Editing Kyle Reese

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{{Infobox Character
|name          = Kyle Reese
|image         = Kyle Reese.png
|actor         = 
* [[Michael Biehn]] {{c|''[[The Terminator (film)|The Terminator]]''<br>''[[Terminator 2: Judgment Day (film)|Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]''}}
* [[Anton Yelchin]] {{c|''[[Terminator Salvation (film)|Terminator Salvation]]''}}
|franchises    = All
|first         = {{T1}}
|alias         = 
|gender        = Male
|status        = Deceased<br>Alive {{c|alternative timelines}}
|age           = 26 {{c|original timeline}}<ref>[http://screenplayexplorer.com/wp-content/scripts/The-Terminator.pdf Fifth draft of script]</ref>
|birth         = c. [[2003]] {{C|based on his age in the original timeline}}
|death         = [[1984]] {{story2|T1}}
[[2029]] {{story2|T1}}
|occupation    = [[Tech-Com]] Soldier
|parents       = 
* [[Dennis Reese]] {{c|father, ''[[T2: The Future War]]'', {{TG}}}}
* [[Mary Shea]] {{c|mother, ''[[T2: The Future War]]'', {{TG}}}}
* [[Jack Brock]] {{c|Foster father, ''[[T2: The Future War]]''}}
* [[John Connor]] {{c|Foster father, ''[[Terminator Revolution]]''}}
* [[Tara Holden|Tara Connor]] {{c|Foster mother, ''[[Terminator Revolution]]''}}
|spouse        = Wife, name unknown {{c|''[[Terminator: Revolution]]''}}
|children      = 
* [[John Connor]] {{C|son}}
* [[Jane Connor]] {{c|daughter, ''[[The Terminator: End Game]]''}}
* A daughter, name unknown {{c|''[[Terminator: Revolution]]''}}
|family        = 
* [[Tim Reese]] {{C|younger brother, [[The Terminator (NOW Comics)|''The Terminator'' (NOW Comics)]]}}
* [[Derek Reese]] {{c|elder brother, ''[[Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]''}}
|relationships = [[Sarah Connor]] {{c|love interest}}
|affiliations  = [[Tech-Com|Resistance: Tech-Com Unit]]
|footnotes     = 
|features      = 
}}
{{Quote| Come with me if [[Sarah Connor|you]] want to live.}}
Sergeant '''Kyle Reese''' is a [[Resistance]] soldier from the [[Tech-Com]], serial number '''DN38416'''. From [[2021]] to [[2027]], he served with the 132nd under [[Justin Perry]]. In 2027, he joined the leader of the Resistance, [[John Connor]]'s Tech-Com fighting unit, where he was assigned recon/security. Coming to view John as a surrogate father, in the year [[2029]], he was sent back in time to the year [[1984]] to protect John's mother [[Sarah Connor]] from a [[Series 800|T-800]] [[Cyberdyne Systems Model 101|Model 101]] Terminator. Kyle Reese ultimately becomes the biological father of John Connor himself through a [[predestination paradox]].

==Original timeline==
[[Image:T1 Kyle Reese 2029.JPG|thumb|250px|Sgt. Kyle Reese in 2029]]
{{Main|Kyle Reese/Original timeline}}

Kyle Reese was born during or after the first wars around [[2003]], to [[Dennis Reese]] and [[Mary Shea]]. Reese was one of the last remaining humans who achieved a victory over the machines.

He survived the capture and killing of his fellow humans only to serve as a slave in one of Skynet's concentration camps, where he and others were forced to load huge numbers of dead bodies into Skynet's furnaces to be incinerated. Reese's freedom would come when a Tech-Com, a resistance movement, led by John Connor (whom Reese would unwittingly father during his journey to the past and ironically consider his closest friend), freed him and the others from Skynet. After leaving the camps, Reese served in the 132nd division under [[Justin Perry]] from [[2021]] to [[2027]] up to the end of the Oregon and New Mexico offensives<ref>[[The Terminator (Frakes novel)|''The Terminator (Frakes novel)'']]</ref>, before transferring as a sergeant to Tech-Com under [[John Connor]] himself. John Connor and the resistance would eventually rally enough remaining humans and resources to launch an assault on Skynet.

The final assault would eventually allow the human resistance to cripple Skynet. The Resistance was able to smash Skynet's defense grid allowing them to enter Skynet's main complex and attempt to destroy it. Skynet however would have a final move left: using [[Time Displacement Equipment|time displacement equipment]], Skynet would send one of its most feared machines (the Terminator) back to Thursday, [[1984/5/12|May 12]], [[1984]], to kill the young [[Sarah Connor]], known to have been the eventual mother of John Connor, the leader of the Resistance, and thus prevent the birth of [[Connor (disambiguation)|Connor]] and his future rebellion.{{storylink|The Terminator}}{{storylink|The Terminator: Dawn of Fate}}

===''The Terminator''===
[[Image:T1 Kyle Reese defends Sarah.JPG|thumb|250px|Kyle Reese defending Sarah]]
Realizing what Skynet was attempting to do, John Connor sends a soldier to protect himself from the machine menace. It would be Reese who would volunteer himself to go back. Once Reese had gone through, the time travel equipment would be destroyed, leaving only Reese and the [[T-800 (The Terminator)|Terminator]] in 1984.

:"''I'm Reese, Sergeant Techcom, DN38416... assigned to protect you. You've been targeted for termination.''"
:- Kyle Reese informally introduces himself to Sarah Connor, {{T1}}

Arriving unarmed and not knowing what the Terminator looks like in its disguise, Reese quickly dresses, arms himself with a shotgun and sets out to track the woman he has been assigned to protect. After finally tracking Sarah to a club at the same time as the Terminator, he rescues her and in the ensuing chase, introduces himself and tells Sarah the reason why the Terminator is hunting her, the impending doom of the human race and the future significance carried by her and her unborn son,  but they are subsequently captured by the police after the Terminator's car crashes and Sarah and Kyle are surrounded. With the Terminator having fled the scene, Reese is questioned by criminal psychiatrist Dr [[Peter Silberman]], who puts Reese's story of the Terminator and the Future War down as nothing more than a psychotic delusion, although complimenting the scale of it due to the explanations for the lack of future technology. Although Sarah briefly doubts Reese herself, when the Terminator attacks again, Reese manages to escape and retrieve Sarah while the Terminator tears through the station staff.

Having grown up in the future where the machines had all but wiped out the human race, Reese is both physically and mentally hardened. His body is scarred from numerous battles with Skynet, and he has a number of burns as a result of the time travel process. In a deleted scene, when he tries to stop Sarah from going to [[Cyberdyne Systems]], he sees something he has never seen before, what the world looks like before the [[The War Against the Machines (Original Timeline)|War Against the Machines]]. He says he thinks of it as a dream, the trees and stream, the flowers, and Sarah, all beautiful. Bursting into tears, he confesses that it hurts, because he wasn't meant to see this. He then agrees with Sarah that they should try to change the future.

Though hard and battle weary, Reese had a love for Sarah despite having never met and only through a photo could identify. The affection Reese felt for Sarah was based on the legend that surrounded her and on the image of her from the [[Sarah Connor snapshot|photograph]] given to him by John Connor. Though initially hostile towards Reese, Sarah grows to trust and love him as he becomes the only thing between her and the Terminator. On the run from the Terminator, Reese and Sarah share a night of intimacy, in which her future son and human leader John Connor is conceived.

However, Reese's life is cut short when both he and Sarah are forced to confront the Terminator. A chase ensues with the Terminator following first on a motorcycle and then in a semi-tanker truck. During the chase, Reese is hit by gunfire. After apparently thinking that they destroyed the Terminator, they run to an automated factory, later revealed to be owned by Cyberdyne Systems where the now-metal endoskeleton of the Terminator pursues them inside. Kyle turns on all the equipment as cover while the Terminator batters its way through the door.

After Sarah accidentally turns on a machine, their hiding place is discovered and the Terminator finds them. After reaching the stairs of a crawlway, Reese tells Sarah to run for cover while Kyle tries to beat the Terminator with a metal rod. The Terminator throws Kyle to the floor, and Reese reaches for a pipe bomb and lights it up, placing it into the Terminator's abdomen. The Terminator explodes except for its lower midsection and Reese rolls down a metal stairway head first. A short time later, after Sarah removes a piece of shrapnel from her leg, she crawls to the motionless Kyle, who has died from his wounds.

Sarah mourns him briefly before the still-functioning Terminator's midsection begins to chase her again. Sarah then crushes the Terminator in a mechanical press (ironically, the machine she triggered that alerted the Terminator to their location earlier) and later tearfully sees Reese's dead body being zipped up in a body bag and taken away. Although Reese died not knowing Sarah was carrying his son that was his future commander, his strength and courage gives Sarah enough for her to teach her unborn son for the pending future he will bring.

By impregnating Sarah with John, Kyle created a [[predestination paradox]] in the same way that the discovery of the Terminator's remains in the factory gave birth to [[Skynet]].{{storylink2|T1}}

==Deviating timelines==
{{note|Several timelines begin after the events of {{T2}}, including ''[[T2 Trilogy]]'', {{TSCC}}, {{T3}}, and {{TDF}}, and a timeline where the Judgment Day never happens.}}

==Notes==
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*Kyle Reese was named after [[Mary Shea]]'s grandfather.<ref>''[[T2: The Future War]]''</ref>
* His Serial Number is DN38416.<ref name="T3dvd">"Skynet Database: Human Central Archive", from ''[[Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (film)|]]'': DVD Special Features". In two different sections, this DVD states that Kyle Reese's serial number is BN38416 and DN38416. Apparently one of them is a typo.</ref><ref>The [http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Terminator.html fourth draft of The Terminator script] gives Kyle's serial number as DN38416</ref>
* Kyle suffers from {{w|Posttraumatic stress disorder}} (PTSD), as he experiences a nightmare of his future and can be easily aggravated, such as during his police interrogation.
* As seen in the extended release of {{T2}}, Kyle appears unchanged from his appearance in the first film to Sarah in hallucinations at her stay at [[Pescadero State Hospital]]. In these hallucinations, he tells her to go and protect John, because more Terminators are coming and the future is not set.
* In contrast with the first film, it is evident that Kyle's history has been altered due to the events in {{T2}}. He was born before Judgment Day. His father initially survived Judgment Day but was killed prior to the events of the film.
* [[Marcus Wright]] taught Kyle Reese how to strap a shotgun to his arm with a cord to prevent losing it, a skill which he demonstrates with a shotgun upon his arrival in 1984 in ''[[The Terminator (film)|The Terminator]]''.
* Kyle Reese says the line "[[Come with me if you want to live.]]" twice: in ''The Terminator'' and again in ''[[Terminator Salvation (film)|Terminator Salvation]]''. He also says a variation of the line in Sarah's dream in {{214}}. He also hears the line said by John Connor in ''T2: Future War'' and by Sarah Connor in ''[[Terminator Genisys]]'' respectively.

[[Image:Snake_reese.jpg|thumb|250px|Comparison of Terminator promo shot next to cover of Konami's ''Metal Gear'' Video Game]]
* Kyle Reese's appearance in the future from the film ''The Terminator'' is used for the cover of 1987 [[Wikipedia:Konami|Konami]] game ''[[w:c:metalgear:Metal Gear|Metal Gear]]'' as the protagonist [[w:c:metalgear:Solid Snake|Solid Snake]].<ref>[http://junkerhq.net/cgi-bin/display.cgi?image=img595 Junker HQ]</ref><ref>[http://www.geocities.jp/yadayo8/eiga/terminator.html#ter-metal ''The Terminator'' imitated by the games] (Japanese)</ref>
*Apparently John never told anyone about Kyle Reese's identity as his father, not even Kyle himself. All he did was give Kyle a picture of Sarah and left him to figure it out. Even when Skynet kidnapped Kyle and John told Ashdown that Kyle is the key to the war, he did not elaborate on why but simply stated without him, the war would be lost.
*In contrast with the first film, there is an "[[Alpha timeline]]" where Kyle Reese is not John Connor's father at all.
* "The Skynet Database: Human Central Archive" featured in ''Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines'' DVD states that Kyle Reese was born in [[2008]]. However, Kyle is a teenager instead of just 10-year-old in ''Terminator Salvation'', which takes place in [[2018]].
*Reese is a ticklish person, seen in a deleted scene where Sarah tickles him.<ref>[https://youtu.be/Is8_xH_2hLo?t=506 ''The Terminator Original Deleted Scenes''] (YouTube timestamp 08:26)</ref>

==Behind the Scenes==
*Kyle Reese has appeared in every on-screen ''Terminator'' fiction except for {{T3}} and {{TDF}}. Reese appeared again in {{T2}} in [[Sarah Connor's dreams|Sarah's dream]] as a salvation or guardian angel, but he has been cut from the theatrical release.
*Kyle Reese is portrayed by [[Michael Biehn]] in the first two ''Terminator'' films. Biehn attributes his training for Reese as the reason for his subsequent casting in ''Aliens'' as Corporal Dwayne Hicks, as he was able to avoid the marine training that other actors required as he was already in shape after his training for Reese.
*[[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], who played the [[T-800 (The Terminator)|T-800]], was originally chosen for Kyle Reese's role, a casting decision neither Schwarzenegger or [[James Cameron]] wanted. Scwharzenegger had a meeting with Cameron and expressed his desire to portray the T-800 instead, which convinced Cameron to accept the idea.
*On {{TSCC}}, Kyle Reese is portrayed by [[Jonathan Jackson]] at age 22, [[Skyler Gisondo]] at age 8, and an unknown actor at age 5.
*Kyle Reese as a sixteen-year-old is portrayed by [[Anton Yelchin]] in {{TS}}.
*[[Jai Courtney]] portrayed Kyle in {{TG}}.

== Quotes ==
"Your son gave me a message to give to you. Made me memorize it. Thank you, Sarah, for your courage through the dark years. I can't help you with what you must soon face, except to say that the future is not set. You must be stronger than you imagine you can be. You must survive or I will never exist. That's all." {{Story2|T1}}

==Merchandise==
;Hot Toys
* '''Sergeant Tech-Com Kyle Reese DX 38416''' (1/6th scale collectible figure, 2005)
** ''Product code:'' '''LT1050504'''
** ''Accessories:'' future gun, pistol, bomb, gas mask with carrier, cap, headset, goggle, holster, pouches, endoskeleton hand, figure stand
:''[http://www.hottoys.com.hk/index.php?target=products&product_id=240 Sergeant Tech-Com Kyle Reese DX 38416 at Hot Toys]''

;NECA
* '''Kyle Reese Human Resistance Soldier''' (7" action figure, 2012)
** ''Accessories: 12 gauge shotgun with sling, Sarah Connor polaroid''
:''http://necaonline.com/?s=Kyle+Reese''

==Appearances==
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;Films
* ''[[The Terminator (film)|The Terminator]]'' {{fa}}
* ''[[Terminator 2: Judgment Day (film)|Terminator 2: Judgment Day]]'' {{c|Special Edition}}
* ''[[Terminator Salvation (film)|Terminator Salvation]]''
* [[Terminator Genisys|''Terminator Genisys'']]

;Comic books
* ''[[The Terminator (NOW Comics)]]'' {{mo}}
* ''[[The Terminator: One Shot]] '' {{mo}}
* ''[[Terminator: All My Future's Past]]''
* ''[[Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Cybernetic Dawn]]'' {{c|Flashback}}
* ''[[Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Nuclear Twilight]]''
* ''[[T2 Saga]]''
** ''[[Terminator 2: Infinity|Terminator: Infinity]]''
** ''[[Terminator: Revolution]]''
* ''The Terminator: 2029 to 1984''
** ''[[The Terminator: 2029]]''
** ''[[The Terminator: 1984]]''
* ''[[Terminator Salvation: The Final Battle]]'' 
* ''[[Terminator: Resistance (comic)|Terminator: Resistance]]''
* Crossovers
** ''[[Painkiller Jane vs. Terminator]]'' {{mo}}

;Novels
* ''[[T2 Trilogy]]'' novels 
** ''[[T2: Infiltrator]]'' {{mo}}
** ''[[T2: Rising Storm]]'' {{mo}}
** ''[[T2: Future War]]''
* ''The New John Connor Chronicles''
** ''[[Dark Futures]]'' {{mo}}
** ''[[Hour of the Wolf]]'' {{mo}}

;Video games
* ''[[The Terminator (SEGA CD)]]''
* ''[[The Terminator: Future Shock]]''
* ''[[The Terminator: Dawn of Fate]]''
* ''[[Terminator: Resistance]]'' {{c|Cameo}}
* ''[[Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint|Tom Clancy's ''Ghost Recon: Breakpoint'']]'' {{c|Cameo, as skin}}

;Television series
*''[[Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]''
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