Robocop Versus The Terminator

(Dark Horse, 1992)
Robocop 3 ™ and ©1992 Orion Pictures Corporation, The Terminator ™ and ©1984 Cinema ’84, a Greenberg Brothers production

In the world of the future, a defense system called SkyNet somehow gains sentience, and decides to eliminate the creatures known as humans. But even as her fellow humans are being systematically eliminated by the machines, a woman soldier discovers the source of their peril. The machines could not have become sentient by themselves: they learned how thanks to the work done in the 1990s to turn Alex Murphy into Robocop.

The woman uses SkyNet’s own technology to travel back to 20th century Detroit. Her goal: to kill Alex Murphy. By fashioning a plasma rifle out of 20th century components, she actually succeeds. But even as their timeline fades away, the machines send a Terminator back in time to the exact moment where the woman ambushed Robocop, and it kills her instead. With her dying words, she tells Robocop that thanks to him, the future is lost. In reality, the struggle is just beginning.

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