- Trailer-only. A shot of Sarah glancing around burning debris, while a quieter version of the Terminator theme plays, references the exact same thing that happened to the first instalment, after Kyle Reese attempted to blow up the T-800 with a bomb in the latter's oil tanker. On top of that, Sarah begging for "Carl" to get up and help Dani references Sarah repeatedly yelling to Kyle "On your feet, soldier!" after he was weakened from that explosion.
- In one of Dani's first scenes a moped takes up the frame in front of her similar to the one Sarah was riding in the first Terminator film just before her life was changed. The fact that she isn't riding it foreshadows that her fate isn't the same as Sarah's.
- Instead of saying, "Come with Me If You Want to Live", Grace tells Dani, "Come with me or you're dead in the next 30 seconds."
- Dwight Yoakam's "Guitars, Cadillacs" back from the T-800's bikers bar scene in Terminator 2 plays towards the end of the film.
- The T-800's visuals are exactly the same as they were in Judgment Day, with the exact same fonts and even lines of text. Even to the shutdown!
- The Rev 9 dons a police uniform at one point, much like the T-1000.
- The Rev 9 gets a car engine thrown on it from above similar to the hydraulic press in the first film that crushed the T-800. The Rev 9 doesn't die but is knocked out for a bit.
- There is a car chase involving the protagonists in a small pickup with the Terminator following behind in a much bigger vehicle.
- The Rev 9 grabs onto the back of the truck and is dragged behind, just like the T-1000 and the police car in Judgment Day.
- Grace scolding Dani for risking her life to save Sarah is a call-back to Sarah scolding John for the same reason in Judgment Day.
- The T-800 again uses a grenade launcher to blow a door open.
- The T-800's role in the climax is a series of callbacks to the second film.
- The flesh on the left arm is destroyed, leaving the metal exposed, and one half of the facial flesh is gone too.
- Later, the left arm is lost entirely and the T-800 reaches down across a gap.
- The T-800 gets knocked out and its eye lights up as it comes back to life.
- The T-800 drags itself across the floor with one arm.
- The T-800 looks up at Sarah and Dani as it is about to be destroyed, just like the second film, with Dani in place of John.
- The famous line, "I'll be back' is spoken by Sarah Connor this time. The T-800 gets a variation when it says, "I won't be back."
- In the climax, Sarah calls the Rev-9 a "metal motherfucker"; Kyle Reese used the same phrase to describe SkyNet's machines in the original film ("[John Connor] taught us to smash those metal motherfuckers into junk").
- Just as in the first film, the T-800's skin completely burns away, leaving only the still-functioning metal exoskeleton, which is flattened / melted shortly thereafter.
- Yet again, the final confrontation occurs in an industrial area with assorted heavy machinery. And again, the enemy Terminator is taken down using one of the machines.
- The Rev 9 is killed by using Grace's power cell to short it out, similar to how the T-X is destroyed in Terminator 3 using the T-800's power cell. The T-800 also holds down the enemy Terminator and dies alongside it in both films.
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