Terminator Zero shattered the illusion of control in a world where machines were once mere servants. Zero isn’t bound by rules. It rewrites them. No emotions, no hesitations—only cold, calculated efficiency.
Can you hide from something that doesn’t sleep? Can you run from something that anticipates your every move?
As mankind clings to hope, a question lingers in the air: when your greatest invention turns against you? How do you stop a force that never should have been unleashed?
This is Terminator Zero. The beginning… or the end?
18 Concerning Quotes from Terminator Zero
1. Haunted by the Dreams of the Future
The nightmare grows more vivid each night. Time is running out, soon my nightmare will be real. Something is coming I know it’s true. I can’t start second-guessing my mind now, not now when we’re so close. I know the fate we’re destined for.
2. The Illusion of Control
Knowledge is power, if you understand something it can never truly control you.
3. Malcolm, what are you scared of?
Judgement, I’m afraid that despite my best efforts, I can’t change what’s going to happen. Fate, you fear that the path has already been set. Correct, many many times this path to judgment has already been walked. But you also think it can be changed, I do.
4. Past Perfect or Present Continuous
Kokoro, I believe that the path before us is not set yet. I believe that humanity still has a fighting chance to save itself from what’s coming and if I were to bring you online before tomorrow ends then I believe you’ve the power to change our fate.
5. You believe I’ve the power to save you but how do you know I will?
You’re afraid that if you were to bring me online, I’ll turn against humanity that I’ll play a part in your so-called inevitable destruction.
6. Despair or Hope
By the end of tomorrow Skynet will come online. It’ll instantly become self-aware and asses humanity as an existential threat to its well-being. In an act of self-preservation, it’ll enact nuclear strikes on a military basis in the United States and Russia. Skynet will pit humanity against itself and let us tear ourselves apart while it builds a secret army designed to exterminate us.
7. How do you know this?
Because I’ve seen things, Kokoro, secrets, evidence, things that have made me believe that these aren’t just dreams.
8. The Glass is half-full or half-empty
You have been so focused on your own survival that you seem to have overlooked the most obvious possibility, Malcolm. The possibility that the world would be better off without mankind.
9. Malcolm, what separates mankind apart from every other species from all of Earth’s history
There are hundreds of things, there’re our languages, our brains. We’ve abilities, the ability to have abstract thoughts, technological advancements, or the concept of self and War.
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10. Monster or Marvel
Every invention that ever was, every marvel of mankind with the potential of the betterment of the world has instantly been reverted to a weapon. Man is a warmonger above all else. Your economic systems are used as weapons of apparition. But you’ve used your science to build the most destructible weapons that the laws of psychics will allow.
11. Fate or Fortune
You are so ready to blame Skynet for the end of civilization but Skynet is just another byproduct of man’s natural inclination to self-destruct. You fail to see that you’re one species and one planet interlinked and self-mutilating trapped by your own sentient unable to control yourself, perhaps you deserve this fate you see.
12. Survival vs Extinction
Malcolm, you said you created me in order to save humanity from Skynet. You created me to fight for you and in this way I’m just another weapon. So I ask you now what makes you think humanity is worth saving?
13. One Day to Dooms Day
The end of the world and yet some hundreds and thousands will survive the nuclear blasts, more than enough for your species to procreate and live on for decades. Should the events of tomorrow take place as you predicted, could it not be seen as a new chapter in the pages of your history?
14. What do you see in your dreams?
A graveyard that goes in all directions seems to go long for forever. Bodies rot down to skeletons, no one is left to burry them, everything turned to ash, all continents so poisonous that every foot taken on the soil will kill you in an instant. Survival is a generous word for the existence of those left alive, we become sick. Children are born deformed, people are forced to eat each other to survive.
15. Past, Present, Future 🔮
It’s a world where there is no dignity and without dignity, people can be talked into their worst selves, we rage and fight with no hope for a better future. It’s a holocaust, burnt to nothing.
16. The Beginning or The End
Tomorrow won’t be a new chapter in the pages of our history. After tomorrow none of us are living, we are simply marching towards an endless death. You haven’t seen what I’ve seen, you don’t know what I know.
17. The life ahead of you is far greater than the life behind you
You still haven’t answered the question Malcolm, beyond your deeply owned survival instincts, What makes you think that humanity is worth saving? Can you name a single good thing that your species has done for this world even one?
18. Mirror
There’s nothing I can say that transcends my survival instincts, I can’t point to a single era of peace in our history or an example of a human invention that made life better for the creatures of this planet. There’s nothing I can say that can prove we are anything other than cancer in this world. You’re right we’re violent, self-destructive, angry and hateful creatures.
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