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* [[Psycho Prototype]]: Alpha.
* [[Psycho Prototype]]: Alpha.
* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: MIB is full of advanced technology that would effortlessly transform the world, but is largely kept under lock and key...because [[The World Is Not Ready|Earth simply isn't ready.]] MIB examines each piece of technology carefully and selects an appropriate time (sometimes even centuries away) for when humans will be ready to handle it.
* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: MIB is full of advanced technology that would effortlessly transform the world, but is largely kept under lock and key...because [[The World Is Not Ready|Earth simply isn't ready.]] MIB examines each piece of technology carefully and selects an appropriate time (sometimes even centuries away) for when humans will be ready to handle it.
* [[Ret Gone]]: What one villain tries to do to MIB's founding members and thus the organization.
* [[Ret-Gone]]: What one villain tries to do to MIB's founding members and thus the organization.
* [[Ripple Effect Proof Memory]]: Justified as a side-effect of brain-enhancing [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that enables Jay to notice that someone's messing with the timeline of MiB and point it out to the rest of his unaware colleagues.
* [[Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory]]: Justified as a side-effect of brain-enhancing [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that enables Jay to notice that someone's messing with the timeline of MiB and point it out to the rest of his unaware colleagues.
* [[San Dimas Time]]: In one episode, they have to stop an out-of-control alien in the past before he destroys a city in the present.
* [[San Dimas Time]]: In one episode, they have to stop an out-of-control alien in the past before he destroys a city in the present.
** Another has a [[Conspiracy Theorist]] going back in time and kidnapping MIB founders. Nobody except J (who has a [[My Brain Is Big|intelligence bump]] due to an [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]]) can remember them or how MIB is being affected by their disappearance. Oh, and [[You Have 48 Hours|he only has 24 hours before his intelligence bump kills him]].
** Another has a [[Conspiracy Theorist]] going back in time and kidnapping MIB founders. Nobody except J (who has a [[My Brain Is Big|intelligence bump]] due to an [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]]) can remember them or how MIB is being affected by their disappearance. Oh, and [[You Have 48 Hours|he only has 24 hours before his intelligence bump kills him]].
* [[Shout Out]]: In "The Inanimate Syndrome", an alien that can turn itself into any inanimate object tries to hide as a mannequin. The mannequin's head gets knocked off and proceeds to [[The Thing (Film)|sprout spider legs and crawl away]].
* [[Shout-Out]]: In "The Inanimate Syndrome", an alien that can turn itself into any inanimate object tries to hide as a mannequin. The mannequin's head gets knocked off and proceeds to [[The Thing (Film)|sprout spider legs and crawl away]].
* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: All Bugs are the offspring of their Queen, and in "The Big Bad Bug Syndrome", they squabble over the bounty on L for killing Edgar.
* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: All Bugs are the offspring of their Queen, and in "The Big Bad Bug Syndrome", they squabble over the bounty on L for killing Edgar.
* [[Spare Body Parts]]: Sintillians have two hearts, and are functionally immortal so long as both are working and "no-one drops a piano on them". K makes it clear to J that this doesn't make the [[Organ Theft]] any better. "You have ten toes. You woke up with one missing, how would you feel?"
* [[Spare Body Parts]]: Sintillians have two hearts, and are functionally immortal so long as both are working and "no-one drops a piano on them". K makes it clear to J that this doesn't make the [[Organ Theft]] any better. "You have ten toes. You woke up with one missing, how would you feel?"
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