History Creator / TomSka

* KilledMidSentence: "What happened?" "Y'see, they took this gun, pointed it to their head, and'''BANG'''"

-->'''Tom''': I was really drunk when I wrote this film.

-->'''Tom''': [[HasTwoMommies That was my favorite mum!]]

** In "What Happened?", [[spoiler: a psychotic police officer got Tom to commit suicide.]]
** In "Le Alien", [[spoiler: Antoine Daniel the French alien and Sammy, who both turned out to be literal French Aliens, manages to [[AlienInvasion take over the world]].]]

--->'''Tom''': OH SHI - ''[title sequence]''

** In [[https://youtu.be/ngJ2ZwfHtjw Any Regrets?]], Tom initially doesn't catch up the fact that Sammy said he got bitten by a zombie, [[SkewedPriorities he is instead surprised that]] Dodie never watched [[Franchise/StarWars Star Wars]], and it's only near the end of the video that Tom realises what Sammy said. Cue [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie Sammy turning into a zombie]].

** "Memories": [[spoiler: The young boy destroys the titular VHS tape after he noticed he took the place of another baby and realised his family isn't really his own.]]

* DropTheHammer: In one of Tom's ''[=KatataK=]'' vlogs, he opts to show the viewer some game footage. It then cuts to a hammer being dropped onto an [=iPhone=]. It's not pretty by the end.

-->'''Tom''': Now it's a baby with ''two'' guns.

-->(Edd and Tom are stuck in a sunken house)
-->'''Edd''': Hey Tom, I got my grades back today.
-->'''Tom''': What are you talking about!?
-->'''Edd''': They're below ''C'' level!
-->''*LaughTrack plays*''

-->'''Chris:''' Tom I thought you were smart
-->'''Tom:''' Einstein was smart Chris, and he's dead.

-->'''Tom''': [[LampshadeHanging I chloroformed myself, didn't I?]]\\
'''Jenny''': Yeah, you did.\\

'''Jenny''': Don't do it again!

** [[PunnyName Wizzo the Wizard]] in [[https://youtu.be/AwXJcQkvRa4 his eponymous video]], courtesy of Eddie "Eddache" Bowley.
--->'''Wizzo the Wizard''': '''[[EvilLaugh Hahahaha !]] I am Wizzo the Wizard ! Bow before me and my magical mastery ! Ahahaha !!!'''

*** In [[https://youtu.be/XOH_N9nTvCo Tell Me Something I Don't Know]], he manages to be legitimately [[NightmareFuel terrifying]] by yelling at [[LetsPlay/NerdCubed Dan]] and physically abusing him.
--->'''Tom''': '''''[[TitleDrop TELL ME SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW !!!]]''''

--->'''Tom''': See, Chris, the thing is--(pulls out gun)--I'll just kill him.

** Parodied in ''I Don't Know'', where one of Big Jimmy's mooks dies from asphyxia after being told she doesn't know how to breathe, another somehow got himself stabbed in the chest after being told he doesn't know how to use knives, and Big Jimmy himself instantly vanishes when he realizes he doesn't know who he is. All of this happened during a game of poker where the infiltrating spy protagonist doesn't know how to play poker, and apparently neither does Big Jimmy, with both of them saying to "go fish".

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[CatchPhrase "Hey, you! My name is Thomas "TomSka" Ridgewell."]]'']]

''[[SigningOffCatchPhrase TomSka out.]]''

His short film ''Hit It'' [[WebVideo/HitIt has its own page]], as does his animated series ''WebAnimation/CrashZoom'' and his comedy challenge series ''WebVideo/TryHards''.

* OnlySaneByComparison: In "The Blame Game", Tom is crazy enough to kidnap people and threaten to kill them, but everyone else in the skit is crazy enough make fun of him, cheerfully deny responsibility, then put on a mask and joining Tom in threatening someone else. Tom's also the only one who notices that the people he "kidnaps" are popping out of nowhere and that they somehow kidnapped Lady Luck and the embodiment of Capitalism.

* OnlySaneByComparison: In "The Blame Game", Tom is crazy enough to kidnap people and murder them, but everyone else in the skit is crazy enough cheerfully pass on the blame before joining him. Tom's also the only one who notices that the people he "kidnaps" are popping out of nowhere and that they somehow kidnapped Lady Luck and the embodiment of Capitalism.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: The first gag in "The Confession", supplied by Tom.

* BalefulPolymorph: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bWJu8DvFMk "Cake"]], Ben is turned into a cake by a wizard, and Tom and Kathryn try to help change him back (and resist the temptation to eat him).

His main Website/YouTube channel is [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Tomska here]]. His second channel, titled [=TomSka=] & Friends (formerly [=DarkSquidge=]) and containing additional series, vlogs and behind-the-scenes material, is [[https://www.youtube.com/user/DarkSquidge here]]. He also has accounts on [[http://twitter.com/thetomska Twitter]], [[http://instagram.com/darksquidge Instagram]] and [[http://thetomska.tumblr.com Tumblr]].

[=TomSka=] (real name: Thomas Ridgewell, born June 27, 1990) is a UK-based web filmmaker, producer, vlogger and actor known for his live-action and animated productions, particularly {{WebAnimation/asdfmovie}}s.

His main Website/YouTube channel is [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Tomska here]]. His second channel, titled [=TomSka=] & Friends (formerly [=DarkSquidge=]) and containing mostly vlogs and behind-the-scenes material, is [[https://www.youtube.com/user/DarkSquidge here]]. He also has accounts on [[http://twitter.com/thetomska Twitter]], [[http://instagram.com/darksquidge Instagram]] and [[http://thetomska.tumblr.com Tumblr]].

He also made a game called ''[=KatataK=]'' (its name [[XtremeKoolLetterz derived]] from "cat attack") which was available on iOS and Android.

* FacialHorror: Tom in the ''Russian Roulette'' cartoon [[UpToEleven repeatedly shoots himself in the head]] [[MadeOfIron but remains alive]], making his face increasingly more gory and emaciated and becoming more and more incoherent.

-->(Edd and Tom are stuck in a sunken house)\\
'''Edd''': Hey Tom, I got my grades back today. They're below ''C'' level! *canned laughter*

''Edd'': I got my grades back. They're below ''C'' level! *canned laughter*

* AdultFear:
** The end of "What Happened?" [[spoiler:The basis of the video is that a suicide has taken place. Whenever someone asks what happened, another person will take the gun and, while explaining, shoot themselves in the head. A particularly diabolical officer forces this fate upon Tom by asking the question. It turns out that Tom had a wife and a son. His son then asks what happened. ''[[OhCrap And you know what that means...]]'']]
** "The New Kid". Imagine mistaking your own child for a homeless man and mistaking a homeless man for your own child.
** "Where's the Baby?"

** Played For Laughs in "Big Fat Monster" when a team of soldiers start shooting themselves after mistaking Tom for an obese monster. [[spoiler:As does the ''actual'' obsese monster that appears in the video who seemingly pulls a giant handgun out of nowhere.]]

* IDrankWhat: In "Fire Man", Water Man reveals that his water supplies are actually from his bladder ("It's my big piss!")...right as his boss is drinking some of his water. He still decides to swallow it, though.

** In "I Don't Know", [[KnifeNut Johnny Knives]] threatens to use his knives against [[TheMafiya Vladimir Stratosphere]] during a dispute, to which Vladimir replies that he doesn't even know how to use them, and at which point Johnny somehow gets a knife planted right into his own chest.

* KnifeNut:
** Oh, Mrs. Johnson.
** Johnny Knives in "I Don't Know" would also qualify, but he apparently doesn't know how to use them.

* WishingForMoreWishes: [[DefiedTrope Vehemently defied]] in "The Wish" as the genie makes it perfectly clear you can't do this, can't use a loophole to get around it, and in fact reduces the amount of wishes he'd grant to one for being pestered about it. The girl who found the lamp however is determined to get infinite wishes, by [[BlackComedy any means necessery]]

* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: In "Guitar Bandit", Jenny plays a ukelele that summons an aura of hearts. She is kicked out almost immediately.

** In an episode of ''Try Hards'', Tom, Elliot and Eddie were challenged to make a profit out of £100, Eddie went for gambling, in the end he lost all the money he was given, and to add salt to the injury, one of his bets had him guessing the name of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle' next child as Charlotte, not only was it already the name of one of [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge's children]], thus unlikely to be Harry and Meghan's chosen name for their future child, but he also wouldn't have had the results for weeks and couldn't cancel his bet.