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Up To Eleven is a defunct trope


* PercussivePrevention: Sometimes characters help their friends by punching them unconscious. Scully takes it UpToEleven when she shoots Mulder to prevent him from killing Krycek.

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* PercussivePrevention: Sometimes characters help their friends by punching them unconscious. Scully takes it UpToEleven up to eleven when she shoots Mulder to prevent him from killing Krycek.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Scully takes a big gamble successfully attempting to shoot Mulder in a way that doesn't kill him or cause any long term damage.
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* FieryCoverup: The Cigarette Smoking Man orders soldiers to burn down a boxcar with hybrid alien bodies. Mulder was inside of said boxcar as well, although confirmation of survival is not confirmed.

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* FieryCoverup: The Cigarette Smoking Man orders soldiers to burn down a boxcar with hybrid alien bodies. Mulder was inside of said boxcar as well, although confirmation of survival his fate is not confirmed.



* MagicalNativeAmerican: Subverted, as Scully contacts Albert Hosteen to help them to translate the Navajo code.

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* MagicalNativeAmerican: Subverted, as Scully contacts Albert Hosteen to help them to translate the Navajo code. Played straight when Albert receives omens from the desert.
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Merged with Waking Up Elsewhere. Lacks context — where was he before?


* UnfamiliarCeiling: Twice. First when confused Mulder wakes up at Scully's and then at Albert Hosteen's in New Mexico.
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* WhamEpisode: Mulder's father is killed by Krycek

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* WhamEpisode: Mulder's father is killed by KrycekKrycek, Scully finds out more about her abduction and Mulder is presumed dead by a boxcar explosion after he found alien corpses with smallpox vaccination scars.

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[[WMG:[[center:[-'''RECAP:'''\\
[[Recap/TheXFiles Index]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E01LittleGreenMen 1]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E02TheHost 2]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E03Blood 3]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E04Sleepless 4]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E05DuaneBarry 5]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E06Ascension 6]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E07Three 7]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E08OneBreath 8]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E09Firewalker 9]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E10RedMuseum 10]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E11ExcelsisDei 11]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E12Aubrey 12]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E13Irresistible 13]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E14DieHandDieVerletzt 14]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E15FreshBones 15]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E16Colony 16]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E17EndGame 17]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E18FearfulSymmetry 18]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E19DodKalm 19]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E20Humbug 20]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E21TheCalusari 21]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E22FEmasculata 22]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E23SoftLight 23]] | [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E24OurTown 24]] | '''25''']]-]]]
'''Season 2, Episode 25:'''
!Anasazi
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thexfilesanasazi.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''[[TagLine éí 'aaníígÓÓ 'áhoot'é]]''[[labelnote:Translation]]"The truth is far from here" in Navajo.[[/labelnote]]]]
->Written by Creator/DavidDuchovny (Story) & Creator/ChrisCarter (Story & teleplay)\\
Directed by R. W. Goodwin

->''"There was a tribe of Indians who lived here more than 600 years ago. Their name was [[TitleDrop Anasazi]], it means ancient aliens. No evidence of their fate exists. Historians say they disappeared without a trace. They say that because they will not sacrifice themselves to the truth."''
-->-- '''Albert Hosteen'''




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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Mulder's father.]]

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\n* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Mulder's father.]]father, after promising to tell Mulder the truth, is murdered. This reinforces the standards of death in this show, along the same vein as [[Recap/TheXFilesS01E24TheErlenmeyerFlask Deep Throat's]].



* CreatorCameo: Chris Carter makes a quick appearance in Skinner's office as a FBI agent.

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* CreatorCameo: Chris Carter Creator/ChrisCarter makes a quick appearance in Skinner's office as a FBI agent.



* FieryCoverup: The Cigarette Smoking Man orders soldiers to burn down a boxcar with hybrid alien bodies. Mulder was inside of said boxcar as well. Probably. Or not.

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* FieryCoverup: The Cigarette Smoking Man orders soldiers to burn down a boxcar with hybrid alien bodies. Mulder was inside of said boxcar as well. Probably. Or not. well, although confirmation of survival is not confirmed.



* MrFanservice: [[ShirtlessScene Shirtless]] Mulder in his underpants.

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* MrFanservice: [[ShirtlessScene Shirtless]] Mulder in his underpants.underpants after Scully took him back to her home to recuperate.



* OurHeroIsDead: Mulder is dead. But is he really?

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* OurHeroIsDead: Mulder is dead.presumed dead after being caught in a boxcar fire. But is he really?



* WhamEpisode
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: Krycek kills Mulder's father and tries to frame Mulder. Scully averts the actual revenge because if she hadn't stopped Mulder from killing Krycek, Mulder would have been found guilty.]]

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* WhamEpisode
WhamEpisode: Mulder's father is killed by Krycek
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler: Krycek kills Mulder's father and tries to frame Mulder. Scully averts the actual revenge because if she hadn't stopped Mulder from killing Krycek, Mulder would have been found guilty.]]guilty.
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->''[[Recap/TheXFilesS03E01TheBlessingWay "Nothing vanishes without a trace! Burn it."]]''

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