YMMV / The Railway Series B30: "More About Thomas the Tank Engine"

• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Percy. While Thomas is ultimately the one treated as being in the wrong, Percy comes across as pretty immature himself, laughing at Thomas' predicament with the coal (which caused Thomas to miss his train), then sulking about Thomas accusing him of doing it on purpose and calling him a disgrace to the railway for letting himself get dirty. Percy may not have caused the accident deliberately, but it was still his train, therefore, he could have took at least some responsibility for it. At the end of the first story, he becomes "determined to pay Thomas out". The problem is, Thomas had nothing to do with Percy's accident. All he did was laugh about it, which was no different to Percy laughing at Thomas's paint getting dirty earlier in the story. Later on, in Drip Tank, Thomas did not "Stop [Percy] from doing something nice." Percy was the one who chose not to, because he was upset about Thomas berating him for not keeping a good look out. He initially refuses to help Thomas, only relenting when reminded of the passengers, thus the reader is supposed to see Percy as the hero in this scenario. However it's still Thomas who's the bigger engine and apologizes.