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[@Cuiasodo]

Part of what makes the assimilation process of The Thing so terrifying is that it's unclear how it works or if it needs to be the same process every time. It absorbs the dogs by exploding into a monster and enveloping them, but some of the researchers get taken quietly off screen and just show back up as monsters.

[@nickstav08]

and in the novel it takes over a character thats gone hysterical and is screaming hymes and prayers until it gets stabbed in the throat by another character, and fakes being dead until the main characters test the "dead" body.

[@patrickmills6484]

What's crazy is this story can only work in Antarctica. If The Thing landed anywhere else and a mosquito sucked blood from it, or it assimilates any other bug or bird, the world is DONE.

[@l0sts0ul89]

A nuke solves everything

[@modestpelican286]

What about the ISS or a submarine ?

[@bobothehobo2094]

there’s a comic i believe where it invades a south american country and it wreaks havoc

[@MrDwright550]

@@bobothehobo2094 there is a comic series and it is a sequel to what happens after the thing

[@bubbleyboy]

Ironically, The Thing cannot have actually occurred in Antarctica. Being on the south pole, Antarctica has a single day/night cycle per year. But The Thing starts during the day, most of the action happens during the night, and then ends as the sun rises - but it's clearly not meant to last for at least 3 months.

[@nozon5686]

9:05 My personal theory on why the thing avoids long dead things is because the brain starts to decay very fast so any memories and fine motor function instructions are lost too quickly and it becomes sub optimal. So basically I'm saying its a gourmet for the finest body parts and won't settle for anything less than the best

[@nickstav08]

Or that it knows that trying to replicate a dead body and appearing to come back to life would draw attention to itself

[@landonletterman831]

The part that makes The Thing so terrifying to me is this idea that it copied memories so well, and reacted to knowing about a situation as much as pain/damage, that not even the infected people know they are infected unless the Thing is put into danger, at which point your whole body starts to come apart in the most horrifying way imaginable while you're just along for the ride..... * cold shiver *

[@thomasshirey676]

Someone should animate that in first person

[@landonletterman831]

@@thomasshirey676 I think it would be a better twist ending to a horror game, where you go the entire game building trust and trying to find the alien, and getting discovered as the alien yourself is the twist end of the game

[@xenon3990]

@@landonletterman831 that’d actually be a genius horror game

[@thomascarpenter8177]

@@landonletterman831 that was the twist for the game "prey"

[@FilthTribeFTP]

I mean, cool idea, but that theory just completely dismantles the entire plot and movie. There is 0% chance of an imitation tricking itself into thinking it's still that person, only realising what it is when it gets exposed or put into a corner. How would it ever be able to plot, sabotage or sow doubt among the others while it's incognito, if it doesn't even know it's not that person? If you are using Windows panic as his blood is tested as evidence, that is actually because he WAS human but had no idea if he would even know what he actually was, sinc4e they had barely any idea how it worked. But, Blair couldn't build the A-G craft, blood couldn't have been sabotaged, Doggo wouldn't have assimilated Norris/Palmer (named both since its 50/50 and we don't know), etc. No, The Thing knows EXACTLY what it is as its walking around hidden and the person that was imitated has been long gone and is 100% dead.

[@RobbieManic]

I'd argue that one of the most terrifying aspects of The Thing (1982) is that the more you question about the The Thing the more you realise you don't understand ANYTHING about the The Thing.

[@Xilefian]

The game is so good! If your team doesn't trust you or are too freaked out by the horrors they've seen you have to give them your own guns & ammo to calm them down But then they might be the Thing...

[@HALOman-vi2tg]

That game was pretty ahead of it’s time would be nice to see a new modern version with all the new tech today

[@Intrinsety]

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." - H.P. Lovecraft

[@robthepuppet7007]

Something that’s always creeped me out about The Thing is how it got to earth. Now, granted, it can build it’s own spaceship, so it’s not a completely mindless creature, but I always found the idea of this monster flying around in a UFO before it landed on earth to be an odd sight. You’d almost expect something this primitive and destructive to land on earth in a comet or something. But I’ve seen a theory that the spaceship it crash lands on isn’t even its, but a whole other crew that got assimilated by it, forcing a crash landing either to kill it or because the ship was in such bad shape it couldn’t fly. I just love the idea that The Thing isn’t the only alien in its universe but it’s such a hostile force that other aliens, ones more advanced than we are, are powerless to stop it and there’s a whole story that’s reached it’s end when the movie starts, The Thing successfully killing a whole ship of other aliens. It opens up the door for so many questions that are frankly terrifying to think about!

[@brianyaeger8209]

I’m the prequel, when they go onto the ship and see a pixelated column on the bridge of the ship Originally that was a alien who had hung itself (and maybe purposely crashed the ship) and thus, it wasn’t The Thing’s ship But someone decided to pixilate over it for some stupid reason

[@Ratgibbon]

@RobThePuppet Amalgamated Dynamics created a pilot alien for the 2011 prequel, but in the end it was dropped from the movie if I'm not wrong (haven't seen the prequel and don't intend to watch it). But in my opinion the wobbly flight of the spaceship in the opening credits of the original strongly implies that something bad is happening on board. So I'm leaning towards the theory that the ship isn't the Thing's own.

[@alexinfinite7142]

There's an entire story prior to the Thing freezing that we don't know about and it's pretty fascinating. More over: wasn't the ship ancient? Like thousands of years or something? Whatever happened, from someone else's perspective, that's ancient history now

[@dimitrescu182]

Kinda reminds me of the Space Jockey from Alien

[@mrcritical6751]

My theory is that it was a prison ship

[@johnberg1348]

Fun bit of trivia - Carpenter's film is based on the novella, "Who Goes There?", by John W. Campbell Jr. that was released in 1938. Even better, Carpenter's film is surprisingly faithful to the source material.

[@conanmcdonagh2619]

Ah yes, John Carper

[@johnberg1348]

@@conanmcdonagh2619 :) I missed that! Now it's fixed. Thanks for pointing it out.

[@michaelp3757]

There was also a 1951 film titled "The Thing from Another World", inspired by that novella, but that differs greatly from the Carpenter version and doesn't feature a shape shifting creature. The loose plot (discovered under ice, brought back as a block then thawed accidently) of the 1951 film was used in the 2011 prequel, and also referenced in Carpenter film when they visit the Norwegian base.

[@johnberg1348]

@@michaelp3757 If i recall correctly, John Wayne played the Thing in that one.

[@mangrove]

@@johnberg1348 James Arness, another movie cowboy

[@LilleTotte]

The Thing (1982) is also a sequel to The Thing from Another World (1951) where The Thing is played by James "Zeb Macahan" Arness. The Thing was intended to be a shapeshifter, like in the original novel "Who goes there?" by John W. Campbell Jr., but the low budget and technology at the time didn't allow it and instead it is a very loose adaptation. It's in no way a masterpiece, but that movie along with its sequels are watched by the winter skeleton crew on the South Pole Telescope station every winter, starting shortly after the final plane for the season has departed.

[@petecoogan]

Who Goes There? Is sort of a sequel to Brain Stealers of Mars

[@darrinroot6924]

You could be referring to 5 things actually, the movie, the prequel ,the creature, Ben grimm, and the hand from the Addams family

[@nachosan216]

Or the video game

[@biasmushroom6311]

As for fire killing the Thing it doesn’t need to directly hit every cell as all it needs to do is de-nature the protein. Now they flamethrowers likely didn’t heat the Thing enough to kill all cells but heat over time will eventually destroy all cells.

[@genesisproject1908]

They should have checked the meat temperature guide before trying it. Undercooked thing hosts is a sure way to catch a nasty foodborne illness.

[@The.Heart.Unceasing]

the thing terrifies me because, contrary to a lot of other sci-fi horror monsters, I can't think of a way to beat it that isn't "be lucky as fuck". the lucky part here is that the Thing landed in the antarctic, so it could be killed before it can spread. if it landed somewhere with readily available biomass, let's say *literally any other continent*, Earth's biomass would have been completely assimilated in a week flat. maybe less. with absolutely no way to stop it. except maybe a high-yield nuke to the face just before it makes contacts with the ground.

[@21stcenturyhiphop]

This is why the Thing doesn't need to rush to take over. It's presence anywhere other than Antarctica would be an instant doomsday event for the world, but it could bide its time and spread before anyone even knew what was going on. There would literally be no way to stop it.

[@MrNarxy]

There's a short audio story about the movie from The Thing's prespective called "The Things" on a KZbin channel called "Peter Reynolds". If you have the time PLEASE listen to it, it's a wild trip

[@tektrixter]

The short story is by Peter Watts. It is amazing as it really forces you to change the way you think. Poor humanity, all alone in our biology.

[@shark899138]

i personally subscribe to the theory that given that (aside from a prequel comic to the prequel movie) The prequel is The Things first contact with humanity and how as you said we know SO little about The Thing. It's clumsiness and more movie monster way of working in the prequel is because this is it's first contact with this species along with the fact that I was frozen in a block of ice for thousands of years and it's learned from it's first encounter so LIKE AT THE END of the prequel where it learned "Oh they're suspicious if I'm missing recognizable markings put in the guy survivor's earring (but on the wrong ear) it would then put in earrings still like at the end of the film.

[@tuckerdoolan8830]

The earring thing doesn't ruin the end of the original, in the end of the prequel we see that after assimilating Carter the thing puts his earring back in (just in the wrong ear, that's how Kate knows he's a thing).

[@alexwisz9527]

One thing apparently missing from the article is that while its default characteristics are unknown, the Thing DOES have personal preferences. This is indicated in the novel by the color of light sources it's built, and its temperature settings.

[@gravewalkers]

In the book, Thing made an anti-gravity belt for super leaping. It could make alien advanced technology.

[@abasheddevil]

I like it when he jumps out and screams, "It's clobberin' time!" in Kurt Russell's face.

[@HatGremlin]

This video got me thinking, maybe the reason The Thing doesn't assimilate dead bodies, and why it can't infect everyone by just sneezing on them, is it's actually vulnerable to bacteria and other microscopic organisms itself, maybe it doesn't actually have the same deadly capabilities on a micro scale it does at macro. It could be The Thing is only able to take over and attack the cells of a multicellular organism that have no means of directly defending themselves, and is in fact bad at attacking other microscopic organisms that do have any means of attack or defense, and will even lose and be hunted by most micro organisms on a one to one basis, making The Thing just like any other organism at a micro scale. This could be why it needs to infect and gain biomass, as a fortress to defend itself, using the immune systems and defenses only available to multicellular organisms to have a way to kill off it's micro predators. So the reason it doesn't assimilate long dead bodies, is other microscopic organisms that infect the corpse kill it off too fast for it to gain ground, why burning a Thing is enough to kill it off, because any of The Thing left is so exposed it is killed off by infection. Then finally why it can't just infect everyone by sweating everywhere, or even imitating bacteria and spreading like a common cold, is it just simply can't survive alone against other microorganism.

[@psygaud]

The first time I played Prey, I spent way too long bashing every mug (and everything else) I saw because I was so scared of mimics jumping up behind me.

[@IrvingIV]

The Thing is clearly just Envy from Fullmetal Alchemist.

[@darksentinel082]

wait the thing is hot?!?!

[@gravewalkers]

Thing is 1982 Book it is partly based on is 1938 FMA is 2001

[@IrvingIV]

@@gravewalkers Yes, yes; my joke is indeed factually incorrect.

[@Cuiasodo]

Taken Envy, make them super gross and allow them to duplicate themselves and then you're in the same ballpark.

[@acrothdragon]

The Thing is just one of those creatures that’s truly a Lovecraftian horror. Friends of mine we tossed out names of other aliens from other franchises like Aliens, Predator, Calvin, with the possible exception being the blob most species would end up getting assimilated or infected by a cell from the Thing and slowly be turned into one. I think where the Blob would have an edge is it consumes the biomass but there’s that possibility of could it infect it and spread or does it get neutralized.

[@roundcube2948]

After all these years I did not know at the Thing had the knowledge to be able to build a spaceship. This changes everything, I can't help but think that the Thing was the most terrified character in the movie. Both sides were running from aliens.

[@21stcenturyhiphop]

It didn't, it merely selected an alien consciousness it had previously taken over with the necessary intelligence to build the craft.

[@mr.perfectcell1887]

One of two movies in contention as my favorite of all time. I took to clarifying The Thing 1982. So happy you're talking about this. So good.

[@DrPumpkinz]

What's the other?

[@mr.perfectcell1887]

@@DrPumpkinz Oh. Dogma. The Jay and Silent Bob comedy by Kevin Smith. The Thing is the better movie IMO, but Dogma still has a soft spot in my heart.

[@stephenairey4952]

I'm always surprised given the era it was made (around the same time as Alien and Predator) that The Thing never had all the sequels and spinoffs that all the others that came out around did.

[@airguitar1321]

The z rex book made me realize that I haven't thought about it since 4th grade

[@sheepgrass500]

Omg sammmme

[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

Oh heck yeah! Remember doing a school project on the book pfft! It’s a pretty fun one really!

[@JM-yx9eh]

So happy to see this video. John Carpenter’s The Thing is my all favourite horror movie and still holds up to this day! Keep up the good work!

[@LloydBlack-In-Hell]

I'm right there with you. It's not my all time favourite but it's in my top two. Of course, I'm a fan of John Carpenter and I think "The Thing" is an all time classic. I'm a fan of practical effects of course. The effects they used do hold up to this day, as you said. it's good to know there's someone else out there who appreciates this movie as much as I do. It's movies like The Thing that inspired me to go to college to study film and video production. Sadly, I never got to work in the field but it still gave me an apprciation for the work that goes into movies like The Thing and anything else like it. Anyway, to Karl, great video as always. Keep up the awesome work. I don't think I've every seen a video I don't like.

[@biasmushroom6311]

It just gets so much so right!

[@tommyfox854]

Honestly, whenever I hear "The Thing", I always think about the 1951 film because that's the one I'm more familiar with but I gotta say the one everyone talks about is absolute *NIGHTMARE* fuel, my chest is feeling heavy from shear terror and dread just thinking about it.

[@landonletterman831]

Why would it need to build a space ship to get around Earth? If it wanted to infect Earth, it *had* a helicopter, and I'm almost positive it assimilated a pilot (or a person with enough rudimentary information that this alien creature, that can build _and fly_ an alien space craft, could use) for it to know when and how to take off. No, you build a space ship to go into space. Like it had a job to do, and crashing on Earth wasn't that job, so now it's awake and needs to complete something which isn't happening on Earth...

[@Lectrikfro]

I'm pretty sure (in the novel at least) the helicopter had been purposely damaged beyond repair to prevent The Thing from escaping so it had to make something out of what parts it had so nuclear powered anti-gravity device was it's first choice.

[@landonletterman831]

@@Lectrikfro I'm with you, and it's just a hair-brained theory, but he could have just as easily repaired the helicopter, or just went ham on everyone from the outset and fake a good story once help showed up. Covert entry and takeover seems this things reason for being, but I think Earth is the wrong target, so it needed to get back on track.

[@FilthTribeFTP]

Lol, the cast and crew of this movie nearly ran out of fuel just by flying to and from the on-location set and another close by location in one round trip. People think helicopters have the fuel tank of a 747 lmao. Yeah, you aren't getting to Australia or Argentina in a helo from even the closest tip point in Antarctica, haha.

[@landonletterman831]

@@FilthTribeFTP not at all, even in the slightest. Unless they've burned out all the fuel. He could _still_ fill the tank and fly to the _same_ refueling stations those other helicopters that come in and out use. "Knowledge of when to take off," as in not fighting the winds the actors and crew would have fought to make the deadline of the shoot, which kills the gas economy of a helicopter anywhere, forgoing the viciousness of the winds up there. And due to the smashed communications systems, even if a survivor had been left behind, it would have arrived at the station with no one being the wiser

[@FilthTribeFTP]

@@landonletterman831 Im talking about taking a chopper off continent to Civilization. Which is what I thought the comment was about. The blAircraft (lol) was definitely a wiser choice as it figured it had enough time to finish and it being AG, he wouldn't have to worry about refueling, etc., now would he have to worry about anyone back at OP31 warning anyone. Leaving the chopper in working order means he has to now ALSO keep an eye out on that vehicle and make sure no one takes it for a quick Sunday stroll, lol.

[@Swift96]

I didn't pay to the thumbnail when I clicked this video, I thought Karl was going to talk about Ben Grimm, The Thing from the Fantastic Four

[@weaselrider]

With KZbin failing my favoriate channel, watching every add is how I support this channel. Anything I can do to keep this afloat.

[@IntoUnity]

I was excited to learn more about the Fantastic Four "Thing" but this is just as good

[@bradleywhitlock5842]

Since the piercing in the prequel was an important factor, the Thing could have learned from it and re-pierced its ear, since it should have such knowledge.

[@deadlymelody27]

as soon as you spoke about it I thought about the Polymorph from Red Dwarf 🤣

[@NinjaTyler]

Tbf the prequel would've been great of the executive didn't interfere and stop the movie from using it's practical effects and forced them to use shit cgi when they were almost done with production because he thought it would look better

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

7:24 In the words of 'The greatest monster hunter that ever lived' Bubba Shackleford: "If all else fails, Kill It With Fire."

[@TheDominic56]

Discovered this movie few years ago. One of my favourites. Need to rewatch it again.

[@zpoohead]

Never been able to see one of these releases this early! Excited! This channels gotten me through some rough times, Love your format!

[@Zaixven]

I am always surprised no one really makes the connection in concept between The Thing and Alex Mercer from Prototype. Like clearly Alex (Who is actually a sentient from of the virus not actually the man it aborbed) has more interest in interacting but his powers so similar in concept. Scary stuff.

[@woodgatejack]

A bit of a tangent, but I use _The Thing_ (the movie) as "Exibit A" for the defense when people shit on remakes, simply for being remakes, as the 1982 version is a remake of _The Thing From Another World_ (1951) Now, you could say that _The Thing_ isn't a remake, but rather a more accurate adaptation of the novella _Who Goes There?_ but as Carpenter was inspired by the 1951 version, with the title, the title graphics and various shots (such as the bit with the scientists making a circle around the frozen saucer and the shape of the ice block the creature was found in, I'd say it _is_ a remake and "guilty" of such things remake-snobs have umbrage with- brand recognition, exploiting nostalgia etc.

[@Ryan84995]

As someone who has all 3 Z books it's funny seeing Karl have a copy as well

[@Mare_Man]

I mean by the time of the original ending, the Thing has had two movies and several people's worth of experience to figure out the non-organic parts bit

[@ivorjawa]

Lucas should really watch the damned movie, it’s one of the finest films ever made.

[@echospecter2450]

My favorite ability in prototype was patsy because you can create panic by simply pointing out that literally anybody could be Alex Mercer and that's what makes The Thing so scary.

[@cringelord3342]

When the guy/the thing detaches its head to crawl around there is a light reflection in it so light reflection in the eyes is not a way of telling who’s the thing

[@thecanadiandane7262]

If Among Us has taught me anything it’s that if I became a Thing it would spell the doom of everybody around me, because apparently while I’m incredibly suspicious as an innocent crew mate trying to complete tasks, nobody suspects me as a bloodthirsty murderous monster

[@tretonbeaulieu4555]

I love the fact that today, people are still talking about and theorizing about it, it's awesome.

[@tristoncortani4748]

You guys make my favorite KZbin videos Much love thank you

[@HonestWatchReviewsHWR]

I absolutely love 'The Thing'. It's not only my favourite horror film, but probably my favourite film full stop. As everyone knows the special effects are fantastic. But what really makes the film so great, is the way it builds up the tension. When it comes to the prequel, it really annoys me that they initially did it all with practical effects, which looked great by the way. But then the studio decided to replace them all with CGI instead. What makes it even worse though, is that they didn't tell the guys who did the practical effects, Amalgamated Dynamics. So, they only found out when they went to the premier of the film. Understandably this really annoyed them and they subsequently ending up making their own film 'Harbinger Down' which was funded by a Kickstarter campaign.

[@KillurGod666]

My vote is that The Thing's real form are the cells that make up its body. The body as a whole is always changing but the cells, before imitation, remains the same. Thats why dismemberment will never kill it but destroying the cells with fire or explosives prove effective.

[@sev1120]

"The Thing" being a colony of individually sapient polymorphic cells is somehow more terrifying than a singular sapient organism

[@atothetaco]

the thing is is that The Thing is an unstoppable thing that absorbs anything it comes across and assimilate it into The Thing or another Thing and is from one of the iconic things in film history The Thing not to be confused with the shitty prequel The Thing

[@TheNativeEngine]

The Palmer-Thing was actually trying to kill the Norris-Thing and the little head that popped off. Or he may have been infected later but that just blew my mind watching it. Oh, and apparently it is canon the Things know they're Things. It insinuates in the novelization and by John Carpenter and Stuart Cohen. I was hoping that wasn't the case. That would've been more fun.

[@Aichi1138]

To the points about The thing surviving fire being used on it: Fire will absolutely work, If it didn't, you didn't use enough Fire

[@IAmSeanFleming]

You've clearly never seen the film Evolution

[@benjamingamache6441]

It's a good thing that "the thing" doesn't exist within the same universe as the xenomorph and Weyland Yutani corporation.

[@Thunderbear69]

It just struck me: The Thing is an alien nanobot research program gone haywire....

[@skygolding16]

Thanks, really enjoyed that it felt well old school Fact Fiend

[@High_Tech_Priest]

The thing is so dangerous it belongs in 40k

[@DorianEudesSeverin]

Pedantic mode on: technically John Carpenter's "The Thing" is a remake, of a 1950's Book adaptation. But Carpenter's version is above and beyond the original, a bit like 1978's Invasion of the Body Snatchers is above and beryond the original and the book that inspired it

[@petecoogan]

The longer versions of Who Goes There was published as Frozen Hell. Plus there is a prequel called Brain Stealers of Mars. And a sequel called The Things.

[@charleschamp9826]

"There's probably some juice on the inside" They straight up mention that the Thing corpses still have living cells in the movie.

[@Francisco-dx7hj]

Are you going to make a part 2 of the thing and talk about the 1951 The thing from another world and the thing from another world comics which also adds to the lore of the thing. Love the videos, thanks.

[@briarfuller]

A modern day Thing game would be amazing

[@jojotheswede8444]

100%

[@maceface6099]

I’m truly sorry about this but … Among Us is basically that. Everyone looks and acts innocent except that there is someone who is actually bad and everyone has to figure who is bad before they kill again.

[@TwigTheThird]

Would love to see you cover the Dominion War from Deep Space Nine, since so much of that conflict revolved around Changelings replacing key Federation and Klingon leaders.

[@sleepingkirby]

Part of me wonders what the home planet/environment or the food chain is like for The Thing to evolve with this desperate need to survive and so many methods of doing so. Hmm... what would make a for a great Alien (xenomorph) cross over. The Thing's whole thing is stealth and disguise at a molecular level. Something that would be great at avoiding xenomorphs that can kill with acid.

[@Edramon53]

Advert before this video… “The thing you’re thinking about, there’s a small business in that”. Very meta.

[@theblackbaron4119]

In spirit there is a game which is all about pretending that you're not the thing. It's called Deceit, it even has a map where you freeze to death if you don't do objectives and it is a polar research base.

[@tdkb3395]

In my opinion we almost definitely didn't see the original form of the thing because we see it crash land on the planet but I don't think it was the thing driving that saucer. I think it took over whatever alien was driving the ship and that's what we see frozen in ice and eventually part of that big glob of mess at the end of the movie.

[@sirduff9644]

I like the joke of fire cleanses everything because I remembered the movie evolution. If y'all haven't done that movie before you should. It's a classic

[@AlienZ3r0]

One of my all-time favorites and the original "The Thing from Another World"

[@grizzlyfishreverso9654]

You could actually be referring to 1 of 4 thing, the movie, the creature, the prequel or the giant orange rock dude

[@3_14pie]

I watched this video a few minutes back and I thought it was an older video I haven't seen yet (because I already was watching the older videos), and I only realized it now when I checked the channel thinking today's video was "late"

[@Teaniinja]

This is my fav movie of all time. The novella "Who goes there?" That it's based on has some additional info.

[@johnwilliams5532]

The 1982 film was actually a remake of 1951's The Thing from Another World.

[@johnwilliams5532]

I have not. Always wanted to, but just never seemed to get around to it.

[@mind.hemorrhage]

The Thing is why the 1997-98 trailer for Parasite Eve scared me so much.

[@mr_geekchic2899]

I loved the Prequal, seeing the other science station & seeing how the things happened...

[@Edkkiiid]

I literally just finished the extended cut of the video about the practical effects for the prequel too lol

[@anintrovert9453]

I just realized...the most catastrophic thing would be if it could imitate plants, just walking and imagine you get killed by a palm tree

[@StephMcAlea]

You see the bottom half of its true form in the prequel as it bursts up into a ceiling. It's like 3 huge black talkn-like legs. The pilot of the ship crashed when his prisoner/cargo escaped. 'The Thing' is known by some fans from the original story Frozen Hell (later 'Who Goes There?) as 'The Chimera' due to its ability to mimic lifeforms even though it doesn't really do it in the source material. The Chimera/Thing is seen, in an apocryphal sense, as not an organism per-se but as 'the black goo/accelerant' from the Ridleyverse (Prometheus, Alien) and the X Files. The original 50s film (The Thing from another planet) is fantastic, way ahead of its time, and is really, really tense. It's a shame that the monster in the 50s film is rubbish.

[@tyrusgailey3131]

Since prey was mentioned I'm just gonna say yall should really give that game a go. I'd love to see what yall have to say about it and it's up there with one of the best immersive sims out there

[@phiend2248]

Love red dwarf, the best tv show ever.

[@charlesnc]

Fire solves everything everytime don't question it BURN IT TILL ITS NOTHING BURN IT ALL ❤️‍🔥 🔥 💥

[@JimothyJamesonJr]

Probably the earliest i've been for a video, what's up early gang

[@brianpj5860]

I theorize that thing started out as an amoeba like creature that worked its way up the Biomass food chain and eventually off-world to ours.

[@SergioLeRoux]

What I don't like about The Thing is how arbitrarily the "single cell" either can or can't assimilate you. Just a single drop of blood on your skin can turn you, except when it doesn't because there's no way some of it didn't drip on Macready during the blood test. And if it lands on a glove or piece of clothing you're still carrying that single cell forever on you until you end up touching it.

[@ninjaoclock3865]

I always assumed they meant a single cell could theoretically assimilate someone but it was pretty much impossible because of our body's Natural defenses that and it would take so long it's pretty much useless anyway to really be effective it would need enough to overcome someones immune system and to happen in a reasonable amount of time it might as well just full on absorb it like the dog

[@mariemcc4638]

Mentioning 'The Thing' reminds me of the ps2 'The Thing' game before the movie, mainly cause it was the first media I encountered the concept.

[@mariemcc4638]

Nevermind they mentioned the video game, I typed too soon. I didn't know it was a considered a sequel, nice.

[@theshape3988]

The things motivation is established. To immitate all lifeforms in comes across for survival and to use the imitation down the road for whatever advantage a human would have in any given situation against other beings

[@Jericothelich]

You could Also be referring to "The Thing" aka Ben Grimm from the fantastic 4

[@BlackHour375]

0:17 don't forget the stoned guy from the fantastic four

[@fortafiresecondaccount7690]

The scariest thing about the thing is that it’s just a thing and isn’t labelled

[@unknownvanguard8749]

The Thing on the PS2 is the most terrifying game I have ever played. Scared me more than shit like Dead Space and Outlast.

[@DashXero]

One thing I find kind of interesting is how influential the Thing is. For example, Jenova in Final Fantasy VII is basically the Thing. We find this out when the party looks over the notes left behind by Aerith's parents. What's kind of sad is that they hijacked the Thing and didn't do much with it aside from note that it was an absolute problem in the past.

[@OfficialMTTstudios]

I love a Lucas and Karl the thing drinking watch party.

[@krypted_96]

What's also interesting is that we don't know how the thing got here, and it's brought up in the video, we don't know why it assimilates, what is it's larger goal? And if it was building a space ship what for? If its goal is to be the last surviving thing then wouldn't it stay on earth? If does intend on staying on earth why a space ship and why so soon? Or is it just trying to leave and survive and live among the stars?

[@gremlinbd]

The Thing is also a remake. So there is also the original: The Thing from Another World (1951)

[@gwynjustice6664]

The thing was originally a horror novel written in the early 40’s titled “who goes there” that inspired the film “the thing from another world” in 52’ that inspired John carpenter.

[@godhoward4074]

The thing is one of my all time favorite movies

[@jan-seli]

I was very confused until I realized you weren't talking about the guy from the fantastic 4

[@guscook2305]

U guys have to do a video on a horror film called society, there’s a process called the shunting in it and it’s a spectacle, body horror like the thing

[@Daemonworks]

The thing that drives me nuts is how much some fans hate the concept of an ambiguous ending and have just invented details that they insist make it clear.