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[AngelWylde]

 Didja Notice...

[imnutty]

couple of Gruesome looking characters there if you know what i mean

[Phoenixka]

I highly doubt the creatures are laying eggs. I've never heard of an animal that laid eggs through it's mouth and definently not in the short instance marlena was bitten in. Now I know this is a movie so the little guys could have "omg!!! super egg injectorz", but I doubt it.

Now I guess it could be possible that they have some sort of virus in their venom that gradually reconstructs cells into one of those critters and as stated before humans do not have enough mass to contain one of the critters so they explode, but we do not see anything running out of Marlena so she just blows up.

Now with my previous virus theory it might be possible that the virus causes rapid reproduction of cells making people explode.

Alot of people are talking about gastric gasses, but wouldn't it take a long time for gases like that to build up? Marlena pretty much get bits and blows up within an hour.

I do like some of the bug bite theories though. She turned into a giant puss ball and exploded.

[Derringer]

[6slushos]

[Saiyan King]

I thought of it like an infection reaction too. Theres some poisonous snakes in Asia, that if youre bit by them, say in the arm, the arm swells to the point that the skin can tear. Maybe the bite caused an infection that causes the blood vessels or the blood cells themselves to swell to the point of bursting. It was blood afterall and not puss that sprayed all over the sheet

[6slushos]

[Zaggs]

I thought the things were tics or something that just fell off the body. Their bits or like mosquitos, the target swells up. Which is fine for the monster, but a human which is so very much smaller....goes pop. They're in quarantine because they don't know what is involved nor if it can be spread. Thats why they bring in one of the ticks in a incubator type thing, to study.

[gypsy songman]

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[Aquastorm]

Maybe he got sliced through the waist-line, so his upper torso managed to fall down back in front of the camera becuase MGP is a messy eater...

[Zaggs]

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[Slusho Addict]

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[Fignut the Elder]

[MissKatey]

So about them little critters...

The problem is with the way she explodes. Her entire body swells, not just her abdomen. Unless the intestinal gasses simply "pushed" everything outward, it might be something circulatory.

The other thing we seem to forget is that you can't create something from nothing. The only way she can expand that much is if her body fluids (or solids) are transformed into gasses. She simply doesn't have that much fluid in her body to begin with.

I also have a problem with the idea of babies being the mechanical cause of her demise. If they got big and strong enough to open her up, what have they been eating all this time? She would have been in extreme pain and noticed the loss of that much tissue or blood.

Not to say that the parasites couldn't have injected her with eggs. It's possible that their ovipositors are really close to their mouths. Perhaps the poison or bacteria in the saliva (symbiosis anyone?) is an agent to release microscopic babies when the host explodes.

Also, we don't know what the medics were doing to her behind the curtain. Maybe they have a way of killing the babies pre-explosion that doesn't involve gunshots.

Quarantine makes sense whether the military believes the bite contagious or not. If your blood is going everywhere, all your nice blood-born diseases go with it. That might be reason enough.

Soooo, in short, there are a lot of things it could be. I don't think we have enough info yet, but the references to poisons causing gasses to expand in the natural world would make me lean towards those.

[Fignut the Elder]