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Terminator Salvation debuts this coming Thursday in cinemas all across Singapore. Here is the list of the 'good gguys' who happened in tthe four films (not counting the ones who appeared in "The Sarah Connor Chronicles").
The Human Resistance or Tech-Com is a fictional organization of human survivors of Judgment Day in the Terminator series, who are dedicated to defending other human survivors to fight and defeat Skynet. It was John Connor who united the despairing humans and drew them together into a coherent fighting force.
John Connor
(Edward Furlong in T2, Nick Stahl in T3, Christian Bale in T4, Thomas Deekr in TV series)
He is the main protagonist of the Terminator science fiction franchise, the central figure to all events and whose destiny is directly involved with the aftermth of Judgment Day. In a fictional post-apocalyptic future first referred to in The Terminator, powerful, intelligent machines have dedicated themselves to the eradication of humanity, and John Connor is the leader of the human resistance movement known as Tech-Com that opposes them. Connor rails against the old guard and believes that the current Resistance strategies are lacking. Skynet, the supercomputer mainframe of the machines, decides that John Connor is the focal point of the rebellion and believes that his termination would end the opposition. After repeated failures at terminating John during the war, Skynet decides to use a temporal displacement device to send cyborg assassins called Terminators to various points in John Connor's past in an attempt to terminate him before the war ever begins.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Connor
Kyle Reese
(Michael Biehn in T1, Anton Yelchin in T4)
Baptised by the fire in the world of the terminators, Kyle Reese was the leader of the 2-member Los Angeles Resistance Cell. As portrayed by Michael Biehn in The Terminator, he was sent back in time to 1984 to protect Sarah Connor to ensure the survival of the human race, and fathered John with her, before sacrificing himself in battle against the first Terminator sent back in time.
In Terminator Salvation, Kyle is the prime target of Skynet due to its awareness that he would eventually travel through time and become the father of John Connor. However it is never explained how Skynet is aware that Kyle would travel through time leading to a time paradox. According to recorded messages left by his mother Sarah, it is vital that John finds Kyle and sends him back in time so that he can be conceived. Otherwise the timeline could potentially be disrupted, and John may cease to exist and never fulfill his destiny as humanity's savior. Kyle has an older brother named Derek, who appeared only in the TV series.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Reese
Sarah Jeanette Connor
(Linda Hamilton in T1 and T2, Lena Headey in TV series)
She is the heroine of the first 2 Terminator series as well as the TV series. According to the first movie, Sarah was a legend among members of the resistance, having taught her son John to fight and organize while they were still in hiding prior to the war. Other than holding a job as a waitress in los Angeles, very little is known about Sarah prior to the date of 12th May 1984, the day when she crosses path with Kyle Reese as well as the first Terminator sent back to kill her. She learns she is in danger from a televised report of two other identically-named Los Angeles women being murdered in cold blood earlier that day. Though Reese's death deeply saddens her, his sincerity and courage inspires Sarah to carry on and develop the necessary skills and abilities that would make her a suitable mentor and teacher to John.
After these events, Sarah becomes a fugitive from society and begins making a voice recording for John in which she acknowledges his paternity to later give to her son at the proper age. Ten years later, she and John join forces with a reprogrammed T-800 series Terminator to bring down Cyberdyne Systems and defeat the T-1000, postponing Judgment Day in the process. Two years after that, Sarah dies of acute leukemia, and while her ashes were scattered across the Gulf of Mexico, her friends place a cache of weapons in her casket, which the T-850 series Terminator would eventually use in 2004.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Connor_(Terminator)
Kate Connor, nee Kate Brewster
(Claire Danes in T3, Bryce Dallas Howard in T4)
She is the wife of John Connor and his future second-in-command. Kate grew up before the war, living in ignorance until she met John Connor. The only daughter of Lieutenant General Robert Brewster, the military director of CRS Autonomous Weapons Division, Kate's mother divorced her husband and left them when she was still at veterinary school. After finishing school, Kate went on to become a veterinarian, working at the Emery Animal Hospital, and became engaged to Scott Mason.
In 2004, her normal life was to change. Upon reacting to an animal emergency at the Emery Animal Hospital, Kate met John Connor whom she had previously been to school with, and with whom she had experienced her very first kiss. With John Connor and a reprogrammed 850 Series Terminator, Kate managed to escape a T-X which had been sent back in time to eliminate her, learning that her fianceé was killed. Practically kidnapped by these two, Kate learned the truth of things to come, of Skynet, and of Judgment Day. The rio set to CRS to try to stop her father from activating Skynet, only to be too late; Skynet had already been activated, and Kate's father was killed by the T-X.
Getting to the Crystal Peak Control and Command Center, a hardened fallout shelter facility in the Sierra Nevada Mountains for VIPs, Kate and John were able to survive Judgment Day as the nuclear missiles fell all around the world. Using the communications equipment within the facility, Kate helped John to get in touch with survivors and start to co-ordinate a Resistance force.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Connor
Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington)
A mysterious man on death row for murder who donated his body to Cyberdyne Systems for experimentation. He awakens fifteen years after his alleged execution and later discovers Skynet enhanced him to be a new type of human-terminator hybrid and thus the perfect infiltrator, his purpose was apparently to identify Kyle Reese and John Connor and lead them into a trap as even though he is unaware of it, Skynet can see and hear through him. Though he possesses a robotic body, Marcus is more human in behavior and nature since he still has a functioning biological system and a wholly independent will. His last memory is of being on death row, and John must decide whether to trust Wright.
Blair Williams (Moon Bloodgood)
Suffering from survivor's guilt, the battle-hardened fighter pilot in John’s resistance cell continues the legacy of tough-as-nails female characters, like Sarah Connor, of the Terminator franchise. After being shot down by Skynet’s aerial forces, Blair is aided by Marcus and the two become fast friends on their way to rendezvousing with John Connor and his team. Her instincts —honed from years surviving in the wastelands and flying countless combat missions —lead her to trust Marcus, despite growing suspicions in John’s inner circle about the mysterious stranger’s motives. She is the romantic interest for Marcus.
Barnes (Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr. aka Common)
A resistance soldier and John's right-hand man. A deeply religious individual, Barnes believes that Judgment Day was the beginning of the End Times as outlined in the Bible, and that Skynet is the anti-Christ. His spiritual beliefs make Barnes follow the messiah-like John into even the most hopeless of situations—and lead him even to disobey orders from higher ranking resistance leaders to do so.
General Ashdown (Michael Ironside)
He is the leader of the Resistance before John Connor, a hard-nosed and strict individual who runs the guerrilla para-military organization and goes 'by the book' rather than his own instincts. He considers Connor a delusion false prophet at best and a dangerous liability to their operations at worse. At one point of time, John tries to talk Ashdown into delaying an impending assault on Skynet's headquarters until he has time to liberate the prisoners there. After a fierce argument over the radio, Ashdown berates John for not willing to make sacrifices and officially strips him of his authority. Ashdown and several high-ranking commanders would later be killed aboard a command submarine by a Hunter-Killer.
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