History WesternAnimation / SpiesInDisguise

* ChekhovsGag: The inflatable hug device is played as a joke about Walter's preference for pacifistic alternatives to spy gadgetry, and subsequently played off as useless by Lance. This same device saves Walter and the pigeons' lives when Killian targets them, [[ChekhovsBoomerang and saves Killian himself]] right before Walter shuts down the drones.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Walter and Lance have different approaches to taking down "bad guys". On the one hand, Lance is constantly proven correct that villains don't care if you play nice, and you want to take them down once and for all so they can't retaliate. It's hard to argue given Killian tortures Walter, a teenager, in an attempt to lure out Lance when the latter calls for the agent. Walter, on the other hand, points out that if you have "blow up a bad guy" as a default solution, everyone gets burned with you "fight fire with fire". Sometimes the nonviolent solution may be the right one, in that no one gets hurt.

** In the beginning of the film, a previous mission Lance went on is mentioned, with the implication that it went south. [[spoiler:Turns out Killian's entire crew was killed on that mission, providing his motivation for going after Lance.]]

* FurryReminder: This bit after Lance is transformed into a pigeon:

* JerkassHasAPoint: Marcy to her credit is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure when she sees Walter in Lance's car. Walter had called them to explain Lance was at his house, not knowing that Walter had an arrest warrant for theft and espionage, and naturally, her team is confused about why the kid is seemingly helping a fugitive after busting him. Marcy not-too-kindly but correctly deduces that Lance is using Walter to further his agenda because the kid is naive and idealistic and Walter is in over his head. Indeed, Lance was just using Walter's untested invention and becomes fond of him much later on.

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Kimura has his butt exposed several times in one scene.

* AnAesop: The bad guys may not care if you're nice to them, but they will care if you're nasty to them. [[spoiler: When Killian lost his crew, he went from being a generic spy villain to taking up a vendetta to bring down Lance personally and destroy all he held dear.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: It's actually not hard to piece together that Lance as a pigeon is [[spoiler:actually female]]. He suffers from mood swings, his feathers puff up when riled, and he has eyelashes. [[spoiler:Of the last two characteristics, [[SmurfettePrinciple which does he share with the three pigeons that form his flock]]?]]

-->'''Lance''': Just [[PressurePoint a ''few'' ounces of pressure to the vagus nerve,]] and look at your boy! Sleepy night-night.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: At the hotel in Mexico, Marcy comes to bust Walter and Lance in Kimura's hotel room. Lance encourages Walter to jump from the balcony using parkour, reminding him this is a physics problem in essence. Walter thinks back to his videogame and realizes it can calculate exactly the jumps that he needs to take. He takes the leap just as Marcy comes and [[EveryoneHasStandards shouts at him not to jump]]...and falls gracelessly, as she expected he would. Gangly scientist background does not mean you can act out a physics problem because life is not a videogame. To accentuate the point, his videogame avatar says "GAME OVER" as its falls.

On a somber note, this ended up being Blue Sky's final completed film before Disney shuttered the studio in April 2021. This film’s directors, Nick Bruno and Troy Quane, would later go on to direct ''ComicBook/{{Nimona}}'' for Creator/AnnapurnaPictures and Creator/{{Netflix}}, salvaging the film from Blue Sky, where it was 75% complete when the studio was shuttered.

On a somber note, this ended up being Blue Sky's final release before Disney shut it in April 2021. This film’s directors, Nick Bruno and Troy Quane, would later go on to direct ''ComicBook/{{Nimona}}'' for Creator/AnnapurnaPictures and Creator/{{Netflix}}, salvaging the film from Blue Sky, where it was 75% complete when the studio was shuttered.

* GenderBender: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. Lance himself remains male when he is transformed, but the body he takes is actually that of a female pigeon, with him being able to lay eggs. [[spoiler: Walter realizes that the feather he used in the serum came from his pet pigeon, Lovey, and this oversight was the reason the initial antidote formula didn't work. This is a rare instance in which the 'turn into a bird, lay an egg' joke has a real plot effect and isn't just for laughs.]]

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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: When Lance is looking on the hotel computer to find the room Kimura is being hosted, he finds his name registered as ''Not'' Kimura. The scene implies he's really not much creative with fake names.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Lovey, oddly enough. When Marcy's agents corner Lance and Walter in Venice, she suggests that they KillThemAll. Lance, who has no qualms about killing when necessary, calls this "dark". [[spoiler:During the FinalBattle, she saves Marcy from a drone that was behind her shoulder, then claims she was aiming for Marcy's head.]]

* KillThemAll: [[spoiler: Killian's plan is to kill every operative at the agency Lance works for, as payback for Lance killing his entire crew and permanently scarring him during a previous mission.]]