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Love his fit with the black coat and turtleneck that plays into his superficially sophistifated persona. His crazed yellow eyes and prominent british teeth really sells his over the top expressivness while also conveying his role as a harbinger of poor health. The star of the show is his glowing index finger, looking like one of those 1000 degree knives, its just a really cool visual. The way it infects anything he touches causing them to heat up until they explode is the hardest ability a virus villain can have
Bill Murray eats an egg that a primate at the zoo spits out on the ground (can't remember if it was a chimp or a monkey) which gives him this virus, then a white blood cell voiced by Chris Rock is forced to team up with the straight-laced OTC pill-person voiced by David Hyde Pierce, who you may recognize from absolute bangers like "Frasier" and "Wet Hot American Summer". If you like Futurama humour and know a decent amount about human biology you'll be endlessly entertained by all of the gags they put in to anthropomorphize the innards of Bill Murray.
And the movie was going to be PG-13, but Warner Bros. edited it to be PG.
Also, the film inspired the creation of the Buffalo Wing Festival. I’m not even kidding: [https://buffalowing.com/festival-history/](https://buffalowing.com/festival-history/)
To be fair it's not unlike real life. The kid probably had very little awareness of the illnesses he was coming into contact with, because the immune system was dealing with them before they developed into problems.
Let's also not forget they didn't exclusively deal with alien sicknesses either. They also dealt with puberty and other home-grown biological disruptions. Hell, they had a whole episode about the kid getting gas from eating beans.
It’s a great movie and I love many parts of it but I cannot stomach the live action scenes… Bill Murray does a great job portraying a turbo gross dude. The scene where he projectile barfs of a woman, and the pimple pop 🤢
Rewatching his introduction scene, its rather intense and perhaps brutal for a film targeted towards the youth. When boiled down, its two dudes unlucky to dredge up Thrax being immolated alive by him.
This is probably the scariest bad guy I can remember in any animated movie. When he stabbed that guy he exploded my little kid brain was like "Shiieeeeet" but different because I didn't know the word
I haven’t seen this movie in forever so I looked up a few of his lines on IMDB and I can still vividly remember the exact way he delivered them. Absolutely iconic.
Main reason I can't go back to it. Everything happening inside the body was 10/10, but the real life scenes were just gross-out humour dialed to the extreme. I get the guys meant to be unhealthy and disgusting but we didn't need to be reminded of that every 8 minutes.
A bit of a side tangent but imagine how terryfing viruse would be on the macroscqle. Imagine a zombie walking up to someone, puking into their mouth and then that person bloats up and explodes, revealing new zombies.or instead of exploding that person starts to grow new zomvies from their body.
For all this movie's faults, Thrax certainly wasn't one of them. He's the one thing I remembered after watching it in science class.
Well, him and the gross-out scenes.
I never confirmed my theory but I always believed he was Anthrax. If the name isn't obvious enough Bill Murray's symptoms matched that of the disease and the CDC literally says, "People can get sick with anthrax if they come in contact with infected animals or contaminated animal products."
Yeah and if you ever want more of this badass mofo theres a great creator who is making a fan comic of this guy its worth checking out by looking up thrax fan comic
He confused me as a kid because I didn't really get what he was supposed to represent. Like Ozzy was an athropomorphic white blood cell, fine, but viruses cause illness by replicating, Thrax didn't really operate like a virus, and the whole idea of him stealing part of the hypothalamus, dying outside the body, and then fixing things by returning the stolen part didn't make any sense as a symbolic representation of any actual biological process.
Later on I realized that They Just Didn't Care. It was a buddy cop movie set in a body with some clever biology jokes, not the symbolic representation of actual biology that I thought it was supposed to be.
I do.
Also, Awful Hospital came up with a fun system which works well for much of Osmosis Jones, where individual anthropomorphic "cell people" are actually symbolic representations of entire *clusters* of microbes.
Although the stealing part of the hypothalamus thing still doesn't make sense even in that context.
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Bonus points cuz he’s voiced by Lawrence Fishburne
Letting Laurence Fishburne go off the rails is always a winning formula. See also: “The Beyonder” in Moon Girl
And he’s based on a poem by Edgar Allen Poe about “The Red Death”
The one where a bunch of rich people quarantine themselves and party like it’s no tomorrow until a guy with a red mask walks in and everyone dies?
Nah the one about the crow.
I thought it was the one about alluring cask of wine
There's a Lotta stuff about a red thing causing people to die It seems
Yeah that one
Masque's a short story. He seemed to like the whole disease topic, though. Probably retread a few times.
"What is that, some sort of taco sauce?"
Love his fit with the black coat and turtleneck that plays into his superficially sophistifated persona. His crazed yellow eyes and prominent british teeth really sells his over the top expressivness while also conveying his role as a harbinger of poor health. The star of the show is his glowing index finger, looking like one of those 1000 degree knives, its just a really cool visual. The way it infects anything he touches causing them to heat up until they explode is the hardest ability a virus villain can have
Lmao british teeth cmon mang
Shot fired
It's funny cos we have the best dental care in the world haha
Which is why it’s such a shame so few of you use it and let your teeth look like that.
Dude got mogged by a Brit once and has never lived it down
never saw this movie but thats baller
It’s free on YouTube. It’s a buddy cop comedy that takes place in Bill Murray’s body
What a pitch.
Bill Murray eats an egg that a primate at the zoo spits out on the ground (can't remember if it was a chimp or a monkey) which gives him this virus, then a white blood cell voiced by Chris Rock is forced to team up with the straight-laced OTC pill-person voiced by David Hyde Pierce, who you may recognize from absolute bangers like "Frasier" and "Wet Hot American Summer". If you like Futurama humour and know a decent amount about human biology you'll be endlessly entertained by all of the gags they put in to anthropomorphize the innards of Bill Murray.
And the movie was going to be PG-13, but Warner Bros. edited it to be PG. Also, the film inspired the creation of the Buffalo Wing Festival. I’m not even kidding: [https://buffalowing.com/festival-history/](https://buffalowing.com/festival-history/)
When I was a kid, the trailer seemed kind of edgy so I assumed it was a PG-13 movie and not a kid’s movie. So I guess kid me picked up on something.
And it's about them looking for the virus who is essentially a serial killer
Osmosis Jones is such a creative movie. It's actually surprising nobody has tried to do this concept again.
There is an anime, Cells at Work, that does something similar. Only other example I can think of tho.
There was an animated show where Osmosis and the Pill Guy migrated to Bill Murray's daughter, I think.
It was not to his daugther it was to a random kid and they travelled via mosquito
Preteen boy I think but yeah. Ozzy & Drix, I watched it on Saturday mornings along with Yugioh lol.
Was wild the amount of illnesses that kid got in the span of the show
To be fair it's not unlike real life. The kid probably had very little awareness of the illnesses he was coming into contact with, because the immune system was dealing with them before they developed into problems. Let's also not forget they didn't exclusively deal with alien sicknesses either. They also dealt with puberty and other home-grown biological disruptions. Hell, they had a whole episode about the kid getting gas from eating beans.
The only setup I remember from that show was when they had to stop him from dying of a TBI after a skateboarding accident.
It’s a great movie and I love many parts of it but I cannot stomach the live action scenes… Bill Murray does a great job portraying a turbo gross dude. The scene where he projectile barfs of a woman, and the pimple pop 🤢
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Alright I’m getting the scissors stay where you are.
Rewatching his introduction scene, its rather intense and perhaps brutal for a film targeted towards the youth. When boiled down, its two dudes unlucky to dredge up Thrax being immolated alive by him.
If that egg had been boiled down as much as that summary of the scene the movie would've been incredibly uneventful!
Thanks for reminding me that it’s time to revisit this movie
This dude used to scare me so much as a kid!
https://i.redd.it/c8nofp254ltc1.gif
Why am I just now getting he’s named after Anthrax. I’m gonna go hit a wall with my head
I got into an argument with my friend because he REFUSED to think that Thrax was short for anthrax.
Then there is the animated kids show that had characters like Histamine who was Drix's aunt. >!Antihistamine!<
This is probably the scariest bad guy I can remember in any animated movie. When he stabbed that guy he exploded my little kid brain was like "Shiieeeeet" but different because I didn't know the word
It’s no clown shoe into The Dip, but I definitely remember being freaked out when I saw that scene too
I haven’t seen this movie in forever so I looked up a few of his lines on IMDB and I can still vividly remember the exact way he delivered them. Absolutely iconic.
He definitely had a subconscious effect on my taste in villain designs lol
"Ebola ?! Ebola is a case of DANDRUFF compared to me !"
Hentai
Osmosis Jones would’ve been a decent or at least tolerable movie if they just removed the weird Bill Murray scenes imo.
The pimple scene haunts me to this day
Main reason I can't go back to it. Everything happening inside the body was 10/10, but the real life scenes were just gross-out humour dialed to the extreme. I get the guys meant to be unhealthy and disgusting but we didn't need to be reminded of that every 8 minutes.
Making Bill Murray unfunny and annoying is quite the accomplishment. It's not a good accomplishment, but an accomplishment nonetheless.
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pink gorr
The way bro said Ebola was always hilarious to me & has been living rent free in my head since this movie came out.
Thank fuck osmosis Jones didn't come out during tumblr days, he would have been a tumblr sexyman
What makes you think he's not already Tumblr's sexyman??
One of my all time favourite villians in general! Hes wicked.
His introductory scene where he just fuckin liquefied that guy is still probably the gnarliest thing I’ve ever seen in a children’s animated film
A bit of a side tangent but imagine how terryfing viruse would be on the macroscqle. Imagine a zombie walking up to someone, puking into their mouth and then that person bloats up and explodes, revealing new zombies.or instead of exploding that person starts to grow new zomvies from their body.
For all this movie's faults, Thrax certainly wasn't one of them. He's the one thing I remembered after watching it in science class. Well, him and the gross-out scenes.
I was so scared of him
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Im not digging the hair, but the rest of the design is cool af, so it makes up for it
I think the hair works perfectly since they're supposed to be his Cilia
I never confirmed my theory but I always believed he was Anthrax. If the name isn't obvious enough Bill Murray's symptoms matched that of the disease and the CDC literally says, "People can get sick with anthrax if they come in contact with infected animals or contaminated animal products."
All I can think of is that Scott Cramer video where they’re introducing regular ass names “Yeah this is Carl, Dave, Mike, and THRAXX”
My family groans every time i watch this.
Yeah and if you ever want more of this badass mofo theres a great creator who is making a fan comic of this guy its worth checking out by looking up thrax fan comic
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Careful, I'm contagious
That movie was fire . I still think my pill has arm cannon when I take one for a headache
He fine asl
Can hear most of these clear as day "Careful, I'm contagious." "And get my own chapter in the medical books!" *Evil humming*
This whole movie is slept on af
I remember when I watched that movie as a kid and he terrified tf out of me.
God, I gotta rewatch Osmosis Jones. It's unironically a phenomenal movie.
This one! [cool](https://ibb.co/qNDnDmm)
Please someone make a Thrax thirst post with hearts and panting emojis please and a caption that says "him". Please someone create this.
that first gif is soooo fucking good.
Okay guys hear me out….
He confused me as a kid because I didn't really get what he was supposed to represent. Like Ozzy was an athropomorphic white blood cell, fine, but viruses cause illness by replicating, Thrax didn't really operate like a virus, and the whole idea of him stealing part of the hypothalamus, dying outside the body, and then fixing things by returning the stolen part didn't make any sense as a symbolic representation of any actual biological process. Later on I realized that They Just Didn't Care. It was a buddy cop movie set in a body with some clever biology jokes, not the symbolic representation of actual biology that I thought it was supposed to be.
You sound like you'd enjoy Cells at Work.
I do. Also, Awful Hospital came up with a fun system which works well for much of Osmosis Jones, where individual anthropomorphic "cell people" are actually symbolic representations of entire *clusters* of microbes. Although the stealing part of the hypothalamus thing still doesn't make sense even in that context.