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You ever pull the wings off a fly? You care to see the fly get even?!
~ Edgar to Kay and Jay.
You idiots! You don't get it — I've won! It's over! You milksuckers! You don't matter! In fact, in a few seconds you won't even BE matter.
~ Edgar upon confronting the agents.
I see. I put my hands on… on my head. Like this?
~ Edgar's last words before removing his skin disguise and revealing his true form and before his defeat.

The Bug, also known as Edgar the Bug or simply Edgar, is the main antagonist of the 1997 sci-fi action comedy film Men in Black.

He is an interstellar terrorist in search of the Arquillian Galaxy, and his actual appearance is that of a giant cockroach. He does not like it when any bug, especially cockroaches, is killed.

He was portrayed in mo-cap by Vincent D'Onofrio, who also played Private Gomer Pyle in Full Metal Jacket, Carl Rudolph Stargher in The Cell, Bob Fittler in Chained, David Hagan in Fire with Fire, Lester Clark in The Escape Plan, Kingpin in the MCU, and Vic Hoskins in Jurassic World, and also voiced Luca Abele in Dishonored 2, and his revealed vocal effects were provided by Frank Welker.

Description[]

Appearance[]

The Bug takes on the form of a 12-foot-tall alien cockroach. He has a brown exoskeleton, two antennae hanging over his head, big yellow eyes, with black slit pupils and enormous, razor-sharp teeth.

When inhabiting the human skin of Farmer Edgar, the Bug looks remarkably like the farmer except for his ragged appearance, namely as his skin is noted to hang off his bones on several occasions. In addition, Edgar's left eye is slightly discolored and pale in comparison with his right eye. Overtime, the dead human's skin slowly decomposes becoming worse and worse each time he is seen.

Personality[]

Edgar as a human was a hotheaded, aggressive, and grouchy yokel who has no qualms about shooting trespassers who are near his yard or being verbally abusive to his wife Beatrice to the point where he finds anything to rant about. Even Agent J didn't like Edgar at all, just by looking at a picture of him showing off a giant fish he caught.

Edgar as an alien has an inferiority complex, which is quite noticeable, like when he described humans as "under-evolved pondscum", and when he said that he was in a higher phase of evolution. He becomes threatened yet vengeful when he sees bugs, especially cockroaches, get squashed. Ironically though, he was more polite to Beatrice than the original Edgar.

Powers and Abilities[]

  • Heightened Intellect - despite being considered inferior in comparison to the more civilized individuals of the universe, Edgar possesses a sharper and more advanced level of intelligence than his earth relatives. Without needing instructions, he knows how to pilot a UFO that is foreign to him, and also knowing how to drive vehicles in which are only on earth and none are in his galaxy.
  • Malleable physiology: In spite of his size, Edgar's body is surprisingly malleable as he can contort, bend and twist his body so that he can fit into smaller spaces and forcefully reduce his body mass. As a result, he can mold his body into humanoid shape and size allowing him to wear Edgar's skin as a disguise without accidentally tearing it from the inside and even being able to fit into his crashed saucer-shaped starship which is no bigger than a human taxi.
  • Super Strength - Edgar is shown to possess incredible strength. K makes a comment that implies he had unlimited strength, but with his human body, he seems to somewhat compress or inhibited it to an extent.
  • Super Flexibility - being 12 feet tall, he is able to awkwardly fit himself into the skin and clothing of a 6' male human.
  • Wall-Crawling - Edgar is capable of scaling any vertical surface with ease.
  • Super Leaping - As a bug, Edgar was agile and nimble, enabling him to hop extremely high in the air like a grasshopper.
  • Vocal Camouflage - Edgar can considerably alter the sound of his voice though it still sounds inhuman.
  • Slime Secretion - capable of secreting a viscous slime-like substance which is utilized as a restraining tool.
  • Collective Sense - Edgar is able to feel the presence of nearby insects. This is clear when J crushes cockroaches and Edgar, without looking, gets annoyed.

Biography[]

The Bug lands on Earth by flying saucer and eventually crashes and wrecks the truck of Edgar, an abusive farmer while berating his wife, Beatrice for having his dinner poorly made instead of having a steak. As he goes out to investigate after Beatrice asks him what on Earth is outside and Edgar rudely tells Beatrice to get back inside, the unseen bug demands that he surrenders his shotgun. Edgar refuses, threatening the bug instead. The bug responds by revealing himself to the farmer, yanking him into the pit, and kills him by flaying him and eating his body (offscreen), also taking possession of his shotgun while he is investigating the crash site. The Bug uses Edgar's human skin as a disguise while he searches for the Arquillian Galaxy not before asking for sugar water. He rampages through New York City as a human, killing people and trashing everything and everyone in his way amongst them, a pest control man, and a Repo man, who almost towed the pest control van that Edgar was hiding his space saucer.

Eventually, he found Rosenberg and killed him, and got what he thought was the galaxy, but it was diamonds. He later finds that it's on the collar of Rosenberg's cat Orion and infiltrates the morgue to get it. He takes Dr. Laurel Weaver as a hostage and Agents K and J pursue him to a pair of spaceships since his saucer was captured when Jay shot the van from the tow truck that Edgar obtained from the Repo man. Dr. Weaver escapes, but Edgar manages to get on one of the two working spaceships.

After the agents arrive just in time and shoot his craft down with their guns, they hold him at gunpoint, but Edgar rips off his human disguise and reveals his true form. He eats the agents' guns and K purposely gets eaten as well in order to find his gun after telling J to make sure he does not go on the second ship. J is then able to distract him by stepping on cockroaches. He was defeated by K who blasts him from inside with his gun after he has found his gun in Edgar's stomach before blasting his way out, but half of him was still alive and he was finished off by Dr. Weaver with J's gun, spattering the rest of him over K and J before Dr. Weaver tells them about their jobs which are interesting, also avenging the deaths of the humans and the aliens he had killed.

Trivia[]

  • Edgar's species leaves a green spectral trail and craves sugar water.
  • Edgar's true alien form was originally going to be an animatronic puppet, but the puppet was scrapped and was replaced with a computer-generated version instead.
  • Edgar appears in a flashback by K where he gets killed by Laurel Weaver in the Men in Black: The Series episode, "The Big Bad Bug Syndrome". However, he resembles his twin brother, Edwin, and looks nothing like his movie appearance. Given that the cartoon series goes through separate continuity, Edgar in movie and cartoon series are separate incarnations in spite of having similar odds with the Agents.
  • Before Vincent D'Onofrio was cast as Edgar, Bruce Campbell and John Turturro were both considered for the role of the Bug. However, they turned down the role.

Navigation[]

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Movies
Men in Black: Edgar the Bug
Men in Black II: Serleena | Scrad & Charlie | Jarra | Dog Poop | Corn Face | Pineal Eye | Mosh Tendrils | Flesh Balls | Jeff | Creepy | Kylothians
Men in Black 3: Boris the Animal | Weasel | Lilly | Obadiah Price | Mr. Wu | Boglodites
Men in Black: International: High-T | The Twins | Riza Stavros | Luca Brasi | The Hive

Television
Alpha | Edwin the Bug | Dak Jeebs | Drekk | Vangus | Bug Queen | Fmeks | Aldoosi | Huntak

Video Games
Nethera | Adorians

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