10 Movie Heroes Who Fell For The Same S**t In The Sequel
6. Sarah Connor Thinks She's Saved Her Son - Terminator: Dark Fate
Terminator's Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) may be one of the most potent and badass heroines in cinema history, but she also made one big mistake - ever assuming the fight was over.
The original Terminator has an optimistic-ish ending, where Sarah has defeated the T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and eliminated all road blocks to birthing the future saviour of humanity, John Connor.
A storm's coming, but Sarah has played her part in ensuring the future plays out as intended.
Yet of course this isn't the case, as in T2 John's (Edward Furlong) life is threatened once more when Skynet sends back another Terminator, the T-1000 (Robert Patrick), to kill him as a child.
Skynet again fails, and though T2's ending suggests an uncertain future, it's once again optimistic-ish that the threat has been quashed.
But again that wisdom is shown to be bunk in the most recent Terminator film, Dark Fate, which serves as a direct sequel to T2.
In its infuriating opening sequence set a few years after T2, John is gunned down by another T-800 sent back through time by Skynet, causing Sarah to become a traumatised Terminator-huntress.
If the Terminator movies have proven anything, it's that as long as studios believe a sequel is worth making, nobody can ever let their guard down.