The Thing was and is a character who has appeared a few times in HHN, who has been in a movie of the same name. It first originated from the novel by John W. Cambell Jr, Who Goes There? It then appeared the 1951 movie adaptation, The Thing from Another World, John Carpenter's 1982 remake, The Thing and the 2011 prequel to John Carpenter's movie, also called The Thing. Whereas the creature's true form in the original short story was more like a blue vegetable, and the creature in the 1951 film was a Frankenstein-esque humanoid, The Thing in the John Carpenter series more closely resembles the protoplyasmic, shape-shifting Shoggoths from a similar short story, H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. The Thing itself has no real shape or form, and is more like a virus colony. Instead, i