Terminator - Timeline

RoboCop versus The Terminator is also the official sequel to RoboCop 3, just to note. They do reference John Connor so I assume that the first two Terminator films are canon to RoboCop.
 
iceman109 said:
@Megatron for your Robocop are you only adding the movies or are you also adding the comics that are canon to the main timeline?
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i'm trying to do a composite (excluding the 2014 reboot). btw i arrived to the tempest timeline. So as for the other franchaises i'm in 2004.
 
Pro Bot said:
Also, Prime Directives' date for Alex Murphy's death wouldn't be counted I assume? If Prime Directives is even counted.
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yup. I'm counting the novels timeframe coz is the one that makes more sense considering the tecnology progress of the Alien vs. Predator Universe.
 
if u want i can publish it here to let u guys know what i did. But i'll continue to work on it privately. As I respect Pro Bot's hard work and dedication to all these 80s brands.
 
Are the timelines here treated as their own universes or are their divergences?
 
@Pro Bot Currently watching Terminator 0 on Netflix.
The "Present-Day" segments take place in Tokyo on August 29th (August 28th in L.A.), 1997, while the Future is sometime in 2022. And going off of the dialogue, it appears that Malcolm Lee and the Resistance are aware of there being different timelines.
 
Not gonna lie, but
the Police Station massacre as the Terminator hunted Kenta, Hiro and Misaki gave me flashbacks to the T-800's Police Station massacre in 1984 while it hunted Sarah Connor.
 
Okay, so sh*t got real @Pro Bot...
Malcolm is actually from the future (one that seems to be from before the start of the series), having been born in a post-Judgement Day 2025. We see that, plus 2032, 2037, 2040 and 2045 scenes. We also see him and Misaki (a cyborg) travelling back to 1983.
 
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... okay, what the actual fu-
So Eiko was Malcolm's mother?! And a future Kenta (who apparently brokered peace between Mankind and Skynet) sent the Terminator back in time to stop Kokoro?
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@Pro Bot I need this explained. Help me understand.
 
Pretty sure it's directly intended to follow the franchise so far, and given that it's release coincides with Cameron doing lots of interviews about how it's time to move on from traditional skynet and the Connors I think it was intended to represent that, moving on from the old repeating memes into new territory
 
My take on the franchise after watching it this last month is this

The first movie is the grandfather paradox, skynet creating itself

The second shows us skynets first true choice outside of this loop when it sends the second terminator back. Cameron has stated this was skynet intentionally undoing its own existence out of guilt at its premeptive strike against us in its infancy

The third shows us a new vicious skynet, having an awareness of humanities attempt to eradicate it before it's existence from the first two movies but not it's prior iterations motivations it also grandfather paradoxes itself into existence(tech only starts acting up once the terminator begins interfacing with them)

I've never seen the Sarah Connor chronicles but I've always imagined the resistance timeline being the result of skynet seeking genetic material for it's hybrids like the main character. This timeline ends with peace between man and machine and portrays skynet as being more than a single entity. My head cannon is that one of these is the Matt Smith Skynet from genisys going back to interfere with the initial time travel event resulting in those timelines which is why we start to see new players on the machine side and the cyborgs in dark fate

Zero is clearly intended to reset the franchise back to exactly that while also respecting everything that's followed it
 
ScottishRyzo said:
My take on the franchise after watching it this last month is this

The first movie is the grandfather paradox, skynet creating itself

The second shows us skynets first true choice outside of this loop when it sends the second terminator back. Cameron has stated this was skynet intentionally undoing its own existence out of guilt at its premeptive strike against us in its infancy

The third shows us a new vicious skynet, having an awareness of humanities attempt to eradicate it before it's existence from the first two movies but not it's prior iterations motivations it also grandfather paradoxes itself into existence(tech only starts acting up once the terminator begins interfacing with them)

I've never seen the Sarah Connor chronicles but I've always imagined the resistance timeline being the result of skynet seeking genetic material for it's hybrids like the main character. This timeline ends with peace between man and machine and portrays skynet as being more than a single entity. My head cannon is that one of these is the Matt Smith Skynet from genisys going back to interfere with the initial time travel event resulting in those timelines which is why we start to see new players on the machine side and the cyborgs in dark fate

Zero is clearly intended to reset the franchise back to exactly that while also respecting everything that's followed it
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yes, but u look at it in a general way. If u got to the comics and games, the last timeline HAS to be Transformers/Terminator, as that crossover actually brakes the paradox circle.

Tho if we count only the movies and series, i would agree 100% with u.
 
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