Top 50 Terminator 2 Movie Facts
Following is our collection of Terminator 2 facts. Handpicked and verified, these little-known details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of Terminator 2 film message.


Terminator 2 Trivia
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As he walks away from Arnold you can see the T-1000 "pulse" into liquid metal for seemingly no reason - In the deleted scenes, it is made clear the T-1000 is malfunctioning after reassembling itself and is struggling to control its form
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The opening scene was shot at a demolished steel plant. The twisted motorcycles, burnt cars and blackened cinders are debris from the Universal Studios fire of 1989, when a disgruntled security guard torched the back lot.
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The iconic twirling of the shotgun was achieved using a heavily modified prop gun. Originally, Arnold Schwarzenegger attempted the trick without the modification by mistake, reportedly leading him to nearly break his fingers.
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The protagonists make a stop at a "Cactus Jack's Market". Cactus Jack (1979) was one of the first movie roles of Arnold Schwarzenegger, alongside Kirk Douglas.
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-- The machine Dyson is building is reminiscent of the "Connection Machine", worked on by renowned physicist Richard Feynman, which also aimed to produce AI
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Arnold Schwarzenegger received $15 million for delivering a total of 700 words of dialogue. That works out to $85,716 for saying, "Hasta la vista, baby."
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Arnold's lever-action shotgun had to be specially modified for his iconic "flip-cock". He nearly broke his fingers when he tried flipping an unmodified version.
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It is hard to make out, but in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), the object that the dying Miles Dyson holds over the detonator at Cyberdyne is a piece from a giant model of his future microchip. He is thus using something that could destroy mankind in order to save it.
Terminator 2 Easter Eggs
Hidden objects, characters, easter eggs, and their meanings are wonderful ways to discover the filmmaker's perspectives of any given movie.
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: The petrol station that Sarah, John and the T-800 hide out in is a Benthic Petroleum station, the company from The Abyss. -
In the scene where John Connor first sees the T-800, when getting the gun out of the box of roses, this is a reference towards Guns 'n' Roses who did "You Could Be Mine" for the movie (can be heard when John leaves his foster parents on his bike). -
Arnold's Character the Terminator flips a shotgun out of a box of roses to reference Guns N Rose's song in the movie soundtrack. -
When the T800 leaves the bar for the motorcycle, the guy he threw through the window can be seen laying on the hood of the car.
Terminator 2 Hidden Details



Astonished guy with camera (who took picture of Arnold thrown through glass window) is the same guy who was knocked out by Terminator after night club scene in "The Terminator" (1984). He was played by William Wisher, who co-wrote scripts for both movies.




The T-800 rides the motorcycle at night without the headlights on. Terminators are built with advanced vision processing and don't require any light to see.






When the Nuclear bomb goes off and we see a young Sarah Connor playing with John, its actually Linda Hamiltons twin sister playing Sarah in the playground, Leslie Hamilton Gearren, who also is seen in a couple other scenes as well.
Judgement Day, the guy that Arnie tosses through the bar window is still visible on the hood of the car where he landed.
When the T-1000 is interrogating John's foster parents, the dog (Max) can be heard barking a common reaction dogs have to terminators.
When the Terminators fight there is no dialog track. Typically in movie sound, you have to cover combat with "fight vocals" but since the Terminators don't exert themselves they stay completely silent



There are several callbacks to T1 including this Galleria employee who gets in the line of fire, getting him and his Pepsi can shot (a reference to the cop and his mug which both get shot in the police station scene)
When the T-1000 "burns" in the truck after the chase, he leaves the truck in his default form. This is a foreshadow for his his weak point, e.g. extreme temperatures, because he lost his disguise for a short moment.
The blade that the T-1000 uses to kill John's foster father matches the blade it was using to cut vegetables




The cpu Dyson built looks like the T-1000 cpu, just bigger




John Conner Stunt Double looks more like Ray Romano

Terminator 2 Plot
A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from a more advanced and powerful cyborg.
Cast and Details
Here are the full cast and crew of Terminator 2. The goofs, crazy credits, and trivia they have performed may have not taken your attention. Some are hidden for a reason, while others randomly forgotten.
Genre | Action, Sci-Fi |
Director | James Cameron |
Stars | Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick |
IMDB score | 8.5 |