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The Terminator Narrative Chronology
Chronology of events in movies, comics and games.
Main info
The following list of events from movies, comics and games has been made by Terminator fan Julian. For
easy reference (or by worst case scenario, that his list disappears from the net), we copied it onto
the TerminatorFiles website. All credits for this comprehensive list go to Julian Darius.
Julian Darius:
"Note that this chronology does not proceed in a chronological manner. Put differently, the Terminator
timeline changes due to time travel: although the original film suggests that time cannot be changed,
with any intervention back in time leading inexorably to the same future, subsequent movies embraced
the idea that time could be changed."
"Consequently, the chronology continues until someone sends someone back in time, then continues at the
point of arrival in the past, continuing again until someone is sent back in time."
"This ingenious manner of displaying a chronology of contradictory timelines is made clearer in the table
below by solids indicating when time has been changed (or, in essence, rebooted)."
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| 1955 |
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Ellis Ruggles (then 21) arrives in Los Angeles from the future, sent to watch over Sarah
Connor in case another Terminator arrives (established in 'The Terminator: One Shot') |
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| 1959 |
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Sarah Connor born (established on the plaque in her tomb in 'Terminator 3') |
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| 1965 |
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Corporal Graves arrives from the future on a freeway in Los Angeles and is hit and killed
five seconds later (established in 'The Terminator: One Shot') |
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| 1984 |
May |
A model T-101 arrives in Los Angeles from the future, sent to terminate Sarah Connor, followed
soonafter by Sgt. Kyle Reese of the human resistance, sent by John Connor [Sarah's son and the
leader of the resistance] to protect Sarah Connor; Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor make love,
leading to her [paradoxical] conception of John Connor; inside the Cyberdyne factory, T-101
kills Sgt. Reese and Sarah destroys T-101 in a hydraulic press; Cyberdyne discovers T-101's
intact metal arm [paradoxically leading to the creation of Skynet, as if this was the way
things originally happened] (From 'The Terminator') |
While the right Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese fight the T-101 in Los Angeles, a different 800-model
Terminator (who looks like a woman) arrives in Los Angeles and finds another Sarah Connor (a
fourth), becoming so by her recent marriage to an artist named John Connor, pursuing her to San
Francisco, where she and her husband are honeymooning; Ellis Ruggles (sent from the future to
1955) dies protecting her, but the Terminator takes her with it to the bottom of the city's
bay, leaving only John Connor and Ruggles's pet monkey ('The Terminator: One Shot', 51 pages
with a single pop-up, written by James Robinson with Matt Wagner painted art, published by
Dark Horse in 1991) |
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| 1985 |
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Sarah Connor gives birth to John Connor |
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| 1994 |
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While Sarah and John Connor are living in Baja, she is diagnosed with leukemia and given six
months to live, though she will live for three years, long enough to save the world in
'Terminator 2' (established in 'Terminator 3' in the scene occurring in her tomb). |
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| 19951 |
June |
John Connor and Kate Brewster kiss in Mike Kripke's basement the day before 'Terminator 2'
(established in 'Terminator 3') |
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| A T-101 reprogrammed by the resistance arrives in Los Angeles from the future, sent to protect
John Connor, followed soonafter by a T-1000 sent to terminate John Connor; after escaping the
T-1000 in a dramatic chase, John Connor orders T-101 to retrieve his mother Sarah Connor from
the hospital, where the three avoid T-1000 again; after recuperating, Sarah returns to L.A. to
kill Miles Bennett Dyson, the man most responsible for Skynet's creation at Cyberyne; she wounds
him but cannot kill him, though John and T-101 convince him to destroy his life's work; the four
set explosive charges and retrieve the intact metal arm from the 1984 T-101, but a SWAT team
enters the building and kills Dyson before charges explode, destroying Cyberdyne; T-1000 attacks
the three, leading to a chase ending at a steel mill, where T-1000 is melted and T-101 is
deliberately melted as well ('Terminator 2: Judgment Day') |
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| 1997 |
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Sarah Connor dies of leukemia; John Connor hits the roads, living a nomadic life, taking odd
jobs; unknown to her son John, her body is cremated in Mexico, her ashes scattered in the sea;
her will (presumably in case history wasn't changed in 'Terminator 2') provides for weapons to
be stored in her coffin (established in 'Terminator 3', the date is given on the plaque in
her tomb) |
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CRS (CyberResearch Systems) at Edwards Air Force Base, commanded by General Brewster, inherits
Cyberdyne's patents and begins making robotic weapons, including T-1 robots and prototype
hunter-killers, as well as Skynet itself (established in 'Terminator 3') |
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In response to a virus disrupting most of the world's computers, Skynet is activated,
triggering a nuclear Armageddon, merely delayed after time was changed in
'Terminator 2' (established in 'Terminator 3') |
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| 20032 |
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The T-X arrives in Los Angeles from the future, sent to terminate John Connor and his
lieutenants, followed soonafter by a T-101 reprogrammed by the resistance, sent to
protect Katherine Brewster and John Connor; the T-X kills lieutenants Jose Barrera
(working at a fast food restaurant) and then Elizabeth and William Anderson (then
young adults); Kate Brewster encounters John Connor, who she last saw in junior high
(just before 'Terminator 2'); after battling the T-X, Kate and John escape with the
T-101, and the three visit Sarah Connor's tomb, getting the guns there and again fighting
the T-X; the T-101 explains that General Brewster at Edwards Air Force Base activates
Skynet that same day, leading to nuclear Armageddon hours later, and that the T-X will
now go after General Brewster, which Kate orders the T-101 to help prevent; Gen.
Brewster activates Skynet while the T-X infiltrates the base, taking control of the
base's robots; the T-101, Kate, and John arrive, but the T-X kills Gen. Brewster, who
dies ordering his daughter to go to Crystal Peak to deactivate Skynet; at Crystal Peak,
the T-101 dies killing the T-X, but Kate and John find that the base is not Skynet's
core (it doesn't have one) but rather a 1960s-era Presidential nuclear shelter, and they
hear by radio of the nuclear holocaust outside ('Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'). |
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Terminator 3: War of the Machines (follows the plot of the movie but also has
scenes in the future). |
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John Connor and Katherine Brewster presumably survive the fallout in Crystal Peak,
forming a relationship and the core of the human resistance; Kate Brewster becomes
second in command, and they have children who become important in the resistance. |
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| 2029 |
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The human resistance breeches the robots' master control just in time to see the T-101
(of 'The Terminator') dematerialize; Sgt. Kyle Reese volunteers and is sent back to stop
it (established in 'The Terminator'). |
The T-101 (seen in 'The Terminator') was actually the second of two Terminators sent back
to 1984, the first having looked like a woman; while the last of the 800-models counterattack,
John Connor sends Ellis Ruggles back to 1955 and Corporal Graves back to 1965 to watch over
Sarah Connor's life before 1984; John Connor apparently plans to destroy the time machine
(established in 'The Terminator: One Shot') |
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| 2032 |
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A T-101 infiltrates the resistance and kills John Connor. |
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A T-X is sent by the machines back in time to kill John Connor and his lieutenants;
Kate has the T-101 assassin reactivated and sent back in time (established in
'Terminator 3'). |
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Notes
1 In the opening of 'Terminator 3', John Connor narrates at the beginning that he was 13 in
'Terminator 2', which is at odds with this chronology.
2 The date of 'Terminator 3' is speculative. In the middle of 'Terminator 3' (just before
T-101 removes his fuel cell explodes in the desert), John Connor states that 'Terminator 3' was over
10 years ago; afterwards, he refers to the present as "10 years later" than 'Terminator 2'.
Did we leave something out?!
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