Terminator Guía y cronología

The first film gives the future a frightening certainty; Judgment Day makes changing it the central hope. Later continuations offer incompatible answers to what follows. Watching them all as if each cancels nothing produces a history the stories do not support.

Some branches continue particular earlier events, while Genisys rewrites the setup through additional time travel. Zero shifts attention away from the main Connor-centred route, and expanded-media stories have their own limits. Shared origins are useful reference points, not proof that every future can occur in one calendar.

Begin with the original pair. Choose Rise of the Machines and Salvation for that continuation, Dark Fate for its alternative after T2, or The Sarah Connor Chronicles for the television branch. Approach Genisys and Zero with their own time-travel premises rather than sorting all works by the earliest scene they contain.

The tracks make sequel choices visible. A shared T1 or T2 entry can support several branches without requiring duplicate viewing or making the later stories mutually compatible.

• Original Timeline (3 entries)

  The original Terminator and Judgment Day foundations, before choosing among later, incompatible continuations.

• Rise of the Machines (7 entries)

  The first two films followed by Rise of the Machines and Salvation's particular machine-war future.

• Sarah Connor (4 entries)

  The Sarah Connor Chronicles' television continuation after the original foundations, not a required bridge through the other film futures.

• Genisys (4 entries)

  Genisys's rewritten history, interpreted through its own additional time-travel premise rather than as the next event after every prior sequel.

• Dark Fate (4 entries)

  Dark Fate's alternative continuation from the first two films, separate from Rise of the Machines and Salvation.

• Terminator: Zero (4 entries)

  Zero's separate perspective on preventing machine domination, with time-travel context distinct from a universal Connor sequel chain.

• Future War (6 entries)

  Selected expanded-media future-war stories, kept in their own continuity context rather than automatically reconciled with the later film branches.

Use the first two films as the discovery foundation, then follow the selected route's own continuation. The combined list is not a universal sequel chain.

1. 1
   The TerminatorFilm · 1984
2. 2
   Terminator 2: Judgment DayFilm · 1991
3. 3
   Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Special EditionFilm · 1993
4. 4
   Terminator 3: Rise of the MachinesFilm · 2003
5. 5
   Terminator: The Sarah Connor ChroniclesSeries · 2008
6. 6
   Terminator SalvationFilm · 2009
7. 7
   Terminator: Salvation - The Final BattleNovel · 2013
8. 8
   Terminator GenisysFilm · 2015
9. 9
   Terminator: Dark FateFilm · 2019
10. 10
    Terminator: ResistanceGame · 2019
11. 11
    Terminator ZeroSeries · 2024
12. 12
    The Terminator: The Burning EarthNovel · 1990
13. 13
    Terminator: Secondary ObjectivesNovel · 1991
14. 14
    Terminator: Enemy of My EnemyNovel · 2014

Full works visit multiple years and altered histories. Earliest-scene dates cannot resolve every causal loop or put mutually exclusive futures on one straight line.

1. 1
   1984The TerminatorFilm · 1984
2. 2
   1984Terminator: Secondary ObjectivesNovel · 1991
3. 3
   1985Terminator: Enemy of My EnemyNovel · 2014
4. 4
   1995Terminator 2: Judgment DayFilm · 1991
5. 5
   1995Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Special EditionFilm · 1993
6. 6
   1997Terminator ZeroSeries · 2024
7. 7
   1999–2009Terminator: The Sarah Connor ChroniclesSeries · 2008
8. 8
   2004Terminator 3: Rise of the MachinesFilm · 2003
9. 9
   1984 - 2017Terminator GenisysFilm · 2015
10. 10
    2018Terminator SalvationFilm · 2009
11. 11
    2018–2021Terminator: Salvation - The Final BattleNovel · 2013
12. 12
    1998 - 2020Terminator: Dark FateFilm · 2019
13. 13
    2028–2029Terminator: ResistanceGame · 2019
14. 14
    2029The Terminator: The Burning EarthNovel · 1990

Publication order is useful for comparing how later productions reinterpret the first films. It should not be confused with the history of one surviving timeline.

1. 1
   The TerminatorFilm · 1984
2. 2
   The Terminator: The Burning EarthNovel · 1990
3. 3
   Terminator: Secondary ObjectivesNovel · 1991
4. 4
   Terminator 2: Judgment DayFilm · 1991
5. 5
   Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Special EditionFilm · 1993
6. 6
   Terminator 3: Rise of the MachinesFilm · 2003
7. 7
   Terminator: The Sarah Connor ChroniclesSeries · 2008
8. 8
   Terminator SalvationFilm · 2009
9. 9
   Terminator: Salvation - The Final BattleNovel · 2013
10. 10
    Terminator: Enemy of My EnemyNovel · 2014
11. 11
    Terminator GenisysFilm · 2015
12. 12
    Terminator: Dark FateFilm · 2019
13. 13
    Terminator: ResistanceGame · 2019
14. 14
    Terminator ZeroSeries · 2024