Iâm not even exaggerating when I say Mulder is undervalued as a character.
However you view Davidâs skill as an actor, he took a character who should not work and made Mulder someone viewers loved and cared for. We were like Scully, Mulder sounded not grounded to us at first, and then we get to meet him and entertain his ideas. We want to see if theyâre true or not and how true.
Mulder is so caring and sympathetic to victims, monsters, and those who were framed as both. Heâs the first to sympathize with a victim and the first to see humanity in a monster.
This man spent a chunk of his life looking for his sister who was abducted in front of his eyes. He has so much trauma and ptsd that he has low self worth, but god, does he fight on the behalf of others like hell.
People overlook all the fucking good Mulder does to call him a jerk because he isnât worshipping the ground Scully walks on 24/7. Mulder isnât allowed to be flawed or human. Moments that I canât deny that Mulder was a jerk: queequegâs death, beginning of never again, the Diana situation, and maybe a few others.
Mulder was the same guy who almost saved Scully when she was abducted, the same guy who literally almost quit his job before skinner tore up his resignation paper, he heavily considered dying for Scully as well as taking his own life, he was angry at Maggie and Melissa for giving up on Scully so fast. This all happens in a little over a year of knowing Scully.
Then when Scully comes back, Mulder looked out for her well-being and wasnât trying to force her to work. He wouldnât have even blamed her for transferring. Later on in the same season, he literally traded someone who he believed was his long lost sister FOR Scully.
Mulder also has tender moments with Scully that arenât cancer arc related or a major life event.
Yet, his bad moments with Scully are the ones that define him. Yet, people find time to over exaggerate shit and take it out of context all while ignoring Scullyâs shit bc sheâs âlong suffering.â
Like, Christ, Iâm tired of reading this shit every few months bc someone has a major Scully slant and thinks Mulder exists just to please Scully.
Heâs his own fucking person:
And letâs not forget: MULDER LITERALLY TREATS SCULLY BETTER THAN ANY ONE ELSE PROFESSIONALLY, GENERALLY SPEAKING, AND SINCERELY THOUGHT SHE COULDâVE RISEN UP IN THE RANKS AT THE FBI.
There is no bigger fan of Scully than Mulder and heâd be the first to tell anyone she deserved a better career than being stuck in the basement.
People love to talk about how hot, goofy, and in love with Scully Mulder is, but heâs a pretty great fucking person on his own merit.
Just like Scully gave up a career, Mulder did too. Mulder had so much professional capital he probably couldâve been an AD at a younger age then skinner. He probably couldâve been a director. People truly forget just how smart, how charming, and how good at his job Mulder could be when it came to the political stuff. Itâs not that Mulder canât do it, he refused to. His superiors are angry at him being in the basement because of how god damn talented he was. In case anyone forgot: Scully was assigned to debunk Mulderâs work to get him back into the mainstream at the FBI. You donât do that for an average ass worker.
And Mulder didnât just throw away his careers to chase monsters, he cared about the victims. If not him (before Scully), then who? No one cared or took them seriously. And Mulder had to find cases, prove their merits to be investigated on the FBI dime, and then fight for them throughout the case and after. Mulder was constantly advocating for others.
And heâs written off by some for being a jerk at times??? I need people to please review Mulderâs backstory, and then take a closer look at the fucked up shit that happened during the show and honestly say that most of Mulderâs behavior isnât understandable. His critics be saying like his behavior is unfounded or always on 10. Like, no, yâall only focus on the uncommon shit, and then make it something it isnât.
Some may think Iâm full of shit, exaggerating, or I have a point, but not a strong one, consider this: why is Mulder constantly criticized and called a jerk by some because he wasnât super supportive during Scullyâs pregnancy as if he wasnât literally abducted and buried alive for months? As if Mulder hadnât just gone than an indescribably traumatic ordeal and doesnât know how to process it. Sure, Mulder was a jerk, but wouldnât you say that the reason why is fucking important? Itâs not right that how he behaved at times, but how would anyone of us deal with such a situation?
People going through personality changes over less dire situations, but Mulder canât be a little jerkish just because Scullyâs pregnant???
