John Connor is a fictional character in the Terminator franchise.
32 Facts About John Connor
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When his mother Sarah Connor was the target of a time travelling Terminator unit in the first film, John sent resistance fighter Kyle Reese to protect Sarah, knowing Kyle and Sarah would later conceive him.
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John in his first appearance in Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 10-year-old child living with foster parents while Sarah Connor is at a prison hospital of the criminally insane.
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John Connor later helps with the destruction of Cyberdyne Systems to avert Skynet's creation by breaking into the safe with Skynet's creator, Miles Dyson, to retrieve the first Terminator's damaged arm and CPU, which Dyson was using to create new technology, unaware of what it would lead to.
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John Connor begs the Terminator not to destroy itself as well, despite the Terminator's warning that allowing it to continue existing creates the risk to recreate Skynet at some future date.
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John Connor is briefly seen at the film's beginning in a flash-forward as an adult played by Michael Edwards while Dalton Abbot played the character as a toddler in a dream sequence.
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An alternate ending takes place in 2027, in which John Connor is a US senator and father to a daughter in a world where Skynet was never able to start its war on humanity.
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John Connor is portrayed by Nick Stahl in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
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Now a young adult, John Connor has been living off-the-grid after the second film's events, even as the original Judgment Day deadline in 1997 came to pass without incident.
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John Connor is attacked by a T-X Terminator, which was sent from the future.
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Unlike predecessors, the T-X's objective was to terminate his future Resistance officers as secondary targets because John Connor's location was unknown.
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John Connor is portrayed by Christian Bale in Terminator Salvation.
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Since Judgment Day, John Connor has been broadcasting radio messages to both the Resistance forces and surviving refugees in an effort to maintain morale and hope.
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John Connor starts as one of the many foot soldiers who make up the Resistance movement based in California.
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John Connor is hurt during his encounter with the T-800 and receives multiple cuts to the face, mirroring the same scars seen on John Connor's face in the opening scenes of Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
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John Connor's ending statement is that though this battle has been won, the war is far from over.
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Skynet then sends the T-3000 back in time to ensure its creation in the altered timeline, John Connor now believing that the future requires man and machine to come together like he has.
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John Connor appears briefly in Terminator: Dark Fate, which serves as a different sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day, portrayed by Jude Collie with CGI facial capture performed by Furlong, ignoring previous sequels without creator James Cameron's involvement.
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John Connor is only fifteen years old at the beginning of the show, turning sixteen in the season one finale, and seventeen throughout season two.
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John Connor learns that Judgment Day has not been prevented, only postponed to April 21,2011.
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John Connor becomes acquainted with his father's older brother, Derek Reese, who is a resistance fighter sent back in time to help them.
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John Connor is proficient in chess, lock-picking, self-defense, and weaponry, all of which were part of his training during his childhood.
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John Connor develops a relationship with Riley Dawson, a high school classmate, who, unknown to him, is from the future and working with Jesse Flores, a resistance fighter and lover of Derek Reese.
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Jesse's plan was for John Connor to become infatuated with Riley, making her a threat to John Connor's security.
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John Connor appears in the video game Terminator Salvation, which is set two years before the events of the film.
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John Connor appears in the video game Terminator: Resistance, which is set during the original future war depicted in the first two Terminator films.
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John Connor is voiced by Eric Meyers and serves as the player character, Jacob Rivers's commanding officer within the Tech-Com Resistance group.
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John Connor makes a physical appearance towards the endgame where he briefs and debriefs Jacob during the final assault on Skynet's base.
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John Connor attends military school, quickly becoming one of their best students, gaining military skills, weaponry and hacking knowledge.
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The life between the parents of John Connor's eventual father Kyle Reese is explored, with Kyle being born, being captured by a patrol unit as a child and forced to work in a Skynet work camp.
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John Connor assigns his friend Jack Brock to protect Kyle, as well as becoming his foster father.
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Once John Connor finds out about this, he sends the volunteering Kyle back to protect Sarah from the T-800 and a reprogrammed T-800 to protect his younger self from the T-1000.