Sandbox / The War Of The Worlds 2

"The Martians fire their gas-guns."
by Henrique Alvim Corrêa

The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells about a Martian invasion of Earth. The Trope Maker for Alien Invasion stories (as well as Tripod Terror), it has been directly adapted into other works of media numerous times, and inspired countless others.

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Adaptations

Comic Books

• H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (2006)

Films — Live-Action

• The War of the Worlds (1953)
• War of the Worlds (2005)
• H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005)
• H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (2005)

Live-Action TV

• War of the Worlds (2019)
• The War of the Worlds (2019)

Music

• Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (1978)
  • Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds – The New Generation (2012)

Radio

• The War of the Worlds (1938)

Tabletop Games

• The War of the Worlds (1980)
• The War of the Worlds: Invasion (2020)

Video Games

• Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (1998)
  • Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds (1999)

Sequels

Comic Books

• Scarlet Traces (2002)
• War of the Worlds: Second Wave (2006)

Films — Animated

• War of the Worlds: Goliath (2012)

Films — Live-Action

• War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008)

Literature

• The Massacre of Mankind (2017)

Live-Action TV

• War of the Worlds (1988—1990)

Tabletop Games

• All Quiet on the Martian Front (2014)
• War of the Worlds: The New Wave (2019)

Reinterpretations

Comic Books

• Killraven (1973)
• Sherlock Holmes in the Case of the Missing Martian (1990)
• Superman: War of the Worlds (1998)
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Volume 2 (2002)
• War of the World War One (2016—2019)

Literature

• War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches (1996)
• War of the Worlds: The Anglo-Martian War of 1895 (2015)

Film — Live-Action

• War of the Worlds: The True Story (2012)

Tabletop Games

• Wings of Glory: Tripods and Triplanes (2019)

Parodies

Radio

• Bleak Expectations (2008): "A Happy Life Broken and then Mended a Bit".

Western Animation

• The Simpsons (2006): "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid" of "Treehouse of Horror XVII".

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