Why does a future cyborg have an accent? The Terminator Accent Explained - It’s Bizarre! 

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I just thought his accent sounded like 80's computer speech sythesis. Never really thought it needed a backstory.

I feel like this video was made just to sell Fishing Clash. 😂

It’s cuz Arnold is Austrian. And now other people need to come up with a canon reason. Like Han Solo saying that the Millennium Falcon can make the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs lol

No, actually. That was footage which was recorded for one of the several tie-in console games of the time. I remember there was an actual quote from whoever directed it (not sure if it was Mostow or a second unit person), who literally said that they were looking around themselves, realised they had the set, cameras and Arnold, then decided to film some comical tongue-in-cheek stuff PURELY for the game (where they knew that it would never matter). It was just an excuse to have fun with the assets they already had and wouldn't cost any extra to use. Because that same footage was bizarrely incldued on the DVD as 'deleted scenes', a lot of commentators, in the intervening years, came to the false conclusion that it was intended for the film. It never was, though. It was just the production crew having a giggle for a video game. It was never meant for the official movies. Sadly, the quotes aren't recoverable, because it was something circulated on the film's discussion forum, at the time. The T3 site, for obvious reasons, was deleted many years ago.

The machines were horrible at designing terminators that were able to disguise themselves among humans. Reese even explains that earlier models were extremely simple to spot. The answer to 'the accent' is that Skynet hadn't perfected their terminators yet. In Terminator 2 we see clearly that the next model sent disguises himself much better, acts friendly, etc.

My personal head canon (which ends at Terminator 2) is that the Austrian accent was a deliberate choice by Skynet as it calculated that having a thick noticeable foreign accent meant that people would be far less likely to try and engage in any prolonged conversation with the T-800. This was done to mask the fact that while it could appear human at a glance, the T-800 still lacked the computing power to accurately mimic genuine human speech patterns and physical manurisms, aside from recreating a voice that it had sampled but obviously couldn't recreate in person like we saw it do when John calls his foster parents. It's not until the T-1k that Skynet is able to produce a Terminator capable of at least nearly passing for human in the way it speaks and moves. I say nearly because upon rewatching T2, I realized that there is still something slightly off about the T-1k in the way it speaks. Really was such a great performance by Robert Patrick.

The Terminator infiltrates the humans' underground shelter: It's a me, Mario!

I don't know man, I can't imagine it in any other accent now.

Never had a problem with Arnie's accent in the Terminator films, just like it didn't bother me how Vader got back to the Star Destroyer so fast in The Empire Strikes Back.

The Italian terminator 😂

Sgt Candy was hilarious; I remember hearing the clip was originally from a Terminator game that wasn't made.

I remember being in the theater and being floored by the twilight zone style ending of T3. Totally fell for it, really liked the movie. I appreciated that the bombs actually fell this time and the overall plot of the terminator franchise moved forward. And the gathering sense of dread leading up to the Skynet attack was well done. It is really amazing how just ok movies from the 90’s and 00’s look like masterpieces next to recent Hollywood fare

There is a good trilogy of novels set after T2 that explain (among many other things) that the Arnold terminator was modelled after an Austrian counterterrorism operative, hence the accent. The books are by S. M. Stirling and named "T2: Infiltrator", "T2: Rising Storm", and "T2: The Future War". As a huge fan of T2, I found the books quite entertaining, especially their depiction of terminator AI.

Front Desk Agent: "Tiki Motel?" T-800: (clears throat from female voice to thick austrian accent)"Gimme ahdress theah!!" Front Desk Agent:"That's not how you say it. It's 'there'. " T-800: "Theah!"

I remember seeing this on the dvd copy I had. Thought it was a fever dream from back then.

Sadly the era of good terminator films is likely over, but at least you have the first 2 to enjoy.

if he spoke with an American accent, he would still be speaking with an accent.

Thanks for finally explaining this Terminator question.

This video dropping on the birthday of another much more famous Austrian (former, late) politician's is pretty wild.

“Stay at home sportsman” lmao

Fascinating. I've never seen Arnie's accent as an oversight or problem. In my own head cannon, Arnie's accent is just the way that the machines first sounded when they learned to speak. It's not "Austrian", it's a machine impersonating a human.

I’m so glad someone made a video on this. I’ve been asking about the accent for years.

It's L.A. Not everyone would have had an American accent, especially the latino community. But I think imperfections in the terminators and how each model improves them is true to how AI's pick up on patterns. Kind of like how AI generated images can't yet perfect hands and fingers. Another interesting fact, the T-800s use the same processor as the NES and commodore 64. In the bottom left of the terminators vision you can see 6502 assembly code.

Great, now I'm gonna have "Oh! Its me!" stuck in my head for a while...

Why does every Robert De Niro character have a mole on his right cheek? 🤔

My head canon from way back - I figured that when Skynet designed the first T-800, it went through all of the scans of real people it had on hand, and some massive Austrian freak was the only human who once existed in its database with enough meat to effectively conceal the endoskeleton. So it just used whatever voice data it had for that person, saving time and avoiding the risk of accidentally creating some mismatch out of whole cloth that would tip off the pesky humans in some way that wasn't easily obvious to a computer (remember, we know they spotted the older ones easily, according to Reese). Besides, the Terminators in the future war initially weren't really meant to blend in with humans for an extended period of time like they do in T1/2. They were meant to be good enough to get into a base or close to a high value target and melt them. Once we enter the T2 and T3 timelines, Cyberdyne now has more of a hand (haha get it) in the design of Terminator prototypes, to varying extents. Well one of the first things they'd do when reverse engineering the T-800 is extrapolate the size of the endoskeleton based on the arm and whatever other info they had access to, so that they knew the parameters they needed to ultimately work within. Once they know that, they have to figure out what kind of human body could reasonably conceal it, so the bio division starts a project of scanning and cataloguing super yolked dudes for this purpose. They probably come to the same conclusion as Skynet, which is that the workable range includes maybe just a couple of physiques in the Arnold-esque range. Naturally, Skynet has access to at least some of this once it starts thinking about Terminator skin suits, and once again finds a nice chunk of the work done for it. This all pretty much works because Schwarzenegger in his prime is still revered not just for his work in the sport, but his lottery winning genetics. At the same time, he isn't a ~7 foot giant that would immediately draw intense attention either. He really does occupy a sweet spot of sorts that we can imagine only a few other people do. This does raise a troubling question, which is whether Cyberdyne had made the connection between the T-800 pieces they scavenged, and the LA police substation that got deleted by a single guy, complete with _video evidence_ in 1984. If they had, then they already had pretty much the whole physical template in hand from the beginning, including the voice. If they did, did they tell anyone? Did someone from Cyberdyne see Candy and think, hot dang! That guy looks just like the murder cyborg! Another gift from the shadowy future that we keep pushing forward for max profits! Tell the engineering pitch guy to practice the scary accent for the meeting, so the robot doesn't sound like it wants to marry its cousin. If this is the case, Cyberdyne is legitimately the most evil group of people to exist, and if they hadn't caused the collapse of civilization via Skynet, they'd certainly have done it some other way before too long. Remember, if we choose to consider T3 as part of the timeline, they did all of this even after Dyson and the Connors destroyed all of the artifacts and likely most of the research they had already done. It's starting to look like the founding of Cyberdyne is perhaps the past inflection point that everyone should be concerned with disrupting in the past. Honestly, this would have made more sense than the subsequent plots we got, and probably raises far more interesting questions. Is Judgement Day still inevitable without Cyberdyne? What consequences come from stopping it's foundation and killing or re-directing the key people driving the agenda? Is it right to murder someone for a crime they haven't committed yet? What do the future war leaders think of the ever escalating time travel war that now seems to only make the Skynet endgame worse? How much are they even aware of? Of course, this should all be considered in the flawed but more consistent single timeline model of time travel from the 80s. The multiverse must be avoided at all costs, because it removes all the stakes. James Cameron, if you happened to make it this far, I promise I won't sue you if use this idea. If you are dead-set on making a T7, and you really really shouldn't because I'm sure there are so many other fresh ideas you want to tackle, I just want it to be good, and to give the loop a closure that respects the struggle of T1&T2. If anyone else read all of this, I really appreciate it. I don't have anywhere else to put all of these rambling essays that result from my ADHD leading me away from the work I absolutely need to be doing to this work. ;)

If we're going to include T3 as an acceptable Terminator movie (at least relative to the new shit), that makes me wonder: Why the hate for Salvation then?

I don’t know what is the official story on this tidbit but the original smashed Terminator head and body in the metal press ( though not working could be easily reconstructed) plus the working arm and piece of cpu seen in T2 along with the photographs taken in T1 and T2 would surely get the Army and Cyberdyne’s attention, especially if there was already a high ranking officer who looked just like him … and of course this would be a time paradox. To make things more complicated, T2 talks about how the original models were rubber/plastic exteriors and were easily detectable, so were the army ones intended to have rubberized skin as well?

The hills are alive, with the sound brrt! brrt!

James can do what they did to the Halloween 79 movie, Make Terminator 7 a sequel to Terminator 2 ignoring the ones after it.

That fake accent for Arnold sounded like Sam L. Jackson doing a voice over

The next instalment has Skynet sending back the bear from "Hercules in NY".

Lmao that ad segment reads like satire

3:13. LOLOLOLOL didn't laugh that much in a long time!

I love the ending to T3 so much. I was 12 when that movie came out and I think that was the first movie I saw that showed me you don’t always get the happy ending, and that’s okay lol

I rest easier learning this needless backstory after 30 years. Thank you!

You can play as the T-102 in 'Terminator: Resisty'.

The the best explanation is the cyberdyne systems / Skynet use an accent to make it so that the cyborg didn't seem as out of place and if anybody questioned it they just assumed they were a foreigner

It's one of them time travel paradoxes I reckon 🤣

Julie Andrew's cut was epic.

Not just nowadays, when I was in 7th grade, a couple of kids came back to school after seeing it, saying it was weird that the robot was programmed w a German accent

As someone who's never seen Terminator 3, I cannot fathom why they'd delete that scene. It's hilarious!

Missed ya buddy

They should have overdubbed our Aussie Accent. LOL 😆😂

Who wouldn’t want to be dancing around the Austrian Alps with Julie Andrew’s?

Its literally because they hired Arnold for the role. If Lance Henrickson had ended up playing it then different story. Id love to see an alternate version with Lance as the terminator, just to see what it would have been like.

Yep. I could have lived my life quite happily not knowing there was an accent story line!

I don't see a crappy deleted scene as being canon. Him sounding like that I just put down to him being robotic. He had too many lines in T2 and thats where the more family friendly humour crept in that would continue into those awful sequels (Salvation exempt).

It's kind of his trademark. After Conan the Barbarian it might have been weirder for general audiences to dub over it. That aside: inside the narrative of the film it actually works really well, imo. You can say "he doesn't blend in well" and that is true, but he still passes for human with the people he interacts with, which is still pretty remarkable. He's a a scary, huge, weird talking guy, but still just a guy.

"To hell with your continuity." - Ahnold Terminator ='[.]'=

That's Samuel L Jackson dubbing over Arny. 😆

Neat origin of that accent

Salvation does follow & keep the T3 continuity. One more authentic 2029 Future War movie, to bring the story full circle is all we wanted.

where from you got that foutage of arnold?? :)

Love the intro

1 and 2 is all you need to think about; forget the rest and be happy.

The funniest part about the reason why James Cameron didn't choose OJ as The Terminator is because Cameron said OJ didn't look like a killer. I get what he meant but that reason didn't age quite so well. 🤣

I just thought his accent fit without explanation as a "robotic" voice

Somehow I didn't understand this wideo, but that could be cause I'm Austrian

4:04 fun fact: that Arnold doing his best American impersonation!

1:59 BAH HAHAHHAHAHAHAH

I just have to let you know how excited I am that rebel Moon part two is out, because I look forward to you trashing it brilliantly!

The Sgt Candy scene was deleted and now just a dvd extra,so,not canon.

One another note, "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" (2008) was surprisely very good, shame it was canceled after just 2 seasons. Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, Summer Glau, Just fyi.

"Why does a future cyborg have an accent?" Because he's made in Austria. 😊

Surviving Soldier: "So there we were... a bunch of thin, malnutritional survivors just trying to survive another day... and a new guy came in. He looked like he had been eating steroids, HGH, and 9 lbs of raw meat for weeks - he was jacked. We thought 'wow, this is going to be a great edition to our platoon...'"

Did it need an explanation? I would think in order for any of the Terminators to fit in they would need to be made unique from each other. If they all had one type of voice and all had the same look... then they all would have been instantly spotted.

I could have sworn the fish logo was MILF. Must be my programming.

I always loved this deleted scene.

Holy fuck, 1/4 of this video is an ad.

Maybe they should make an entire movie to explain it, you know, like Rogue 1 or something similar!! This question MUST be answered!🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

With the Terminator, young Austrian accented Americans could finally see themselves on screen. Representation matters. For the next Terminator movie, let's hope that Skynet sends back a Bennetton ad full of diverse Terminators to challenge the strong female protagonist.

Terminator and Conan are in the same universe, skynet looked through the history of humans for the perfect warrior to base the t800 on. Which led them to Conan

There’s a lot of “this old awful movie ain’t that bad seeing how the new movies are terrible” going around.

theres only two terminator films, just like there’s only two star wars trilogies

Back in the day when, filmmakers cared about their story even if they’ve created a bad story. Notice how Arnie played a character of a retired U.S veteran who seems to have happy go lucky type of personality and then at the end of the scene he stops smiling to look as mean as the mannequin, that stuff is so littlest so important it shows how much the filmmakers care.

You could say this about any arnold film. Why in kindergarten cop does arnold have a german accent when hes an american cop😂

Well it could be that the future AI just used whatever accent they had in their database. The AI might have liked it😅.

hey, man, the chief master sergeant william candy-terminator appearance loop is a möbius time loop, don't ask questions you don't really want answers to...

T3 cut scenes.. I still love dvd extas.

Terminator, much like Alien, should have ended at two movies. Kind of weird to think about it now, but prior to the 80s, sequels weren't that common. There aren't that many popular movies from the 50s, 60s and 70s that became "franchises". Mostly just one and done films. Then in the 80s, film producers figured out they can milk films and their audiences ad infinitum. Now almost every long-running film franchise is a zombie, a soulless, worn-out husk of something that used to be full of life and something people used to love.

I learned recently that Arnold wanted to do his own voice for the German dub, but they wouldn’t let him. His specific accent is apparently VERY rural, so to German-speaking audiences, it’d probably be even stranger. It’d sound like somebody from “Deliverance” was talking about evil robots and the end of the world. 🤣

Release The Andrews Cut of Terminator‼️

I don't care it didn't make logical sense, I love this deleted scene. A bit of silliness, for sure.

good choice

Did the police not think to question a soldier who looks identical and has the same build as a guy that massacred a police station full of cops and then injured and shot multiple cops a decade later whilst also blowing up a building and was aidng and abetting a wanted fugitive?

I saw T3 as kid in theatres with my brother and uncle. Even as a kid I hated that film, hard to follow seeing Blade 2 with that crap

Obviously T1 and T2 are amazing, but I didn't hate T3. I saw T4 and hated it and never watched the others that have since come out. But basically, T3 wasn't that bad. And the ending was crazy.

You said the fish species name wrong, the "ee" is right but you need to pronounce the beginning as "crop"

《THE TERMINATOR 1 and 1 are some of the greatest Sci~Fi films to have ever graced the big screen》 ...i never even noticed that THE T~800 had an Austrian Accent before!!! ...but now that you mention it, why does ROBOTHEAD have an Australian Accent??? 🤔 🎶How Bizarre, How Bizarre🎶 👽 🖖 🤖

This whole video is just an excuse for the fishing mobile game ad isn't it? Not even 6 minutes of this random diatribe and two mentions of the game within it 😂

Love it

Oh I’m glad that wasn’t his accent

I remember seeing this deleted scene. I also didn't hate T3 when it came out. I can be a bit of a shill sometimes though 😂

Oooo….ITS ME!!!!! Jesus f*cking Christ Hollywood 😂

Its intimidating. That simple.

In German he had no accent. He was dubbed.

Salvation is under rated I liked that one a lot

My biggest question is T2 related; How did future forces capture, subdue and then completely reprogrammed a T800? No specifics were given, it was a huge point that was massively glossed over and annoyed the shit out of me the whole film. In my opinion, T2 had none of the eerie “horror” edge that made the original so awesome. No one seems to agree with me on these mentioned points which I find somewhat baffling 😆 But my opinion stands