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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:Juliette-Thing emits otherworldly moaning and the upper half of her body rocks back and forth as her tentacles thrust in and out of Karl's abdomen.]]
**Likewise, the way that [[spoiler:Edvard-thing looms over Adam on all fours,]] then lowers its body on top of his while pressing its face against his also feels uncomfortably reminiscent of sexual assault.
**Likewise, the way that [[spoiler:Edvard-thing looms over Adam on all fours,]] then lowers its body on top of his while pressing its face against his also feels uncomfortably reminiscent of sexual assault.
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''The Thing'' is a horror film from 2011, starring Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead, Creator/JoelEdgerton, Creator/AdewaleAkinnuoyeAgbaje, Creator/KristoferHivju, and Creator/UlrichThomsen.
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''The Thing'' is a horror film from 2011, directed by Creator/MatthijsVanHeijningenJr, written by Creator/EricHeisserer, and starring Creator/MaryElizabethWinstead, Creator/JoelEdgerton, Creator/AdewaleAkinnuoyeAgbaje, Creator/KristoferHivju, and Creator/UlrichThomsen.
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* AdaptationalDumbass: The extraterrestrial in this film sabotages his own chances of winning more than once because it goes for an animalistic, wrathful approach. Loudly roaring and transforming in public when a more stealthy approach ala the 80's film would have sufficed. The biggest example of this is when [[spoiler: It crashes the helicopter it was boarding out of the need to kill a potential witness, instead of simply staying put until he could reach civilization.]]
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* HopeSpot: The ending offers the slightest of slight ones - Kate [[spoiler: and Carter have stopped the Thing from escaping,]] head back to the snowmobile, and are going to head for a Russian research station about fifty miles away. [[spoiler: Then Kate notices his earring's missing... If Carter was telling the truth about the Russian base, Kate ''might'' survive and, even if Mac and Childs die (or one of them is the Thing), then [[CantStoptheSignal word will get out]]. But if he was just taking her away in a random direction... The script for the film implies that her situation is 'hopeless,' meaning she's doomed; but then again, she's on foot in the script, while in the movie she has a vehicle, always assuming she knows which direction she's supposed to go.]]
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* HopeSpot: The ending offers the slightest of slight ones - Kate [[spoiler: and Carter have stopped the Thing from escaping,]] head back to the snowmobile, and are going to head for a Russian research station about fifty miles away. [[spoiler: Then Kate notices his earring's missing... If Carter was telling the truth about the Russian base, Kate ''might'' survive and, even if Mac and Childs die (or one of them is the Thing), then [[CantStoptheSignal word will get out]]. But if he was just taking her away in a random direction... The script for the film implies that her situation is 'hopeless,' meaning she's doomed; but then doomed. Then again, she's on foot in the script, while in the movie she has a vehicle, always assuming she knows which direction she's supposed to go.go and has enough fuel to get there.]]
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* FinalGirl: Kate survives, but her fate is left unknown.
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* FinalGirl: Kate survives, [[spoiler:Kate survives the events of the film, but her fate is left unknown.unknown]].
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: [[spoiler:When Carter and Kate plan to take one of the snowmobiles to get to the Russian base, there's a subtle change in Kate's expression when she suspects that Carter has been replaced with the Thing, plus the fact that 'Carter' takes some time to start the vehicle and is possibly figuring out how it works.]]
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: [[spoiler:When Carter and Kate plan to take one of the snowmobiles to get to the Russian base, there's a subtle change in Kate's expression when she suspects that Carter has been replaced with the Thing, plus the fact that 'Carter' takes some time to start the vehicle and is possibly figuring out how it works.]]
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* HopeSpot: The ending offers the slightest of slight ones - Kate [[spoiler: and Carter have stopped the Thing from escaping,]] head back to the snowmobile, and are going to head for a Russian research station about fifty miles away. [[spoiler: Then Kate notices his earring's missing... If Carter was telling the truth about the Russian base, Kate might survive and, even if Mac and Childs die (or one of them is the Thing), then [[CantStoptheSignal word will get out]]. But if he was just taking her away in a random direction... The script for the film implies that her situation is 'hopeless,' meaning she's doomed. Then again, she's on foot in the script, while in the movie she has a vehicle.]]
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* HopeSpot: The ending offers the slightest of slight ones - Kate [[spoiler: and Carter have stopped the Thing from escaping,]] head back to the snowmobile, and are going to head for a Russian research station about fifty miles away. [[spoiler: Then Kate notices his earring's missing... If Carter was telling the truth about the Russian base, Kate might ''might'' survive and, even if Mac and Childs die (or one of them is the Thing), then [[CantStoptheSignal word will get out]]. But if he was just taking her away in a random direction... The script for the film implies that her situation is 'hopeless,' meaning she's doomed. Then doomed; but then again, she's on foot in the script, while in the movie she has a vehicle.vehicle, always assuming she knows which direction she's supposed to go.]]
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* {{Prequel}}: It starts three days before the events in Carpenter's film, and ends with [[spoiler: everyone but Lars, Matias, and Kate dead, and the Thing, in the shape of a husky, running across the snow, where it will eventually reach Outpost 31, and Lars and Matias will be killed]].
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* {{Prequel}}: It starts three days before the events in Carpenter's film, and ends with [[spoiler: everyone but Lars, Matias, and Kate dead, and the Thing, in the shape of a husky, running across the snow, where it will eventually reach Outpost 31, and Lars and Matias will be killed]].killed; meanwhile Kate's fate is left uncertain]].
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* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:When Carter and Derek stagger back to base after their helicopter crash, the mere fact of their survival is regarded as proof they're not human.]]
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* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:When Carter and Derek stagger back to base after their helicopter crash, the mere fact of their survival is regarded as proof they're not human. It eventually emerges they are, but the understandable suspicion from the other characters gets them imprisoned and escaping at the ''worst'' possible time.]]
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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: This is how Kate realizes that [[spoiler: Carter]] has been infected at the end of the movie. The Thing cannot replicate metallic objects and Kate [[spoiler: knew from earlier in the film that Carter wasn't assimilated because he was still wearing his earring. The Thing gets wise to its weakness by the end and thought to put the earring back on after [[KilledOffscreen killing Carter off screen]], but put it on the wrong ear.]]
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* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:Five (or should we say [[FusianDance four]]) of the characters here appear in the 1982 film. Lars is the Norwegian who gets killed by Garry, Matias is the pilot who accidentally kills himself by mishandled grenade, Colin is the man left in the camp who cut his wrists, and Edvard and Adam are the fused Thing that gets transported back to the American camp and later assimilates Bennings.]]
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* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:Five (or should we say [[FusianDance [[FusionDance four]]) of the characters here appear in the 1982 film. Lars is the Norwegian who gets killed by Garry, Matias is the pilot who accidentally kills himself by mishandled grenade, Colin is the man left in the camp who cut his wrists, and Edvard and Adam are the fused Thing that gets transported back to the American camp and later assimilates Bennings.]]
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* StockFootage: [[spoiler: Some of the shots of the Norwegian helicopter chasing the Husky-Thing in the closing sequence is reused footage from the 1982 film (albeit recolored to match the color grading of the 2011 film).]]
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* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:Five (or should we say [[FusianDance four]]) of the characters here appear in the 1982 film. Lars is the Norwegian who gets killed by Garry, Matias is the pilot who accidentally kills himself by mishandled grenade, Colin is the man left in the camp who cut his wrists, and Edvard and Adam are the fused Thing that get transported back to camp and later assimilate Bennings.]]
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* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:Five (or should we say [[FusianDance four]]) of the characters here appear in the 1982 film. Lars is the Norwegian who gets killed by Garry, Matias is the pilot who accidentally kills himself by mishandled grenade, Colin is the man left in the camp who cut his wrists, and Edvard and Adam are the fused Thing that get gets transported back to the American camp and later assimilate assimilates Bennings.]]
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* CanonCharacterAllAlong: [[spoiler:Five (or should we say [[FusianDance four]]) of the characters here appear in the 1982 film. Lars is the Norwegian who gets killed by Garry, Matias is the pilot who accidentally kills himself by mishandled grenade, Colin is the man left in the camp who cut his wrists, and Edvard and Adam are the fused Thing that get transported back to camp and later assimilate Bennings.]]
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Matias is present in the 1982 film; he's the guy who accidentally kills himself with a grenade. Also alphabetization.
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* AnachronismStew: Sam carries a Beretta [=92FS=], which wouldn't have been available in 1982.
* ImproperlyPlacedFirearms: Sam carries a Beretta [=92FS=], which wouldn't have been available in 1982.
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* {{Prequel}}: It starts three days before the events in Carpenter's film, and ends with [[spoiler: everyone but Lars and Kate dead, and the Thing, in the shape of a husky, running across the snow, where it will eventually reach Outpost 31, and Lars will be killed]].
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* {{Prequel}}: It starts three days before the events in Carpenter's film, and ends with [[spoiler: everyone but Lars Lars, Matias, and Kate dead, and the Thing, in the shape of a husky, running across the snow, where it will eventually reach Outpost 31, and Lars and Matias will be killed]].
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* SoundOnlyDeath: The protagonists hears [[spoiler:Sanders scream as he's attacked by the Two-Faced Thing, so when they see Sanders drive off in a Snowcat, they know he's the alien and not just making a run for it.]]
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* SoundOnlyDeath: The protagonists hears [[spoiler:Sanders scream as he's attacked by the Two-Faced Thing, so when they see Sanders drive off in a Snowcat, they know he's the alien and not just making a run for it.]]
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: If the American pilots hadn't escaped, overpowered Lars and taken over the base, the Thing probably wouldn't have had the necessary chaos to continue its spree.]]
* [[spoiler: Sander's insistence on taking a tissue sample from the frozen alien is implied to be what woke it up in the first place. After that, it was only a matter of time before it broke out of the melting ice. In the long term a case of NiceJobFixingItVillain, since the Thing emerging at an isolated outpost is at least more manageable than if it were to inevitably revive at a more populated research center, where they were planning to transport and excavate it.]]
* [[spoiler: Sander's insistence on taking a tissue sample from the frozen alien is implied to be what woke it up in the first place. After that, it was only a matter of time before it broke out of the melting ice. In the long term a case of NiceJobFixingItVillain, since the Thing emerging at an isolated outpost is at least more manageable than if it were to inevitably revive at a more populated research center, where they were planning to transport and excavate it.]]
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** [[spoiler: If the American pilots hadn't escaped, overpowered Lars and taken over thebase, base while also killing Peder and destroying the only other flamethrower in the process, the Thing probably wouldn't have had the necessary chaos to continue its spree.]]
* ** [[spoiler: Sander's insistence on taking a tissue sample from the frozen alien is implied to be what woke it up in the first place. After that, it was only a matter of time before it broke out of the melting ice. In the long term a case of NiceJobFixingItVillain, since the Thing emerging at an isolated outpost is at least more manageable than if it were to inevitably revive at a more populated research center, where they were planning to transport and excavate it.]]
** [[spoiler: If the American pilots hadn't escaped, overpowered Lars and taken over the
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* RewatchBonus: A couple scenes which seem inconsequential on first viewing seem to reveal the timeline of the off-screen assimilations. [[spoiler: Griggs is outside by the helicopter looking for a case of "the good stuff" when the Thing breaks loose, and doesn't join up with everyone else until a while later after they start forming a search party; this is likely when he was assimilated. Later, when everyone is discussing Hendrik's death, Juliet leaves the room clearly distraught, and Griggs follows to comfort her. Juliet shrugs him off and walks away and Griggs continues to stare after her. Griggs likely followed her and assimilated her at this point. No scenes hint at when Edvard was assimilated, but as the commander of the base he'd be a top priority target, and was likely assimilated prior to the helicopter crash as the Griggs and Juliet Things would be killed off at that point.]]
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** Backstage photos of the Thing's "original" form in the ice shows it resembles the Martians of one of Carpenter's favourites, ''Film/QuatermassAndThePit''.
