COOLNESS: XXIMPACT: XXXCREEPINESS: XXXXĥ) Alien Bounty Hunter (Mytharc baddie, eps 2.16 to 8.02) Aliens are good too, though, and not every Monster of the Week could hope to equal Eugene’s sheer creepiness. The arch nemesis, there from the very start attempting to halt Mulder’s investigation, he was the very definition of a Big Bad – that is, until the demands of network television meant that the Bads needed to get bigger every season.Ĥ) Eugene Victor Tooms (Monster of the Week, ep 1.3 and 1.21) The X-Files‘ very first ‘Monster Of The Week’, the stretchy lizard man was the star of Season 1’s Stretch and Tooms episodes but, more importantly, it was his impact and the success of the episodes in which he featured that was largely responsible for shifting the emphasis of the show away from concentrating on alien-related conspiracies and onto the ‘myths and monsters’ format we came to love. He was leant against the back wall of every important meeting sucking on a Morley, seemingly answerable to no-one, self-aggrandising, effortlessly smug, virtually silent and totally deadly.

Spender?), was the embodiment of 90s paranoia: a shadowy figure manipulating events from behind the scenes. CSM, as he was universally known to fans (or was it really C.G.B.

The X-Files‘ very own Darth Vader, the vanguard of the American dark side – or at least of the self-serving relativism that the show so despised. Enjoy.ġ) Cancer Man/Cigarette Smoking Man (Mytharc baddie, eps 1.1 – 9.20)

There have been classics in both camps, and here are our favourites – graded in Xs for sheer coolness, their impact on the series as a whole and/or how much they creeped us out, basically.

And then come the Monsters Of The Week – the workaday X-Files that keep Mulder, Scully, Doggett and Reyes busy throughout 20-odd episodes a season. X-Files baddies come it two flavours: first are the mytharc baddies, part of the larger story running across the show’s nine series and movie.

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