DirectorJames Cameronkind of takes a while to make his movies, with significant gaps between them.

With these movies come a slew of memorable characters, who are all unique in their own individual ways.

Rose can be whiny at times, but it’s great to see her come into her own.

Kate Winslet as Rose wears fine jewelry and a fancy dress at an elegant dinner in Titanic.

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What’s not to love?

8John Connor (Edward Furlong, et al.)

He meets Rose, and over the next several days, they fall in love.

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A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.

It is well-known that, at the end of the film, Jack makes the ultimate sacrifice for Rose.

Because he’s just so cool, that’s why!

She is the first one who finds Jake when he becomes lost in the jungles of Pandora.

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AmongAlienfans,Ripley is one of the most beloved charactersdue to her steadfast willpower and unwavering determination.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger as Harry Tasker, looking intense while blood drips down his forehead in True Lies.

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Secretly a spy but thought by his family to be a dull salesman, Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is tracking down nuclear missiles in the possession of Islamic jihadist Aziz (Art Malik). Harry’s mission is complicated when he realizes his neglected wife, Helen (Jamie Lee Curtis), is contemplating an affair with Simon (Bill Paxton), a used-car salesman who claims he’s a spy. When Aziz kidnaps Harry and Helen, the secret agent must save the world and patch up his marriage at the same time.

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John Connor looking back over his shoulder in Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991).

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A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.

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Jenette Elise Goldstein as Vasquez holding a weapon and looking to the left in Aliens.

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Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.

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Sarah Connor wearing sunglasses in the desert in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

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A relentless cyborg assassin is sent from the future to kill Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is destined to lead the human resistance against machines. Protected by a soldier also sent from the future, Sarah must navigate a deadly game of cat and mouse to ensure her survival and humanity’s future.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800 Terminator holding a gun on the poster for ‘The Terminator’ (1984).

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A machine from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to protect a man and a woman from an advanced robotic assassin to ensure they both survive a nuclear attack.

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