Trope Namer for: * The Chris Carter Effect * Archive Panic: With nine seasons of twenty-odd episodes each, it takes a long time to get through the series if you're starting from the very beginning. * The Bad Guy Wins: Well, the good guys don't, anyway. Sure, at the end of the finale CSM and Rohrer are both dead and Mulder has escaped. However, many of the conspirators are still alive, our heroes have been forced into a life on the run, they have just discovered the date of a planned alien invasion and are no closer to stopping the alien takeover than they were at the beginning of the pilot. * Hell, Mulder spends a good chunk of the final scene going on about how in his pursuit to reveal the truth he's failed remarkably in every regard other than making Scully a believer too