Men in Black story
Two agents of a secret organization, called the Men in Black, supervise extraterrestrial lifeforms who live on Earth and hide their existence from ordinary humans.
12 total · 6 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| alien living secretly among us | major | The Men in Black is a secret government agency that supervised extraterrestrial lifeforms who lived secretly on Earth. |
| attack from outer space by a genocidal enemy | major | An alien ship in orbit around Earth was going to destroy the planet unless the Men in Black gave them a marble-like object which contained a galaxy within it. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | Aliens lived on Earth secretly from humans. |
| flying saucer theory of UFOs | major | It turned out that people had been seeing flying saucers in the skies for decades, but there was a secret agency that was covering it all up. |
| men in black conspiracy theory | major | The Men in Black is a secret agency outside government control that supervised extraterrestrial lifeforms who lived secretly on Earth. |
| mentor and protégé | major | Agent J was training Agent K to become his replacement. |
| flying saucer | minor | The bug alien arrived in Earth in a flying saucer, and then piloted a different flying saucer over Shea Stadium. |
| insectoid being | minor | The main antagonist in the film was a big insect-like alien. |
| memory erasure | minor | The Men in Black used a mind wipe device on people who saw aliens. |
| nested universe | minor | Revealed at film's end was that our universe exists inside a marble that is used as a plaything in another much bigger universe. |