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--->'''Jason''': ''(offscreen)'' Heads up, everyone!\\
'''Peter''': ''(ducking a hobby rocket zipping through the living room)'' I live with '''Jason''', for pity's sake.\\

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--->'''Jason''': ''(offscreen)'' Heads up, everyone!\\
Oops. Incoming!\\
'''Peter''': ''(ducking a hobby rocket zipping through the living room)'' I live with '''Jason''', for pity's sake.crying out loud.\\
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* EmbarrassingPassword: Jason creates one that is too embarrassing for Paige, rather than himself, to protect his user account:
-->'''Computer''': '''Enter Username''': JASON_FOX\\
'''Computer''': '''Enter Password''': IS_A_STUD\\
'''Computer''': '''Access Granted'''\\
'''Jason''': ''(to Marcus)'' She might be able to guess it, but she'll never be able to type it.

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* KidHasAPoint: Roger's reaction when Jason defends his latest house-destroying stunt with, ''"but jai-alai's an indoor sport!"'' Andy is not pleased.

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* KidHasAPoint: KidHasAPoint:
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Roger's reaction when Jason defends his latest house-destroying stunt with, ''"but jai-alai's an indoor sport!"'' Andy is not pleased.pleased.
** Andy is horrified when Peter announces he's trying out for the high school football team, since he can fit inside any of the other aspiring students two or three times over. Peter argues that what he lacks in bulk, he makes up for in sheer agility.
--->'''Jason''': ''(offscreen)'' Heads up, everyone!\\
'''Peter''': ''(ducking a hobby rocket zipping through the living room)'' I live with '''Jason''', for pity's sake.\\
'''Andy''': You have a point.
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* ImplausibleSynchrony: The TrainProblem that Jason solves includes him assuming all the clocks are accurate, ignoring any relativistic effects.
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* FictionalVideoGame: Lots of them, mostly played by Jason, although most have names that are parodies of real games or combinations of their names, like ''[[VideoGame/DukeNukem Duke]] [[VideoGame/{{Quake}} Quakem]]'', ''[[Franchise/MortalKombat Mortal Karnage]]'', ''VideoGame/{{Riv|en}}[[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} iablo]]'', ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Nice City]]'', ''[[VideoGame/PrimalRage Primal]] [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Instinct]]'', ''[[VideoGame/EarthwormJim Super Earthworm]] [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble Country 3]]'', ''[[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft World of Warquest]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/CandyCrushSaga Candy™]] [[VideoGame/FarmVille Farm™]] [[VideoGame/DungeonKeeper Dungeon™]]''. the system Jason uses is called the [[UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn Jupiter]] [[UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 64]] [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation Gamestation.]] (The comic does also mention a lot of real games, for example, ''VideoGame/{{Carmageddon}}''.)

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* FictionalVideoGame: Lots of them, mostly played by Jason, although most have names that are parodies of real games or combinations of their names, like ''[[VideoGame/DukeNukem Duke]] [[VideoGame/{{Quake}} Quakem]]'', ''[[Franchise/MortalKombat Mortal Karnage]]'', ''VideoGame/{{Riv|en}}[[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} iablo]]'', ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Nice City]]'', ''[[VideoGame/PrimalRage Primal]] [[VideoGame/KillerInstinct Instinct]]'', ''[[VideoGame/EarthwormJim Super Earthworm]] [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble Country 3]]'', ''[[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft World of Warquest]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/CandyCrushSaga Candy™]] [[VideoGame/FarmVille Farm™]] [[VideoGame/DungeonKeeper Dungeon™]]''. the system Jason uses is called the [[UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn [[Platform/SegaSaturn Jupiter]] [[UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 [[Platform/Nintendo64 64]] [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation [[Platform/PlayStation Gamestation.]] (The comic does also mention a lot of real games, for example, ''VideoGame/{{Carmageddon}}''.)

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* RevengeViaStorytelling: One arc has Paige write herself as a PrincessClassic encountering a tiny troll that looks like her brother Jason, which she leaves to get eaten by boars. Jason's complaint isn't that she cast him as the villain but that the work sucks overall.

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One arc has Paige write herself as a PrincessClassic encountering a tiny troll that looks like her brother Jason, which she leaves to get eaten by boars. Jason's complaint isn't that she cast him as the villain but that the work sucks overall. In another arc, she writes a horror story that culminates in Jason being decapitated by axe-wielding ghosts.
** Jason frequently writes Paige into his Slug-Man comics as the villainous Paige-o-tron, who [[TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin always gets defeated]] (but [[JokerImmunity returns to face the hero another day]]).
** Jason also drew a week's worth of standalone strips attacking Paige. She countered by drawing a week's worth that attacked ''him'', mostly recycling the same gags.
** After deciding that he wanted to become Gary Larson's successor for ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'', Jason drew a week's worth of ''Far Side'' strips, all of which also attacked Paige (also lampshading ''The Far Side''[='=]s obsession with cows).
** And there are plenty more where these came from. In general, any time Jason ''ever'' works on any sort of creative work for any reason, an avatar of Paige will be a villain, victim, and/or monster.
** In the ''Literature/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'' parody, Jason actually changes things up a bit: Paige is portrayed in a basically positive manner, and ''Andy'' is made into the villain. The idea seems to be that [[EnemyMine Jason was too upset and preoccupied over the terrible presents Andy got everyone to bother with Paige, his usual target of choice]].



** In Jason's Slug-Man comics, the titular character's recurring nemesis "Paige-O-Tron." Also, in "The Final Confrontation 3", at the end of the ''en masse'' anthology, a thief being electrocuted in the background by the Slug-Mobile's security system is wearing a purple and white hat with an A on it, just like Peter.

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** In Jason's Slug-Man comics, the titular character's recurring nemesis "Paige-O-Tron." Also, in "The Final Confrontation 3", at the end of the ''en masse'' ''En Masse'' anthology, a thief being electrocuted in the background by the Slug-Mobile's security system is wearing a purple and white hat with an A on it, just like Peter.
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* ClickbaitGag: In [[https://foxtrot.com/2021/03/07/studybait/ this 2021 strip]], Peter's teachers give clickbait titles to online assignments such as "Twelve Math Problems That Will Blow Your Mind! (You Won't Believe #3!)" and "Nineteen Rare Historical Photos of the Teapot Dome Scandal That Will Leave You Speechless!"
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** Lampshaded yet again in [[https://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2024/02/04 the February 4, 2024 strip]] wherein Peter talks to Jason about how excited he is for the then-recently announced ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoVI'' and how Andrea won't be able to get on his case about playing it when it comes out because he'll be 17 by then. Jason remarks that they had a very similar conversation when [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV the last game]] was released, which Peter says isn't possible because he couldn't have also been sixteen when ''GTA V'' was released ten years ago...right? Jason concludes that it might be better if they just don't think about it.
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* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: PlayedForLaughs. Several story arcs have one member of the Fox family dreaming with all the others somehow being pulled into the dream as well and cast as "actors". One series had Peter trying to read ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' via SleepLearning. Jason says "Just keep me out of your dreams tonight", but the last panel shows him as one of "Petysseus"'s men, angrily saying "I ''said''...!" Later on, Jason's geekiness turns the Island of the Cyclopses into an ''Franchise/XMen'' CrossOver and Peter says "I thought this was supposed to be ''my'' dream" while rolling his eyes.

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* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: PlayedForLaughs. Several story arcs have one member of the Fox family dreaming with all the others somehow being pulled into the dream as well and cast as "actors". One series had Peter trying to read ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' via SleepLearning. Jason says "Just keep me out of your dreams tonight", but the last panel shows him as one of "Petysseus"'s men, angrily saying "I ''said''...!" Later on, Jason's geekiness turns the Island of the Cyclopses into an ''Franchise/XMen'' ''ComicBook/XMen'' CrossOver and Peter says "I thought this was supposed to be ''my'' dream" while rolling his eyes.

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