The War of the Worlds

The War of the Worlds is a book written by [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}H. G. Wells|{{#if:||H. G. Wells}}]] that was released in 1898. It is a story about a Martian invasion of Earth. This is obviously preposterous conjecture that no human should take seriously.

Fiction

IDW movie comics

In 1898, Philippe Bowen was reading The War of the Worlds while the rest of the expedition team actually bothered about their expedition. Original

Dark of the Moon novelization

Carly Spencer compared the Decepticon attack on Chicago to The War of the Worlds. Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Notes

The character Theodore Joseph Wells was (last) named after the author of The War of the Worlds.
[[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}The War of the Worlds|{{#if:||The War of the Worlds}}]] was such a success that many adaptations of it have been made. In the context of Transformers, the most notable is [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}The War of the Worlds (radio drama)|{{#if:the original radio adaption|the original radio adaption|The War of the Worlds (radio drama)}}]], directed and narrated by Orson Welles—the original voice of Unicron.
IDW Publishing colorist Josh Burcham took inspiration from the 2005 [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}War of the Worlds (2005 film)|{{#if:film adaptation|film adaptation|War of the Worlds (2005 film)}}]] by Steven Spielberg when illustrating All Hail Megatron.<ref>{{#if: Speaking of.. War of the Worlds [the Spielberg one] was absolutely an inspiration/influence on how I took on colors for All Hail. WotW had a really cool visual look with its colors/blown out whites/atmo that I really dug and tried to bring over. This scene def = the tripod intro https://t.co/p0ggddmsjr |"Speaking of.. War of the Worlds [the Spielberg one] was absolutely an inspiration/influence on how I took on colors for All Hail. WotW had a really cool visual look with its colors/blown out whites/atmo that I really dug and tried to bring over. This scene def = the tripod intro https://t.co/p0ggddmsjr"—|}}{{#if: https://twitter.com/jcburcham/status/1324498410318274565 |Josh Burcham|Josh Burcham}}{{#if: Twitter |, Twitter|}}{{#if: |, ""|}}{{#if: 2020 |, 2020{{#if: 11 |/{{#switch:{{#len:11}}|1=011|11}}{{#if: 05|/{{#switch:{{#len:05}}|1=005|05}}|}}}}|}}{{#if: https://twitter.com/jcburcham/status/1324498410318274565 ||}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://twitter.com/jcburcham/status/1324498410318274565%7C7%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://twitter.com/jcburcham/status/1324498410318274565%7C8%7C11}}%7Cweb.archive= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://twitter.com/jcburcham/status/1324498410318274565%7C7%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#switch:{{#sub:https://twitter.com/jcburcham/status/1324498410318274565%7C8%7C10}}%7Carchive.is= (archive link)|}}{{#if: | (dead link)}}</ref>
The premise of the Rescue Bots episode "The Alien Invasion of Griffin Rock" is heavily based upon stories of the public panic that followed the broadcast of the aforementioned radio adaptation. Likewise, Crustaceans from the Cosmos serves as an in-universe analogue, having been broadcast around the same time with a similar-sounding announcer, exhibiting a similar effect on its listeners.

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