The "Cigarette Smoking Man" (often referred to as "Cancer Man") is a fictional character on the American science fiction television series The X-Files. He serves as the arch-nemesis of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, and is later revealed to be Mulder's father. Although his name is given as C.G.B. Spender in the show, fans continue to refer to him as the "Cigarette Smoking Man" because he is almost always seen chain-smoking Morley cigarettes and be...
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The "Cigarette Smoking Man" (often referred to as "Cancer Man") is a fictional character on the American science fiction television series The X-Files. He serves as the arch-nemesis of FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, and is later revealed to be Mulder's father. Although his name is given as C.G.B. Spender in the show, fans continue to refer to him as the "Cigarette Smoking Man" because he is almost always seen chain-smoking Morley cigarettes and because he, like other series villains, has multiple aliases.
Although he utters only four audible words in the entire first season of the show, the "Cigarette Smoking Man" eventually develops into the series' primary antagonist. In his early appearances, he is seen in the office of Walter Skinner, Mulder and his partner Dana Scully's boss. He works for a government conspiracy only known as the Syndicate, who are hiding the truth of alien existence and their plan to colonize Earth. He is eventually killed by a missile fired from a helicopter in...
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