Line #94 WesternAnimation/SpiesInDisguise


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TagLine Super spy. Super fly.]]'']]
3	->''"Being a pigeon can make you an even better spy. Pigeons are everywhere, and nobody notices them. In fact, pigeons can see in slow motion. And pigeons can fly up to ninety-two miles per hour."''
4	-->-- '''Walter Beckett'''
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6	''Spies in Disguise'' is an animated spy comedy film loosely based on the short ''WebAnimation/PigeonImpossible'', produced by Creator/BlueSkyStudios and starring Creator/WillSmith and Creator/TomHolland. It was released on Christmas Day 2019, and was the first and only Blue Sky production released through [[Creator/{{Disney}} Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures]].
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8	Lance Sterling (Smith) is the world's greatest spy, who successfully accomplishes even the most dangerous missions with suave and a ready quip. Socially awkward genius Walter Beckett (Holland) is a tech geek whose bizarre, non-lethal gadgets make him a running joke in the agency. An unexpected event forces them to rely on each other in order to save the world, but there's one small problem... namely, Lance accidentally turned himself into a pigeon as a result of one of Walter's inventions. HilarityEnsues.
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10	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 ''WesternAnimation/{{Nimona\|2023}}'' for Creator/AnnapurnaPictures and Creator/{{Netflix}}, salvaging the film from Blue Sky, where it was 75% complete when the studio was shuttered.
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12	'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSSGHvzMY60 Trailer 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9XrnoDfoGw Trailer 2]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvvMu01gxFk Trailer 3]].
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15	!!This film provides examples of:
16	* AbhorrentAdmirer: Lovey, Walter's pet pigeon, takes an instant liking to Lance's pigeon form (to his displeasure).
17	* AccidentalMisnaming: Lance repeatedly gets Walter's name wrong when they first meet, only getting it right when they start to know each other better. Made extra funny when Lance drives to Walter's and the TitleIn says "Wilbur's House" before hastily correcting itself to "Walter's House".
18	* TheAce: Lance is the best agent the agency has, and it shows.
19	* ActorAllusion: When Walter can't see or hear, [[Film/SpiderManHomecoming he says his other senses are heightened]].
20	** This isn't the [[Film/IRobot first action movie where Will Smith drives a futuristic Audi.]]
21	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: [[spoiler:When Marcy found out about Lance turning into a pigeon as the main reason she wasn't able to track him down during her pursuit against him, she goes into a laughing fit before noting how messed up that is]].
22	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Ever since he was a kid, Walter has had to deal with being called "weird". Even among his fellow scientists at the agency, he is still labelled this, due to his odd, non-lethal gadgets.
23	* AllThereInTheScript: Killian's name is never said onscreen. Lance and Walter both casually refer to him as "Robo-Hand".
24	* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: Lance and Walter are reinstated into the agency to do things Walter's style, and are last seen doing a mission together using Walter's gadgets.]]
25	* AnimalTalk: Being turned into a pigeon allows Lance to understand what other pigeons are saying. All we hear onscreen is cooing, though.
26	* ArtisticTitle: The opening and closing credits pay homage to the stylish credit sequences of the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' films.
27	* AscendedMeme: Yes, the Creator/WillSmith character really did say [[WebVideo/YoutubeRewind "that's hot."]]
28	* AttractiveBentSpecies: Lovey finds pigeon Lance very attractive [[spoiler: even though it is revealed that, due to using a feather taken from Lovey in the transformative elixir, Lance as a pigeon is also female]].
29	* AwesomeButImpractical: The glass ceiling beneath the Reflective Pool and over the agency base may look cool but it's an obvious weak point [[spoiler:especially when Killian has his drones cause an EMP surge that prevents them from closing the armored shutters.]]
30	* BaffledByOwnBiology: The movie is about a human being turned into a pigeon, and how he must now adapt to being a bird. When he first transforms, Lance has quite a bit of difficulty seeing since his eyes are now on the side of his head and his vision is much broader than it was before. Lance also has a hard time using the restroom, since he now has a cloaca instead of how humans use the restroom, not realizing that birds' poop and pee are together, and that toilets don't really work for him anymore. Lance does get better, though it takes a while.
31	* BenevolentBoss: [[spoiler: Killian who truly cared about his original crew and hates Lance for killing them in a past mission.]]
32	* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Lance turns himself back into a pigeon briefly to lead the other pigeons to save Walter from falling after he stops Killian.]]
33	* BigNo: Lance lets one out when [[spoiler:he believes Killian just blew Walter up.]]
34	* BodyHorror:
35	** A more mild, kid-friendly version happens with Lance during his transformation; he suffers a bad stomachache, possibly meaning that his organs were being rearranged, his hands shrink, goosebumps starting forming on his skin signaling that feathers are about to grow out of it, and his eyes get larger and start moving to the side of his head. While it's PlayedForLaughs, the entire experience is obviously terrifying to Lance as it would be to anyone suffering it. Lance discovering he has a cloaca and how it functions for birds is another such moment.
36	** One of Walter's inventions is a device that seemingly turns a victim's bones into rubber, leaving them a shapeless mess on the ground that can't move at all. When it's used on Kimura, Lance and Walter are forced to push him over to the door, the criminal looking like human silly putty. And when Marcy finds Kimura like this, she struggles not to throw up.
37	* BloodlessCarnage: We see Walter with bruises on his face at various points, but no blood is shown. Though at one point after the final battle, the two main characters mention internal bleeding.
38	* BookEnds: The opening scene ends with Walter's mom hugging him calling them part of Team Weird. [[spoiler: When Lance and Walter are reinstated, they both declare themselves Team Weird.]]
39	* 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 when you "fight fire with fire". Sometimes the nonviolent solution may be the right one, in that no one gets hurt.
40	* BrainsAndBrawn: Walter and Lance, respectively. Although Lance definitely isn't a DumbMuscle as he has very quick wits and is able to crack down on a mission while taking the form of a small animal, he has better fighting and acrobatic skills compared to the scrawny Walter. Meanwhile, Walter is a GadgeteerGenius who has a lot more knowledge in science than Lance.
41	* BrickJoke: In the beginning, Lance gives one of his co-workers a fist-bump, which excites the coworker and prompts his friend to tell him to never wash that hand. [[spoiler:When the drones start invading the headquarters, the two of them put the fist Lance touched in front of them as if it will protect them; when the drones are deactivated, they clearly believe that the fist is the reason why.]]
42	* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Lance's response to Killian asking if he remembers him while the former is being strangled is...
43	-->''"What can I say? I meet a lot of bad guys."''
44	* CantStayNormal: [[spoiler:Lance is turned back into a human about halfway in, but when Walter is falling after defeating Killian, he has to transform back into a pigeon to save him.]]
45	* CentralTheme: How necessary violence, particularly killing, is when dealing with conflict. The argument between Walter and Lance that forms most of the movie is if pacifism is even possible in the face of people who genuinely wish the world harm. While the bad guys won't play nice, sometimes choosing to think of a solution beyond blowing everyone up is the right one, [[spoiler:especially considering the BigBad is the result of the "blow up the bad guy" solution horribly backfiring.]]
46	* 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. [[spoiler: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.]]
47	* ChekhovsGun:
48	** The bread crumbs Walter always carries around to feed pigeons with comes in handy in Venice, [[spoiler:allowing him to escape from Killian]].
49	** In the beginning of the film, [[NoodleIncident 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.]]
50	* CoolCar: Lance drives a custom Audi e-tron GT.
51	* CurseCutShort: A few. This includes instances of a "kick our -" and a "Holy s-" from Walter, and a "son of a -" from Marcy.
52	* CyberCyclops: All of the drones seen in the movie have a single red eye incorporated into their designs.
53	* DamnYouMuscleMemory: When he needed to search up Kimura's name on the computer, Lance extends his feathers as if he would be typing with human fingers. He realizes his mistake shortly afterwards and proceeds to peck at the keyboard with his beak.
54	* DaydreamSurprise: Happens to Lance, when he suddenly kills Walter by ejecting him out of the airplane along with his bird Lovey, but it turns out it was [[ImagineSpot all just in his mind]].
55	* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Walter and the pigeons are apparently blown up by Killian when they try to rescue Lance, but they later show up unharmed, having been protected by Walter's inflatable hug.]]
56	* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Walter's mother Wendy, a police officer who encouraged him to use his ideas to save people, died when Walter was still a kid.
57	* EurekaMoment: After Lance lays an egg, Walter [[spoiler:realizes why his first attempt at making the antidote didn’t work.]]
58	-->'''Lance:''' [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain Walter… what happens in the submarine,]] ''[[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain stays]]'' [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain in the submarine.]]\
59	'''Walter:''' You just laid an egg. (''gasps'') You laid an egg!\
60	'''Lance:''' It just- it just kinda… ''slipped out'', man…\
61	'''Walter:''' You just laid an egg! Lance, this is amazing! Do you not realize what this means?! [[spoiler:You’re a ''girl''!]]\
62	'''Lance:''' Oh... ‘scuse me?!\
63	'''Walter:''' Of course, of course! That’s why I couldn’t figure this out! [[spoiler:I used Lovey’s DNA in the serum!]]\
64	'''Lance:''' And that helps us how?\
65	'''Walter:''' [[spoiler:Because now all I need to do is change one variable in the antidote, and you’ll be human again!]]
66	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Killian greatly cared for his original crew who were killed by Lance in a past mission and is motivated to avenge them.]]
67	* EyeCam: Done when Lance awakens after his pigeon transformation and is looking at Walter.
68	* EyeScream: Towards the end of the first car chase, Walter gets sprayed in the eyes with a flying bottle of hand sanitizer.
69	* FacialHorror: [[spoiler: Along with allowing him to impersonate Lance, Killian's masking technology also hides the horrific scars and robotic implants on the left side of his face]].
70	* FakeOutOpening: The first scene of the movie shows someone defusing a bomb in a spy-like fashion... then it’s revealed to be Walter playing with one of his inventions.
71	* FrameUp: Lance is framed as the perpetrator behind the drone attacks, and must fight to clear his name with Walter's help.
72	* FreudianExcuse: [[spoiler: Killian is sympathetic in his motivation for hating Lance since the spy slaughtered his whole crew and mangled his face -- although granted, they were crooks. Killian most surely goes too far when he attempts to kill everyone in Lance's agency as a form of payback]].
73	* FrothyMugsOfWater: Averted, as it's made clear most of the drinks ordered or served are alcoholic.
74	* FurryReminder: There's ''plenty'' after Lance is transformed into a pigeon. For instance, right after his transformation:
75	-->'''Walter:''' Lance, look at me.\
76	'''Lance:''' L-look at you?! I can't ''not'' look at you, Walter! I can see my butt and your face at the same time!
77	* GenderBender: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. Lance himself remains male vocally when he is transformed and his gender identity doesn't change either, 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.]]
78	* GilliganCut: [[spoiler: After Killian has been defeated, the BackgroundMusic swells as Walter has an EurekaMoment, believing he and Lance will have their jobs reinstated. Cue a SmashCut to Lance and Walter carrying [[CardboardBoxofUnemployment Carboard Boxes of Unemployment]] and the [[SuddenSoundtrackStop music suddenly grinding to a halt]].]]
79	-->'''Walter:''' [[spoiler: So... triple fired.]]\
80	'''Lance:''' [[spoiler: Yeah man, that's gotta be some kinda record.]]\
81	'''Walter:''' [[spoiler: I ''really'' [[DidntSeeThatComing didn't see that coming]].]]
82	* GroinAttack: Lance and Walter evades several of Marcy’s agents in Mexico by sliding through their legs, Lance pecking each in the crotch.
83	* HeelRealization: A very minor and implied one. [[spoiler: When the agents point out Walter saved Killian, Killian's eye actually goes from red to blue implying he knows they are right. Though it was likely a moment of remorse than outright reforming.]]
84	* HeroicSacrifice: A photograph in Walter's house shows his mother's coffin being draped in the American flag, implying that she was killed in action. The framed newspaper besides it hails her as a hero and it is later mentioned by Marcy that Wendy gave her life protecting her fellow officers.
85	* HiddenInPlainSight: This is Walter's primary reasoning for using pigeon DNA in the formula, as they are commonly seen in every major city in the world with no one batting an eye at them. This is later proven when he and Lance are in Mexico, with Kimura's minions barely batting an eye at the sight of pigeon Lance.
86	* HopeSpot:
87	** Lance's retrieval of the drone appears to have gone without a hitch, but as he's being briefed, Marcy comes in to arrest him for stealing the drone, and the briefcase is revealed to be empty.
88	** When the time runs out on the formula and Lance appears to have not turned into a pigeon, he laughs at Walter… and suddenly disappears in a flurry of feathers, the transformation happening more suddenly than anticipated.
89	** The antidote is ready after incubating for eighteen hours, but when Walter tests it on one of Lance's feathers, it explodes in a blackish goop, indicating that it hasn't been perfected yet, and would have been lethal if ingested.
90	** [[spoiler:Lance takes out Killian's drone quite easily, only for Killian to reveal that he's built thousands more.]]
91	* InkSuitActor: Many of the characters are modelled to resemble the actors voicing them, particularly [[Creator/WillSmith Lance]], [[Creator/TomHolland Walter]], [[Creator/BenMendelsohn Killian]] and [[Creator/KarenGillan Eyes]].
92	* IronicEcho:
93	** Lance's amusing "Sleepy night-night" catchphrase is used by [[spoiler:Killian to sinister effect after the latter knocks him out]].
94	** Moments after, [[spoiler:after seeing that Killian is about to target Walter and the pigeons, Lance freaks out and starts using the same nonviolence phrases Walter would use but to no avail]].
95	* JerkassHasAPoint:
96	** 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.
97	** If you take away the morality of Walter's Do No Harm practices, Lance's contempt for him at the beginning of the movie isn't exactly unmerited. Regardless of the effectiveness of Walter's unorthodox gadgets, it doesn't change the fact that Walter meddled with Lance's equipment behind his back without his consent, and doing so caused Lance to be affected the same as his assailants and got a knife dangerously close to his throat due to being caught off-guard. Such behavior in spying and government businesses is inexcusable since as little as one miscommunication or mistake can mean the difference between success and failure, or life and death. Lance was the most merciful compared to how Joy Jenkins would've handled the news. He also has a point that sometimes villains, especially the worst of the worst, have to be put down hard.
98	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When Kimura tells the Yakuza to kill Lance in Japanese, Lance states "I'm guessing that subtitle was not in my favor".
99	* LeaveNoSurvivors: [[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.]]
100	* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: Lance invokes this after he ends up laying an egg.
101	-->'''Lance Sterling:''' What happens in the submarine, ''stays'' in the submarine!
102	* AMinorKidroduction: The opening scene of the movie focused on a young Walter and his mother.
103	* MirrorCharacter: [[spoiler:Lance and Killian are both motivated by the deaths of their comrades.]]
104	* MissingMom: Walter's mom was a cop who was killed on the job.
105	* MorphicResonance: When Lance becomes a pigeon, he retains his BigOlEyebrows from his human form, while his lower body is deep blue-black as a holdover from his suit. His bow tie also appears as a bow-shaped mark on his tummy.
106	* NakedPeopleAreFunny:
107	** Kimura has his butt exposed several times in one scene.
108	** Agent Sterling, when he returns to his human form in that decidedly cramped submarine cockpit. Walter, fortunately, is prepared, and has brought Lance's tuxedo along.
109	* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: Walter considers a codename and chooses "Bond. Hydrogen Bond."
110	* NonchalantDodge: In the first trailer, Lance deftly moves around a mook's attempts to hit him before ending the fight with a chop to the neck.
111	* NoodleImplements:
112	** Lance telling himself he once "broke into the Kremlin using a piece of duct tape and a napkin".
113	** When Lance tries to get information out of Kimura, he calls for a funnel, jumper cables, and a Music/{{Nickelback}} album.
114	* NoodleIncident: Near the beginning of the film Joy warns Sterling not to make another mess like his previous mission in Kurdistan. It is not specified in detail what actually happened on this mission, [[spoiler: though Killian's [[FacialHorror disfigurement]] suggests that it wasn't pretty]].
115	* NotQuiteBackToNormal: [[spoiler:After returning to human form the first time around, Lance displays some bird characteristics, such as bobbing his head when he walks, and an inability to see glass. The second time, his right hand is still small though Walter promises to fix that.]]
116	* OhCrap: Walter's reaction when Lance drinks the formula, complete with his goggles flying off his head.
117	* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Killian's name is never mentioned and he is only ever referred to as "Robot Hand".
118	* OrbitalShot: Done when Lance is freaking out upon realizing he turned into a pigeon.
119	* PainToTheAss: During a car chase while suspended in slow motion after careening off an overpass ledge, Lance gets poked in the buttocks from a compass and slowly screams in pain.
120	* PainfulTransformation: Lance's transformation into a pigeon is this.
121	-->'''Lance:''' What's happening to my [[SuddenlyShouting HAAAAAANNNNNNDDDD?!]]
122	* PaperThinDisguise: Kimura checked into a hotel in New Mexica under the name "Not Kimura".
123	* POVCam: From Lance's perspective as a pigeon, he can see ''everything'' around him due to pigeons having 360 vision.
124	* ProductPlacement: Lance's Audi e-tron GT counts as this, even though this film's target audience is too young to drive one.
125	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: While Marcy is an InspectorJavert towards Lance -- understandable since whoever was framing him is committing mass murder at the same time-- she's actually pretty nice towards Walter. Her assumption that Lance is using him is correct in the beginning, that he's a kid who got in over his head and is a pacifist GadgeteerGenius to boot. Heck, in Mexico when she shouts at him not to jump from the balcony, she sounds more concerned than angry because, at that height, he could badly hurt himself and nearly does. Marcy also admits begrudgingly that she's impressed at how none of the agents were hurt. Later in Venice when holding him at gunpoint as he and Lance prepare to protect the Database, Marcy tells Walter that she knows that he's going to do great things with his inventions and make sure heroes like his mom and that Lance isn't one of the good guys that he admires. When she realizes that Walter's faith in Lance was right-- Lance was framed-- she comes to offer backup support in the climax. [[spoiler:It's implied she pushed for Walter to lead the new task force after seeing him willing to risk his life to save thousands of people and save Killian]].
126	* RedRightHand: Taken literally-ish as a robot left hand. Killian can disguise himself as another person, but his robot hand doesn't look any different. Marcy sees it when he makes his getaway in Venice, causing her to stop and reflect that maybe Lance ''is'' being framed.
127	* {{Revenge}}: This is Killian's motivation; [[spoiler:Lance led an attack by the agency that killed Killian's comrades, and disfigured him]].
128	* SaveTheVillain: [[spoiler:Walter insists on bringing Killian into custody non-lethally by putting him in an "inflatable hug", even though this causes Walter himself to almost fall to his death.]]
129	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Walter and Lance. Walter is a geek who loves korean dramas, k-pop music and cute things, while Lance is a BoisterousBruiser who loves grenades and kicking bad guys' butts.
130	* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: When Lance changes into a pigeon, he shrinks out of his clothes. [[spoiler:During the final scene, he is seen wearing clothes when he is turned back into a human, suggesting Walter may have refined the formula to aid in this.]]
131	* ShoePhone: Walter has a gadget he calls the multi-pen with various settings, including a TruthSerum spray, freeze ray, Serious String ("It's like Silly String, but it's ''serious''") and an electric bolt that rubberizes people.
132	* ShownTheirWork: Many of the challenges that Lance encounters as a pigeon are true to life, from having nearly 360-degree vision to excreting from a cloaca. The pigeon facts that Walter shares are also accurate.
133	* SingleTear: Lance sheds a single tear when Killian blows up the submarine Walter was in.
134	* StealthPun: The title is this when you realize it technically stands for ''spies in the skies.''
135	** Walter's "epigenetic modulation" serum is actually an "e-pigeon-etic modulation" serum.
136	* StickySituation: One of Walter's inventions is "Serious Putty", sticky pink goo meant to nonlethally immobilize targets.
137	* 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 video game. To accentuate the point, his video game avatar says "GAME OVER" as its falls.
138	* 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.
139	-->'''Lance''': [[SarcasmMode Wow. That's clever.]]
140	* TakeThat: When Lance has Kimura at his mercy, one of the NoodleImplements he needs to torture the information out of him is a Music/{{Nickelback}} album.
141	* TapOnTheHead: One of Lance's signature moves, used to easily knock out the big and burly Kimura almost instantly.
142	-->'''Lance''': Just [[PressurePoint three ounces of pressure to the vagus nerve,]] and look at your boy! Sleepy night-night.
143	* TeenyWeenie: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] during Lance's transformation sequence: after his hand shrinks, he looks down into his pants and screams in horror.
144	* TokenEvilTeammate: Lovey, oddly enough. When Marcy's agents corner Lance and Walter in Venice, she suggests that they LeaveNoSurvivors. 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.]]
145	* ToothyBird: Lance notably has teeth in pigeon form.
146	* TragicVillain: Downplayed. [[spoiler: Killian was evil before he got scarred and his crew died but while he isn't justified for targeting everyone in Lance's agency, the loss of his crew is played in a sympathetic way since he truly cared for them.]]
147	* TransformationTrinket: At the end Walter is shown to have refined the antidote into a bowtie that transforms Lance back on contact, with him wearing it with his other clothes in human form.
148	* TruthSerum: Walter made one; it smells of lavender.
149	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: [[spoiler:Lance discovers that his pigeon body is actually female when he accidentally lays an egg. This ends up cluing in Walter as to what went wrong with the antidote, in a rare instance of this being more than a simple bird joke.]]
150	* WhamLine: As Lance destroys the drone Killian had and points out that his plan won't work because of this, Killian chuckles and asks this:
151	-->'''Killian:''' [[DidYouActuallyBelieve You really thought]] [[spoiler:I was gonna use one drone to take out every name on this list]]?!\
152	'''Lance:''' [[LampshadeHanging I-I mean I did, until you asked that question that way. It cast some doubt.]]
153	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Kimura seems to disappear from the film after Marcy catches up to the duo in Mexico. Marcy implies that she took him into custody given she says, "Kimura talked."
154	* WhatTheHellHero: While Walter's pacifist attitude can be inconvenient at times, there is one bit where he has a legitimate point: that Lance is willing to use lethal force on the government agents sent to detain him via car chase. As Walter points out, they're employees doing their job, and Lance's former coworkers to boot. Why is Lance wanting to kill the good guys? Walter advocates for an oil slick rather than artillery.
155	* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Throughout the movie, Walter has firmly believed that it's better to use non-lethal methods to deal with criminals. During the climax, [[spoiler:Killian points out that if Walter shuts down his drones while they're both flying through the air, Walter will kill them both. Walter does shut down the drones -- but he also wraps Killian in an "inflatable hug" device, saving the criminal's life even though this puts Walter himself at risk of falling to his death.]]

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