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Terminator
"The Final Battle" Part 2
Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle #2 (Dark
Horse)
Script: J. Michael Strazynski
Art: Pete Woods
Cover: Pete Woods with Matthew Wilson
January 2014 |
In 2003, Dr. Kogan's work on the future continues; in 2029, John
Connor leads his forces into the final battle against Skynet.
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Notes from the Terminator chronology
This story takes place during the future war in 2029 in the Salvation
timeline.
Didja Notice?
2003:
The stolen truck Simon drives appears to be a
1970s-era Ford pick-up. On page 20, the front grill has 12
partitions, suggesting a 1974-76 model.
2003:
The map Simon looks at on page 1 is an actual map of the
region around
Stafford, Texas.
2003:
When the Terminator tells the hospital check-out attendant
that she doesn't need to go through the usual check-out
routines and paperwork to release Dr. Kogan, the attendant cracks,
"Sorry, but bureaucracy trumps Jedi mind tricks every time."
This is a reference to the Jedi ability to influence the
minds of others in the Star Wars movies.
2003:
On page 8, as Dr. Kogan and the Terminator walk through the
lab that is researching how to grow new skin from stem cells
and grafting it to metal plates, she remarks that after all
these years of research, all she'd have to do now is take a
sample of his skin, which is based on that research. She
goes on to say, "Kind of funny, in a 'which came first, the
chicken or the egg?' kind of way." This same "which came
first" question also applies to the paradox established in
The Terminator of
how can John Connor send Kyle Reese back in time to become
John's own father.
2003: On page 9, Dr. Kogan shows off a cyborg rat prototype,
a rat brain transplanted into a cybernetic body. Possibly
this could be construed as the origin of the cyborg rats,
used in the year 2030 in Timeline TT-4's
"The
Dark Years" Part 1, in which Skynet used them to
infiltrate and provide information on the whereabouts of
human resistance outposts.
2003:
On page 10, we see that one of the cryonic suspension units
in Kogan's lab in 2003 is that of Marcus Wright. Marcus, of
course, is the convicted killer whose brain and heart were
placed in the body of a Terminator in Salvation.
2029: On page 12, John and Kate reflect on Marcus' sacrifice
of his human heart to save John. This happened in 2018 at
the end of Salvation.
2029: A number of Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft
are seen in the staging area as John delivers his speech to
the assembled Resistance force on pages 15-16.
2029: Page 15 reveals that John has been keeping Kyle Reese
stationed at Charlie Base, instead of where he himself is,
because it is too risky to the timeline to have them both in
the same place at the same time and risk having them both
killed.
2003: The car Parnell drives on page 20 (and in
"The Final Battle" Part 3) appears to be
BMW coupe
model.
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