Is terminatrix slang?
No, I don’t think it is. However, it is not listed in my dictionary—The Random House College Dictionary.
You might say, that is because terminatrix consists of a root word terminator plus a feminine suffix—trix. So, when you refer to a female aviator, you might just as well say an aviatrix.

Yes, I know that. This suffix is like tress and ess. Therefore, a female priest becomes a priestess. The strange thing is, you can find “priestess” in your dictionary but not “terminatrix”, probably because a priestess is used more often than a terminatrix.

So, how come you pick up “terminatrix” in the first place?

Well, the answer is obvious, isn’t it?
Arnold Schwarzenegger is back as the futuristic cyborg in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines—the third installment of the sci-fi saga. The new movie was released on July 2.

The Terminator movies have become a blockbuster, earning more than $550 million at the worldwide box office. Now the third film comes out with a new villain, the T-X Terminatrix, whose role Kristanna Loken plays.

The plot goes like this:

Twenty-two-year-old John Connor (Nick Stahl) is a computer hacker who helped save mankind from mass destruction 10 years ago. Now he is a drifter and the unwitting leader of the human resistance against Skynet, a highly evolved network of malevolent machines that, when enabled, plan to wage war on humanity and take over the world.

But first, Skynet plans on eliminating Connor with the T-X (Loken), the most sophisticated killing machine to date. After the T-X is sent back in time to kill Connor, another Terminator, the T-800 (Schwarzenegger), is sent to protect him. Together, Connor and the T-800 must find a way to save themselves and humanity from the nearly indestructible T-X.

When I picked up a local tabloid, the following review gabbed my eyes:

Apparently, the above film critic doesn’t seem to love the movie too much, yet it sounds like a fun flick. I wanna see it.

By the way, you can see the trailer at the following site:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/t3/

It will take quite some time for even its small version to load into your browser.

To play a QuickTime video, you need a QuickTime player. You can download it at the site below:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

Before downloading it, however, you’d better read this article (Wanna play MIDI on Netscape, again? But you have a problem, eh?) because installing the QuickTime player might cause some problems.

Terminatrix Prevails

I entered “terminatrix” in the earch box for google.com to find out how popular the word is. To my surprise, I come up with 10,300 hits as shown below:

Are these sites all about the T-X Terminatrix?   They cannot be. So I tried to find it out.

The first site in the above list turned out a fetish site. When I entered, came up a somewhat flash-animated title page with a sort of titillating tune of music. The second page appeared more or less the same as the first. After that, however, I could go nowhere. I wonder why a terminatrix has got to do with fetishism in the first place. I have no idea.

The second site turns out an adult site that features a nice and cute erotic robotrix. I hate an age verification program. So I didn’t go any farther.

The third and fourth sites, for the first time, tells about T-X Terminatrix.

The fifth site talks about a terminatrix. However, this terminatrix is totally different from the T-X Terminatrix.

This terminatrix is a heroine in this 70-minute-long soft-core porno flick, starring Kei Mizutani—a Japanese actress. In the future, dark and terrible things rule the world. One lone human starts a resistance that gains momentum. To protect their rapidly slipping grasp, the faceless evil government sends a killer cyborg into the past to eliminate the parent of this charismatic individual. To save their future by going to the past, one other lone human returns with dire warnings and a message from the future, “your child will be our hope.”

The plot line seems quite similar to The Terminator, doesn’t it? However, the similarity ends here. In this flick, sex is regulated in the future. The Japanese girl from the future comes back to save sex life. This terminatrix doesn’t feel pain, she doesn’t feel remorse, she doesn’t wear panties, and she absolutely won’t ever stop, until she get what you know.

The critic says that the acting is bad, the effects are bad, the dubbing is bad. But he says, he did laugh his jaded posterior off.

Well, I’ve never seen this movie, never heard of this actress in my life, and never dreamed of something like this soft-porn flick that appears quite popular in the North American marketplace. Indeed, if you go one by one in the list of the above search result, you can easily come up with at least a dozen reviews on this flick within half an hour.

After a while, I came across a German site that features a QuickTime movie called TERMINATRIX: Sweet Torture made in 1993. This is a fetish-fashion video.

If you click the start button at right, you can see a short GIF animation (229 K byte). If you want to see the original 2.68-mega-byte QuickTime video, please visit this site (http://www.carlosperon.de/ Seiten/Video4.html). It takes quite a while to load the video.

After all, I come to conclusion that most terminatrixes behave like a sensual bimbo with somewhat menacing attitudes. The T-X terminatrix, however, seems only an exception to the group and behaves according to the real meaning the word implies or, perhaps, as an “exterminatrix”.

• Terminator and Exterminator
  
  
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