What is the Connection Between the Terminator, the Hulk, and the Outer Limits
What Do the Terminator, Hulk, Harlan Ellison, and the Outer Limits have in common? Kang the Conqueror Well, what do the Terminator, Hulk, Harlan Ellison, and the Outer Limits all have in common? Let's travel back in time and go forward. First, let's visit the Outer Limits back in the early 1960's when Harlan Ellison wrote two classic episodes of the Outer Limits titled, "Soldier" and "Demon with a Glass Hand". Both episodes have been said to have given James Cameron his idea for Terminator. Orion Pictures gave sci-fi fantasy writer Harlan Ellison a credit on the The Terminator for plagiarism of two episodes he wrote. From the Outer Limits a soldier from the future played by Michael Ansara goes back to the past only to die at the hand of another soldier from the future. In Ellison's Outer Limits story the soldier is intent on one thing and one thing only, to kill the enemy. His helmet gives him battle instructions. He uses a laser gun that never nee...