Meet the face of the T-800 model that started this whole robots-killing-people saga. Finally we can put the great Terminator Salvation-versus-Arnold Schwarzenegger debate to rest. Yes, Arnold will be in T4 — in spirit. Find out more about the origins of the T-800 and spoilers after the jump.

Roland Kickinger, Austrian bodybuilder was outed in the Clinton News Record as playing a young Arnold in T4.

According to the News Record:

“There’s a very strong scene in the film where John Connor for the first time meets the Terminator, and he doesn’t know if he’s a good guy or a bad guy,” said Kickinger. “It’s Arnold’s character in the first Terminator. That’s basically my role, but 20 years before, so it establishes how the Terminator [came] about.”

So now we know, this is the guy that influences how Skynet shapes many of their Terminators. Or was he a human that got his skin ripped off and put on a Terminator? These cyborgs are confusing.

[Clinton News Record viaAICN]

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