Edgar

Edgar was a farmer from upstate New York that had a nasty run-in with a bug in Men in Black. In life, he was an overall highly unpleasant man.

Men In Black
In 1997, Edgar was known to severely mistreat his wife Beatrice with verbal and presumably also physical abuse. In his first appearance, he is ranting at her over how his dinner was poorly made instead of having a steak. He continuously berates and emotionally abuses her by calling her "useless" and saying things like "the only thing that pulls its weight around here is my goddamn truck". Ironically, just as he says this, his truck is destroyed by a flying saucer before he sees the crash.

He walks out to the burning remains of his truck with a shotgun to investigate the crash, when Beatrice asks what it was, he rudely tells her to stay inside the house. When Edgar arrives to the edge of the newly created crater, a strange voice from within demands Edgar to place the weapon on the ground. Edgar tells the alien that he will put it down when the alien takes it from his cold, dead hands. The alien responds by saying that his "proposal" is acceptable. The alien suddenly reveals itself, hisses, and grabs the screaming Edgar by his head, pulls him into the crater, and murders him by removing his skin before it eats his body (off-screen). However, the alien uses Edgar's skin and clothes to disguise itself and find the Arquilian Galaxy.

Edgar was played by Vincent D'Onofrio.

Appearances

 * Men in Black (film)

Trivia
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 * An unused clip from a behind-the-scenes featurette of Men in Black reveals that the original concept for Edgar was not of a human to begin with, as he was really a Baltian in disguise. The concept was scrapped due to it potentially overcomplicating the plot, and Edgar was left as a normal human.