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Men in Black

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Men in Black	comment	Men in Black is a 1997 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, written by Ed Solomon and executive produced by Steven Spielberg, only moderately based on the original comic series of the same name, mostly borrowing the concept and wardrobe of the agents. The film was released on July 2nd, 1997.An agent of a secret organization called the MIB (Men in Black) code-named "K" (Tommy Lee Jones) seeks out a new recruit to monitor alien activity on Earth. The MIB passes over Navy SEALs and Green Berets, instead deciding on the quick-thinking and fast-talking NYPD Detective James Edwards (Will Smith). Without knowing what he was recruited for, James (now codenamed "J") is told that the MIB agency is beyond all government jurisdiction, and that they are responsible for the alien (and we do mean alien) immigrants who have taken residence on Earth. Part of the MIB's effective cover-up is using advanced alien technology to impersonate actual government officials, and especially the use of a device called the Neuralyzer, which is able to give Laser-Guided Amnesia to anyone not wearing special MIB-issue tinted glasses.The film also stars Linda Fiorentino as Laurel Weaver, Vincent D'Onofrio as Edgar and Rip Torn as Chief Zed.With a smart sense of humor and indelible chemistry between Jones and Smith from their "deadpan seen-it-all"/"charismatic newbie" dynamic, the film was one of the most popular releases of 1997. Some publicity was garnered on advertising posters from the fact that its two leads are literally "Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones." Will Smith also released a tie-in song for the film entitled "Men in Black" that won him a Grammy Award.The film has spawned two sequels, Men in Black II (2002) and Men in Black 3 (2012) with Smith, Jones and Sonnenfeld returning, an animated series, and a theme park ride. A spin-off film, Men in Black: International, was released in 2019, with F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton, The Fate of the Furious) directing and Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson starring.
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Men in Black / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
Men in Black / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety In the shooting test sequence, while discussing Tiffany with Zed, J is gesturing with the hand holding a loaded gun, which points all over the place at various times. Anyone with basic gun safety knowledge will be much more careful about which direction the gun is pointed. A police officer should definitely know better. J points the Noisy Cricket in K's face as soon as K hands it to him. K then proceeds to have J carry the gun into the field without having had a chance to practice with it. Both are major gun safety no-nos. J is supposed to be a trained police officer, who should know something about handling firearmsnote Although police are nowhere near as well trained with firearms as people think they are, this is pretty damn basic.. Even if it doesn't look like a 9mm, he should employ the same basic safety practices as with a real gun, especially knowing it's a sidearm.
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Men in Black / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
Men in Black / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: Almost all of the aliens the MIB processes.
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Men in Black / int_11dd3268	type	Empire with a Dark Secret
Men in Black / int_11dd3268	comment	Empire with a Dark Secret: It's revealed that not only do aliens live among us, but most modern inventions were actually gifts from alien civilizations, not human creations. Earth is repeatedly in cosmic peril and almost everyone on Earth remains in blissful ignorance.
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Men in Black / int_12040009	type	No Accounting for Taste
Men in Black / int_12040009	comment	No Accounting for Taste: Edgar and Beatrice.
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Men in Black / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Men in Black / int_127fc252	comment	The screen with the "celebrities who are secretly aliens" includes director Barry Sonnenfeld, producer Steven Spielberg, and Sylvester Stallone — and later singles out J's ex-teacher in Philadelphia.
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Men in Black / int_132d93f1	type	Human Shield
Men in Black / int_132d93f1	comment	Human Shield: In the morgue, the Bug grabs Laurel (the medical examiner) and uses her as a shield to prevent being shot by Agents J and K.
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Men in Black / int_13c880db	type	Creepy Mortician
Men in Black / int_13c880db	comment	Creepy Mortician: Laurel certainly shows shades of this.
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Men in Black / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Men in Black / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: The novelization of the film is a little closer to the original comics' moral ambiguity. For example, when J and K go to see Jeebs, J warns K that this is the kind of neighborhood crawling with carjackers, but K isn't bothered. As it turns out, the alien defense system built into the car? It disintegrates anybody who tries to pick the lock. As J goes on ahead, K lingers to hear one luckless thief try to jack the car and be reduced to dust with a soft "pop". And then there's another "pop", and another, and so K heads into Jeebs' shop smiling to himself whilst he thinks that the longer that they take in Jeebs' shop, the safer this neighborhood will get.
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Men in Black / int_15745e8b	type	Shared Mass Hallucination
Men in Black / int_15745e8b	comment	Shared Mass Hallucination: The Men in Black do this after using their neuralyzers, wipe the targets' short-term memory and make them extremely susceptible to suggestions, allowing the Men in Black to craft a plausible suggestion that everybody "saw." And since it's the targets' own brains that create false memories to fill in the blanks of whatever basic explanation the MiB provide, the usual flaw in this trope doesn't apply: each person's brain will come up with something a little different, and thus the inconsistent details from one person to the next actually make the Masquerade more believable.
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Men in Black / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Men in Black / int_15b2cab3	comment	Edgar tells the Bug "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead fingers." The Bug finds this proposal acceptable and immediately eats him.
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Men in Black / int_16063d6b	type	Secret Shop
Men in Black / int_16063d6b	comment	Secret Shop: Jeeb's shop, for special "imported merchandise", which is more Hidden in Plain Sight than anything else; his pawn shop is a front for selling guns under the counter. Only his hardware is... unconventional:
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Men in Black / int_1649e053	type	Your Mom
Men in Black / int_1649e053	comment	Your Mom: J's bug-stomping routine at the film's climax was originally the build-up to him calling one of the cockroaches "yo mama!" It was in the novelization and the original script, but the payoff was cut from the finished film.
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Men in Black / int_16e362fb	type	Bilingual Backfire
Men in Black / int_16e362fb	comment	Bilingual Backfire: Inverted. Insulting the (apparently) Mexican illegal immigrant in Spanish (saying extremely profane/insulting things in a cheery tone of voice) but getting no reaction whatsoever is how K figures out that the alien is an actual alien (as in, extra-terrestrial) in disguise.
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Men in Black / int_1892368b	type	Memory-Wiping Crew
Men in Black / int_1892368b	comment	Memory-Wiping Crew: If the fallout from an encounter is too big for a single MIB agent to handle, a containment crew is called in to neuralyze large groups of witnesses and get rid of the evidence and/or dress up the scene to sell a cover story.
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Men in Black / int_18e33968	type	Earth Is the Center of the Universe
Men in Black / int_18e33968	comment	Earth Is the Center of the Universe: The movie casts Earth as an intergalactic neutral zone, making it the hub for galactic travel, intrigue, and fugitives. This handily explains just why The Men in Black enforce the masquerade on humanity specifically: can't risk the neutral zone stop being neutral. As K notably points out: "There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT!"
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Men in Black / int_197ebf38	type	Noisy Shut-Up
Men in Black / int_197ebf38	comment	Noisy Shut-Up The Bug losing patience with Laurel and J's bickering. J to Zed and K:
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Men in Black / int_1ae71783	type	Happy Fun Ball
Men in Black / int_1ae71783	comment	Happy Fun Ball: When J is getting a tour of the office, he sees a small ball floating above a machine. When he touches the ball, it goes careening at high speed through the whole building, smashing windows and knocking people over before K catches it and puts it back, explaining that it had caused the 1977 blackout in New York. The ball was meant for fun, apparently an alien ambassador released it as part of a practical joke likely not realizing it would cause a massive blackout. He thought it was funny as hell. To a lesser extent, the Noisy Cricket is one as well. It looks like a child's toy Ray Gun and is smaller than J's hand ("I feel like I'ma break dis damn thang!"), but it is apparently the most powerful sidearm in the film. According to the filmmakers, the Noisy Cricket was originally designed as a concealable weapon, but proved to be easily modified to the magnitude it exhibits in the movie. This was done as a form of hazing for new recruits.
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Men in Black / int_1b711f57	type	Faceplanting into Food
Men in Black / int_1b711f57	comment	Faceplanting into Food: At the dinner, when the tall man/alien discussing with the Arquillian prince in a Mobile-Suit Human is killed by Edgar the Bug, he faceplants into his plate of pirogi.
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Men in Black / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Men in Black / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: The opening scene has Mikey, an illegal alien (as in, an extraterrestrial violating parole), traveling disguised as an illegal alien (as in, a prospective migrant attempting to enter the country without documentation).
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Men in Black / int_1c7bed9f	type	Astronomic Zoom
Men in Black / int_1c7bed9f	comment	Astronomic Zoom: The movie ends with a Zoom Out, revealing that our entire galaxy is contained in a marble played by really, really humongous creatures.
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Men in Black / int_1cf185e6	type	Unflinching Faith in the Brakes
Men in Black / int_1cf185e6	comment	Unflinching Faith in the Brakes: When the agents bring down the spacecraft, they stand and let it come to them. J at the least looks around nervously but otherwise doesn't move.
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Men in Black / int_1d1d5951	type	Non-Verbal Miscommunication
Men in Black / int_1d1d5951	comment	Nonverbal Miscommunication: J (understandably) misreading Laurel's frantic signals that the Bug is hiding in the trolley as a come-on.
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Men in Black / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
Men in Black / int_1dd14f5a	comment	I Surrender, Suckers: "Edgar", towards the end.
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Men in Black / int_1dea3034	type	Cool Shades
Men in Black / int_1dea3034	comment	Cool Shades: They've got a purpose, too — they protect against the mind-wiping effects of the Neuralyzer.
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Men in Black / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
Men in Black / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	How the Bug fits in the Edgar-suit (although he's clearly not too comfy). It makes some sense when you know that roaches are capable of pressing their bodies together to fit into tighter spaces; it makes them extremely resistant against being killed by stepping on them (you need a hard flat surface for that to work). Since the Bug is based on roaches in design and physiology, it's not too far-fetched to assume he has an improved version of that survival technique. From the novelization: "How can it do that?" "They have their ways. And using those ways just makes it even more angry." It also explicitly states that there's some literal Hammerspace going on, and that this is a natural ability the Bugs have.
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Men in Black / int_209d0b5f	type	Wainscot Society
Men in Black / int_209d0b5f	comment	Wainscot Society: The alien immigrants have their own rather chaotic social systems running within human society.
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Men in Black / int_20c73e98	type	Creepy Cockroach
Men in Black / int_20c73e98	comment	Creepy Cockroach: There's a giant roach alien who devours a human and uses his skin as a disguise. He also leaves swarms of roaches wherever he goes, and loves sugar (preferably in water). The roach alien puts on Edgar's body, and then demands sugar in water.
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Men in Black / int_20ebabe3	type	Thing-O-Meter
Men in Black / int_20ebabe3	comment	Thing-O-Meter: Not a literal device, but
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Men in Black / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Men in Black / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: By contrast, the comics version of the Bug merely wanted the farmer's gun, which he had been tasked with retrieving in exchange for living space on his overcrowded planet. After comics' Jay gives him a gun, he leaves peacefully; he also suggests that if he didn't get one, he would simply resign himself to suicide.
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Men in Black / int_2115120e	type	Suit Up of Destiny
Men in Black / int_2115120e	comment	Suit Up of Destiny: Done when J puts on his MIB uniform for the first time; it even provides the trope's page quote.
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Men in Black / int_217a1adf	type	I Love the Dead
Men in Black / int_217a1adf	comment	I Love the Dead: Implied for Laurel. As a bonus, Laurel at one point explicitly states the inverse, "I hate the living."
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Men in Black / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Men in Black / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: Lampshaded by a soldier and a marine at the firing range test whose reactions say "How the hell we miss that?" Going into the climax, Zed and K correctly conclude that with his ship in MIB custody, Edgar the Bug's got to be looking for an alternate way off Earth before the Arquillian's glass the planet. With the deadline of one hour, his backup vehicle has to be, by K's estimate, somewhere within a 100 mile radius of NYC. But with every interstellar transport in the New York area having already jumped and been accounted for, they can't figure out where he could be going. It's J who realizes there's still one more ship in the NYC area MIB leadership forgot all about and it's literally staring them in the face mere feet away on the HQ wall mural: The saucers that were converted into the 1964 World's Fair Observation towers.
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Men in Black / int_22759a15	type	Aliens Steal Cattle
Men in Black / int_22759a15	comment	Aliens Steal Cattle: For a movie about aliens and UFOs, it's notably averted. When the Bug arrives at the farmhouse where Edgar lives, a cow is seen grazing near the truck, but then the cow leaves the truck shortly before the Bug's spacecraft totals it while landing, and Bug!Edgar doesn't express any interest in the cattle on the farm.
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Men in Black / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Men in Black / int_22cf536c	comment	The 1964-65 New York World's Fair was a cover operation so that the first alien ambassadors to Earth could land — their ships became the flat circular tops of the observation towers. The movie jokes that this was the only reason the fair was held in Queens. It becomes a Chekhov's Gun later when MIB are trying to stop the Bug from leaving Earth — all the other New York-area spaceships registered in MIB's database are gone and they're trying to figure out how the Bug intends to leave when Agent J looks over a picture of Flushing Meadows, sees the observation towers, and asks whether those still work.
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Men in Black / int_22ebf5bc	type	Japanese Tourist
Men in Black / int_22ebf5bc	comment	Japanese Tourist: J lands on a bus full of them when chasing the perp during the Cold Opening.
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Men in Black / int_23a38823	type	DoNotCallMeSir
Men in Black / int_23a38823	comment	Do Not Call Me Sir: K says this line to one of the Border Patrol agents in the opening: "Don't 'sir' me, young man. You have no idea who you're dealing with."
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Men in Black / int_240c4ac3	type	Unusual Hiring Practices
Men in Black / int_240c4ac3	comment	Unusual Hiring Practices: Agent K invites J to the M.I.B.'s training facility, for a try out, after witnessing him track an alien on foot. J ends up competing with marksmen and top military officers in various tests of skill and mental acumen. During the written portion of the exam, the others tried using their chairs to write on, while J was the only one with sense enough to make use of the table. However, it was during the marksman exam, that J also demonstrated that he was not only keenly observant, but could think outside the box. The others simply fired at whatever looked like a monster, while sparing the civilian targets, as one would expect. J fires a single shot and kills "Little Tiffany". When Zedd asks why, J explains:
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Men in Black / int_25208c30	type	Go Through Me
Men in Black / int_25208c30	comment	Go Through Me: Humorously played with:
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Men in Black / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Men in Black / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: When Edgar first meets the Bug, their discussion about the gun is a reference to the surprisingly obscure comic the movie was based on. It turns out much better for the farmer in that one, though — the bugs REALLY needed his gun (for a high-stakes scavenger hunt), but not so urgently that they couldn't wait him out.
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Men in Black / int_26c22470	type	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away
Men in Black / int_26c22470	comment	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away: Happens three times. The Bug to Edgar when they first meet. Edwards to K after K shoots Jeebs in the head, only to drop it when his head grows back. The Bug to J and K when they confront him in the morgue.
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Men in Black / int_26e3e271	type	Immortal Life Is Cheap
Men in Black / int_26e3e271	comment	Immortal Life Is Cheap: K blowing Jeebs' head off isn't murder, it's interrogation.
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Men in Black / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Men in Black / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Zed neuralyzing the rejected recruits as J and K walk by shortly after the recruitment process. The alien-childbirth scene where K talks with the husband while in the background J tries to help the wife give birth in the car while tentacles come out of it. While K and J are looking at the screen showing the disguised aliens, a group of MIB office workers are conversing in the background, with one of them standing on the ceiling.
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Men in Black / int_2754014	type	Invisible Aliens
Men in Black / int_2754014	comment	Invisible Aliens: More like disguised so as to appear invisible to those who have a Weirdness Censor.
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Men in Black / int_27d19c47	type	Landmarking the Hidden Base
Men in Black / int_27d19c47	comment	Landmarking the Hidden Base: The Men In Black operate their New York headquarters underneath a ventilation tower for the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.
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Men in Black / int_284c5733	type	Deranged Taxi Driver
Men in Black / int_284c5733	comment	Deranged Taxi Driver: Discussed when K explains to J that most aliens on Earth are simply trying to make a living:
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Men in Black / int_285b9e0	type	The Daily Misinformer
Men in Black / int_285b9e0	comment	The Daily Misinformer: Inverted. Agent K calls tabloids that report on alien activity and Elvis Lives stories "the best investigative reporting on the planet", and indeed, it's how he and J find out about the Bug landing on Earth.
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Men in Black / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Men in Black / int_2941069e	comment	Law of Inverse Recoil: You will not break that "damn thing" Noisy Cricket, J. It will break you and everything else in the vicinity.
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Men in Black / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Men in Black / int_2a090d00	comment	While ranting to his wife about how horrible she is, Edgar says "The only thing that pulls its weight around here is my goddamn truck!" Naturally, the Bug's saucer crashes right into the truck the moment he finishes the sentence, completely obliterating it. "Figures."
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Men in Black / int_2a2d62a0	type	Talking Down the Suicidal
Men in Black / int_2a2d62a0	comment	Talking Down the Suicidal: After Edwards (later Agent J) corners the Cephalapoid assassin atop a building, the assassin starts backing up toward the edge, rambling about how he's failed. He then 'blinks'. Edwards tries to talk him down, but the Cephalopoid simply smiles and falls back.
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Men in Black / int_2a6a8e89	type	Sadist Teacher
Men in Black / int_2a6a8e89	comment	Sadist Teacher: J discovers that one he had in grade school is actually an alien from one of the moons of Jupiter.
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Men in Black / int_2ad3eb22	type	You Can Talk?
Men in Black / int_2ad3eb22	comment	There's also a more mundane (but still weird) example earlier when J and K go to see an alien informant at a newspaper stand, which is run by a creepy-looking, pale-skinned man. J remarks that the man's disguise is absolutely pathetic — but then the pug sitting next to him starts talking.
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Men in Black / int_2ad8a2a1	type	Deathly Unmasking
Men in Black / int_2ad8a2a1	comment	Deathly Unmasking: The climax features the Bug finally removing the decomposing skin of Edgar to reveal his true form so he can take down Agents Jay and Kay and escape the planet. Fortunately, he ends up being blown in half by Kay during the ensuing battle - and then blasted to bits by Laurel Weaver.
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Men in Black / int_2b49eaf	type	Damsel out of Distress
Men in Black / int_2b49eaf	comment	Damsel out of Distress: When Laurel realizes there's a whole galaxy in Orion's collar and the Bug finds out the cat is at the morgue, he promptly storms the place, holds Laurel at gunpoint and kidnaps her on a a cab so she can take him to the observatory towers of the New York State Pavilion, which are actually confiscated UFOs. As the Bug climbs to his saucer holding Laurel captive, he tells her he plans to eat her as a "snack". Laurel, however, has none of it, breaks free of Edgar's grasp and jumps to a nearby tree while fiercely clinging to its branches to avoid falling. She does fall, but is unharmed, and manages to get a hold of J's MIB gun which she uses to blast the surviving half of the Bug into oblivion.
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Men in Black / int_2c620f20	type	Cleanup Crew
Men in Black / int_2c620f20	comment	Cleanup Crew: MIB Special Services, who show up three times to provide more extensive evidence removal than simply neuralizing witnesses. They first appear to burn Mikey's entrails after K blasts him. Afterwards, they arrive to remove the alien bodies from the morgue, with K instructing them to give Laurel a "happy memory." Finally, when the Bug escapes from the jewelry store and J nearly blows the masquerade chasing it, they gather the witnesses for a mass neuralization and get ready to remove the Bug's ship.
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Men in Black / int_2c7f683b	type	Gas Leak Cover-Up
Men in Black / int_2c7f683b	comment	Gas Leak Cover-Up: The course of action taken after people who witness UFO's or aliens are neuralyzed. Also used on the INS agents in the opening sequence after having killed Mickey in their presence. Played for Laughs in one scene when Agent J tries to give the standard cover story without having a neuralyzer, as penance for his reckless use of a MIB energy weapon that caused the need for the coverup. He's off the hook once Special Services arrives.
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Men in Black / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
Men in Black / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: The outwardly stodgy Agent K is a fan of The Beatlesâ€™ â€œWhite Album,â€� the most experimental recording they ever released.
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Men in Black / int_2dfdd387	type	Human Disguise
Men in Black / int_2dfdd387	comment	Human Disguise: Most aliens on Earth wear a disguise to live among humans; including robotic suits, rubber skins, and (in the case of the Bug) real human skin.
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Men in Black / int_2f6cbe90	type	Missing Backblast
Men in Black / int_2f6cbe90	comment	Missing Backblast: When Agent J first uses the Noisy Cricket, it fires a colossal beam of energy, but he gets flung back at least several feet. When firing it backed up against a wall doesn't work, he attaches a silencer to it. The silencer severely reduces the firepower of the Noisy Cricket, but J no longer injures himself whenever he uses it.
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Men in Black / int_31237f3e	type	Custom Uniform
Men in Black / int_31237f3e	comment	Custom Uniform: The film ends with J wearing custom wire frame shades and a modified suit with no tie, looking more like a rap mogul than an agent.
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Men in Black / int_31cd5fe7	type	Apologetic Attacker
Men in Black / int_31cd5fe7	comment	Apologetic Attacker: The Arquillians don't actually have anything against Earth. But they have a very strict idea of quarantine.
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Men in Black / int_31f7c194	type	Super Window Jump
Men in Black / int_31f7c194	comment	Super Window Jump: Done by the Bug to effect a dramatic escape. Subverted when the future Jay tries to smash through a glass door to chase a perp, but just bounces off and has to shoot the glass to break it.
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Men in Black / int_3376dc1c	type	Elvis Has Left the Planet
Men in Black / int_3376dc1c	comment	Elvis Has Left the Planet: According to K, "He's not dead, he just went home."
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Men in Black / int_3407c500	type	The World Is Not Ready
Men in Black / int_3407c500	comment	The World Is Not Ready: The MIB's mantra of why they're keeping alien immigration a secret from the rest of the Earth.
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Men in Black / int_352151a3	type	Recursive Reality
Men in Black / int_352151a3	comment	Recursive Reality: The MacGuffin that draws Edgar Bug to Earth is a miniature galaxy. The final scene reveals that our galaxy is just like the MacGuffin, and lies several layers down within a miniature galaxy-orb that an alien is playing marbles with.
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Men in Black / int_3566c15d	type	You Are Who You Eat
Men in Black / int_3566c15d	comment	You Are Who You Eat: The "Edgar-suit".
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Men in Black / int_356b1efb	type	Hammerspace
Men in Black / int_356b1efb	comment	Hammerspace How the Bug fits in the Edgar-suit (although he's clearly not too comfy). It makes some sense when you know that roaches are capable of pressing their bodies together to fit into tighter spaces; it makes them extremely resistant against being killed by stepping on them (you need a hard flat surface for that to work). Since the Bug is based on roaches in design and physiology, it's not too far-fetched to assume he has an improved version of that survival technique. From the novelization: "How can it do that?" "They have their ways. And using those ways just makes it even more angry." It also explicitly states that there's some literal Hammerspace going on, and that this is a natural ability the Bugs have. A less obvious example is the sub-machine gun-sized weapon the cephalapoid pulls out of nowhere when Jay is trying to arrest him.
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Men in Black / int_363f94c9	type	Awful Truth
Men in Black / int_363f94c9	comment	Awful Truth: There's this gem from K:
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Men in Black / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Men in Black / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Agent J gets decked by an alien, parodying Will Smith punching an alien in Independence Day. In a blink and you'll miss it moment, the location of Jay's teacher in the third grade is shown as Philadelphia (also an Actor-Shared Background for Will Smith).invoked After blasting the Bug from the inside, K tells J that he should have seen the Zeronian migration in 1968, before pondering whether he was alive in 1968. Will Smith was born that year.
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Men in Black / int_393ec3f9	type	Zeerust
Men in Black / int_393ec3f9	comment	Zeerust: K shows J a tiny disc, explaining: "it'll replace CDs soon." Back then, it looked like the logical next step in audio recording medium. But with the invention of the MP3, it seems we skipped that "micro-disc" step. The trope is then used intentionally in the third movie, with the 1969 MIB headquarters (as well as many of the aliens inside) having a very Zeerusty look.
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Men in Black / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Men in Black / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Rosenberg is calm when he realizes he's been cornered by the bug, only saying that it won't find the Galaxy.
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Men in Black / int_3982db5c	type	Revolting Rescue
Men in Black / int_3982db5c	comment	Revolting Rescue: Kay's plan to save the day involves himself being swallowed whole by a giant alien bug in order to retrieve his gun.
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Men in Black / int_3b4f620a	type	No Fourth Wall
Men in Black / int_3b4f620a	comment	Combined with No Fourth Wall in one of the commercials, in which J and K ask viewers how they liked the movie, then fire the Neuralyzer directly at the camera, and then invite the audience to go see the film: it's full of surprises. Also comes up at the end of the video for the "Men in Black" song, when Will Smith (in character as J) says "Sorry" and fires his Neuralyzer directly at the camera. The view clears to show the same empty hallway in which the video began, implying that the viewer has just had the last four minutes' worth of their memory scrubbed.
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Men in Black / int_3bad6ba6	type	Two of Your Earth Minutes
Men in Black / int_3bad6ba6	comment	Two of Your Earth Minutes Parodied and played straight. A galactic week is one hour. The Arquellian message displays a timer labeled "Earth Time Remaining", counting down the hour. And the MIB operates on a 37-hour-day. According to Zed, "You get used to it. Or you have a psychotic episode."
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Men in Black / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Men in Black / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: It's implied by the reactions of MIB agents (Zed in particular) that J's not the first newbie to accidentally release the Great Attractor's orb (which of course then begs the question of why they leave it out in the open instead of just locking it up in a more secure vault elsewhere in HQ). Agent K tells Agent J, "you should've been here for the Zeronion migration in 1968." In the penultimate scene, when K asks J to erase his memory, K remarks that the fight with Edgar's just one of a hundred memories he doesn't want. The third film will reveal one of these memories.
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Men in Black / int_3c7022ce	type	Mundane Solution
Men in Black / int_3c7022ce	comment	Mundane Solution: When the other recruits are filling out their forms, none of them know how to do so in the odd chairs they're sitting in. J gets the idea to pull a table closer to him so he can fill it out on there.
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Men in Black / int_3cb07b51	type	Fiction as Cover-Up
Men in Black / int_3cb07b51	comment	Fiction as Cover-Up: Tabloids serve a double purpose: they act as part of the alien cover-up by causing people to dismiss any stories they hear about aliens while also being a legitimate source of news for those in the know.
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Men in Black / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
Men in Black / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: Parodied and played straight at once in the Shooting Gallery sequence. "She's about to start some shit, Zed!" He had just shot the model of a little girl because she was walking around carrying advanced physics books in the middle of the night in a place full of aliens. He was right, she was the dangerous one.
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Men in Black / int_3eca7ea6	type	Does That Sound Like Fun to You?
Men in Black / int_3eca7ea6	comment	Does That Sound Like Fun to You?: This line Kay gives to Jay:
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Men in Black / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Men in Black / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: The bug (while in his Edgar suit) at the morgue.
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Men in Black / int_3f064a0d	type	Humans Are Morons
Men in Black / int_3f064a0d	comment	Humans Are Morons: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." Laurel herself isn't too fond of mankind either, after she fills out the form regarding the dead Arquillian prince and asks the policeman giving it to her why there is a cat with the corpse, the rude jerk angrily takes the form away from her hands and tells her the cat is her problem now. Annoyed with the cop's negligence and rudeness, Laurel gives us this gem:
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Men in Black / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Men in Black / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: In the films, Agents J, K, and Zed are heroes. In the obscure comic book the movies are based on, the organization is downright sinister, K makes J An Offer You Can't Refuse to get him to join and considers him a very disposable pawn, and J is the only 'good guy' in the bunch. The MIB resort to murder to keep things hidden, as opposed to just erasing people's relevant memories in the films and cartoon.
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Men in Black / int_400b9d22	type	Sunglasses at Night
Men in Black / int_400b9d22	comment	Sunglasses at Night: Though in this case they've got a justified purpose — they protect against the mind-wiping effects of the Neuralyzer.
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Men in Black / int_403dcfce	type	Immortality Hurts
Men in Black / int_403dcfce	comment	Immortality Hurts: The character Jack Jeebs has a Healing Factor so powerful he can survive even if the Chunky Salsa Rule is invoked! Though as he remarks after K quite literally blew his head off, "Don't you have any idea how much that stings!?" Oh yeah, it sucks to be Jeebs.
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Men in Black / int_403e5fd8	type	Universal Universe Time
Men in Black / int_403e5fd8	comment	Universal Universe Time: A galactic standard week is an hour. The 37-hour day the MIB runs on is a specific alien culture's time system—presumably the first species MIB encountered.
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Men in Black / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Men in Black / int_40bb59d0	comment	How the Neuralyzer works. They can be set to wipe a person's most recent memories for any length of time from minutes to years, allowing them to forget about the aliens trying to kill them. Repeated neuralyzations, however, cause deja vu in some subjects. Notably, this is usually matched with them telling Blatant Lies about what happened (of the typical "weather balloon and swamp gas" explanations), and the assumption is that in the absence of their regular memories the subject is more likely to accept the suggestion, no matter how far-fetched.
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Men in Black / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Men in Black / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Downplayed. After K and J are successful in taking out the Bug, K prompts J to neuralize him so that he can retire and return to the woman he didn't get to meet 35 years earlier under the guise of having been in a coma all this time. J knows that K is still very happy though and has recruited Laurel to join as his new partner in turn as well.
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Men in Black / int_41744185	type	Follow the Chaos
Men in Black / int_41744185	comment	Follow the Chaos:
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Men in Black / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Men in Black / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: The Galaxy was "disguised" as the charm on the cat's collar. With the additional benefit that the uninformed assume that a galaxy would by definition be enormous, and thus don't think to look for something the size of a marble. The point is driven home with a vengeance at the end of the movie, when a pullback reveals that our galaxy is itself trapped inside a marble played with by a gigantic alien. There's also a more mundane (but still weird) example earlier when J and K go to see an alien informant at a newspaper stand, which is run by a creepy-looking, pale-skinned man. J remarks that the man's disguise is absolutely pathetic — but then the pug sitting next to him starts talking. It turns out that many aliens live among humans and go about their daily lives; they either wear humanoid disguises or look human enough to pass, especially in a dense population center like New York City. K also confirms that the stories found in cheap supermarket tabloids are often the MIB's primary source for information on invasions—no one bothers to take them seriously because they seem obviously fake. The spaceship that the first alien refugees used to travel to Earth was hidden by being turned into a decoration at the site of the 1939 World's Fair in Queens.
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Men in Black / int_437e70f5	type	What a Piece of Junk
Men in Black / int_437e70f5	comment	What a Piece of Junk: J refers to K's Crown Victoria as a "Ford P.O.S." He finds out very quickly that it's outfitted with alien tech that makes it outperform anything else on the road.
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Men in Black / int_43964f3	type	Worst News Judgment Ever
Men in Black / int_43964f3	comment	Worst News Judgment Ever: Justified as the tabloids are a better source of alien info than "mainstream" papers.
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Men in Black / int_43a831db	type	Epic Tracking Shot
Men in Black / int_43a831db	comment	Epic Tracking Shot: The movie ends with an epic tracking shot by starting with an overhead of J and L, then pulling away to see the Earth, continuing on past the solar system and the galaxy to show that our galaxy is simply a marble in a giant alien's hand, much like the MacGuffin of the film.
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Men in Black / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Men in Black / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Kay is supposed to be from Truro, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod. He talks with Tommy Lee Jones' Texas drawl.
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Men in Black / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
Men in Black / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question... This conversation between J and K: When asked if he's dealing guns, Jeebs quips that he's openly selling crack, too. "But I still work here 'cause I love the hours." After J has been manhandled by a pregnant disguised squid alien woman in labor and then spat on by her newborn squid baby (in the process of delivering said baby) K asks "Did any of that seem weird to you?" J's expression is priceless.
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Men in Black / int_458bd7d	type	What Does This Button Do?
Men in Black / int_458bd7d	comment	What Does This Button Do?: K's car has the little red button.
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Men in Black / int_4593fcda	type	Big Brother Is Employing You
Men in Black / int_4593fcda	comment	Big Brother Is Employing You: A rare positive example are the titular Men in Black, who run the vast government conspiracy keeping people in the dark about alien life on planet Earth, with all the lying, violence, and mind-wiping presented as ultimately justified.
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Men in Black / int_45ad2569	type	Vagueness Is Coming
Men in Black / int_45ad2569	comment	Vagueness Is Coming: The disguised alien who James Edwards chases down at the beginning delivers several panicky warnings that "your world is gonna end" and "he's coming!" Apparently this is something MIB has to handle on a regular basis.
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Men in Black / int_45eed9a5	type	Not This One, That One
Men in Black / int_45eed9a5	comment	Not This One, That One: Agent J is shown an awesome-looking Series-4 De-atomizer, but is actually issued a puny-looking Noisy Cricket. This one is actually a subversion of the usual gag, as the weapon J gets really IS the better one; it just doesn't look like it. J is later surprised when the weapon causes massive explosions akin to grenades. (While hurling him backward due to recoil.)
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Men in Black / int_46029d2b	type	Slow Electricity
Men in Black / int_46029d2b	comment	Slow Electricity: The lights turning on one row at a time in the post-credits music video.
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Men in Black / int_46d7e20a	type	Sustained Misunderstanding
Men in Black / int_46d7e20a	comment	Sustained Misunderstanding: Agents Jay and Kay are at a morgue supervised by Dr. Laurel Weaver, masquerading as public health officials in order to examine two recently-murdered aliens.
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Men in Black / int_47060811	type	Screaming Birth
Men in Black / int_47060811	comment	Screaming Birth: The alien woman... plus a few tentacles shaking a screaming J around like a ragdoll while K casually questions her husband, oblivious to this.
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Men in Black / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Men in Black / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: "Bugs thrive on carnage, tiger. They consume, infest, destroy, live off the death and destruction of other species."
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Men in Black / int_4a8c4e5f	type	Big "WHAT?!"
Men in Black / int_4a8c4e5f	comment	Even in broadcasts with the most lenient editing, all instances of the word "shit" are censored, and J's reaction to the Arquillians' demand for the galaxy is dubbed over as a Big "WHAT?!"
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Men in Black / int_4af86843	type	Extranormal Institute
Men in Black / int_4af86843	comment	Extranormal Institute: The MIB.
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Men in Black / int_4b1247b8	type	Red Pill, Blue Pill
Men in Black / int_4b1247b8	comment	Red Pill, Blue Pill: Though little attention is called to it, all agents apparently get this. Naturally, it's the amnesia version.
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Men in Black / int_4b8932a4	type	Stalking Is Love
Men in Black / int_4b8932a4	comment	Stalking is Love: K uses the MIB's super-advanced Spy Satellites to spy on his old girlfriend while she's out gardening.
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Men in Black / int_4bba4b6b	type	Counting to Three
Men in Black / int_4bba4b6b	comment	Counting to Three: K points a gun at Jeebs' head and says he's going to count to three, unless Jeebs shows J the alien guns he has for sale. J assumes this is just a Good Cop/Bad Cop routine, and plays along... but on three, K actually shoots Jeebs' head off.
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Men in Black / int_4c59921a	type	Face Stealer
Men in Black / int_4c59921a	comment	Face Stealer: The Bug.
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Men in Black / int_4d7a7d53	type	I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You
Men in Black / int_4d7a7d53	comment	I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You: Played with. J tells Laura about the MIB. Then says "I'm sorry, I'm gonna have to...", to which Laura responds "Kill me." But just a little flash with the neuralyzer, and everything goes back to the way it was.
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Men in Black / int_4d7df5e2	type	Bringing Running Shoes to a Car Chase
Men in Black / int_4d7df5e2	comment	Bringing Running Shoes to a Car Chase: When the Bug escapes from J and K in a cab, J tears off after the cab on foot. K sensibly goes to get their car and picks up J, and admonishes him for not remembering that they have Edgar's ship.
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Men in Black / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Men in Black / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "I haven't been training a partner. I've been training a replacement."
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Men in Black / int_4f1f4751	type	Plot-Powered Stamina
Men in Black / int_4f1f4751	comment	Plot-Powered Stamina: In the beginning of the movie, J runs down an alien known for its speed, across blocks up a building, and is not winded at all after the chase that left the alien a little tired (somewhat justified by J taking some shortcuts like a bus and a freight elevator). This is part of what gets him into the MIB in the first place.
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Men in Black / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Men in Black / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: In this film, K is portrayed as a man holding out for The One That Got Away. Not only would the second film have him separated from the woman he was holding out for during his temporary retirement, but it would also be implied that he had a love child with the queen of Zartha, joins Frank and Zed in talking about their sexual experiences with aliens at the end of the film, and in the third film they have him flirting with Agent O every time they are together.
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Men in Black / int_4fdd0d29	type	Place Worse Than Death
Men in Black / int_4fdd0d29	comment	Place Worse Than Death:
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Men in Black / int_5037b961	type	Et Tu, Brute?
Men in Black / int_5037b961	comment	Et Tu, Brute?: The worms are spotted leaving MIB headquarters with a cartful of cigarettes, leaving their co-workers to rot.
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Men in Black / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Men in Black / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Edgar's skin steadily decays once the Bug starts wearing it as a disguise, until the face is barely recognizable when J and K confront it.
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Men in Black / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Men in Black / int_51640e80	comment	Also, Bug!Edgar, when talking with the head chef in regards to where "little Ivan" is (the server who was supposed to be serving the ambassadors of the two alien races that Bug!Edgar is trying to assassinate and steal the galaxy from), responds that he "gave him a break." The camera pans, revealing that Bug!Edgar means this quite literally, having broken his body in half and stuffed him into a cabinet.
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Men in Black / int_5171abed	type	Loads and Loads of Races
Men in Black / int_5171abed	comment	Loads and Loads of Races: Several alien species are mentioned and shown onscreen, especially when Jay first sees the inside of MIB.
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Men in Black / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Men in Black / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: "They're beautiful, aren't they? The stars. ... See you around, J." "No, K, you won't." Then there's an Epic Flash. The opening credits scroll over a bug flying in a sinister pattern. SPLAT. Gotcha — turns out the bug is of no significance, at least as far as people are concerned. The last shot of the movie reveals this universe to be a plaything for giant alien kids. It's also a bookend in that the climax ends with a bug going splat — though a much larger one.
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Men in Black / int_539bb70d	type	Cosmic Chess Game
Men in Black / int_539bb70d	comment	Cosmic Chess Game: The end of the movie reveals that the whole universe is nothing but a huge cosmic marble game played by aliens. The marbles are entire galaxies.
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Men in Black / int_53e9e38a	type	White Bread and Black Brotha
Men in Black / int_53e9e38a	comment	White Bread and Black Brotha: K is a cynical white veteran of the MIB, and he specifically recruits J, a gung-ho black NYPD officer, because of his subversive attitude and outside-the-box mindset.
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Men in Black / int_54956f54	type	Flat World
Men in Black / int_54956f54	comment	Flat World: Agent Kay affirms that long ago everybody knew the Earth was flat, using it as a reference to people believing something that is wrong, and how suddenly enlightening them too fast can be dangerous. Thus, his and the MIB's reasons for keeping the existence of aliens a secret.
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Men in Black / int_550754dc	type	Improbable Infant Survival
Men in Black / int_550754dc	comment	Improbable Infant Survival: Played with when James Edwards, in a live-fire exercise with other potential MIB trainees, shoots a cardboard cutout of a little girl instead of the scary aliens. In a subversion, he justifies this by claiming one alien was simply exercising on a streetlight, the other was sneezing, and the little girl was out late at night, eight-years-old, with a college-level textbook in her arms, so she was up to something bad. And, judging that he was chosen to join the organization, this reasoning was absolutely correct.
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Men in Black / int_5521ed05	type	No Animals Were Harmed
Men in Black / int_5521ed05	comment	No Animals Were Harmed: Played for Laughs with this tongue-in-cheek disclaimer: "The animals and aliens used in this film were in no way mistreated and all scenes in which they appeared were under strict supervision with the utmost concern for their handling."
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Men in Black / int_5527dc0c	type	Plot Coupon
Men in Black / int_5527dc0c	comment	Plot Coupon: The Galaxy "on Orion's Belt" or rather, on the cat Orion's collar.
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Men in Black / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Men in Black / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Washington Irving strikes again, as K repeats the misconception that people thought the world was flat 500 years ago, when the truth is that fact was first discovered (and proven beyond all doubt) around 240 BC. Of course, by "people thought" we really mean the educated higher stratas of society, whose writings are our main source of knowledge of the past. It's much harder to discern whatever misconceptions (e.g. a flat earth) the commonfolk of those times believed to be true.
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Men in Black / int_56c5b0d8	type	First Day from Hell
Men in Black / int_56c5b0d8	comment	First Day from Hell: J becomes involved in a plot to save the galaxy within his first day or so. Subverted in that K berates his actions that could expose them by informing J that there is always a crisis on their hands.
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Men in Black / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
Men in Black / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: They are Men In Black after all, but also Earth's "best, last, and only defense against the scum of the universe." Lampshaded in Will Smith's music video.
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Men in Black / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Men in Black / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: As to be expected in a movie about human-alien interactions, even if most humans aren't even aware of aliens. Agent K explains that many alien civilizations believe that human thought is so primitive, it's considered to be like a contagious disease, which is why Earth isn't allowed to have Universal Translator devices yet. The Bug clearly despises humans, and refers to them by a variety of unflattering terms, including "undeveloped pond-scum", "monkey-boys", "meat-sacks", and "milk-suckers". The rest of his species, according to K, are probably very much the same. Agent K is also ready to return fire on Edgar, likely in an effort to trigger the inferiority complex he spoke to J of earlier. Agent J uses this to provoke the Bug into attacking him by crushing terrestrial cockroaches under his feet.
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Men in Black / int_57c004fc	type	Threat Backfire
Men in Black / int_57c004fc	comment	Threat Backfire Edgar tells the Bug "You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead fingers." The Bug finds this proposal acceptable and immediately eats him. Also, when kidnapping Laurel, she threatens that if Bug!Edgar does anything to her (after claiming that she's Earth's ruler or even a goddess), Earth will declare war on his species in an attempt to get him to let her go. Unfortunately, this gave Bug!Edgar a lot more incentive to kidnap her than before ("War? Good. That means more food for my family. All 78 million of them. That's a lot of mouths to feed, Highness.")
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Men in Black / int_58075ef2	type	Stumbling in the New Form
Men in Black / int_58075ef2	comment	Stumbling in the New Form: When "Edgar", a 12-foot-tall, multi-legged insectoid alien super-criminal, wears the flayed skin of human farmer Edgar, he staggers and jerks around in this tiny bipedal form as if his body is barely contained and aching to burst free. It doesn't help that his new "suit" is un-refrigerated and slowly decaying over the course of the film, so it's beginning to stiffen and wear down.
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Men in Black / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
Men in Black / int_583ec33e	comment	Snark-to-Snark Combat: Part of why K and J work so well together.
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Men in Black / int_596f675a	type	Smoking Is Cool
Men in Black / int_596f675a	comment	Smoking Is Cool: The "worm guys" in the break room (according to the books their species is Vermar), smoke cigarettes while swilling coffee.
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Men in Black / int_598b59a4	type	Everything Is an iPod in the Future
Men in Black / int_598b59a4	comment	Everything Is an iPod in the Future: A rare instance of this trope being used in the nineties.
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Men in Black / int_599aa670	type	What the Hell Are You?
Men in Black / int_599aa670	comment	What the Hell Are You?: James, after the first alien he meets scales the side of a building and reveals his eye gills.
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Men in Black / int_59b9f4df	type	You Are Fat
Men in Black / int_59b9f4df	comment	"Edwards, if you were half the man I am..." "I AM half the man you are!"
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Men in Black / int_59c0c00	type	Sighted Guns Are Low-Tech
Men in Black / int_59c0c00	comment	Sighted Guns Are Low-Tech: Despite the high tech look of their giant guns, J and K don't actually need to aim them to shoot down a UFO. Could be that they fire heat seeking rounds, or some such advanced tech that replaces the need for manual aiming.
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Men in Black / int_5a0e88d8	type	Bring It
Men in Black / int_5a0e88d8	comment	Bring It: J to Edgar.
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Men in Black / int_5a4aa505	type	Government Conspiracy
Men in Black / int_5a4aa505	comment	Government Conspiracy: Averted. The first agents were part of the US Government, but not anymore.
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Men in Black / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Men in Black / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: After K blasts his way out of the Bug, he and J sit down to discuss what the hell just happened, but behind J you can see the Not Quite Dead Bug getting up and starting to walk away...
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Men in Black / int_5c1ec068	type	Big Red Button
Men in Black / int_5c1ec068	comment	J tells K not to push the Big Red Button in the gear shift of their Cool Car. This is a reference to Goldfinger, in which Q does the same thing to James Bond. In Bond's car the button activates an ejector seat, while in the MIB's car it activates a jet engine in the rear.
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Men in Black / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Men in Black / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: The film doesn't have many female agents. The end of the film shows Agent L, a woman who becomes J's new partner. However she is neuralyzed between films and given a Written-In Absence to make way for the return of Tommy Lee Jones.
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Men in Black / int_5e2f5ad2	type	You Kill It, You Bought It
Men in Black / int_5e2f5ad2	comment	You Kill It, You Bought It: Made Lighter and Softer and combined with Passing the Torch, though it's more like, "You neuralize it, you bought it." It comes into play when senior agents get too old, and their younger partners "retire" them and take over. This could pose a problem among more ambitious agents, so its use is regulated with a ceremonial Spy Speak protocol.
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Men in Black / int_5e9d35b	type	Bullet-Proof Fashion Plate
Men in Black / int_5e9d35b	comment	Bulletproof Fashion Plate: Played with. They get dirty a couple of times but are always fresh as a daisy in the next scene.
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Men in Black / int_5ff56a1f	type	Long List
Men in Black / int_5ff56a1f	comment	Long List: K and Zed muse over the NYC and Jersey-based aliens who have already flown the coop. The list ends with Staten Island ("Gone, thank God.").
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Men in Black / int_60a9c83c	type	Costumes Change Your Size
Men in Black / int_60a9c83c	comment	Costumes Change Your Size: Played with. The invading alien Bug spends most of the movie walking around in the skin of a local redneck named Edgar. In the climax, the Bug sheds his Edgar suit to reveal that he had folded himself to fit, and he's really much, much larger than a human.
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Men in Black / int_61356a74	type	Almost Dead Guy
Men in Black / int_61356a74	comment	Almost Dead Guy: The Arquillian Prince inside the jeweler's body, who survives long enough to give a cryptic clue to the protagonists. Not that he was being cryptic on purpose. Poor fellow was dying and not fluent in English.
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Men in Black / int_617a1d43	type	Conspiracy Kitchen Sink
Men in Black / int_617a1d43	comment	Conspiracy Kitchen Sink: The film is a peculiar version of this — every conspiracy theory you've ever heard is on to something big, but the truth behind all of them is the same, in this case aliens. One example is a small ball that seems to be similar to rubber except that it gains energy with each bounce, making it incredibly destructive. Apparently it caused a massive New York blackout. The alien diplomat who did it thought it was funny as hell. Elvis' death? He was an alien who just went home. J's theory about that one grade school teacher of his being an alien, though? Spot on, except that he got the wrong planet.
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Men in Black / int_62cae28a	type	Losing Your Head
Men in Black / int_62cae28a	comment	Losing Your Head: Jeebs. K shoots him in the head and he regrows it, with complaints about the inconvenience.
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Men in Black / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Men in Black / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: The screen with the "celebrities who are secretly aliens" includes director Barry Sonnenfeld, producer Steven Spielberg, and Sylvester Stallone — and later singles out J's ex-teacher in Philadelphia. In one scene, there are two brief shots of Orion the cat where the name on its collar (belt) is visible before the secret is revealed.
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Men in Black / int_62fd5552	type	Bavarian Fire Drill
Men in Black / int_62fd5552	comment	Bavarian Fire Drill: A favorite tactic of the MIB. It's even lampshaded in the novelization: "Act like you're in charge and everybody will act like you are."
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Men in Black / int_633e176e	type	Lurid Tales of Doom
Men in Black / int_633e176e	comment	Lurid Tales of Doom: Agent K says this sort of news is actually very trustworthy when it comes to tracking aliens.
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Men in Black / int_634c5775	type	Came from the Sky
Men in Black / int_634c5775	comment	Came from the Sky: The bug-alien villain arrives on Earth in an impact crater, and the first person on the scene is indeed a violent hick toting a shotgun.
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Men in Black / int_63cd6ccb	type	Image Song
Men in Black / int_63cd6ccb	comment	Image Song: Will Smith performed the title song, rapping about being Agent J saving the world and covering up the existence of aliens.
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Men in Black / int_63f22889	type	Insectoid Aliens
Men in Black / int_63f22889	comment	Insectoid Aliens: The alien Bug, a giant cockroach wearing a new Edgar suit.
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Men in Black / int_653174e5	type	From Hero to Mentor
Men in Black / int_653174e5	comment	From Hero to Mentor: Examined in an interesting way. The big reveal of the first movie was that Agent K wasn't looking to train a new partner, but was instead training Agent J to replace him. Thus in the second movie J was shuffled off to be the senior agent and known for neuralizing junior agents who failed to meet his standards.
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Men in Black / int_6595b784	type	Animal Reaction Shot
Men in Black / int_6595b784	comment	Animal Reaction Shot: Edgar the Bug walks up to the front desk in the morgue and rings the bell. After nobody comes, he rings it again, and then a third time, at which point, the shot changes to a cat hissing.
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Men in Black / int_66bee5ea	type	Shooting Gallery
Men in Black / int_66bee5ea	comment	Shooting Gallery: A trick-based example. The MIBs put potential recruits through a shooting gallery full of scary-looking monsters, but the only thing Jay shoots is a little girl. When questioned by Z, he points out his logic - the "snarling" monster is carrying a tissue so just has a cold, the one on the streetlight is just exercising, but the little white girl in the projects at the dead of night with quantum physics textbooks must be up to something. It turns out that was the right answer.
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Men in Black / int_66c29032	type	No Such Agency
Men in Black / int_66c29032	comment	No Such Agency: Played With. Originally a Federal agency, the MIB splintered off since the government "asked too many questions." They erased any and all records and memories of their existence from their own government, getting their funding from the patents of alien technologies.
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Men in Black / int_670ca248	type	Go-to Alias
Men in Black / int_670ca248	comment	Go-to Alias: "Division Six".
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Men in Black / int_6849cc47	type	Where da White Women At?
Men in Black / int_6849cc47	comment	Where da White Women At?: Laurel makes a pass (okay, a few) at J. In the ending, the duo are revealed to be partners.
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Men in Black / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Men in Black / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: K accurately sums up the MIB's need for secrecy by telling J that the only reason average people are able to get on with their lives is that they're not aware that the Earth is under constant threat from aliens.
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Men in Black / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
Men in Black / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: Averted. K survives the Bug's innards to retrieve his gun and blast his way out.
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Men in Black / int_6b723294	type	Techno Babble
Men in Black / int_6b723294	comment	Techno Babble: Plenty.
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Men in Black / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Men in Black / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo:
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Men in Black / int_6c62b1a8	type	Covered in Gunge
Men in Black / int_6c62b1a8	comment	Covered in Gunge: Janus, the Border Patrol agent, ends up wearing puree of Mikey after K shoots him. The Redgicks' newborn baby pukes all over J after its delivery. J and K get covered in bug guts after K blows him in half, then again after Laurel blasts the rest of him.
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Men in Black / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Men in Black / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Laurel becomes L — "elle", in other words.
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Men in Black / int_6e287af	type	Janitor Impersonation Infiltration
Men in Black / int_6e287af	comment	Janitor Impersonation Infiltration: The "Edgar" bug follows Rosenberg to a restaurant, where he murders a waiter and takes his place before killing Rosenberg and his contact there.
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Men in Black / int_6e429667	type	Fantastic Slurs
Men in Black / int_6e429667	comment	Fantastic Slurs: The Bug refers to humans as "undeveloped pond scum", "meatbags", "milksuckers" and "monkey boys".
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Men in Black / int_6eaff95	type	Leno Device
Men in Black / int_6eaff95	comment	Leno Device: The end of the first movie shows tabloid articles talking about the effects of the climax on the public, including a conspiracy theory forming about Detroit perfecting a rocket car and one story about the baseball player who missed the catch during the baseball game shown in the movie claiming "UFO MADE ME MISS HOME RUN!" (which is actually true). Of course, the joke is that the MIB regard the tabloids as the world's best investigative reporting. ("You can try the New York Times if you want. They get lucky sometimes.")
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Men in Black / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
Men in Black / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: The posters play on the fact that the film's two main stars have the last names "Smith" and "Jones"... you know, the kind of super-plain codenames you'd expect two anonymous, black-suited government agents to use.
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Men in Black / int_6ef09297	type	Masquerade
Men in Black / int_6ef09297	comment	Masquerade: The alien shenanigans the MIB deal with put the Earth in mortal danger on such a regular basis that humanity simply would not be capable of functioning with that perpetual risk of annihilation looming over them. As such, the existence of alien life is kept a total secret from the world, and most aliens are required to use prosthetics or disguises to pass off as human, animal, or machine.
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Men in Black / int_70c6a6db	type	Absurdly Exclusive Recruiting Standards
Men in Black / int_70c6a6db	comment	Absurdly Exclusive Recruiting Standards: The eponymous organization brings in a huge group of potential military recruits, including the Rangers and Navy SEALs, plus NYPD detective James Edwards. Z makes it abundantly clear that they're looking for the best of the best of the best, but out of the entire class, only Edwards is able pass the Incomprehensible Entrance Exam, having the practicality to use the coffee table for the written exam and the observational skills to realize that the scary-looking aliens on the shooting range are minding their own business; everyone else is neuralized.
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Men in Black / int_70d18002	type	Inventor of the Mundane
Men in Black / int_70d18002	comment	Inventor of the Mundane: The MIB owns the patents to some "out of town" inventions, naming a few which make quite a bit of sense; Velcro (not actually invented by NASA), microwave ovens (invented by a military defense contractor), liposuction (pre-dates alien contact, but was mostly a creative form of mutilation before the development of ultrasonics — another military invention)...
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Men in Black / int_71152dd	type	One Dialogue, Two Conversations
Men in Black / int_71152dd	comment	One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Edgar's Humans Are Bastards tirade to the roach exterminator.
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Men in Black / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
Men in Black / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: The movie ends with Agents J and the newly-inducted L going on a new assignment.
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Men in Black / int_723e61b3	type	Baby Planet
Men in Black / int_723e61b3	comment	Baby Planet: Exaggerated, as the plot centers around a galaxy small enough to fit in the bauble of a cat's collar.
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Men in Black / int_72856b70	type	Godzilla Threshold
Men in Black / int_72856b70	comment	Godzilla Threshold: The bug impersonating Edgar is getting close to stealing the Arquillian galaxy, so when Agent J sees him, he tries to shoot in broad view of dozens of New Yorkers with his fancy ray gun, earning K's fury. The real threshold is with the Arquillians, who think a Bug in control of a Galaxy is enough of a threat to destroy the planet both are on, even if most of the inhabitants of said planet have no clue they're about to die.
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Men in Black / int_73ff2cc5	type	Just Eat Him
Men in Black / int_73ff2cc5	comment	Just Eat Him: K, going to get back his gun from Edgar's throat in the first film's climax. The novelization explains that the Bug only swallowed K whole out of anger; he would have chewed J if he'd gotten the chance.
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Men in Black / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Men in Black / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "They're beautiful aren't they?..The stars."
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Men in Black / int_746793a6	type	Clue of Few Words
Men in Black / int_746793a6	comment	Clue of Few Words: The dying alien struggles to say the words "Orion's Belt" before he perishes, leaving the agents to wonder what he was referring to.
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Men in Black / int_74e2ef76	type	Orphaned Punchline
Men in Black / int_74e2ef76	comment	Orphaned Punchline: "But honey, this one's eating my popcorn!" Here's the rest of the joke. The same joke also appeared in The Sting.
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Men in Black / int_750b606b	type	Multi-Armed Multitasking
Men in Black / int_750b606b	comment	Multi-Armed Multitasking: The twin Mission Controls.
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Men in Black / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Men in Black / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs in one scene when Agent J tries to give the standard cover story without having a neuralyzer, as penance for his reckless use of a MIB energy weapon that caused the need for the coverup. He's off the hook once Special Services arrives.
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Men in Black / int_765a1683	type	Enemy Rising Behind
Men in Black / int_765a1683	comment	Enemy Rising Behind: After K blasts his way out of the Bug, he and J sit back to reflect on the moment while the upper half of the Bug crawls behind them to attack, only to be blasted at the last second by Laurel using J's gun.
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Men in Black / int_76b4b7dd	type	The Comically Serious
Men in Black / int_76b4b7dd	comment	The Comically Serious: Nothing about the job fazes K in the slightest, so his deadpan approach to all the outlandish alien craziness is hilarious. In an interview, Tommy Lee Jones says he actually is this; the way to make great comedy is stay close to Will Smith so the funny spills over. The movie's director also describes it as something of an Enforced Trope, as he wanted Will Smith to be the only one who was trying to be funny.
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Men in Black / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
Men in Black / int_77414bc2	comment	Action Prologue: Agent K sniffing out an alien fugitive amongst some immigrants.
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Men in Black / int_78255ad7	type	Passing the Torch
Men in Black / int_78255ad7	comment	Passing the Torch: At the end of the film, by K giving J the neuralyzer.
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Men in Black / int_7a32312a	type	Rain of Blood
Men in Black / int_7a32312a	comment	Rain of Blood: Kay realizes that a Bug has infiltrated the morgue when he attempts to smoke a cigarette and bug-spit drips on the tip. Cue the camera panning up to the other morgue employee's corpse glued to the ceiling.
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Men in Black / int_7a6840a1	type	Real Event, Fictional Cause
Men in Black / int_7a6840a1	comment	Real Event, Fictional Cause: The 1977 New York Blackout was caused by an alien releasing a Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball into the area as a prank. The 1964-65 New York World's Fair was a cover operation so that the first alien ambassadors to Earth could land — their ships became the flat circular tops of the observation towers. The movie jokes that this was the only reason the fair was held in Queens. It becomes a Chekhov's Gun later when MIB are trying to stop the Bug from leaving Earth — all the other New York-area spaceships registered in MIB's database are gone and they're trying to figure out how the Bug intends to leave when Agent J looks over a picture of Flushing Meadows, sees the observation towers, and asks whether those still work.
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Men in Black / int_7f413791	type	Wall of Weapons
Men in Black / int_7f413791	comment	Wall of Weapons: There's an impressive wall of impossible sci-fi superweapons in the form of Jeebs' Jewelery.
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Men in Black / int_7f6a54f2	type	Miranda Rights
Men in Black / int_7f6a54f2	comment	Miranda Rights: Kay shoots Jeebs' head, and Edwards (who has not yet joined the MIB and become Agent Jay) yells at him to drop his gun and "Don't make me shoot you" before Jeebs gets up as his head grows back. The novel expands this by having Edward start to Mirandize Kay, but get interrupted partway through when Kay tells him to lighten up, right before Jeebs revives.
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Men in Black / int_80288048	type	Nonchalant Dodge
Men in Black / int_80288048	comment	Nonchalant Dodge: Zed. Jay accidentally releases the Bouncy Ball of Doom, it ricochets through Zed's office as he's doing paperwork, and he casually leans to the side to avoid it, only tilting his head at the very end because it would have gone straight through his skull.
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Men in Black / int_80b5924	type	Left Hanging
Men in Black / int_80b5924	comment	Left Hanging: Agent J, and the audience never does find out what Laurel likes to do in the morgue when it's really late.
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Men in Black / int_820ac351	type	It Amused Me
Men in Black / int_820ac351	comment	It Amused Me: Why did the Great Attracter unleash the super-bouncy ball that caused the 1977 New York Blackout? He thought it was funny as hell!
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Men in Black / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Men in Black / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: Played with. The Noisy Cricket, possibly the tiniest MIB gun, can cause some serious damage. It's got a nasty recoil too. On the other hand, a gun the size of a shotgun can shoot down spaceships.
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Men in Black / int_83856158	type	Worthless Yellow Rocks
Men in Black / int_83856158	comment	Worthless Yellow Rocks: The two Arquillians at the diner are chatting and one notices an ornamental case on the table. He asks with awe, "Is that it?" The other replies, "No, just some diamonds for your children." Same with Edgar the Cockroach, who, after opening the container he thought contained the galaxy, just dumped the diamonds all over the floor of the truck - and who later ransacked Rosenberg's jewelry store in search of the galaxy but didn't take any of the goods.
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Men in Black / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Men in Black / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: Zed says the Galaxy cannot be in Orion's Belt because the Belt only has three stars and galaxies are too big to be there. The Galaxy turns out to be small enough to be the ball that decorates Orion the cat's belt but Zed is right about the Galaxy not being in Orion's Belt.
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Men in Black / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
Men in Black / int_83f3983b	comment	Necessarily Evil: The organization is not overtly malicious, but they do recognize a certain moral ambiguity with how they deceive the population, even telling them harmful lies about the truth of loved ones. J engages Edgar on a crowded street and K is quick to berate him over jeopardizing The Masquerade. When J balks citing the situation calls for extreme measures K tells him that The World Is Always Doomed and the only thing preventing mass chaos is keeping all this a secret.
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Men in Black / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Men in Black / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Orion's Belt... technically, collar, but whatever.
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Men in Black / int_856297f1	type	An Alien Named "Bob"
Men in Black / int_856297f1	comment	An Alien Named "Bob": Many of the aliens the agents encounter in the field have plain sounding names like Frank or Bob. This even includes a gigantic, subway-dwelling, omnivorous worm called Jeff. Presumably these are all assumed names, and they would make sense for those aliens living as humans. No explanation for the giant worm, though.
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Men in Black / int_85bfd195	type	They Look Like Us Now
Men in Black / int_85bfd195	comment	They Look Like Us Now: Non-humanoid aliens have ways of blending in, usually some kind of robotic human suit. Or in Edgar's case, an organic one.
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Men in Black / int_860c8ce3	type	Wistful Amnesia
Men in Black / int_860c8ce3	comment	Wistful Amnesia: J and Laurel (who had previously met, but were later neuralyzed) both think the other looks familiar when they meet for the first time (again). It's implied that those who have been neuralyzed do retain scraps of memory, usually chalked up to deja vu.
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Men in Black / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Men in Black / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Edgar grabs Orion the Cat, and a split second later he's holding the charm on its collar, with the cat nowhere to be seen. The cat's whereabouts and condition are not addressed and there's no follow-up.
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Men in Black / int_868a972f	type	Quiet Cry for Help
Men in Black / int_868a972f	comment	Quiet Cry for Help: Laurel is talking to J in the morgue while the hidden Edgar is watching her, having threatened her with death if she gives him away. J persistently misinterprets Laurel's attempts to alert him as sexual come-ons.
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Men in Black / int_868afe72	type	Covert Group with Mundane Front
Men in Black / int_868afe72	comment	Covert Group with Mundane Front: In the beginning, Kay introduces himself and Dee as "INS, Division Six", much to the confusion of the border patrol officers. This extended to the animated series, where Jay and Kay would introduce themselves in any position tangentially-related to the situation as "Division Six".
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Men in Black / int_86c192f4	type	Badass Creed
Men in Black / int_86c192f4	comment	Badass Creed
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Men in Black / int_87cc946b	type	Stumbled Into the Plot
Men in Black / int_87cc946b	comment	Stumbled Into the Plot: Agent K was one of the first MIB members, solely because he took a wrong turn on the road and arrived at the First Contact site. J works out that he was actually going to meet up with the girl he loved (he was carrying flowers), who he still cares about decades later. The animated series makes it worse - he was planning to propose that night.
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Men in Black / int_884c48a6	type	Non-Answer
Men in Black / int_884c48a6	comment	Non-Answer: During the recruitment, J asks why they were there, and one of the military-trained recruits responds that Zed is looking the "the best of the best of the best, sir." J deduces, correctly, that none of the others knows why they're there either, and are following a "do what you're told" mentality. Given the results of the test, it's entirely possible that the recruitment process was just a going-through-the-motions act put on for the benefit of J and/or Zed.
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Men in Black / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
Men in Black / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Each agent, and each of them has a hidden form that comes in handy. "Old and Busted... new hotness."
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Men in Black / int_8b3fe1cb	type	Flaw Exploitation
Men in Black / int_8b3fe1cb	comment	Do not squish any bugs in front of Edgar. Just don't. Turns out this is how J manages to keep Edgar around long enough for K to kill him.
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Men in Black / int_8ca89acb	type	I Need to Go Iron My Dog
Men in Black / int_8ca89acb	comment	I Need to Go Iron My Dog: The human smuggler at the beginning of the movie tells the Border Patrol he's been fishing in Cuernavaca to explain why he's driving across the Mexican border late at night. The Border Patrol agent has already busted him for smuggling on several previous occasions, so he doesn't buy this excuse for one second.
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Men in Black / int_8d0c61b6	type	Team Title
Men in Black / int_8d0c61b6	comment	Team Title: Men in Black.
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Men in Black / int_8d5fc8c7	type	Recoiled Across the Room
Men in Black / int_8d5fc8c7	comment	Recoiled Across the Room: J and the Noisy Cricket. Every time J shoots it, he flies back several feet.
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Men in Black / int_8dca1883	type	Abstract Scale
Men in Black / int_8dca1883	comment	Abstract Scale: At the end of the movie, J quantifies the battle with the Bug as ranking 9.5 on the "Weird-Shit-O-Meter".
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Men in Black / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Men in Black / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim The opening scene where Kay ends up killing the alien "Mikey" had to be re-shot when the producers realized audiences were feeling bad for Mikey. Edgar, who's shown to be a spousal abuser (at least emotionally, and possibly physically as well) just before the Bug kills him.
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Men in Black / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
Men in Black / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: In-universe example; K refers to Earth as Casablanca FOR ALIENS.
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Men in Black / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Men in Black / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: The Bug kidnaps Laurel and decides to make a meal out of her. Sure enough, she is ultimately the one who destroys him once and for all.
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Men in Black / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Men in Black / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: The verbally abusive Edgar spends just enough time on screen doing his thing so that the audience will have absolutely zero sympathy when the bug's meteor crashes on his vehicle of choice.
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Men in Black / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Men in Black / int_916c72b3	comment	The opening credits scroll over a bug flying in a sinister pattern. SPLAT. Gotcha — turns out the bug is of no significance, at least as far as people are concerned. The last shot of the movie reveals this universe to be a plaything for giant alien kids. It's also a bookend in that the climax ends with a bug going splat — though a much larger one.
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Men in Black / int_921d06e8	type	This Explains So Much
Men in Black / int_921d06e8	comment	This Explains So Much: Twice. J discovers his third grade teacher really was an alien all along, and at the end when J reveals Dennis Rodman is one, too.
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Men in Black / int_9289ca1d	type	Forbidden Chekhov's Gun
Men in Black / int_9289ca1d	comment	Forbidden Chekhov's Gun
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Men in Black / int_9323741	type	Planet Looters
Men in Black / int_9323741	comment	Planet Looters: Edgar's race feeds off intergalactic wars.
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Men in Black / int_94cc2c28	type	Exact Time to Failure
Men in Black / int_94cc2c28	comment	Exact Time to Failure: The Arquillians give MIB a time limit on getting the Galaxy back before they destroy the Earth. When J and K finally retrieve it, all K has to do is say it's in his possession, which happens exactly seven minutes after the timer showed eight minutes. They had plenty of time to spare.
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Men in Black / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
Men in Black / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Reggie's newborn "squid" child coughs up on J shortly after it's born.
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Men in Black / int_958a7bef	type	Layman's Terms
Men in Black / int_958a7bef	comment	Layman's Terms: Zed compares Earth's predicament to being the last party-goer who gets stuck with the check.
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Men in Black / int_95f972d2	type	Nitro Boost
Men in Black / int_95f972d2	comment	Nitro Boost: The "Ford POS" has rocket boosters powerful enough to allow driving on the roof of a tunnel.
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Men in Black / int_9600368d	type	Behind the Black
Men in Black / int_9600368d	comment	Behind the Black: J and K don't seem to notice the alien giving birth in the back seat of Reggie's car until Reggie pointed her out.
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Men in Black / int_969bc7d9	type	Drool Hello
Men in Black / int_969bc7d9	comment	Drool Hello: Indirectly. After K enters the morgue to find out what's happened to J, he tries to light a cigarette but the match is put out by a drip of slime. He looks up, and now we know what happened to the clerk...
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Men in Black / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Men in Black / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: What does Laurel like to do in the morgue late at night?
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Men in Black / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Men in Black / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: An unnamed bug alien seeking a powerful energy source to win an intergalactic war.
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Men in Black / int_973ba076	type	Safety in Muggles
Men in Black / int_973ba076	comment	Safety in Muggles: K stops J's attempt to kill the bug villain because they are in public. Turns out the MIB's don't have a Godzilla Threshold because The World Is Always Doomed and a big part of their job is making sure the general public don't know about it.
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Men in Black / int_988defe7	type	Constellations as Locations
Men in Black / int_988defe7	comment	Constellations as Locations: Discussed, lampshaded and ultimately averted. A dying alien tells the heroes that "the Galaxy is on the Orion's Belt", which they first take to refer to the strip of starsnote Alnitak, Alilam, and Mintaka forming the "belt" of the Orion constellation. However, they are quickly refuted when they are shown that the "belt" in reality consists of stars thousands of light years apart that only look like they are close together from Earth, and that there are no suitable galaxies in that particular direction of the sky. The alien's words turn out to refer to their pet, also named Orion, who carries a tiny galaxy hidden on its collar.
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Men in Black / int_98def616	type	Replicant Snatching
Men in Black / int_98def616	comment	Replicant Snatching:
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Men in Black / int_99023982	type	Move Along, Nothing to See Here
Men in Black / int_99023982	comment	Move Along, Nothing to See Here: Used by The Men in Black to uphold their Masquerade. Thanks to the neuralyzer, the people believe it.
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Men in Black / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Men in Black / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: The alien Jay was chasing towards the beginning decides to jump off the roof of the Guggenheim Museum rather than live long enough to be killed for his failure.
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Men in Black / int_9a480050	type	Do Not Taunt Cthulhu
Men in Black / int_9a480050	comment	Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Both the tow truck driver and the morgue receptionist learn this the hard way.
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Men in Black / int_9a68179	type	Holding the Floor
Men in Black / int_9a68179	comment	Holding the Floor: Agent J does this (and takes quite a beating) while Agent K "goes to get his gun". After the Big Bad swallowed it.
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Men in Black / int_9ab0aec0	type	The Dog Is an Alien
Men in Black / int_9ab0aec0	comment	The Dog Is an Alien: Frank the Pug.
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Men in Black / int_9b3c14cb	type	Van Helsing Hate Crimes
Men in Black / int_9b3c14cb	comment	Van Helsing Hate Crimes: The MIB are an aversion of this and only seem to accept candidates who are also an aversion of this. The rejected candidates all played this trope straight during the target practice session.
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Men in Black / int_9b6f7fbb	type	Secretly Earmarked for Greatness
Men in Black / int_9b6f7fbb	comment	Secretly Earmarked for Greatness: Agent K witnesses NYPD detective James Edwards run down an alien on foot, by himself. After neutralizing James, he gives him a card to apply to the Men in Black. With no idea what the organization does, James goes to the trials, surrounded by Navy SEALS and Green Berets, and, while a bit cocky and mouthy, shows the out-of-the-box thinking MIB needs, with K talking him up to Agent Z behind the scenes. Thus, James is offered the position at MIB, becoming Agent J.
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Men in Black / int_9cde2df1	type	Hand Cannon
Men in Black / int_9cde2df1	comment	Hand Cannon Played straight with the huge revolver the tow-truck driver pulls out when Bug!Edgar threatens him with a shotgun. He's killed by Edgar's shotgun blast before he can use it. Inverted by the Noisy Cricket: a tiny, unseemly weapon resembling a hypodermic needle with a handle, pauses momentarily and chirps like a cricket when you pull the trigger, and then promptly annihilates whatever it was pointed at and knocks you flat on your butt. The recoil usually hurls Agent J about fifteen feet, no matter how he tries to brace himself.
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Men in Black / int_9d0f2549	type	Public Secret Message
Men in Black / int_9d0f2549	comment	Public Secret Message: Agent K explains that tabloids, which are assumed to be hoaxes by muggles, are in fact based on true events behind The Masquerade (since tabloids have less Weirdness Censor than "serious" newspapers). Later, when Agent K retires, Agent J notices an article with Agent K's photo and an article about a postal worker who returned to his old job after years in a coma, revealing Agent K's fate, which then becomes a major plot point in the second film.
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Men in Black / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Men in Black / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The first line in the movie is "Goddamned bugs!" It's real subtle in relation to K's true motives, but when K and Zed are discussing J: When K shows J the photographs of First Contact, he reacts to the picture of the random young man greeting the aliens with "Aww, you brought that tall man some flowers!" Though he doesn't realize it, his use of "you" is completely accurate — the young man in that picture is K himself. When describing the people present for the First Contact, he's brief with the description of the others, "seven agents, one astronomer", but makes a point to be specific about the "one dumb kid who got lost on the wrong back road". The dying Arquillian prince repeatedly struggles with selecting the right English word in his Final Speech, suggesting that Orion's "belt" might not be exactly what that word typically calls to mind.
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Men in Black / int_9da6354b	type	Reality Has No Subtitles
Men in Black / int_9da6354b	comment	Reality Has No Subtitles: Near the beginning of the movie, a group of Border Patrol agents stop a van carrying illegal Mexican immigrants. The driver of the van and a Border Patrol agent all speak to the illegal Mexican immigrants in Spanish without any translation of their words. However, K's dialogue after he shows up is subtitled.
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Men in Black / int_9e0c3153	type	Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
Men in Black / int_9e0c3153	comment	Punctuated! For! Emphasis! When J catches up to the perp he's chasing: Also, when K, when J complains about them not having time for the cover-up: When pressing Edgar's Berserk Button:
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Men in Black / int_9e224dd5	type	Object-Tracking Shot
Men in Black / int_9e224dd5	comment	Object-Tracking Shot: The (primitive CGI) insect at the beginning of the movie, which ends up splattered on the windscreen of a van.
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Men in Black / int_9e6221b0	type	E.T. Gave Us Wi-Fi
Men in Black / int_9e6221b0	comment	E.T. Gave Us Wi-Fi: The MIB have been supporting themselves with patent royalties on technologies they've confiscated from alien visitors, helping along the development of modern tech in the process. Microwave ovens, Velcro, and liposuction are all alien tech, and in the expanded universe, cell phones, solar power, and many more were all reverse-engineered from contraband.
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Men in Black / int_9e8a2db8	type	Ignorance Is Bliss
Men in Black / int_9e8a2db8	comment	Ignorance Is Bliss: "There's always an Arquillian battle cruiser, or a Corillian death ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT!"
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Men in Black / int_9ebd9c33	type	UnPerson
Men in Black / int_9ebd9c33	comment	Un-person: As Zed says in the quote, it's part of the initiation process. Leaving agents get their identities back, however, or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof.
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Men in Black / int_9f50dbe6	type	Infinite Supplies
Men in Black / int_9f50dbe6	comment	Infinite Supplies: Subverted when Kay tells Jay exactly how the organization is funded, saying they hold patents on a lot of inventions that were either given to them or confiscated from aliens, including microwaves and liposuction.
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Men in Black / int_9f842947	type	Alternate Landmark History
Men in Black / int_9f842947	comment	Alternate Landmark History: The observatory towers in New York's Flushing Meadow Park are really moored flying saucers.
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Men in Black / int_9f87b4fb	type	Little Useless Gun
Men in Black / int_9f87b4fb	comment	Little Useless Gun: The Noisy Cricket is a double subversion. It's tiny, sure, but it packs a hell of a punch... which never actually helps at any point in the film. The novelization informs us that this is a deliberate tactic used to train new agents not to assume things about how something because of how it looks (and to haze the new recruits and bet on how far they will fly backwards).
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Men in Black / int_a03509ce	type	You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With
Men in Black / int_a03509ce	comment	You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With: Done with a dramatic zoom on Kay after he dismisses the "illegal aliens" in order to interrogate the ALIEN, and he's had enough of the protests from Border Patrol.
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Men in Black / int_a03f04d4	type	Ceiling Corpse
Men in Black / int_a03f04d4	comment	Ceiling Corpse: When J and K return to the morgue, Agent K finds the body of the rude morgue attendant (David Cross) where the Bug stuck it to the ceiling. The second movie reveals that he's still alive, however.
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Men in Black / int_a0d9c2f3	type	Final Speech
Men in Black / int_a0d9c2f3	comment	The dying Arquillian prince repeatedly struggles with selecting the right English word in his Final Speech, suggesting that Orion's "belt" might not be exactly what that word typically calls to mind.
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Men in Black / int_a116a489	type	Herald
Men in Black / int_a116a489	comment	Herald: The MIB organization (and by extension, the existence of aliens) is this for J.
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Men in Black / int_a2f3e380	type	World of Weirdness
Men in Black / int_a2f3e380	comment	World of Weirdness: Earth manages to be this in spite of The Masquerade. It implies the real world is like this, we just don't know about it because a) the MIB organization is actively hiding the truth from the general public and b) whenever someone does spill the beans, nobody believes them anyway. At one point K goes to get leads from the "hot sheets", which turn out to be tabloids like National Enquirer and Weekly World News. He tells the incredulous J, "Finest investigative reporting on the planet. Oh, you can read the New York Times if you want to; sometimes they get lucky."
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Men in Black / int_a3385649	type	In-Joke
Men in Black / int_a3385649	comment	In-Joke: The driver smuggling illegal aliens (one of whom is an alien disguised as an illegal alien) along a road marked "375" claims to have been "fishing in Cuernavaca." 375 refers to Nevada State Road 375, known as the "Extraterrestrial Highway" for being near Area 51 (although the scene is in Texas), while Cuernavaca is a Mexican city that supposedly had a flying saucer crash.
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Men in Black / int_a35c7d61	type	Casual High Drop
Men in Black / int_a35c7d61	comment	Casual High Drop: The cephalopoid J chases down in New York City drops off a high overpass and keeps right on running. This is J's first clue that something unnatural is going on.
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Men in Black / int_a414c3f0	type	One-Hit Kill
Men in Black / int_a414c3f0	comment	One-Hit Kill: The MIB's heavy weaponry has this effect on aliens and their vehicles. The challenge is getting to a point where you both A) are in front of the alien and B) have said heavy weapon at the ready.
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Men in Black / int_a4916876	type	Blown Across the Room
Men in Black / int_a4916876	comment	Blown Across the Room: Inverted when Agent J's tiny "Noisy Cricket" gun packs enough kick to destroy a truck but knocks the shooter off his feet and onto the hood of a car several yards behind him from recoil (despite it being an energy weapon).
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Men in Black / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Men in Black / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash J is more than happy to help K with doing the whole Good Cop/Bad Cop routine while questioning Jeebs, until K holy shit blows Jeebs's head off, at which point J drops the act: Then Whiplashed back again as Jeebs regrows his head:
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Men in Black / int_a4f2570d	type	Muggles
Men in Black / int_a4f2570d	comment	Muggles: Any person not an alien and not part of the MIB is called a "Neutral".
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Men in Black / int_a5dbe5a	type	Point That Somewhere Else
Men in Black / int_a5dbe5a	comment	Point That Somewhere Else: When Agent J (who really ought to know better) points the Noisy Cricket (itty-bitty pistol with power and recoil of a gun 50x its size) at Agent K, K immediately pushes it away so it isn't pointed at him.
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Men in Black / int_a68421bb	type	Animated Adaptation
Men in Black / int_a68421bb	comment	Animated Adaptation: Men in Black: The Series
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Men in Black / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Men in Black / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The Galaxy on Orion's belt. It's a miniaturized galaxy disguised as the bell-charm on the dead jeweler's cat, Orion — nothing to do with the constellation after all.
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Men in Black / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Men in Black / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: J, to a degree. The entire first act of the movie is designed to show that his streetwise smart-ass routine is largely a put-on and he's actually a very good, and even insightful, detective.
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Men in Black / int_a7caa5b5	type	First Contact
Men in Black / int_a7caa5b5	comment	When describing the people present for the First Contact, he's brief with the description of the others, "seven agents, one astronomer", but makes a point to be specific about the "one dumb kid who got lost on the wrong back road".
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Men in Black / int_a7defafd	type	Code Name
Men in Black / int_a7defafd	comment	Code Name: Each agent is supplied with one, but it's the first letter of their first name (James, Kevin, Laurel). Expanded Universe has them go into detail with it.
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Men in Black / int_a814671b	type	N.G.O. Superpower
Men in Black / int_a814671b	comment	N.G.O. Superpower: The MIB is no longer connected to any government, but effectively holds sole control over Earth's foreign policy.
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Men in Black / int_a8a80e26	type	Fashion Dissonance
Men in Black / int_a8a80e26	comment	Fashion Dissonance: Agent J's getup at the end of the film (oval-rim sunglasses, long Nehru jacket, and band collar without a necktie) was Hollywood haute-couture for a brief moment towards the end of The '90s. Its purpose in the film is probably to make him look more "up-to-date" and "hip". Tellingly, he goes back to a normal black suit for the sequels.
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Men in Black / int_a8b5a55e	type	Welcome Episode
Men in Black / int_a8b5a55e	comment	Welcome Episode: The first half of the movie.
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Men in Black / int_a8f3e2f6	type	Worst. Whatever. Ever!
Men in Black / int_a8f3e2f6	comment	Worst. Whatever. Ever!: J's first impression on seeing the locksmith is that he's got the "worst disguise ever". The locksmith turns out to be human; his dog Frank is actually the alien.
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Men in Black / int_a9667a3b	type	Hero Insurance
Men in Black / int_a9667a3b	comment	Hero Insurance: Shooting up the Guggenheim to chase a petty thief would get J instantly cashiered from the NYPD.
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Men in Black / int_aaa35901	type	My Card
Men in Black / int_aaa35901	comment	My Card: K hands one to J as part of recruitment.
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Men in Black / int_aaedd10	type	Given Name Reveal
Men in Black / int_aaedd10	comment	Given Name Reveal: Orion the cat.
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Men in Black / int_ab17e948	type	Don't Touch It, You Idiot!
Men in Black / int_ab17e948	comment	Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: Agent K tells Agent J not to touch anything. What does Agent J do? Touches a small ball thing. Cue destruction and mayhem.
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Men in Black / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Men in Black / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: The Bug's saucer can be seen careening towards Earth for several seconds while Edgar rants to his wife, with his truck prominently in the foreground — so when he says "the only thing that pulls its weight around here is my goddamned truck", the audience gets a moment to realize that he really just said that before the truck in question gets thoroughly obliterated.
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Men in Black / int_aba972fb	type	Aggressive Negotiations
Men in Black / int_aba972fb	comment	Aggressive Negotiations: This is how the Arquellians negotiate. First step is to deliver an ultimatum. Next, they fire a "warning shot" at an uninhabited area (in this case a heat beam at Earth's ice caps). Finally, if the demands are not met within a galactic standard week (one hour), you can say goodbye to Planet Earth. Though they were at least nice enough to add a "Sorry" at the end of the ultimatum.
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Men in Black / int_abdf7d09	type	Weirdness Censor
Men in Black / int_abdf7d09	comment	Weirdness Censor: One of the primary responsibilities of The Men in Black (the other being handling lawful extraterrestrial alien visitor traffic) is policing illicit alien activity on Earth. Part of that duty is ensuring that the humans on Earth outside the agency are completely oblivious to the aliens among them, be they legal or otherwise.
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Men in Black / int_abf75585	type	Checkpoint Charlie
Men in Black / int_abf75585	comment	Checkpoint Charlie: The movie starts with K arresting one of the aliens trying to cross the Mexican border, as the alien was trying to disguise as a human illegal immigrant but gets sussed out for not understanding Spanish. MIB headquarters in New York also serves as an immigration checkpoint for extraterrestrials wanting to enter Earth for whatever reason — unauthorized ship launches or leaving Manhattan tends to draw their attention quickly.
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Men in Black / int_ace24b2c	type	Halfway Plot Switch
Men in Black / int_ace24b2c	comment	Halfway Plot Switch: Done very briefly. After the Cold Open, the plot focuses on James running down a criminal who turns out to be an alien giving portents of doom. While being berated by his superiors for this ridiculous story, he is approached by Dr. Laurel Weaver, a coroner who examined the body claims to believe him. She whispers an address to him and tells him to meet her secretly afterwards — leading the audience to believe that the movie will be a Sci-Fi mystery or thriller, involving James and the coroner as Muggles unearthing The Masquerade... and then Laurel is neuralyzed immediately after revealing her suspicions to James, cutting this plotline short immediately, leading into the agent in-training story the movie truly is. She still becomes involved later.
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Men in Black / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Men in Black / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Though played for laughs, when J shoots little Tiffany, his description of the situation demonstrates a skilled ability to pick up on details in the scene. While it seems he's simply embellishing to Zed, J is later the one who makes the connection between the jeweler's cat Orion and the "Orion's Belt" clue. It's made all the more awesome by the novelization revealing his rationale for shooting Tiffany was CORRECT, something none of the other applicants succeeded at. He also demonstrates hints of an eidetic memory: he recognises the perp's weapon from his introductory chase scene when K takes him to Jeebs' pawnshop, recognises the tall alien at the morgue after spotting him arriving in M.I.B. headquarters earlier that day, and remembers the flying saucers at the World's Fair in Queens, realizing that the Bug could use the mothballed ships to escape.
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Men in Black / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Men in Black / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Agent Janus when he gets discovered by Mikey and realizes that he's about to be killed. Only once does Agent K briefly lose his composure, thanks to witnessing the Bug revealing itself.
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Men in Black / int_ae050352	type	Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind
Men in Black / int_ae050352	comment	Conveniently Timed Attack from Behind: Happens at the end of the movie. After they think that Edgar is dead and are relaxing for a moment, he lurks in the background and then leaps up to kill them. Before they can react, L shoots him.
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Men in Black / int_ae2b8366	type	Possessing a Dead Body
Men in Black / int_ae2b8366	comment	Possessing a Dead Body: Shortly after landing on Earth, the villainous Bug kills the farmer Edgar and proceeds to wear Edgar's hollowed-out skin as a disguise. The resulting impression—a sick-looking man who moves clumsily and turns increasingly rotten as the plot advances—very much resembles a walking corpse.
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Men in Black / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Men in Black / int_ae3d6438	comment	Laurel herself isn't too fond of mankind either, after she fills out the form regarding the dead Arquillian prince and asks the policeman giving it to her why there is a cat with the corpse, the rude jerk angrily takes the form away from her hands and tells her the cat is her problem now. Annoyed with the cop's negligence and rudeness, Laurel gives us this gem:
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Men in Black / int_ae853f28	type	Parody
Men in Black / int_ae853f28	comment	Parody: The film parodies the witterings of conspiracy theorists by taking them at face value.
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Men in Black / int_b016f599	type	Person with the Clothing
Men in Black / int_b016f599	comment	Person with the Clothing: Black suits, black shades.
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Men in Black / int_b149d59f	type	Off Bridge, onto Vehicle
Men in Black / int_b149d59f	comment	Off Bridge, onto Vehicle: Played with during the Cold Opening, when Jay is seen chasing a perp who jumps down from an overpass onto a lower street. Instead of watching the perp get away, Jay jumps down onto an open-top double-decker tour bus full of Japanese Tourists.
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Men in Black / int_b1f18adb	type	Ray Gun
Men in Black / int_b1f18adb	comment	To a lesser extent, the Noisy Cricket is one as well. It looks like a child's toy Ray Gun and is smaller than J's hand ("I feel like I'ma break dis damn thang!"), but it is apparently the most powerful sidearm in the film. According to the filmmakers, the Noisy Cricket was originally designed as a concealable weapon, but proved to be easily modified to the magnitude it exhibits in the movie. This was done as a form of hazing for new recruits.
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Men in Black / int_b2099693	type	Stargazing Scene
Men in Black / int_b2099693	comment	Stargazing Scene: In the opening of the film, Agent K's partner, Agent D, after not reacting fast enough during a case, looks up and points out how beautiful the stars are and how easily the Men in Black take them for granted, leading into his decision to retire. This is echoed at the end, when Agent K decides to do the same.
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Men in Black / int_b2a06892	type	Fourth Wall Psych
Men in Black / int_b2a06892	comment	Fourth Wall Psych: When the bug invades Rosenberg's jewelry shop, he appears to walk up to the camera and punch it, cracking the lens. Then the supposedly ruined camera pans out and we see that he's actually trying to break through the glass door to the shop.
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Men in Black / int_b3f4bf22	type	Pants-Positive Safety
Men in Black / int_b3f4bf22	comment	Pants-Positive Safety: Averted; Officer Edwards seems to be stashing his handgun down the front of his pants, but he actually has a specialized concealment holster in that location which is briefly visible.
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Men in Black / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Men in Black / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: Played With; "May I ask why you felt little Tiffany deserved to die?" J points out that the freaky-looking aliens all could be doing fairly innocuous things like working out, while Tiffany is walking around with physics textbooks well out of her grade range in a dark alley. Zed is not amused. The novelization reveals J was actually RIGHT in his reasoning and had shot the only real threat.note This is alluded to in the movie as well; in the conversation with K that immediately follows, Z brings up J's test scores and flippant attitude, but doesn't argue that simulation against him.
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Men in Black / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Men in Black / int_b53077b3	comment	As it happens, the infamously mismanaged 1964 World's Fair was a cover for an alien landing. "Why else would we hold it in Queens?"
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Men in Black / int_b55698cd	type	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond
Men in Black / int_b55698cd	comment	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: An entire galaxy of intelligent beings is so small that on our world it is a pendant on a cat's collar. At the end of the movie, however, a pan-out sequence reveals that our own galaxy fits into a mere marble that is used for games by aliens with a similar difference in size.
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Men in Black / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Men in Black / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The tow truck driver towing Edgar's vehicle responds to a drawn shotgun pointed at him by simply showing Edgar his revolver and then putting it back in his jacket, somehow failing to realize a revolver inside a jacket will do no good against someone who already has his gun drawn and aimed at him.
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Men in Black / int_b6034ac5	type	Cockroaches Will Rule the Earth
Men in Black / int_b6034ac5	comment	Cockroaches Will Rule the Earth: The Big Bad looks like a giant space cockroach who wants to ensure earth's destruction and start a war with the Arquillians by stealing the galaxy from the Arquillian prince. He considers his kind superior to and more evolved than humans, willing to kill them over swatting an Earth bug.
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Men in Black / int_b739b613	type	Elvis Lives
Men in Black / int_b739b613	comment	Elvis Lives: Elvis isn't dead, he "just went home". Your guess is as good as ours on this one; it's a movie where Beethoven was almost definitely an alien immigrant and aliens gave us the microwave oven, but Kay also loves messing with Jay's head (when they're alone).
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Men in Black / int_b7920c43	type	Lost in Translation
Men in Black / int_b7920c43	comment	Lost in Translation: The Arquillian Prince says that "To prevent war, the galaxy lies on Orion's Belt." The protagonists are led astray by their presumption that the Prince was referring to the constellation Orion and the three stars that comprise his "belt". Orion is actually his cat's name and the "belt" is actually a mistranslation of "collar."
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Men in Black / int_b7cc315d	type	Sparse List of Rules
Men in Black / int_b7cc315d	comment	Sparse List of Rules: Agent Kay is given to quoting chapter and verse of MIB regulations at Jay when he does something questionable.
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Men in Black / int_b87666bb	type	Eccentric Exterminator
Men in Black / int_b87666bb	comment	Eccentric Exterminator: Edgar actually isn't an exterminator and is a pretty normal fella (or as normal as someone played by Vincent D'Onofrio can be...) until a giant bug from outer space uses his body as a disguise and steals an exterminator's van, giving us quite a bit of this vibe.
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Men in Black / int_b9123661	type	Welcomed to the Masquerade
Men in Black / int_b9123661	comment	Welcomed to the Masquerade: After James has a close encounter with an alien assassin, Agent K recruits him into the Men in Black organization and gives him a tour of the facilities. Then, at the end of the film, after Laurel Weaver demonstrates that she's quite capable of dispatching aliens herself, and admits she finds the MIB job interesting, she becomes Agent J's new partner after J neutralizes Agent K, allowing him to retire, and takes over K's job.
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Men in Black / int_b99c6367	type	The World Is Always Doomed
Men in Black / int_b99c6367	comment	The World Is Always Doomed: K shuts down J's Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! moment by sternly informing him in an Armor-Piercing Response that there is always some crisis or another threatening to end life on Earth — The Masquerade isn't just to keep the MIB secret, but because most people can't handle that kind of constant danger, so the MIB makes sure they don't have to think about it, lest civilization itself collapses.
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Men in Black / int_b9c4a653	type	Character in the Logo
Men in Black / int_b9c4a653	comment	Character in the Logo: The film trilogy (as well the animated series) has the agents K and J getting their silhouettes on the "I" of the "MIB" acronym as the main logo of the series.
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Men in Black / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Men in Black / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: The Twins who run the MIB headquarters are named Blblup and Bob. Note that we're guessing on how the first one's spelled. And the second one too. The novelization provides spelled-out alien names for both. Both also have Earth nicknames, "Jack" and "Gracie." The fake names Kay makes up for himself and Jay while investigating the alien "Hi I'm Special Agent Mannheim/Dr. Leo Manville, this is Special Agent Black/Dr. White"
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Men in Black / int_baedeab5	type	Incomprehensible Entrance Exam
Men in Black / int_baedeab5	comment	Incomprehensible Entrance Exam: The eponymous organization draws in applicants from the very best in the military and police for a series of exams — without ever telling them what they're really hoping to achieve by participating. Along with the incredibly awkward written exam in egg-shaped chairs with no desks, the applicants are pitted against a variety of menacing-looking aliens in a shooting range... and not told that the real target of this exercise is actually the harmless-looking girl. The entire class flunks out and has their memory of the incident erased — except for James Edwards, the future J.
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Men in Black / int_bbb6c059	type	I Shall Taunt You
Men in Black / int_bbb6c059	comment	I Shall Taunt You: Towards the end of the movie, Jay figures out the best way to get "Edgar"'s attention is by stomping on cockroaches.
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Men in Black / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Men in Black / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: J can beat aliens in a foot race and punch some of them out. But he's also a lateral thinker able to see the forest when everybody else is focused on the trees, and is usually able to make logical leaps that K can't.
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Men in Black / int_bc54e772	type	Fulton Street Folly
Men in Black / int_bc54e772	comment	Fulton Street Folly: The headquarters of The Men in Black are located under Battery Park.
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Men in Black / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Men in Black / int_bc74ef27	comment	When pressing Edgar's Berserk Button:
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Men in Black / int_bd79d896	type	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot
Men in Black / int_bd79d896	comment	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Disappearance of a man after encountering a UFO and a suicide gives a lead to theft of a galaxy and possible destruction of the Earth.
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Men in Black / int_bda3d68a	type	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?
Men in Black / int_bda3d68a	comment	Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: The tow truck driver doesn't get intimidated by "Edgar", even when he takes out his shotgun. Unfortunately for him, he still gets shot by "Edgar".
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Men in Black / int_bddced73	type	Victory-Guided Amnesia
Men in Black / int_bddced73	comment	Victory-Guided Amnesia: This happens to any Man in Black once they leave the service.
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Men in Black / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
Men in Black / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: The location of the MIB HQ. This would become common to all three movies: the second had the Statue of Liberty's torch used as a giant neuralyzer, and the third ends with "Empire State of Mind" by Alicia Keys playing in the background. New York City was specifically chosen since where else in America (or the world) can so many strange people interact and strange things happen without anyone paying attention? A 7-foot guy, and a 5-foot guy eating lunch in a small restaurant while speaking a very strange language would be very noticeable anywhere else, not in New York.
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Men in Black / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
Men in Black / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: After the Bug gets into his new Edgar suit, Edgar's wife Beatrice tells him that "Your skin is hanging off your bones." The Bug pulls Edgar's face back into a horribly distorted mask and Beatrice faints dead away.
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Men in Black / int_bf298865	type	Alien Autopsy
Men in Black / int_bf298865	comment	Alien Autopsy: The coroner, Laurel, ends up performing these inadvertently on two non-human corpses. It's suggested that she is one of the MIB's most frequently neuralyzed individuals for this very reason.
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Men in Black / int_bf487e2b	type	Translator Microbes
Men in Black / int_bf487e2b	comment	Translator Microbes: The movie mentions a translator that makes communication between humans and aliens possible, along with the fact human thought is considered a disease by some aliens.
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Men in Black / int_bfc4b943	type	Video Full of Film Clips
Men in Black / int_bfc4b943	comment	Video Full of Film Clips: The Will Smith song of the same name.
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Men in Black / int_bfdbf829	type	Significant Name Shift
Men in Black / int_bfdbf829	comment	Significant Name Shift: Throughout the movie, Agent Kay calls Agent Jay nicknames like "sport", "slick", and "kid", despite his objections. However, in the end, when Kays informs Jay he intends to retire from the MIB, and after he gives him the neuralyzer (after telling him he'd get it "when you grow up") to wipe away his memories of his service in order to protect the agency's secrecy, he says "See you around, Jay."
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Men in Black / int_c1408ad1	type	Oppressive Immigration Enforcement
Men in Black / int_c1408ad1	comment	Oppressive Immigration Enforcement: Agent K and Agent D interrupt a bunch of border patrol agents snatching up a group of illegal immigrants from Mexico to pick out a literal blue alien who has overstayed his visa on Earth. The border patrol agents are treated as rather incompetent and obsessed with insignificant problems. But then, that goes for all Muggles who aren't in on The Masquerade.
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Men in Black / int_c1944f9	type	Getting Eaten Is Harmless
Men in Black / int_c1944f9	comment	Getting Eaten Is Harmless: Kay purposely lets himself be ingested by the Edgar Bug in order to get his gun back. Once he blasts the bug in two from the inside he's no worse for wear, save for the truly massive mess he made.
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Men in Black / int_c19bdbe1	type	Good Cop/Bad Cop
Men in Black / int_c19bdbe1	comment	J is more than happy to help K with doing the whole Good Cop/Bad Cop routine while questioning Jeebs, until K holy shit blows Jeebs's head off, at which point J drops the act:
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Men in Black / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
Men in Black / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: J's solution to the problem of no surface to write on is to simply loudly drag a table over to his chair.
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Men in Black / int_c253090a	type	Big Blackout
Men in Black / int_c253090a	comment	Big Blackout: While Agent Kay shows James Edwards around MIB headquarters, he takes him into a room full of unrevealed alien technology. James sees a ball in a stasis field, but ignores Kay's warning and touches it, accidentally setting it loose in the complex until Kay stops it, explaining that this was responsible for the 1977 NYC blackout.
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Men in Black / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
Men in Black / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms
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Men in Black / int_c2f5b04b	type	Eat Me
Men in Black / int_c2f5b04b	comment	Eat Me: Trope Namer. K goads the Bug into eating him so he can retrieve his gun and blow it up from the inside.
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Men in Black / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Men in Black / int_c41668cd	comment	Needle in a Stack of Needles: When "Edgar" escapes with the Galaxy and Laurel, J realizes he's escaped in a cab. The trouble is, the movie is set in New York, and it's rush hour. The streets are filled with cabs. However, K makes him stop, saying "He's not leaving [Earth] in a cab."
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Men in Black / int_c48a0fe6	type	Actually, That's My Assistant
Men in Black / int_c48a0fe6	comment	Actually, That's My Assistant: K and J are sent to pick up an alien consultant, and meet a pasty-faced man with a dog:
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Men in Black / int_c5cc0783	type	Internal Retcon
Men in Black / int_c5cc0783	comment	Internal Retcon: The whole point of the Neuralyzers.
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Men in Black / int_c5d18c5a	type	Humanity Is Insane
Men in Black / int_c5d18c5a	comment	Humanity Is Insane: This is the reason why human thought is viewed as an infectious disease by some aliens. No wonder they don't want us to get our hands on a Universal Translator.
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Men in Black / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Men in Black / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The guy behind the Locksmith counter looks remarkably like Riff Raff. Agent J tells K not to "go all Jack Webb" on Laurel. It's subtle, but when K shows J his third grade teacher, Ms. Edelson, was an alien, she's listed as being in Philadelphia where, presumably, James Edwards was born and raised. J tells K not to push the Big Red Button in the gear shift of their Cool Car. This is a reference to Goldfinger, in which Q does the same thing to James Bond. In Bond's car the button activates an ejector seat, while in the MIB's car it activates a jet engine in the rear.
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Men in Black / int_c7d86fbe	type	Plausible Deniability
Men in Black / int_c7d86fbe	comment	Plausible Deniability: The characters resort to using the neuralyzer for this reason, This device is used to clear peoples' memories of a given event that had transpired concerning aliens. Theoretically, this gives them the power of "plausible deniability" beyond belief, although their excuses aren't always so plausible.
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Men in Black / int_c8c00dc9	type	Obvious Stunt Double
Men in Black / int_c8c00dc9	comment	Obvious Stunt Double: An infamous scene reveals that Will Smith's stunt double during the "Remember the little red button? Push the little red button" gag was Caucasian.
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Men in Black / int_c8c7fb4f	type	DomesticAbuser
Men in Black / int_c8c7fb4f	comment	Domestic Abuser: In the short time before he's killed and inhabited by the Bug, Edgar demeans his wife's cooking, calls her lazy and threatens to hit her.
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Men in Black / int_c930d83a	type	Octopoid Aliens
Men in Black / int_c930d83a	comment	Octopoid Aliens: J helps an alien to deliver a baby. During the process he is attacked by several tentacles, and when the mother finally gives birth to the baby, it looked like a a grey and squid hybrid.
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Men in Black / int_cabd513c	type	Jedi Mind Trick
Men in Black / int_cabd513c	comment	Jedi Mind Trick: The Men in Black have the Neuralizer for this purpose, with, strangely enough, only three settings: days, months, and years. The Neuralizer used on Tee in the second movie has an "hours" setting.
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Men in Black / int_cb1f5db5	type	Feed It a Bomb
Men in Black / int_cb1f5db5	comment	Feed It a Bomb: After the Bug has eaten the BFGs, K goads it into eating him. He survives being swallowed, finds the gun and fires it, resulting in the Bug's abdomen being split open, letting K out.
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Men in Black / int_cc374ba6	type	It's Up to You
Men in Black / int_cc374ba6	comment	It's Up to You: The other police officers aren't fit enough to keep up with Jay's first alien. Jay lampshades this.
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Men in Black / int_cc884fdf	type	Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball
Men in Black / int_cc884fdf	comment	The 1977 New York Blackout was caused by an alien releasing a Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball into the area as a prank.
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Men in Black / int_cd7ef676	type	Seen It All
Men in Black / int_cd7ef676	comment	Seen It All: Agent K. J keeps trying this, but K manages to surprise him. Many other MIB personnel have a similar reaction to what happens; Zed doesn't even look up from his desk when the bouncy-ball starts careening around his office, except to move his head slightly out of the way.
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Men in Black / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Men in Black / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: When the Bug pulls the farmer Edgar into the crater, the audience isn't shown what he does to him. However, judging from the various ripping and tearing sounds, the screams of the farmer, and the fact that all that's left after is his skin, it couldn't have been fast or pleasant.
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Men in Black / int_ce323098	type	Self-Mutilation Demonstration
Men in Black / int_ce323098	comment	Self-Mutilation Demonstration: Although it's not exactly self-harm, K shoots Jeebs in the face mostly to unveil The Masquerade to J.
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Men in Black / int_ce9f550c	type	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels
Men in Black / int_ce9f550c	comment	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: How some alien languages work.
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Men in Black / int_cec142d6	type	Knuckle Cracking
Men in Black / int_cec142d6	comment	Knuckle Cracking: After the Bug kills Edgar, dons his new Edgar suit and climbs out of the hole made by his crashing starship, he cracks his neck.
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Men in Black / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Men in Black / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: J figures out the Arquillian prince's last words meant when he sees Frank barking at a cat. Edgar the Bug, who had been unsuccessful at finding the galaxy while searching in Rosenberg's jewelry, has a similar moment of realization when he notices a painting of Rosenberg with his cat.
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Men in Black / int_d214a453	type	Planet Terra
Men in Black / int_d214a453	comment	Planet Terra: In the novelization, Edgar calls humans "terries" (though it's likely a derogatory derivative of "terran".)
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Men in Black / int_d22a7df2	type	Troubled, but Cute
Men in Black / int_d22a7df2	comment	Troubled, but Cute: Dr. Laurel Weaver. She cynically states that she hates the living, sometimes gives off a creepy vibe, and we never find out what she likes to do in the morgue late at night. However, she's played by Linda Fiorentino and wears dresses that show off her legs, so Agent J is definitely more focused on the latter than the former.
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Men in Black / int_d23a9bb8	type	Possession Burnout
Men in Black / int_d23a9bb8	comment	Possession Burnout: The "Edgar Suit" gets pretty shabby by the end of the movie.
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Men in Black / int_d45ad2f5	type	Imported Alien Phlebotinum
Men in Black / int_d45ad2f5	comment	Imported Alien Phlebotinum: In the games, the Aliens are responsible for everything. Also, the Galaxy in the first movie.
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Men in Black / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Men in Black / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity K tells J the truth about the MIB but J doesn't believe him. K neuralyzes J after he's identified the gun.
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Men in Black / int_d50e7e13	type	White Void Room
Men in Black / int_d50e7e13	comment	White Void Room: There are some, specifically the Deneuralizing Room. Eventually, we come to realize that it's basically a large toilet bowl.
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Men in Black / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
Men in Black / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Very nearly averted. K explains that a grouchy alien was stuck in customs after traveling 17 trillion miles...or a bit under 3 light-years. While this wouldn't get you to the nearest known star to our sun (Proxima Centauri), it would at least put you in interstellar space.
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Men in Black / int_d53acc8a	type	You Are Not Ready
Men in Black / int_d53acc8a	comment	You Are Not Ready: J (still known as James Edwards at the moment) tells K that he chose him so he needs to respect the skills and he doesn't want to be called any nicknames like "son" or "kid" or "sport".
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Men in Black / int_d54aed6f	type	Hypno Ray
Men in Black / int_d54aed6f	comment	Hypno Ray: The Neuralizer makes whoever sees its flashlight forget their most recent memories. The Men in Black use it to make people forget their sightings of aliens.
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Men in Black / int_d5656fbe	type	The Unpronounceable
Men in Black / int_d5656fbe	comment	The Unpronounceable: Too many aliens.
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Men in Black / int_d705d771	type	Exposed Extraterrestrials
Men in Black / int_d705d771	comment	Exposed Extraterrestrials: Whenever the MIB are around.
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Men in Black / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Men in Black / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: J was white in the original comics and was supposed to be played by Chris O'Donnell who was filming Batman & Robin at the time.
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Men in Black / int_d7c9f1a5	type	Amnesia Missed a Spot
Men in Black / int_d7c9f1a5	comment	Amnesia Missed a Spot: When J meets Dr. Weaver in the morgue, they vaguely notice that they may have met before, but dismiss it as Deja Vu. In the beginning of the movie, they had met, but K had wiped both of their memories.
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Men in Black / int_d959a5f3	type	Contempt Crossfire
Men in Black / int_d959a5f3	comment	Contempt Crossfire: The cephalopoid J chases is not only on the run from the NYPD, but knows that if his boss, the Bug, finds him, he'll kill him too. J lampshades it by saying that the cephalopoid is "pissing everybody off."
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Men in Black / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Men in Black / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: The movie is full of this. It's implied that since most aliens live in New York, people just chalk it all up to New York being weird. Originally the movie was supposed to take place somewhere in rural America, but the filmmakers moved the setting to New York City since so many odd things happen there and there are so many unusual people that nobody pays any attention. Therefore it wouldnâ€™t seem odd at all that a seven foot tall man with a protruding forehead is sitting at a table with a small man and his cat while both are speaking some unidentifiable language. Kay actually invokes it by chatting over a cup of coffee with the Worm Guys, when James remained doubtful.
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Men in Black / int_d9c2434	type	Amusing Alien
Men in Black / int_d9c2434	comment	Amusing Alien: Lots, but the Worm Guys and Jeebs are probably the best example.
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Men in Black / int_da650ce1	type	I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin
Men in Black / int_da650ce1	comment	I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin: A dying alien tells the heroes that they must "protect the galaxy on Orion's belt." This confuses them, since Orion's Belt is three random stars, not a galaxy. Orion is the alien's cat, and whose collar has a bauble with a tiny galaxy inside.
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Men in Black / int_daef39ee	type	Elaborate Underground Base
Men in Black / int_daef39ee	comment	Elaborate Underground Base: The secret headquarters of the Men in Black are located several stories beneath Manhattan... accessible by the entrance to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.
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Men in Black / int_db33bc7e	type	Ludicrous Gibs
Men in Black / int_db33bc7e	comment	Ludicrous Gibs: The weapons used by The Men in Black actually go so far into the ludicrous department it's no longer grotesque. The aliens simply explode into slime, which is less disgusting than gibs and less disturbing than gutted bodies.
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Men in Black / int_db4b76d1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Men in Black / int_db4b76d1	comment	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner:
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Men in Black / int_dbed9cf7	type	I Was Never Here
Men in Black / int_dbed9cf7	comment	I Was Never Here: This is standard operating procedure for those who apply to become The Men in Black.
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Men in Black / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Men in Black / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: One of the several aliens that J sees in the customs section of MIB headquarters turns out to be the Arquilian that tries to warn Rosenberg of the assassination plans against him. Surprisingly, J recognizes him immediately upon seeing his corpse later on.
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Men in Black / int_dd46397e	type	Just Desserts
Men in Black / int_dd46397e	comment	Just Desserts: Spousal abuser Edgar is skinned and eaten by the Bug.
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Men in Black / int_dddbdc26	type	Monumental Damage
Men in Black / int_dddbdc26	comment	Monumental Damage: The Unisphere is wrecked when Edgar's stolen ship (which was one of the observation towers at the New York State Pavilion) crash lands into it.
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Men in Black / int_ddfb4e53	type	A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read
Men in Black / int_ddfb4e53	comment	A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: While no actual mind-reading occurs on screen, it's mentioned that human thought is so primitive, it's considered an infectious disease.
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Men in Black / int_dfe57573	type	Historical In-Joke
Men in Black / int_dfe57573	comment	Historical In-Joke As it happens, the infamously mismanaged 1964 World's Fair was a cover for an alien landing. "Why else would we hold it in Queens?" The super bouncy ball is credited for the 1977 New York blackout, a great prank by the Great Attractor, who thought it was funny as hell.
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Men in Black / int_e0789c2a	type	Your Head A-Splode
Men in Black / int_e0789c2a	comment	Your Head A-Splode: Jeebs, hilariously. Don't worry, his race regenerates.
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Men in Black / int_e12670cd	type	Freudian Threat
Men in Black / int_e12670cd	comment	Freudian Threat: "I want you on the next transport off this rock or I'm going to shoot you where it don't grow back."
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Men in Black / int_e22feb9c	type	Mind-Control Device
Men in Black / int_e22feb9c	comment	Mind-Control Device: The Neuraliser. Whenever a civilian sees an alien-related incident (or just an alien at all), The Men in Black use the aforementioned device in front of the civilian's eyes so they can forget what they saw — flash Forget what?
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Men in Black / int_e305ffa8	type	Expositing the Masquerade
Men in Black / int_e305ffa8	comment	Expositing the Masquerade: Happens when K gives J a rundown on the little known facts during the latter's first entry to the MIB HQ.
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Men in Black / int_e3b1ae34	type	Two Roads Before You
Men in Black / int_e3b1ae34	comment	Two Roads Before You: As the first movie demonstrates with J, all prospective agents have the choice between remaining in their current occupations and leading their lives, or joining the agency and severing all ties to their former lives.
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Men in Black / int_e5507f60	type	Truce Zone
Men in Black / int_e5507f60	comment	Truce Zone: Earth as a whole. K explains that the first aliens encountered were a group of refugees who requested that they be allowed to use Earth as an apolitical zone for aliens without a planet.
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Men in Black / int_e5aff319	type	Mobile-Suit Human
Men in Black / int_e5aff319	comment	Mobile-Suit Human: Rosenberg (who at one point provided the page image). The alien prince of the Arquillian Empire who had the Galaxy was piloting one ("the little dude inside the big dude's head"), the better to hide from enemies â€” and to pet his cat.
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Men in Black / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Men in Black / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Edgar, the guy the Bug kills and starts impersonating, will, suffice it to say, not be missed. In his possible <60 seconds of screen time he establishes himself as a capricious, abusive jackass with strong misogynistic traits. Good riddance.
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Men in Black / int_e624f0e8	type	Suspiciously Specific Denial
Men in Black / int_e624f0e8	comment	Suspiciously Specific Denial: How the Men in Black implant new memories sometimes, after Neuralyzing someone.
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Men in Black / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
Men in Black / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: How the Neuralyzer works. They can be set to wipe a person's most recent memories for any length of time from minutes to years, allowing them to forget about the aliens trying to kill them. Repeated neuralyzations, however, cause deja vu in some subjects. Notably, this is usually matched with them telling Blatant Lies about what happened (of the typical "weather balloon and swamp gas" explanations), and the assumption is that in the absence of their regular memories the subject is more likely to accept the suggestion, no matter how far-fetched. Combined with No Fourth Wall in one of the commercials, in which J and K ask viewers how they liked the movie, then fire the Neuralyzer directly at the camera, and then invite the audience to go see the film: it's full of surprises. Also comes up at the end of the video for the "Men in Black" song, when Will Smith (in character as J) says "Sorry" and fires his Neuralyzer directly at the camera. The view clears to show the same empty hallway in which the video began, implying that the viewer has just had the last four minutes' worth of their memory scrubbed.
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Men in Black / int_e7fd5cdc	type	Brain Bleach
Men in Black / int_e7fd5cdc	comment	Brain Bleach: The neuralyzers, while normally used to brain-bleach others, can also be used on yourself.
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Men in Black / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Men in Black / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: J lets fly with his Noisy Cricket in public when they have a brush with Edgar at the jewelry store. K breaks his normally calm inscrutable demeanor to angrily rip into J for disrupting the Masquerade, and how world-endangering events just like the one they're dealing with now are a regular occurrence and the Masquerade is still upheld.
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Men in Black / int_e92841f	type	Talking the Monster to Death
Men in Black / int_e92841f	comment	Talking the Monster to Death: When Edgar the Bug is taking Laurel (Linda Fiorentino 's character) to his spaceship with the intent of eating her, she begins telling him all sorts of things to make him desist, like claiming she's a goddess and her death could result in a war. Unimpressed, Edgar keeps climbing and tells her a war would result in lots of food for his family. After a while, however, Laurel annoys Edgar too much and he throws her to the branches of a tree, deciding she's not worth it.
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Men in Black / int_e92de1ef	type	MacGuffin Blindness
Men in Black / int_e92de1ef	comment	MacGuffin Blindness: No-one tells the characters at the time that, for example, Orion is a cat and the belt is the collar on the cat.
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Men in Black / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Men in Black / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: The "You can have my gun..." exchange. Even more layers of this in the novel, where prior to assimilating Edgar's memories the Bug was using a crappy translator. It renders the saying "There's a deal" into the exact meaning of "Your proposal is acceptable." And then there's the fact that Edgar pulled out the "You can have my gun when you take it from my cold dead hands" stock phrase and the Bug takes him at his word without a trace of irony. Also, Bug!Edgar, when talking with the head chef in regards to where "little Ivan" is (the server who was supposed to be serving the ambassadors of the two alien races that Bug!Edgar is trying to assassinate and steal the galaxy from), responds that he "gave him a break." The camera pans, revealing that Bug!Edgar means this quite literally, having broken his body in half and stuffed him into a cabinet. When Edwards decides to join the team, he asks Kay not to call him "son or kid or sport or nothing like that". Kay calls him "Slick" in the next line. And later calls him things like "Tiger". Zed also gives him various mocking nicknames.
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Men in Black / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
Men in Black / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: When K is looking in on his old girlfriend, he types in Truro, MA, which is close to the very tip of Cape Cod, but the satellite focuses in on the Sandwich area, which is at the very beginning of the Cape.
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Men in Black / int_ea7e3be8	type	Dramatic Gun Cock
Men in Black / int_ea7e3be8	comment	Dramatic Gun Cock: Edgar replies to the Bug who asked him to put down his shotgun with "You can have my gun chk chk when you pry it from my cold dead fingers." The response is "Your proposal is acceptable" and a painful death for Edgar. Elsewhere, at the climax, Jay and Kay carry pump-action weapons. The script even notes, "[Kay] pumps the gun for emphasis."
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Men in Black / int_eb06cc52	type	Elite Agents Above the Law
Men in Black / int_eb06cc52	comment	Elite Agents Above the Law: The MIB was established by the government, but no longer answers to them. They don't even have a government budget, since they raise their own revenue by marketing alien technology. If any law enforcement officials give them trouble, they just zap them with the neuralyzer.
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Men in Black / int_eb4086e3	type	Big Creepy-Crawlies
Men in Black / int_eb4086e3	comment	Big Creepy-Crawlies: The Big Bad of the film is one of them.
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Men in Black / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Men in Black / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Edgar was like this before he got killed and ended up body snatched by the Bug. There's also a bunch of unfriendly cops as well.
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Men in Black / int_ebb900a7	type	Resignations Not Accepted
Men in Black / int_ebb900a7	comment	Resignations Not Accepted: Averted, as the technology to alter people's memories means an agent can retire without the agency worrying that He Knows Too Much.
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Men in Black / int_ec4585b2	type	Delivery Guy
Men in Black / int_ec4585b2	comment	Delivery Guy: J is left to deal with Redgick's laboring wife while K pulls Redgick aside for questioning.
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Men in Black / int_ec7da60a	type	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy
Men in Black / int_ec7da60a	comment	Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: At one point in the movie there is a screen showing numerous people who are really aliens with most of them being celebrities, including Al Roker, Sylvester Stallone, Steven Spielberg (who produced the film; the film's director is also in the monitor), Newt Gingrich, and Danny DeVito. Later on, while listening to an 8-track tape of Elvis Presley songs, Agent J remarks that Elvis (as in, the popularity of his music) is dead, which prompts K to remark that "Elvis is not dead, he just went home", implying that Elvis is an alien who left the Earth. Also included: a Take That! at Dennis Rodman's expense.
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Men in Black / int_ece27800	type	Kill and Replace
Men in Black / int_ece27800	comment	Kill and Replace: The Bug does this to Edgar.
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Men in Black / int_ed05cfee	type	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer
Men in Black / int_ed05cfee	comment	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer: J, to the point that he indulges in Uncle Tomfoolery.
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Men in Black / int_ee3c934e	type	Driving Up a Wall
Men in Black / int_ee3c934e	comment	Driving Up a Wall: Agent K takes the MIB Ford LTD Crown Victoria (enhanced by alien technology) for a short upside-down blast along the ceiling of the Queens-Midtown tunnel.
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Men in Black / int_eea96e78	type	Swallowed Whole
Men in Black / int_eea96e78	comment	Swallowed Whole: The Bug to K. Averted between Bug and Laurel. He wanted to eat her, but threw her off a ladder instead when he decided fighting to take her as a "snack" on the "long trip" wasn't worth it.
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Men in Black / int_f0001923	type	Fire-Breathing Weapon
Men in Black / int_f0001923	comment	Fire-Breathing Weapon: This is used by The Men in Black to create "evidence" of a swamp gas explosion.
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Men in Black / int_f01a1b71	type	Insignificant Little Blue Planet
Men in Black / int_f01a1b71	comment	Insignificant Little Blue Planet: Zig-Zagged trope. It's clearly stated that most aliens view Earth as a very unimportant planet. In fact, that's why these aliens visit: it's "an apolitical zone for aliens without a planet," the Casablanca of the universe. Of course, having so many alien species mingling every day (some of who are considered royalty on their homeworld) means that, in consequence, Earth Is the Center of the Universe. This then gets worked into the film's Anthropic Principle: the Men In Black keep up The Masquerade to make sure the neutral zone stays neutral. Which leads into a nasty conclusion: the Men In Black will keep using the neuralyzers forever, as they themselves agree with all the aliens that humans are so stupid that the only way Earth can thrive is as a neutral zone. As long as the Men In Black are around, we will never get out into space.
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Men in Black / int_f0b0f1d	type	No Eye in Magic
Men in Black / int_f0b0f1d	comment	No Eye in Magic: The Neuralizer is a technological case, rather than magical. They flash in someone's eyes to erase a period of memories and can be protected against by normal looking sunglasses.
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Men in Black / int_f0fe7e80	type	But Now I Must Go
Men in Black / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: After everything, K reveals to J that he didn't bring him in to be his new partner, but to instead replace him. He then prompts J to neuralize him so that he can then return to his civilian life, specifically the woman he left behind.
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Men in Black / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Men in Black / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: J's budding attraction to Dr. Weaver.
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Men in Black / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
Men in Black / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Orion the cat. It doesn't let its owner's true identity bother it and it stays with him until he dies from his injuries.
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Men in Black / int_f1716087	type	Goggles Do Something Unusual
Men in Black / int_f1716087	comment	Goggles Do Something Unusual: The sunglasses worn by J and K and, indeed, all of The Men in Black protect them from the Neuralyzer.
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Men in Black / int_f19b8b46	type	The Coroner
Men in Black / int_f19b8b46	comment	The Coroner: Dr. Laurel Weaver works at a morgue which receives a large number of deceased aliens. It is implied MIB operatives neuralyze her on a semi-regular basis.
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Men in Black / int_f1f29b07	type	Hugh Mann
Men in Black / int_f1f29b07	comment	Hugh Mann: The Bug's disguise as Edgar the Farmer is not really convincing.
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Men in Black / int_f27aa417	comment	Non-Governmental Organization: The agency of The Men in Black becomes this after cutting off ties with the United States government.
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Men in Black / int_f290a8bb	type	Attack Pattern Alpha
Men in Black / int_f290a8bb	comment	Attack Pattern Alpha: Played with. Agents K and J are preparing to shoot the evil alien's ship:
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Men in Black / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Men in Black / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: J justifies shooting what seems to be a young girl during the shooting range test by saying that while the aliens are simply doing fairly innocuous things in his eyes, "Little Tiffany" is hanging around in a dark alley while carrying a Quantum Physics book that would be way too advanced for someone of her age.
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Men in Black / int_f4c50819	type	Famously Mundane, Fictionally Magical
Men in Black / int_f4c50819	comment	Famously Mundane, Fictionally Magical: The flying-saucer-shaped observation towers at the New York State Pavillion really are UFOs, as the whole World's Fair was actually a cover for alien immigration.
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Men in Black / int_f506d08c	type	Broken Masquerade
Men in Black / int_f506d08c	comment	Broken Masquerade: K's introduction to aliens on Earth — and more-or-less how the Men in Black got started.
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Men in Black / int_f6c36157	type	Stab the Salad
Men in Black / int_f6c36157	comment	Stab the Salad: K pulls a knife on a Mexican immigrant and swings it toward him — and slices open his clothing, revealing an alien hiding inside.
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Men in Black / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Men in Black / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire "Edwards, if you were half the man I am..." "I AM half the man you are!" Human intelligence is so primitive that it's considered an infectious disease on other planets. "Kinda makes you proud, doesn't it?" Earlier, after Kay explains the history of the MIB, James asks "When the last time you had a CAT scan?", to which Kay answers "About six months ago, company policy."
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Men in Black / int_f7b57d62	type	Enforced Technology Levels
Men in Black / int_f7b57d62	comment	Enforced Technology Levels: The movie features elements of this, as some of the alien cultures humanity has contact with are much more advanced than humans. The MIB organization prohibits certain advanced technologies on Earth, reasoning that humanity shouldn't be allowed to discover them until we're ready. They slowly release some of the alien technology using shell companies and finance their operations using the patents. A lot of it is confiscated tech, although some of it is given by friendly aliens.
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Men in Black / int_f95027af	type	Spy Satellites
Men in Black / int_f95027af	comment	Spy Satellites: Plays straight when K is watching his lost love, although it does appear to turn into a freeze-frame as she looks upward.
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Men in Black / int_f96f188c	type	Drives Like Crazy
Men in Black / int_f96f188c	comment	Drives Like Crazy: K. Just push the Big Red Button, and his car grows a rocket. He then drives on the roof of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel while singing along to Elvis Presley's cover of "Promised Land", and pays the toll without missing a beat even after smashing through the gate.
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Men in Black / int_f9b5dabc	type	Spies In a Van
Men in Black / int_f9b5dabc	comment	Spies In a Van: The Zap 'Em Pest Control van ironically serves as transportation for a big bad bug. Somewhat Lampshaded because half of his spaceship stuck out of the back and top.
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Men in Black / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Men in Black / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Whenever J neuralyzes anyone, he tends to give them long rambling speeches in which he gives meaningful personal advice about their lives, goes into wild irrelevant tangents about the situation, and encourages them to do exciting and/or fun things — particularly as a counterpoint to K, who always gives very brusque and to-the-point memories and wants to be done with it. It pops up once in this movie, but really takes off in the second and third films. Whenever J and K go undercover to interrogate someone, they use fake names. The first time, K introduces J as "Special Agent Black"; the second time, as "Dr. White"; and in the third instance, J introduces himself as Sgt. Friday.
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Men in Black / int_fb933192	type	Car Cushion
Men in Black / int_fb933192	comment	Car Cushion: An unusual example occurs when J fires the Noisy Cricket and ends up flying butt-first into a car windshield.
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Men in Black / int_fbd285b7	type	Comically Missing the Point
Men in Black / int_fbd285b7	comment	Earlier, after Kay explains the history of the MIB, James asks "When the last time you had a CAT scan?", to which Kay answers "About six months ago, company policy."
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Men in Black / int_fc33ff16	type	One-Winged Angel
Men in Black / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: Edgar's final form, a giant, angry cockroach with teeth.
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Men in Black / int_fcaec6bf	type	Orbital Bombardment
Men in Black / int_fcaec6bf	comment	Orbital Bombardment: After the Bug kills the Arquilian prince and steals the Galaxy, an Arquillian battle cruiser enters orbit around the Earth. It sends an ultimatum: deliver the Galaxy or it will destroy the Earth. It then fires a warning shot at the North Pole to make it clear that it means it.
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Men in Black / int_fd32c5a1	type	Don't Make Me Destroy You
Men in Black / int_fd32c5a1	comment	Don't Make Me Destroy You: Said almost word for word during the famous pawnshop scene. NYPD detective James Edwards and "Agent K" from a vague yet menacing government agency are giving a pawnbroker and alleged black market Arms Dealer the Good Cop/Bad Cop treatment when K suddenly straight up puts a bullet through the guy's head. An understandably appalled Edwards immediately trains his own weapon on K and repeatedly orders him to drop the weapon and put his hands up, his exact words being "Don't make me shoot you!" But then things get weird...
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Men in Black / int_fdf4572b	type	Dialogue Reversal
Men in Black / int_fdf4572b	comment	Dialogue Reversal: As Dee, Kay's first partner, retires from MIB: Later, towards the very end, as Kay himself decides to retire:
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Men in Black / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Men in Black / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: When J learns about aliens living in New York, he immediately assumes they work as cab drivers, and is told, "Not as many as you'd think." A while later, Dr. Laurel, when it's revealed to her, starts on a rant along the lines of, "I knew it. There was this cab driver the other day..."
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Men in Black / int_fea27091	type	Buffy Speak
Men in Black / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: J calls the neuralyzer the "Flashy-Thing," and refers to getting neuralyzed as "flashy-thinged." This continues for most of the first film, with J using terms like "the little dude inside the big dude's head."
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Men in Black / int_ff6adc90	type	EvilDetectingCat
Men in Black / int_ff6adc90	comment	Evil-Detecting Cat: When Edgar shows up at the morgue, Orion hears him ringing the bell at the front desk and hisses, then runs off to hide.
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Men in Black / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Men in Black / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Kay treats the human immigrants kindly and allows them to go on their way after he detects Mikey hiding among them. He also gives Beatrice a simple, good memory of her marriage to Edgar ending to replace her encounter with the Bug.
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Men in Black	hasFeature	Heartwarming in Hindsight / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Herald / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Heroes "R" Us / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	He's Just Hiding / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Hey, You! / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Hidden in Plain Sight / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Hidden Purpose Test / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Hide Your Otherness / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Historical In-Joke / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Historical Rap Sheet / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Hobbes Was Right / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Hollywood Action Hero / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Horny Scientist / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Horror Comedy / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Hugh Mann / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Human Outside, Alien Inside / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Human Shield / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Humanity Is Insane / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Humans Are Insects / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Humans Are Morons / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Hyper-Awareness / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Hypno Ray / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	I Shall Taunt You / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	I Warned You / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	I Was Never Here / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	I'm Dying, Please Take My MacGuffin / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Image Song / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Immortal Life Is Cheap / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Immortality Hurts / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Implied Trope / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Imported Alien Phlebotinum / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Improbable Infant Survival / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Incomprehensible Entrance Exam / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Infinite Supplies / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Innocent Aliens / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Insectoid Aliens / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Insignificant Little Blue Planet / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Instant Expert / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Intelligent Gerbil / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Internal Retcon / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Inventor of the Mundane / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Invisible Aliens / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Iron Butt-Monkey / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Is It Always Like This? / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	It Amused Me / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Janitor Impersonation Infiltration / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Japanese Tourist / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Jedi Mind Trick / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Job Title / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Just Desserts / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Just Eat Him / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Kids' Meal Toy / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Kill and Replace / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Kill It Through Its Stomach / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Kindhearted Cat Lover / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Knuckle Cracking / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Landmarking the Hidden Base / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Laser-Guided Amnesia / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Law Enforcement, Inc. / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Law of Inverse Recoil / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Layman's Terms / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Lazy Alias / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Leg Focus / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Literal-Minded / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Little Green Man in a Can / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Little Green Men / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Little Useless Gun / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Live-Action Adaptation / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Lost in a Crowd / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Ludicrous Gibs / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Lurid Tales of Doom / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	MacGuffin Blindness / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Magic Countdown / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Mars Needs Women / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Meaningful Background Event / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Microts / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Mind over Manners / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Missing Backblast / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Mister X and Mister Y / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Mobile-Suit Human / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Mock Surprise Reaction / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Monumental Theft / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Move Along, Nothing to See Here / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Mr. Smith / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Multi-Armed Multitasking / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Must Have Caffeine / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	My Card / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Mystical Hollywood / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	N.G.O. / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Nitro Boost / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	No Animals Were Harmed / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	No Big Deal / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	No Escape but Down / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	No Eye in Magic / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Non-Answer / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Non-Governmental Organization / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Nonchalant Dodge / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Non-Verbal Miscommunication / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Not Quite Dead / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Not-So-Harmless Villain / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Not This One, That One / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Novelization / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Numbered Sequels / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Object-Tracking Shot / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Oblivious Astronomers / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Oblivious to Hints / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Octopoid Aliens / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Off Bridge, onto Vehicle / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Offscreen Breakup / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Ominous Floating Spaceship / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Ominous Mundanity / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	One-Letter Name / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Oppressive Immigration Enforcement / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Orbital Bombardment / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Orphaned Punchline / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Other Common Music Video Concepts / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Pants-Positive Safety / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Person with the Clothing / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Place Worse Than Death / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Planet Terra / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Plausible Deniability / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Plot Coupon / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Plot-Powered Stamina / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Point That Somewhere Else / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Possessing a Dead Body / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Possession Burnout / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Private Intelligence Agency / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Public Secret Message / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Puny Earthlings / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Quiet Cry for Help / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Rain of Blood / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Raygun Gothic / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Read the Freaking Manual / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Real Event, Fictional Cause / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Reality Has No Subtitles / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Recoiled Across the Room / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Red Pill, Blue Pill / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Red Right Hand / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Reed Richards Is Useless / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Replicant Snatching / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Resignations Not Accepted / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Resized Vocals / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Retro Rocket / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Revival by Commercialization / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Revolting Rescue / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Rhyming with Itself / int_c487221e
RobotCombatLeague	seeAlso	Men in Black
Men in Black	hasFeature	Rubber-Forehead Aliens / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Safety in Muggles / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Sampled Up / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Screaming Birth / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Screw the Rules, It's the Apocalypse! / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Screw Your Ultimatum! / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Secret Shop / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Secret Test / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Secretly Earmarked for Greatness / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Seen It All / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Self-Mutilation Demonstration / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Sequel Goes Foreign / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Series Continuity Error / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Shared Mass Hallucination / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Sherlock Scan / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Shooting Gallery / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Sighted Guns Are Low-Tech / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Significant Name Shift / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Sinister Sweet Tooth / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Slow Electricity / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Small, Annoying Creature / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Smoking Is Cool / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Son of an Ape / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Space Police / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Sparse List of Rules / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Special Person, Normal Name / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Spies In a Van / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Spy Satellites / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Stab the Salad / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Stairwell Chase / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Star Trek Movie Curse / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Stargazing Scene / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Stock Epileptic Trees / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Stumbled Into the Plot / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Stumbling in the New Form / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Stunt Double / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Suit Up of Destiny / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Sunglasses at Night / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Super Window Jump / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Sustained Misunderstanding / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Swallowed Whole / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Sweet Tooth / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Tagline / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Talking Down the Suicidal / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Talking the Monster to Death / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Team Title / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Cameo / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Coroner / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Cuckoolander Was Right / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Daily Misinformer / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Dog Is an Alien / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The End of the World as We Know It / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Greys / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Hilarious Table / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Illegal / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Neutral Zone / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Nondescript / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Rat / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Real Spoofbusters / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Role-Playing Game / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Spook / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Stinger / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Unpronounceable / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The Watson / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	The World Is Not Ready / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	They Look Like Us Now / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Thing-O-Meter / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	This Explains So Much / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Threat Backfire / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Title Theme Tune / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	To Serve Man / int_c487221e
TommyLeeJones	seeAlso	Men in Black
Men in Black	hasFeature	Transformation Is a Free Action / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Transforming Mecha / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Transforming Vehicle / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Translator Microbes / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Triple Shifter / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Truce Zone / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Try and Follow / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Two of Your Earth Minutes / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Two Roads Before You / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Undead Tax Exemption / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Underage Casting / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Unfazed Everyman / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Unflinching Faith in the Brakes / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Universal Universe Time / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Un-person / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Unusual Hiring Practices / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Unusually Uninteresting Name / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Urban Fantasy / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Vagueness Is Coming / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Van Helsing Hate Crimes / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Very Punchable Man / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Video Full of Film Clips / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Viewers Are Morons / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Wall of Weapons / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	We Were Rehearsing a Play / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Weapon Jr. / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Weirdness Censor / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Welcomed to the Masquerade / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	What a Piece of Junk / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	What Does This Button Do? / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	What the Hell Are You? / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys? / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	White Bread and Black Brotha / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	White Void Room / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Who Needs Their Whole Body? / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Who You Gonna Call? / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Wistful Amnesia / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	World of Weirdness / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Worth It / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Worthless Yellow Rocks / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	You Are Not Ready / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	You Are Who You Eat / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	You Have No Idea Who You're Dealing With / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	You Just Told Me / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Zeerust / int_c487221e
Denpa Teki The Abridged Movie (Web Video)	seeAlso	Men in Black
Men In Black	seeAlso	Men in Black
Men in Black	hasFeature	Holding the Floor / int_c487221e
Men in Black	hasFeature	Memory-Wiping Crew / int_c487221e

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