32 Facts About Fox Mulder

Fox Mulder was a main character for the first seven seasons, but was limited to a recurring character for the following two seasons.

Fox Mulder made his first appearance in the first season pilot episode, broadcast in 1993.

Fox Mulder believes in extraterrestrial unidentified flying objects and a government conspiracy to hide or deny the truth of their existence.

Fox Mulder considers the X-Files and the truth behind the supposed conspiracy so important that he has made them the main focus of his life.

Fox Mulder was born on October 13,1961, on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

In 1983, Fox Mulder graduated with first-class honors from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology.

Fox Mulder then graduated with honors from the Quantico FBI Training Academy in 1986.

On graduating from the Academy, Fox Mulder began his work in the Behavioral Science Unit under Special Agent Bill Patterson, with whom he had a testy relationship.

Around this time, Fox 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, Fox Mulder re-opened the X-Files with Special Agent Diana Fowley, but Fowley left shortly thereafter.

Fox Mulder investigated the X-Files by himself until March 1992, when Special Agent 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 Fox Mulder's work and theories.

However, during a period of time after Scully's cancer went into remission, Fox 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.

Fox Mulder was then returned to The Smoking Man to live out her life under his supervision, all the while undergoing additional tests.

Fox Mulder was unable to bear the testing any longer so she ran away from her home and was eventually admitted to a nearby hospital, where she disappeared from her locked room.

Fox Mulder was abducted by the aliens himself in 2000, and returned to Earth, almost dead, a few months later.

Fox Mulder had been infected by an alien virus, but Scully found a way to rescue him.

Fox Mulder returned to work for a brief period of time, but was eventually fired for failure to follow orders not to investigate any X-Files.

Fox Mulder is called to assist with the investigation of a missing FBI agent.

Six weeks after their return to the X-Files, Fox Mulder confronts an alive Smoking Man to try and prevent him from carrying out a plan to depopulate the United States using a virus applied to smallpox vaccines.

Fox Mulder is saved by Agent Miller and they regroup with Scully she says Fox Mulder needs a blood transfusion and only their son can give it to them.

Fox Mulder seeks comfort in a Christian church following the events of the episode "Conduit".

David Duchovny suggested Fox Mulder is Jewish when interviewed during production of the second season.

Fox Mulder can seem to go through manic periods when worried or working on a case, contributing to or exacerbating his insomniac tendencies.

Since "Dreamland II" where a "man in black" body-swaps with Fox Mulder and takes over his life, Fox Mulder gets his bedroom renovated and equipped with a waterbed.

Fox Mulder had a rather strained relationship with his parents Bill and Teena Fox Mulder, not least thanks to the X-Files.

The possibility was hinted at later in the series, and Jeffrey Spender, who certainly was the Smoking Man's son, said that Fox Mulder was his half-brother.

When Duchovny was auditioning for the part of Fox Mulder, he made a terrific audition but talked rather slowly.

Fox Mulder was inspired by the fictional character Carl Kolchak, a newspaper reporter Carter described as a "believer" just like Fox Mulder.

Fox Mulder further stated that Duchovny was behind some of the main characteristic ideas behind Mulder.

Carter and most fans felt the show was at its natural endpoint with Duchovny's departure, but it was decided Fox Mulder would be abducted at the end of the seventh season, leaving things open for the actor's return in 12 episodes the following year.

Duchovny's character Fox Mulder was replaced by John Jay Doggett.

Fox Mulder had a brief cameo on The Lone Gunmen, an X-Files spin-off featuring the characters of the same name.