Terminator: Dark Fate - Every Easter Egg & Reference We Spotted
20. Marcus Wright
Though the fourth Terminator film, Terminator Salvation, has been sensibly erased from the timeline in Dark Fate, the film does nevertheless reprise one of its more interesting concepts - transhumanism.
Salvation's protagonist Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington) discovers half-way through the movie that he's actually a human-cyborg hybrid, having been experimented upon after being executed on death row.
This clearly serves as the inspiration for Dark Fate's Grace, a human resistance fighter who is augmented with life-saving cybernetic enhancements after being mortally wounded in a skirmish against the machines.
The two characters are different enough that Grace doesn't feel like a pure imitation, but Salvation was the first film to play with this idea before Dark Fate picked it up and ran with it.