Characters from the Men in Black film series (including the first Men in Black movie and its sequels Men in Black II, Men in Black 3, and Men in Black: International).
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The Men in Black
In General
Here come the Men in Black
A highly secret organization that seeks out to monitor extraterrestrial activity on our planet and keep it under wraps as well as defend Earth from malevolent invaders.
- Badass in a Nice Suit: That simple black suit is feared. For good reason.
- Cool Shades/Sunglasses at Night: Justified, as those shades make them immune to the Neuralyzer... and they look pretty badass too.
- Dark Is Not Evil: They dress in jet black suits and may seem sinister at first glance, but their main objective is to keep Earth safe from decidedly unfriendly aliens.
- Ignorance Is Bliss: The organisation stays private and uses neuralyzers to erase memories. The organisation believes humans simply aren't ready for knowledge about aliens and since they don't really need to know or care, then they have no reason to know.J: Why the big secret? People are smart. They can handle it.
K: A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. - Memory-Wiping Crew: Every member of the MIB carries a small, pen-sized flashing device called a neuralyzer, which erases short-term memories and places the subject in a highly suggestible trance, allowing agents to dictate false memories. The Cool Shades agents wear protect them from its effects.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: All agents are referred to by the first letter of their first name, as part of becoming legally UnPersoned. When James Edwards is made an agent, his name is entered into MIB's system as simply "J".
- Resignations Not Accepted: Due to the secretive nature of their work, agents have their memories erased before they released back into their former civilian life. Agent D had his memories erased because his old age nearly allowed a frenzied Mikey the Alien to kill Janus, a border patrol agent. Agent K decided to retire but was brought back in the sequel because he knew the antagonist from his past.
- The Men in Black: Literally.
- Theme Naming: All use alphabetical codenames.
- Un-person: Agents of the Men In Black renounce their former lives, and the MIB erases all evidence of their existance from public and governmental record.
- The World Is Not Ready: Its mantra of why they're keeping alien immigration a secret from the rest of the Earth.
Agent K
Agent K (Kevin Brown)
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."
Young K
Played By: Tommy Lee Jones & Josh Brolin Foreign VAs
Appearances: Men in Black | Men in Black II | Men in Black 3
"Don't 'Sir' me, young man, you have no idea who you're dealing with."
A veteran agent who takes the younger James Darrell Edwards III under his wing and serves as his mentor.
- Adaptational Heroism: The comic book version of K was a Well-Intentioned Extremist at the best of times. Here, he's a Knight in Sour Armor who never crosses the line.
- AM/FM Characterization: He's a fan of The Beatles (he laments that alien technology means that he'll have to buy The White Album again) and Elvis Presley (he sings along to his cover of "Promised Land" in the car).
- Can't Stay Normal: He leaves the MIB at the end of the first film to live with his former girlfriend, but by the second film, she left him because Amnesia Missed a Spot.
- Career-Revealing Trait: In the second film, J points out that the now-neuralized K is way too official and much too no-nonsense for a simple postal worker, recognizing his habit of barking rapid-fire orders at his underlings as an obvious remnant of his time with the MIB that even neuralization couldn't erase.
- Chick Magnet: Evidently was this in his younger days, as all three movies involve a backstory regarding a different old flame.
- The Comically Serious: The movie's straight man, save for a quick scene in the first movie where he's telling J a joke and laughing a little too hysterically about it, and while singing along to Elvis Presley in the tunnel.
- Cool Old Guy: Just seems to kick more ass with age.
- Deadpan Snarker: Rarely communicates in anything but snark.
- 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.
- Did Not Get the Girl:
- His return to his wife was short lived, as his feeling of something missing drove her away.
- He also had to let Lauranna go back to Zartha, and couldn't be with O due to M.I.B. agent dating policies.
- Drives Like Crazy: You best buckle up when he pushes that red button…
- Face Death with Dignity: When Boris goes back to erase him from existence, he fades away with utter calmness.
- Flanderization: In the first film, he's a rather stoic individual who takes his job seriously, but approaches everything with a calm demeanor, contrasting J who doesn't take the job seriously, but overreacts to everything. It also provides a thematic contrast of J being blown away at extraterrestrial going-ons, but to a veteran K, it's just another day as he's seen it all by now. By the third movie, he's so stoic, he is unable to crack a joke or a smile.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: A crotchety, snarky old man. But it's shown several times that he's got a good heart.
- Luke, I Might Be Your Father: It's heavily implied he is Laura/The Light of Zartha's birth-father.
- Living Legend: In the second film, K is treated this way among young generation agents after his retirement. When a neuralized K arrives to the HQ, the agents fanboy over him.
- Living Lie Detector: His past self has a variation – he can tell when someone is telling the truth, no matter how unbelievable. Of course, given how he's a Man in Black.
- Mentor Occupational Hazard: Averted. He survives the Bug's innards to retrieve his gun and blast his way out.
- My Greatest Failure:
- In his own words, not killing Boris the Animal was the worst mistake he ever made. Easy to see why…
- While he eventually does do the deed in the past, J's father was killed by Boris by Taking the Bullet for him, which sheds a new light on him being J's Parental Substitute.
- The Mentor: Even years after J joins, he's still teaching him.
- My Card: How he introduces J to the world of the MiB.
- Oh, Crap!: Only once does he briefly lose his composure, thanks to witnessing the Bug revealing himself as a huge-sized monstrosity.
- Parental Substitute: To J after they meet. The third film sheds a new light on this with him willingly doing so after J's real father died saving K from Boris.
- Pop-Cultured Badass: He loves listening to Elvis Presley while he drives.
- Retired Badass: By the end of the first film and in the first half of the second film.
- Seen It All: You'd be hard pressed to see any earth threatening menace faze him.
- Stalking is Love: K uses the MIB's super-advanced Spy Satellites to spy on his old girlfriend while she's out gardening.
- The Stoic: He rarely shows a strong emotional reaction. He became this way after J's father died.
- Worth It: His job required the severing of all social human contact outside of his colleagues, and dedicating his life day and night to fighting and policing aliens in secret. He still says, when asked by J before he joins up himself, it was "worth it… if you're strong enough."
Agent J
Agent J (James Darrell Edwards III)
"That's what I'm talkin' about."
Played By: Will Smith Foreign VAs
Appearances: Men in Black | Men in Black II | Men in Black 3
"You know what the difference is between you and me? I make this look good."
A newcomer agent who used to work as a policeman before K took an interest in him and decided to make him a new recruit.
- The Ace: In K's absence, he becomes Earth's number one protector.
- Armor-Piercing Question: "Kay, have you ever flashy-thinged me!?" This 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.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: J is very perceptive. It's arguably what got him the job. When he and the other potential recruits are unleashed on a shooting gallery, he's the only one who stops and assesses the situation before firing his gun. He even has the "Eureka!" Moment realizing Edgar would try to use the World's Fair saucers to escape Earth.
- Beware the Silly Ones: Yes, he comes off as pretty goofy (especially in the first movie) and at times doesn't seem to take things seriously. But he's definitely not somebody you want to underestimate.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: J is a goofy smartass but even in the first film is shown to be very competent when push comes to shove.
- Butt-Monkey: At first in the first MIB, accidentally wrecking the MIB office with an alien superball, then getting the daylights beaten out of him while delivering the Redgicks' baby (which proceeds to puke all over him as a crowning touch). In general, he's gone through psychical slapstick and action scenes in the entire trilogy.
- Conveniently an Orphan: Which leads to his destiny in the agency.
- Cowboy Cop: Z himself pointed out during his induction; "He has a problem with authority". Unlike most depictions of this trope however, he's a legitimately good detective who doesn't resort to brute force as a rule. His only "cowboy" trait is his lack of respect for authority.
- The Cuckoolander Was Right: When J was in third grade, he was sure his teacher was from another planet, even though everyone thought he was crazy. K reveals that he was right; she was from one of the moons of Jupiter.
- Deadpan Snarker: More of a witty snarker than K.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: His dad was apparently quite a guy. Which is proven true when we meet him in the third movie.
- Did Not Get the Girl: He grows close with Laura, but her being the Light of Zartha meant she had to return home.
- The Dreaded: By the time of the second film, junior MIB agents are terrified of J neuralyzing them for minor offenses.
- Genius Bruiser: He can beat aliens in a foot race and punch some of them out. But he's also a lateral thinker able to see the forest when everybody else is focused on the trees, susses out the initiative tests given to him during his MiB induction, is able to identify an alien weapon he'd previously encountered only once (during a scuffle, no less) and an (admittedly distinctive) alien he saw briefly while in the middle of MiB headquarters, and is usually able to make logical leaps that K can't.
- Hero of Another Story: Said to have saved the Earth several times during the time between I and II.
- Hidden Depths: He's initially made out to the audience to be an example of the stereotypical "loose cannon" to K's "by-the-book". Come the shooting range scene, he shows himself to be an empathetic and attentive man who easily picked out that the "obviously" ferocious aliens that the other hopefuls shot at with abandon were actually just doing mundane things like working out and sneezing while also noticing the young white girl in the middle of the ghetto at night carrying advanced quantum physics books and realizing something was up. He's right.
- Implacable Man: One of the reasons he got the attention of K. He ran down an alien called a "cephalapoid" on foot, which is implied through dialog to be quite a feat for a human.
- Naïve Newcomer: And he never totally grows out of it.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: The entire first act of the movie is designed to show that his streetwise smart-ass routine is largely a put-on and he's actually a very good, and even insightful, detective.
- Older Than They Look: Is treated as a fresh-out-of-college pup by K and the others despite his experience in NYPD. 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.
- Plucky Comic Relief: In the first film.
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: To Serleena: "Your flight's been canceled!" Of course, she got better… temporarily.
- Race Lift: He was white in the comics.
- Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Due to having been talking to K when he was Ret Goned (as well as, possibly, the fact that his younger self was present when history was changed), he apparently caused a temporal fracture that prevented his life story or memories from changing any as time reordered itself. Apparently, it induces a craving for chocolate milk.
- Rousseau Was Right: In spite of his Scary Black Man status in the MIB, J is one of the more empathetic agents due to being a firm believer of this philosophy when dealing with aliens, having interpreted a few scary alien cutouts in the shooting range as them trying to make an honest living on Earth as well as whenever he neutralyzes people who witness an alien fight scene, he often gives them more happy memories to cover up the fight.
- Secretly Earmarked for Greatness: James goes to the interview with MIB, not knowing what it's about and not knowing that Agent K had already put in a good word for him, seeing that James could run down an alien on foot and not panic over the existence of aliens in general. This is taken even further in the third film, when it's revealed K had actually been watching James since he was a child, after his father died protecting K.
- Scary Black Man: Went from being a junior officer to one of MIB's strongest and fast-adapting agents.
- Soul Brotha: Turned into this type of character in the second and third film.
- The Protagonist: Will Smith gets the most screentime. His newcomer status also makes him a convenient Audience Surrogate for explanations to the world of Men in Black, very typical of protagonists.
- Uncle Tomfoolery: To a small degree in the first film, he was very comical and seemed to annoy agent K a little and he did not appear to take too many situations seriously.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: In the first film and the animated series with Laurel Weaver, and the second film with Laura Vasquez. In the animated series, during J's perfect world alternate reality, he and Laurel are a couple. Or at least, her alternate reality self is J's girlfriend.
Agent D
Agent D (Derrick Cunningham)
Played By: Richard Hamilton
Appearances: Men in Black
"The spirit's willing, Kay, but the rest of me...."
K's partner at the start of the first film.
- The Cameo: A bust of him is seen in 3 at Zed's funeral.
- Feeling Their Age: Agent Dee's failure in stopping Mikey makes him realize he's not cut out for field work anymore, or the MIB in general.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Retires and gets neuralyzed in the first few minutes of the movie.
Chief Z (Zed)
Chief Z (Zed)
"You'll get used to it... or you'll have a psychotic episode."
Played by: Rip Torn Foreign VAs
Appearances: Men in Black | Men in Black II
"We're not hosting an intergalactic kegger down here!"
The head of the organization.
- Big Good: The Leader of the MiB, Earth's "first, last and only line of defense".
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: An odd, slightly kooky guy. But he runs the agency that keeps Earth safe from alien menaces.
- Cool Old Guy: Older than K, but still a semi-capable ass-kicker.
- Da Chief: He is very much a rules guy, such as saying the future Agent J has a "problem with authority."
- Deadpan Snarker: Always ready for any situation with a retort.
- Dirty Old Man: He's got some stories of his past sexual exploits that make J shudder.
- Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Rip Torn's DUI conviction caused the creators to write him out of III.
- Suddenly Shouting: "YOU SORRY LITTLE INGRATES!"
Agent T
Agent T
Played By: Patrick Warburton Foreign VAs
Appearances: Men in Black II
J's new partner at the start of the second film.
- Bittersweet Ending: His personal ending. He gets neuralized and removed from MiB, but J manages to set him up with a cute waitress.
- Cowboy Cop: 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.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: He reacts to J taking him out to pie to neuralyze him the same way a lover would over a break up.
- Glory Seeker: 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.
- Too Dumb to Live: His heroic antics end up causing J more problems than actually fixing them.
Agent O
Agent O
Played By: Emma Thompson & Alice Eve Foreign VAs
Appearances: Men in Black 3 | Men in Black: International
The new head of the organization after Z's death.
- Big Good: She is Z's substitute after the latter's death.
- Large Ham: O has one moment of "screeching" the scenery of the MiB HQ, when she dedicates some words to Z in an alien language.
- Remember the New Guy?: She never appeared in the first two films but apparently had been working at MIB for at least as long as K had.
Agent H
Agent H (Henry)
Played By: Chris Hemsworth Foreign VAs
Appearances: Men in Black: International
- The Ace: Is one of the MIB's best agents which was before he got neutralised by High T.
- Actor Allusion: During a confrontation with an alien, Chris Hemsworth's Agent H wields a hammer, which he throws at an alien, who catches it.
- Amnesiac Hero: Doesn't realize that he was neuralised at the Eiffel Tower at the beginning of the movie.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Deconstructed. He's an incredibly laid-back playboy, but he's also a highly effective Man in Black. However, his antics have led to his colleagues despising him and his friends abandoning him, with the only reason he hasn’t been kicked out being that High T 's looking out for him, and he's getting tired of cleaning up H's messes. It's heavily implied that his attitude is thanks to High T's neuralization of him back in 2016.
- Like a Son to Me: High T says it about him, and he reciprocates the feeling.
- Splash of Color: He wears brightly colored socks, rather than the usual black, which makes him stand out when he crosses his legs during meetings.
Agent M
Agent M (Molly Wright)
Played By: Tessa Thompson Foreign VAs
Appearances: Men in Black: International
- The Ace: Not only does she get perfect scores when applying for both the FBI and the CIA, but manages to find MIB headquarters all by herself. Once she finally becomes an agent, she proves herself to be incredibly smart and resourceful and adapts quickly to the situation at hand.
- Androcles' Lion: She saves an alien named Luka from being arrested by the Men in Black at the beginning. She later meets him working as a henchman for Riza and he helps her and H escape.
- A Minor Kidroduction: Is introduced as a child in a flashback at the start of the movie.
- Determinator She searched for the MiB for twenty years in order to join. What's more impressive is that she succeeded in finding their headquarters, thus proving her potential.
High T (Unmarked Spoilers)
High T
Played By: Liam Neeson Foreign VAs
Appearances: Men in Black: International
"You were always like a son to him." (True form)
The head of the UK branch of the Men in Black. Or so it seems...
- Assimilation Backfire: T – the real T, that is – 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.
- Big Bad: Of International. He turns out to be the mole in the Men in Black and the one paving the way for a Hive invasion.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: T was assimilated by the Hive when H wasn't looking, and has been their agent ever since.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He passes himself off as benevolent and a father figure to H, and T was. Unfortunately, T's not calling the shots anymore.
- Fighting from the Inside: Briefly, just before he dies.
- Mole in Charge: Was killed and replaced by a member of the Hive.
- One-Winged Angel: His Hive form at the end.
- Walking Spoiler: Yeah, literally every trope listed here is about how he's actually the Big Bad.
Agent C
Agent C
Played By: Rafe Spall
Appearances: Men in Black: International
- Fantastic Racism: C is blatantly racist against aliens, callously so. However, he does ultimately care about their safety and it doesn't keep him from doing his job.
- Inspector Javert: Spends most of International acting under the impression that H and/or M are moles.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He's rather antagonistic, but ultimately a loyal protector of the planet.
- Red Herring: His obvious antagonism of H and M make him a prime candidate for being The Mole. It's not him; it's High T.
Allies
Laurel Weaver
Dr. Laurel Weaver (Agent L)
"Interesting job you guys have."
Played By: Linda Fiorentino Foreign VAs
Appearances: Men in Black
"I hate the living."
A coroner who works at New York city's morgue and is often implied to regularly encounter alien corpses, which prompts the MiB to visit her on a rather frequent basis.
- Adaptational Dye-Job: She's blonde in the cartoon, but has the same hairstyle.
- Badass Normal: I mean, not everybody is able to quickly handle a high-tech gun and use it to blow up a giant Creepy Cockroach to bits with so much ease.
- Big Damn Heroes: Saves J and K from almost getting eaten by the Bug by shooting him from behind.
- Brainy Brunette: Has dark brown hair and is quite good at researching different types of deaths and how any particular victim perished. Not just that, she also seems to be aware to a degree that there is a mysterious organization dealing with aliens running around prior to her eventual recruitment. She also quickly gets the hang of a bizarre, high-tech gun in a few seconds which she promptly uses to deal the finishing blow to the Bug.
- The Coroner: Her main job at the morgue.
- Damsel in Distress: Edgar promptly takes her hostage once he discovers she has the Galaxy, and attempts to take her with him so he can eat her.
- Damsel out of Distress: When Edgar tells her he wants to take her with him to eat her and feed his family as well, while climbing to his UFO, Laurel has none of it and breaks free of his hold, then jumps into a nearby tree while fiercely clinging to one of its branches to avoid falling. She eventually falls, but is unharmed and manages to get a hold of J's gun which she uses to shoot the Bug and kill him for good.
- Deadpan Snarker: The girl certainly has her moments.
- Disposable Love Interest: Was introduced as a potential love interest for J and even becomes his new partner after K's departure, but vanishes in the sequel with J handwaving it as having neuralyzed her so she could go back to the morgue. In the Animated Adaptation, she and J continue to have Unresolved Sexual Tension most of the time.
- I Love the Dead: She implies that she does something lewd in the morgue when it's late and no one else is around.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Laurel may be cynical, snarky and gets annoyed easily, but truly cares for those she likes. At one point near the end, while K and J have an emotional moment regarding the former's departure, she chimes in, saying her apartment isn't very near, not even on the same island, but does it in a pleasant manner and doesn't seem annoyed at all.
- Ms. Fanservice: She is played by the gorgeous Linda Fiorentino and almost always wears a rather short skirt which shows a good deal of her legs.
- Off Screen Break Up: Between her and J.
- Quiet Cry for Help: When J and K come to the morgue looking for Orion, J finds Laurel and asks her where the cat is, all while Laurel tries to quietly tell him Edgar is holding her hostage and has threatened her with death if she gives him away. J persistently misinterprets her attempts to alert him as sexual come-ons.
- Sequel Non-Entity: Due to the studio's interest in re-teaming Agent J with Agent K (And thus retaining the best element of the first film, and securing a guaranteed sequel moneymaker) Barry Sonnenfeld felt that if the character was retained in the sequel, he'd have to kill her off in the first act to leave the door open for K's return. Sonnenfeld stated he liked the character too much to do that, so it was written into the script that J frequently neuralyzes new partners, and thus he could give her a happier ending of returning to civilian life, allowing him to pave the way for K's return without killing off the likable character of Laurel.
- Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Agent J.
Frank the Pug
Frank the Pug
"Easy pal. That’s canine profiling, and I resent it."
Voiced By: Tim Blaney Foreign VAs
Appearances: Men in Black | Men in Black II | Men in Black: International
"Listen, partner. I may look like a dog, but I only play one here on Earth."
- Amusing Alien: Frank is one of the funniest characters in the series.
- Ascended Extra: In both the sequel and the animated series.
- Sequel Non-Entity: He doesn't appear in Men in Black 3, except in a picture on a wallnote .
- The Cameo: Frank briefly shows up in International.
- The Dog Is an Alien: He's an alien disguised as a Pug dog.
- Jerkass: Frank is crass, rude, and unnecessarily snarky.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Frank can be surprisingly insightful, and his heart is in the right place.
- Talking Animal: While he's actually an alien, he certainly invokes this trope.
Jack Jeebs
Jack Jeebs
"You insensitive pricks! Do you have any idea how much that stings?"
Played By: Tony Shalhoub Foreign VAs
Appearances: Men in Black | Men in Black II
- Alien Blood: When his head is shot off, green goo is smeared all over the walls.
- Amusing Injuries: Every time his head gets blown off, it's played for laughs.
- Arms Dealer: He sells illegal alien weapons from his black market pawn shop.
- Ascended Extra: In both the second film and the animated series.
- Fish Eyes: His eyes always are shown pointing in different directions.
- Groin Attack: At one point, Kay had threatened to "shoot him where it won't grow back".
- Healing Factor: His head instantly regenerates not long after being destroyed.
- Human Alien: As far as we can see, his natural form looks human, but he's something else entirely.
- Major Injury Underreaction: His only reaction to getting his head blown off, one it regrows, is to call K an "insensitive prick" and complain about how much it stings.
- Resized Vocals: Until his new head is fully-grown, he's left speaking at a helium pitch that slowly deepens back into his normal voice.
- Your Head Asplode: It even becomes a running gag in the animated series.
The Twins
The Twins (Bweryang and Bob)
Two aliens who help coordinate MIB missions.
- Aerith and Bob: Bweryang and Bob in this case.
- Ascended Extras: In the animated series.
- Mission Control: Their job is monitoring MiB operations around the globe.
- Multi-Armed Multitasking: Their alien biology allows them to do more monitoring than a similarly skilled human.
- Starfish Aliens: They have multiple long arms, and their heads are just single eye-stalks.
- The Unintelligible: Averted. Although the audience has no idea of what they say, experienced Men In Black do.
- Those Two Guys: Hence "The Twins" instead of their individual names.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Besides the animated series, they were not seen again in the sequels.
The Worm Guys
The Worms
Voiced By: Brad Abrell, Thom Fountain, Carl J. Johnson and Drew Massey
Four small yellow aliens who frequently hang around in the MIB headquarters.
- Amusing Aliens: They are a group of snarky aliens who provide a few instances of comic relief.
- Ascended Extras: They only appeared in two scenes in the first film, but they get in on the action in a vital role for the second one and are recurring characters in the animated series.
- Demoted to Extra: By the third one, they're back to one-off characters.
- Mars Needs Women: They are shown to be quite attracted to Laura.
- Must Have Caffeine: They are quite fond of coffee, judging by how much of it they drink.
Laura Vasquez
Laura Vasquez
Played By: Rosario Dawson Foreign VAs
Appearances: Men in Black II
An ordinary girl who works part-time at a pizza parlor who becomes a key witness in Serleena's search for The Light of Zartha.
- Dead Guy Junior: She's named after her mother Laurana.
- Half-Human Hybrid: Half Zarthan, half Human.
- Living Macguffin: Turns out, she's the Light of Zartha.
- Luke, I Might Be Your Father: It's strongly implied that K is her biological father.
- Nice Girl: From what we see of her, she's very kind and endearing.
- Obliviously Superpowered: Laura turns out to be a Half-Human Hybrid 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.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: She becomes romantically involved with J, but ultimately can't be with him as she needs to return to her home planet of Zartha.
- Walking Spoiler: In case you haven't noticed already.
- Weather Manipulation: Highly downplayed. She unknowingly causes rain whenever she's sad or cries.
- Why Am I Ticking?: Her bracelet turns out to be a nuclear grade weapon that goes off if the light doesn't get off Earth.
Griffin
Griffin
Played By: Michael Stuhlbarg
Appearances: Men in Black 3
"The bitterest truth is better than the sweetest lie."
A kindly Archanan with the ability to foresee every single possible outcome all at once, yet doesn't know which one will actually come to fruition, and the sole possessor of the Arc Net Shield.
- Bait-and-Switch: He manages to trick Boris into thinking that the Arc Net is inside the large box-shaped necklace he's wearing, but it's in fact inside a box of snacks he's later seen eating at a baseball stadium, and the final component he hid inside his head.
- Blessed with Suck: He has no ability to tell possible futures that won't happen from the ones that will, which is harrowing in situations where he has no idea whether he's about to die or not, and usually sees them months before they happen or are even relevant in the first place. He considers the constant visions "a gigantic pain in the ass."
- Brutal Honesty: As his quote states, he'd much rather live with the harsh truth than live a lie.
- Character Catch Phrase: "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.
- Cloudcuckoolander: A symptom of being The Omniscient. 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.
- Description Porn: 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 such as one player existing because he got a baseball as a Christmas present at childhood since his father couldn't find a football.
- Fling a Light into the Future: His kind were killed by the Boglodites when they came for sustenance, thus leading him to try and get the Arc Net deployed to save Earth and many others as well due to the Boglodites needing to constantly eat, meaning if they aren't able to devour the contents of the planet they've found, they'll die before reaching the next one.
- Humanoid Abomination: Though a cute and cuddly one, he still is a fifth-dimensional being posing as a Human.
- Last of His Kind: The only surviving Archanan left doing all he can to make sure other species don't become extinct at the hands of the Boglodites.
- Motor Mouth: Due to constantly seeing potential futures, he has a habit of blathering on, trying to get even a fraction of the knowledge he has out, this amounts to endless unbroken sentences.
- Nice Guy: For an omniscient, fifth-dimensional being, he's surprisingly cheerful.
- The Omniscient: Able to see every outcome, in every reality. Simultaneously.
The Colonel
Colonel James Darrel Edwards Jr.
Played By: Mike Colter
Appearances: Men in Black 3
A United States Army colonel and head of security at Cape Canaveral during the 1969 Apollo 11 launch and J's long-lost father.
- Colonel Badass: His badassitude helps save the world from Boris.
- Heroic Sacrifice: He saves K from a sneak attack by Past! Boris, at the cost of himself getting shot and killed in the chest.
- Luke, I Am Your Father: Subverted. He knows J is his son James all grown up thanks to Griffin’s vision, but he never tells J. It’s not until after the colonel is killed when J realizes the colonel was his father.
- Mental Fusion: Griffin does this to him to get his help on defeating Boris, which works. It's never stated what he saw, but whatever he saw must have had a connection to J, who is a grownup version of his son.
- No Name Given: Only referred to as "Colonel" or "Sir". Mostly so his relation to J wasn't obvious to the audience.
Pawny
Pawny
Voiced By: Kumail Nanjiani
Appearances: Men in Black: International
- Big Damn Heroes: As M is knocked into the portal in the Eiffel Tower straight towards the Hive, Pawny flies in after her and uses one of his grappling guns to catch her. He then uses his other gun to pull them both out of the portal and back into the Eiffel Tower.
- Deadpan Snarker: Mostly towards H.
- Jerkass to One: Pawny really, really hates H.
- Lilliputians: He and his race are so tiny that their armor resembles chess pieces.
Enemies
Edgar the Bug
Edgar the Bug
"You ever pull the wings off a fly? You care to see the fly get even?!"
"I'll put my hands on… on my head. Like this?" (True form)
Played By: Vincent D'Onofrio
Appearances: Men in Black
"Imagine a giant cockroach, with unlimited strength, a massive inferiority complex, and a real short temper. He's tear-assing around Manhattan in a brand new Edgar suit. That sound like fun?"
—Agent K, on Edgar the Bug
A deadly terrorist of the Bug species, he comes to Earth with the intent of finding the Galaxy so he can kickstart an Arquillian war against Earth, which would result in the deaths of many, allowing him and his brethren to feed on all the dead bodies they want.
- Adaptational Villainy: Both "Edgar" the Bug and the original Human Edgar are loosely based on alien Bugs and a Human farmer who appear in #2 of the comic book. However, unlike his wife-beating movie counterpart, the farmer is decent enough, if a bit trigger happy. He also isn't killed, as the alien Bugs who appear in the issue aren't hostile.
- Affably Evil: He tries to be as cordial around humans as possible. Justified in that he's trying to steal the Galaxy as discreetly as possible. Tragic, in that he was more polite to Edgar's wife, than the asshole he just devoured, ever was.
- Aliens Speaking English: Subverted. He briefly speaks in English when he's about to kill the farmer, as well as when he's in his disguised state, but it's mostly the result of a low-quality translator. Apparently, his native tongue consists of aggressive, loud growls and roars. Oddly enough, his fellow bugs are totally fluent in English in the cartoon, even in their true forms.
- Asshole Victim: The bug itself wasn't a nice creature to begin with, but the real Edgar was an abusive husband who only cared about himself. Few tears were shed, in-universe or out, when the bug killed him and wore his skin. In fact one of the big hints to Edgar's wife that something is wrong is that the bug is too nice compared to the real Edgar when pretending to be him.
- Atrocious Arthropods: Edgar the Bug is a giant, sapient roach from outer space that doesn't mind destroying our world, and thinks wars are good because it means more food for his family.
- Ax-Crazy: While he's not actually out to Kill All Humans, he's got a hair-trigger Berserk Button that usually results in him killing almost everyone he runs into anyway.
- Berserk Button: Hurting insects, particularly roaches. J uses this against him, giving K enough time to kill him from the inside.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: Hard to notice, but his bug form has one. He uses it to kill Rosenberg and his aide.
- Big Bad: Of the first film. He kills the Arquillian Prince Rosenberg while searching for the Galaxy of Orion, which the Arquillians give the MIB one hour to retrieve before they destroy the Earth.
- Body Horror: He's a giant insect shambling around in a farmer's decaying skin. So… yeah.
- Creepy Cockroach: He's a dangerous extraterrestrial terrorist whose real body resembles a giant alien cockroach with Scary Teeth. He also lets some regular cockroaches hitch a ride on his body.
- Deathly Unmasking: In the finale, the Bug finally removes the decomposing skin of Edgar to reveal his true form so he can take down Agents J and K and escape the planet. Fortunately, he ends up being blown in half by K during the ensuing battle - and then blasted to bits by Laurel Weaver.
- Deadpan Snarker: For a giant, dumb bug, he has the occasional barb.Edgar: You don't matter. In fact in a few seconds, you won't even be matter.
- The Dreaded: The very threat of him showing up makes what was apparently a failed minion commit suicide, and causes lots of aliens to try to jump ship and leave Earth. Implied to be because he brings the "bug war" to Earth.
- Eloquent in My Native Tongue: In a literal example. The insect alien speaks far more ominously with a cold intelligence than he does when impersonating Edgar.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He cares more about his race and Earth's insects than any other lifeform in the universe. Killing them is a Berserk Button. And, as the cartoon shows, the feeling was mutual, as Edgar's brother, Edwin, is sent to Earth by the Bug Queen to capture Agent L, who was responsible for Edgar's death, with the intent of bringing her to the Bug homeworld in order to torture and kill her so they can avenge Edgar's demise.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Even Edgar is visibly disgusted at J's brazen womanizing, and is later understandably so over their primitive Gender Squabbling.
- Evil Is Bigger: Edgar the bug is a giant imposing cockroach-like alien. Though not like the human Edgar was small to begin with, as he was played by the 6'3" Vincent D'Onofrio.
- Evil Plan: Find the Galaxy gem on Earth and return it to his people so they can use to wage war on other planets. As an added bonus, he brings down the wrath of the Arquillians on Earth. War is great for the Bugs; lots of people for them to eat. 78 million is a lot of mouths to feed.
- Evil Sounds Deep: More so out of disguise.
- Exact Words: He's a proponent of this, as Edgar the farmer quickly finds out.Edgar: You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.Bug: Your proposal is acceptable.
- Extreme Omnivore: The very first thing he does upon revealing his true form is quickly disarm J and K by devouring their guns.
- Fantastic Racism: Towards humans and mammals as a whole.
- Fish Eyes: His bulging, asymmetrical eyes are initially the only giveaway of his true form under the Edgar skin, in contrast to the human Edgar's normally proportioned ones.
- Foil: To the human Edgar. The human Edgar is a selfish farmer and an abusive husband, while the bug cares about his family and every living arthropod.
- Genuine Human Hide: 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.
- Genius Bruiser: Gigantic, super strong and merciless. He's also pretty good with technology and quite cunning.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: It doesn't take much to piss him off.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Blown apart at the waist when K fires a BFG from inside his stomach. Amazingly, this didn't kill him; it took a second shot from another BFG to do that.
- Hot-Blooded: Very much so, even when you don't trigger his temper, he's certainly got a level of hostility.
- Hugh Mann: His attempts to pass for human are unrealistic at best.
- Hypocrite: The alien 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 Arquillians' wrath.
- Inferiority Superiority Complex: As pointed out by K, he considers himself far above vertebrates, but flies into a rage when anyone crushes earth insects, likely because said insects remind him of his species and he considers it an insult by association.
- Insectoid Aliens: A big one. His true form is taller than J and K.
- Karmic Death: He's ultimately destroyed by the very same chick he kidnapped and held hostage with the intent of devouring her.
- Kill and Replace: Kills Edgar and then puts on his skin.
- Killed Off for Real: He dies from being shot by Laurel.
- Large Ham: Subtlety doesn't appear to be a species trait.
- Lightning Bruiser: He's a monstrous insect with Super-Strength and can escape crashed spaceships unscathed. He's also pretty quick for something of his size; he's got impressive running and jumping speed even when crammed inside a skinned corpse and can snatch your gun from your hand before you have a chance to pull the trigger.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: As a bug.
- No Name Given: He's called Edgar by everyone because he takes over the body of someone named Edgar. His real name- if he has a real name- is never mentioned in the movie, and in pretty much all tie-in media and even production material, he's referred to as Edgar. According to the novelization, his name is "Kerb".
- One-Winged Angel: He sheds his Edgar suit and reveals his true monstrous guise for a final confrontation with J and K.
- Pet the Dog: He’s a ruthless alien who will kill anyone for getting in his way. However, the one human he spares is Edgar’s wife.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: The bug himself considers humanity and other alien races inferior. On the other side, Edgar the farmer insulted his wife very frequently and told her to "get [her] big butt back in the house" when the bug's spaceship landed.
- The Quiet One: For some reason he stops talking once he gets rid of his human disguise and starts roaring and growling instead, though it may have had something to do with using the real Edgar's own vocal chords to do so.
- Scary Teeth: He has very long sharp teeth in his true bug form.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: His first words to the farmer, due to a poor-quality translator; "put your projectile weapon on the ground" and "your proposal is acceptable".
- Sinister Sweet Tooth: Being a giant alien cockroach in human disguise, his favorite treat is straight sugar water that he guzzles immediately after crash-landing on Earth.
- Stumbling in the New Form: He's pretty clearly unused to moving around like a normal human being. The fact that his disguise is decaying and stiffening over the course of the movie doesn't help.
- Super-Strength: He's an Allosaurus-sized space roach crammed inside a person-suit and his strength level reflects that, especially after he goes One-Winged Angel by discarding said person-suit.
Jeffrey
Jeffrey
Whoo, you're getting big, Jeff! Boy, what you been eating?
Appearances: Men in Black II
- Back for the Finale: Appears late into the movie during the hyperspeed chase.
- Berserk Button: Don't pull on his flower. You will regret it like T did.
- Chekhov's Gunman: J lures Serleena to Jeff's lair, causing her to get eaten. Unfortunately, this doesn't stop her.
- Expy: Given the fact he has a little flower on his head and went on a murderous rampage after Agent T idiotically pulled on it, Jeff's appearance and behavior bring up the Wigglers from Super Mario World to mind.
- Full-Name Ultimatum: J says this before chasing him down throughout the subway.
- Starter Villain: J fights Jeff first before fighting Serleena.
- Summon Bigger Fish: He is the summoned fish in question. When Serleena is tricked into flying into Jeff's lair he promptly devours her.
Serleena
Serleena
"Silly little planet. I could rule the place with the right set of mammary glands."
Played By: Lara Flynn Boyle
Appearances: Men in Black II
"Oh, yummy. Someone I need to eat."
The Queen of the Kylothians, she seeks out the Light of Zartha to use it so she can destroy Earth and Zartha and have her species rule the galaxy unopposed.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Serleena murders Ben after he refuses to divulge the location of the Light of Zartha. She also steals some of the pizza from his restaurant.
- Balloon Belly: Serleena gets one after swallowing the mugger in the park whole, which she manages to get rid of by spitting his body back up, behind a bush.
- Big Bad: Second movie.
- Big Eater: Her entire species are implied to be this. As for Serleena herself, her very first scene has her eat a mugger alive and further dialogue shows that she's more than willing to eat anyone else that could pose a threat to her.
- Bond One-Liner: Gives one to the mugger after he tried to rape her.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]
Serleena: Yeah, you too. - Black Bra and Panties: 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.
- Clipped-Wing Angel: The very last form she takes is a writhing mass of vines shaped molded into the screaming visage of her human self. It certainly looks imposing, but at this point, Serleena was making a final attempt to attack Laura's ship before it could leave Earth, rather than actually trying to fight J and K anymore. The two agents then proceed to obliterate her in one shot each, incinerating her before Laura even knew Serleena was behind her ship.
- Combat Tentacles: A whole lot of them too.
- Cute Monster Girl: "Smoking hot" is more appropriate.
- Deadly Upgrade: After she infected Jeff.
- Deadpan Snarker: Particularly when dealing with Charlie and Scrad.
- Dark Action Girl: She's no weakling, capable of easily overpowering trained agents in a fight and is also a sadistic, greedy murderous alien.
- Eaten Alive: During the climax she accidentally flies into Jeff the worm's mouth and gets devoured. Noticeably, this still didn't quite kill her.
- Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Takes the form of one upon arriving on earth.
- Eldritch Abomination: Her true form.
- The Worm That Walks: A walking mass of writhing tentacles.
- Evil Is Petty: She spends the opening credits destroying planet after planet in increasingly creative ways solely because the Light wasn't on them.
- Feet-First Introduction: Mostly as an excuse to pan up on Lara Flynn Boyle in naught but lingerie, but a writhing outline of tentacles where her shadow's head should be hints that her human guise hadn't finished forming.
- Growling Gut: Her big belly can be heard bubbling and churning after eating the mugger in the beginning.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: Trots around in a stolen biker outfit for most of the movie.
- High-Heel Power: Upon arriving on Earth, her human form is wearing a pair of black high heels that match her lacy black lingerie. The "power" part comes in when the mugger jumps her. After playing along and letting him drag her behind a bush, she very easily overpowers him and swallows him alive. Meanwhile the man can only kick his legs and pathetically scream in pain and confusion as she ravenously devours him.
- Humanoid Abomination: Spends most of the film in the form of an attractive model, manifesting Combat Tentacles from her fingers if she has to fight or coerce someone.
- If that wasn't bad enough, she can also eat humans whole, which gives her human form a large, protruding belly.
- Just Desserts: Subverted. J attempts this by tricking her into getting eaten by Jeff, but this still doesn't kill her, resulting in her being blown up by shots from J and K after eating her way out of Jeff from the inside.
- Killed Off for Real: She dies from being blown by J and K in a manner that makes her death look like fireworks.
- Lecherous Licking: She sticks her tongue in Agent K's ear. Earlier on, she had received one herself from a mugger before she ate him.
- Ms. Fanservice: Not only is she played by the incredibly attractive Lara Flynn Boyle, but she's also flirty and spends most of her time walking around in a flattering leather ensemble. She's even introduced shapeshifting to look like a model "wearing" classy, lacy lingerie.
- Mugging the Monster: When she assumes human form in Central Park, she has shapeshifted to look like a model from a nearby advertisement, who wore only Black Bra and Panties with high heeled shoes. Naturally this attracts the attention of a mugger who drags her behind a bush at knife point. Serleena then immediately turns the tables on him and swallows him whole, while all he can do is scream in terror.
- Oh, Crap!: Does a deadpan-sounding one when she meets head on with Jeff.Serleena: Oops. Teeth.
- The mugger also has a moment of this right before Serleena eats him.
- Omnicidal Maniac: The opening credits has her destroy several planets in creative ways as she vowed to destroy every world that got in her way as she searched for the Light.
- One-Winged Angel: When she escapes Jeff, she becomes a gigantic-sized version of her tentacle serpent form. After K cripples that form by blasting her, she makes one last attempt on Laura by vomiting out her innards into the sky, becoming a huge mass of vines shaped like the visage of her human disguise's head.
- Person of Mass Destruction: She takes out the entire Men In Black NY headquarters pretty much single-handedly. She muses that she could probably take over the entire planet without too much trouble as well if she were so inclined. She is probably the most powerful villain in the movies and one of the strongest in the entire franchise.
- Proud Beauty: She apparently likes taking on the form of attractive human females, and takes offense to having her looks insulted. She was also more than happy to walk around in public in nothing but lingerie, seeming to only reconsider after having to deal with (read: eat) a would-be mugger she enticed. Speaking of which, her reason for spitting him out was because she didn't like the fact that eating him made her fat.
- Rank Scales with Asskicking: 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.
- Sexy Coat Flashing: As a distraction at MiB headquarters when she is dealing with customs, while claiming to be just an alien moving to Earth to try to be a lingerie model.
- Starfish Aliens: Kylothians like her are worm-like beings made of several tentacles which can shapeshift and change sizes.
- Swallowed Whole: She went both ways with this:
- At the start of the film, after transforming into a lingerie model Serleena is suddenly grabbed by a mugger who drags her behind a bush as he tells her she "tastes good. " Possibly taking inspiration from his words, she promptly flips the guy and swallows him alive. She then shoots back a playful "Yeah, you too," and emerges from the bush with a huge, distended gut.
- Later during the high-speed chase at the climax she accidentally flies her ship into Jeff the Worm's mouth and gets eaten.
- Take Over the World: She wants her species to take over the galaxy.
- The Tease: As part of her Femme Fatale nature. She seems to enjoy taunting people with her sexuality when she gets the chance. For example, flashing a MIB customs agent before tangling him up in her tendrils and taking over MIB HQ. Then later seductively licking K's face while she has him at her mercy.
- To Serve Man: Seems to really enjoy eating her opponents, as a man in the park at the start (albeit a would-be mugger and rapist) learned the hard way.
- The Vamp: She is a villainess who is lethal, seductive and proud of her good looks.
- You Taste Delicious: When she has K wrapped up she licks the side of his face, partly to taunt him over how he loved Princess Lauranna, and partly because she intended to eat him after their chat. Serleena actually takes this trope further than most because she doesn't just lick his face, but sticks her tongue in his ear while she's at it.
Charlie & Scrad
Charlie & Scrad
Played By: Johnny Knoxville Foreign VAs
Appearances: Men in Black II
- The Dragon: Before Jarra shows up.
- Minion with an F in Evil: A couple of chuckle-heads who suck at their job.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Just dicking around on Earth before their boss showed up.
- Reluctant Monster: Begins the story trying to live a normal life, until Serleena turns up.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: They vanish after the rumble in Jeebs' basement. The novelization elaborates that they pulled a Heel–Face Turn in helping to stop Serleena, followed by getting Kay's old job at the post office.
Jarra
Jarra
Played By: John Alexander Foreign VAs
Appearances: Men in Black II
"Over our dead titanium bodies!"
- Character Death: He dies from crashing into one of his mini drones.
- Conspicuous Trenchcoat: What he hides his mini-body and clones under.
- The Dragon: To Serleena, after Charlie and Scrad disappear.
- Evil Is Bigger: 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.
- Evil Genius: Serleena flatters him by saying it was criminal that someone as intelligent as him was ever arrested; she is probably at least half-serious, since there was no reason she couldn't simply have forced him to work with her like she does everyone else.
- Gadgeteer Genius: Constructs a space ship for Serleena to use in a matter of hours, and presumably built a device with which to carry out his plan to steal the ozone layer.
- It's Personal: His price for working with Serleena is simply revenge on J, the agent who arrested him.
- Me's a Crowd: He's actually four tiny identical humanoids on tiny flying saucers.
- Planet Looters: He tried to steal the Earth's ozone to sell on the black market.
- Villainous Friendship: Seems to have a pre-existing one with Serleena. At the very least they know and respect one another and are happy to work together.
Boris the Animal
Boris the Animal
"It's just Boris."
"Go ahead, arrest me." (spoilers)
Played By: Jemaine Clement Foreign VAs
Appearances: Men in Black 3
"Let's agree to disagree."
The last of the Boglodites, he is a deadly alien bent on letting his race devour everything they come across, and planet Earth certainly is on the menu.
- Aliens Speaking English: He's a malevolent alien, but is seen in a Monstrous Humanoid form throughout the film and speaks in English. Though the film does demonstrate that future Boris has a firmer comprehensive grasp of the language than his past self.
- An Arm and a Leg: Had his left arm blown off by K. It's a... touchy subject.
- Arch-Enemy: 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 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 Bad Future, being determined to take him down at all costs.
- Ax-Crazy: Exists solely to kill and wreak havoc.
- Badass Biker: His preferred image in 1969.
- Batman Can Breathe in Space: Is unaffected by the vacuum he starts in the Lunarmax prison. And he actually talks to himself in the airless void of space afterwards.
- Beard of Evil: A big, bushy one.
- The Berserker: Oh, big time.
- Berserk Button: Do not, under any circumstances, call him "The Animal". J uses this Berserk Button to defeat him.IT'S JUST BORIS!
- He doesn't like when people stare at his lost arm, either.
STOP! STARING AT IT!! - Big Bad Duumvirate: Uniquely, present-Boris and 1969-Boris team up to fight the time traveling MIBs.
- Blood Knight: Boris loves to fight and kill.Hippie Girl: Make love, not war.
Boris: I prefer to do both. - Character Catchphrase:
- He tends to say "It's just Boris." whenever someone calls him "The Animal."
- He often tells his opponents "Let's Agree to Disagree" before killing them. This is lampshaded and mocked by J.
- Contrasting Sequel Antagonist:
- Is downright terrifying, even when compared to Serleena. While Serleena mainly used subterfuge to try and get to her endgoal, Boris uses straight-up brute force to get what he wants; Serleena copied an attractive model's ideal image, while Boris stuck with an appropriately brutish and unkempt appearance with a few spots of his true form showing through (the spots where his skin zig-zags, such as his wrist and the sides of his eyes). Both are deep arch-enemies of K, but Boris is the one that K considers My Greatest Failure in not killing him.
- Edgar and Serleena are thoroughly cruel monsters, but even they both had redeeming qualities of wanting to help their own kind and their ultimate goals were to ensure the survival of their races. Boris on the other hand is totally self-centered and could not give a crap about the rest of his extinct race. He does work to bring back the Boglodites, but unlike Edgar and Serleena it is not out of loyalty, it is only so he has an army to get back at the earth and K.
- Establishing Character Moment: The beginning of the film tells us all we need to know about Boris. His first spoken line in response to being called "Boris the Animal" immediately tells us just how much he hates being called by that title. His plan regarding his girlfriend hiding his symbiote in a cake to sneak it into the prison, as well as blasting a hole in the wall of the prison to send the guards into outer space while he clings to the floor, shows how cunning he can be. Killing a fellow prisoner he promised to take with him once he escapes and letting his girlfriend get sucked into the vacuum of space alongside the guards lets us know that he's a cruel and ruthless alien. And finally, Boris demonstrates his Improbable Aiming Skills by effortlessly killing the guards by shooting spikes at them.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Both in the past and present, but his voice is slightly deeper in the past.
- Expy: Jemaine Clement does one hell of a Tim Curry impersonation.
- Eyeless Face: In his true form.
- Faux Affably Evil: He barely bothers with the facade most of the time.
- Final Boss: While Men in Black 3 was no longer the final film in the series, Boris served as the final villain in the story of agents J and K.
- For the Evulz: He surely enjoys mass killings.
- Genius Bruiser: For all his bloodlust and viciousness, he's a sharp cookie.
- Goggles Do Nothing: Well, except for disguise purposes since he has no eyes at all
- Hair-Trigger Temper: That trigger is very itchy.
- Ham-to-Ham Combat: With himself, when he meets his past self.
- Handicapped Badass: In the present, where he only has one arm.
- Hero Killer: Killed J's father, killed K in an alternate reality.
- I Hate Past Me: He doesn't even like himself in the past, seeing his past self as responsible for his failures. The feeling, obviously, is mutual for the '69 Boris who considers his older self the cause of his future fail.Boris (present-day): You pathetic waste of Boglodite flesh. I'd kill you right now if I didn't value my own life. [...] Look at you. Every mistake I ever made just waiting to happen.
Boris (past): You were defeated! You let [your arm] get shot off! That wasn't me, that was you! - Improbable Aiming Skills: He's a pretty good shot with his spikes, managing to wipe out a squad of security guards before they manage to get off a shot, and generally managing to hit whatever he's aiming at as long as there's no obstacles in the way. When J manages to dodge his spike shots during the final confrontation thanks to a little time travel prescience, Boris is completely flabbergasted.
- Inhuman Eye Concealers: Sports weird, goggle-like protrusions vaguely reminiscent of Black Eyes of Evil. While his present self commonly leaves them uncovered, his past self keeps them hidden behind aviator shades. The finale reveals that the goggles themselves are another layer of the disguise, for when Boris goes One-Winged Angel, the goggles slide off him, unveiling empty sockets.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: After successfully escaping prison and killing K in the alternate reality, Boris's warranty finally expires when his 2012 self gets incinerated by the Apollo 11 rocket and later when his 1969 self gets killed by K.
- Kill It with Fire: This is how Future Boris dies. J throws him into the exhaust of the Saturn V.
- Knight of Cerebus: Edgar and Serleena were pretty nasty, but also fairly comical. Boris is a straight-faced threat who murders Agent J's father, as well as Agent K in the modified '69.
- Killed Off for Real:
- His 2012 self dies from being incinerated by the exhaust of the Apollo 11 rocket.
- His 1969 self dies from being shot by 1969 K.
- Large Ham: There's barely any scenery left when he engages in a conversation with his past self, courtesy of his actor, Jemaine Clement (who is no stranger to Large Ham performances).
- Last of His Kind: The Boglodite species died out thanks to the Ark-Net protecting Earth. Except for Boris.
- Laughably Evil: Boris is incredibly sadistic and evil, but his deadpan humor and hammy chat with his past self will most certainly inspire a few chuckles from the audience.
- Lightning Bruiser: Surprisingly agile during combat and hits really hard.
- Made of Iron/Super-Strength: Though his physical capabilities are much closer to humans than previous Big Bads, he's still quite a bit stronger and tougher than humans, being able to survive things like having his bike blown up or being dropped a few hundred feet, as well as proving to be somewhat stronger than J in a fistfight even with only one arm.
- Mirthless Laughter: An absolutely epic one.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: His whole body is made of teeth.
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Even if he doesn't like the nickname, he's still known as Boris The Animal.
- Near-Villain Victory: In the modified present he actually succeeds in killing K and spreading the Boglodite invasion of Earth and probably consuming the entire planet. This is only prevented by J's interference in '69.
- Nightmare Face: Go ahead, arrest me.◊
- No Indoor Voice: His quietest tone seems to be a dull roar.
- Obviously Evil: From the beard, to the voice and especially the personality, the guy is obviously bad news.
- One-Man Army: Just ask those poor MIB agents on the moon.
- Planet Looters: His entire species.
- Psycho for Hire: To the Boglodites.
- Red Baron: He might dislike the name, but he still is Boris the Animal.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Towards K.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: They built a prison specially for him in the moon (though it seems there are other prisoners there), his escape kicks off the plot (literally: it is the opening scene of the movie).
- Serial Killer: Sort of; while he's happy to just kill at random, he undoubtedly premeditates several of his hits. He also regularly goes on killing sprees.
- Sinister Shades: Just adds to the menace.
- The Sociopath: The guy makes Edgar look like a member of UNICEF...
- Spike Shooter: His weapon of choice, courtesy of a spider-like symbiote that seems to live inside his right hand.
- Suicidal Overconfidence: His Fatal Flaw (at least in the past), his future self calls him out on it.
- This Cannot Be!: A variation of this is 21st century Boris's last words. "THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE!"
- Ungrateful Bastard: He lets his girlfriend die, even after she sprung him out of prison…
- Villain Ball: 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.
- Villainous Breakdown: Future!Boris becomes increasingly (more) wrathful when he starts to lose the edge of the battle, culminating in the scene where he falls off the platform screaming "THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE!".
- Villain Opening Scene: He's the first major character to be seen in the film, and his escape starts the whole plot.
- Violence is the Only Option: Firm believer of this.
- Weak, but Skilled: Though still stronger and tougher than regular humans, his physical capabilities are nonetheless much closer to the human norm compared to Edgar, Serleena, or the villains from the cartoon series. He still manages to be a very credible threat due to having a smart plan, solid operative skills, and pretty damn good aim.
- You Killed My Father: He killed Agent J's father in '69.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: During the opening prison break, he goes out of his way to kill another prisoner that he apparently had an escape deal with, as well as tossing his erstwhile gun-moll out into space once he no longer needs her.
Lilly
Lilly
Played By: Nicole Scherzinger
Appearances: Men in Black 3
- Monster Fangirl: Provides the page image.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: In Boris's defense, he made an effort to keep her alive. In her defense, he didn't try very hard.
The Twins
The Twins
Played By: Les Twins
Appearances: Men in Black: International
- All There in the Manual: Their names are only listed in the credits.
- Asshole Victim: Even if they turn out to have the best intentions for their people in mind, it's undermined by their "shoot first, explain ourselves later" attitude and no one, in-universe or out, cries for them when they get obliterated by an MIB death squad.
- Combo Platter Powers: Their powers don't really have defined limits. They can absorb someone's appearance, teleport, telekinetically warp matter into new shapes, pass through walls, and manipulate earth. And because they're Energy Beings, they can just reform any holes that get blasted in them.
- Dance Battler: Unsurprising, considering they are played by the dance duo Les Twins. However, they mostly use their dance moves to avoid taking unnecessary shots during the firefight against H and M.
- Disc-One Final Boss: They aren’t part of the Hive, and they need the weapon to kill it. The real villain is High T.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: After proving immune to everything the MiB throw at them, they are abruptly blasted apart by a squad of MiB agents in the middle of a confrontation with M and H. T nonchalantly Hand Waves it as having found the right voltage to kill them.
- Energy Beings: In their natural forms, appearing as swirling clouds of cosmic energy with a humanoid form just barely visible inside. Their presence causes light bulbs to flicker and blow out. Despite this, they apparently still have DNA.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Twins only want to save their planet from the Hive, but they are willing to do anything to accomplish this goal and murder several innocents in the process.
The Hive
The Hive
Played By: N/A
Appearances: Men in Black: International
- Greater-Scope Villain: Of International, with High-T serving as their mole.
- Hive Mind: Whatever controls them.
