Recently I saw a few minutes from Terminator 3 or 4 (whichever one had Claire Dames in it). I didn’t watch long because I didn’t care enough, but something did puzzle me. In the seen where the Arnold Terminator walks naked into the bar and steals the stripper’s clothes, several of the women eye him appreciatively as he strides about all manly and stuff. One of them clearly eyes his crotch and smiles while doing so rather than screaming “My god! What HAPPENED to you!” This leads to the inevitable conclusion that the Governator not only has superficially normal junk, but junk of a fairly nice size.
Why would Terminators have dicks? Can they USE these dicks? DO they use these dicks? Was Sarah Connor on to something when she speculated that the second Arnold Terminator would be a good stepfather?
Yep. So that they can walk around naked and demand clothing and people think “damn, another weird naked dude” instead of “OH MY GOD IT’S A ROBOT ALIEN WITH NO JUNK!!”.
The whole point of the human-looking Terminators was to infiltrate and destroy surviving human communities. If word gets out that Terminators are hung like a Ken doll, the first step in gaining entrance to a survivor community would be, “Show us your dick.” So, Terminators get wing-wangs.
This. Given that the additional body-sculpting is fairly trivial (especially if “full functionality” is not required), why not include a dong and avoid that potential risk of detection?
IIRC, the first red-herring “solution” in The Caves of Steel (Baley thinking that R. Daneel wasn’t really a robot at all) was based on just this reasoning – Baley noticed in the Personal that Daneel was anatomically correct, and didn’t see why the Spacers would bother with details that would be hidden by clothing anyway.
I think the real question is, since the dick is superfluous, would Skynet repurpose it? Skynet (presumably) doesn’t have the giggle reflex that genitalia evokes in so many humans, so it’d have no qualms about using a dick in a way humans would find hilarious.* Detachable handgrenade? Extendable I/O interface? WiFi antenna?
I’m not sure if that’s a reward or a threat. Is it like, “You have complied with my demands, and as promised, I return the hobbits to you unharmed,” or is it like, “You fools have fallen into my trap! RELEASE THE HOBBITS!”
They have tallywhackers because all of that flesh is FLESH. There needs to be some means of dealing with waste products from all those cells. Presumably there’s some means of delivering nutrients and water to those cells and to deal with the waste products.
Cameron on Sarah Connor Chronicles was all woman. A hot one too.
She had “social skills” in the pilot to act like a teen girl. That didn’t last long. She was menacing, robot like in other episodes.
There was an episode where a male terminator had wed and integrated into society. He used his position to wire an intelligent computer into some city’s traffic control and 911 system. It was setup to wreck havoc on a specific date. Stealthy terminators.
The early rubber-skin models probably didn’t, and the T-1000 had whatever anatomy (or approximations of it) it wanted. But the T-800s, like Ahnold, were covered by real human flesh that was grown from real human tissues. Presumably, it’s easier to get human flesh to grow into normal human shapes all over than it is to make it atypical in some ways. And ever cell of a man’s body has the DNA to grow a penis, just like every cell has the DNA to grow hair or fingernails or sweat glands or all the other things that are visible on a Terminator. Since there’s no real drawback to having a penis, Skynet just never bothered to remove it.
