90s crush For Your Consideration: Special Agent Dana Katherine Scully
Reasons Agent Scully is total 90s crush material (as if it isn’t already obvious):
1) She can totally kick everyone’s ass.
Let’s be real. If it hadn’t been for Scully, Mulder would’ve died in, like, 1994. Not that she couldn’t save the world from the impending alien apocalypse without him, I’m just acknowledging how many times she saved his ass and how in love my 10 year old self (and 23 year old self) was with those scenes of a strong woman kicking down doors and coming to the rescue of the male protagonist.
2) She’s the smartest person in the F.B.I. and possibly the world.
One of my personal pet peeves as an X-Phile is when someone says Mulder was always right. Excuse me but you might want to try checking yourself before you wreck yourself worse than UFO debris in Aurora, Texas. Yes, the X-Files dealt with paranormal activity and Scully was a skeptic so the odds were stacked against her, but that doesn’t mean Mulder was always right. Mulder needed Scully’s scientific prowess and constant questioning because it was often a combination of their ideas and theories that led to the truth that was out there.
Also, she’s medical doctor, she taught at the FBI Academy and she wrote her senior thesis on Einstein’s Twin Paradox: A New Interpretation. So your argument is invalid.
3) She’s a feminist icon.
Maybe Scullz never said the words “I’m a feminist” but I know in my nerd-heart of hearts that she is. I’m not saying I never gave serious side-eye to shades of sexism and misogyny in some X-Files episodes (and I don’t take it lightly), but I was never disappointed in the writing for Scully. She was brilliant, vibrant, multifaceted, smart, tough, funny—all the things that women are but are rarely portrayed as such on tv.
Also Joss Whedon is an X-Files nerd so I can’t help speculating that Scully served as a partial inspiration for Buffy and all the other bad-ass women characters he’s written.
4) She’s like really pretty.
So you agree, you think Dana Scully is pretty. Well, me too.
5) She’s fucking immortal and shit.
Throughout the series there are references to the fact Scully can’t die (Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose and Tithonus) so X-Files scholars have geek flow charts and Venn diagrams and several posts on their 1999 Xanga accounts to prove that she’s immortal. But you needn’t look any further than the most important theory of all: Dana Scully is a bad bitch g-woman. She’s battled aliens, alien bounty hunters, death fetishists, satan, the el chupacabra, demon cats, vampires, killer computer viruses, Alex Krycek and a 100 year old genetic mutant that feeds on human liver so….yeah I’d say she’s pretty fucking immortal.
