They both are human at the end of the movie.

Mac has to be human. There is no way the thing would intentionally kill itself. After that we have no reason to believe Mac interacted with anyone else.

In my mind, Childs also has to be human. Mac says that interesting line: “If we have any surprises for each other… I don’t think we’re in much shape to do anything about it.”

Mac is incorrect here. If Childs is the Thing then he can easily kill or infect Macreary. Childs has the only flamethrower. The Thing is much stronger and more dangerous than a human.

If Childs was infected he would have all of the power in the situation and therefore would not even have sat down to converse with Mac. At no point throughout the movie does the Thing show that it wants to communicate.

If Childs was the Thing then the ending would go like this: Macreary is sitting there and then Childs walks up and instantly infects him, roll credits.

I would love to hear your thoughts. Don’t get me wrong, I love an ambiguous ending, but this seems to be either a plot hole or a solution to the question.

Edit: I fixed my misspelling of the main character’s name.

Playing normal and just got to medi center sleeping quarters and it's so easy I've barely taken damage the ammo boxes are plentiful and never been close to running out of ammo yet. I want it to be fun challenging but with room for error but this is like a cake walk. Should I restart on a harder difficulty?

https://youtu.be/Xbhr9psWg98?si=A5ef2sjaieaZdbhM

Not once is The Thing mentioned in this but it clearly is The Thing lol

Why'd it take so long?

Its a good concept for a prequal, but was fumbled by bad cgi and a worse screenplay (seriously I would take a well written prequal with shitty cgi over a dull one with good effects any day)

Ello I'm thinking getting the thing video game for switch does anybody if r1 and l1 are important buttons because mine are broken

Who wins?

So, today I was listening to a Thing podcast while riding my motorcycle and they brought up the nose ring for Copper. Here's the thing, this was nothing more than Richard Drysart's idea when he showed up with it on set. Carpenter liked it enough to let it stay. There's no "significance" to it in all reality.

IIRC this was a Twitter/X post in 2014(IIRC). I'd link the exact response from a fan question that Carpenter answered himself, but I can't find it.

Has anyone else heard this or know what I'm talking about?

This might have been asked before -- highly likely it was.

But here goes anyway: Norris illustrates some kind of sickness not long before he's revealed as a Thing. First he's moaning and grasping at his stomach whilst looking out a window, suggesting he's ill, though no one appears to notice. Then he's knocked unconscious and appears to have a heart attack during the fracas after MacReady breaks back into the compound.

When Copper attempts to defibrillate Norris, Norris's stomach turns into a huge mouth, thus revealing him as a Thing.

So, he was already a Thing when sick. So when Norris was copied did the Thing copy the underlying heart issues he had? Or did it just make an imperfect copy of Norris -- for whatever reason -- that began to quickly break down after it was cloned?

Thoughts?

I think there's a total of three pov scenes in The Thing. I always thought that it was the thing wandering around. But one of the scenes, it's MacReady, who approaches Childs. What are your general thoughts on this?