History YMMV / MenInBlack3

* AluminumChristmasTrees: One of the "alien creatures" in the Chinese restaurant is a real creature called a blob fish.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Time travel devices being illegal devices and a villain going back in time to remove K from history is a plot of one of the early seasons of ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'' , though rather than being a vengeful alien terrorist, the villain is a xenophobic human and conspiracy nut who removes the founding members of the MIB who made first contact with aliens.

* CatharsisFactor: Present!Boris caught in the turbine where he gets totally annihilated and same goes for Past!Boris after he kills J's father taunting Young K with it so [[HereWeGoAgain he gets captured like before]], only for that to ''[[KarmicDeath not be what happens to him]]'' instead.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: When J shows up to what used to be K's apartment, the toddler comments "Mommy, the President's drinking my milk", explicitly tying the present-day part of the film to the only period of American history so far when the President of the United States was [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama dark-skinned]]--though the second movie ''did'' make it a point to say it was 2002 and this one saying 1969 is about forty years in the past from the present.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ILgn4eBflf0 Back In Time]]"

* CatharsisFactor: Present!Boris caught in the turbine where he gets totally annihilated and same goes for Past!Boris after he kills J's father taunting Young K with it to capture him, only for that to ''[[KarmicDeath not be what happens to him]]''.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: ''[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ILgn4eBflf0 Back In Time]]''

* CatharsisFactor: Present!Boris caught in the turbine where he gets totally annihilated and same goes for Past!Boris after he kills J's father taunting Young K with his to capture him, only for that to ''not be what happens to him''.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: When J shows up to what used to be K's apartment, the toddler comments "Mommy, the President's drinking my milk", explicitly tying the present-day part of the film to the only period of American history so far when the President of the United States was [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama dark-skinned]].

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Boris]], known as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Animal]], is by far the most [[AxCrazy murderously sadistic]] villain in the films, and easily the most personal. He is introduced being freed from prison by [[MonsterFangirl his prison mail girlfriend]], whom he lets die when she is blown out into space, and kills another prisoner whom he promised to take with him. He travels back in time to eliminate K as personal revenge for destroying his arm when he was captured, causing a present day invasion by his race of [[PlanetLooters Boglodites]] to consume everyone on Earth, which is his ultimate goal. Boris despises his nickname of the Animal, and will kill anyone who refers to him by it. A remorseless butcher who isn't afraid to kill anyone in his way, he kills a number of targets in the past, finds his past self so pathetic he only refrains from killing him because he would be erased from time, and [[spoiler:murders J's father out of spite for being thwarted by K.]]

* OlderThanTheyThink: Time travel devices being illegal devices and a villain going back in time to remove K from history is a plot of one of the early seasons of ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'' , though rather than being a vengeful alien terrorist, the villain is a xenophobic human and conspiracy nut who removes the founding members of the MIB who made first contact with aliens.

* RetroactiveRecognition: The Colonel, [[spoiler:J's father]] is [[Creator/MikeCoulter Luke]] [[Series/LukeCage2016 Cage]].

** At the time, Zed was written out as dead because Rip Torn had gotten a DUI. After Torn's real-life death in 2019, it can be a bit sad to see his character dead in the movie.

* HarsherInHindsight: J claiming "You know, I'd have NO problem pimp-slapping the shiznit out of Andy Warhol!" can be a little bitter after Creator/WillSmith assaulted Creator/ChrisRock during the 2022 Oscars ceremony.

* UglyCute: The blue and red baby-like crustacean that Wu was [[AlienLunch serving to unsuspecting tourists]] in his restaraunt.

* CompleteMonster: [[BigBad Boris]], known as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Animal]], is by far the most [[AxCrazy murderously sadistic]] villain in the films, and easily the most personal. He is introduced being freed from prison by [[MonsterFangirl his girlfriend]], whom he lets die when she is blown out into space, and kills another prisoner whom he promised to take with him. He travels back in time to eliminate K as personal revenge for destroying his arm when he was captured, causing a present day invasion by his race of [[PlanetLooters Boglodites]] to consume everyone on Earth, which is his ultimate goal. Boris despises his nickname of the Animal, and will kill anyone who refers to him by it. A remorseless butcher who isn't afraid to kill anyone in his way, he kills a number of targets in the past, finds his past self so pathetic he only refrains from killing him because he would be erased from time, and [[spoiler:murders J's father out of spite for being thwarted by K.]]

* UncannyValley: Aliens in more questionable human disguises will have this effect. The third movie in particular is loaded with these.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: J claiming "You know, I'd have NO problem pimp-slapping the shiznit out of Creator/AndyWarhol!" can be a little bitter after Creator/WillSmith has assaulted Creator/ChrisRock during the 2022 Oscars ceremony.

** Creator/AndyWarhol [[spoiler: a.k.a. Agent W (played by Bill Hader)]] steals the show.

** Furthered by another quote towards the end of the first film; [[spoiler:"You should've been here for the Zeronian migration in 1968. I guess you weren't even alive in '68...", clearly repressing the memory so that J stays none the wiser.]]

** Furthered by another quote towards the end of the first film; [[spoiler:"You should've been here for the Zeronian migration in 1968. I guess you weren't even alive in '68..."]]

%%* EnsembleDarkhorse: [[ColonelBadass The Colonel]], AKA [[spoiler:J's father.]]