This was perhaps the first franchise which made us think of robots as good themes for movies. Till then, robots existed mostly in comic books and novels, to be experienced only by science fiction fans. But, Terminator, merging the sci-fi ‘android from the future’ concept with the raw mainstream commercial power of Arnold Schwarzenegger made robots an interesting and in-demand premise of the industry. The most wanted film of the franchise, which now consists of four films including Terminator Salvation, is definitely the second installment Judgment Day, which are a cult sci-fi as well as action classic that took Arnold to global popularity. No one needs much introduction to the theme of the Terminator franchise. It is all about the war between machines and mankind for supremacy on earth. The machines send an advanced cyborg into the past to destroy the leader of the human resistance while he is still young and mankind in turn sends in a much inferior but strong willed android (Arnold) to protect the leader. Does mankind survive? By the end of the third movie of the franchise, it is all but clear that the machines, led by the Skynet program, have taken over earth leaving only a glimmer of hope for humans to reclaim their land.

The main features of the android (Arnie) in this franchise were lack of emotion, single word answers, complete subordination to human orders and most importantly, not causing any human casualty, just the way Asimov wanted robots to be. While, it is no surprise that the evil cyborg was just the opposite.