it didn't ever exist in the first place.

:goonsay:

The Bible
May 8, 2010

TheJoker138 posted:

Skynet can only change the future so much without making it so it didn't ever exist in the first place.

:goonsay:

Eh, that'll do.

Lascivious Sloth
Apr 26, 2008

by sebmojo
I don't understand why the terminator cop goes after sarah conner? she's white..

TOOT BOOT
May 25, 2010

why doesn't skynet send back some computer cum so sarah connor gives birth to a terminator baby

GABA ghoul
Oct 29, 2011

I'm currently a terminator sent by skynet to shitpost on the internet. i'll try answering some question since there seems to be a lot of anti-skynet propaganda going on here

*no time travelling nukes because skynet will be build in LA, he can't destroy it and all his future makers with it

*skynet sent all terminators at the same time. he knew exactly where john Connor was, so he sent his best machine after him. The info on Sarah Connor was very bad and vague, so he sent his second best machine after her. they arrived years apart only from your perspective.

*the poly mimetic terminator is designed and optimized for a specific body form. he can mimic other bodies, but will perform much worse while doing so. he tries to use his optimal bodyshape as much as possible

*scans of a bodiea are performed by running currents through the skin an measure resistance gradients. just like you body fat scale does to tell you how fat you are.

Gatts
Jan 2, 2001

Goodnight Moon

Nap Ghost
As stated by my cousin "First Terminator was a robot, the second was liquid metal, the latest is a powder Terminator. Makes sense."

extra stout
Feb 24, 2005

ISILDUR's ERR
sounds like somebody skipped a very important week of marketing class at community college that would have explained this very topic

Budget Dracula
Jun 6, 2007

Yolomon Wayne posted:

He doesnt have enough material to transform into an average cop.

Diesel Fucker
Aug 14, 2003

I spent my rent money on tentacle porn.
They tried having about 17 people play Jason in Friday The 13th 9 and it was dogshit seeing some random schlub doing Jason poo poo. You want that iconic zombie man ripping out guts from an rear end in a top hat.

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

Ein cooler Typ posted:

why doesn't he transform into, like, anyone else on the planet, so the good guys don't immediately recognize him

so the audience will recognize him

loquacius
Oct 21, 2008

Bishop posted:

I think it might only be able to mimic poo poo it has touched

the T1000 is an Animorph, mind blown :tviv:

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Pneub
Mar 12, 2007

I'M THE DEVIL, AND I WILL WASH OVER THE EARTH AND THE SEAS WILL RUN RED WITH THE BLOOD OF ALL THE SINNERS

I AM REBORN
The way I justified it was that it was easier to restore back to his Robert Patrick default every time he has to regrow his head or whatever. It's probably easier on his neural net cpu processor, since you can see he has to stand still for a few seconds every time he turns into a completely different person and not because they probably couldn't do that morph effect with a moving camera back in 1991.

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