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1	* AluminumChristmasTrees: One of the "alien creatures" in the Chinese restaurant is a real creature called a blob fish. They actually do look like that, but only when out of their natural environment in the deep ocean.
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ILgn4eBflf0 "Back in Time"]]
3	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The last scene of the movie, where Griff notices that Agent K forgot to pay for his meal, and cuts to an asteroid headed towards Earth. When Agent K returns and pays, the asteroid collides into a satellite instead. Griff's reaction (OhCrap to sigh of relief) implies that there was a correlation between these two seemingly unrelated events, which remains unexplained.
4	* 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.
5	-->'''Boris:''' Go ahead, arrest me!
6	-->'''K:''' [[TranquilFury Not this time.]]
7	-->'''BANG!'''
8	* CompleteMonster: [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Boris 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.]]
9	* GeniusBonus:
10	** Agent W is undercover as Creator/AndyWarhol. He begs to be reassigned and K says he'll see what he can do. We never find out if he was ever let go, but Andy Warhol didn't die until 1987, 18 years later.
11	** The Apollo 11 astronauts pretending not to see aliens is something Apollo 8 was suspected of thanks to the line "please be informed there is a Santa Claus" line when orbiting the Moon.[[note]]It was actually said because the thrust was perfectly cut for preparation for the return to Earth.[[/note]]
12	* 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 slapped Creator/ChrisRock in the face at the 2022 Oscars ceremony.
13	* HeartwarmingInHindsight: This exchange from the first movie is both [[HarsherInHindsight depressing]] and [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments very sweet]] in light of the events of this movie. In the first movie, it was a throwaway joke, but here we learn [[spoiler: K felt guilty for getting J's father killed and has been watching over him ever since. No wonder he knew J would make a great MIB agent: [[LikeFatherLikeSon it was in his blood.]]]]
14	-->'''J:''' [[spoiler:Did you ever flashy-thing me?]]\
15	'''K:''' No.
16	-->'''J:''' [[spoiler:I ain't playing with you, K. Did you ever flashy-thing me?]]
17	-->'''K:''' ''No.''
18	** 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...", which could be K repressing the awful memory so that J stays none the wiser and isn't reminded of it.]]
19	* HilariousInHindsight:
20	** Creator/JoshBrolin’s character centers around a plot that involves time traveling to the past in order to prevent a BadFuture caused by an AxeCrazy BloodKnight. Are we talking about Agent K or [[Film/Deadpool2 Cable]]?
21	*** And even if we just focus on the Time travel used to undo a BadFuture by an BloodKnight alien part, it could be the description of either this movie or ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' where Josh Brolin '''is''' the aforementioned alien.
22	** [[Creator/TommyLeeJones Agent K]] [[Film/NoCountryForOldMen has once attempted to save]] his [[Creator/JoshBrolin past self]].
23	** Wait, so [[Creator/TommyLeeJones Colonel Chester]] [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Phillips]] was [[Creator/JoshBrolin Thanos]] when he was [[TimeShiftedActor younger]]?
24	** It's also funny that Agent K’s objective in this film is to prevent an alien invasion from occurring on Earth, considering that Brolin would later go on to portray one of the most [[ComicBook/{{Thanos}} iconic aliens in comic book history]], whose forces [[Film/TheAvengers2012 invade Earth]] [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar more than]] [[Film/AvengersEndgame once]].
25	** Not to mention that one of his allies in this film, (The Colonel) is played by Creator/MikeColter. In other words, [[spoiler: Series/{{Luke Cage\|2016}} [[HeroicSacrifice died]] TakingTheBullet [[{{Irony}} for Thanos.]]]]
26	** In this film, Michael Stuhlbarg plays an {{Adorkable}} alien who can see the future(s). He would later play one of the major supporting characters in ''Film/{{Arrival}}'', and... well, [[WalkingSpoiler you'll have to take our word]] for why that's funny.
27	** Lenny Vinito (The Bowling-Ball Head Alien) went on to play the human among the aliens on ABC's ''Series/TheNeighbors.''
28	* HoYay: J steps this up a lot with agent K with J doing married couple style arguing with K in the present and in the 1960's. Plus J's time traveling mission to save K from being killed and erased from existence is just filled with ho yay. Lampshaded at one point by J.
29	--->'''J:''' Wu, he ''(meaning K)'' [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything and I are having issues in our relationship right now, but you shouldn't have to suffer for that.]]
30	** The diner scene in 1969 throws almost all subtlety to the wind.
31	--->'''Young K:''' What about you, slick? You got yourself a girl?
32	---> '''J:''' I got you.
33	* LaughablyEvil: Boris is an interesting case. He's dead serious, but he has such perfect zingers that it's hard not to laugh.
34	* MemeticMutation: "Just because you see [x] does not mean [y]. I mean, it is [y], but not because I'm [x]." [[labelnote:explantion]] J gets pulled over by a pair of racist cops. After neuralizing them, he lectures them that "Just because [they] see a black man driving a nice car, does not mean it's stolen. I mean, it is stolen, but not because I'm black."[[/labelnote]]
35	* {{Moe}}: Griffin, the human-looking alien who can see the future.
36	* {{Narm}}: The scene where J uses his time machine to learn how to dodge Boris the Animal's spikes via BulletTime is somewhat undercut by their sudden, and likely unintentional CooldownHug.
37	* 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.
38	* OneSceneWonder:
39	** Creator/AndyWarhol [[spoiler: a.k.a. Agent W (played by Creator/BillHader)]] steals the show.
40	** Nicole Scherzinger as Boris's girlfriend, where she breaks him out of jail and dies in the attempt.
41	** [[ColonelBadass Colonel Edwards]], AKA [[spoiler:J's father, who end up sacrificing his life for K.]]
42	* RetroactiveRecognition: The Colonel, [[spoiler:J's father]] is [[Creator/MikeColter Luke]] [[Series/LukeCage2016 Cage]].
43	* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: The movie received far better reception than ''Film/MenInBlackII'', which was widely seen as a mediocre rehash of the original.
44	* UglyCute: The blue and red baby-like crustacean that Wu was serving to unsuspecting tourists in his restaraunt.
45	* 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 (that being five years after the first film as was indeed stated) and this one saying 1969 is about forty years in the past from the present.

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