Special:Badtitle/NS90:Talk:Men in Black (film)/The Blue Cacti

Nostalgia Chick made an excellent point about the first movie. The first 20 minutes or so of the film exist purely for the viewer. It's a set of two short stories in-universe. Both episodes end up neuralizing one of the heroes so only the viewer (and Agent K) knows these events exist.

I'm not sure if there's a trope for that but it's a terrific scriptwriting which is worth mentioning.