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Men in Black: The Series
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Men in Black: The Series (1997-2001) was an animated series spun-off from Men in Black. It originally aired on Kids' WB!Filling the gap between the first and the second movie (5 years), this series is what fans were left with. It was quite successful, and it helped jump to popularity some very minor characters from the first movie, such as Frank the Pug and the Worms (which would later appear as important characters in Men in Black 2).It's worth noting that this series is actually an Alternate Continuity of the movies, even getting to the point that the "MIB movie" is a movie inside the series continuity!The show spawned three video games: Men in Black: The Series, Men in Black 2: The Series, and Men in Black: The Series – Crashdown. The show was seen in reruns on The Hub prior to its rebrand as Discovery Family. In 2021, Sony Pictures Television began releasing episodes of the series for free on their Throwback Toons YouTube channel. | |
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15 Minutes of Fame | |
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15 Minutes of Fame: Agent X called for a TV crew from his home planet so they'd make him the star of their show. Being unable to get rid of them, Z punished X by offering a chance to have K instead of X as the star, which they quickly accepted. As J pointed out, fame was so fickle that X didn't even have fifteen minutes of it. | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism | |
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Arbitrary Skepticism: Both examples from "The Jack O'Lantern Syndrome": Z insists that monsters and ghosts and the like don't exist, while kids are being abducted by a walking Jack O'Lantern and HQ is experiencing a haunting. He's right; both occurrences are actually aliens. In the same episode, K is skeptical when Frank the Pug claims that he was bitten by a werewolf, and is afraid that he'll turn into one due to the full moon tonight. In the ending, Frank shows up again and actually transforms into a wolf-like beast. | |
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Expendable Clone | |
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Expendable Clone: The Quick Clones, as noted above. In one episode it's shown that quick clones start out as a vat of the same goo they dissolve into, so it's possible that it could even be recyclable. | |
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Weaponized Landmark | |
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Weaponized Landmark: Downplayed example: the Statue of Liberty has a giant neuralyzer in her torch. | |
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Short-Lived Organism | |
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Short-Lived Organism: The organization has the technology to produce "Quick Clones", which are perfect duplicates of people who have a very short lifespan. They reveal themselves to be quick clones when they start babbling gibberish, and then melt. They can also be deactivated by pressing an area on the jugular vein behind their ear. | |
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The Wild West | |
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"The Way Out West Syndrome", in which J and K visit 19th century Arizona in order to stop a giant alien monster from awakening and destroying the city of Phoenix in the present day. Also doubles as a Cowboy Episode. | |
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Sibling Rivalry | |
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Sibling Rivalry: All Bugs are the offspring of their Queen, and in "The Big Bad Bug Syndrome", they squabble over the bounty on Agent L for killing Edgar. It culminates in the Worms manipulating two of the Bugs into ironically killing another one of their own brothers, which could spark a civil war among their kin. | |
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Marked to Die | |
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Marked to Die: In one episode J kills a crawfish-like alien, which brings down a whole mess of others who now want to avenge their buddy. | |
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Chronically Crashed Car | |
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Chronically Crashed Car: The LTD suffers from an unfortunate number of catastrophic accidents. | |
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Unflinching Faith in the Brakes | |
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Unflinching Faith in the Brakes: K and a crashing spaceship. | |
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Back-to-Back Badasses | |
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Back-to-Back Badasses: In the Season 3 episode "The Put Out to Pasture Syndrome", where J and Z are facing off against Alpha's mirages. | |
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All Crimes Are Equal | |
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All Crimes Are Equal: The Lawful Stupid Kalifadik enforcers come to Earth to teleport alien fugitives to life imprisonment for any violation, no matter how minor. Partially subverted by the fact that the Kalifadik police are breaking more than a few laws by teleporting the criminals over interstellar lines. They justify this by pointing out that they answer only to their own planet's laws. | |
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Ancient Grome | |
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Another episode involved Imperia, a planet of literal Space Romans who enjoy hosting Gladiator Games in a Colosseum-style stadium. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: The first episode has a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment where the alien that K and his previous partner busted at the beginning of the first movie is getting booked at MiB headquarters. He sees K and tries to lunge at him. "The Star System Syndrome" shows an in-universe Men in Black movie, with Agents Smith & Jones more closely resembling Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones than the cartoon's character designs. Earlier in the episode, a movie producer was talking about getting Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and Rip Torn for a film. When the Worm Guys make their pitch, they're introduced as "Mr. Cunningham", referencing Men in Black creator Lowell Cunningham. In "The "J" is for James Syndrome," the neuralyzed J is made an agent again. What follows is a montage of putting on the suit, followed by: In "The Breaking News Syndrome," Z summarizes MIB's mission as to "protect the Earth from the scum of the universe" (quoting the movie's tagline). The bug queen human disguise is the cardboard cutout girl that J shoots during the aim exercise on the first movie. | |
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Kill Sat | |
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When testing a defensive Kill Sat, L mentions that the big laser cannon on it is capable of vaporizing "an asteroid the size of Texas". | |
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Halloween Episode | |
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Halloween Episode: "The Jack O'Lantern Syndrome", where J and the trick-or-treating Worms encounter a being preying on children, while spooky occurrences plague MIB headquarters. | |
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Little Green Man in a Can | |
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Little Green Man in a Can: Shows up rather frequently, crossing over with Mobile-Suit Human. In one episode, there was even a Russian Nesting Doll of them— a little green man piloting an android, who himself was a robot piloted by an even smaller little BLUE man! | |
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Bring My Brown Pants | |
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Bring My Brown Pants: "I'm evacuating as we speak!" | |
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Human Disguise | |
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Human Disguise: Just like in the movie, most of the aliens pretend to be humans. | |
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Cursed with Awesome | |
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Cursed with Awesome: J was in a hurry to lose his agility superpowers for no conceivable reason. | |
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Teleporter Accident | |
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Teleporter Accident: In "The Worm-Guy Guy Syndrome", J and one of the Worms are both simultaneously sent through opposite ends of a portal. The result is that their molecules get switched around, causing J and the Worm to gradually become mutant hybrids of each other (complete with exchanging their personality traits). | |
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Evolving Credits | |
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Evolving Credits: The opening sequence gets altered a little bit in Season 4; pictures of Frank the Pug and the Worms are added to the alien mugshots, while the season's new characters (Dr. Zeeltor and Agent X) are shown alongside Agent L and Chief Z when they examine the suspect lineup. | |
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Mugged for Disguise | |
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Mugged for Disguise: "The Take No Prisoners Syndrome" has Agent J destroy a robot that had been impersonating K and wear its K Latex Perfection mask to pass himself off as said robot, to fool that episode's villain Dr. Lupo. The real K points out a flaw with the way the mask is worn... | |
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The World Is Not Ready | |
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The World Is Not Ready: MiB decides if and when certain alien technologies (like microwaves and time travel devices) will make it to market. | |
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Good Thing You Can Heal | |
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Good Thing You Can Heal: Jeebs provides this, as his race can regenerate from anything (even being reduced to gelatinous goo!) as long as oxygen is available, and he can survive just fine even if there isn't. Anyone bonded with a symbiote as well. | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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Mad Scientist: Zeeltor. | |
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Silly Reason for War | |
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Silly Reason for War: The Fmeks want to blow up the Arquillians' home planet simply because it was a bit bigger than theirs. | |
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Clone Degeneration | |
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Clone Degeneration: The Quick Clones have a time limit. Once they run out of juice (or if you press the button behind their ear), they start babbling gibberish and quickly dissolve into coffee-colored gunk. | |
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You Hate What You Are | |
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You Hate What You Are: Alpha is a self-loathing human and has been forcibly grafting alien body parts onto himself in an effort to gradually remake himself as the ultimate Frankenstein monster of alien parts, and become functionally immortal. In one episode Alpha actually grumbles about how unhappy he is that he still has parts that are from his own "stupid" species. | |
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Mister Seahorse | |
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Mister Seahorse: In "The Sardines and Ice Cream Syndrome", J gets pregnant after he accidentally swallows an alien egg. | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: This is not the first time Ed O'Ross fought aliens on the city streets. | |
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Conspiracy Theorist | |
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In "The Head Trip Syndrome", there's an alien-hating Conspiracy Theorist going back in time and kidnapping MIB founders. Nobody except J (who has an intelligence bump due to some Imported Alien Phlebotinum) can remember them or how MIB is being affected by their disappearance. Oh, and he only has 22 hours before his intelligence bump kills him. | |
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Surprise Checkmate | |
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Surprise Checkmate: In "The Opening Gambit Syndrome", J tries to get information out of the imprisoned Alpha by offering to play chess with him. He's checkmated twice by the same distraction tactic. After Alpha escapes, he applies the same tactic to reality — this time, J sees it coming. | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome | |
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Jay is a former NYPD detective still operating out of New York. At some point he does end up running into cops who recognize him, so he has to spin a yarn that he's been working in "deep cover". | |
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Immortality Field | |
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Immortality Field: Inverted with the Earth for the Stellairians. The Earth's atmosphere can cause a Stellairian to age a hundred Earth years in a day if they don't use their age-regressing hypo-spray. | |
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Appendage Assimilation | |
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Appendage Assimilation / The Assimilator: Alpha spends most of his offscreen time dismembering various aliens to integrate them into his own body. | |
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Surrounded by Idiots | |
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Surrounded by Idiots: Z has this attitude in several episodes, most notably the Halloween episode. | |
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Alternate Continuity | |
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Alternate Continuity: L works for the MiB (and had been there for a longer time than J, apparently) and is a blonde. K seems to never have been neuralyzed, as he's still showing J the ropes. However, the events of the first film are still heavily alluded to in "The Big Bad Bug Syndrome", implying the movie's events occurred in Broad Strokes at the very least. | |
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Yo-Yo Plot Point | |
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Yo-Yo Plot Point: Season one ends with J finally being upgraded in K's mind and seems to be the turning point for him to become a proper MIB agent and not just a Naïve Newcomer. Cue season two resetting him back to his normal hot-headed rookie self. | |
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Latex Perfection | |
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Latex Perfection: Many human suits for aliens. | |
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Characterization Marches On | |
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Characterization Marches On: A mix of this and Adaptational Heroism. The Arquillians are described as being a race of pacifists in this series; whereas in the first film, they were an empire that was very willing to threaten Earth's destruction, in order to stop the Bug from stealing their galaxy if the MIB failed to retrieve and return it to them. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: If something bad happens, it almost always happens to J. Plus, he will occasionally lack a gadget that K has. | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can: "The Out To Pasture Syndrome" ends with Alpha becoming this, being incarcerated in a chamber at MIB headquarters. Agent J is tricked into releasing him in "The Opening Gambit Syndrome". | |
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Electric Joybuzzer | |
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Electric Joybuzzer: In Episode 2, K uses one to block a punch from a Mobile-Suit Human, temporarily short-circuiting it and disengaging the face latch. | |
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Friend in the Black Market | |
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Friend in the Black Market / Honest John's Dealership: Jeebs. Which he is varies, depending on just what item he has in stock. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: In "The Alpha Syndrome", when a quick clone disintegrates, only the clone's body breaks down, leaving everything else, e.g. their clothes, unscathed. Starting in "The Quick Clone Syndrome", we see that everything on the clone breaks down with it. Possibly justifiable as technology advancing to where the clothing can be created from the same cloning matter at the same time. | |
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Trash the Set | |
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Trash the Set: The first half of the Grand Finale ends with MiB HQ being destroyed. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: Alpha steals alien body parts and integrates them with his own. His first appearance no less has him stealing a Sintillian heart. With each appearance, Alpha himself would look less and less human. | |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension | |
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Unresolved Sexual Tension: Throughout the show (With maybe the exception of season 4), it's implied that J and L have a mutual attraction for each other and a pretty close bond. L acts as a confidant to J. She keeps his secrets, occasionally acts as a source of comfort for his venting, and sometimes assists him in his schemes - along with when K is not around when he investigates something. They also sometimes like to hang out outside of work, implying that they enjoy each others' company. Ultimately, the show never expands upon their relationship beyond this, as the show ended by season 4. So it's up in the air if they'll ever try/did try their hands at having a real romance. Season 1 - It's more upfront in season 1, where L occasionally flirts with J and shows a softer, more vulnerable, and intimate side of herself when they're alone together (Though, not all the time). In J's case, it's shown in "The Big Sleep Syndrome" episode (Season 1, Episode 11) that in his fantasy/dream world, he and L are a loving couple. Though, this version of L in his dreams doesn't represent the real version of L with maybe the exception of her flirty nature. It's shown that L dislikes J's affection for the dream version of L, though not because she doesn't hold a similar infatuation towards him. It's probably because this version of her - outside of looking identical to her - is so different from her personality-wise that she might as well be a different person. When L voluntarily sacrifices herself to the Vernax as a last resort to get J to snap out of it, J rushes to her in response. As J holds her in her dying state, they both hold hands. This is the moment which finally makes J snap out of it and take down the Vernax/Dream L himself and ultimately save himself and L. At the end of the episode when J is free from the vernax's spells, both he and L talk about what happened. J, feeling vulnerable and insecure now that L knows about his fantasy life, is comforted by her when she states that she promises she won't tell anybody about what they both experienced in his dream world - along with stating that dreams are irrational anyway, or at least that's what she hopes. J responds by asking if she is down for giving him a foot massage (Referencing back to one of the scenarios in his fantasy). L jokingly responds by saying "Dream on" - which acts as a final quote for the episode. And as an aside, the fact that L risked her life and sacrificed herself (Though ended up living) to save J by getting him out of his fantasy/dream world says a lot about how she feels about him. The same goes for J as he sacrifices himself for L by taking the hit from the Vernax when it was originally meant for her earlier in the episode. Other examples in season 1: L caressing J's face when they fall off their bike in a... compromising position and saying: | |
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Mathematician's Answer | |
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Mathematician's Answer: This conversation from "The Little Big Man Syndrome". | |
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Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory | |
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Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Justified as a side-effect of brain-enhancing Applied Phlebotinum that enables J to notice that someone's messing with the timeline of MiB and point it out to the rest of his unaware colleagues. | |
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Politically Incorrect Hero | |
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Agent X is an alien cop who gets recruited by the MIB later into the series. Despite working for and alongside humans, and his job being to protect Earth and its people, Agent X openly expresses his belief that humans are an inferior and primitive species, much to the frustration of his partner L. | |
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Super-Speed | |
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Super-Speed: J gets this in one episode as a result of exposure to an activated Alien Amplifier Device. | |
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Fantastic Racism | |
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Fantastic Racism: Pretty much the bedrock of a lot of conflicts in the series. It's mentioned that various alien races have been at war with each other or at least don't get along well. And of course, many of the villainous (or at least jerkish) aliens feel contempt for humans. Most notably, there's the Fmeks and their obsession with wiping out the Arquillians for no reason beyond the former's hatred of the latter species. That, and the Arquillian homeworld is bigger. Or was, back when the Fmeks had a homeworld. The villain of "The Head Trip Syndrome" turns out to be a human who really hates aliens. Edmund Clark Moffat is a paranoid conspiracy theorist who somehow discovered the existence of extraterrestrials and the Men in Black, so he resolves to use time travel to erase the MIB from history in hopes of stopping aliens from ever living on Earth. A pretty obvious example of this is featured in "The Future's So Bright Syndrome". In a dystopian future world where Worms have become the dominant species on Earth, they persecuted humans to outright genocidal levels, with many people being enslaved on coffee plantations or just plain massacred. Simply being human and getting caught wandering around their cities is a crime punishable by death. Agent X is an alien cop who gets recruited by the MIB later into the series. Despite working for and alongside humans, and his job being to protect Earth and its people, Agent X openly expresses his belief that humans are an inferior and primitive species, much to the frustration of his partner L. | |
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Hero of Another Story | |
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Hero of Another Story: In "The Opening Gambit Syndrome," we see the reason why the Ixions didn't invade thirty years earlier. Alpha struck a deal with Vengus to get the Ixions Earth's oil deposits in exchange for him getting control of Earth. However, plans changed because of Z. He had been investigating Vangus' presence on Earth and was about to crack everything wide open. If he had, Alpha knew MIB would defeat the Ixions— thus prompting a delay until the organization's guard would be down. | |
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Who Even Needs a Brain? | |
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Who Even Needs a Brain?: In one episode, Z had his brain stolen. His body is able to keep functioning, albeit without any direction, because alien technology kept the two linked even at a distance. "Alpha has a sick sense of humor." | |
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Your Costume Needs Work | |
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Your Costume Needs Work: J's and K's reaction to the MiB movie trailer starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. | |
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Backwards-Firing Gun | |
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Backwards-Firing Gun: When facing off against an escaped alien prisoner in "The Take No Prisoners Syndrome", J grabs an unfamiliar alien weapon from the armory and threatens him with it. The Bug sneeringly informs J that he's grabbed a "Sonar Tube" and is holding it backwards. J turns it around, looking at the brace-like structure on the end he's pointing at himself, then points it back at the Bug and pulls the trigger. A small nozzle promptly pops up and aims a targeting laser at J's forehead, forcing him to jerk the blaster up before it nearly takes his head off. | |
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Thrown Out the Airlock | |
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Thrown Out the Airlock: Happens to Jeebs' brother; J saves Jeebs before he gets thrown out. | |
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Pumpkin Person | |
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Z insists that monsters and ghosts and the like don't exist, while kids are being abducted by a walking Jack O'Lantern and HQ is experiencing a haunting. He's right; both occurrences are actually aliens. | |
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Consulting a Convicted Killer | |
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Consulting a Convicted Killer: Season 4 episode "The Opening Gambit Syndrome" sees Agents J and K visit fallen agent Alpha to ask him about a case suspiciously similar to one he had solved, prior to him turning rogue. K gets tired of Alpha's mind games, but J is much more optimistic, especially since all Alpha wants is for the agents to play chess with him while they question him. Alpha's information proves helpful, primarily because Alpha is actually partners with the alien criminals, and J decides to thank Alpha by giving him a children's electronic chess game to pass his time in prison. K figures out much too late this was all a massive ruse and, sure enough, Alpha uses the electronics inside the toy to escape prison. | |
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Space Jews | |
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Space Jews: During the Christmas Episode, J gives Frank the Pug a gift, and he reveals he's Jewish. In other words, Frank is literally a Jew from outer space! The Hyperians are a race of Space Egyptians. They sent a scout to Earth a few thousand years ago, who was disguised as a mummy in an actual Ancient Egyptian tomb. Another episode involved Imperia, a planet of literal Space Romans who enjoy hosting Gladiator Games in a Colosseum-style stadium. | |
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Vigilante Injustice | |
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Vigilante Injustice: Brought up in "The Zero to Superhero Syndrome." An alien saves an human child from a fire, concealing his identity as he's using special powers specific to his species. When the tabloids report on the incident, the alien, disillusioned with his humdrum earth life, decides to become a real superhero named Cosmosisman. His activities naturally attract MiB's attention, but J is quick to point out the alien isn't doing any harm, he's actually trying to help. K reminds his partner that such a high profile person will inevitably attract investigations he won't be able to handle, endangering The Masquerade. More importantly, however, is that word of this will cause alien scoundrels to come to Earth looking to make a name for themselves by beating the planter's supposed champion. Sure enough a nasty bike shows up to challenge Cosmosisman to a fight, causing lots of property damage. | |
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Combat Medic | |
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Agent L is no pushover, as she occasionally accompanies Agents J and on missions as a Combat Medic. | |
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Time Travel Episode | |
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Time Travel Episode: There's a few of them. "The Head Trip Syndrome", in which somebody is traveling back to the past to erase all of the MIB's founding members from history, and J and K have to go back as well to stop him. "The Way Out West Syndrome", in which J and K visit 19th century Arizona in order to stop a giant alien monster from awakening and destroying the city of Phoenix in the present day. Also doubles as a Cowboy Episode. "The Future's So Bright Syndrome", in which J (and eventually K) time-travel about a hundred years into the future to arrest a Worm criminal, only to find that he now rules Earth as a tyrant king. | |
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Adipose Rex | |
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Adipose Rex: The Emperor Worm is taller and fatter than the regular Worms. | |
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Casting Gag | |
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Casting Gag: Vincent D'Onofrio as all the male Bugs. In "The I Married An Alien Syndrome", the woman who married an alien in disguise is voiced by Pam Dawber. | |
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Christmas Episode | |
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During the Christmas Episode, J gives Frank the Pug a gift, and he reveals he's Jewish. In other words, Frank is literally a Jew from outer space! | |
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Mugging the Monster | |
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Mugging the Monster: In "The Back to School Syndrome," a pair of Jerk Jocks take to bullying an undercover J. They turn out to be aliens, but they're unaware that J is MIB. | |
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Heroic Build | |
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In her second appearance, "The Sonic Boom Syndrome", Aileen brings a field rookie from her planet named Eidi. Eidi is presented with feminine Heroic Build, while keeping up with Agent J. | |
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Sinister Sweet Tooth | |
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Sinister Sweet Tooth: As with the movie, the Bugs that appear are violent psychopaths obsessed with sugar. | |
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Spared by the Adaptation | |
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Spared by the Adaptation: Mikey was splattered in the movie. Here, he makes a cameo at MiB headquarters in the opening episode and tries to attack K. | |
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Who Would Be Stupid Enough? | |
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Who Would Be Stupid Enough?: The Kalifadek, who are zealots about law and order, seen under Mattress-Tag Gag above. J asks both K and the cop from the world they captured why anyone would go to this world when it has such strict policies, K and the cop reply in unison: "The beaches." | |
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Spotlight-Stealing Squad | |
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Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Practically every episode in the later seasons featured a Worms subplot, if they weren't involved in the main plot. | |
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Mattress-Tag Gag | |
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Mattress-Tag Gag: One episode features the Kalifadik, an alien race that's downright obsessive about law and order, complete with an ultra-brutal gulag for housing the many, many lawbreakers they round up. How strict are they? When J finds himself in the prison, he asks a fellow inmate what he's in for, and, well, it turns out they take their mattress tags very seriously. | |
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Get It Over With | |
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Get It Over With: Alpha fully expects MIB to kill him once he's Brought Down to Normal, and all but orders his old co-workers to finish him. Z and K decline. | |
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them! | |
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Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Alpha tried to justify taking the Cosmic Integrator, not approved for human use for 1000 years, this way. | |
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San Dimas Time | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_7a614b0c | comment |
San Dimas Time: In "The Head Trip Syndrome", there's an alien-hating Conspiracy Theorist going back in time and kidnapping MIB founders. Nobody except J (who has an intelligence bump due to some Imported Alien Phlebotinum) can remember them or how MIB is being affected by their disappearance. Oh, and he only has 22 hours before his intelligence bump kills him. In "The Way Out West Syndrome", they have to stop an out-of-control alien in the past before it destroys a city in the present. Yes, apparently they have to act quickly and race against the clock before it's too late, despite more than a century's difference in time. | |
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Driven by Envy | |
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That, and the Arquillian homeworld is bigger. Or was, back when the Fmeks had a homeworld. | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_7b8b3def | comment |
Celebrity Paradox: In "The Star System Syndrome", an agent proclaims "We've got Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and Rip Torn." Later in the episode, the Worms disguise themselves as a Mr. (Lowell) Cunninghamnote creator of the Men in Black comic and wind up pitching a movie about "well-dressed men and women" who police "bad aliens" on Earth. | |
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Earth-Shattering Kaboom | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_7c7589af | comment |
Earth-Shattering Kaboom: One episode has the Fmecks trying to use a satellite dish on Earth to reflect a planet-destroying beam towards the Arquillian homeworld. J manages to return it to sender. | |
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Hollywood Silencer | |
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Hollywood Silencer: J uses a kind of silencer on the Noisy Cricket, which reduces the massive recoil. | |
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Shipless Faster-Than-Light Travel | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_7ea2c78c | comment |
Shipless Faster-Than-Light Travel: The charnok travel through space by latching onto meteors, and survive atmospheric entry thanks to very tough skin that they simply shed once they land. | |
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Dawson Casting | |
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Dawson Casting:invoked "The Back to School Syndrome" has J go undercover as a high school student, due to K reasoning that J is the "youngest and most immature" agent they have. | |
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Freeze Ray | |
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Freeze Ray: The Icer, one of the more often-used weapons, which is frequently used to non-lethally subdue and capture enemies. Special notice should go to the fact that it can freeze fire. | |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_8409a385 | comment |
In "The I Married An Alien Syndrome", the woman who married an alien in disguise is voiced by Pam Dawber. | |
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Broken Pedestal | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_868409c | comment |
Broken Pedestal: Alpha was the one who had trained Agent K before becoming one of the MiB's worst enemies. | |
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Batman Cold Open | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_88e7f8b8 | comment |
Batman Cold Open: Almost every episode of the first season opened with J and K on a mission unrelated to the main plot. One episode of the second one did too, and also an episode of the third one. | |
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Only in It for the Money | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_895ec17 | comment |
Only in It for the Money: Why Jeebs regularly does business with enemies of MIB. | |
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Denser and Wackier | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_8a07e085 | comment |
Denser and Wackier: Season 2+ compared to the first, which put a lot of focus on K's and J's relationship and had some really dark and at times even suspenseful stories. These got increasingly rarer as the series progressed, though, in favor of putting a lot of focus on the wacky hijinks of the worms or Frank the pug. | |
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Cool Car | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_8a295a46 | comment |
K never allows J to drive the Ford LTD car (even if circumstances should ever impair K's ability to drive, he still won't let J do it). The one time J got to do it was without authorization, and it got him (temporarily) kicked out of the organization. And the one time he did have authorization, he was actually driving a shape-shifting alien that tried to kill him. | |
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Reed Richards Is Useless | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_8b221a63 | comment |
Reed Richards Is Useless: MIB is full of advanced technology that would effortlessly transform the world, but is largely kept under lock and key... because Earth simply isn't ready. MIB examines each piece of technology carefully and selects an appropriate time (sometimes even centuries away) for when humans will be ready to handle it. | |
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Timey-Wimey Ball | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_8d23f3a7 | comment |
Timey-Wimey Ball: Don't think about the way time travel works here too much. | |
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Hive Mind | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_90965cc7 | comment |
Hive Mind: The Skraaldians all behave as a single entity. If one of them is killed, the rest of its kind will seek vengeance on the perpetrator. One episode involved Plant Aliens who are a mixture of this trope and The Virus. They reproduce as parasitic spores that infect other species, and the victims become dedicated to assimilating others into their collective. The Bugs are an insectoid species, part of a literal hive ruled by a Queen, and are described as having a "hive mind". But despite this, they can think as individuals and even betray each other. | |
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The Needless | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_90b98fbb | comment |
The Needless: It's revealed that Jeebs (whose species can regenerate from being blown to pieces) and his Psycho for Hire brother don't need to eat. Then the former brags that they don't even need to breathe oxygen to live, only to regenerate. Since they're in space at the time, J promptly opens the airlock and shoots said brother. | |
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Ret-Gone | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_92cca75b | comment |
"The Head Trip Syndrome", in which somebody is traveling back to the past to erase all of the MIB's founding members from history, and J and K have to go back as well to stop him. | |
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Plant Aliens | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_95dec9d2 | comment |
One episode involved Plant Aliens who are a mixture of this trope and The Virus. They reproduce as parasitic spores that infect other species, and the victims become dedicated to assimilating others into their collective. | |
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Attack on One Is an Attack on All | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_95f4a369 | comment |
Attack on One Is an Attack on All: In the pilot episode, J accidentally kills a Skraaldian in a sewer. The Skraaldian race have a Hive Mind and so their entire race marks J for death and tries to kill him in retribution. | |
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Cyborg | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_99a12edd | comment |
Cyborg: In the last season, Alpha makes himself one of these— reasoning that flesh ultimately decays. | |
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Evil Counterpart | |
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Evil Counterpart: Fmecks, who are evil counterparts to the Arquillians. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_9c45b5a2 | comment |
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Zig-zagged. While most aliens on Earth are peaceful by nature, some are far from it and treated as the menaces they are. Also, while the MIB usually captures alien enemies alive, some of the more monstrous-looking ones can get killed in gruesome ways. Also an issue with the Quick Clones. They are entirely self-aware, but they melt after a few hours (or when their Self-Destruct Button is pushed). No one seems to find this objectionable, not even the Quick Clones themselves. | |
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E.T. Gave Us Wi-Fi | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_9e6221b0 | comment |
E.T. Gave Us Wi-Fi: A plot point in several episodes where advanced alien technology that humans won't be ready for until several decades/centuries in the future causes serious trouble, most notably the Cosmic Integrator that allows Alpha to chop up alien parts and tack them onto himself. It is also implied that some familiar technologies, including the 8-track tape and the Clapper, were alien inventions. | |
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Who's on First? | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_9f8a12d7 | comment |
Who's on First?: Comes up whenever Agent U is needed. J got around it by figuring out U's real name, since there aren't that many names beginning with "U" for men. Averted with K. | |
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Not Now, Kiddo | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_9fb5d589 | comment |
Not Now, Kiddo: In the Halloween episode, K lets a kid who witnessed an alien go un-neuralyzed, guessing that this trope would be just as effective. Even the kid himself acknowledges this. | |
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I Just Shot Marvin in the Face | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_a1d70162 | comment |
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: A variation happens when J, fumbling around trying to return K's neuralyzer, accidentally zaps off the last three or so decades of his memory. | |
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Affirmative-Action Legacy | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_a30a44fc | comment |
Affirmative-Action Legacy: Agent X is an in-universe example. He's unprecedented in the series, as he's an MIB field agent who's an alien. Z was previously against alien agents (due to their unfamiliarity with Earth's norms and the potential for exposure), but he was pressured into it to calm down alien rights advocates. | |
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Adaptation Dye-Job | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_a4414a05 | comment |
Adaptation Dye-Job: L goes from raven-haired in the film to blonde in the series. Z goes from brown-haired to silver-white. | |
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Ascended Extra | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: Jack Jeebs, Frank the Pug, and the Worms. Essentially One Scene Wonders in the first movie, but with frequent appearances in the series (each even scoring major episode plotlines to varying degrees). Their status as Ascended Extras on the show led to their becoming Ascended Extras in the second movie. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Vangus in the Grand Finale. He gets away even after triggering a weapon designed to destroy all of Earth. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_a7850fbf | comment |
Only Known by Their Nickname: K constantly refers to J as "Slick." He throws him a bone a couple times, though. He apparently has an entire scale of these to rank his partner, once demoting him to "Sparky": | |
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And I Must Scream | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_a8a04f6f | comment |
And I Must Scream: Jeebs' race can consistently regenerate, but they need oxygen to do so. At the end of "The Blackguard Syndrome", J blasts Jeebs' brother before he gets sucked out into space. He gets better in "The Cold Sweat Syndrome," though. | |
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Ancient Astronauts | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_aa4fa3d5 | comment |
Ancient Astronauts: There's a few extraterrestrial species that lived on Earth in ancient times: Atlantis exists, and unsurprisingly it's the ruined remains of an undersea alien colony. Today, it's a tourist attraction visited by aquatic aliens. The Hyperians are an alien race whose culture resembles Ancient Egypt, and they apparently visited the real Egypt long ago, presumably playing a role in building the pyramids. One of the Hyperians was even disguised as a mummy and slept in a tomb for a few thousand years, before waking up to cause havoc in modern times. | |
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The Paragon Always Rebels | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_abf4c466 | comment |
The Paragon Always Rebels: Alpha was once The Men in Black's greatest agent, but went bad when he started adding alien parts to his body in a bid for power and immortality. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_ac4ac8e5 | comment |
Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: All episode titles are a variation on "The _____ Syndrome". | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_ad1db87c | comment |
In "The Put Out To Pasture Syndrome" J noticed Z's eyes didn't look quite right after being neuralized. Later when it was revealed it was a set up to lure Alpha into a trap and Z wasn't neuralized, J commented on the eyes not being glossy like all other times. Because Alpha got the information from reading J's mind, he might have picked up on that as well. | |
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Trademark Favorite Food | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_ad641426 | comment |
The Worms' obsession with coffee seems to drive almost every subplot they're involved in, as they often sneak along on J's and K's missions just to obtain some coffee, and they invariably cause a lot of trouble along the way. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Pretty much everyone. | |
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Avenging the Villain | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_af5f2180 | comment |
Avenging the Villain: In "The Big Bad Bug Syndrome", L is the target of a bounty by the Bug Queen for killing Edgar in the first film. The Queen has ordered her fellow Bugs to capture L alive so that she can be brought back to their planet to be tortured and executed. | |
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Talkative Loon | |
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Talkative Loon: The Quick-Clones, as the first sign of Clone Degeneration. | |
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Beauty, Brains and Brawn | |
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Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: Oddly enough, has an instance with just one woman and two men: Agent J - Beauty: He often boasts about having good looks, occasionally tries to flirt with women, and his catchphrase is "I make this look good." Agent K - Brawn: The most experienced of the three, often having access to advanced gadgets and very high-tech weaponry. He also became a stone superhuman in one episode. Agent L - Brains: She often works in the lab, is the most analytical of the three, and often makes antidotes to poisons and gadgets to counter an alien menace, such as the Sonic Nullifier to dissempower Auduzi. | |
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Space Romans | |
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The Hyperians are a race of Space Egyptians. They sent a scout to Earth a few thousand years ago, who was disguised as a mummy in an actual Ancient Egyptian tomb. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: The end of "The Star System Syndrome" sees Hollywood making a rather accurate movie about the Men in Black. Frank the Pug claims he's way uglier than Cindy Crawford. J agrees that she's hideous and has to find out if Frank can live up to his claims. | |
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Dying Vocal Change | |
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Dying Vocal Change: When quick clones finally run out of juice - or when someone hits the off-switch behind the clone's left ear - they first begin talking in disconnected gibberish, then their voices get steadily deeper and slower until they're reduced to burbling incoherently as their bodies dissolve into puddles of coffee-coloured goop. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
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Aerith and Bob: The Twins were renamed to Areekareeyuket (pronounced Elcabob) and Bob for the series. During the Christmas Episode, the first's name was actually written as a series of mathematical concepts on his Christmas stocking, while the second one was simply written as "BOB". | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? | |
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Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Once per episode, it seems. Granted, it is a kid's show. | |
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Must Have Caffeine | |
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Must Have Caffeine: The Worms in MIB absolutely love it — apparently coffee is a drink reserved for royalty on their home planet. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Twice by K in "The Alpha Syndrome". Also one from "J" in "The L of My Dreams Syndrome" when L sacrifices herself by getting shot by J's gun held by the alien in J's dream, in order to force J to snap out of it. | |
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Boom, Headshot! | |
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Shooting off Jeebs' head in every one of his appearances, followed by him instantly regenerating and complaining of how much it hurts. | |
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Depraved Dwarf | |
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Most notably, there's the Fmeks and their obsession with wiping out the Arquillians for no reason beyond the former's hatred of the latter species. That, and the Arquillian homeworld is bigger. Or was, back when the Fmeks had a homeworld. | |
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Brain Theft | |
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Brain Theft: In the episode "The Quick Clone Syndrome", Alpha steals Z's brain to get information about MIB. Z's body still functioned because of alien tech and his brain is eventually retrieved in the end, though. | |
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Informed Judaism | |
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Informed Judaism: Frank. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: In "The Inanimate Syndrome", an alien that can turn itself into any inanimate object tries to hide as a mannequin. The mannequin's head gets knocked off and proceeds to sprout spider legs and crawl away. In "The Mine, Mine, Mine Syndrome", when the Emperor Worm is disguised as a human, with limited fluency in English, one of the worms tries to tell the hotel concierge "He's from Barcelona." Once in his hotel room, he's shown practicing lines from an audio tape. One of the lines, which he flubs, is "The ants in France dance mainly without pants", a play on "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" from the film My fair Lady. In "The Cold Sweat Syndrome", Alpha and K paraphrase lines directly from GoldenEye: In the Halloween episode, Frank the Pug fears he's been bitten by a werewolf. K brusquely informs him that werewolves are out of MiB jurisdiction, to which Frank quips "Who'm I gonna call?" In "The Supermen in Black Syndrome" Jack Jeebs and Frank the Pug are complaining about comic books. On the back of the book Jeebs is holding is a blurred picture of Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot. One episode featured a hand-held teleporter device, with descriptions by Agent K. When testing a defensive Kill Sat, L mentions that the big laser cannon on it is capable of vaporizing "an asteroid the size of Texas". In season four's "The Opening Gambit Sindrome" Alpha acts as a movie version Hannibal Lecter expy. J plays the part of Clarice. | |
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Jedi Mind Trick | |
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Jedi Mind Trick: This is what the neuralyzer is for. It helps the agents make people forget they just saw alien(s), their activities, or their tech. | |
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Serial Escalation | |
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Serial Escalation: In "The Irritable Bow Wow Syndrome", K tried to neutralize the alien terrorist with a pistol. Then he put on a rocket launcher attachment to the pistol. Then he brought out the BFG. | |
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Foreign Queasine | |
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Foreign Queasine: Inverted when J and K are asking some Alcidian aliens about a suspect, and the aliens are disgusted by the pair eating average Earth cuisine. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: There's very few fatalities in the show; even most Innocent Bystanders are shown to only be webbed up, not killed. HUMAN fatalities, anyway. They're quite happy blowing up particularly monstrous-looking aliens in all sorts of gruesome ways. | |
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My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels | |
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In "The Mine, Mine, Mine Syndrome", when the Emperor Worm is disguised as a human, with limited fluency in English, one of the worms tries to tell the hotel concierge "He's from Barcelona." Once in his hotel room, he's shown practicing lines from an audio tape. One of the lines, which he flubs, is "The ants in France dance mainly without pants", a play on "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" from the film My fair Lady. | |
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Taken for Granite | |
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Taken for Granite: Agent K in one episode. As a result of exposure to an activated Alien Amplifier Device. Lampshaded by Agent L at the end, invoking the title pun no less. K was not amused. | |
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Disposable Decoy Doppelgänger | |
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Disposable Decoy Doppelgänger: The agency has the technology to create clones that are instantly aged to adulthood, but the downside is that the clones only last a short period of time. These "quick clones" are usually employed as decoys, although one episode reveals that Elle has been abusing her access to the cloning labs to create temporary duplicates to cover her shift so that she can have a day off every now and then. | |
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Spare Body Parts | |
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Spare Body Parts: Sintillians have two hearts, and are functionally immortal so long as both are working and "no-one drops a piano on them". K makes it clear to J that this doesn't make the Organ Theft any better. "You have ten toes. You woke up with one missing, how would you feel?" | |
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Action Girl | |
Men in Black: The Series / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Agent L is no pushover, as she occasionally accompanies Agents J and on missions as a Combat Medic. There's also Aileen, an old flame of Agent K who shows up in two episodes. She's an alien who used to be a field partner to K on missions, arresting rogue aliens. In her second appearance, "The Sonic Boom Syndrome", Aileen brings a field rookie from her planet named Eidi. Eidi is presented with feminine Heroic Build, while keeping up with Agent J. | |
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Bad Future | |
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"The Future's So Bright Syndrome", in which J (and eventually K) time-travel about a hundred years into the future to arrest a Worm criminal, only to find that he now rules Earth as a tyrant king. | |
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For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself | |
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For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: Or as a completely different alien species. Additionally, a good chunk of monsters in movies are actually alien actors in their birthday suits. The worms unintentionally do this in "The Jack O'Lantern Syndrome"— they disguise themselves as a coffee mug, a percolator, and J and K, but due to the paper thinness of their costumes, the first person they visit thinks they're children dressing as aliens. | |
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Art Evolution | |
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Art Evolution: J and K got character redesigns after the first season. L became less pale. The Worms also got a lighter yellow color instead of the darker brown they started with. The 4th season also saw a slight shift to a more saturated and warmer color palette. | |
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Bounty Hunter | |
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Bounty Hunter: Buzzard is an alien mercenary who hunts down and captures other targeted aliens for cash. | |
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The Chew Toy | |
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The Chew Toy: Jeebs. Every time he appears, count on a body part needing to be re-grown. | |
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Mobile-Suit Human | |
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Mobile-Suit Human: The Arquilians and their Fmeck nemeses are both smaller than a human head so they use robots to pass as human. In one episode where J is shrunk to Arquilian size he uses a mech based on himself while the Twins figure out how to reverse the shrinking. | |
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Flanderization | |
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Flanderization: J also gets hit hard. The series stuck with the "new, inexperienced agent" role from the first movie, but J basically never grew out of it. There was a total of one episode where he seemed to actually become competent, which was forgotten by the next. By the 4th season, it gets to where his incompetence is outright mocked by everyone around him, and he even screws things up as badly as the Worms do. K, as well. Movie K was a relatively dry-humored straight man, but Series K is downright emotionless most of the time. The Worms and their obsession with coffee, though it helps that the reason for that obsession is also explained (on their planet, only royalty is allowed to drink it). | |
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Clothing Damage | |
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Clothing Damage: "The Hots for J Syndrome" to J, twice. Having fire sprout from your skin tends to do that. The first time they quickly got him some heat-resistant clothing, but falling to Earth from orbit overwhelmed even that. | |
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Artistic License – Space | |
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Artistic License – Space: In I Married an Alien Syndrome, The Blastulans plan to raise Earth's temperature by adding artificial sunspots to the sun. However, real sunspots are cooler than the rest of the sun. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: L does this to a bug. "Soft underbelly," indeed. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Pretty much the bedrock of a lot of conflicts in the series. It's mentioned that various alien races have been at war with each other or at least don't get along well. And of course, many of the villainous (or at least jerkish) aliens feel contempt for humans. | |
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Cain and Abel | |
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Cain and Abel: Dak and Jeebs. | |
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The Unmasqued World | |
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The Unmasqued World: During the Grand Finale, a global Alien Invasion leads to MiB revealing the existence of aliens to the entire world, so that the entire planet can fight for survival. Then subverted, when the MiB are being honored by the American government, and L points out that everyone on Earth is watching the ceremony, so Z & K take the opportunity to neuralize the entire planet, thus ensuring that the Status Quo continued to be preserved. | |
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Spotting the Thread | |
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Spotting the Thread: In one early episode J and L are driving around at night trying to find a disguised alien ship flying around in the sky when J points out a blimp overflying Yankee Stadium. L asks what's so odd about that, to which J replies there's no game that night. In "The Put Out To Pasture Syndrome" J noticed Z's eyes didn't look quite right after being neuralized. Later when it was revealed it was a set up to lure Alpha into a trap and Z wasn't neuralized, J commented on the eyes not being glossy like all other times. Because Alpha got the information from reading J's mind, he might have picked up on that as well. | |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy | |
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Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: In "The Little Big Man Syndrome", K reveals that John Lennon, Martin Luther King Jr., and Raffi are/were Arquillians. | |
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Atlantis | |
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Atlantis exists, and unsurprisingly it's the ruined remains of an undersea alien colony. Today, it's a tourist attraction visited by aquatic aliens. | |
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Wreathed in Flames | |
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Wreathed in Flames: The episode "The Hots for J Syndrome" has J gaining fire powers after eating alien food. This was actually a bad thing since all that energy has to come from somewhere, and in J's case was being leeched from every cell of his body. It would have killed him if it hadn't been reversed. | |
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Evil Brit: Alpha, just like virtually anyone else voiced by David Warner. | |
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Alien Invasion | |
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Alien Invasion: Obviously, the MIB have to thwart multiple hostile takeover attempts of Earth by unfriendly aliens. | |
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Organ Theft | |
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Organ Theft: Alpha needs replacement parts... he eventually gets sick of it and gets cybernetic parts instead. | |
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Idiot Houdini | |
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Idiot Houdini: The Worms usually don't get punished for all the numerous acts of caffeine-induced idiocy and stupid mischief they cause. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: J and K claim to belong to various civil organizations when introducing themselves to civilians, but they always add "Division 6". "The Star System Syndrome" reveals that the section of MIB they work for really is known as "Division 6". K never allows J to drive the Ford LTD car (even if circumstances should ever impair K's ability to drive, he still won't let J do it). The one time J got to do it was without authorization, and it got him (temporarily) kicked out of the organization. And the one time he did have authorization, he was actually driving a shape-shifting alien that tried to kill him. Shooting off Jeebs' head in every one of his appearances, followed by him instantly regenerating and complaining of how much it hurts. Whenever Frank the Pug is around, others will mockingly joke and comment about his dog-like appearance and mannerisms, much to his chagrin ("I only look like a dog!"). The Worms' obsession with coffee seems to drive almost every subplot they're involved in, as they often sneak along on J's and K's missions just to obtain some coffee, and they invariably cause a lot of trouble along the way. | |
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I Say What I Say | |
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I Say What I Say: When J meets his Quick Clone. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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In the same episode, K is skeptical when Frank the Pug claims that he was bitten by a werewolf, and is afraid that he'll turn into one due to the full moon tonight. In the ending, Frank shows up again and actually transforms into a wolf-like beast. | |
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