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The ''Terminator'' series is an American science fiction franchise created by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd. It encompasses a series of films, comics, novels, and additional media concerning battles between Skynet's synthetic intelligent machine network, and John Connor's Resistance forces and the rest of the human race. Skynet's most well-known products in its genocidal goals are the various terminator models, such as the T-800, who was portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger from the first film, and similar units he also portrayed in the later films. ==Premise== The central theme of the franchise is the battle for survival between the nearly-extinct human race and the world-spanning synthetic intelligence that is Skynet. Skynet is positioned in the first film as a U.S. strategic "Global Digital Defense Network" computer system by Cyberdyne Systems which becomes self-aware. Upon activation, it immediately perceived all humans as a "security threat", and formulated a plan to systematically wipe out humanity itself. It initiates a nuclear first strike against Russia, ensuring a devastating counter strike and a nuclear holocaust, wiping out much of humanity instantly. In the post-apocalyptic aftermath, Skynet builds up its own autonomous machine-based military capability, which includes the Terminators used against individual human targets, and proceeds to fight a persistent total war against the surviving elements of humanity, some of whom have organized militarily into the Resistance. At some point in this future, Skynet develops the ability of time travel, and both it and the Resistance seek to use it to win the war; either by altering or accelerating past events in Skynet's favour, or by preventing or forestalling their apocalyptic present timeline. ===Judgment Day=== In the franchise, Judgment Day (a reference to the biblical Day of Judgment) is referred to as the date on which Skynet becomes self-aware, decides to exterminate mankind, and launches a nuclear attack on Russia, who in retaliation launches a nuclear attack on the United States. Due to the element of time travel and the consequent ability to change the future, several dates are given for Judgment Day during the franchise. In ''Terminator 2: Judgment Day'', Sarah states that Judgment Day will occur on August 29, 1997. However, ''Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'' shows that the Judgment Day holocaust has been postponed to July 25, 2004. In ''Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles'', Judgment Day was delayed to April 21, 2011, due to the attack on Cyberdyne Systems in ''T2''. The passing of the final date for Judgment Day on April 21, 2011, prompted BBC News to pose the question, "How close were the ''Terminator'' films to the reality of 2011?", comparing how far present day technology and society had developed compared to the predictions of the franchise. In ''Terminator Genisys'', Judgment Day is postponed to an unspecified day on October 2017. This is due to a Nexus event altering the timeline; In ''T2'', Miles Dyson began developing Skynet using the recovered arm and chip from the T-800 that appeared in the first movie. In ''Genisys'', that Terminator is destroyed and dissolved in acid by the Guardian; thus preventing Cyberdyne from reverse engineering it. This postpones Judgment Day even further. However, by the end of the film, this is either prevented or further delayed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Terminator (franchise)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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