Handling machine (The War of the Worlds) Handling machine (The War of the Worlds) The Handling machine is one of the fictional machines used by the Martians in H. G. Wells' science fiction novel "The War of the Worlds". It is a crawling device used by the Martians to lift and manipulate other objects. It is one of the four types of heavy machine the Martians bring with them when they invade Earth, along with the fighting machine, the flying machine, and the embankment machine. The handling machine is depicted making, moving, and assembling machinery under control of a single Martian. Handling machines are described as having
Fighting machine (The War of the Worlds) gods (Hera, Hades, Zeus, Poseidon). In the 2005 movie "Chicken Little", alien tripods attack the Earth. The aliens themselves sit inside the tripods and they are similar to "The War of the Worlds" Martians. In the animated superhero film "Ultimate Avengers 2", a race of aliens called the Chitauri invade Earth. Machines resembling Wells' fighting machines are briefly seen attacking London, as a deliberate homage to "The War of the Worlds". In the 2010 TV movie "High Plains Invaders", a Western film about an alien invasion of the American Wild West in the 1890s, the alien antagonists were inspired by