10 Movies That Fixed Infamous Plot Holes

All of the Terminator films are predicated on the “grandfather paradox,” a paradox that posits going back in time to alter the events of the present. In the Terminator films, in a near-future, an evil artificial intelligence known as Skynet has waged war against humanity using an army of robots. Skynet seeks to end the war by sending a robot assassin back in time to kill Sarah Connor the mother of the leader of the human resistance, John Connor, before he is even born, which should have worked, except it didn’t.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day sees the evil robots taking another shot at it, this time trying to murder John when he is a young boy, which should have worked, except it didn't either.

What fans have been asking since the second Terminator is if Skynet is so smart, why didn’t it have a contingency plan in case their attempts to kill the Connors went !*$% up? Namely, they should have sent more than one Terminator back, maybe to multiple points in time, just to make sure the dirty deed got done.

In 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate, this exact plot hole was addressed. This sequel forgets all of the other films in the franchise after Judgment Day and instead shows us Sarah and John chilling out on a beach in Guatemala a few years after the events of Judgment Day, living out a happy existence believing they prevented the oncoming war.

Only now that Sarah’s guard is dropped, a T-800 shows up on the beach and murders John right in front of her. We even know that Skynet sent this Terminator back at the same time they did the one from the original film since it is a T-800 and not a later model like the T-1000. Well played, robots!