Is there any fictional monster that could take The Thing?

Sauron
It
Needleface
Freddy Krueger

>>82789932

T1000

>>82790030
Replicators from Stargate are silicon based correct? They would fuck its shit up

Tom Cruise.

any competent military operation could end it in seconds

"alien boogeymen" will forever be absurd, it's the combination of flesh's subtlety and the raw power of technological weapons that will always have the advantage in a battle between intelligences

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>>82789932

How does the assimilation process work exactly?

I've been reading online but so far I haven't found a concrete answer. Does the thing have to completely absorb a host/victim to be able to become it? Is it being permanently absorbed or does the thing spit it out again so to say? Does it work by pumping its cells into the victim which then start working from the inside? Is a single cell enough to completely take over a host if given enough time? If a single cell is enough, why not just sneeze into people's faces? If a victim is injected with thing cells without the victim knowing, will they be aware of the process? Is the person's mind still there even after the process is complete and the thing only "activates" if it feels it's necessary? Or is the victim's mind still there but trapped in their own body and unable to control what they do? Is the person's mind gone and it's just the thing doing everything? Could a thing-person just get a syringe, draw their own blood and then prick a person to make sure that person will sooner or later also be a thing? Do two thing-hosts automatically know of each other being hosts or is each thing their own organism not knowing who else is infected? Seeing as how even the blood in the bloodtest scene had a will of its own and started to move around, could a thing just split off into a hundred if not thousands of tiny things that slither around and attach themselves to other organisms?

>>82790117
No they couldn't. It wouldn't even let them know there was a fight going on.

If it gets to open water it's over. There's nothing stopping it from collecting biomass from sea life and then breaking apart and going microscopic and infecting every water supply on earth.

We wouldn't even know until you woke up one morning and your entire neighborhood was things and they just decided to take out the last few percent of us somehow not taken yet.

>>82789932
The "thing" is only effective as a stealth combatant, on an open field its pretty much useless against any enemy above human capabilities.

A well armed human would be more than enough; any arnie characters clear with ease

>>82790050
good one

>>82790216
How, they wouldn't be able to just shoot it? Who know what monstrous forms it could make

>>82790050
Any terminator tbqh

>>82789932
The Blob

>>82789932
Xenomorphs, assuming it can't assimilate acid.

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>>82789932

>>82789932
The Blob

>>82791200
Who would win. The flood or the thing?

>>82790160
yes

>>82791474
The Flood. Everything the thing can do the flood can do better, except for stealth. The Flood doesn't seem to be able to conceal infection.

>>82791661
But how would a fight like that even work? Also, the thing can withstand bullets, so

>>82791942
It depends on how the fight is set up and whether you make it so the thing can infect the flood or vice versa.

Even if the thing can infect the flood it can't use stealth because the flood is controlled by the gravemind. The thing would be found out and destroyed. If the flood can infect the thing then it wins because it's far more infectious than the thing. If they can't infect each other the flood still wins because of the gravemind's intelligence, which far outclasses the thing.

>>82789932

God.

>>82792233
Jej

>>82790061
This, the Crystalline Entity from TNG, shit, Data too for that matter, Terminators, various and sundry energy beings, and abstracts/demons/gods like mentioned in >>82790030

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> I'm a cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
What would happen if the Thing infected a Terminator's organic hull?

>>82789932
>this is unbelievably nerdy
kys

>>82793383
Skin goes one way the terminator breaks the skin going the other way.

Only if the thing knows it is literally a covering for something it cannot infect then it may just folow around and infect everything it can.

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>>82789932
Was this guy infected by the food?

Did Kate die at the end

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>>82789932
no contest