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The Thingu is the titular main antagonist of the 2012 claymation short film of the same name, a parody of both the British animated series Pingu and the 1982 horror film The Thing.
Its vocals were provided by British clay animator Lee Hardcastle.
Overview[]
The Thingu is a extraterrestrial parasite alien who has the ability to shape-shift into anything similar to The Thing.
History[]
A spaceship can be seen approaching to Earth before the title card appears.
A dog is seen running to Pingu, where Pingu allows it to his dog shed, later did Pingu knows that the dog is a shape-shifting alien that would consume the other dog. Pingu and his family runs to see on what was happening, the dog has already been infected by the shape-shifting alien, as the others are watching the Dog-Thingu roars. Pingu pulls out a flamethrower to burn, however, one of the penguins, Pongi, passes out from a heart attack.
The doctor tries to revive him, but before he could do it, the stomach opens and bites his arms, killing him. The Pongi-Thingu then pops out of the stomach to reveal itself to the crew, however, Pingu uses his flamethrower to burn it, the head, somehow, escapes by turning into a Spider-Head as it leaves.
Pingu and his mom then does a blood test to see if any of them are The Thingu. Just before Pingu puts a thing on his dad's blood test, the blood parasites pops-out, which causes Pingu's dad to become a shape-shifter, which it escapes and grabs his wife with his tongue as he tries to infected his wife, Pingu, however, comes to get his flamethrower and kills both of his parents.
Pingu and his sister Pinga are at the lair trying to blow it up. Pinga hears a noise and goes to see it. Pingu sees that his sister is gone, but the ground starts to crumble as an arm pops-out of the ground and grabs the TNT. The Thingu later shows itself as the Pinga-Thingu, as well as the dog that pops out of its chest. Pingu throws a dynamite and runs, killing the Thingu.
Design[]
Nothing is known about The Thingu's true appearance, but it does have the ability to shape-shift into any individual it comes a cross on, such as a penguin or a dog.
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Trivia[]
- The video was up on YouTube for 2 weeks and went viral on the platform, until it was taken down by HIT Entertainment due to copyright. The video itself was then remade into Claycat's The Thing, but the original version (with penguins) has since been put backup on YouTube by Lee himself on his YouTube channel.
- The Thing's director John Carpenter was aware of the claymation short film's existence, and surprisingly like it.