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* TheReasonISuckSpeech: Mulder epically recaps the show's premise and his self-reinforcing role as the ButtMonkey in TheConspiracy to an unsuspecting bartender when he goes DrowningMySorrows. He tells her he's "an annoyance to [his] superiors, a joke to [his] peers" and bitterly recounts that he's thought of as "Spooky Mulder, whose sister was abducted by aliens when he was just a kid and who now chases after little green men with a badge and a gun, shouting to the heavens or to anyone who will listen that the fix is in, that the sky is falling and when it hits it's gonna be the shit-storm of all time." The bartender cuts him off for the night.
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* TheReasonISuckSpeech: Mulder epically recaps the show's premise and his self-reinforcing role as the ButtMonkey TheCassandra in TheConspiracy to an unsuspecting bartender when he goes DrowningMySorrows. He tells her he's "an annoyance to [his] superiors, a joke to [his] peers" and bitterly recounts that he's thought of as "Spooky Mulder, whose sister was abducted by aliens when he was just a kid and who now chases after little green men with a badge and a gun, shouting to the heavens or to anyone who will listen that the fix is in, that the sky is falling and when it hits it's gonna be the shit-storm of all time." The bartender cuts him off for the night.
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* TheReasonISuckSpeech: Mulder epically recaps the show's premise and his self-reinforcing role as the ButtMonkey in TheConspiracy to an unsuspecting bartender when he goes DrowningMySorrows. He tells her he's "an annoyance to [his] superiors, a joke to [his] peers" and bitterly recounts that he's thought of as "Spooky Mulder, whose sister was abducted by aliens when he was just a kid and who now chases after little green men with a badge and a gun, shouting to the heavens or to anyone who will listen that the fix is in, that the sky is falling and when it hits it's gonna be the shit-storm of all time." The bartender cuts him off for the night.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: The FBI wants to split Mulder and Scully up. They transfer Scully to the Salt Lake City field office, [[spoiler:prompting her resignation from the FBI]].
* ReassignedToAntarctica: The FBI wants to split Mulder and Scully up. They transfer Scully to the Salt Lake City field office, [[spoiler:prompting her resignation from the FBI]].
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* ReassignedToAntarctica: The FBI wants to split Mulder and Scully up. They transfer Scully to the Salt Lake City field office, [[spoiler:prompting her resignation from the FBI]].
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* WrongBathroomIncident: It looks like it will be played straight but is averted. Mulder needs to go to the bathroom in the bar he has been spending time drinking his sorrows. The men's bathroom is out of order and Mulder considers going to the women's but it is occupied just as he enters -- this makes him go outside in the back alley instead, where Dr. Kurtzweil was waiting for him.
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* TargetedToHurtTheHero: TheSyndicate can't risk killing Mulder, because it will turn him into a martyr for conspiracy theorists and bring undue attention to what he was seeking. So instead, they kidnap Scully to manipulate him into backing off. Not surprisingly...[[RoaringRampageOfRescu this doesn't work.]]
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* TargetedToHurtTheHero: TheSyndicate can't risk killing Mulder, because it will turn him into a martyr for conspiracy theorists and bring undue attention to what he was seeking. So instead, they kidnap Scully to manipulate him into backing off. Not surprisingly...[[RoaringRampageOfRescu [[RoaringRampageOfRescue this doesn't work.]]
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* TargetedToHurtTheHero: TheSyndicate can't risk killing Mulder, because it will turn him into a martyr for conspiracy theorists and bring undue attention to what he was seeking. So instead, they kidnap Scully to manipulate him into backing off. Not surprisingly...[[RoaringRampageOfRescu this doesn't work.]]
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* GovernmentExploitedCrisis: The film utilizes a common conspiracy theory which claims something like this will happen. According to Dr. Kurtzweil, The Syndicate has planned to use FEMA to seize control of the U.S. government in the event of an alien takeover, which it would use to declare a national emergency and suspend constitutional law.
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* HowDidWeGetBackHome: At the end of the film, Mulder and Scully are stuck in Antarctica with a [=SnowCat=] with no gas and on the verge of consciousness. The next scene shows them back in Washington D.C. without any explanation as to how they got there. When this is brought up three seasons later by an admirer, Mulder and Scully comically bicker with each other and do not give a straight answer.
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Mulder's declaration to Scully in his apartment hallway, that he owes her everything and she owes him nothing.
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* BlackHelicopter: Technically dark grey, the pair that chase our protagonists through the cornfield fulfill this trope.
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'''Kurzweil:''' You know my work?
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* BlackHelicopters: Technically dark grey, the pair that chase our protagonists through the cornfield fulfill this trope.
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* ProductPlacement: The agents' Oldsmobile Intrigue had an ad campaign built around its appearance here.
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* TakeThat: There's a ''very'' unsubtle one aimed at ''Film/IndependenceDay''. Which is weird, because both movies ''are from [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox the same studio]].''
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* TakeThat: There's a ''very'' unsubtle one aimed at ''Film/IndependenceDay''. Which is weird, also counts as BitingTheHandHumor, because both movies ''are from [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox the same studio]].''
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* TheGreys: Along with the barely-glimpsed creature in the DistantPrologue, it seems one step along the course of the alien virus turns infected victims into something that looks like the "tall, slender" variant.
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* TheGreys: Along with the barely-glimpsed creature in the DistantPrologue, it It seems one step along the course of the alien virus turns infected victims into something that looks like the "tall, slender" variant.variant... which then hatches a fully developed and extremely vicious Grey of the same type.
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* TheGreys: Along with the barely-glimpsed creature in the DistantPrologue, it seems one step along the course of the alien virus turns infected victims into something that looks like the "tall, slender" variant.
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* InsultBackfire: A staple of the series, it pops up a few times here as well.
-->'''Mulder:''' That end-of-the-world, apocalyptic garbage you write?\\
'''Kurzweil:''' You know my work?
-->'''Mulder:''' That end-of-the-world, apocalyptic garbage you write?\\
'''Kurzweil:''' You know my work?
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* SpoiledByTheMerchandise: Partially averted in the action-figure line as licensee [[Creator/ToddMcFarlane McFarlane Toys]] wrapped the film's creature figures in tiny fabric body-bags within the packaging so they weren't visible on the store shelf, but once you brought the toy home and opened it up the surprises were spoiled in [=McFarlane=]'s famously-high level of detail.
