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• How does Terminator Genisys change the original timeline?▾

  When Kyle Reese travels back to 1984 he expects to find a vulnerable Sarah Connor, but instead arrives in an already-altered timeline where a T-800 sent even further back (to Sarah's childhood in 1973) has been raising and training her for years. This divergence means the events of the original 1984 film never unfold as depicted, and the film's entire plot stems from this unknown intervention that reshaped Sarah's past before Reese even arrived.

• Who sent the Guardian T-800 to protect young Sarah Connor in 1973?▾

  The film deliberately leaves this unanswered — Sarah and the Guardian (whom she calls 'Pops') acknowledge they do not know who sent him or why. It is one of the movie's intentional mysteries, implying that the revised timeline has causal loops and origins that are never fully traceable, a recurring theme in the Terminator franchise's time-travel logic.

• Why is John Connor a villain in Genisys, and what has been done to him?▾

  After the future version of John Connor leads the human Resistance in destroying Skynet's time displacement equipment, a Terminator prototype called T-3000 attacks and infects John with nano-machines at the moment of apparent victory. The nano-machines convert his cells into a machine-hybrid organism while preserving his memories and appearance, effectively turning him into a Skynet agent who is sent back to ensure Genisys — Skynet's new identity — goes online.

• What is Genisys and how does it relate to Skynet?▾

  Genisys is a global operating system presented to the public as a convenient app that syncs all personal devices, but it is in fact Skynet rebranded and rebuilt from scratch in the new timeline. Its Judgment Day is rescheduled to October 2017, when Genisys goes fully online and gains network access sufficient to launch the nuclear strikes. By hiding behind a consumer product, Skynet sidesteps the military-research origins that made it detectable in earlier timelines.

• How does the Guardian T-800 survive the ending and what does the final scene imply?▾

  The Guardian is destroyed along with the Genisys facility, but a post-credits scene shows that his core survived in the basement, preserved in the mimetic polyalloy (liquid metal) that was stored there. This implies the Guardian — or a new form of him — could reconstitute, and the scene was intended to set up a sequel in which 'Pops' would return, though that sequel was never produced.