History Webcomic / MonsterOfTheWeek

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: In ''Hell Money'' the author (a citizen of San Francisco, where the action takes place) proceeds to point out the many differences between the X-Files version of city and real one... and then, in the end, states that they got one thing right.

* TheInternetIsForPorn: {{Discussed}} in the Season 5 episode ''Kill Switch'' as the one overriding advantage [[BrainUploading uploading your mind]] into the nascent [[TheNineties nineties internet]] has.
-->'''Mulder:''' Imagine what those hackers will experience in cyberspace.\\
'''Scully:''' It's the 90's. They can only do so much with a T3 line and access to ''Geocities''.\\
'''Mulder:''' But the porn, Scully! The porn!
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: In ''Hell Money'' the author (a citizen of San Francisco, where the action takes place) proceeds to point out the many differences between the X-Files version of city and real one... and then, in the end, states that they got one thing right.

-->''X-Files: Lo Pan from "Big Trouble in Little China" rules the city and can steal your organs any time.''
-->''Reality: True.''

* WTHCastingAgency: Subverted. The author praises X-Files casting repetitively in-universe.

-->'''Mulder''': Your honor, Mr. Modell has been driving people to suicide with his telepathic powers.
-->'''Judge''': What? No. That's not a thing.
--> (beat panel)
-->'''Mulder''': I can't believe Modell mind-controlled the judge to dismiss the case!
-->'''Scully''': (Rolls eyes)Yes, that's definitely what happened.

* RedShirt: There's a lot of those, but it's especially lampshaded in ''Ice'', when, upon hearing what their newest mission is about, Scully decides to collect a bunch of "some redshirts to get killed ahead of us". Those are: "[[DisposablePilot Cynical hard-bitten pilot!]]", "[[BunnyEarsLawyer Wacky scientist whose quirks will be missed]]!", "[[SubvertedSuspicionAesop Suspicious guy who will probably turn on everyone!]]" and "[[TheHeart A woman]]!" ("I'm a woman ''and'' a scientist. That's ''two'' traits.")

-->'''Mulder:''' Found you, Cancer Man!
-->'''Cancer Man:''' You can't kill me. I'm the best villain.
-->'''Mulder:''' True. I'll go yell at Skinner instead.

* WhatAnIdiot: [[invoked]]Mulder tends to act like this every time [[WildCard Krycek]] is around. Scully calls him out on this, but he just won't listen...
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Mulder says it... moments before angry Russians start chasing him. [[WhatAnIdiot And he's with Krycek]].

--->'''Mulder:''' I'm sorry, Scully. This was a bad one.
--->'''Scully:''' I... Sometimes they're just too ''stupid'', you know?

** The rainy pine forests of [place of current episode].[[note]]Which is in turn a reference to the episodes being shot in Vancouver--only in the pilot episode the name Vancouver is actually used.[[/note]]

* INeverSaidItWasPoison: The opening panel of ''Fresh Bones'':
-->'''Mulder''': We're here to investigate a string of suicides at your military base.\\
'''Colonel Wharton''': I don't know about any voodoo revenge murders.

NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Lampshaded on several occasions to note the absurdity of certain episodes' plot twists. It's almost to {{Running Gag}} levels, as seen whenever there is a message attached to a strip which says: "Actual line/joke/dialogue used in the episode".

** ''Irresistible'' and ''Die Hand Die Verlezt'', which are a list of the ten top reasons why their respective [[TitleDrop monsters of the week]](Donnie Pfaster and Mrs. Paddock) are so creepy.

* WhoWritesThisCrap[=/=]NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Lampshaded on several occasions to note the absurdity of certain episodes' plot twists. It's almost to {{Running Gag}} levels, as seen whenever there is a message attached to a strip which says: "Actual line/joke/dialogue used in the episode".

** ''The Calusari'': "Old lady eaten by chickens: thing that happens."
** The entirety of ''War of the Coprophages'', at the very beginning with a message from the author: "Okay, I admit it. [[PoesLaw I can do nothing better with this episode]] than just quote all the best lines".
** ''Hell Money'': "Left His Heart in San Francisco <- Actual Joke used in this Episode.[[note]]The episode is about a human organ trafficking ring.[[/note]]"
** ''Terma'': "Interlude: Horse framed in scientist's death."

** ''Chinga'': "Scully microwaves a doll. ''(beat)'' And that is a thing that happens in an X-File."

-->'''Mulder:''' Aw, play along.
-->'''Scully:''' I'm sorry... I just don't even...

The comic went on hiatus in June 2014 after concluding season four of ''Series/TheXFiles''. It briefly came out of hiatus as of February 2016 to recap the 2016 miniseries, and again in February 2018 to recap season 5 (as a side reward for kickstarting a reprint of her original comic, ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}''), and October 2020 to recap season 6 (as a side reward for kickstarting the ninth print volume of her original comic ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'').

** ''Home'', in which the author purposely changes the strip to a story of her husband and she watching the episode, [[NightmareFuel/TheXFiles due to how dark the plot is to properly satirize]].

** In ''Tunguska'' Mulder and Krycek are captured by russians after a horseback chase and then sent to a gulag. The author states her opinion about this in TheRant:

** In the pilot, Scully's reaction to Mulder's office being full of UFO stuff and nerdery is is "Aw, crud."

* AnimatedActors: Played with ([[InvertedTrope inverted?]]). Scully and Mulder repeatedly refer to their actors, usually when giving an explanation why [[AbsenteeActor they can't join in on an adventure]]. However, they always refer to their actors as separate people while doing so, and seem to go on vacation while they're missing, rather than whatever their actor was actually doing.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Many times the author changes the formula from abridging episodes to something else:
** ''Jersey Devil'', in which the author, underwhelmed at how easy the namesake creature was to kill, proceeds to reimagine the plot. [[RuleofCool It involves Batman riding the Jersey Devil like a Flying Mount]].
** ''Firewalker'', in which the author questions the scientific accuracy of the killer fungi, and [[BreakingthefourthWall invites a Mycologist to debunk it]], but he eventually gets so annoying that [[RageAgainsttheAuthor Mulder and Scully proceed to throw him at a pit of the (now debunked) killer fungi]].
** ''Excelsis Dei'', which is presented as an instructional video to create awareness on the difficult subject of ghost rape.
** ''Aubrey'', in which due to the participation of actor Terry O'Quinn, who would play Locke on ''{{Series/Lost}}'' years later, the strip then turns into a {{Whatif}} {{Crossover}} of how several other ''Lost'' characters would act if they were in the episode.
** ''Irresistible'' and ''Die Hand Die Verlezt'', which are a list of the ten top reasons why their respective [[TitleDrop monsters of the week]](Donnie Pfaster and Mrs. Paddock) are so creepy.
** ''Fearful Symmetry'', in which aliens explain their plans to abduct zoo animals and turn them invisible, [[ItAmusedMe for the lulz]].
** ''Humbug'', which is presented as a list of carnival attractions, in reference to the {{Circus of Fear}} involved in the episode.
** ''F.Emasculata'', which is a series of tips to prevent another outbreak like the one that happened in this episode. Which are actually only two tips: [[TooDumbtoLive don't lean in close to stuff covered in giant pulsating boils]] and listen to the CDC and not any [[EvilTwin evil impersonators of the CDC]] that may show up instead.
** ''D.P.O'' and ''Small Potatoes'', in which the author recognizes these episodes as her GuiltyPleasure and goes on to list the many reasons for this.
** ''Hell Money'', which is a list of the inaccuracies of the episode's portrayal of San Francisco, being the actual living place of the author.
** ''Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" '' which is a series of one-shot panels drawn by different artists, lampshading the many ways in which the episode intentionally makes no sense.
*** It also mimics the differing artwork of the "[[http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-big-book-of-conspiracies-doug-moench/1000232920 Big Book of Conspiracies,]]" as Jose Chung itself is a patchwork combination of various UFO conspiracy theories found in that book.
** ''Home'', in which the author purposely changes the strip to a story of her husband and she watching the episode, [[NightmareFuel/TheXFiles due to how dark the plot is to properly satirize]].
** ''Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster'', which offers an explanation for Guy Mann being dressed like [[Series/KolchakTheNightStalker Kolchak]] - by suggesting that the murder victim he stole clothes from was Kolchak himself.
** ''Babylon'', which is mostly about the dying terrorist character breaking the fourth wall to complain about the portrayal of Muslim culture in the episode. The ending is then reimagined with [[MoodWhiplash the Muslim guy leaving Mulder in order to have a dance party with]] [[TheCameo the Lone Gunmen]].
** ''Monday'', which is designed InTheStyleOf a "Choose Your Own Adventure" story through its panel layout instead of serving as a "normal" comic.
** ''The Unnatural'', which mostly consists of Shannon informally talking about her love for the episode and how Creator/DavidDuchovny is actually a genius with a master's degree from Yale.

* TheAbridgedSeries: Of ''Series/TheXFiles''

* {{Failure Hero}}: Mulder and Scully only solve the episode's conflict about a third of the time, if that. They generally end up letting enough people die that they have to close the case. They even have a {{catchphrase}} for when they are particularly ineffective (see RunningGag below). Of course, being an abridged series this is all PlayedForLaughs.

* RedShirt: There's a lot of those, but it's especially lampshaded in ''Ice'', when, upon hearing what their newest mission is about, Scully decides to collect a bunch of "some redshirts to get killed ahead of us". Those are: "[[DisposablePilot Cynical hard-bitten pilot!]]", "[[BunnyEarsLawyer Wacky scientist who's quirks will be missed]]!", "[[SubvertedSuspicionAesop Suspicious guy who will probably turn on everyone!]]" and "[[TheHeart A woman]]!"

** The rainy pine forests of [place of current episode].[[note]]Which is in turn a reference to the episodes being shot in Vancouver-only in the pilot episode the name Vancouver is actually used.[[/note]]

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Season 10 Agents Miller and Einstein are basically younger versions of Mulder and Scully. Lampshaded in Season 10's last chapter ''My Struggle II'':

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Scully barely makes it four panels before realizing just how stupid ''Space'' is going to be.

** This is also Scully's reaction in the Season 5 episode ''Kill Switch'', when she founds out they'll be teaming up with [[{{Hackette}} the other kind of fictional hacker]]:

* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: Mulder say it... moments before angry Russians start chasing him. [[WhatAnIdiot And he's with Krycek]].

* {{Author Avatar}}: Shaenon appears many times in the comic to state her opinion on the episode or for [[BreakingtheFourthWall fourth wall breaking jokes]]. She also resembles Helen from one of her other comics. ''{{Webcomic/Narbonic}}''. Her husband Andrew also has an avatar, but his appearances are far fewer than Shaenon's.

* AffectionateParody: As much as the webcomic mocks ''The X-Files'', it's still abundantly clear that Garrity absolutely loves the series.
* AGoodNameForARockBand: SKINNER'S FIST.
** The first album should be titled "Shirtless Edition".

-->'''Sexy informant:''' ''My triple-dog agenting against Skinner went according to plan, sir.''
-->'''Cancer Man:''' ''You don't know the plan.''
-->'''Sexy informant:''' ''Eh, everything always turns out to be according to plan.''

* AndThenWhat: After capturing Flukeman, Scully asks what they would do with it. Cue BeatPanel.

* BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: {{Lampshaded}} in the first panel of season 5 [[RecurringCharacter lone gunmen]] {{backstory}} [[ADayintheLimelight episode]] '' Unusual Suspects'', where Byers introduces himself as being the exact opposite character of how he had been know previously in the series, only to become his current self by the end of the episode(which may or may not have been caused by the [[ChemistryCanDoAnything crazy gas that causes paranoid delusion]]):
-->'''Byers:''' ''Boy, I love being a loyal government employee with no paranoid beliefs whatsoever!''
-->'''Caption:''' ''Ironic!''

--> '''Scully:''' ''NOOOOO! Whose romantic advances will I politely rebuff now?''

-->'''Scully:''' ''Mutants!''
-->'''Mulder:''' ''Aliens!''
-->'''Both:''' Mutant Aliens!

-->'''Scully:''' Mulder! Your nemesis escaped and is coming after you!
-->'''Mulder:''' Which ''one?'' I have too many nemeses.
* ButThouMust: As reflecting the episode's BittersweetEnding, the strip for ''Monday'' gives no option to access the GoldenEnding in its "choose-your-own-adventure" structure, with Pam's only options being to either perform a HeroicSacrifice (TakingTheBullet for Mulder, breaking the time loop) or let the bank get blown up by her crazy boyfriend Bernard.

* ChekhovsGunman: The Lone Gunmen, Krycek and abduction victims from second season all appear later.

-->'''Shaenon:''' What? What happens next?
-->'''Alien:''' That's it. That's the end of the show.
-->'''Shaenon:''' You're reading it wrong! Who gets the conspiracy? Is it Samantha? Who?!
-->'''Alien:''' Nobody gets the Conspiracy. It lives. Go to sleep.
-->'''Shaenon:''' ''Jesus'', X-Files.

-->'''Caption:''' ''Time for: Scully in peril!''
-->'''Scully:''' ''Dammit.''

--> '''Navajo Man:''' ''Though there is no plausible way the FBI man could be alive, my dreams warn me of a Deus Ex Machina. For generations my people have been convenient plot devices.''

** The Season 10 episode "Babylon" has it lampshaded in TheRant:
-->'''Shaenon:''' This strip is mostly male nudity. [[YaoiFangirl Thank you again, X-Files]].

--> ''On the other hand, Colma's on the BART[[note]]Bay Area Rapid Transport[[/note]] line, and robed figures in masks toting corpses would be unlikely to inspire comment.''
* FondMemoriesThatCouldHaveBeen: Spoofed in the recap of "Founder's Mutation". Scully wants to have a sideflashback about her missing part-alien son. Next panel has her and William skipping hand in hand, and the panel's heading reads "Impossibly idyllic child-rearing fantasy". The last panel portrays Mulder and William watching a movie, Mulder calling William "fantasy son" and Scully his "fantasy mom".

--> '''Scully:''' I hope you learned a lesson about the responsability of owning your own conspiracy nut.
--> '''Mulder:''' Yeah. Next time I'll get at least three.

-->'''Leonard Betts:''' I'm sorry but you've got something I need.
-->'''Scully:''' Wait, what? What did that mean?.[[note]]Leonard Betts is a mutant who eats tumors.[[/note]]

-->'''Mulder:''' ''These migrant workers are killed by our grossest special effect yet.''
* MagicalNativeAmerican: Indians in ''The Blessing Way, or Crap Goes Down Part II: Indians Are Magic''.

** In TheRant for ''Zero Sum'', Shannon mocks anti-vaxxers and complains about them trying to bring back smallpox through their stupidity.

** Also used to lampshade Season 10's status as a PostscriptSeason in it's first episode ''My Struggle'' in the first few panels with Scully wearing a t-shirt that says "I learned [[ArcWords the truth]] and all I got was this T-shirt".

* DudeNotFunny: [[invoked]] The author states in TheRant that writing the episode with the kidnapped girl was especially hard, because she can't see any way to make kidnapping less than horrifying.

-->'''Scully:''' Sorry Mulder, I can't fight any crimes or [[LeaningontheFourthWall be shot from the waist down until Gillian Anderson pops out her baby]].

--->'''Russian Prisoner:''' We came up with a way to escape the Black Oil inoculations stranger. CUT OFF OUR INOCULATION ARM.
--> '''Krycek:''' Wow. That is really... Russian.

* TakeThat: ''Redux'' ends with one to Season 10.
-->'''Scully:''' Well, this mission was overstuffed with exposition and backstory to the point of incoherence.\\

-->'''Mulder:'''g Imaginehose hackers will experience in cyberspace.''\\
'''Scully:''' It's the 90's. They can only do so much with a T3 line and access to Geocities.''\\
'''Mulder:''' ''But the porn, Scully! The porn!'

** Also Scully's reaction in the Season 5 episode ''Kill Switch'', when she founds out they'll be teaming up with [[{{Hackette}} the other kind of fictional hacker]]:
-->'''Hacker Girl''': Hey normies.
-->'''Scully': : Oh god.
-->'''Hacker Girl''': I'm Invisigoth.
-->'''Caption''': For reals!
-->'''Scully''': OH GOD.

* AffectionateParody

** ''Aubrey'', in which due to the participation of actor Terry O'Quinn, who would play Locke on {{Series/Lost}} years later, the strip then turns into a {{Whatif}} {{Crossover}} of how several other {{Series/Lost}} characters would act if they were in the episode.

** ''Hell Money'', which is a list of the innacuracies of the episode's portrayal of San Francisco, being the actual living place of the author.
** ''Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" '' which is a series of one-shot panels drawn by different artists, lampshading the many ways in which the episode makes no sense.

* AssholeVictim: Victims in ''Shapes''. Lampshaded:
--> '''Scully:''' ''You know, the werewolf was the only one who wasn't a dick to us.''

-->'''Shaenon:''' Do you think i should dye my hair red?

* BigBad: Cancer Man.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: Both the author and Scully with Mulder speak to the audience sometimes.

-->'''Scully:''' ''Mulder! Your nemesis escaped and is coming after you!''
-->'''Mulder:''' ''Which one? I have too many nemeses.''

** Especially {{lampshaded}} in the season 10 finale, with Shaenon expressing her frustration in [[BreakingTheFourthWall a fourth wall breaking joke]], in which an alien is [[Film/ThePrincessBride reading the chapter to her as a bedtime story]]:

-->'''Shaenon:''' You're reading it wrong! Who gets the conspiracy? Is it Samantha? Who?

-->'''Shaenon:''' Jesus, X-Files.

--> '''Caption:''' ''Time for: Scully in peril!''
--> '''Scully:''' ''Dammit.''
* DayInTheLimelight: ''Avatar'' is one for Skinner, although this doesn't end well. Same thing with ''Zero Sum''.

* DeusExMachina: {{Invoked}} and {{Lampshaded}} for Mulder's survival of the season 2 finale cliffhanger at the beginning of season 3, where he's brought back from the dead by [[MagicalNativeAmerican mystic Navajos]]:

* DudeNotFunny: [[invoked]]The author states in TheRant that writing the episode with the kidnapped girl was especially hard, because she can't see any way to make kidnapping less than horrifying.

* {{Failure Hero}}: Mulder and Scully only solve the episode's conflict about 1/3 of the time. They generally end up letting enough people die that they have to close the case. They even have a {{catchphrase}} for when they are particularly ineffective (see RunningGag below). Of course being an abridged series this is all PlayedForLaughs.
* {{Fanservice}}: Mulder provides some, as well as Skinner, once:

** Season 10 episode Babylon has it lampshaded in TheRant:

** It gets revisited in the Season 10 first episode ''My Struggle'' in the first panel with a picture in the background of Scully with an alien [[BunnyEarsPicturePrank doing the bunny ears on her]].

--> '''Mulder:''' ''Found you, Cancer Man!''
--> '''Cancer Man:''' ''You can't kill me. I'm the best villain.''
--> '''Mulder:''' ''True. I'll go yell at Skinner instead.''

--> '''Mulder:''' ''These migrant workers are killed by our grossest special effect yet.''

--> '''Mulder:''' ''So who was that old lady?''
--> '''Skinner:''' ''None of your business, agents.''
--> '''Mulder:''' ''I think she was the ghosts of Vietnam.''
--> '''Scully:''' ''[[DeadpanSnarker I think she was Mulder's mom.]]''
* MediumAwareness:
--> '''Mulder:''' ''Are you even ''aware'' you're in a TV show?''

* MultipleEndings: After failing their El Chupacabra assignment, Mulder and Scully give Skinner two alternative endings to their report: "Alien Abduction Ending" and "Chupacabra Bros Ending". Skinner finds this nonsense.

--> '''Scully:''' ''Are those Gregorian chants on the soundtrack? My people [Catholics] refuse to take responsibility for this particular religious abuse!''

--> '''Mulder:''' ...So the government put us in charge of protecting those generals cause it knew we'd fail!
--> '''Skinner:''' Impossible!
--> '''Mulder:''' Isn't it suspicious that they gave us a real FBI job?
--> '''Scully:''' [[TheCloudcuckoolanderwasRight He's got a point, sir.]]
--> '''Skinner:''' Hmmm.

** Also used, in a DudeNotFunny fashion, in season 10 episode ''Babylon'', where the dying Muslim character complains about the portrayal of Muslim characters in the episode as terrorists, and Mulder retorts invoking this trope.

--> '''Mulder:''' ''I don't think we're dealing with a zombie. We're dealing with a golem. (beat) Because it's cooler.''

** So...even by our usual low standards, we completely failed.
** Oh God, don't make me say [something] vampire.
** The Alien Screenwriters.

** Mulder and Cancer Man being B.F.Fs. [[note]]Which seems to be actually a legit aspiration of Cancer Man, making him somewhat of a JerkassWoobie.[[/note]]
** Shaenon freaking out whenever the black oil makes an appearance.
** AND OF COURSE, MULDER IS RIGHT!

** Two prominents examples in the two parter in which Mulder and Krycek go to Russia:

-->'''Shaenon:''' The Russians chasing Mulder and Krycek with horsewhips may seem over the top, but literally the same thing happened to Pussy Riot. So, you know, Russia.

--> '''Russian Prisoner:''' We came up with a way to escape the Black Oil inoculations stranger. CUT OFF OUR INOCULATION ARM.

-->'''Scully:''' ''So what, we're dealing with a vet[eran] who kills invisibly through MindControl?''
-->'''Mulder:''' ''Nah, that already happened in Season 2.''
-->'''Scully:''' ''A vet who kills invisibly through psychic projection?''
-->'''Mulder ''(smug)'':''' ''Season 3, Scully.''
* ShoutOut: To ''Thunderbolts'', ''Face/Off'', ''Crime And Punishment'', ''Rambo'', ''Re Animator'' and ''American Werewolf'' among others. Scully seems particulary pop culture-savvy, even if pop culture in question wasn't there when show is supposedly taking place.

-->'''Mulder''': (with crazy eyes, pumps fist) Yes! I'm crazy! My theory holds!

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Season 10 Agents Miller and Einstein are basically younger versions of Mulder and Scully. Lampshaded in the last chapter of season 10 ''My Struggle II'':

* TakeThat: ''Redux'' ends with one to the 2016 miniseries.
--> '''Scully:''' ''Well, this mission was overstuffed with exposition and backstory to the point of incoherence.''
--> '''Mulder:''' ''I know! Don't you wish we could have a whole reboot like this?''
* TheInternetIsForPorn: {{Discussed}} in season 5 episode ''Kill Switch'' as the one overriding advantage [[BrainUploading uploading your mind]] into the nascent [[TheNineties nineties internet]] has.
--> '''Mulder:''' ''Imagine what those hackers will experience in cyberspace.''
--> '''Scully:''' ''It's the 90's. They can only do so much with a T3 line and access to Geocities.''
--> '''Mulder:''' ''But the porn, Scully! The porn!''
* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: In ''Hell Money'' the author (a citizen of San Francisco, where the action takes place) proceeds to point out differences between the X-Files version of city and real one... and then, in the end, states that they got one thing right.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Scully barely makes it four panels before realizing how stupid ''Space'' is going to be.
-->'''Mulder''': Aw, play along.
-->'''Scully''': I'm sorry... I just don't even...
** Also Scully's reaction in season 5 episode ''Kill Switch'', when she founds out they'll be teaming up with [[{{Hackette}} the other kind of fictional hacker]]:

-->'''Scully''': Oh god.

* WhoWritesThisCrap / NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: Lampshaded on several occasions to note the absurdity of certain episodes' plot twists:
** Almost to {{Running Gag}} levels, whenever there is a message attached to a strip which says: "Actual line/joke/dialogue used in the episode".

-->Well, it's all over... and no one figured out the murders were done by me, the burn victim he miraculously healed! Mainly because it makes no sense.

--->'''Mulder''': I'm sorry, Scully. This was a bad one.
--->'''Scully''': I... Sometimes they're just too ''stupid'', you know?
** ''Chinga'': "Scully microwaves a doll (beat) And that is a thing that happens in an X-File"

* WonderTwinPowers: {{Invoked}} and referenced the {{trope namers}} in Season 10 episode ''Founder's Mutation'', in which after being reunited the mutant siblings [[spoiler: get revenge on their evil doctor dad by [[YourHeadAsplode giving him a scanner death]]]], by shouting [[ShoutOut "MUTANT SIBLINGS]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}} POWERS ACTIVATE"]]

* CompletelyMissingThePoint: In ''Wetwired'', after Paranoid!Scully suggests that Mulder should show the chip he wound in a cable box to "[his] ''cigarette-smoking'' friends", where does he go?

* TheRainman: The patient from ''Elegy, or Autism Is Magic''.

Long story short, it's TheAbridgedSeries of ''Series/TheXFiles'' in the form of a webcomic. Of course, some changes were inevitable. ''Monster of the Week'' doesn't take itself seriously, throws away multiple plots from the series, Mulder is a {{Keet}}, and characters [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall lean on]] or outright [[BreakingTheFourthWall break]] the fourth wall.