The Thing 2011

The first time The Thing attacks someone they burn and kill it, so how does it keep ending up in other people?,

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I think it was because a few cells of it were still alive and thats all it needed.

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Did you know that in the 1980s movie PREDATOR the titular character was not originally portrayed by Kevin Peter Hall. It was in fact Jean-Claude Van Damme donning a much more insect inspired full body suit before he left the production which then led to the recasting and redesigning of the famous hunter.

In the 2011 movie, it escapes the ice block... attacks... is burned... and seemingly dies.
Burning the creature doesn't actually kill it fully. It simply stops it.
I've come to the conclusion that when on fire, and then put out, the creature is actually just playing dead... sitting, waiting, regenerating a little... so it can then attack something else and carry on living.


Like in the 1982 movie, the team finds that two-face corpse... it's been burned, and left out in the freezing snow for days... yet once back at the American camp, it reanimates and starts taking people over. The first one being Bennings (this is all after the weirdness with the dog of course).


In the original movie, Blair's notes are looked over by Fuchs.
Blair's notes clearly state "There is still cellular activity in these remains, they're not dead yet"
Fuchs later elaborates that "If just one particle is enough to take over an entire organism, I suggest we all prepare our own food and we only eat out of cans".
Basically Fuchs is saying that if the tiniest piece of the creature is alive and comes into contact with a living creature, it will take over...


The original creature was buried in the ice for over 100,000 years... it's a durable animal, and fire and ice, freezing, shooting etc. will only kill the outer layers, or only kill a certain percentage of the current body it is using.


Also... if you think about what Macready says as well... "When we bleed, it's just tissue."
He's saying that when The Thing "bleeds", it's not actually blood. It's the creature separating. The blood is simply the creature imitating blood. The "blood", becomes a "separate animal" so-to-speak.


The best way to think about the creature, is not as a solid animal.
It's a virus. A germ.
Each tiny cell being an individual creature... and when all the billions of cells are together they act like a whole. This is why you can have Norris on that table being burned... and his head detaches, grows legs, and tries to bugger off down the corridor. The cells within the head were making an escape from the parts that were being burned.

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Thanks Rodent. I just couldnt understand how the hell the guy in the helicopter got infected.

That's the clever thing with The Thing... you never know... and almost never see... when someone has been got.

Gonna elaborate... in the 2011 movie, they do the fillings test and there's about 4 of them that are possibly not human.


Well, as it turns out, one of them is not human.
If you look back over the film... there's nowhere, absolutely nowhere in the movie, at least, nowhere shown... that you can tell where the creature actually got to him.