# Why are Terminators built to be anatomically correct? (Silly answers preferred but not required.) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 6, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159 "2015-01-06T20:38:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/21 "2015-01-06T21:33:50Z")
Oh my, at first glance I read the thread title as " Why are _Transformers_ built to be anatomically correct?" And thought, _wow, I really missed out by only having Gobots_. :eek: My silly answer, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/22 "2015-01-06T21:47:49Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Oh my, at first glance I read the thread title as " Why are _Transformers_ built to be anatomically correct?" And thought, _wow, I really missed out by only having Gobots_. :eek: They may not look anatomically correct, but remember: more than meets the eye. ---
**Author:** ![Sr\_Siete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/23 "2015-01-06T22:06:45Z")
What? You thought SkyNet was particularly creative? Dear lord, no. She uses existing designs by humans. Yes, the terminator were originally sex bots. You know it’s true. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/24 "2015-01-06T22:07:56Z")
Might as well be. When you see one, you know you’re f\*cked. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/25 "2015-01-06T22:15:11Z")
Everyone knows that Noonian Soong is the real inventor of the Terminators. The rogue simulants he created were fully functional, so it stands to reason the Governator was too. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/26 "2015-01-06T22:19:57Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > Not the T-1000. The silver guy has no junk. Pretty sure he’s got as much junk as he wants. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/27 "2015-01-06T22:28:59Z")
Kyle Reese: “The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human… sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. I had to wait till he moved on you before I could zero him.” ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/28 "2015-01-06T23:32:55Z")
In the blu-ray version of the first Terminator, if you up the brightness, you can totally see Arnold’s junk in the opening scene. I don’t think Maria Shriver, and the maid, had any complaints in that department. ---
**Author:** ![Idilia\_Dubb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c2a13f/32.png) [@Idilia\_Dubb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idilia_Dubb)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/29 "2015-01-07T00:34:50Z")
> [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](#): > > In the blu-ray version of the first Terminator, if you up the brightness, you can totally see Arnold’s junk in the opening scene. I don’t think Maria Shriver, and the maid, had any complaints in that department. I have it on very good authority that Arnold has indeed been blessed by the god Priapus.😉 ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/30 "2015-01-07T00:40:45Z")
Uh have you WATCHED the movies? The Terminators are infiltrators, they are built to infiltrate and go on killing sprees in the human resistance. They have to pass as human, as Reese said they even have bad breath and body odor. If they didn’t have normal human parts the resistance could just require anyone coming in to strip and they would be exposed, they need to pass perfectly as human duh. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/31 "2015-01-07T00:49:24Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > wank wank wank You think? ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/32 "2015-01-07T01:00:20Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > If you don’t mind a serious answer? > > 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. Yeah, this was my take on it as well. ---
**Author:** ![slowlearner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@slowlearner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slowlearner)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/33 "2015-01-07T01:12:40Z")
Philip K Dick gets credit for Bladerunner and Total Recall but he was also the true father of the Terminator franchise with a scifi story called Second Variety. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/34 "2015-01-07T01:29:01Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > 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? > > \*Or, if you prefer, ridiculous. Meh, if you give a penis a weapon it’ll want to go off all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/35 "2015-01-07T01:39:07Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Detachable handgrenade? Extendable I/O interface? WiFi antenna? Bungee cord. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/36 "2015-01-07T01:42:31Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > If SkyNet was a feminist, it would be used for the CPU. Or if SkyNet had a sense of irony. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/37 "2015-01-07T01:48:28Z")
,and is it armored? If he gets shot there, would he get a ding in his dong? Dang! ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/38 "2015-01-07T02:50:32Z")
“Extendable I/O interface?” “Talk to the…”. No, I won’t say it. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/39 "2015-01-07T04:58:21Z")
> [@Idilia\_Dubb](#): > > I have it on very good authority that Arnold has indeed been blessed by the god Priapus.😉 I saw the first \*Terminator _on the big screen, and I seem to remember being just barely able to see something ‘bouncing’ around, but it being, ah, kinda dinky. Actor Bill Paxton (Hudson from Aliens) played one of the punks in that opening scene (and was a friend of James Cameron from back in their Roger Corman days) and he said on Howard Stern that Arnold wasn’t too impressive down there, though he also said it was cold the night they shot that scene. Stern had previously said something like,_ 'His dick is probably longer than his last name!" \*😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159/40 "2015-01-07T05:14:12Z")
In case it has orders to kill its target by fucking him/her to death. Geez, none of you guys read Oglaf? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-terminators-built-to-be-anatomically-correct-silly-answers-preferred-but-not-required/709159.md?page=3)