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Monster of the Week (Webcomic)
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Monster of the Week: The complete cartoon X-Files is a webcomic by Shaenon K. Garrity that started in June 2012 and chronicles The X-Files, episode by episode. Every Friday, a new episode is presented in the form of a neat, black-and-white twelve-panel cartoon.Long story short, it's The Abridged Series of The X-Files 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 Genki Guy, and characters lean on or outright break the fourth wall.The comic went on hiatus in June 2014 after concluding season four of The X-Files. It briefly came out of hiatus as of February 2016 to recap the 2016 miniseries, again in February 2018 to recap season 5 (as a side reward for kickstarting a reprint of her original comic, Narbonic), October 2020 to recap season 6 (as a side reward for kickstarting the ninth print volume of her original comic Skin Horse), and (currently) August 2022 (as part of the stretch goals for kickstarting Skin Horse's 11th and 12th volumes).You can start reading it here. Their Patreon can be found herenote If it reaches $2000, the webcomic will fully be brought out of hiatus.Not to be confused with the trope or the Tabletop RPG. | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Scully and Mulder have a few moments. Of course, they immediately notice that this is going to inspire fanfiction. | |
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Became Their Own Antithesis | |
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Became Their Own Antithesis: Lampshaded in the first panel of Season 5 lone gunmen Backstory 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 crazy gas that causes paranoid delusion): | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: Doctor Evil in Memento Mori. | |
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Ripped from the Headlines | |
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Ripped from the Headlines: Lampshaded for The Field Where I Died: invoked Also used, in a Dude, Not Funny! fashion, in the 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. | |
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All According to Plan | |
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All According to Plan: Discussed: | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: Scully, and Mulder to a lesser extent. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Miracle Man, the Monster of the Week himself says it best: | |
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Multiple Endings | |
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Multiple Endings: 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 to all be "sexy, sexy nonsense." | |
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The Greys | |
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The screenwriters of the series being drawn as grey aliens. | |
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Unwinnable by Design | |
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Unwinnable by Design: As a Shout-Out to "Inside UFO 54-40", Monday (stylized as a choose-your-own-adventure story) has the Golden Ending (where Pam survives, and Mulder and Scully take her out to Ultima Ice Cream) be disconnected from the paths of the story. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: The author, Mulder and Scully all speak to the audience sometimes. | |
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Ominous Latin Chanting | |
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Ominous Latin Chanting: Lampshaded in The Field Where I Died: | |
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Failed a Spot Check | |
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Failed a Spot Check: Mulder and Scully do it repeatedly. Suprisingly, it's rarely lampshaded. | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: Subverted. Whenever Scully notes that the season arc seems to have disappeared, it pops up again. | |
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Animated Actors | |
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Animated Actors: Played with (inverted?). Scully and Mulder repeatedly refer to their actors, usually when giving an explanation why 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. | |
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Russian Reversal | |
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Russian Reversal: ''Tunguska, or In Russia, Oil Lightly Seasons YOU". | |
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Funny Background Event | |
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Funny Background Event: In Little Green Men, when Mulder talks with the Senator, there's a picture of the Senator shaking hands with an alien hanging in the background. It gets revisited in the first episode of Season 10 - My Struggle - where in the first panel with a picture in the background of Scully with an alien doing the bunny ears on her. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: Everywhere. Scully does it most often. | |
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Expansion Pack Past | |
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Expansion Pack Past: Lampshaded when The Unusual Suspects inexplicably portrays Young FBI Agent Mulder as not believing in conspiracies. It's pointed out to him that he joined the FBI because he believed in conspiracies, and he replies that it's really hard to keep track of this stuff. | |
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Rule of Cool | |
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Rule of Cool: | |
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Actor Allusion | |
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Actor Allusion: invokedQuite often the author points out through caption or The Rant that a particular guest actor appearing in one episode became famous later. It's pretty uncanny to see how long is that list. Lampshaded in The Rant in Soft Light: | |
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Poe's Law | |
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The entirety of War of the Coprophages, at the very beginning with a message from the author: "Okay, I admit it. I can do nothing better with this episode than just quote all the best lines". | |
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TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight | |
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The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: Mulder is always right about the supernatural/paranormal explanations of their cases, up to the point when it just bores Scully. | |
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Opening a Can of Clones | |
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Opening a Can of Clones: Who's the real Samantha? | |
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Skewed Priorities | |
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Skewed Priorities: When Mulder discovers that he is now seeing the "kill" messages in Blood (after Scully shoots down his idea that the LSD-spraying program is involvednote Because he was sprayed, and was fine), how does he react? | |
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Smart People Wear Glasses | |
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Smart People Wear Glasses: In his first shot Mulder is seen wearing glasses, helpfully pointed at and signed "smart glasses". | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
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Deus ex Machina: 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 mystic Navajos: | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
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Damsel in Distress: Scully, more often than she'd like to. | |
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Saying Too Much | |
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Saying Too Much / Suspiciously Specific Denial: Several times. The opening panel of Fresh Bones: From Our Town: | |
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Magical Native American | |
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Magical Native American: Lampshaded in The Blessing Way, or Crap Goes Down Part II: Indians Are Magic. | |
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GenkiGuy | |
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Genki Guy: Mulder, full stop. He does it almost once every episode. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Often. | |
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Post-Script Season | |
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invoked Also used to lampshade Season 10's status as a Postscript Season in its first episode My Struggle in the first few panels with Scully wearing a t-shirt that says "I learned the truth and all I got was this T-shirt". | |
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Power Perversion Potential | |
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Power Perversion Potential: invoked Lampshaded in Kaddish; after learning that the episode's golem was meant as a Replacement Goldfish for the main character's husband, Mulder is too Squicked out to ask if the golem was able to do... "other things" with her. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: Only Soft Light had one so far. | |
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But Thou Must! | |
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But Thou Must!: As reflecting the episode's Bittersweet Ending, the strip for Monday gives no option to access the Golden Ending (the "Groundhog Day" Loop being broken and Mulder & Scully taking Pam out for ice cream) in its "choose your own adventure" structure, with Pam's only options being to either perform a Heroic Sacrifice (Taking the Bullet for Mulder, thus breaking the time loop) or let the bank get blown up by her crazy boyfriend Bernard. | |
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The Internet Is for Porn | |
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The Internet Is for Porn: Discussed in the Season 5 episode Kill Switch as the one overriding advantage uploading your mind into the nascent nineties internet has. | |
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Bat Deduction | |
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Bat Deduction: In "Chimera", the nonsense by which Mulder goes from Scully talking about a street preacher to realising who the monster is, lampshaded by him calling Scully "Old chum". | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_5beef860 | comment |
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Mites for Mulder and Scully, as well as Black Oil for the author. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_6076af84 | type |
ForTheLulz | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_6076af84 | comment |
For the Lulz: Aliens' motivations as explained in Fearful Symmetry. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_648fe274 | type |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_648fe274 | comment |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Heroic variant in Kitsunegari, where it is lampshaded that Mulder can't recognize a returning villain from a previous episode: | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_66755d29 | type |
Author Avatar | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_66755d29 | comment |
Author Avatar: Shaenon appears many times in the comic to state her opinion on the episode or for fourth wall breaking jokes. She also resembles Helen from one of her other comics, Narbonic. Her husband Andrew also has an avatar, but his appearances are far fewer than Shaenon's. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_670db7d7 | type |
Formula-Breaking Episode | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_670db7d7 | comment |
Formula-Breaking Episode: 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. 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 invites a Mycologist to debunk it, but he eventually gets so annoying that 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 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, Die Hand Die Verlezt and Orison, which are a list of the ten top reasons why their respective monsters of the week(Donnie Pfaster, Mrs. Paddock, and Donny Pfaster again) are so creepy. Fearful Symmetry, in which aliens explain their plans to abduct zoo animals and turn them invisible, 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: don't lean in close to stuff covered in giant pulsating boils and listen to the CDC and not any 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 Guilty Pleasure 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 "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, because the dark, mundane horror of the plot makes it hard to properly satirize. Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man is written as one of CSM's "Jack Colquitt" novels. Mulder And Scully Meet The Were-Monster, which offers an explanation for Guy Mann being dressed like 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 the Muslim guy leaving Mulder in order to have a dance party with the Lone Gunmen. Monday, which is designed In the Style of 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 David Duchovny is actually a genius with a master's degree from Yale. Hungry, which is an infomercial by brain-eating mutant Rob Roberts about "the power of proboscoid thinking". The Goldberg Variations, which is an explanatory diagram of how the Goldbergian chain of events fits together. X-Cops, which is another one which focuses on Shaenon and Andrew's reactions to the episode. This time he falls asleep. Je Souhite has Mulder recap the actual episode in the first panel, and the rest is Scully telling the genie her three wishes (which are ironically granted in the next episode). | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_671681af | type |
Jackass Genie | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_671681af | comment |
Je Souhite has Mulder recap the actual episode in the first panel, and the rest is Scully telling the genie her three wishes (which are ironically granted in the next episode). | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_685a6461 | type |
Circus of Fear | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_685a6461 | comment |
Humbug, which is presented as a list of carnival attractions, in reference to the Circus of Fear involved in the episode. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_6a6b23ff | type |
Unfazed Everyman | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_6a6b23ff | comment |
Unfazed Everyman: Scully, especially in Unruhe. She just shrugs off this nonsense. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_6ada388a | type |
Russian Guy Suffers Most | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_6ada388a | comment |
Russian Guy Suffers Most: Two prominent examples in the two parter in which Mulder and Krycek go to Russia: 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 The Rant: In Terma, the Russian prisoners method to prevent black oil infection are over the top even for Krycek: | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_6b12722e | type |
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_6b12722e | comment |
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The author stated in-universe that she considers the shapeshifter episode in season one a missed opportunity. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_6d814f61 | type |
Rule of Cool | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_6d814f61 | comment |
Jersey Devil, in which the author, underwhelmed at how easy the namesake creature was to kill, proceeds to reimagine the plot. It involves Batman riding the Jersey Devil like a Flying Mount. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_6fc192ef | type |
Jerkass Woobie | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_6fc192ef | comment |
invoked 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 Jerkass Woobie. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_720e28a4 | type |
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_720e28a4 | comment |
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: A result of Mulder and Scully's argument: | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_72757e0d | type |
"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_72757e0d | comment |
"Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: 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. 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." 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." | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_7286e96d | type |
Idiot Ball | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_7286e96d | comment |
Idiot Ball: invokedMulder tends to act like an idiot every time Krycek is around. Scully calls him out on this, but he just won't listen... | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_72d2ac55 | type |
Clone Army | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_72d2ac55 | comment |
Clone Army: Multiple Samanthas and Good Clones from Memento Mori. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_74828aea | type |
Killer Rabbit | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_74828aea | comment |
Killer Rabbit: Kitten in Teso dos Bichos, although they're not very killer. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_75979171 | type |
The Cuckoolander Was Right | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_75979171 | comment |
And of course, MULDER IS RIGHT! | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_762b9223 | type |
Played for Laughs | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_762b9223 | comment |
Played for Laughs in the Season 6 episode Triangle: | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_77315f4f | type |
You Have to Believe Me! | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_77315f4f | comment |
You Have to Believe Me!: All over the place since Mulder has the habit of telling other police officers his paranormal/supernatural theory of what's going on, regardless of how crazy it sounds to normal people. Especially lampshaded in Pusher where he tries to convince a court of the monster of the week paranormal abilities: | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_78037bcd | type |
Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_78037bcd | comment |
Firewalker, in which the author questions the scientific accuracy of the killer fungi, and invites a Mycologist to debunk it, but he eventually gets so annoying that Mulder and Scully proceed to throw him at a pit of the (now debunked) killer fungi. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_786bf97f | type |
Real Life Writes the Plot | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_786bf97f | comment |
Real Life Writes the Plot: invoked Lampshaded in Sleepless as the reason for Mulder to temporarily get a new companion (Krycek): For the comic itself, Shaenon went on hiatus the first time due to also being pregnant. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_7c63d3de | type |
Questionable Casting | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_7c63d3de | comment |
Questionable Casting: Subverted. The author praises X-Files casting repetitively in-universe. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_7d3227a5 | type |
And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_7d3227a5 | comment |
And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: There's are these little gems in Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man: Cancer Man expy gets a t-shirt with "I saved goddam democracy and all I got was this T-shirt" and Mulder expy gets a t-shirt with "I joined the conspiracy and all I got was this T-shirt" written on them. invoked Also used to lampshade Season 10's status as a Postscript Season in its first episode My Struggle in the first few panels with Scully wearing a t-shirt that says "I learned the truth and all I got was this T-shirt". | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_8171b426 | type |
Fantastically Indifferent | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_8171b426 | comment |
Fantastically Indifferent: Citizens of the Bay Area, as described by author: | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_820ac351 | type |
It Amused Me | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_820ac351 | comment |
Fearful Symmetry, in which aliens explain their plans to abduct zoo animals and turn them invisible, for the lulz. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_86e58ce9 | type |
No Time to Explain | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_86e58ce9 | comment |
No Time to Explain: In Colony, Mulder's dad calls him up and says he needs to come home and he'll explain when he gets there. Mulder says "Why do people do that? Just tell me over the phone!" | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_875615dd | type |
Truth in Television | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_875615dd | comment |
Truth in Television: Lo Pan in Hell Money, according to the author. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_884e513b | type |
Medium Awareness | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_884e513b | comment |
Medium Awareness: Very common, with Mulder and Scully usually being the ones to break the fourth wall and recognize that they're in a television series. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_8a9eb844 | type |
Perspective Flip | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_8a9eb844 | comment |
Perspective Flip: Fearful Symmetry is told from the perspective of aliens. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_8ace85ef | type |
Audience Surrogate | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_8ace85ef | comment |
Audience Surrogate: Scully is this for the author. Lampshaded in Beyond the Sea: | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: All of the victims in Shapes. It's even lampshaded: Similarly, all of the victims in Kaddish are Neo-Nazis, and so both Mulder & Scully don't mind the fact that they didn't really do anything in this episode. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_912b24c4 | type |
Art Shift | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_912b24c4 | comment |
Art Shift: In Jose Chung's "From Outer Space" every panel is in different art style. They were contributed by multiple webcomic artists. | |
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Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_95a4c6df | type |
Wild Card | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_95a4c6df | comment |
Wild Card: Krycek. Astoundingly, Mulder trusts him every time. | |
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Big Bad | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Cancer Man a.k.a. the Cigarette-Smoking Man. | |
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A Day in the Limelight | |
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A Day in the Limelight: Avatar is one for Skinner, although this doesn't end well. Same thing with Zero Sum. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: In Fallen Angel, about the Lone Gunmen becoming recurring characters: In Leonard Betts, about Scully getting cancer: | |
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Continuity Nod | |
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Continuity Nod: Upon finding the premise of the Kaddish episode (racial minority) Scully immediately remembers previous "racial minority" episodes (one with melanine vampires) and notes they don't have a very good track record of dealing with such cases (the vampires episode wasn't exactly sensible). | |
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This Is Gonna Suck | |
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This Is Gonna Suck: In the pilot, Scully's reaction to Mulder's office being full of UFO stuff and nerdery is "Aw, crud." 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 "the other kind of fictional hacker": Played for Laughs in the Season 6 episode Triangle: | |
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Failure Hero | |
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Failure Hero: Mulder and Scully only solve the episode's conflict about a third of the time, if that. As noted by Shaenon, the nature of the series means they can't really get solid proof of the paranormal or expose the Conspiracy, so so they often achieve very little and 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 Running Gag below). Of course, being an abridged series this is all Played for Laughs. | |
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | |
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Mulder says it... moments before angry Russians start chasing him. And he's with Krycek. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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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 the Muslim guy leaving Mulder in order to have a dance party with the Lone Gunmen. | |
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Joker Immunity | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_a6cbef9a | comment |
Joker Immunity: Lampshaded for Cancer Man in One Breath: | |
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Klaatu Barada Nikto | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_a7004779 | comment |
Klaatu Barada Nikto: When Mrs Paddock set up her... chapel-thing in Die Hand die Verletzt, she wrote it under the pentagram, along with 666, Cthulu reference and "I *heart* evil". | |
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Red Shirt | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_ac2094ca | comment |
Red Shirt: 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: "Cynical hard-bitten pilot!", "Wacky scientist whose quirks will be missed!", "Suspicious guy who will probably turn on everyone!" and "A woman!" ("I'm a woman and a scientist. That's two traits.") Also, Flirty Science Guy. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Scully. | |
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Take That! | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: In The Rant for Zero Sum, Shannon mocks anti-vaxxers and complains about them inadvertently trying to bring back smallpox through their stupidity. Redux ends with one to Season 10. After recapping Season 4, quick jabs are made at the Season 5 episodes Chinga and Kill Switch with this remark: | |
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Author Filibuster | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_b593baf1 | comment |
Author Filibuster: Small Potatoes, instead of abridging the episode, is the author telling us her feelings about it. | |
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Villain Episode | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_b6c2e6ad | comment |
Villain Episode: Musings of a Cigarette-Smoking Man is this for Cancer Man, except more so than the actual episode because it's mainly a retelling of the episode as if it was one of his Jack Colquitt stories. Notably, it delves headfirst into Fan Fic territory when "Wolf Mandrake" shows up. | |
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And Then What? | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_b7b1aa73 | comment |
And Then What?: After capturing Flukeman in The Host, Scully asks what they would do with it. Cue Beat Panel. | |
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A Good Name for a Rock Band | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_b9561236 | comment |
A Good Name for a Rock Band: SKINNER'S FIST. Additionally, the first album should be titled "Shirtless Edition". | |
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Unfinished Business | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_bafa1190 | comment |
Unfinished Business: Ghost in The List, revenge variety. | |
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Recap Episode | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_bf2412a1 | comment |
Recap Episode: Each season ends with recap strip, where single frames from each of the season's strip are combined into one. | |
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Jump Scare | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_c04b1231 | comment |
Jump Scare: Much like the episode it's based on, War of the Coprophages has a cockroach walk across the strip. As in, the strip is actually a GIF and it happens without any prompting. | |
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California Doubling | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_c10d1dcb | comment |
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. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_c2cedc1c | comment |
Big "NO!": Scully after flirty science guy gets shot: | |
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Cliffhanger | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_c6b8d37a | comment |
Cliffhanger: All over the place. Almost one in five episodes end with a cliffhanger. Especially lampshaded in the Season 10 finale, with Shaenon expressing her frustration in a fourth wall breaking joke, in which an alien is reading the chapter to her as a bedtime story: | |
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GuiltyPleasure | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_c7079bc8 | comment |
D.P.O and Small Potatoes, in which the author recognizes these episodes as her Guilty Pleasure and goes on to list the many reasons for this. | |
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Shout-Out | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: To Thunderbolts, Face/Off, Crime and Punishment, Rambo, Reanimator and An American Werewolf in London among others. Scully seems particularly pop culture-savvy, even if pop culture in question wasn't there when show is supposedly taking place. | |
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Hackette | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_c9580ee6 | comment |
This is also Scully's reaction in the Season 5 episode Kill Switch, when she founds out they'll be teaming up with "the other kind of fictional hacker": | |
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Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_cb70651c | comment |
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Parodied at the end of Avatar: | |
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Seen It All | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_cd7ef676 | comment |
Seen It All: Mulder's attitude in Unrequited: | |
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Dude, Not Funny! | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_cdd835ce | comment |
invoked Also used, in a Dude, Not Funny! fashion, in the 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. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_d028ca10 | comment |
Deliberately Monochrome: Inverted in The Post-Modern Prometheus (recapping the episode which played this trope straight), which is the first fully colored strip in an otherwise black and white comic. | |
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Delicious Distraction | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_d2ccb43e | comment |
Delicious Distraction: In "Chimera", Fox, of all people, appears to be far more interested in the food the sheriff's wife is providing than actually solving the case. In fact, it's not clear he even really believes it's an X-File and isn't just using it as an excuse to stay for dinner. | |
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Lampshaded | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_d332bf54 | comment |
Especially lampshaded in the Season 10 finale, with Shaenon expressing her frustration in a fourth wall breaking joke, in which an alien is reading the chapter to her as a bedtime story: | |
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Wonder Twin Powers | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_d45cbb16 | comment |
Wonder Twin Powers: Invoked and referenced the trope namers in the Season 10 episode Founder's Mutation, in which after being reunited the mutant siblings get revenge on their evil doctor dad by giving him a scanner death, by shouting "MUTANT SIBLINGS POWERS ACTIVATE" | |
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Bunny Ears Picture Prank | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_d47c9b9c | comment |
It gets revisited in the first episode of Season 10 - My Struggle - where in the first panel with a picture in the background of Scully with an alien doing the bunny ears on her. | |
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Either/Or Title | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_d84a3beb | comment |
Either/Or Title: Each episode is given a title by template "[original X-Files episode title], or [author's joke title]". | |
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…But He Sounds Handsome | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_d8afec40 | comment |
…But He Sounds Handsome: In Zero Sum, when Skinner impersonates Mulder during the opening investigation. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_dcbe8a6e | comment |
Chekhov's Gunman: The Lone Gunmen, Krycek and the abduction victims from Season 2 all appear later. | |
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Who Writes This Crap?! | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_dd891949 | comment |
Who Writes This Crap?!: Miracle Man, the Monster of the Week himself says it best: Space mostly consists of Scully in upset silence over how dumb the episode is. Hollywood AD has Mulder asking this repeatedly, with the joke being it was David Duchovny. | |
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Fond Memories That Could Have Been | |
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_e6a5d84b | comment |
Fond Memories That Could Have Been: 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". | |
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The Mole | |
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The Mole: Krycek for Cancer Man. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Lampshaded in Unrequited. | |
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The Rant | |
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In The Rant for Zero Sum, Shannon mocks anti-vaxxers and complains about them inadvertently trying to bring back smallpox through their stupidity. | |
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In the Style of | |
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Monday, which is designed In the Style of a "Choose Your Own Adventure" story through its panel layout instead of serving as a "normal" comic. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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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: don't lean in close to stuff covered in giant pulsating boils and listen to the CDC and not any evil impersonators of the CDC that may show up instead. | |
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Cartwright Curse | |
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Also, Flirty Science Guy. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Scully introduces herself to Mulder as "I'm Clarice Star—Dana Scully." Season 10 Agents Miller and Einstein are basically younger versions of Mulder and Scully. Lampshaded in Season 10's last chapter My Struggle II: In the Millennium crossover, Scully points out that Frank Black, "controversial FBI profiler", is somewhat similar to Mulder. Mulder asks her how many hit series she's showrun. | |
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Girlfriend in Canada | |
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Girlfriend in Canada: Pheobe Green from the episode "Fire" is introduced by Mulder saying "Hey, Scully. Remember how I told you I did so have a girlfriend but she lives in England and you wouldn't know her?" | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Scully in peril! "So...even by our usual low standards, we completely failed." "Oh God, don't make me say [something] vampire." The screenwriters of the series being drawn as grey aliens. SKINNER'S FIST!!! 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. Mulder's love of sketchy, suspicious informants. invoked 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 Jerkass Woobie. Shaenon freaking out whenever the black oil makes an appearance. And of course, MULDER IS RIGHT! | |
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The Abridged Series | |
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The Abridged Series: Monster of the Week is basically the webcomic equivalent of this trope for The X-Files, often exaggerating character traits and plotlines for the sake of comedy along with satirizing/lampshading some of the weirder aspects of the series itself. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: 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? | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: In Beyond the sea, Shaenon asks her husband whether she should dye her hair red. A few months later, she admits in the rant that she did so. | |
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