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Look, the guy said he'd be back. So what exactly did you expect?
Well, if you expected a ton of Easter eggs and fan service, than you were exactly right, because Terminator: Dark Fate serves up plenty of both. And we're about to serve up a heaping helping of SPOILERS, because we just have to talk about all the inside references in the sixth Terminator film.
One of the more obvious wink-and-nod references in Dark Fate isn't to the Terminator films at all, but rather to another fan favorite adventure epic: The Bible. At one point, Sarah Connor sarcastically refers to herself as "Mother Mary," which makes sense if you ever attended Vacation Bible School. That's because Mary is the mother of Jesus, the prophesied savior of humanity, just as Sarah herself is the mother of John Connor, another prophesied savior of humanity.
Less obvious, though, is another biblical reference hidden in plain sight. The newest model of the Terminator is called Rev-9, which seems to be a reference to chapter nine of the Book of Revelations, which describes the end of days, when "the sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss" and a third of humanity is "killed by the three plagues of fire, smoke and sulfur." Kind of like the robot-fueled Armageddon that eventually results in the creation of Rev-9 himself. Hmm!
Director Tim Miller told Syfy Wire that the one specific Easter egg he insisted on inserting into the film was Dwight Yoakam's hit rockabilly song "Guitars, Cadillacs."
"The Dwight Yoakam song 'Guitars, Cadillacs,' that's my little Easter egg, because, you know, that's the [Terminator 2] scene that [Schwarzenegger]'s walking into the bar and they play that. That was my big one." Keep watching the video to see more Easter eggs you missed in Terminator: Dark Fate!
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Vacation Bible School | 0:21
Guitars, Cadillacs, and Terminator: Dark Fate | 1:11
Carl's Drapery | 1:46
Salvation through Grace | 2:16
Rise of the references | 2:55
They're baaaaaack | 3:33
Terminator: Reboot | 4:26