Fox Mulder/Bio

===Childhood and Teenage Years===
Fox Mulder was born on Friday, October 13, 1961, in Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard. 
His first words were "JFK", when aged 11 months He was four years old when his sister, Samantha, was born. 
The Mulders had a summer house in Quonochontaug, Rhode Island, where the children often played on the grass while William Mulder, Fox' father, would go water-skiing with on the water nearby The Mulders had a rope swing out in their backyard, but didn't have a modem, fax machine or a cell phone. 
:It can probably be assumed that the family didn't have those devices because the technology hadn't been invented yet. However, this assumption is not established nor disproved by episode information.
From early in his youth, Fox wanted a peg leg. He gave the idea a lot of thought and eventually came to the belief that, if he had a peg leg or hooks for hands, other people might not expect him to achieve anything more than to simply keep on living, braving facing life with his disability. Fox never grew out of his boyhood desire for a peg leg and, in 1996, he still suspected it would have its advantages. 
Young Fox Mulder had several nightmares from which he awakened in the middle of the night, thinking he was the only person left in the world. The loud crunching from his father eating sunflower seeds in the family's study reassured Fox that he was not alone. 
In Fox's childhood, he and his father were Indian Guides. 
One day when he was climbing a tree, Fox had an up-close encounter with a praying mantis. Although he initially thought the mantis was a leaf, he screamed when he realized the insect's true nature. He later remembered that his scream wasn't a "girlie" one, but of a person being "confronted by some before unknown monster that had no right existing on the same planet [he] inhabited." He was repulsed by the mantis and has hated insects ever since. 
Once in his youth, Fox dressed up as the fictional character Spock and his father recorded a home movie of him playing with his sister, Samantha. Fox made silly faces at the camera and was irritated when his fake ear fell off. 
He and Samantha repeatedly played all-day pick-up games of baseball out on the vineyard, rode their bikes to the beach and ate bologna sandwiches. The only regular responsibility that they had was getting home in time for dinner. 
Fox played right-field in baseball and owned a New York Nets replica basketball jersey At home, he enjoyed watching The Magician, a series that starred Bill Bixby He also liked playing Stratego with Samantha. 
:Fox and his sister are seen playing Stratego before Samantha's abduction in the episodes "Little Green Men" and "Paper Hearts", but those sequences may not be historically accurate. When Samantha is supposedly returned in the episode "Colony," she asks Mulder if it's too late for a game of Stratego, supporting the theory that they used to play it as children.
Once, his best friend's house burnt down and he spent the night in the wreckage to guard it from looters. For several years after the incident, Fox had nightmares about being trapped in a burning building. In 1993, he still had an extreme hate of fire. 
:Mulder's phobia of fire, established in the episode "Fire", was never referred to again. Some fans speculate that Mulder may have overcome his phobia in the establishing episode, yet others believe that Mulder's fear remains but was just never dealt with.
Fox chose to study French in high school. 
His ambition was to become an astronaut and his hero was NASA Lieutenant Colonel Marcus Aurelius Belt. Aged fourteen, Fox stayed up all night to watch Belt's space walk. 
===Sister's Disappearance===
Fox's parents loved him, he got all his flu shots and pretty much led a normal life until his sister disappeared. 
On the evening of November 27, 1973, Fox was twelve when he was babysitting for his eight-year-old sister in 2790 Vine Street, Martha's Vineyard. 
:2790 Vine Street was once the address of production office in Vancouver.
By an unknown force that Fox later came to believe was alien, Samantha was taken from the house without explanation As Fox's father, Bill Mulder, worked at high level in government, an unusually large search operation was conducted and even the FBI's Treasury Department became involved, but nothing was found The incident tore the Mulder family apart as there were no facts or evidence to offer any hope and no one would talk about it. 
As a child, Mulder had a ritual of closing his eyes before walking into his room as he believed that one day when he opened them, his sister would be there, lying in bed like nothing had ever happened. He later initiated an X-file concerning his sister's unexplained disappearance, with the case number X-40253 According to Mulder, his belief that aliens had abducted his sister "sustained [him], fueling a quest for truths that were elusive as the memory itself". 
:For information on Mulder's efforts to recover his sister, see the Relationships - Samantha Mulder section. For differences in his recollections of her disappearance, see Questionable Information - Memories of Sister's Disappearance.
===Illusory===
Scully experienced a vision of a possible future in which the Smoking Man unleashed a virus on humanity and began breaking down their immune systems. In this vision, Mulder confronted the Smoking Man to try and get him to stop it, however the Smoking Man stated it was too late. Mulder himself began to get sick as his immune system started breaking down, and despite the Smoking Man offering a cure to Mulder in retur of joining his chosen elite (with Scully included), Mulder refused and would rather die. He is saved by Agent Miller and taken away and they regroup with Scully on a congested bridge (as the country is thrown into chaos over the outbreak), although Scully realises that they will need a donor to save his life, with the best bet being their son William, although they don't know where he is. At that moment, a bright light appears and a UFO looms over Mulder, Scully and Miller. 
===Possible Late Life===
For much of his life, Mulder considered taking a cruise somewhere once he got older 
He once commented that his work with the FBI demanded that he lives in a big city but that, if he ever had to settle down and build a home, he would choose to live in a small town. 
For most of his adult life, however, Mulder was almost unable to consider a future without the X-Files. In 1998, when asked if he had any future plans, Mulder implied that he planned to continue investigating the files. He was unsure of what he was seeking, but believed that whatever he ultimately hoped to find was in the X-Files and suspected that he might know what he was searching for when he finally found it. 
However, once, a man who Mulder believed was actually a ghost commented that obsessive compulsiveness, workaholism, and antisocial behaviour - which the man believed Mulder was prone to - were "fertile fields for the descent into total wacko breakdown". 
Scully once revealed that she believed Mulder would become insanely obsessed with hoping to catch a glimpse of the truth about paranormal phenomena, listening only to himself on a quest that no-one else could understand. She also suspected that Mulder's obsessive search for the truth would inevitably result in his death and that those who he took with him would also ultimately die. 
In 1995, psychic suggested that Mulder would die by autoerotic asphyxiation. 
In 1996, Mulder implied that he would like to be buried and wished a curse on anyone who might dig his skeletal remains up in a thousand years. 
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