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Fox William "Spooky" Mulder (born October 13 , 1961 ) is a Fictional Character played by David Duchovny on the 1993 - 2002 Television Series , '' The X-Files ''. FBI Special Agent Mulder believes in UFO s and a Government Conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of their existence. With his FBI partner Dana Scully , the two formed the X-Files office, which was concerned with cases called "X-Files", cases with particularly mysterious or possibly supernatural circumstances that were left unsolved and shelved by the FBI. Mulder considers the X-Files the main purpose of his life. BIOGRAPHY Early life and family Fox Mulder was born to Bill Mulder and Teena Mulder (maiden name Kuipers) on October 13, 1961 , presumably in Massachusetts . He has a younger sister, Samantha Mulder , who mysteriously disappeared at the age of eight. His first words were " JFK ", when Mulder was 11 months old, and he grew up in Chilmark, Massachusetts . In his childhood, he used to play a lot with Samantha - they played Baseball (Fox usually played right-field), rode bikes, played Board Games and spent much of their time together. The Mulder family had a house in Quonochontaug, RI , where Fox and Samantha would play during summer vacations. Fox also enjoyed tree climbing and once came face to face with a Praying Mantis in a tree. He screamed and was shocked at the thought that something this horrible could exist. Mulder has had an intense dislike for insects ever since. Mulder apparently enjoyed science fiction in his early years. He dressed as Mr. Spock from Star Trek in childhood, and watched "The Magician" . In his teenage years, Mulder was also very excited about space. Although he says he never wanted to be an Astronaut , he was extremely delighted to meet an ex-astronaut during one of his investigations and admitted that watching a shuttle launch fulfilled one of his boyhood dreams. On November 27, 1973, Samantha mysteriously disappeared from the Mulder family home in Chilmark , an event which had a huge impact on the Mulder family, especially Fox. She disappeared when she and Fox were alone in their home, and has never been found. Fox Mulder remembers that their parents were spending a day at the neighbours, Samantha and Fox were playing Stratego and arguing about what TV channel to watch. Fox was waiting for "The Magician", Samantha wanted to change channels but Fox refused, at which point Samantha screamed. Very soon, Fox saw Samantha rise in the air and float away to a bright light outside. Fox tried to get his father's gun but was unable to do so, and was paralysed (most likely due to psychologic shock, not actual paralysis) when he saw an alien-like figure stand in the doorway. Mulder recovered these memories through regressive Hypnosis under Dr. Heitz Werber in 1989. Education and pre-X-Files career Mulder probably graduated from high school - where his foreign language of choice was French ('' 731 (3x11) '') - in Spring 1979/1980, unless he skipped ahead or was kept behind a year. It is not known what he did between 1980 and 1983. In 1983, Mulder entered Oxford University to study Psychology . He graduated '' Summa Cum Laude '' in 1986. Later that year, Mulder joined the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. It is known that Mulder "joined the FBI" on October 24th, 1986, but it is unclear whether that is the date when he started his Quantico academy course or finished it. On graduating the academy, Mulder started his work in the Behavioral Science Unit (psychological profiling of suspects) under agent Patterson, whom he respected but did not follow like a "dutiful son". Around this time he wrote a Monograph on Serial Killers and the Occult , which helped catch Monty Props in 1988, and made Mulder something of an inter-bureau legend. At some point, Mulder started working as a field agent of the violent crimes division with agent Reggie Purdue. It is possible that Mulder did, for a short time, work both as a profiler and a field agent. During Mulder's first case in the role of a field agent, one of the other FBI agents died, and Mulder later blamed himself for sticking to the FBI rules and instructions, which he felt didn't let him prevent the agent's death. His partner in violent crimes was Jerry Lamana, whose incompetence and self-serving agenda led to him misplacing evidence which resulted in the maiming of a federal judge ('' Ghost In The Machine (1x07) ''). In his later FBI career Mulder has always shown varying degrees of disregard for rules. Fox Mulder appears to be a very talented man and a remarkable agent. His Oxford degree was obtained ''summa cum laude'', which is the highest honor level (blooper here: degrees in the UK are classified as 'First Class', 'Second Upper', 'Second Lower', 'Third', etc., not Latin honors as in the United States), he graduated top of his class from the FBI Academy , and has received an '' Award For Public Service ''. It has been said that Mulder had "commendations out the yin yang" ('' Unusual Suspects (5x03) ''). In '' Pilot (1x01) '', Scully says she's heard of Mulder by reputation, and that he is "brilliant". Mulder had been talked about at the FBI even while still in the academy, as agent Purdue later told Mulder that he was amazed at how Mulder was always "three jumps ahead" of others ('' Young At Heart (1x16) ''). During his FBI training, he came to be called "Spooky" by other agents, because of his beliefs in the paranormal, though perhaps also because of his talents. Opening the X-Files In May 1989, Mulder was sprayed with an experimental drug that causes Hallucinations and Paranoia . Mulder started talking about aliens and conspiracies, although his previous interest in such things was not very active, albeit present. The following month, Mulder underwent regressive hypnosis in attempt to discover what happened when Samantha disappeared. After that, Mulder started displaying a fanatical interest about the paranormal. In 1990, he learned a great deal about the X-Files from former FBI agent Arther Dales. (Travelers.) Mulder continued to work in the Violent Crimes department, pursuing his paranormal interests in his spare time. In late 1991, Mulder "discovered" the X-Files, and re-opened them with Agent Diana Fowley . Agent Fowley transferred away shortly thereafter, leaving Mulder the only agent to work on the X-Files. A few months later, in March 1992, Dana Scully was assigned to the X-Files as a partner to Mulder, with the assignment to use her background in hard science to apply scientific reasoning and expertise to evaluating Mulder's work with the X-Files. WORK ON THE X-FILES Mulder's basement office is decorated with photographs, newspaper articles and other materials pertaining to Conspiracy Theories , extraterrestrial life, Ghost encounters and other supernatural phenomena. Among the collection is a picture of Deloys Monkey , a newspaper article about Duane Barry , Max Fenig 's NICAP hat, and, the most famous, is a poster with a Flying Saucer on it and the words "I want to believe". Mulder's drawer chest is full of old and recent X-Files reports, and he is able to find the report he needs remarkably quickly based on some tiny detail he remembers. Mulder is aware that his boss, Assistant Director Walter Skinner is skeptical of Mulder's work and that other FBI agents ridicule him for "hunting little green men". Mulder investigates various cases of paranormal or strange nature with Agent Scully, who is initially a skeptic. While Mulder is quick to accept the possibility of, for example, a Poltergeist causing the death of a person, Scully seeks 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 find out what happened to his sister. Mulder conducts some of his investigations with blatant disregard for rules and regulations, sometimes even breaking the law. He has accused FBI management of hiding the truth, and he has infiltrated US Air Force and other secret facilities, leading to investigations of his behavior, suspension, and apprehension by the military on more than one occasion. Mulder has had multiple informants. Of his most significant high-level government informants, Deep Throat was first, followed by X and Marita Covarrubias . Each of them has provided Mulder with valuable information, even saving Mulder's life. Almost nothing is known about the true identity of Deep Throat and X, including their real names. After Scully is abducted and returned in Fall 1994 ( Season Two ), Mulder is hopeful that she might start believing in aliens and a government conspiracy, but Scully refuses to do so. Scully, though, eventually became more accepting to the idea of a conspiracy and even came to share Mulder's views. At one point, Mulder was convinced that no conspiracy exists and that he is being toyed with, however, Scully managed to convince Mulder that it is false and he is playing into the conspiracy hands by believing that. Ultimately, Scully became Mulder's most trusted person thanks to their shared experiences during their investigations. They maintained a platonic relationship for many years, and there are clues that it developed into a physical relationship by the end of the series. It's also noteworthy that Mulder and Scully almost always call each other by their surnames - Mulder hates when anyone calls him by his first name, but Scully has no such aversion, yet Mulder keeps using her surname. Throughout his work, Mulder is antagonized by the Cigarette Smoking Man and the Well-Manicured Man who are very important figures in the conspiracy. Both have provided Mulder with some information, but they are never entirely truthful and open, and Mulder never forgets the possibility that these people are just toying with him. Mulder also hated Alex Krycek , a conspiracy agent who briefly worked with Mulder in the FBI as infiltrator, and has since then almost gotten Mulder killed on more than one occasion. When he is in need of extra assistance, Mulder goes to The Lone Gunmen , three conspiracy theorists who publish a tabloid newspaper but have some valuable equipment for analysing different things, and one of them is also an expert computer hacker. It appears that Mulder trusts The Lone Gunmen more than anyone else except Scully. Mulder has a rather strained relationship with his parents, not in the least thanks to the X-Files. He believes that his father knows the truth about the conspiracy (which is at least partially true), but Bill Mulder is shot dead in '' Anasazi (2x25) '' before Fox Mulder could find out a lot about his father's involvement in the conspiracy. Over the next few years, Mulder gets into several conflicts with his mother when trying to find out whether she's hiding anything, and she also dies later, after an apparent suicide, in '' Sein Und Zeit (7x11) ''. Mulder eventually discovers the truth about his sister. Samantha was apparently abducted by the military, acting as part of the conspiracy, and various tests were performed on Samantha. The Season Seven Episode Closure reveals that unable to bear the testing any longer, Samantha ran away and was eventually admitted to a hospital. The nurse from the hospital tells Mulder about the young girl and that when a group of men (one of whom seems to be the Cigarette Smoking Man) track her down, she has disappeared from her locked hospital room. It is revealed that Samantha was taken by "spiritual intervention" by beings called "walk-ins." Mulder is briefly reunited with Samantha's spirit. After Mulder sees Samantha's spirit, Scully asks if he is alright. Mulder replies "I'm fine. I'm free." During the last years of his work on the X-Files, Mulder is even forced to doubt that Bill Mulder is his true father. He considers the possibility that his mother had an affair with the Cigarette Smoking Man who might be Mulder's true father. The fact is hinted at, and Jeffrey Spender , who certainly is the Smoking Man's son, considers Mulder to be his half-brother. In the 9th season, the episode "William" explains that Spender and Mulder have the same DNA, thus proving that they do have the same father, Cigarette Smoking Man. Mulder also gets abducted by the aliens himself in '' Requiem (7x23) '' and returned to Earth, almost dead, a few months later. He had been infected by an alien virus, but Scully finds a way to rescue him ('' Deadalive (8x15) ''). He returns to work for a brief period of time, but is eventually Fired by the newly promoted Deputy Director Kersh ('' Vienen (8x18) ''). After Scully gives birth to Mulder's son, William ( In Vitro fertilization might be possible) Mulder goes into hiding in New Mexico . After about a year in hiding, Mulder receives information from an anonymous source on how to inflitrate a secret facility containing information about the conspiracy ('' The Truth (9x19) ''). Mulder does that, obtains some crucial information but is apprehended by the base security after a fight with Knowle Rohrer, a man who is in fact an alien agent and impossible to kill by regular means. Nonetheless, Mulder managed to electrocute Rohrer, which doesn't kill him, but brings Mulder in front of a military tribunal, accused of murdering Rohrer. Despite a defense organized by Skinner with numerous witnesses, the judges (who it is hinted are at least partially working for the conspiracy) sentence Mulder to the Death Penalty . Mulder breaks out of prison with help from several people and escapes with Scully, still refusing to divulge what he found at the military facility. Finally, the agents meet the Cigarette Smoking Man who says what Mulder has found out - that on December 22, 2012, an alien colonization of Earth will start and humanity will be wiped out. As of the Series Finale , Mulder and Scully are on the run from the New Syndicate . PERSONALITY Fox Mulder is somewhat Pyrophobic (fears Fire ) and has had nightmares about being trapped in a burning building. This fear originates from a childhood accident when Mulder's best friend's house burnt down and he had to spend the night in the rubble to help protect it from looting. Mulder is almost never seen sleeping in a bed. The Bedroom in his apartment is used for storage purposes, and Mulder sleeps on a Couch instead, often falling asleep while watching television. Mulder frequently stays up all night or sleeps just a couple of hours while working on a case that interests him, a similarity to another classic detective figure, Sherlock Holmes , who was known to go through manic periods when following a case. At such times, he becomes rather hyperactive and doesn't seem to require sleep so much, although he has also sometimes complained of being unable to sleep due to some gruesome images of stories. For a few months, Mulder sleeps on a Waterbed in his apartment, but after a waterbed leak caused him to be late for a meeting once, he went back to sleeping on a couch. One of Mulder's interests is Pornography . He reads magazines like "Adult Video News" or "PlayPen" and tends to watch porn video tapes when bored or sometimes even when trying to fall asleep. Mulder is apparently unembarrassed about his pornography habit, even joking about his video and magazine collection, and going to the cinema to watch "A Decade of Dirty Delinquents". In the episode "Small Potatoes" we learn that he has, in the past, called phone sex lines, using the nickname 'Marty'. In the third season episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose," the psychic Bruckman (played by Peter Boyle , who won an Outstanding Guest Actor Emmy for the part) implies that Mulder will die of Autoerotic Asphyxiation . Mulder has a remarkable memory, and once mentions that he is "cursed with a photographic memory". When he hears about some strange events, he can instantly remember if he had heard something similar before, and often he can immediately name a case that took place many years ago. Even such obscure phrases as "hiding in the light" trigger Mulder's memory of some previous events. He has been able to recognize people from photographs that he just glanced at hours ago, quote passages from Scully's thesis verbatim, and once Mulder gained the trust of an informant by saying how many home runs Mickey Mantle had hit from each side of the plate in his career. He has something of an interest in baseball, and seems to like basketball to some degree as well. He once pretended to be searching for newspaper reports of UFO sightings in the FBI archives, while in reality he was reading baseball scores. (The Unnatural.) He lists his "holy trinity" heroes, as he puts it, as Willie Mays , Frank Serpico , and Micah Hoffman. (Hoffman is a fictional character created for an episode.) He seems to be familiar with, and perhaps has an interest, in 60's counterculture. (Hollywood A.D.) He has seen " Plan 9 From Outer Space " 42 times, and claims that the film is so incredibly bad that it shuts down the logic centers of his brain and allows him to make intuitive leaps of logic. His ethnicity and religious affiliation are never directly disclosed, but there are several hints that he is supposed to be Jewish. (Kaddish.) Despite believing in a variety of paranormal phenomenon, Mulder seems to have no religion in the conventional sense of the word. He seems to have little patience for religious fundamentalists, and he is sometimes very skeptical of "traditional" religious belief. (Revelations.) Mulder is very attached to having a cell phone, so much so that Scully once said; "Mulder, if you had to go without your cell phone for five minutes you'd lapse in to catatonic schizophrenia." Mulder rarely drinks alcohol, and in the few cases he does, he is so drunk that he behaves out of character, suggesting a low tolerance level. Instead, Mulder prefers iced tea or orange juice. As for food, he likes sunflower seeds a lot. Other than that, Mulder's food preferences aren't really clear, although he seems happy to eat whatever he can get his hands on when hungry. Mulder is single. The two most important women he has known before the X-Files are agent Diana Fowley and inspector Phoebe Green. Fowley is very much attracted to Mulder, and it's possible that they were married in the past. Mulder is seen wearing a wedding ring in a flashback scene of Episode 5x15, which is set in 1990. Although a highly suspicious character, Mulder is reluctant to believe that Fowley might be working against him when she surprisingly reappears in 1997, and brushes off Scully's mistrust against Fowley as jealousy. Also, Mulder has a rather poor sense of direction - he sometimes goes through the wrong corridors in a building and can't use a map very well. Likewise, Mulder isn't comfortable when in the country and doesn't really like nature. Mulder disapproves the use of drugs when treating psychological disorders and says that he's not a Freudian. The person Mulder despises most in the world is Alex Krycek. TRIVIA
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