History YMMV / JeffWaynesMusicalVersionOfTheWarOfTheWorlds

** This is taken UpToEleven in the ''New Generation'' stage show where not only is the heat ray seen "dancing" multiple times, but there are also two occasions where it thrashes around like something out of a comedic VideoGame/GarrysMod machinima. Luckily, they appear to have toned it back down a bit when they updated the film (again) for the Final Arena Tour.

* UncannyValley: The first version of the Journalist from the 2006 tour, which had Richard Burton's face projected onto an egg-shaped surface in similar fashion to the singing busts from Disney's Haunted Mansion.

---> [[spoiler:Beth! She's ''dead!'']] Satan, why did you take one of your own?

** This is taken UpToEleven in the ''New Generation'' stage show where not only is the heat ray seen "dancing" multiple times, but there are also two occasions where it thrashes around as if it was having an epileptic seizure. Luckily, they appear to have toned it back down a bit when they updated the film (again) for the Final Arena Tour.

* {{Narm}}: In the stage show, as shown in the 2006 live DVD. Most of the background film being synchronised with the music works really well, but the "dancing heatray" during ''Horsell Common'' looks a bit silly.
** This is taken UpToEleven in the ''New Generation'' stage show where not only is the heat ray seen "dancing" multiple times, but there are also two occasions where it thrashes around as if it was having an epileptic seizure. Luckily, they appear to have toned it back down a bit when they updated the film (again) for the Final Arena Tour.
** During an emotional moment in the "Thunderchild" song ("flashing heat-rays pierced the deck"), the word "pierced" can unfortunately be misheard as "pissed".
** If you don't find the cry of ''Ulla'' scary, it's going to sound awfully silly.

--> ''Like the sun through the trees you came to love me,/ Like a leaf on the breeze you blew away...''

* {{Mondegreen}}: During an emotional moment in the "Thunder Child" song ("flashing heat-rays pierced the deck"), the word "pierced" can unfortunately be misheard as "pissed".

* NightmareFuel: The bass guitar intro of ''Horsell Common''.
** On ''The New Generation'' just before that track starts, there is a series of eerie whispering as the bassline fades in.
** "Epilogue Pt. 2" can be this, especially on the ''New Generation'' album.
-->'''Martians:''' The problem is, of course, the ''humans''...

** {{Mondegreen}}: During an emotional moment in the "Thunder Child" song ("flashing heat-rays pierced the deck"), the word "pierced" can unfortunately be misheard as "pissed".

* MemeticMutation: Would it be safe to say that "UUUUUUUUULLLLLLAAAAAAAAAA" has reached memetic status?

* {{Narm}}: In the stage show, as shown in the 2006 live DVD. Most of the background film being synchronised with the music works really well, but the "dancing heatray" during ''Horsell Common'' looks a bit silly.
** This is taken UpToEleven in the ''New Generation'' stage show where not only is the heat ray seen "dancing" multiple times, but there are also two occasions where it thrashes around as if it was having an epileptic seizure. Luckily, they appear to have toned it back down a bit when they updated the film (again) for the Final Arena Tour.
** During an emotional moment in the "Thunderchild" song ("flashing heat-rays pierced the deck"), the word "pierced" can unfortunately be misheard as "pissed".
** If you don't find the cry of ''Ulla'' scary, it's going to sound awfully silly.

* TearJerker: The brave, outnumbered, outgunned, glorious charge of the HMS ''Thunderchild'' [[YouShallNotPass desperately fighting off three tripods to save some escaping civilian ships.]]

* FridgeLogic: The second part of the epilogue is pretty spooky until it dawns on you that it doesn't make much sense. Why would NASA send a mission to Mars despite ''knowing'' that the Martians are a threat to human civilisation? Are we to assume NASA think the apocalypse that befell England in the 1890s simply didn't happen? Surely humanity would be wary of space and would have possibly armed itself against another Martian invasion by then!

* TheWoobie: Parson Nathaniel in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vVxiSx1Nvs cut song of the same name]], in which he despairs over the loss of his church to the Martian invasion and wonders what sins he and his fallen followers have committed to deserve this punishment.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic
* CultClassic
* EpicRiff: ''Eve of the War''
** And the [[EarWorm spine-tingling]] riff from ''Horsell Common'' immediately after the above track.
** ''Wee-oo, wee-oo, wee-oo...''

* EarWorm:
** ''The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one he said. The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one. But still, they cooooooooome.''