Modern franchise pictures frequently utilize easter eggs, references and callbacks as meaningful cinematic nutrition. But it doesn't have to be this way.
Here's an understated, unassuming, blink-and-you'll-miss it callback in "Terminator 2" (1991) to "The Terminator" (1984) which repeats a motif yet uses the callback in a completely different manner.
Image description: In "The Terminator" (1984), Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) destroys a T-800 robot using a giant, four-button industrial activator. In "Terminator 2" (1991), Connor again destroys a T-800 robot using a giant, two-button industrial activator, but this time in a completely different context.
