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1	Rookie secret agent Walter Beckett is on his first day on the job, and is given one of the most important roles in national security: controlling a small part of the nation's nuclear arsenal, just in case! And yet, his training never covered what to do with an overly pushy pigeon...
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3	The first animation project by Lucas Martel, ''Pigeon: Impossible'' is a six-minute short that won "Best Short" at the 2009 Montreal Film Festival, and can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEjUAnPc2VA here]].
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5	Serves as the basis of the feature-length animated film ''WesternAnimation/SpiesInDisguise''.
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8	!!''Pigeon: Impossible'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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10	* ANuclearError: One button push in a briefcase is enough to launch a nuclear missile at Moscow.
11	* [[AwesomeBackpack Awesome Briefcase]]: Beckett's briefcase can fly, has twin laser cannons, launches anti-tank missiles, [[spoiler: and launches ''nuclear'' missiles]].
12	* FeatheredFiend: The titular pigeon, who catches on to the briefcase's controls - ''especially'' its weapons systems - [[IntellectualAnimal remarkably quickly]].
13	* LaserGuidedKarma: At the end of the short, [[spoiler: the pigeon has gotten the bagel it was craving...and gets squashed by a falling piece of missile debris]].
14	* TheMenInBlack: The CIA 'uniform' has the requisite black suit, and Beckett's handler wears dark glasses.
15	* WeaponizedLandmark: [[spoiler: The Washington Monument]] contains a Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile.

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