History Trivia / MenInBlackII

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: While she's not killed off, after setting up Creator/LindaFiorentino's character Laurel as Agent J's new partner in the first film, she's dropped from the film and a line of dialogue states that because of J's difficulty with working with partners other than Agent K, Laurel, and his other partners, pretty much get tired of him and ask to return to their former lives. In Laurel's case, she went back to the morgue. Creator/BarrySonnenfeld revealed in an interview around the time the film came out that when a sequel was planned, it was always planned to reunite Creator/TommyLeeJones and Creator/WillSmith. Sonnenfeld said that with a re-teaming of the pair, Laurel's new agent would be a third wheel that he'd likely have to kill off in the script to pave way for Jones' return, and he liked the character too much to do so, so the element of J not working with his new partners was added in to explain Laurel's absence and give her a moderately happy ending, rather than just being killed off, and create the opening for Jones to return in the sequel. Fiorentino apparently being [[HostilityOnTheSet difficult to work with]] may have also had something to do with it.

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: While she's not killed off, after setting up Creator/LindaFiorentino's character Laurel as Agent J's new partner in the first film, she's dropped from the film and a line of dialogue states that because of J's difficulty with working with partners other than Agent K, Laurel, and his other partners, pretty much get tired of him and ask to return to their former lives. In Laurel's case, she went back to the morgue. Creator/BarrySonnenfeld revealed in an interview around the time the film came out that when a sequel was planned, it was always planned to reunite Creator/TommyLeeJones and Creator/WillSmith. Sonnenfeld said that with a re-teaming of the pair, Laurel's new agent would be a third wheel that he'd likely have to kill off in the script to pave way for Jones' return, and he liked the character too much to do so, so the element of J not working with his new partners was added in to explain Laurel's absence and give her a moderately happy ending, rather than just being killed off, and create the opening for Jones to return in the sequel.

** The first filmed ending revealed that K's locker at the station was not a miniature world but actually an optic portal to another planet and that the furry aliens in it were actually gigantic compared to humans. This would be shown by K playing a prank on J, which consisted on J being given a ride in a flying saucer under the belief he was being taken to visit Laura, but being sent to the furry alien planet instead. At the very end, K would look at J from outside the locker and close the door.

** According to the book ''The Man Behind the Mask'', Music/MichaelJackson would have appeared in the sequel for free... ''if Creator/WillSmith were dropped from the film so he could be the protagonist''. He couldn't convince Sony's higher-ups that this was a good idea, hence the cameo instead.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:

* DuelingMovies: With ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie''. It shared similarities with the earlier for having an alien posing as a dog, a reference to an iconic "King" of music, and the fact that the films had to be altered due to 9/11. The similarities with the latter take place in a city, except in this film, it didn't go through SceneryGorn. It clearly won the box office over the two but not critically.

* DuelingMovies: With ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie''. It shared similarities with the earlier for having an alien posing as a dog, a reference to an iconic "King" of music and the fact that the films had to be altered due to 9/11. The similarities with the latter take place in a city, except in this film, it didn't go through SceneryGorn. It clearly won the box office over the two but not critically.

* TypeCasting: Michael Bailey Smith [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bailey_Smith#/search]] plays the mugger at the beginning who attempts to sexually assult a recently supermodel-fied Serleena, only for her turn the tables and swallow him whole. Three years earlier, he played a security guard who gets eaten by a transformed Lizzie in Film/{{My Favorite Martian}}. Making him possibly the only person ever typecast as "man who gets eaten by a transformed alien woman."
* WhatCouldHaveBeen:

** Will Smith's line when showing Kay the car: "It used to come with a black man, but it kept getting pulled over". Apparently they reused it so much that he soon became sick of it.

** Creator/RobertDowneyJr and Creator/KeanuReeves auditioned for Scrat.

* DuelingWorks: With ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' and ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie''. It shared similarities with the earlier for having an alien posing as a dog, a reference to an iconic "King" of music and the fact that the films had to be altered due to 9/11. The similarities with the latter take place in a city, except in this film, it didn't go through SceneryGorn. It clearly won the box office over the two but not critically.