Characters / Tom and Jerry

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Main Duo

In General

"Introducing that world-famous cat... Tom!
And that magnificent mouse... Jerry!"

The cat and mouse duo who have been chasing each other for decades since they first met, Tom and Jerry have a complicated relationship that jumps between pure malice and playful antics on a whim, taking their fights to dozens of new homes, landscapes, countries and time periods regularly.

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• Anti-Hero:
  • Depending on the episode and occasionally in the DTV movies, Tom sometimes plays a heroic role. He still wants to catch Jerry, but he has no problems teaming up with him whenever a bigger problem comes along.
  • Jerry falls into this in many cartoons, as he's not always the innocent victim he's supposed to be. Technically, he's not supposed to be in the house eating human food in the first place... though it's slightly justified considering he loves cheese.
• Arch-Enemies: Their conflict is considered to be among the most famous rivalries of all time. Rarely does a minute go by without at least one of them trying to kill or otherwise harm the other. Their prolonged conflict also forms the basis of most of their shorts and is perhaps the most prominent part of their characters.
• Balloon Belly: These two and other characters have shown to be cartoonishly inflatable and malleable.
• Big Eater: One of the few things they share in common is that they will pack themselves full of food given the chance, Jerry because he's a pest and Tom depending on whether he's homeless or not in the short.
• Big Guy, Little Guy: Whenever they're paired up, Tom is the "Big Guy" while Jerry is the "Little Guy". Justified as the former is from a larger species than the latter.
• Can't Live with Them, Can't Live Without Them: There are multiple moments where Tom or Jerry get the chance to move with their lives and leave their rival for good, only to come back around to happily resuming their feud.
• The Chew Toy: Being characters in a slapstick cartoon, neither of them are safe from Amusing Injuries. While this applies more to Tom, Jerry isn't immune either...
• Depending on the Writer: There's rarely a consistent portrayal of the duo aside from Tom being the one who chases Jerry with little success - sometimes Tom is being sadistic for the sake of it and wants to make Jerry or other animals suffer for fun. Other times, Jerry is going out of his way to attack Tom when he's trying to live peacefully, sometimes they team up and end their short as friends or as backstabbers, etc.
• Enemy Mine:
  • If there's someone who's a nuisance for both of them, Tom and Jerry would put aside their differences to face their common enemy.
  • In "Busy Buddies" and "Tot Watchers," the two drop all semblances of their rivalry without hesitation to make sure that the baby is safe while Jeannie the babysitter is neglecting it.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Stubbornness, occasional gullibility, clumsiness, and obsession for Tom. He rarely ever knows when to quit and let his obsession with Jerry go, or even learn from his mistakes from being tricked, which results in him earning a karmic beatdown from someone. Or, in worst-case scenarios, being (at least apparently, if not ouright) killed.
  • While his Heroic Comedic Sociopath persona is commonplace in cartoons, Jerry stands among the few that regularly has it come back to bite him. A lot of times he gets over-fixated playing out Tom, it ends up costing him the upper hand, either due to overestimating Tom's own sneakiness or outright Laser-Guided Karma turning onto him.
• Friendly Enemies: While they're Arch-Enemies, they can be very friendly and laid-back towards each other when not in chases. In some shorts, they actually coexist peacefully, either being forced into conflict by Tom's owner insisting on Tom doing his job as pest control since Jerry is technically a pest (if a mostly un-intrusive one) or teaming up so that their live-and-let-live situation can continue.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Which of the two is the hero and which is the villain heavily varies depending on the short, to the point where they sometimes switch midway through. Some shorts have Tom as the tormenter going out of his way to harm Jerry when the latter's just trying to survive, while others have Tom as a justified Hero Antagonist who's just trying to get rid of vermin on his owner's orders and is ceaselessly tormented by Jerry for it (though there are Jerry messes with him for no reason other than his own amusement). Depending on the situation, they even sometimes team up to stop a more malicious threat (hero), and sometimes their constant fighting causes pain and strife for others (villain).
• Humiliation Conga: Many cartoons are this for Tom. One major example would be "Tom's Photo Finish". When his owner finds out Tom framed Spike for eating chicken (from a photo taken by Jerry), not only is Tom kicked out of the house but Jerry takes a photo of him being kicked out by his master wearing boxers. While this doesn't happen as frequently to Jerry, but whenever he loses, it can lead to embarrassing results.
• Meaningful Name: Coincidentally or not, Tommies and Jerries were nicknames that the opposing German and British troops gave to each other in both of the World Wars. Also like the soldiers of those wars, Tom and Jerry are at constant odds against each other and destroy nearly everything during their antics.
• New Job as the Plot Demands: Tom often switches between being a house cat, a guard, a sailor, a homeless stray and every other position a cat like him can get into - likewise, Jerry is nesting in a new house every time and never far from Tom, his job being to catch him.
• Person of Mass Destruction: This generally leans more into Tom, however the duo wreck complete havoc wherever they go, smashing through entire houses in a matter of minutes while Jerry tries to make a getaway and Tom does absolutely everything he can to hit Jerry at least once.
• The Quiet One: Next to their rivalry, they're also very famous for being mostly silent characters with only rare moments of dialogue, normally reserved for gags. In contrast, they remain strictly silent while characters like Butch, Nibbles and Spike tend to speak in their place instead.
• Sadist: They're both entertained by each other's misfortunes.
• Species Surname: Tom is a cat and his last name is... well... "Cat". Jerry's last name is "Mouse" and he's just that.
• Strictly Formula: No matter the time period or location, the main formula of the series has hardly ever changed - Jerry does something to aggravate Tom, Tom gives chase and the two are beaten up in a back-and-forth that usually leads to Jerry coming out on top. Occasionally, shorts and series would throw in a third wheel to switch the dynamic up, like love interests who attract conflict around them (Toodles), friends and/or enemies who help one of the two out (Spike, Butch, and Nibbles), a shared enemy (also Butch), or a bystander who's unlucky enough to be caught in the middle of their antics (typically Spike).
• Suddenly Speaking: One of the selling points of the 1993 film is it's the first and so far only time the two have had substantial and significant spoken dialogue that isn't just the occasional one-sentence gag.
• Unexplained Recovery: Tom has been killed a handful of times, both grimly realistically and cartoonishly, and Jerry was caught and implied to have been eaten by Tom once, but both end up returning in the next short all fine and well.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Neither Tom nor Jerry are innocent during most of their rivalries.
• Villain Protagonist:
  • Tom may be one of the main protagonists of the shorts, but he is also usually the villain, or at least the instigator. Granted, he does have heroic moments.
  • A few shorts, like "The Year of the Mouse", have Jerry harassing an innocent Tom; these are typically the shorts in which he loses.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Their more positive depictions generally have them on friendly enough terms that they can hang out together for a while before they start attacking each other.
• Vocal Dissonance: In the old MGM shorts, they would on occasion allow one or both of them to speak for the sake of a gag, giving the cartoon cat and occasionally the tiny mouse very deep voices.

Thomas Jasper "Tom" Cat Sr.

Voiced By: Harry E. Lang (1940-1943, 1944-1950), William Hanna (1941-1948), Daws Butler (1950, 1957), Gene Deitch (1961-1962), Mel Blanc (1963-1967), Chuck Jones (1965-1967), Abe Levitow (1966-1967), John Stephenson (1975), Lou Scheimer (1980), Frank Welker (1990-2010), Richard Kind (1993 film), Spike Brandt (2005-2017), Don Brown (2006-2008), Rich Danhakl (2014-present), Kaiji Tang (2021), Eric Bauza (MultiVersus)

One of the titular characters, a blue-grey house cat who always hunts Jerry but almost never catches him. While his personality tends to change depending on the context of the short or series, he's generally portrayed as a mean bully or a loyal pet looking to either eat or torment Jerry.

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• The Ace: Notably, if he isn't a complete fool that Jerry runs circles around with ease, some shorts have made him extraordinarily skilled at certain feats relevant to the story at that moment. In particular, if he's playing a pool table or some sort of sport and not being The Chew Toy, then he's probably pulling off shots that go Beyond the Impossible and disobey the laws of physics. Casually. Other shorts bolster his intelligence to super genius IQ, to the point of creating highly elaborate traps and advanced technology - but it's almost never enough to beat Jerry. Among shorts with other cats around, like Butch, Depending on the Writer Tom is either a dimwit in their eyes that they laugh at and bully, or the guy that they can't hold a candle to. In certain cases they even hold him in high regard, often gathering at his home or grouping up with him in charge when Butch isn't speaking for all of them. Then Jerry inevitably gets involved and they all get humbled.
• Adaptational Badass: In the original theatrical shorts, concerning Spike, Tom would rather use sneaky, backhanded tactics to deal with him due to the large difference in power dominance. In the 2014 series, however, Tom has become less likely to deal with Spike's stuff and deal with him head-on, sometimes giving it as good as he gets. However, this may be because of Spike's Adaptation Relationship Overhaul. He's also more likely to come out on top as the victor than before and even best Spike and especially Butch the cat, both of which had had previously dominated him in the original shorts.
• Adaptational Heroism:
  • Some of the movies, including the first film outright portray Tom as being heroic, saving Jerry from harm's way on occasion and caring for others besides himself. He's rarely like this in the original shorts.
  • In the comics, he usually leaves Jerry and Tuffy alone, resorting to chasing them only when he's provoked or ordered to.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: His irises are green in the original shorts but some adaptations, like The Tom and Jerry Show (1975), depict them as black instead.
• Afraid of Needles: His response to learning he'll get a shot in "What a Pain"? Oh, Crap!.
• Anthropomorphic Shift: In "Puss Gets the Boot", he's barely recognizable, being a four-legged cat with only subtle anthropomorphic mannerisms. His duration of shorts through the forties would gradually evolve him into his trademark more humanoid design.
• Anti-Villain: It depends. There have been times where he does not start the conflict, only trying to protect the house, doing his job, or other things. His owners would also want him to catch mice so that they don't munch on their food. There was also an episode where Jerry tricked him out of anger into going to his owner's bed when Tom's snoring got on his nerves. Other times, he's instigating the conflict because he can.
• Artistic License – Biology: Tom, and to the same extent other cats in the series, are seen enjoying dairy products such as milk or cream. In reality, adult cats are lactose intolerant. In all fairness, this is a common misconception that also applies to most other fictional works.
• Ax-Crazy: He's normally not one. Though he does play it straight once in Kitty Foiled where after he straps Jerry to a toy train track, Tom hops on the miniature train and rushes towards the mouse, fully intent on running him down with a crazed, deranged expression on his face.
• Big Eater: Not as much as Jerry, but he is shown to have a huge appetite.
• Big Ol' Eyebrows: Most depictions give him a pair of quite thick and disheveled eyebrows, especially in comparison to most other characters, who have lines for eyebrows. Also overlaps with Evil Eyebrows during his more depraved depictions where he’s the villain.
• Break the Haughty: He gets mocked and outsmarted by Jerry, who he clearly underestimated and toyed with, then kicked out by The Maid. And that's just the first short.
• Buffoonish Tomcat: One of the many, many influences for this trope, because while he is presented to be just a typical clumsy cat and not an utterly dumb housecat, he has had so many moments when he can hilariously or amusingly lack in common-sense, and is mainly characterized by humor when being a complete fool. He is perfectly capable of comically making a fool of himself or an easy target with klutziness when making traps on Jerry, his enemies, or others easily deceiving him. But overall, he is STRONGLY slapstick-prone due to his cartoony nature in his clumsiness.
• Casanova Wannabe: Zig-zagged, as Tom is downright suave when wooing lady-cats and they’re usually happy to return the romance. It’s whenever Jerry either distracts him or tries to sabotage his game that things go downhill, at which point he ruins his own chances by chasing Jerry and making a fool of himself in the process.
• Cats Are Mean: He's often shown to be deceitful, self-serving, and catty. Nibbles/Tuffy even occasionally lampshades it in the 2014 series. Granted, he does have his better moments.
• Cats Hate Water: Averted. Not only is he not scared of water, he doesn't even mind getting wet and coming into contact with water. In fact, some of the indignities that he faces include falling into water and shrugging them off once he gets back up.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: A rare villainous example; his earlier, more genuinely cat-like incarnation often sported one of these, and had a mischievous attitude to match.
• The Chew Toy: Textbook case. He rarely wins, and suffers various cartoon violence; he even provides the trope images for Amusing Injuries, several of its Sub-Tropes, and Fatal Fireworks. Many episodes also have him chasing Jerry strictly so the latter won't mess up the house he's living in. Not only can they result in Tom not getting dinner, but being beaten with whatever is handy by his owner. It's more noticeable in future adaptations though, which depict him as this slapstick-prone clown. Bonus points since, in "Chew Toy", he's briefly used as a literal chew toy. Also, you can use one hand to count how many of his misfortunes aren't played for humor.
• Chick Magnet: Tom's had several girlfriends though he never manages to hold on to them for very long.
• Conscience Makes You Go Back: Sometimes, when he comes close to killing Jerry, it'll be his own conscience that stops him from actually doing so.
  • In "The Night Before Christmas" and Chuck Jones' version of the short, "Snowbody Loves Me", he throws Jerry out of the house during a snowstorm, but when he realizes that the mouse might actually freeze to death, he brings him back inside and revives him with a warm fireplace, a blanket, and some strong alcohol.
  • A similar situation happens in "Puppy Tale", when he kicks Jerry and a stray puppy out of the house during a thunderstorm but goes out to rescue them and nearly drowns in the river. He's saved when Jerry and the puppy come to his aid.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: As clumsy, buffoonish, unlucky, and slapstick-prone Tom can be, he generally does pose a credible threat to Jerry whenever he's able to and has more than a few victories over him, most notably in instances where Jerry goes too far with his antics or manages to pluck Tom's last nerve.
• Determinator: He never gives up going after Jerry, even when it would probably be wise not to do so. He can also be this when trying to eat or hurt another animal, since Jerry acts to save the other animal, which leads to disaster for Tom.
• Depending on the Writer: In some shorts, Tom actively tries to harass Jerry, other times they would come into conflict by sheer chance and he would be happy to ignore the mouse otherwise. Also, his threat level varies in each short.
• Did Not Get the Girl:
  • When he loses his love interest to Butch in an episode. Sometimes he loses her to Jerry.
  • A particularly depressing example happens in "Blue Cat Blues", when he falls for a gold-digging female cat. When she leaves him for Butch, because he has more money, Tom uses up his life savings to buy her jewelry and even sells himself into slavery to get her a new car, but none of it works. He drowns his sorrows in milk and the episode ends with him and Jerry, who also lost his girlfriend to another mouse, about to kill themselves on the train tracks.
• Does Not Like Spam: Oddly enough, despite loving milk, Tom has a major aversion of cheese, another dairy product.
• Eats Babies: He has little-to-no qualms with eating a newborn woodpecker in "Hatch Up Your Troubles", though he managed to escape via exiting his mouth. Granted, he might've not known that woodpecker was newborn.... However, he also tries to eat Little Quacker after witnessing his birth in "Little Quacker" and "That's My Mommy". In "Calamari Jerry", he even tries to eat an octopus who looks around that age.
• Enemy Mine: Isn't above teaming up with his rivals when the situation calls for it.
• Entitled Bastard: He outright begs for Jerry's help in "Buddies Thicker Than Water" despite betraying him.
• Establishing Character Moment: The first time he's seen (barring the Episode Title Card) he's toying with Jerry, for the lulz.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: As unkind as he often is to other animals, "Un-Welcome Home" shows Tom does love his parents.
• Even Evil Has Standards: While he's no saint himself and it can be Depending on the Writer, some shorts are consistent in showing the lines that Tom is reluctant to cross.
  • Several shorts show that while Tom's actions would frequently end murderously for Jerry, if it actually looks like the mouse is in real danger of dying then Tom's conscience will get the better of him and he'll do what he can to save Jerry. Granted, he'll eventually turn around and try to eat or harass him again afterwards.
  • The Chuck Jones shorts sometimes showed that Tom keeps to a "work hours" approach to dealing with Jerry, I.E. only troubling him while both are awake and able to fight back. Some of these shorts have Jerry not showing this restriction, in which case Tom settles for just quickly delivering the equivalent of a Dope Slap and going on his way rather than starting up another feud.
  • "That's My Mommy" has Tom exploiting Little Quacker thinking that Tom is his mother to cook and eat him. When Quacker realizes that the truth and decides to let Tom eat him while affirming that he still loves the cat as his "mama" Tom breaks down and stops the little guy from throwing himself into the pot. He was perfectly fine with taking advantage of the duck's naivete but the little duck killing himself out of love for the cat would have been just too far.
  • Even he is terrified of Dr. Malevolent as shown in Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale.
• Evil Egg Eater: He tries to be this in "Little Quacker". After waiting for a mother duck to leave her nest, he steals her egg and intends to eat it...only for Little Quacker to hatch from it.
• Evil Is Petty: He can rival his Arch-Enemy in the dog-kicking department. For instance, his Establishing Character Moment is him toying with him For the Evulz. Special note however goes to "Tomcat Jetpack"; for starters, he steals some ice cream, blows a raspberry at Spike and Jerry, throws said ice cream at them, and laughs.
• Face Death with Dignity:
  • "The Duck Doctor" has it happening to Tom. Having no way of escaping a falling anvil, Tom digs himself a grave, blindfolds himself, and has a last smoke. Then the anvil hits him on the head (making him fall inside the grave, which makes the dug earth jump onto him, completing the burial) and falls into position to serve as a tombstone.
  • "Texas Tom" has Tom anger a bull so badly it chases him relentlessly around a ranch, and when he's finally cornered with nowhere else to run he shrugs at the audience, blindfolds himself, lights a cigar and waits for impact. Being splattered by the bull sends him flying so far he lands on the ceiling of a house and slips into the rain gutter.
  • In "The Bodyguard", he goes even further — upon realizing that going full-on Villains Want Mercy wasn't going to help, he digs the grave and lies in it. Then he hastily scribbles a will and clutches a flower while awaiting the inevitable, although in that case he actually gets the last laugh since Spike (who Jerry could summon via whistling) ended up caught by the dog-catcher and leaving Tom free to pursue a fleeing Jerry in vengeance.
• Failed a Spot Check: Tom seems to roll a lot of minuses on his spot checks. The number of misfortunes he suffers could probably be cut down by at least half if he would simply take the time to notice blatantly obvious dangers. And woe be to your household whether you're an owner, a would-be Love Interest, or even just some shmuck to Tom's antics because he will grab anything and everything to try to take down Jerry without even realizing what he's doing.
• Final Boss: Some games with Jerry as a Player Character have Tom as the last boss.
• For the Evulz: Sometimes instigates conflict just cause.
• Friend to All Living Things: Mostly subverted since he likes to chase other small creatures besides Jerry and mess around with Spike. However, when influenced by Jerry, he starts to show a soft spot for other animals, particularly in the short "Puppy Tale", Tom and Jerry Tales episode "Little Big Mouse" and the Tom and Jerry Show episode "Eagle Eye Jerry".
• Gold Digger: The plot of "Casanova Cat" is about Tom trying to get together with Toodles after learning that she has inherited a million dollars.
• Graceful Loser: Not typically, but he has his moments.
  • The ending of "Down Beat Bear" has Tom accidentally set a radio to play 6 hours of continuous dance music after spending the whole short trying to escape a circus bear who loves to dance with him. When he looks behind him and sees that the bear snuck up on him for another dance, he calmly puts Jerry down, shoos him away with a smile and angrily joins the bear in dance for the rest of the night knowing there's no point in running anymore.
  • He displays few (if any) signs of a Villainous Breakdown when he loses in "Franken Kitty", albeit for a reason that makes sense in context.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Usually buffoonish, though to what degree varies. In some shorts, he is completely outmatched by Jerry; in others, he is a more feared pursuer and can actually run circles around Jerry for a long duration (or even win a victory).
• Half-Witted Hillbilly: Has shades of the Country Bumpkin. According to "Un-Welcome Home", Tom is from a rural area. While he's not The Ditz, he can also be gullible.
• Hated by All: A downplayed one as not everyone in the series hates him, but most characters do. It takes one hand to count how many of his owners don't mistreat him. The characters who actually are his friends vary from being his friends to his bitter rivals to even flat-out bullies towards him. Many other animals, like dogs (especially Spike^note though that varies in the 2014 series), cannot stand him and can team up with Jerry to defeat him. Granted, Jerry himself is an exception to this trope... but that's only when he and Tom are being Friendly Enemies.
• Hero Antagonist: Tom is a house cat, so he's well within his right to stop Jerry from stealing the household's food.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Tom may seem like a typical clumsy cat, but he's been consistently portrayed as an excellent musician that can play many instruments, from bass to piano.
  • The Chuck Jones shorts show that he's a talented opera singer.
• His Own Worst Enemy: Certainly! Occasional victories aside, Tom is very self-destructive; him generally not learning from his mistakes, his ego, cruelty, clumsiness, impulsivity, stubbornness, and naivete have all bitten him in the tail. This trope even extends to several of his boss fights.
• Iron Butt Monkey: So goddamn much. To put it tersely, Tom can take so much damage, he's possibly rivaling the likes of Wile E. Coyote concerning durability and buffoonery. The narrator in "Domestic Kingdom" sorta lampshades it.
• It's All About Me: For instance, in "Spike Gets Skooled", Tom wants to get Spike kicked out of the house just so he won't interfere when he tries to catch an innocent Jerry. He doesn't care he has to ruin Ginger's "important luncheon" while doing so, either.
• Jerkass: In episodes where he starts things off by abusing Jerry for no reason. Though as those of you who have had cats will know, they can be (or at least come across as) sadistic little bastards to their prey.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sometimes. He can be nice to Jerry when he wants to be, like in the shorts where they team up against a common enemy. Also as a whole, Tom also had become a little more nicer overtime compared to his official debut.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: There are times where he instigates the rivalry between the duo, and thus he usually brings his mishaps on himself during those moments.
• The Klutz: His apparent clumsiness and occasional stupidity because of Tom being clumsy can make him out to be this kind of character in spite of Tom's average intelligence.
• A Lizard Named "Liz": He's a cat named Tom, which fits since a male cat is called a "tomcat".
• Love Makes You Dumb: In "Blue Cat Blues", he gives up all his money to buy things for a Gold Digger female cat who didn't like him back. He also sells himself into slavery to buy her a new car.
• Made of Iron: Tom has been crushed by anvils, pianos, lethally cartoony objects, and a lot of heavy things and still manages to stay alive in most shorts.
• Maniac Tongue: While not as often as some examples, there are instances when Tom sticks out much of his tongue when in the villainous mood.
• Motive Decay: Zig-Zagged as it's often Depending on the Writer, but in earlier shorts, he wanted to eat Jerry or chased him at his master's orders (even if he enjoyed doing so either way), while most of the later ones, he just seems to chase Jerry out of reflex or make him miserable just for fun, in some cases he may even be totally apathetic to chasing Jerry unless the latter annoys him in some way.
• Near-Villain Victory: There are times he gets close to winning, but something happens which thwarts it. For instance, he nearly axes Jerry in "Hatch Up Your Troubles", but he gets Hammered into the Ground before he could do so.
• Offstage Villainy: According to the manual for Tom and Jerry Tales (the Nintendo DS game), he stole Jerry's "special cheese stash", not that it's shown in-game.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: According to his owner and other sapient characters, his name is Thomas.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Sometimes, he shows he doesn't want anybody (sans himself) to eat Jerry (e.g. "City Dump Chumps").
• Person of Mass Destruction: More often than not, the vast array of destruction that follows in his chases of Jerry are all Tom's fault, sometimes it's even unintentional. He singlehandedly tears apart houses, shops, bowling alleys, you name it. One recurring plot is quite literally running his owner(s) out of a home by the sheer collateral damage he inflicts, and one of his fastest methods to losing the interest of a girl he's got the eyes for is by destroying her place just to bring Jerry down. It's to the point that Jerry has his own recurring Batman Gambit of using Tom's tunnel-vision destruction to his own ends, ranging from the short-term of Laser-Guided Karma for Tom to even saving the both of them.
• Pet the Dog: Tom had his fair share of nice moments in later shorts, like "Puppy Tale".
• Plucky Comic Relief: Due to his trademark buffoonery whenever he chases Jerry, rivaling another/etc, he always pulls this off a lot in his Iron Butt Monkey status and/or his countless, buffoonish/clownish moments.
• Punch-Clock Villain: In some shorts, he's seen chasing Jerry only because he was ordered by his owner(s) to do so (as he's a country cat) and would be happy to leave the mouse alone otherwise. Of course, in other shorts, he really just likes tormenting Jerry.
• Punny Name: A tomcat named "Tom Cat".
• Recurring Boss: Expect to fight him frequently if you're playing the Game Boy Advance Tom and Jerry Tales, Tom and Jerry: The Ultimate Game of Cat and Mouse!, or the SNES platformer. It's most egregious in the first example as its kind of a Boss Game.
• The Rival: Butch (Depending on the Writer)
• The Scream: He can really scream when he's hurt.
• Simpleton Voice: On the odd occasion when he actually talks, he may speak in a low, simple voice.
  Tom: C... A... T... Cat.
• Silent Bob: Like Jerry, he almost never talks, though he has a handful of lines here and there in a low Simpleton Voice.
• The Slacker: Tom is extremely lazy (when not chasing Jerry, that is). Several cartoons have Tom be so much of a slacker that he doesn't even care about catching Jerry until his owners threaten to have him kicked out if he doesn't do his job.
• Smug Snake: Sometimes, particularly in early shorts, where his blissful toying with Jerry was often his own undoing.
• Sore Loser: If Jerry's Diary is of any indication, Tom does not like to be reminded of the number of times he lost to the mouse. In said episode, Tom is convinced by Uncle Dudley to give Jerry gifts before he starts reading the titular diary, but the more Tom reads about his defeats, he destroys his gifts before finally tearing the diary to shreds. By the end, Tom only tries to attack Jerry because he feels humiliated.
• Super-Persistent Predator: He just doesn't know when to quit trying to capture his prey.
• Tactical Suicide Boss: In several of his boss fights. During two confrontations with him in Tom and Jerry Tales (the Game Boy Advance game) for instance, he sometimes quits attacking to mock Jerry, which gives the mouse the chance to attack him.
• Team Rocket Wins: Roughly 10% of the time, Tom actually got the last laugh on Jerry at the end of a short.
• They Killed Kenny Again: Tom has died in several shorts (being blown up by dynamite, crushed by a piano, and even decapitated off-screen), yet is still shown to be fine the next short. It helps that he, like all cats, has nine lives, it usually seems like Tom has more than the average amount.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: On a slightly more common level, he was allowed to occasionally end on a happy note or make a truce with Jerry. According to the Tom and Jerry Wiki, Tom wins in 24 cartoons (out of 164 shorts), be it alongside or against Jerry.
• Too Dumb to Live: As noted in Fatal Flaw, Tom also never knows when to quit while he's behind, even when it would really be in his best interest to do so, which has actually gotten him killed a few times. A lot of his defeats were from his lack of preparation beforehand and he's ridiculously easy to fool, which is how Jerry gets away with torturing him on many occasions. His tendency to not know when to quit also doesn't help.
• Troll: Sometimes took toying with his prey to an elaborate degree. In the first cartoon, for example, he replaces Jerry's mouse hole with a painted-on lookalike and watches him smack into it repeatedly.
• Turns Red: As his health decreases in a couple of his boss fights in Tom and Jerry Tales (Game Boy Advance), he begins throwing more projectiles at Jerry.
• Ungrateful Bastard: There have been times, like "Posse Cat" or "Buddies Thicker Than Water", when Jerry has stuck his neck out to help Tom and Tom promptly spat in the face of his generosity, betraying him afterwards. Since Tom is much less of a Karma Houdini than Jerry, his moments of being a selfish bastard are usually quickly followed by a karmic comeuppance.
• Villain Decay: Played With Type II. Despite starting off as threatening, Tom becomes more of a joke as Jerry keeps one-upping him, regardless of who actually started the conflict. This is even slightly reflected in Jerry's attitude towards him; he's rather terrified of Tom in the first cartoon and, while he has shown fear around him afterwards, other times he seems to view him as a joke (or at least not someone he should be shitting bricks over). Not that this hasn't stopped him gaining the occasional victory over Jerry, though they're usually when the mouse is the instigator of conflict.
• Villainous Breakdown: Is prone to losing it whenever things don't go his way, albeit of varying intensities. Special note goes to him having kittens and going full-on Agitated Item Stomping in "Mouse Trouble" when his penultimate plan fails. He's also left laughing unstably upon being outwitted in "Jerry and Jumbo".
• Villainous Crossdresser: Not as frequently as some examples, but Tom has his moments of going Disguised in Drag. Part of his plan to gobble up Jerry in "Flirty Birdy", for instance, involves him disguising himself as a female bird.
• Villainous Rescue: Has his moments, like in "That's My Mommy" when he rescues Little Quacker from cooking himself in boiling water.
• Villains Want Mercy: Occasionally. For instance, in "Landing Stripling", Tom tries begging a woodpecker (who he was previously attacking) to not launch him into a tub of boiling water.
• Vitriolic Best Buds:
  • With Butch, though it depends on the short.
  • He has this dynamic with Jerry in the odd short where they hang a lampshade on their rivalry. It's especially prominent in the DTV movies, where they're often shown hanging out together without actively trying to harm each other.
• Vocal Evolution: Toms voice originally started a lot more cat-like with plenty of hissing and cat-sounding screaming. He gradually developed the ability to speak in the odd gag or song as the shorts went on, and the screams he makes when he’s in pain would famously become very human-sounding.
• Would Hurt a Child: Though probably not again after the beating Jerry gave him for hitting Nibbles. He has tried to catch and depose of Nibbles on several occasions afterwards. Jerry almost always stops him and turns Tom's attention onto him before he can act it out, however.
• Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Jerry is able to cross-dress to fool Tom sometimes, and Tom won't go after him because of this, until Jerry's dress falls down or something. He subverts this a few times in the series, though: in "Little Quacker" he runs over the mother duck with a push mower, and in "A Mouse in the House" he lays a hefty spanking on The Maid due to mistaking her for a disguised Butch.
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: He has yellow eyes, which fit given his occasional underhanded methods in antagonizing Jerry and other characters.

Gerald Jinx "Jerry" Mouse

Voiced By: William Hanna (1940-1958), Sara Berner (1943-1945), Paul Frees (1951, 1956), Daws Butler (1957), Gene Deitch (1961-1962), Mel Blanc (1963-1967), June Foray (1965-1967), Chuck Jones (1965-1967), Abe Levitow (1966-1967), John Stephenson (1975), Lou Scheimer (1980), Frank Welker (1990-2002), Dana Hill (1993 film), Spike Brandt (2005-present), Samuel Vincent (2006-2008), Rich Danhakl (2014-present), Eric Bauza (MultiVersus)

One of the titular characters, a brown house mouse who is always two steps ahead of Tom. Like Tom, his characterization changes wildly between shorts and series, but he's mostly often depicted as a mostly good-natured, but also invasive, household pest looking for food, shelter and/or entertainment.

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• Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Wears a red bowtie in The Tom and Jerry Show and Tom & Jerry Kids.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Jerry's not quite a saint when it comes to stealing food excessively or a somewhat harsh demeanor, but he's an absolute angel if compared with how he's portrayed in the comics. Even after Tom politely asks to be left alone, Jerry will often go to extreme lengths unprovoked to make his life as miserable as possible.
• Adaptational Karma: A Played With variant as he does have some Karma Houdini Warranty moments. However, Jerry noticeably receives his comeuppance more often in the 2014 series, where he's even been on the receiving end of Spike's wrath (along with Tom).
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: He may fight with Tom, even just to rile the cat up, and start acting like a dick himself, but when push really comes to shove, he'll always come through for him.
• Badass Adorable: He may look adorable, but when threatened? Beware, especially if your name is Tom.
• Badass Family: While Nibbles is more on the Badass Adorable side, basically every other direct family member Jerry has is some kind of competent and/or deadly mouse that easily ruins Tom's day better than Jerry ever could. Contrast Tom's fellow cats and family, who tend to get humbled or are often weaker than he is.
• The Bad Guy Wins: He tends to come out on top even when he's the Jerkass instigator, especially in shorts that involve Spike (like "Slicked-up Pup").
• Badly Battered Babysitter: Often ends up protecting younger trouble-making animals from Tom, including seals, ducklings, canaries, and Nibbles.
• Balloon Belly: These two and other characters have shown to be cartoonishly inflatable and malleable.
• Berserk Button: He got very angry at Tom when the latter gave Nibbles a painful swat on the posterior in 1946's "The Milky Waif". The results were anything but pretty.
• Big Brother Instinct: Do NOT harm Nibbles.
• Big Brother Worship: More Big Cousin Worship. It's implied that Jerry has a close relationship with his older cousin. He once even called him for help because Tom was more aggressive than usual.
• Big Eater: Often seen stealing a lot of food.
• Brainy Brunette: A male one of sorts; he's a brown-furred Resourceful Rodent.
• Butt-Monkey: While he's not nearly as slapstick-prone as Tom, but there are times he takes as much Amusing Injuries as he dishes out. He becomes more of a Butt-Monkey when he's around Nibbles, though.
• Cute, but Cacophonic: He's a cute mouse who often has a high-pitched voice.
• Enemy Summoner: He serves as an enemy during most of Tom and Jerry in Infurnal Escape and he can blow a trombone to summon more enemies.
• Everyone Has Standards: Occasionally Tom, or the Monster of the Week when Tom isn't the antagonist, becomes so pitiable that Jerry either draws a truce or relents on his fighting back. And sometimes Tom is tormented so much that even as eternal rivals, Jerry comes to his rescue, though this has occasionally screwed him over for it. In at least one case, Jerry does not accept apologies for it and leaves Tom to die rather than repeat the episode's problems that nearly got the mouse killed again.
• Friend to All Living Things: Except cats (he makes an exception for kittens sometimes, however). Many shorts involve Jerry befriending a one-shot character, usually another stray animal.
• The Gadfly: Sometimes he enjoys messing with other characters, especially Tom.
• Guile Hero: His more noble interpretations lean into this, with the little mouse being kinder in comparison or morally in the right by trying to stop Tom from messing with him or trying to eat another living thing. Being only a mouse, he relies on pranks, chases tricks and weapons to beat Tom up.
• Heroic Comedic Sociopath: Some of the things he does to Tom can come off as this.
• Honorary Uncle: To Nibbles.
• I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham: He thinks durians are repulsive in "What's That Smell?" until he accidentally tries one and he adores it.
• Interspecies Romance: Along with lady-mice, Jerry has managed to fall in love with and earn affection in return from cats (Toots and Toodles) and humans (Red).
• Jerkass to One: Jerry can be pretty friendly to most animals but he is always a jerk to Tom in numerous shorts. He's very fond of Disproportionate Retribution and often takes pleasure in torturing the cat.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is often empathetic to other animals, especially those victimized by Tom, and tries to help them out. There are also moments he is repentant after going too far with Tom or even teams up with him.
• Karma Houdini: Sometimes when he's the bad guy and he gets away with things he shouldn't. Jerry is actually just as capable of being selfish, cruel or sadistic as Tom is, with a much larger success rate than the cat: like going out of his way to ruin Tom's day for his amusement, or putting Spike and Tyke in danger to sic them on Tom (without the dogs ever learning about his manipulation).
• Karma Houdini Warranty: He often comes out the victor in his conflicts with Tom, even in situations where he's the aggressor and Tom is the victim. However, shorts like "The Million Dollar Cat" and "The Year of the Mouse" end with Tom winning, and Jerry getting a suitable comeuppance.
• Karmic Trickster: In the original shorts. He became more of a screwball in the Chuck Jones shorts, though still has bouts of this.
• Kick the Dog: There are times where Jerry's the instigator of conflict, and some of those times Tom wasn't even looking for trouble. And if he can sic Spike on the cat somehow, he'll even do this nigh-literally on both him and Tyke to frame Tom for his actions. There are also episodes where he would even deliberately and spitefully sabotage Tom's chances to get with a girl, something Tom has never done to Jerry.
• Killer Rabbit: He may be cute, but he can bring really big troubles.
• Lovable Rogue: He's naughty, but he's cute too.
• The Medic: In "The Duck Doctor", he treats Quacker's injuries after he's shot by Tom and has to keep doing so after the duckling keeps running back out and getting shot.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: He's occasionally capable of throwing Tom around, usually when pushed way too far.
• Moment Killer: Frequently the reason why Tom fails at dating.
• Nice Mice: Zig-zagged. A lot of his cruelness is in provoked self-defense from Tom, but some of it is just tormenting Tom for the hell of it. When it comes to other animals, though, Jerry may not put up with foolishness much, but he is, otherwise, pretty universally nice. See Friend to All Living Things.
• No Name Given: In ''Puss Gets The Boot", he's unnamed and its been debated as to what it was. Bill Hanna apocryphally claimed it was Jinx, but absolutely no other evidence exists to prove his claim, and Joe Barbera claimed he was initially nameless. Meanwhile, MGM's press for the cartoon gave him the name of Pee-Wee.
• No Sympathy: Jerry is generally a nice mouse, but he can be cold sometimes. Strangely enough, this often occurs in the Mouseketeer shorts and is Played for Laughs. When Jerry and Nibbles accidentally get Tom executed for petty theft, Jerry does not care. When Nibbles is badly beaten every time he tries to deliver love letters to Jerry's girlfriends, Jerry does not care so long as the letters get delivered.
• Obfuscating Disability: In "Love Me, Love My Mouse" he pretends to be defenseless to make Toots care for him.
• Only Sane Man: Occasionally he acts like the only rational character when he's putting up with others' antics, like when he's dealing with two orphans who were trying to be hunters in "Two Little Indians".
• Papa Wolf: Protective of Nibbles. It's most apparent in "The Milky Waif", which is also Nibbles' debut. After Tom smacks Nibbles with a flyswatter, Jerry busts out of a glass bottle Tom trapped him inside earlier and lets out a beastly roar before giving Tom a brutal beatdown, unaided.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: Jerry can lift objects that are huge compared to him like hammers or wooden planks while barely breaking a sweat, and on occasion can lift Tom or other characters up with only a bit more effort. It may be Rule of Funny mixed with his own cousin being undeniably super-strong. When he's really mad, like if Nibbles gets spanked by Tom, he doesn’t need any tricks or weapons to beat Tom silly in a one on one fight.
• Resourceful Rodent: He's cunning, resourceful, and the rodent part is in his surname.
• Relationship Sabotage: Any time Tom has a Love Interest Jerry will be on hand to interfere with and ruin things. His reasons vary a bit, with some level of jealousy involved, but usually come down to the fact that Tom usually targets him for the worse as a result. Some shorts even have the manifestation of Jerry's jealousy point out that Tom meeting a girl never goes well for Jerry, in one instance even planning to wreck his current flirtations before things reach that far.
• Silent Bob: Although, like Tom, he occasionally speaks, usually briefly as a gag. One weird exception was a cartoon where Jerry narrated about Tom losing the love of his life.
• Silent Snarker: Doesn't speak, almost unanimously, but his facial expressions do imply snarky thoughts.
• The Speechless: Like Tom, he rarely says anything, aside from a few nervous gulps. In fact, he says even less words than Tom does.
• "Take That!" Kiss: Tends to kiss Tom just to mess with him.
• A Taste of Defeat: Jerry usually got the last laugh in every short. At times, however. he would lose or come to a bitter stalemate with Tom. These were almost always after he went too far in his retaliation and cost himself his Karmic Protection.
• Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: He inverts them with the long eyelashes and cute face.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Cheese, of course, considering how much he loves it.
• Troll: Sometimes just causes trouble for Tom for no reason at all (e.g. "Beefcake Tom").
• Unscrupulous Hero: He tends to torment Tom even if the latter wasn't bothering him.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: He tends to have this dynamic with Tom whenever they aren't trying to kill each other. The DTV movies are especially known for this, as they're often shown hanging out together with very little fighting.
• Vocal Dissonance: In moments where he isn’t given a high-pitched child/girl-like voice, he has quite the deep and sometimes aggressive sounding voice.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: He sometimes exploits the fact that Tom Wouldn't Hit a Girl, even if it's a mouse.

Animals

Major Animal Characters

Spike

Voiced By: Billy Bletcher (1944-1948), Daws Butler (1949-1958), John Stephenson (1975), Don Messick (1975), Joe E. Ross (1975), Frank Welker (1980, 2005), Lou Scheimer (1980), Dick Gautier (1990-1993), Alan Marriott (2000), Maurice LaMarche (2002), Marc Silk (2002), John DiMaggio (2005), Kevin Michael Richardson (2006), Michael Donovan (2006-2008), Phil LaMarr (2010-2013), Rick Zieff (2014-present), Spike Brandt (2016-present), Bobby Cannavale (Tom & Jerry (2021))

A stern but occasionally dumb American bulldog who is particularly disapproving of cats, but a softie when it comes to mice and his son, Tyke.

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• Adaptational Intelligence: Spike in the original shorts seemed blissfully unaware of when Jerry would take advantage of him to defeat Tom. In this show however, Spike often finds out if Jerry uses him to mess with his rival and is more aware of Jerry's role in disturbing him and Tyke. This often results in him brutalizing both Tom and Jerry, or Spike teaming up with Tom to turn on Jerry if he knows Jerry is completely in the wrong.
• Adaptational Villainy: In Heavenly Puss, Spike became the model of the Devil Dog trying to tempt Tom to do violence which would drag him to Hell and he gets to torture him to satisfy his sadism and because he's supposed to be the Devil. A far cry from Spike who's mostly kind and usually doesn't resort to violence unless he's egged to do so. Seeing that this is just Tom's dream, the trope may be enforced because Tom sees Spike as a scary dog when pissed.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the 2014 series. Depending on the Writer, Spike has become less abrasive than in the original cartoons and more friendly towards Tom and Jerry. This doesn't stop him from beating them up every now and then, though.
• Afraid of Needles: His Oh, Crap! upon learning he's going to get a shot in "What a Pain" says everything.
• Androcles' Lion: He protects Jerry in a lot of shorts after Jerry does him a favor.
• Angry Guard Dog: A bulldog with a bad temper.
• Anthropomorphic Shift: Much like how Tom started out as a four-legged cat in the earliest shorts, Spike's debut had him as a regular bulldog who antagonized both Tom and Jerry. Subsequent appearances would turn him into a biped like the other characters. He also went from making more animalistic sounds to speaking full sentences.
• Ascended Extra: Spike is probably the largest example of this trope in the franchise, since his character has evolved a lot over the decades. In his first appearance, he was a faceless, nameless, savage obstacle for Tom and Jerry to overcome (he may chart even further back counting a very similar bulldog that rivaled Butch in "The Alley Cat"). After that, he was bumped up to a recurring character; he gained the ability to speak, he started to grow more intelligent, and he eventually sired a son. Tom and Jerry's cat and mouse antics started to become cat, mouse and dog antics. As noted in Breakout Character, Spike and Tyke gained their own series of comic books and a very brief stint of theatrical shorts later, as well as their own segments in "Tom and Jerry Kids". In "The Tom and Jerry Show (2014)", Spike is the third most prominent character in the series after Tom and Jerry themselves.
• Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: Some argue that instead of going after Tom, he should be guarding the house, which is his job. TV Trash pointed out that at some point where he was beating on Tom, the house could have been robbed. In any case, he usually fails to notice Jerry causing problems, well-intentioned or not. The 2014 show seems to fix this with Spike becoming more aware of Jerry's antics.
• Berserk Button: Waking him up or taking his bone away. Usually, if he has any new trigger, Tom can find it and Jerry will exploit it. Also, do NOT mess with his son, otherwise he will SKIN YA' ALIVE!
• The Big Guy: He's the burliest member of the animal cast.
• Breakout Character: He and Tyke had a very brief series of shorts to themselves in the fifties. They also have solo episodes in Tom & Jerry Kids and a short stint of comics.
• Brooklyn Rage: He speaks with a heavy New York accent. As for the "Rage" part, ask Tom.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: He's this with his pup, Tyke. He also shows his soft side to Jerry, and on the rarest of occasions, Tom.
• The Bully: Depending on the Writer, Spike can often be this in "Tom and Jerry Tales" and "The Tom And Jerry Show (2014)" (notable examples in the latter series include "Entering and Breaking", "Bone Dry", "Dental Case" and "Tic, Tyke, Do'h"). He's a burly bulldog with a Hair-Trigger Temper who doesn't mind using violence to solve his problems or roughing up Tom and Jerry in the 2014 series, though he's also gained a hidden cowardly streak when it comes to anything other than beating up cats that's very much played for laughs. This version of Spike generally wants to appear tougher than he is, though he's not without his softer side or his redeeming qualities. He also has a negative influence on Tyke: since his father is a hotheaded bully who spoils him, Tyke shows little to no regard for other people, which comes home to roost in the episode "Tic, Tyke, Do'h".
• Bully Bulldog: Though when given a personality, he's usually a pretty nice guy, without one he's typically mean and angry at all times. In Tom and Jerry Tales and The Tom and Jerry Show (2014), Spike alternates between being this and the Only Sane Man in the room depending on the episode. Even on a good day, he can be quite thuggish and tough.
• Butt-Monkey: Originally an inflictor of Misplaced or Disproportionate Retribution, but in most later shorts, he usually goes through enough torment that it's easy to understand his contempt with Tom.
• Character Catchphrase: Begins his threats to Tom with "Listen, Pussycat..."
• Characterisation Marches On: In his first appearance "Dog Trouble", Spike was a generic ferocious dog with only minor sapient traits. Also while he tended to be a Hero Antagonist in most later shorts and require some level of provocation, here he Hates Everyone Equally, chasing and attacking both Tom and Jerry and even defiantly throwing a tantrum in the face of The Maid after she lambasts him for wrecking her living room.
• Depending on the Artist: Whether Spike's fur is grey or brown varies depending on the short.
• Depending on the Writer:
  • Whether or not Spike is a father varies from short to short, or episode to episode in the later TV shows.
  • He usually speaks most of the time, but other times, he is just as silent as Tom and Jerry.
• Dogs Are Dumb: This, though he can be a responsible parent, leaves himself wide open to be called one incredibly dumb dog. On one occasion, he couldn't tell between Tom and Tyke (his son) until Tom meows in a failed attempt at barking. Lampshaded several times, like when Butch called him unintelligent; he and some other cats (including Tom) were watching a Clip Show highlighting the times of Tom making a fool of Spike.
• The Dreaded: Tom, Butch and the rest of the cats they hang around with are all terrified of him, having been on the receiving end of his wrath before.
• Dumb Muscle: He's not the smartest dog out there. Plus, he's a muscle-bound bulldog.
• Final Boss: He's the last obstacle faced in the game Tom and Jerry in Infurnal Escape.
• Flunky Boss: In his boss battle in Tom and Jerry in Infurnal Escape, random enemies will appear to fight alongside him.
• Game-Over Man: If you get a Game Over in Tom and Jerry in Infurnal Escape, Spike is one of the characters you'll see.
• Go Fetch: It's one way to fool him from attacking.
• Good Parents: He's a good doting father to his son, Tyke.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Gets mad pretty easily by Tom's antics.
• Hero Antagonist: Most of the time, from his perspective at least, the abuse he dishes onto Tom is provoked. Jerry sometimes exploits this, however.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Whenever Tom inadvertently encounters him at his attempt to pursue Jerry, Spike automatically assumes Tom's harassing him and his son, even though Tom makes it obvious that he's never looking out to get them involved in any way.
• Jerkass to One: While not always without reason, he singles out Tom as object of his anger, regardless of how much Tom himself is at fault. This seems to be toned down in the 2014 show as Jerry often faces his wrath when he's proven to be the instigator.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: When Spike isn't an antagonist, he's a loving father to Tyke and a frequent protector to Jerry. He's also had some Pet the Dog moments with Tom.
• Just Whistle: Makes this arrangement in Exact Words with Jerry on occasion, after Jerry gets him out of some sort of trouble.
• Misplaced Retribution: Even if he sees Jerry is the cause of whatever action Tom is doing that bothers him, Spike's hostility will be towards Tom and only Tom.
• Nice Guy: Surprisingly. In episodes that feature all three of them starring together, Spike will usually be played as a lot less proactive to stir trouble than either Tom or Jerry, but constantly being forced to get angry. When there's an option to put aside their differences, he'll usually be all for it, if not the one trying to enforce the peace.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Daws Butler based his voice characterization for Spike on Jimmy Durante, right up to borrowing Durante's radio catchphrase "That's my boy!" when addressing Tyke.
• Only Sane Man: The 2014 series keeps some of his characterization from the later theatrical shorts. In times of crisis, Spike generally tries the hardest of Rick and Ginger's pets to keep a level head and solve whatever problem is at hand. In episodes like "Cruising For a Bruising", "Pipeline", and "Hunger Strikes", he's the glue holding the household together.
• Papa Wolf: Spike mellowed somewhat when they added his son, Tyke. But if you mess with Tyke, you'll pay for it BIG TIME. Tom learns this the hard way in a few shorts.
• Roar Before Beating: When ready and excited to beat Tom up, he has been known bellow like an angered bull.
• Selective Enforcement: A recurring theme throughout most of the episodes that star him. Generally, he's just minding his own business, and ends up getting caught up in Tom and Jerry's antics. Even when he clearly sees Jerry causing trouble as well, Spike always singles out Tom and places all the blame on him, which Jerry proceeds to milk for all it's worth throughout the rest of the cartoon to make Tom's life miserable. Jerry's Karma Houdini Warranty starts to reach its limits by the 2014 series though.
• Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: Especially prominent in later shorts where he (and sometimes his son) are often genuinely the Butt-Monkey to Tom's antics.
• Unmanly Secret: Played for Laughs. While he's generally not a feminine character, Spike actually liked getting his nails painted pink in "What a Pain". Not that he wants it to be let out.
  Spike: [to Tom] No one has to know about the nail paint. Got it!? [...] It made me feel pretty; that's all.
• Unwitting Pawn: Most of his appearances consist of Jerry manipulating him into acting as a shield against Tom.
• Wild Card: Spike is usually a very neutral force — he only wants to be left alone and will only go after anyone (usually Tom, but on the rare occasion this can also include Jerry) if they bother him in some way, which leads to many of his appearances having him be an Unwitting Pawn as Jerry leads Tom to anger him. Likewise, he usually only helps someone (usually Jerry) if they help him in some way first. A few episodes have him being a danger to both Tom and Jerry, with Jerry being crafty enough to avoid pain while Tom is not.
• Would Hurt a Child: With the obvious exception of his own son, Spike doesn't seem to have any qualms hurting those who bother him even if they are young. This is demonstrated a lot in Tom & Jerry Kids whenever he and the main duo (as children) come across each other, particularly in the episode "Chumpy Chums" where he outright threatens them with violence if they don't get along. He'll also go after Nibbles if he and Jerry annoy him enough in The Tom and Jerry Show (2014).

Tyke

Spike's son.

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• Adaptational Intelligence: In both his appearances in comics and Tom and Jerry Kids, Tyke undergoes the same Anthropomorphic Shift as his father, to the point of sometimes verging as his Hyper-Competent Sidekick. He also sometimes shows a more mild sapient or devious side in the 2014 series.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Sometimes more of a Bratty Half-Pint in the 2014 series, compared to the oblivious pup who let his father do the dirty work in the original shorts. In cases like "Birthday Bashed" he causes enough hell for Tom and Jerry that they form one of their trademark Enemy Mines.
• Anthropomorphic Shift: In both the comics and Tom & Jerry Kids, he suddenly gains the ability to speak and walks on two legs, with him and Spike more or less acting as Expies for Hanna Barbara's later creation Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy.
• Breakout Character: Shared the same solo appearances as Spike in cartoons and comics sans Tom and Jerry.
• Chaste Toons: One of the scant few aversions in the Golden Age.
• Cheerful Child: He's just so happy and innocent, even when he's barking at Tom.
• Depending on the Artist: Much like his dad, Tyke's fur varies between grey and brown depending on the short.
• Missing Mom: We never see his mother.
• Morality Pet: Quite literally with Spike when he became a lot nicer after Tyke was introduced to the series. In particular, he tolerated Tom a lot more and generally only went after him if he annoyed him enough.
• Precious Puppy: Goes without saying that Tyke's a very cute pup.
• Suddenly Speaking: In the comics and Tom and Jerry Kids, he speaks full English.

Nibbles/Tuffy

A young mouse that Jerry adopts.

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• Ascended Extra: Only shows up in the occasional cartoon, but in the licensed Dell comic you could count the stories that didn't feature him on one hand.
• Badass Adorable: Occasionally he actually is able to hold his own against Tom or outsmart him in unpredictable ways, often to save Jerry when he's bitten off more than he can chew. This is especially noticeable in the Mouseketeer shorts, where he may be the more inexperienced one between him and Jerry, but tends to be the one that has to fight or defeat Tom the most.
• Big Eater: He has both Tom and Jerry beat in this department, which is quite a feat itself.
• Bilingual Bonus: In the Mouseketeer cartoons, he sprinkles his sentences with French words. Some, but not all, later appearances have him keep this trait.
• Canon Immigrant: Actually debuted in the comics before appearing in any shorts.
• Character Catchphrase: The Mouseketeer shorts give him "Touché, Pussycat!" Occasionally also "Pauvre, pauvre Pussycat," when something bad happens to Tom.
• Cheerful Child: Not quite to the extent of Tyke, but he's generally a happy and easygoing kid... especially if food is plentiful.
• Children Are Innocent: While some cartoons (and definitely some comics) has him grab the Jerkass Ball, he's generally far less of an instigator than Jerry. While Jerry can be a Heroic Comedic Sociopath, Nibbles is a lot more likely to be friendly to Tom, or to just ignore him while focusing on his own goals (usually finding food). Depends heavily on the cartoon whether this means Tom will be nicer to him in return, or take the opportunity to grab him so that Jerry has to come to the rescue.
• Composite Character: When he appears in modern Tom and Jerry adaptations, his name has usually reverted back to Nibbles, but he still speaks in a French accent, a nod to the Mouseketeer shorts.
• Cousin Oliver: Though he doesn't seem to be widely despised for it. The fact that he appears only in a few occasional shorts may help.
• Distressed Dude: Tuffy is this in some of the Tom and Jerry Video Games, He gets kidnapped by Tom in the Tom and Jerry game for NES and Tom and Jerry Mouse Attacks for Game Boy Color, and in the Tom and Jerry Game for Game Boy/Game Boy Color, Jerry has to get to Tuffy first before Tom gets his claws on him.
• Depending on the Writer: In some modern works, his name is Nibbles, he speaks with a French accent, and is treated like a toddler. In others he's named Tuffy, he speaks with an American accent, and is treated like an adult (or at least an older child).
• Doorstop Baby: He gets left on Jerry's doorstep in "The Little Orphan".
• Gratuitous English: Slipped in a few English phrases in some of the Mouseketeer shorts.
• Gratuitous French: In modern adaptations where he's speaking English with a French accent.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Always wears what looks like either a diaper or a pair of white shorts.
• Heartwarming Orphan: His parents are never shown, and he is very cute.
• I Have Many Names: Well, only two, and they haven't been used with much consistency. He was Tuffy in the comics, in the Mouseketeer shorts, and some of the later shorts, but in his first animated appearances and in some of his modern ones, he goes by Nibbles. They could also be two different mice, since the short Two Little Indians features two young gray mice drawn with the same exact character model as Nibbles.
• Jerkass Ball: He will sometimes join in with Jerry into tormenting Tom sadistically when he doesn't deserve it.
• Kid-Appeal Character: He's adorable and a baby.
• Kid Has a Point: He may be a child, but occasionally in the 2014 series he points out why Tom is an example of Cats Are Mean.
• Mini-Me: Nibbles looks a lot like a smaller Jerry, just colored gray instead of brown, and sometimes with a diaper.
• Motor Mouth: In some of his appearances, he talks a lot. Sometimes this is justified, since (especially in modern appearances) if he's in a cartoon he's far more likely to get all the spoken dialogue while Tom and Jerry remain silent, and as such has to carry on both sides of the conversation.
• Nice Mice: He's a mouse, and he's more nicer than Jerry.
• Silly Walk: One of his trademarks in his classic appearances is that he doesn't walk so much as he runs, and rather stiffly at that, shuffling his feet at a high speed. This trait is toned down for many later appearances, such as the Mouseketeer cartoons, but he still displays hints of it.
• Take a Third Option: One iconic short involves Jerry trying to teach him how to steal food and avoid Tom, while Nibbles simply asks Tom politely for food and befriends him instead. Due to Tom oddly holding the Kindness Ball in this instance, this actually works.

Little Quacker

An overly trusting duckling.

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• Adaptation Name Change: The fighting games Fists of Fury and War of the Whiskers refer to Little Quacker as Duckling.
• A Dog Named "Dog": In Fists of Fury and War of the Whiskers, where's he's called Duckling instead. He's also just that.
• Brown Bag Mask: When concerned that he's ugly in Downhearted Duckling.
• Cheerful Child: Quacker is a jovial, naive, and innocent duckling.
• Distressed Dude: Most of Quacker's appearances have him getting pursued by Tom, requiring Jerry to step in.
• Driven to Suicide: In Downhearted Duckling, where just because he thinks he's ugly, he attempts to cut himself in half with an axe, and later tries to force Tom to eat him (and Tom is more than willing to oblige before Jerry stops him).
• Feather Fingers: His wings are drawn as hands.
• They Just Dont Get It: Refuses to understand that domestic ducks don't fly south for the winter. (But see Palette Swap below: there he's actually a migratory duck.)
• The Millstone: Has a tendency to ruin Jerry's plans. At least three Quacker appearances ended with Tom as the victor.
• Momma's Boy: Exploited by Tom, and then used against him in "That's My Mommy". This does have its basis in reality; baby birds are known to imprint on the first thing they see after hatching, recognizing it as their mother.
• Noisy Duck: He has a voice that can best be described as an exaggerated Donald Duck, making it rather hard to tell what he's saying most of the time.
• Palette Swap: He appears with a mallard duck's colors in "The Duck Doctor".
• The Unintelligible: His voice is best described as "Donald Duck up to eleven", making it rather hard to tell what he's saying most of the time.

Butch

Voiced by: Frank Graham, Dick Nelson (Trap Happy), Daws Butler, Nicky Jam (Tom & Jerry (2021))

A black alley cat who is either an ally or enemy of Tom's.

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• Adaptational Wimp: As mentioned above, Butch in the 2014 is no longer the superior rival to Tom and has been made considerably weaker in comparison. He now has to rely more on underhanded tactics than before, similar to Tom's ordeals with Spike in the MGM shorts.
• Always Someone Better:
  • He nearly always wins when competing with Tom for a woman. He also usually is able to be better than Tom in a fight. His losses can also result from a stronger force defeating him (Spike for example).
  • Mostly averted in the 2014 show where he consistently loses to Tom and ends up getting beaten up by him, Jerry and Spike.
• Anthropomorphic Shift: Though he was always more of a Funny Animal than Tom, Butch similarly became less cat-like as cartoons went on.
• Arch-Enemy: Tom, Depending on the Writer. He's also pretty much always antagonistic towards Jerry.
• Big Eater: Eats Tom and Jerry out of house and home while pretending to be a Doorstop Baby in one short.
• Buffoonish Tomcat: Like Tom, Butch can be prone into having his moments of stupidity & short-sighted reactions (mostly around Spike), and can be prone to slapstick when being tricked by Jerry especially. This has been made more apparent in the 2014 show where he's almost as unfortunate as Tom.
• Butt-Monkey: He becomes this throughout the Tom and Jerry Show (2014). Almost to the same extent as Tom and is constantly losing against him. They seem to have swapped roles this time around.
• Canon Foreigner: Butch actually originated from his own earlier MGM short "The Alley Cat" before becoming a regular in the Tom and Jerry series. He also crossed over into the Spike and Tyke shorts, where the duo were absent.
• Cats Are Mean: If you take Tom and remove every single one of his likable traits, then you get Butch in a nutshell.
• Dark Is Evil: What else do you expect from a black cat who sometimes acts all antagonistic and malicious towards Tom?
• Depending on the Writer:
  • He and Tom are often at odds with one another, but in some shorts, he's part of Tom's group of buddies.
  • Exactly what role he plays is often subject to variation depending on the short: he can be anything from a mere alley cat to an accomplished mouse exterminator to Tom's incredibly rich rival.
• Dual Boss: You have to fight him and Meathead simultaneously in Tom and Jerry in Mouse Attacks.
• Early Instalment Weirdness: In "The Alley Cat", he talks in a high pitched throaty voice, much closer to that of Quacker's voice than the gravelly Bronx voice he would be given in his Tom and Jerry appearances.
• Evil Counterpart: He's essentially Tom, minus any redeeming or likeable qualities. Whenever he comes into conflict with Tom or Jerry, he's shown to be much worse than Tom could ever be.
• Friendly Rival: In several shorts a goal doesn't come between them, he is shown partying or hanging out with Tom.
• Gang of Bullies: His group of alley cats consisting of himself, Meathead, Topsy, Lightning, and sometimes Tom (when he's not the target of their abuse) could be seen as one of these.
• Hates Baths: In one episode of the 2014 series, Butch got a bath from Ginger and didn't like it. Justified because he's a cat.
• Jerkass: Kind of like Tom, except not at all sympathetic, and a double-crossing louse as well. He also frequently acts like a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk at times.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • Yes, it was harsh for Butch to call Spike "dumb". However, it's still clearly true.
  • In "Top Cat", Butch calls out Tom on his incompetence at catching Jerry. While this was rude and done to get other cats to support him instead of Tom, it's still correct.
• Leitmotif: In several of the modern movies and shows, a jazz-styled guitar riff plays whenever Butch appears on-screen.
• Murder the Hypotenuse: Tom and Butch try to do this to each other whenever there's a woman involved.
• The Rival: To Tom (Depending on the Writer).
• The Scream: Usually lets of the same screams as Tom.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Tom (also Depending on the Writer).
• Yellow Eyes of Sneakiness: Gains these in Tom and Jerry Show (2014), which complimenst his new charcter direction in that show quite well, as he often has to resort to trickery to get what he wants due to no longer being as strong as past incarnations.

Toodles Galore

Toodles Galore is an attractive white female cat and Tom's usual love interest, although Tom is a reputed playboy and has had other love interests before and after Toodles.

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• All Girls Want Bad Boys: Whenever people fight over her, the one who's winning always seems to be the one she's most attracted to.
• Anthropomorphic Shift: She went from a slinky cat that walked on all fours in "The Alley Cat" to a Humanoid Female Animal in her Tom and Jerry appearances.
• Canon Foreigner: Like Butch she first appeared in "The Alley Cat" before crossing over to the Tom and Jerry series.
• Cats Are Mean: Averted. She's a cat and she clearly has no interest in eating Jerry, and therefore never shows any aggression towards him any time they interact and her only real negative trait is that she's shown to be quite shallow, going with whichever cat out of Tom and Butch impresses her more. Otherwise, she's always shown to be very laid-back and mild-mannered.
• Head-Turning Beauty: Tom and Butch are instantly smitten with her, and even Jerry and Spike were attracted to her.
• Humanoid Female Animal: Her design is much more humanoid than most of the other characters.
• Interspecies Romance: A few shorts end with her and Jerry becoming a couple.
• Mama Bear: In "Love Me, Love My Mouse", Tom offers Jerry to her as a present, but Jerry invokes this trope by acting cute, causing her to treat him like her child. It only lasts until she gives him a kiss, at which point she realizes he tastes pretty good.
• More Deadly Than the Male: On the occsaions where she goes after Jerry herself, she is generally depicted as much better at it than Tom. This trait is composited into Toots in the 2021 film.
• Mythology Gag: In many of her appearances, Butch is a rival for her affection, much like he was in "The Alley Cat" before Tom.
• Neutral Female: In many shorts where either Tom and Jerry or Tom and Butch fight and cause shenanigans she almost always just sits in the background or off screen, and she usually doesn’t even appear in the endings except for for Casanova Cat and Solid Senerade.
• The Speechless: She speaks in a deep sultry voice in "The Alley Cat", but is mostly mute in her Tom and Jerry appearances.

Toots

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An attractive cat that Tom instantly likes.

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• Anthropomorphic Shift: In Puss N' Toots, she began as a silent semi-anthropomorphic cat similar to Tom. In later appearances, she is more humanoid and has speaking roles.
• Depending on the Writer: Toots can range anywhere between a Shrinking Violet who is visibly smitten by Tom or a Deadpan Snarker with a very blunt "No means no" approach.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Some episodes like “Tom Quixote” where she throws vases and pans at Tom when angered. Also in the 2021 movie where she gets very crazy and vicious when she sees Jerry.
• Women Are Wiser: Even though in some episodes of The Tom and Jerry Show she can she can be shallow like the original Toodles Galore, she is shown to be at least slightly more smart then Tom. For example in “Here Comes The Bribe”, not only did Tom didn’t pick up the fact that she was talking about him at the beginning but he also acted pretty oblivious and rude later on, as one time he drank all of the drinks she brought for him and her dad, and somehow didn’t get that the drinks weren’t all for him. Tom also has been revealed to have previously forgotten her birthday and Valentines Day before, which makes Tom at best really stupid to forget, or a jerk at worst. Averted sometimes though like in “Toodle Boom” where she was oblivious to Tom wanting to continue their date and became obsessed with chasing Jerry and Nibbles.

Lightning

An orange cat who's one of Tom's friends, at least Depending on the Writer.

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• Always Someone Better: In his debut, he's more effective as a mouse-catcher compared to Tom.
• Lazy Bum: He's potrayed as this in "Mucho Mouse" as he doesn't seem to have passion about his job as a mouse-catcher.
• Meaningful Name: In his debut appearance, he had super speed represented by him physically appearing to become lightning.
• Palette Swap: His design can almost resemble Butch if not for the color scheme.
• Suddenly Speaking: Speaks in "Mucho Mouse", which he doesn't do that in his previous and next appearances.

Meathead

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An alley cat who usually appears around Tom or Butch, Meathead is generally the least intelligent member of the gang.

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• Adaptational Villainy: Big time in the Tom & Jerry (2021) film, where he was a member of Butch's gang that encounter Tom. Along with Clyde.
• Buffoonish Tomcat: He was a more dull-witted, selfish version of Tom that can be easily prone to slapstick when outsmarted or tricked by Jerry along with Tom or just Tom himself tricking Meathead over Jerry. However, in later adaptions like The Tom and Jerry Show (2014), he's just mildly goofy, usually friendly and oblivious due to him being "a meathead".
• Dodgy Toupee: Several theatrical shorts depict Meathead as wearing an oddly colored hairpiece when skulled by Tom and growing a bump on his head for example.
• The Dragon: He's a recurring crony of Butch in his attempts to eat Jerry, bully Tom, or commit robberies in the original series. He returned to being this character in the Tom & Jerry (2021) movie because of his Adaptational Villainy.
• Dual Boss: During his boss fight in Tom and Jerry in Mouse Attacks, he's fought alongside Butch.
• The Fool: In one 2014 short, Meathead repeatedly catches Jerry and Nibbles within seconds due to blind luck, without understanding what the big deal was.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: A friendly, harmless side-character who's not the brightest, quite oblivious, in his own world, sometimes lucky yet good-natured and cooperative in The Tom and Jerry 2014 series.
• Meaningful Name: Being called a meathead by the narrator since that was his actual name in The Tom and Jerry 2014 series and this was mentioned in Season 3 Episode 17 of said show called "Lost Marbles" as it implies that meathead's the recurring cat in the show who lacks intelligence and is always presented by name when around Butch.
• Palette Swap: In the 2014 series he's basically just Butch colored red and brown instead of black. But Meathead also has a slight difference with his snout and overall design.

Topsy

A small alley cat, often appearing around Butch.

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• Vague Age: Different media will flip flop on portraying him as a short adult, or a child.

Minor Animal Characters

Uncle Pecos

Voiced By: Shug Fisher (1955), Scott McNeil (2006), Stephen Stanton (2014-present)

Jerry's country-singing uncle from Texas who's rather oblivious to everything happening around him, though it could probably just be his hat covering his eyes.

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• Animal Facial Hair: A mouse with a white mustache.
• Determinator: Nothing will stop Uncle Pecos from getting his guitar string. He'll even take a full-sized axe to a door!
• Expy: His original 1955 appearance is a (only slightly) exaggerated version of Shug's acting persona, complete with his trademark "tooth-rattle" stutter.
• One-Shot Character: Of the original shorts, he only appeared in "Pecos Pest", though Tom and Jerry Tales and The Tom and Jerry Show (2014) brought him back for several more episodes.
• Porky Pig Pronunciation: He stutters a lot, both when speaking and singing—something that Shug Fisher himself has a talent for invoking at will.
• Scatterbrained Senior: His rather advanced age has made him unaware of dangerous situations he accidentally gets into, forcing Jerry to rescue him.

Muscles Mouse

Voiced by: Paul Frees (1951), Stephen Stanton (2014-present)

Jerry's super-strong cousin who has never been defeated by any known cat.

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• Badass Adorable: He looks almost as cute as his cousin, but is much stronger and can easily defeat cats much bigger than he is.
• Big Brother Instinct: He seems to have this for Jerry, as he willingly came to his cousin's aid when Jerry reached out to him asking for his assistance with Tom.
• The Dreaded: Given his immense strength and the fact that no cat can best him, he is feared by any cat living in his neighborhood.
• Meaningful Name: His name means "Little Mouse" in Latin, and he's a Pint-Sized Powerhouse.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: He gets smashed by Tom's fist, a bowling ball dropped on top of him and beaten up by the members of Dirty Work Inc. and each time he shrugs it off like nothing.
• One-Man Army: Given how he shown to casually beating up so many cats on the first few seconds in his debut short.
• One-Shot Character: Of the original shorts, he only appeared in "Jerry's Cousin", though The Tom and Jerry Show (2014) brought him back for several more episodes.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Almost to exaggerated levels. He can punch Tom across an entire room, and even took down three members of the Dirty Work Inc. who were essentially the feline equivalent of him.
• Signature Headgear: Wears a green bowler.

Cousin George

Voiced by: Bill Thompson

Tom's identical cousin who happens to be afraid of mice.

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• Cowardly Lion: An total scaredy-cat who with Tom's help, manages to put aside his fear of mice to successfully scare Jerry away.
• Expy: In the sense that he has Droopy Dog's voice paired with cousin Tom's look.
• One-Shot Character: He only appeared in "Timid Tabby" and hasn't been brought back.
• Shrinking Violet: Completely Downplayed, while he made himself seem shy and timid when seeing Tom again, his self-esteem grows when working together with Tom to scare off Jerry.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: He looks exactly like his cousin Tom, such to Jerry's delight.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He's scared of a lot of things, but especially mice. Jerry, mistaking him for Tom, is perfectly happy to use this to screw with him.

Porpoise

Voiced by: Mel Blanc

A shark who occasionally goes after Tom and Jerry (usually the former) in the Chuck Jones shorts.

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• Always a Bigger Fish: As soon as he enters the picture, the story usually becomes about his efforts to chase Tom, rather than Tom going after Jerry.
• Canon Immigrant: Zig-zagged. Chuck Jones originally designed him for some Bugs Bunny comics in the late 1950s, but his Tom and Jerry appearances are the first time he actually appeared on-screen. Jones would then use him again for some of his latter Looney Tunes cartoons in the 1980s and 1990s.
• Depending on the Artist: The shorts directed by Jones himself give Porpoise a more cartoonish look, while the ones directed by Abe Levitow depict him as a more realistic shark.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Subverted. He's a shark named "Porpoise"; porpoises are more closely related to whales than sharks.
• Stock Sound Effects: His roar is actually the MGM lion's roar, just sped up very slightly.
• Troll: At the start of "Cannery Rodent" he seems content to just terrorize Tom whenever he falls into the water. That quickly changes when Tom drops an anchor on his head, causing Porpoise to switch to actually trying to kill and eat him.
• The Voiceless: He never has discernable dialogue on-screen, but "Cannery Rodent" gives him an Evil Laugh, and has him muttering what sound like obscenities after Tom drops an anchor on his head.

Circus Elephant

A female elephant who befriends Jerry after he removes a golden tack that was stuck in her foot.

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• Berserk Button: Do not try to get between her and Jerry.
• Honorable Elephant: She decides to protect Jerry from Tom as a "thank you" for removing a tack from her foot.
• One-Shot Character: She makes her only appearance in "Jerry-Go-Round".
• Sneeze of Doom: After Tom invokes a Pepper Sneeze on her while she's holding Jerry, she ends up sneezing so violently that Jerry pops out of the circus tent and is sent absolutely flying.

Butch the Dog

Voiced by: Joe Alaskey

A bulldog who often serves as a minor antagonist. He is featured in several of the movies, and the most recent TV show.

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• Berserk Button: Butch hates being called a liar and will respond with violence.
• Identical Twin Mistake: One short has Butch and his littermate Spike being mistaken for each other a few times.
• Oireland: Butch always has a thick Irish accent. In some versions, he's also an Irish Cop.
• One-Steve Limit: Butch has the same name as Tom's cat frenemy. He also has a brother with the same name as Spike.
• The Old Convict: In one short, Tom is sent to the pound and shares a cell with Butch, a long-serving inmate (due to leash law violations) who befriends Tom and tells him about the place.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: You might recognize him as Droopy's nemesis.

Tin, Pan and Alley

From left to right: Alley, Pan and Tin

Voiced by: Greg Ellis (the voice of Tin), Jess Harnell (the voice of Pan) and Richard McGonagle (the voice of Alley)

A trio of Siamese cats who serve as henchmen to several movie antagonists.

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• Cats Are Mean: The trio serves as the antagonists to Tom and Jerry themselves or otherwise were sent to do dirty work.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Pan always has goofy expressions on him.
• Dirty Coward: They're a trio of villains who tend to scream and run in the face of danger.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Pan is always wearing goggles and never took them off since he was a kitten.
• Le Parkour: The three cats are quite acrobatic and nimble in chase scenes.
• Shout-Out: Their names come from the 1943 Warner Bros. short "Tin Pan Alley Cats."
• Terrible Trio: They're a triad of evil cats.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: All of them are Siamese cats, but they look so similar (aside from Pan's Sphere Eyes underneath his goggles) that telling them from apart would be hard to do unless they were referred by name.

Newt

Voiced by: Rene Mujica

A newt owned by a pair of witches Tom belongs to in some of the 2014 shorts.

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• A Dog Named "Dog": Newt is his name because of being a newt.
• Eye Scream: Implied. Newt wears an eyepatch, presumably due to the witches needing the eye of a newt for a past spell.
• Only Sane Man: Newt often provides advice and insight to Tom and Jerry as the two of them indulge in wild antics.

Hamster

An intelligent but arrogant hamster who lives in the lab of a scientist in some of the early The Tom and Jerry Show (2014) shorts.

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• Brainy Brunette: Sorta. Hamster is intelligent, has brown fur, and is a male example.
• A Dog Named "Dog": Hamster is both his name and his species.
• Genius Bruiser: Hamster is usually shown reading a textbook or making a gadget. Sometimes, though, he is shown practicing martial arts or trying to break a record for how long he can run on his wheel.
• Insufferable Genius: Very intelligent and shows lots of silent arrogance.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Hamster acts superior and doesn't socialize much with the other animals. Nonetheless, he will usually help Jerry when asked. In one episode, he shows a surprising amount of emotion and bravery while trying to stop Tom from eating a goldfish.
• The Quiet One: The most dialogue Hamster ever has in an episode is three sentences. Another episode has Hamster only say two words. In at least one episode, he says nothing at all.
• Silent Snarker: Has shown this.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Like his scientist owner, Hamster is a Gadgeteer Genius and wears spectacles.

Napoleon

Count De Calorie

A gluttonous and hungry, yet polite mouse, who is Jerry’s uncle.

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• Balloon Belly: He continually eats so much, he becomes enormously fat. Even too fat for his clothes.
• Big Eater: He has an appetite for food, including desserts.
• Big Fun: Although he’s slow, due to his size, he is good at playing table tennis with his nephew, Jerry.
• Fat Comic Relief: He may be fat, but he is funny.
• Formerly Fit: He is shown to have lost weight, since Jerry last saw him, but he puts it back on, afterwards.
• Gentle Giant: He is very gentle, although obese.
• Your Size May Vary: Although he is large, he can accidentally sit on Jerry, sometimes.

Humans

Mammy Two-Shoes

Voiced by: Lillian Randolph (theatrical release), June Foray (60's redubs) Thea Vidale (90's redubs)

One of Tom's owners.

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• Accent Adaptation:
  • In the Mexican Spanish dubs, she normally speaks with an over-the-top Cuban accent, as a way to remind the audience that she's black.
  • Downplayed for the 90s English redubs, where she is still a Sassy Black Woman, but has some of her more outdated mannerisms and dialect edited out.
• Audience Surrogate: In the sense that she was written to be a bridge between the everyday human world and the insane antics of Tom and Jerry, and is often the only human character present in the shorts she's in.
• Butt-Monkey: Sometimes, when she has to deal with Tom and Jerry's antics.
• Comedic Underwear Exposure: Often subjected to this.
• Eek, a Mouse!!: She hates mice. Especially Jerry.
• The Faceless: And who never wanted to see her face as a kid? Come on, hands up! Her face is very briefly seen in "Saturday Evening Puss". She was also sometimes drawn in full view in early comics.◊
• Horrible Judge of Character: In the 1952 episode "Triplet Trouble", she considers the triplet kittens "little angels" and fails to notice the fact that they are utter menaces to the house.
• Jerkass Ball: When she ends up punishing Tom for something he didn't even do! In her defense, every time she does it it at least seems like Tom is to blame or he failed a job he had.
• Large Ham: "And when I says 'Out', Jaspah, I mean 'Out!' O-U-W-T, out!"
• Mammy: Though it wasn't made apparent whether she was a housekeeper who lived in a nice house or if that was her house. Given the time period, one would assume the former, but evidence such as the non-appearance of the white family she supposedly works for seems to indicate the latter would be more accurate. At the very least, most of her later appearances heavily suggest that she is the homeowner, like in Saturday Evening Puss where she says "A party?! In MY house?!" while on the phone.
• Named by the Adaptation: While she was never named on-screen, the comic books made during the cartoons theatrical run gave her two different names; Mandy for very early on, and Dinah afterward.
• No Name Given: The Maid is never named on-screen in any of the cartoons. Its become a modern misconception that her name was Mammy Two-Shoes (a name that actually belongs to a very similar character from the Disney Silly Symphonies short "Three Orphan Kittens"), but absolutely no evidence exists, whether it be in production art or interviews, that she was ever intended to have a real name in the cartoons. For what its worth, the comic books of the time gave her two different names: Mandy and Dinah.
• Only Sane Woman: Not that she has much choice, with Tom and Jerry in the same house. Downplayed in some shorts, as she can pursue quite horrifying punishments against Tom. Granted, it's all slapstick and Tom usually recovers immediately, but still.
• Put on a Bus: Her original character is replaced after 1952, with Push-Button Kitty serving as her final appearance.
• Race Lift:
  • In Tom and Jerry Tales, The Maid became a white version of herself, whose accent now sounded like a mix between Irish and Southern U.S. Here, she is explicitly named "Mrs. Two-Shoes".
  • In the 1960s edited for TV versions of some Tom and Jerry cartoons (done by Chuck Jones when he was hired by MGM), she was redrawn, usually as a white, Irish-accented version of herself (similar to the one that would be used in Tom and Jerry Tales). In "Saturday Evening Puss", however, she was redrawn and redubbed as a teenaged white girl named Jeannie who's going out to dance with her boyfriend instead of playing bridge with her club. This is an odd decision given that her face was still kept off-camera (even going to the effort of keeping it obscured in the very brief scene where her face could originally be seen), and an even odder one given that the story now had a slim teenage babysitter breaking down a door with her bare hands.
  • Inverted on the Turner versions which keeps the her original design. Their versions just have her voice redubbed by African-American voice actress Thea Vidale.
• Sassy Black Woman: Talks like one and has many of the mannerisms.
  Mammy: Thomas, if you're a mouse-catcher, I'm Lana Turna, which I'm not.

Jeannie the Babysitter

Voiced by: Julie Bennett

A teenage babysitter, but isn't really that responsible about it.

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• Babysitter from Hell: She's something of a downplayed case, but the same standard applies since she spends all her time talking on the phone rather than doing her job. If it wasn't for Tom and Jerry watching out for the baby, it probably would have come to harm a long time ago due to her irresponsibility.
• Dumb Blonde: Unintelligent and has blonde hair.
• Horrible Judge of Character: She always thinks Tom is bothering the baby, unaware he's either chasing Jerry or the two are putting the baby back on the crib or carriage. She would hit him on the head with a broom afterwards, and tell her friend on the phone about the "mean cat" before resuming their chat.
• Impossible Hourglass Figure: Very noticeable.
• Karma Houdini: It is never shown/revealed whether or not she gets punished or even called out on for her neglectful behavior to the baby.
• Lazy Bum: She would rather be on the phone instead of doing her job.
• Phoneaholic Teenager: She's too busy on the phone to even keep an eye on the baby she's supposed to be watching. Babysitter of the year, everybody.
• Pink Means Feminine: She wears a pink sweater.
• Sexy Sweater Girl: She does have a snug sweater that shows off her figure.
• Skewed Priorities: Again, she would rather gossip with her friends on the phone rather than properly doing her job as a babysitter.
• Ungrateful Bitch: She gives no gratitude to Tom whatsoever whenever the latter helps lookout for the toddler she neglects while she spends hours on the phone and often beats him over the head with whatever object is handy. Granted, she doesn't know Tom actually helps.

The Owner

Voiced by: Allen Swift

Tom's obese, violent owner in three of the Gene Deitch-directed shorts.

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• Ax-Crazy: God help you if you make him mad. Luckily, he's not this trope when laid-back and relaxed (which is... rare to say the least).
• Bad People Abuse Animals: And boy, does it show a lot! He has tortured Tom in so many horrendous ways that it's hard to identify which exact one is worst.
• Black Comedy Animal Cruelty: He beats Tom (a feline) senseless for the smallest of slights, which are supposed to be funny when they actually aren't, several times even doing so with a Slasher Smile. Understandably, his excessively cruel methods of punishing Tom actually horrified and angered many Tom and Jerry fans and got him universally despised by them. Heck, if he existed in real life, he'd be jailed for animal cruelty ten times over and receive a banning from owning animals for life.
• Berserk Button: Almost everything, from Tom unintentionally misbehaving to even the slightest things going wrong, makes him frighteningly mad, but the one thing that enrages him the most is touching his guns.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Not only is he far more violent than The Maid was when it comes to punishing Tom, but he tends to do it in response to even just being mildly irritated by him; in contrast, she usually only got especially angry at Tom when he damaged things.
• Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: In "Sorry Safari" he delivers his memetic scream quote DON'T TOUCH MY GUNS!
• Expy: Bears a damning resemblance to Clint Clobber, a character created by Terrytoons in 1957. The only thing he lacks is the heart of gold Clint could sometimes display. In fact, Gene Deitch himself confirmed they are not the same character, and it shows.
• Fat Bastard: Overweight and a hideously abusive owner.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: He is easily angered, especially when set off by Tom's antics toward Jerry. He never sees Jerry, which means he thinks Tom is misbehaving for no reason at all and will severely punish him for it.
• Jerkass: He frequently pounds the snot out of Tom for any perceived slight, no matter how big or small it is. He also appears to enjoy hurting him, considering he's flashed Slasher Smiles before or after doing so. Indeed, his treatment of Tom is so bad that Spike and The Maid would be disgusted with how he treats Tom if they were to meet.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Due to the horrible way he mistreats Tom, this guy has violated a law against animal cruelty so many times that it's a wonder why he still hasn't been arrested and banned from animal ownership for life yet... until his final short, "Sorry Safari"; he gets mauled by a lion, attacked by an angry rhino, and ultimately tied to a stick alongside Tom and said rhino.
• Lack of Empathy: Don't expect him to show any empathy for Tom when he hurts him. Also, his reaction to him dangling on a tree by his shotgun stuck to his nose, in danger of being shot?
  Owner: That's MY GUN! Give it to me!
• Pet the Dog: Believe it or not, he did it in a certainly twisted way in "Sorry Safari". After encountering a lion, the owner asks Tom for a shotgun, only for the cat to give him a coffee thermos thanks to Jerry´s interference, and gets mauled as a result when he tries to use the thermos to attack the lion. After that, the owner goes to Tom and he firstly takes his time to take a coffee sip and count to ten in an attempt to calm down instead of unleashing his fury on the poor cat. At the end, he only whacks Tom in the head with the thermos, which is pretty tame in comparison with what he usually does to his pet. It is probably the only time in all of his appearances that at least has tried to not immediately giving Tom a savage beating after becoming angry.
• Sadist: Judging by the Slasher Smiles whenever he's abusing Tom, he seems to enjoy it.
• Unstoppable Rage: And god, he's a completely grouchy and abusive owner to the point that his face turns red complete with sharp teeth.

Rick

Voiced by: Stephen Stanton

One of Tom and Spike's owners in The Tom and Jerry Show (2014). He favors Spike, unlike his wife who favors Tom.

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• Asshole Victim: If anything bad happens to Rick, it's generally well-deserved.
• Composite Character: Of the Spike-favoring George (Tom's owner in the later Hanna-Barbera shorts), the abusive owner from the Gene Deitch shorts, and The Faceless Mammy Two-Shoes of the earlier Hanna-Barbera shorts.
• The Faceless: We never see what his face looks like, just like his wife.
• Fat Bastard: He's fat and an utter jerkass to Tom.
• Jerkass: Ill-tempered, hostile, and abusive towards Tom. Not as much as the above character though...
• Jerkass Has a Point: Sorta. Despite being a Jerkass, Rick states Tom would eat Ginger's mother's bird in "Birds of a Feather". He also very nearly did so and later technically succeeded with doing just that. However, he coughed up the birdy the lattermost time.
• Pet the Dog: Literally. He tends to treat Spike with kindness.

Ginger

Voiced by: Grey DeLisle

One of Tom and Spike's owners in The Tom and Jerry Show (2014). She favors Tom, while her husband favors Spike.

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• Composite Character: She takes her facelessness from Mammy of the earlier Hanna-Barbera shorts and her favoritism towards Tom from Joan of the later Hanna-Barbera shorts.
• The Faceless: Like her husband Rick, we never get to see what her face looks like.
• Hartman Hips: It's very noticeable.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: She's usually kind to Tom and sympathetic towards him, unlike her husband.
• Jerkass: Towards Spike. Many episodes such as Spike Gets Skooled, Ginger is very mean/harsh on him and clearly doesn't like as much as Tom. In one episode she asks Rick why he brought Spike with him on their trip and it "should be a vacation from him", while also putting Spike with the luggage while Tom gets to sit in the plane with them. In another episode Ginger decides to sell away Tyke's first baby collar without a care, which upsets Spike greatly.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Towards Tom. Initially, Ginger was kinder and more loving towards Tom and would more often than not defend him if her husband, Rick abused him. By season 3, this side of her has been toned down and she has become much stricter and harsher towards Tom. However, she does seem to revert back to her motherly side after "Un-Welcome Home" (possibly due to him leaving in that episode).

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