Lance Sterling
| Character | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Lance Sterling |
| Occupation: | field agent and spy of H.T.U.V. |
| Relationships: | Walter Beckett (handler, partner and friend) |
| Fandom: | Spies in Disguise |
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Lance Sterling "the world's most awesome spy", is a cocky secret agent of the security agency H.T.U.V. (short for Honor, Trust, Unity and Valor).
Canon
Lance is an H.T.U.V. spy who works alone ou como he himself says "I fly solo", being considered the No. 1 of the agency. He drives a Audi RSQ e-tron full-battery electric model.[1] According to a deleted scene from the movie, he was born in the 80's.[2]
Lance is a tall African American man with brown eyes, big eyebrows, and a large goatee. He usually wears a black/blue tuxedo. However, in his pigeon form, Lance has bright blue upper feathers and jet black lower feathers. A bow shape color can be seen on his chest.[3]
Powers and Abilities
- Skilled Super Spy: Being a highly trained spy, Lance is skilled with various spy-based abilities such as stealth, hand-to-hand combat, and usage of high tech gadgets.
- Sleepy Night-Night: Lance is able to knock his enemies out cold via a karate chop technique dubbed "sleepy night-night". However, as a pigeon, this is less effective.
- Pigeon Physiology: After accidentally ingesting one of Walter's experiments and transforming into a pigeon, Lance gains various pigeon traits such as flight, full 360 degree vision, and an urge to eat food from the ground. Lance can also use his beak to cut through various materials; this is evident during the hotel chase where Lance uses his beak to free himself and Walter while tied to a falling pillar. It is shown he has gained the ability to understand them. Later Walter developed a device that allows Lance to switch between his human and Pigeon forms in an instant, significantly increasing his abilities as a spy.
Fandom
Being the character chosen as Will Smith's return to the world of film animation and the last to be produced by Blue Sky before its closure by Disney, Lance seems to have won a share of unexpected fans, mostly in Russian-speaking countries, based on the amount of transformative works produced by these fanartists.
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Shipping
Even in the face of possible controversies -- already refuted -- about Lance and Walter's actual age in the film, the pairing Walter Beckett/Lance Sterling was almost immediately popular, even more so with so many scenes in the movie that were considered hints for their romantic involvement, or seen by some as queerbait.
Example of Fanworks
Fanart
- Lance Sterling concept art by Jason Sadler on ArtStation.