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Being a pretty famous legend, ''Literature/PiedPiperOfHamelin'' had many [[ReferencedBy interpretations in various media]].
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[[AC:Anime & Manga]]
*''Anime/SailorMoonSuperSTheMovie'': The first half of the film with whimsical boys manipulating children into leaving their homes to live in a dreamy paradise is a combination of ''Pied Piper Of Hamelin'' and ''Literature/PeterPan''.
[[AC:Comic Books]]
*''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'': Max Piper only briefly appears in ''1001 Nights of Snowfall''. He is one of the central characters in the novel ''Peter & Max: A Fables Novel'' (see below).
[[AC:Fan Works]]
*''Fanfic/RWBYDestinyOfRemnant'', Chapter 34: Piper is a member of the White Fang Elite Guard.
[[AC:Films - Animated]]
*''Franchise/{{Shrek}}'':
**''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'': Pied Piper briefly appears to be exiled in Shrek's swamp.
**''WesternAnimation/ShrekForeverAfter'': Pied Piper appears as a minor antagonist hired by Rumpelstiltskin to capture the ogre rebels. His flute has a dial with options that decides what creatures forces to dance.
[[AC:Literature]]
*''Literature/GrimmTales'': The Vault includes many items, one being Pied Piper's pipe.
*''Literature/LogHorizon'': A guild, [[spoiler:notorious for luring and extorting unwitting beginner players]], is named Hamelin.
*''Peter & Max: A ComicBook/{{Fables}} Novel'': Max Piper is the Pied Piper depicted as an EvilWizard and he has a brother Max. His flute is called Fire given by Frau Totenkinder.
[[AC:Music]]
*''Music/AesopRock'''s song ''Defender'' has these lyrics:
-->I could drive into a lake of fire, pay the piper COD,\\
Aware the pot and kettle shop for little toxin equally at least
[[AC:Tabletop Games]]
*''[[http://w.wiki/9A5p Shadis]]'' magazine #23: There is an article called "Close Encounters Of the Random Kind: Woodland Faerie Encounters", it presents a table that lists a number of encounters with FairFolk. No. 78 reads "Elf with a magical flute leading a horde of mice. He plans to drown them in a nearby river."
[[AC:Video Games]]
*''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'': Majority of the Plaque furnitures are direct references to literature and fairytales. Most of these plaques' in-game designs even have the titles of the works that they are referencing. For plaques that contain numbers, adding 500 to that value would also represent [[SignificantReferenceDate meaningful dates]] related to that literature. After "Uniqueness", the references tend to come from music. One reward contains the number 0800, a feather hat and flute icons, with the text "Pied Piper". The earliest known record of the story was around the year 1300.
*''VideoGame/DiabloIII'': One of the rift bosses looks like a giant, bloated rat and attacks by summoning hordes of smaller rats, and its name is Hamelin the Rat King.
*''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': Skeevers are small rat-like creatures, and there is a deranged skeever-breeder in the meadery cellars named Hamelyn.
*''VideoGame/EndlessFrontier'': Hamelin Silbato is based on Pied Piper; not only does he use a flute, one of his attacks is [[ZergRush summoning a stampede of mice martial artists]].
*''VideoGame/Fallout76'': The player may occasionally run into an Eyebot leading a pack of Radrats with flute music.
*''VideoGame/KingsQuest2015'': Chapter 2 is filled with nods to fairytales, legends, and nursery rhymes and the goblins are trying to reenact them, one of them being ''Pied Piper Of Hamelin''.
*''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'': Burning a clown that leads at least 10 common infected leads to the achievement "Fried Piper".

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