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* {{Eagleland}}: Byers is a flaming Type 1. Unfortunately, he's in a show where Type 2 seems a ''lot'' more common. Interestingly enough, the three main characters are played by ''[[CanadaEh Canadians]]''.
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* {{Eagleland}}: Byers is a flaming Type 1. Unfortunately, he's in a show where Type 2 seems a ''lot'' more common. Interestingly enough, the three main characters are played by ''[[CanadaEh Canadians]]''.''Canadians''.
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* ConsumerConspiracy: {{Deconstructed|Trope}} with the twist in "Like Water for Octane". The inventor of the water-powered car [[spoiler:realized that it wouldn't be a panacea for [[PostPeakOil peak oil]], but would simply make the consumption of every ''other'' resource even worse, so he destroyed it himself]].
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No Potholes for Trope names, and this seems like a ZCE.
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* [[ChekhovsGag Chekhov's Bull Testicles]]: A slightly weird example in "Like Water For Octane".
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Up To Eleven is a defunct trope
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** However, in ''every other case'' it's {{played straight}} and UpToEleven. They are hackers and underground journalists who seek to expose "mundane" conspiracies and wrongdoings.
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** However, in ''every other case'' it's {{played straight}} and UpToEleven.up to eleven. They are hackers and underground journalists who seek to expose "mundane" conspiracies and wrongdoings.
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* FullyAbsorbedFinale (which [[spoiler: [[KillEmAll doesn't end well]] [[DroppedABridgeOnHim for the trio]].]])
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* FullyAbsorbedFinale (which FullyAbsorbedFinale: Which [[spoiler: [[KillEmAll doesn't end well]] well [[DroppedABridgeOnHim for the trio]].]])]]
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* TooGoodForExploiters: Played with in the episode "Like Water for Octane": the Lone Gunmen seek the episode's MacGuffin, a car fueled by water, with a spy hired by oil companies hot on their heels. The Gunmen assume that the spy is out to destroy the car because it would remove the oil companies' monopoly (thus playing this trope straight), but the spy eventually reveals that he's out to get the car in order to get the water-fuel technology mass produced. Then the son of the inventor explains that even if the water-fuel technology would remove the necessity for cars to use gasoline, they still would depend on such things as lubricants and roads, and the production of these things would just increase to compensate for people driving more -- meaning that car-related environmental destruction would just get worse, not better. This is what made the inventor of the technology decide that TheWorldIsNotReady.
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Adorkable is in TRS. The trope is being split: Adorkable becomes YMMV and there's a new in-universe trope Endearingly Dorky. ZCE and misuse are being removed. Real Life examples are not allowed.
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* {{Adorkable}}: All three of them in different ways.
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Renamed to Head Turning Beauty in TRS. This lacks context
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* HelloNurse: Yves.
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Short-lived spinoff of ''Series/TheXFiles'' featuring the adventures of Mulder's conspiracy-crazy friends the Lone Gunmen. The series lasted from March to June, 2001.
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[[ShortRunners Short-lived]] SpinOff of ''Series/TheXFiles'' featuring the adventures of Mulder's conspiracy-crazy friends the Lone Gunmen. The series lasted from March to June, 2001.
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If for nothing else, the show is notable in that its pilot episode [[HarsherInHindsight "predicted" the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.]] [[GovernmentConspiracy Also noted for predicting what happened after that, too.]]
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If for nothing else, the show is notable in that its pilot episode [[HarsherInHindsight "predicted" the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.]] Center]]. [[GovernmentConspiracy Also noted for predicting what happened after that, too.]]
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* DitzyGenius: Langly, and Frohike to an extent.
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* DitzyGenius: Langly, and Frohike to an extent. Byers isn't a ditz, but he and Jimmy are WideEyedIdealist types.
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* GovernmentConspiracy
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* GovernmentConspiracyGovernmentConspiracy: Wouldn't be in the same universe as X-Files without a few. The Gunmen prefer to handle more mundane instances of corruption than their FBI friends, however.
* HackerCollective: The trio are all skilled computer hackers. Langley is probably the most skilled in that regard. The other two have talents in social engineering and infiltration that Langley lacks.
* HackerCollective: The trio are all skilled computer hackers. Langley is probably the most skilled in that regard. The other two have talents in social engineering and infiltration that Langley lacks.
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* TakeThatKiss: Yves Adele Harlow plans one on Frohike (while disguised as a man) as she steals the computer chip he was trying to steal first right in front of him.
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* DorkKnight: ''All of them,'' but Byers and Bond certainly take the cake. Byers being the soft-spoken [[MarvelCinematicUniverse Phil Coulson]] type and Bond being the earnest puppy-dog type.
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* DorkKnight: ''All of them,'' but Byers and Bond certainly take the cake. Byers being the soft-spoken [[MarvelCinematicUniverse [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Phil Coulson]] type and Bond being the earnest puppy-dog type.
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* DorkKnight: ''All of them,'' but Byers and Bond certainly take the cake. Byers being the soft-spoken [[MarvelCinematicUniverse Phil Coulson]] type and Bond being the earnest puppy-dog type.
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* {{Crossover}} / CrisisCrossover: In IDW's ''The X-Files'' comics, they starred in one of these in 2014. The Lone Gunmen received a cryptic file from the future, a file that could help Mulder and Scully stop a virus from wiping out most of mankind. To look for clues, they investigated [[{{Film/Ghostbusters}} a team of con men who claim to deal with the paranormal]], [[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW giant alien robots]], [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDW mutant reptiles]], and [[Franchise/TheCrow a man who came back from the dead]].
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* {{Crossover}} / CrisisCrossover: In IDW's ''The X-Files'' comics, they starred in one of these in 2014. The Lone Gunmen received a cryptic file from the future, a file that could help Mulder and Scully stop a virus from wiping out most of mankind. To look for clues, they investigated [[{{Film/Ghostbusters}} [[{{Comicbook/Ghostbusters}} a team of con men who claim to deal with the paranormal]], [[ComicBook/TheTransformersIDW giant alien robots]], [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDW mutant reptiles]], and [[Franchise/TheCrow a man who came back from the dead]].
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* ScullyBox: The full-length photo of the five main actors used in promotional material quite clearly shows Tom Braidwood (Frohike) and Bruce Harwood (Byers) standing on one. Fortunately, the most commonly used version of the photo is usually cropped to only show the actors from the waist up; unfortunately, the full shot is used for the cover of the special edition comic book, [[{{Narm}} and is very]] [[SpecialEffectsFailure obviously visible]].
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* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: ZigZagged in "Madam I'm Adam." While a star of female midget wrestling league is certainly out of the ordinary, her role in whole thing turns out to be surprisingly prosaic. [[spoiler: The Gunmen's client turns out to be her estranged husband, who underwent a drastic procedure to try and curb his anger management issues, which left him with partial amnesia. While the two were estranged, she had an affair with an obnoxious appliance pitchman. (Both are normal height) The husband apologizes and truly wishes to reconcile, and her lover proves himself a {{Jerkass}} by making a creepy and fetishizing comment about her height.]] The Gunmen, who are used to bizarre cases and situations (remember, they have ''Mulder'' as a regular client), react to this situation with barely a raised eyebrow.
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* TooDumbToFool: Jimmy is definitely not the brightest bulb in the box, but he's also completely immune to being misdirected, and surprisingly good at knowing how to read people, meaning he'll see things the more cerebral Gunmen and Yves can't.
