appearance as large, heavily built men. An entirely different origin of the Terminator's physical and vocal templates was provided in the novel T2: Infiltrator (published prior to T3), in the form of former counter-terrorist Dieter von Rossbach, who meets and joins forces with the Connors in the present (the novel reveals that he was never questioned about the Terminators' actions as his superiors always knew that he was somewhere else during its rampages). The reason stated for copying Dieter was that Skynet was looking in the old military files for someone whose body could effectively conceal the Terminator's massive endoskeleton. Its voice was provided through Kurt Viemeister, the scientist that taught Skynet its sentience. Skynet also uses Viemeister's voice. The teaser trailer for Terminator 2: Judgment Day shows a Model 101 having its flesh covering applied by a large industrial mold. Reception In a rating of 100 Heroes & Villains made by the American Film Institute the character takes two positions at once — number 48 as the hero and number 22 as the villain. Schwarzenegger himself presented this on television. The character holds the 14th place in Empire'' magazine's rating of 100 greatest film characters. As of August 2021, T-800 is voted #31 on Ranker's "Best Movie Characters of All Time". Watch-Mojo puts T-800 in the Top 10 movie villains who turn good in film. References Articles about multiple fictional characters Action film characters Action film villains Arnold Schwarzenegger Augmented reality in fiction Biorobotics in fiction Characters created by James Cameron Film characters introduced in 1984 Fictional artificial intelligences Fictional assassins Fictional androids Fictional bodyguards Fictional characters with accelerated healing Fictional characters with superhuman durability or invulnerability Fictional characters with superhuman strength Fictional characters from Los Angeles Fictional cyborgs Fictional mass murderers Fictional people from the 21st-century Fictional secret agents and spies Fictional soldiers Fictional suicide attacks Fictional super soldiers Robot superheroes Robot supervillains Terminator (franchise) characters Time travelers