Although
there are no television "episodes" in the Thing canon, I am continuing to use the
term "episode" as I have elsewhere on PopApostle, as a separable piece in the
continuous narrative of a larger story. |
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"The Northman Nightmare" | The Thing | The Thing | "The Things" | "The Thing from Another World" Part 1 | ||||||||||
Digital comic | Prequel movie | Movie | Clarkesworld Magazine #40 |
The Thing from Another World #1 (Dark Horse) |
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In the Twelfth Century, a Viking expedition in Greenland seeks out a village with whom contact has been lost. | An international team at a Norwegian Antarctic research base dig up from the ice a frozen creature from outer space. | A U.S. scientific research outpost in the Antarctic is invaded by a being from outer space which can take over the form of any life form it encounters. | An alien creature awakens on Earth after 100,000 years frozen in the Antarctic ice...and finds that it's not alone. | MacReady awakens in the infirmary of a Japanese whaling vessel in the Southern Ocean. But where is Childs? | ||||||||||
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"The Thing from Another World" Part 2 | "Climate of Fear" Part 1 | "Climate of Fear" Part 2 | "Climate of Fear" Part 3 | "Climate of Fear" Part 4 | ||||||||||
The Thing from Another World #2 (Dark Horse) |
The Thing from Another World: Climate of Fear #1 (Dark Horse) |
The Thing from Another World: Climate of Fear #2 (Dark Horse) |
The Thing from Another World: Climate of Fear #3 (Dark Horse) |
The Thing from Another World: Climate of Fear #4 (Dark Horse) |
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The survivors (and the Thing) make their way to the Argentine camp in Antarctica. | MacReady awakens after his ordeal on the sub. | An old face shows up at the Tierra del Fuego base. | MacReady stands revealed as a Thing! | The human survivors of Tierra del Fuego force a final confrontation with the Things. | ||||||||||
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"From This Day Forth" | "In Sickness or in Health" | "For Better or Worse" | "'Til Death Us Do Part" | "Questionable Research" | ||||||||||
The Thing from Another World: Eternal Vows #1 (Dark Horse) |
The Thing from Another World: Eternal Vows #2 (Dark Horse) |
The Thing from Another World: Eternal Vows #3 (Dark Horse) |
The Thing from Another World: Eternal Vows #4 (Dark Horse) |
Dark Horse Comics #13-16 (Dark Horse) | ||||||||||
Bizarrely distorted bodies of murder victims begin turning up in the small New Zealand town of Wallace Harbour. | MacReady arrives in Wallace Harbour to investigate the all-too-familiar sounding deaths in town. | Jennifer makes a rash move that dooms Wallace Harbour. | Aboard the Gettysburg, MacReady makes his final stand against the Thing. | A U.S. scientific research team gathers evidence and specimens from Outpost 31. | ||||||||||
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A U.S. Special Forces team investigates the remains of the American and Norwegian bases in Antarctica. | ||||||||||||||
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"Who Goes There?" | The Thing from Another World | |||||||||||||
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Discovering a magnetic anomaly in the Antarctic near a U.S. scientific research outpost a group of unwary scientists dig up from the ice an ancient spaceship and a frozen being from outer space. | A flying saucer crashes in the Arctic near a U.S. scientific research outpost and the unwary humans dig up from the ice a frozen being from outer space. | |||||||||||||
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