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Every Timeline in Terminator Zero, Explained
Judgment Day is here again, but Netflix’s anime spinoff radically changes everything we knew about the original Terminator canon.
In the original film’s version of 2029, both sides send time-traveling soldiers — Kyle Reese and a Terminator (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) — back to 1984 to duke it out over a young woman named Sarah Connor, whose future son, John, will grow up to lead the human resistance. While the Terminator franchise canon is notoriously convoluted, this scenario illustrates a straightforward way to cut through the confusion: Each act of time travel creates a new timeline, overwriting every story that came before. This means that Terminator Zero functions as a stand-alone drama featuring a new timeline stemming from Malcolm’s lifelong belief that a benevolent AI can save the world from Skynet.
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