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| The Pied Piper | |
| Also known as: | Elijah Spellman, Odd Bob the Clown, Jeggorabax Energy Entity |
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| Home Planet: | Jeggorabax Cluster |
| Home Era: | 13th century? |
| Appearances: | TVC: Challenge of the Piper SJA: The Day of the Clown |
| Actor: | Bradley Walsh |
The Pied Piper was an energy entity originally from the Jeggorabax Cluster, a region known to house beings feeding on emotions. The Pied Piper manifested a need for fear in order to break loose from a piece of rock it was bound to, known as the Weserbergland Meteorite.
The entity crashed to Earth in the Weserbergland Mountains in Lower Saxony in 1283, and by they following year had broken loose from the meteorite by feeding on the local inhabitants' fear of the plague. Its first major act was to take the children from the city of Hamelin in order to elicit fear from their parents; an act that made it known as the Pied Piper. (SJA: The Day of the Clown)
The Pied Piper took the children to its own realm, which included such wonders as toffee apple trees and lemonade fountains, but they soon tired of these and began longing for their parents. The Doctor, John and Gillian arrived and decided to help free the children. They traveled to the Pied Piper's castle, who challenged the Doctor to pass three tests or become his prisoner. The Doctor used various technological tricks to pass the tests, then led the children back to Hamelin. (TVC: Challenge of the Piper)
Over the next seven hundred years, he continued to abduct children in order to create fear. One notable stint was an eight year period between 1932 and 1940, in America, as "Odd Bob the Clown". He was also responsible for instilling coulrophobia in young Sarah Jane Smith.
In 2009, he set up Spellman's Magical Museum of the Circus in London in order to steal children from the city. This was made possible by the fact that the Weserbergland Meteorite was on loan to the nearby Pharos Institute. The now adult Sarah Jane Smith prevented him from stealing the children, but he abducted Luke Smith and imprisoned him in his hall of mirrors. With the help of Rani Chandra and Clyde Langer, Sarah Jane overcame her fears, which weakened him to the point where she could force him back into a fragment of the Weserbergland Meteorite. She then placed the fragment in an alien box from which nothing could escape. (SJA: The Day of the Clown)
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| The Last Sontaran: Sontaran • Kaagh • Sontaran drones The Day of the Clown: The Pied Piper/Odd Bob the Clown/Elijah Spellman • Animated clown statues Secrets of the Stars: Ancient Lights • Martin Trueman The Mark of the Berserker: Berserkers • Paul Langer • Jacob West • Travist Polong The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith: The Trickster • Graske • Krislok Enemy of the Bane: Bane Kindred • Wormwood • Sontaran • Kaagh • Cal Kilburne From Raxacoricofallapatorius with Love: Slitheen family • Rahnius |
Odd bob seems to have some similarites to Pennywise the clown in stephen king's 'it'
The Pied Piper was a character in Earth folk tale who, by playing his pipe, lured the rat population of the town of Hamelin away from the settlement. The town’s people refused to pay for this services so he used the same ability to lure the town’s children away.
A similar legend, that of the Marching Godess, originated from the planet Daffodon IX. In 2370 Odo thought himself much like the Pied Piper or the Marching Godess when he took on the form of an adult Horta to try and lure a group of baby Horta out of the more populated areas of Deep Space 9. (DS9 novel: Devil in the Sky)
Later that year, when the station was suffering an infestation of voles, Julian Bashir sent Miles O'Brien a pipe with a card reading "It worked in Hamlin". (DS9 episode: "Playing God")
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Hartley Rathaway was born deaf to incredibly rich parents. After his hearing was medically restored, he was amazed by music and sound. He developed a vast knowledge of sonics, and using this knowledge, fought the Flash as the Pied Piper.
Piper once suffered a nervous breakdown after the Flash apprehended him, so he was sent to Breedmore Mental Hospital to be treated. He apparently improved to the point where they let him use his technical knowledge to fix the hospital's public address system. However, he used this to release hypersonic waves into the hospital, allowing him to escape. However, he was apprehended by someone resembling Reverse-Flash in a matter of minutes.
Piper reformed, however, and, living in New York, put his efforts into helping the homeless. He would go around to stores and restaurants to get food to give homeless citizens every night. One of his many efforts to help the homeless was with Freespace, a squatter's rights group who took over abandoned buildings.[1]
When Wally West decided to move to Keystone City, Piper helped him out. His parents lived in Keystone, and had always tolerated his adventures as an outlaw until one of his more recent doings. However, he had recently received a letter from his mother inviting him back. He took her up on the offer, only to find that his family was being held hostage by some men who had been hired by the Turtle to recover an account book his father had hoped to use to settle some money problems. However, Piper defeated the Turtle's men and redeemed himself in the eyes of his parents.[2] He decided to stay in Keystone to help them recover.[3]
Piper, who has since publicly announced his homosexuality, became a great friend of Wally West's, and often contributed to the Flash's escapades with his technical expertise or acting as an informant.
Piper played a key role in helping to stop Kobra's Project Morpheus. He aided Linda Park in tracking his power sources and providing sonic weapons.
Piper was framed for the murder of his own parents, who were actually killed by the Mirror Master. This clearly put a great strain on the two Rogues' relationship.
With the loss of his family and the disappearance of Wally and Linda, Piper fell back in with the Rogues.[4] When Inertia gathered them together in a plot to rob the new Flash of his speed, Piper was among their ranks.[5] However, the others were hesitant about including him, considering his past collaboration with the Flash. As a show of faith, he hypnotized a wealthy businessman into wiring his fortune to the Mirror Master and jumping into the ocean. However, he had not entirely abandoned his former ways - the businessman was well-known for taking advantage of the elderly, and after Mirror Master had confirmed the amount in his account, he had it transferred to a charity for homeless children. The Trickster, figuring out Piper's true motives, blackmailed Rathaway into transferring the money to him instead.[6]
Piper attempted to turn the Rogues against Inertia once he realized that he had used them for his own purpose. However, he was unable to distract them from killing the Flash.[7] Knowing that he would be considered just as guilty as the rest of the Rogues, he and the Trickster decided to work together to stay out of sight.[8] Wanting to pay his respects to the fallen speedster, Piper brought a reluctant Trickster to the Flash's funeral. However, after a speech by Wonder Girl stressing the importance of capturing the Rogues, the two fled and decided and go their separate ways. Outside, they were shot by Multiplex and Deadshot.[9]
Ultimately Trickster and Piper were arrested and handcuffed together. However, the two escape. Both Piper and Trickster are then pursued relentlessly by both heroes and villains alike. Eventually the two encountered Piper's former friend of the newly-returned previous Flash, Wally West. Wally confines the two at the Green Arrow/Black Canary wedding, despite the warnings that Deathstroke is planning an all-out assault at the occasion. The two manage to escape the wedding assault, inadvertently picking up Double Down as a passenger. The trio stop at a diner, and hears of Double Down's news of both less and well-known villains being disappeared. The three are then attacked by the Suicide Squad. Double Down is captured, but Piper and Trickster, using an invisibility field decide to follow the Squad and free the other captured villains. Once arriving to their destination (Belle Reve) they encountered and freed Two-Face, and then learning from him about the fates of Earth's villain being exile from the planet. Though Two-Face decided to remain in Belle Reve due to a coin-toss, Trickster and Piper escaped and are again attacked by Deadshot, who pursues them relentlessly until he succeeds in murdering Trickster. With Trickster's death, the cuffs activate a 24-hour self-destruct, which Piper is able to delay with his flute.
When the train they are on is submitted to a border check, Piper flees into the desert. Delirious from the heat, he begins to imagine Trickster's corpse is talking to him. After severing the hand from the rest of the corpse, Piper is brought to Apokolips by Desaad.[10] Desaad unlocks the shackles, and claims that Piper can channel the Anti-Life Equation and control the planet. Before the Piper can do so, Brother Eye finishes assimilating Apokolips.[11]
Desaad finally gets into Brother Eye's control and convinces Piper to play his flute in order to activate the Anti-Life Equation. Piper agrees to play, but upon hearing that Desaad was the mastermind behind his recent misfortune, in an almost successful attempt to break his spirit and taking control over him, he kills Desaad with a tune. He plays one final time for Brother Eye, a swan song, The Show Must Go On by Queen, that blows up the merged entity Brother Eye/Apokolips, with him still trapped inside, apparently left to die.[12] However, he is later seen alive in the streets of Gotham City, saying that if he was allowed to live for some reason, this time he will play on the side of angels.[13]
Enhanced Hearing: being born deaf he was treated and medically given his hearing, later on with he genius level knowledge of sonics he further augmented his hearing artificially.
Anti-Life Equation Manipulation via Sound: its has been revealed that his powers to manipulate others through sound are due to his ability to manipulate the Anti-Life Equation. Though seen as a rudimentary control by the likes of Libra, the power is remarkably effective as he finds new and innovative ways to manipulate people and things using sound.Genius-Level Intellect (Sonic Tech): A genius of sonic theories and sound-based sonic technology.
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The Pied Piper is a hip flute player hired to rid the town of Hamelin of mice. Kermit the Frog interviews him in a "Sesame Street News Flash" sketch. The Piper has a problem attracting the mice, but Kermit manages to draw them to him by whistling.
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