A big fight between Matrix (Arnie) and Green Baret Cooke (Bill Duke) ends with Cooke being spiked by a table-leg. The dialogue exchange is quite something. Cooke: ‘This Green Baret is gonna kick your ass.’ Matrix: ‘I eat Green Barets for breakfast and right now I’m very hungry.’
This guy is not the sharpest tool in the work shed, messing with a terminator of all things. T-101 jabs his heart out in a jiffy.
In T3, the Terminator is once again programmed not to kill humans. He can take out other terminators though and does so by destroying the T-X by detonating its last remaining hydrogen fuel cell in the T-X’s mouth.
This guy sneaks up on Arnie from behind a burning chopper. Arnie turns around and pumps him full of lead until he hits the floor. Then he turns around again and…
…shoots three guerrillas with only a few bullets from his massive gun. Dutch (Schwarzenegger) shows us why he and his special team are the best.
Arnie is attacked while hiding in a workshed. He kills his assailants with great efficiency and innovation. This soldier for example, gets scalped with a rotating disk. His brains are even exposed…
Arnie kills his own wife Lori (played by Sharon Stone), while it’s wasn’t really his wife, because most of his memories of her were implanted. She was a murderous psycho who had kicked him in the nuts a little earlier, so the kill is certainly justified. Kiss off line: ‘Consider this a divorce’.
Arnie sends the evil game show host Damon Killian to his death. Thereby he provides the perfect climax to the bloodthirsty television show The Running man. ‘It’s showtime!’
Dutch (Schwarzenneger) shows a guerrilla what happens when you sneak up on him. He swiftly throws an enormous knife and nails him to the wall. Then he deliverers the typical Schwarzenneger oneliner ‘stick around’.
Spy Harry Tasker has been given a dose of truth serum and he tells torturer Samir exactly what he is going to do to him. First he will kill a guard with a sharp instrument, then he will break Samir’s neck. Samir finds out Harry wasn’t lying. First he kills his guard, then…
…he snaps Samir’s neck. Not too much trouble with this skinny dude.
Jack Slater kills psycho the Ripper at the end of LAST ACTION HERO by electrifying him. Unlike the previous time Slater killed him, Ripper doesn’t manage to take Slater’s kid with him.
Matrix: ‘This is my weak arm. Remember Sully when I promised to kill you last?’
Sully: ‘You did Matrix, you did!’
Matrix: ‘I Lied.’ (drops him)
(Later)
Cindy: ‘What did you do with Sully?’
Matrix: ‘I let him go.’
Sully: ‘You did Matrix, you did!’
Matrix: ‘I Lied.’ (drops him)
(Later)
Cindy: ‘What did you do with Sully?’
Matrix: ‘I let him go.’
‘How about a light?’ and ‘What a hothead.’ The kiss-off-lines of the final stalker in game show The Running Man. Arnie fries him appropriately which is extremely satisfactory since Fireball (Jim Brown) was a sadistic sicko.
‘Sarah Connor?’ ‘Yes’ BLEM BLEM BLEM BLEM Nuff said.
Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones) attempts to hypnotise Conan, like he did to his mother many years earlier. Conan however, has become too strong-willed for him now. He butchers Doom with his father's half-sword and then casts Doom's corpse – minus head – from the temple balcony.
A group of scientists want to mess with Arnie’s brain. Needless to say he kills them all. No one-liners this time, but gruesome violence, as we can expect from director Paul Verhoeven. One of them gets a metal pipe straight through his brains. Not for the squeamish.
When Schwarzenegger arrives on bad guy Arius’ island in COMMANDO, he kills loads of soldiers using knives, guns and explosives. In fact he kills so many of them that we decided to count this as one super kill. Otherwise this list would be virtually endless...
Buzzsaw is one of The Running Man’s stalkers, who gets a good taste of his own medicine. His chainsaw is jammed between his legs by Arnie making it part of him permanently. ‘What happened to Buzzsaw?’, Arnie’s girl asks soon after. ‘He had to split’, Arnie replies.
Schwarzie and scumbag Richter finally fight it out in an elevator. Richter loses his arms before he falls down screaming in the shaft. Schwarzie throws his arms after him and yells; ‘See you at the party Richter!’
Schwarz takes out an entire police station killing seventeen police officers (according to T2). Including Lieutenant Ed Traxler (Paul Winfield) and Detective Hal Vukovich (Lance Henriksen). Schwarzenegger’s fantastically controlled use of his body makes him really look a human tank here.
Only one man can kill a Predator (well forget about Danny Glover). After a massive battle of titans, Schwarzie finally traps him with a huge tree log. The Predator laughs its ass off and activates his self-destruct mechanism. An impressive kill considering the Predator has wiped out Arnie’s entire badass squad.
‘You’re fired.’ Schwarzenegger launches TRUE LIES’ main villain Salim Abu Aziz, who is attached to the missile of a Harrier. It hits a terrorist filled chopper that blows up along with Aziz. Classic.
Schwarzenegger’s only kill in T2 and his toughest ever. The T-1000 was an indestructible creation. But Arnie manages to blow it into a foundry, melting it. The cool part is that the T-1000 takes on all shapes he did during the story, making its destruction one of the most spectacular cinema deaths ever.
Arnie’s best kill ever, even better than the T-1000. John Matrix (Arnie) is about to get shot in the balls by his arch enemy Bennett (Vernon Wells). As Bennett is about to shoot, Arnie pulls a metal pipe from the wall and throws it through him, thereby nailing him to a metal wall. ‘Let off some steam, Bennett’. Hilarious stuff.
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This CGI croc looks ridiculous when Arnie shoots it. Then comes the embarrassing one-liner ‘You’re luggage’. If the writers can’t think of funny crackers, they shouldn’t bother trying.