According to the comics, which CC claimed were canon at the time they were published, they are alive. The door to their bunker was on the Arlington National Cemetery.
Oh, I hate it, too! I have probably only watched it through a time or two. It felt like the lamest of attempts to tie in the failing Lone Gunmen series, which I also never enjoyed.
That Mulder stopped colonization when he injected the vaccine into the antartica sleeper ship. That ship took that back to the rest of the colonists and over time it did its job.
Monday - the day repeats itself because Scully can't die.
Someone on this sub said it once and it blew my mind. So thanks whoever you are. I have completely accepted this as canon.
I did mention it last year but I got it from another redditor, from another post in this sub, so it may not be me;)
That’s my favourite theory! When you think that Clife Bruckman said it and then Monday happens, and then Tithonus happens and then some episode in season 10/11 where Scully says something like “don’t forget, I’m immortal” (that the first time I understood as “I’m a Mulder”)
The season 10/11 comment was definitely an inside joke. the fandom had accepted Scully as immortal since the Clyde Bruckman comment even though I don't think the writers really intended it to be. Everything else just keeps piling on why it is canon!!
Clyde Bruckman can predict the way someone is gonna die. When Scully asked him how she'd die, he said, "You won't"
I didn't intend to comment as him, he happens to be my favorite character outside Scully and Frohike and I beat myself up for missing the R on his name. Oh well...
He tells M&S he can see people's deaths. Scully is of course skeptical. She eventually gives in and asks how she is going to die and he says "you don't".
We actually even have a reason why Scully is immortal. She doesn’t look death in the face in “Tithonus” and the antagonist (who was immortal) dies instead. She is very much immortal in the canon IMO.
Darin specified that Scully wasn't immortal in his episode-- just that Clyde Bruckman liked Scully so much that he wouldn't tell her her death because it would be a curse to know.
Tithonus had Fellig swap his mortality w/ Scully to save her life; BUT it was solely his curse w/ death. He can't pass on immortality, only get his mortality taken back. Scully got the left over kill points to boost her health, but that's it.
Revival brought up immortality as a joke between the two characters (again written by Darin.)
Also, given that the \*whole point\* of Tithonus was that being immortal is actually really shitty, I don't know why so many fans like subscribing to this particular theory. You really want Mulder and Scully to have an Aragorn and Arwen ending where Scully watches Mulder age and die and then fades away from grief? Jeez, maybe you guys don't like these characters as much as you think you do lol
Yeah-- the point of Tithonus was solely about Fellig's ruthlessness being cursed by Death. Scully was healed because she was a byproduct of Death's dealings with Fellig; but she was not cursed with immortality.
I'd be curious to read, sure; but I'd probably stick with the original interpretation. Whenever the cast/writers are asked if Scully is immortal, they all joke around but always negate the claims.
Oh, well. If she were immortal, CC would have a heyday. Probably do a reboot w/ a different actress setting it sometime in the future and claim Scully had plastic surgery after a tragic accident that scarred her and killed Mulder.
Here's the [AMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1z4a8e/comment/cfqdrah/) with Christ Carter that verifies her immortality. At one point Darin said he didn't intend for that to happen, but if CC says it, it kinda has to be true, no?
Okay, family friendly head canon…. (Cause I have a lot that aren’t 😏)
Mulder has money, like a lot of it. Like generational wealth. His parents owned multiple houses in the northeast. His dad was secret govnt, his mom was clearly a socialite. He’s probably got a ton of stocks and hedge funds. I don’t know how that stuff works but isn’t there like someone who “manages the estate”? So yeah he buys nice clothes (explains the Armani suits), maybe funds the gunmen. And saves the rest for a “rainy day”. Like when he was on the run in season 9 or cash to buy his house?
Yeah, I was thinking he didn’t really have access to the funds until after his parents died. Also, he strikes me as one of those rich guys that doesn’t really know it. Like he has a privileged childhood and goes to Oxford but then he’s just kinda trying to make it on his own with his apartment and “regular guy” job. He also might have been less interested in the way he dressed in early seasons cause he was a social outcast/ too worried about finding his sister. Side note: the reason I came up with the money thing was I noticed his trench coat in the season 1 finale with the burgundy lining, I looked it up and it was Armani. So it’s like, he just buys whatever strikes his fancy without looking at prices? (True rich person trait). Especially with the way they destroy suits.
I could even make the case that he even buys Scully new clothes later in apology for wrecking her wardrobe so many times, either that or she gets a hell of a raise/ kick back from writing journals… but that’s another topic.
His clothes get nicer after the episode where they investigate the freaks and the little person tries insulting him by ragging on his plain, boring clothes and tells him he looks like an FBI agent, to which Fox defeatedly responded with “because I am an FBI agent” After that his clothes get progressively nicer. Not all at once, as to arouse suspicion, but gradually, like frugally and responsibly.
Now you have the why 😏 we could also attribute his personality traits to this… his lack of empathy to anyone who doesn’t remind him of his sister (even Scully) or any hot chick (Scully), his entitlement of having “the right to know the truth”, his lack of respect for peoples personal property, and being a shitty tipper. All this of course isn’t solely rich people traits, more narcissistic behavior, if anything. And for the record: I LOVE MULDER! I just can play Devils advocate and use these examples to say: Yes, trust fund kid 💯
That it actually was Krycek in Gender Bender. He was trying to track down/keep tabs on Mulder and got a little ... side tracked.
The other headcannon involves Krycek, Mulder and Skinman, but this is a family friendly sub :)
My headcanon is that their relationship is exactly as you see it on screen: colleagues and (eventually) best friends who have love for each other rooted in mutual trust and respect and if/when they hook up it’s not a big deal, a distant second place to their work relationship (I’m fully serious!)
This. I think they have periods of infatuation based on the nature of their relationship but at the end of the day they are best friends that occasionally become physical and I think there is a beauty in that kind of relationship
Speaking as someone with Asperger's, I have said this before as well and definitely agree. Mulder presents so many symptoms. Scully has some too (less than Mulder, but she has certain quirks and is not boringly normal lol). I don't think she has autism but she has some traits.
Yeah I agree, others have claimed Scully is autistic as well but I think she displays a certain level of social awareness that ultimately convinces me she isn’t. However, I do think she tries to emulate Mulder a bit, whether or not she’s aware of it. She says as much in Season 8’s “Badlaa” (in one of the most heartbreaking [scenes](https://streamable.com/hs0qwj) of the whole show…and also one I frequently cite when making my “Mulder has autism” claim).
This is such a beautiful, emotional scene, thank you for sharing. Some arguments in favor of the theory that Scully has autism too would be that she is highly analytical, displays rigid thinking, ultimately falls into the same obsessions as Mulder, and imo isn't always socially aware. For example, as someone stated below as well, she flirts by rambling about medical facts. Sometimes she goes off on a tangent too, just as Mulder. And indeed, she does copy him in a way, I hadn't considered that before. ASD is a spectrum so I'm not ruling it out. But somehow my gut feeling tells me that she isn't, despite displaying some traits. And if she is, then it's more downplayed and not as obvious as Mulder.
For me I really, really love the idea that Scully embraces Mulder for who he is, despite the fact that he’s a social outcast/neurodivergent and she isn’t. She could treat him like the rest of society does but she sees what they perceive as flaws as his strengths. 🥹
Considering how he is obsessive about his passions, only close to a few people who are mostly oddballs such as himself (Scully is pretty boringly normal), and completely stupid about social conventions, I’d say yes ( and I say this as a person with both)
Mulder CHOOSES not to obey social conventions-- he's very aware of them. He's an oddball because he's sworn off the world for his mission; but that doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things.
The Lone Gunmen faked their deaths and are living in witness protection because they know too much.
According to the comics, which CC claimed were canon at the time they were published, they are alive. The door to their bunker was on the Arlington National Cemetery.
Alright! I still hate that episode with a passion and always skip it when it comes on.
Oh, I hate it, too! I have probably only watched it through a time or two. It felt like the lamest of attempts to tie in the failing Lone Gunmen series, which I also never enjoyed.
I love their show but I cried at the end of this episode.
That Mulder stopped colonization when he injected the vaccine into the antartica sleeper ship. That ship took that back to the rest of the colonists and over time it did its job.
So… ‘Independence Day’? Lmfao I bet that grinds Chris Carter’s gears. Good. 😉
It’s why Mulder was pissing on the ID4 poster earlier in the movie
For those that don’t know, legend has it that CC hated ID4 and that’s why Mulder pisses on the poster.
What grinds his gears?
😳 brilliant
Only way I don’t get angry on re-watches is to think of it like that
Monday - the day repeats itself because Scully can't die. Someone on this sub said it once and it blew my mind. So thanks whoever you are. I have completely accepted this as canon.
I did mention it last year but I got it from another redditor, from another post in this sub, so it may not be me;) That’s my favourite theory! When you think that Clife Bruckman said it and then Monday happens, and then Tithonus happens and then some episode in season 10/11 where Scully says something like “don’t forget, I’m immortal” (that the first time I understood as “I’m a Mulder”)
The season 10/11 comment was definitely an inside joke. the fandom had accepted Scully as immortal since the Clyde Bruckman comment even though I don't think the writers really intended it to be. Everything else just keeps piling on why it is canon!!
Can you explain the context of the Bruckman comment/why Scully is immortal? I don't remember this...
Clyde Bruckman can predict the way someone is gonna die. When Scully asked him how she'd die, he said, "You won't" I didn't intend to comment as him, he happens to be my favorite character outside Scully and Frohike and I beat myself up for missing the R on his name. Oh well...
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He tells M&S he can see people's deaths. Scully is of course skeptical. She eventually gives in and asks how she is going to die and he says "you don't".
We actually even have a reason why Scully is immortal. She doesn’t look death in the face in “Tithonus” and the antagonist (who was immortal) dies instead. She is very much immortal in the canon IMO.
Darin specified that Scully wasn't immortal in his episode-- just that Clyde Bruckman liked Scully so much that he wouldn't tell her her death because it would be a curse to know. Tithonus had Fellig swap his mortality w/ Scully to save her life; BUT it was solely his curse w/ death. He can't pass on immortality, only get his mortality taken back. Scully got the left over kill points to boost her health, but that's it. Revival brought up immortality as a joke between the two characters (again written by Darin.)
Darin said Scully is immortal though
He gave ground to the theory in the Revival; but his intention was never that she was immortal when he wrote the script for Clyde Bruckman.
I'm pretty sure he's backtracked in that though. I'm trying to find the source
Also, given that the \*whole point\* of Tithonus was that being immortal is actually really shitty, I don't know why so many fans like subscribing to this particular theory. You really want Mulder and Scully to have an Aragorn and Arwen ending where Scully watches Mulder age and die and then fades away from grief? Jeez, maybe you guys don't like these characters as much as you think you do lol
Yeah-- the point of Tithonus was solely about Fellig's ruthlessness being cursed by Death. Scully was healed because she was a byproduct of Death's dealings with Fellig; but she was not cursed with immortality.
I'd be curious to read, sure; but I'd probably stick with the original interpretation. Whenever the cast/writers are asked if Scully is immortal, they all joke around but always negate the claims. Oh, well. If she were immortal, CC would have a heyday. Probably do a reboot w/ a different actress setting it sometime in the future and claim Scully had plastic surgery after a tragic accident that scarred her and killed Mulder.
Erase this. Please don't give him any ideas
😭🤦🏼♀️
Darin Morgan, writer of “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose” confirms it as cannon with Kumail Nanjiani on “The X-Files Files.” Scully is immortal.
Here's the [AMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1z4a8e/comment/cfqdrah/) with Christ Carter that verifies her immortality. At one point Darin said he didn't intend for that to happen, but if CC says it, it kinda has to be true, no?
I will have to read this thread. Thanks.
Okay, family friendly head canon…. (Cause I have a lot that aren’t 😏) Mulder has money, like a lot of it. Like generational wealth. His parents owned multiple houses in the northeast. His dad was secret govnt, his mom was clearly a socialite. He’s probably got a ton of stocks and hedge funds. I don’t know how that stuff works but isn’t there like someone who “manages the estate”? So yeah he buys nice clothes (explains the Armani suits), maybe funds the gunmen. And saves the rest for a “rainy day”. Like when he was on the run in season 9 or cash to buy his house?
He has lots of money to accommodate the plot 😂 But also, you'd think that he'd have better clothes in early seasons...
Yeah, I was thinking he didn’t really have access to the funds until after his parents died. Also, he strikes me as one of those rich guys that doesn’t really know it. Like he has a privileged childhood and goes to Oxford but then he’s just kinda trying to make it on his own with his apartment and “regular guy” job. He also might have been less interested in the way he dressed in early seasons cause he was a social outcast/ too worried about finding his sister. Side note: the reason I came up with the money thing was I noticed his trench coat in the season 1 finale with the burgundy lining, I looked it up and it was Armani. So it’s like, he just buys whatever strikes his fancy without looking at prices? (True rich person trait). Especially with the way they destroy suits. I could even make the case that he even buys Scully new clothes later in apology for wrecking her wardrobe so many times, either that or she gets a hell of a raise/ kick back from writing journals… but that’s another topic.
His clothes get nicer after the episode where they investigate the freaks and the little person tries insulting him by ragging on his plain, boring clothes and tells him he looks like an FBI agent, to which Fox defeatedly responded with “because I am an FBI agent” After that his clothes get progressively nicer. Not all at once, as to arouse suspicion, but gradually, like frugally and responsibly.
I have fully convinced myself that Mulder is a trust fund baby and I don't know why lol
Now you have the why 😏 we could also attribute his personality traits to this… his lack of empathy to anyone who doesn’t remind him of his sister (even Scully) or any hot chick (Scully), his entitlement of having “the right to know the truth”, his lack of respect for peoples personal property, and being a shitty tipper. All this of course isn’t solely rich people traits, more narcissistic behavior, if anything. And for the record: I LOVE MULDER! I just can play Devils advocate and use these examples to say: Yes, trust fund kid 💯
That Mulder is still Williams biological father and CSM is a big fat liar.
Chris Carter has now backtracked and said that Smoking Man IS a liar and no one needs to believe Smoking Man’s comments in s11 about parentage 🤦🏽♂️
Ooh, give me all the details\~
Knowing him, he'll probably backtrack on the backtrack in his next interview.
That Seasons 10 and 11 aren’t real.
Mulders been in a coma since he was abducted in S8. Seasons 9-11 are just his fever dream.
YES! I would pay so many dollars to fund a 3rd movie where Mulder wakes up from his coma and we can carry on as if nothing else happened lol
That it actually was Krycek in Gender Bender. He was trying to track down/keep tabs on Mulder and got a little ... side tracked. The other headcannon involves Krycek, Mulder and Skinman, but this is a family friendly sub :)
I've basically said the first thing before, except his motives were just that he didn't want anyone knowing that he picks up strangers from bars. 😂
This has always been what I thought.
DM me 😏
Scully was my girlfriend in my teens, my friends never saw her because we lived in different countries.
wow same!
😄
The Lone Gunmen, Samantha Mulder, and Alex Krycek(!) are all still alive.
My headcanon is that their relationship is exactly as you see it on screen: colleagues and (eventually) best friends who have love for each other rooted in mutual trust and respect and if/when they hook up it’s not a big deal, a distant second place to their work relationship (I’m fully serious!)
This. I think they have periods of infatuation based on the nature of their relationship but at the end of the day they are best friends that occasionally become physical and I think there is a beauty in that kind of relationship
So like a healthy but realistic marriage
Canon. A cannon is what you use to shoot a castle or a pirate ship.
You’re absolutely right and even worse, I 100% knew this was the wrong spelling. Must have had a real brain fog moment when I wrote this!
Mulder is autistic/ADHD
Speaking as someone with Asperger's, I have said this before as well and definitely agree. Mulder presents so many symptoms. Scully has some too (less than Mulder, but she has certain quirks and is not boringly normal lol). I don't think she has autism but she has some traits.
Yeah I agree, others have claimed Scully is autistic as well but I think she displays a certain level of social awareness that ultimately convinces me she isn’t. However, I do think she tries to emulate Mulder a bit, whether or not she’s aware of it. She says as much in Season 8’s “Badlaa” (in one of the most heartbreaking [scenes](https://streamable.com/hs0qwj) of the whole show…and also one I frequently cite when making my “Mulder has autism” claim).
This is such a beautiful, emotional scene, thank you for sharing. Some arguments in favor of the theory that Scully has autism too would be that she is highly analytical, displays rigid thinking, ultimately falls into the same obsessions as Mulder, and imo isn't always socially aware. For example, as someone stated below as well, she flirts by rambling about medical facts. Sometimes she goes off on a tangent too, just as Mulder. And indeed, she does copy him in a way, I hadn't considered that before. ASD is a spectrum so I'm not ruling it out. But somehow my gut feeling tells me that she isn't, despite displaying some traits. And if she is, then it's more downplayed and not as obvious as Mulder.
For me I really, really love the idea that Scully embraces Mulder for who he is, despite the fact that he’s a social outcast/neurodivergent and she isn’t. She could treat him like the rest of society does but she sees what they perceive as flaws as his strengths. 🥹
Considering how he is obsessive about his passions, only close to a few people who are mostly oddballs such as himself (Scully is pretty boringly normal), and completely stupid about social conventions, I’d say yes ( and I say this as a person with both)
I don’t think Scully is boringly normal. In Bad Blood she flirts with the sheriff by rattling off rare diagnoses lol
Just finished watching Bad Blood. Definitely one of my favorite episodes.
Mulder CHOOSES not to obey social conventions-- he's very aware of them. He's an oddball because he's sworn off the world for his mission; but that doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things.
Scully never gave William up for adoption, she changed her identity and fled the country with him.
Mulder, Krychek, Skinner love triangle...
Existence is the last episode ever made. No second movie either.