- “You don't understand. Your world's gonna end.”
- —The accomplice to Edwards
Perp was the name given a Cephalapoid disguised as a human sent by the Bug to carry out an assassination attempt. He committed suicide upon being cornered by James Edwards III of the NYPD, although not before cryptically stating that Earth will end up destroyed in the near future as well as briefly exposing his true alien nature to Edwards due to being winded from the chase.
Biography[]
It is believed that he was an accomplice of Edgar The Bug's, having arrived to Earth to seemingly assist in the planet's destruction, as evidenced by his cryptic warning to J before the criminal died. Alternatively, as we don't have much information on this person, there is also a chance that he was on Earth's side all along and was simply here to warn of the coming Bug invasion. The former tends to be more frequently believed as the criminal pulled an alien weapon on J during his attempt to flee from him. Despite having no listed name and dubious motives, he played an integral part in J's becoming an MiB agent because were it not for their encounter, K would have never had reason to be impressed by J's capabilities and potential, leading to this character quite possibly being the biggest mystery of the franchise thus far. All we know for sure is that he was a Cephalopoid and he had a dire warning to deliver before he allowed himself to fall backward from a large building. He is one of few aliens in New York to die on-screen without revealing his true form to its fullest extent. All we ever see of his alien origins are his agility, his internal eyelids, and his scream as he leapt from the roof. We never even see a body, so there is no way of knowing what J saw hit the pavement. His species has never been shown in any full capacity and as a result we do not know what his kind looks like on his homeworld. However, given the name "Cephalopoid," there is a chance that the species is squid-like in its native form.