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The Lone Gunmen
appreciation thread

Who Were The Lone Gunmen?

Melvin Frohike - was a former '60s radical and the oldest of the three. Though a skilled computer hacker, Frohike was primarily the photography specialist for the newsletter. Frohike had a lascivious attitude toward women and secretly coveted Mulder's collection of pornographic videos. However, he had a more purely romantic attitude towards Dana Scully; when she was gravely ill, Frohike appeared at the hospital in a tux carrying a flower. His unique sense of fashion made him stand out: leather jackets, furry vests, combat boots, fingerless gloves, etc. Frohike considered himself the "action man" of the trio and would often be seen doing very intense stunts (many rigged to look more impressive than they really were). Despite his childish scraps with Langly and others, Frohike's age and experience gave him a kind of quiet wisdom that occasionally surfaced when he consoled his friends about the sorry nature of their lives. In the episode "Tango de los Pistoleros," Frohike was revealed to be a former tango champion who danced under the stage name "El Lobo."

John Fitzgerald Byers - was once a menial office worker for the FCC. He was a conservative dresser with a neatly trimmed beard, a stark contrast to his grungier comrades. He is known for the famous line, "That's what we like about you, Mulder. Your ideas are even weirder than ours." He was born on November 22, 1963, the same day that President Kennedy died. His parents named him after the fallen president. His name would have been Bertram otherwise. Byers was the most "normal" of the three, and while Frohike and Langly were seemingly born angry misfits, Byers dreamed of a quiet, uneventful, suburban life. Byers' father was a high-ranking government official, but they never saw eye to eye and when Byers' father appears in the Lone Gunmen pilot, the two hadn't spoken for some time.

Richard 'Ringo' Langly - was the most confrontational and socially immature of the three. He was a big fan of The Ramones and enjoyed critiquing the scientific inaccuracies of the short-lived sci-fi series Earth 2, and he had a long-running competition with Frohike over who was a better computer hacker. He also had "a philosophical aversion to having his image bounced off a satellite." His nickname was "Ringo". Langly was a Dungeons and Dragons player (as 'Lord Manhammer') and enjoyed violent videogames like Quake. (In the William Gibson-penned X-Files episode "First Person Shooter," Frohike and Byers were also avid gamers, an uncharacteristic development for both men and one that was never referenced again in later stories.)
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Episodes
1AEB79 Pilot
1AEB01 Bond, Jimmy Bond
1AEB02 Eine Kleine Frohike
1AEB03 Like Water For Octane
1AEB04 Three Men & A Smoking Diaper
1AEB05 Planet of the Frohikes
1AEB06 Madam, I'm Adam
1AEB07 Maximum Byers
1AEB08 Diagnosis: Jimmy
1AEB09 The Lying Game
1AEB10 Tango De Los Pistoleros
1AEB11 Cap'n Toby Show
1AEB12 All About Yves
Source: Inside The X-files

TLG Links
Episode Reviews
Promo Pictures

[FrellingTralk]

Tftnt

[reason to believe]

That’s a nice title page!

[Little_Stewie]

TFTNT!!!

[reason to believe]

Did the con they are going to together already happen?

[FrellingTralk]

I’m not sure, I haven’t see anything about it on twitter since

[FrellingTralk]

How did everyone feel about Langly‘s appearance in season 11 (and their cameo in Mulder’s dream/hallucination from season 10). Were you happy with how they were used, or do you wish that the revival had written them differently?

[reason to believe]

Well, I guess if for once if the X-Files is gonna be realistic (), its that the Gunmen really are deceased so it makes sense, they would appear in some hallucination dream of Mulder!


I'm glad they brought Langly back for a cameo in season 11 too. And I suppose it was somewhat creative how they brought him back, but kind of sad if he's trapped like that!! Well its not really him, right? It was so sci-fi-y!


Maybe a more fun way to bring them back would be to bring in the alien clone idea from season 2 or 3 and they are clones in the form of the Gunmen!!

[Ropetuned]

I have yet to watch their spinoff show

[FrellingTralk]

I still haven’t seen it either, it doesn’t seem like it’s available on streaming anywhere

[Ropetuned]

Yeah I can’t fins it. I love them but their own spinoff I don’t think would be interesting

[FrellingTralk]

Honestly yeah, they were a lot of fun as background characters, but I’m surprised they decided to create an entire show based around them. I don’t really see them as leading men I’m afraid It would still be interesting to see the episodes though

[reason to believe]

Yeah, I didn’t think their characters were fit for “lead characters”.

[Ropetuned]

Yet somehow I wanted more of them

[FrellingTralk]

The episodes centred around them were fun on The X-Files as one-offs, just not really something that I would want to watch every week