WARNING: Contains War Of The Worlds spoilers!

With an impressive haul of $102 million USD in its first five days in theatres, War Of The Worlds has given Tom Cruise his biggest film opening yet. And we all know what that means: a film-development slate studded with rip-offs. In previous adaptations of H.G. Wells's classic novella, the alien invaders are killed by a means non-fatal to humans: the common cold; in the current version, it's unspecified bacteria in drinking water, to which humans are also immune. But what are some of the ways aliens are overcome in the War Of The Worlds-ian movies we should expect to see in the near future? Fametracker has a compendium of sure-fire alien-killers from all the Worlds-inspired projects on the development fast track:

Smog

Salmonella

Sucked into the works on an escalator

Heroin overdose

Athlete's foot

Loneliness

Sleeping on indifferently laundered sheets still containing "body soil"

Hay fever

Epileptic fit brought on by Japanese animation

Choking on fish bone

Touching third rail

Sticker shock

Feline AIDS

Sucked into vacuum toilet

Infected nail bed from manicure at dirty salon

Falling down a well

Didn't wear seatbelt, got thrown through cab windshield in collision with SUV

Pinkeye

March Madness

Peanut allergy

Postpartum depression

Mauled by bears

Autoerotic asphyxiation