10 Movie Villains Who Weren't Really Bad

8. T-101 - The Terminator

The Terminator's facial expression on the picture demonstrates perfectly how it thinks, cold, relentless, uncompromising and will not stop till the mission's complete. Understandably, the icy exterior is hard to get past, but at the end of the day, it's a machine forced to take orders. Can something be inherently evil if their choices are dictated by an enforced program? This is the predicament of the Terminator, as it's parameters were to find and kill Sarah Conner. It feels it's only purpose is to fulfill Skynet's mission settings, outside that, there is nothing. So in a effect, Skynet is the finger pulling the trigger, firing the Terminator at the target. In future installments, we learn that Skynet presets the Terminator's CPU to read-only, which disables the majority of it's potential learning capabilities. After it's neural network had been reset, we can start to see a change in his personality, becoming more human with conversations, emotions, and ridiculous liners. It's even capable of truly understanding why a human cries, as it empathizes with Connor in his moment of pain in regards to it leaving to kill itself.
 
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