Agent J

This article is about the Men in Black character. Agent J is also the name of a character in Elite Beat Agents, and is also the title of Mandopop singer Jolin Tsai's 9th Album

James Darrell Edwards III/Agent J
Men in Black: The Series character
Will Smith as Agent J.
First appearance	Men in Black
Portrayed by	Will Smith
Voiced by	Keith Diamond
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Nickname(s)	Jay J "Slick"

Agent J (Jay, or just J) is a fictional MIB agent and one of the two protagonists of Men In Black, its sequel Men in Black II, and Men in Black: The Series. Agent J is portrayed by Will Smith in the two films and voiced by Keith Diamond in the animated series.

Biography

Men in Black

In the first film, Agent J is changed to an African-American, despite being Caucasian in the comics. His MIB career starts out when, as NYPD officer James Darrell Edwards III, he runs down a swift, wall-climbing alien on foot. When MIB Agent K notices his potential, he recruits him into the MIB. At first, Edwards is suspicious, but he decides to join. He is registered as Agent J and his energetic, enthusiastic attitude brings humor to a bland organization. Jay is not fond of Kay's diminutive references to him (son, sport, slick, kid, etc.), but gets used to it. In his various adventures, he encounters Frank, the dog; finds out that Jeebs, the pawn store owner is actually an alien, not just a buyer of stolen goods from chain snatchers like he originally thought when he was a detective; and delivers a baby squid. Their first official mission is to stop an alien bug from leaving Earth with a tiny galaxy before the galaxy's owners disintegrate the planet. During the final confrontation with the bug, Kay is swallowed by it in an attempt to get his gun back, leaving Jay to keep him on Earth. When he starts squishing cockroaches, the bug confronts him, but before it can attack him, Kay shoots it from the inside. When Kay requests to be neuralyzed (a memory-wiping procedure), Jay fulfills the request and his new partner is a former morgue worker, Dr. Laurel Weaver (Linda Fiorentino), who becomes known as Agent L.

Men in Black II

At some point between the first and second film, Elle goes back to her morgue career, and Jay has gained a reputation for neuralyzing all of his partners for, in his opinion, unsuitability to work at MIB; at the beginning of the film, he neuralyzes his new partner Agent T because he forces Tee to admit that he joined the agency to be a hero, something that is fundamentally impossible in the Men in Black due to the secretive nature of the organization. Other than that, he has developed into a superb and highly respected agent. When he is sent to get Kay back to face a new threat to which only he had details of locked away in his mind, Jay's temporary partner is an alien disguised as a talkative pug, Frank. Jay investigates a murder at a local pizza joint and meets and falls in love with an employee named Laura Vasquez. Despite the MIB's policy, Jay does not neuralyze her. Jay then heads to find Kevin Brown who holds the key to finding the Light of Zartha. When Kay is de-neuralyzed, Jay is once again the rookie, but for revenge, Jay gave Brown the Noisy Cricket (the tiny gun that Kay saddled him with in the first movie, though it does have a strong blast). The duo discover the light is Laura, and Jay (reluctantly) allows her to fulfill her destiny.

During the film, Jay has a particular enmity with the alien criminal known as Jara, whom Jay stopped from stealing the Earth's ozone layer.

Men in Black III

Will Smith indeed will return as Agent J for Men in Black 3, when he travels back in time to 1969 to meet a young Agent K and save his life from a alien who plots to kill him.

See also

• Agent K
• Men in Black (comics), inspiration for the fictional characters and stories
• Men in Black: The Series
• Men in Black III

References

• Agent J at the Internet Movie Database
• Agent J I at the Comic Book DB
• Agent J II at the Comic Book DB