The T-800 / T-850 Terminator—a cybernetic organism, initially portrayed as a programmable assassin and military infiltration unit, and then as a bodyguard and construction worker—is any one of a number of fictional characters portrayed by both Arnold Schwarzenegger and numerous actor stand-ins digitally overlayed with "Schwarzenegger's likeness" via using archived footage in the Terminator franchise. It is known in-universe as Model 101.

The T-101 (an abbreviation of its designation as Series 800, Cyberdyne Systems Terminator, Model 101, and its Series 850, Resistance Infiltrator Terminator, Model 101 variant) character first appeared as the titular antagonist in The Terminator, a 1984 film directed and co-written by James Cameron, and its sequels. The first film in the series features only one android: the one portrayed by Schwarzenegger, although a second T-800 played by Franco Columbu is shown in a future flashback scene. In the first two sequels, Schwarzenegger's Terminator is pitted against other Terminators; it appears briefly in the third sequel as a T-RIP (Resistance Infiltrator Prototype) CGI model. In the sequels, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Terminator Genisys, Schwarzenegger reprises the role, albeit as the protagonist instead of the antagonist, playing a different but visually identical "Terminator Model 101" in each film.

Within the Terminator universe created by Cameron, Terminators of the same "model" share identical characteristics. In the production of the films, this has allowed multiple Terminators to be portrayed by Schwarzenegger (with varying model iterations accounting for Schwarzenegger's physical aging as the series has progressed). In the context of the stories, this plot device provides a certain continuity for the human characters by exploiting their emotional familiarity with a particular "human" visage associated with each "model".

The "Terminator" title has also been used as a generic name for other human-simulating characters in the "Terminator" universe, notably the liquid metal shapeshifting T-1000 antagonist in the sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day and a T-850 in the sequel Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.

Biography

La série des robots T-800 est créé par le super ordinateur militaire Skynet, pour être l'arme ultime contre la résistance humaine. Le modèle utilisé pour le T-800 modèle 101 est un militaire travaillant pour le programme CRS, le sergent Candy.

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