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DOOM Easter Egg Recreates The Saddest Scene From T2

The new DOOM is a very big fan of James Cameron and the Governator.
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day is the only movie you ever saw your dad cry at until you saw Saving Private Ryan together. In the final act–spoiler alert for a twenty-five year-old movie–the titular Terminator T-800, now reformed and John Connor’s new best friend, asks heroine Sarah Connor to lower him into the foundry, ending any future threat from SkyNet or the Terminators. 

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What follows is the saddest damn thing I had ever seen as a child because my favorite murder-bot is slowly lowered into molten hot metal and liquefied, but the last thing you see is the Terminator giving the teary-eyed Connors a thumbs up, so that they know they’ve done the right thing.

In Bethesda’s DOOM reboot coming soon, they included a fun (read: terribly heartbreaking) callback to the best of the Terminator films when your character, The Marine, or DoomGuy, jumps into a pit of molten lava and you get the same badass thumbs up:

It’s so beautiful.

I swear I’m not crying. My eyes are just sweating because of all the molten metal in here.


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