Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The FBI tolerates his obsession with the paranormal because he's a very, very, very good forensic psychologist.

Also, he survives and that's saying quite a lot because in his world, almost everyone is trying to kill him or discredit him. He's fearless to a fault, has been shown to be a good shot (but he always drops his gun) and is physically fit. His strength lies in great knowledge of paranormal phenomena and his determination to find concrete evidence and uncover the truth.

Badass Bookworm: For some values of 'badass' at least, although he does in fact get beat up quite a lot (mostly due to his tendency to recklessly charge into situations without thinking).

(David Duchovny has said that until he is told otherwise, he considers Mulder Jewish) What we know about his family background makes it somewhat unlikely that he actually is.

Ambiguously Jewish: On more than one occasion, anti-Semitics accuse him of looking Jewish Mulder always refuses to answer.

Ambiguously Bi: His reaction when Scully says Gary Shandling has a crush on him.

Around the beginning of season 5, though, it ceased to even be an issue he decided Scully was priority #1 and never looked back. Early seasons of the show got a lot of mileage out of making him choose between pursuing his quest and saving Scully.

Always Save the Girl: In the very first episode, Mulder said that nothing else mattered to him except finding out the truth about the conspiracy and what happened to his sister.

Agent Scully: In a case of role reversal, if the case involved mysteries of religious nature and miracles, Mulder would be very skeptical and dismiss God as explanation.

He always believed in the paranormal explanation of the case of the week, but he could change his perspective if Scully's scientific theory was proving to be the solution. 'Now, when convention and science offer us no answers, might we not finally turn to the fantastic as a plausibility?'įormerly a renowned profiler, he became something of a joke at the Bureau when he started to pursue an obscure side project known only as the 'X Files', but he soon drew attention from more sinister quarters.

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