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Peter Fox
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Name Peter Fox
Nicknames Peter, Pete
Age 16
Relatives Fox Family, Quincy
Status Alive
Gender Male
Relationship Denise
Hair Color Brown
Born October 31
Friends Steve

Peterson Josiah "Peter" Fox (born October 31) is the eldest child of the Fox Family. A 16-year-old junior, he is regularly shown wearing a blue/purple and white baseball cap with the letter A on it, as well as a grey hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans. Occasionally, his cap has an "H" instead of an "A", but only as a benchwarmer for the high school baseball team. On seldom occasion, Peter has been hatless, mostly in places where it is considered outright rude to wear a ballcap indoors, such as church or a school dance. He is friends with Steve.

Appearance[]

In the original comics from the 1980's, his appearance was a bit different. His face was longer, his hair was a bit different, his ears were drawn different, and his nose also was different.

Later as Bill Amend's drawing style changed, his design got updated to mostly the design we know today, but with a slightly longer face.

Finally, his face became more straightened.

Personality[]

Peter also holds other stereotypical interests for an adolescent male, including swimsuit models, video games, and guitar playing. He is known to be an avid Bruce Springsteen fan, once dating a girl named Susie Johnson only because she had Springsteen tickets, and during the Thursday strip, Peter touched Bruce's sweat.

One of his most notable traits is his exaggerated appetite and ability to consume vast quantities of food, a trait inherited from his father. When the family goes to a buffet his plate is stacked beyond the panel's boundaries, his sandwiches are abnormally large to the point of tilting the kitchen table, and when he gets to serve himself first there is nothing left for the rest of the family to eat. He can almost always be found with a coke or banana in his hand. Despite this, he weighs only 135 pounds, and even the largest amount of calories almost never adds to his weight, a phenomenon that drives him nuts (one known exception: a 2004 story arc depicts Peter gaining 50 pounds from an all-you-can-eat night at Luigi's Pizza - only to lose all of it overnight). It's implied that Peter has an extremely fast metabolism which he resents, though his father Roger wishes he had that.

Peter is the only child in the family old enough to drive the car. A major problem with this is: he has a habit of getting reckless and dare-devilish when behind the wheel. During the time travel story arc, Peter mentions that he has "flirted" with 4-digit speeds at some point. According to Jason, Peter drives faster than Superman is able to fly.

Over the course of the strip's run, Peter has pulled many stunts of varying intensity with the family car, such as:

  • Speeding
  • Back-wheelies
  • Deliberately spinning and fishtailing
  • Going over the speed limit while parallel parking
  • Attempting to clear a yellow light from six blocks away
  • Nearly sideswiping a car driven by Andy and missing it by centimeters
  • Driving so fast that the car's interior became a zero-gravity environment

Peter is a procrastinator, and one of the running gags of the strip is the many ways he dreams up to avoid doing his homework or household chores. He once bragged that he was "sick of homework from day one" in response to Paige claiming that she's starting to get sick of homework barely two months after the start of school, as well as becoming two weeks behind on schoolwork only one week into the year, a fact he seems to be proud of. He also has a strange OCD for the fonts he uses for his essays.

He also shows interest in sports, but is constantly shown to be inept at both football and baseball. This has been demonstrated by his name being preprinted on the list of people cut from the football team (and every other sports team, including girls' gymnastics). He even once had a dream of being a contender on the TV show American Gladiators but before the dream could be realized, he severely injured himself flexing in front of a mirror. Peter would also try to drag Jason along to play in his sports endeavors, often time they never end well for Peter.

Much like his little brother Jason, Peter fails to grasp the fact that "with great power comes great responsibility". This is demonstrated in a few occasions from the early strips where Roger and Andy put him charge while they're away - he quickly assumes tyranny and declares himself "the supreme and all-powerful new god of [Jason and Paige's] world", making them do things like clean his room, bake him cookies, address him by monikers like "mighty one" and "master", and the like. The first instance of this sees Peter even go as far as to lock his siblings in the basement for "mutiny" but the two eventually got back at him by recording everything he did to them for Andy and Roger to see.

Despite his resentment of his younger siblings and his parents at times, Peter genuinely does care for them and feels extremely guilty when his actions lead to them getting injured or mentally hurt. In one instance, when Jason fell off the roof during one of his sports sessions, Peter was horrified by what happened to him and stayed by his bedside in the hospital every night. He was also ridden with guilt when he realized one of his pranks toward Paige went too far and wanted to make things right with her. He’s also willing to drive Roger to the hospital whenever he injures himself due to his clumsiness and was the only kid who was worried about Andy when she was drugged by an allergy decongestant going so far as even reprimanding Jason for taking advantage of it.

Since some of the earlier strips, Peter has been dating a blind girl named Denise Russo.

Trivia[]

  • Peter refuses to eat sandwiches that are cut in any way because "only girls cut their sandwiches". He appears to have gotten over this at some point, however.
  • Peter had once gotten into chewing tobacco before Andy forced him to quit.
  • His record for most amount of food eaten in Thanksgiving is more than 599 platefuls.
  • Peter has shared some of Jason’s interests in earlier strips, such as Star Trek and Dungeons and Dragons.
  • Peter once tried sneaking over to Denise’s house (he was grounded at the time) by disguising himself as Paige.
  • Peter has previously ordered a “Thirty-Two-Ple” espresso from a coffee shop.
  • The December 5-10 storyline was the first time Peter has been seen without his hat on.
  • Peter has had the same outfit (Sweatshirt, hat and pants) when he was in Fifth grade. His hat is traced back to when he was born.
  • He has an extremely fast metabolism which he dislikes and his father envies.