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* [[Actor Allusion]]:
** [[Bruce Campbell]] makes an appearance as a demon that actually [[Evil Dead|swallows someone's soul]].
** "Salvage" has Robert Patrick referencing his breakthrough role: "What’re you saying? Ray Pearce has become some kind of [[Terminator|metal man]]? ‘Cause that only happens in the movies, Agent Scully."
* [[Actor Shared Background]]: Like his character, the Cigarette-Smoking Man, William B. Davis is a former champion water-skier. Go figure.
* [[Cast the Expert]]: The episode "The Amazing Maleeni" features two stage magicians, both played by actual stage magicians.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Inverted with Agent Scully; she was born in 1964 while Gillian Anderson was born in 1968.
* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: For the episode "X-Cops", the cameramen (including some from ''[[COPS (animation)|COPS]]'') were not present during rehearsals so their camera work would look more spontaneous.
* [[Fake American]]: The Cigarette-Smoking Man is a native of Ontario, eh.
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* [[Fan Community Nickname]]: X-Philes.
* [[Franchise Killer]]: The second movie is suspected of being one, although after a ten-year gap could be considered more of a failed attempt at resurrection.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Many familiar faces have popped up in the show's history:
** [[Brad Dourif]] as a supposedly psychic serial killer on Death Row in "Beyond the Sea".
** [[Felicity Huffman]] is in "Ice
** [[Cary Elwes]] plays Agent Reyes' ex-love interest and jerk Brad Folmer during
** [[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|B.D. Wong]] plays an American-Chinese police officer in "Hell Money".
*** Which also featured [[Lucy Liu]].
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** M. Emmett Walsh also appeared in "The Unnatural".
** [[Peter Boyle]] plays a psychic who can only predict people's deaths in "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose". He won an Emmy for "Outstanding Guest Actor" for that episode, and was his only win out of 8 nominations, including 5 from ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]''.
** [[Mimi Rogers]] was to become the [[Die for Our Ship|most hated character on the show]] when she played Diana Fowley during
** Michael Buble makes an uncredited appearance as a sailor in "Apocrypha" and "Piper Maru
** Jayne Atkinson (most know her from her role as Erin Strauss on ''[[Criminal Minds]]'') played Willa Ambrose in "Fearful Symmetry
*** That one also had [[The Last Starfighter]].
** Tony Shalhoub in "Soft Light
** Tobin Bell in "Brand X
** [[Seth Green]] in "Deep Throat
** William Sanderson in "Blood
** [[Bruce Campbell]] plays a demon trying to have a child in "Terms of Endearment
** [[Kolchak the Night Stalker|Kolchak]] creator Darren [[Mc Gavin]], oddly, does not appear as the character he created, but as Arthur Dales, the agent who ran the X-Files in the fifties.
** [[Candyman|Tony Todd]] is the villain of the week in "Sleepless
** Bokeem Woodbine, Ken Foree and J.T. Walsh appear in "The List
** [[R. Lee Ermey]] and [[Twin Peaks|Kenneth Welsh]] in "Revelations
** [[Jack Black]] and Giovanni Ribisi play a pair of high school slackers in "D.P.O.".
** Donal Logue shows up as a [[Jerkass]] fellow federal agent in "Squeeze
** Ryan Reynolds has a small part at the beginning of "Syzygy
** Kurtwood Smith (Red Foreman from ''[[That '70s Show]]'' or [[RoboCop|Clarence Boddicker]] if you prefer) is Agent Bill Patterson in "Grotesque
** [[Amanda Tapping]] appears as the victim of the week in "Avatar".
** [[CSI: NY|A. J. Buckley]] as a teenaged stoner in
** [[Dirty Harry|Andrew]] [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Robinson]] as Dr. Detweiler in
** [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Casey Biggs]] as an oil rig worker in
** [[Adam Baldwin]] as Knowle Rohrer in the last few seasons.
** A very young [[Firefly|Jewel Staite]] plays a kidnap victim in
** Shia LaBoeuf as the [[Littlest Cancer Patient|Littlest Hepatitis Patient]] in "The Goldberg Variation".
** A young [[Andrea Libman]] plays the possessed little girl in "Born Again". You'll never watch [[Madeline]] or [[My Little Pony]] the same way again.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]:
** The episode "Small Potatoes" guest-starred [[Christine Cavanaugh]], doing a subtler version of her [[Sonic Sat AM|Bunnie Rabbot voice.]]
** From the episode "Never Again" -- the [[Animated Tattoo]] is voiced by Jodie Foster.
* [[Irony as She Is Cast]]: Retroactively, that is. William B. Davis spent years fending off true believers who loved his character and couldn't believe that he is a real-life apostate. Davis eventually got in touch with the skeptic community to develop better argument strategies, and is now a lecturer on the skeptic circuit.
* [[Lying Creator]]: [[Word of God]] said {{spoiler|Mulder and Scully wouldn't ever kiss.}} Watching the show comes to convey the contrary.
** [[Word of God]] also said that {{spoiler|there would never be any romantic relationship going on between Mulder and Scully, before admitting after the show's run that having them together in the end was the original intention}}. [[Word of God]] is a big liar, basically.
* [[Old Shame]]: Chris Carter, the episode's writer, hates "Space" just as much as anybody who's ever had to sit through it. It's routinely ranked as one of the worst episode of the series, even when taking the last few seasons into account.
* [[The Pete Best]]: Not the same character exactly, but the principle applies: Charles Cioffi as SCI Blevins, Mulder and Scully's boss in the Pilot and "Conduit", was intended as a regular character but Cioffi proved unable to continue in the role (though he did reappear in the Gethsemane/Redux arc in Seasons 4-5). He was replaced in "Fallen Angel" by the one-off character Section Chief McGrath, played by Frederick Coffin. Finally, Mitch Pileggi played Skinner in "Tooms" and the rest is history.
* [[Reality Subtext]]: In "Hollywood A.D.", a film producer decides to make a movie based on Mulder and Scully's adventures, casting Garry Shandling and Tea Leoni for the roles, respectively. Scully mentions to Mulder that Leoni may have a crush on him, which he considers ridiculous. Any guesses to whom David Duchovny is married in real life?
* [[Recycled Script]]:
** They reworked Season One episode "Ice" (about a parasitic alien that caused its victims to turn psychopathic and eventually die) into the Season Two episode "Firewalker" (you can probably guess the main difference). Both were based, in turn, on the classic John W. Campbell short story "Who Goes There".
** "One Breath" and "Audrey Pauley", aired seven seasons apart, are almost exactly the same episode, just with a different partnership in the spotlight. Both involve the female half of the team (Scully and Reyes, respectively) falling into a coma after a traumatic event, and eventually being declared brain-dead. While in a coma, they have their own sub-plot on a different plane of existence. Meanwhile, the male half of the team (Mulder and Dogget, respectively), run around trying to figure out the paranormal aspect of the episode, as well as try to find a way to bring the female half of the team out of the coma and threatening bodily harm to those who attempt to shut off life support. There are a few minor differences: "One Breath" was part of the show's [[Myth Arc]] while "Audrey Pauley" was Season 9 filler, "Audrey Pauley" had a more clear-cut paranormal aspect to it, and the causes of the coma are quite different. However, the scripts are so similar that in some scenes, Doggett repeats Mulder word-for-word.
** Of course, this also brings about a few [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]]s. While "One Breath" was meant to show the deepening bond of Mulder and Scully's ''friendship'', "Audrey Pauley" was used ''explicitly'' to showcase Doggett and Reye's romantic relationship. Using almost the exact same script. It also make's Scully's unsympathetic nature towards Doggett rather ironic — she is the one making the arrangements to take Reyes off life support and donate her organs, and thinks Doggett is crazy for trying to save her. It's Justified in that she was in a coma for almost all of "One Breath" and didn't see Mulder do the exact same thing, but it's still makes her seem like that much more callous.
* [[Star-Making Role]]: For both leads.
* [[Technology Marches On]]: Most of the computer-y episodes, but the trope is most prevalent in "2Shy", which features floppies, chatrooms and proper online grammar.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Lou Diamond Phillips, Hart Bochner and [[Bruce Campbell]] were each finalists for the role of John Doggett.
** Johnny Cash was almost a Man In Black in "Jose Chung's From Outer Space"!
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