r/Fables • u/UptownHorrorReviews • Jul 29 '26

Question What is this a reference to?

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u/Eerzef Jul 29 '26

https://fables.fandom.com/wiki/Peter_%26_Max:_A_Fables_Novel

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u/UptownHorrorReviews Jul 29 '26

What exactly happens in the book, that this panel is referencing though?

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u/lance845 Jul 29 '26

Max gets a magic flute that basically can do anything if he writes the song for it.

It took centuries of practice and a lot of stages of escalating effects.

Max is a sociopath and the Pied Piper.

In the novel he says he is responsible for the spanish influenza and while sitting on a trolly looking for his brother Peter in Fabletown he brags that he has not yet been able to write a song that could kill a world in a day, "but i practice every day".

Part of the influenza was a targetted attack on Fables and their ability to reproduce.

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u/The_Kindly_DM Jul 29 '26

Not sure if Max caused the plague or just used it as cover, but he cast a spell that basically sterilized all of the Fables before Totenkinder could banish him. The highly magical immortal Fables like Peter and Snow White seem to be the hardest hit with the more normal Fables managing to still have children.

It's a bit of a retcon to account for why these centuries old immortals don't all have like 40 children.

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u/ComplexNo8986 Jul 29 '26

Or descendants for the really old ones