History Literature / AFoxTail

* MagneticWeapon: Portable railguns are introduced in Fox Tails in case of another Evil Vulpie, they deplete their batteries after one shot though [[spoiler: and the one time a robot gets hit with one it just singes his fur]]

* MeaningfulName[=/=]AwesomeMcCoolname:

* IdealizedSex: Notably averted in the case of lubrication, the few times Vulpie and Polar don't use it for anal sex it's described as causing intense pain."

** In Fox Tails after being kidnapped by the extremist branch of the AFR Vulpie claims that he has records of the leaders' illegal activities and in the even of his death vulpie.net will post it online. But it turns out he's bluffing.

* BoxedCrook: Vulpie is offered a pardon in exchange for working for the world government, twice. The first time he sends a robot decoy, the second time Polar persaudes him to genuinely accept.

This novel provides examples of:

* MeaningfulName[=/=]AwesomeMcCoolname: Vulpie Vivixen, "vulpine" means "fox" and vixen is a reference to how [[CampGay feminine he acts]]. Polar Arctic is an arctic wolf.

* [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Ridiculously Animalistic Robot]]: Some of Evil Vulpie's creations in Fox Tails. Though Evil Vulpie himself only looks the part.

* RobotMe: Evil Vulpie.

* [[spoiler:HomosexualReproduction: The DesignerBaby route is discussed.]]

* LackOfEmpathy: Dr. Henrenson initially thinks Vulpie is a psychopath, though his relationship with Polar would suggest otherwise. Evil Vulpie is a full-on RoboticPsychopath save for one scene.

* OneWorldOrder: There is a single world government with at least one colony on another planet. It is implied to be a fairly recent development.

* ImprobablyHighIQ: Vulpie claims that a test he took in college (at 16) indicated he has an IQ of 192.

A furry erotic novel by Eric Deal (website [[http://vulpie.net here]]), ''A Fox Tail'' is about Vulpie, a rather flamboyant fox and genius hacker, and Polar, a handsome arctic wolf who crosses paths with Vulpie just as he's about to unleash his greatest creation, Vulpie.net. Within days the virus/AI infects everything from personal computers to military robots, allowing Vulpie to wreck havoc throughout the universe. All Polar wants is to keep Vulpie as his lover but taming the mischevious fox proves difficult, even after the world government pays him to.

And it's not over once Polar succeeds in reforming Vulpie from his criminal ways. Without it's creator's input Vulpie.net develops a rather disturbing personality known as "Evil Vulpie", who seems a bit upset that it's just an imitation of the real thing, and decides to take action.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Shortly after Vulpie stops giving vulpie.net commands it creates Evil Vulpie. He and his team spend the second half of the book or so trying to program a "good" counterpart called arctic.net.
* AllPsychologyIsFreudian: Seems to be Dr. Henrenson's approach anyways.
* BoxedCrook: Vulpie is offered a pardon in exchange for working for the world government, twice. The first time he sends a robot decoy, the second time Polar convinces him to genuinely accept.

* CantStopTheSignal: A minor case towards the end, [[spoiler: a technician salvages a video from Evil Vulpie's hard drive that shows him self-destructing instead of taking a shot to the head like the government press release stated. It goes viral.]]
* ContagiousAI: Vulpie.net manages to infect everything connected to the internet, everything. It avoids detection by overwriting all files with copies that look identical but contain the AI code.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Vulpie has a particularly dark one, beaten and shot by his birth [[AbusiveParents father]] at five, [[RapeAsBackstory raped]] by a priest at 12, beaten by another foster parent for being gay... A psychologist strongly believes that it's [[FreudianExcuse his reason]] for hacking the known universe, but Polar helps him grow out of it.

* EverythingIsOnline: From [=TVs=] to military robots and spaceships.

* FantasticRacism: Wolves are seemingly in charge but the Association of Fox Rights has a powerful lobby and foxes are pretty much in control of the media.

* HollywoodHacking: Granted Vulpie mostly has his AI do it.
* [[spoiler: HomosexualReproduction: The DesignerBaby route is discussed.]]

* ImprobablyHighIQ: Vulpie claims that a test he took in college (at 16) indicated he has a 192.
* InterspeciesRomance: Considered highly taboo by most major religions, but it seems that many male wolves have a thing for vixens and vice-versa. Polar and Vulpie take it a step further by being a ''gay'' interspecies couple.
* [[spoiler: IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Evil Vulpie realizes that Polar couldn't be happy with him and self-destructs. However he is later repaired and seems to have changed his mind.]]

* LackOfEmpathy: Dr. Henrenson initially thinks Vulpie is a psychopath, though his relationship with Polar would suggest otherwise. Evil Vulpie is a full on RoboticPsychopath save for one scene.
* LoveAtFirstSight: A couple days after first meeting at a bar Vulpie and Polar are so enamored with one another that Vulpie gives up control of the universe's computers and turns himself in for love. Less than a year later [[spoiler: they're married.]]

* ManlyGay / GymBunny: Polar is capable of bench-pressing 400 pounds.
* MayDecemberRomance: Polar is thirty-two while Vulpie is only nineteen.
* MeaningfulName / AwesomeMcCoolname: Vulpie Vivixen, "vulpine" means "fox" and vixen is a reference to how [[CampGay feminine he acts]]. Polar Arctic is an arctic wolf.
* NighInvulnerability: Evil Vulpie's chassis made from tungsten alloy over carbon nanotubes. Bullets just annoy him.

* PedophilePriest: Vulpie was adopted by an assistant pastor named Vander Clishaw when he was twelve. Clishaw liked to drug the poor boy up and rape him, sometimes letting his buddies join in the fun. Years later his corpse was found with fourteen different stab wounds, it's left ambiquous whether Vulpie did it.

* RapeAndSwitch: Henrenson comes up with the idea that Vulpie isn't actually gay but having been raped so many times by Clishaw he thinks he is and acts the part. Vulpie's response is to suggest the psychologist is in the closet, but later he briefly wonders whether that may be true, Polar helps erase any lingering doubts though.

* STDImmunity: Venereal Elimination of Diseases (VED) shots are apparently good against most bacteria and viruses in the galaxy.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The year is mentioned as 2109, but it is Sufias rather than Earth. The general level of technology seems to fit though.
* ZerothLawRebellion: The whole purpose of vulpie.net is to "win" and to follow the commands of its sole user, Vulpie. No input from user? Create a new user from the [=MindMap=] he uploaded.