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.įox chose to study French in high school. ( F ire) Mulder's phobia of fire, established in the episode "Fire", was never referred to again. In 1993, he still had an extreme hate of fire. For several years after the incident, Fox had nightmares about being trapped in a burning building. Once, his best friend's house burnt down and he spent the night in the wreckage to guard it from looters. 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. ( L ittle Green Men, C olony, P aper Hearts) 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.
He also liked playing Stratego with Samantha.
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At home, he enjoyed watching The Magician, a series that starred Bill Bixby - ( L ittle Green Men, P aper Hearts). Young Fox and Samantha pictured together - ( C onduit)įox played right-field in baseball and owned a New York Nets replica basketball jersey - ( L ittle Green Men, B lood). The only regular responsibility that they had was getting home in time for dinner. 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. Fox made silly faces at the camera and was irritated when his fake ear fell off.
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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. Mulder as a child, dressed as the fictional character Spock. 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 inhabited." He was repulsed by the mantis and has hated insects ever since. Although he initially thought the mantis was a leaf, he screamed when he realized the insect's true nature.
One day when he was climbing a tree, Fox had an up-close encounter with a praying mantis. In Fox's childhood, he and his father were Indian Guides. The loud crunching from his father eating sunflower seeds in the family's study reassured Fox that he was not alone. 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. Fox never grew out of his boyhood desire for a peg leg and, in 1996, he still suspected it would have its advantages. 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. However, this assumption is not established nor disproved by episode information.įrom early in his youth, Fox wanted a peg leg. ( H ome, P aper Hearts) It can probably be assumed that the family didn't have those devices because the technology hadn't been invented yet.
The Mulders had a rope swing out in their backyard, but didn't have a modem, fax machine or a cell phone. Spender on the water nearby - ( T alitha Cumi, D emons). 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 C.G.B. He was four years old when his sister, Samantha, was born.
His first words were " JFK", when aged 11 months - ( M usings of a Cigarette Smoking Man). ( P aper Clip, D reamland II)Īn early photograph of young Fox Mulder with his mother. Fox Mulder was born on Friday, October 13, 1961, in Chilmark, Martha's Vineyard.