Peacock family

The Peacock Family are the main antagonists of the second episode of X-Files' fourth season, titled "Home". They lived in the town of Home, Pennsylvania; having lived there since the American Civil War. 
Due to their house possessing no running water or electricity, they made all their own food by growing vegetables and raising animals on their small farm. 
However, in spite of their nigh-primitive lifestyle, they were shown to be capable of not only driving, but also setting up booby traps around their house to ward off intruders and supporting themselves through the occasional theft of cars and livestock. Many residents of the small town had suspected the Peacocks of inbreeding, resulting in horrific disfigurements and other birth defects. 
Remarkably though, this slew of mutations appears to have resulted in a form of congenital analgesia, due to which all known members of the Peacocks are unable to feel pain. The matriarch of the household went as far as to state that she and her offspring are bulletproof, which may have been true considering their apparent insensitivity to body injuries sustained during their confrontations with the town's sheriff and FBI agents. 
== History ==
The Peacock Family were said to be one of, if not the oldest family in Home, having been around since the 1860's. It was likely that the Peacocks favored the South during the Civil War, which they referred to as the "War of Northern Aggression"; however, their apparent geographical unawareness, despite living in a Union state, may simply have been a result of limited intelligence through their genetic defects and a lack of educational resources.
In 1986, the Peacock parents got into a horrible car crash, in which Mr. Peacock was killed and Mrs. Peacock lost all of her limbs. Rather than contact authorities, she ordered her children to bring her home and stitch her up themselves. With her husband gone and finding herself nearing the end of her life, she decides that their lineage must be preserved at all costs, and chooses to procreate with her sons to produce new offspring. Hardly any taboos were broken in the family, as such relations with her firstborn had previously already spawned the younger two of her sons. To their misfortune, a century of genetic disparity, coupled with Mrs. Peacock's deteriorating health, caused her to deliver the most heavily deformed addition to their brood, which even they labelled too sick for their purposes, due to which they buried the infant alive the same night he was born. Neighborhood kids found the remains the next day, causing the FBI to dispatch Agents Mulder and Scully for investigation.
An autopsy of the child and examination of their living space during an unwarranted search confirmed the rumors about the family, which eventually caused the family to break into the sheriff's home and murdering him and his wife. After causing a distraction by releasing their pigs, the FBI agents and the town deputy stormed their property to arrest the Peacock boys for homicide, resulting in the death of Barney Paster by one of their traps and the discovery of Mrs. Peacock, who'd been hidden underneath a bed for the last ten years and was believed dead. Questioning of her revealed the Peacocks' twisted ideas of family and legacy, as well as the fact that she had been the one to order the murder of Sheriff Taylor. A fight ensues when her sons return from the yard and find the FBI present, during which the Peacocks prove almost impervious to their gunfire, dying only after accidentally setting off their own traps and several point-blank shots to the face. Mrs. Peacock and her eldest son take the opportunity to flee in their stolen car, musing about creating a new family as they leave for a new Home. 
=== Comic Continuity ===
In the WildStorm comics 2#-4#, it's revealed that she and Edmund have settled down on a farm in Garden County, Nebraska, after killing the original residents and feeding them to their pigs. Over the course of 12 years, the pair sire many more dozen offspring, although the majority does not survive infancy. Mrs. Peacock claims to have given birth 73 times in her life, although her oldest and surprisingly unaffected daughter Molly states that she is the mother to "hundreds of [her] brothers and sisters", who are all identical and take after their father, appearing mentally deficient and sharing the same hairless, lesioned and blank-eyed look. The Peacock clan finally dies out when Mrs. Peacock orders Edmund to douse the house in gasoline and set it on fire with everyone in it when the FBI tries to raid their location in search for a rogue Fox Mulder.
== Members ==
* Sherman Peacock (Adrian Hughes)
* Edmund Peacock (Chris Nelson Norris)
* George Peacock (John Trottier)
* Peacock Mother (Karin Konoval)
*Peacock Father (Mentioned Only)
*Unnamed Peacock Child
== Appearances ==
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**"Home"
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