Why You Wouldn't Survive The Thing Invasion
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มิ.ย. 2024
- The Thing was always restricted by a cold spell. What if it casted cold resistance and made it to civilization? Let's find out!!
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The thing is one of the few horror movies where you could argue that humanity would be done because that monster is an apocalyptic event.
Maybe, if we utilize our fire correctly, we maybe can survive
@iamaloafofbread8926 the scary part is HOW WOULD YOU KNOW to kill it before its either gotten close enough to get you or close enough that it already has you
I think the issue is simply the lack of knowing. How would you know you were not infected, let alone anyone else, and there's always the possibility of it being airborne in the form of insects and other flying creatures!@@ninja1man4u
All it takes is one and you may be infected and not even know about it because you got only one drop of blood on ya. So fire wont do much because what if the person you relying on to use the fire with you is infected?@@iamaloafofbread8926
@@ninja1man4u Which is exactly why humanity got lucky in the movies that the thing landed in Antarctica instead of the mainland. Unless it unluckily gets transported elsewhere.
What really makes the Thing so unstoppable is that by the time people even figure out it exists, it will have spread too far to contain anymore.
You really think so ?!
All it would need to do is to handshake too. Just the surface skin slowly and painlessly working through the body and assimilating. “Alien hand syndrome” is a thing just with humans, not even involving an assimilation species
It always seemed to me that The Thing could not have appeared through natural evolution there was even a theory that it was created as a weapon by some alien civilization
I just wonder what happen to the aliens planet that the thing took over since the ship could have crash landed on earth millions of years ago.
Imagine thinking a bird pooped on you and then all of a sudden you’re assimilated.
Not that fast or completely.
@@randallbesch2424 I could’ve worded it better, but I just meant you would be infected and would be assimilated essentially.
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@@davidarredondo2017 damn right, that makes it worse
Mosquito bites you. Anything that can contain a Thing cell would infect you.
Literally would have to "Halo Ring" the whole situation. Theres no way we are surviving because of how we are as humans.
Thing vs the flood 😅😅
Thing could arguably win since it assimilates if it assimilates the floods what if it gets the floods abilities. @@stevenldoe7838
@@stevenldoe7838the flood relay on spinal cords to infect, no?
It would just be a thing sweep.
@DAVIDMcDonald-uf2ep flood also eats all biomass. The hunters don't have spinal columns. 1000s of worms they still get congealed into biomass
You have super cells in the air too.
4 stages of flood outbreak
Feral
Coordinated
Instellar
Intergalactic
The forerunners got spanked by stage 3. Halo games were coordinated
The Thing is an automatic game over for anything it comes into contact with, it is literally the unsurvivable horror that cannot be stopped.
Only if the dominant species is so different it can't be assimilated.
@@randallbesch2424it can assimilate anything. That's the point. An insect is significantly different than a human and they can assimilate both.
@@Dekudicklicker you forgot something the thing can't assimilate inorganic part. the Thing's assimilation and imitation of Vance Norris is so good that it even copied his bad heart. Thing!Norris has a heart attack during a stressful situation, leading to the doctor's attempts to resuscitate "him" with an electrical defibrillator. The Thing is forced to attack the doctor and expose itself to stop the painful electrical shocks.
A wise man would instruct to sit and wait a while....see what happens.
It wouldn't matter. The THING would eventually win. It could become a large swarm of insects (flies or mosquitoes) and infect all living organisms in a huge area before anyone would be aware.
A wise Thing to say 👻
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Fun fact; the reason Macready is laughing at the end is because that bottle is full of gasoline, which the thing just took a swig of without hesitation.
@@TheCorrodedMan no, no, no. Human beings can tell gasoline from alcohol and since the Thing is a PERFECT imitation, it has the same taste buds we do. If anything, McReady laughs because Childs drank from the bottle without thinking about possible contamination, thus being sus.
So glad you're finally covering my favorite horror movie
honestly The Thing is my favourite film ever. even with its cult classic following i think its still underrated. it should have spawned a billion dollar franchise imo
Indeed. The original is a near perfect movie which can never be improved upon.
Great Movie
Great game
Great comic
Masterpiece
@@lkeke35 try the short novel it was based on, "WHO GOES THERE?"
@@gundamw3490 GREAT SHORT STORY TOO?
Considering not even the main characters of the movie even survived (the ones that would usually have the most amount of plot contrivances to survive) I don’t think anybody could survive this scenario.
MacCready did but barely
Even then that's questionable on his fate, seeing as where it is possible the only other character to have survived could've been turned. (I forgot his name)@@dominusanuli3595
You have a double negative. Not even the main characters didn't even survive=The main characters survived.
Ex: - -4= +4
@@dominusanuli3595 Mac died according to the game.
@@Ni-dk7ni Older than the game. Which came after them. The comics aren't Canon if they were Humanity would be dead. There is also no way Mac survived being exposed to the elements at night in Antarctica.
Thats the thing. If it wasn't for the isolated ouskirts, it would have survived and spread easily. The emergency response in any country right now would be nothing to such a creature.
you'd have to nuke an entire continent or more, just to stop it. and thats if you know where it actually is
Except generous use of nuclear fire..
The metamorphic alien can survive a far wider range than we can. Macready says it himself it will freeze and more humans who will come may take it back.
@@skepticalmagos_101 that comes much much later.
@@skepticalmagos_101 That won't help. All it takes is one cell surviving and we're back to square one. And it won't be just imitating people and dogs. It will get its tendrils on everything, and I mean everything. From bacteria in the soil to birds in the sky. And once it gets ahold of either - its over. It'll either spread half a mile under your feet where you can't track it and nothing can touch it, or fly hundreds of feet in the sky, potentially doing hundreds of miles per day.
The second it gets somewhere that isn't a sterile, wind blasted glacier - it's literally over.
One of John Carpenter’s most important Horror movie and it’s how It goes.
Dont forget they live
In the Mouth of Madness is severely underrated, the best take on lovecraft imo
@@Grandmaster-KushExtremely underrated, Sam Niel gave a stellar performance
This is one invasion I would be terrified to experience or live through, truly a timeless classic that’ll never ever be dull it only gets better every rewatch
Read the short story to know where it all came from.
I gotta wonder what the thing's endgame is, say, all life on earth is thing's. Do they try to develop interstellar travel? Do they just have a party? Do they form factions and go to war with each other? Do they all join together to make a big flesh tree?
id vote flesh tree hive mind of sorts
Yes, what exactly does a thing do after consuming and assimilating an entire civilization? An entire planet? Perhaps it just continues the lives it assimilated. 9-5 Thing working the grind trying to succeed lol.
I think it’s a parasite of some sort, so to be honest, I’m not sure if there is an end-goal for it.
A possible scenario is the infected live their lives, blissfully unaware of what they truly are, till some other unexpected visitor (another alien ship coming to visit on the planet) comes by, and they infect it, or if they use the rocket ships left by human kind to infect more
It’d be a really interesting scenario to see though
Their goal is simple...assimilate all...and then.......partake in a time share.
It becomes their species rules this new colony planet. They are intelligent moreso than we are.
What if...the victims are not aware that theyve actually been completely assimilated. Like, the Thing just lays dormant til it decides that its time to strike, and are able to instantly take control over the new body.. *or,* perhaps even worse, the human *is* aware that theyve been assimilated, yet unable to do anything since the Thing is already in full control... i mean it does seem like it sometimes.
boi do i love body horror.
It was confirmed in the comics that it can change itself to be a sleeper-agent for people and a full scale hijacking parasite that can shapeshift if it accumulated enough biomass
@@thevoicesaregettinglouder16 ahh cool, i havent read the comics yet, but alrite!
@@thevoicesaregettinglouder16 Comics are never movie canon, and there was a short story before the movie anyway.
Definitely think it depends on if it assimilated someone violently in massive bug form or if just a speck got on you if you're dead and just digested in whatever form it's pretending to be at that moment because we have no idea what it actually looks like God knows what horror it took out to look the way it does when it crashed here.
After seeing how bad we handled Covid, these kinds of scenario's scary me even more than they should.
Worse than any disease because it is intelligent and can mimic us, so easily.
Now that Alien has been added to Dead By Daylight, the Thing has become one of my new most desired licensed chapters for the game. With R.J. MacReady as a survivor and Outpost #31 as a map. Hope you're having a good 2024 so far, Zackazz.
A big agree here
it starts as one person, but can turn into other players it’s killed, and it can have a detach limb ability that can scout and attack players
I can see it now it would be assimilating instead of killing and to start the match off it would start as a survivor then when you get close you would transform and try to assimilate other players
A Dead By Daylight-style game mixed with the mechanics of Among Us, set it in Antarctica, and you have the perfect multi-player Thing game
@@miserablemissionary5747and also atmospheric horror for when your one of the only people left, and you tiptoe around the station, while it searches for you… that’d be creepy
Also the fact that we do not have enough flamethrowers
You would need to reduce every cell to carbon.
The Thing comics does a good job of showing how fucked we would be (yes there is The Thing comics)
Not Eternal Vows.
Not written as well as they could have been,
I like Swamp Thing. Are swamp things related to Things?
It’s never stated if it can absorb plants or not. In the script for the thing they burnt plants because the characters say it was assimilated.
So if it is capable of assimilating plants then the thing could potentially spread much faster once it is out of the snow. It could literally touch one tree in the Amazon and just meld across the entire forest, infecting every animal, human, and plant along its way.
Considering the comics have Mcready hunt down and wipe out the thing entirely with the very last one taking the form of a sheep in a rural village, I think it is a safe bet that the thing can't assimilate plant life.
I think it can't assimilate plant life due to the cell wall
In the comics a character (I won't spoil anything, so I won't even listen names) Said that the thing couldn't and when another guy asked how he knew, the guy responded saying how they all are in the middle of a forest, if the thing assimulated plant life the forest would have opened up and swallowed them all up already
The whole "you need to nuke everything to stop it" makes me wonder: could Skynet and an army of Terminators stop a Thing invasion that's escaped into the world?
Well, yeah, they're machines so they're immune
The thing is my fave movie and just a random theory I think about is what if The Thing never wanted to invade earth but just go back home? It crashed on earth probably by accident and only acts out in self defense it was working on building a ship to probably go home. Which humans probably mistook to take over the world due the unknown nature of the Thing. I just love this movie so much it always has me thinking.
Have you read the short novel titled The Things by Peter Watts. Its a classic addendum to the original movie from the creatures viewpoint! That story made me rethink everything I thought I knew from the movie.
I always thought that it was an alien criminal who killed the transporters and crashed in the antarctic by accident
That's what I think too!
@@valzod3808apparently, it took over the aliens that originally piloted the ship
I think its just an Alien Parasite that infects whatever it touches, no real thoughts to it besides merging and killing
Interesting hypothesis. Though its behavior cancels that idea.
A huge irl among us
I only just saw The Thing around six years ago and MY GOD was I missing out!! It’s absolutely brilliant
The thing actually showed a person that had an immune response to it in the 2011 on the helicopter who was sweating and looked sickly was because he had come in contact with blood during the first attack of the creature at the beginning of the movie where the guy got pierced.
You're talking about Olav getting blood on his face when Henrik was impaled. That was Henrik's blood not the thing. Olav didn't get infected, so there was no immune reaction. Of course, on the helicopter he was jacked by Griggs-thing. Not really sure what happened after the crash. Never saw either one again. Could be a Griggs-Olav-thing frozen on the tundra waiting for Spring thaw.
Imagine a world where Titans actually lived and The Thing got a hold of one of the big creatures . Pure terror
A note about the things not being a hive mind, while in close proximity, they can detect each other even knowing some of their absorbed victims before connecting to each other and transferring their knowledge becoming one with each other before disconnecting and going about their day.
They can absorb several entire humans(I believe one got up to 11) into them and still maintain a normal human body in size and shape. They do this by compacting themselves becoming more and more dense which makes them more and more durable and way harder to kill even with fire. The easiest way to find them would honestly be with a weight scale as they would get really heavy very quick but you better hope they don't change into a hostile form because they can become enormous very quickly with one human becoming a large murder tree of faces in the comic.
Also they can hold on to knowledge during the assimilation process by downloading it into you or as mentioned above, connecting to another thing who still knows but they can lose information with one in the comic leaving her body as just a head and to survive she transformed into a fish which deleted her memory for some reason.
They don't take in the bodies except as food unless it divides when it does so to produce more individuals.
Oh yes. Eternal vows. Linkara did a very funny review of that one. It became a fish because it lost the energy required to keep assimilating I think.
@@seekingabsolution1907 is eternal vows what it was called, it has been to long for me to remember
Man, that scene with the guy melding himself onto the other guy made my jaw drop when I saw it in theaters. It was gnarly.
The thing had a whole comic where it did get out and child's fought it for years, it ends with the thing making it to ny and disappearing
5:52 - he is human, also Kurt.Fact.
I'm actually listening to an audiobook that may have been inspired by the thing, it's called The Siberian Incident
""WHO GOES THERE?" (1940) by john W. Campbell is the original story.
The thing about the Thing is that, all it takes is for it to infect an animal like a dog or cat. Ones that are known to lick their owners, being on their face, or maybe an open wound, at that point, it's game over. It wouldn't need to blow its cover because it could easily spread.
Dog? Cat?
My friend, if a single cell reaches the ocean, it’s game over.
Any
Fly Thing
what would happen once it's assimilated all life on earth? Every plant, animal, human.
@@Crazieyboy15 not for a long time and not if it is eaten.
@@DAV1979 The species wouldn't do that otherwise they starve or cannibalize. They are not mindless.
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You always manage to teach me something new about a franchise I already know and love, keep up the great videos my dude!
How was this comment posted 14 hours ago? 😮
The Thing was also a huge inspiration for many of the enemy designs in the Resident Evil games. (Birkin, Ivy zombie, Las plagas dogs, and possibly the Nyx)
ugh, The Thing is literally my favorite movie of all time I must have watched every video on TH-cam about it. that being said, I love more content being made about it!!
Pretty gnarly thumbnail. I like it. Near perfect mimicry means someone is bound to mess up. No chance at all for us. Awesome job Zack.
We have a brain and so the chances went up a few points.
Also in the comic eternal vows, it says that the Powell Thing can exchange cells without infecting them.
your analysis of how the thing would destroy humanity makes me crave a post apocalyptic The Thing horror movie based on your ideas
The entity doesn't destroy it assimilates taking every nuance from any being it does this to.
That Thing is Among Us
Don't tell the Nibiru Troodons that. [Nibiru is the name of a parallel Earth.]
Nothing more terrifying than a bigger than average spider in your room on the floor moving straight towards you.
Funny this video should be made after a horror game was announced a few weeks ago called "zoochosis" which i have said is basically if the thing crash landed in Australia 😂
Yay, I was waiting for the day you would do this one someday.
Almost reminds me of when day breaks.
The even scarier part of this is that it becomes smarter as it assimilates more people or creatures.
The species built space ships so the intelligence gathering helps of understanding humans.
I've wanted this video from you forever
Could you do Asura’s Wrath? Just living on the planet from the Gohma to the deities killing.
That or comics like Marvel or DC? Galactus invasions, super hero brawls, etc
Looking through your videos im super surprised you haven't done a why you wouldn't survive war of the world invasion video yet
This is a great video! except for a small detail: the videogame sequel (which has been made canon by John Carpenter himself who favored the game's narrative unlike the comics) introduces the idea of some people being inmune to the thing's infection process, like the main protagonist (who says ingame that he should have been infected by now but his body rejects the thing/virus(, especially after the culmination of the Cloud Virus arc where the main protagonist goes off on a helicopter with MacReady. The comic book sequels (which are not canon) also mention some people being inmune for some genetical reason, but as those are considered spinoffs inside the canon, they dont truly count. That could mean that some people would be able to at least try to prevent the end of the world, given that the MC of the game. I dunno, I thought it was a neat detail that some people could at least survive the thing longer than others.
You know? This made me randomly think of the Peanuts comic, you know, Charlie Brown? It had the Kite Eating Tree and to the kids, it was an actual monster. It's now headcannon that Charlie Brown lives near a 'The Thing' that for some reason turned into a tree and became real chill, only eating kites. Just for laughs.
Being one of many writhing faces sticking out of a mass of flesh is like literal worst nightmare shit right there
Let's get a vote for future videos...
Background music? Yes
The movie version, no.
Best case I’d sacrifice myself and burn everything hoping to stop it.
Book version. It’s made clear humanity has a chance to win because of how violent we are.
It seems to be smarter and able to camouflage itself but it doesn’t have the physical advantage it does in the movie.
And we rip it apart multiple times with our hands.
It’s more a case of can the violent and paranoid side of us win over a smarter and more clever enemy.
I personally believe that if we do it right we could potentially survive both, but it would require a genuine unity of humankind, which is basically impossible.
Rip it apart? That’s not going to do anything but make things worse.
If so much as a single cell of The Thing gets on your person, you’ve already lost.
@@Crazieyboy15 it’s different in the book.
If I remember right they beat and rip it (one of its independent parts) apart with hands and maybe a few weapons and maybe then burn it. It could be hurt like anyone else it could just recover with time
@@Crazieyboy15 also in the movie fire can kill it but it didn’t take burning every cell. Just most of it
@@rodneywilson9192 remember it still wasn't fully dead. Where the cell test came from.
My dude DONT miss! This is the vid i didnt know needed bro. Keep up the epic work
If they hadn’t tied everyone up on the same couch, they wouldn’t have had to deal with as many. Blaire however was correct and probably knew he was infected after thinking about having touched it with the pencil eraser and then sticking the eraser in his own mouth to think
“My habit has doomed us all.”
whats terrifying about this to me is if it assimilates to whatever it can get a hold of, that means when they first found it was probably the last planet it came from before crashing on earth. Meaning alien life exist somewhere else and it wiped it out before crash landing on earth (sorry for the repeat)
I’ve literally been waiting for you to post this for such a long time since this film inspired everything from the Flood to Necromorphs. So, I got to say I was really underwhelmed by this one. I guess I just had bigger expectations.
One nitpick. The song you use at the beginning isn't called dim the lights, it's called at dawn by ghost memories
What's the most dangerous critter the Thing could assimilate? A tree.
If it can blow pollen, or some approximation of pollen though the air, we're done for
It can hold many types of genomes with it. Becoming a bird or fish is bad enough.
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Would you do a video listing off good/underrated zombie movies? I would honestly love that
Can you do a why you wouldn't survive rainbow six parasite infection (aka the limited time event game mode "outbreak" and it's sequel game)
The Thing is my favorite movie. It's so scary because we have no idea what it actually is in it's true form, if it even has one as it splits itself so it's just endlessly scary.
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I wish your channel would get more daylight, love all ur content man, stay strong and God bless
Finally, I have been waiting for years for this video!!!
I've been waiting so long for you to make this
Next should be "Why you wouldn't survive Poppy Playtime's The Hour of Joy"
If the thing truly absorbed and resourced every cell of biology, it would've become a spore-dispersing-mold on day 1
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dude you showing that clip of the dog staring is fucking killing me lmao. All I can think of is this meme of that dog with the text "COME HERE, I'M A NORMAL CUTE DOG", and behind the text you just see "I'M GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU" lmao
One of my favorite movies. A absolute classic. Fucking masterpiece!
The short story is rather good that started it all.
Wow, you just made my day ♡♡♡ My favorite movie!!
Great video as always ❤
Hey Wow Such can you do a horror movie sin video of The Barbarian or Talk to me? I think those movies are abysmal.
One of the best horror films
Things would get out of hand actually made me chuckle honestly
I guess after it assimilates an entire planet it moves onto the next.
Just like fat people.
Once they finish their meal they move-on to the next and next and next and the next one, two, three, 38, and then the day is over and their still eating.
All they need to send is one per planet while the rest toil in an advanced civilization to back it.
Based on no information training or preparation but with my wide array of gamer skills I can confirm that I would beat this because I am simply built different
I've watched these videos since you started vi always wished u cover this game n movie 🎉🎉🎉🎉 . Made my day man
Thanks for the videos I appreciate it
This series makes every other apocalyptic scenario look easy
*I’ve been looking forward to this.*
Id die from an anxiety attack.
So imagine all the biomass was finally assimilated. Does it just sit there then?
You should do a video about the anime Zom 100!!
Thanks for doing this one because we would be sooo screwd
Hey Zach you may or may not remember me but I used to have the gamertag Confederate Rep on Xbox and I used to play with you often. You had me join the 24 hr 10 year anniversary stream for lfd and it was a blast. I recently just found my way back to the channel and was wondering if you ever wanted to play again sometime :)
So talk to it. It had likely travelled millions of miles, who knows what the beings on the ship wee doing to it. Crashes and freezes, wakes up to human poking holes in it, cutting pieces off-it's likely hungry and pissed, possibly even frightened. Wilferd Brumley's character said something I found interesting "I won't hurt you." it was also building it's own ship under his lab. Maybe it just wanted to get the hell out of here with no intentions of converting Jack Schitt. Our assumptionsn are based off a group of humans who are also scared and attacking it. No guarantees of anything but, choices-attack and piss it off and lose anyway or attempt to talk to it once it has a form and mind that understands our speech. Hell, might even set us up for Interstellar Travel since it has the knowledge.
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I might have missed it but I didn’t hear you mention that The Thing can expand and contract its cells. That’s why the Norris Thing erupting from his belly was much bigger than it logically could have been based on Norris’ mass.
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oh hell yes a movie i've seen!
Can the thing infect Omni man or the marvels etc? We’d be f’ked
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In the book, the creature had an original form, a photosynthetic three eyed creature with worms for hair. Otherwise fairly humanoid. It also wasnt as powerful. Its cells were durable enough to survive anything short of burning, but it could not infect through skin contact was able to be overpowered and ripped apart by a large group of humans using their bare hands. So that is why it didnt just kill them all like it seemed capable of in the films but didn't.
in a world where the thing is real tattoos would make this pretty easy to discern the thing
@WowSuchGaming could you do the tyranids from Warhammer 40k
Damn, the same thing happened to my buddy Eric
The Thing is like the Flood's Younger Brother we never want to talk about.