Line #30 Literature/RealPigeons


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2	[[caption-width-right:789:From top to bottom/ left to right: Jungle Crow, Thumbler, Frillback, Rock and Homey]]
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4	''Real Pigeons'' is an Australian children’s book series written by Andrew [=McDonald=] and illustrated by Ben Wood.
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6	It follows a group of crime-fighting city pigeons: Rock, Grandpouter, Homey, Frillback and Tumbler — all member of the Real Pigeons World Wild network. Each book is divided into three parts that all build up to the main story, and each story has different antagonists.
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8	The books currently released include:
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10	# Real Pigeons Fight Crime (2018)
11	# Real Pigeons Eat Danger (2018)
12	# Real Pigeons Nest Hard (2019)
13	# Real Pigeons Splash Back (2019
14	# Real Pigeons Peck Punches (2019)
15	# Real Pigeons Get Bready (2020)
16	# Real Pigeons Flex Feathers (2020)
17	# Real Pigeons Spy High (2021)
18	# Real Pigeons Duck Trouble (2021)
19	# Real Pigeons Stay Coo (2022)
20	# Real Pigeons Flap Out (2022)
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23	!! ''Real Pigeons'' provide examples of:
24	* AffablyEvil: Jungle Crow and Megabat are arrogant and troublesome, but they can be very polite and friendly at times.
25	* AnimalsNotToScale: Megabat, despite what his name would suggest (and the fact that his species’ wings can stretch up to 2 meters), is actually around the size of a pigeon.
26	* AnimalTalk: It’s established that the animal characters can understand each other (even if they’re different species) and humans, but humans can’t understand them.
27	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Tumbler has shades of this in the later books.
28	* BadassNormal: Grandpouter has no pigeon power, but he is the organiser and leader of the Real Pigeons Squad. And according to Squab, Grandpouter is ‘very wise’.
29	* BrilliantButLazy: Homey is an excellent navigator, but tends to be more of a layabout than the other pigeons.
30	* CatsAreMean: The majority of cats (with the exception of Tabasco) are enemies to the pigeons and often portrayed as bullies. This is justified as cats are natural predators of birds such as pigeons.
31	* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: Grandpouter and Silvercrop]].
32	* {{Contortionist}}: Tumbler’s power.
33	* CunningLikeAFox: Red Fox knows the easy way of reaching high even into the mountains (by sneaking on the Real Pigeons’ nest plane)
34	* ADogNamedDog: The majority of characters either fit into this, or ALizardNamedLiz (Rock, Frillback, Jungle Crow, Homey, Ermine etc.). The few animal characters who don’t got into this trope include: Dabbler (duck), Tabasco (cat), Silvercrop and Venombeak (pouter pigeons; the latter was [[spoiler: Grandpouter’s former name]]), Roller (parlour pigeon) etc.
35	* DistaffCounterpart: The True Frogs to the Real Pigeons.
36	* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Of the four main pigeons, Rock is Melancholic, Tumbler is Sanguine, Frillback is Choleric, and Homey is Phlegmatic.
37	* GivenNameReveal: While the Real Pigeons are usually referred to by the species name, some have actual full names: [[spoiler: Homestead Butterworth (Homey), Tumbleweed (Tumbler) and Venombeak (Grandpouter)]].
38	* ItsAllAboutMe: Megabat is always self-centred and desperate for attention, he’s willing to sabotage and steal stuff from others just to get it.
39	* ALizardNamedLiz: See above.
40	* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Homey’s]] family.
41	* MasterOfDisguise: Rock’s trademark power.
42	* SuperStrength: Frillback’s power.
43	* TrademarkFavouriteFood:
44	** All pigeons love bread, but especially Homey.
45	** For Frillback, it’s sausages.
46	** For Jungle Crow, it’s bread with chilli (pigeons can’t tolerate chilli; only crows)
47	* TheMentor: Grandpouter.
48	* WickedWeasel: Ermine is an antagonist whose out to eat Kakapo.

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