List of FoxTrot family members

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This page contains information on the fictional Fox family, central characters in the American comic strip FoxTrot, created by Bill Amend.

Contents 1 Roger 2 Andy 3 Peter 4 Paige 5 Jason 5.1 Quincy 6 References

[edit] Roger

Roger Fox is the father of Peter, Paige, and Jason and the husband of Andy. According to the strip, he is forty-five years old and was born in Chicago, Illinois. Roger has also stated that he majored in English studies^[1] at the fictional Willot College.^[2]

His hobbies include golf^[3] and chess, though he has talent at neither.^[4] He often tries to involve his family in his interests, usually by taking them on vacations and taking them to golf courses where once Andy and Roger played 72 holes with a 6am tee off time .^[5] He is also portrayed as being highly out of step with modern technology, especially computers.^[6] Many strips also show that he is overweight and in poor physical condition; despite his wife's attempts to get him to eat healthy foods and exercise, he rarely does so. Of all his kids, Roger seems to have a special soft spot for his youngest, Jason. He is often shown buying Jason toys that are not necessarily suitable for him (examples include, but are not limited to, a GI Joe dart bazooka, a GI Joe rapid fire dart helmet,and a snow cannon), much to Jason's excitement and the rest of the family's agony (as they are often Jason's targets). This may be because Roger was a lot like Jason when he was a kid (in one strip, Roger shows Jason how to remove a Darth Vader helmet, and when asked how he knew how to remove it, Roger revealed, much to Jason's horror, that he himself was a Star Wars fan as a child who wore the same helmet to the premiere of The Empire Strikes Back.

[edit] Andy

Andrea "Andy" Fox is the mother of Peter, Paige, and Jason and the wife of Roger. She is portrayed in the strip as a forty-two-year-old mother. According to the strip, she was also an English major in college. While earlier strips portrayed her as a freelance writer and columnist for a newspaper;^[7] however, most strips since the late 1990s have shown her to be a stay-at-home mother.

Andy often prepares vegetarian meals for her family, almost always containing tofu and once was seen reading a book called "The Joy of Tofu". She often criticizes her children for their bad habits, such as procrastination^[8][9] and use of improper grammar. Andy also is obsessed with the movie"Titanic" sometimes seeing it twice per day.In addition, she tends to show disapproval towards the children's insistence on watching television or playing video games, and has been shown to prod them into playing outside or doing household chores instead. However, she sometimes becomes obsessed with the same video games that she will not allow her children to play.^[10]

Andy's un-named mother (the grandmother of Paige, Peter and Jason) has occasionally appeared in the strip as well. The grandmother is often referred to as "perfect"; as a result, Andy often feels inferior around her, and will try to prove herself by competing against her mother (usually by trying to cook a meal as well as her mother can).

[edit] Peter

Peter Fox is the eldest child of the Fox family. A sixteen-year-old high school student, he is regularly shown wearing a blue/purple and white baseball cap with the letter A on it (standing for Amherst College, Bill Amend's Alma Mater), as well as a grey hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans. He is also depicted as having an exaggerated appetite, but is frustrated that no matter how much he eats, he cannot seem to gain any weight.^[11][12] He is also shown as a reckless driver,^[13] once claiming to have "flirted" with four-digit speeds.^[14] Peter is also portrayed as a procrastinator; one of the running gags of the strip is the many ways he dreams up to avoid doing his homework or household chores.

Late in the strip's first year, he met and befriended Denise Russo, a blind girl whom he met at school. Despite several appearances throughout the 1990s, Denise has not appeared in the strip since the early 2000s.

Steve Riley, another friend of Peter's, has also appeared in the strip occasionally. Peter and Steve are often seen watching sports or playing video games together; on occasion, the two play their electric guitars together as well. (Peter has often expressed dreams of becoming a rock star.)

[edit] Paige

Paige Fox is the middle child of the Fox family. A 14-year-old high-school freshman, she is always portrayed with her hair in a pony-tail. She enjoys shopping and will often demand that Peter drive her to the mall, much to his chagrin.

Her obsessions include fashion, pop music, and teen-age boys. Although persistent in her pursuit of a boyfriend, she has almost never dated in the strip. Paige has tried learning to cook to attract boys, but the food she makes is often inedible or burnt.^[15]

Paige makes average grades in school due to her poor study habits. She will often ask Jason for help in homework, usually in mathematics. However, he often gives her intentionally incorrect answers, or charges her money in exchange for the correct answers. She has been shown to fall asleep in class (often due to staying up too late), and regularly takes naps at home as well. In some early strips, Paige would dream of a fictional Frenchman named Pierre.

Paige's friend, Nicole, has made several appearances in the strip as well. Unlike other characters, her last name has not been revealed. Nicole is also a high school freshman.

In addition, Paige has an admirer, Morton Goldthwait, a math and science geek. Though Paige has ignored him mostly, he still has a crush on her.

[edit] Jason

Jason Fox is the youngest child of the family. A 10-year old boy who wears glasses, he is shown to be intelligent, and is often relied on to help Roger with taxes, or Peter and Paige with homework. Unlike his siblings, Jason wants to do his homework, and often receives incredibly high marks as a result. He sometimes is dissappointed when he has no homework because he did all the homework for the year in the first week of school. He tends to aggravate the teachers with his overly complicated answers^[16] and is frequently in trouble for disrupting class.

Portrayed as a stereotypical nerd, he has an interest in science fiction and role-playing games, as well as a high level of knowledge in mathematics and science. Jason is also a frequent user of the family computer, and has repeatedly constructed his own computer programs and viruses. In addition, he plays video games regularly -- either by himself, with Peter, or with his friend Marcus Jones, the only recurring African-American in the strip.

Jason also shows a fear of girls, most notably Eileen Jacobson, one of his classmates.^[17] He acts queasy when he sees Eileen and once admitted he liked her, only to spend two weeks of the strip trying to undo his statement using time travel.^[18] Eileen and Jason finally agreed to stay just friends for the immediate future, but it has been hinted various times since that they both still have feelings for each other.

Jason is also a huge fan of Lord of The Rings and Star Wars, often dressing up in costumes to watch the movies. He is annoyed by the fact that Paige is a fan of Orlando Bloom and that many other girls watch Lord of The Rings just because of that. He is afraid of it being mainstream.

[edit] Quincy

Quincy is Jason's pet iguana. Jason regularly uses him to tease Paige, either by waving the iguana in front of her, or throwing him on her; other times he will let Quincy into her room so he can chew up her belongings.^[19] Also, keeping with the running gag of knowing they're in a comic strip, Quincy has spoken once when Jason tried to recreate Spider-Man's web shooter. His mom told him that comics aren't always the same as real life, and Quincy said "Listen to your mother, Jason."

[edit] References