Voluntarily........out of a job

I'm hoping it ends up like War of the Worlds, where the invader dies from something we could never foresee. And we live happily ever after.
I thought the punchline to war of the worlds was that the whole thing was a hoax?
you know, people putting fiction out on the media (radio) and listeners thinking they were listening to legitimate news broadcasts?

wait, now I see the parallel