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* AdaptationalWimp: In the novel, he's respected by everyone at the station. Here, he's constantly mocked and belittled by everyone there.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Bart Caldwell [[spoiler: came out negative during the blood test and stayed human. Palmer, on the other hand, came out positive during the blood test and kills CanonForeigner Windows.]]
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'''[=MacReady=]:''' ''(After The [[spoiler: Blair-]]Thing roars at him)'' Yeah, ''fuck you too!''
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'''MacReady:''' ''(After The [[spoiler: Balier-]]Thing roars at him)'' Yeah, ''fuck you too!''
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* BondOneLiner: Quite possibly one of, if not ''the'', most badass examples in movies
'''MacReady:''' ''(After The [[spoiler: Balier-]]Thing roars at him)'' Yeah, ''fuck you too!''
'''MacReady:''' ''(After The [[spoiler: Balier-]]Thing roars at him)'' Yeah, ''fuck you too!''
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* ShapeshifterLongevity: Capable of transforming into anyone or anything it's assimilated, allowing it to remain undercover while it continues to assimilate victims across the base. For good measure, it's eventually revealed that the ship it arrived on Earth aboard crashed over a hundred thousand years ago, the Thing having spent the next few millennia dormant in the ice ever since then. Adaptations like ''Literature/TheThings'' indicate that the Thing is actually immortal, its shapeshifting power allowing it to prevent its various bodies from experiencing the effects of entropy - to the point that it actually finds the ''concept'' of a mortality horrific.
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[[caption-width-right:320:''"Maybe we at war with Norway."'']]
[[caption-width-right:218:''"Read von Daniken! Have you read von Daniken? Get your facts straight!"'']]
[[caption-width-right:190:''"Now how's this [[PrecisionFStrike motherfucker]] wake up after thousands of years in the ice, huh?"'']]
[[caption-width-right:256:''"Seismic activity has been pushing this area up from way down for a long time... This ice it was buried in... [[WhamLine It's over a hundred thousand years old.]]"'']]
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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: He's more paranoid and nervous in the book (athough (although he dies before The Thing's imitation properties are fully revealed in the film). Considering that he survives the book and [[spoiler: is victim #4]] in the movie, he's certainly ProperlyParanoid.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: To his credit, there's no way Gary could've known what was going on, but his killing the Norwegian ensured [[spoiler:the survival of the Dog-Thing.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: To his credit, there's no way Gary Garry could've known what was going on, but his killing the Norwegian ensured [[spoiler:the survival of the Dog-Thing.]]
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Never tells a single person that he dropped Gary's keyes when he came upon Bennings being assimilated. Not even when both Dr. Copper (the only one with access to the blood storage) and Gary (Who has the only key) are being accused of being Things.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: Never tells a single person that he dropped Gary's keyes Garry's keys when he came upon Bennings being assimilated. Not even when both Dr. Copper (the only one with access to the blood storage) and Gary Garry (Who has the only key) are being accused of being Things.
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* AnimalisticAbomination: It also spends most of the time disguised as a dog, and in the 2011 prequel it first surfaces as an insect/arachnid like thingie that may or may not be a distorted form of the alien pilot. [[spoiler:In Campbell's novel, it is also implied it assimilated an albatross, and is now flying towards us.]]
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* AnimalisticAbomination: It also spends most of the time disguised as a dog, and in the 2011 prequel it first surfaces as an insect/arachnid like thingie thingy that may or may not be a distorted form of the alien pilot. [[spoiler:In Campbell's novel, it is also implied it assimilated an albatross, and is now flying towards us.]]
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* LovecraftianSuperpower: More like Lovecraftian Abilities, but it still plays the tropes straight when it weaponized body horror, creating mouths and claws out of nowhere, spliting its form into two beings, and much worse.
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* LovecraftianSuperpower: More like Lovecraftian Abilities, but it still plays the tropes straight when it weaponized body horror, creating mouths and claws out of nowhere, spliting splitting its form into two beings, and much worse.
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One of the few survivors of the Norwegian outpost chasing after the Dog-Thing. For more information on him, see [[spoiler:Lar]]'s folder [[Characters/TheThing2011 here]].
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One of the few survivors of the Norwegian outpost chasing after the Dog-Thing. For more information on him, see [[spoiler:Lar]]'s [[spoiler:Lars']] folder [[Characters/TheThing2011 here]].
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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: The last time we see him, he's walking down some stairs. The original script had him getting attacked by a jack-in-the-box like alien, only they cut the scene as the special effects didn't look real enough, and Carpenter liked leaving it ambiguous anyway. Another scene, which made it to storyboards but was never filmed, showed him [[CruelAndUnusualDeath being eaten alive from the inside out by a series of Thing-tentacles]].]]
** [[spoiler: In the novelization of the film, Nauls kills himself during his, [=MacReady=]'s and Garry's attempt to burn down the Outpost. He is cornered by The Thing and stabs himself in the throat with a splintered piece of wood to avoid being assimilated by The Thing.]]
** [[spoiler: In the novelization of the film, Nauls kills himself during his, [=MacReady=]'s and Garry's attempt to burn down the Outpost. He is cornered by The Thing and stabs himself in the throat with a splintered piece of wood to avoid being assimilated by The Thing.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: The last time we see him, he's walking down some stairs. The original script had him getting attacked by a jack-in-the-box like alien, only they cut the scene as the special effects didn't look real enough, and Carpenter liked leaving it ambiguous anyway. Another scene, which made it to storyboards but was never filmed, showed him [[CruelAndUnusualDeath being eaten alive from the inside out by a series of Thing-tentacles]].]]
** [[spoiler: In the novelization of the film, Nauls kills himself during his, [=MacReady=]'s and Garry's attempt to burn down the Outpost. He is cornered by The Thing and stabs himself in the throat with a splintered piece of wood to avoid being assimilated by The Thing.]]
** [[spoiler: In the novelization of the film, Nauls kills himself during his, [=MacReady=]'s and Garry's attempt to burn down the Outpost. He is cornered by The Thing and stabs himself in the throat with a splintered piece of wood to avoid being assimilated by The Thing.]]
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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: He's more paranoid and nervous in the book (athough he dies before the The Thing's imitation properties are fully revealed in the film). Considering that he survives the book and [[spoiler: is victim #4]] in the movie, he's certainly ProperlyParanoid.
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* PragmaticVillainy: [[spoiler: It does not infect Clark, because it figured the others would suspect him as a Thing anyway.]]
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* BadassBeard: Unlike some of the other team members (who presumably grow one out due to the frigid Antarctic weather), Mac's beard also serves to show him as a badass; he kills more Things than anyone else in the film.
* ManlyFacialHair: Unlike some of the other team members (who presumably grow one out due to the frigid Antarctic weather), Mac's beard also serves to show him as a badass; he kills more Things than anyone else in the film.
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* LovecraftianSuperpowers: More like Lovecraftian Abilities, but it still plays the tropes straight when it weaponized body horror.
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Yes, they thought I was a dog - But I'm the Thing!]]''\\
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* MindHive: Each individual Thing cell is technically it's its own organism, but the ones in a given clump all share a single intelligence between them the same way your brain cells do.do.
* MonsterInTheIce: At the start of the film, a FlyingSaucer which is carrying the Thing crash-lands in the Antarctic, leaving it frozen in the ice for more than 100,000 years, per Norris' estimation. It's then dug out of the ice by the Norwegian expedition, and subsequently encountered by the Americans when the last Norwegians try to kill the dog-Thing.
* MonsterInTheIce: At the start of the film, a FlyingSaucer which is carrying the Thing crash-lands in the Antarctic, leaving it frozen in the ice for more than 100,000 years, per Norris' estimation. It's then dug out of the ice by the Norwegian expedition, and subsequently encountered by the Americans when the last Norwegians try to kill the dog-Thing.
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* BilingualBonus: His attempts to warn the Americans sounds like gibberish, but that's because he's speaking Norwegian. Audiences who knew the Scandinavian language would've deduced something's wrong about the dog at least half an hour before the Thing in it reveals itself.
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One of the few survivors of the Norwegian outpost chasing after the Dog-Thing. For more information on him, see [[spoiler:Lar]]'s folder [[Characters/TheThing2011 here.]]
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* BilingualBonus: His attempts to warn the Americans sounds like gibberish, but that's because he's speaking in Nordic. Norwegian. Audiences who knew the Nordic Scandinavian language would've deduced something's wrong about the dog at least half an hour before the Thing in it reveals itself.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Inverted. His story counterpart was described as being well-built, something Norris is sorely lacking here.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: He's infected by one of the Things, while his original character remained a human.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: He's infected by one of the Things, while his original character remained a human.]]
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* EldritchAbomination: [[DownPlayed Downplayed]]. The Thing embodies LovecraftianSuperpower completely, with it's shape-shifting, tentacles, and being able to become any living creature down to the memories. It's functionally immortal, can assimilate any higher lifeform and completely warps the laws of thermodynamics just to exist. But it's more of a borderline case between AnimalisticAbomination and a true eldritch monster. It's like a ''lesser'' Eldritch horror (such as a Shoggoth) - its "native" forms are imperfect and can be destroyed by something as simple as a flamethrower. It's abilities also only extend to itself and those it infects. It can't bend the laws of physics in seemingly impossible ways or [[ClarksThirdLaw use abilities that could be deemed magic by humans.]] Like any EldritchAbomination, however, just being in the presence of a Thing is enough for most ordinary people to promptly BSOD, which the titular Thing takes full advantage of.
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* EldritchAbomination: [[DownPlayed Downplayed]]. The Thing embodies LovecraftianSuperpower completely, with it's shape-shifting, tentacles, and being able to become any living creature down to the memories. It's functionally immortal, can assimilate any higher lifeform and completely warps the laws of thermodynamics just to exist.exist (though this last part may be more a case of ArtisticLicenseBiology). But it's more of a borderline case between AnimalisticAbomination and a true eldritch monster. It's like a ''lesser'' Eldritch horror (such as a Shoggoth) - its "native" forms are imperfect and can be destroyed by something as simple as a flamethrower. It's abilities also only extend to itself and those it infects. It can't bend the laws of physics in seemingly impossible ways or [[ClarksThirdLaw use abilities that could be deemed magic by humans.]] humans,]] and it's assimilation and shapeshifting abilities are shown to be entirely natural, scientific, and microbiological in nature. Like any EldritchAbomination, however, just being in the presence of a Thing is enough for most ordinary people to promptly BSOD, BSOD (though for entirely natural and mundane reasons), which the titular Thing takes full advantage of.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: A minor case, since he's still fairly heroic in the film anyway, but the novelization has him utterly racked with SurvivorsGuilt for failing to save [[spoiler: Bennings]] while out on the ice.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: A minor case, since he's still fairly heroic in the film anyway, but the novelization has him utterly racked with SurvivorsGuilt for failing to save [[spoiler: Bennings]] while out on the ice. In the film, we get no such indication and as a result, he comes off as slightly more abrasive and callous.
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