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* InterruptedDeclarationOfLove: Interrupted Invitation for a Drink.
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* InterruptedDeclarationOfLove: Interrupted Invitation for a Drink. He tried to invite Scully.
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* NoNameGiven: OnlyOneName: Only his surname is known. [[spoiler: Scully realizes she didn't know his first name after he died, although it was weird for her not to remember it as they were on friendly terms and he helped her and Mulder many times.]]
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* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Hilariously and unexpectedly in "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space.'"
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!!Agent Leyla Harrison (Jolie Jenkins)
Leyla Harrison worked in the FBI's accounting office, where she processed Mulder's and Scully's expense reports and thereby knew more about their activities than almost anyone. She briefly landed her dream assignment of actually working on the X-Files.
The character was created as an homage to and named after a prominent Internet fan and FanFiction writer who passed away from cancer.
* AffectionateParody: Of Internet fans, particularly their encyclopedic knowledge of the show.
* [[AscendedFanboy Ascended Fangirl]]: InUniverse, she was a fan of Mulder and Scully.
* GenkiGirl
* {{Tuckerization}}
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Charlie is mentioned exactly once after the first two seasons, and a few scenes after that seem to suggest the writers might have forgotten Dana ever had more than one brother.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Charlie is mentioned exactly once after the first two seasons, seen only in season 1 at Captain Scully's funeral and as a few scenes after that seem boy in flashbacks. He is only mentioned, giving his love, sending presents or promising to suggest the writers might have forgotten Dana ever had more than one brother.call, but he never appeared personally for holidays or for family crises, e.g. when his sisters were dying.
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Eyes Of Gold has been renamed to Supernatural Gold Eyes as per this thread
, because the trope is for characters with supernatural origins that have gold eyes. It\'s not for anyone who just happens to have them. So, anything that doesn\'t fit the definition or Zero Context Examples will be removed. If the example fits, please put it back with more context.
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* EyesOfGold: The color of bile, appropriately.
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Mulder and Scully's direct superior for most of the series, his motives were initially doubtful but he later became a staunch, if irritable, ally.
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* AlwaysSecondBest: [[spoiler:Their own father]] informed him he's just not as cool as Mulder.
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* ChewToy: Scully has a tendency to get beaten up quite a bit.
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Formerly a renowned profiler, he became something of a joke at the Bureau when he started to pursue an obscure side project known only as the "X files", but he soon drew attention from more sinister quarters...
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Formerly a renowned profiler, he became something of a joke at the Bureau when he started to pursue an obscure side project known only as the "X files", Files", but he soon drew attention from more sinister quarters...
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* IWillFindYou: His GoalInLife is to find his [[DeadLittleSister missing younger sister]].
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* ChekhovMIA: Samantha Mulder. [[spoiler:Or PosthumousCharacter.]]
* DysfunctionalFamily: To say the least.
* DysfunctionalFamily: To say the least.
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* ChekhovMIA: Samantha Mulder. [[spoiler:Or [[spoiler:Actually, no, that's just what Mulder thinks. She's really a PosthumousCharacter.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Hoo boy.
* DysfunctionalFamily:To say the least.Decidedly ''not'' PlayedForLaughs in this case.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Hoo boy.
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* [[spoiler:TokenGoodTeammate: Mulder's dad was a member of [[GovernmentConspiracy the Syndicate]], but while he was far from a saint, he was pretty much the only member who voiced any objections to the really, ''really'' evil stuff the group was doing right from the start.]]
* [[spoiler:WhosYourDaddy: See below.]]
* [[spoiler:TokenGoodTeammate: Mulder's dad was a member of [[GovernmentConspiracy the Syndicate]], but while he was far from a saint, he was pretty much the only member who voiced any objections to the really, ''really'' evil stuff the group was doing right from the start.]]
* [[spoiler:WhosYourDaddy: See below.]]
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* DisappearedDad: Not permanently or anything, but he was away at sea a lot, being in the Navy.
* TheGhost: Younger brother Charlie is mentioned, but only ever seen briefly, in flashbacks.
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* TeamMom: Maggie Scully seems to like Mulder too, though this is massively over-egged in fanfic.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Charlie is mentioned exactly once after the first two seasons, and a few scenes after that seem to suggest the writers might have forgotten Dana ever had more than one brother.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: He was away at sea a lot, being in the Navy.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: He was away at sea a lot, being in the Navy.
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4 years is not really enough of a gap to be an example.
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* BadassBookworm. Extremely vulnerable, however. He will generally only survive a given situation because someone else (either Skinner, the Cigarette Smoking Man, or one of several informants, who are generally depicted as substantially more badass than he is) is later shown to be protecting him. Mulder's abilities are primarily intellectual. In an actual fight, he's heavy-ish [[SuperWeight Muggle Weight]], occasionally bordering on very light [[SuperWeight Iron Weight]] if really pushed to an extreme. He's also largely a pacifist psychologically, and is unlikely to want to beat someone up.
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* BadassBookworm. Extremely vulnerable, however. He will generally only survive a given situation because someone else (either Skinner, the Cigarette Smoking Man, or one BadassBookworm: For some values of several informants, who are generally depicted as substantially more badass than "badass," at least, although he is) is later shown to be protecting him. Mulder's abilities are primarily intellectual. In an actual fight, he's heavy-ish [[SuperWeight Muggle Weight]], occasionally bordering on very light [[SuperWeight Iron Weight]] if really pushed to an extreme. He's also largely a pacifist psychologically, and is unlikely to want to does in fact get beat someone up.up quite a lot.
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* [[ObfuscatingStupidity Obfuscating Incompetence]]: Pay attention to his episodes and you'll realize he actually gets away with a lot more than he appears to. A perfect example would be "Tunguska", where [[spoiler:he was the one who hired the Russian assassin who (temporarily) royally screwed up the Syndicate's plans.]]
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* [[ObfuscatingStupidity Obfuscating Incompetence]]: Pay close attention to his episodes and you'll realize he actually gets away with a lot more than he appears to. A perfect example would be "Tunguska", where [[spoiler:he was the one who hired the Russian assassin who (temporarily) royally screwed up the Syndicate's plans.]]
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A forensic pathologist with a background in physics, she was assigned to work with Mulder ostensibly in order to use her scientific knowledge debunk his work; however, she was less predictable than the conspiracy had hoped. She is still extremely [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism scientistic]] for the most part, and although she matures in later seasons, (while ironically being depicted as Catholic in private life) Scully embodies almost every known negative stereotype associated with atheism.\n
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* BecauseImGoodAtIt: He seriously considered retiring when Gorbechev pulled the rug out from under the Soviet Union. He even put in his resignation, intending to write novels like he'd always wanted to do. Unluckily for him, no one was interested in his [[CassandraTruth far-fetched]] spy intrigues, so a disheartened CSM ended up skulking back to work.
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* BecauseImGoodAtIt: He seriously considered retiring when Gorbechev [[WhyWereBummedCommunismFell pulled the rug out from under the Soviet Union.Union]]. He even put in his resignation, intending to write novels like he'd always wanted to do. Unluckily for him, no one was interested in his [[CassandraTruth far-fetched]] spy intrigues, so a disheartened CSM ended up skulking back to work.
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* NotSoDifferent: His private life turned out to be not dissimilar from Mulder's. Sure, he's got unlimited reach, but he can't use it to live openly or extravagantly, so he goes home to his cruddy apartment (with no wife or kids to greet him) and watches b-movies.
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* NotSoDifferent: His private life turned out to be not dissimilar from Mulder's. Sure, he's got unlimited reach, reach (Screw you, Bills!), but he can't use it to live openly or extravagantly, so he goes home to his cruddy apartment (with no wife or kids to greet him) and watches b-movies.
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* NotSoDifferent: His private life turned out to be not dissimilar from Mulder's. Sure, he's got unlimited reach, but he can't use it to live openly or extravagantly, so he goes home to his cruddy apartment (with no wife or kids to greet him) and watches b-movies.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Not mentioned at all in [[TheXFilesIWantToBelieve the second movie]], even when Scully's looking for someone at the FBI who can help her.
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!!Agent Fox Mulder
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Formerly a renowned profiler, he became something of a joke at the Bureau when he started to pursue an obscure side project known only as the "X files", but he soon drew attention from more sinister quarters...
* [[DeadLittleSister Abducted Little Sister]]
* AgentMulder: TropeNamer
* AmbiguouslyJewish: On more than one occasion, antisemites accuse him of looking Jewish; Mulder always refuses to answer. (What we know about his family background makes it somewhat unlikely that he actually is.)
* [[spoiler:AnyoneCanDie: For, like, two episodes in season 8. Oh, and at the end of season 2. There's probably one or two more examples over the show's run. Mulder dies kind of a lot, actually.]] Never [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]], however.
* BadassBookworm. Extremely vulnerable, however. He will generally only survive a given situation because someone else (either Skinner, the Cigarette Smoking Man, or one of several informants, who are generally depicted as substantially more badass than he is) is later shown to be protecting him. Mulder's abilities are primarily intellectual. In an actual fight, he's heavy-ish [[SuperWeight Muggle Weight]], occasionally bordering on very light [[SuperWeight Iron Weight]] if really pushed to an extreme. He's also largely a pacifist psychologically, and is unlikely to want to beat someone up.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: The FBI tolerates his obsession with the paranormal because he's a very, very, ''very'' good forensic psychologist.
* ButtMonkey: Not only is he disrespected by other characters, he is one of the most [[ChewToy frequently beaten-up]] characters on television.
* ByronicHero
* TheCassandra
* ConspiracyTheorist
* DeadpanSnarker
* {{Determinator}}
-->'''Scully:''' They could drop you in the middle of a desert and tell you the truth is out there, and you'd ask them for a shovel.
* DistressedDude
* EmbarrassingFirstName: See LastNameBasis.
* FairCop
* FingertipDrugAnalysis: His favorite investigative technique.
* GuiltComplex
* GutFeeling: His success as an investigator often comes from bizarre leaps of intuition that usually turn out to be correct. Frequently verges on BatDeduction.
* InSeriesNickname: "Spooky"
* TheInsomniac
* KnightInSourArmor
* LastNameBasis: "I even made my parents call me Mulder," although that seems to be just something he tells Scully.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Emotional, intuitive, and not especially good in a fistfight or a shootout.
* MenDontCry: Averted on a pretty regular basis.
* MrFanservice: Unusually for an American show not particularly aimed at a female audience, he spends more time not fully clothed than Scully does.
* NerdsAreSexy
* OccultDetective
* PhotographicMemory: Mentioned only once, but it does generally seem like he has a very good and very visually-oriented memory.
* PornStash
* TheProfiler
* ProperlyParanoid
* PutOnABus: Well, a spaceship for a while, and afterward he was on the run.
* SawStarWarsTwentySevenTimes: Confesses to having sat through ''Plan9FromOuterSpace'' 42 times. He claims that the sheer badness of the film numbs his brain, allowing him to make intuitive leaps and solve problems that have him stumped.
* SeekerArchetype
* SingleIssuePsychology: The childhood trauma of his sister's abduction has defined much of his adult life.
* SurvivorGuilt: David Duchovny invoked this word-for-word to describe Mulder's reaction to said abduction.
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* TallDarkAndSnarky
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Sunflower seeds, although it's largely forgotten after the first season or two.
* TroubledButCute
* WhatTheHellHero: He got this several times in the first four seasons ("Paper Hearts" is perhaps the best example), mostly from Scully and sometimes Skinner. After that he managed to get a better grip on his issues.
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A forensic pathologist with a background in physics, she was assigned to work with Mulder ostensibly in order to use her scientific knowledge debunk his work; however, she was less predictable than the conspiracy had hoped. She is still extremely [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism scientistic]] for the most part, and although she matures in later seasons, (while ironically being depicted as Catholic in private life) Scully embodies almost every known negative stereotype associated with atheism.
* ActionGirl
* AdrenalineMakeover: At the beginning of the show she's [[TheComicallySerious painfully serious]] and [[ByTheBookCop strait-laced]], and seems to have ''terrible'' fashion sense. By the end she's still reserved, but has loosened up quite a bit and is dressing a lot better as well.
* AgeLift / HollywoodOld: Despite the character being described as "an agent in her late 20s", 24-year old Gillian Anderson was cast (also, Scully's birth year is given as 1964, 4 years older than her actress).
* AgentScully: TropeNamer
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Has an amazing talent for picking guys who turn out to be messed up in the head and often outright psycho. [[spoiler:Mulder]] is probably the most stable person she's ever been with, and that's saying a lot.
* ArbitrarySkepticism
* BadassBookworm
* BadassLabcoat
* BadLiar: It's not that the lies she comes up with are ridiculous, she's just so naturally honest that her discomfort is very obvious whenever she tries to lie.
* {{Bokukko}}: In the Japanese dub.
* ChewToy: Scully has a tendency to get beaten up quite a bit.
* TheChosenOne: It's implied in many of the religiously-themed episodes that God has some sort of special task in mind for her, although exactly what she's called to do is never made clear.
* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Mulder isn't quite a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} in the usual sense (though he comes across that way to lots of people in-universe), but Scully has the traditional role of stopping him from doing stupid reckless things, putting together the actual evidence to support his weird leaps of intuition, explaining and defending his crazy ideas to other people, etc.
* CombatStilettos: She wears heels nearly all the time, no matter how much running and shooting she expects to need to do. Of course, when you're a five foot two FBI agent every inch probably helps.
* DeadpanSnarker: So deadpan it's easy to miss entirely.
* DistressedDamsel: Unusually, though, she and Mulder trade off the DistressBall about equally.
* DontYouDarePityMe: The more upset she is, the more emphatically she insists that she's fine.
* ElectraComplex: Self-diagnosed in "Never Again".
* FairCop
* FascinatingEyebrow
* FieryRedhead: Nearly inverted. It's true you don't want to get her really mad, but most of the time she hardly shows emotion at all; she rarely so much as smiles, especially in the early seasons.
* HotChickInABadassSuit
* HotScientist
* {{Immortality}}: There are a few odd references to the idea that Scully will never die scattered across multiple episodes, most notably "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" and "Tithonus".
* ImprobableAimingSkills
* InformedSelfDiagnosis: Being a doctor, she tends to do this when she's sick or injured, most obviously in the first movie.
* LastNameBasis
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Logical, reserved, unemotional, and a much better shot than Mulder.
* [[spoiler:MedicalRapeAndImpregnate: It's eventually implied that something along these lines (but involving alien tech and probably extraterrestrial DNA) happened to Scully during her abduction early in season 2.]]
* MilitaryBrat: Her father was in the Navy, as is her elder brother.
* MsFanservice: Averted. FOX was reluctant to cast Gillian Anderson as a lead, saying they wanted someone who'd look better in a swimsuit. Chris Carter informed them that Scully would not be wearing any swimsuits.
* NerdsAreSexy
* OccultDetective
* OmnidisciplinaryScientist
* RaisedCatholic: Her Catholicism becomes less nominal in later seasons as she comes to terms with her faith.
* ScullySyndrome: TropeNamer
* [[spoiler:SkepticNoLonger: After Mulder was PutOnABus.]]
* TheStoic: With several NotSoStoic moments, especially as the series goes on and she becomes more comfortable expressing her emotions around Mulder.
* SugarAndIceGirl: A combination Type 1/Type 2. Few people besides Mulder ever get to see the "sugar" side.
* SurgeonsCanDoAutopsiesIfTheyWant: Ironically it's autopsies that are her main specialty, but that doesn't stop her from being fully versed in [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands any other field of medicine that's necessary for the plot]].
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend
* [[WellDoneSonGuy "Well Done, Daughter" Girl]]
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!!Assistant Director Walter Skinner
Mulder and Scully's direct superior for most of the series, his motives were initially doubtful but he later became a staunch, if irritable, ally.
* BaitAndSwitchTyrant
* BaldOfAwesome
* BenevolentBoss
* DaChief
* DeadpanSnarker
* LastNameBasis
* MinoredInAssKicking
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure
* ShellShockedVeteran: It's implied that his experiences in [[TheVietnamWar Vietnam]] seriously damaged him.
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!!Agent Alex Krycek
Assigned to work with Mulder when the X-Files were closed in Season 2. He was eventually revealed as a double agent and reappeared throughout the series in various shades of villainy.
* [[spoiler:AnArmAndALeg: Gets his left arm sawed off.]]
* ChewToy: For a triple-crossing assassin, he sure does get beat up a lot. Mostly by [[FoeYay Mulder]].
* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Trying to figure out whose side he's on at any given time is a good way to give yourself a headache.
* ConsummateLiar: It's best to not trust a word the man says. Krycek might not even be his real name.
* DoubleAgent
* FanNickname: Ratboy, in affectionate tribute to his habit of trying to betray everyone at once.
* GratuitousRussian: He mostly uses it to swear at people.
* [[spoiler:HandicappedBadass: After he loses an arm.]]
* HazyFeelTurn: It's always pretty clear that he's not a good guy, but he constantly switches between different bad guy factions, and his interests occasionally even coincide with those of Mulder and Scully, resulting in brief EnemyMine situations.
* HellbentForLeather: Usually wears a leather jacket, though thanks to the beatings he often takes, it's rarely the same one from episode to episode.
* TheMole: When he's introduced, although it doesn't last long before his cover's blown.
* [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead: On several occasions.]]
* [[ObfuscatingStupidity Obfuscating Incompetence]]: Pay attention to his episodes and you'll realize he actually gets away with a lot more than he appears to. A perfect example would be "Tunguska", where [[spoiler:he was the one who hired the Russian assassin who (temporarily) royally screwed up the Syndicate's plans.]]
* RussianGuySuffersMost: His parents were Cold War immigrants. (If he was being honest for once when he said that. He is fluent in Russian, though.)
* TheStarscream
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* TurnCoat
* WildCard
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!!Agent Diana Fowley
Mulder's ex-lover and former partner. With Agent Jeffery Spender, replaces Mulder and Scully on the X-Files when they get reassigned in season 6.
* BirdsOfAFeather: She suggests to Mulder that maybe instead of Scully he'd prefer a partner who was more open-minded toward the paranormal... like herself. [[spoiler:He wouldn't.]]
* [[spoiler:DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Her ultimate fate.]]
* {{Foil}}: For Scully.
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: At the end of the sixth season, she betrays the Cigarette-Smoking Man, giving Scully a book that can save Mulder.]]
* [[spoiler:TheMole]]: Scully suspects she's working for the conspiracy pretty early on; Mulder still considers her a friend and believes in her. [[spoiler:They're both right.]]
* NewOldFlame: For Mulder.
* PsychoExGirlfriend: The psycho part is not obvious until "The Sixth Extinction", where she visits Mulder, who's confined in a psychiatric hospital and being [[MindRape Mind Raped]] by psychic influence from an alien artifact, and makes a speech that can be summed up as "I've always loved you, Fox, and now that you're in five-point restraints we can finally be together."
* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath]]
* RomanticFalseLead: Seemed to exist mainly for the purpose of teasing the fans and making Scully jealous. (Mulder gave little sign of still having anything but platonic feelings toward her, however, although she was clearly carrying a torch for him.)
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!!Agent Jeffrey Spender
Assigned to the X-Files as Agent Fowley's partner when they replace Mulder and Scully on the X-Files at the beginning of season 6. [[spoiler:Mulder's half-brother, fathered by the Cigarette Smoking Man]].
* AlwaysSecondBest: [[spoiler:Their own father]] informed him he's just not as cool as Mulder.
* [[spoiler:CoveredWithScars]]
* [[spoiler:FateWorseThanDeath: Subjected to horrific and disfiguring medical experiments.]]
* {{Foil}}: For Mulder.
* IJustWantToBeBadass:
-->'''Spender:''' I'll be my own great man!
* {{Jerkass}}: [[spoiler:At first.]]
* [[spoiler:LongLostRelative: Mulder's unknown half-brother.]]
* [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead: Presumed dead in season 6, shows up again in season 9.]]
* [[spoiler:PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars]]
* [[spoiler:[[RedemptionEqualsDeath Redemption Equals (Apparent) Death]]: Seemingly killed by CSM after he handed the X-Files back to Mulder and Scully.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy
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!!Agent John Doggett
Assigned to the X-Files as Scully's new partner following Mulder's [[PutOnABus disappearance]] at the beginning of season 8.
* ArbitrarySkepticism: Worse than Scully.
* ByTheBookCop
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Not mentioned at all in [[TheXFilesIWantToBelieve the second movie]], even when Scully's looking for someone at the FBI who can help her.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: His dead son.
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} T-1000]].
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: His thick Brooklyn accent comes and goes. (Robert Patrick's from Georgia.)
* PlayingAgainstType: His actor is usually cast as a villain.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: The Manly Man as compared to Mulder's Sensitive Guy. This was one of the ways the writers tried to make sure he didn't come across as a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute.
* {{UST}}: Hinted to be with Reyes in the later episodes of season 9.
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!!Agent Monica Reyes
Appears in a few episodes of season 8, then joins the X-Files as Doggett's new partner at the beginning of season 9.
* BrainyBrunette
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Not mentioned at all in [[TheXFilesIWantToBelieve the second movie]], even when Scully's looking for someone at the FBI who can help her.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: She's, um...quirky is putting it charitably.
* GenkiGirl: By the standards of this show, anyway. She's by far the most cheerful of the major characters.
* HappilyAdopted: One of the reasons she speaks fluent Spanish, which comes in handy from time to time.
* IfJesusThenAliens: One of the points that distinguishes her belief in the paranormal from Mulder's is that she believes in the spiritual, New Agey stuff as well as the aliens and pseudoscience.
* LighterAndSofter: See Genki Girl.
* SmokingIsCool
* {{UST}}: Hinted to be with Doggett in the later episodes of season 9.
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!!Agent Pendrell
Special Agent Pendrell helps Mulder and Scully doing lab work. He clearly has a crush on Agent Scully. Appeared in several episodes in seasons 3 and 4.
* {{Adorkable}}
* [[spoiler:AnyoneCanDie]]
* HornyScientist: In a very sweet way.
* InterruptedDeclarationOfLove: Interrupted Invitation for a Drink.
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* LabRat
* LastNameBasis
* NoNameGiven: Only his surname is known. [[spoiler: Scully realizes she didn't know his first name after he died, although it was weird for her not to remember it as they were on friendly terms and he helped her many times.]]
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[[folder:Others]]
!!The Lone Gunmen
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An unlikely trio of conspiracy theorists who publish an underground newsletter called ''The Magic Bullet''. Old friends of Mulder's, they occasionally show up to help out Mulder and Scully, usually by doing research (as well as providing comic relief).
Late in the show's run, the Gunmen received [[TheLoneGunmen their own short-lived spinoff series]].
* ChivalrousPervert: Frohike
* {{Conspiracy Theorist}}s
* DirtyOldMan: Frohike again, though he's a very likeable and sympathetic example of the trope.
* DitzyGenius: All of them, to some extent.
* {{Geek}}s
* HackerCave: Their headquarters/home.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: All three of them.
* HollywoodHacking
* InformationWantsToBeFree: Their basic motivation for going into underground journalism.
* {{Nerd}}s: All three, but especially Langly.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits
* SharpDressedMan: Byers never wears anything less than a suit and tie, although he has no real need to look respectable.
* TheSmartGuy: All of them.
* WideEyedIdealist: Byers, especially in their WholeEpisodeFlashback.
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!!Scully Family
Pop up once in a while to fret over and get caught up in her increasingly peculiar job.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Bill Jr. Not quite a KnightTemplarBigBrother, but he is kind of a dick to Mulder in the name of protecting his sister.
* TheCaptain: William Scully, Sr.
* CoolBigSis: Melissa
* DisappearedDad: Not permanently or anything, but he was away at sea a lot, being in the Navy.
* TheDutifulSon: Bill Jr.
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The family seems to have seen the girls this way. Dana was the responsible one.
* GranolaGirl: Melissa
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Younger brother Charlie is referred to, but only ever seen in flashback.
* MilitaryBrat: All the Scully kids.
* TeamMom: Maggie Scully seems to like Mulder too, though this is massively over-egged in fanfic.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Dana and Melissa, respectively.
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!!Mulder Family
Troubled and fraught, with mysterious connections to the conspiracy.
* [[DeadLittleSister Abducted Little Sister]]
* AbusiveParents: Mulder's dad is implied to have become somewhat emotionally abusive after Samantha's abduction tore the family apart.
* ChekhovMIA: Samantha Mulder. [[spoiler:Or PosthumousCharacter.]]
* DysfunctionalFamily: To say the least.
* HollywoodNewEngland: They're from Martha's Vineyard.
* [[spoiler:SadisticChoice: The Mulders had to choose one of their children to be abducted]]
* MysteriousParent: Mulder knew nothing about his father's work until after he died.
* [[spoiler:WhosYourDaddy]]
* [[spoiler:YourCheatingHeart: Teena was having an affair with the Cigarette Smoking Man.]]
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[[folder:The Conspiracy]]
!!The Syndicate
A mysterious and sinister group who essentially rule the world from behind the scenes. They're determined to conceal the existence of extraterrestrial life from humanity by any means necessary, but their motivation and ultimate goals remain unclear for much of the series.
Despite the name, not actually an example of TheSyndicate. The term is actually rarely used on the show, so you'll often see fans referring to them as "the Consortium" or just "the Conspiracy."
* TheAdjectivalMan: Members are listed in the show's credits as "Black-Haired Man", "Crew Cut Man", and the like.
* BigBad
* BondVillainStupidity: Suggestions to assassinate Mulder are constantly overruled by various members who are manipulating him for their own purposes.
* CosmopolitanCouncil: Averted. Practically inverted. If you're not an older, upper-class English-speaking white male, you need not apply.
* CrypticConversation
* [[spoiler:DeathByPragmatism]]
* GovernmentConspiracy
* {{Hidden Agenda Villain}}s
* TheMan: As well as...
* TheManBehindTheMan
* TheMenInBlack: They're the ones who employ them.
* [[spoiler:MisanthropeSupreme: They're essentially selling out most of humanity in exchange for safety for themselves and a few select others.]]
* NGOSuperpower: They're considerably more powerful than any mere government.
* NoNameGiven: Only a few members' names are ever mentioned, and those names may not be real.
* OminousMundanity: Most of their titles, as well as the names they give their projects ("Area 51," "Purity Control," etc.)
* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness
* {{Politically Incorrect Villain}}s: See the entry for CosmopolitanCouncil above. And while they take Mulder ''somewhat'' seriously as a threat to their plans, they seem incapable of taking notice of Scully as anything other than Mulder's BerserkButton.
* PowersThatBe
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: Just assume they're spying on everything all the time.
* [[spoiler:[[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]]: Sort of. Their goals aren't exactly ''good'', but most of them are genuinely convinced that [[ResistanceIsFutile actually resisting the aliens isn't possible]], and saving themselves and their families is all they can hope for.]]
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!!Cigarette-Smoking Man
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The closest thing the show has to a main villain, a constantly chain-smoking older man who likes to skulk around being ominous. He's clearly associated with the grand government conspiracy Mulder and Scully are trying to uncover, but little is known about what he's really up to for quite a while.
* TheAdjectivalMan
* AntiVillain: Sometimes. Sort of.
* TheAtoner: He claims to be one in "En Ami." Ultimately it's implied that [[spoiler:while he might have some desire for redemption, it's only in the self-indulgent way where he doesn't want it enough to actually change.]]
* [[spoiler:ArchnemesisDad: To Mulder (''Maybe'').]]
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: He's responsible for the assassination of at least one democratically elected world leader, the abduction, medical rape and torture of hundreds or thousands of individuals, and making sure the Buffalo Bills never win a Superbowl. [[UnreliableNarrator Supposedly.]]
* AscendedExtra: Was originally intended to be just a mysterious figure holding a cigarette. Fortunately the actor was able to rise to the occasion when his role expanded.
* BigBad: [[spoiler:Well, he [[BigBadWannabe likes to present himself that way]]. He's actually sort of middle management in the Syndicate.]]
* TheChessmaster
* FanNickname: Cancer Man. (Mulder and Scully each called him that exactly once, but the fans picked it up and ran with it.)
* FauxAffablyEvil: He tries to pass himself off as AffablyEvil, telling both Mulder and Scully that he likes them on more than one occasion. They never buy it.
* ForTheEvulz: Frequently [[BondVillainStupidity shields Mulder from assassination]] by his colleagues. In the last episode, he admits he spared Mulder [[EvilIsPetty just]] so he could see him [[DespairEventHorizon crushed totally]]. It's up for debate, however, whether this was actually his intent from the start or a case of MotiveDecay due to SeasonalRot.
* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Evil, obviously.
* HeWhoMustNotBeHeard: Appeared in the very first episode, but had no dialogue for much of the first season.
* HiddenAgendaVillain
* HiddenDepths: He'd probably give it all up to be a writer, if he could get published.
* JokerImmunity: [[spoiler:Revoked in the series finale]].
* KnightTemplar
* [[spoiler:LukeIAmYourFather]]
* MisanthropeSupreme:
-->'''CSM:''' [[HobbesWasRight Men can never be free]], because they are weak, [[HumansAreBastards corrupt]], [[HumansAreMorons worthless]] and restless.
* [[spoiler:NotQuiteDead: On numerous occasions.]]
* SoftSpokenSadist
* VaderBreath
* WhoShotJFK: He did, [[UnreliableNarrator apparently]]. Martin Luther King, Jr. as well.
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!!Well-Manicured Man
A British gentleman who's one of the less overtly malevolent members of the conspiracy. His CodeName is never actually used in the show, but appears in the end credits (as with several other Syndicate members).
* TheAdjectivalMan
* AristocratsAreEvil: His accent and the glimpse of what seems to be his family home in the first movie vaguely suggest an aristocratic background.
* BritishAccents
* AffablyEvil
* HeyItsThatGuy: [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen Baron Munchausen!]]
* [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn: In [[Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture the first movie]].]]
* [[spoiler:RedemptionEqualsDeath]]
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!!Deep Throat
Mulder's first informant.
* [[spoiler:AnyoneCanDie]]: He's the first of many.
* TheAtoner
* BatSignal: Blue glowing lamp light.
* CodeName
* CoolOldGuy
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal]]
* TheMole
* MysteriousInformant
* TheWatcher
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!!X
Mulder's second informant, [[DarkerAndEdgier colder and less friendly]] than Deep Throat.
* {{Badass}}
* BatSignal: Mulder summons him by making an X out of masking tape on his window and shining a light through it (hence the CodeName).
* CouldntFindAPen
* MysteriousInformant
* ScaryBlackMan
* TookALevelInJerkass: In [[DependingOnTheWriter certain later episodes]], he's much meaner to Mulder and Scully than he was at first. He's still on their side, he just occasionally acts like a dick.
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!!Marita Covarrubias
Mulder's third informant. Her day job is Special Representative to the Secretary General of the UnitedNations, but she also has ties to the Syndicate.
* [[spoiler:FateWorseThanDeath: Used by the Syndicate for human experimentation as a punishment, after they figure out she was working against them.]]
* FemmeFatale
* HotChickInABadassSuit
* [[spoiler:TheMole]]
* MysteriousInformant
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[[folder:Notable cases]]
!!Eugene Victor Tooms
A mutant with the ability squeezing his body through impossibly narrow gaps, and the first MonsterOfTheWeek ever. Appeared in "Squeeze" and "Tooms".
* AirVentPassageway
* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: A sickly yellow light.
* CreepyMonotone
* EyesOfGold: The color of bile, appropriately.
* [[spoiler:FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: He gets trapped and torn to shreds by an escalator.]]
* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:His death.]]
* GunmanWithThreeNames
* HungryMenace
* ImAHumanitarian
* OlderThanTheyLook
* PickyPeopleEater: He feeds on human livers.
* RegularlyScheduledEvil: He comes out of hibernation every twenty years.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse
* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness
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!!Luther Lee Boggs
A murderer on death row who claimed to be a psychic and claimed that he could help Mulder and Scully in catching a serial killer. Appeared in "Beyond the Sea".
* DeathRow
* GunmanWithThreeNames
* KnuckleTattoos: KISS and KILL.
* LargeHam
* PhonyPsychic: Surprisingly, that's how Mulder saw him. [[spoiler:In the end, it isn't made clear.]]
* PsychicPowers
* SerialKiller
* TheSociopath
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!!Flukeman
A humanoid mutant with characteristics of invertebrate flatworm physiology. Created by radioactive waste, he/she/it (despite its name, it's actually a hermaphrodite) lurks within the waters of New Jersey's sewer systems. Known to bite humans with its scolex-like mouth and inject them with its own parasitic larval offspring. It's implied he can also reproduce asexually, as when a real flatworm is cut in half and develops into two separate organisms. Though it's possible that only one half of him survived getting chopped, and was able to regenerate itself.
Flukeman only appeared in one episode, but became very famous with the fans and even causal viewers, and has been immortalized in the form of figurines, models, Pez dispensers, action figures, etc. Also was referenced several times in future episodes as a RunningGag.
* FanNickname: "Flukey"
* LampreyMouth: His most distingushing characteristic.
* LightIsNotGood
* MonsterOfTheWeek: A particularly effective one.
* NuclearNasty: Its origin story.
* RunningGag: As mentioned several times, [[TrueCompanions neither Mulder and Scully wouldn't change a thing about their time together...]] [[GrossOutShow except this case]].
* ShapedLikeItself: Flukeman is a humanoid flukeworm.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: At one point in the episode, the authorities want to try it as a suspect, and it's mentioned that there are plans to have it psychologically evaluated. Mulder reacts by insisting that it's not a human, but an instinctively vicious monster.
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!!Donald Pfaster
A necrophiliac fetishist who devolved into serial killing. Appeared in "Irresistible" and "Orison".
* BatheHerAndBringHerToMe: He prepares a cold bath for his victims and pays attention particularly to their hair.
* CreepyMonotone
* {{Fetish}}
* HesBack: In season 7.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty
* ILoveTheDead
* [[spoiler:KilledOffForReal: In "Orison".]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: He changes his appearance several times, including into a demonic form.
* SerialKiller
* TheSociopath
* ThatOneCase: For Scully.
* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse
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!!Clyde Bruckman
An insurance salesman who possessed the ability to tell when a person would die. Appeared in "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose".
* BlessedWithSuck
* DeadpanSnarker
* DeathSeeker
* [[spoiler:DrivenToSuicide]]
* WhamLine
-->'''Scully:''' All right. So how do I die?\\
'''Bruckman:''' [[spoiler:You don't.]]
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!!Robert Patrick Modell
A serial killer who would drive his victims to suicide by manipulating their minds. Appeared in "Pusher" and "Kitsunegari".
* CompellingVoice
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: In "Kitsunegari" it is revealed that [[spoiler:he's protecting his twin sister, who has his same powers.]]
* GratuitousJapanese: He defined his feud with Mulder ''kitsunegari'', which means "fox hunt".
* GunmanWithThreeNames
* ManipulativeBastard
* {{Ronin}}: He considers himself as one, making various references to Japanese culture.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Lampshaded by both Mulder and Scully.
* TheSociopath
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!!Alfred Fellig
An immortal photographer who pursued people who were going to die so he could be finally taken by Death. Appeared in "Tithonus".
* TheAgeless: Unlike the legendary Tithonus, he stopped aging when he looked in his sixties.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He believes that people who wish to live forever are fools.
* BlessedWithSuck
* CameraFiend
* CompleteImmortality: The only way he can die is to watch into Death's eyes.
* CreepyMonotone
* DeathSeeker
* DrivenToSuicide: He tried in various ways (gas, pills, jumping from bridges), but it never worked.
* HealingFactor: He gets stabbed but his wounds regenerate quickly.
* {{Immortality}}: He managed to escape Death during an epidemy of yellow fever. At the end of the episode, he probably passed this condition to [[spoiler:Scully, thus making Clyde Bruckman's prediction correct.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook
* WhoWantsToLiveForever
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!!Robert "Rob" Roberts
A young mutant who tried to resist his craving for human brain. Appeared in "Hungry".
* BaldOfEvil
* BlackEyesOfEvil: He wore contact lenses to hide them.
* BrainFood
* HorrorHunger
* HungryMenace
* IJustWantToBeNormal: He ''really'' tries.
* LonersAreFreaks
* MeatOVision
* ObsessedWithFood
* PickyPeopleEater: He eats brains.
* StagesOfMonsterGrief
* [[spoiler:SuicideByCop]]
* SympatheticMurderer: Apart from the last homicide, all his victims were {{Jerkass}}es
* TragicVillain
* TropaholicsAnonymous: He goes to Overeaters Anonymous, but it doesn't work.
* VillainousBreakdown: By the ending, he has killed one of the two people who have expressed sympathy towards him, had a FreakOut with the other one and found himself cornered by the police.
* VillainProtagonist: He's the character most on-screen in the episode. Even Mulder and Scully make only some appearances.
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