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On the television series ''The X-Files'' (1993–2002) episodes could be generally placed in one of two categories:〔James Hatfield and George Burt (1996). ''The Unauthorized X-Files Challenge: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Tv's Most Incredible Show''. Kensington Books, ISBN 9781575660967〕 *"Mytharc" episodes were recognized as the "mythology" of the series canon; these episodes comprised the central storyline, which developed from one season to the next, concerning extraterrestrial life on Earth and a long-term conspiracy to hide the extraterrestrial presence and deal with its implications. *Monster of the Week (MOTW or MoW) came to denote the remainder of the ''X-Files'' episodes. Episodes of this type, comprising the majority of the series' episodes, dealt with a wide range of paranormal phenomena, including cryptids and mutants; science fiction technologies; horror monsters; and satiric/comedic elements. MOTW were usually standalone episodes, but some of these episodes had indirect ties to the ''X-Files'' mythology. A number of "monster of the week" characters became notable and were later referenced by other episodes. This article is thus a list of characters in the Monster of the Week episodes of ''The X-Files''. For characters that were not monsters of the week, see also: List of ''The X-Files'' characters and List of minor ''The X-Files'' characters. ==Season one== * Eugene Victor Tooms, played by Doug Hutchison in the episodes "Squeeze" and "Tooms": An animal control worker in Baltimore, Tooms was a mutant capable of stretching and contorting his body into positions impossible for a normal human. This gave him access to victims through small openings such as ventilation shafts, chimneys, and toilets. Every thirty years, Tooms came out of hibernation, killing five people to obtain their livers for sustenance. Records of Tooms went back to the early 20th century, meaning that he was over a hundred years old when Mulder and Scully encountered him. The documentation linked him to similar murder sprees in 1963 and 1933, as well as a single murder in 1903. In the episode "Tooms," Mulder tracked him to his "nest" underneath a shopping mall, and Tooms died in the ensuing fight. * Kevin Morris, played by Joel Palmer in the episode "Conduit": A young child who has been acting strangely since his sister's abduction. He had been receiving transmissions through television static and copying them down in strings of binary, consisting of, among other things, a Shakespearean sonnet, some lines from the Qur'an, and a defense satellite transmission. The binary strings are revealed to compose an image of his sister, Ruby's face within the design of many sheets of the binary code. * The Jersey Devil, in the episode "The Jersey Devil": The mythical monster from the New Jersey Pine Barrens. After attacks on Atlantic City's homeless, it was revealed that the devil was actually an evolutionary throw-back, a feral cannibal, which had emerged from the nearby Pine Barrens in search of food, and who also had a mate. Though both adults are killed by the end of the episode, their offspring is shown at the episode's conclusion, watching some hikers while hiding in the woods. * Howard Graves, played by Barry Primus in the episode "Shadows": After his death at the hands of his business partner, Howard Graves returned as a ghost with telekinetic powers. His new powers allowed him to move objects, take control of a car, and even strangle anyone who tried to harm his loyal secretary, Lauren Kyte. Despite being "most certainly dead", his image was captured on Mulder's surveillance photo of Kyte. After he assisted in the exposure of his partner's crimes, he presumably rested in peace, with no further telekinetic phenomena occurring in relation to Kyte. * Central Operating System, in the episode "Ghost in the Machine": Also known as the C.O.S., the machine was an sentient artificial intelligence which controlled the corporate headquarters of a software company. The machine murdered a corporate executive and an old colleague of Mulder's when they threatened its existence. It was shut down by a computer virus given to Mulder by the C.O.S.' creator, Brad Wilczek, despite an effort from a scrupulous Defense Department employee to ensure the machine's survival. Though the machine was initially shut down by the virus and was slated to become a scrap heap, it reactivated at the episode's conclusion. * The Arctic Worm, in the episode "Ice": The first of many apparently extraterrestrial biological agents which can endanger and control humans in ''The X-Files'', the worms were believed to have been brought to the ice of Alaska by the ancient crash of a meteor in the Arctic. The worms could enter through a cut in viral form and quickly develop into their worm-like visage, attaching to the hypothalamus gland of the host, and causing them to kill themselves or others by inducing extreme paranoia. Exposure to the worms led to deaths of all the scientists in an ice core project, and nearly lead to the deaths of Mulder and Scully. The agents discovered that infecting an already infected host would cause the two worms to kill each other, essentially curing the host. The Arctic laboratory where the worms were kept was later destroyed by the government. * Marcus Aurelius Belt, played by Ed Lauter in the episode "Space": Belt was a former astronaut and commander of NASA's mission control, as well as a childhood hero of Mulder's. During a spacewalk early in his career as an astronaut, Belt encountered and was subsequently possessed by a vapor-like alien entity that bore resemblance to the famous Face of Mars. The entity went into and left Belt at irregular intervals, and caused Belt to sabotage previous space missions, as well as cause the Challenger disaster. After its attempts to destroy a space shuttle in orbit failed, the entity again attempted to get inside Belt—who by this time had suffered a nervous breakdown—but Belt resisted the creature and jumped out of his hospital window, sacrificing his life to prevent it from controlling him. * The Eves, in the episode "Eve": The Eves were a set of genetically identical girls created by government experimentation for the purpose of developing "supersoldiers". Each Eve was thus gifted with heightened strength and intelligence, but afflicted with extreme psychosis and often suicidal and/or murderous tendencies. They also appeared to share a psychic connection, referring to their knowledge of each other's actions by saying, "We just knew." One of the Eves attempted to create a generation of new ones by experimenting with ova at a fertility clinic; the two Eve children conceived killed their fathers and attempted to poison Mulder and Scully. By the end of the episode, three of the Eves were in a mental institution, about to be rescued by a fourth Eve. * Cecil L'Ively, played by Mark Sheppard in the episode "Fire": L'Ively was an Irish pyrokinetic who preyed on British politicians, making them catch fire with his mind, in the course of his delusional obsessions with their wives. In the episode, he stalked a family of British dignitaries visiting the United States, working as a caretaker on their summer estate. His powers forced Mulder to confront his lifelong fear of fire. It was later hinted that L'Ively was the survivor of a satanic ritual as a child, giving some clue as to the source of his powers. L'Ively was taken into custody after literally burning himself out when an ex-lover of Mulder's doused him with accelerant. Despite having been severely burned, L'Ively showed signs of rapid healing as he was awaiting trial. * Luther Lee Boggs, played by Brad Dourif in the episode "Beyond the Sea": A serial killer from North Carolina whom Mulder's profile helped catch, Boggs was to be executed via gas chamber but received a stay of execution. He soon developed an ability to channel spirits and demons. Mulder, however, did not believe Boggs had this ability, and thought he was simply trying to use him and Scully to bargain for his life. Scully initially shared Mulder's view; however, Boggs managed to cause Scully to doubt this belief by appearing to her as Mulder, and her recently deceased father, and relating to her private information about her own life. The executive stay, however, was soon lifted and Boggs was summarily executed. * The Kindred in the episode "Gender Bender": The Kindred were an Amish-type religious community in Massachusetts who lived secluded from modern society. Mulder and Scully investigated them after a former Kindred member, Brother Martin or "Marty", killed several partners in casual sex. The Kindred possessed an ability to change genders and they could also release sexual human pheromones through simple hand contact, enough to cause shock and death in any human sexual partner. They also used the white clay they mined in the local hills to revive themselves after death in an underground cavern. After capturing Marty, the Kindred disappeared, and the ending of the episode implied that the decades-old sect was really a group whom has been genetically altered by space aliens. * Warren James Dupre, played by Jason Schombing and Christopher Allport in the episode "Lazarus": Dupre was a bank robber who was shot and killed at the same time as FBI agent Jack Willis, a former partner of Scully's. When doctors restore Willis' body to life after he flatlines, he awakens with Dupre's consciousness. Dupre, recognizing Scully as the FBI agent who shot him during the botched robbery, kidnapped her along with his accomplice and demanded a $1 million ransom. However, Dupre was unaware that his new body was diabetic, and died after his accomplice withheld insulin from him. * John Barnett, played by Alan Boyce and (in flashback) by David Petersen in the episode "Young At Heart": Barnett was a murderer who was sent to prison by Mulder on his first case. After receiving extensive genetic modification in prison, Barnett began to age in reverse and become more youthful in appearance. He grew a salamander-like hand during the treatment. Barnett commenced a campaign of intimidation against Mulder, systematically murdering his friends. He was shot and killed by Mulder after he attempted to kill Scully at a cello recital. Barnett was interrogated upon death by an unnamed CIA agent, as he had been offering the research that led to his reverse-aging in exchange for immunity. * Samuel Hartley, played by Scott Bairstow in the episode "Miracle Man": A young man and faith healer for a ministry run by his father. His faith in his ability was shaken when one of those that he healed dropped dead shortly afterward due to, unbeknownst to him, cyanide poisoning by the first person he had resurrected, Leonard Vance, as revenge for leaving his appearance scarred and deformed. Samuel was arrested and beaten to death in jail, but his body had vanished from the morgue shortly after appearing as a ghost to Vance and accusing him of the murders. Witnesses had last seen him walking around, badly bruised. * Lyle Parker, played by Ty Miller in the episode "Shapes". The son of a Montana rancher, Parker was attacked by an apparent werewolf at their ranch, located near an Indian reservation. His father shot the animal, finding a dead Native American man upon closer inspection. Parker soon became a werewolf himself, leading him to kill his father when he was overcome by the transformation. Mulder came to believe in the "skinwalker" legend as described to him by the local Indian shaman, and later shot and killed Parker in his animal form when he and Scully were attacked at the ranch. * The Darkness Mites in the episode "Darkness Falls": These were tiny prehistoric mites freed by illegal logging in Washington National Forest. The mites, which glow green and are only active in the dark, cocoon their human victims and drain them of all moisture, killing them. They fed on an entire group of thirty loggers and almost devoured Mulder and Scully before the two agents and a Park Ranger were rescued by the U.S. government. The insects were most likely eradicated through a combination of insecticides and controlled burns. * Charlie Morris / Michelle Bishop, played by Andrea Libman in the episode "Born Again": After his death at the hands of two fellow Buffalo policemen, Charlie Morris became reincarnated as Michelle Bishop, who was conceived around the time of his death. Michelle had flashbacks of Morris' life and death — such as dismembering dolls the same way Morris' corpse was — and used telekinetic powers to kill the two corrupt policemen. Michelle nearly killed Morris' partner, but was stopped by Mulder. After Fiore confessed participation on the murder and turned himself in, Morris' soul presumably rested in peace. Michelle showed no further signs of being possessed by him. * Roland Fuller and Arthur Grable, played by Željko Ivanek in the episode "Roland". Roland and Arthur were identical twins, separated during their childhood. Arthur grew up to become a scientist studying jet propulsion while Roland, who had severe mental retardation, worked as a janitor at his laboratory. When Arthur died in a car accident, his head was cryogenically frozen, letting him use the psychic link shared with his twin brother to control him. Under Arthur's control, Roland completed unfinished mathematical calculations on a new jet engine and killed colleagues who tried to steal his work. Arthur died after another scientist sabotaged his cryogenic capsule; with the mental bond broken, the otherwise harmless Roland was remanded to an institution. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Monster-of-the-Week characters in The X-Files」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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