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
T-1000 killing him. One is sent to infiltrate the human resistance, the other sent through time to kill John Connor as outlined in the "Terminator 2" movie. In the simultaneously published "Terminator 2: Judgment Day – Cybernetic Dawn", set just after the film, a female T-1000 and two T-800s come to the present to make sure the creation of Skynet happens as planned. In the second crossover between Terminator and Robocop, the T-1000 plays a fairly significant role. It's the same model as from "Terminator 2: Judgment Day". His role is not changed, he still intends to kill John Connor, but