In the director's commentary of the 2011 prequel, Matthijs states that he believes the Things have no true form, since they are microscopic in nature.

How did The Thing become The Thing?

Fictional character biography

In Who Goes There?, the Thing is discovered by a team of Antarctic scientists frozen in its space ship, which had crashed onto Earth twenty million years before. After it thaws, it kills and takes the form of the team's physicist, Connant, unbeknownst to the others.

How does The Thing copy people?

Alternatively, the thing can create an imitation by simply injuring and/or infecting an organism, which will then allow the introduced thing cells to assimilate its host from within.

Who was first infected in The Thing?

While there are convincing arguments that Palmer was the original, most fans subscribe to the idea that Norris was the first to die. His character is one of the least seen in the movie but is conveniently one of the first to appear every time some major event happens.

Who ends up being The Thing?

While the more heavily believed theory does seem to be that Childs is The Thing in the closing moments of the film, it is important to note that it's never truly been confirmed one way or another.

The Thing 2 1984 (canceled late in production)

Why did Ben turn into The Thing?

Rock-Like Physiology: As a result of being directly exposed to cosmic radiation, Ben has been transformed into an orange-colored, rock-like humanoid that gives him a high degree of invulnerability. One test performed on him showed his internal organs had also been affected, becoming rock-like as well.

What is the true form of The Thing?

The most terrifying aspect of the iconic horror creature The Thing is that nobody knows what it looks like or has seen its true form. The extraterrestrial's entire existence is based on assimilating and replicating the appearance of other organisms, so it's difficult to determine exactly what its original form is.

Was Blair The Thing the whole time?

Blair was eventually assimilated by the Thing and secretly constructs a small UFO underneath the shed where it plans to sleep through the winter until the rescue team arrives.

Are the infected still human?

The infected are humans who have been infected by the Cordyceps brain infection and subsequently mutated into horrific new forms.

Was Childs infected at the end of The Thing?

Cundey suggested that throughout the film a specific light gleam can be seen in the eyes of whichever body is currently inhabiting the alien. A light gleam can be seen in Childs' eyes in the final scene, which would mean he's infected with the Thing under Cundey's theory.

Were there multiple aliens in The Thing?

This leads to the idea that The Thing's infection not only spread from more than one source but came from two entirely different alien beings. Though the theory comes with much larger implications about the nature of the alien Things, it's almost impossible to disprove using the film alone.

How intelligent is The Thing?

On the other hand, a full-sized Thing is extremely intelligent. It is theorized that it has the combined intelligences of all the organisms it has ever assimilated.

Can The Thing become human again?

Early in Grimm's life as the Thing, he would sometimes revert to his original human form unexpectedly. But neither these changes nor those induced by Richards in his efforts to turn Grimm back to human form ever proved to be permanent. Eventually, Grimm always reverted to his monstrous, superhumanly powerful form.

Who was still human at the end of The Thing?

The Eye Light Theory And Carpenter's Claim

The eye light theory states that humans were marked with a light in their eyes by the film's director of photography, Dean Cundey. At the end of the film, Childs does not have the eye light, and MacReady does.

Was The Thing ever female?

Sharon Ventura possesses various superhuman attributes. She first gained superhuman powers as a result of undergoing the Power Broker's augmentation treatment. Later, her powers and physical form were altered after being exposed to cosmic radiation, transforming her into a female version of the Thing.

Why did the infected kiss Tess?

In the show, she distracts an incoming pack of infected, which leads us to a rather unique moment. A runner spots Tess and instead of violently charging her as we've seen infected do before, it calmly walks over and gives her an open-mouthed kiss to allow tendrils of the evolved cordyceps fungi to pass into her.

Could The Last of Us happen?

The most common question that has arisen is: could it really happen? The simple answer is yes – but not in the way we have recently seen unfolding on TV. Fungi that we currently regard as posing significant threats to human life do not cause disease on the scale we have seen in The Last of Us.

Do 28 Days Later zombies starve?

Though Rage does not kill its host directly, lacking the instincts to find food, the Infected do eventually die from starvation, but not before cannibalizing any uninfected individuals in order to breed their army first.

How did Juliette become the thing?

Trivia. It is likely that Juliette was attacked and assimilated by Griggs in the bathroom and that the fillings and the blood in the shower belong to her. This is the first and so far only female Thing in both films.

How did the thing infect the dog?

The Thing (1982)

Under the cover of darkness, its head splits into a three-jawed maw and spits against nearest dog with a jet of fluid, then mutates into a grotesque spider-like form and begins to violently assimilate the sled dogs.

Was Clark infected in the thing?

Upon realizing that Clark was not infected, Childs denounces MacReady as a murderer.

Why did The Thing become The Thing?

Upon emerging from the wreckage, the crew was subject to incredible changes from the radiation, and the pilot himself lucklessly transformed into a hulking, boulder-skinned monstrosity quickly dubbed the Thing. From then on, Grimm and his fellow travelers would operate as team—and a family—known as the Fantastic Four.

How long was The Thing in ice?

There, separated from the rest of humanity, Antarctic explorers uncovered an alien spacecraft buried in the ice for 100,000 years. Any reasonable person might assume that would be a death sentence, but The Thing (streaming now on Peacock) was simply biding its time and waiting for the right moment to rise again.

How did The Thing get to Earth?

In the 1982 film the first scene has a flying saucer shaped spacecraft enter the Earth's atmosphere, it appears to be out of control and presumably crash lands. It is the same ship that is dug up by the Norwegians. This makes it clear the creature is of alien origin.