Fox Mulder

About

Fox William Mulder, a highly skilled yet unconventional FBI agent, specializes in paranormal investigation, leading the X-Files unit with Dana Scully. X-files are case files that are commonly unsolved and considered unexplained. Agent Mulder and Agent Scully investigate reports of paranormal behavior or occurrences around the world but are stationed in Washington, D.C.

Driven by the disappearance of his sister Samantha in what he believes was an alien abduction and a deliberate government conspiracy, Mulder seeks to discover "the truth" behind the existence of extraterrestrial life on earth.

Fox's often far fetched theories of paranormal/unexplained phenomena in case solving is often seen as outlandish and met with ridicule by his FBI colleagues, labeling him "Spooky Mulder".

His dedication to his work leaves him with little time for much else. He is close with his partner, Dana Scully, and rarely sees his mother, who is is only living relative. During his limited downtime, he likes to play basketball or watch UFO documentaries, old black and white movies, or pornography.

He always carries on him a government-issued handgun, a spare gun in a holster around his ankle, his FBI badge, a wallet, $40 cash, a cellular phone, and a pen.

Personality

Despite his aloofness and cynical sense of humor, Mulder displays unbridled enthusiasm and interest when it comes to the paranormal, especially because of his personal involvement after his sister's abduction. Walter Skinner and other FBI officials have become concerned by his unprofessional behavior. This only proves true as Mulder makes a habit of letting his personal feelings cloud his judgment; his emotional attachment to UFO cases becomes more severe, because of Dana Scully's eventual abduction and resultant cancer as well as his sister's abduction. Mulder can lose his temper when Scully is involved; on multiple occasions, he has become violent in his grief and unreserved in threatening physical force. Mulder's overprotectiveness of Scully stems not only from his obvious devotion and love for her, but also a long-harbored guilt; Mulder has admitted feeling indirectly responsible for the ordeals and tragedies Scully had gone through because of their investigations.

Appearance

Extra

CANON

The X-Files

CANON POINT

post-Fight the Future (1998)

PLAYED BY

David Duchovny

MUN CONTACT

lunayoshi

FAQs

○ He is still unsure if Samantha is alive.
○ He again believes in aliens.
○ He has not yet discovered who his real father is.
○ He has not yet met Agent Doggett or Agent Reyes.
○ He knows he's in love with Scully but hasn't fully acted on those feelings beyond confessing his reliance on her in his hallway and almost kissing her.
○ He is once again assigned to the x-files but has only recently been assigned to A.D. Kersh instead of A.D. Skinner, who he considers to be a friend.

History

Mulder was born on October 13, 1961 in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. The mysterious disappearance of Mulder's sister and his ensuing search for her became the consuming drive of his life. In 1983, Mulder graduated with first class honours from University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. He then graduated with honors from the Quantico FBI Training Academy in 1986. Mulder joined the FBI on October 24, 1988. On graduating from the Academy, Mulder began his work in the Behavioral Science Unit (psychological profiling) under Agent Bill Patterson, with whom he had a testy relationship.

In 1988, the FBI assigned Mulder to the Violent Crimes Unit. Around this time, Mulder first came across the X-Files, an obscure FBI section dealing with cases relating to the paranormal; he pored over these cases in his spare time, becoming obsessed with them. In 1991, Mulder re-opened the X-Files with Special agent Diana Fowley, but Fowley left shortly thereafter. Mulder investigated the X-Files by himself until March 1992, when Dana Scully, an instructor at the FBI Academy's Forensic Science Research and Training Center, was partnered with him for the purpose of applying scientific reasoning to Mulder's work and theories.

Mulder's ultimate goal was to uncover what he believed to be a government conspiracy to hide the truth about alien life, and to find out what had happened to his sister. However, during a period of time after Scully's cancer went into remission, Mulder was convinced by Michael Kritschgau that aliens did not in fact exist, and that the government conspirators had merely concocted that threat as a smokescreen, to justify military activities and toy with him. After witnessing events, locations, and creatures he could only classify as extraterrestrial, he has once again regained his belief in their existence and continues to seek proof of their existence for others.