| NOTE: This profile only contains The Thing from the original 1951 movie as it's 1982 and 2011 film version was not voted NPE. |
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| “ | When I turned, the thing struck at me. I don't remember. My head... I must have fallen. When I came to, I saw Olson and Auerbach. They were... they were both hanging from the beams upside down, they were dead. Their throats were cut. | „ |
| ~ Dr. Stern recalls an attack from the Thing. |
The Thing is the titular main antagonist of the 1951 black-and-white sci-fi horror film The Thing from Another World, loosely based on the 1938 novella Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell. The creature is a humanoid plant-based life form that tried to kill the humans from a polar outpost where it's ship landed.
It was portrayed by the late James Arness.
His Evil Ranking[]
Debated Validations[]
- The characters from the movie debate whether the creature came to Earth to visit or conquer it, while there is some evidence for the latter, the lack of focus on this topic makes it difficult to reach a true conclusion.
What Makes It Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Immediately after being thawed by the electric blanket, the Thing tried to attack Corporal Barnes.
- After escaping and being attacked by a group of sled dogs, the Thing murdered two of them.
- Killed a third dog and hid it away in the outpost's greenhouse after draining all of its blood.
- Despite escaping the outpost and being able to get further as it is unaffected by the cold, the Thing returned to the outpost to stalk the humans with the intention of killing them.
- Tried to create more of itself by growing seedpods from its hands.
- During its return to the greenhouse, the Thing brutally murdered two scientists, slitting their throats and hanging them from the beams upside down, like in a slaughterhouse.
- Following its escape from the the greenhouse, the creature attacked the humans in their own quarters.
- After its failed attack, the thing shut down the heaters of the outpost, hoping to both lure someone outside the building to kill him and lower the temperature so its victims froze to death, showing that the creature is intelligent.
- During the creature's final attack on the humans at the station's generator room, Dr. Carrington attempted to communicate with it in a non-threatening way, but the Thing knocked him aside, breaking his collarbone.
What Prevents It from Being Pure Evil?[]
- As it resembles a vegetite being more than a human despite its appearance, the Thing has moral agency issues since while we know it's an intelligent creature, we can't know if it really understands that what it's doing is morally wrong by our standards.
