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 * typical UFO mythos:
 ** race: [[Grey Alien]]s
-** race: [[Reptilian]]s
+** race: [[Reptilian Alien]]s
 ** race: [[Human Cultist]]s (assorted cults-of-the-week)
 ** cult: [[Men in Black]]

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 * Complete list of Main Story Arc Episodes:
 ** Summary:  The main story arc mainly revolved around an extraterrestrial/conspiracy storyline:  the agents' efforts to slowly unravel a conspiracy entrenched in secrecy within a mysterious "shadow element" of the U.S. government to hide the existence of extraterrestrial "Colonists" on Earth, and their sinister collaboration with those conspirators, known as "The Syndicate", led by the "Cigarette Smoking Man". Late in the series it is revealed that The Syndicate acts as the only liaison between mankind and the Colonists, a group of ancient aliens whose main goal is to enslave and eliminate human life on Earth; the Colonists have promised to spare the Syndicate in return for their collaboration.  As the series goes along, Mulder and Scully learn about evidence of the alien invasion piece by piece, and it is revealed that the extraterrestrials plan on using a sentient virus, known as the black oil, to infect mankind and turn the population of the world into a slave race, while the Syndicate have been working to develop an alien-human hybrid that will be able to withstand the effects of the black oil, as well as a vaccine to overcome the black oil. Counter to the alien colonization effort, another faction of aliens, the faceless Rebels, are working to stop alien colonization for their own mysterious reasons, eventually managing to destroy the Syndicate. The colonists, now without human liaisons, dispatch human-looking alien "Super Soldiers", who manage to replace key individuals in the government, forcing Mulder and Scully to go into hiding.  By Season 10 (2016), the agents are continuing efforts to find a vaccine for the alien virus, the virus is released on the public, and the Cigarette Smoking Man is revealed to have survived the destruction of the Syndicate....
-** Main Story episode list:  1x01 "Pilot", 1x02 "Deep Throat", 1x10 "Fallen Angel", 1x17 "E.B.E.", 1x24 "The Erlenmeyer Flask", 2x01 "Little Green Men", 2x05 "Duane Barry", 2x06 "Ascension", 2x08 "One Breath", 2x10 "Red Museum", 2x16 "Colony", 2x17 "End Game", 2x25 "Anasazi", 3x01 "The Blessing Way", 3x02 "Paper Clip", 3x09 "Nisei", 3x10 "731", 3x15 "Piper Maru", 3x16 "Apocrypha", 3x24 "Talitha Cumi", 4x01 "Herrenvolk", 4x08 "Tunguska", 4x09 "Terma", 4x14 "Memento Mori", 4x17 "Tempus Fugit", 4x18 "Max", 4x21 "Zero Sum", 4x23 "Demons", 4x24 "Gethsemane", 5x01 "Redux", 5x02 "Redux II", 5x13 "Patient X", 5x14 "The Red and the Black", 5x20 "The End", Film: ''The X-Files (1998)'', 6x01 "The Beginning", 6x09 "S.R. 819", 6x11 "Two Fathers", 6x12 "One Son", 6x22 "Biogenesis", 7x01 "The Sixth Extinction", 7x02 "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati", 7x10 "Sein und Zeit", 7x11 "Closure", 7x15 "En Ami", 7x22 "Requiem", 8x01 "Within", 8x02 "Without", 8x11 "The Gift", 8x13 "Per Manum", 8x14 "This is Not Happening", 8x15 "Deadalive", 8x16 "Three Words", 8x18 "Vienen", 8x20 "Essense", 8x21 "Existence", 9x01 "Nothing Important Happened Today", 9x02 "Nothing Important Happened Today II", 9x06 "Trust No 1", 9x09 "Provenance", 9x10 "Providence", 9x16 "William", 9x20 "The Truth", film ''The X-Files: I want to Believe (2008)'', 10x01 "My Struggle", 10x06 "My Struggle II"
+** Main Story episode list ("(s)" denotes a secondary episode related to the main story arc):  1x01 "Pilot", 1x02 "Deep Throat", 1x04(s) "Conduit", 1x09(s) "Space", 1x10 "Fallen Angel", 1x17 "E.B.E.", 1x24 "The Erlenmeyer Flask", 2x01 "Little Green Men", 2x05 "Duane Barry", 2x06 "Ascension", 2x08 "One Breath", 2x10 "Red Museum", 2x16 "Colony", 2x17 "End Game", 2x18(s) "Fearful Symmetry", 2x23(s) "Soft Light", 2x25 "Anasazi", 3x01 "The Blessing Way", 3x02 "Paper Clip", 3x09 "Nisei", 3x10 "731", 3x15 "Piper Maru", 3x16 "Apocrypha", 3x20(s) "Jose Chung's From Outer Space", 3x21(s) "Avatar" , 3x24 "Talitha Cumi", 4x01 "Herrenvolk", 4x07(s) "Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man", 4x08 "Tunguska", 4x09 "Terma", 4x14 "Memento Mori", 4x17 "Tempus Fugit", 4x18 "Max", 4x21 "Zero Sum", 4x23 "Demons", 4x24 "Gethsemane", 5x01 "Redux", 5x02 "Redux II", 5x06(s) "Christmas Carol", 5x07(s) "Emily", 5x13 "Patient X", 5x14 "The Red and the Black", 5x15(s) "Travelers", 5x20 "The End", Film: ''The X-Files (1998)'', 6x01 "The Beginning", 6x04(s) "Dreamland", 6x05(s) "Dreamland II", 6x09 "S.R. 819", 6x11 "Two Fathers", 6x12 "One Son", 6x19(s) "The Unnatural" 6x22 "Biogenesis", 7x01 "The Sixth Extinction", 7x02 "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati", 7x10 "Sein und Zeit", 7x11 "Closure", 7x15 "En Ami", 7x22 "Requiem", 8x01 "Within", 8x02 "Without", 8x11 "The Gift", 8x13 "Per Manum", 8x14 "This is Not Happening", 8x15 "Deadalive", 8x16 "Three Words", 8x18 "Vienen", 8x20 "Essense", 8x21 "Existence", 9x01 "Nothing Important Happened Today", 9x02 "Nothing Important Happened Today II", 9x06 "Trust No 1", 9x09 "Provenance", 9x10 "Providence", 9x16 "William", 9x20 "The Truth", film ''The X-Files: I want to Believe (2008)'', 10x01 "My Struggle", 10x06 "My Struggle II"
 ** Keeper's Notes:  The series' main story arc is a well-known example of a "kudzu plot":  a plot which became more and more complicated, elaborate, and tangled until it seemed to grow out of control, with many bizarre and intertwined clues but very little sign that they actually fit together; the main series' plot is thus probably best not used as a direct model for a ''Call of Cthulhu'' or ''Delta Green'' RPG campaign, though elements of the series' mythology might make useful fodder for scenario background and plot ideas.
 * Suggested Monster-of-the-Week Episodes:
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 ** "Field Trip" - The skeletonized remains of a young couple are found in the fields of North Carolina. When Mulder and Scully go to investigate, they find that a giant fungal life form releases an LSD-like drug into the air with spores, and then slowly digests its victims. Mulder and Scully fall into its trap and are not sure of what is reality and what is fantasy.
 ** "Hungry" - In an episode told from the point-of-view of the "monster", a fast-food employee with unusual cravings becomes the focus of an FBI investigation. The victims appear with no brain and a suction hole in the forehead.
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 * A Season 7 crossover episode "Millennium" was made after ''[[Millennium (1996 series)]]'' was canceled after its third season, giving that series by the same creative team some closure, and officially placing the two series in the same fictional universe.
 * In an earlier and less official crossover, the eccentric author character Jose Chung from Season 3 Episode "Jose Chung's ''From Outer Space''" (When a couple claims to have been abducted by aliens, Agents Mulder and Scully try to get at the truth but everyone has a different version of the story, including the "aliens" themselves) would re-appear in Season 2 ''Millennium'' episode "Jose Chung's ''Doomsday Defense''" (An apostate member of a pop religion is murdered, leading Frank to co-investigate with a flamboyant writer.)
-* A spin-off show, ''The Lone Gunmen (2001 series)'', aired at about the same time as the 8th season of ''The X-Files''; it featured the titular group of amateur conspiracy buffs who appeared as Mulder's friends and recurring characters in the parent series, and had more of a slapstick/comedic tone to it, with little of the supernatural horror found in its parent series.  When the spin-off was canceled after its first and only season, a Season 9 ''X-Files'' crossover episode "Jump the Shark" was made to give the spin-off some closure.
+* A spin-off show, ''The Lone Gunmen (2001 series)'', aired at about the same time as the 8th season of ''The X-Files''; it featured the titular group of amateur conspiracy buffs who appeared as Mulder's friends and recurring characters in the parent series, and had more of a slapstick/comedic tone to it, with little of the supernatural horror found in its parent series.  The Lone Gunmen are given a backstory in the fifth season ''X-Files'' episode "Unusual Suspects" and more screen time in the sixth season episode "Three of a Kind"; when the spin-off was canceled after its first and only season, a Season 9 ''X-Files'' crossover episode "Jump the Shark" was made to give the spin-off some closure.
 * A dispute between Fox network and star David Duchovny over money during the 7th season of ''The X-Files'' would lead to Duchovny walking out of the 8th season of the series, leading to the introduction of agents Doggett and Reyes (Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish) during Season 8 to replace Mulder, to the mixed reception of fans at the time.  Duchovny would return to the series in Season 9.

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 ** "Travelers" - In 1990, a bizarre murder leads young agent Fox Mulder to question a former FBI Agent ([[Darren McGavin]]) who investigated one of the first X-Files dating back to the 1950s – a case which may have involved Mulder's father.
 ** "Folie à Deux" - Mulder and Scully encounter a delusional man who believes his boss may be a monster – and is willing to pay any price to prove it.
-** "Agua Mala" - Mulder and Scully are looking forward to cases again. Instead, a former X-Files agent ([[Darren McGavin]]), now living in a Florida trailer park, calls the agents for help when a neighbouring family disappears; and, with a hurricane approaching, Mulder and Scully find themselves trapped with a group of residents in a building where there is something in the water.
+** "Agua Mala" - A former X-Files agent ([[Darren McGavin]]), now living in a Florida trailer park, calls the agents for help when a neighbouring family disappears; and, with a hurricane approaching, Mulder and Scully find themselves trapped with a group of residents in a building where there is something in the water.
 ** "Arcadia" - Several disappearances at an idyllic planned community lead Mulder and Scully to go undercover as a married couple. However, they soon discover that the president of the homeowners' association takes the community covenants and regulations more seriously than they could have imagined.
 ** "Field Trip" - The skeletonized remains of a young couple are found in the fields of North Carolina. When Mulder and Scully go to investigate, they find that a giant fungal life form releases an LSD-like drug into the air with spores, and then slowly digests its victims. Mulder and Scully fall into its trap and are not sure of what is reality and what is fantasy.

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 ** "Leonard Betts" - The disappearance of a man's body from a hospital morgue leads Mulder and Scully to investigate the strange circumstances surrounding the man's death. However, for Scully it will lead to a horrifying revelation.
 ** "Detour" - On the way to an FBI convention in Florida, Mulder and Scully stop to help in the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of three people in the woods, where a pair of invisible humanoids lurk.
-** "Travelers" - In 1990, a bizarre murder leads young agent Fox Mulder to question a former FBI Agent who investigated one of the first X-Files dating back to the 1950s – a case which may have involved Mulder's father.
+** "Travelers" - In 1990, a bizarre murder leads young agent Fox Mulder to question a former FBI Agent ([[Darren McGavin]]) who investigated one of the first X-Files dating back to the 1950s – a case which may have involved Mulder's father.
 ** "Folie à Deux" - Mulder and Scully encounter a delusional man who believes his boss may be a monster – and is willing to pay any price to prove it.
+** "Agua Mala" - Mulder and Scully are looking forward to cases again. Instead, a former X-Files agent ([[Darren McGavin]]), now living in a Florida trailer park, calls the agents for help when a neighbouring family disappears; and, with a hurricane approaching, Mulder and Scully find themselves trapped with a group of residents in a building where there is something in the water.

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	** "2Shy" - Meeting insecure women through an on-line service, a serial killer seduces his prey with the right words. However, Mulder and Scully determine these killings are far from ordinary by the presence of a strange substance coating the victims, a substance which seems to digest the fatty acids in flesh.		** "2Shy" - Meeting insecure women through an on-line service, a serial killer seduces his prey with the right words. However, Mulder and Scully determine these killings are far from ordinary by the presence of a strange substance coating the victims, a substance which seems to digest the fatty acids in flesh.
	** "War of the Coprophages" - A small town is plagued by deaths in which the bodies are found covered in cockroaches. Working from home, Scully has scientific explanations for all of them, but Mulder — at the crime scene with an attractive bug expert — suspects the insects may not be organic, or even earthly.		** "War of the Coprophages" - A small town is plagued by deaths in which the bodies are found covered in cockroaches. Working from home, Scully has scientific explanations for all of them, but Mulder — at the crime scene with an attractive bug expert — suspects the insects may not be organic, or even earthly.
		+	** "Home" - In a small, otherwise peaceful town, the agents investigate the death of an infant with disturbing birth defects, and the trail leads to a clan of inbred, genetic mutants.
		+	** "Leonard Betts" - The disappearance of a man's body from a hospital morgue leads Mulder and Scully to investigate the strange circumstances surrounding the man's death. However, for Scully it will lead to a horrifying revelation.
		+	** "Detour" - On the way to an FBI convention in Florida, Mulder and Scully stop to help in the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of three people in the woods, where a pair of invisible humanoids lurk.
		+	** "Travelers" - In 1990, a bizarre murder leads young agent Fox Mulder to question a former FBI Agent who investigated one of the first X-Files dating back to the 1950s – a case which may have involved Mulder's father.
		+	** "Folie à Deux" - Mulder and Scully encounter a delusional man who believes his boss may be a monster – and is willing to pay any price to prove it.

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 ** "Our Town" - Dudley, Arkansas, is the site of the latest investigation for Mulder and Scully, who are sent to find a missing poultry inspector. The case takes a twist when another poultry worker is shot after she goes insane, giving Mulder a hunch that the townsfolk really are what they eat.
 ** "2Shy" - Meeting insecure women through an on-line service, a serial killer seduces his prey with the right words. However, Mulder and Scully determine these killings are far from ordinary by the presence of a strange substance coating the victims, a substance which seems to digest the fatty acids in flesh.
-** "War of the Coprophages" - A small town is plagued by deaths in which the bodies are found covered in cockroaches. Working from home, Scully has scientific explanations for all of them but Mulder—at the crime scene with an attractive bug expert—suspects the insects may not be organic, or earthly.
+** "War of the Coprophages" - A small town is plagued by deaths in which the bodies are found covered in cockroaches. Working from home, Scully has scientific explanations for all of them, but Mulder — at the crime scene with an attractive bug expert — suspects the insects may not be organic, or even earthly.

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 * A Season 7 crossover episode "Millennium" was made after ''[[Millennium (1996 series)]]'' was canceled after its third season, giving that series by the same creative team some closure, and officially placing the two series in the same fictional universe.
 * A spin-off show, ''The Lone Gunmen (2001 series)'', aired at about the same time as the 8th season of ''The X-Files''; it featured the titular group of amateur conspiracy buffs who appeared as Mulder's friends and recurring characters in the parent series, and had more of a slapstick/comedic tone to it, with little of the supernatural horror found in its parent series.  When the spin-off was canceled after its first and only season, a Season 9 ''X-Files'' crossover episode "Jump the Shark" was made to give the spin-off some closure.
 * A dispute between Fox network and star David Duchovny over money during the 7th season of ''The X-Files'' would lead to Duchovny walking out of the 8th season of the series, leading to the introduction of agents Doggett and Reyes (Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish) during Season 8 to replace Mulder, to the mixed reception of fans at the time.  Duchovny would return to the series in Season 9.
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 ===Associated Mythos Elements===
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