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3 | '''Season 2, Episode 23:''' |
4 | !Soft Light |
5 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thexfilessoftlight_2.png]] |
6 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"My shadow isn't mine. It's... it's like a black hole. It splits molecules into component atoms, it unzips electrons from their orbits, reduces matter into pure energy."'']] |
7 | ->Written by Creator/VinceGilligan\ |
8 | Directed by James Contner |
9 | |
10 | ->'''Mulder:''' Look here, there are hardly any shadows cast.\ |
11 | '''Scully:''' What do you mean?\ |
12 | '''Mulder:''' The lighting in here is diffused. It's [[TitleDrop soft light]]. What if that was what Banton was looking for?\ |
13 | '''Scully:''' Looking for his shadow? |
14 | |
15 | A series of mysterious disappearences leads to a man (Creator/TonyShalhoub) whose shadow vaporizes people. |
16 | ---- |
17 | !!Tropes: |
18 | * ApologeticAttacker: The one and only time Banton uses his shadow to actively kill someone he apologizes beforehand. |
19 | * ArtisticLicensePhysics: Needless to say, there's no reason why anyone would have a shadow that kills people according to how much light falls on it. |
20 | * TheBadGuyWins: Mr X gets his way and begins to subject Doctor Banton to horrific experimentation for probably the rest of his life, however short or long it proves. |
21 | * CapturedSuperEntity: Banton is held in a government's science centre with sensors attached to his head and flashing light is casting shadows on a photoelectric panel. |
22 | * ContinuityNod: |
23 | ** Newirth is an executive from Morley Tobacco: the Cancerman smokes Morleys. |
24 | ** Scully checks the heating vent for any sign of Eugene Victor Tooms. |
25 | * DarknessEqualsDeath: Inverted; Mulder shoots out the lights so Barton's shadow won't kill them. |
26 | * DoomMagnet: Poor Banton just can't stop people from walking into [[NegativeSpaceWedgie his shadow.]] |
27 | * DownerEnding: Poor Banton is subjected to a FateWorseThanDeath. |
28 | * ExactWords: X tells Mulder that he didn't kill Banton. Though it would have been kinder if he had. |
29 | * FakingTheDead: It's made to look like Banton was vaporized in the machine, but X has him under study elsewhere. |
30 | * FalseFriend: Banton has his colleague lock him in the particle accelerator so [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled Banton can kill himself]]. He then refuses to turn it on, and Banton belatedly realises he's working for the mysterious 'them' who are hunting him. Ironically [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness X shoots the man dead]] after turning up to capture Banton. |
31 | * FreakLabAccident: One of these makes Banton's shadow into a black hole. |
32 | * JurisdictionFriction: The Richmond PD is none too happy about Ryan calling in Mulder and Scully as a favor. |
33 | * MagicalParticleAccelerator: The source of Banton's condition. |
34 | * ManipulativeBastard: Mr X uses Mulder to find and acquire Doctor Banton. |
35 | * MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds: A very dramatic example. |
36 | * MyLittlePanzer: {{Discussed}}. Mulder compares leaving Banton in the hands of the local PD to giving "the A-bomb to the Boy Scouts". |
37 | * SingleTear: A Single Tear falls down Banton's cheek at the end of the episode. |
38 | * SpontaneousHumanCombustion: Mulder thinks this is what happened to Newirth. |
39 | * TitleDrop: Multiple times. Banton wants to be kept in soft light because then he has little to no shadow. |
40 | * VillainHasAPoint: As horrific as Banton's fate is in the end at Mr X's hands, what else was going to be done to contain a [[PersonOfMassDestruction man who vaporizes everyone around him with his very shadow]]? |
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