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122: 235:. He makes mention of a "queer hooting" sound, but attributes it to the exhalation of air prior to fatally transfusing blood from their human victims. Some evidence of audible communication is associated with the Martian Fighting-Machine, which are described emitting siren-like "Aloo, aloo" calls, and the repeated "Ulla, ulla" call (similar to a cry of alarm or despair) that echoes throughout London after the mass death from bacterial infection of the Martians. 25: 571:, the Martians are large, bullish creatures, keeping the two large eyes and tentacles described in the book; but do not seem to possess the beak-like mouth. They meet the same fate as the originals, having caught Earthly diseases. Their fighting-machines are extremely tall, with very long silver legs and numerous appendages, and emit a similar sound to the "Ulla" Wells described. The aliens crash to Earth in 876:; their small lungs (which would have been inadequate in Mars' atmosphere); and the fact that no construction was evident on Mars before the 1894 opposition. Their apparent struggle to move in Earth's gravity is given as a mixture of caution and embellishment in the accounts of Wells, "the known atheist and radical". Challenger further speculates that they came from another solar system in the 207:"round, erect heads, and large eyes in flinty sockets"; however, their fragile physical structure, made up of weak skeletons and muscles, would have been broken by Earth's heavier gravitational pull. It is possible that these creatures are not native Martians, but similar to the Selenites described in Wells's other interplanetary work, 451:, the Martians are short, brown creatures having three-fingered hands with suction cups at the end of long arms and a cyclopean eye divided into three sections: one red, one green, and one blue. The bottom-half of the creature is never fully shown; but blueprints show three legs having each a single suction-cup 517:" can stop them when guns and bombs have failed. At the end of the film, the aliens curiously stand paralysed when infected. Survivors confirm that they were infected by an airborne virus. They are not given the name "Martian" in the film, but are only named "aliens" once in the film, and a few times as " 455:, similar to those on their fingers; other art shows two legs. No description of the alien's internal structure is given; but they are revealed to have blood, and their anemic blood cells are viewed by scientists under a microscope. As in other versions of the story, the Martians succumb to terrestrial 206:
Evidence of a second race of Martian appear in the dominant race's cylindrical transport vessels, presumably for use as their food supply while in transit; however, they are all killed before the Martians reach Earth. These secondary Martians are bipedal, nearly 6 ft (1.83 m) tall, and have
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relegated to the bottom. They have the ability to "possess" human bodies through a process of cell-phase matching, which allows them to carry out their guerrilla war with Humanity undetected. They are incredibly intelligent, able to communicate in seconds over light-years of space, create effective
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which I have seen that are almost as ugly as the face of the Martian ruler. He was of gigantic stature, larger than the majority of his subjects, and as near as I could judge must have been between 15 ft (4.57 m) and 16 ft (4.88 m) in heightI had also learned from that Mars was
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capable of incinerating any organism it strikes. This is mounted on an articulated arm attached to the front of the tall tripod, called a 'fighting-machine' in Wells' novel, which travels across the landscape destroying humans and their habitat. A secondary weapon, the "black smoke", is a toxic gas
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is established as a basis for the look of the invaders and their technology (their war machines bearing no clear dissimilarities), there is no seeming intended continuation. These invaders, depicted only in production art, only differ in certain detail as they appear leaner and their cyclopean eye
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Despite their advancement, the Martians' technology lacks the wheel, and it is implied they are ignorant of disease and decomposition. It is theorized that their advanced technology eliminated whatever indigenous diseases were present on Mars, and so they no longer remembered their effects.
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features a race of extraterrestrials invading Earth by means of gigantic, three-legged machines compatible with Wells' description of "a great body of machinery on a tripod stand"; but these are not used as war-machines, and the extraterrestrials commanding them do not use humans as prey.
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under a military government, and that the military class had absolute control of the planet. I was somewhat startled, then, in looking at the head and centre of the great military system of Mars, to find in his appearance a striking confirmation of the speculations of our terrestrial
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controlled by a single entity inside their mothership. Inside the mothership, humans are kept alive and their blood is filtered, homogenised, and fed to the aliens. They are killed by infected blood injected into the mothership's core, telepathically shutting down the Tripods.
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sporting apparently only a single color. The most notable difference is that these aliens are not stated to be Martians. In part of the series' set-up, humanity sends ships to pursue the defeated invaders. Instead of chasing them to Mars, they are tracked down to the distant
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Physiologically, these creatures have greenish/grey-colored skin, and are tripodal. Each limb ends with three fingers (resembling those from Byron Haskin's 1953 film version), and they also have two small limbs, also with three fingers, on their chest (similar to a
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that was made, a sequel to the 1953 film, goes into more detail with its invaders. When the show begins, there is no mention of Mars (with the exception of one episode in which characters are confusing them with the Martians of the
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refers to it as "lifeblood", though it is described as rose-colored, rather than the film's orange). Their red weed (or creeper) is left behind as residue of their Tripod experiments. In the climactic scene of the film, a downed
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Most versions of the Martians differ from Wells' version. Despite a lack of verbal language in the novel (with the exception of the battle cry, "Aloo"), for example, many versions give them one nevertheless.
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queen). The biological needs of this race are largely unknown. They somehow "ride lightning" in small transport pods during a storm to reach their buried Tripods. They require human
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Communication between the Martians is never made evident, but the narrator, as he sees Martians working together without audible means, concludes that they use
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opens a hatch that belches the liquid before one of the sickly creatures crawls forth. The death of these invaders is evident as they seemingly
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has reduced to only a large brain and head and two groupings of eight tentacles (hands). They are described as sluggish under terrestrial
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The reason the word "Martian" is never said in this film is because my aliens are not from Mars. They probably come from as far away as
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as a memorial to their leader. When a plague forced them to return to Mars, they brought with them a number of humans from the
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describes the aliens as looking like "floating pool chairs". It would appear that these Martians also have a need for human
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that the Martians came from another, wetter planet due to their seeming familiarity with the ocean while battling the
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Based on their physical features, the Martians might be the descendants of a species similar to human beings, that
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indigenous to Earth, causes their destruction here (though the epilogue states they may have successfully invaded
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Guimont, Edward (August 2019), "At the Mountains of Mars: Viewing the Red Planet through a Lovecraftian Lens",
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The Martians' arrival on Earth is aboard large, cylindrical spacecraft launched from some kind of immense
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At the top of the steps on a magnificent golden throne, sat the Emperor himself. There are some busts of
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reverses this, with a Martian survivor helping the British prepare for a counter-invasion of Mars.
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upon their death; but this occurs only in the end, and thus may be a result of their exposure to
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One of the earliest known to take a new spin on the invaders was in a pilot presentation made by
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comic, it is eventually revealed that the Martians came from a planet that exploded to form the
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Kiphshidze, N; Zubiashvili, T; Chagunava, K (October 2005). "The Creation of Space Invaders".
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battle the aliens, it is hinted that the Martians may have accelerated their evolution using
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spill blood that is presumably connected to the invaders' needs (indeed, in the script
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acting as legs. Their feet have mouths having the ability to spit a deadly, corrosive
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One of the earliest names of the race was the Mor-Taxans, from the 1980s TV show. In
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comics, the "Martians" are an extrasolar race who used Mars as a staging area.
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version of the Marvel universe. Killraven, alongside other heroes such as
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Lovecraftian Proceedings No. 3: Papers from Necronomicon Providence 2017
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Ultimately, their lack of knowledge or preparation against any
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with the only sense of division in the form of their ternary
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Race of extraterrestrials from H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds
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The Martians would later have a small appearance in 2010's
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helps the Martians, although he eventually betrays them.
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H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds (David Michael Latt film)
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on Mars. Their chief weapon of war is the Heat-Ray, a
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released from canisters launched at a distance from
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