VOTD: Why Do Terminators Time-Travel Naked?

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Everyone knows that Terminators travel back in time naked, but do you know why? I assumed that only organic matter could be sent through time, but apparently that isnt the case at all. College Humor has the real answer, a video which you can watch after the jump.

  • The real answer is: If they had clothes on they would be destroyed in the Time-Traveler "ball".
  • I always suspected...
  • Mark
    That was f'ing hilarious!
  • edc
    but really, how did the t1000 travel back in time if he was liquid metal? and howsabout putting a small handgun in the stomach? you could even have a small weapon disassembled in the humans that went back.
  • ha. funny.
  • I guess that's the proper response for Jake Gyllenhaal's Prince of Persia story. B)
  • How could anything time travel? Time traveling doesn't even exist?
  • edc
    really? cuz I can travel 1 minute into the future every 60 seconds.
  • DerekJames
    It's all relative, my friend....
  • I'll rephrase this for anyone who has trouble discussing things that "don't even exist": what do you think James Cameron had in mind when he imagined Terminators travelling naked? There. Is it better now?
  • edc
    biological matter, which means the t1000 and tx should have had a kleatu reeves style biosuit... unless they can mimic genetic material.
  • yum, more guys with nice bodies should time travel NAKED.
  • correct me if I'm wrong broomstick,

    But aren't you often harping about the objectification of women in Hollywood?

    yet, when there's guys' skin on screen, you're licking your lips. double standard?
  • get get naked
  • edc
    I imagined that coming from Dexter [of Dexter's lab]

    EETZ uhl RELL A TEEV, my frrriend!
  • edc
    I imagined that coming from Dexter [of Dexter's lab]

    EETZ uhl RELL A TEEV, my frrriend!
    PS: Wanted to mention great post!
  • 790
    On a trivia note:
    The time machine referenced in Terminator was an organic mechansim.

    Go back and watch the scene where Reese is explaining this to Silberman in the holding room.

    He goes on to mention that they infiltrated "the lab".
    I'm assuming that "the lab" is area 51, and the time machine is either an alien device or is back engineered from an alien device.
  • Its not true it just happens that way. Only they go thur there so any thing they have on them does not go with.
  • I hope thats the last topless guy I see on /film the rest of the week...
  • Hahaha... This is certainly one way to put it... Although it was not what I had expected! lol.
  • "Its not true it just happens that way". Why does it happens that way then ? Yes because they would be destroyed in the "ball" while they Time-Travel. IT IS true.
  • Yeah but this is Sci-Fi -.-
  • It's because if they go back with clothes from the future it will break the space/fashion/time continuum.
  • Jakob Zazeis..... I should have known...
  • starscream9289
    We need more chicks to time travel!
  • FreedomPopular
    I second this motion... all in favor please show by your erections.
  • yeah and they would be able to make theyre boobs bigger
  • i KNEW it!
  • I seriously wondered why they had to travel time naked. Also,if they had so much knowledge about humans, then why couldn't they just makes clothing that look like the one in the time period they were going?
  • doesnt exist how dare you
  • Correct my friend.
  • james
    ha, the t-1000 who gets down in the atlas pose auditioned for my film last week. he's great here, unfortunately not what we were looking for in the part.
  • Not very funny.
  • edog
    Story-telling 101: It creates immediate conflict for the scene. End of discussion
  • Django
    This is why Hot Tub Time Machine is so far ahead of the game ...
  • freemachine
    ANSWER: The god damned thongs ride way too high up your ass...
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