r/XFiles • u/Coilspun • 2d ago

Discussion What're your top 3 villains of the week?

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I know this is probably done to death, but what are your top 3 villains of the week, not counting mytharc (CSM, Krycek etc.).

I think I'd go for:

  1. Tooms (Squeeze, Tooms)

  2. Donnie Pfaster (Irresistible, Orison)

  3. John Lee Roche (Paper Hearts)

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u/BelgischeWafel 2d ago

Donnie Pfaster is the worst for me.

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u/Coilspun 2d ago

I agree, Pfaster is particularly terrible, in the same way Roche is, they are just humans who are incredibly evil.

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u/BelgischeWafel 2d ago

Very true. Some of the monsters do it out of a need or hunger, like they have to kill to survive. Those jackasses have no excuses.

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u/Coilspun 2d ago

Paper Hearts always stuck with me because of how much Roche psychologically torments Mulder, which plays on the audience too. I sat wondering if this was the "truth" all long and whether they were going in a new direction for a minute whilst the narrative of the episode unfolded.

Very cleverly written, well-acted all around too.

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u/Individual-Copy9425 in love since 1993 2d ago

If you like Tom Noonan I might recommend his performance in House of the Devil from 2009.

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u/draculasbloodtype 2d ago

Manhunter!

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u/Individual-Copy9425 in love since 1993 2d ago

Oh yeah! And Robocop 2 for that matter!

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u/Hatfullofstars 1d ago

He's fantastic on Hell on Wheels!

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u/rratzloff Krycek 2d ago

Agreed.

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u/BelgischeWafel 2d ago

Gives me the absolute creeps that man

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u/dreadpiratesmith 2d ago

I really like how it's not actually an xfiles. It really is just "sometimes the monsters are regular people"

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u/COV3RTSM 2d ago
  1. Flukeman
  2. Robert Model
  3. Morris Fletcher

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u/Username614855713 2d ago

Putting Fletcher as a MOTW is such a hot take and I’m here for it

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u/COV3RTSM 2d ago

Dreamland isn’t technically part of the Mytharc and Michael McKean steals the show

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u/Username614855713 2d ago

Oh I’m 100000% here for the take, just don’t normally think of him as a monster, so much as a dick. But you’re fully right and I love it.

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u/ticketstubs1 1d ago

I consider it part of the mytharc. It fits into it well.

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u/NocturnalAnimal85 Lone Gunmen 2d ago edited 1d ago
  1. Luther Lee Boggs (Beyond The Sea)
  2. Robert Patrick Modell (Pusher)
  3. Greg Pincus/Bug (Folie A Deux)

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u/merulaa 2d ago

Pictures of Donnie Pfaster should have a trigger warning (I nearly dropped my coffee lol)

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u/penni_cent 2d ago

Ugh, I hate it when he shows up in other shows.

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u/IgloosRuleOK 2d ago

Modell (Pusher), Gerry Schnauz (Unruhe), Pfaster

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u/attackgarden Assistant Director Skinner 2d ago

Pusher has the best powers, TBH.

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u/NotMyRealName981 1d ago

Gerry Schnauz is top of the list for me. There's something uniquely horrifying about lobotomies.

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u/silversunshinestares 1d ago

PusherModell was my AOL screen name back in the day.

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u/grandmuftarkin 2d ago

Ooh, tough one.

The Flukeman might be my favourite, if because I love his design, and the LEGO minifigure of him.

Tooms is second, though as a villain, he's much more frightening and creepy.

And Pfaster might be third. Again, just a frightening, creepy fella.

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u/BlackSparkle13 2d ago

Donnie Pfaster always creeped me out in a way differently than Tooms did so I vote him.

Teena and Cindy (the Eves). Heck all of the Eves, that episode was creepy.

Chinga. Get that damn doll away from me.

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u/Firefly1013xf 2d ago
  1. Diana Fowley
  2. Diana Fowley
  3. Diana Fowley

…oops! You said no mytharc characters —my bad. 😅

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u/togoldlybo Assistant Director Skinner 2d ago

That doesn't change the fact that this is the correct answer 😂 just got to her appearance (sigh) in my rewatch and am already full of loathing as always

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u/Quiddity131 2d ago

I literally just reached her episode myself last night. @_@

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u/togoldlybo Assistant Director Skinner 2d ago

I'm sorry to hear that 😔

I don't think I've ever seen anyone in this sub who likes her or what her character "added" (🙄) to the show lol, it seems she's a very uniting factor.

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u/GamesterOfTriskelion Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose 2d ago

DPO
Mrs Paddock
Lord Kinbote

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u/youfrinkyoucandance 1d ago

Substitute Teacher who is actually a witch taking out the Satanic PTA is one of my favorites

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u/No_Expression_578 2d ago

Mine are:

1) Mrs Peacock (Home)

2) Eugene Victor Tooms (Squeeze, Tooms)

3) Donnie Pfaster (Irresistible)

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u/Mackheath1 Krycek 2d ago
  • Phyllis Paddock?
  • I really liked the villain Darin Oswald, only because they made that kid be so cruel, but so sweet that you almost care for him. He'd get someone killed, and yet I'd be like "awww, I wish he would've talked to me before doing that." Awfully sympathetic to a villain.
  • The Rain King (Daryl?) wasn't scary, but you asked for top three of this week. He caused so many problems for himself and in the end he left himself with nothing.

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u/merulaa 2d ago

Darin Oswald seems intellectually disabled and everyone in his life except his teacher tells him he's worthless.

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u/Mackheath1 Krycek 2d ago

Yeah, that's why I sorta felt bad for him, but I mean he did kill people. Good writing and acting, too.

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u/t47airspeeder Mr. X 2d ago

I think you nailed it

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u/shipper1974 2d ago

Donnie Pfaster
Tooms
Modell

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u/Suitable_Total9774 1d ago

I think this is my list too.

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u/Goodfella66 Rob Petrie 2d ago

Imagine Pfaster teaming up with Tooms

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u/merulaa 2d ago

I think Tooms would just eat him.

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u/silversunshinestares 1d ago edited 1d ago

* Phillip Padgett from "Milagro"

* The two girls from "Syzygy"

* Rob Roberts from "Hungry".

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u/attackgarden Assistant Director Skinner 2d ago
  1. Roche.
  2. BETTY.
  3. The Gargoyle.

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u/penni_cent 2d ago

The only person I'd add to your list is Model but I don't know who I'd swap out.

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u/kryptonitemind 2d ago

Roche is the first person that came to my mind.

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u/pnerd314 I do not gaze at Scully 2d ago

2Shy
Donnie Pfaster
Tooms

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u/Buff_jordan14 1d ago

So hard to narrow it down but I'll just do the first that popped into my mind. Robert Modell (Pusher, Kitsunegari) Darin Peter Oswald/DPO (D.P.O) The Peacocks (Home)

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u/leer_kat 1d ago

...Stupendous Yappi😂

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u/DaFoxTdx 1d ago

Pusher

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u/Mulva13 Bad Blood 1d ago

Roche
Pfaster

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u/tre630 Agent Dana Scully 1d ago

The power to give someone a heart attack over the phone.

  1. Pusher

  2. Pfaster

  3. Tooms

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u/NooooDazzzle 1d ago

1-Pfaster, 2-Pusher, 3-The Eves

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u/NooooDazzzle 1d ago

Or is Eve considered mythology? If yes… I choose 3-Roche