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Bennings wasn't bitten by the dog; the dog simply nudged him when it walked under the table, startling him. Bennings was infected after being attacked by the remains of split-face in the storeroom.
Yes true. That seen confused me. Did the Thing sort of take over Bennings' body mass, or did it fully break his mass and create a new 'Bennings"? If it was the latter, it does not make sense because the split face was not big enough and there seemed to be too little time.
@@anthonygreico9735 Nah, it was taking over his mass. Split-face was likely still recovering from having been burnt and frozen so likely just dumped a bunch of its regenerated goo into Bennings system. Bennings got up and left.
@@anthonygreico9735 Most likely the goo that left split face wanted to survive so it added its mass into Bennings. With the new mass being added remembering the monster it once was it had a harder time to quickly adjust itself back into a normal human hand. Mass has to go somewhere, it just doesn't disappear.
@@anthonygreico9735 Yeah, what the other guy said. It's likely just unformed mass from the previous Thing host that didn't have a chance to form into human appendages in time. It was close, though, as the rest of his body was pretty much finished disguising itself. I don't know about the "remembering" part, but it was at least probably not trying to create weapons. The "claws" seemed pretty useless as "Bennings" didn't react in time to fight back against the group before being lit on fire and annihilated.
The prequel was almost finished when a higher up came in and said that the practical effect looked too much like the 80's movies and ordered them to add cgi to make them ``better``.
@@Sara3346 bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/26758/interview-the-thing-2011-screenwriter-explains-how-the-film-transformed-into-what-you-saw/ They were also forced to change the story, quicken its pace, and erase character development because it was deemed too boring
ua-cam.com/video/fBzpT7VmSaU/v-deo.html the practical effects are pieces of art, especially the pilot alien, shit looks like it is real. Of course it would use CGI to help a little. Like imagine Split Face floating around lol. They were made by these same people that did practical effects for alien 3 and the original 4 tremors films.
Even if such a creature were possible, was always curious what kinda metabolism it must have just to meet the incredible energy demands of such rapid growth and cell division.
It's called a super cell for a reason, it's what you get when you combine the insane survivability of unicellular organisms with the massive ability of multicellular ones to cooperate and work together. It's basically cancer but not really cancer
probably chalk it up to the creators not wanting to over complicate a fun premise. they actively drew a line between explaining and actual science behind stuff. they kept a lot ambiguous on purpose. there's always a fun factor to consider with movies.
I think it probably gets it from the host as it assimilates because even in the movie it seems to destroy the original copy humans pack a ton of calories my guy
9:19 Bennings was never bitten by Dog-Thing on the leg. He was shot by one of the Norwegians on the leg, but not bitten. Then he got assimilated in the storage room.
He does, however, grab McCreedy's J&B bottle with the glove that the "dog" had just covered in saliva. Then McCreedy takes a giant swig straight from the bottle, putting the saliva covered top straight to his mouth.
I appreciate the idea the comics went with that the single cells of the thing had their own goals of spreading and growing but as it assimilated and assumed more complex organisms it had to adapt to having a brain. Simple animals like fish or sheep weren't so problematic but after becoming human it was introduced to things like paranoia and anxiety.
Its amazin how The Thing can evolve the way it did. It went from being shitty CGI in the Norwegian camp, to being the best special effects ever seen in a movie in the American camp.
Question: When the alien mimics someone and before it reveals itself to a threat, does the person it's mimicing believe they are the real person until they are found out?
In the novel who goes there.. yes the mimic BELIEVE they are still human.. just showing how terrifying the thing is. On cellular level they imitate completely and only assert control to mimics at convenient by altering their braincells as blair does when it consume gary
They show signs that they are still human which is how they blend in so well, but ultimately once the super cell has taken over the entire body. That person is no longer there, they are truly a copy of who they were. It's also aware enough to coordinate with other Thing copies and form tactics to spread the infection, as well as taunt it's prey using our own spoken language.
its a bit confusing for me. i think the person is aware they are the thing especially since someone sabotaged the blood tests, obviously they didn’t want to be found out. thats just my take
@@Demonamic777 It also seems willing to sacrifice parts of itself; as in the morgue scene, it draws attention to the walking head - perhaps to maintain human cover?
You actually can see chiles' breath clearly during scenes at the end... What's more telling, is how McCready offers him the drink of liquor, and Chiles accepts and shares it... drinking some. Even though they've established that the super cells can be passed through sharing food & drink... I think this is why McCready laughs, because chiles has outed his own infected state having failed the test Only if chiles was already a "thing" would he have drank after another of unknown status has previously drank straight from same bottle. Chiles-thing thinking best response is accepting the offer, in solidarity to build rapport. Since a thing is no longer concerned with the potential super cells from a sharing a unknown's drink as dangerous, he happily accepts the "peace offering"... inadvertently showing his hand to McCready. What ya think, eh??
There's an old fan theory that (human) Macready gave Childs a bottle full of gasoline from the molotovs they had. Gambling that if he downed it without flinching, the Thing would try to mimic him perfectly-but a real human being would spit it out, because it tastes terrible.
That is a very good point. And I've always had a problem with the visable breathe theory. Child's had been stuck outside for quite awhile, even with all those clothes mcready was nearly frozen to death earlier in the movie when his line got cut. So it stands to reason that child's could have just been cold. However it was established as soon as they knew what they were dealing with that food could spread it. So bottle theory is pretty stronk
I think you did a great job on this. The Thing (1982) is one of my most favored horror movies of all time and spawned my fear of dying on a cellular level. This was really cool and informative
The Childs breath theory has been proven wrong in some of the enhanced versions. You can see his breath, it just isn't as well caught by the light as MacReady.
16:15 it was stated in an interview by Keith David that the reason why he doesn't have any fog coming out of his mouth is because he was within the range of the fire within the background before he showed up on camera
The poit you made about Childs at the end is rendered null by the remaster. It was just that the actor wasn't breathing as heavily so you couldn't see his breath as well in the original, but in the remaster the condensation is visible.
Childs was infect though, at least that is the favored interpretation the movie gives. At the beginning of the movie Mac Ready was playing chess against an AI, after the AI checkmate him he grabs a can of beer and pour booze all over the computer destroying it. This scene foreshadow the whole movie, just like in chess he lost pieces to the AI all throught the movie Mac Ready lost all his friends to the Thing. He also lost the 'game' as he failed to destroy the Thing before it could destroy the American Outpost. In the end he give booze to Childs mirroring that he pour it on the computer, it was a resigned 'fuck it', he had already lost.
@@a.k8185 so? I'm talking about the movie not the video game. In the movie there are themes and narrative elements, the chess game Mac play is one such element.
The most horrifying thing about the thing is that if one virion was to be unleashed onto a city it would become unstoppable like the X parasite from Metroid
The scene where you can only see one person's breath is often interpreted as that you can't see the breath of the person who is the Thing. I think it may be just the opposite. The Thing is always shown to be very wet and slimy, and it would have a very hot body temperature due to the amount of cellular activity. The humans meanwhile, have been exerting themselves a lot for a long time with little or no water, and would thus probably have very dehydrated throats, so they might not have visible moisture in their breaths. On the other hand, since the Thing changes shape frequently, it might not rely on the lungs of the humans it mimics, and is merely faking breathing. It could breath through its skin.
humans actually do breath through our skin but it's very minor in comparison to our lungs. it's why we drown easily because we can't breath through our lungs and skin in that situation.
Know this is a bit late but in the game version of the thing (PS2 I believe) it's confirmed that neither are infected, this was confirmed as canon I believe by John Carpenter.
@@tosdy8480 I say that since one of the actresses who had her body painted all over in James Bond GoldFinger almost suffocated that way. I'm not joking!
Ugh! Even watching a dissection of this film gives me the shivers. I’m just grateful you didn’t show the kennel scene. I have to FF through that every time I rewatch. That being said excellent commentary and insight.
@@RoanokeGaming Interesting thought experiment, they each obtain their biomass in different ways and have different means of attack/defense. It would all depend on how effective these methods were on each other: Xenomorphs rely on direct contact for reproduction and a low level telepathy to control the drones, also, the molecular acid blood would be an issue, would the cells of the Thing be affected by this and therefore unable to replicate a drone? I think that one would be a stalemate, the Xenomorphs can't really cut the Thing to death, and I don't think they would be able to eat it, but the Thing would be unable to replicate a drone Xenomorph, in any case the Queen would know because it wouldn't be able to control/contact that particular drone. I suppose if a facehugger tried to impregnate the thing (in whatever form it was) it may be able to replicate the drones that way, but the Queen would know something is up. Marker/Necromorphs rely on telepathy and driving their hosts insane to provide dead biomass for their fliers (I forget their name) to take over. It also sends out a signal that warps humans, at least, on the cellular level. Would this interfere with the Xenomorphs telepathy? Or would they mow through Necromorphs with reckless abandon? If and when they defeat all the Necromorphs, what do they do with the marker itself? They can't really kill it, it took part of a planet to kill one, and the destruction of a city sized station to destroy another. Does telepathy affect the Thing in any way? The Thing relies on replicating a host and masquerading as them and consuming their biomass to survive. I don't think it could replicate a full grown Xenomorph drone and, while it could probably replicate a Necromorph, the Marker would know something was up because it couldn't control that Necromorph, same thing goes for the Xenomorph queen and the drones, so I think in the end, it would be a stalemate between the three. A fight between the thing and the Yautja, however....
I'd say both. The thing can assimilate knowledge instantly but it seems to completely ditch every bit of it when under threat and after converting itself into a defensive form. Meanwhile the single necromorphs are pretty animalistic and seem to lack any proper rational thought (except for the stalkers, clever bastards), but as the marker infects more people we begin to see smarter variants as biomass is added until we reach the brethren moons, which seem to be highly intelligent. So I'd say both can be very efficient in their own way. Unless the people who meet the original thing live to tell the story, it can infect the entire world without anyone suspecting a thing, but it doesn't seem to get much clever than the species it assimilates, meanwhile the marker's effects are anything but subtle, but they're also very effective at ruining any chances of an organized counterattack, and result in a highly intelligent outcome. I'd give a little more points to the necromorphs as they seem much more successful (they always seem to spread fast and efficiently while the thing had 2 chances in much smaller locations and failed twice to achieve its goal of total assimilation) but I still think the thing's method of infection wins in wow factor.
I'd say the Marker it's specifically resigned for intelligent species to want to crave it and use it as a power source in a way spreading the infection across a species whole species before anyone who isn't of above average intelligence is turned
This is awesome. So often I'll watch "monsters explained" videos and it ends up just being a recap of the movie, or vague explanations that you can't miss watching it. This is incredibly in depth.
So a couple things, about the Childs/Macready breath scene. When Childs comes around the corner you can see his breath. When he is sitting you cant. That was a continuity error. As for way before that when the dog goes under the table in the break room, it isnt implied at all that the dog bites Bennings more so that he was startled at its presence in the room instead of in the kennel. He gets almost fully assimilated later in the storage room with the "dead" body of the thing leaking its juices and such in the room after he was left alone by Windows. Otherwise top notch video. Always love watching dives in to the nitty gritty with that organism. Edit: If he were bit, he should act like any normal human and check for blood. Just saying body language and such.
If The Thing can assimilate the person, not just physically but also mentally, does that mean The Thing knows what it feels like to experience paranoia? Possibly experiencing what its victim is feeling by wondering if it's infected and being afraid of that possibility?
Gosh your videos have really drastically increased in quality over time for once I feel like I'm not just learning about how monsters were made or what real life parallels there are. I'm also learning a lot of cool stuff about reality. I had no idea about how these genes responsible for disease resistant populations worked before, thank you!
It's interesting how this movie/creature has created so much theory, conversation, debate, and spin off from its fan base almost 40 years after its release. Shows how well crafted it was to begin with.
I do want to point out that in the older movie, the alien started to build miniature spaceship of some sorts, indicating that even if the parasite didn't have the same technological level as the aliens on the huge ship that was found, it was still more technologically evolved than we are.
Another thing to mention about Childs. The last time he's seen before the base gets blown, he was wearing a blue jacket. However, when he's spotted again at the end, he's wearing a white one. Whether this was a production oversight or the "rips through your clothes" detail in action, you be the judge.
As far as who is infected at the end of the original, depending on which continuation you go with, neither of them are infected, by the end of the movie. In the game, Childs dies from exposure. In the comics, he gets infected WAY later.
@pyropulse Yeah, neither isn't a continuation. Until the makers of it say what's what, what we got is what we got. Hell, the director said himself he never intended for that ending scene to say EITHER of them were infected.
The is a simple trick that was employed during production to keep track of the infected by the director, look for light reflecting in the eyes of an individual. Those without light are infected, Childs is infected at the end of the movie this was confirmed.
@@hkxeno001 Already debunked. Firstly, the director said he never intended for the ending to show that either of them were infected. Secondly, depending on what you follow as the canon continuation, Childs is not infect here in any situation. Video game, he died of exposure before being infected. Comics, he is infected WAY later. And that's it, until they decide to continue it, and clarify that continuation as canon to the story.
@retsaM innavoiG ..... There was a game that came out, where you find Childs frozen. So yeah, there's that. As for the director, look it up, it's not hidden at all.
There was a theory i had, that when the thing takes over a person not only does the thing retain the person’s memory but since it perfectly copies that person, the copy probably fully believes its a normal human but the motivations are being influenced by the thing cells.
I always thought the ominous music when Childs takes the drink is a tip off that MacReady was infected and the "DUN DUN" was a tell that he had successfully infected Childs through saliva.
@@plaguedoctormasque8089 Can't be, acid breaks things down on a cellular level, the cellular level. The only real way to kill the thing is at the cellular level.
I'd always thought of the initial alien ship as being of the Thing's race; I hadn't considered that they might be infected themselves. I always think of the Thing as a sentient alien, but that makes me wonder if maybe it's just a virus that evolved over time to fight a super-advanced immune system by perfectly mimicking the cells it attacked; otherwise the equivalent antibodies would be able to wipe it out.
But we don't know if it was the pilot that got infected. Maybe it was the pilot first and what ever crew was left killed the pilot but the crew ended up infected and the ship crashed into earth. We don't know what type of ship the alien were flying or how big the initial crew were. So if it was the pilot first and got game ended by a crew member that had no knowledge of operating the space craft it would make sense that it crashed. Another theory could be that what ever was infected at the end was neither crew or pilot it could be a creature that the aliens were transporting. So crew gets infected. Kills each other. Loose control of the ship. Creature gets infected in the process. Crew kills each other of before or in the crash. Creature survives with the parasite and escapes.
Yeah, the thing wasn't in complete control of the ship, and the aliens forcibly crashed it. In the original, the wilford Brimley thing was making a spaceship in the shed. So, it retained the memories of the original aliens and how to make/fly a ship.
For me what makes them so dangerous is the fact that it seemingly only takes a single cell to merely touch your body and begin taking over your body without you knowing. It seems to use some type of phagocytosis on your individual cells and the use your broken down components to clone itself, using your dna to somehow use your makeup as it’s own temporary makeup. It does this all in the same process which is amazing. And it does this without even killing you. It’s like replacing the part of a boat plank by plank until it’s a new boat. But you wouldn’t think it’s a new boat. The thing is honestly one of my favorite monsters and assimilation is one of my favorite monster abilities in fiction.
I wish to God Hollywood would make a Xeno Cinematic Universe with engineers, predators, xenos of all kinds, and these fucking things. Imagine a super predalien that gets absorbed by this Supercell and what that resulting biomass would be capable of. Chilling.
And the million dollar question is: would the thing cell assimilate the flood cells or would the flood cells assimilate the thing cells? My bet is on the thing since the flood seems to take a little bit longer to completely infect a host and the thing supercell only needs to succeed at assimilating a single flood cell to go under the radar (assuming the flood cells don't start to attack one another).
@@Jaden-Ring I did consider that, both essentially "fusing" into an infection that can alternate between violent and silent. That'd be so cool to watch but so horrible to be a part of
Actually if you read the short story this is based off "Who Goes There?" by John Campbell the thing is actually not infected, it is indeed the natural state of the creature. A gestalt super organism imo
I think curt Russell is the thing, he gave him the bottle which infected the other guy. That's why he chuckled and the theme started playing, mission complete, it won. There's a video on UA-cam that has very strong supporting evidence and or theories to back this up. I'm going with Mr Russell on this one
Super happy you decided to cover "The Thing" movie it's one of my favorite Childhood movies(don't ask) that I watched a lot growing up alongside Alien, Aliens. P.S. When you gonna cover warframe Roanoke?
Nobody gonna take my car I'm gonna race it to the ground Nobody gonna beat my car It's gonna break the speed of sound Oooh it's a killing machine It's got everything!!!
@@Raccon_Detective. that has nothing to do with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, unless Highway Star is a foot fetishist. And also no he wouldn't since nobody can have the same Stand.
Also the ending of the thing is speculated that there was some type of fuel in the flask that he gave to home boy and after he sipped it with no problem mcreedy laughed because he knew what was up .
10:30 T-cell: "Hey, you a pathogen?' The Thing: "Nah dude, I'm just a red blood cell!" T-cell: "We don't take kindly to your kind around here?" The Thing: "What?! But- I'm- *ow!* I'm one of y- *AAAaaargh!* " T-cell: "Hot damn. He _was_ a pathogen! Send his DNA over to the nearest Lymph node, we need to prep a Cytokine storm!"
Bennings wasn't bit by the Thing, that's not how it works. He's one of the few characters that we can clearly see when he's being processed, and it was by the split-face-Thing that they recovered from the Norwegian camp. If all it took was a bite, the Thing would never even have to change shape to begin with. I mean, Dr. Copper gets his hands bitten right off, but he never turned. He just died.
Child's most definitely succumbed to the thing. Listen to his dialogue and you can hear McReady scoffing at his response, knowing he turned into the thing.
I would LUV it if you worked your magic on the creature from the movie LIFE. A dormant single-cell from a soil sample from Mars quickly transforms and grows to kill all folks ( 6 ) on the ISS in under 24 hrs. This creature seems to be one that you would really Like. Just a thought... B.
You need to respect it, if it weren't for it we would have the thing! It is a great movie just as good as the Carpenter's version. There is fucking overlapping dialogue! It gives you a sense of realism, that is how most of us talk. And it has some scenes that were outstanding at the time. And some more comedic touches, tho i'm not going to spoil it. If you want to know more about, cinemasaccre made a review of it.
At 09:18 when you said “when one of the team was biten on the leg” he wasn’t bitten. He got infected in the storage room when they bragged about getting a nobel prize and windows left him alone with the “dead” alien body to get the keys.
I always wondered about this: when does a person stop being that person when infected? I think it would depend on where and how much skin surface comes into contact with the alien germ/virus. But, when does an infected person stop thinking like themselves and become the thing in disguise as their host? I wonder. Hmmm!
I mean, Ship of Theseus. With The Thing I think deep down, regardless of how well it duplicates the consciousness it knows that it's fighting on the side of the green guys and not team human. Evidently in the novel version it's a mimic, where it's very debatable here.
Nice catch! I have seen The Thing like 30 plus times and for some reason the fact that Childs breath did not freeze when he exhaled or talked never dawned on me. I always imagined they would just sit starring at each other till they both froze and it didn't mater any more. They would both be found. Taken back to the real world and one of them would thaw and escape. In a ships hold or a hospital the infection would start again and the world would be over in a month or two.
Since this is a re-upload it's probably been mentioned but you can see Childs' breath at points at the end, it appears to be a combination of lighting and camera angles as to why it's not constantly visible like Mac's is. I believe that's been confirmed but don't quote me on that.
I'd like to remember your that the thing was building a spaceship in Carpenter's movie, it retained the knowledge of the aliens or had it itself. I'd say the ship was uncontrolled when it crashed, because the pilot would have probably thrown it at the Sun or the Moon, that you'd be even better to isolate the thing.
It's a prequel, not a remake. The studio wanted the director to make a remake, and he was able to convince them to let him do a prequel instead. This is explained in the director's commentary. As for the name, yes, most everyone agrees that the prequel needs a sub-title to distinguish it from Carpenter's. I'd suggest using the base name, in case further down the road, a sequel may be made. Set sub-titles by location.
In some of the novella material you learn everyone was infected. Macready had a abberant factor in his assimilation where the Thing alien intelligence/personality was dominated by his own. Due to smaller biomass exposure.
I’m kind of late but I thought I would let anybody know. The channel collective learning went through many theories about the thing. Including the child’s not breathing at the end. Very good videos.
16:15 also the bottle he drank might be fuel and not alcohol. mcready gave to childs to see if he reacted, but as childs drank it and didn't react mcready laughs as if he found out that childs is the thing and the thing might not be able to tell the diffirence between alcohol and fuel. (sorry for bad grammar)
@@RoanokeGaming Essentially Blacklight is the Thing on Super Crack. It can absorb biological matter almost instantly, retain memories , maintain sentience and intelligence , it gains almost superhuman abilities and transform any part of it into any weapon it sees fit.
Since we’re here on the subject of alien parasites Roanoke, ever thought about covering the X parasites from the Metroid universe? Or the metroids themselves?
Great video! Also child’s is the thing at the end of the original. In the comic book series that continues the first movie they get rescued and child’s infects a huge camp in South America.
Considering how similar it is to "The Thing" i think it would be great to look at the Carrion monster since it came out a few days ago
Ive heard of the carrion, what movie is that?
it's a video game that just released, 20 bucks USD or so
@@metalman5002 can confirm, i have the game in my wishlist on steam, because it looks cool.
@@RoanokeGaming it's a game, think a 2d stealth action puzzle focused pixelart version of prototype
Its AWESOME
When you have HIV and your body kills the thing accidentally
Defens
Helth
HIV didn’t work that way and that thing spread like fire hiv isn’t that fast in infection
@@theoneglorylucky3071 Yeah it's a movie. About Aliens. I don't think that change was too bad.
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I highly doubt the thing alien had immune system to infect in the first place
Sorry bout the re-upload, I got caught for using a 15 second clip lmao but if you chose to watch again, I appreciate your support!
Edit: CRAP I FORGOT TO TURN OFF NOTIFICATIONS
AYO man, no problem. Still a very good video!
Great job though, appreciate the vid.
*uses 14.95 second clip
What clip was cut???
Always watch your videos mate, over and over. So a re-upload here and there is no bother. Keep up the good work.
Bennings wasn't bitten by the dog; the dog simply nudged him when it walked under the table, startling him. Bennings was infected after being attacked by the remains of split-face in the storeroom.
Yes true. That seen confused me. Did the Thing sort of take over Bennings' body mass, or did it fully break his mass and create a new 'Bennings"? If it was the latter, it does not make sense because the split face was not big enough and there seemed to be too little time.
@@anthonygreico9735 Nah, it was taking over his mass. Split-face was likely still recovering from having been burnt and frozen so likely just dumped a bunch of its regenerated goo into Bennings system. Bennings got up and left.
@@gmork1090 Why were "Bennings'" hands like claws?
@@anthonygreico9735 Most likely the goo that left split face wanted to survive so it added its mass into Bennings. With the new mass being added remembering the monster it once was it had a harder time to quickly adjust itself back into a normal human hand. Mass has to go somewhere, it just doesn't disappear.
@@anthonygreico9735 Yeah, what the other guy said. It's likely just unformed mass from the previous Thing host that didn't have a chance to form into human appendages in time. It was close, though, as the rest of his body was pretty much finished disguising itself.
I don't know about the "remembering" part, but it was at least probably not trying to create weapons. The "claws" seemed pretty useless as "Bennings" didn't react in time to fight back against the group before being lit on fire and annihilated.
The “Hippity Hoppity your body is now my property” alien
Did you get that from Dankula?
So kinda like the blood raven's?
Thing fuses with your body then goes
Cha Cha Real Smoth
ah yes, the flood
The Spy *WAIT-*
The prequel was almost finished when a higher up came in and said that the practical effect looked too much like the 80's movies and ordered them to add cgi to make them ``better``.
Do you know where I can read more about this nonsense brain dead decision?
The original still has amazing effects
@@Sara3346 bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/26758/interview-the-thing-2011-screenwriter-explains-how-the-film-transformed-into-what-you-saw/
They were also forced to change the story, quicken its pace, and erase character development because it was deemed too boring
ua-cam.com/video/fBzpT7VmSaU/v-deo.html the practical effects are pieces of art, especially the pilot alien, shit looks like it is real. Of course it would use CGI to help a little. Like imagine Split Face floating around lol. They were made by these same people that did practical effects for alien 3 and the original 4 tremors films.
@@KamenArts thank you. Thank you very much.
Down to watchi this again, never get bored hearing about The Thing.
Thanks bro!
Same though!
Same
Cant get enough! Ever!
Same. Have found enjoyment rewatching it with reactors on UA-cam and Patreon.
Me: Traumatized by each monster scene and assimilation in The Thing movies
Also me: Oh, science of the monster. Fascinating
When I hear super cell, I always think of giant thunder clouds
well you arnt wrong
@@RoanokeGaming I studied weather as a kid mostly
I also thought about the Japanese singer/band or something
I always though it was Clash Of Clans developer.
I think if the perfect being getting killed by an 11 year old half alien when I hear that
Even if such a creature were possible, was always curious what kinda metabolism it must have just to meet the incredible energy demands of such rapid growth and cell division.
It's called a super cell for a reason, it's what you get when you combine the insane survivability of unicellular organisms with the massive ability of multicellular ones to cooperate and work together. It's basically cancer but not really cancer
probably chalk it up to the creators not wanting to over complicate a fun premise. they actively drew a line between explaining and actual science behind stuff. they kept a lot ambiguous on purpose. there's always a fun factor to consider with movies.
I think it probably gets it from the host as it assimilates because even in the movie it seems to destroy the original copy humans pack a ton of calories my guy
I mean, it is an alien.
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9:19 Bennings was never bitten by Dog-Thing on the leg. He was shot by one of the Norwegians on the leg, but not bitten. Then he got assimilated in the storage room.
Didn't he get assimilated in the med bay when the two face thing wraps its tentacles around him?
@@amrutkulkarni7859 It was the store room.
He does, however, grab McCreedy's J&B bottle with the glove that the "dog" had just covered in saliva. Then McCreedy takes a giant swig straight from the bottle, putting the saliva covered top straight to his mouth.
When you expect a very in-depth analysis of an alien monster but instead you get a biology lesson more than the analysis of the monster itself
I appreciate the idea the comics went with that the single cells of the thing had their own goals of spreading and growing but as it assimilated and assumed more complex organisms it had to adapt to having a brain. Simple animals like fish or sheep weren't so problematic but after becoming human it was introduced to things like paranoia and anxiety.
Its amazin how The Thing can evolve the way it did. It went from being shitty CGI in the Norwegian camp, to being the best special effects ever seen in a movie in the American camp.
Question: When the alien mimics someone and before it reveals itself to a threat, does the person it's mimicing believe they are the real person until they are found out?
In the novel who goes there.. yes the mimic BELIEVE they are still human.. just showing how terrifying the thing is. On cellular level they imitate completely and only assert control to mimics at convenient by altering their braincells as blair does when it consume gary
They show signs that they are still human which is how they blend in so well, but ultimately once the super cell has taken over the entire body. That person is no longer there, they are truly a copy of who they were. It's also aware enough to coordinate with other Thing copies and form tactics to spread the infection, as well as taunt it's prey using our own spoken language.
its a bit confusing for me. i think the person is aware they are the thing especially since someone sabotaged the blood tests, obviously they didn’t want to be found out. thats just my take
@@Demonamic777 It also seems willing to sacrifice parts of itself; as in the morgue scene, it draws attention to the walking head - perhaps to maintain human cover?
@@thebobbyeaton They aren’t a person though. If a person is fully infected, then they’re gone. It is just the parasite disguised as a person.
You actually can see chiles' breath clearly during scenes at the end...
What's more telling, is how McCready offers him the drink of liquor, and Chiles accepts and shares it... drinking some.
Even though they've established that the super cells can be passed through sharing food & drink...
I think this is why McCready laughs, because chiles has outed his own infected state having failed the test
Only if chiles was already a "thing" would he have drank after another of unknown status has previously drank straight from same bottle. Chiles-thing thinking best response is accepting the offer, in solidarity to build rapport.
Since a thing is no longer concerned with the potential super cells from a sharing a unknown's drink as dangerous, he happily accepts the "peace offering"... inadvertently showing his hand to McCready.
What ya think, eh??
There's an old fan theory that (human) Macready gave Childs a bottle full of gasoline from the molotovs they had.
Gambling that if he downed it without flinching, the Thing would try to mimic him perfectly-but a real human being would spit it out, because it tastes terrible.
That is a very good point. And I've always had a problem with the visable breathe theory. Child's had been stuck outside for quite awhile, even with all those clothes mcready was nearly frozen to death earlier in the movie when his line got cut. So it stands to reason that child's could have just been cold. However it was established as soon as they knew what they were dealing with that food could spread it. So bottle theory is pretty stronk
True🤔🤨😀 Chile's is the thing....true.👀
He accepted the drink because he knows they're both going to freeze to death anyway.
@@smcmullan995 but if he became a thing from drinking, he would doom the earth.
I think you did a great job on this. The Thing (1982) is one of my most favored horror movies of all time and spawned my fear of dying on a cellular level.
This was really cool and informative
The Childs breath theory has been proven wrong in some of the enhanced versions. You can see his breath, it just isn't as well caught by the light as MacReady.
Also Thing-Bennings breath is visible just before they burn him so it's not really a reliable measurement.
16:15 it was stated in an interview by Keith David that the reason why he doesn't have any fog coming out of his mouth is because he was within the range of the fire within the background before he showed up on camera
His breath is there if you lighten the film footage up
The poit you made about Childs at the end is rendered null by the remaster. It was just that the actor wasn't breathing as heavily so you couldn't see his breath as well in the original, but in the remaster the condensation is visible.
Also the thing mimics even hearth problems, it would definitely mimic the breath
Childs was infect though, at least that is the favored interpretation the movie gives. At the beginning of the movie Mac Ready was playing chess against an AI, after the AI checkmate him he grabs a can of beer and pour booze all over the computer destroying it.
This scene foreshadow the whole movie, just like in chess he lost pieces to the AI all throught the movie Mac Ready lost all his friends to the Thing. He also lost the 'game' as he failed to destroy the Thing before it could destroy the American Outpost. In the end he give booze to Childs mirroring that he pour it on the computer, it was a resigned 'fuck it', he had already lost.
@@JojonathanOliveira Hadn't thought of that possible foreshadowing bit.
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The thing video game states that Childs died, and mac lived
@@a.k8185 so?
I'm talking about the movie not the video game. In the movie there are themes and narrative elements, the chess game Mac play is one such element.
The most horrifying thing about the thing is that if one virion was to be unleashed onto a city it would become unstoppable like the X parasite from Metroid
I would have the whole world nuked
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I heard you need nukes which we have. Want us to put them out of thier misery
That's supposing that it breeds or multiplies. If it is a single entity, it probably would have a limit about how much of the world it can take
One other comparison would be one flood spore from halo. According to the games, it only takes one flood spore to end an entire planet.
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The scene where you can only see one person's breath is often interpreted as that you can't see the breath of the person who is the Thing. I think it may be just the opposite. The Thing is always shown to be very wet and slimy, and it would have a very hot body temperature due to the amount of cellular activity. The humans meanwhile, have been exerting themselves a lot for a long time with little or no water, and would thus probably have very dehydrated throats, so they might not have visible moisture in their breaths.
On the other hand, since the Thing changes shape frequently, it might not rely on the lungs of the humans it mimics, and is merely faking breathing. It could breath through its skin.
humans actually do breath through our skin but it's very minor in comparison to our lungs. it's why we drown easily because we can't breath through our lungs and skin in that situation.
Know this is a bit late but in the game version of the thing (PS2 I believe) it's confirmed that neither are infected, this was confirmed as canon I believe by John Carpenter.
are you talking about the end of 82's. in the end you can see both of them breathing it's just that chiils is shit in dark so it's harder to see
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@@tosdy8480 I say that since one of the actresses who had her body painted all over in James Bond GoldFinger almost suffocated that way. I'm not joking!
how does the feets look?
Like human! for a moment lol
Ugh! Even watching a dissection of this film gives me the shivers. I’m just grateful you didn’t show the kennel scene. I have to FF through that every time I rewatch. That being said excellent commentary and insight.
The Marker : '' *aaaw! That's cute!*
The Alien verse Black Pathogen : '' *That's hilarious!*
I woner who would win
@@RoanokeGaming I vote Marker
Its easily able to control wheter dead or injured and easily detoriorate whats alive even at a cellular level
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@@RoanokeGaming Interesting thought experiment, they each obtain their biomass in different ways and have different means of attack/defense. It would all depend on how effective these methods were on each other:
Xenomorphs rely on direct contact for reproduction and a low level telepathy to control the drones, also, the molecular acid blood would be an issue, would the cells of the Thing be affected by this and therefore unable to replicate a drone? I think that one would be a stalemate, the Xenomorphs can't really cut the Thing to death, and I don't think they would be able to eat it, but the Thing would be unable to replicate a drone Xenomorph, in any case the Queen would know because it wouldn't be able to control/contact that particular drone. I suppose if a facehugger tried to impregnate the thing (in whatever form it was) it may be able to replicate the drones that way, but the Queen would know something is up.
Marker/Necromorphs rely on telepathy and driving their hosts insane to provide dead biomass for their fliers (I forget their name) to take over. It also sends out a signal that warps humans, at least, on the cellular level. Would this interfere with the Xenomorphs telepathy? Or would they mow through Necromorphs with reckless abandon? If and when they defeat all the Necromorphs, what do they do with the marker itself? They can't really kill it, it took part of a planet to kill one, and the destruction of a city sized station to destroy another. Does telepathy affect the Thing in any way?
The Thing relies on replicating a host and masquerading as them and consuming their biomass to survive. I don't think it could replicate a full grown Xenomorph drone and, while it could probably replicate a Necromorph, the Marker would know something was up because it couldn't control that Necromorph, same thing goes for the Xenomorph queen and the drones, so I think in the end, it would be a stalemate between the three.
A fight between the thing and the Yautja, however....
@@RoanokeGaming the one that has more plot armor
1:41, has to be one of the most frightening screens in the whole series. There's a freaking lot of them to.
What would you think is more efficient: the Thing’s instantaneous assimilation, or the Marker’s complete rewrite of genetic code?
I'd say both. The thing can assimilate knowledge instantly but it seems to completely ditch every bit of it when under threat and after converting itself into a defensive form. Meanwhile the single necromorphs are pretty animalistic and seem to lack any proper rational thought (except for the stalkers, clever bastards), but as the marker infects more people we begin to see smarter variants as biomass is added until we reach the brethren moons, which seem to be highly intelligent. So I'd say both can be very efficient in their own way. Unless the people who meet the original thing live to tell the story, it can infect the entire world without anyone suspecting a thing, but it doesn't seem to get much clever than the species it assimilates, meanwhile the marker's effects are anything but subtle, but they're also very effective at ruining any chances of an organized counterattack, and result in a highly intelligent outcome. I'd give a little more points to the necromorphs as they seem much more successful (they always seem to spread fast and efficiently while the thing had 2 chances in much smaller locations and failed twice to achieve its goal of total assimilation) but I still think the thing's method of infection wins in wow factor.
I'd say the Marker it's specifically resigned for intelligent species to want to crave it and use it as a power source in a way spreading the infection across a species whole species before anyone who isn't of above average intelligence is turned
Niether. That title goes to The Beast.
@@scowler92 Where is that from?
@@RoosSkywalker
Homeworld.
This is awesome. So often I'll watch "monsters explained" videos and it ends up just being a recap of the movie, or vague explanations that you can't miss watching it. This is incredibly in depth.
00:50-00:54 you can see the very subtle “marks” the actor uses to control the dog. Incredible.
So a couple things, about the Childs/Macready breath scene. When Childs comes around the corner you can see his breath. When he is sitting you cant. That was a continuity error. As for way before that when the dog goes under the table in the break room, it isnt implied at all that the dog bites Bennings more so that he was startled at its presence in the room instead of in the kennel. He gets almost fully assimilated later in the storage room with the "dead" body of the thing leaking its juices and such in the room after he was left alone by Windows. Otherwise top notch video. Always love watching dives in to the nitty gritty with that organism.
Edit: If he were bit, he should act like any normal human and check for blood. Just saying body language and such.
I could rewatch all your videos all day 🥰
I appreciate the support bro :)
I was wondering if this was a reupload. With the memory of Swiss cheese, who knows anymore.
I mean, the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.
If The Thing can assimilate the person, not just physically but also mentally, does that mean The Thing knows what it feels like to experience paranoia? Possibly experiencing what its victim is feeling by wondering if it's infected and being afraid of that possibility?
Gosh your videos have really drastically increased in quality over time for once I feel like I'm not just learning about how monsters were made or what real life parallels there are. I'm also learning a lot of cool stuff about reality.
I had no idea about how these genes responsible for disease resistant populations worked before, thank you!
As I am from Norway I'm proud of these movies.
10:17 Are we not going to appreciate the fact that my man had a tadpole development time lapse next in his autoplay lol
It's interesting how this movie/creature has created so much theory, conversation, debate, and spin off from its fan base almost 40 years after its release. Shows how well crafted it was to begin with.
It was based off real events
I never thought the dog bit Bennings under the table, I always thought it just rubbed up against his shot leg.
I do want to point out that in the older movie, the alien started to build miniature spaceship of some sorts, indicating that even if the parasite didn't have the same technological level as the aliens on the huge ship that was found, it was still more technologically evolved than we are.
Another thing to mention about Childs. The last time he's seen before the base gets blown, he was wearing a blue jacket. However, when he's spotted again at the end, he's wearing a white one. Whether this was a production oversight or the "rips through your clothes" detail in action, you be the judge.
Honestly love these videos!
hope you re enjoy it man!
@@RoanokeGaming ua-cam.com/video/NOv-voaiUoY/v-deo.html
I never thought I'd learn so much about biology while watching a video about one of my favorite horror films. 👍
As far as who is infected at the end of the original, depending on which continuation you go with, neither of them are infected, by the end of the movie.
In the game, Childs dies from exposure.
In the comics, he gets infected WAY later.
@pyropulse
Yeah, neither isn't a continuation.
Until the makers of it say what's what, what we got is what we got.
Hell, the director said himself he never intended for that ending scene to say EITHER of them were infected.
dont forget there was a Thing Video game.. and its considered canon
The is a simple trick that was employed during production to keep track of the infected by the director, look for light reflecting in the eyes of an individual. Those without light are infected, Childs is infected at the end of the movie this was confirmed.
@@hkxeno001
Already debunked.
Firstly, the director said he never intended for the ending to show that either of them were infected.
Secondly, depending on what you follow as the canon continuation, Childs is not infect here in any situation.
Video game, he died of exposure before being infected.
Comics, he is infected WAY later.
And that's it, until they decide to continue it, and clarify that continuation as canon to the story.
@retsaM innavoiG
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There was a game that came out, where you find Childs frozen.
So yeah, there's that.
As for the director, look it up, it's not hidden at all.
There was a theory i had, that when the thing takes over a person not only does the thing retain the person’s memory but since it perfectly copies that person, the copy probably fully believes its a normal human but the motivations are being influenced by the thing cells.
Whenever I hear "super cell" I am either reminded of the flood or perfect cell, anyone else?
I can't tell if that's a dragon Ball reference but I'm elated if it is
I always thought the ominous music when Childs takes the drink is a tip off that MacReady was infected and the "DUN DUN" was a tell that he had successfully infected Childs through saliva.
I know another way to beat it:
Acid.
Lots and lots of acid.
Like, Zerg Banelings amounts of acid.
No it might be immune
@@plaguedoctormasque8089
Can't be, acid breaks things down on a cellular level, the cellular level.
The only real way to kill the thing is at the cellular level.
Hell, a plasma rifle would work just burning away the atomic structure.
@@tristanbackup2536
Is that a commonly available rifle, or do I have to have some kind of special license for one?
FBI 1987 it is very accessible, just use your nearest time machine and you will be able to get one at bargain in a year > 2200
The 1982 "The Thing" is probably my favorite horror movie of all time. Way scarier than the 2011
“Flamethrowers... we’ll burn em out..”
-SGT. Roebuck
I'd always thought of the initial alien ship as being of the Thing's race; I hadn't considered that they might be infected themselves. I always think of the Thing as a sentient alien, but that makes me wonder if maybe it's just a virus that evolved over time to fight a super-advanced immune system by perfectly mimicking the cells it attacked; otherwise the equivalent antibodies would be able to wipe it out.
But we don't know if it was the pilot that got infected. Maybe it was the pilot first and what ever crew was left killed the pilot but the crew ended up infected and the ship crashed into earth. We don't know what type of ship the alien were flying or how big the initial crew were. So if it was the pilot first and got game ended by a crew member that had no knowledge of operating the space craft it would make sense that it crashed. Another theory could be that what ever was infected at the end was neither crew or pilot it could be a creature that the aliens were transporting.
So crew gets infected. Kills each other. Loose control of the ship. Creature gets infected in the process. Crew kills each other of before or in the crash. Creature survives with the parasite and escapes.
Yeah, the thing wasn't in complete control of the ship, and the aliens forcibly crashed it. In the original, the wilford Brimley thing was making a spaceship in the shed. So, it retained the memories of the original aliens and how to make/fly a ship.
I love seeing in depth stuff like this, especially about the Thing. A good pair of movies.
For me what makes them so dangerous is the fact that it seemingly only takes a single cell to merely touch your body and begin taking over your body without you knowing. It seems to use some type of phagocytosis on your individual cells and the use your broken down components to clone itself, using your dna to somehow use your makeup as it’s own temporary makeup. It does this all in the same process which is amazing. And it does this without even killing you. It’s like replacing the part of a boat plank by plank until it’s a new boat. But you wouldn’t think it’s a new boat. The thing is honestly one of my favorite monsters and assimilation is one of my favorite monster abilities in fiction.
I wish to God Hollywood would make a Xeno Cinematic Universe with engineers, predators, xenos of all kinds, and these fucking things. Imagine a super predalien that gets absorbed by this Supercell and what that resulting biomass would be capable of. Chilling.
Imagine the thing vs the flood
they are both supercells, I truly do wonder who would win
They’d just be friends.
And the million dollar question is: would the thing cell assimilate the flood cells or would the flood cells assimilate the thing cells? My bet is on the thing since the flood seems to take a little bit longer to completely infect a host and the thing supercell only needs to succeed at assimilating a single flood cell to go under the radar (assuming the flood cells don't start to attack one another).
@@HenriqueLSilva dear God imagine them becoming one nightmare that has flood spores and intelligence AND shape shifting
@@Jaden-Ring I did consider that, both essentially "fusing" into an infection that can alternate between violent and silent. That'd be so cool to watch but so horrible to be a part of
Ik its a re-upload but supporting this channel is a must at this point. The content is too good!!
Actually if you read the short story this is based off "Who Goes There?" by John Campbell the thing is actually not infected, it is indeed the natural state of the creature. A gestalt super organism imo
I think curt Russell is the thing, he gave him the bottle which infected the other guy. That's why he chuckled and the theme started playing, mission complete, it won. There's a video on UA-cam that has very strong supporting evidence and or theories to back this up. I'm going with Mr Russell on this one
Super happy you decided to cover "The Thing" movie it's one of my favorite Childhood movies(don't ask) that I watched a lot growing up alongside Alien, Aliens.
P.S. When you gonna cover warframe Roanoke?
Love this. Love this so much. The Thing was my first horror movie experience and anything regarding it I just hold close to my heart.
16:11 yeah I noticed
Edit: he was also gone for a long time in the movie
Do not, i repeat DO NOT get people started with the ending of the thing. Madness is the only thing you'll find there.
If Roanoke gaming got pierced by the stand arrow his stand would be highway star.
Why??
Nobody gonna take my car
I'm gonna race it to the ground
Nobody gonna beat my car
It's gonna break the speed of sound
Oooh it's a killing machine
It's got everything!!!
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki because it only appears as a set of feet
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki
He always starts with the feet that's why people joke about how having a foot fetish.
@@Raccon_Detective. that has nothing to do with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, unless Highway Star is a foot fetishist.
And also no he wouldn't since nobody can have the same Stand.
Also the ending of the thing is speculated that there was some type of fuel in the flask that he gave to home boy and after he sipped it with no problem mcreedy laughed because he knew what was up .
One of the greatest horror movies ever!
10:30 T-cell: "Hey, you a pathogen?'
The Thing: "Nah dude, I'm just a red blood cell!"
T-cell: "We don't take kindly to your kind around here?"
The Thing: "What?! But- I'm- *ow!* I'm one of y- *AAAaaargh!* "
T-cell: "Hot damn. He _was_ a pathogen! Send his DNA over to the nearest Lymph node, we need to prep a Cytokine storm!"
Bennings wasn't bit by the Thing, that's not how it works. He's one of the few characters that we can clearly see when he's being processed, and it was by the split-face-Thing that they recovered from the Norwegian camp.
If all it took was a bite, the Thing would never even have to change shape to begin with. I mean, Dr. Copper gets his hands bitten right off, but he never turned. He just died.
Child's most definitely succumbed to the thing. Listen to his dialogue and you can hear McReady scoffing at his response, knowing he turned into the thing.
I would LUV it if you worked your magic on the creature from the movie LIFE. A dormant single-cell from a soil sample from Mars quickly transforms and grows to kill all folks ( 6 ) on the ISS in under 24 hrs. This creature seems to be one that you would really Like. Just a thought... B.
Now I want a prequel about the alien crew before they crashed the Thing into Earth...
Consciousness is the ability to suffer, the ability to feel.
I've been watching your vids for s year or more and I've seen this one yet ... It's cool to see how the channel hasn't gotten even better with time.
What about the original 1950s version? "The thing from another planet" i believe its called
Totally different, it didn't assimilate others in that one...
It was, basically, a humanoid vegetable.
You need to respect it, if it weren't for it we would have the thing! It is a great movie just as good as the Carpenter's version. There is fucking overlapping dialogue! It gives you a sense of realism, that is how most of us talk. And it has some scenes that were outstanding at the time. And some more comedic touches, tho i'm not going to spoil it. If you want to know more about, cinemasaccre made a review of it.
At 09:18 when you said “when one of the team was biten on the leg” he wasn’t bitten. He got infected in the storage room when they bragged about getting a nobel prize and windows left him alone with the “dead” alien body to get the keys.
I always wondered about this: when does a person stop being that person when infected? I think it would depend on where and how much skin surface comes into contact with the alien germ/virus. But, when does an infected person stop thinking like themselves and become the thing in disguise as their host? I wonder. Hmmm!
I mean, Ship of Theseus.
With The Thing I think deep down, regardless of how well it duplicates the consciousness it knows that it's fighting on the side of the green guys and not team human. Evidently in the novel version it's a mimic, where it's very debatable here.
Nice catch! I have seen The Thing like 30 plus times and for some reason the fact that Childs breath did not freeze when he exhaled or talked never dawned on me. I always imagined they would just sit starring at each other till they both froze and it didn't mater any more. They would both be found. Taken back to the real world and one of them would thaw and escape. In a ships hold or a hospital the infection would start again and the world would be over in a month or two.
Since this is a re-upload it's probably been mentioned but you can see Childs' breath at points at the end, it appears to be a combination of lighting and camera angles as to why it's not constantly visible like Mac's is. I believe that's been confirmed but don't quote me on that.
I'd like to remember your that the thing was building a spaceship in Carpenter's movie, it retained the knowledge of the aliens or had it itself.
I'd say the ship was uncontrolled when it crashed, because the pilot would have probably thrown it at the Sun or the Moon, that you'd be even better to isolate the thing.
The crewmates in the movies after they know what The Thing is be like:
"There is an imposter among us"
if only imposter could make more imposters...
That’s a lot of THINGS you said. Well done.
the "remake" should have been named
"The thing awakens"
It's a prequel, not a remake. The studio wanted the director to make a remake, and he was able to convince them to let him do a prequel instead. This is explained in the director's commentary. As for the name, yes, most everyone agrees that the prequel needs a sub-title to distinguish it from Carpenter's. I'd suggest using the base name, in case further down the road, a sequel may be made. Set sub-titles by location.
In some of the novella material you learn everyone was infected. Macready had a abberant factor in his assimilation where the Thing alien intelligence/personality was dominated by his own. Due to smaller biomass exposure.
God the prop puppetry in the original is so beautiful, just so many layers to it and and truly a testament to 1980’s practical effects
I’m kind of late but I thought I would let anybody know. The channel collective learning went through many theories about the thing. Including the child’s not breathing at the end. Very good videos.
The UFO that crashed was literally the among us ship
Notanalien was the imposter
So we are now on polus.
Ahh yes the skeld
Honestly, no. That is a flying saucer. And Skeld is a spaceship.
This just came back into my feed if I could I'd like again thank you for making this video on the best horror movie.
You should do a synopsis on the corona virus. Not something from a game but very applicable to your channel and honestly quite fitting.
I did on my second channel! but removed the videos as it was no longer relevant
16:15 also the bottle he drank might be fuel and not alcohol. mcready gave to childs to see if he reacted, but as childs drank it and didn't react mcready laughs as if he found out that childs is the thing and the thing might not be able to tell the diffirence between alcohol and fuel. (sorry for bad grammar)
I think the Blacklight virus from Prototype would eat the Thing creature for breakfast.
Might just straight do a video on the virus itself, it seems like an interesting concept
@@RoanokeGaming Essentially Blacklight is the Thing on Super Crack. It can absorb biological matter almost instantly, retain memories , maintain sentience and intelligence , it gains almost superhuman abilities and transform any part of it into any weapon it sees fit.
I do love me some some SUPER CRACK!
@RoanokeGaming
Oh! Do that! PLEASE???
I'm like 99% sure that the hair brain neuron video is Roanoke's favorite video in the world.
;)
@@RoanokeGaming See? Even mentioning it summons him.
Also, hey, dude, big fan of the channel!
Nice video.
Thanks!
Childs still has in his earring. If you want to account for the prequel at all. I like to think neither were infected in the end.
Re-upload? Guess I need to re-watch...
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Get it
pew pew pew, dad jokes for days lmao
No, I don't get it
If you look closely Childs doesn't have breath for way longer then that ending, it starts from around the time the group first lock Mcreedy out
Since we’re here on the subject of alien parasites Roanoke, ever thought about covering the X parasites from the Metroid universe? Or the metroids themselves?
That would be utterly glorious
Great video! Also child’s is the thing at the end of the original. In the comic book series that continues the first movie they get rescued and child’s infects a huge camp in South America.
I always thought The Thing was a story about a heroic alien that saved antarctica from the Norwegians
I didn't realize that the newer version of The "Thing" was a Prequel and not just a remake.
Really tho, the amount of "the thing" mentioned, make it seems that word aint event real anymore
Such an amazing video man! Your analyses are all on point! You should do Calvin and the Xenomorph. That’d be awesome