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Will Smith as Agent J in Men in Black

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

Agent J, Jay or just J, is a fictional character in the Men In Black movie, its sequel Men in Black II and cartoon series, played by Will Smith in the two movies and voiced by Keith Diamond in the animated cartoon on Kids WB!.

In the first film, 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, James is suspicious, but he decides to join. He is registered as Agent J. J is not fond of K's diminutive references to him (son, sport, slick, kid, etc.), but gets used to it. Their first 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, K is swallowed by it in an attempt to get his gun back, leaving J to keep him on Earth. When he starts squishing cockroaches, the bug confronts him, but before it can attack him, K shoots it from the inside. When K requests to be neuralyzed (a memory-wiping proceedure), J fulfills the request and his new partner is a former morgue worker who becomes known as Agent L.

At some point between the first and second film, L wanted to return to the morgue and has been neuralyzed, and J has gained a reputation for neuralyzing all of his partners for, in his opinion, unsuitability to work at MIB. Other than that, he has developed into a superb and highly respected agent. When he is sent to get K back to face a new threat to which only he had details of locked away in his mind, J's temporary partner is an alien disguised as a (talkative) pug, Frank. When K is de-neuralyzed, J is once again the rookie, but for revenge, J gave K the Noisy Cricket (the tiny gun that K saddled him with in the first movie).

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