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Figures.
—Edgar after seeing his prized pick-up truck having been destroyed.
You can have my gun, when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.
—Edgar's last words before he gets killed by the Bug.

Edgar was a farmer from upstate New York that had a nasty run-in with a bug in Men in Black.

Biography[]

In 1997, on a cattle farm several miles out of New York City, 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, while loading his gun, ready to kill, 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 slashing him open and eats his bones, flesh, and internal organs (off-screen) all what’s left of Edgar is his skin, hair, and clothes. However, the alien uses Edgar's external body to disguise itself and find the Arquilian Galaxy.

Edgar was played by Vincent D'Onofrio.

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Trivia[]

  • 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.
  • Edgar's threat about the bug "having [Edgar's] gun once [the bug] pried it from his cold dead fingers" before being killed was based on a similar threat issued in the original comic that the movie was adapted from. The only difference is that the aliens meekly left him be in the original comic due to only needing it for a high-stakes scavenger game, while in the movie the bug took advantage of those words to do him in and use his body as a suit.

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