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Kyle Reese, the main character of the first Terminator film, father of John Conner, and brief lover to Sarah Conner.
Kyle Reese was a soldier in the post apocolyptic future of the Terminator universe (Where most of humanity had been wiped out by an Artificial Intelligence entity known as Skynet). Reese was one of the last remaining human survivors of the war on humanity launched by the self aware computer system, Skynet.
Reese survived the capture and killing of his fellow humans only to serve as a worker in one of Skynets huge extermination facilities, where he and others were forced to load huge numbers of bodies into Skynets machines to be exterminated. Reese's freedom would come when a group of resistance fighters, lead by John Conner (to whom Reese would unwittingly become his father), freed him and the others from Skynet. John Conner and the resistance would eventually rally enough reamining humans and resources to launch an assualt on Skynet.
The final assualt would eventually allow the human resistance to cripple Skynet, as Reese explains in Terminator 1 the resistance was able to destroy Skynets defense grid allowing them to enter Skynets main complex and attempt to destroy it. Skynet however would have final move left, using Time Displacement Equipment to travel back in time, Skynet would send one of its most feared machines back, The Terminator, to 1984 to kill Sarah Conner and thus prevent the birth of the resistance leader John Conner.
Realising what Skynet was about to do, John Conner would send back a soldier to protect himself from the Machine Menace. It would be Reese who would volunteer himself to go back (A point of mention here is that in the original screenplay 2 humans were sent back, however one would die as a result of being merged with a brick wall when the process went wrong). Once through the Time Travel Equipment would be destroyed leaving only Reese and the Terminator.
Ariving unarmed and versing a menace whom he could not recognise, Reese tracked down Sarah Conner, and warned her of the impending doom of the human race and of her and her unborn son's significance in the future of the human race. Though initially hostile towards Reese, Sarah would grow to love him as he would become the only thing between her and the Terminator. On the run from the Terminator, Reese and Sarah would share a night of intimacy in which John Conner would be concieved.
Reese's life however was cut short when both he and Sarah were forced to confront the Terminator, Reese recieving a number of fatal blows whilst attempting to blow up the Termintor and eventually dying. It would be however Sarah Conner who would then go on to destroy a crippled Terminator, and thus cementing her resolve to ready herself for the impending future.
Growing up in the future where the machines had all but wiped out the human race, Reese was both physically and mentally hardened. His body was scarred from numerous battles with Skynet and he had a number of burns as a result of the Time Travel process. Though hard and battle weary Reese had a love for Sarah Conner, a women whom he'd never met and only though a photo he could identify her. He would live on through John Conner and Sarah Conner, who would forever remember him as her lover and saviour.
In the Films:
Though he died in the first Terminator film, he does appear in the Special Edition of the second film, Terminator 2. Sarah, who is now inside a mental hospital for preaching about the end of the world, finds herself feeling hopelessly defeated after being beaten by guards in hospital, when Reese appears as a dream. Still dressed in the clothes he died in and reamining ageless he warns Sarah of the danger now facing a young John Conner, before disappearing out of Sarahs reach.
Another point to mention is that the writers of the second film when working on the alternative ending for T2 (the future coda ending) scripted an older aged Sarah walking through the park which appeared in her dreams and Judgement Day never happening. As she walks through the park she sees a young Kyle Reese, unscarred and happy, she can only but look on.
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