The Thing (John Carpenter)

The Thing is the main antagonist from "The Thing" movies,and the novel,it is an extraterrestrial being of various cells that assimiliates organic beings,mimicking them perfectly.



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The Thing is an extraterrestrial being which assimiliates organic beings,and mimicks them,it is intelligent,acting like a human,however it cannot assimiliate inorganic matter,and is weak to fire.

In the movies,it's stated that if The Thing got out of antarctica,all life would be assimiliated.

Death Battle Info
Name:The Thing

Species:Extraterrestrial being

Gender:Genderless.

Age:??? (was frozen for 100,000 years.)

Personality:Appears to be sentient,mimicking humans,and only shows its true form when its alone with someone else.

Appearance:True form has never been shown,but various mouths,teeth,and tendrils have been seen by Things.

Powers & Abilities
Assimiliation:The Thing can assimiliate organic matter,after assimiliation is complete,it can shapeshift into what it assimiliated,mimicking it perfectly.

Intelligence:It can act perfectly like a human.

Body control:Can manipulate its own "body" and create tendrils.

Regeneration:Can regenerate.

Invulnerability to damage:Apart from fire which is its only known weakness,it is invulnerable to damage,although it seems to still feel pain.

Feats
Blair-Thing built an unfinished flying saucer.

Assimiliated almost everyone except for Childs and MacReady (although it's implied Childs is a Thing at the end of the movie.)

Is never actually completely killed,only certain parts of it are destroyed.

Is intelligent enough to deattach its head from its body and escape.

A mere drop of blood on someone is enough to start assimiliation.

Dogs weren't able to find out what it truly was.

A thing punched down a door and a part of a wall.

A thing also broke through a wooden wall.

If it touched the sea,it would have assimiliated all life.

Assimiliation devours the cells.

Survived explosions.

Weaknesses
When mimicking everything perfectly,it also includes the flaws of the organic being,such as when it got an heart attack.

Cannot mimick plant cells.

Weak to fire,lightning,and acid.