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The Men in Black

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The Men in Black	type	TVTItem
The Men in Black	label	The Men in Black
The Men in Black	page	TheMenInBlack
The Men in Black	comment	Black suit. White shirt. Black tie. Sinister Shades. Ominous and overbearing manner. Speaking in code. No indication of emotions or a personality. Ostensibly some kind of covert operative, but very conspicuous. They are simultaneously imposing and nondescript, which fits their mission perfectly. The Men In Black are the generic intimidating agents. If they have names, expect them to be along the lines of an obvious pseudonym, one of the most common Anglo-Saxon names (although they're often described as being very racially ambiguous), such as "Mr. Smith", "Mr. Jones", "Mr. Brown", etc., or else they'll be Mister Strangenoun. They're there to loom over you and make you feel afraid, whether they're sent by The Government, the Shadow Government, The Mafia, a Corrupt Corporate Executive, or aliens from outer space. They're almost never there to help you - and if they are, you probably won't like their methods. Generally, they're in the business of keeping secrets. Laser-Guided Amnesia is a pretty common tool in their arsenal, especially in more idealistic versions, wiping out a memory you're probably better off without so you can go back to a normal life. More cynical portrayals just bully you into keeping your mouth shut. Or just make you disappear, one way or another. Less often, they'll make An Offer You Can't Refuse: join or forget. Or die. Conspiracy Theorists live in fear of the Men In Black. They know too much. Despite being the symbolic presence of The Oppression Of The Man, The Men in Black have the mystique of being badass and cool, so heroes can be associated with them. In those cases they are merely protecting panicky Muggles by doing what's ultimately best. Watch out for Conspiracy Redemption if they go too far, though. The Men In Black tend to have access to vast material resources through their inclusion in budgets that never appear on the public books. They often have new super-secret weapons and devices and are in constant contact with Mission Control via Obligatory Earpiece Touch. If The Men in Black are hunting a character, he should look over his shoulder for the Van in Black and scan the skies for the Black Helicopters. Finally, The Men in Black frequently do not officially exist, so good luck finding out anything about them. The term comes from fringe UFO research, where the Men In Black have become the primary boogeymen. The earliest citation comes from 1953: UFO researcher Albert Bender, who published a small newsletter called "Space Review", explained a missed issue (which he had promised would blow the lid off the secrecy about UFOs) by claiming that "three men wearing dark suits" had approached him and ordered him "emphatically" to stop publishing material about flying saucers. Years later, he would admit that he just didn't have the promised material and made up the story to explain why, but not before milking the story with a 1963 book called Flying Saucers and the Three Men In Black, and spawning an entire mythology. Or maybe that's what they told him to say... Usually male, Distaff Counterparts are somewhat uncommon. May employ (or have a division that is) a Creature-Hunter Organization to keep Muggles from discovering monsters from The Masquerade, and are also frequently associated with Artifact Collection Agencies. Compare with Secret Police. See also the Men in Black franchise, named after and based upon this trope. Not to be confused with a single Man in Black, or Black Shirt, or the related but distinct trope Evil Wears Black.
The Men in Black	fetched	2024-03-01T15:30:17Z
The Men in Black	parsed	2024-03-01T15:30:17Z
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The Men in Black / int_106f1a77	type	A Form You Are Comfortable With
The Men in Black / int_106f1a77	comment	According to himself, he has a fondness for people who know how to "survive". Though who he works for is entirely unknown; he seems to just be styling himself after actual G-men when dealing with his human "agents".
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The Men in Black / int_18e11001	type	Victim of the Week
The Men in Black / int_18e11001	comment	A band of men in black suits once tried to steal a body from the morgue (the as-yet-unidentified father of another Victim of the Week) only to be thwarted by Morpheus AKA Dr. Langston and a ton of Bullet Time shots. These didn't work for the government, however, as they had a number of Russian mob tattoos.
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The Men in Black / int_198bef8	type	ManBehindTheMan
The Men in Black / int_198bef8	comment	MI13 dial all the tropes up, especially after Peter Wisdom a.k.a. Regulus Black becomes Director, excepting only their anonymity - in supernatural circles, at least, some of their most prominent agents are known and feared. However, even the upper ranks of the British government don't know very much about them or what exactly they do, with Wisdom being entirely capable of secretly rearming the HMS Belfast as 'Project Wolftrap'. By the end of Child of the Storm and the start of the sequel, it is increasingly implied that Wisdom is the de facto ruler of Muggle Britain behind the scenes, and he's making a play for Magical Britain too.
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The Men in Black / int_1c3d047e	type	The Rival
The Men in Black / int_1c3d047e	comment	Shutaro Mendo has an army of Men in Black bodyguards, usually calling them "Men in Black Glasses" due to their signature shades. In a subversion, they're all incompetent idiots who frequently misunderstand his commands and are easily fooled — in one chapter of the manga, Lum, Shinobu and Ryuunosuke easily infiltrated them by putting on black suits and glasses.
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The Men in Black / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Men in Black / int_1f799027	comment	The term is also used tongue-in-cheek to refer to "Revenue Protection Officers" on UK railways, the people who check tickets and issue fines for evasion. They are almost universally seen in pairs, wearing long black coats (more following the "bouncer" image than a Man in Black proper) and acting like the High Lords of the Universe.
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The Men in Black / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
The Men in Black / int_230d64	comment	The ultra-rich Ijuin family of the Tokimeki Memorial series has an army of MIB, ready to obey to their every wishes. But this being Tokimeki Memorial, they're always used for Hilarity Ensues purposes.
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The Men in Black / int_24321e44	type	Only Sane Man
The Men in Black / int_24321e44	comment	The Swollen Eyeball Network, a group of conspiracy theorists who communicate mostly via webcam (in silhouette with red eyes). Dib is a member, and they're one of the few groups that doesn't outright dismiss him. Most of the time.
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The Men in Black / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
The Men in Black / int_297170d3	comment	The Halloween Episode of Digimon Universe: App Monsters had one of these as Leviathan's lackeys trying to steal Haru's Appli Drive. Once Gatchmon foils them, they then answer to Cameramon.
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The Men in Black / int_2a3006e5	type	State Sec
The Men in Black / int_2a3006e5	comment	The Royal Secret Chancellory agents from Baskets of Guts have the reputation of these.
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The Men in Black / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
The Men in Black / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bill dresses like an actual MIB but dismisses the idea of creatures like aliens and Bigfoot, choosing to believe in theories like Count Cocofang being a real vampire.
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The Men in Black / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
The Men in Black / int_2dddd99d	comment	The Alpha Legion served this role during the Great Crusade, created and operating in secrecy for specialised stealth missions like assassination, sabotage, espionage and recovery of important artifacts and persons. Often they wore black power armour bearing no insignia, and occasionally they posed as members of other legions. When Alpharius was discovered these rogue legionnaires were folded into a formal Alpha Legion which gave the appearance that a legion of highly-trained and experienced marines had materialised from nowhere, and even then the legion retained their own black ops division, the Headhunter kill teams - black power armour, no discernible markings, and a unique pattern of twin-linked bolter firing specialised anti-armour ammunition.
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The Men in Black / int_36ed3e1e	type	Ascended Meme
The Men in Black / int_36ed3e1e	comment	Apparently, the standard MIB get-up has become something of an Ascended Meme where the Secret Service and similar government agents are concerned, though it's possible and in fact fairly likely that the guys in the sharp suits are mostly there as decoys and an equal or greater number are wearing band T-shirts, worn cargo pants and sneakers.
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The Men in Black / int_3d59c9a0	type	Powered Armor
The Men in Black / int_3d59c9a0	comment	Less "Men in Black" and more "Men in Silver Powered Armor", but the Grey Knights are an elite Space Marines chapter founded in secrecy after the Horus Heresy. All possessing psyker powers and consecrated weapons and armour, they're specially trained and equipped to deal with daemonic incursions of all kinds, and their existence is one of the most closely guarded secrets of the Imperium. If circumstances dictate they must fight alongside other Imperial forces, the secret is maintained by executing the allied forces when the fighting is over (in the case of the Imperial Guard and PDF) or applied Laser-Guided Amnesia (in the case of other Space Marines, or other forces who are too special to be simply "disposed of").
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The Men in Black / int_400b9d22	type	Sunglasses at Night
The Men in Black / int_400b9d22	comment	Bouncers and other high class security people the world over abuse this trope to the hilt, simply because it looks badass and intimidating to anyone thinking of starting trouble (which is half the point of security staff). Occasionally leads to the fridge logic of bouncers at nightclubs wearing sunglasses.
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The Men in Black / int_4bfe435c	type	Lobotomy
The Men in Black / int_4bfe435c	comment	The nWoD has the Men in Black, mysterious entities from beyond who show up in pristine suits, don't quite act human, go by names like "Mr. Door" and "Agent Clock" and act to "neutralize" any individual who's had an encounter with the supernatural. And if you admit that you are a supernatural being, they will either try to kill you, or attempt to perform a crude lobotomy with whatever tools happen to be available, to "cure" you of your condition. With the release of The God Machine Chronicles, it would appear that there's some relation between these "Men in Black" and the angels of the God Machine.
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The Men in Black / int_55ab1be5	type	Royal Brat
The Men in Black / int_55ab1be5	comment	His sister, Ryoko Mendo, is served by a team of kuroko, kabuki stagehands that officially aren't there and fulfill her every order, including playing her horse when she's feeling particularly dramatic. They pop up from the strangest places and are much more organized than her brother's minions. Of course, that does not stop the two groups having tea together when their masters are not throwing grenades at each other and complaining about their difficult life.
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The Men in Black / int_5cc0d020	type	Castlevania (Franchise)
The Men in Black / int_5cc0d020	comment	Genya Arikado from the Castlevania series. He's got the suit, personality, and he belongs to a secret Japanese government agency that deals with the paranormal.
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The Men in Black / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
The Men in Black / int_6411dac8	comment	Human MIB — Typical mysterious gov't agent. May or may not be a Badass Normal. Book narrator Charles Fort acknowledges that the narrator of The Big Book of Conspiracies is one, too.
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The Men in Black / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Men in Black / int_6b35bdff	comment	Subverted with Argentine comedy show Caiga Quien Caiga and its multinational versions (Brazil, Chile, Italy and Portugal to name a few), in which the "MIB" part stays only in the presenters and reporters' attires; otherwise they are very (hyper)active and the funny-guy types, even though they deal with Serious Business from time to time (most of the staff in the Brazilian version, for example, is made up of stand-up comedians, after all).
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The Men in Black / int_6c10c5d3	type	Secret War
The Men in Black / int_6c10c5d3	comment	Once More from the Top by A. Scott Glancy has two apparent MIBs interviewing a old soldier who survived the Innsmouth operation, but also subverts the trope by having it be revealed that the Secret War against the Deep Ones is a shoestring operation because the authorities decided to suppress the evidence rather than confront it (see Delta Green).
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The Men in Black / int_70426578	type	First Contact Farmer
The Men in Black / int_70426578	comment	An advert for Mars bars had the Men in Black questioning a First Contact Farmer about his out-of-this-world experience, though whether it involved Alien Abduction or eating a Mars bar was left vague.
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The Men in Black / int_7d152a2d	type	Agent Mulder
The Men in Black / int_7d152a2d	comment	Ironically, the Compact known as Network Zero manages to cross this over with Agent Mulder. It's a loose organization of new media fans who seek out and document breaches in the supernaturals' veil of secrecy — however, one faction, known as the Secret Keepers, then actively covers up these breaches to ensure the rest of humanity doesn't figure it out. Their justification is that "obviously" the monsters are too well-entrenched in politics, the media, etcetera to face just yet; if Network Zero acts too soon, the monsters will tighten their procedures and become even harder to uproot. They want to wait and gather evidence until they have enough that they can blow the veil right off and force all of humanity to accept the truth about the monsters in their midst.
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The Men in Black / int_83f3983b	type	Necessarily Evil
The Men in Black / int_83f3983b	comment	To clarify, their organisation's goal and name derives from Article 14, Section 31 of the original Starfleet Charter (meaning the Earth Starfleet, not the later Federation Starfleet; the authority that founded them no longer actually exists, but that simply allows Section 31 to not answer to anyone), which allows the rules to be bent or even suspended whenever Earth is threatened. And considering that Earth has made a lot of enemies, that's pretty much a full-time gig.
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The Men in Black / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
The Men in Black / int_8a4988bb	comment	The PSI Corps serves the purpose in EarthGov. They'll Mind Rape you before throwing you out of the airlock.
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The Men in Black / int_8aa0f76	type	Deconstructed Trope
The Men in Black / int_8aa0f76	comment	Deconstructed in the Two-Part Episode "Dreamland" and "Dreamland II", in which Mulder switches his body and life with MIB Morris Fletcher (played by Michael McKean). It turns out that the Men in Black live mundane lives as well and aren't any closer to the Truth than Mulder is. Morris actually prefers to be an FBI agent, as he thinks that Mulder's life is more exciting (or it would be, if he had more sex).
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The Men in Black / int_966b4df0	type	Time Police
The Men in Black / int_966b4df0	comment	The History Monks are nicknamed 'The Men in Saffron' in a nod to this trope note They're even said to hail from 'No Such Monastery'.
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The Men in Black / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Men in Black / int_970c790a	comment	The Big Bads of the Eleventh Doctor's run are the Silence, a.k.a. the Slender-Men in black, who look like The Greys in suits. They can make people disappear (by disintegrating them), and messing with your memory is their main gimmick â€” you forget they exist as soon as you look away from them.
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The Men in Black / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Men in Black / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Inhuman MIB — Humanoid agents, who have strange features like bulging eyes, unusually long fingers, or completely colorless skin that is clumsily covered up with thick makeup and lipstick. They also seem to have no idea how to use everyday objects like a pen. (These were the kind described by the book The Mothman Prophecies, as seen below.)
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The Men in Black / int_a547562c	type	Spy Catsuit
The Men in Black / int_a547562c	comment	The "Shadow Operatives" DLC outfits put your party members in futuristic looking black dress suits and sunglasses similar to Mitsuru's black Spy Catsuit in Persona 4: Arena Ultimax.
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The Men in Black / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Men in Black / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Other examples of the MCU show this well may be Obfuscating Stupidity, and that the friendly/goofy facade may well be a deliberate tactic to throw potential threats off or to gain trust faster. Coulson is, of course, the prime example.
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The Men in Black / int_a814671b	type	N.G.O. Superpower
The Men in Black / int_a814671b	comment	The Foundation is of course a non-government organization. More fitting the stereotypical MIB are: The aforementioned UIU, or Unusual Incidents Unit (commonly called the UIUseless) are part of the FBI, and as such work for the US federal government. They're so underfunded that most other anomalous organizations consider them a joke. The GOC, Global Occult Coalition, are the UN's answer to the UIU. They're far better funded, can even seriously compete with the Foundation, and the UIU call them "Suits". The ORIA, or Office for Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts fit the bill, but operate solely in Middle Eastern countries. Contrary to the name, they do not solely deal in Islamic artifacts.
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The Men in Black / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
The Men in Black / int_b2280b66	comment	The Plumbers, a secret organization to which the hero's grandfather used to belong — "used to" because in the series, we're told that the agency was shut down years ago. The sequel series retcons that they're a still-active intergalactic police force. A further retcon, most likely meant to appease those who found the sequels making no sense, reveals that they got back into work sometime after the first series ended, with far more alien recruits being added to the lineup.
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The Men in Black / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
The Men in Black / int_bd4264a3	comment	The Men in Black described were the creepiest sort as well. They had reptilian features, always sported a Slasher Smile, didn't quite seem to know how to use the correct inflections in their speech (much like the G-Man from Half-Life), were completely puzzled by everyday objects, drove dated cars that were somehow brand new, and sometimes giggled unnervingly. The one journalist Mary Hyre encountered was extremely short and acted like a Cloud Cuckoo Lander. One of them called himself "Indrid Cold", whom Woodrow Derenberger claimed used telepathy to speak to him.
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The Men in Black / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
The Men in Black / int_c36cba70	comment	The Mooks of the Kiga Group in Penguindrum wear a more classic combination of black overcoat and fedora, but they are definitely men in black in appearance and action.
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The Men in Black / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
The Men in Black / int_ce6555f0	comment	While a lot... quirkier than most examples, Glitch Techs certainly act as a local MIB. They deal with threats that could cause serious damage if left unchecked, and their equipment allows them to erase memories and repair any damage caused by glitches or a Glitch Tech's fight with a glitch.
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The Men in Black / int_d4efe0d	type	Character Narrator
The Men in Black / int_d4efe0d	comment	Agents of a "vague, yet menacing, government agency" operate in the town and are frequently mentioned by Cecil. Quite hilariously, their existence is common knowledge in Night Vale and everyone accepts them as a normal part of everyday life.
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The Men in Black / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
The Men in Black / int_e2d457	comment	Zim once has GIR explicitly pose as a government agent to rescue him from some UFO nuts.
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The Men in Black / int_e5424ce9	type	Film
The Men in Black / int_e5424ce9	comment	J. Edgar Hoover revamped the popular image of law enforcement from a corrupt, overweight, bumbling brute wielding a blood-spattered nightstick to a handsome, tommy gun-toting, college-educated nemesis of America's Public Enemy No. 1. This public relations campaign gave rise to the "G-man" as a forerunning to the MIB — see the Film section above.
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The Men in Black / int_f76b8969	type	Anthropomorphic Personification
The Men in Black / int_f76b8969	comment	The fact that they are, collectively, the Anthropomorphic Personification(s) of conspiracy theories takes them to the point of being a De Construction: when we get a POV from one of them, it notes that he is unsure whether he works for the government or went into the private sector, recalling it different ways on different days (and rationalizes this to himself by saying that "only suckers still think there's a difference"), speaks almost entirely in cliched one-liners, and has no real identity as himself. And because all the Spookshow agents are just MIB tropes without any idea what they're really doing (since none of the theories agree on that), it's easy for Mr. World to come in and take over, just by acting like the sort of person who would be running a huge conspiracy.
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The Men in Black	hasFeature	Closest Thing We Got / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Code Name / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Conspiracy Theorist / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Creepy Monotone / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Cyberpunk / int_686684b0
Diamond	seeAlso	The Men in Black
DoubleCross	seeAlso	The Men in Black
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Earth Is the Center of the Universe / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Elite Agents Above the Law / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Epileptic Flashing Lights / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Eyes Out of Sight / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	FBI Agent / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Future Slang / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Gas Leak Cover-Up / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Giant Mook / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Good Guns, Bad Guns / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	"Groundhog Day" Loop / int_686684b0
HamishX	seeAlso	The Men in Black
HeartOfGoldCharacterSheet	seeAlso	The Men in Black
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Hide Your Otherness / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Homage / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Hospitality for Heroes / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Hostile Show Takeover / int_686684b0
HotChickInABadassSuit	seeAlso	The Men in Black
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Humanoid Abomination / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	I Was Never Here / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Implausible Deniability / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Inhumanable Alien Rights / int_686684b0
Intersections	seeAlso	The Men in Black
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Is That a Threat? / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Kent Brockman News / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Kinky Cuffs / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Lawful Evil / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Lawful Neutral / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Limp and Livid / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Loss of Identity / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Manchurian Agent / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Masquerade / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Masquerade Enforcer / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Meaningful Appearance / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Mechanistic Alien Culture / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Military Alphabet / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Mistaken Nationality / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Mister Strangenoun / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Modernized God / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Mood Dissonance / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Mr. Smith / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Muggles Do It Better / int_686684b0
MuppetsFromSpace	seeAlso	The Men in Black
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Mutual Masquerade / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	N.G.O. Superpower / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Necessarily Evil / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Not Right in the Bed / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Obligatory Earpiece Touch / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Odd Job Gods / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Omniscient Database / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Organization with Unlimited Funding / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Perma-Stubble / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Person with the Clothing / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Puff of Logic / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Renegade Splinter Faction / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Secret Societies / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Sequel Hook / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Shapeshifter Weapon / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Significant Monogram / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Sinister Shades / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Villain Effectiveness / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Sonic Stunner / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Spell My Name with a "The" / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Spy Speak / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Standard Evil Empire Hierarchy / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Stock Unsolved Mysteries / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Strapped to an Operating Table / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Sunglasses at Night / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Tagalong Kid / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	The '90s / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	The Conspiracy / int_686684b0
TheIdentityMatrix	seeAlso	The Men in Black
TheMeninBlack	sameAs	The Men in Black
The Men in Black	hasFeature	The Password Is Always "Swordfish" / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	They Look Like Us Now / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	They Would Cut You Up / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Tokyo Tower / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Ultraterrestrials / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Unconventional Vehicle Chase / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Undead Tax Exemption / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Unintentional Uncanny Valley / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Urban Legends / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Victory-Guided Amnesia / int_686684b0
We Have Been Researching Phlebotinum For Years	seeAlso	The Men in Black
The Men in Black	hasFeature	Who Shot JFK? / int_686684b0
The Men in Black	hasFeature	You Have to Believe Me! / int_686684b0
Digimon RP (Roleplay)	seeAlso	The Men in Black
Planeocracy (Roleplay)	seeAlso	The Men in Black
TheBigBang	seeAlso	The Men in Black
DoubleCross	seeAlso	The Men in Black

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