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| - The Flukeman was a genetic freak that found its way into the New Jersey sewer system and killed several people, before being washed up in Martha's Vineyard. (TXF: "The Host", "Pusher")
- The Flukeman, played by Darin Morgan, is a fictional character in The X-Files. Although appearing in only one episode, Flukeman has grown to become extremely popular among X-Files fans. When a man's decomposed body is found in the sewers of Newark, New Jersey, Mulder is infuriated when Assistant Director Skinner assigns him to investigate, citing it as a routine murder case. But when Scully's autopsy turns up a parasite living inside the body and a sewer worker is attacked and bitten by a strange creature, Mulder discovers that the culprit is the grotesque mutant known as the Flukeman.
- The Flukeman – a form of quasi-vertebrate human – was an example of reproductive and physiological cross-traiting due to radiation, abnormal cell fusion and/or the suppression of natural genetic processes; essentially, the creature was a result of human science rather than nature. Its vestigial features seemed parasitic but it also had primate physiology. Typically, a survivor of a bite by the Flukeman would be infected with a flatworm that the victim would cough up, at a later point. The wound pattern from the Flukeman's bite looks similar to scolex attachment but is much larger.
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| - The Flukeman – a form of quasi-vertebrate human – was an example of reproductive and physiological cross-traiting due to radiation, abnormal cell fusion and/or the suppression of natural genetic processes; essentially, the creature was a result of human science rather than nature. Its vestigial features seemed parasitic but it also had primate physiology. The Flukeman transmitted its larvae, a form of flatworm, through its bite. The being searched for hosts, in order to multiply, and would attack because its victims' bodies provided generative nourishment. A photograph of a wound from an encounter with the Flukeman. Typically, a survivor of a bite by the Flukeman would be infected with a flatworm that the victim would cough up, at a later point. The wound pattern from the Flukeman's bite looks similar to scolex attachment but is much larger. There is evidence to suggest that a bite by the Flukeman might result in a survivor subsequently experiencing a peculiar, unfavorable taste in their mouth that would be difficult to remove, although not be accompanied by a difficulty with swallowing. In the one recorded case of a Flukeman bite-victim experiencing such an unpleasant taste, the victim had also swallowed a mouthful of sewage, at the time of the attack. It is therefore unknown whether the Flukeman or the sewage was to blame for the unfavorable taste. Like other fluke or flatworms, the Flukeman had no sex organs and was genderless but was, even though technically human, capable of spontaneous regeneration. The Flukeman's typical environment was underwater, although it could also survive on land, in Earth's normal atmospheric levels. The being was also strong enough to haul its victims underwater with it.
- The Flukeman was a genetic freak that found its way into the New Jersey sewer system and killed several people, before being washed up in Martha's Vineyard. (TXF: "The Host", "Pusher")
- The Flukeman, played by Darin Morgan, is a fictional character in The X-Files. Although appearing in only one episode, Flukeman has grown to become extremely popular among X-Files fans. When a man's decomposed body is found in the sewers of Newark, New Jersey, Mulder is infuriated when Assistant Director Skinner assigns him to investigate, citing it as a routine murder case. But when Scully's autopsy turns up a parasite living inside the body and a sewer worker is attacked and bitten by a strange creature, Mulder discovers that the culprit is the grotesque mutant known as the Flukeman. Flukeman was somehow spawned from radioactive waste taken from the Chernobyl accident. Flukeman appears to be a humanoid tapeworm (though the term "fluke" properly refers to a flatworm), and inhabits sewers and sewage tanks. The creature bites people with its suckers and injects a tapeworm (possibly an immature version of itself) into the host, which would eventually exit orally, causing the death of the person. Mulder and a group of waste disposal workers managed to capture Flukeman, but it escaped soon after. He then followed the creature to a sewer, and at the climax of the episode, Mulder apparently kills Flukeman, chopping it in half with a sewer gate as it tried to escape. At the end of the episode, however, we see the remnants of the creature floating in the sewers, still alive. Flukeman was extremely popular with the fanbase. Although the creature only appeared in "The Host", he/it was given a reference or two in a couple of later episodes (He appears on some tabloids in "Pusher", and in "The Field Where I Died," Scully, when asked if she could make anything different, states that, "Even if I knew for certain I wouldn't change a day ... well, except for that Flukeman thing. I could have done without that just fine."). Flukeman has also appeared on a fantasy PEZ dispenser, a small statue, and a limited edition figurine. The Flukeman traveled aboard a Russian cargo ship from Ukraine before reaching the United States. Upon learning this during the murder investigation, Mulder and Scully theorized that the creature was the result of intense radiation poisoning experienced by an otherwise-normal sized flatworm. While trying to escape captivity, the Flukeman was severed in half by a closing gate. (TXF: "The Host") In early 1996, an issue of World Weekly Informer was published with a headline on the front page reading, "He's Back!" The article's subheading read, "Flukeman washed up in Martha's Vineyard" and an artist's drawing of the Flukeman was presented above the article.(TXF: "Pusher") Later that year, Scully told Mulder that, except for the Flukeman case, she wouldn't change a day of the past four years in which they had been working together. (TXF: "The Field Where I Died")
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