15 Easter Eggs In 'Terminator: Dark Fate' You Definitely Missed

Carl's Drapes Reference: Dark FateThe T-800 settled into a life marrying and selling drapes. He named himself Carl and started a drapery company.

Call the number on his van, 888-512-1984. You reference May 12, 1984, the first movie release. You also get a real voicemail for the company.

This is a short reference in the first.Kyle and Grace both hide shotguns in Terminator.Kyle Reese hides a shotgun under his trench coat. He uses it to slow the Terminator and save Sarah in a packed nightclub.

In Dark Fate, Kyle and Grace both hide shotguns.Kyle and Grace both hide shotguns in Dark Fate.Grace also knocks out a guard. She takes his clothes and hides a shotgun under a jacket to use on the latest Terminator.

This references the film that started the franchise's decline.They take out the Terminator just like in Dark Fate.Dark Fate concludes likeThey take out the Terminator just like in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.InIn Dark Fate, they take out the Terminator just like in T:3.Grace destroys the Rev-9 by removing its power source. The T-800 pierces the Rev-9's head with it, ending both.

They take out the Terminator just like in T:3.They take out the Terminator just like in T:3 ends with Arnold's character.They take out the Terminator just like in T:3 also.removing his power source and piercing the T-850's head. This ends them both. The sacrifice hits harder inIn Dark Fate, they take out the Terminator just like in T:3.They take out the Terminator just like in T:3 though.

The phrase Judgment Day points to Revelation 20:11-15 in the Bible. It says "all [will be] judged according to their deeds," and the unfit will be "thrown into the lake of fire."

But the Book of Revelation gets another reference.But Dark Fate gets another reference to the Book of Revelation.Dark Fate takes this further with new Terminators, the Rev-9s. Revelation 9 discusses the apocalypse and plagues that wipe out humanity. It does not mention robots, but we can guess it refers to them.

As Kyle Reese and the Terminator rush for Sarah Connor in the firstGrace is way better at hotwiring cars in Terminator.both must hotwire cars. The Terminator does this easily. Reese takes longer, which gives him more talking time with Sarah.

InGrace is way better at hotwiring cars in Terminator: Dark Fate.more hotwiring happens. Grace, being upgraded, hotwires a car in milliseconds—much faster than Reese. She is augmented.

Grace warns Dani that mixing a Terminator and cops results in "a hundred dead cops."

This directly references the police shoot-out scene from the firstTerminatorwhere the Terminator seems to blow apart about 100 cops (though the sequel shows only 17 died), and the climax ofTerminator 2where the T-800 does not try to kill cops. Instead, it fires its chaingun at every police car in the department.

The entire hook of the Terminator in Liquid Metal: Not Just A '90s Fad.The entire hook of the Terminator in Terminator 2.is that he became borderline unkillable through liquid metal.

This power is nearly the same as the Rev-9 inLiquid Metal: Not Just A '90s Fad in Dark Fate.Both movies show the robot's liquefied remains puddle on the floor, reforming into the slayer again.

One Easter egg exists.Director Tim Miller demanded inclusion in Dark Fate.Dark FateIt was a musical nod to something.T:2Singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam has a song called "Guitars, Cadillacs" playing on the jukebox in the bar in.T:2The song plays during the barbecue when the Rev-9 lands after his plane explodes.

This is a small but important egg.

Dark FateGrace might pretend.Terminator: SalvationThe idea of Salvation did not happen, but some ideas survive. A major plot twist in Salvation was that Marcus (Sam Worthington) was a half-human, half-robot hybrid.SalvationThe character Marcus (Sam Worthington) turned out to be a half-human, half-robot hybrid.

Grace is the same way.

InDark FateDuring the scene where Dani saves Grace in the future, Dani tells the scavengers they will hear the "HKs" and they will take everyone out.

She does not explain what an HK is, but in the first Terminator, she shows it.TerminatorWe learn this stands for "Hunter Killer," a general term for Skynet's (and Legion's) scary robots—at least the ones not disguised as humans.

Virtually every post-Judgment Day world in the Terminator franchise shows a lot of human skulls.The Terminator franchise shows a mountain of human skulls.Dark Fate is no different.Dark FateDark Fate is no different.

One early scene shows a beach littered with human skulls, calling back to other Judgment Days in the films..Robots smash some human skulls.

In almost every Terminator film, someone says a version of "Come with me if you want to live." Kyle Reese says it in the first, the T-800 says it in the second, and the T-850 says it inevery Terminator film, somebody says a variation of the phrase, "Come with me if you want to live." Kyle Reese says it in the first one, the T-800 says it in the second, the T-850 says it inThe film has a line; somebody says a version of "Come with me if you want to live." Kyle Reese says this in the first one; the T-800 Terminator says it in the second; the T-850 says it inTerminator 3, then Kyle Reese says it again inSalvation.

Dark FateGrace changes this by saying, "Come with me or you'll be dead in 30 seconds." That's close enough.

Like "I'll be back" or "come with me if you want to live," "there's no fate but what we make for ourselves" is another classic line appearing in severalTerminator films.These include Dark Fate.Dark Fate..

Sarah Connor says it in T:2.T:2, John Connor in T:3.T:3and Salvation.Salvation., and Grace says it in Dark Fate.Dark Fateon the cargo plane.

In the first Terminator film, the Terminator's time travel arrival is as smooth as Schwarzenegger's biceps. He lands in a superhero pose and immediately prepares to throw Bill Paxton against a fence and grab his buddy's clothes. Conversely, Kyle Reese appears spit out by a whale. He lands on his side, shivering and barely standing.In the first Terminator film, the Terminator's arrival from time travel is smooth, like Schwarzenegger's biceps. He lands in a superhero pose and immediately gets ready to throw Bill Paxton against a fence and grab his buddy's clothes. Kyle Reese, however, appears spit out by a whale. He lands on his side, shivering and barely standing.The film shows humans don't time travel as well as robots. The Terminator arrives from time travel smoothly, like Schwarzenegger's biceps. He lands in a "superhero pose," ready to throw Bill Paxton against a fence and grab his clothes. Kyle Reese, however, looks like a whale spat him out. He lands on his side, shivering and barely standing.

Dark FateDark Fate mirrors this contrast by having Grace immediately fall and get knocked out upon arrival while the Rev-9 Terminator appears like a powerful, disrobed Superman.

Time travel seems less graceful for humans, but Dark Fate confirms it is now a thing in this universe.Dark FateDark Fate confirms that time travel is now a thing in this universe.

Dark Fate'Dark Fate's first scene does not create new footage for the film. It shows Sarah Connor being interviewed by a psychologist at a psychiatric hospital. This scene comes from the 1991 film.Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

This scene builds how Sarah Connor acts. She fights constantly, fearing an apocalypse. It serves as a reminder thatDark FatefollowsT:2rather than any of the questionableTerminatorfilms that came after it.