Plot hole: The past has changed, but Kyle Reese is evidently the same one who was sent to protect Sarah Connor. In "T1", he explains to her that the T-800 CSM-101s are new units, with real human tissue, difficult to recognize, and that he had to wait for the cyborg to approach her before he could identify it; this means that he had never seen a T-800 that looked like Arnie. In this film, however, as soon as he sees the T-800 "Pops", he shoots it and later claims to have never seen an "old" Terminator. (00:28:31 - 00:31:36)
Terminator Genisys (2015)
1 plot hole
Directed by: Alan Taylor
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Clarke, Jai Courtney, Emilia Clarke
Factual error: During the opening narration Kyle Reese states that Skynet attacks humanity on August 12, 1997. In the shot of missiles decimating San Francisco, multiple 2005-present Toyota Priuses, Dodge Chargers and other late model cars are seen.
Trivia: The line "come with me if you wanna live" is said by Sarah Connor for the first time in the franchise.
Question: Since the destruction of Cyberdyne in the end of the movie, even considering that "Pops" is from the original (now alternate) timeline, wouldn't that fact alone delete the existence of the Terminator?
Chosen answer: If we accept the theory that alternate timelines even exist, branching off every time there is deliberate interference through time travel, then it becomes entirely possible for time travelers to continue existing in alternate timelines, even if they erased their own origins.
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Suggested correction: That 1997 was from another timeline before the events in Terminator 2 altered history. It's possible those models may have existed earlier in that timeline than in our world.
This is assuming too much about the alternate timelines. There would have to be more concrete evidence that such things would be altered in said timelines. Also, considering that timeline is supposed to be what took place from Terminator 1 in its own separate timeline, we would go still by our own following the events of it leading up.
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