Line #69 Manga/Tomie


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3	''Tomie'' is a horror {{manga}} by Creator/JunjiIto which follows the titular woman and how her presence affects those around her, especially men. Structured as an anthology, the manga revolves around the unnaturally beautiful Tomie as she [[StealthPun starts a new life]] in one city after another, influencing new people, making new friends... and new enemies.
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5	It becomes evident that Tomie is an incredibly unpleasant person who seems to exist only to torment others. But the problem is that not even death can bring her down. And it's been tried. ''Several times''. As the series goes on, the full extent of Tomie’s mysterious powers are unveiled, and it eventually turns out that with every death, duplicates begin to appear...
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7	The franchise encompasses a 3-volume manga, nine feature films (one of them being a spliced-together, short-lived TV drama released as a feature), and some additional media and merchandise. A hardcover omnibus version of the manga was released in 2016 by Creator/VIZMedia.
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11	* '''''Tomie''''' (1999) -- The original film opens with the police investigating the murder of high school girl Tomie Kawakami (Miho Kanno). They learn that in the months following the crime, nine students and one teacher have either committed suicide or gone insane. The detective assigned to the case (Tomoro Taguchi) learns that three years prior another Tomie Kawakami was murdered in rural Gifu prefecture. Other slain Tomie Kawakami's are discovered stretching all the way back to the 1860s, right when Japan began to modernize. The detective tracks down one of Tomie's classmates called Tsukiko (Mami Nakamura), an art student who is being treated for amnesia. She has absolutely no memory of the three-month period around Tomie's death. Meanwhile, Tsukiko's neighbor (Kota Kusano) is rearing a peculiar baby-like creature. Over the span of a couple weeks, it grows into a beautiful teenaged girl with orange eyes responding to the name of Tomie Kawakami.
12	* '''''Tomie: Another Face ''''' (1999)
13	* '''''Tomie: Replay''''' (2000) -- This film contains elements of the manga chapter "Basement". The film begins with a six-year-old girl being rushed into a hospital ER with an unusually distended stomach. Doctors begin to operate and find a disembodied head, Tomie's head, alive and growing inside the girl's belly. The head is placed in a tank of alkaline solution in the basement of the hospital for further observation. Soon after, all five of the hospital workers present during the operation mysteriously leave the hospital or disappear entirely.
14	* '''''Tomie: Re-birth''''' (2001) -- An artist named Hideo is painting his girlfriend Tomie (Miki Sakai), but she dismisses it as a poor painting and he kills her in a jealous rage with an art knife and his two friends Shunsuke and Takumi help him bury her. When the three friends are at a party Tomie shows up and the artist kills himself in the bathroom. Tomie latches onto Shunsuke and his mother kills Tomie and they cut her up together in an unnatural ecstasy. They then burn her head, which has already started to regenerate and has some crude limbs for locomotion. The portrait of Tomie allows for her regeneration, as her supernatural blood mixed with the pigments. Takumi's girlfriend Hitomi gets possessed by Tomie, in a rather viral fashion. In a fit of jealousy, the two Tomies try to eliminate the other. Hitomi doesn't want to become a monster, and so they decide to commit suicide. However, when at a waterfall, about to commit suicide, Tomie's head grows on the side of Hitomi's neck next to her head. They all die and then Takumi's sister comes and throws flowers into the water. A small facial mole can be seen directly beneath the sister's left eye, suggesting that, because Takumi gave her the portrait of Tomie, she was also possessed by her. Thus, the sister is the newest Tomie.
15	* '''''Tomie: Forbidden Fruit ''''' (2002) -- In this SeriesFauxnale, Tomie Hashimoto (Aoi Miyazaki) is a dreamy teen who writes homo-erotic horror fiction in which she imagines herself as Ann Bathory, vampire. Introspective and lonely, she is picked on and bullied by her classmates at school, and lives alone with her loving, but distant widower father, Kazuhiko Hashimoto. One day, while admiring an ornate, jewel encrusted cross necklace in an antiquities shop, Tomie meets a strange, beautiful girl (Nozomi Ando) with a mole under her left eye. The mysterious stranger says her name is Tomie Kawakami. The girls become fast friends (with heavy lesbian undertones), but it soon becomes clear that theirs was not a chance meeting. Tomie Kawakami has an agenda, and it involves Kazuhiko.
16	* '''''Tomie: Beginning ''''' (2005) -- This straight-to-video movie is a prequel to the rest of the series, shot on HD and based on the first ''Tomie'' manga. It deals with the chain of events that occurred right before the first film takes place. Tomie (Rio Matsumoto) shows up as a transfer student at a high school, quickly enchanting all the males, and raising the ire of the females. As is often the case in the Tomie films, she fixates on one solitary girl whom she befriends, with overt lesbian overtones. She displays all of her typical powers, and it isn't long before the murders and madness begin. In this movie we are introduced to the teacher who promises to kill her no matter how many times he has to do the "favor" as well as the eye-patch-wearing boy of the first movie in the series.
17	* '''''Tomie: Revenge''''' (2005) -- [[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt As you can tell]], Another home-video release shot on HD, this one partly based on the Tomie manga chapter "Revenge". This time around, Tomie is played by Anri Ban. The story revolves around a young, female doctor (Hisako Shirata), and an unidentified naked woman who runs down on the road one night. In her search for the wounded girl (who has a mole under her left eye), the doctor ends up in an abandoned house filled with bodies, madmen, and an unconscious girl. Surely Tomie is not too far away...
18	* '''''Tomie vs Tomie''''' (2007) -- Partially based on the manga chapter "The Gathering." A young man with a past begins work in a factory, where he attracts the amorous attentions of a mysterious woman who lurks behind the scenes. He is a relatively unique young man, perhaps a genetic one-off, in that he feels no particular attraction to Tomie. This of course intrigues Tomie, and she begins to become obsessed with him. Soon, he is caught in a vicious struggle between two rival Tomies. And neither Tomie will die.
19	* '''''Tomie: Unlimited''''' (2011) -- Tsukiko (Moe Arai) is a member of the photography club in high school. On her way home with friend Yoshie (Aika Ota), Tsukiko runs into older sister Tomie (Miu Nakamura) who goes to the same high school. Tomie is also with Toshio (Kensuke Owada) - a guy Tsukiko has a secret crush on. Tsukiko is consumed with fierce jealousy over her sister, but at the same time is intoxicated with Tomie's beauty. Tsukiko keeps pressing the trigger on her camera. At that time Tomie tells her sister that she knows what she is feeling. When Tsukiko stops taking pictures, Tomie is crushed by a steel cross that falls from a building under construction. One year later, Tsukiko still suffers nightmares over her sister's death. Slowly, her daily life returns to some sense of normalcy. On Tomie's 18th birthday, her parents and Tsukiko stand around a birthday cake in her honor. At that time someone knocks on their door. Tomie stands in the doorway with her beauty shining even more brightly.
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23	!!''Tomie'' provides examples of:
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25	* AbusiveParents: It's not what you think, though. [[spoiler:Tomie gets the boy to refer to her as his mother and does some very questionable things, like kissing him on the lips and generally seeming to seduce him.]] He even has night terrors as a result.
26	* AlphaBitch: Tomie taunts and belittles her enraptured victims, which usually ends in their snapping and killing them. Ditto to girls immune to her charms; she's fond of calling them nothing, nobody, stupid, etc.
27	* AlwaysABiggerFish: Tomie herself ends up becoming the victim of another paranormal individual in ''Takeover''. [[spoiler:Namely, a BodySnatcher who steals her body and lives in it for a time. However, it turns out that living as Tomie has its downsides...]]
28	* AlwaysChaoticEvil: It is impossible to find an example of a Tomie that isn't outright evil. They're all depicted as part of a HiveMind with the same memories and personality, which justifies it.
29	* AmbiguouslyGay: Chie and Miki seem to be the only women Tomie encounters that actually enjoy her presence and fall under her thrall.
30	* AnthropomorphicPersonification: One interpretation of Tomie is that she is a living embodiment of lust and/or abuse and all their associated negative emotions.
31	* ArcVillain: Takagi, Tomie's teacher, in the first volume. Once the chaos starts, he studies Tomie's regeneration and then turns to facilitate her spread.
32	* ArtEvolution: The ''Tomie'' series starts out looking a bit rough around the edges, but smooths out into Creator/JunjiIto's familiar style as it progresses. Also, Tomie's hair goes from slightly wavy to completely straight.
33	* AsteroidsMonster: Trying to cut up Tomie will only leave you with more Tomies in time, as her pieces can regenerate into complete bodies.
34	* BerserkButton:
35	** Tomie doesn't handle being criticized or ignored well and will tend to act hysterically, which causes her involuntarily to start to spawn a new Tomie from her head.
36	** Tomie herself seems to understand and exploit others' buttons, most likely to be killed and replicate through regeneration. The clearest case may be in the "Painter" chapter. By laughing at Mori's first portrait of her, she seemingly identifies his button on the first try, as he gets very upset about it. Later, she throws a fit about his ghoulish final painting, but he keeps insisting it's good instead of getting upset. She then has a noticeable pause before suddenly starting to laugh instead, the final push of the button that gets him to kill her.
37	* BlackWidow: An incredibly strange example, where the title character does, indeed, go after the money like a typical Black Widow... except she often ends up the victim through her influence. And her goal isn't money or luxury (though she ''does'' love being spoiled), but rather propagating herself by driving her "lover" to madness and murdering her (usually by dismemberment) so that new versions of her can be born from her remains.
38	* BodyHorror:
39	** Aside from her appearance while Tomie is regenerating from severe damage, it has been shown that Tomie spontaneously creates spawn through parthenogenesis when stressed. A lump will form in a Tomie somewhere that becomes a head and attempts to free itself from the parent Tomie.
40	** Chie's face when [[spoiler:she puts hairs all over it]], and Miki's [[spoiler:whole body being rapidly overgrown with hair, even through her eyes and mouth]].
41	* BookEnds: In a way. The first multiple-part Tomie storyline shows Tomie having another face growing out of her head when she gets upset enough, this being a major reveal to Tsukiko about her true nature. The last storyline does as well: [[spoiler:after trying to protect the Ayaka Tomie for so long so that she doesn't regenerate, Yasuko and Ryo make her angry and a face starts to grow out of her head. Ryo seals her in a cement block to keep the new Tomie from forming.]]
42	* BreakTheCutie: Almost every person Tomie latches onto is cute or attractive, and if they survive, they're almost always completely psychologically broken. It's especially evident with Satoru in the manga chapter "Boy". His father falls for Tomie and abandons Satoru and his mother, and Satoru grows up to be a multiple felon who's eventually executed. That said, Reiko (from the first chapter) and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Tsukiko]] seem to have escaped the worst of their encounters with Tomie.
43	* BrownNoteBeing: People who meet Tomie feel either an overwhelming sense of attraction or frustration towards her. As time goes on, these feelings [[DrivenToMadness devolve into obsession]], either turning them into her willing slaves or driving them to murder her.
44	* TheButlerDidIt: Well, the [[spoiler:maid]], who in the "Adopted Daughter" chapter was responsible for [[spoiler:the deaths of all the girls the old couple adopts, seeking their fortune]].
45	* CharmPerson: Tomie can make anybody fall in love with her and uses this to her advantage to spread destruction and chaos. The problem is that the people she charms are almost always driven to kill her violently... which just ends up keeping her alive.
46	* CorruptTheCutie:
47	** In "Boy" Tomie corrupts a young boy to do her bidding, eventually turning him into a killer.
48	** Several chapters feature people becoming "infected" by some part of Tomie, from her blood or tissues to even her hair. These people either become physically overwritten by Tomie or are simply destroyed.
49	* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Basically, one can tell if someone's under Tomie's influence by this.
50	* {{Crossover}}: The bonus story in ''Junji Ito Selected Stories II'' features a crossover between Tomie and Souichi.
51	* DemonicPossession: People can become "infected" with Tomie and subsequently turn into clones of her, and attaching her hair to one's scalp, while ultimately fatal, allows the affected to converse with Tomie and be influenced by her.
52	* DismemberingTheBody: In most occasions, when Tomie is killed, her body would have to be chopped up into pieces, only for those pieces to grow anew into another Tomie.
53	* DistantFinale: The end of the manga takes a time jump of almost 60 years.
54	* DistinguishingMark: Tomie's distinctive mole below her left eye.
55	* DrivenToMadness: The end result of exposure to Tomie for male characters in the manga (and a couple of female characters as well, but from jealousy rather than lust), and for [[DepravedBisexual pretty much everyone]] who gets too close in the film series.
56	* DrivenToSuicide: More than one of Tomie's thralls has taken their own life, either at her direct command or simply as a result of their madness.
57	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Tomie in the first story was manipulative and regenerated, but she wasn't quite as bad. She also was a personal friend of the narrator, which jars with all later Tomies' personalities, and the first story is the only time Tomie has been confirmed to have had sex with someone rather than teasing them and driving them mad before such a thing could happen. Later, she became more solidly defined.
58	* EatTheEvidence: "Moromi" focuses on a half-baked scheme of two exes of Tomie to dissolve her many bodies' remains in their brewery without regard for any contamination of the alchohol. Unfortunately, making sake out of Tomies only makes Tomies out of sake...or at least, it seems that way to those who drank the mixture, though this vision is hinted to come true soon afterward.
59	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Tomie herself most often has dark black hair and pale-colored skin, though some incarnations of her are drawn with blonde or brown hair.
60	* EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry: Tomie desires jewelry and other luxury items.
61	* EvilVsEvil: Tomie will kill any woman she perceives as a rival, which includes other Tomies.
62	* EyesDoNotBelongThere: In some SpookyPhotographs, Tomie has eyes on her neck or in her hair, and they've shown up when she's upset at being called a monster.
63	* FanDisservice: The times when Tomie is in the nude are always connected to circumstances that are anywhere from eerie to horrifying, as she's usually either at some point in regenerating, some sort of monstrous inhuman state (such as the Tomies in the lake), or fully regenerated and ready to move on. One chapter ends with dozens of nude Tomies, having just finished regenerating, walking through the middle of a remote town with only passing glances at the people in their homes watching them go by.
64	* FateWorseThanDeath:
65	** The poor girl subjected to Tomie experiments, which make her a mixture of earthworm and Tomie heads and limbs.
66	** The male model who comes across Tomie, whose face is irreversibly, inoperably scarred for the sin of standing up for himself... and who eventually is ''badly'' burned trying to kill a mass of partially grown Tomies.
67	** The poor folks who receive an organ transplant from Tomie--the organs will take over and eventually turn the patient into Tomie.
68	* TheFarmerAndTheViper: Helping or showing kindness to Tomie will only bring misery.
69	* {{Fingore}}: In one chapter, a Tomie's severed fingers regenerated into four of her and the first three gang up on "Pinky" because she didn't regenerate as fast as the others.
70	* FireKeepsItDead: Burning is the only thing that Tomie can't regenerate from.
71	* ForTheEvulz: We're shown that Tomie seems to know that what she does is wrong, but still does it for amusement.
72	* FromASingleCell: While fire can kill a Tomie for good, if even a small amount of tissue remains it will regenerate into one or more new Tomies.
73	* FullFrontalAssault: Considering that Tomie always regenerates without clothes, unavoidable really.
74	* GlamourFailure: Photographs reveal that Tomie isn't a normal human. She strongly dislikes having her picture taken when she knows this, although in the first appearance of the photos, she seems unaware of the results until she sees them.
75	* GrandTheftMe: Tomie can inflict this on anyone who has some of her cells implanted into that person's body. So far this seems to work only on women.
76	* {{Greed}}: Despite being a HumanoidAbomination, Tomie is a materialist who desires valuables. These include [[KillAndReplace killing and replacing]] a rich man's daughter; arranging for the death of a rich couple that adopted her; and marrying an older man for his money, then driving him [[DrivenToSuicide to suicide]].
77	* TheGrotesque: Hiroya, the main character of "Little Finger", is a [[{{Gonk}} very ugly man]] with a good heart who is abused by his evil brothers. While Hiroya resists Tomie's advances, he shows sympathy to a deformed offspring of Tomie, helping her out. The Tomie, however, subverts this, revealing at the end she's part of the HiveMind and gloats over tricking Hiroya, leaving him to die.
78	* HealingFactor: An extreme example reaching to FromASingleCell levels. It's virtually impossible to kill her permanently because any part of her body can turn into an entirely new version of her. Burning may work, but even that's hit or miss because of how extreme her regenerative capabilities are. Even when she doesn't regenerate, Tomie demonstrates an ability to heal quickly from various traumas, including being poisoned, cut, or even subjected to extreme cold.
79	* HiveMind: While they do not act in unison under one intelligence, all of the Tomies share the same personality and memories, which is best shown in "Little Finger". Despite this, the Tomies are known to fight amongst themselves, either ForTheEvulz or over not being willing to share even with a HiveMind.
80	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Subverted with Tomie herself. Prolonged exposure causes her victims to go crazy, and Tomie's repeated taunting is the berserk button that leads to her ending up a gory mess, yet her constant regenerative abilities means that such circumstances are only a minor setback at worst, and often an advantage, as she can duplicate and spread from wounds. It is likely that this is her intention (she noticeably switches her behavior in "Painter" on a dime, and the shift drives Mori to kill her) and the Tomie method of reproduction.
81	* HopeSpot: A small ray of hope appeared in the chapter where Tomie gets adopted by an elderly rich couple who are desperate to have a daughter they can spoil and adore. They praise Tomie, lavish her with attention and shower her with beautiful dresses and jewelry. Although still her typical creepy self, Tomie seems unusually mollified. Unfortunately, Tomie being well, ''Tomie'', this goes downhill really fast.
82	* HumanoidAbomination: Tomie may appear to be a very beautiful woman, but she has extremely unnatural biological properties that allow her to regenerate from almost nothing, and she can influence the emotions of her targets, namely in matters of infatuation and hatred.
83	* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: In "Little Finger", the initial Tomie in the story becomes obsessed with the [[{{Gonk}} very ugly Hiroya]] because he shows absolutely no interest in her. This also happens in "Gathering" to a lesser extent.
84	* ImAHumanitarian: Possibly subverted as Tomie, who's only ''borderline'' human, sometimes resorts to this to speed up regeneration.
85	* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: Slight subversion. Tomie is extremely vain about her looks, and never seems to be much older than her teens (the oldest Tomie we ever see seems to be in her mid-twenties at most, but this seems to be an outlier). As revealed in one of the later chapters, [[spoiler:when an individual Tomie splits off copies, she stops aging. This is at the basis of Ryo's plot since he wants to protect at least a single copy of her to old age precisely to avert this and fulfill his revenge.]]
86	* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Woman]]: Tomie ''always'' comes back. '''''ALWAYS'''''.
87	* InformedAttractiveness: As happens so often with characters who are supposed to be incredibly beautiful, Tomie falls into this. She pretty much looks like [[OnlySixFaces every other woman Junji Ito draws]] with longer hair and a mole. However, making her admirers THINK she's the most attractive woman in the world may well be part of her [[HumanoidAbomination inhuman abilities.]]
88	* KarmaHoudini:
89	** Tomie kills and manipulates people into killing ForTheEvulz, and she always survives... even if she's killed. [[spoiler:Possibly subverted for one Tomie in the final arc, who was imprisoned until old age and had to suffer losing her good looks. Although she's shown to have somehow escaped through a small crack, it's possible she escaped too late to preserve her beauty.]]
90	** Takagi is still at large based on what we know.
91	** Hiroya's brothers are overjoyed at their father's death, and imprison and starve their brother, ultimately framing him for Tomie's murder. Everything indicates they completely escape justice.
92	** Disfigurement aside, Ryo manages to live to old age despite all the horrible things he did in search of revenge.
93	* KillItWithFire: Burning Tomie's remains is the only [[{{Pun}} sure-fire]] way to dispose of her for good. Otherwise, as little as a drop of her blood can regenerate into a new Tomie. Even then, if the burning isn't thorough enough, new Tomies can still grow from those parts, as seen in "Little Finger".
94	* LackOfEmpathy: The root of pretty much all of Tomie's AlphaBitch-ness and assorted villainous acts. As explained in "Mansion", she doesn't see other people as ''people''. This also explains why she has plenty of thralls but never an actual boyfriend: she enjoys the affection, but after a while she gets bored and it's time to find a new toy.
95	* LethalHarmlessPowers: Tomie's healing powers can sometimes become outright dangerous to others, such as when a part of her body has become attached to or implanted in a normal human being. It will either kill the victim as the Tomie regenerates from that part, or it will transform the victim into another Tomie.
96	* LiveActionAdaptation: A total of nine films. It's worth noting that Tomie's repeated 'returns' allow for [[TheNthDoctor the casting of a different actress each time]].
97	* MadLove: Tomie's admirers eventually succumb to this, most notably Daichi and her teacher, both of whom become her slaves.
98	* ManipulativeBitch: Tomie manipulates pawns to do her murders for her rather than committing violence in person. However, a Tomie who's [[FetusTerrible still small and not far along in its growth process]] may be attacked directly, implying that Tomie is willing to get her hands dirty when there's no possibility of a threat or retaliation.
99	* MoodSwinger: Tomie frequently changes her attitude and behavior on a dime, with a noticeably analytic pause in her emotions preceding such a change. Examples include her silence and sudden anger when she gets a plush rabbit thrown at her, and a scene when she is found silent at the scene of a would-be murder before instantly bursting into tears to gain sympathy from her unexpected rescuer. These pauses and sudden changes indicate that she often reassesses the situation so she can change her tactics to be as damaging as possible, both to her victims, and ultimately, to her so she can spread.
100	* MuggingTheMonster: Tomie is attacked many times by people who have no idea what they're up against.
101	* NighInvulnerable: Tomie is the regeneration type taken to its logical extreme. Even when submerged in acid, it only halts the regeneration process and her regeneration prevents her decapitated head from dissolving. The only way truly to kill Tomie is to burn her to the point that the tissue is completely carbonized; anything less than that and she can still regenerate.
102	* NonActionBigBad: Tomie herself usually doesn't actively kill anyone, but the mere sight of her has some effect on everyone she interacts with that incites an obsessive murderous attraction towards her, or a desire to do anything she says.
103	* NotQuiteDead: Even when apparently dead, an intact Tomie's body will eventually revive itself. Damaged ones instead divide into many whole Tomies.
104	* OffingTheOffspring: Tomie operates alone, and in spite of the hive mind some of her incarnations possess, she seems to really hate other Tomies. Each Tomie will claim the others are fakes, and will try to get their thralls to kill any other "copies" they find. Lampshaded in the manga, where a thrall mentions that this hatred is odd, because a mother-daughter relationship between the "original" and the "offspring" would make more sense. This (either intentionally or unintentionally) functions as a way for Tomie to keep her own spread in check.
105	* OffWithHisHead: During a freak-out a second face sprouts out of Tomie's head. She orders her two thralls to cut the tumor off, but they cut off her head instead. [[spoiler:And then the tumor orders them to cut the "original" face off and a few hours later the body starts sprouting a new face.]]
106	* {{Sadist}}: Tomie enjoys human suffering, finding it amusing, to the point of an infant-like Tomie ordering her current parents to commit arson for her to watch at night. She also goes out of her way to ruin people's lives, often out of petty grudges, such as for offenses like people not being attracted to her. (Though, granted, such a lack of attraction is remarkable due to her typical influence.)
107	* TheScapegoat: An elderly couple have sinister rumors surrounding them due to all the children they adopted dying mysteriously. It reaches the point where orphanages simply refuse to send them any more children. It is actually due to [[spoiler:their live-in maid poisoning all the children so she can get their inheritance]]. In the depths of despair they find a beautiful young lady passed out on their lawn whom they promptly adopt. This being the manga that it is, [[FromBadToWorse that girl is Tomie]].
108	* SevenDeadlySins: Tomie embodies and/or inspires every single one.
109	** {{Pride}}: Tomie is extremely arrogant and prideful, believing that she is the most beautiful and important person on the planet. Her pride makes her justify her horrible behavior.
110	** {{Lust}}: She is practically the embodiment of this, evoking insane and murderous lust in nearly every man she comes into contact with. She's also rather lustful herself.
111	** [[VillainousGlutton Gluttony]]: She enjoys gorging herself on very expensive, luxury foods such as caviar and foie gras while making her admirers pay for it.
112	** [[GreenEyedMonster Envy]]: If you have something Tomie wants, she ''will not stop'' until she makes it hers. ''Especially'' if it's your handsome boyfriend.
113	** {{Greed}}: She has a taste for the finer things in life, and many of her victims have bankrupted themselves to pay for her expensive tastes in jewelry/clothes/food/etc.
114	** [[LazyBum Sloth]]: She rarely does anything herself, preferring that her victims do all of the work for her. She spends most of her time lounging about and enjoying the expensive things that have been bought (or stolen) for her.
115	** [[UnstoppableRage Wrath/Anger]]: If you piss Tomie off, she '''will''' find a way to make you suffer. She never forgives slights against her and will enact DisproportionateRetribution.
116	* ShapeshifterBaggage: They do give an explanation of sorts for this. During the hospital arc, the doctors attempt to kill her with a radiotherapy machine, but it only accelerates her growth. This implies that Tomie is an extreme radiotroph, capable of converting radiation into mass, and presumably under normal circumstances her regeneration is partially fueled by background radiation.
117	* ShoutOut: Tsukiko has a ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' shirt.
118	* SnootyHauteCuisine: Tomie loves [[FrenchCuisineIsHaughty caviar and foie gras]], often acting with revulsion toward foods that aren't either and refusing to eat them. However, in one chapter she gains a fan club who can afford those dishes and serves them to her every day, [[RadishCure causing her to get sick of them]].
119	* TheSociopath: If such a description can apply to something that merely ''looks'' human.
120	* SpookyPhotographs: Introduced in the "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Photograph]]" chapter, revealing that photos of Tomie show her face and head monstrously distorted. This becomes a recurring plot device. One chapter even has an ''oil painting'' variant as the artist, mad with desire for Tomie, paints her as she appears in photographs. Tomie doesn't take this well at all.
121	* TheTell: Depending on their age, the Tomies have the same general facial features, but it's the mole that's the true giveaway.
122	* TwoFaced: When Tomie's true nature is shown, it will be by showing a second, hideously distorted face attached to her normal one.
123	* ThereCanBeOnlyOne: If multiple Tomies turn up, they often start trying to kill each other, and even regenerated Tomies urge their victims to dispose of their "original" bodies lest they heal.
124	* {{Vanity}}: Tomie is ''very'' proud of her looks and a key part of her taunts and ridicule is about how much her beauty is above everyone else's.
125	* VillainBasedFranchise: The various ''Tomie'' works revolve around her and the havoc she creates, and she is the only constant character.
126	* VillainRespect: In the final Tomie movie, [[spoiler:she gets Tsukiko to agree to be assimilated by convincing her she (Tomie) is the only one who will care for her and on the premise that she will find someone to love her. In Tomie fashion this means finding an abusive boyfriend who is so obsessed with her that he stabs her to death. While bleeding out Tomie then evilly asks Tsukiko if she is happy yet. However, to Tomie surprise Tsukiko actually is. She was so lonely that that the idea of someone murdering her out of infatuation and possessiveness proves someone else truly cared about her, which fills her with joy. At that point Tomie gives up; the two share a loving laugh and smile at each other, then Tsukiko dies.]]
127	* ViralTransformation: One story involves a girl who gets a kidney transplant from a recently-killed Tomie. The kidney starts regenerating into a new Tomie and is removed, but Tomie cells are still floating around, and multiplying inside the kidney recipient's body. No points for guessing what happens next.
128	* WoundedGazelleGambit:
129	** Tomie often behaves upset and vulnerable at the way men have tried to hurt her before to generate sympathy, despite seeming to inspire this hateful reaction quite deliberately to help her spread.
130	** Whenever someone seduced by her spell tries to kill her, some poor schmuck comes along and saves her, unaware of the endless cycle she has wrought upon her countless victims.
131	** In "Little Finger", a disfigured Tomie spawn is seemingly abused by the others, and this horrifies ugly outcast Hiroya. When he starts to show empathy for her situation, and even genuine love toward her, the disfigured Tomie quickly heals to catch up to her "sisters", revealing she's part of the Tomie hive mind and gloats that it was all a game to manipulate him. Tomie then [[UngratefulBastard leaves the man to die]].
132	* {{Yandere}}: All the men who fall victim to Tomie's charms end up turning into this.
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Context Manga / Tomie