History Film / TheXFilesFightTheFuture

* BeeAfraid: A memorable scene traps the agents in a secret bunker filled with millions of these critters.

->''"They put the bomb in the building across the street because it did have federal offices. The Federal Emergency Management Agency had a provisional medical quarantine office there, which is where the bodies where found. But that's the thing... the thing you didn't know. The thing you'd never think to check. Those people were already dead."''

->'''Kurtzweil:''' What's the question no one's asking? Why that building? Why not the federal building?\\
'''Mulder:''' The federal building was too well guarded.\\
'''Kurtzweil:''' No. They put the bomb in the building across the street because it did have federal offices. The Federal Emergency Management Agency had a provisional medical quarantine office there, which is where the bodies where found. But that's the thing... the thing you didn't know. The thing you'd never think to check. Those people were already dead.

* ExternalCombustion: The Well-Manicured Man gets assassinated. His car had a bomb in it.

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!!''The X-Files: Fight the Future'' provides examples of:

* TakeThat: There's a ''very'' unsubtle one aimed at ''Film/IndependenceDay''. Which is weird, because both movies ''are from the same studio.''

* HeldGaze: Before the Almost Kiss.

''The X-Files'' (unofficially, [[AscendedFanon and later officially]], known as ''The X-Files: Fight the Future'' after its tagline) is a 1998 ScienceFiction film based on the popular [[Series/TheXFiles TV series of the same name]]. Set between the fifth and sixth seasons of the series, it follows the adventures of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, a pair of FBI agents infamous among their peers for their investigation of cases that defy a rational or scientific explanation. After failing to stop what seems to be a terrorist bombing in Dallas, Texas, the agents are flung into another government conspiracy regarding the colonization of Earth by alien life forms. Mulder and Scully follow the usual labyrinth of paranormal clues and obtrusive bureaucracies, eventually reaching the Antarctic, where the biggest secret of all lies in store.

A second film, ''Film/TheXFilesIWantToBelieve'' (though a stand-alone story unconnected to the series' Myth Arc), came out in 2008.

* DrowningMySorrows: Mulder gets depressed and gets migty drunk.

-->'''Mulder''': I'm the key figure in an on-going government charade, the plot to conceal the truth about the existence of extraterrestrials. It's a [[TheConspiracy global conspiracy]], actually, with key players in the highest levels of power, that reaches down into the lives of every man, woman, and child on this planet. So, of course, no one believes me. I'm an annoyance to my superiors, a joke to my peers. They call me Spooky. 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.

* IntimateHealing: Mulder saves Scully, who was infected with alien virus and transported by the government conspiracy to a secret space (which later turns out to be a spacecraft) on the south pole. She was naked and covered in some kind of alien goo, so Mulder got her dressed in some of his clothes. When they get out, Mulder is absolutelly exhaused and drops his head into the snow. Scully, also exhausted to death, somehow manages to roll her body over him. She cradles him in her lap and arms and tries to cover him from the freezing cold.

* OminousFloatingSpaceship: In the climax of the movie, it turns out that Scully was abducted on a spaceship that was located on te south pole. Mulder manages to save her. The spaceship then takes off, with lots of cracking and melting ice. Mulder watches the spaceship as it flies over them with a mix of awe, childlike wonder and happiness that he is proven right. Scully's face is turned down towards the snow, too tired to move.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: The FBI want to split Mulder and Scully up. They transfer Scully to the Salt Lake City field office, [[spoiler:prompting her resignation from the FBI]].

* TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain: [[spoiler:Mulder gets shot in the head at point blank range. Apparently it only grazed his skull, because he's off to Antarctica to carry his partner out of a massive alien spacecraft on foot as soon as he wakes up.]]

* TheTriple: Mulder's joke when he asks what to buy for drink.

* VengefulVendingMachine: Mulder goes to buy something to drink. He puts money in the machine, pushes a button, then next one, then all of them. He whacks the machine and then jiggles it angrily. He notices that the machine is not plugged and finds out that there is a bomb inside of it. The very bomb the FBI is looking for in another building.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Krycek, a recurring villain in the series, was last seen (in the chronologically preceding episode, in fact) as the new personal minion of the Well-Manicured Man. The latter is a major player in this film, and even has a right-hand-man on call, but Krycek is mysteriously absent. A little peculiar, since more or less every other character of similar import in the series has at least a cameo in the film.

* YouAreWorthHell: Mulder make saving Scully in the climax causing The Conspiracy [[spoiler:blow up the facility, causing death for hundreds of comatose infected people]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Krycek was last seen as the new personal minion of the Well-Manicured Man. The latter is a major player in this film, and even has a right-hand-man on call, but Krycek is mysteriously absent.

* RedemptonEqualsDeath: And [[spoiler:the Well-Manicured Man]] knew what the punishment would be the moment he opened his mouth.

* OminousFloatingSpaceship

* AlmostKiss: Mulder and Scully, of course, in a an agonising moment for {{shipp|ing}}ers.
* AncientAstronauts

* BlackEyesOfEvil: People [[spoiler:infected with the alien virus]] get these.
* BodyHorror: Of the [[spoiler:FaceFullOfAlienWingWong]] variety.

* ConspiracyThriller

* DrowningMySorrows: Mulder gets depressed.

* HoldingHands: Scully to Mulder at the end.

* TakeThat: There's a ''very'' unsubtle one aimed at ''Film/IndependenceDay''.
** Which is weird, because both movies ''are from the same studio.''
** And that film [[CelebrityParadox actually had a reference]] to ''X-Files.''

* TurnInYourBadge: The FBI tries to do this to Mulder and Scully, making them [[TheScapegoat scapegoats]] for a situation where they were actually the heroes.

* TheVirus: The Black Oil.

A second film, ''Film/TheXFilesIWantToBelieve'', came out in 2008.

* FairyTaleMotifs: There's a subtle [[spoiler:Literature/SleepingBeauty]] thing going on here -- [[spoiler:a woman in an enchanted sleep, locked in a glass coffin in a fortress guarded by monsters at the end of the world, awakened with [[TrueLovesKiss mouth to mouth]]...]]

* ExactWords: Scully asks agent Michaud whether he can disarm the bomb. He says, "Yes I can." [[spoiler:He never said he]]''[[spoiler: would]]''.

!!''The X-Files: Fight the Future'' provides examples of the following tropes:

'''''The X-Files''''' (unofficially, [[AscendedFanon and later officially]], known as '''''The X-Files: Fight the Future''''' after its tagline) is a 1998 ScienceFiction film based on the popular [[Series/TheXFiles TV series of the same name]]. Set between the fifth and sixth seasons of the series, it follows the adventures of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, a pair of FBI agents infamous among their peers for their investigation of cases that defy a rational or scientific explanation. After failing to stop what seems to be a terrorist bombing in Dallas, Texas, the agents are flung into another government conspiracy regarding the colonization of Earth by alien life forms. Mulder and Scully follow the usual labyrinth of paranormal clues and obtrusive bureaucracies, eventually reaching the Antarctic, where the biggest secret of all lies in store.

** And that film actually had a reference to ''X-Files.''