History Characters / Tomie

* BlessedWithSuck: A situation where she is both this trope ''and'' CursedWithAwesome. Everytime Tomie seems to have reached her goal (being worshipped and having her every whim fulfilled), exposure to her very presence means that she can never get to enjoy those things for very long, and she has to start over from zero. Sure, she can regenerate, but this means that she has to get murdered and chopped into pieces every single time, and we know she can feel pain. Not to mention that a. any temper tantrum can lead to a tumor growing out of her head, a process which she appears to find extremely distressing, and at least some Tomies ''really'' hate each other and will try their best to eliminate one another.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Tomie has black hair and a pale skin complex, enough to make any man fall for her.

* PsychopathicManchild: Tomie's wishes never go above those of a shallow teenage girl: handsome young men to fawn over her, fashionable clothes and jewelry and eating good food. She"s also proven to be just as petty and mean as her human counterparts. The only difference is that Tomie is capable of destroying lives and getting people killed, and death won’t stop her.

* TheAgeless: Played with. A Tomie born from infecting a normal person with Tomie is able to grow older, with an infant Tomie being shown growing up to adulthood [[spoiler:and old age.]] The moment she multiplies via regeneration, however she doesn't age anymore--and presumably the Tomies that split off from her don't age either.

The titular antagonist of the series. Tomie is a young woman and horror monster whose nature [[NothingIsScarier is left intentionally unexplained in full.]] Men (and in rare instances, other women) can't seem to stop themselves from chopping her into pieces, but Tomie is able to regenerate from anything into brand new Tomies. Some stories, particularly later ones, feature new Tomies distinct from the one featured in a previous story, but that Tomie is sure to act in exactly the same way as all the others.

* PsychopathicManchild: Tomie's wishes never go above those of a shallow teenage girl: handsome young men to fawn over her, fashionable clothes and jewelry and eating good food. She"s also proven to be just as petty and mean as her human counterparts. The only difference is that Tomie is capable of destroying lives and getting people killed.

* WasOnceAMan: Possibly. It’s ambiguous if the Tomie in he first story is the original one or simply got infected. Of course, people who were infected by Tomie clearly count.

* VillainProtagonist: is basically this in ''Old and Ugly''. He injects three innocent babies with Tomie's blood, knowing full well that they will turn into Tomie's and grow up to do horrible things to people, so he can get "revenge" on a single Tomie out of what are likely hundreds.

* FacialMolesSymbolizeBeauty: The vain Tomie, whom many men fall for, is characterized by a mole just under her eye.

* EvilTeacher: he's a teacher who has sex with one of his teenage students even before he becomes a psychopath, and then goes on to assist Tomie in some of her most horrific crimes.

* TeacherStudentRomance: The way that his relationship with Tomie started in the first story. Although at first he didn't seem very happy about it after she came back from the dead, it's implied that her influence is what drove him to be obsessed with her after she was killed.

* HiveMind: A strange case; all Tomies act with almost the exact same personality, and some Tomies are shown to share memories between each other as well, but they only sometimes act under a single intelligence and usually they're even competitive against other "rivals" Tomies. A few exceptions to this are shown in "Little Finger" or "The Basin of the Waterfall", where the Tomies there got along/acted as one while they were still regenerating.

* AmbiguousSituation: Is Tomie a monster, a girl with supernatural powers, an alien, or an embodiment of human lust and abuse? It's never explained why she can regenerate and hold such sway over others, and other characters can only guess at what happens and why based on what they observe of her.

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-->"Me? I am Tomie."

* VillainProtagonist: Tomie is a heinous, inhuman abomination. And the main character.

* WouldHurtAChild: Tomie is shown to purposefully infect little girls, grafted parts of her to a teenage girl, ate a small boy and even sexually molested an eight year old boy.

* KillItWithFire: Other Tomies will suggest killing their "rivals" by burning them, and it's eventually confirmed that the only thing that can kill a Tomie for good is to cremate her at the highest temperature possible. As "Little Finger" demonstrates, though, anything less than cremation won't be enough.

* ForTheEvulz: Tomie often goes out of her way to ruin innocent lives for no reasons. Special mention goes to ''Boy'', where Tomie: molests an 8 year old boy, mocks his mother that the boy is her's now, [[CorruptTheCutie drives the boy to murder]], drives him to despair by saying she was [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness only playing with him]] and then making the father of his family run off with her.

* ForTheEvulz: Tomie often goes out of her way to ruin innocent lives for no reasons. Special mention goes to ''Boy'', where Tomie: molests an 8 year old boy, mocks his mother that the boy is her's now, [[CorruptTheCutie drives the boy to murder]], drives him to despair by saying she was [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefullness only playing with him]] and then making the father of his family run off with her.

* ArcVillain: While Tomie herself is prevent throughout the series than a proper Arc Villain, Takagi is this for the early half of the series. He intentionally mixes innocent people up in the horror that is Tomie and experiments with her regenerative process, ostensibly to learn how to stop it, until his last appearance in the Morita Hospital two-parter.

* HiveMind: A strange case; all Tomies act with almost the exact same personality, and some Tomies are shown to share memories between each other as well, but they never act under a single intelligence and usually they're even competitive against other "rivals" Tomies. A few exceptions to this are shown in "Little Finger" or "The Basin of the Waterfall", where the Tomies there got along/acted as one while they were still regenerating.

* ArcVillain: While Tomie herself is prevent throughout the series and is arguably more a force of nature than a proper Arc Villain, Takagi is this for the early half of the series. He intentionally mixes innocent people up in the horror that is Tomie and experiments with her regenerative process, ostensibly to learn how to stop it, until his last appearance in the Morita Hospital two-parter.

* TheUnfavorite: As a result of her little sister being a Tomie, Yasuko is viewed as plain by comparison, at least by their father...

* TheUnfavorite: As a result of her little sister being a Tomie, Yasuko is viewed as plain by comparison.

* OnlySaneMan: She's one of the few protagonists to get mixed up in Tomie's affairs and live, mostly because she's able to keep her wits, not fall for any of Tomie's charm, and get the hell away whenever she has the chance.

* MadScientist: He takes on this role in spirit after his first appearance, experimenting with Tomie using normal human girls as guinea pigs.

* ViralInfection: Another way Tomie spreads herself; if some of her cells or blood is left in an unwitting victim (at least a female one), they end up transforming into another version of her.