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* EpicFail: Played With; "May I ask why you felt [[CardboardPal little Tiffany]] deserved to die?". J points out that the freaky looking aliens all could be doing fairly innocuous things like working out, while Tiffany is walking around with physics textbooks well out of her grade range in a dark alley. Zed is not amused. The novelization reveals J was actually RIGHT in his reasoning and had shot the only real threat.[[note]]This is alluded to in the movie as well; in the conversation with K that immediately follows, Z brings up J's test scores and flippant attitude, but doesn't argue that simulation against him[[/note]]
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* EpicFail: Played With; "May I ask why you felt [[CardboardPal little Tiffany]] deserved to die?". die?" J points out that the freaky looking freaky-looking aliens all could be doing fairly innocuous things like working out, while Tiffany is walking around with physics textbooks well out of her grade range in a dark alley. Zed is not amused. The novelization reveals J was actually RIGHT in his reasoning and had shot the only real threat.[[note]]This is alluded to in the movie as well; in the conversation with K that immediately follows, Z brings up J's test scores and flippant attitude, but doesn't argue that simulation against him[[/note]]him.[[/note]]
* FaceplantingIntoFood: At the dinner, when the tall man/alien discussing with the Arquillian prince in a MobileSuitHuman is killed by Edgar the Bug, he faceplants into his plate of pirogi.
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* FlatWorld: Agent Kay affirms that long ago everybody ''knew'' the Earth was flat, using it as a reference to people believing something that is wrong, and how suddenly enlightening them too fast can be dangerous. Thus, his and the [=MIB's=] reasons for keeping the existence of aliens a secret.
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* FlatWorld: Agent Kay affirms that long ago everybody ''knew'' the Earth was flat, using it as a reference to people believing something that is wrong, and how suddenly enlightening them too fast can be dangerous. Thus, his and the [=MIB's=] MIB's reasons for keeping the existence of aliens a secret.
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* {{Zeerust}}: K shows J a tiny disc, explaining: "it'll replace [=CDs=] soon." Back then, it looked like the logical next step in audio recording medium. But with the invention of the UsefulNotes/MP3, it seems we skipped that "micro-disc" step. The trope is then used intentionally in the third movie, with the 1969 MIB headquarters (as well as many of the aliens inside) having a very Zeerusty look.
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* {{Zeerust}}: K shows J a tiny disc, explaining: "it'll replace [=CDs=] soon." Back then, it looked like the logical next step in audio recording medium. But with the invention of the UsefulNotes/MP3, Platform/MP3, it seems we skipped that "micro-disc" step. The trope is then used intentionally in the third movie, with the 1969 MIB headquarters (as well as many of the aliens inside) having a very Zeerusty look.
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* MacGuffinBlindness: No one tells the characters at the time that, for example, Orion is ''a cat'' and the belt is the collar on the car.
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* MacGuffinBlindness: No one No-one tells the characters at the time that, for example, Orion is ''a cat'' and the belt is the collar on the car.cat.
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* NormalFishInATinyPond: An entire galaxy of intelligent beings is so small that on our world it is a pendant on a cat's collar. At the end of the movie, however, a pan-out sequence reveals that our own galaxy fits into a mere marble that is used for games by aliens with a similar difference in size.
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* MacGuffin: The Galaxy, in the first movie.
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* MacGuffin: The Galaxy, in Galaxy on Orion's belt. [[spoiler: It's a miniaturized galaxy disguised as the first movie.bell-charm on the dead jeweler's cat, Orion -- nothing to do with the constellation after all.]]
* MacGuffinBlindness: No one tells the characters at the time that, for example, Orion is ''a cat'' and the belt is the collar on the car.
* MacGuffinBlindness: No one tells the characters at the time that, for example, Orion is ''a cat'' and the belt is the collar on the car.
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* KillThroughItsStomach: K does this when he talks Edgar the Bug--who had earlier eaten both his and J's guns -- into swallowing him whole. His explanation to J prior to doing this was "I'm goin' to get my gun back." He does, and proceeds to blast Edgar in two from the inside out.
-->'''J:''' You better ease up out of my face before something bad happen to you.\\
''[a glow appears in Edgar's stomach as K's {{BFG}} warms up]''\\
'''J:''' ''[smirking]'' Too late.\\
''[BOOM!]''
-->'''J:''' You better ease up out of my face before something bad happen to you.\\
''[a glow appears in Edgar's stomach as K's {{BFG}} warms up]''\\
'''J:''' ''[smirking]'' Too late.\\
''[BOOM!]''
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* IWasNeverHere: This is standard operating procedure for those who apply to become TheMenInBlack.
-->'''Zed:''' You're a rumor, recognizable only as deja vu and dismissed just as quickly. You don't exist; you were never even born.
-->'''Zed:''' You're a rumor, recognizable only as deja vu and dismissed just as quickly. You don't exist; you were never even born.
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* DialogueReversal:
** As Dee, Kay's first partner, retires from MIB:
--->'''Dee:''' (''looking at the sky'') They're beautiful, aren't they? The stars, we don't look at them anymore. I'll tell you, Kay, I will miss the chase.\\
'''Kay:''' (''puts on sunglasses and takes neuralyzer out'') No, Dee, you won't.\\
(''[[LaserGuidedAmnesia Kay neuralyzes Dee]]'')
** Later, towards the very end, as Kay himself decides to retire:
--->'''Kay:''' They're beautiful, aren't they? Stars. I never look at them anymore, but they actually are quite... beautiful. [...] (''takes neuralyzer out and points at its controls'') Days, months, years. Always face it forward.\\
(''[[PassingTheTorch Kay hands Jay the neuralyzer]]'')\\
'''Kay:''' See you around, [[SignificantNameShift Jay]].\\
'''Jay:''' (''puts on sunglasses and aims the neuralyzer'') No, you won't.\\
(''Jay neuralyzes Kay'')
** As Dee, Kay's first partner, retires from MIB:
--->'''Dee:''' (''looking at the sky'') They're beautiful, aren't they? The stars, we don't look at them anymore. I'll tell you, Kay, I will miss the chase.\\
'''Kay:''' (''puts on sunglasses and takes neuralyzer out'') No, Dee, you won't.\\
(''[[LaserGuidedAmnesia Kay neuralyzes Dee]]'')
** Later, towards the very end, as Kay himself decides to retire:
--->'''Kay:''' They're beautiful, aren't they? Stars. I never look at them anymore, but they actually are quite... beautiful. [...] (''takes neuralyzer out and points at its controls'') Days, months, years. Always face it forward.\\
(''[[PassingTheTorch Kay hands Jay the neuralyzer]]'')\\
'''Kay:''' See you around, [[SignificantNameShift Jay]].\\
'''Jay:''' (''puts on sunglasses and aims the neuralyzer'') No, you won't.\\
(''Jay neuralyzes Kay'')
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* AlternateLandmarkHistory: The observatory towers in New York's Flushing Meadow Park are really moored flying saucers.
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* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: After everything, K reveals to J that he didn't bring him in to be his new partner, but to instead replace him. He then prompts J to neuralize him so that he can then return to his civilian life, specifically the woman he left behind.
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* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: After everything, K reveals to J that he didn't bring him in to be his new partner, but to instead replace him. He then prompts J to neuralize him so that he can then return to his civilian life, specifically the woman he left behind.behind]].
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* BittersweetEnding: Downplayed. [[spoiler:After K and J are successful in taking out the Bug, K prompts J to neuralize him so that he can retire and return to the woman he didn't get to meet 35 years earlier under the guise of having been in a coma all this time. J knows that K is still very happy though and has recruited Laurel to join as his new partner in turn as well.]]
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* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: After everything, K reveals to J that he didn't bring him in to be his new partner, but to instead replace him. He then prompts J to neuralize him so that he can then return to his civilian life, specifically the woman he left behind.
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Word cruft (subversions aren't "horrible"). Also if you intended this to be an example, then you must apply proper indentation with both it and the currently-existing example of the trope.
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** Horribly {{Subverted}} with Orion the Cat when he's attacked and grabbed by Edgar while J was interrogating Laurel over the cat's whereabouts, before it thankfully cuts during the attack to K who rushed into the scene and only to find that the bug ripped the cat's collar off, implying he killed the cat off-screen either by shooting it with the loaded magnum or eating it.
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** Horribly {{Subverted}} with Orion the Cat when he's attacked and grabbed by Edgar while J was interrogating Laurel over the cat's whereabouts, before it thankfully cuts during the attack to K who rushed into the scene and only to find that the bug ripped the cat's collar off, implying he killed the cat off-screen either by shooting it with the loaded magnum or eating it.
