Awesome / The Thing from Another World

Awesome Moments from the 1951 film:

• The title sequence is so good, John Carpenter reused it for the 1982 film.
• The Thing shuts off the heat to the base in the middle of a night-time blizzard, but Hendry quickly figures out that the alien is setting a trap and refuses to send anyone out to fix it. But it also means the humans have to hurry up with a solution to killing The Thing before the cold kills them...
• The scene in the beginning where the rescue party tries to uncover what appears to be a crashed airplane...
  "Holy cats! We found a flying saucer!"
• The team opening a door to find the Thing right behind it.
• The expedition members' attempt to kill the Thing with lots and lots of fire (and a couple axes) doesn't work. Though it looks very awesome and dangerous.
• The final confrontation in the darkened hallway, as the humans lure The Thing into their own trap.
  • As the group readies for one final battle against the Thing.
  Lt. McPherson: This is no joke... What if he can read our minds?
  Eddie: He'll be real mad when he gets to me.
• The "electric flytrap" trap.
• The other scientist and Nikki not siding with Carington and trying to point out to him the likelihood that the Thing is dangerous.
• Carrington's Sherlock Scan figuring out the thing was is in the greenhouse based on the wilted flowers implying the door was open. A pity he then proceeds to misuse that knowledge.
• Hendry Spotting the Thread that Carrington is up to something with the blood supply when noticing that Stern needed donors.
• Nikki spotting the first signs the heater is off.
• Dr. Chapman wrestling away Carrington's weapon when he tries to pull a gun and stop the others.
• Even if he's probably wrong and driven by some arrogance, Carrington's appeal to the Thing urging it to stop fighting, while risking his own life.

Awesome Moments from the comic series:

• In Climate of Fear, Agapito nearly gets infected, so how does he stop it from spreading? By cutting off his whole arm with a machete and jumping out the window!
  • Agapito jumped out the window to escape when the other people in the base came into the room and he realized they were all Things. He escaped because they stood there and commented on his actions rather than attack. It's implied that cutting off his arm took the Things by surprise and he used that to escape.
  • Earlier on, when Dr. Deseado starts taunting Agapito into punching him with a bare fist, the latter seems to hold back... Only to smack him with a butt of his rifle instead, taking a third option out of the situation. What makes it particularly awesome is that later on Deseado turns out to have been infected, and so would Agapito have been, had he fell for the provocation.
• In the same series, Childs who had become a Thing, infects MacReady's blood sample to make people think he's infected.
• In the first issue of Climate of Fear, Pablo's desperately shooting at the Sheep-Thing even as he's being absorbed into its body. Not only does he go down fighting, but he indirectly alerts the rest of the base's personnel to the presence of the Thing.
• Despite being at death's door as a result of a Thing detonating itself to take out the American commandos, Colonel Simm himself lives long enough to request the US Air Forces to napalm the Argentinian base to oblivion. This is what ultimately saves McReady, Agapito and Dr. Viale.