History Characters / FoxTrot

!The Cartoonist
Whenever one of the characters is reading a newspaper and there is a close-up of said newspaper, it usually features a headline mentioning this guy and the latest incredible feat he has accomplished or is currently undertaking.

** Played straight most of the time. Played with in one arc where Jason tears his hair out trying to figure out an extra-credit math problem and finally admits defeat — only to discover later on that [[UnwinnableByMistake it had a typo]].

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: It briefly disappeared without an explanation.
** TechnologyMarchesOn: We eventually find out [[spoiler:that it's just packed up and kept in the basement after being replaced with an Intel iFruit. [[TheBusCameBack It was brought back for one strip]] in honor of Creator/SteveJobs' passing]]

%%* TheSixthRanger

* DrivesLikeCrazy: This led to a CrazyAwesome moment when Jason needed to reach light speed in order to Time Travel because of Eileen (long story), giving us the following conversation:

* HiddenDepths: [[http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2009/03/29 Wants to be a man-eating dinosaur]], as revealed in 2009. A [[http://www.foxtrot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ft120715dragondreams.png 2014 strip]] showed him dreaming about being a fire-breathing dragon from ''Series/GameOfThrones''.

* BerserkButton: Never, ever make fun of Denise's blindness. However, Denise was appalled at the way Peter deals with it.

A 5th-grader, super-duper nerd who, among other things, programmed a virus that destroyed the Internet. He entertains a variety of get-rich-quick schemes which never get anywhere, is Paige's AnnoyingYoungerSibling (which inevitably ends with Jason getting beat up), and spends a lot of time on video games or the Internet, eventually became hooked to "[[BrandX World of Warquest]]." He also has a thing for fellow nerd (but not social outcast) Eileen Jacobson, though he would never admit it.

* CharacterDevelopment: Mentioned above.

* CordonBleughChef: Andy can cook competently, she just prefers to make "health food" instead of using normal ingredients. It sometimes borders on LethalChef territory, such as the arc where she burns Thanksgiving dinner in an attempt to try and outdo her mother, whom everyone thinks is perfect. They ended up having pizza.

** One arc had her install a "MomVo" on the television to keep the kids from seeing gratuitous violence or sexual content...but she got rid of it because it also blocked her daytime soap operas ("You should have seen how fast she pulled the wires", Jason tells Peter).

* SweetTooth: Leads to many of her "Not So Above It All" moments

%%* BlandNameProduct

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome

Eileen's best friend, she meet Eileen, Jason and Marcus at Science Camp.

* BlackBestFriend: Being a best friend of Jason's, he doubles as BlackAndNerdy.

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

** He once tried to form a one-man corporation, but all he had to show investors was "a dinky little program I wrote for fun." Unfortunately for him and them, the Darth Jason virus did not "kill off interest," it "killed off the Internet."

* DisproportionateRetribution: She punishes Peter for two weeks just because he saw two R-rated movies. However, she later lets him off after one week was because keeping him in the house was proving a punishment to the ''rest'' of them. He was ''that'' annoying.

* 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 the ''Film/LordOfTheRings'' movies didn't use actual Ringwraiths.

* ItsPopularNowItSucks: In-universe, Jason's response to the "mainstreaming" of [[Franchise/TheLordOfTheRings Tolkien geekdom]] due to its highly successful film series. Although for him, it's not so much "It's Popular, Now It Sucks" as much as "It's Popular, Now Nerds Won't Be Special." The series gave the title to one of the book collections, "Orlando Bloom Has Ruined Everything", the cover depicting Jason and Marcus sitting in a theater surrounded by googly-eyed girls. In other words, he was a hipster before it was cool.

* CannotTellFictionFromReality: He tried to apply to join the [[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]] division of the FBI, complained that ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movie didn't use "real undead Ringwraiths", and got quite upset when Andy told him that comic books like ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' aren't real after his attempt to make a fully-functional web shooter failed.

* BumblingDad: An extreme example. Roger is almost literally TooDumbToLive, and would have died several times if the comic were of a more realistic bent.

* IdiotBall: Although Roger has done his stupid parts, the biggest stupid decision he ever made was when he tried to fix the furnace. Due to not quite remembering what the heating guy said, he turned the safety cut-off to the off position, put a lit match on a stick, and covered his face with his free hand while placing said lit match into the furnace. Things literally blew up in his face, creating an explosion powerful enough to leave an outline of him on the wall while shaking the foundation of the house. When most people hear a loud hissing in the basement next to the furnace, they don't immediately assume there's a snake hiding somewhere.

* EvilSoundsDeep: In one strip Jason claims that he sounds exactly like Creator/JamesEarlJones, citing this as the reason he always get to recite the Imperial characters' dialog during ''Film/StarWars'' movies while Marcus is stuck reciting the Rebellion characters' lines.

** [[spoiler: ShipTease indicates that she still has a crush on him, though, even as recently as [[http://www.foxtrot.com/2014/09/07/sorry-jason 2014]]...which Jason clearly repatriates although he'd rather die than admit it.]]

* BigEater: She has her moments of this too, usually connected to her SweetTooth.