Robert Downey Jr. takes on the role of a battle-damaged Terminator in an impressive art video. Released in 1984, James Cameron's The Terminator introduces Arnold Schwarzenegger as the T-800, a robot sent from the future to kill Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), the mother of a crucial resistance leader. Schwarzenegger's T-800 returned in one form or another in all five sequels, but later movies also introduced other Terminator models, including those played by Robert Patrick, Jason Clarke, and Gabriel Luna.

A new video from @helbe_artist on Instagram now imagines Downey Jr., who is best known for playing Tony Stark, becoming his own new Terminator model. The video, which features the Avengers theme playing in the background, features the artist using a series of colored markers to bring Downey Jr.'s Terminator to life. The end result sees one half of Downey Jr.'s metallic skull exposed, mirroring a look that...