Russo noted, "Around the midpoint of THE THING, Fuchs tells MacReady The Thing can replicate at the cellular level and they should eat out of cans and prepare their own food." Saying that at the ...

(“Is it Fuchs?”) Apparently burned himself rather than be absorbed by the Thing. Although Fuchs was always intended to die off-screen, the method of his demise would have been rather ...

It’s later revealed that he’s tunneled out of there, but it’s too early here for it to have been him who assimilates Fuchs (in a scene fairly similar to the Dog-Thing and the shadow).