Monster of the Week

Eugene Victor Tooms, a notable recurring Monster of the Week character

Monster of the Week, or abbreviated MOTW, refers to episodes of The X-Files that deal with some type of supernatural or paranormal creature or sometimes a simple criminal with a unique gift and usually are separate from episodes dealing with the Conspiracy.

Monster of the Week Episodes

Season 1

• "Squeeze" (Eugene Victor Tooms)
• "The Jersey Devil" (Jersey Devils)
• "Shadows" (Howard Graves, a poltergeist)
• "Ghost in the Machine" (Central Operating System in the Eurisko Corporation's headquarters)
• "Ice" (Parasitic ice worms)
• "Space" (Marcus Aurelius Belt, possessed by a Martian entity)
• "Eve" (The Eves, a government clone experiment)
• "Fire" (Cecil L'Ively)
• "Beyond the Sea" (Luther Lee Boggs)
• "Gender Bender" (the Kindred)
• "Lazarus" (Jack Willis, possessed by Warren James Dupre)
• "Young at Heart" (John Barnett)
• "Miracle Man" (Samuel Hartley)
• "Shapes" (the Manitou)
• "Darkness Falls" (Wood mites)
• "Tooms" (Eugene Victor Tooms)
• "Born Again" (Michelle Bishop, a reincarnation of Charlie Morris)
• "Roland" (Arthur and Roland Grable)

Season 2

• "The Host" (Flukeman)
• "Blood" (Edward Funsch)
• "Sleepless" (Augustus Cole)
• "3" (Trinity Killers)
• "Firewalker" (Silicon based parasite)
• "Excelsis Dei" (poltergeists of Excelsis Dei)
• "Aubrey" (B.J. Morrow)
• "Irresistible" (Donald Pfaster)
• "Die Hand Die Verletzt" (Phyllis Paddock)
• "Fresh Bones" (Jacob Wharton)
• "Fearful Symmetry"
• "Død Kalm"
• "Humbug" (Leonard)
• "The Căluşari" (Michael Holvey, possessing his twin Charlie Holvey)
• "F. Emasculata" (Faciphaga emasculata)
• "Soft Light" (Chester Barton)
• "Our Town" (Walter Chaco)

Season 3

• "D.P.O." (Darren Peter Oswald)
• "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (Puppet)
• "The List" (Napoleon "Neech" Manley)
• "2Shy" (Virgil Incanto)
• "The Walk" (Leonard Trimble)
• "Oubliette" (Lucy Householder)
• "Revelations" (Simon Gates)
• "War of the Coprophages" (Cockroaches)
• "Syzygy" (Margi Kleinjan and Terri Roberts)
• "Grotesque" (William Patterson)
• "Pusher" (Robert Patrick Modell)
• "Teso Dos Bichos"
• "Hell Money" (Hard-Faced Man)
• "José Chung's From Outer Space"
• "Avatar" (Succubus)
• "Quagmire" (Big Blue)
• "Wetwired" (Tachistoscopic images)

Season 4

• "Unruhe" (Gerry Schnauz)
• "Home" (the Peacock family)
• "Teliko" (Samuel Aboah)
• "The Field Where I Died" (Vernon Ephesian)
• "Sanguinarium" (Jack Franklyn)
• "Paper Hearts" (John Lee Roche)
• "El Mundo Gira" (Chupacabra/Eladio Buente)
• "Kaddish" (Isaac Luria, a golem)
• "Never Again" (Betty)
• "Leonard Betts" (Albert Tanner)
• "Unrequited" (Nathaniel Teager)
• "Synchrony" (Jason Nichols)
• "Small Potatoes" (Eddie Van Blundht)
• "Elegy" (ghosts)

Season 5

• "Detour"
• "The Post-Modern Prometheus" (The Great Mutato)
• "Kitsunegari" (Linda Bowman and Robert Patrick Modell)
• "Schizogeny" (Karin Matthews)
• "Chinga" (Chinga)
• "Kill Switch" (Gelman's AI)
• "Bad Blood" (Ronnie Strickland, a vampire)
• "Mind's Eye" (Marty Glenn)
• "All Souls" (Aaron Starkey)
• "The Pine Bluff Variant" (A deadly biological weapon)
• "Folie a Deux" (Greg Pincus)

Season 6

• "Drive" (Patrick Garland Crump)
• "Triangle" (Nazis)
• "Dreamland" (Morris Fletcher body swap)
• "Dreamland II" (Morris Fletcher body swap)
• "Terms of Endearment" (Wayne Weinsider, a vele demon)
• "The Rain King" (Holman Hardt)
• "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" (Maurice and Lyda)
• "Tithonus" (Alfred Fellig)
• "Arcadia" (Ubermenscher )
• "Agua Mala"(the sea monster)
• "Monday" (Bernard Oates kinda pam)
• "Alpha" (Dr.Ian Detweiler)
• "Trevor" (Wilson Pinker Rawls)
• "Milagro" (Phillip Padgett)
• "The Unnatural" (Josh Exley)
• "Three of a Kind" (Phillip Padgett)
• "Field Trip" (Hallucinogenic Mushroom Organism)

Season 7

• "Hungry" (Rob Roberts)
• "The Goldberg Variation" (Henry Weems)
• "Millennium" (Zombie)
• "Rush" (Max Harden)
• "Orison" (Donald Pfaster)
• "The Amazing Maleeni" (Maleeni)
• "Signs and Wonders" (Samuel Mackey)
• "X-Cops" (an unknown fear entity)
• "First Person Shooter"(Maitreya)
• "Theef" (Orell Peattie)
• "Chimera" (Ellen Adderly)
• "Hollywood A.D."
• "all things"
• "Brand X" (Darryl Weaver)
• "Fight Club" (Betty Templeton/LuLu Pfeiffer)
• "Je Souhaite" (Jenn, a jinniyah)

Season 8

• "Redrum" (Martin Wells)
• "Patience" (Human bat)
• "Roadrunners" (Parasite)
• "Invocation" (Billy Underwood)
• "Via Negativa" (Anthony Tipet)
• "Surekill" (Randall Cooper)
• "Salvage" (Raymond Aloysius Pearce)
• "Badlaa" (Beggar Man)
• "Medusa" (Parasitic cnidarian)
• "Empedocles"(Evil)
• Alone

Season 9

• "Daemonicus"
• "Hellbound" (Robert Fassl)
• "4-D" (Erwin Timothy Lukesh)
• "Lord of the Flies" (Anne T. Lokensgard)
• "John Doe"
• "Underneath"
• "Scary Monsters"
• "Audrey Pauley" (Audrey Pauley)
• "Improbable"
• "Release"
• "Sunshine Days"(Oliver Martin)

Season 10

• "Founder's Mutation" (Kyle Goldman)
• "Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster" (Guy Mann)
• "Home Again"
• "Babylon" (Trashman)

Season 11

• This (Commander Al)