Originally published at: A rat king is a hellish entanglement of rats that are bound together by their tails | Boing Boing
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The only way to defeat a Rat King made from an assemblage of smaller rats is when a series of Nutcrackers assemble into a larger Battle Mech like Voltron.
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Not rats, but squirrels
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High Quality Content.
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Reading this article, I can’t get the idea of the current GOP as a human Rat King out of my head.
Or maybe it’s just me… 
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Dennis Duffy of “30 Rock” knows what’s up.
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Can I please urge you to read The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
You’ll never think about a rat king the same afterwards (like the best kids books this gets pretty dark)
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That book starts dark and just gets darker!
Loved it, and it’s why one of my rats many years ago was named Beans.
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Rat Kings, or King Rats?
ssssome horrid stuff skulking in them sewersssss…
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GNU Terry Pratchett
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In the Alan Moore epic The Ballad of Halo Jones, Halo saves the life of a rat king by finding a replacement for one of the rats who is critically dying.
To prove the adage that no good turn goes unpunished, this has unforeseen consequences much later in the story…
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It’s a fun bit, because people are freaked out by rats, but it’s pretty much the silliest mythical beast you could actually believe in. How is it even supposed to menace you?
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“I want to believe.” (No, no, actually I dont.)
With supremely coordinated movement?
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