8 Movie Characters Who Suffered The Most From Time Travel

2. Skynet Is Causing Its Own Destruction - The Terminator/T2: Judgement Day

You could argue that everybody suffers from time travel in the Terminator franchise - Sarah Connor is forced from her nice, normal life into a mental asylum, Kyle Reese has to travel to a strange new time and John Connor finds his world turned upside down decades earlier than he needed to - but there's a cogent upside to all of these. Sarah finds meaning in her life, Kyle gets to meet the love of his life and John gets to prepare to lead the human resistance against the machine uprising (well, if you ignore the stupid choice of Rise Of The Machines to make him a drifter).

No, the real loser across the Terminator movies (at least the four that have thus far being released) is Skynet, the evil robot controller of all the Terminators and Hunter Killers. After all, the whole idea of sending the Arnie-looking T-800 back in the first film is motivated by imminent defeat - it's a last ditch effort by Skynet to avert destruction. So every time there's a new Terminator movie, that essentially means Skynet's getting defeated once more in another timeline.

But it gets worse than that in the sequel. Sending the liquid metal T-1000 back affords John and Sarah Connor the ability to actually avert Skynet's creation itself. The sentient machine pretty much engineered its own wiping from reality. Sure, this is all ret-conned away in the later entries, but does anybody count them?