Comic book know the Pied Piper as The Flash ’s enemy, but he didn’t come up with his schtick out of

Comic book know the Pied Piper as The Flash ’s enemy, but he didn’t come up with his schtick out of

the blue. He got it from the story character, the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a mysterious individual who arrived in a town that was being overrun by rats. He offered to guide the vermin out of town using his special flute for a price, and the townsfolk agreed. The Piper subsequently used his flute’s hypnotic power to lure the rats into the river, but when the mayor didn’t pay him as promised, the Piper controlled the town’s children and lured them away as well. Such a story for the big screen would be too scary for children and even sketchy for a horror movie, so Pied Piper should be reimagined as a mischievous, but good character, for a kid’s movie. He uses his flute too mess around with nearby towns, but when a threat endangers everyone, he has to use the flute to protect them.