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* AdaptationalHeroism: Inverted with Clark, as it was written before "Who Goes There", as Dwight is the one to murder [[spoiler:Kinner]] rather than him, and he [[spoiler:is confirmed not to be a Thing]].
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Inverted with Clark, as it was written before "Who Goes There", There?", as Dwight is the one to murder [[spoiler:Kinner]] rather than him, and he [[spoiler:is confirmed not to be a Thing]].
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* BodyHorror: It wouldn't be a ''Thing'' without a load of BodyHorror. All of the forms the Thing takes on are exceptionally gruesome, complete with tentacles sprouting out and claws. And then there is the Thing's botched attempt to assimilate [[spoiler:Barclay]], which he only survives thanks to [=McReady=]'s intervention,
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Dutton]] is beaten to death by all of the men except Barclays and [=McReady=] after being revealed to be a Thing.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Dutton]] is beaten to death by all of the men except Barclays and [=McReady=] after being revealed to be a Thing.
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* BodyHorror: It wouldn't be a ''Thing'' without a load of BodyHorror. All of the forms the Thing takes on are exceptionally gruesome, complete with tentacles sprouting out and claws. And then there is the Thing's botched attempt to assimilate [[spoiler:Barclay]], which he only survives thanks to [=McReady=]'s intervention,
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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Connant is so rattled that he may be a Thing [[spoiler: and is]], that at one point, he isn't even aware he already has a cigarette in hand when he lights another.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Dutton]] is beaten to death by all of the men exceptBarclays Barclay and [=McReady=] after being revealed to be a Thing.Thing.
* CryLaughing: Connant and Kinner both break down in tears after their laughing like mad men.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Connant is so rattled that he may be a Thing [[spoiler: and is]], that at one point, he isn't even aware he already has a cigarette in hand when he lights another.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Dutton]] is beaten to death by all of the men except
* CryLaughing: Connant and Kinner both break down in tears after their laughing like mad men.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: [=McReady=] has a nightmare that the Thing is capable of absorbing and imitating lifeforms. In "Who Goes There?", Norris is the one who has this dream. Justified as the Thing is telepathic and it's implied they are picking up its dreams.
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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: [=McReady=] has and Blair both have a nightmare that the Thing is capable of absorbing and imitating lifeforms. In "Who Goes There?", Norris is the one who has this dream. Justified as the Thing is telepathic and it's implied they are picking up its dreams.
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* ForScience: Blair's whole motivation.
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* ForScience: Blair's whole motivation.motivation for bringing the alien back to the main camp.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: [=McReady=] has to slap Kinner a couple of times to snap him out of his LaughingMad spell.
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: [=McReady=] has to slap Kinner a couple of times to snap him out of his LaughingMad spell.
* ImmuneToBullets: The Thing. All getting shot by a .45 does to it is knock it back a step.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: [[spoiler: [=McReady=] declares Dwight to be human after he stabs Kinner, thinking ApeShallNotKillApe is in effect. Dwight winds up being one of the first to be revealed as a Thing.]]
* InstantlyProvenWrong: [[spoiler: [=McReady=] declares Dwight to be human after he stabs Kinner, thinking ApeShallNotKillApe is in effect. Dwight winds up being one of the first to be revealed as a Thing.]]
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* LaughingMad: Blair and later Copper when he realizes he may be a Thing.
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* LaughingMad: Blair Blair, once he realizes what the alien is capable of, then Kinner when he thinks the first set of blood tests work, and later Copper when he realizes he may be a Thing.
* NonSequiturThud: Copper, who has been drugged up to calm him down because he was almost ready to go down the same road as Blair, wakes up long enough to babble something incoherent than go back to sleep.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Commander Garry.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Commander Garry.Garry [[spoiler:or not, as he turns out to be a Thing]].
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* SanitySlippage: Blair has a nervous breakdown after the Thing, caused by his guilt and paranoia. After destroying the base’s means of communication and transport, he descends even further into madness and becomes convinced that the rest of the base has been assimilated and decides to murder everyone at the base.
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* SanitySlippage: Blair has a nervous breakdown after the Thing, Thing comes to life, caused by his guilt and paranoia. After destroying the base’s means of communication and transport, he descends even further into madness and becomes convinced that the rest of the base has been assimilated and decides to murder everyone at the base.base.
** Kinner goes nuts too, after realizing the cows he had just milked were Things and that the blood test didn't work, first rushes out into the frozen wasteland in just his skivvies, then when he's brought back, starts screaming prayers to God for hours on end. [[spoiler: He was a Thing the whole time he was freaking out.]]
** Kinner goes nuts too, after realizing the cows he had just milked were Things and that the blood test didn't work, first rushes out into the frozen wasteland in just his skivvies, then when he's brought back, starts screaming prayers to God for hours on end. [[spoiler: He was a Thing the whole time he was freaking out.]]
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Unless there is some minor technological change, that's not the right trope.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Although written in 1938, it's set the next year in 1939.
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* NextSundayAD: Although written in 1938, it's set the next year in 1939.
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I's 1939 and the Garry Expedition, headed by the eponymous Commander Garry, is in the Antarctic studying a variety of phenomena from the weather to geology to biology from their central base, Big Magnet, so named because of its proximity to the Earth's southern magnetic pole.
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One day, a team led by meteorologist [=McReady=] and physicist Norris heads out to find what they think is a meteorite whose magnetic properties have been futzing with their instruments, only do discover a crashed, frozen UFO beneath the ice, along with the equally frozen body of one of its occupants, a blue-skinned, 02wormy-haired humanoid with three blazing red eyes which the group takes to calling "the Thing." Efforts to melt the ice around the spaceship only result in its accidental destruction, but [=McReady=]'s team nevertheless manages to make it back to Big Magnet with the Thing in a block of ice.
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One day, a team led by meteorologist [=McReady=] and physicist Norris heads out to find what they think is a meteorite whose magnetic properties have been futzing with their instruments, only do discover a crashed, frozen UFO beneath the ice, along with the equally frozen body of one of its occupants, a blue-skinned, 02wormy-haired wormy-haired humanoid with three blazing red eyes which the group takes to calling "the Thing." Efforts to melt the ice around the spaceship only result in its accidental destruction, but [=McReady=]'s team nevertheless manages to make it back to Big Magnet with the Thing in a block of ice.
