Endwalker's plot is loosely based on Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator (Spoilers)

[Red_Panda]

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[MilkieTea]

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[Jennah]

I'll give you the 2nd section of the first level 90 dungeon, which is aptly titled "Judgement Day". That's definitely the Terminator planet.

... everything else is a giant stretch.

[BaconBits]

Goth Meteion is just Twitter after Tumblr invaded.

[BluexBird]

I'll give you the 2nd section of the first level 90 dungeon, which is aptly titled "Judgement Day". That's definitely the Terminator planet.

... everything else is a giant stretch.

It gets better though. If you read the sparkly items on the floor, they go into detail about how in this planet, the main civilization (called the Globalists) tried to unite all the people under one ruler to help establish peace.

Much like the Garleans were trying to do with Eorzea.

Naturally, there were those who opposed this (the Freedom Fighters). And thus war ensued. So the Globalists created the Peacemaker machines in order to defeat the Freedom Fighters, except the Peacemakers ended up realizing than in order to establish peace, they would have to get rid of not just the Freedom Fighters, but the Globalists as well. Now THIS is literally Terminator (and other AI in movies out there, Ultron had similar motivations, etc.).

The machine realized that peace would be impossible unless they were ALL exterminated, which is similar to Meteion's train of thought in the sense that she believes happiness is ultimately impossible - non-existence is the only option.

Ultimately this led to one person (I don't know which side they were on) triggering all the weapons to basically destroy everything - you see it right after you kill the second boss.

It's just so well-done because it sort of illustrates what might have happened to our planet had the Garlean's actually succeeded in conquering everything.

[kpxmanifesto]

It gets better though. If you read the sparkly items on the floor, they go into detail about how in this planet, the main civilization (called the Globalists) tried to unite all the people under one ruler to help establish peace.

Much like the Garleans were trying to do with Eorzea.

Naturally, there were those who opposed this (the Freedom Fighters). And thus war ensued. So the Globalists created the Peacemaker machines in order to defeat the Freedom Fighters, except the Peacemakers ended up realizing than in order to establish peace, they would have to get rid of not just the Freedom Fighters, but the Globalists as well. Now THIS is literally Terminator (and other AI in movies out there, Ultron had similar motivations, etc.).

The machine realized that peace would be impossible unless they were ALL exterminated, which is similar to Meteion's train of thought in the sense that she believes happiness is ultimately impossible - non-existence is the only option.

Ultimately this led to one person (I don't know which side they were on) triggering all the weapons to basically destroy everything - you see it right after you kill the second boss.

It's just so well-done because it sort of illustrates what might have happened to our planet had the Garlean's actually succeeded in conquering everything.

Yeah I should've predicted SE would do something like this. The SE localization staff love pop culture references and this is a prime example of that.

[kpxmanifesto]

I'll give you the 2nd section of the first level 90 dungeon, which is aptly titled "Judgement Day". That's definitely the Terminator planet.

... everything else is a giant stretch.

I'm not saying the game is a carbon copy of the terminator universe. I'm saying that FFXIV captures that same spirit where a civilizations seemingly harmless creation ended up being its own undoing. There's obvious differences between the two universes such as the manner in which the Meteia and the machines attempt to destroy their creators.

[Sauteed]

I'll need to google my Twitter to confirm.

[Sclair0]

Isn't it James Cameron's terminator? Schwarzenegger is just in it right?

[kpxmanifesto]

Isn't it James Cameron's terminator? Schwarzenegger is just in it right?

Yes you're correct. The title should read "loosely based on The Terminator Starring Arnold" or "loosely based on James Cameron's The Terminator."