History Fridge / Tomie

* A recurring piece of characterization is that Tomie’s favorite foods are caviar and foie gras. While it’s debatable whether she actually ''likes'' these foods, and it’s at least partially motivated by her greed and a desire to wind up her thralls by mocking them for not being able to provide such famously expensive delicacies, there’s also another dimension to it; expensive caviar is sourced from endangered fish, and its importation was outright banned in much of the world for many years, and foie gras is famously produced by force feeding animals until their livers bloat and distend. In other words, these are both deeply, inherently ''cruel'' foods; and Tomie is nothing if not eager to delight in cruelty.

* A recurring piece of characterization is that Tomie’s favorite foods are caviar and foie gras. While it’s debatable whether she actually likes these foods, and it’s at least partially motivated by her greed and a desire to wind up her thralls by mocking them for not being able to provide such famously expensive delicacies, there’s also another dimension to it; expensive caviar is sourced from endangered fish, and its importation was outright banned in much of the world for many years, and foie gras is famously produced by force feeding animals until their livers bloat and distend. In other words, these are both deeply, inherently cruel foods; and Tomie is nothing if not eager to delight in cruelty.

* The protagonist of the first ''Tomie'' story apparently grew up with the series villain, Tomie, and was ''friends'' with her -- and Tomie having a female friend is something completely unheard of in any of the other stories. In light of the much later chapters, this is only possible in two ways: that Tomie was a child [[ViralTransformation "infected" with another Tomie,]] or that was the ''first'' Tomie and [[FromNobodyToNightmare she started out as a normal teenager]] who was just murdered and dismembered by her classmates- and then discovered she could suddenly regenerate. In that case, whatever Tomie is now, [[WasOnceAMan she wasn't that way to start out with]].

* Seeing as how Tomie ''only'' seems to regenerate after being injured, and even then the injury has to not heal for it to work, it's a little strange how Tomie can start regenerating from her head if she gets angry enough (first seen in Photograph and then much later in the series.) After some thought, though, that Tomie might have indeed gotten injured--she might have had a (not so funny) ''brain aneurysm'' that erupted from stress.

* FridgeHorror:
** The protagonist of the first ''Tomie'' story apparently grew up with the series villain, Tomie, and was ''friends'' with her -- and Tomie having a female friend is something completely unheard of in any of the other stories... In light of the much later chapters, this is only possible in two ways: that Tomie was a child [[ViralTransformation "infected" with another Tomie,]] or that was the ''first'' Tomie and [[FromNobodyToNightmare she started out as a normal teenager]] who was just murdered and dismembered by her classmates- and then discovered she could suddenly regenerate. In that case, whatever Tomie is now, [[WasOnceAMan she wasn't that way to start out with]].

* FridgeBrilliance:
** Seeing as how Tomie ''only'' seems to regenerate after being injured, and even then the injury has to not heal for it to work, it's a little strange how Tomie can start regenerating from her head if she gets angry enough (first seen in Photograph and then much later in the series.) After some thought, though, that Tomie might have indeed gotten injured--she might have had a (not so funny) ''brain aneurysm'' that erupted from stress.
** Rereading "Painter", which also happened to be the point where Ito started getting serious about producing the series, suddenly jumped out with proof that Tomie is trying to get killed with clever manipulation beyond being a bitch. For one, Tomie's behavior changes at notable pauses, like she's analyzing the most effective way to act before doing it. When Mori finds her at Iwata's, she's silent and stares at him before rushing into a teary rant about nearly being killed, and since she was found there, Mori likely "rescued" her from this desired murder so she had to take him back. After, she seems to push Mori into murdering her, first by mentioning on two occasions that men try to kill her and specifically ''chop her up'', which would cause replicatory regeneration, i.e. make more Tomies. This plants the idea in Mori's head, and Tomie tries to push him to the final act by criticizing and abusing him for his last, monstrous portrait of her. This doesn't work, so she pauses and instantly starts laughing instead, which she had seen upset him earlier, and he does just what she told him about, killing and cutting her up like she wanted. She abuses, but she also ''adapts'' and changes tactics, on top of planting ideas that will let her spread. This seems to be confirmed by Ito's author commentary, in which he said that the more committed approach to the series made him more intent on portraying Tomie's characteristics as clearly as possible.

** The protagonist of the first ''Tomie'' story apparently grew up with the series villain, Tomie, and was ''friends'' with her -- and Tomie having a female friend is something completely unheard of in any of the other stories. In light of the much later chapters, this is only possible in two ways: that Tomie was a child [[ViralTransformation "infected" with Tomie,]] or that was the ''first'' Tomie and [[FromNobodyToNightmare she started out as a normal teenager]] who was just murdered and dismembered by her classmates. In that case, whatever Tomie is now, [[WasOnceAMan she wasn't that way to start out]].

** Rereading the "Painter", which also happened to be the point where Ito started getting serious about producing the series, suddenly jumped out with proof that Tomie is trying to get killed with clever manipulation beyond being a bitch. For one, Tomie's behavior changes at notable pauses, like she's analyzing the most effective way to act before doing it. When Mori finds her at Iwata's, she's silent and stares at him before rushing into a teary rant about nearly being killed, and since she was found there, Mori likely "rescued" her from this desired murder so she had to take him back. After, she seems to push Mori into murdering her, first by mentioning on two occasions that men try to kill her and specifically ''chop her up'', which would cause replicatory regeneration, i.e. make more Tomies. This plants the idea in Mori's head, and Tomie tries to push him to the final act by criticizing and abusing him for his last, monstrous portrait of her. This doesn't work, so she pauses and instantly starts laughing instead, which she had seen upset him earlier, and he does just what she told him about, killing and cutting her up like she wanted. She abuses, but she also ''adapts'' and changes tactics, on top of planting ideas that will let her spread. This seems to be confirmed by Ito's author commentary, in which he said that the more committed approach to the series made him more intent on portraying Tomie's characteristics as clearly as possible.

** Rereading the fifth chapter, which also happened to be the point where Ito started getting serious about producing the series, suddenly jumped out with proof that Tomie is trying to get killed with clever manipulation beyond being a bitch. For one, Tomie's behavior changes at notable pauses, like she's analyzing the most effective way to act before doing it. When Mori finds her at Iwata's, she's silent and stares at him before rushing into a teary rant about nearly being killed, and since she was found there, Mori likely "rescued" her from this desired murder so she had to take him back. After, she seems to push Mori into murdering her, first by mentioning on two occasions that men try to kill her and specifically ''chop her up'', which would cause replicatory regeneration, i.e. make more Tomies. This plants the idea in Mori's head, and Tomie tries to push him to the final act by criticizing and abusing him for his last, monstrous portrait of her. This doesn't work, so she pauses and instantly starts laughing instead, which she had seen upset him earlier, and he does just what she told him about, killing and cutting her up like she wanted. She abuses, but she also ''adapts'' and changes tactics, on top of planting ideas that will let her spread. This seems to be confirmed by Ito's author commentary, in which he said that the more committed approach to the series made him more intent on portraying Tomie's characteristics as clearly as possible.

** Rereading the fifth chapter, which also happened to be the point where Ito started getting serious about producing the series, suddenly jumped out with proof that Tomie is trying to get killed with clever manipulation beyond being a bitch. For one, Tomie's behavior changes at notable pauses, like she'z analyzing the most effective way to act before doing it. When Mori finds her at Iwata's, she's silent and stares at him before rushing into a teary rant about nearly being killed, and since she was found there, Mori likely "rescued" her from this desired murder so she had to take him back. After, she seems to push Mori into murdering her, first by mentioning on two occasions that men try to kill her and specifically ''chop her up'', which would cause replicatory regeneration, i.e. make more Tomies. This plants the idea in Mori's head, and Tomie tries to push him to the final act by criticizing and abusing him for his last, monstrous portrait of her. This doesn't work, so she pauses and instantly starts laughing instead, which she had seen upset him earlier, and he does just what she told him about, killing and cutting her up like she wanted. She abuses, but she also ''adapts'' and changes tactics, on top of planting ideas that will let her spread. This seems to be confirmed by Ito's author commentary, in which he said that the more committed approach to the series made him more intent on portraying Tomie's characteristics as clearly as possible.

** Rereading the fifth chapter, which also happened to be the point where Ito started getting serious about producing the series, suddenly jumped out with proof that Tomie is trying to get killed with clever manipulation beyond being a bitch. For one, Tomie's behavior changes at notable pauses, like she'z analyzing the most effective way to act before doing it. When Mori finds her at Iwata's, she's silent and stares at him before rushing into a teary rant about nearly being killed, and since she was found there, Mori likely "rescued" her from this desired murder so she had to take him back. After, she seems to push Mori into murdering her, first by mentioning on two occasions that men try to kill her and specifically ''chop her up'', which would cause replicatory regeneration, i.e. make more Tomies. This plants the idea in Mori's head, and Tomie tries to push him to the final act by criticizing and abusing him for his last, monstrous portrait of her. This doesn't work, so she pauses and instantly starts laughing instead, which she had seen upset him earlier, and he does just what she told him about, killing and cutting her up like she wanted. She abuses, but she also ''adapts'' and changes tactics, on top of planting ideas that will let her spread.

** Seeing as how Tomie ''only'' seems to regenerate after being injured, and even then the injury has to not heal for it to work, it's a little strange how Tomie can start regenerating from her head if she gets angry enough (first seen in Photograph and then much later in the series.) After some thought, though, that Tomie might have indeed gotten injured--she might have had a (not so funny) ''brain aneurysm'' that erupted from stress.

** The protagonist of the first ''Tomie'' story apparently grew up with the series villain, Tomie, and was ''friends'' with her -- and Tomie having a female friend is something completely unheard of in any of the other stories. In light of the much later chapters, this is only possible in two ways: that Tomie was a child [[ViralTransformation "infected" with Tomie,]] or that was the ''first'' Tomie and [[FromNobodyToNightmare she started out as a normal teenager]] who was just murdered and dismembered by her classmates. In that case, whatever Tomie is now, [[WasOnceAMan she wasn't that way to start out]].

** The protagonist of the first ''Tomie'' story apparently grew up with the series' villain. There is literally no good way to read those implications. Most likely, the girl she grew up with was a child who was intentionally or unintentionally [[ViralTransformation "infected" with Tomie]]. In that case, her parents were either under her sway, or unaware that they were in fact raising a HumanoidAbomination. Neither is exactly a good thing. The other possibility is that the Tomie she knew was the ''first'' Tomie, and [[FromNobodyToNightmare started out as a normal teenager]] who was just murdered and dismembered by her classmates. In that case, whatever Tomie is now, [[WasOnceAMan she wasn't that way to start out]].
** In some stories featuring Tomie, it's shown that she can regenerate to a level that goes beyond FromASingleCell, straight to being able to survive [[KillItWithFire an attempt at immolation]] and rise again from dust and ashes. If that's the case, then she could presumably create a large number of duplicates of herself by reducing her body to incredibly fine dust and then spreading it over a large area. Thank god that no one's ever invented any sort of weapon that Tomie could convince a handful of people to use that could vaporize a person and then transport their ashes into the high speed wind currents in the strat''ohshit''.

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* The protagonist of the first ''Tomie'' story apparently grew up with the series' villain. There is literally no good way to read those implications. Most likely, the girl she grew up with was a child who was intentionally or unintentionally [[ViralTransformation "infected" with Tomie]]. In that case, her parents were either under her sway, or unaware that they were in fact raising a HumanoidAbomination. Neither is exactly a good thing. The other possibility is that the Tomie she knew was the ''first'' Tomie, and [[FromNobodyToNightmare started out as a normal teenager]] who was just murdered and dismembered by her classmates. In that case, whatever Tomie is now, [[WasOnceAMan she wasn't that way to start out]].
* In some stories featuring Tomie, it's shown that she can regenerate to a level that goes beyond FromASingleCell, straight to being able to survive [[KillItWithFire an attempt at immolation]] and rise again from dust and ashes. If that's the case, then she could presumably create a large number of duplicates of herself by reducing her body to incredibly fine dust and then spreading it over a large area. Thank god that no one's ever invented any sort of weapon that Tomie could convince a handful of people to use that could vaporize a person and then transport their ashes into the high speed wind currents in the strat''ohshit''.
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* In some stories featuring Tomie, it's hinted that she can regenerate to a level that goes beyond FromASingleCell, straight to being able to survive [[KillItWithFire an attempt at immolation]] and rise again from dust and ashes. If that's the case, then she could presumably create a large number of duplicates of herself by reducing her body to incredibly fine dust and then spreading it over a large area. Thank god that no one's ever invented any sort of weapon that Tomie could convince a handful of people to use that could vaporize a person and then transport their ashes into the high speed wind currents in the strat''ohshit''.

* In some stories featuring Tomie, it's hinted that she can regenerate to a level that goes beyond FromASingleCell, straight to being able to survive [[KillItWithFire an attempt at immolation]] and rise again from dust and ashes. If that's the case, then she could presumably create a large number of duplicates of herself by reducing her body to incredibly fine dust and then spreading it over a large area. Thank god that no one's ever invented any sort of weapon that could vaporize a person and then transport their ashes into the high speed wind currents in the strat''ohshit''.

* The protagonist of the first *Tomie* story apparently grew up with the series' villain. There is literally no good way to read those implications. Most likely, the girl she grew up with was a child who was intentionally or unintentionally [[ViralTransformation "infected" with Tomie]]. In that case, her parents were either under her sway, or unaware that they were in fact raising a HumanoidAbomination. Neither is exactly a good thing. The other possibility is that the Tomie she knew was the ''first'' Tomie, and [[FromNobodyToNightmare started out as a normal teenager]] who was just murdered and dismembered by her classmates. In that case, her possible appearance in [[spoiler:the last page of "Mansion" as a sad-looking, lost young woman takes on entirely different levels of horror]].

* The protagonist of the first *Tomie* story apparently grew up with the series' villain. There is literally no good way to read those implications. Most likely, the girl she grew up with was a child who was intentionally or unintentionally [[ViralTransformation "infected" with Tomie]]. In that case, her parents were either under her sway, or unaware that they were in fact raising a HumanoidAbomination. Neither is exactly a good thing. The other possibility is that the Tomie she knew was the ''first'' Tomie, and [[FromNobodyToNightmare started out as a normal teenager]] who was just murdered and dismembered by her classmates.

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* The protagonist of the first *Tomie* story apparently grew up with the series' villain. There is literally no good way to read those implications. Most likely, the girl she grew up with was a child who was intentionally or unintentionally [[ViralTransformation "infected" with Tomie]]. In that case, her parents were either under her sway, or unaware that they were in fact raising a HumanoidAbomination. Neither is exactly a good thing. The other possibility is that the Tomie she knew was the ''first'' Tomie, and [[FromNobodyToNightmare started out as a normal teenager]] who was just murdered and dismembered by her classmates.