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[Random_kid]

im pretty sure tanman is dead on
that sounds like the most plausable idea
because i had a boil from a spider bite once(yeah it was on my face and it was HUGE, right below my bottom lip)
and before i knew what it was the pressure built up and it kinda exploded blood and puss when i was at home
but this was like over 3 days and not 1 hour like poor marlena

[zoojitsu]

Actually here is a thought: Say it is reproduction. They are injesting eggs or genetic material into people. Wasps that inject eggs into a host put the host in a secure location so the egg has a good chance to survive. So on that note, I would think the little guys would want to secure the host somewhere (think Alien movies). However, in nature there are two different survival strategies: produce a few offspring and invest alot of time in them insuring their survival(Like humans or like I said above). OR produce alot off offspring and play the odds, someone is bound to survive(rabbits and fish). If they worked the second way(injecting everyone with babies) they would be a worse threat than MGP.....hey maybe thats the sequel?!?

[Dark Kitsune]

If the reproduction theory is correct then why all the blood? In nature where bugs inject eggs into a host, the host is eaten either from the inside out or in alien's just bursts from the chest. However, in the movie marlena said she felt dizzy at first, which could have just been blood loss. Then she said to Hud she did not feel very well, just as blood started to weep, so to say, from her eyes. Then as Hud said blood just started to come from everywhere on her then she exploded. So I agree with others it's like an insect bite and it was an allergic reaction maybe. The whole reproduction thing like just doesn't fit what happen. Nothing came out of her.

[hurrikenux]

My theory is that whatever toxin is procured from a bite from these creatures causes a reaction in the intestinal tract as well as hemorrhagic fever. Think along the lines of the Ebola virus plus a severe digestive disorder.

I didn't see anything leave Marlena as she exploded. I think moving her away was only to spare others the mess as well as possible spread of infection. At this point, I'm sure no one was sure whether or not this was spread in any other way. My wife said she spotted EMTs covering an expanding man with a blanket as our group was heading towards the Brooklyn bridge. I missed it myself, its one of those instances where I wonder if there are several things I missed (which would warrant another theatre visit).

Back to my theory, bites cause a reaction in the intestines that cause an expansion of the gases within. Nausea is one of the first symptoms, followed by blood from the mouth and eyes (hemorrhagic fever - although a gas reaction in the intestines would cause bleeding from the mouth). A final reaction causes the final expansion from these gases rupturing and escaping the intestines and then...

[Dark Kitsune]

thats exactly what i meant. Yours sounds way better though lol. I agree fully.

[zoojitsu]

I think if they wanted it to be a way of the little guys reproducing they would have pushed it in the movie. Show a bunch of tiny ones climbing around after she exploded. I agree that its a reaction to the bite/venom

[Yodel]

No, no, and no!

When the creature bites, it injects eggs. The eggs react with the Deep Sea Nectar(a prime ingredient of Slusho!) in the host's body. Because of the rapid-growth inducing properties of Deep Sea Nectar, the creature matures very quickly into an adult parasite, building up gasses and displacing organs. The creature *poofs* out. Hilarity ensues.

[tanman]

[Rudyred]

[elijunk]

How do we even know for sure that people infected from the bite explode? I saw a few posts mentioning her body, but I never saw her body after the blood splatter, maybe I just missed it. As far as the soldier who was brought in on the stretcher, I just assumed he was bitten or eaten in the stomach. Perhaps it's possible that Marlena didn't explode? Maybe the blood splatter was her throwing up, which is what I initially thought. Like I said, I may have missed the part where you see her body afterwards, in which case my speculation wouldn't be valid, because I think it'd be safe to say she exploded.

[StevenTheCool]

I don't even know how people came up the egg thing.
No little MGPs come out her, and nowhere does it say that even happens, people are just making it up.
She explodes, straight up, just blows up, blood goes over and that's it.
If the little things came out there would have been a lot of gun fire, but there was none.
and the other soldier that was on strecther with his inside gone, how do we even know that this guy was bite? it doesn't say anywhere, a number of things could have happened to him, but i doubt he got bite 'cause all of Marlena's body got bigger, not just her stomache.

[Tsakara]

[Stumper67]

It's not a reproductive function at all... Like others have said here already, it's a chemical reaction from the bite.

These things have never been seen before, we have no clue what they are or if they're even native to the Earth... We have no clue what kind of chemicals or bacteria reside within their mouths.

There are plenty of mixtures of chemicals that can cause this kind of reaction in a person. And, we don't evne know if this chemical is something we know about... They obviously can't stop the reaction, so I'm assuming it's something we don't know about and have never encountered...

[Euchre]

I kind of like the idea of the bite giving you an uber-nasty form of peritonitis, but I would expect an infection potential even from topical exposure like Rob, Lily, and Hud were exposed to. All I'm sure about is that little monster bite = exploding people.

[6slushos]