Comparison Point One: The World’s End as a homage to The War of the Worlds

These two end scenes are quite similar, as the invading aliens are defeated, but the Earth has suffered because of it. In The War of the Worlds, cities around the world are destroyed by the aliens, but The World’s End takes this idea further and completely destroys all form of civilisation. However, it does it in a way that is a homage to The War of the Worlds, as audiences who are familiar with the genre of science-fiction would recognise the similarities between the endings of these two films.