Terminator Showdown: Who is the Toughest of Them All?
By Sam (Admin) | January 28, 2008 (1:34 am)
Yes, we all know there is no such thing as a real Terminator (right?), but what if there were? Which Terminator model would win if all the Terminators threw down? Well, the guys over at Popular Mechanics were wondering the same thing, and they’ve written a groovy article comparing all the known Terminators, and pitting them against each other to see who would come out on top at the end.
You can read the full article here. Their conclusion:
Since the T-1000 is such a world-shattering technological breakthrough, capable of perceiving without creating sensors, moving without constructing actual joints or subsystems of any kind, and, most important, functioning without any discernible power source, there’s no way to limit its potential. Blown to smithereens, it would simply collect its smithereens, brush off its police uniform, and march off to the next massacre. As Arthur C. Clarke put it, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” From our perspective, the T-1000 is 100 percent magical, and the most dangerous and capable Terminator in history.
I couldn’t agree more. For sheer hard-to-kill ability, the T-1000 (the liquid metal Terminator) is simply unstoppable. Well, mostly.
I just want to see a new trailer, something less dark and more revealing.
Otherwise, I like what they have here, ...
While I have to agree that the T-1000 is the ultimate TERMINATOR badass, I’d have to say that it would have to be the T-1000 in female form. The chances to kill and the ability to have people “lower their shields” to a hot chick are just simply undeniable. We talk a little about that (actually how Sarah is more apt to interact better with a female TERMINATOR than a male TERMINATOR because of her previous experiences) in our most recent podcast review of SCC’s Episode 3, The Turk.
Thanks for the link to the article and we are proud to link to your site! Keep up the great work!
I kinda have to think of the TX from Terminator 3 Rise of Machines. She had some cool weapons that were built in and she could control machines, and was also partly Liquid Metal.
I’m sorry, but the T-X would clean the floor with a T-1000.
I definitely agree with the votes for T-X.
While T-1000 was pretty impressive, well, it was basically overkill to the point of being ridiculous.
Shoot it? It just reforms around the bullet. Corner it? It flattens out and hides in the floor. Freeze & shatter it? It thaws, rejoins, etc.
It was fearsome, yes, but wholly impossible to take seriously as a real threat, just as a movie-gimmick. Plus, the fact that the T-X, with it’s endoskeletal core, seemed to be a “backstep” in chassis design (though the other advances, like the onboard weapons, nano-based machine control, and polymimetic exolayer, were definite leaps ahead), seems to indicate that the design of the T-1000 was too impractical for mass production, and that the one we saw was most likely a lone prototype of an ultimately-failed attempt at innovation.
The T-1000 is more advanced then the T-X:
The nature and disposition of the T1000 was hard to calculate and SKYNET took great pains into programming the unit with a myriad of fail-safes to keep it from turning on the creator. Still, SKYNET was unsure about the wisdom of creating such a powerful unit with total autonomy and free will.Either way SKYNET would not have this problem with the T-X series. They have a fail-save programmed in it’s chassis.
The toughest most intense terminator so far was “Carter” played by Brian Bloom. He was so deadpan and robotic. The true no nonsense killer with an unstoppable mission. Also, he was able to beat Summer’s model of terminator in a fight which may have been lost on some but he did over power her to the point where they had to lock him in a nuclear bomb shelter to keep him from essentially killing all of them. Bloom’s terminator Carter, is the closest thing so far to the T-1000. Anybody know what model Carter was? Will we see him again or what?!?!?
Now where talkin’ J. Carter was a bad mofo with some serious intensity. When he was in “sleep mode” he was scarier than a T-x or a T-1000 awake. Brian Bloom has chrome blood. He was meant for the role. Can’t wait to see more of him.
The best Terminator so far is clearly the T-8 which is the original one played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. It may not be the most advanced and it also has not been able to kill John Conner in the past, but it has proved its worth by killing both the T-X and the T-1000 in both movies. Plus it also is able to kill John Conner in the future. You cant go wrong with the classics.