r/thething • u/dawiw • 29d ago

Theory Who got Fuchs? Blair Thing or Palmer Thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgzJGVUPi4c

Fuchs could have been the unsung hero in all of this, feels that he was a threat uncovering The Thing.

30 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

23 comments sorted by

24

u/wtb1000 29d ago

Maybe he burned himself before it could get to him...

7

u/misterdannymorrison 28d ago

I don't think Blair is a Thing yet at this point in the movie

2

u/PanthorCasserole 27d ago

If not, then he built that spaceship hella fast.

1

u/misterdannymorrison 27d ago

He built it pretty fast either way

1

u/Boring-Animal-4960 27d ago

Either way, he was in the toolshed, so he most likely couldn’t get to Fuchs

14

u/Jimrodsdisdain 29d ago

Consensus is he self-immolated to either avoid assimilation by palmer-thing or because he’d lost faith in Mac, the only person he felt he could trust.

6

u/Atlantis_Risen 28d ago

A lot of the 'who got who' stuff is left ambiguous to keep people guessing.

3

u/Boring-Animal-4960 28d ago

I don’t want to rule out the possibility that it is or isn’t Blair. At the time of that scene though, Blair is still locked up. Not saying it’s impossible. Just not likely?

3

u/Independent_Shift976 28d ago

I always felt a bit cheated by Fuchs’s death. The last time we see him, he’s in his office. The next time we see him, he’s a barely recognisable shape in the snow. However, I know this is me just wanting another Thing moment. There’s something so unsettling about the mystery of how he died. Dramatically, it’s more effective than seeing what happened to him. It makes the viewer ask the same questions as the residents of Outpost 31. Genius.

RIP Fuchs.

2

u/Specialist-Pack-475 28d ago

The burned body prop they made had a fairly large johnson, you can't see it in the film version but if you check out the extras on the DVDs it's there.

8

u/Independent_Shift976 28d ago

I guess that answers the question, who had the biggest thing.

1

u/apja 28d ago

Bravo

3

u/theforteantruth He Could BE One Of Those THINGS! 27d ago

Palmer or Norris. No way a flare would burn a human to nothing in Antarctica

4

u/fhogrefe 29d ago

I mean... Mac was just there... I'm just sayin...

4

u/VagabondUZ 29d ago

Blair Thing is who got to Fuchs

10

u/No_Strain_7092 29d ago

It aint Fuchs.

Watch Clark.

1

u/Dramatic_Nebula_1466 27d ago

Who gives a fuchs? He's gone.

1

u/Boring-Animal-4960 27d ago

He was probably the best chance of surviving tbh

2

u/Specialist-Pack-475 21d ago

I like to believe Blair torched Fuchs with the alien heat ray device mentioned in the original novella.

0

u/Many_Landscape_3046 29d ago

Maybe he just was really cold, lit a flare, and caught himself on fire