Terminator (franchise)/Heartwarming

• One scene stands out in T2: "Hey wait, you swore!" "Trust me."
  • "I now know why you cry... but it is something I can never do."
  • And the thumbs-up.
  • Sarah's last piece of narration: "The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first time with a sense of hope, because if a machine, a Terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too."
  • Sarah's realisation that the T-800 is actually the best possible father John could have.
• Reese's whole "I traveled across time for you, Sarah. I love you. I always have" and pretty much that whole ensuing scene.
• Not to mention the photo John gave Reese of Sarah when she was pregnant. Reese states that he always wondered who she's thinking about to make her so sad in it. It's revealed at the end of the film that she was thinking of telling John about his father, Kyle himself.
• "Come with me if you want to live!"
• Don't throw this troper to the hounds for mentioning Terminator 3, but I felt John and Kate's conversation immediately after the cemetery shootout was rather touching, in retrospect. John tries to comfort Kate by saying that some things simply can't be changed, which hits John every bit as hard as the fiancee's death hits Kate (by virtue of, you know, the entire day's events proving beyond a doubt that all the crap he went through in T2 was for nothing). John feels completely helpless, but that he still tries to comfort her despite all of his own hope being lost helps to explain why they're eventually husband and wife.
• In the Cemetery scene as a nod to the second movie, John makes a remark on how the Terminator was the closest thing to a father he had.
• Combined with one of the biggest Tear Jerker moments ever, John's breakdown when he realizes that the T-800 has to destroy himself to prevent the creation of Skynet. The kid has been through hell the entire movie, and its here that he completely loses it at the thought of losing not just his bodyguard, not just his friend, but the closest thing he has ever had to a father.

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