Who Is John Connor? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

John Connor is a Company-Licensed comic book character, with over 76 comic issue appearances. John Connor leader of the Tech-com rebellion against Skynet. Skynet is the mainframe computer of the planet which has calculated John Connor the leader of the enemy as being the biggest threat. He must continuously survive assassination attempts by Skynet in the past in order to save the future.

Who is John Connor?

Major Story Arcs Skynet computes John Connor as being the largest threat to their existence, there-fore Skynet's primary mission is to terminate John Connor. Connor avoids all attempts of assassinations in real time forcing the Machines to resort to "time-travel" to kill him. They first send a T-800 to kill his mother Sarah Connor to prevent his birth, in failing that they later send a T-1000 to kill him in his teen years, however Tech-com sent a reprogrammed T-800 to protect Connor. They failed again in terminating Connor and he continued his life on the run. A third terminator, this time a T-X is sent back in time to kill Connor and all else who will be relevant to the upcoming war, including his future wife Kate Brewster . Again a reprogrammed T-850 is sent back to protect him. The T-X uploads the virus that corrupts Skynet's mainframe causing Judgment Day however fails in terminating John Connor. The earth is then wiped out from an attack on itself (from Skynet), John Connor survives the attack and leads the rebellion against the machines.

Key facts

John Connor is of human origin. The character is published by Company-Licensed. With 76 recorded issue appearances, John Connor ranks among the most featured characters in comics.