Thomas “Tom” Jasper Cat, commonly referred to as Tom Cat, or more simply referred to as Tom, and originally known as Jasper, is one of the two anti-heroic protagonists in Tom and Jerry, alongside Jerry Mouse, created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Despite being referred as an anti-heroic, Tom is more often placed in the role of the antagonist, with Jerry often being the protagonist just as much.
Tom is a bluish-grey and white anthropomorphic domestic short haired tuxedo British cat who first appeared in the 1940 MGM animated short Puss Gets the Boot. The cat was known as Jasper during his debut in the short; however, beginning with his next appearance in The Midnight Snack he was known as Tom or Thomas.
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His name, “Tom Cat”, is based on “tomcat”, a word which refers to male cats. He is usually mute and rarely heard speaking with the exception of a few cartoons (such as 1943’s The Lonesome Mouse, 1944’s The Zoot Cat, 1947’s Part Time Pal, 1953’s Puppy Tale and 1992’s Tom and Jerry: The Movie). His only notable vocal sounds outside of this are his various screams whenever he is subjected to panic or, more frequently, pain. He is continuously after Jerry Mouse, for whom he sets traps, many of which backfire and cause damage to him rather than Jerry. His trademark scream was provided by creator William Hanna. Hanna’s recordings of Tom screaming were later used as a stock sound effect for other MGM cartoon characters, including a majority of Tex Avery’s shorts.
Tom is usually defeated in the end (or very rarely, killed, like in Mouse Trouble, where he explodes), although there are some stories where he outwits and defeats Jerry. Besides Jerry, he also has trouble with other mouse or cat characters. One of them that appears frequently is Spike Bulldog. Spike regularly appears and usually assists Jerry and beats up Tom. Though in some occasions Tom beats him or he turns on Jerry (like his debut appearance in Dog Trouble). Usually when Tom is chasing Jerry after a bit Jerry turns the tables on Tom and beats him or uses an outside character such as Spike to beat Tom.
Tom has variously been portrayed as a house cat doing his job, and a victim of Jerry’s blackmail attempts, sometimes within the same short. He is almost always called by his full name “Thomas” by Mammy Two Shoes. In 1961 short Switchin’ Kitten Tom has a membership card as belong to the “International Brotherhood of Cats”.
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Is spike the police
“International Brotherhood of Cats”
I’m curious, is there any more info about this brotherhood? Or is it just a “no punchline” joke?
the joke is just a simple “im a certified cat”
Say what you will about Tom but he didn’t hire no scab to get Jerry
Im going to make one of those for myself. I used to have cards based on a deleted simpsons scene, its a scene cut from Much Apu About Nothing where Homer spills his business cards fleeing from the non threatening bear in the intro and they zoom in on the card and they just say ‘Homer Simpson- Local Man’
Certified cat
In the briefing, Hegseth referred to B-2 pilots as “our boys on those bombers,” yet both men and women have trained to fly them.
incredible tagline potential here, whoever handles those, please consider
My kitty gave up on chasing her toy and just lied down so I said ‘have you lost your warrior’s will?’ In a gowron voice and she got back up and finished the job. She fucking rules
Been rewatching the special editions of the original SW trilogy after finishing Andor/Rogue One. I was genuinely surprised how good they are. I’ve seen them a ton of times but not in a long time and thought they were mostly kind of silly but even Return of the Jedi is much better than I remembered.
The baffling thing about watching these special editions is not all the shit Lucas stuffed into A New Hope but all the actual problems they didn’t bother to fix. Like why is Artoo’s siding still black when he’s in the trench run? Why didn’t they cut the scene earlier in A New Hope where the actor who plays Vader is clearly still gesticulating even though his line had already finished? Why is Luke’s bounce off the trampoline still visible after he jumps off that Cloud City platform? Why does Vader’s head still magically pass through the bottom of that ship when he’s leaving that Matte painting ship on Endor?
Like you actually had a second pass to correct all the mistakes and all you did was add more bullshit like dude what are you even doing.
Final boss of #girlbossAll history told hiterhto is the history of tummy hurd. Or something
the real reason trump banned Chinese international students at Harvard was to stop the spread of further revelations from the prophet
fuckin’ Thunder
they took our Sonics
it is june 23 and stalin saved the world from fascism
all of smash community including the hypocrite and racist technicalsThis is very lib of me to say, but Palmer Luckey is basically a low rent Syndrome from the Incredibles
The sleeper cells have just been hitting snooze since 2003, they were trained too well
First Jayson Tatum, and now Hali
What the fuck this is horrible!
It can’t end like THIS
Does anyone know what I am talking about when I ask for this source I saw on Hexbear a long while back?
It was a former US military official explaining US nuclear policy as essentially “in a nuclear event, launch our missiles at anyone snd everyone, including allies. In the confusion, nobody will know it was us, and we prevent any any other country having an advantage over us in the Mad Max Future. We will be the only nation standing in the dust”.
Thats a lot of paraphrasing but a good gist. I’m trying to explain to someone why its so dangerous to be in a direct war with the US and why having nukes is one of the only real defenses.
