personally, I think they dumb like cattle
also by ”dumb” I mean “not as intelligent as humans”
Have a meme I stole!
OG meme: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarofTheWorlds/comments/1dcw9a9/me_and_the_boys/
Martian intro will be next. Hope you enjoy these panels until then!
Someone had to do this eventually so it might as well be me!
share this posts with all your friends so you can totally martian them!
Venus: *Rages in love and beauty*
in all seriousness though, the three heat rays look fire (no pun intended).
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxFY5OdirK8
Context: It’s an April fools video by The Operations Room where he documents two scene from two alien invasion movies as if they were real, those being Independence Day and The War of the Worlds. In the second half of the video, he goes into detail of the Thunder Child battle in possibly the most book accurate way I’ve ever seen. (as for those wondering, he goes over the black knights scene for the first half of the video.)
“Jenkins, fetch me my heat ray!”
Ulla!
“I’ll make you eat those words!” -Duo/Mimic
(art by me)
”Standing firm between them… there lay Dustdevil!”
Note: All ships are unintentional. I had more but they didn’t have Whisper so they wouldn’t fit the sub.
Free to use :D
I tried putting WOTW in a fantasy-ish setting (going with victorian instead of medieval)
Yes, the tripods aren’t book accurate. Watcha gonna do about it?
(note: this is my AU I use for my satire posts, so don’t freak out abt anything)
Original vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1-6IAI6X3s&list=PLDB9F15BA8F1E341F&index=6
(Gnikow, east of Nodnol)
Spafstig: “Who are you?”
Jimmy: “We’re the Nodnol Mafia, you Joe?”
Spafstig: “No, who’s Joe?”
Jimmy: “Don’t mess with me…”
Spafstig: “Excuse me?”
Jimmy: “You know who I am!”
Spafstig: ”No, I don’t.”
Jimmy: “I’m Jimmy, “The Weasel”, I own the small pizza place back in Nodnol.”
Spafstig: “Right, and?”
Jimmy: ”You talkin’ to me aren’t you Joe?”
Spafstig: “Look, for the last time, I’m not Joe. Now, please kindly leave, we have enough problems with the humans and their army destroying machines if you haven’t noticed.”
Jimmy: “Look Joe, you owe us 15,000 Crimcoins for that pizza you bought and didn’t pay for. You left without paying you lousy smuck.
Spafstig: “I’m not Joe, I can’t help you with that right now, and I’ve never met you before!”
Jimmy: “So Joe, you don't wanna pay, eh? Well, let’s see what happens when people don’t pay “the weasel”.”
*A bunch of other people show up holding heat rays*
Jimmy: “Get ‘im boys!”
Spafstig: “What the-“
(back with the narrator)
I got news that the humans had been gone for an hour or two from Gnikow. I dreaded going back because I knew that my house was either destroyed, or gone. I guess there was only one way to find out.
*walking montage*
Luckily, the town was still mostly intact. Some sections of wall in my house had caved in. I could rebuild, but it would be too dangerous. All I could do was-
*Heat ray zapping*
Narrator: “I thought they said they were gone!”
(The narrator stumbles into a war zone directly into the front line.)
Soldier 1: “Quickly! Get down!”
Soldier 2: “Incoming!”
*Heat rays continue zapping*
Soldier 3: “Hold fire!”
Narrator: “Holy moons! They have heat rays now?”
Soldier 1: “It’s not the humans! It’s other people!”
Narrator: “What are they shooting at us for?”
Soldier 1: “They call themselves “The Nodnol Mafia”. We found them in this town.”
Narrator: “What the?- They just randomly started shooting?”
Soldier 1: “Well, they just asked us where “Joe” was and then asked us for money he owes them, and I said that we don’t know a “Joe” and then they fired at us and they shot poor Spafstig in the tentacle! Now they won’t stop and have build up a defense line over there.”
Narrator: “First humans, now this? Could it get any worse?”
Soldier 1: Get out of here, this IS going to get worse, now run! Go!”
*Narrator runs away as the Mafia get wrecked by hidden handling machines*
I once again found myself in Teelfyb. the entire town was turned to ruins. Through the fog I found the outlines of a wooden house and I headed towards it.
???: “Halt! Who goes there?”
Narrator: “Uhh, a friend!”
???: “Be on your way, this is my town!”
Narrator: “Your town? What do you mean?”
???: “Wait a minute, it’s you! The man from Gnikow!”
Narrator: “Good heavens! The tripod pilot! I thought you surely died!”
Tripod Pilot: “Same, I wouldn’t‘ve thought you’d be so lucky. Do come in!”
Once inside, I saw someone, the one who was with me in the underground bunker.”
Narrator: “See any humans?”
Tripod Pilot: “Everywhere, we’re don’t for alright.”
Narrator: “We can’t just give up!”
Tripod Pilot: “Of course we can’t! It’s now we’ve got to start fighting! Not against them ‘cause we can’t win. Now, we’ve got to fight for survival! I reckon we can make it! I’ve got a plan!”
George: “Not again...”
Tripod Pilot: “Look, they clap eyes on us and we’re dead, right So we’re gonna make a new life where they’ll never find us! you know where? Underground!”
*George slaps the tripod pilot*
George: “Stop that! All our digging machines got destroye! We can’t build underground!”
Tripod Pilot: Rude. Uhh, anyway, all that walking must’ve tired you out. How ‘bout a drink, eh? Nothing but Starshine now I’m the boss!”
We drank, and the tripod pilot talked more about his plan, but the rest of us just ignored him. Then the tripod pilot insisted on doing some fun activities. With our kind on the verge of extermination, with no prospect but a horrible end, we actually played games!
I kept thinking about flames flashing in the deep blue night, green weed glowing, and war machine figures moving distantly. I put down my Starshine glass. I felt a traitor to my kind, but I knew I had to leave this strange dreamer.
*depressed walking montage*
Sunday, 5 PM. I was Nodnol and noticed over a dozen dead bodies by the road. All was still, shops closed but looters had helped themselves to whatever they could find, houses locked and empty.
URA!!
I stopped, searching for the sound, but it was too foggy to see anything over 10 meters away from me.
URA!!
The desolating cry worked upon my mind. Why was I wondering through this city of the dead? Why was I alive when Nodnol was lying in this state of black shroud? I felt intolerably lonely, drifting from street to empty street.
URA!!
I then saw the war machine in which the howling came. I was right in its view, but it didn’t do anything. I ran across the street, there stood a second machine as still as the first.
UUURRRRAAAAAAAA-
…
Abruptly, the sound ceased. Suddenly the desolation, the solitude, became unendurable. While that voice made Nodnol feel at least somewhat alive. Now suddenly there was a change, the passing of something, and all that remained that this gaunt quite.
I looked up and saw a third machine. It was still and motionless like the others. An insane resolve possessed me, I would give my life to the humans here and now.
I sprinted down the road. I felt no fear, only a wild trembling exultation as I ran towards the motionless monster. At last I reached it, and scattered about near it were its human pilots, dead! Slain by their own negligence of the very thing they need to survive! Air, minute invisible air!
The atmospheres of Mars and Terra are very different. Mars’ atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide, the gas we martians breathe. But Terra’s was a mix of nitrogen and oxygen, the latter of which humans breathed. When we invaded Terra, we used special technology so we could breathe Terra’s air. But the humans didn’t have this, and need oxygen tanks to invade us. However, their oxygen supply was limited and now they had used it all up. The moment they landed, there were doomed!