Although the Terminator franchise has endured for 40 years, not all the films and TV shows set in the iconic sci-fi universe are created equally. Created and co-written by director James Cameron and producer Gale Anne Hurd, Terminator is undoubtedly one of Hollywood’s greatest action franchises ever, thanks in part to its story of humanity’s fight to survive against all odds. In its earliest iterations, the Terminator movies centered on a cybernetic assassin, The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who is sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose unborn son, John, is destined to save humankind.