/lit/ - Literature

>>12638791
>they don't *cry* or moan or suffer
well, i shouldn't say that too hastily. there's almost always a point in JCVD movies where he Hits The Limit and summons up some frenzy of wrath or whatever that Pushes Him Over The Top and so on. there's even a hilariously bad 1980s film called Cyborg in which he wills himself down off of a makeshift crucifix in just this way. even Arnold as Conan does not do this (although he does tear out the throat of a vulture with his teeth).

the T-1000 is a very interesting villain though, being composed of both the DNA of the earlier Terminators (a walking death machine, and perhaps the spectre of Marxist nightmare fuel) and the Xenomorph of Alien (all slithering adaptive horror, and usually loaded with all kinds of body-horror stuff related to eggs and spawning and penetration). the T-1000 seems to combine both of these into a single being, and was reborn in a female form for the later (and far inferior) films, which suggests that it was a kind of perfect nemesis for whatever it was that those films represented.

but it is also i think quite a Landian villain also, the kind of thing that couldn't be defeated purely in a fistfight. it had to be lured back to the original scene of the crime, the site of production, which is eerily reminiscent of Mount Doom...