Editing Similarities between "Time After Time" (1979) and "The Terminator" (1984)

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!similarity
!manifestation in 
"Time After Time" (1979) <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_After_Time_(1979_film)</ref>
!manifestation in
"The Terminator" (1984) <ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator</ref>
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|1) killer antagonist
|Jack the Ripper
|The Terminator
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|2) killer travels in time to escape defeat 
|John Leslie Stevenson's identity as the Ripper revealed, police moving in, so he escapes via time travel.
|The Resistance defeats Skynet, theTerminator travels in time in order to kill Sarah Connor, mother of the leader of Resistance, John Connor
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|3) killer is pursued in time by
|H.G. Wells
|Kyle Reese
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|4) both time travellers arrive in present day Californian city
|San Francisco
|Los Angeles 
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|5) killer begins killing women
|that's what the Ripper does
|Terminator systematically killing every Sarah Connor to get to the mother of John Connor
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|6) pursuer falls in love with a local woman and knows that she will be the killer's target
|H.G.Wells falls in love with Amy Robbins, uses his time machine to go one day into the future and learns that Amy will be the Ripper's next victim.
|Kyle Reese has been in love with Sarah Connor since getting her photograph.  He knows Sarah Connor is the Terminator's target.
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|7) pursuer is apprehended and interrogated by police who don't believe his time travel story
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|8) only the pursuer understands the full danger the killer poses and is unsuccessful at communicating that danger to the local authorities.
|danger is that he's Jack the Ripper and kills women
|danger is that he's the Terminator and if he kills Sarah Connor, then John Connor will never be born and grow up to defeat SkyNet.
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