Why Fox Mulder Might Actually Be A Crazy Person
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For anyone with eyes, this is obvious: This video is performed by none other than Alex Krycek himself. He states that he died in this video to throw you off the tracks, but anyone with visual perceptive abilities can see that Krycek is right there.
So the real backstory here is that Krycek got a job at Cracked by having some strings pulled by the Cracked higher ups who owed him a favor. Anyone remember when Cracked was just a wannabe Mad Magazine? Although actually kind of well written, how do you think a ripoff of Mad Magazine became a successful online presence? Being sold off and utilizing a group of young marketing, social media, and comedy wizards? WRONG. The answer, is alien DNA. That's right, motherfucker.
Cracked the magazine, was genetically modified with alien DNA brought in by none other than Krycek- the man in this video. Season 3 Episode 16 is when Krycek spits out the alien DNA infused black oil into a drain that actually led directly to the printing presses of Cracked. The rest, is history.
Around 40% of the content writers at Cracked are greys who get paid in human children, cows, and sometimes Euros. This video's purpose is to convince you that Krycek is dead, Cracked is a human led organization, and that I'm crazy.
Whatever this man says, don't listen to him. I am perfectly fine and have uncovered more truth than you know lies.
-Fox Mulder (using hacked UA-cam account courtesy of The Lone Gunmen)
+peepeeland I want to BELIEVE.
+peepeeland I want to believe.
+Rav Enj You think that I, Fox Mulder, can't use commas? That's because commas are actually part of a conspiracy to slow down the way humans talk, and therefore how we think and act, until we are too slow and fat to fight when the aliens invade. Obviously.
+peepeeland seems legit
+peepeeland It would definitely explain "agents of cracked"
You guys missed some pretty big plot points in this.
1. The show isn't spoken of through Mulder's perspective, but Skully's. She is in charge of writing the reports to the Skinner, so everything we see or here is from her description. She even says his case completion is like 70%, so he isn't chasing a bunch of fabricated stories. Unless of course she has pulled a Harley Quinn and is now brainwashed.
2. Mulder does get his leads from FBI databases. He gets his missions through various means. Hell in some episode it's Skully or even other FBI who convince him to go after them, as he finds them too strange or doesn't see a obvious mystery.
3. They totally try to get rid of Mulder when he gets too close. The only reason he isn't dead or imprisoned is because of Skully, Deep Through, fuck even Skinner himself has his back during the major events. Every goddamn season there is an arc about them trying to end his career.
Mulder is a bit wacky, but the events he and Skully witness are not just his imagination.
+Illier1 unless of course this is the brilliant mind of Mulder imagining that the reports that skully is writing must be the FBI case files for the X-files and not some report on his mental health. That he goes on to believe and imagine the situations that he finds himself in from her perspective and what he must look like from her "UNOPENED" eyes.
the problem with any explanation of physios dreams or imagination is that the story can always be stretched to fit ANY explanation you want to put it in, sure Mulder could be crazy or it could all be a dream or it was all the writings of a mad lunatic who is unconnected and wrote the whole thing using his imagination.
it could even have been written by a team of people over a decade to be consumed by a mass market audience, with mulder and skully being actors on the set.
flash theroy, it was all a TV show inside a dream inside the physios of Mulder thinking from the prospective of skully inside a tv show.
+Illier1 Also the whole season he isn't really in. As well as the other episodes he isn't in.
+Illier1 Ultimately, it all takes place inside an autistic boy's snow globe anyway, right?
it certainly does fall into that universe
It should also be mentioned that the X-Files was not an actual part Department of the FBI It was a collection of case files labeled Unexplained, hence X-Files until Mulder found them in the archives nobody was expected to actually investigate what happened in these cases. The unexplained label basically meant, "Fuck it we have no clue what happened" in a way Mulder was doing the FBI a favor investigating these cases no one else wanted anything to do with. A big stack of unsolved cases in the basement does not look good on the Bureau's record.
The Cigarette Smoking Man had you make this, didn't he? The truth is out there!
TRUST NO ONE
+Nelson Chereta The Smoking Man sees all...
Erik I do, every time I see Illusive Man.
Sewer worm, incest family, funny vampire episode my three fav
Chernobyl Tapeworm Man is the best, he needs his own series.
The "it's all in the main character's head" is the most boring theory ever. You can say that about literally any work of fiction where supernatural stuff happens and make a good argument for it.
Too true. They said the same thing about Harry Potter, except horrible shit keeps happening to him anyway.
+Hunterofthedusk It doesn't even need to be supernatural. Case in point: Newhart.
Ohhh yea... that totally was all in his head. Jaja, or Rosanne. Two and a Half Men...
Especially since, in a lot of good supernatural fiction, the supernatural stuff can also be seen as a metaphor for other problems in the character's life. That's good thematic writing, not a sign of insanity.
Xacris correct. You can say anything about anything. Now what?
This theory is flawed from the very start. The show is told through the perspective of Agent Scully mixed with the occasional side character perspective thrown in, Mulder once in a great while. Even the creators of the show state it's told in Scully's perspective.
Fascinating explanation!!
Not to shit on you, but you're super wrong. Hell there's so many episodes where Scully is either abducted or indisposed. Mulder thought a homeless woman was a neanderthal. Scully wasn't even there, she had a birthday party to go to while Mulder sleeping on the streets.
@@Wiffernubbin While there are times when the series takes on Mulder's perspective (as op stated once in a while it does shift) when Scully is absent, the series as a whole is from Scully's perspective, i.e. the perspective of the skeptic (standing in for the viewer. Which does not mean Mulder isn't the heart or the center of the show (bit like Great Gatsby being all about Gatsby but told from the perspective of Nick). It starts out with Scully being assigned to spy on Mulder which Mulder only suspected, but the viewer knew about; that's also why there are so many episodes where Mulder just randomly goes off to chase something and the viewer wonders along with Scully what he's been getting up to; plus halfway through the series it's more and more Mulder who gets abducted and disappears, so Scully even becomes the main character for a while.
I became an astrophysicist because of the X-Files, are you saying my entire life is based on a lie? Might as well quit my job and go work at Mc Donalds cause nothing has meaning anymore
+One Lion You are not really an astrophysicist, you only think you are.
rentless666 You don't know me! You don't know my life!
Don't worry about it.
+One Lion
dude he's making a joke given the context of the video, lol
William Arbuckle aren't we all?
One of the problems with this theory is that Mulder wasn't even on the show for a while. It's hard to be the unreliable narrator of a fantasy in your head when you're not even there.
All the FBI (and friends and family) was drugged or crazy or both.
Have you ever watched the series? Mulder is assigned to the X-Files after years working in regular cases in the FBI because he kinda "earned" the right to work wherever the hell he wanted, it was kind of a "my way or the highway" thing he did with the FBI at this point. And there are several episodes where you see Scully and Skinner bringing the cases to him, they also see the same supernatural stuff and get in serious danger to help Mulder in his errands, LIKE BEING SHOT IN THE HEAD.
You probably haven't watch any episodes of the mithology or just forgot, like, everything you ever saw about that series.
Your theory can only stand if you consider all of the characters shown in the series are also hallucinating.
I did. Awesome series.
Did Mulder manage to solve the mystery of why this guy has such awful tattoos?
There are things man was not meant to know.
Aliens... Definitely aliens
the answer is you+ alcohol= bad decisions
+evrbody I kinda like his tattoos.
+evrbody I like his tattoos also. What ink do you have, er'budy
Except Scully ended up having a child with him. That level of breaking the medical trust of doctor and patient will make a lot of people nervous. You also omitted people like The Long Gunmen and Skinner. No to mention we had seen people going to Mulder with cases in his office. The also Doggett and Reyes...You should had made up a couple of patients to fill on for the other characters at least. This theory is too weak.
Wasn't there an entire season of X Files where Mulder wasn't in it, that might be a hole in this theory
+Ryan Hau You and I seem to be the only ones who noticed this... It can't all be in Mulders head because he isn't around for some of it.
+Ryan Hau Maybe he creates Agent Doggett in his mind and imagines he is him. A split personality? Maybe Agent Doggett doesn't exist? Maybe the whole point of the show is to stop a corrupt secrete society banking cartel government from taking over the world like they said in S10 E1? The whole alien thing was just advanced technology created by the government withholding it from the public to create a fake alien invasion so people would comply with a one world government? If this is true it would make one hell of an ending but also a shitty one at the same time. Just think of the genius in that though.
+gjk-2015 Got another idea, maybe the above video is correct and Mulder is crazy, but what is the show is in Agent Scully's point of view and she is slowly going crazy too
Ryan Hau
Nice! If you ever watch the movie bug people would get if Scully would go crazy with Mulder. With all the plot holes in the show the only way to sort this out I would go with the crazy route. It would suck though that the monster of the week would all be in his head though.
Ryan Hau well, since the show starts when Scully appears, and continues when Mulder is gone (with Dogget) it sure as hell can't be in Mulders head. Add to that the fact that Scully does all the reports and narration.
But wait I thought the truth was out there?
Mulder: "the truth is out there". Cracked: "the truth is in here (your mind)".
+SuperMcMurph It probably is but we're stuck looking for it through the lens of our own perception.
There is no way of saying that without sounding ever so lofty is there? :-/
+SuperMcMurph
It is. And Mulder isn't crazy. Crazy is majority rules.
+SuperMcMurph Yes, the truth is out there. But Mulder never finds it!
+S.A.M. No SAM, Crazy is as crazy does.
I hate all these "It's all in ________'s head" Theories. They're shit and lazy.
Interesting theory but it dies when you talk about Mulder scouring the internet. The 90s were not that way. What, you think he was on AOL trying to find conspiracy theories?
It's possible. The internet explosion happened in 92. Even before that - when internet access was mostly limited to businessmen, scientists, college students, and elder geeks - it was pretty common for news stories, especially weird ones, to find their way onto BBSes. By the time the first episode of X-Files aired every major newspaper in the country had a website, or at the very least, a newsgroup.
*****
I was around during that time and spent a good amount of time on BBS's. Scouring the internet wasn't a real thing back then. It was just one computer calling another.
*****
There was no internet. This was before AOL and everything else. The internet was just modems and comps calling each other.
Jen B
I was around for that too, and from what you're describing it sounds like you were just on the very fringes of the internet. When I dialed in it was to a shell session on a Unix server owned by my ISP. From there I was able to check my email and use tools like telnet to connect to whatever service I happened to have the address for, mostly BBSes, Usenet nodes, and MUDs. Initially I got the addresses for them from fellow geeks, but once I had access to one BBS finding the addresses for others was pretty easy. Sure, the Web wasn't a thing yet, but the Internet most definitely was.
I'll agree that "scouring" the internet wasn't really a thing, but spending an hour or so reading through any of a couple hundred BBSes was. And some of the stories on them were exactly the right brand of weird to attract Moulder's attention. And that doesn't even take into account some of the truly freakish stuff that was on Usenet.
Kris Sisk
We essentially agree but are debating syntax errors. (nobody younger than us would get the joke)
I was a young teenager and had 0 experience at the time. You are probably right and I probably was just fringing around on whatever I could find. I literally had to know the phone number of the computer I was connecting to in order to post or read something!
I love how people always say "spoilers" AFTER they've already told the spoiler...
ugh
I know it's almost not even worth the sentiment
Nice save I almost watched it
That's the charm. When it's something that became a cultural icon, at least.
It's the same now whenever my friends talk about GoT, Breaking Bad, or something else. They still think I'll get into them after 3-4 failed attempts, but will still say something, look at me alarmed, and suddenly be like, "OMG, you can't know about that yet!"
To be fair you can't really spoil garbage
the show actually explains why he was "allowed" to work in the FBI
the x files still one of greatest series on tv and your video is not
What about the part of the series where he isn't even there... ? o-o
Throttle Kitty and that my fellow commenter is the real question
"...Cannibal Stretch Armstrong living in a papier machet booger hive."
It wasn't boogers.
MysterMyschievious In the episode, they explained it was bile and human feces.
I've been watching X Files since the beginning and this is the most sense it has ever made. I don't buy it completely, but it certainly does make the fact that you get two new questions for every one the series answers less annoying.
Kidnapped sister instead of alien abduction, Mulder being delusional creating a fantasy world, these are some of the best ideas the show itself has explored. These are not crackpot theories about the show, these are episode summaries.
The thing is the X-Files pandered a lot of the time to woo stupidity. In the real world Mulder who be under treatment for paranoia and / or dismissed has an utter kook. The show all too often seemed to be scared shitless of saying "This is stupid", "this is utter nonsense", and so instead pandered to it. Thus one of the most boring tropes of the show was the relentless way it pushed Scully is wrong, way wrong, near totally wrong, and of course reason and rationality are bad. Childish faith was toted has good and constantly Mulder's childish, brain killing maxim "I want to believe!" was pushed and celebrated. Of course the show did sometimes parody and make fun of Mulder's braindead stupidities but over and over again the show pandered to the very worst of conspiracy and woo idiocy.
When it first started, it was a fresh take on conspiracy stories. However it very quickly became 'Mulder finds evidence/witness that aliens/werewolves/monsters are real. Mulder loses evidence/witness' It got very repetitive very quickly. I preferred the stand alone stories however disliked Mulder more and more as the series wore on.
I did like the season with Doggett et al sadly that did not last.
In the real world Mulder is regarded as a saint. Lol!
I liked Xfiles a lot, only sad thing to come out of the show are the people who believe everything is now some sort of conspiracy.
+Derek Kunze I know you faked the moon landing with alien technology. You're just here to spread disinformation!
Davesghola you know too much..
you understand the show was a product of that culture, which already existed, don't you? it didn't create the alien conspiracy, or the lizard people colonization myth, or any of of it. it just kind of floated around the outer strata of the subculture and made a mainstream cultural phenomenon out of it.
Nick Agriesti i didnt say it wasnt.
+Derek Kunze I don't understand how we live in a post Snowden world and some people won't acknowledge that some conspiracy theorists are actually onto something. The truth is out there.
This video embodies the idea that you can make anything sound reasonable if you talk about it long enough and behave in a way that makes it seem like you're smarter than you are.
"He's the best profiler they've ever had and because his two dads are government royalty."
☝😦...
... 😕.
Or maybe that is what they want you to think.
+Keith Barrett omg
Band Name: Skeleton Tea Party!
And their rivals The Mumble Puppets
+TheOtterDaughter & +ApexPenguin
Nice! !
They even reference the "unreliable narrator" theme in the episode where Mulder and Scully go to that hick town to investigate teen vampires. When Scully is narrating the version of events she witnessed, we realize that Mulder's version departs significantly from what is probably the "objective" progression of events.
how do you explain the creepy cut scenes where he isn't present?... There are holes in your theory.
I have a similar theory about LOST: It was complete bullshit.
The plot of the X-Files just got more and more convoluted with each season anyway. Only the first four were really good when Mulder and Scully were just solving random supernatural mysteries. Personally, I think it's an overrated show. Not terrible, but unnecessarily drawn out.
agreed
+Son of Tiamat (formerly known as tiakpark) I agree too...I wish more shows would be like Breaking Bad and just stop at the top of their game..
+Wraith7216 You're totally right, usually those are the most remembered and cherished, like Avatar The Last Airbender, it stopped after it told it's story and if fans wanted more they could just read the comics.
+Son of Tiamat (formerly known as tiakpark) Agreed, kinda like Supernatural.
+Yuki Takahashi actually avatar has a second series called the legend of Korra
Doesn't the FBI regularly require psych exams and CAT scans just to be sure their employees are sane? I mean, those agents see a lot of shit, so wouldn't he have not even gotten into the FBI if they thought he was nuts?
+TrueGamer181 being nuts is extremely relative.
Sure, but what the guy in the video proposed sounds a lot like some form of psychosis. According to the video, Mulder invents characters and situations and totally believes they are real. He hallucinates about them frequently. I think that qualifies as "medically nuts" and would void any application in law enforcement.
+TrueGamer181 mabey if only one of his dads was getting him by but hes got 2 high ranking gov officials backing his every move because they dont want to deal with his bs and hes good at his job
+relo999 Do you mean "moot"? :)
The problem with your theory, is that the majority of the show, and especially the pilot episode, is told from Scully's perspective. For all of this to be true, it would actually be Scully that is the crazy person. But, it's not like anyone at Cracked ever does any real research or cares at all about the crap they shoot out day to day.
Im still on season 2 of the xfiles and I just realized what a mistake it was to watch this video
See, I love weird theories like this... except for when they completely ignore opposing evidence within the narrative. The smoking man intentionally put Mulder in that position to see if he could handle those kinds of situations and as a way of giving him a cookie (the opportunity to search for his sister is absolutely a reward in itself). The idea was, if Mulder had the chops, he could be brought in on it.
This isn't a theory, it's canonical fact. It doesn't happen in the background or from pausing and reading computer screens and letters. It's an entire multi-season plotline that takes a decent portion of the spotlight, with the characters directly speaking to each other on multiple occasions and bluntly saying the thing I just said.
So, yeah. That's why The Syndicate put a person who might discover them in the exact job where he'd have the resources and authority to discover them. It's also why they made him partner with someone who'd question his beliefs. While the Smoking Man wanted to bring Mulder in, the rest of his "friends" didn't entirely trust TSM and they certainly didn't trust Mulder so they set up circumstances where they could put him on a sort of leash.
Mulder wasn't the narrator, scully was.
They put him in the X-Files to keep tabs on things. It's a brilliant way to keep tabs on what events are happening out there and what witnesses need to be silences or stories controlled before they get out of hand. Keep your enemies closer kind of thing. I makes perfect sense that they would allow him to uncover their scheme to begin with because they have all of the power to discredit him in an instant.
Hey! I was terrified by it as a college-age student in the 90's, thank you very much!
Honestly love this. Absolutely love it. Usually I despise things that make fun of shows I like or try to explain them away as some sort of "all in their head" thing, but this one actually makes sense and is hilarious. Especially with Scully being an actual doctor? Yes.
This is a funny theory, but it's pretty easily debunked if one has seen a ton of episodes of the show. The main counterpoint being that there were episodes that either barely featured Mulder or that didn't feature Mulder at all. If Scully and sometimes others chased monsters and aliens without Mulder then clearly that stuff wasn't solely in Mulder's mind. Also, the part about Krycek is kinda silly because it's very clearly established that Scully is a medical doctor and therefore I think if Krycek were one that would've certainly also been very established, however that point I will sort of grant you because as per your theory Mulder could just be imagining Krycek the way he is when he's really a doctor, but then idk because he still sees Scully as a doctor.
Also, there are opening sequences of the show where the agents start out in their basement office, so while we don't technically see them handed their assignments all too often to say they just start out episodes in the field most of the time is just also inaccurate.
But like I said, it's a pretty fun theory, I guess. There's plenty of canon evidence that Mulder's a little off psychologically and he's a very damaged individual, so I can get behind the idea that he's crazy. XD
What about Mulders replacement Robert Patrick? Kinda conveniently glossed over that didn't ya?
Samur/Aye Studios Doggett is the ultimate skeptic.
I personally don't like the theory as it is presented here. Basically, the theory assassinates the character of Fox Mulder, and attributes the fantastic to Mulder being crazy AND incompetent. It reminds me of what was done to Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi, (subversion of expectations sucks when it depreciates the artistic piece it's used on!)
I think this theory could kick ads though, if we assume that Mulder is exponentially competent, and that makes sense, because what other reason would the FBI keep him around if he's crazy? So we stick as close as possible to the source material, and Mulder is still fighting abnormal evils, just "mumdane" abnormal evils.
Mulder has dissociated the evil actions of man to such a degree that he cannot perceive serial killers, rapists, child slavers, and the wretches who walk the earth as anything other then full on monsters.
Yet...Mulder is extremely competent in catching these baddies, and almost seems psychic in how he ferrets out conspiracies of psychopaths! In fact, the conspiracy with the aliens turns out to be a government conspiracy of psychopaths to acquire high level officials slaves, and the U.S. military, guinea pig test subjects.
The story then becomes enhanced by the theory, or at least is as interesting with it present. Cracked, don't make the same tired Hollywood mistake of messing with beloved properties, characters, and stories just to shut on them, smh
Well... considering that Mulder IS crazy and wrong about most of the conspiracies he comes up with even within the show's plot... yeah, duh, obviously he's crazy and this video's kinda pointless.
Wow! I just had an epiphany!!
As you mentioned the way Mulder described his sister's abduction, a theory poped in my head! I think i know exactly what happened. Well, i don't know what happened to his sister except that it was nothing supernatural or extraterrestrial. Maybe she really was abducted, but by ordinary humans, or maybe something else happened to her and Mulder simply can't bring himself to accept it (and prefers to believe she was abducted, so at least he has something to hold on to). But so, what happened that night? THAT'S what i think i know...
Mulder woke up in the middle of the night, during REM sleep, and that originated a sleep paralysis episode. It's actually quite common (i've had it happen to me a few times). During sleep paralysis, one sees everything around but feels completely motionless. Then, it's very common to feel a "presence" in the room, something evil, and the wilsdest hallucinations can follow. People have described aliens or demons in the room, and sometimes an old witch lady. During one episode of my own i saw a couple of demonic dark figures next to my bed - it was NOT funny!
So, by an unfortunate coincidence, Mulder had a SP episode in the same night his sister disappeared for some reason, and now he believes aliens did it. Makes sense to me.
thank you, I was wondering when someone was going to bring up the sleep paralysis REM sleep explanation.
not to mention the fact that we don't know for sure that this memory is accurate or that he even had this experience the night his sister was taken. He might have had this experience days or even weeks later, but now in adulthood he remembers it as having happened that night. Oh wait, this is all fictional, never mind.
John Clavis Lol, that's for sure. They can plot whatever they want because it's all scripted anyway.
But, as you said, as we grow older our memories tend to blur, and we can even fill in gaps with made up "memories", creating a mixed scenario that never took place.
It makes sense one episode they explained scientifically how vampires could be real (back when vampires were still awesome), that's cool but in another episode they said fuck it here's magic zombies they exist for some reason. WTH
has no one else said? there is an episode which essentially confirms this; Jose Chung's From Outer Space. in this episode they show an episode from a range of perspectives to demonstrate the way that none of them are "true". Mulder's POV parts are just normal x-files :)
i had wished X-Files explored ghosts more, cuz where Mulder was a believer in aliens with Scully being a skeptic, the roles were reversed between them when it came to the paranormal and the afterlife. Scully believed in spirits and Mulder was the sober skeptical one. However, the series went down Mulder's rabbit hole and pretty much left Scully's alone with a few exceptions.
I'd believe this except that the actual narrator is Scully, not Mulder. The whole story is supposed to be convincing us the audience to be believers while we go along with Scully's journey. The truth is out there!
Maybe the X-Files
DOESNT EXIST.
Wake up! This isn't real! NONE OF IT! WAKE UP! BEFORE THEY TAKE ME AWAY! WAKE UP!!!!
cracked...you are scraping the bottom of the barrell here. This was an obvious plot point and the whole reason Skully was brought into the x-files IN THE fIRST EPISODE!
What do you mean "might be"? Of course Mulder is mentally unstable and it's only due to nepotism and dumb bureaucracy that he is able to remain "employed" by the FBI. Hell, Skinner was probably not qualified for his position, but got it after agreeing to play along with Mulder. There's a reason Mulder never once properly solved a case, because any case solved directly, openly, by him, would not stand in court. The saddest thing was the FBI was willing to sacrifice Scully, keeping her in direct contact with Mulder until she herself becomes mentally unwell and falls in love with him, that's probably why they chose her even though she was very young.
I'll be honest, I'm only watching X-Files now, and I'm only on Season 3, but I thought the same thing pretty early on. One thing you missed is that when something REALLY supernatural happens, it seems like Scully is never actually there to witness it herself. When she writes her reports, she's forced to take Mulder's word for it and say "there is currently no explanaition".
Also, if we accept that Mulder is delusional, and the story is told through his eyes, then there's no reason to think that Scully is actually a forensics doctor. She may actually be his therapist, who is pulling a "Shutter Island" style, "let's go with your delusion to see if you can work it out yourself".
That doesn't work unless everything is in Mulder's head - which you said it wasn't. We're frequently shown supernatural events, strange phenomena, aliens and shadowy government agents in scenes that don't contain Mulder. We're very clearly shown UFOs, alien bodies, paranormal events, monsters etc. The reason Mulder is called Spooky and not taken seriously by his peers, is because that adds to the idea of him being the underdog we're rooting for. It makes it more satisfying when he gets one over on his colleagues (a technique used in lots of detective films, even something like Ace Ventura - kooky brilliant detective not taken seriously but turns out to be right). We're shown too much of the X Files world away from Mulder, and it being all a delusional Shutter Island fantasy undermines what the show is trying to do. In my mind, one of the big themes of the show is actually faith. Science vs religion. It ironically flips things on its head because Mulder, the detective who's supposed to use rational analysis, evidence and logic - often falls back on leaps of faith, feelings and unwavering belief. Whereas Scully, who's a medical professional who is often the voice of rational thought and scepticism is actually a Christian which seems at major odds with science. There's also the theme of being believed, which is very important in conspiracy films. If Mulder's sister really were abducted by a human, it would be surely more likely he'd end up in the FBI taking on kidnapping cases. It's a nice idea and theory and you've hit on some great themes in the show, but I just don't buy it! :)
This is a viable theory, as long as it applies ONLY to Spooky One himself.
The problem is, there are people outside of his circle who have seen and confirmed all of this. The Lone Gunmen, Skully, Dogget and others have all seen and experienced these things, in fact several episodes have nothing to do with Mulder and either focus on someone else entirely or involve him so tangentially they may as well---like the one where Mulder is caught in a time warp and Skully is the only one aware, or the incident withe guy who could will the Brady Bunch to life but was casting from hitpoints cause it was a weird episode, or really everything that happened in the Lone Gunmen show which, unless you also posit everyone on Earth is also a figment of his imagination, MUST have happened.
What I'm saying is that Mulder may well be insane, and likely is delusional, but the truth sure as fuck is out there.
GG tho Cracked.
The X Files were started by another FBI agent back in the 50's called Arthur Dales. The secretary of the FBI would put all the unsolved cases under the letter "X".
Since appearances were everything to the Syndicate and their greatest fear was exposure, to destroy the files with the unsolved cases would have been way too exposing.
Pressure to create a section to solve those cases was probably too high, since it would have been weird to have no unsolved case whatsoever. As such, the greenlight for the creation of the X-Files section was done but the Syndicate made sure to keep an eye on an agent deemed to spooky and bonkers for anyone to take seriously.
To kill Mulder, though, would have been a disaster, since his death would have cause a crusade in the FBI (as we see when he goes missing in season 7) and would have exposed the Syndicate. Basically, they would have made him a martyr.
People would ask question and consider Mulder's theories, lots of digging would have been done on the X-Files itself.
This fear of exposure made the Syndicate to thread carefully so their main task was to discredit the X-Files and whomever was investigating them.
PAUSE: Putting Fox on the X-files was the Smoking man;s decision. He wanted his son to eventually see what he thought was the truth. This is explained in the series. MOVING ON.
One of the problems with some of these theories is that you know for a fact that the writers never ever meant to do that, so analyzing it is a bit weird. Like the theory about Agbara being in the future simply because Robin Williams independently chose to make some voices from contemporary culture. The Mulder theory isn't true, although I do wonder if in the beginning some writers may have thought of it. I just finished watching "Shadows" (season 1, ep 6) for the first time in my life, and in it, you see Mulder running into a building, seeing something impossible (man levitating) and then after the man falls to the ground Scully enters the room. So they can maintain their roles as a believer and a skeptic. That could easily have been a perfect example for this video, but... we're talking 9 years of content just for the original show.
All that is a decent theory, until you remember that Skully has had her own paranormal experiences during episodes that she narrates, and the other two that came in later in the series also had paranormal experiences.
Also, as for the idea that Mulder's sister was actually taken by kidnappers, they LITERALLY had an entire episode dedicated to whether or not Mulder simply was delusional or not. So it's not as if the show hasn't tried to address some of this.
The only problem with these kinds of theories is that it implies that ultimately the creative team behind the show wasn't very good at imparting the added layer of depth to the viewing audience if this was their intent. It's the same problem with why the indoctrination theory in Mass Effect doesn't work. If ultimately that's what Bioware was going for then they really suck at actually paying it off in the end. Which is why these sorts of things will always just remain fan theories.
The fbi put molder in x-Files because molder requested it. If yer gonna talk about x-files you should atleast get facts correct .
I thought it was common knowledge that Agent Mulder is indeed crazy.
i think that with the nature of the show it was intentional keeping us guessing whether what's going on is real or it's just that mulder is crazy(or perhaps just so determined to "believe" that he reads paranormal in everything)
Didn't he say in the first episode, he made friends in congress and requested to work on the x-files. He made friends on the hill and got what he wanted. How he got the job was established early on.
Why couldn't fox mulder hold a gun ,whenever he need a gun he would drop it or have used knocked from his hand ,or it would just fly across the room,
What i didn't like about the x files was Scully and the way that no matter how much weird shit she experienced, she was always in denial whenever she encountered weird shit. If i see weird shit, the next time i see weird shit I'm going to at least entertain the idea that weird shit is possible as an explanation.
Whelp I finally found the thing that started "Fox Mulder is a Maniac" Check that podcast out!
If you'll remember, at numerous points it is mentioned that they are hoping to recruit him at some point, & they are hoping that gradual revelations over time will assist that.
that sounds... unpleasantly true
Another great opening intro and theme music was from a show i watched when I was ten, Kolchak The Night Stalker
Is this supposed to be funny? Because it seems more like something Mulder would come up with.
cannibal stretch Armstrong 😂😂 beat line. but also those episodes scared the ever living shit out of me
Loved this! It would have been an excellent premise for an After Hours episode though. I literally was picturing Dan presenting these points, and Swaim interjection with all the questions I had about this theory. I may or may not watch too many Cracked videos, when Swaim is the voice of my inner monologue...
He was put there by people in the shadow organization that want it exposed. That said, I like your take on in.
AND IF SKULLY IS ONLY THERE TO KEEP HIM GROUNDED, HOW THE FUCK DO THEY HAVE A KID TOGETHER
Aaaaand adolescence ruined.
+Amelia Bee
Like many things, this is only true if you allow it.
guys listen to me fox mulder just needs a hug please
even with that theory... Xfiles is still badass
Dude you need to update your video. The X - Files is told from Scully´s perspective. The FBI assigns agent Fox Mulder to resolve difficult cases that become known as the X - Files, because the information in them was confidential. Not because of Mulder´s personality.....
Actually, you missed some of the more glaring points that contradict your theory. First, the X-Files are usually cold cases. They're taken up more voluntarily.
Second, not all of the episodes had resolutions of something being an alien or a monster. I can think specifically of "The Post-Modern Prometheus."
Other stories don't feature Mulder at all, while many parts to the story feature characters like Krychek and Scully without him, and they talk about what they experienced. You can't have the characters talking about those experiences without Mulder and have it somehow be Mulder's delusion. It's because in the world of the X files, there is more to the world than what you experience in the everyday.
Mulder, isn't exactly their top criminal profiler. That's why they assigned him to The X-files and Scully was initially sent to evaluate him and report back to Skinner or someone higher up. It's like basically giving that one weirdo at work something to do, while not having any real effect on the real work being done. But only thing is, he actually builds something out of it and gets the attention of very dubious people in high places. He's the original Officer Angel lol
I came up with a theory pretty close to this as a kid, actually. Never really got into the stuff about Krychek not actually being dead, but a lot of the rest of it occurred to me. It seems to me that the unreliable narrator may have been their aim in the first few seasons (Watch Jose Chung's From Outer Space to get a feel for just how batshit crazy Mulder seems from Scully's point of view) and perhaps they lost sight of it when people just started taking things at face value, and especially when Mulder got abducted and Scully just started believing in every stupid theory that came her way (oh my word, the last couple seasons sucked). It really always seemed to me that the series started out with way different ideals than it ended with.
And who knows... maybe this reboot will rectify the missed opportunity of an episode about skeletons.
shoutout to anyone else who got that st elsewhere dig
I think the show Mr. Robot will probably ends up being like Shutter Island. A movie like Shutter Island is fine because it's a short term thing and you don't really get invested in the characters and plot, and it's nice to see something unexpected. But that kind of a ending really ruins a T.V. series, it basically nullifies everything you felt during the many years you followed this idea that seemed interesting to you.
This guy should probably try watching some of the show before trying to analyse it. Mulder's position on the X-Files is protected because of his connections in Congress, primarily with Senator Richard Matheson, who is on the intelligence committee and is a powerful and influential senator.
I like the theory but... No. I'd like it better if he was in a basement dreaming. Or in a government facility where he is being the test subject of newly developed super drugs!
BTW Skinner sometimes is seen assigning some cases to Scully and Mulder and sometimes those are X Files.
Kind of off topic: Watch Bon Jovi's "Runaway" video and tell me what you notice from about 15-30 seconds into the video. The video was made in 1984.
This kind of conspiracy hypothesis is neither informative nor interesting. Basically it can be applied to *any* show. "The show has something weird, absurd in it, therefore, everything is the imagination of the protagonist." I read the same thing about The Simpsons... The Simpsons is weird, so it is all in Homer's imagination.
Guess what? The real explanation is... it has weird things going on because it is a TV show. The writers aren't perfect, so they make mistakes and sometimes do not check the fact. That is why there are weird things, not because the whole story is the imagination of the protagonist.
That is actually a pretty good hypothesis.
But because I love The X-Files, I'm going to ignore it. I'd hate to think it's all in Mulder's head from him snapping.
Mulder definately had issues (obsessive, martyr wannabe, must save the girl at all costs, etc.) but the show does include enough odd things shown from other people's points of view (not to mention a whole Mulder-less season) for me the figure there's more to it than just that. I can sure see where you're comin' from though.
This doesn't explain at all why Scully sees the monsters and aliens. I don't think that's she's just playing along, being that she gets proven wrong after being the skeptic in almost every single episode. She even gets directly effected by some of the creatures. Also, in the early seasons she writes the reports to Skinner.
I figure the, positively, 100%, undeniable, proof that Mulder is thoroughly insane would be that he preferred Cracked over Mad, ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh???????????
this video and the one about back to the future being secretly about marty being molested by doc brown are some of the weaker material Cracked has published... i think the same dude is presenting the evidence in the other one too and like... they both take a pretty big leep with out evidence and are also not really fun or funny. Like it's neat sometimes to read folks fan theories about shit, but like these 2 are just kinda like... maybe there is a way to think about the thing you like but in a way that is really bleak and upsetting but not in a way that one might even enjoy... you know?
First of all, why are we discussing over decade old (since last episode) TV Series?
Secondly, this theory is bullshit as you can see that Scully eventually start to believe herself.
i think there is a lot of overwhelming evidence from the show against this theory. i dont think its right or logical to call mulder a crazy person.
mulder always says im not crazy. why cant you believe him?
The best evidence for Mulder being crazy is the fact that Scully remained a skeptic after she supposedly saw all this supernatural shit go down.
1:17 I've been watching the X files for the first time........i'm up to season 4 and i'm not sure if anything ever gets retconned but it SEEMS like the reason they are allowing Fox to do this is because............apparently they seem to think that as long as Mulder finds the 'truth' that they themselves create that they then have a way of better controlling people? Like they imply that 90% of the weird shit Mulder and Scully encounter in the first like 4 seasons is all orchestrated by the goverment for Mulder to 'expose'..........including making fake alien and ufo's.............from alien tech and alien dna................yeah it doesn't really make a lot of sense to be honest. It would be like If i wanted to draw everyone's attention from the Loch ness monster........by making my own monster.........from Lochness monster DNA...........?
"A GM who wants to shake up his players can have a Delusion turn out to be true. (And remember: the GM won't tell you that you are not really crazy. *You can be right and still be crazy...*)"
-GURPS Basic Set: Characters, p.130 ( *emphasis* added) explaining the rules for the "Delusions" Disadvantage. It just somehow seemed appropriate here.
We'll see how this goes, as season 10 of X-Files is coming out soon.
I always thought that the character's name, "Marita Covarrubias" (the informant who turns out to be working for The Syndicate) was a play on words, resembling the words, "Martian Cover-up." Or am I the only one to see this resemblance? False cognate, anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? :-P