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Frequently subverted; not to be confused with the pigeon equivalent of the [[Cat Scare]].
Similar to [[That Poor Cat]] and its automotive equivalent, [[That Poor Car]].
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* On [[Psych]] during a [[Mexican Standoff]], Shawn Spencer quips, "If this were a John Woo movie, doves would be flying everywhere right now."
* Comedian Daniel Tosh once joked that if he was rich he'd rig doves to fly out whenever he made an entrance so people would think "Hey that must be [[John Woo|John Woo's]] kid"
* [[The Colbert Report]] lampoons a group of people claiming that birds taking off during their rally was a sign from God, saying something along the lines of "What are the odds that birds would take off the moment a hundred people started clapping at once?".
* In Disney's ''The Swamp Fox'' series, using a gunshot to scare the birds near Marion's hideout into flight was a frequent way to summon the brigade. Could be real-life based, but unverified.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* One of the campaign scenarios in ''[[Command
* Played for laughs in ''[[Ace Attorney|Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]'' with Valant Gramarye. He's a magician, so his shock sprite involves not only disturbed doves but disturbed rabbits and disturbed bunches of flowers to boot.
* ''[[Metal Gear]]:''
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' does an extremely gratuitous [[Shout-Out]] to this in the first season's finale.
* Parodied in the ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' "[[Avatar: The Last Airbender/Recap/Book 3/05 The Beach
** Played straight in the series finale when the wildlife is driven off by [[Kill It with Fire|fire]].
* ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' played this straight when a flock of disturbed doves appeared during Robin and Red X's team up. It also doubles as the series' version of a "big [[John Woo]] tribute".
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