Pat, Pelly, and Punt

Pat, Pelly, and Punt the Pigeons are the former main antagonists featured in the 2024 Disney+ original Christmas short An Almost Christmas Story.
==Background==
Pat, Pelly, and Punt each have a distinct personality as a trio of pigeons living in the streets of New York. Each pigeon has a different plumage to distinguish which one is which with Pat in charge of the group, which Pelly and Punt would follow her wherever she takes them. At first, they harassed Moon during their first encounter in an aggressive manner, but when he was desperate to go home, they eventually stopped being as aggressive they did during their first encounter as in helping Moon reach the star of the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Plaza.
===Members===
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Pat (voiced by Natasha Lyonne) has a mix between mostly white with some ash-red plumage around her body, being the only female in the group. Pelly refers to her as the boss of the pigeons who leads the trio.
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Pelly (voiced by Mamoudou Athie) is one of the two male pigeons part of Pat's flock. Compared to Pat and Punt, Pelly has mostly a plumage of white and some ash-red mixed around his body.
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Punt (voiced by Philip Rosenthal) has mostly ash-red plumage all over his body and is one of the two male pigeons part of Pat's flock. Unlike Pelly and Pat, Punt does not speak much other than having limited speech - often saying "Food" when hungry.
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==Role in the short==
As Moon is about to eat a piece of bagel, Punt arrives and prepares to snack on the bagel, followed by Pat and Pelly arriving, which Moon claims that he wasn't going to finish the whole bagel while being cornered by them Pat, and Punt who harass him that the food they are eating is theirs, telling him to return to his home. As Moon engages talking to the pigeons, they refuse to let him eat the bagel, while Pat thinks that Punt is hungry. Pelly asks Moon of what happened to his wing which he claims that he broke his wing when he got into a fight with another bird, which the pigeons decide to take on him, even though Moon was not intentionally going to fight against them. Pat then leads Pelly and Punt to go after the owlet in a confrontation, as they chase him across the city. During the chase, Moon finds himself as the subway station where the pigeons attempt to attack him, but finds himself inside a less-crowded train, evading the pigeons.
Pelly, Punt, and Pat later approach Moon, who is furious at them for bullying him about the food they refused to let him eat, explaining to the pigeons that he and his human friend Luna who wants to go home for Christmas. Pelly then reveals that the home where his friends live is the streets. Pat then reveals that she can help Moon and Luna show the way back home, while Moon reveals that he broke his wing and is unable to fly. As a result, Moon and his human friend Luna board a double decker bus in a plan for both of them to return to Rockefeller as they follow alongside the pigeons on their way to the Rockefeller Tree. Furthermore when Luna attempts to help Luna fly to the star of the Christmas tree, Pat rescues him while Pelly and Punt react to Pat's heroic deed while Punt tells Moon to fly high. Standing on one of the edges of the star, Pat shows Moon a good view of the city, which he asks her if his father would find him, which she tells him to look at the people below him, suggesting Moon to ask the people if they could find his father. At the end of the short, Pat, Pelly, and Punt land on the Folk Singer's shoulder while he is still singing.
==Trivia==
*Pat and Punt's respective voice actors, Natasha Lyonne and Phillip Rosenthal, are both from New York, which has a large population of pigeons.
*At one point during Moon's second encounter with Pat, Pelly, and Punt, Pelly tells him, "The Big Apple" which Moon tells the pigeons, "Apples have worms in them", which Pat describes apples having worms being the delicious part. This is a pun between the Big Apple (a nickname for "New York") as well as an actual apple being a food commonly feasted by worms.
*Though Punt mostly says "Food" in most scenes where he appears, he is heard saying one other line other than this during the climax of the short where he says, "Fly high, you brave little owl!".
Category:Pigeons
Category:Disney characters
Category:Animated characters
Category:Males
Category:Females
Category:Characters who fly
Category:Adults
Category:Character groups
Category:Anti-villains
Category:Character trios
Category:Main antagonists