T-1000 Actor at the 1992 MTV and Saturn Awards. The T-1000 was ranked #39 in the Online Film Critics Society's 2002 list of the "Top 100 Villains of All Time", and #19 in "Empire"s 2018 recounting of the best cinematic villains. Teaser trailers for "Terminator 2" deliberately withheld the notion that the T-1000 character was the villain. A tagline for the film was ""This time there are "two". Terminator 2."" Prior to the film's release, Robert Patrick was promoted as portraying "Austin", the name on the T-1000's police uniform's ID tag. Writer/director James Cameron stated that his original intention for the
Terminator (character) each "model". The "Terminator" title has also been used as a generic name for other human-simulating characters in the "Terminator" universe, such as the liquid metal shapeshifting T-1000 antagonist in the sequel "" and a T-850 in the sequel "". The end credits of the first three "Terminator" films list Schwarzenegger's character as simply "The Terminator", while in "Terminator Genisys", he is credited as "Guardian". In "Terminator Salvation", a Terminator resembling Schwarzenegger created via facial CGI—used because Schwarzenegger's duties at the time as Governor of California prevented him from working on the film—over Roland Kickinger's on-set performance is credited as