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[The Thing/Terminator] Can the Thing assimilate the living tissue of a Terminator?
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I think it would be able to digest and absorb the tissue, but would find it functionally useless once it broke down the tissue and reached the machine components below. The Thing is intelligent enough to build a spaceship (at least, maybe, after it has assimilated with multiple people) and to use deception, so it would likely be aware enough to realize that there's no survival advantage to merely disguising itself as the living tissue surrounding an otherwise inorganic being.