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The film starts with the townspeople of Hamelin doing their daily chores, while showing the audience just how petty and greedy the people are. One day however, the people end up wasting so much food that a SwarmOfRats move into town and quickly take over. Not long after, the Pied Piper himself comes into town, offering to solve the town's rat problem in exchange for 1,000 gold coins. A deal is struck, and he uses his MindControlMusic to flush out the rats and drive them into the river, where they drown.
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The film starts with the townspeople of Hamelin doing their daily chores, while showing the audience just how petty and greedy the people are. One day however, the people end up wasting so much food that Before long, a SwarmOfRats move moves into town the town, stealing food and quickly take over. Not long jewels, and generally causing a nuisance. Soon after, the Pied Piper himself comes into town, offering to solve the town's rat problem in exchange for 1,000 gold coins. A deal is struck, and he uses his MindControlMusic to flush out the rats and drive them into the river, where they drown.
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* ClockPunk: The movie opens with shots of clockwork "behind the scenes" of the movie, prompting the sun to rise and the town's bell to ring.The townsfolk wake up almost mechanically, sticking their heads out their windows like birds in a massive cuckoo clock. This, combined with the movie's deliberately-crude wooden puppets and DerangedAnimation, gives the whole movie the feel of an elaborate clockwork machine.
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* ClockPunk: The movie opens with shots of clockwork "behind the scenes" of the movie, prompting the sun to rise and the town's bell to ring. The townsfolk wake up almost mechanically, sticking their heads out their windows like birds in a massive cuckoo clock. This, combined with the movie's deliberately-crude wooden puppets and DerangedAnimation, gives the whole movie the feel of an elaborate clockwork machine.
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* JabbaTableManners: The town leaders themselves, who eat noisily, messily, and voraciously. The mess in particular is what initially attracts the rats.
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* JabbaTableManners: The town leaders themselves, leaders, who eat noisily, messily, and voraciously. The mess in particular is what initially attracts the rats.voraciously.
* LightIsGood: Nearly all of the character puppets are made from walnut wood, a fairly dark material. The single exception is the innocent and beautiful Wool-Spinner, who is made from maple, a much lighter and paler kind of wood.
* LonersAreFreaks: The more positive version of this trope. The Fisherman and the Wool-Spinner both live outside the town proper, and have very few interactions with the other characters. As such, they are the only ones uncorrupted by the town.
* LonersAreFreaks: The more positive version of this trope. The Fisherman and the Wool-Spinner both live outside the town proper, and have very few interactions with the other characters. As such, they are the only ones uncorrupted by the town.
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* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Early in the film, a round of haggling between two of the villagers becomes a screaming match over a matter of a quarter of a coin. As it goes on, their faces become increasingly detailed and distorted.
* NamelessNarrative: Because there's [[SpeakingSimlish no real dialogue]], not a single character in the movie is given a name.
* NamelessNarrative: Because there's [[SpeakingSimlish no real dialogue]], not a single character in the movie is given a name.
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* MinorInjuryOverreaction: Early in the film, a round of haggling between two of the villagers becomes a screaming match over a matter of a quarter of a coin. As it goes on, their faces become [[GrossUpCloseUp increasingly detailed detailed]] and distorted.
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* NamelessNarrative: Because there's [[SpeakingSimlish no real dialogue]], not a single character in the movie is given a name. Some supplementary material refers to the Wool-Spinner as Agnes, but [[AllThereInTheManual this is never made clear anywhere in the film itself]].
* NamelessNarrative: Because there's [[SpeakingSimlish no real dialogue]], not a single character in the movie is given a name. Some supplementary material refers to the Wool-Spinner as Agnes, but [[AllThereInTheManual this is never made clear anywhere in the film itself]].
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** InvoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler: He turns the villagers into rats at the end.]]
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** {{Downplayed}} with the Fisherman, who has a similar design to most of the townspeople, but his design is softer looking compared to the other townspeople. He does nothing wrong, and [[spoiler: is spared at the end.]]
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** {{Downplayed}} with the Fisherman, who has a similar design to most of the townspeople, but his design is softer looking compared to the other townspeople.others. He does nothing wrong, and [[spoiler: is spared at the end.]]
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* DarkIsNotEvil: The Piper might look scary and menacing, but he's mostly harmless and doesn't really hurt anyone but the rats. He also doesn't take action against the town of Hamelin after they cheat him out of his payment, and is initially willing to just walk away. It's not until [[spoiler:he finds the innocent woman dead after the Jeweler and two other elites assault and kill her, at which at that point, all bets are off and he makes the whole town pay for their cruelty and greed.]]
* DerangedAnimation: Since the designs of the city and the characters were based on German Expressionism and medieval German art, the movie tends to evoke this. For instance, there were a couple of scenes where the rats are shown to be much larger in scale than the buildings and the people themselves.
* DerangedAnimation: Since the designs of the city and the characters were based on German Expressionism and medieval German art, the movie tends to evoke this. For instance, there were a couple of scenes where the rats are shown to be much larger in scale than the buildings and the people themselves.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: The Piper might look scary and menacing, but he's mostly harmless and doesn't really hurt anyone but the rats. He also doesn't take action against the town he is, at worst, a PayEvilUntoEvil kind of Hamelin after they cheat him out of his payment, and is initially willing to just walk away. It's not until [[spoiler:he finds the guy. The few innocent woman dead after characters in the Jeweler and two other elites assault and kill her, at which at that point, all bets are off movie have nothing to fear from him, and he makes has some genuinely tender interactions with the whole town pay for their cruelty and greed.]]
Wool-Spinner.
* DerangedAnimation: Since the designs of the city and the characters were based on German Expressionism and medieval German art, the movie tends to evoke this. For instance, therewere are a couple of scenes where the rats are shown to be much larger in scale than the buildings and the people themselves.
* DerangedAnimation: Since the designs of the city and the characters were based on German Expressionism and medieval German art, the movie tends to evoke this. For instance, there
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* GhostTown: By the end, [[spoiler: there is not a single living person left in Hamelin.]]
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* RapeAsDrama: It's implied that [[spoiler: the Jeweler and his friends rape the Wool-Spinner before killing her.]]
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* ArtShift: There are some scenes where the rats are shown in live action. This was done to show that the rats are more alive than the majority of the humans, who are always portrayed in a robotic or wooden manner. There's also a brief ArcadianInterlude as the Piper plays a song for the Wool-Spinner, done in the style of Flemish Renaissance painting on a wooden surface, and at the end of the movie, [[spoiler: the Fisherman takes the Baby off into this landscape]]. These are the only two moments in the film with bright or vivid colours.
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* ArtShift: There are some scenes where the rats are shown in live action. This was done to show that the rats are more alive than the majority of the humans, who are always portrayed in a robotic or wooden manner. There's also a brief ArcadianInterlude as when the Piper plays a song for the Wool-Spinner, done in the style of Flemish Renaissance painting on a wooden surface, and at the end of the movie, [[spoiler: the Fisherman takes the Baby off into this landscape]]. These are the only two moments in the film with bright or vivid colours.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The innocent Wool-Spinner is murdered, but those responsible are punished. The movie ends with the town left empty and abandoned, and only two innocent characters still alive, their fate uncertain but hopeful.]]
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* ClockPunk: The movie opens with shots of clockwork "behind the scenes" of the movie, prompting the sun to rise and the town's bell to ring.The townsfolk wake up almost mechanically, sticking their heads out their windows like birds in a massive cuckoo clock. This, combined with the movie's crude wooden puppets and DerangedAnimation, gives the whole thing a feeling of watching an elaborate mechanical play.
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* ClockPunk: The movie opens with shots of clockwork "behind the scenes" of the movie, prompting the sun to rise and the town's bell to ring.The townsfolk wake up almost mechanically, sticking their heads out their windows like birds in a massive cuckoo clock. This, combined with the movie's crude deliberately-crude wooden puppets and DerangedAnimation, gives the whole thing a feeling movie the feel of watching an elaborate mechanical play.clockwork machine.
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* DerangedAnimation: Since the designs of the city and the characters were based on German Expressionism and medieval German art, the movie tends to evoke this. Like for instance, there were a couple of scenes where the rats are shown to be much larger in scale than the buildings and the people themselves.
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* DerangedAnimation: Since the designs of the city and the characters were based on German Expressionism and medieval German art, the movie tends to evoke this. Like for For instance, there were a couple of scenes where the rats are shown to be much larger in scale than the buildings and the people themselves.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The people of Hamelin are shown to be greedy and selfish, as opposed to the rats, who are just following their natures. {{Averted}} with the innocent woman and the Fisherman, who do nothing wrong.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The people of Hamelin are shown to be greedy and selfish, as opposed to the rats, who are just following their natures. {{Averted}} with the innocent woman and the Fisherman, who do nothing wrong. The Pied Piper himself could be called AmbiguouslyHuman.
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Nearly everybody in town gets turned into a rat and drowned, as punishment for their general greed and refusal to pay the Piper his due. Special mention goes to the Jeweler, who is responsible for the Wool-Spinner's death and is the last one to die, as he turns around and vainly begs for mercy before the Piper intensifies his melody and sends the Jeweler plummeting to his death, echoing a similiar scene with one of the rats earlier in the film. Also worthy of mention is the Butcher, who is shown happily slaughtering animals before the rats' invasion, and he ends up being killed by a rat trap that he set up earlier as he tries following the transformed townspeople.]]
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Nearly everybody in town gets turned into a rat and drowned, as punishment for their general greed and refusal to pay the Piper his due. Special mention goes to the Jeweler, who is responsible for the Wool-Spinner's death and is the last one to die, as he turns around and vainly begs for mercy before the Piper intensifies his melody and sends the Jeweler plummeting to his death, echoing a similiar scene with one of the rats - specifically, the one who had been stealing his jewelry - earlier in the film. Also worthy of mention is the Butcher, who is shown happily slaughtering animals before the rats' invasion, and he ends up being killed by a rat trap that he set up earlier as he tries following the transformed townspeople.]]
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* NoNameGiven: Other than the Piper himself via the title, no one in the film is given a name.
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* NamelessNarrative: Because there's [[SpeakingSimlish no real dialogue]], not a single character in the movie is given a name.
* NamelessNarrative: Because there's [[SpeakingSimlish no real dialogue]], not a single character in the movie is given a name.
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* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:Although the Piper kills nearly everyone in town, he spares the old Fisherman, who has spent the whole movie up to this point minding his own business and fishing. The Fisherman explores the empty town and hears a baby crying - apparently the only other survivor of Hamelin. The movie ends with the two of them setting off into the countryside in search of a better place to live.]] The brighter colours - reflecting the ArcadianInterlude earlier in the movie - suggest optimism.
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* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:Although the Piper kills nearly everyone in town, he spares the old Fisherman, who has spent the whole movie up to this point minding his own business and fishing. The Fisherman explores the empty town and hears a baby crying - apparently the only other survivor of Hamelin. The movie ends with the two of them setting off into the countryside in search of a better place to live.]] The brighter colours - reflecting the ArcadianInterlude earlier in the movie - suggest optimism.an optimistic ending to what is otherwise an extremely bleak, murky film.
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''Krysar'' ("The Pied Piper") is a 1986 Czechoslovakian animated dark fantasy film that was directed by Jiří Barta and is an adaptation of the classic fairy tale ''Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin''.
The film starts off with the townspeople of Hamelin doing their daily chores, while showing the audience just how petty and greedy the people are. One day however, the people ended up wasting so much food and items, that a rat infestation takes place at night and the rats ended up taking over the town of Hamelin. It was then that the Pied Piper himself comes into town and the town leaders offered the Pied Piper 1,000 gold coins as payment if he gets rid of the rats. The Pied Piper accepts the payment and he starts playing his flute that ended up causing the rats to follow him out of town and jump into the lake at the edge of the city where they all drowned.
Meanwhile, the jeweler, who is apart of the elite group of the town's leaders, tries to seduce an innocent woman. But the innocent woman doesn't want anything to do with the jeweler and she instead falls in love with the Pied Piper himself. Afterwards, the Pied Piper goes to the town leaders to collect his payment, but the town leaders refused to pay the Pied Piper and the Pied Piper ends up leaving in anger. Things get worse from that point forward...
This film was notable for being a much DarkerAndEdgier adaptation of the classic fairy tale.
The full movie can be found [[https://archive.org/details/krysar-the-pied-piper-of-hamelin-jiri-barta-1985-dvdrip here.]]
The film starts off with the townspeople of Hamelin doing their daily chores, while showing the audience just how petty and greedy the people are. One day however, the people ended up wasting so much food and items, that a rat infestation takes place at night and the rats ended up taking over the town of Hamelin. It was then that the Pied Piper himself comes into town and the town leaders offered the Pied Piper 1,000 gold coins as payment if he gets rid of the rats. The Pied Piper accepts the payment and he starts playing his flute that ended up causing the rats to follow him out of town and jump into the lake at the edge of the city where they all drowned.
Meanwhile, the jeweler, who is apart of the elite group of the town's leaders, tries to seduce an innocent woman. But the innocent woman doesn't want anything to do with the jeweler and she instead falls in love with the Pied Piper himself. Afterwards, the Pied Piper goes to the town leaders to collect his payment, but the town leaders refused to pay the Pied Piper and the Pied Piper ends up leaving in anger. Things get worse from that point forward...
This film was notable for being a much DarkerAndEdgier adaptation of the classic fairy tale.
The full movie can be found [[https://archive.org/details/krysar-the-pied-piper-of-hamelin-jiri-barta-1985-dvdrip here.]]
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''Krysar'' ("The Pied Piper") is a 1986 Czechoslovakian animated dark fantasy DarkFantasy FolkHorror film that was directed by Jiří Barta and is an adaptation of the classic fairy tale ''Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin''.
The film startsoff with the townspeople of Hamelin doing their daily chores, while showing the audience just how petty and greedy the people are. One day however, the people ended end up wasting so much food and items, that a rat infestation takes place at night and the rats ended up taking over the SwarmOfRats move into town of Hamelin. It was then that and quickly take over. Not long after, the Pied Piper himself comes into town and the town leaders offered the Pied Piper 1,000 gold coins as payment if he gets rid of the rats. The Pied Piper accepts the payment and he starts playing his flute that ended up causing the rats town, offering to follow him out of town and jump into the lake at the edge of the city where they all drowned.
Meanwhile, the jeweler, who is apart of the elite group ofsolve the town's leaders, rat problem in exchange for 1,000 gold coins. A deal is struck, and he uses his MindControlMusic to flush out the rats and drive them into the river, where they drown.
Meanwhile, the Jeweler, who sits on the town council, tries to seduce an innocentwoman. But the innocent woman doesn't want anything to do with the jeweler and woman, but she instead falls rebuffs his interest, having fallen in love with the Pied Piper himself. Afterwards, the Pied Piper goes to Perhaps motivated by jealousy, the town leaders to collect his payment, but the town leaders refused council refuse to pay the Pied Piper and the Pied Piper ends up leaving in anger.agreed-upon sum. Things get worse from that point forward...
This filmwas is notable for its visual storytelling, being a much DarkerAndEdgier adaptation of the classic fairy tale.
told entirely without dialogue.
The full movie can be found [[https://archive.org/details/krysar-the-pied-piper-of-hamelin-jiri-barta-1985-dvdrip here.]]
]] There's also a restored Blu-Ray release by Deaf Alligator.
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The full movie can be found [[https://archive.org/details/krysar-the-pied-piper-of-hamelin-jiri-barta-1985-dvdrip here.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Zigzagged with the Pied Piper himself. On the one hand, his motivations for [[spoiler: luring the townspeople to their deaths]] was not only because he didn't get paid, but also because [[spoiler:he witnessed the death of an innocent woman.]] On the other hand, [[spoiler: he actually committed genocide]] in this version by [[spoiler: leading the townspeople to their deaths]] whereas in the original fairy tale, the worst he did was lure the children away to never be seen again. However [[spoiler: he did spare the Fisherman and the baby at the end of the film despite him killing the rest of the townspeople.]]
* ArtShift: There are some scenes where the rats are shown in live action. This was done to show that the rats are more alive than the majority of the humans, who are always portrayed in a robotic or wooden manner.
* ArtShift: There are some scenes where the rats are shown in live action. This was done to show that the rats are more alive than the majority of the humans, who are always portrayed in a robotic or wooden manner.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: The Jeweler tries to seduce the Wool-Spinner by offering her a ring, and later a pearl necklace, and refuses to take no for an answer.
* AdaptationalHeroism:Zigzagged Downplayed with the Pied Piper himself. On the one hand, his motivations for [[spoiler: luring the townspeople to their deaths]] was not only because he didn't get paid, but also because [[spoiler:he witnessed the death of an innocent woman.]] On the other hand, [[spoiler: he actually committed genocide]] in this version by [[spoiler: leading the townspeople to their deaths]] whereas Unlike in the original fairy tale, the worst story, he did was lure the children away to never be seen again. However punishes [[spoiler: he did spare the Fisherman people responsible for cheating him, rather than their children]]. And even then, he seems ready just to let the whole thing go until [[spoiler: the Jeweler and his cronies murder the baby at the end of the film despite him killing the rest of the townspeople.innocent woman.]]
* ArtShift: There are some scenes where the rats are shown in live action. This was done to show that the rats are more alive than the majority of the humans, who are always portrayed in a robotic or wooden manner. There's also a brief ArcadianInterlude as the Piper plays a song for the Wool-Spinner, done in the style of Flemish Renaissance painting on a wooden surface, and at the end of the movie, [[spoiler: the Fisherman takes the Baby off into this landscape]]. These are the only two moments in the film with bright or vivid colours.
* AdaptationalHeroism:
* ArtShift: There are some scenes where the rats are shown in live action. This was done to show that the rats are more alive than the majority of the humans, who are always portrayed in a robotic or wooden manner. There's also a brief ArcadianInterlude as the Piper plays a song for the Wool-Spinner, done in the style of Flemish Renaissance painting on a wooden surface, and at the end of the movie, [[spoiler: the Fisherman takes the Baby off into this landscape]]. These are the only two moments in the film with bright or vivid colours.
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** The young woman who falls in love with the Pied Piper is very beautiful and is one of the only characters in the film who is not corrupted by greed.
** {{Downplayed}} with the Fisherman as he has a similar design to most of the townspeople, but his design is softer looking compared to the other townspeople. Also, he is one of the few innocent characters [[spoiler:who gets spared by the Piper towards the end and also saves a baby at the end of the movie]].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While all of the corrupt and cruel townspeople were transformed into rats and fell into the lake to drown, the young innocent woman was murdered without the Piper being able to save her and the Piper himself vanishes after the townspeople have drowned and Hamelin is left empty. But the Fisherman is spared by the Piper and rescues a baby from the town and ends up taking the child to a better place to live in.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: The townspeople experienced this when they started transforming into rats. Either some of the townspeople had rat heads on a human body or some had human heads on rat bodies. The most notable examples are the Jeweler and the butcher who both retain their human heads while their bodies are transformed into rat bodies.]]
* BullyingADragon: The town leaders refusing to pay the Pied Piper counts as this, as they are aware that the Piper can control the rats using his flute. [[spoiler: This will soon have fatal consequences for both the town leaders and the townspeople as the Piper uses his flute to turn the townspeople into rats and lead them to the water to drown.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: The Fisherman shows up after the arrival of the Pied Piper, watching the town of Hamelin and the Piper's arrival from a distance. [[spoiler:He returns in the last 5 minutes of the film after the Piper is finished with drowning the townspeople and he searches around the empty town of Hamelin until he finds an abandoned baby. He then rescues the baby and takes it away with him to a better place to live in.]]
* {{CrapsackWorld}}/{{WretchedHive}}: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are especially corrupted. The only good people in the town are the young and innocent woman and the Fisherman, who never took part in the town's greedy ways.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Even though the original fairy tale had the Pied Piper lure the children of Hamelin away to never be seen again, this version contains a bit of violence, a darker and gloomier atmosphere, [[spoiler: a heavily implied rape and murder scene of an innocent woman and the Pied Piper transforming all of the townspeople into rats and leading them to the lake to drown.]] Also, the Pied Piper's appearance is much more sinister and more mysterious than the jester like appearance in other interpretations.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Piper might look scary and menacing, but he's mostly harmless and doesn't really hurt anyone but the rats. He also doesn't take action against the town of Hamelin after they cheated him out of his payment, instead just walking away from the ordeal. It's not until [[spoiler:he finds the innocent woman dead after the Jeweler and two other elites assaulted and killed her, at which at that point, all bets are off and he makes the whole town pay for their cruelty and greed.]]
** {{Downplayed}} with the Fisherman as he has a similar design to most of the townspeople, but his design is softer looking compared to the other townspeople. Also, he is one of the few innocent characters [[spoiler:who gets spared by the Piper towards the end and also saves a baby at the end of the movie]].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While all of the corrupt and cruel townspeople were transformed into rats and fell into the lake to drown, the young innocent woman was murdered without the Piper being able to save her and the Piper himself vanishes after the townspeople have drowned and Hamelin is left empty. But the Fisherman is spared by the Piper and rescues a baby from the town and ends up taking the child to a better place to live in.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: The townspeople experienced this when they started transforming into rats. Either some of the townspeople had rat heads on a human body or some had human heads on rat bodies. The most notable examples are the Jeweler and the butcher who both retain their human heads while their bodies are transformed into rat bodies.]]
* BullyingADragon: The town leaders refusing to pay the Pied Piper counts as this, as they are aware that the Piper can control the rats using his flute. [[spoiler: This will soon have fatal consequences for both the town leaders and the townspeople as the Piper uses his flute to turn the townspeople into rats and lead them to the water to drown.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: The Fisherman shows up after the arrival of the Pied Piper, watching the town of Hamelin and the Piper's arrival from a distance. [[spoiler:He returns in the last 5 minutes of the film after the Piper is finished with drowning the townspeople and he searches around the empty town of Hamelin until he finds an abandoned baby. He then rescues the baby and takes it away with him to a better place to live in.]]
* {{CrapsackWorld}}/{{WretchedHive}}: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are especially corrupted. The only good people in the town are the young and innocent woman and the Fisherman, who never took part in the town's greedy ways.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Even though the original fairy tale had the Pied Piper lure the children of Hamelin away to never be seen again, this version contains a bit of violence, a darker and gloomier atmosphere, [[spoiler: a heavily implied rape and murder scene of an innocent woman and the Pied Piper transforming all of the townspeople into rats and leading them to the lake to drown.]] Also, the Pied Piper's appearance is much more sinister and more mysterious than the jester like appearance in other interpretations.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Piper might look scary and menacing, but he's mostly harmless and doesn't really hurt anyone but the rats. He also doesn't take action against the town of Hamelin after they cheated him out of his payment, instead just walking away from the ordeal. It's not until [[spoiler:he finds the innocent woman dead after the Jeweler and two other elites assaulted and killed her, at which at that point, all bets are off and he makes the whole town pay for their cruelty and greed.]]
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** The young woman Wool-Spinner, who falls in love with the Pied Piper Piper, is very beautiful and is one of the only characters in the film who is not corrupted by greed.
** {{Downplayed}} with theFisherman as he Fisherman, who has a similar design to most of the townspeople, but his design is softer looking compared to the other townspeople. Also, he is one of the few innocent characters [[spoiler:who gets spared by the Piper towards the end He does nothing wrong, and also saves a baby at the end of the movie]].
* BittersweetEnding:[[spoiler: While all of the corrupt and cruel townspeople were transformed into rats and fell into the lake to drown, the young innocent woman was murdered without the Piper being able to save her and the Piper himself vanishes after the townspeople have drowned and Hamelin is left empty. But the Fisherman is spared by at the Piper and rescues a baby from the town and ends up taking the child to a better place to live in.end.]]
*BodyHorror: BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: The townspeople experienced this when they started transforming into rats. Either some of innocent Wool-Spinner is murdered, but those responsible are punished. The movie ends with the townspeople had rat heads on a human body or some had human heads on rat bodies. The most notable examples are the Jeweler town left empty and the butcher who both retain abandoned, and only two innocent characters still alive, their human heads while their bodies are transformed into rat bodies.fate uncertain but hopeful.]]
*BullyingADragon: The town leaders refusing to pay the Pied Piper counts as this, as they are aware that the Piper can control the rats using his flute. BodyHorror: [[spoiler: This will soon have fatal consequences for both the town leaders and the The townspeople as the Piper uses his flute to turn the townspeople experience this when they start transforming into rats and lead rats, some of them to remaining mostly human but with rat heads, or, as in the water to drown.cases of the Jeweler and the Butcher, [[BeastWithAHumanFace rat bodies and human faces]].]]
* BullyingADragon: The town leaders refusing to pay the Pied Piper, when they know he can can control the rats using his flute.
** TooDumbToLive: This goes very badly for them.
* ChekhovsGunman: The Fishermanshows up after appears as an incidental character a few times, and is the arrival of the Pied Piper, watching the town of Hamelin and the Piper's arrival from a distance. [[spoiler:He returns in the last 5 minutes of the film after first person to see the Piper is finished with drowning arrive in town. [[spoiler: He only becomes important in the townspeople and final scenes, when he searches around ventures into the empty town of Hamelin until he finds an abandoned baby. He then rescues the baby and takes it away with him to a better place to live in.see if anyone else has been spared.]]
* ClockPunk: The movie opens with shots of clockwork "behind the scenes" of the movie, prompting the sun to rise and the town's bell to ring.The townsfolk wake up almost mechanically, sticking their heads out their windows like birds in a massive cuckoo clock. This, combined with the movie's crude wooden puppets and DerangedAnimation, gives the whole thing a feeling of watching an elaborate mechanical play.
* {{CrapsackWorld}}/{{WretchedHive}}: The town ofHamelin Hamelin, where almost everyone is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy cruel, petty, and petty and the town leaders are especially corrupted. The only good people in the town are the young and innocent woman and the Fisherman, who never took part in the town's greedy ways.greedy.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Even though the original fairy tale had the Pied Piper lure the children of Hamelin away to never be seen again, this version contains a bit of violence, a darker and gloomier atmosphere, [[spoiler: a heavily implied rape and murder scene of an innocent woman and the Pied Piper transforming all of the townspeople into rats and leading them to the lake to drown.]] Also, the Pied Piper's appearance is much more sinister and more mysterious than thejester like jester-like appearance in other interpretations.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The Piper might look scary and menacing, but he's mostly harmless and doesn't really hurt anyone but the rats. He also doesn't take action against the town of Hamelin after theycheated cheat him out of his payment, instead and is initially willing to just walking away from the ordeal. walk away. It's not until [[spoiler:he finds the innocent woman dead after the Jeweler and two other elites assaulted assault and killed kill her, at which at that point, all bets are off and he makes the whole town pay for their cruelty and greed.]]
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* BullyingADragon: The town leaders refusing to pay the Pied Piper, when they know he can can control the rats using his flute.
** TooDumbToLive: This goes very badly for them.
* ChekhovsGunman: The Fisherman
* ClockPunk: The movie opens with shots of clockwork "behind the scenes" of the movie, prompting the sun to rise and the town's bell to ring.The townsfolk wake up almost mechanically, sticking their heads out their windows like birds in a massive cuckoo clock. This, combined with the movie's crude wooden puppets and DerangedAnimation, gives the whole thing a feeling of watching an elaborate mechanical play.
* {{CrapsackWorld}}/{{WretchedHive}}: The town of
* DarkerAndEdgier: Even though the original fairy tale had the Pied Piper lure the children of Hamelin away to never be seen again, this version contains a bit of violence, a darker and gloomier atmosphere, [[spoiler: a heavily implied rape and murder scene of an innocent woman and the Pied Piper transforming all of the townspeople into rats and leading them to the lake to drown.]] Also, the Pied Piper's appearance is much more sinister and more mysterious than the
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The people of Hamelin are shown to be greedy and selfish people and while the rats themselves did cause some problems for the people of Hamelin, they were mostly doing all of this because they were trying to survive. {{Averted}} with the innocent woman and the Fisherman, who were not greedy and corrupted like the townspeople.
* JabbaTableManners: The town leaders themselves. Whenever a scene of them eating occurs, they are shown greedily shoving food down their throats accompanied with loud smacking. They also throw food everywhere on the floor, which is what caused the rats to invade the town of Hamelin.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Most of Hamelin's inhabitants ended up dying when the Piper transforms them into rats and uses his flute to lure them all to their deaths via drowning, as he did to the rats that the citizens had hired him to get rid of. Special mention goes to the Jeweler, who was responsible for the innocent woman's death and is the last one to die, as he turns around and vainly begs for mercy before the Piper intensifies his melody and sends the Jeweler plummeting to his death, which was similar to how one of the rats at the beginning of the film also begged for its life, only for the Piper to send him to his death anyway. Another mention is the butcher who was shown happily slaughtering animals before the rats' invasion and he ends up being killed by a rat trap that he set up earlier as he tries following the transformed townspeople.]]
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:The young and innocent woman who falls in love with the Pied Piper ends up being raped and murdered by the Jeweler and his companions later on in the film. This ends up pissing off the Pied Piper even more.]]
* MindControlMusic: Per tradition, the Piper's flute allows him to mind-control the horde of rats to lead them to their dooms. [[spoiler:It can also mind-control an entire town of humans in addition to transforming them into rats.]]
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The people of Hamelin are shown to be greedy and selfish people and while the rats themselves did cause some problems for the people of Hamelin, they were mostly doing all of this because they were trying to survive. {{Averted}} with the innocent woman and the Fisherman, who were not greedy and corrupted like the townspeople.
* JabbaTableManners: The town leaders themselves. Whenever a scene of them eating occurs, they are shown greedily shoving food down their throats accompanied with loud smacking. They also throw food everywhere on the floor, which is what caused the rats to invade the town of Hamelin.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Most of Hamelin's inhabitants ended up dying when the Piper transforms them into rats and uses his flute to lure them all to their deaths via drowning, as he did to the rats that the citizens had hired him to get rid of. Special mention goes to the Jeweler, who was responsible for the innocent woman's death and is the last one to die, as he turns around and vainly begs for mercy before the Piper intensifies his melody and sends the Jeweler plummeting to his death, which was similar to how one of the rats at the beginning of the film also begged for its life, only for the Piper to send him to his death anyway. Another mention is the butcher who was shown happily slaughtering animals before the rats' invasion and he ends up being killed by a rat trap that he set up earlier as he tries following the transformed townspeople.]]
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:The young and innocent woman who falls in love with the Pied Piper ends up being raped and murdered by the Jeweler and his companions later on in the film. This ends up pissing off the Pied Piper even more.]]
* MindControlMusic: Per tradition, the Piper's flute allows him to mind-control the horde of rats to lead them to their dooms. [[spoiler:It can also mind-control an entire town of humans in addition to transforming them into rats.]]
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* EverybodyDiesEnding: What happened happens to [[spoiler: the townspeople at the end of the film after they were film, who are transformed into rats and forced to go into the lake to drown. drowned. The only survivors were the innocent Fisherman and the is spared, though, as is a baby and the innocent woman was killed before the townspeople were transformed into rats.he finds in an empty house.]]
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: The people of Hamelin are shown to be greedy andselfish people and while selfish, as opposed to the rats themselves did cause some problems for the people of Hamelin, they were mostly doing all of this because they were trying to survive. rats, who are just following their natures. {{Averted}} with the innocent woman and the Fisherman, who were not greedy and corrupted like the townspeople.
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* JabbaTableManners: The town leadersthemselves. Whenever a scene of them eating occurs, they are shown greedily shoving food down their throats accompanied with loud smacking. They also throw food everywhere on the floor, which themselves, who eat noisily, messily, and voraciously. The mess in particular is what caused initially attracts the rats to invade the town of Hamelin.
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* KarmicDeath:[[spoiler:Most of Hamelin's inhabitants ended up dying when [[spoiler:Nearly everybody in town gets turned into a rat and drowned, as punishment for their general greed and refusal to pay the Piper transforms them into rats and uses his flute to lure them all to their deaths via drowning, as he did to the rats that the citizens had hired him to get rid of. due. Special mention goes to the Jeweler, who was is responsible for the innocent woman's Wool-Spinner's death and is the last one to die, as he turns around and vainly begs for mercy before the Piper intensifies his melody and sends the Jeweler plummeting to his death, which was similar to how echoing a similiar scene with one of the rats at earlier in the beginning film. Also worthy of the film also begged for its life, only for the Piper to send him to his death anyway. Another mention is the butcher Butcher, who was is shown happily slaughtering animals before the rats' invasion invasion, and he ends up being killed by a rat trap that he set up earlier as he tries following the transformed townspeople.]]
*KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:The young and innocent woman who falls in love KickTheMoralityPet: The Piper forms an emotional bond with the Pied Piper ends up being raped Wool-Spinner, and murdered by [[spoiler: it's her [[KillTheCutie rape and murder]] that drives him to finally destroy the Jeweler and his companions later on in the film. This ends up pissing off the Pied Piper even more.town.]]
* MagicalMusic: The Pied Piper's playing has magical effects on the listener.
** InvoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler: He turns the villagers into rats at the end.]]
** MindControlMusic: Per tradition, the Piper's flute allows him to mind-control the horde of rats to lead them to their dooms. [[spoiler:Itcan also mind-control an entire town of humans in addition to transforming them into rats.works on humans.]]
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* JabbaTableManners: The town leaders
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* MagicalMusic: The Pied Piper's playing has magical effects on the listener.
** InvoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler: He turns the villagers into rats at the end.]]
** MindControlMusic: Per tradition, the Piper's flute allows him to mind-control the horde of rats to lead them to their dooms. [[spoiler:It
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* NonMaliciousMonster: The rats, despite causing problems for Hamelin, are only really following their instincts and are just trying to survive in the town of Hamelin.
* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:For the Fisherman and the baby. Even though the town of Hamelin ended up being deserted due to the townspeople being killed off, the Fisherman, who survives the ordeal, was able to rescue an abandoned baby and he ends up taking the baby to a better place, signifying some hope for the remaining survivors of Hamelin.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The Pied Piper towards the end of the film [[spoiler: when he transforms the townspeople into rats and then leads them to the lake to drown after he was denied payment and saw the innocent woman dead in her house.]]
* TheSpook: Like in the original fairy tale, no one knows who the Pied Piper is or where he came from, as his entire character is a true mystery. [[spoiler: This becomes even more so in the ending when after he leads the transformed townspeople to their deaths, he suddenly vanishes into thin air, leaving behind only his cloak and then his cloak ends up floating away into the sky and then disappearing.]]
* SwarmOfRats: Like in the original fairy tale, the rats end up overtaking the town of Hamelin which prompts the town to request the Piper's help to get rid of the rats. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, the townspeople themselves become rats when the Piper decides to pay their "[[SarcasmMode kindness]]" back.]]
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: The town leaders themselves when they refused to pay the Pied Piper for his services. If they had just paid the Piper like they promised, then the Piper would have never transformed them into rats and lead them to the lake to drown.]]
* TransformationTrauma: [[spoiler:When the Pied Piper transforms the townspeople into rats, you can see the townspeople panicking as this is taking place right before they fall under the thrall of the flute and mindlessly follow the Piper to their deaths.]]
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler:The Fisherman proves that he truly was worthy of being spared the grisly fate of the other townsfolk when he takes an abandoned baby with him to a better home away from the now deserted Hamelin.]]
* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:For the Fisherman and the baby. Even though the town of Hamelin ended up being deserted due to the townspeople being killed off, the Fisherman, who survives the ordeal, was able to rescue an abandoned baby and he ends up taking the baby to a better place, signifying some hope for the remaining survivors of Hamelin.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The Pied Piper towards the end of the film [[spoiler: when he transforms the townspeople into rats and then leads them to the lake to drown after he was denied payment and saw the innocent woman dead in her house.]]
* TheSpook: Like in the original fairy tale, no one knows who the Pied Piper is or where he came from, as his entire character is a true mystery. [[spoiler: This becomes even more so in the ending when after he leads the transformed townspeople to their deaths, he suddenly vanishes into thin air, leaving behind only his cloak and then his cloak ends up floating away into the sky and then disappearing.]]
* SwarmOfRats: Like in the original fairy tale, the rats end up overtaking the town of Hamelin which prompts the town to request the Piper's help to get rid of the rats. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, the townspeople themselves become rats when the Piper decides to pay their "[[SarcasmMode kindness]]" back.]]
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: The town leaders themselves when they refused to pay the Pied Piper for his services. If they had just paid the Piper like they promised, then the Piper would have never transformed them into rats and lead them to the lake to drown.]]
* TransformationTrauma: [[spoiler:When the Pied Piper transforms the townspeople into rats, you can see the townspeople panicking as this is taking place right before they fall under the thrall of the flute and mindlessly follow the Piper to their deaths.]]
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler:The Fisherman proves that he truly was worthy of being spared the grisly fate of the other townsfolk when he takes an abandoned baby with him to a better home away from the now deserted Hamelin.]]
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* NonIndicativeName: This Piper isn't especially pied, wearing dull colours. Averted with the original Czech title, ''Krysař'', which translates simply to "Ratcatcher", with no indication of a brightly-coloured outfit.
* NonMaliciousMonster: The rats, despite causing problems for Hamelin, are only really following their instincts and are just trying to survive in the town of Hamelin. \n Emphasized in a scene where a group of them cooperate to steal a length of sausage links.
* RayOfHopeEnding:[[spoiler:For [[spoiler:Although the Fisherman and Piper kills nearly everyone in town, he spares the baby. Even though the town of Hamelin ended up being deserted due to the townspeople being killed off, the old Fisherman, who survives has spent the ordeal, was able whole movie up to rescue an abandoned this point minding his own business and fishing. The Fisherman explores the empty town and hears a baby and he crying - apparently the only other survivor of Hamelin. The movie ends up taking with the baby to two of them setting off into the countryside in search of a better place, signifying some hope for place to live.]] The brighter colours - reflecting the remaining survivors of Hamelin.ArcadianInterlude earlier in the movie - suggest optimism.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After the Pied Piper is denied payment [[spoiler: and [[KickTheMoralityPet the Wool-Spinner is murdered]], he turns the townsfolk into rats and forces them to drown themselves.]]
*RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The TheSpook: Like in the original fairy tale, no one knows who the Pied Piper towards the end of the film is or where he came from, and his entire character is a true mystery. [[spoiler: Emphasized at the end, when he transforms the townspeople suddenly vanishes into rats and then leads them to thin air, leaving behind only his cloak, which floats off into the lake to drown after he was denied payment and saw the innocent woman dead in her house.sky.]]
* TheSpook: Like in the original fairy tale, no one knows who the Pied Piper is or where he came from, as his entire character is a true mystery. [[spoiler: This becomes even more so in the ending when after he leads the transformed townspeople to their deaths, he suddenly vanishes into thin air, leaving behind only his cloak and then his cloak ends up floating away into the sky and then disappearing.]]
* SwarmOfRats: Like in the original fairy tale, the rats end up overtaking the town of Hamelin Hamelin, which prompts the town to request the Piper's help to get rid of the rats. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, the townspeople themselves become rats when the Piper decides to pay their "[[SarcasmMode kindness]]" back.]]
*TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: The town leaders themselves when TerrifyingPetStoreRat: Used to effect, where the rather cute rats come across as far more sympathetic than most of the human characters.
* TransformationTrauma: [[spoiler:The people of Hamelin can be seen visibly panicking as theyrefused to pay the Pied Piper for his services. If they had just paid the Piper like they promised, then the Piper would have never transformed them turn into rats and lead them to the lake to drown.rats.]]
* TransformationTrauma: [[spoiler:When the Pied Piper transforms the townspeople into rats, you can see the townspeople panicking as this is taking place right before they fall under the thrall of the flute and mindlessly follow the Piper to their deaths.]]
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler:The Fisherman proves that he truly was is worthy of being spared the grisly fate of the other townsfolk when he takes an abandoned baby with him to a better home away from the now deserted Hamelin.]]
* NonMaliciousMonster: The rats, despite causing problems for Hamelin, are only really following their instincts and are just trying to survive in the town of Hamelin.
* RayOfHopeEnding:
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: After the Pied Piper is denied payment [[spoiler: and [[KickTheMoralityPet the Wool-Spinner is murdered]], he turns the townsfolk into rats and forces them to drown themselves.]]
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* CrapsackWorld: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are especially corrupted. The only good people in the town are the young and innocent woman and the Fisherman, who never took part in the town's greedy ways.
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* CrapsackWorld: {{CrapsackWorld}}/{{WretchedHive}}: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are especially corrupted. The only good people in the town are the young and innocent woman and the Fisherman, who never took part in the town's greedy ways.
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* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:The young and innocent woman who falls in love with the Pied Piper ends up being raped and murdered by the Jeweler and his companions later on in the film. This ends up pissing off the Pied Piper even more.]]
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* DueToTheDead: When the Piper finds the woman's home after she had been raped and killed, he sees her corpse with widened horrified eyes. As a last act of respect, he shuts her eyes before going off to take revenge on the townspeople.
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* TheSpook: Like in the original fairy tale, no one knows who the Pied Piper is or where he came from, as his entire character is a true mystery. [[spoiler: This becomes even more so in the ending when after he leads the transformed townspeople to their deaths, he suddenly vanishes into thin air and air, leaving behind only his cloak floats and then his cloak ends up floating away into the sky and then disappears.disappearing.]]
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* TheSpook: Like in the original fairy tale, no one knows who the Pied Piper is or where he came from, as his entire character is a true mystery. [[spoiler: This becomes even more so in the ending when after he leads the transformed townspeople to their deaths, he suddenly vanishes into thin air, while air and his cloaks cloak floats away into the sky and then disappears.]]
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* TheSpook: Like in the original fairy tale, no one knows who the Pied Piper is or where he came from, as his entire character is a true mystery. [[spoiler: This becomes even more so in the ending when after he leads the transformed townspeople to their deaths, he suddenly vanishes in into thin air, while his cloaks floats away into the sky and then disappears.]]
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* NonMaliciousMonster: The rats are ultimately this as they're destructive disease-ridden vermin to the town of Hamelin, but are ultimately animals following their instincts to survive. Also, they're willing to share resources and keep each other safe. This is in contrast to the malicious humans of Hamelin.
* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:Even though the film ends with the now deserted Hamelin being abandoned, the Fisherman, who was one of the few people left alive, was able to rescue an abandoned baby and he ends up taking the baby to a better place to live in signifying some hope for the remaining survivors of Hamelin.]]
* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:Even though the film ends with the now deserted Hamelin being abandoned, the Fisherman, who was one of the few people left alive, was able to rescue an abandoned baby and he ends up taking the baby to a better place to live in signifying some hope for the remaining survivors of Hamelin.]]
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* NonMaliciousMonster: The rats are ultimately this as they're destructive disease-ridden vermin to the town of rats, despite causing problems for Hamelin, but are ultimately animals only really following their instincts to survive. Also, they're willing to share resources and keep each other safe. This is are just trying to survive in contrast to the malicious humans town of Hamelin.
* RayOfHopeEnding:[[spoiler:Even [[spoiler:For the Fisherman and the baby. Even though the film ends with the now town of Hamelin ended up being deserted Hamelin due to the townspeople being abandoned, killed off, the Fisherman, who was one of survives the few people left alive, ordeal, was able to rescue an abandoned baby and he ends up taking the baby to a better place to live in place, signifying some hope for the remaining survivors of Hamelin.]]
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* SwarmOfRats: Like in the original fairy tale, the rats end up overtaking the town of Hamelin which prompts the town to request the Piper's help to get rid of. [[spoiler:At the end the townsfolk all become rats themselves when the Piper decides to pay their "[[SarcasmMode kindness]]" back.]]
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* SwarmOfRats: Like in the original fairy tale, the rats end up overtaking the town of Hamelin which prompts the town to request the Piper's help to get rid of. of the rats. [[spoiler:At the end of the townsfolk all movie, the townspeople themselves become rats themselves when the Piper decides to pay their "[[SarcasmMode kindness]]" back.]]
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: The town leaders themselves when they refused to pay the Pied Piper for his services. If they had just paid the Piper like they promised, then the Piper would have never transformed them into rats and lead them to the lake to drown.]]
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler: The town leaders themselves when they refused to pay the Pied Piper for his services. If they had just paid the Piper like they promised, then the Piper would have never transformed them into rats and lead them to the lake to drown.]]
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler:The Fisherman proves that he truly was worthy of being spared the grisly fate of the other townsfolk when he takes an abandoned baby with him to a better home away from the now deserted Hamelin, rather than any treasure or resources left behind by the people.]]
* YouDirtyRat: Surprisingly inverted, it's the rats who are portrayed the most "alive" in comparison to the inhabitants of Hamelin, with the rodents merely doing things following their nature and being rather selfless even when they don't need to.
* YouDirtyRat: Surprisingly inverted, it's the rats who are portrayed the most "alive" in comparison to the inhabitants of Hamelin, with the rodents merely doing things following their nature and being rather selfless even when they don't need to.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: [[spoiler:The Fisherman proves that he truly was worthy of being spared the grisly fate of the other townsfolk when he takes an abandoned baby with him to a better home away from the now deserted Hamelin, rather than any treasure or resources left behind by the people.Hamelin.]]
* YouDirtyRat: Surprisingly inverted, it's the rats who are portrayed the most "alive" in comparison to the inhabitants of Hamelin, with the rodents merely doing things following theirnature and being rather selfless even when they don't need to.nature.
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* BullyingADragon: The town leaders refusing to pay the Pied Piper counts as this, as they are aware that the Piper can control the rats using his flute. [[spoiler: This will soon have fatal consequences for both the town leaders and the townspeople as the Piper uses his flute to turn the townspeople into rats and lead them to the water to drown.]]
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* DarkIsNotEvil: The Piper might look scary and resemble a DarkLord with his big hood, but he's ultimately one of the nicer characters in the film. He doesn't even take action against the town of Hamelin after they cheated him out of his payment. It's not until [[spoiler:he finds the innocent woman dead after the Jeweler and two other elites assaulted and killed her, at which at that point, all bets are off and he makes the whole town pay for their cruelty and greed.]]
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: For all the trouble that the rats had caused, the film portrays the rodents in a sympathetic light by showing that they merely follow their nature and care about each other's well-being by being willing to share resources and food with each other. Meanwhile, the humans of Hamelin are either stupid, ruthless, corrupt, selfish, greedy, perverted, or gluttonous while portrayed in a deranged mechanical manner. {{Averted}} with the Fisherman, the innocent woman [[spoiler:and the baby]] who were the only good people in the town of Hamelin.
* JabbaTableManners: The town leaders themselves. Whenever a scene of them eating occurs, they are shown greedily shoving food down their throats accompanied with loud smacking. They also throw food everywhere, which is what caused the rats to invade the town of Hamelin.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Most of Hamelin's inhabitants meet their ends when the Piper transforms them into rats and uses his flute to lure them all to their deaths via drowning; as he did to the rats that the citizens had hired him to get rid of. Special mention goes to the Jeweler, who was responsible for the innocent woman's death and is the last one to die, as he turns around and vainly begs for mercy before the Piper intensifies his melody and sends the Jeweler plummeting to his death. Another mention is the butcher who was shown happily slaughtering animals before the rats' invasion and he ends up being killed by a rat trap that he set up earlier as he tries following the transformed townspeople.]]
* KillEmAll: What happened to [[spoiler: the townspeople at the end of the film after they were transformed into rats and force to go into the lake to drown. The only survivors were the Fisherman and the baby, who were innocent characters and the innocent woman was killed before the townspeople were transformed into rats.]]
* JabbaTableManners: The town leaders themselves. Whenever a scene of them eating occurs, they are shown greedily shoving food down their throats accompanied with loud smacking. They also throw food everywhere, which is what caused the rats to invade the town of Hamelin.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Most of Hamelin's inhabitants meet their ends when the Piper transforms them into rats and uses his flute to lure them all to their deaths via drowning; as he did to the rats that the citizens had hired him to get rid of. Special mention goes to the Jeweler, who was responsible for the innocent woman's death and is the last one to die, as he turns around and vainly begs for mercy before the Piper intensifies his melody and sends the Jeweler plummeting to his death. Another mention is the butcher who was shown happily slaughtering animals before the rats' invasion and he ends up being killed by a rat trap that he set up earlier as he tries following the transformed townspeople.]]
* KillEmAll: What happened to [[spoiler: the townspeople at the end of the film after they were transformed into rats and force to go into the lake to drown. The only survivors were the Fisherman and the baby, who were innocent characters and the innocent woman was killed before the townspeople were transformed into rats.]]
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: For all the trouble that the rats had caused, the film portrays the rodents in a sympathetic light by showing that they merely follow their nature and care about each other's well-being by being willing to share resources and food with each other. Meanwhile, the humans The people of Hamelin are either stupid, ruthless, corrupt, selfish, greedy, perverted, or gluttonous shown to be greedy and selfish people and while portrayed in a deranged mechanical manner. the rats themselves did cause some problems for the people of Hamelin, they were mostly doing all of this because they were trying to survive. {{Averted}} with the Fisherman, the innocent woman [[spoiler:and and the baby]] Fisherman, who were not greedy and corrupted like the only good people in the town of Hamelin.
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* JabbaTableManners: The town leaders themselves. Whenever a scene of them eating occurs, they are shown greedily shoving food down their throats accompanied with loud smacking. They also throw foodeverywhere, everywhere on the floor, which is what caused the rats to invade the town of Hamelin.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Most of Hamelin's inhabitantsmeet their ends ended up dying when the Piper transforms them into rats and uses his flute to lure them all to their deaths via drowning; drowning, as he did to the rats that the citizens had hired him to get rid of. Special mention goes to the Jeweler, who was responsible for the innocent woman's death and is the last one to die, as he turns around and vainly begs for mercy before the Piper intensifies his melody and sends the Jeweler plummeting to his death.death, which was similar to how one of the rats at the beginning of the film also begged for its life, only for the Piper to send him to his death anyway. Another mention is the butcher who was shown happily slaughtering animals before the rats' invasion and he ends up being killed by a rat trap that he set up earlier as he tries following the transformed townspeople.]]
* KillEmAll: What happened to [[spoiler: the townspeople at the end of the film after they were transformed into rats and force to go into the lake to drown. The only survivors were the Fisherman and thebaby, who were innocent characters baby and the innocent woman was killed before the townspeople were transformed into rats.]]
* JabbaTableManners: The town leaders themselves. Whenever a scene of them eating occurs, they are shown greedily shoving food down their throats accompanied with loud smacking. They also throw food
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Most of Hamelin's inhabitants
* KillEmAll: What happened to [[spoiler: the townspeople at the end of the film after they were transformed into rats and force to go into the lake to drown. The only survivors were the Fisherman and the
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Zigzagged with the Pied Piper himself. On the one hand, his motivations for [[spoiler: luring the townspeople to their deaths]] was not only because he didn't get paid, but also because [[spoiler:he witnessed the death of an innocent woman.]] Also, [[spoiler:he spares the Fisherman and an abandoned baby towards the end of the film, as they were the only innocent characters left after the innocent woman was murdered.]] On the other hand, [[spoiler: he actually committed genocide]] in this version by [[spoiler: leading the townspeople to their deaths]] whereas in the original fairy tale, the worst he did was lure the children away to never be seen again.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Zigzagged with the Pied Piper himself. On the one hand, his motivations for [[spoiler: luring the townspeople to their deaths]] was not only because he didn't get paid, but also because [[spoiler:he witnessed the death of an innocent woman.]] Also, [[spoiler:he spares the Fisherman and an abandoned baby towards the end of the film, as they were the only innocent characters left after the innocent woman was murdered.]] On the other hand, [[spoiler: he actually committed genocide]] in this version by [[spoiler: leading the townspeople to their deaths]] whereas in the original fairy tale, the worst he did was lure the children away to never be seen again. However [[spoiler: he did spare the Fisherman and the baby at the end of the film despite him killing the rest of the townspeople.]]
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** {{Downplayed}} with the Fisherman as he has a similar design to most of the townspeople, although his design is far more "soft" and organic-looking compared to the other townspeople. And he is one of the few innocent characters [[spoiler:who gets spared by the Piper towards the end and he is able to save an abandoned baby and take it to a new and better home]].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While all of the corrupt and cruel townspeople were transformed into rats and fell into the lake to drown in karmic fashion, the young innocent woman was murdered without the Piper being able to save her and the Piper himself vanishes after the townspeople have drowned and Hamelin is left empty. But the Fisherman is spared by the Piper and rescues a baby that the Piper also spared, taking the child to a better place to live in.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: The townspeople experienced this when they started transforming into rats. Either some of the townspeople had rat heads on a human body or some had human heads on rat bodies. The most notable example is the Jeweler who retains his human head as his body transforms into that of a rat's, right up to his death.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: The Fisherman shows up at the middle point of the film, watching the town of Hamelin and the Piper's arrival from afar. [[spoiler:He returns in the last 5 minutes of the film after the Piper is finished with drowning the townspeople, searching the empty town of Hamelin until he hears the cries of an abandoned baby. He then rescues the baby and takes it away with him to a better place to live in.]]
* CrapsackWorld: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are especially corrupted. The only good people in the town are the young and innocent woman, the Fisherman [[spoiler:and the baby who survived the massacre of the townspeople towards the end of the film]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: Even though the original fairy tale had the Pied Piper lure the children of Hamelin away to never be seen again, this version contains a bit of violence, a darker and gloomier atmosphere, [[spoiler: a heavily implied rape and murder scene of an innocent woman and the Pied Piper transforming all of the townspeople into rats and leading them to the lake to drown.]] Also, the Pied Piper's appearance is much darker and more mysterious than the jester like appearance in other interpretations.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While all of the corrupt and cruel townspeople were transformed into rats and fell into the lake to drown in karmic fashion, the young innocent woman was murdered without the Piper being able to save her and the Piper himself vanishes after the townspeople have drowned and Hamelin is left empty. But the Fisherman is spared by the Piper and rescues a baby that the Piper also spared, taking the child to a better place to live in.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: The townspeople experienced this when they started transforming into rats. Either some of the townspeople had rat heads on a human body or some had human heads on rat bodies. The most notable example is the Jeweler who retains his human head as his body transforms into that of a rat's, right up to his death.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: The Fisherman shows up at the middle point of the film, watching the town of Hamelin and the Piper's arrival from afar. [[spoiler:He returns in the last 5 minutes of the film after the Piper is finished with drowning the townspeople, searching the empty town of Hamelin until he hears the cries of an abandoned baby. He then rescues the baby and takes it away with him to a better place to live in.]]
* CrapsackWorld: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are especially corrupted. The only good people in the town are the young and innocent woman, the Fisherman [[spoiler:and the baby who survived the massacre of the townspeople towards the end of the film]].
* DarkerAndEdgier: Even though the original fairy tale had the Pied Piper lure the children of Hamelin away to never be seen again, this version contains a bit of violence, a darker and gloomier atmosphere, [[spoiler: a heavily implied rape and murder scene of an innocent woman and the Pied Piper transforming all of the townspeople into rats and leading them to the lake to drown.]] Also, the Pied Piper's appearance is much darker and more mysterious than the jester like appearance in other interpretations.
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** {{Downplayed}} with the Fisherman as he has a similar design to most of the townspeople, although but his design is far more "soft" and organic-looking softer looking compared to the other townspeople. And Also, he is one of the few innocent characters [[spoiler:who gets spared by the Piper towards the end and he is able to save an abandoned also saves a baby and take it to a new and better home]].
at the end of the movie]].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While all of the corrupt and cruel townspeople were transformed into rats and fell into the lake todrown in karmic fashion, drown, the young innocent woman was murdered without the Piper being able to save her and the Piper himself vanishes after the townspeople have drowned and Hamelin is left empty. But the Fisherman is spared by the Piper and rescues a baby that from the Piper also spared, town and ends up taking the child to a better place to live in.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: The townspeople experienced this when they started transforming into rats. Either some of the townspeople had rat heads on a human body or some had human heads on rat bodies. The most notableexample is examples are the Jeweler and the butcher who retains his both retain their human head as his body transforms heads while their bodies are transformed into that of a rat's, right up to his death.rat bodies.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: The Fisherman shows upat after the middle point arrival of the film, Pied Piper, watching the town of Hamelin and the Piper's arrival from afar. a distance. [[spoiler:He returns in the last 5 minutes of the film after the Piper is finished with drowning the townspeople, searching townspeople and he searches around the empty town of Hamelin until he hears the cries of finds an abandoned baby. He then rescues the baby and takes it away with him to a better place to live in.]]
* CrapsackWorld: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are especially corrupted. The only good people in the town are the young and innocentwoman, woman and the Fisherman [[spoiler:and Fisherman, who never took part in the baby who survived the massacre of the townspeople towards the end of the film]].town's greedy ways.
* DarkerAndEdgier: Even though the original fairy tale had the Pied Piper lure the children of Hamelin away to never be seen again, this version contains a bit of violence, a darker and gloomier atmosphere, [[spoiler: a heavily implied rape and murder scene of an innocent woman and the Pied Piper transforming all of the townspeople into rats and leading them to the lake to drown.]] Also, the Pied Piper's appearance is muchdarker more sinister and more mysterious than the jester like appearance in other interpretations.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While all of the corrupt and cruel townspeople were transformed into rats and fell into the lake to
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: The townspeople experienced this when they started transforming into rats. Either some of the townspeople had rat heads on a human body or some had human heads on rat bodies. The most notable
* ChekhovsGunman: The Fisherman shows up
* CrapsackWorld: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are especially corrupted. The only good people in the town are the young and innocent
* DarkerAndEdgier: Even though the original fairy tale had the Pied Piper lure the children of Hamelin away to never be seen again, this version contains a bit of violence, a darker and gloomier atmosphere, [[spoiler: a heavily implied rape and murder scene of an innocent woman and the Pied Piper transforming all of the townspeople into rats and leading them to the lake to drown.]] Also, the Pied Piper's appearance is much
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Zigzagged with the Pied Piper himself. On the one hand, his motivations for [[spoiler: luring the townspeople to their deaths]] was not only because he didn't get paid, but also because [[spoiler:he witnessed the death of an innocent woman.]] Also, [[spoiler:He spares the Fisherman and an abandoned baby towards the end of the film, as they were the only innocent characters left after the innocent woman was murdered.]] On the other hand, [[spoiler: he actually committed genocide]] in this version by [[spoiler: leading the townspeople to their deaths]] whereas in the original fairy tale, the worst he did was lure the children away to never be seen again.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Zigzagged with the Pied Piper himself. On the one hand, his motivations for [[spoiler: luring the townspeople to their deaths]] was not only because he didn't get paid, but also because [[spoiler:he witnessed the death of an innocent woman.]] Also, [[spoiler:He [[spoiler:he spares the Fisherman and an abandoned baby towards the end of the film, as they were the only innocent characters left after the innocent woman was murdered.]] On the other hand, [[spoiler: he actually committed genocide]] in this version by [[spoiler: leading the townspeople to their deaths]] whereas in the original fairy tale, the worst he did was lure the children away to never be seen again.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: For all the trouble that the rats had caused, the film portrays the rodents in a sympathetic light by showing that they merely follow their nature and care about each other's well-being by being willing to share resources and food with each other. Meanwhile, the humans of Hamelin are either stupid, ruthless, corrupt, selfish, greedy, perverted, or gluttonous while portrayed in a deranged mechanical manner. {{Averted}} with the Fisherman, the innocent woman and the baby who were the only good people in the town of Hamelin.
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: For all the trouble that the rats had caused, the film portrays the rodents in a sympathetic light by showing that they merely follow their nature and care about each other's well-being by being willing to share resources and food with each other. Meanwhile, the humans of Hamelin are either stupid, ruthless, corrupt, selfish, greedy, perverted, or gluttonous while portrayed in a deranged mechanical manner. {{Averted}} with the Fisherman, the innocent woman and [[spoiler:and the baby baby]] who were the only good people in the town of Hamelin.
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Most of Hamelin's inhabitants meet their ends when the Piper transforms them into rats and uses his flute to lure them all to their deaths via drowning, as he did to the rats that the citizens had hired him to get rid of. Special mention goes to the Jeweler, who was responsible for the innocent woman's death and is the last one to die, as he turns around and vainly begs for mercy before the Piper intensifies his melody and sends the Jeweler plummeting to his watery grave. Another mention is the butcher who was shown happily slaughtering animals before the rats' invasion and he ends up being killed by a rat trap as he tries following the rat horde.]]
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Most of Hamelin's inhabitants meet their ends when the Piper transforms them into rats and uses his flute to lure them all to their deaths via drowning, drowning; as he did to the rats that the citizens had hired him to get rid of. Special mention goes to the Jeweler, who was responsible for the innocent woman's death and is the last one to die, as he turns around and vainly begs for mercy before the Piper intensifies his melody and sends the Jeweler plummeting to his watery grave. death. Another mention is the butcher who was shown happily slaughtering animals before the rats' invasion and he ends up being killed by a rat trap that he set up earlier as he tries following the rat horde.transformed townspeople.]]
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* MindControlMusic: Per tradition, the Piper's flute allows him to mind-control the horde of rats to lead them to their dooms. [[spoiler:It can also mind-control an entire town of humans (and only those who the Piper wants to) in addition to transforming them into what the Piper wants (in this case, rats).]]
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* MindControlMusic: Per tradition, the Piper's flute allows him to mind-control the horde of rats to lead them to their dooms. [[spoiler:It can also mind-control an entire town of humans (and only those who the Piper wants to) in addition to transforming them into what the Piper wants (in this case, rats).rats.]]
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* NonMaliciousMonster: The rats are ultimately this as they're destructive disease-ridden vermin to the town of Hamelin, but are ultimately animals following their instincts to survive. Also, they're willing to share resources and keep each other safe. This is in contrast to the very malicious and evil humans of Hamelin.
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* NonMaliciousMonster: The rats are ultimately this as they're destructive disease-ridden vermin to the town of Hamelin, but are ultimately animals following their instincts to survive. Also, they're willing to share resources and keep each other safe. This is in contrast to the very malicious and evil humans of Hamelin.
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* SwarmOfRats: Like in the original fairy tale, the rats end up overtaking the town of Hamelin which prompts the town to request the Piper's help to get rid of. [[spoiler:At the end the townsfolk all become one when the Piper decides to pay their "[[SarcasmMode kindness]]" back.]]
* TransformationTrauma: [[spoiler:When the Pied Piper transforms the townspeople into rats you can see the townspeople panicking as this is taking place right before they fall under the thrall of the flute and mindlessly follow the Piper to their watery graves.]]
* TransformationTrauma: [[spoiler:When the Pied Piper transforms the townspeople into rats you can see the townspeople panicking as this is taking place right before they fall under the thrall of the flute and mindlessly follow the Piper to their watery graves.]]
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* SwarmOfRats: Like in the original fairy tale, the rats end up overtaking the town of Hamelin which prompts the town to request the Piper's help to get rid of. [[spoiler:At the end the townsfolk all become one rats themselves when the Piper decides to pay their "[[SarcasmMode kindness]]" back.]]
* TransformationTrauma: [[spoiler:When the Pied Piper transforms the townspeople intorats rats, you can see the townspeople panicking as this is taking place right before they fall under the thrall of the flute and mindlessly follow the Piper to their watery graves.deaths.]]
* TransformationTrauma: [[spoiler:When the Pied Piper transforms the townspeople into
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* YouDirtyRat: Surprisingly inverted, it's the rats who are portrayed the most "alive" in comparison to the sin-filled inhabitants of Hamelin, with the rodents merely doing things following their nature and being rather selfless even when they don't need to. In addition to not being portrayed as any uglier or prettier than real rats.
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* YouDirtyRat: Surprisingly inverted, it's the rats who are portrayed the most "alive" in comparison to the sin-filled inhabitants of Hamelin, with the rodents merely doing things following their nature and being rather selfless even when they don't need to. In addition to not being portrayed as any uglier or prettier than real rats.to.
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* ChekhovsGunman: The Fisherman shows up at the middle point of the film watching the town of Hamelin and the Piper's arrival from afar with curiosity. [[spoiler:He returns in the last 5 minutes of the film after the Piper is finished with drowning the rat-humans, as he searches the empty town of Hamelin until he hears the cries of an abandoned baby. He then rescues the baby and takes it away with him to a better place to live in.]]
* CrapsackWorld: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are especially corrupted. The only good people in the town are the young and innocent woman, the Fisherman and the baby who all either refuse to fall into the rabbit hole of greed and cruelty of the other townsfolk (woman and Fisherman) or simply can't do so because of their age (the baby).
* CrapsackWorld: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are especially corrupted. The only good people in the town are the young and innocent woman, the Fisherman and the baby who all either refuse to fall into the rabbit hole of greed and cruelty of the other townsfolk (woman and Fisherman) or simply can't do so because of their age (the baby).
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* ChekhovsGunman: The Fisherman shows up at the middle point of the film film, watching the town of Hamelin and the Piper's arrival from afar with curiosity. afar. [[spoiler:He returns in the last 5 minutes of the film after the Piper is finished with drowning the rat-humans, as he searches townspeople, searching the empty town of Hamelin until he hears the cries of an abandoned baby. He then rescues the baby and takes it away with him to a better place to live in.]]
* CrapsackWorld: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are especially corrupted. The only good people in the town are the young and innocent woman, the Fishermanand [[spoiler:and the baby who all either refuse to fall into survived the rabbit hole of greed and cruelty massacre of the other townsfolk (woman and Fisherman) or simply can't do so because townspeople towards the end of their age (the baby).the film]].
* CrapsackWorld: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are especially corrupted. The only good people in the town are the young and innocent woman, the Fisherman
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* DerangedAnimation: Since the designs of the city and the characters were based on German Expressionism and medieval German art, the movie tends to evoke this. Like for instance, there were a couple of scenes where the rats are shown to be much larger in scale than the buildings and the people themselves. It all helps us see how corrupt and cruel the town of Hamelin is in its entirety.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: For all the trouble that the rats had caused, the film portrays the rodents in a sympathetic light by showing that they merely follow their nature and care about each other's well-being by being willing to share resources and food with each other. The rats are also portrayed in a soft and "alive" way with realistic designs and movements and even including StockFootage of live rats to enforce this. Meanwhile, the humans of Hamelin are either stupid, ruthless, corrupt, selfish, greedy, perverted, or gluttonous while portrayed in a deranged mechanical manner. {{Averted}} with the Fisherman, the innocent woman and the baby who were the only good people in the town of Hamelin.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: For all the trouble that the rats had caused, the film portrays the rodents in a sympathetic light by showing that they merely follow their nature and care about each other's well-being by being willing to share resources and food with each other. The rats are also portrayed in a soft and "alive" way with realistic designs and movements and even including StockFootage of live rats to enforce this. Meanwhile, the humans of Hamelin are either stupid, ruthless, corrupt, selfish, greedy, perverted, or gluttonous while portrayed in a deranged mechanical manner. {{Averted}} with the Fisherman, the innocent woman and the baby who were the only good people in the town of Hamelin.
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* DerangedAnimation: Since the designs of the city and the characters were based on German Expressionism and medieval German art, the movie tends to evoke this. Like for instance, there were a couple of scenes where the rats are shown to be much larger in scale than the buildings and the people themselves. It all helps us see how corrupt and cruel the town of Hamelin is in its entirety.\n
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: For all the trouble that the rats had caused, the film portrays the rodents in a sympathetic light by showing that they merely follow their nature and care about each other's well-being by being willing to share resources and food with each other. The rats are also portrayed in a soft and "alive" way with realistic designs and movements and even including StockFootage of live rats to enforce this. Meanwhile, the humans of Hamelin are either stupid, ruthless, corrupt, selfish, greedy, perverted, or gluttonous while portrayed in a deranged mechanical manner. {{Averted}} with the Fisherman, the innocent woman and the baby who were the only good people in the town of Hamelin.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: For all the trouble that the rats had caused, the film portrays the rodents in a sympathetic light by showing that they merely follow their nature and care about each other's well-being by being willing to share resources and food with each other.
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** {{Downplayed}} with the Fisherman as he has a similar design to most of the townspeople, although his design is far more "soft" and organic-looking compared to the other townspeople. And he is one of the few innocent characters [[spoiler:who gets spared by the Piper thanks to his niceness and is even able to have a happy ending by saving an abandoned baby and taking it to a new, better home]].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While all of the corrupt and cruel townspeople were transformed into rats and fell into the lake to drown in karmic fashion, the young innocent woman was murdered without the Piper being able to save her and the Piper himself vanishes after the townspeople are drowned and Hamelin is left empty. But the benevolent Fisherman is spared by the Piper and rescues a baby that the Piper also spared, taking the child to a better place to live in.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While all of the corrupt and cruel townspeople were transformed into rats and fell into the lake to drown in karmic fashion, the young innocent woman was murdered without the Piper being able to save her and the Piper himself vanishes after the townspeople are drowned and Hamelin is left empty. But the benevolent Fisherman is spared by the Piper and rescues a baby that the Piper also spared, taking the child to a better place to live in.]]
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** {{Downplayed}} with the Fisherman as he has a similar design to most of the townspeople, although his design is far more "soft" and organic-looking compared to the other townspeople. And he is one of the few innocent characters [[spoiler:who gets spared by the Piper thanks to his niceness towards the end and he is even able to have a happy ending by saving save an abandoned baby and taking take it to a new, new and better home]].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While all of the corrupt and cruel townspeople were transformed into rats and fell into the lake to drown in karmic fashion, the young innocent woman was murdered without the Piper being able to save her and the Piper himself vanishes after the townspeopleare have drowned and Hamelin is left empty. But the benevolent Fisherman is spared by the Piper and rescues a baby that the Piper also spared, taking the child to a better place to live in.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While all of the corrupt and cruel townspeople were transformed into rats and fell into the lake to drown in karmic fashion, the young innocent woman was murdered without the Piper being able to save her and the Piper himself vanishes after the townspeople
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Zigzagged with the Pied Piper himself. On the one hand, his motivations for [[spoiler: luring the townspeople to their deaths]] was not only because he didn't get paid, but also because [[spoiler:he witnessed the death of an innocent woman.]] On the other hand, [[spoiler: he actually committed genocide]] in this version by [[spoiler: leading the townspeople to their deaths]] whereas in the original fairy tale, the worst he did was lure the children away to never be seen again. [[spoiler:However, considering he spared an innocent baby and the Fisherman, who were the only pure souls left after the woman's death, it does give him some heroic points.]]
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Zigzagged with the Pied Piper himself. On the one hand, his motivations for [[spoiler: luring the townspeople to their deaths]] was not only because he didn't get paid, but also because [[spoiler:he witnessed the death of an innocent woman.]] Also, [[spoiler:He spares the Fisherman and an abandoned baby towards the end of the film, as they were the only innocent characters left after the innocent woman was murdered.]] On the other hand, [[spoiler: he actually committed genocide]] in this version by [[spoiler: leading the townspeople to their deaths]] whereas in the original fairy tale, the worst he did was lure the children away to never be seen again. [[spoiler:However, considering he spared an innocent baby and the Fisherman, who were the only pure souls left after the woman's death, it does give him some heroic points.]]
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* KillEmAll: What happened to [[spoiler: the townspeople at the end of the film after they were transformed into rats and force to go into the lake to drown. The only survivors were the Fisherman and the baby, who were innocent characters and the innocent was killed before the townspeople were transformed into rats.]]
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* KillEmAll: What happened to [[spoiler: the townspeople at the end of the film after they were transformed into rats and force to go into the lake to drown. The only survivors were the Fisherman and the baby, who were innocent characters and the innocent woman was killed before the townspeople were transformed into rats.]]
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* MindControlMusic: Per tradition the Piper's flute allows him to mind-control the horde of rats to lead them to their dooms. [[spoiler:It can also mind-control an entire town of humans (and only those who the Piper wants to) in addition to transforming them into what the Piper wants (in this case, rats).]]
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* MindControlMusic: Per tradition tradition, the Piper's flute allows him to mind-control the horde of rats to lead them to their dooms. [[spoiler:It can also mind-control an entire town of humans (and only those who the Piper wants to) in addition to transforming them into what the Piper wants (in this case, rats).]]
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* NonMaliciousMonster: The rats are ultimately this, they're destructive disease-ridden vermin to Hamelin, but are ultimately animals following their instincts to survive, also they're willing to share resources and keep each other safe. This is in contrast to the very malicious and evil humans of Hamelin.
* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:The film ends with the now deserted Hamelin being abandoned by its only inhabitants left: The Fisherman and a baby he rescues from the empty town; who the Fisherman takes far away to a better place to live in.]]
* RayOfHopeEnding: [[spoiler:The film ends with the now deserted Hamelin being abandoned by its only inhabitants left: The Fisherman and a baby he rescues from the empty town; who the Fisherman takes far away to a better place to live in.]]
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* NonMaliciousMonster: The rats are ultimately this, this as they're destructive disease-ridden vermin to the town of Hamelin, but are ultimately animals following their instincts to survive, also survive. Also, they're willing to share resources and keep each other safe. This is in contrast to the very malicious and evil humans of Hamelin.
* RayOfHopeEnding:[[spoiler:The [[spoiler:Even though the film ends with the now deserted Hamelin being abandoned, the Fisherman, who was one of the few people left alive, was able to rescue an abandoned by its only inhabitants left: The Fisherman and a baby and he rescues from ends up taking the empty town; who the Fisherman takes far away baby to a better place to live in.in signifying some hope for the remaining survivors of Hamelin.]]
* RayOfHopeEnding:
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: For all the trouble that the rats had caused, the film portrays the rodents in a sympathetic light by showing that they merely follow their nature and care about each other being willing to share resources and food while portrayed in a soft and "alive" way with realistic designs and movements and even including StockFootage of live rats to enforce this. Meanwhile, the humans of Hamelin are either stupid, ruthless, corrupt, selfish, greedy, perverted, gluttonous or all of the former while portrayed in a deranged mechanical manner, with only 3 of the whole population being potrayed as good people (the woman, the Fisherman and the baby).
* JabbaTableManners: The town leaders themselves. Whenever a scene of them eating occurs, they are shown greedily shoving food down their throats accompanied with loud smacking. They also throw food everywhere even full pieces that they only took one bite out of.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Most of Hamelin's inhabitants meet their ends when the Piper transforms them into rats and uses his flute to lure them all to their deaths via drowning, as he did to the rats that the citizens had hired him to get rid of. Special mention goes to the Jeweler, who is the last one to die, as he turns around and vainly begs for mercy before the Piper intensifies his melody and sends the Jeweler plummeting to his watery grave. Another mention is the butcher who was shown happily slaughtering animals being killed by a rat trap as he tries following the rat horde.]]
* KillEmAll: What happened to [[spoiler: the townspeople at the end of the film after they were transformed into rats and force to go into the lake to drown. Only the Fisherman and a baby survive thanks to not being corrupt or greedy.]]
* JabbaTableManners: The town leaders themselves. Whenever a scene of them eating occurs, they are shown greedily shoving food down their throats accompanied with loud smacking. They also throw food everywhere even full pieces that they only took one bite out of.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Most of Hamelin's inhabitants meet their ends when the Piper transforms them into rats and uses his flute to lure them all to their deaths via drowning, as he did to the rats that the citizens had hired him to get rid of. Special mention goes to the Jeweler, who is the last one to die, as he turns around and vainly begs for mercy before the Piper intensifies his melody and sends the Jeweler plummeting to his watery grave. Another mention is the butcher who was shown happily slaughtering animals being killed by a rat trap as he tries following the rat horde.]]
* KillEmAll: What happened to [[spoiler: the townspeople at the end of the film after they were transformed into rats and force to go into the lake to drown. Only the Fisherman and a baby survive thanks to not being corrupt or greedy.]]
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* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: For all the trouble that the rats had caused, the film portrays the rodents in a sympathetic light by showing that they merely follow their nature and care about each other other's well-being by being willing to share resources and food while with each other. The rats are also portrayed in a soft and "alive" way with realistic designs and movements and even including StockFootage of live rats to enforce this. Meanwhile, the humans of Hamelin are either stupid, ruthless, corrupt, selfish, greedy, perverted, or gluttonous or all of the former while portrayed in a deranged mechanical manner, manner. {{Averted}} with the Fisherman, the innocent woman and the baby who were the only 3 of the whole population being potrayed as good people (the woman, in the Fisherman and the baby).
town of Hamelin.
* JabbaTableManners: The town leaders themselves. Whenever a scene of them eating occurs, they are shown greedily shoving food down their throats accompanied with loud smacking. They also throw foodeverywhere even full pieces that they only took one bite out of.
everywhere, which is what caused the rats to invade the town of Hamelin.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Most of Hamelin's inhabitants meet their ends when the Piper transforms them into rats and uses his flute to lure them all to their deaths via drowning, as he did to the rats that the citizens had hired him to get rid of. Special mention goes to the Jeweler, who was responsible for the innocent woman's death and is the last one to die, as he turns around and vainly begs for mercy before the Piper intensifies his melody and sends the Jeweler plummeting to his watery grave. Another mention is the butcher who was shown happily slaughtering animals before the rats' invasion and he ends up being killed by a rat trap as he tries following the rat horde.]]
* KillEmAll: What happened to [[spoiler: the townspeople at the end of the film after they were transformed into rats and force to go into the lake to drown.Only The only survivors were the Fisherman and a baby survive thanks to not being corrupt or greedy.the baby, who were innocent characters and the innocent was killed before the townspeople were transformed into rats.]]
* JabbaTableManners: The town leaders themselves. Whenever a scene of them eating occurs, they are shown greedily shoving food down their throats accompanied with loud smacking. They also throw food
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Most of Hamelin's inhabitants meet their ends when the Piper transforms them into rats and uses his flute to lure them all to their deaths via drowning, as he did to the rats that the citizens had hired him to get rid of. Special mention goes to the Jeweler, who was responsible for the innocent woman's death and is the last one to die, as he turns around and vainly begs for mercy before the Piper intensifies his melody and sends the Jeweler plummeting to his watery grave. Another mention is the butcher who was shown happily slaughtering animals before the rats' invasion and he ends up being killed by a rat trap as he tries following the rat horde.]]
* KillEmAll: What happened to [[spoiler: the townspeople at the end of the film after they were transformed into rats and force to go into the lake to drown.
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* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: The townspeople experienced this when they started transforming into rats. Either some of the townspeople had rat heads on a human body or some had human heads on rat bodies, most notable is the Jeweler who retains his human head up to his death.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: The Fisherman shows up at the middle point of the film watching Hamelin and the Piper's arrival from afar with curiosity. [[spoiler:He returns in the last 5 minutes after the Piper is finished with drowning the rat-humans, he searches the empty Hamelin until he hears an abandoned baby, who he rescues and takes away with him to a better place to live.]]
* CrapsackWorld: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are especially corrupted. The only good people in town are the woman, Fisherman and the baby who all either refuse to fall into the rabbit hole of greed and cruelty of the other townsfolk (woman and Fisherman) or simply can't do so (the baby).
* ChekhovsGunman: The Fisherman shows up at the middle point of the film watching Hamelin and the Piper's arrival from afar with curiosity. [[spoiler:He returns in the last 5 minutes after the Piper is finished with drowning the rat-humans, he searches the empty Hamelin until he hears an abandoned baby, who he rescues and takes away with him to a better place to live.]]
* CrapsackWorld: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are especially corrupted. The only good people in town are the woman, Fisherman and the baby who all either refuse to fall into the rabbit hole of greed and cruelty of the other townsfolk (woman and Fisherman) or simply can't do so (the baby).
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* BodyHorror: [[spoiler: The townspeople experienced this when they started transforming into rats. Either some of the townspeople had rat heads on a human body or some had human heads on rat bodies, bodies. The most notable example is the Jeweler who retains his human head as his body transforms into that of a rat's, right up to his death.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: The Fisherman shows up at the middle point of the film watching the town of Hamelin and the Piper's arrival from afar with curiosity. [[spoiler:He returns in the last 5 minutes of the film after the Piper is finished with drowning the rat-humans, as he searches the empty town of Hamelin until he hears the cries of an abandonedbaby, who he baby. He then rescues the baby and takes it away with him to a better place to live.live in.]]
* CrapsackWorld: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are especially corrupted. The only good people in the town are the young and innocent woman, the Fisherman and the baby who all either refuse to fall into the rabbit hole of greed and cruelty of the other townsfolk (woman and Fisherman) or simply can't do so because of their age (the baby).
* ChekhovsGunman: The Fisherman shows up at the middle point of the film watching the town of Hamelin and the Piper's arrival from afar with curiosity. [[spoiler:He returns in the last 5 minutes of the film after the Piper is finished with drowning the rat-humans, as he searches the empty town of Hamelin until he hears the cries of an abandoned
* CrapsackWorld: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are especially corrupted. The only good people in the town are the young and innocent woman, the Fisherman and the baby who all either refuse to fall into the rabbit hole of greed and cruelty of the other townsfolk (woman and Fisherman) or simply can't do so because of their age (the baby).
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* DarkIsNotEvil: The Piper might look scary and resemble a DarkLord with his big hood, but he's ultimately one of the nicer characters in the film. He doesn't even takes action against Hamelin after they cheat him out of his payment, at least until [[spoiler:he finds the innocent woman dead after the Jeweler and 2 other elites assaulted and killed her, at which that point all bets are off and he makes the whole town pay for their cruelty and greed.]]
* DerangedAnimation: Since the designs of the city and the characters were based on German Expressionism and medieval German art, the movie tends to evoke this. Like for instance, there were a couple of scenes where the rats are shown to be much larger in scale than the buildings and the people themselves. It all helps to make us know how corrupt and cruel Hamelin in its entirety is.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: For all the trouble the rats caused, the film portrays the rodents in a sympathetic light by showing that they merely follow their nature and care about each other being willing to share resources and food while portrayed in a soft and "alive" way with realistic designs and movements and even including StockFootage of live rats to enforce this. Meanwhile, the humans of Hamelin are either stupid, ruthless, corrupt, selfish, greedy, perverted, gluttonous or all of the former while portrayed in a deranged mechanical manner, with only 3 of the whole population being potrayed as good people (the woman, the Fisherman and the baby).
* DerangedAnimation: Since the designs of the city and the characters were based on German Expressionism and medieval German art, the movie tends to evoke this. Like for instance, there were a couple of scenes where the rats are shown to be much larger in scale than the buildings and the people themselves. It all helps to make us know how corrupt and cruel Hamelin in its entirety is.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: For all the trouble the rats caused, the film portrays the rodents in a sympathetic light by showing that they merely follow their nature and care about each other being willing to share resources and food while portrayed in a soft and "alive" way with realistic designs and movements and even including StockFootage of live rats to enforce this. Meanwhile, the humans of Hamelin are either stupid, ruthless, corrupt, selfish, greedy, perverted, gluttonous or all of the former while portrayed in a deranged mechanical manner, with only 3 of the whole population being potrayed as good people (the woman, the Fisherman and the baby).
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* DarkIsNotEvil: The Piper might look scary and resemble a DarkLord with his big hood, but he's ultimately one of the nicer characters in the film. He doesn't even takes take action against the town of Hamelin after they cheat cheated him out of his payment, at least payment. It's not until [[spoiler:he finds the innocent woman dead after the Jeweler and 2 two other elites assaulted and killed her, at which at that point point, all bets are off and he makes the whole town pay for their cruelty and greed.]]
* DerangedAnimation: Since the designs of the city and the characters were based on German Expressionism and medieval German art, the movie tends to evoke this. Like for instance, there were a couple of scenes where the rats are shown to be much larger in scale than the buildings and the people themselves. It all helpsto make us know see how corrupt and cruel the town of Hamelin is in its entirety is.
entirety.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: For all the trouble that the rats had caused, the film portrays the rodents in a sympathetic light by showing that they merely follow their nature and care about each other being willing to share resources and food while portrayed in a soft and "alive" way with realistic designs and movements and even including StockFootage of live rats to enforce this. Meanwhile, the humans of Hamelin are either stupid, ruthless, corrupt, selfish, greedy, perverted, gluttonous or all of the former while portrayed in a deranged mechanical manner, with only 3 of the whole population being potrayed as good people (the woman, the Fisherman and the baby).
* DerangedAnimation: Since the designs of the city and the characters were based on German Expressionism and medieval German art, the movie tends to evoke this. Like for instance, there were a couple of scenes where the rats are shown to be much larger in scale than the buildings and the people themselves. It all helps
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: For all the trouble that the rats had caused, the film portrays the rodents in a sympathetic light by showing that they merely follow their nature and care about each other being willing to share resources and food while portrayed in a soft and "alive" way with realistic designs and movements and even including StockFootage of live rats to enforce this. Meanwhile, the humans of Hamelin are either stupid, ruthless, corrupt, selfish, greedy, perverted, gluttonous or all of the former while portrayed in a deranged mechanical manner, with only 3 of the whole population being potrayed as good people (the woman, the Fisherman and the baby).
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Zigzagged with the Pied Piper himself. On the one hand, his motivations for [[spoiler: luring the townspeople to their deaths]] was not only because he didn't get paid, but also because [[spoiler:he witnessed the death of an innocent woman.]] On the other hand, [[spoiler: he actually committed genocide]] in this version by [[spoiler: leading the townspeople to their deaths]] whereas in the original fairy tale, the worst he did was lure the children away to never be seen again, [[spoiler:however, considering he spared an innocent baby and the Fisherman who were all but stated to be the only pure souls left after the woman's death, it does give him some heroic points.]]
* ArtShift: There are some scenes where the rats are shown in live action. This was done to show that the rats are more alive than the majority humans, who are always portrayed in a robotic or wooden manner.
* ArtShift: There are some scenes where the rats are shown in live action. This was done to show that the rats are more alive than the majority humans, who are always portrayed in a robotic or wooden manner.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: Zigzagged with the Pied Piper himself. On the one hand, his motivations for [[spoiler: luring the townspeople to their deaths]] was not only because he didn't get paid, but also because [[spoiler:he witnessed the death of an innocent woman.]] On the other hand, [[spoiler: he actually committed genocide]] in this version by [[spoiler: leading the townspeople to their deaths]] whereas in the original fairy tale, the worst he did was lure the children away to never be seen again, [[spoiler:however, again. [[spoiler:However, considering he spared an innocent baby and the Fisherman Fisherman, who were all but stated to be the only pure souls left after the woman's death, it does give him some heroic points.]]
* ArtShift: There are some scenes where the rats are shown in live action. This was done to show that the rats are more alive than the majority of the humans, who are always portrayed in a robotic or wooden manner.
* ArtShift: There are some scenes where the rats are shown in live action. This was done to show that the rats are more alive than the majority of the humans, who are always portrayed in a robotic or wooden manner.
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** {{Downplayed}} with the Fisherman as he has a similar design to most of the townspeople though is far more "soft" and organic-looking, and he is an innocent character as well [[spoiler:who gets spared by the Piper thanks to his niceness and is even able to have a happy ending by saving an abandoned baby and taking it to a new, better home]].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While all of the corrupt and cruel townspeople were transformed into rats and fell into the lake to drown in karmic fashion, the young innocent woman was murdered without the Piper being able to save her, the Piper himself vanishes after the townspeople are drowned and Hamelin is left empty; but the benevolent Fisherman is spared by the Piper and rescues the only other pure soul left that the Piper also spared: a baby, taking the child to a better place to live in.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While all of the corrupt and cruel townspeople were transformed into rats and fell into the lake to drown in karmic fashion, the young innocent woman was murdered without the Piper being able to save her, the Piper himself vanishes after the townspeople are drowned and Hamelin is left empty; but the benevolent Fisherman is spared by the Piper and rescues the only other pure soul left that the Piper also spared: a baby, taking the child to a better place to live in.]]
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** {{Downplayed}} with the Fisherman as he has a similar design to most of the townspeople though townspeople, although his design is far more "soft" and organic-looking, and organic-looking compared to the other townspeople. And he is an one of the few innocent character as well characters [[spoiler:who gets spared by the Piper thanks to his niceness and is even able to have a happy ending by saving an abandoned baby and taking it to a new, better home]].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While all of the corrupt and cruel townspeople were transformed into rats and fell into the lake to drown in karmic fashion, the young innocent woman was murdered without the Piper being able to saveher, her and the Piper himself vanishes after the townspeople are drowned and Hamelin is left empty; but empty. But the benevolent Fisherman is spared by the Piper and rescues the only other pure soul left a baby that the Piper also spared: a baby, spared, taking the child to a better place to live in.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: While all of the corrupt and cruel townspeople were transformed into rats and fell into the lake to drown in karmic fashion, the young innocent woman was murdered without the Piper being able to save
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* CrapsackWorld: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are specially corrupted. The only good people in town are the woman, Fisherman and the baby who all either refuse to fall into the rabbit hole of greed and cruelty of the other townsfolk (woman and Fisherman) or simply can't do so (the baby).
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* CrapsackWorld: The town of Hamelin is not a nice place to live in as all the townspeople are greedy and petty and the town leaders are specially especially corrupted. The only good people in town are the woman, Fisherman and the baby who all either refuse to fall into the rabbit hole of greed and cruelty of the other townsfolk (woman and Fisherman) or simply can't do so (the baby).
