T-800 / Uncle Bob

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Perhaps the most unlikely swap from villain to hero occurs in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. This time, Schwarzenegger wears leather, cool shades, and rides a Harley Davidson to the rescue of John Connor. He protects John from the more advanced shape-shifting T-1000, which its parent artificial intelligence, Skynet, is more determined to eliminate. While the T-1000 pursues the Connors, Arnold's T-101... read more

The Terminator from T2 that was reprogrammed by John Connor to protect his younger self. He was given the alias of Uncle Bob by young John.

The Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 Series 800 Version 2.4 Infiltration-Combat Unit, sometime known as "Uncle Bob", was sent from the future to arrive in Acton, California on June 8, 1995. Its mission was to protect young John Connor, which it successfully completed. He is one of the main protagonists of Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
This Terminator had all the strengths and capacity of the first unit, and was very logical, and at first seemed to have a limited capacity for human emotion and learning.

After his learning capabilities were activated, the Terminator began to exhibit other human traits such as humor, quipping "I need a vacation" after defeating the T-1000, and an understanding for compassion, as he tenderly wipes John's tears away and hugs him like a father before allowing itself to be destroyed to save humanity. John laters says to a T-850 that the T-800 was the closest thing he had to a father. Next to the Guardian introduced during Genysis, this model has displayed the most "humanity" for lack of a better word, being able to use humor, taunts and expressions that are needless for a machine, no matter the circumstances, he smirked when discovering the mini-gun and later again when asking John to trust him, pulled a shrugging expression when John yelled at him for not yet realizing why he can't kill people, more evidence is in his speaking tone, while logical and computer like at first, he began speaking more like a human at the end of the film: "John, you got to go now, go! now!" - T-800 speaking with stress and urgency.

He was able to understand why humans cry and eventually able to sacrifice itself for humanity when its only mission was simply to protect John Connor, during this action he was able to defy John's order which would be hardwired in his programming, it is possible that the chip reset meant that he was no longer under orders from John, if this was indeed the case, then it means the T-800 had followed and protected John of its own volition, which is even more impressive.