He said he’d be back, and he is.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has returned in the just-released trailer for “Terminator: Dark Fate,” coming to theaters Nov. 1.

Linda Hamilton also returns for the continuation of the story started in “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” from 1991. James Cameron is back as producer.

Audiences have waited a generation to learn the fate of young John Connor, born to save humanity from a future robot uprising.

Originally, Schwarzenegger’s Terminator is the would-be assassin sent from the future to kill Hamilton’s character before she gives birth to her son John. She succeeds in crushing the robot in a pneumatic press — although one robotic arm survives.

In “Judgment Day,” a new-and-improved Terminator comes back from the future to kill John, while Schwarzenegger’s cyborg also returns, having been reprogrammed by the human resistance to save him.

The #TerminatorDarkFate poster drops ahead of trailer https://t.co/syNlFS3jl0 pic.twitter.com/VFgS1ArfLT

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) May 22, 2019

Both machines are destroyed at the end — with the Schwarzenegger bot essentially sacrificing itself to guard against future threats to humanity. But, like we said, he’ll be back — somehow.

Paramount Pictures’ “Dark Fate” reportedly disregards the other five Terminator works as occurring in alternate timelines.

The only Terminator films we acknowledge. #TerminatorDarkFate pic.twitter.com/yIimpCKBBm

— Connor Behrens (@ConnorBehrens) May 22, 2019

Give Schwarzenegger props for returning to action at age 71. He proved his Terminator-like indestructibility during a May 18 visit to a South African gym for his annual Arnold Classic Africa athletic competition.

An over-zealous fan blasted the “Ah-nold” with a flying drop kick to the back. Schwarzenegger shook it off like it was nothing, commenting that he was just happy his Snapchat didn’t get interrupted.

Somebody blindsided Arnold Schwarzenegger with a running drop kick and it was like when that biker hit him with a pool stick in T2. It barely fazed him. He’s 71! pic.twitter.com/XBlYBlCupH

— Adam Best (@adamcbest) May 18, 2019

So, “Welcome to the day after judgment day.”

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