History Characters / MenInBlackFilms

%%* LovableCoward

%%* SignedUpForTheDental

%%* BizarreAlienBiology

%%* PlanetLooters

* PlanetLooters: His entire species.

%%* TomTheDarkLord

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* MonsterFangirl: Provides the page image.
%%* MsFanservice

** SequelNonEntity: He doesn't appear in ''Men in Black 3'', except in a picture on a wall[[note]]According to Website/TheOtherWiki this happened because the real dog that played him had passed away[[/note]].

* {{Jerkass}}: Frank is crass, rude, and unnecessarily snarky.
** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Frank can be surprisingly insightful, and his heart is in the right place.

* LivingLieDetector: His past self has a variation-he can tell when someone is telling the truth, no matter how unbelievable. Of course, [[WeirdnessMagnet given how he's a Man in Black]].

* ParentalSubstitute: To J after they meet. III sheds a new light on this with him willingly doing so [[spoiler:after J's real father died saving K from Boris]].

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "Kay, have you ever flashy-thinged me!?" [[spoiler: is initially brushed off as a quip Jay says to show his concern about neuralyzers, but it turns to this for anyone who has seen the third movie's epilogue.]]

* PreMortemOneLiner: To Serleena: "Your flight's been canceled!" [[spoiler:Of course, she got better...temporarily.]]

* DaChief: He is very much a rules guy, such as saying the future Agent J has a "problem with authority".

* CowboyCop: He has a hard time going by the book. While J approaches Jeffrey(a gigantic worm) with patience, T acts confrontational, kicking Jeff's flower on his head and grabbing it. This leads to Jeffrey rising into the city before attacking a subway car and forces J to subdue the angry worm.

* GlorySeeker: The main reason he joined [=MiB=] was to become a hero. This factors into why J decides to neuralyse him, believing that he'd be unhappy to serve in a thankless, undercover job.

* AssimilationBackfire: T - the real T - manages to wrest control of the Hive for a split second in the 11th hour, handing H and M the MacGuffin weapon they then use to kill him.

* FantasticRacism: C is blatantly racist against aliens, callously so, [[spoiler:though he does ultimately care about their safety and it doesn't keep him from doing his job.]]

* TheCoroner: Her main job at the morgue.

%%* NiceGirl: From what we see of her, she's very kind and endearing.
* ObliviouslySuperpowered: [[spoiler: Laura turns out to be a HalfHumanHybrid of a human and an alien - the human most likely being K - ''and'' the Light of Zartha that Serleena's been hunting for the entire film. K proves it to her by pointing out she doesn't get sad when it rains, it rains whenever she's sad - as it did after Serleena murdered Ben earlier in the film.]]

* WeatherManipulation: [[spoiler: Highly downplayed. She unknowingly causes rain whenever she's sad or cries.]]

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: A symptom of being TheOmniscient. He literally sees things that aren't there and for the most part never will- so he comes off as outright kooky a lot of the time. Though... given his maniacally childish glee at the prospect of using a jetpack, that might not entirely be due to future shock.

* HumanoidAbomination: [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu A cute and cuddly one]], but still a fifth-dimensional being posing as a Human.

A United States Army colonel and head of security at Cape Canaveral during the 1969 Apollo 11 launch [[spoiler: and J's long-lost father]].

* BodyHorror: He's a giant insect shambling around in the decaying skin of a farmer. So... yeah.

* {{Foil}}: To the human Edgar. The human Edgar is a selfish farmer and an abusive husband. The bug cares about his family and every living arthropod.
* GenuineHumanHide: He's disguised as a farmer he killed and is wearing his skin. The wife of said farmer describes him as looking like he's wearing an 'Edgar suit'. Over the course of the movie, it slowly decays.

* {{Hypocrite}}: The alien [[BerserkButton hates seeing]] humans stepping on bugs, but he himself has just selfishly doomed all of Earth's insects to destruction, along with the planet after incurring the Arquillian's wrath.

-->'''Mugger:''' Hey pretty lady, *licks her face* you taste good... ...hey, what the--?! ''[mugger screams accompanied by the sounds of Serleena swallowing him head-first]''\\

* BlackBraAndPanties: When she lands on earth and takes human form, this is what she looks like she is wearing along with a pair of high heel shoes, having modeled her shapeshifting after an advertisement with a model dressed this way, which gets the attention of a mugger.

* EvilIsBigger: [[spoiler: Subverted. He appears to be like this. But when the coat came off it's revealed that he is very tiny and his lower half is a small flying saucer with multiple controls for flying.]]

* VillainBall: [[spoiler: Even after obtaining the device that would allow him to go back in time and kill Agent K in the past, he still tried to kill Present Agent K just for the pleasure. This makes him meet Agent J, who got curious and learnt about J's and Boris' history, and he would use this in order to stop Boris' plan.]]

* AnArmAndALeg: Had his arm blown off by K. It's a... touchy subject.
* ArchEnemy: To K, and retroactively for J as well. Back in the late 60s, Boris the Animal murdered J's father in cold blood, something K never forgave himself for, and regretted arresting him instead of killing him. In turn, Boris wants nothing more than to destroy Agent K by any means necessary, time traveling to the past and working with his younger self to do so. He earns J's animosity for being responsible for K's death in his BadFuture, being determined to take him down at all costs.

[[caption-width-right:250:''"It's just. '''Boris'''."'']]

--> '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis IT'S JUST. BORIS!]]'''''

** He tends to say "It's just. Boris." whenever someone calls him "The Animal."

* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: His dad was apparently quite a guy. [[spoiler:Which is proven true when we meet him in the past.]]
* DidNotGetTheGirl: He grows close with Laura, but her being the princess of Zartha meant she had to return home.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Is treated as a fresh-out-of-college pup by K and the others despite his experience in NYPD. [[spoiler: In the third movie he's revealed to be pushing 50, being shown to be around four or five in 1969 (being slightly older than Will Smith himself, who was born in 1968), which would have made him mid-30s in the first film.]]

* PreMortemOneLiner: To Serleena: "Your flight's been canceled!" Of course, she got better...temporarily.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."'']][[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click Here to see him young]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mv5botc3mmfhmjctyjewni00zmvllwi1mmqtndm5ogzmnzlhmdm5xkeyxkfqcgdeqxvyotc5mdi5nje_v1_sx1777_cr001777962_al.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]

[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here for his true form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1000059224.png[[/labelnote]]]]

[[quoteright:350:[[labelnote:Click here for spoilers]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ed_8.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]

[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here for spoilers]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/boriss_true_form.png ''"Go ahead, arrest me."''[[/labelnote]]]]

* CatchPhrase: "That was a close one!" Said every time one of the horrible outcomes to the current situation he is in does not come to pass.

* DescriptionPorn: When he's found at a baseball stadium witnessing a game months in advance, he gives a ridiculous analysis of one reality he's trying to watch, down to the detail of how an event occurred [[ForWantOfANail such as one player existing because he got a baseball as a Christmas present at childhood since his father couldn't find a football.]]

[[caption-width-right:250:''"IT'S JUST. BORIS!"'']]

->''"Let's agree to disagree!"''

* {{Catchphrase}}:
** He tends to yell "IT'S JUST. BORIS!" whenever someone calls him "The Animal."

[[caption-width-right:250:''"IT'S JUST BORIS!"'']]
[[caption-width-right:250:[[labelnote:Click here for spoilers]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/boriss_true_form.png ''"GO AHEAD!! ARREST ME!!!"''[[/labelnote]]]]

--> '''''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis IT'S JUST. BORIS!!]]'''''

* NightmareFace: ''[[spoiler:Go ahead...[[http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/252/f/6/boris_the_animal_from_men_in_black_3_by_cochisemfc-d5e5sis.jpg arrest me.]]]]''

* Deuteragonist: Agent K almost gets as much screentime as Agent J. His secondary status becomes more apparent in the later films which focus even more on Agent J.

[[caption-width-right:350:''"You ever pull the wings off a fly? You care to see the fly get even?"'']]

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* AssimilationBackfire: [[spoiler:T - the real T - manages to wrest control of the Hive for a split second in the 11th hour, handing H and M the MacGuffin weapon they then use to kill him.]]
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Of ''International''. He turns out to be the mole in the Men in Black and the one paving the way for a Hive invasion.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:T was assimilated by the Hive when H wasn't looking, and has been their agent ever since.]]
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He passes himself off as benevolent and a father figure to H, [[spoiler:and T was]]. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, T's not calling the shots anymore.]]
* FightingFromTheInside: Briefly, just before [[spoiler:he dies.]]
* MoleInCharge: [[spoiler:Was killed and replaced by a member of the Hive.]]
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:His Hive form at the end.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Yeah, literally ''every'' trope listed here is about how [[spoiler:he's actually the BigBad]].

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She is the Queen of the Kylothians yet she personally comes to Earth to find the Light of Zartha and use it to take over the galaxy, and she is quite happy to kick the ass of ''anyone'' who gets in her way.