History Awesome / TheThing1982

* Just the simple fact that the Film Itself is so meticulously made, so finely crafted, that you can actually track who is and is not infected as time passes.

** Also an off-screen Moment Of Awesome for Rob Bottin, who worked so hard he ended up in hospital with exhaustion. (And a small one to Stan Winston, who declined prominent credit for working on the Dog-Thing sequence to ensure Bottin wouldn't be overshadowed.)

* Three words: Jed. ''The''. '''Wolfdog'''. In a movie brimming with great character actors and memorable lines, it's the ''dog'' who ends up stealing the show with possibly the most unsettling and effective performance of anyone. To an extent, it's tempting to write it off as EnforcedMethodActing-- He was half-wolf, and probably as unsettled by the cast and crew as he did them-- but keep in mind his [[Film/WhiteFang other]] [[Film/TheJourneyOfNattyGann roles]]...

--> "Whether we make it or not, we can't let the Thing freeze again. Maybe we'll just warm things up a little around here. We're not gettin' outta here alive. But neither is that Thing."

-->''Yeah? [[DefiantToTheEnd FUCK YOU, TOO!']]' *throws dynamite*

* Pretty much any time a flame thrower is used. The best is when Macready burns Palmer-Thing up who then smashes his way through a wall and falls into the snow. Macready isn't quite done: he throws a stick of dynamite and blows the burning corpse to pieces.
* The dog that tried to gnaw its way out from the pens to escape from The Thing. Unfortunately, it didn't make it, but it had the right idea.

* Garry talking down a panicked Windows when he's grabbed a gun.

-->''Yeah? [[PreMortemOneLiner FUCK YOU, TOO!']]' *throws dynamite*

* The dog that tried to gnaw its way out from the pens to escape from The Thing. Unfortunately, it didn't make it, but it had the right idea.

* The dog that tried to gnaw its way out from the pens to escape from The Thing. Unfortunalety, it didn't make it, but it had the right idea.

* Pretty much any time a flame thrower is used. The best is when Macready burns Palmer-Thing up who then smashes his way through a wall and falls into the snow. Macready isn't quite done: he throws a stick of dynamite and blows the burning corpse to pieces.

* The entire blood testing scene.

* Pretty much any time a flame thrower is used. The best is when Macready burns [[spoiler: Palmer-Thing]] up who then smashes his way through a wall and falls into the snow. Macready isn't quite done: he throws a stick of dynamite and blows the burning corpse to pieces.

* Three words: Jed. ''The''. '''Wolfdog'''. In a movie brimming with great character actors and memorable lines, it's the ''dog'' who ends up stealing the show the show with possibly the most unsettling and effective performance of anyone. To an extent, it's tempting to write it off as EnforcedMethodActing-- He was half-wolf, and probably as unsettled by the cast and crew as he did them-- but keep in mind his [[Film/WhiteFang other]] [[Film/TheJourneyOfNattyGann roles]]...

* Pretty much any time a flame thrower is used. The best is when Macready burns [[spoiler: Palmer-Thing]] up who then smashes his way through a wall and falls into the snow. Macready isn't quite done he throws a stick of dynamite and blows the burning corpse to pieces.

* Garry pulling off a MoeGreeneSpecial against the crazed Norwegian. Sure, it's a case of NiceJobBreakingItHero, but it's still an impressive shot.

-->''Yeah?[[PreMortemOneLiner FUCK YOU, TOO!']]' *throws dynamite*

-->''Yeah? Well [[PreMortemOneLiner FUCK YOU, TOO!']]' *throws dynamite*

* Garry pulling off a MoeGreeneSpecial against the crazed Norwegian. Sure, it's a case of NiceJobBreakingItHero, but it's still an impressive shot.

-->''Yeah? Well FUCK YOU, TOO!'' *throws dynamite*

* Mac's final confrontation with the Thing. Facing the remains of most of his friends all mashed together in one giant EldritchAbomination, he burns it, dynamites it for good measure, then when a piece tries to detach and escape....
-->''Yeah? Well FUCK YOU, TOO!''

* Mac's final confrontation with the Thing. Facing the remains of most of his friends all mashed together in one giant EldritchAbomination, He burns it, dynamites it for good measure, then when a pieces tries to detach and escape....

* Mac's final confrontation with the Thing.
-->''Yeah? Fuck you, too!''