8 Sci-Fi Movies Built On A Lie
2. The Terminator Franchise, Period
The Terminator introduced the plot point that the then-unborn John Connor would grow up to become the saviour of mankind in our battle against the machines. By the time of Terminator 2: Judgment Day, not only do we now have a ten-year-old John, but we have the looming prospect of Judgment Day on the horizon - a Judgment Day which will see the artificial intelligence of Skynet granted control of the United States' nuclear weapons and instigate a nuclear holocaust.
After convincing Miles Bennett Dyson from putting into place his work that would eventually lead to the creation of Skynet, T2 ended with a landscape where Judgment Day had seemingly been prevented and John Connor was still alive and well.
*Sigh*
Where to begin with this one?
11 years after T2's release, we'd get Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines in 2003 and find out that Judgment Day wasn't actually stopped - more just delayed. As Rise of the Machines come to a close, we see millions of people killed as the full destruction of Judgment Day begins.
Terminator Salvation would again mess with the narrative of T2 by delaying Judgment Day, before Terminator Genisys rebooted the franchise and put its own spin on the lore of Judgment Day.
Even then, last year's Terminator: Dark Fate picked up directly after T2 and muddied the landscape even more by killing the teenage John Connor in its opening moments - which made the very foundations of the Terminator franchise look like total bullsh*t.