History Characters / FoxTrot

* HypocriticalHumor: A key trait of Andy's is that she's a MoralGuardian until it's [[HoistByHisOwnPetard inconvenient for her]].

* ChildProdigy: He's only ten years old, but he gets very high marks in school (and will even do his teenaged siblings' homework for fun) and is a skilled computer programmer in his spare time. That said, he's also [[DitzyGenius rather lacking in common sense]] and [[ComplexityAddiction tends to cook up unneccesarily complex solutions]] to various problems.

** Will do his sibling's work for fun. And can even do homework on autopilot. The most extreme was when his math teacher assigned the chapter review as homework without saying which chapter, so he did all of them. In several textbooks, up to advanced calculus.

* TechnologicallyBlindElders: Roger is described as still trying to catch up with the technology of TheSeventies. In a comic strip that gleefully uses ComicBookTime, it only gets worse (at one point he buys the Windows version of a program instead of the Mac, and doesn't understand why it won't work because there's a window in the room).

* CannotTellFictionFromReality: He has moments of this, such as trying to get a job with the FBI's "[[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]" division or getting upset that ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies didn't use actual Ringwraiths.

Like ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''' Susie Derkins, she is more likely to get the drop on Jason than the other way around.

* DisabledLoveInterest: Is a longer-term girlfriend than most examples of this trope, although see ChuckCunninghamSyndrome.

** This attitude is also shown at work where it's shown that he is incapable of saying no. As a result, he was a clown at his boss's son's birthday party, and salesmen show up every other day.

--->'''Roger:''' Why the long face?
--->'''Peter:''' I got my first week's paycheck today. I'd forgotten how much that stupid movie theater deducts. This thing is hardly worth cashing.
--->'''Roger:''' Welcome to the wonderful world of taxes.
--->'''Peter:''' Taxes? The taxes are nothing.
--->'''Roger:''' ''[looks at check]'' How many tubs of nachos did you '''eat?!'''
--->'''Peter:''' It was a slow day! I was working the snack bar!
** Peter has been like this since he was a ''baby''. One baby picture chronicled the first time he was given solid food aka "The Night of a Thousand Jars". Andy says that was preferable to the 23 hours a day he would spend nursing.

[[folder: Other Fox household residents]]

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Not many people remember that Roger's first act in the comic was to beat Andy at chess. (He had actually done so several times before he was made to be possibly the worst player ever, with the not-too-subtle implication that the only people he even stands an actual chance at winning in internet chess are three-year-olds and preschoolers.)

** At least not in the early years, where he's actually more of a clueless dad and actually admits to not knowing some stuff and being terrible at it. (Such as, for example, not knowing how to use computers at all. Silly example nowadays, but back in even the late 80s, it's more realistic than you might think.)

** When they got their first iFruit, Jason absolutely detested the thing and had a sort of love-hate relationship with it(with the machine even sometimes threatening him if he doesn't hug it). He's taken a liking to iFruits since then, which is especially pronounced in the Steve Jobs tribute comic.

The patriarch, whose activities include watching most sports, playing golf (or trying to and failing miserably), losing at chess to anyone who will play him, setting himself on fire while barbecuing, regularly reformatting the hard drive on the iFruit by accident, and obliviousness to his own incompetence, a trait he has passed onto his children. He works a white-collar job as a pencil-pushing dilbert for a MeanBoss.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: They haven't appeared in the strip in quite some time.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: An early arc had him beat ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' before Jason did.

* IncrediblyLamePun: Jason loves making these. Once, when asked to bring Roger coffee, he coughs into the mug and explains that "I am the coffer, so this mug is the coffee."
** Another time, after Jason saw ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', he dreams that he becomes a Na'vi with the ability to connect his mind with that of a computer - which wanted him to "write some object-oriented code". He describes it to Peter as his "Javatar" dream.

* DitzyGenius: Jason always does his homework and gets incredibly high marks in school... yet will pull off incredibly dumb, and sometimes dangerous stunts, half the time just to torture his sister. He's a kid smart enough to program absurdly effective computer viruses, and dumb enough to send them to people who want to see if his website has any content.

* NerdsSpeakKlingon: Yes, he does. In one strip he goes to a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' movie in Klingon cosplay and demands fresh ''[[AlienLunch gagh]]'' from the beleaguered movie worker. Another strip has him ask Peter to check whether he's memorized the Klingon-English dictionary.

* HiddenDepths: Despite being a stereotypical {{nerd}} is ''still'' a better baseball player then [[FailureHero Peter]].