Men in Black (Dreamland)

The Men in Black were the android agents used by the Alliance of Shades to remove any signs of alien activities, including any witnesses.

History
In 1958, four androids, including Mister Dread, were obtained by Lord Azlok and were sent to find Rivesh Mantilax and his weapon. They were damaged by Night Eagle and his tribe, though Mister Dread was later repaired.

In 1972, the Alliance discontinued most of their robotic agents. (DW: Dreamland)

Since the 1970s, three of the agents, including Dread, were kept to defend a vault in which many of the items they covered up were kept. They were activated when Androvax attempted to open the vault and save his species. Dread and two other agents stopped him, and Sarah Jane Smith when she attempted to do the same. When Dread found that Sarah Jane had taken the newspaper clipping of Ocean Waters, they attacked Waters' house, finding Sarah Jane, Rani, Androvax in Clyde's body, Ocean and Minty. Androvax managed to escape with the two devices to open the vault in Gita's body. Clyde tricked the other two agents into destroying each other with their laser blasters. Dread used 450 years of his power cell to allow Androvax and his Veil ship to leave Earth safely. Dread them wiped Gita's mind of all of alien encounters before powering down, ending the Men in Black for good. (SJA: The Vault of Secrets)

Characteristics
Members of the Men in Black had the physical appearance of Human males, though had slate or pale green eyes under their glasses. They were capable of removing their hands to reveal weapons hidden inside. Their removed hands were capable of functioning independantly from their bodies has Dread's hand craweled through the Asylum looking for him after Sarah Jane threw it away in an encounter. They appear to have some form of wireless connection to one another has they were able to communicate and plan without speech.

Dread and his companions had apparently been upgraded to become resilient to sonic attacks since their encounter with the Doctor. This was evident when Sarah Jane tried to disable them with the sonic lipstick. While they initially start to freeze up, a green energy shield appeared around them negating the affects of the sonic device. Despite this, sonic devices worked when they were deactivated and reactivated them in a manner Dread claimed to be painful.

According to the Doctor, they were poorly programmed in aspects like blending in, investigation and concealment. This was evident by their cold personalities and, according to the Doctor, their choice of aliases. The fact they never completely covered up alien activity, led to most of them being deactivated by the 1970's.

As a result of their lack of certain programing many of them are not very bright and can be easily outwitted. This evident several times. The first in Dreamland when Dread is knocked offline by an arrow; the other androids are clueless about what to do and are picked of easily and Clyde is able to easily trick two of them in to detroying each other in the vault of Secrets.

Older or more expirienced androids like Mr Dread are more inteligent and aaptive in a situation as evident by Dread hideing the second key with a former witness and his use of a scanner o discover Androvax's host. Other androids seam dependent on him for instruction or to keep them in line.

Behind the scenes

 * According to the Tenth Doctor, the other members are called Mister Terror, Mister Fear and Mister Apprehension, but it is unknown if it was just a joke on Mister Dread's name.
 * The idea of the agents were inspired by the popular UFO conspiracy theory of the Men in Black, these being government agents dressed in black suits who reportedly harass or threaten UFO witnesses in order to keep them quiet about what they have seen. This was later said out loud by Clyde and Rani, the latter who asked where Will Smith was, referring to the film franchise.