Martian (The War of the Worlds) antagonists are the "squid-walkers", a cybernetic race of tripods 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. In the film "H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds", the Martians are large, bulkish 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
The War of the Worlds special was aired to parody "The War of the Worlds". The costumes that the main characters wore referenced a species from "Star Trek". A 2001 animated series of Justice League begins with a three-part saga called "Secret Origins" and features tripod machines invading and attacking the city. "The Great Martian War 1913–1917" is a 2013 made-for-television science fiction film docudrama that adapts "The War of the Worlds" and unfolds in the style of an episode of the History TV Channel. The film is an alternate history of World War I in which Europe and its allies, including America, fight the