Fox Mulder

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Fox William Mulder is a fictional character played by actor David Duchovny in the television series The X-Files. He was born on October 13, 1961 and is an FBI Special Agent, where his colleagues nickname him "Spooky" (Sinister) for his beliefs in paranormal phenomena and in a conspiracy by the United States Government (with the collaboration of other powers) to hide or deny the truth of the existence of extraterrestrial life. He works on the "X Files", cases with particularly mysterious and possibly supernatural circumstances. Mulder sees the X-Files and the quest to expose the government conspiracy as his greatest purpose in life.

Biography

Early years of his life and family

Fox Mulder's parents are William Mulder and Teena Mulder (née Kuipers), he was born on October 13, 1961. He has a younger sister, Samantha Mulder, who mysteriously disappeared when she was eight years old.

William Mulder
Teena Mulder
Fox Mulder
Samantha Ann Mulder

At 11 months old, he utters his first word: JFK. During his childhood, he used to play baseball a lot with his sister (Fox usually plays right fielder), ride his bike, play board games and spend a lot of time with his sister. Fox also enjoyed climbing trees and on one occasion he comes face to face with a praying mantis in one of them, screaming and being shocked at the thought that something so horrible could exist. Since then, Mulder has had an intense dislike for insects.

Apparently Mulder enjoyed science fiction in his early years, as he was a fan of Star Trek (he once dressed as Mr. Spock). He also liked to play Stratego with his sister and watch a TV show called "El Mago". During his adolescence, Mulder was very excited about space travel. Although he claims he never wanted to be an astronaut, he seems extremely delighted to meet a former astronaut during one of his investigations (episode Space (1x09) ) and admits that seeing the Space Shuttle launch fulfilled one of his dreams from childhood.

On November 27, 1973, Samantha Mulder mysteriously disappears, an event that will forever mark the agent's life. Samantha is abducted while they are playing Stratego and discussing which television channel to put on, her parents being away from home that night. Fox was waiting to see & # 34; The Wizard & # 34;, but her sister wanted to change the channel so they fight. At that moment Fox watches as his sister's body begins to float and he heads towards a bright light outside. Fox tries to reach for his father's gun but is unable, and is paralyzed when he sees an alien-shaped figure in the doorway. Mulder accesses these memories thanks to a hypnosis session with Dr. Werber in 1989.

Pre-X-Files Education and Career

Mulder probably graduated high school in the spring of 1980, unless he skipped or was a year late. It is not known what he did between 1980 and 1983. In 1983, Mulder entered Oxford University to study psychology. He graduated with summa cum laude in 1986.

Later that year, Mulder joins the FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia. Mulder is known to have entered the FBI—motivated by a desire to investigate his sister's disappearance—on October 24, 1986, but it is unclear if this is the date his training at Quantico begins or ends. Upon graduating from the academy, Mulder begins working in the Behavioral Sciences Unit (doing psychological profiles of suspects) under the command of Agent Patterson. Mulder profiles serial killers, including Monty Props, for about three years. During this time, Mulder became famous because, according to his colleagues and superiors, he was the best at performing psychological profiles of the most violent murderers, profiles that almost always led to his arrest. Thanks to this, despite his reputation as & # 34; spooky & # 34;, he managed to gain some prestige within the FBI, which also allowed him to make very powerful friends within of the government.

At some point, Mulder begins working as a field agent for the violent crimes division with Agent Reggie Purdue. During Mulder's first case as a field agent, one of the other FBI agents is killed, making Mulder feel guilty for abiding by FBI rules and instructions, as he felt they had prevented him from saving his partner's life.. His partner in violent crimes was Jerry Lamana, whose incompetence and selfish priorities lead him to lose evidence that results in the mutilation of a federal judge (Ghost in the Machine (1x07) ). In his later FBI career, Mulder has always shown varying degrees of disregard for the rules and we can even tell that he likes to break them.

Fox Mulder seems to be a very talented man and an extraordinary agent. He graduated from Quantico Academy with honors. Mulder has received a Public Service Decoration. In Pilot (1x01) , Scully says that she has heard that Mulder is "brilliant". Mulder was being talked about among agents even while he was at the FBI Academy and it was said that he was "three steps ahead"; of others (Young at Heart (1x16)).

Opening the X-Files

In May 1989, Mulder is doused with an experimental drug that causes hallucinations and paranoia, which heightens his interest in aliens and conspiracies. Over the next month, Mulder undergoes regressive hypnosis in an attempt to find out what happened when Samantha disappeared. After that, Mulder begins to show a fanatical interest in the paranormal.

In 1990, he learns a lot about the X-Files from former FBI agent Arther Dales (Travelers (5x15)).

Mulder continues to work in the Violent Crimes department, pursuing his paranormal interests in his spare time. In late 1991, Mulder reopens the X-Files and becomes the only agent to work on them. A few months later, in March 1992, Dana Scully is assigned to the X-Files as Mulder's partner.

Work on the X-Files

A reproduction of Agent Fox Mulder's office.

Mulder's basement office is decorated with photographs, newspaper articles, and other materials relating to conspiracy theories, alien life, ghost encounters, and other supernatural phenomena. The most recurrent of this decoration is a poster with a flying saucer on it and the text "I want to believe" (I want to believe). Mulder's drawers are full of old and recent X-Files reports, and he's able to find the report he needs extraordinarily quickly based on some small detail he remembers. Mulder is aware that his boss, FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner, is skeptical of his work and that other FBI agents ridicule him for "going on the hunt for little green men.";.

Mulder investigates various cases of a paranormal or bizarre nature with Agent Scully, who is initially skeptical. While Mulder is quick to accept the possibility that, say, a poltergeist could cause someone's death, Scully searches for scientific explanations. Mulder's ultimate goal is to uncover what he believes to be a government conspiracy to hide the truth about aliens, as well as discover what happened to his sister.

Mulder conducts some of his investigations with flagrant disregard for rules and regulations, even breaking the law in some cases. He has accused the FBI leadership of hiding the truth, and has infiltrated US Air Force bases and other secret facilities, resulting in his behavior being investigated, suspended and detained by the military in more than an occasion.

Mulder has had several informants with high government positions. Deep Throat was the first, followed by Mr. X and Marita Covarrubias. Each of them has provided Mulder with valuable information, and even saved his life. Almost nothing is known about the true identity of Deep Throat and Mr. X, including their real names.

After Scully is kidnapped and returned in season two, Mulder is hopeful that she will start to believe in aliens and government conspiracies, but Scully clings to her belief in science. Over time, Scully becomes more receptive to the idea of a conspiracy and even comes to share Mulder's ideas, though always trying to justify them with the scientific methods she knows. At one point, Mulder becomes convinced that there is no conspiracy and that they have been playing him, switching the roles of skeptic and believer with his partner. Finally, Scully manages to convince Mulder that it is false and that she was following the plans of the conspiracy believing this.

Ultimately, Scully becomes Mulder's most trusted person thanks to the experiences they share during their investigations. They have always maintained a platonic relationship and, although they have always been very close friends, it did not become something else until the last seasons of the series (they have a child together) and after the end they remain together, showing that their relationship is stable. and they belong to each other. It's also noteworthy that Mulder and Scully almost always call each other by their last names. Mulder hates when someone addresses him by his name, but although Scully has no such dislike, Mulder continues to use her last name.

Throughout his work, Mulder antagonizes the Cigarette Smoking Man and the Well-Manicured Man who are very important figures in the conspiracy. They have both supplied Mulder with some information, but they have never been entirely candid, and Mulder never forgets the possibility that these people are just playing him. Mulder also hates Alex Krycek, an agent of the conspiracy who briefly works with Mulder in the FBI as an undercover (season two), murders his father, and tries to kill Mulder on more than one occasion.

At times, Mulder requires the extra help of The Lone Gunmen, three conspiracy theorists who publish a small-circulation newspaper and are experts in different fields, including hacking. Mulder fully trusts The Lone Gunmen.

Mulder has a strained relationship with his parents over the X-Files. He discovers that his father participated in the conspiracy, but Bill Mulder is shot and killed (Anasazi (2x25)) before he Mulder could find out a lot about his exact involvement. Over the next few years, Mulder comes into conflict with his mother several times as he tries to find out if she is withholding information, and she too later dies, after an obvious suicide ( Sein und Zeit (7x11) ). Finally, Mulder also discovers part of the truth about her sister: Samantha was kidnapped by the military, as part of the conspiracy, and various tests were performed on her. Mulder never discovers the details, although everything indicates that his sister was subjected to genetic experiments to create hybrids of alien and human, that she fled from her captors, was picked up by a sheriff and taken to a hospital from which she disappeared, transformed into a spirit. by spiritual entities known as Walkin.

During his later years working on the X-Files, Mulder is even forced to doubt that Bill Mulder is his real father. He considers the possibility that his mother had an affair with the Smoker who could be Mulder's real father. The fact is hinted at, and Jeffrey Spender, who is certainly the Smoker's son, regards Mulder as his stepbrother. During the ninth season ( William (9x16) ), taking advantage of the fact that he is disfigured by a shot to the face, Spender poses as Mulder. This leads Scully to analyze his DNA, resulting in Mulder. This definitively proves that Spender and Mulder are half-brothers and that the Smoker is Mulder's real father.

Mulder is also abducted by aliens (Requiem (7x23)) and returned to Earth, dead, a few months later. He had been infected with an alien virus, but Scully discovers a way to save him (Deadalive (8x15) ). He returns to work for a brief period, but is eventually fired by newly promoted Assistant Director Kersh (They Are Coming (8x18)). After Scully gives birth to her child, William Mulder goes into hiding in New Mexico.

After a year or so in hiding, Mulder receives information from an anonymous source on how to infiltrate a secret facility containing information about the conspiracy (The Truth (9x19)). He does so, gets some crucial information, and is arrested by base security after a fight with Knowle Rohrer, a Super-Soldier, meaning a man turned alien who is impossible to kill by normal methods. Even so, Mulder manages to electrocute Rohrer, which does not kill him, but brings Mulder before a military court, accused of Rohrer's murder. Despite a defense organized by Skinner with numerous witnesses, the judges (who are implied to be at least partially working for the conspiracy) sentence Mulder to death. Mulder escapes from prison with the help of several people, including his former boss, Assistant Director Walter Skinner and his former boss, who fired him from the FBI long ago, Alvin Kersh, and flees with Scully, still refusing to divulge what he discovered in prison. the military facility. Finally the agents meet with The Smoker who repeats what Mulder has discovered: on December 22, 2012, an alien colonization of Earth will begin and humanity will be annihilated. The last chapter of the series ends with scenes of Mulder and Scully talking about the recent events.

Personality

Fox Mulder is afraid of fire (Pyrophobia). This fear stems from a childhood incident when Mulder's best friend's house catches fire and he spends the night in the rubble to help protect it from looting ( Fire (1x11) .

Mulder hardly ever sleeps in a bed. The room in his apartment is used as storage and he sleeps on a sofa (often while he watches TV). It is common for him to stay up all night or sleep for only a couple of hours while he works on a case that interests him, much like the famous detective Sherlock Holmes, who was known for periods of hectic activity while working on a case. In such cases he becomes quite hyperactive and doesn't seem to need much sleep, although he has sometimes suffered from insomnia due to images of gruesome stories. For a brief period Mulder sleeps on a water bed (Dreamland I (6x04) and Dreamland II (6x05)) in his apartment, but after a puncture that causes him to late for a meeting (Monday (6x14)) he goes back to sleep on the couch.

One of Mulder's biggest interests is pornography. Read magazines like "Adult Video News" or "PlayPen" and he often watches pornographic video tapes when he is bored or to sleep. Mulder is apparently not embarrassed by these hobbies, even joking about Mulder's collection of videos and magazines.

Mulder has an extraordinary memory, mentioning on one occasion that he is "cursed with a photographic memory. When he learns of strange occurrences, he can instantly recall if he has heard of anything similar before, and can often immediately name a related case that took place years ago. Even phrases as obscure as "hides in the light" they trigger Mulder's memories of previous events (Folie à Deux (5X19)). He's been able to recognize people from photos he'd only glanced at a few hours ago, quote passages from Scully's thesis verbatim, and even gained the confidence of an informant by telling how many home runs had achieved Mickey Mantle -American baseball player for the New York Yankees (The unnatural (6x19)) considered one of the best of all time-.

He has some interest in baseball and basketball.

He claims his "holy trinity" of heroes, is made up of Willie Mays (former baseball player considered the greatest player alive), Frank Serpico (first police officer to testify against police corruption), and Micah Hoffman (fictional character created for one episode).

He seems to be familiar with, and perhaps interested in, 1960s Counterculture (Hollywood A.D. (7x19)).

"Plan 9 from Outer Space."

You've seen "Plan 9 from Outer Space " 42 times, and claims that the movie is so bad that it turns off the logic centers of his brain and allows him to make intuitive logical leaps.

His ethnicity and religious affiliation are never directly revealed, but there are several hints that he is supposedly a Jew (Drive (6x2)). On that occasion, a subject asks Mulder if he is Jewish, arguing that the surname & # 34; Mulder & # 34; it sounded jewish. Mulder never gave a concrete answer to this question. Despite believing in a variety of paranormal phenomena, Mulder appears not to profess any religion in the conventional sense of the word. He appears to have little patience with religious fundamentalists, and is sometimes highly skeptical of "traditional" religious beliefs; (Revelations (3x11)).

Mulder is very used to having a cell phone to the point that in the episode "Home" (4x2) Scully tells him, "Mulder, if you had to be without your cell phone for five minutes you'd go into catatonic schizophrenia."

Mulder rarely drinks alcohol and in the few instances that he does he is so drunk that he behaves in an unusual way, suggesting a low tolerance level. Instead Mulder prefers iced tea or orange juice. As for food, he really likes sunflower seeds. Outside of this, Mulder's food preferences are unclear, though he seems genuinely happy to eat whatever he gets his hands on when he's hungry.

The two most important women he has met prior to the X-Files have been Diana Fowley and Inspector Phoebe Green. Fowley is attracted to Mulder, and they may have had a relationship in the past when she was working with him on the X-Files (she left them unexpectedly).

In addition, Mulder has a rather poor sense of direction - he sometimes takes the wrong hallways in a building and doesn't know how to use a map very well. Also, Mulder isn't comfortable in the country and doesn't really like nature. Mulder disapproves of the use of drugs during treatment for psychological disorders and says that he is not a Freudian.

The person Mulder despises most in the world is Alex Krycek, implicated in the murders of his father, Bill Mulder, and Scully's sister, Melissa.

Mulder has an aquarium in his apartment and Scully often feeds his fish when he's away or can't come back to feed them.

Appearances

Seasons 1 to 7

  • All the less episodes "Three of a Kind" (6x20), although it is mentioned.

Season 8

  • "Within" (8x01)
  • "Without" (8x02)
  • "The Gift" (8x11)
  • "Per Manum" (8x13)
  • "This Is Not Happening" (8x14)
  • "Deadalive" (8x15)
  • "Three Words" (8x16)
  • "Empedocles" (8x17)
  • "They come" (8x18)
  • "Alone" (8x19)
  • "Essence" (8x20)
  • "Existence" (8x21)

Season 9

  • "The Truth" (9x19 and 9x20)

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