History Characters / FoxTrot

* LimitedWardrobe: He's always shown wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, pants and a baseball cap. This has been parodied at least twice, including one arc that showed baby photographs (with baby Peter wearing a baseball cap) and another time when Jason received Peter's hand-me-downs.

* AnnyoingYoungerSibling: Usually this way to Peter whenever the mall is concerned, much to his absolute misery.

* 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.)

** He'll even do this to his own son. Several times he (somehow) convinces Peter to caddy for him in a round of golf, only to tip him incredibly insultingly at the end. to wit:
---> '''Roger''': Peter, you really came through for me today. You carrried my clubs... gave me advice... found all but three of my balls... a man couldn't ask for a better caddy; let's not ruin it now.
---> '''Peter''' ''*holding a golf club threateningly, raging*'': FIVE CENTS ''A HOLE''?! ARE YOU '''NUTS'''?!

** 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 son's birthday party, and salesmen show up every other day.

** It was even the subject of an arc in the story, where Andy tries to have him go without coffee without a day thinking he is addicted to it. Predictably, it really just shows that Roger truly can't function without coffee — such as zoning out while Andy is trying to talk, not actually knowing that Jason is pouring raw macaroni and vinegar instead of cereal and milk, tripping down the basement steps because he mistook the basement door for the front door, and going through a productive and successful work day...only to find around noon that he was in the wrong building.
** In one comic, the kids buy him a giant, novelty sized coffee mug as a joke for Father's Day. He actually ends up using it. It took several pots of coffee to fill it up.

* RidiculousProcrastinator: Roger frequently waits until the last minute in regards to chores or taxes. He once even bragged to Peter about having completed his senior thesis in the night before it was due.

* WalkingTechbane: Roger has proven completely incapable of operating a computer since the strip's first year. This is a man who once got completely wrapped up in dot-matrix printer paper; who crushed 3½ inch diskettes trying to put them in; who thought "backing up the computer" meant pushing it off the desk. He has deleted the entire hard drive of a computer in two clicks, while trying to open a word processor. He has destroyed various other forms of electronic equipment as well, and even managed to flood the house using the dishwasher.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Early strips had her as a ClingyJealousGirl who was convinced Roger was having an affair, and combing over his clothes in search of evidence. Later strips made it clear Andy was the only woman on Earth who would put up with Roger, and she never let him forgot it.
* ConvenienceStoreGiftShopping: Unlike her husband this is on ''purpose'' as part of her role as a MoralGuardian. On at least one occasion she's gotten her kids thesauruses for their Christmas presents.

** Speaking of Thanksgiving, he also managed to eat two Thanksgiving dinners (one with his family, another with Denise's family), with Roger congratulating on deciding to do both, while Andy, shocked that he would actually have two thanksgiving dinners, [[YoureInsane half asked and half exclaimed if he was insane]].

** It also got himself into trouble as well. As noted in the BurgerFool trope below, Peter, whenever he works at the local theater, would sometimes eat food while working at the Snack Bar:

--->'''Roger:''' (''looks at check'') How many tubs of nachos did you '''eat?!'''

-->'''Peter''': You're talking nine digit numbers. I've only flirted with four.

--->'''Jason''': We were going much too fast too be seen.

** Interestingly, an early strip shows Paige "borrowing" Peter's clothes, reveling that he has a fairly diverse wardrobe (although Paige finds it lacking in pastels). He also has been shown at church in a suit.
* LoonyFan: Of Music/BruceSpringsteen; an early strip had him become estatic about being able to touch the Boss's ''[[{{Squick}} sweat]].''

** Peter cares greatly for Denise, who is blind. He's also protective of her, and punched a classmate for making a joke about her.

* OhCrap: Actually says "[[PrecisionFStrike crap]]" when Jason vows revenge on him. When he's called before the principal for punching a student who insulted Denise, he calmly accepts his severe punishments, but freaks out when the principal mentions calling his parents.

* SleepLearning: Peter has tried this with varying degrees of success. One time, he had so many books under his pillow that he woke up with his neck horribly twisted. Another time, he listened to ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' on CD while sleeping, and ended up with a dream sequence that was a pastiche of it.

--> '''Paige:''' ''[after scooping out, in one piece, an entire brick of ice cream when Andy tells her she can only have "[[ExactWords one scoop]]" as a snack]'' One scoop. You're my witness.\\

* OvenLogic: One story arc has Paige trying to cook Thankgiving dinner. She is told to clean the turkey, and does so by putting it in the oven and hitting the "clean" button.

* PomPomGirl: And very enthusiastic for being a junior to junior varsity squad.

** After her first day, Andy asks what she learned, and Paige (backed up by notes) proudly recites the names of the hunky boys in her classes;

** Paige comes home aglow because she was ''"on"'' during her math class. Andy is pleased, until Paige elaborates that ''"'''no one''' could bat their eyelashes as cutely as I did!"''

* TheBGrade: Jason reacts this way to A++ grades, since he usually does far better.

* ComplexityAddiction: For all his genius, he tends to go for the more wild and complex solutions to problems when the rest of the family easily sees the much easier way to handle it.
* CutLexLuthorACheck: He tries several ludicrous schemes to make money (such as thousand-dollar snow dinosaurs) despite the fact that he has effortlessly built machines and coded programs that could have made him millions had he simply sold them. His problem seems to be that he has the knowledge of an adult, but the wisdom and idealism of a ten-year old boy.

* FreudianExcuse: As a baby, he was apparently terrified of Paige's stuffed bear. Paige gleefully tormented him by waving it in front of his face every chance she got. When she's through waxing nostalgic over it, Andy points out that this is probably why she's become Jason's favorite target. It's also seen that the start of his making Paige his revenge target was when he finally decided to get over his fear of Paige's stuffed bear (by using bear-traps for teddy bears).

* LimitedWardrobe: As of 2010, he strictly wears a blue t-shirt, cargo pants and white sneakers.
* LiteralMinded: Jason sometimes invokes this intentionally such as modifying all the comic strips in the paper to what their names are (such as drawing shells on the kids heads in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'') and playing frisbee with all of Andy's records that have flight-related names (such as Led Zeppelin).

* TVGenius: He's unbelievably gifted when it comes to academics and technical knowledge, but is rather lacking in scruples and common sense. Ignoring things like his [[CannotTellFictionFromReality inability to tell fiction from reality]], overindulgence in {{Get Rich Quick Scheme}}s and and comically exaggerated ego, the simple fact that he ''still'' antagonizes Paige despite knowing that she can and will kick his ass for doing so doesn't speak highly for his sense of pattern recognition.

* TheUnfavorite: Even Jason has his moments in this trope: One instance was when Paige announced that someone just got an "A", and Andy, thinking Paige got the "A," baked a plate of cookies to celebrate. Paige then tells Jason (who is currently shouting that Paige was referring to him) that its not her fault if Andy guessed wrong as she's enjoying the cookies.

Jason's pet iguana. He's very cute for a lizard, and takes everything with reptilian aplomb. (Unless Jason is throwing him at Paige, at which point his expression becomes appropriately panicked.) Unlike most comic strip animals, Quincy is usually played straight, without any FunnyAnimal behavior or thought balloons. He sometimes gains these characteristics in order to poke fun at the trope. On occasion, Jason will put on big clothes, put Quincy on his head and pretend to be somebody, like Quincy's "mother", to annoy everybody else.

* ClingyJealousGirl: She's often worried about other girls getting interested in Peter. Apart from TheReasonYouSuckSpeech example, she demands to know that he'd never even consider cheating her.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: He hasn't apppeared much in recent years.

* FriendlyRivalry: With Jason, in the purely academical sense.

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

* SmallNameBigEgo: As mentioned above he somehow manages to top Jason in this department.

* FunetikAksent: He has a deep and pronounced French accent, such as prounouncing "the" as "ze."

* NiceHat: His blue and white baseball cap with an "A" on it (supposedly a reference to Amend's alma mater, Amherst College). Peter says it's his trademark.

* DreadfulMusician: It's repeatedly shown that he's horrible at singing and playing guitar, particularly when the guitar is turned UpToEleven.

* DeadpanSnarker / DisabledSnarker

* BlackAndNerdy

* TheWhitestBlackGuy: Wasn't much help when Jason needed insight into black culture while drawing ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'' strips; he only knew Mos Def from his role in ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' movie and not for his rap career.

* YouthfulFreckles

* DominoMask: Leech-Boy wears one. 

* HyperactiveMetabolism: A rare non-video game example. Zig-zagged in one arc where he gorges himself on all-you-can-eat pizza night; he is rotund for a day, but returns to skinny a day later. One strip mentions he actually has body image problems because of this; despite everything listed in BigEater he has no obvious fat or muscle tone and considers himself ludicrously skinny.

* HiddenDepths: Despite being a [[HollywoodNerd stereotypical nerd]] is ''still'' a better baseball player then [[FailureHero Peter]].
* HollywoodNerd: Glasses? Check. Unpopular with the ladies? Check. About as nerdy, if not more so, than Jason? Check and mate.

* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: Implied. Roger mentions having hair in his younger days, although we haven't seen what he would have looked like with hair just yet. The only hint is Andy mentioning that Roger had a perm around the time Jason was a toddler.

* HairTodayGoneTomorrow: Implied. Roger mentions having hair in his younger days, although we haven't seen what he would have looked like with hair just yet. The only hint is Andy mentioning that Roger had a perm around the time Jason was a toddler.

--> '''Paige:''' ''[after scooping out, in one piece, an entire brick of ice cream when Andy tells her she can only have "one scoop" as a snack]'' One scoop. You're my witness.\\

* OutnumberedSibling: An early strip mentions that he has four sisters, though they're very rarely brought up after that and never actually show up on panel.

-> '''Paige:''' I guess being normal is just too hard for some people.\\
'''Jason:''' No, too easy.

* LaserGuidedKarma: In one story arc, he gets an intern who hero-worships him and who he starts treating like a son, causing Peter to feel neglected. When Peter complains, Roger just brushes him off. Then the intern starts hero-worshipping a higher-ranked employee, and Roger learns for himself how it feels when someone you love forgets you even exist.

* MoralityPet: Peter cares greatly for Denise, who is blind. He's also protective of her, and punched a classmate for making a joke about her.
** Paige and Jason too. He's not above picking on them himself, but [[HypocriticalHeartwarming if someone else does it]]...

** One strip averts this and also doubles as a BrickJoke from one years before where he decides to take up golf (with his "putting" sending the ball flying through the house) and at present is playing golf with Roger and putting for an Eagle whereas Roger begs him not to play golf with him anymore because he's gotten too good.

* EpicFail: Flooding the house with a dishwasher.

'''Steve:''' Looks like you were cut from girls' gymnastics, too.\\

* GrammarNazi: As an English major, she's prone to [[YouMakeMeSic correcting others' grammar]], sometimes going off on rants about it. In one shining example, she rants about someone on TV saying "realtor" wrong, after which Jason says "Wow, you're really going nucular." just to get a rise out of her.

* BerserkButton: Never, ever make fun of Denise's blindness. However, Denise was appalled at the way Peter deals with it. What? No, she accused him of acting like clint eastwood for punching someone in the nose, then got mad peter didn't go further when she found out it wasn't a insult towards peter, it was towards her.

* LiteralMinded: Jason sometimes invokes this intentionally such as modifying all the comic strips in the paper to what their names are (such as drawing shells on the kids heads in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'') and playing shot put with all of Andy's records that have flight-related names (such as Led Zeppelin).

* StraightManAndWiseGuy: The Wise Guy to Peter's Straight Man.

A freshman who has an eternal crush on Paige. Jason hero-worships him for the same reasons Paige detests him.

A fictional superhero duo invented by Jason. Slug-Man is a human-sized slug with a cape, and a distinctive [[Franchise/Superman Clark Kent-esque]] hairstyle, while Leech-Boy is a similarly-sized leech. They spend much of their time relaxing in the "Slug-Cave" or battling their robotic archenemy, Paige-o-tron.

* ArchNemesis: Paige-o-tron, a robotic monster that closely resembles Paige. 

* DeliciousDistraction: They can occasionally be lured into traps by "Slug Bait". 

* FunnyAnimal: Their general level of anthropomorphism. 

* PaperThinDisguise: On at least one occasion, they're shown "incognito" wearing human masks and shirts - which do little to disguise the fact that they're giant invertebrates. 
* MerchandiseDriven: Jason once wrote up a script for a Slug-Man cartoon that straddled the line between a toy commercial and an actual story. He even asked Andy if it would be more appropriate to contact a toy manufacturer or a TV network first.