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2	[[caption-width-right:350:"Come on, ''Thunder Child!"'']]
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4	[[AC:Works titled "The War of the Worlds" that have their own subpages:]]
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6	* [[Awesome/TheWarOfTheWorlds1898 The original novel]]
7	* [[Awesome/TheWarOfTheWorlds1953 The 1953 film]]
8	* [[Awesome/WarOfTheWorlds2005 The 2005 Spielberg film]]
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12	* The last stand of HMS ''Thunder Child''. To summarize, as a horde of people are shoving and pushing to escape to safety on a steamer, Tripods bearing down and ready to slaughter them all. [[BigDamnHeroes Out of nowhere]], the ''Thunder Child'' roars into life and charges straight at the Tripods, bringing down two down with torpedo tubes and heavy guns. This earns it a barrage of heat rays, and it just keeps going, trying to ram a third and take that one down as well, before succumbing and vanishing under the waves, saving everyone on the steamer. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb4BWSUV8mM This]] from the Jeff Wayne musical really sums up how freaking awesome this whole bit is.
13	** The scene is so awesome, [[https://musiczone.ie/product/jeff-wayne-jeff-waynes-war-of-the-worlds-various-artists-vinyl/ it adorns the cover]] of the Jeff Wayne version.
14	** One thing in the novels most adaptations forgot: the ''Thunder Child'' was ''antiquated''. It's described as a torpedo ram, a ship made to fight mainly by ramming while firing torpedoes during approach[[note]]The ''Thunder Child'' was anomalous for a torpedo ram, as she's armored, carries heavy guns and is fast for the standard of the late 19th century, when other rams had little armor, small guns, and, being old, were slow[[/note]] whose concept was being abandoned by the end of the 19th century... And this antiquated warship took out three tripods before sinking.
15	** Another thing that is often forgotten is that the ''Thunder Child''[='s=] sacrifice was a holding action: knowing she was antiquated, the Channel Fleet had left her behind so if the Tripods attacked the refugee boats she'd keep them busy just long enough for the ''actual'' warships to come and rescue them. And indeed three battleships arrive at about the same time the ''Thunder Child'' explodes... Except there's nothing for them to fight anymore, all Martians in the area are already dead. Not bad for the ship expected to die in the holding action...
16	* What ultimately ends up helping defeat the aliens in the end? Microbes and germs that the aliens don't have built up immunity and resistances compared to humans and the rest of the living beings who were born and raised on Earth. It goes to show in the end Mother Nature would always find a win or at least fight back with vengeance.

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