Eugene Victor Tooms is one of the most frightening monsters not just in the history of The X-Files, but probably in TV as a whole. The stretchy, liver-eating immortal with the creepy eyes only appeared in the first season, but he remained in our nightmares forevermore. He was a pretty great villain, and everybody involved in creating him should be proud of the part they played; except Doug Hutchinson. Doug Hutchison was a little bit too into the character he played. Hutchinson also hit on the (married) Gillian Anderson on set and later gained notoriety for marrying 16-year-old Courtney Stodden when he was pushing fifty, so you know the guy's gotta be a little nutty. One of his more insane, early moments was when he decided to write his own sequel to Squeeze, the episode that introduced the Tooms character. With a Ray Bradbury-riffing title, Dark He Was And Golden Eyed was a little less workable TV script, more fan fiction. Hutchinson's script was "an experiment to find out how I could remain so young and immortal; he was infused with a drug that backfired and ended up escaping the asylum. So now hes eating livers like M&Ms - hes on a rampage!", positing Tooms was the reincarnation of "a ravenous, liver-eating Central American Indian God". Carter and crew returned the script for "legal reasons" and wrote their own, much less ridiculous, second appearance for the monster. And Tooms was involved too! Wacca wacca.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
