List of Fox Trot Characters - Jason Fox

Jason Fox is the youngest child of the family and the strip's protagonist. A 10-year-old boy who wears glasses (though his pupils are unseen), he is shown to be very 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 (72 correct answers out of 20 questions is disappointing to him). He sometimes is disappointed 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 and is frequently in trouble for disrupting class. Despite his intellect, he is shown to take most things too literally on occasion. (Once, when Roger asked him for "java", meaning a cup of coffee, Jason gave him a mug with a printout from the Java programming language.) He also once placed an order for a pizza with "17/51 cheese, 109/327 sausage, and 86,499,328/259,497,984 mushroom" (which resulted in Roger receiving all his change in pennies and telling Jason that him ever asking him to order their pizza again was an "unlikely event"), and unsuccessfully tries extreme ways to get Roger and Andy to raise his allowance, which almost always results in sudden decrease in his pay.

Like most stereotypical boys though, Jason is a constant source of mischief. He is always coming up with jokes, pranks and tricks which include water bombs, snowballs and other contraptions, Paige being his favorite target. She is also the center of his insults, like when he came up with a "Slug-Man" superhero comic, which included "Paige-o-Tron" as the villain, or uploading games to his website which included "Paige Invaders", "Pimple Command" and "Paige Don't Know Jack" in which she is portrayed as unable to answer the easiest of questions. Although Paige is his regular target, Peter is sometimes the target of his tricks (such as reprogramming the auto-dial buttons on Peter's cell phone, resulting in Peter accidentally confessing to Andy about sneaking out, when he thought he was talking to Denise).

Portrayed as a stereotypical geek, he has an interest in science fiction, particularly Star Wars and role-playing games, as well as a high level of knowledge in mathematics and science. He also seems to have a high interest in comic books and dinosaurs. In a few strips, it is revealed that he likes Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards, as well as the fictional "Linuxmon", blending his interest in programming with card games, and brings them to school. Jason is also a frequent user of the family computer, and has been shown to be an amazing programmer, repeatedly constructed his own computer programs and viruses, which he often sends to the other computers in the house and Eileen Jacobson. He also has written at least two viruses that caused nationwide havoc, called the "Darth Jason" and "I-Don't-Love-You-Eileen-Jacobson". He included a copyright line in the latter, and in the former he completely eliminated the Internet (And Jason's web company, "Jasonzonbayhoo") as a result. It is also shown that Jason is a terrific snow sculptor. When it snows he and Marcus build monsters out of snow to scare Paige. Another example is a storyline in which Andy tells him to go outside instead of playing video games, so he and Marcus built the environments of their favorite video games to play in. In addition, he plays video games regularly — either by himself, with Peter, with Roger, or with his friend Marcus (see below). In one series of strips, Paige played one of his games and was more adept at it than Jason, with common sense assisting her. He frequently attempts to recreate the work of cartoonists while they are on hiatus, usually as an excuse to make fun of Paige. He also makes his own comic called Slug Man, a parody of Superman and Batman. Occasionally, Jason will make exaggerated plans of his own, such as a large-scale animatronics Christmas display (Which had everything but a sound system playing "Jingle Bell Rock" all day) or a skyscraper comic book shop in his backyard (Which was squshed by the zoning comission to make room for the 320-acre underground Star Wars amusement park) Like Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes, Jason is shown to have a fear/hatred of girls (see below), but admits to slightly liking one of his only female friends, Eileen Jacobson. He often falls prey to advertising ploys, as illustrated in a 1991 arch where he became obsessed for a short while with "The Simpsons" products.