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** Serleena is passing through security at MIB headquarters. When she's asked for the reason for her visit to Earth she opens her coat and replies: "I'm hoping to become a Victoria's Secret model" then knocks out the guards [[ShowSomeLeg while they're gaping at her lingerie-clad body]].
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** Serleena is passing through security at MIB headquarters. When she's asked for the reason for her visit to Earth she opens her coat and replies: "I'm hoping to become a Victoria's Secret model" an underwear model. They say I have real potential." then knocks out the guards [[ShowSomeLeg while they're gaping at her lingerie-clad body]].
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* OrbitalBombardment: In the title sequence, Serleena's starship blows up several planets for no apparent reason on her way to Earth.
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* OrbitalBombardment: In the title sequence, Serleena's starship blows up several planets for no apparent reason reason, outside of not having The Light, on her way to Earth.
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* ProductPlacement: Burger King and Ebay are prominent.
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* ProductPlacement: Burger King and Ebay are prominent. Serleena chooses her new form based on a Victoria's Secret ad she finds in an "I Love New York" magazine.
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* BlackComedyCannibalism: There is a joke of this nature in the opening scene. When the film's main villainess lands on earth she takes the form of a sexy lingerie model and gets jumped by a mugger who tells her she "tastes good" and drags her behind a bush. Suddenly we see the muggers feet fly into the air and hear him scream as she devours him alive. The woman then answers his "taste good" comment with "Yeah, you too."
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* BlackComedyCannibalism: BlackComedyCannibalism: There is a joke of this nature in the opening scene. When the film's main villainess lands on earth she takes the form of a sexy lingerie model and gets jumped by a mugger who tells her she "tastes good" and drags her behind a bush. Suddenly we see the muggers feet fly into the air and hear him scream as she devours him alive. The woman then answers his "taste good" comment with "Yeah, you too."
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* {{Lockdown}}: During the film, the MIB HQ goes into Code 101 Lockdown.
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* {{Lockdown}}: During the film, the the MIB HQ goes into Code 101 Lockdown.
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* OrbitalBombardment: In the title sequence, Serleena's starship blows up several planets for no apparent reason on her way to Earth.
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* OrbitalBombardment: OrbitalBombardment: In the title sequence, Serleena's starship blows up several planets for no apparent reason on her way to Earth.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: In the HilariousOuttakes, director Creator/BarrySonnenfeld kept referring to the automatic pilot actor as "Derek", despite Creator/WillSmith trying to tell him he was getting it wrong ("Who the fuck is Derek?!").
* AlternateLandmarkHistory: The movie shows that the Statue of Liberty conceals a giant [[LaserGuidedAmnesia neuralizer]] device.
* AmnesiaDanger: The MIB need the memory-wiped Kay to come out of retirement to deal with the crisis at hand. And when he remembers being in MIB, it turns out he wiped his memory of the critical event, so they're still in trouble.
* AmnesiaDanger: The MIB need the memory-wiped Kay to come out of retirement to deal with the crisis at hand. And when he remembers being in MIB, it turns out he wiped his memory of the critical event, so they're still in trouble.
* AtmosphereAbuse: Since the ozone layer is part of the atmosphere, it's probably relevant that one of the alien criminals in the movie was convicted of stealing some of it to sell on the black market.
* AwfulTruth: Agent J asks Agent K why he didn't tell him that his new girlfriend was the key to stopping an interstellar war and had to leave. K's response: "Would you have let her go?" On a larger scale, this was part of the point of the {{Masquerade}} in the first place. Something about constant threat of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt being a ''bit'' much for most people to handle.
* AwfulTruth: Agent J asks Agent K why he didn't tell him that his new girlfriend was the key to stopping an interstellar war and had to leave. K's response: "Would you have let her go?" On a larger scale, this was part of the point of the {{Masquerade}} in the first place. Something about constant threat of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt being a ''bit'' much for most people to handle.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Music/MichaelJackson begs Z to let him be an Agent. It also implies that Martha Stewart ([[CatsAreMean or possibly her cat]]) is actually an evil alien overlord.
* BehindTheBlack: Happens [[MuggingTheMonster when a hideous alien shapeshifting into a highly attractive woman clad only in her underwear is mugged]] mere seconds after all her weird tentacle things have retracted into her head. From a mugger ''who had apparently been standing a few feet behind her.''
* BehindTheBlack: Happens [[MuggingTheMonster when a hideous alien shapeshifting into a highly attractive woman clad only in her underwear is mugged]] mere seconds after all her weird tentacle things have retracted into her head. From a mugger ''who had apparently been standing a few feet behind her.''
* BlackBraAndPanties: The villain, a shapeshifting Alien, chooses a supermodel ad wearing a Black Bra and Panties to imitate and uses it to seduce other characters.
* BlackComedyCannibalism: There is a joke of this nature in the opening scene. When the film's main villainess lands on earth she takes the form of a sexy lingerie model and gets jumped by a mugger who tells her she "tastes good" and drags her behind a bush. Suddenly we see the muggers feet fly into the air and hear him scream as she devours him alive. The woman then answers his "taste good" comment with "Yeah, you too."
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** The diner J and T go to has a UFO in it. WordOfGod says it's the same UFO that belonged to "Edgar" before it got taken by MIB.
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** The diner J and T go to has a UFO in it. WordOfGod The movie's director says it's the same UFO that belonged to "Edgar" before it got taken by MIB.MIB.
* CanonMarchesOn: The movie ignores the [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries animated series]] where Agent J and Agent K continue to have adventures, and follows the ending of the first movie instead.
* CanonMarchesOn: The movie ignores the [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries animated series]] where Agent J and Agent K continue to have adventures, and follows the ending of the first movie instead.
* CargoCult: A race of tiny aliens living in a rental locker worship a watch that K left behind. When K retrieves this watch, J replaces it with his own, becoming a new deity for the locker people. They also treat a video rental card as if it were the Ten Commandments, interpreting the words in their own way. For example, "Be kind! Rewind!" is seen as "Reconcile your past in order to move into your future!" and "Two for one every Wednesday" means "Give twice as much as ye receive on our most sacred of days. Every Wednesday." Unfortunately, things start to get nasty with "Large adult entertainment section in the back."
* CrossingTheBurntBridge: After Sarleena's attack on MIB headquarters forces J and an amnesiac K to evacuate, turns out that the only one with a deneuralizer to help bring back K's memories is Jeebes, the nebbish alien pawnshop owner who K had shot in the [[Film/MenInBlack first movie]], so K and J end up having to go to him to get his help. Jeebes, understandably is less-than-inclined to help the two...at least until J shoves a blaster in his face and makes it clear that [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse the bridge is officially rebuilt]] and Jeebes ''will'' help them with a smile on his face.
* DetachmentCombat: There's an alien who starts out looking like a single tall humanoid. But when it begins to fight Agent Jay, it [[TotemPoleTrench turns into five or six smaller aliens]] that fly around and attack Agent Jay by dive-bombing him.
* DialogueReversal: There's an example that evokes a dialogue from the first movie:
** In the previous movie, as James Edwards was being initiated by Agent Kay into the titular organization, there was this exchange:
--->'''Zed:''' Edwards, let's put it on.\\
'''Edwards:''' Put what on?\\
'''Zed:''' The last suit you'll ever wear.
** In this movie, when Kay, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia reverted back to Kevin Brown]], [[MandatoryUnretirement was called out of retirement]]:
--->'''Jay:''' Let's put it on.\\
'''Kevin:''' Put what on?\\
'''Jay:''' The last suit you'll ever wear... again.
* DialogueReversal: There's an example that evokes a dialogue from the first movie:
** In the previous movie, as James Edwards was being initiated by Agent Kay into the titular organization, there was this exchange:
--->'''Zed:''' Edwards, let's put it on.\\
'''Edwards:''' Put what on?\\
'''Zed:''' The last suit you'll ever wear.
** In this movie, when Kay, [[LaserGuidedAmnesia reverted back to Kevin Brown]], [[MandatoryUnretirement was called out of retirement]]:
--->'''Jay:''' Let's put it on.\\
'''Kevin:''' Put what on?\\
'''Jay:''' The last suit you'll ever wear... again.
* DinnerAndABreakup: A platonic version. Deciding his partnership with T isn't working out, J takes him to eat pie at a diner, planning to neuralyze him and erase his memories. T realizes and starts blubbering, even as he points out J is doing it in public to keep him from making a scene. J goes through with it, returns T to his civilian identity, and encourages a waitress to hook up with T before he leaves.
* DontTouchItYouIdiot: An IronicEcho occurs when Agent J says this when Agent K, having been [[LaserGuidedAmnesia neuralized]] in the previous film, touches a small round object, which turns out to be a tiny planet.
* DramaticallyDelayedDrug: After T manages to provoke [[FluffyTheTerrible Jeffrey]] into a rampage across the New York subway tunnels with his CowboyCop antics, J attempts to pacify the giant worm by injecting him with a tranquilizer, only for Jeff to punt J into a train and try to eat it. It's not until Jeff has eaten 3/4 of the train and J has threatened to shoot him does the tranquilizer ''finally'' take effect, several minutes later. For good measure, during an angry call to MIB headquarters, J can be heard asking if someone can check the expiration date on unipod worm tranquilizers.
* DramaticallyDelayedDrug: After T manages to provoke [[FluffyTheTerrible Jeffrey]] into a rampage across the New York subway tunnels with his CowboyCop antics, J attempts to pacify the giant worm by injecting him with a tranquilizer, only for Jeff to punt J into a train and try to eat it. It's not until Jeff has eaten 3/4 of the train and J has threatened to shoot him does the tranquilizer ''finally'' take effect, several minutes later. For good measure, during an angry call to MIB headquarters, J can be heard asking if someone can check the expiration date on unipod worm tranquilizers.
* ElevatorActionSequence: Happens when Jay, Kay, and the worms raid MIB headquarters to confront Serleena. When they take the elevator down to the main level, a robot starts firing aimlessly into the elevator, while the heroes are hiding on the ceiling. When the robot runs out of bullets initially, Jay uses that chance to get out of the elevator and make his way down to save Laura, and the worms climb out the top to reach the power controls. Kay then attracts the robot into the elevator, hits the close button, drops a bomb, swings out, and lets the bomb detonate inside with just the robot getting caught in the blast.
* EmergencyStash: J and K access an emergency stash of weapons after the [=MiB=] HQ is in LockDown. The people who live where the weapons are stored have no idea they are there.
* EmergencyStash: J and K access an emergency stash of weapons after the [=MiB=] HQ is in LockDown. The people who live where the weapons are stored have no idea they are there.
* EmptyElevator: J, K and the worm guys arrive back at MIB Central, and the garbage can robot neatly peppers the elevator they arrive in with bullets... but they're all doing a CeilingCling.
* ExpositionBeam: The Deneuralizer, which undoes [[LaserGuidedAmnesia what the Neuralizer does]].
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* FisherKing: Laura is a mild example. When she is sad it starts raining. At the end when she leaves Earth for good we see her spaceship is full of rain.
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* FeetFirstIntroduction: [[LiteralManeater Serleena's]] introduction as she shapeshifts into a human disguise starts by focusing on her high heel shoes, then slowly panning up her legs and lingerie clad body, before she gets jumped by a mugger who she promptly eats.
* FisherKing: Laura is a mild example. When she is sad it starts raining. At the end when she leaves Earth for good we see her spaceship is full ofrain. rain.
* ForbiddenChekhovsGun: Jay uses "Pressed the Red Button" as a type of code, indicating that it is reserved only for the [[GodzillaThreshold biggest emergencies]]. They seem to prefer to not even use the neuralyzer if they don't have to, so going for a rocket car ride would likely be a last ditch number on their list of priorities.
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* ForbiddenChekhovsGun: Jay uses "Pressed the Red Button" as a type of code, indicating that it is reserved only for the [[GodzillaThreshold biggest emergencies]]. They seem to prefer to not even use the neuralyzer if they don't have to, so going for a rocket car ride would likely be a last ditch number on their list of priorities.
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* GettingEatenIsHarmless: Serleena. At the climax she accidentally flies her ship into Jeff's mouth and he eats her. In spite of the giant worm having rows of teeth running all the way to the back of his throat and devouring her with lots and lots of chewing, ''she'' winds up eating ''him'' from the inside out, allowing her to become a giant version of her true form.
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* GettingEatenIsHarmless: GettingEatenIsHarmless:
** Serleena. At the climax she accidentally flies her ship into Jeff's mouth and he eats her. In spite of the giant worm having rows of teeth running all the way to the back of his throat and devouring her with lots and lots of chewing, ''she'' winds up eating ''him'' from the inside out, allowing her to become a giant version of her true form.
** Serleena. At the climax she accidentally flies her ship into Jeff's mouth and he eats her. In spite of the giant worm having rows of teeth running all the way to the back of his throat and devouring her with lots and lots of chewing, ''she'' winds up eating ''him'' from the inside out, allowing her to become a giant version of her true form.
* GivenNameReveal: When J is reunited with K, who'd retired to civilian life after the first film, he sees that K's full name is Kevin Brown.
* GrayRainOfDepression: Used literally when the Light of Zartha leaves Earth.
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* HiddenInPlainSight:
** The Light of Zartha was [[spoiler: J's {{Love Interest|s}} all along]].
** It's also revealed that Music/MichaelJackson is an alien living on Earth.
* HiddenSupplies: With Jay and Kay separated from MIB headquarters, they go to an apartment Kay apparently used to live in to stock up on alien weaponry in a hidden room.
** The Light of Zartha was [[spoiler: J's {{Love Interest|s}} all along]].
** It's also revealed that Music/MichaelJackson is an alien living on Earth.
* HiddenSupplies: With Jay and Kay separated from MIB headquarters, they go to an apartment Kay apparently used to live in to stock up on alien weaponry in a hidden room.
* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The movie is implied to have started on July 4 (the film's release date).
-->'''J:''' You're back.\\
'''K:''' No.\\
'''J:''' How'd you know [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap his head grows back]]?\\
'''K:''' It grows back?
'''K:''' No.\\
'''J:''' How'd you know [[ImmortalLifeIsCheap his head grows back]]?\\
'''K:''' It grows back?
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* IdiotBall: A few people pick it up throughout the movie. Agent T seems to be stupid personified, at least by MIB standards.
** [[spoiler:Serleena seems to play sports with it; she takes a long ass time talking to K, whom she has at her mercy, instead of killing him. Oh, and when she finally has Laura in a spaceship ready to go, what does she do? Set it at a conveniently long countdown instead of just 3,2,1 blast off.]]
** [[spoiler:Serleena seems to play sports with it; she takes a long ass time talking to K, whom she has at her mercy, instead of killing him. Oh, and when she finally has Laura in a spaceship ready to go, what does she do? Set it at a conveniently long countdown instead of just 3,2,1 blast off.]]
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* IdiotBall: A few people pick it up throughout the movie. Agent T seems to be stupid personified, at least by MIB standards.
** [[spoiler:Serleenastandards. ddenIn[[spoiler:Serleena seems to play sports with it; she takes a long ass time talking to K, whom she has at her mercy, instead of killing him. Oh, and when she finally has Laura in a spaceship ready to go, what does she do? Set it at a conveniently long countdown instead of just 3,2,1 blast off.]]]]
* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Serleena comments, "Silly little planet. I could rule the place with the right set of mammary glands."
* IKnowMortalKombat: Spoofed; the only way to control the CoolCar manually while in flight is with a Platform/PlayStation gamepad; Jay has no problems with it, but Kay, being a CoolOldGuy who was with the [=MiB=] since its founding in TheFifties, well...
-->'''Jay:''' Didn't your mother ever buy you a [=GameBoy=]?\\
'''Kay:''' WHAT THE HELL IS A GAMEBOY?!
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* IHaveBoobsYouMustObey: Serleena comments, "Silly little planet. I could rule the place with the right set of mammary glands."
* IKnowMortalKombat: Spoofed; the only way to control the CoolCar manually while in flight is with a Platform/PlayStation gamepad; Jay has no problems with it, but Kay, being a CoolOldGuy who was with the [=MiB=] since its founding in TheFifties, well...
-->'''Jay:''' Didn't your mother ever buy you a [=GameBoy=]?\\
'''Kay:''' WHAT THE HELL IS A GAMEBOY?!
* ImmortalityHurts: Jeebs looks a little worse for wear in comparison to the first movie. According to the fillmakers, not all parts grow back the same. In the animated series, Jeebs's brother shows up at one point and reveals that, in his family, blasting each other means "Hello", although it's usually Jeebs who gets blasted.
* IWasNeverHere: J and K are watching an episode of an old show that is describing something that happened to K years before. At the end of the episode, they see "You saw nothing" on the recording.
-->''This is a story that "never happened", from one of their files that "doesn't exist".''
* IWasNeverHere: J and K are watching an episode of an old show that is describing something that happened to K years before. At the end of the episode, they see "You saw nothing" on the recording.
-->''This is a story that "never happened", from one of their files that "doesn't exist".''
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* KillItThroughItsStomach: Poor Jeff...
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* KillItThroughItsStomach: Poor Jeff...Serleena is tricked into flying down Jeff the giant worm-creature's gullet, but grows large enough to burst out of him for a final battle with J.
* LetMeGetThisStraight: J is having a hard time grasping K's plan regarding the erasure of his memories of the Light.
->'''Agent J:''' Run over your plan one more time, 'cause I'm struggling with it. You neuralised your memory of the Light but left yourself clues. A photo pointing to a key in a pizzeria which opens a locker at Grand Central. In the locker, we'll find '''another''' clue.\\
'''Agent K:''' I like to keep my enemies confused.\\
'''Agent J:''' We're all confused, K.
* Letters2Numbers: The film's name is abbreviated [=MIIB=]. Though this obviously leads itself to redundancy--men in in black? Are they wearing two layers of clothing?
->'''Agent J:''' Run over your plan one more time, 'cause I'm struggling with it. You neuralised your memory of the Light but left yourself clues. A photo pointing to a key in a pizzeria which opens a locker at Grand Central. In the locker, we'll find '''another''' clue.\\
'''Agent K:''' I like to keep my enemies confused.\\
'''Agent J:''' We're all confused, K.
* Letters2Numbers: The film's name is abbreviated [=MIIB=]. Though this obviously leads itself to redundancy--men in in black? Are they wearing two layers of clothing?
* LingerieScene:
** In an early scene, Serleena is in the middle of Central Park wearing nothing but said lingerie which winds up attracting a mugger. [[MuggingTheMonster He tries attacking her]] but she immediately turns the tables on him and [[IAmAHumanitarian devours him alive]].
** Serleena is passing through security at MIB headquarters. When she's asked for the reason for her visit to Earth she opens her coat and replies: "I'm hoping to become a Victoria's Secret model" then knocks out the guards [[ShowSomeLeg while they're gaping at her lingerie-clad body]].
* LinkedListClueMethodology: Most of the film consists of K trying to regain his memories through a list of clues that he left for himself.
** In an early scene, Serleena is in the middle of Central Park wearing nothing but said lingerie which winds up attracting a mugger. [[MuggingTheMonster He tries attacking her]] but she immediately turns the tables on him and [[IAmAHumanitarian devours him alive]].
** Serleena is passing through security at MIB headquarters. When she's asked for the reason for her visit to Earth she opens her coat and replies: "I'm hoping to become a Victoria's Secret model" then knocks out the guards [[ShowSomeLeg while they're gaping at her lingerie-clad body]].
* LinkedListClueMethodology: Most of the film consists of K trying to regain his memories through a list of clues that he left for himself.
* {{Lockdown}}: During the film, the MIB HQ goes into Code 101 Lockdown.
%%* LosingYourHead: Jeebs.
%%* LosingYourHead: Jeebs.
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* LosingYourHead: Jeebs.
* MacGuffinBlindness: Jay spent the entire movie looking for the Light of Zartha, not realizing that he'd been hanging out with her throughout the entire movie.
* MemoryGambit: Kay can't remember where he stashed away the MacGuffin, and reasons that he must have neuralized himself to avoid disclosing its location, after placing clues that would lead him (and only him) to it.
* MirandaRights: Jay does a variation to Jeffrey, the giant worm, during its rampage through the subway:
-->'''Agent Jay''': "You have the right to remain ugly. You have the right to have your squirmy, extraterrestrial butt put in a sling for whiplashing me into that fruit stand and getting mashed banana all over my shirt. With the full powers vested in me as an agent of MIB, I hereby place you under arrest. Now pull your wiggly-ass self over!"
-->'''Agent Jay''': "You have the right to remain ugly. You have the right to have your squirmy, extraterrestrial butt put in a sling for whiplashing me into that fruit stand and getting mashed banana all over my shirt. With the full powers vested in me as an agent of MIB, I hereby place you under arrest. Now pull your wiggly-ass self over!"
* MultiDirectionalBarrage: The robot near the end of the film does this with what appear to be submachine guns.
* TheNapoleon: Serleena, technically, given her true form is a little worm.
* NeckLift: Serleena grabs and lifts the pizza shop owner (actually an undercover alien guarding the Light of Zartha) by the chin.
* NeverRecycleABuilding: It hasn't been ''abandoned'', but the video-rental store that holds a vital clue in ''Film/MenInBlackII'' is still there after twenty-five years, even though most people moved on to [=DVDs=] years ago. Of course, the protagonists are part of an organisation who conduct passive MindRape on people, so this might explain why they never switched to DVD along with everyone else. They might also be the reason that place is still in business...
* NeverRecycleABuilding: It hasn't been ''abandoned'', but the video-rental store that holds a vital clue in ''Film/MenInBlackII'' is still there after twenty-five years, even though most people moved on to [=DVDs=] years ago. Of course, the protagonists are part of an organisation who conduct passive MindRape on people, so this might explain why they never switched to DVD along with everyone else. They might also be the reason that place is still in business...
* NormalFishInATinyPond: An entire species of aliens fits into a train station locker. They revere the main characters as gods; they see a light-up watch in the locker as a holy light, and they consider a business card that was put in there to be a religious text. As in the first film, this situation is turned around, as it is revealed at the end of the movie that an entrance to our world leads to another processing station... for aliens as big as skyscrapers. The second film also contains this exchange:
-->'''J:''' While you were licking stamps, I saved the world from a Kreelon invasion.\\
'''K:''' The Kreelons are the Backstreet Boys of the universe. What'd they do, throw snowballs?
* OddlyOvertrainedSecurity: J re-recruits K from his retirement at a post office. The retiree deals with a spilled coffee by issuing orders like he's containing a nuclear breach. This scene does admittedly take place in the sorting room, and getting spilled coffee all over someone else's mail is a great way to get yourself in a whole hell of a lot of trouble, but it definitely hints to J that his old partner might not be entirely happy in retirement.
-->'''J:''' While you were licking stamps, I saved the world from a Kreelon invasion.\\
'''K:''' The Kreelons are the Backstreet Boys of the universe. What'd they do, throw snowballs?
* OddlyOvertrainedSecurity: J re-recruits K from his retirement at a post office. The retiree deals with a spilled coffee by issuing orders like he's containing a nuclear breach. This scene does admittedly take place in the sorting room, and getting spilled coffee all over someone else's mail is a great way to get yourself in a whole hell of a lot of trouble, but it definitely hints to J that his old partner might not be entirely happy in retirement.
* OrbitalBombardment: In the title sequence, Serleena's starship blows up several planets for no apparent reason on her way to Earth.
* OrganDodge: PlayedForLaughs. After Kay regains his memory, he starts fighting the aliens attacking Jay and tries for a GroinAttack on one of them. The alien shrugs it off, only for Jay to yell, "Kay, he's a Ballchinnian!" [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Kay consequently aims higher the second time.]]
* OrganDodge: PlayedForLaughs. After Kay regains his memory, he starts fighting the aliens attacking Jay and tries for a GroinAttack on one of them. The alien shrugs it off, only for Jay to yell, "Kay, he's a Ballchinnian!" [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Kay consequently aims higher the second time.]]
* {{Profiling}}: A line about DWB (Driving While Black); the car's stoic autopilot decoy "came with a black dude, but he kept getting pulled over".
* PullingThemselvesTogether: The villainess has captured the damsel and apparently killed her guardians, the worms. J and K find them lying in pieces in their apartment -- then they wake up, start grumbling, and drag themselves over to their lower halves to reattach them.
* SacrificialPlanet: The opening credits show an alien spaceship flying through space and destroying every planet it passes. It then lands on Earth and get peed on by a [[BigLittleMan dog that's larger than the ship]].
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Arguably averted. Serleena at one point asks for a spacecraft that can travel 300 times the speed of light. To put it into perspective, this speed would get you to Proxima Centauri, our nearest star (after the Sun, of course), in 5.13 days. Still hardly the instant travel across the universe we always see in sci-fi, but at least the writers made an effort.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Arguably averted.Averted. Serleena at one point asks for a spacecraft that can travel 300 times the speed of light. To put it into perspective, this speed would get you to Proxima Centauri, our nearest star (after the Sun, of course), in 5.13 days. Still hardly the instant travel across the universe we always see in sci-fi, but at least the writers made an effort.
* SignedUpForTheDental: Zed explains to Frank that he'll get better dental as Zed's assistant than as a field agent. Since Frank is canid (at least in appearance while on Earth), this works for him.
* SmallSecludedWorld: One of K's lockers is an entire world to small aliens, but then in the {{stinger}} we realize that [[spoiler: our entire world is a locker to other aliens. Or something.]]
* SmallSecludedWorld: One of K's lockers is an entire world to small aliens, but then in the {{stinger}} we realize that [[spoiler: our entire world is a locker to other aliens. Or something.]]
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* StargazingScene:The memory-wiped K finally gets said memory back after looking up at the stars, knowing that there's more out there.
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* SuperMultipurposeRoom: K hid a stash of alien weaponry in his old apartment.
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* SuperMultipurposeRoom: K hid has a stash cache of alien weaponry weapons hidden in his old apartment.apartment, which is now someone else's home. They have to [[LaserGuidedAmnesia neuralize this family]] in order to access it.
* ThankTheMaker: The locker aliens consider Kay their God for supplying them with the light of his [[PlotCoupon digital watch]]. Then they consider Jay their God when he gives them a new one after Kay takes his back...
* ThirdEye: One of the alien thugs has a "pineal eye" hidden under his hat that is his species' AchillesHeel.
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* ToServeMan: Serleena's preferred way of killing people, although she has other methods, like using her tentacles. She can [[SwallowedWhole swallow a man-sized victim whole]] even though she isn't much bigger.
* TheNapoleon: Serleena, technically, given her true form is a little worm.
* TheNapoleon: Serleena, technically, given her true form is a little worm.
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* ToServeMan: Serleena's preferred way of killing people, although she has other methods, like using her tentacles. She can [[SwallowedWhole swallow a man-sized victim whole]] even though she isn't much bigger.
* TotemPoleTrench: Jarra is revealed to be a small figure in a saucer along with his three small companions.
* TotemPoleTrench: Jarra is revealed to be a small figure in a saucer along with his three small companions.
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* TruceZone: This is the reason why the MIB cannot safeguard the Light of Zartha from Serleena, since it would technically break Earth's neutrality, [[spoiler: so Kay does so in secret and erases his memory of the incident.]]
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* VomitDiscretionShot: Serleena, who is currently walking around in nothing but a bra and panties, [[MuggingTheMonster devours a guy who accosted her with a knife]]. However, after she ate him she wound up with a massive gut so she hides behind a bush and barfs him up and steals his clothes, which for some reason fit her.
* WallOfWeapons: There's a wall of weapons stashed behind the wall of Agent Kay's old apartment. It comes in handy for the heroes when they are stuck outside of MIB headquarters.
* WallOfWeapons: There's a wall of weapons stashed behind the wall of Agent Kay's old apartment. It comes in handy for the heroes when they are stuck outside of MIB headquarters.
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* WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens: The machine to restore Agent K's memories spins around.
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* BigRedButton: Don't press the one in J's car if you don't know what a [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation PS1]] controller is, and your mother never gave you a Game Boy...
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* BigRedButton: Don't press the one in J's car if you don't know what a [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation [[Platform/PlayStation PS1]] controller is, and your mother never gave you a Game Boy...Platform/GameBoy...
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** K's wife is revealed to have left him because even though he'd left his life as an agent behind and totally forgotten it all, he still felt that unknown attachment that she could never understand or ever even realize was there. Also, [[spoiler:years before that, K develops a relationship with Princess Laurana—to the point that he's likely Laura's father—and this ends when Serleeena murders her]].
** [[spoiler: Laura is forced to depart to Zartha once she's revealed to be the Light and that it'll save both that planet and Earth, meaning she leaves behind J while doing so too]].
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** [[spoiler: Laura is forced to depart to Zartha once she's revealed to be the Light and that it'll save both that planet and Earth, meaning she leaves behind J while doing so too]].
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** K's wife Elizabeth is revealed to have left him because even though he'd left his life as an agent behind and totally forgotten it all, he still felt that unknown attachment that she could never understand or ever even realize was there. Also, [[spoiler:years before that, K develops a relationship with Princess Laurana—to the point that he's likely Laura's father—and this ends when Serleeena murders her]].
**[[spoiler: Laura [[spoiler:Laura is forced to depart to Zartha once she's revealed to be the Light and that it'll save both that planet and Earth, meaning she leaves behind J while doing so too]].
too]]. Also since J was implied to be romantically involved with Laurel/L in the last film, that means her deciding to leave the MIB and go back to her old life as a mortician means they didn't stay together either.
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* EvilIsPetty: The opening credits show Sarleena destroying planets she passed by.
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* EvilIsPetty: The opening credits show Sarleena Serleena destroying planets she passed by.by. Also, [[spoiler:when K makes her think he launched the Light off the planet decades ago, she briefly doubles back just to shoot and kill Laurana out of spite]].
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** K's wife is revealed to have left him because even though he'd left his life as an agent behind and totally forgotten it all, he still felt that unknown attachment that she could never understand or ever even realize was there.
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** K's wife is revealed to have left him because even though he'd left his life as an agent behind and totally forgotten it all, he still felt that unknown attachment that she could never understand or ever even realize was there. Also, [[spoiler:years before that, K develops a relationship with Princess Laurana—to the point that he's likely Laura's father—and this ends when Serleeena murders her]].
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* BittersweetEnding: Downplayed. [[spoiler: While Serleena is successfully destroyed, Laura being the Light means she has to depart to Zartha to save both her own planet and Earth, in turn leaving behind both J who she'd fallen in love with and K who it turns out is probably the father she never knew she had. J while he accepts it also knows that it still hurts though. K while he enjoyed civilian life is also happy to be back with the MIB as well too]].
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* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler: Laura departs for Zartha having found out that she's the Light and that they need her—and that if she doesn't leave, Earth gets destroyed by her bracelet too. In turn, she leaves J just after the two fell in love. Also, she's even learned K is probably her father too and she has to leave him as well]].
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** K's wife is revealed to have left him because even though he'd left his life as an agent behind and totally forgotten it all, he still felt that unknown attachment that she could never understand or ever even realize was there.
** [[spoiler: Laura is forced to depart to Zartha once she's revealed to be the Light and that it'll save both that planet and Earth, meaning she leaves behind J while doing so too]].
** K's wife is revealed to have left him because even though he'd left his life as an agent behind and totally forgotten it all, he still felt that unknown attachment that she could never understand or ever even realize was there.
** [[spoiler: Laura is forced to depart to Zartha once she's revealed to be the Light and that it'll save both that planet and Earth, meaning she leaves behind J while doing so too]].
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* DrivingQuestion: What really happened during the MIB's original confrontation with Serleena back 25 years earlier? And if the Light of Zathrat's still on Earth and has been all along, then why would K lie to Zed about taking care of it (let alone why would K leave clues behind in case he needed to remember)?
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* DrivingQuestion: What really happened during the MIB's original confrontation with Serleena back 25 years earlier? in the 1970s? And if the Light of Zathrat's still on Earth and has been all along, then why would K lie have lied to Zed about taking care of it (let alone why would K leave clues about the Light behind in case he needed to remember)?
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* RaceAgainstTime: Downplayed, if subverted when Zed and J realize that if the Light of Zathra's still on Earth, then only the now-amnesiac K can answer provide answers about the original incident. Zed also realizes Serleena will have come to the same conclusion and will be seeking him out, meaning J has to get to him first. J does without any problems (hence the subversion).
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* DrivingQuestion: What really happened during the MIB's original confrontation with Serleena back 25 years earlier? And if the Light of Zathrat's still on Earth and has been all along, then why would K lie to Zed about taking care of it (let alone why would K leave clues behind in case he needed to remember)?
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* DramaticallyDelayedDrug: After he and Puss help Shrek steal the Happily Ever After potion, Donkey takes a swig first to make sure it's safe to drink. When nothing happens to him, Shrek assumes the potion simply doesn't work on donkeys and drinks the rest, but when nothing happens to him either, he dejectedly assumes that he and Fiona "were never meant to be". Later that night, as the three stop to make camp, Shrek and Donkey suddenly pass out, and when they come to, they find the potion has indeed taken effect: Shrek is now human (as is Fiona, unbeknownst to them), and Donkey is now a stallion. Conveniently, this gives them a full day to obtain true love's kiss and make the potion's effects permanent before they revert back to normal [[CosmicDeadline at midnight]].
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* DramaticallyDelayedDrug: After he and Puss help Shrek steal the Happily Ever After potion, Donkey takes a swig first to make sure it's safe to drink. When nothing happens to him, Shrek assumes the potion simply doesn't work on donkeys and drinks the rest, but when nothing happens to him either, he dejectedly assumes that he and Fiona "were never meant to be". Later that night, as the three stop to make camp, Shrek and Donkey suddenly pass out, and when they come to, they find the potion has indeed taken effect: Shrek is now human (as is Fiona, unbeknownst to them), and Donkey is now a stallion. Conveniently, this gives them a full day to obtain true love's kiss and make the potion's effects permanent before they revert back to normal [[CosmicDeadline at midnight]].
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This page identifies both a mugger and a rapist and doesn't seem to be specific to either of those descriptions
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** These were actually the first words Serleena heard after landing on Earth and assuming a human form, when a would-be mugger licks the side of her face. Her reply?
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* ArtisticLicenseSpace: The film is set in July and K can see the Orion constellation. The only part of Earth where this is visible in July is south of the Antarctic Cirle.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Scrad and Charlie kind of just... disappear halfway through the film.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Scrad and Charlie kind of just... disappear halfway through the film. In the novelization, it's revealed the two defected from Serleena and helped J and K defeat her. K later gave them jobs at the post office he worked in, much to the two's delight.
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* EarthShatteringKaboom: The beginning of the film shows Serleena destroying planets as she passes by. Even more amazing when the viewers find out that the ship is [[spoiler:only a foot tall.]]
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* EarthShatteringKaboom: The beginning of the film shows Serleena destroying planets as she passes by. Even more amazing when the viewers find out that the ship is [[spoiler:only [[spoiler:not even a foot tall.]]
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* SequelNonEntity: Laurel gets mentioned once just to "explain" why she isn't with them.
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* SequelNonEntity: Laurel gets mentioned once in passing just to "explain" why she isn't with them.
-->'''Serleena''': ''(while unbuttoning her top)'' They tell me I've got great potential.
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* StarfishLanguage: J communicates with an alien played by Biz Markie with beat-boxing.
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* BookedFullOfMooks: J tracks down the now-retired and neuralyzed K, who works as a small town postmaster. In order to convince him that the Men in Black do exist, J reveals that every other worker in K's post office is an alien in disguise.
