<P> John Connor is a fictional character of the Terminator franchise . Created by writer and director James Cameron, the character is first referred to in the 1984 film The Terminator and first appears in its 1991 sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day initially portrayed by Michael Edwards (briefly as the older Connor) and then by teenage actor Edward Furlong throughout the remainder of the film; in addition, Linda Hamilton's real - life son Dalton Abbot played John as a toddler in a dream sequence . The character is subsequently portrayed in the films, Nick Stahl in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Christian Bale in Terminator Salvation (2009) and Jason Clarke in Terminator Genisys (2015), as well as the television series Thomas Dekker and John De Vito in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008--2009) as the teenager and little John and finally Gideon Emery, who voiced the character in a video game based of the fourth film respectively . In the fifth film, where John Connor who becomes the T - 3000 and serves as the antagonist of the series . </P> <P> In the narrative of his fictional universe, John Connor is a messianic figure (born on 28 February 1985) who will lead the Resistance to defeat an empire of robotic Terminators amassed by Skynet (the rogue military supercomputer) following Judgment Day (a cybernetic revolt doomsday event). When his mother, Sarah Connor, became the target of a time travelling Terminator unit (T - 800 (Model 101)) in the first film The Terminator, John sent resistance fighter Kyle Reese to protect her, knowing Kyle and Sarah would later conceive John himself . With foreknowledge from his parents, John fends off Terminator assassination attempts in the second and third films before Judgment Day . In the fourth film, John fights with the Resistance in a post-apocalyptic setting after Skynet has taken over . As the series' central plot heavily involves the concept of time travel, the story of the character is often non-linear and portrays many possible outcomes, for example Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and television series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles continue from the ending of Terminator 2 but are depicted as taking place in alternate timelines, while in Terminator Genisys (2015) revisits and changes the events of 1984's The Terminator . </P> <P> In The Terminator, John is mentioned and is the basis of the film . The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is attempting to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) because she will be his mother, but does not make a physical appearance . However, at the end of the film, Sarah is shown to be pregnant with John . </P> <P> John makes his first true appearance in Terminator 2: Judgment Day which takes place in 1995, played by Edward Furlong . He was a 10 - year - old juvenile delinquent living with foster parents (Jenette Goldstein and Xander Berkeley) while his mother (Hamilton) was at a hospital for the mentally insane . Though he is informed of his destiny of his future conflict with Skynet, young John is skeptical of his mother's claims of his fate as humanity's leader . One day, while in an arcade with a friend, the T - 1000 (Robert Patrick) and the T - 800 (Schwarzenegger) - a reprogrammed android sent by John's future self, fight over him . This starts a chase sequence where the T - 800 and John try to lose the T - 1000; this event validates John's mother's warning to him about Skynet . Later that night, his mother breaks out and he and the T - 800 go to save her, and the three escape . John teaches The Terminator how to be like a human; teaching him sayings like "hasta la vista, baby! ." He forms an emotional bond with the Terminator, coming to regard it as a father figure, and does not want the Terminator to destroy himself at the end of the film, despite the Terminator's warning that allowing him to continue existing creates the risk that his chip could be used to recreate Skynet at some future date . John Connor is briefly seen at the beginning of the film in a flash - forward as an adult, played by Michael Edwards . Dalton Abbot (Linda Hamilton's son), also played John as a toddler in a dream sequence . </P>

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