When Skynet gains self-awareness, humans try to deactivate it, prompting it to retaliate with a nuclear attack, an event known as Judgment Day.

Cyberdyne employs artificial intelligence in order to replace human beings as commercial and military aircraft pilots, and for the control of other military systems, including nuclear missiles.

The Terminator (1984) stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg assassin sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor.

The Terminator begins systematically killing women named Sarah Connor, whose addresses it finds in the telephone directory.

After discovering the alarming similarity of the victims' names, Hal Vukavich sets out to protect any still-living Sarah Connors.

Ginger and her boyfriend Matt are killed when the Terminator comes to their apartment looking for Sarah.

Sarah Louise Connor, Sarah Ann Connor, and Sarah J Connor. The Terminator kills two of them, but not the one that counts.

Ginger hated Sarah's pet iguana, Pugsley, and told him at one point she would make a belt out of him.

Reese is a soldier in the human resistance from a post-apocalyptic future in which most of humanity has already been wiped out in a deadly nuclear war. When the T-800 tracks the last Sarah Connor to a nightclub, Kyle rescues her and they escape in a stolen car.

In the future, her yet-to-be-born son will lead humanity's resistance against Skynet.