

Parental Substitute: To J after they meet.Oh, Crap!: Only once does he briefly lose his composure, thanks to witnessing the Bug revealing himself as a huge-sized monstrosity.My Card: How he introduces J to the world of the MiB.The Mentor: Even years after J joins, he's still teaching him.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.In his own words, not killing Boris the Animal was the worst mistake he ever made.He survives the Bug's innards to retrieve his gun and blast his way out. Of course, given how he's a Man in Black.

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By the third movie, he's so stoic, he is unable to crack a joke or a smile. 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.

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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.Chick Magnet: Evidently was this in his younger days, as all three movies involve a backstory regarding a different old flame.

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.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.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).Here, he's a Knight in Sour Armor who never crosses the line. Adaptational Heroism: The comic book version of K was a Well-Intentioned Extremist at the best of times."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.
