History Characters / Tomie

* HealingFactor: Each instance of Tomie heals very quickly, at least from surface wounds.

* HateSink: Of Junji Ito's many horrific monsters, Tomie is ''explicitly designed to be hated by the audience'' and is made after the emotionally manipulative women Junji Ito fears the most. Resembling a bratty teenage girl, she behaves in an obnoxious and narcissistic fashion, driving those who see her to obsession and lavishing her in gifts and praise while complaining about everything being insufficient. In truth, however, she is a horrific, cruel abomination with infinite regeneration powers who merely resembles a teenage girl and uses her manipulation to target the vulnerable and inevitably drive them to madness and insanity. Her most hateable moment comes when she emotionally manipulates and molests a young boy, and causes the young boy to be driven to madness and turned into a [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds deranged serial killer.]] Lacking any mitigating factors of likeability and not even being particularly bright, and even factoring in her [[FreudianExcuse depressing backstory]] which fails to excuse her [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse inhumanity]], Tomie is uniquely and unambigiously despicable.

* SkewedProrities: Tomie's priorities skew exclusively toward the short-term comfort and pleasure of Tomie alone. And, if she enthralls someone, so will theirs.

* AllegoricalCharacter: Junji Ito has stated he wrote Tomie as a representation of his fears of emotionally manipulative women. She's also been noted as a stand-in for the cycle of abuse, representing a regenerating, cyclical force that was created as a result of her teacher committing statutory rape and getting her killed by accident. She haunts the world by relying on parasitic exploitation and driving innocents into either obsession or hatred, which both lead to their doom. Similar to real-life abusers, the most viable tactic for survival seems to be to ignore her.

* BlatantLies: The first Tomie tries to win Tsukiko over by making up ridiculous stories about how rich and influential her family is, but Tsukiko sees through them.

* SmugSnake: Assuming she isn't invoking her cycles of death and rebirth, she definitely fits this to a T, being an entitled brat who always believes she's in control of the situations she finds herself in, only for that to be proven to definitely not be the case when her victims inevitably kill her in a painful fashion.

* Narcissist: Ryo was obsessed with his looks. Even Tomie's face was nothing to his, in his eyes. As a result the ugliness of his burns was too much for him to take.

* EvilIsPetty: Arguably what makes her so horrifying. Tomie has no apparent long-term goal or master plan in her actions. She simply wants to mess around with people, extract as much resources as she can from them, and emotionally torment them. Her small-mindedness makes her horrific.

* AxCrazy: Usually during her VillainousBreakdown{{s}}, though this would overlap with her suitors who throttle her.

'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HozumiGoda (Anime, JP), Creator/JMichaelTatum (Anime, EN)

* KickTheSonOfABitch: In the "Elderly Couple" chapter she mistreats and eventually kills the maid by driving the old man into a homicidal frenzy. Said maid has been murdering several orphan girls adopted by the couple so she could claim their inheritance. Tomie is ''far'' from any better, but in this case her presence doubles as LaserGuidedKarma.

* [[UngratefulBastard Ungrateful Bitch]]: Tomie seems incapable of feeling any gratitude for what other people do for her.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Imprisoning a young girl until she reaches old age would've been bad... If she wasn't a Tomie.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Caviar and foie gras- she appears to dislike just about everything else and will get mad at anyone who gives her something else to eat. It's unlikely she actually enjoys it; she probably orders her victims to get her those infamously expensive foods just to torment them.

* BullyingADragon: After finding out what a cruel, unstable, manipulative monster Tomie is (though she doesn't know how literal this is) Tsukiko decides to call her a hideous monster ''to her face''. Tomie doesn't take it well, and Tsukiko nearly gets killed by Tomie's love-crazed minions.

* 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; other times, they're even competitive against other "rival" Tomies, though this typically happens with Tomie-infected humans like the ones in the last arc who refer to each other by their original names. 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. Tomies seem to be able to sense the presence and physical condition of each other, as well.

* HateSink: Of Junji Ito's many horrific monsters, Tomie is one of the few that can be truly despised. Resembling a bratty teenage girl, she behaves in an obnoxious and narcissistic fashion, driving those who see her to obsession and lavishing her in gifts and praise while complaining about everything being insufficient. In truth, however, she is a horrific, cruel abomination with infinite regeneration powers who merely resembles a teenage girl and uses her manipulation to target the vulnerable and inevitably drive them to madness and insanity. Her most hateable moment comes when she emotionally manipulates and molests a young boy, and causes the young boy to be driven to madness and turned into a [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds deranged serial killer.]] Lacking any mitigating factors of likeability, EvilIsCool moments and not even being particularly bright, and even factoring in her [[FreudianExcuse depressing backstory]] which fails to excuse her [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse inhumanity]], Tomie is uniquely and unambigiously despicable.

* TheSociopath: At her core, she is a manipulative narcissist who only cares about her own desires. People are disposable to her when they are no longer of use to her, and she'll discard them without a second thought. She knows what she does is wrong and doesn't care about the pain she causes.

* DidntSeeThatComing: As a way of mocking Isumizawa and getting her into trouble, Tomie has her take a bunch of pictures, even telling the girl that she can put them on flyers and spread them all over the school if she wanted to. So she ''does'', and that's when Tomie realizes she had a GlamourFailure.

* BullyingADragon: After finding out what a cruel, unstable, manipulative monster Tomie is(though she doesn't know how literal this is) Tsukiko decides to call her a hideous monster ''to her face''. Tomie doesn't take it well, and Tsukiko nearly gets killed by Tomie's love-crazed minions.