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Watching the trailer it is unclear who was suppose to be the good guy robot and who was trying to kill John/Sarah.

BUT films do not exist in a vacuum, Arnold was already a big star when Terminator 2 came out. Commando, Predator, Total Recall, even light hearted comedies like Twins and Kindergarten Cop were on his resume. He was a house hold name as an action HERO.

So with the trailer saying one robot is programed to destroy, the other programed to protect, by the laws of action film standards you would assume the guy who is usually the hero in action films was the one who would be the hero here.

While I was alive when T2 came out I didn't see it then, but I don't remember people talking about it being a huge twist that Arnold was the hero. In fact IIRC from the people I knew (mostly pre-teen boys) they were mostly surprised that he was the villain from the first film (a film we were too young to have seen when it came out).