Character Analysis
Zed's the senior agent of the Men in Black, and we do mean senior. He was one of the original members and he's now the organization's matter-of-fact leader. He fills Jay in about the serious nature of the agency he's about to join:
ZED: From now on, you'll have no identifying marks of any kind. You will not stand out in any way. Your entire image is crafted to leave no lasting memory with anyone. You are a rumor, recognizable only as déjà vu and dismissed just as quickly. You don't exist. You were never even born. Anonymity is your name, silence, your native tongue. You are no longer part of the system. You are above the system, over it, beyond it. We're "them." We're "they." We are the Men in Black.
Like Kay, Zed's gruff and no-nonsense, keeping a cool head in the craziest of circumstances. For example, when the observation screen informs him that Earth will be destroyed in eight minutes, his expression is the the human equivalent of an "I Hate Mondays" coffee mug.
That's the perfect encapsulation of his character right there. He does end-of-the-world-crisis like the rest of us do Mondays. Let's just hope that the end of the world does not come on a Monday.