History WesternAnimation / TomAndJerryDirectToVideoFilmSeries

* VillainSong: ''Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure'' has the giant sing, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sFjZbrcwAs I'm Ginormous]]", a song where he brags about the protection racket he has going, and about how rude, greedy, brutal and mean he is in general. It also doubles as a TheVillainSucksSong, as a few verses show the giant's victims disgustedly singing about his crimes or reminding him about a prophecy discussing his upcoming defeat.

* ''Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure'' (2013)

* GuiltByAssociation: Athena
* HeelFaceTurn: In ''Robin Hood and his Merry Mouse'', Tom serves Prince John and the Sheriff. When they plan to ambush King Richard and have Maid Marian executed for treason of being Robin Hood's spy, Tom chose to help Jerry free the Merry Men to save Maid Marian and the King.

* JerkAss: In ''The Lost Dragon'', a short fat lady is the one out of all the villagers who despises Athena the most. At one point, she threatens to close down her home and kick her and her animals out. In the end, she realizes she's wrong.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: In ''The Lost Dragon'', the villagers shun Athena due to her evil aunt and fear she will turn out like her due to keeping animals around. Also not helping is her animals often causing trouble in the village.

Creator/CartoonNetwork is definitely owed some gratitude for airing a lot of these films not too long after arrival with ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryAndTheWizardOfOz'' and ''Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse'' airing before their home video releases.[[note]] They've strayed a lot from this over the years, some not airing on Cartoon Network ''at all'' and not airing on Boomerang until over a year or two after their release.[[/note]]

Creator/CartoonNetwork is definitely owed some gratitude for airing a lot of these films not too long after arrival with ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryAndTheWizardOfOz'' and ''Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse'' airing before their home video releases.[[note]] They've strayed a lot from this over the years, some not airing on Cartoon Network ''at all'' and not airing on Boomerang until over a year after their release.[[/note]]

Many of the movies feature the titular cat and mouse getting into themed adventures that test their rivalry, or, in some cases, [[EnemyMine force them to work together]]. Cameos from other MGM characters are often rather common, and sometimes are other Creator/HannaBarbera characters. In more recent years, many of these features [[{{Crossover}} cross the titular duo over with other properties]].

Creator/CartoonNetwork is definitely owed some gratitude for airing a lot of these films not too long after arrival with ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryAndTheWizardOfOz'' and ''Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse'' airing before their home video releases.[[note]] They've strayed a lot from this over the years, some not airing on Cartoon Network at all and not airing on Boomerang until over a year after their release.[[/note]]

* AllTheOtherReindeer: In ''The Lost Dragon'', the villagers shun Athena due to her evil aunt, and fear she will turn out like her due to keeping animals around. Also not helping is her animals often cause trouble on the village.

* HeelFaceTurn: In ''Robin Hood and his Merry Mouse'', Tom serves Prince John and the Sheriff. But when they plan to ambush King Richard and have Maid Marian executed for treason of being Robin Hood's spy, Tom chose to help Jerry free the Merry Men to save Maid Marian and the King.
* HereWeGoAgain: The direct-to-video movies end with Tom and Jerry resuming their chase.
* JerkAss: In ''The Lost Dragon'', a short fat lady is the one, out of all the villagers, who despises Athena the most. At one point, she threatens to close down her home and kick her and her animals out. In the end, she realize she's wrong.
* LimitedAnimation: Not originally but some of the later installments have featured background characters that simply don't move. However some of this is deliberate {{Retraux}} to the late stage of the MGM studio and Hanna Barbera in general.
* MythologyGag: These movies are often loaded with them to references to older shorts, MGM and HB. Some examples including character cameos, ReusedCharacterDesign, DisneyAcidSequence homages some HB theatricals did, music sequences like Creator/TexAvery used to do, etc.

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Maid Marian in ''Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse''. Even lampshaded by one of the mooks.
* TerribleTrio: The three cats who often act as henchmen to the BigBad of some of the later entries.

* HeelFaceTurn: In ''Robin Hood and his Merry Mouse'', Tom serves Prince John and the Sheriff. But when they plan to ambush King Richard and have Maid Marian executed for treason of being Robin Hood's spy, Tom chose to help Jerry free the Merry Men and save Maid Marian and the King.

* HeelFaceTurn: In ''Robin Hood and his Merry Mouse'', Tom serves Prince John and the Sheriff. But when Prince John and the Sheriff plan to have Maid Marian executed for treason of being Robin Hood's spy and ambush King Richard, Tom chose to help Jerry free the Merry Men and save the King.

* HeelFaceTurn: In ''Robin Hood and his Merry Mouse'', Tom serves Prince John and the Sheriff. But when Prince John and the Sheriff plan to have Maid Marian executed for treason of being Robin Hood's spy, Tom chose to help Jerry free the Merry Men and save King Richard.

* JerkAss: In ''The Lost Dragon'', a short fat lady is the one, out of all the villagers, who despite Athena the most. At one point, she threatens to close down her home and kick her and her animals out. In the end, she realize she's wrong.

Cartoon Network is owed some gratitude for airing a lot of these films not too long after arrival with ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryAndTheWizardOfOz'' and ''Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse'' airing before their home video releases.[[note]] They've strayed a lot from this over the years, some not airing on Cartoon Network at all and not airing on Boomerang until over a year after their release.[[/note]]

Cartoon Network is owed some gratitude for airing a lot of these films not long after arrival with ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryAndTheWizardOfOz'' and ''Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse'' airing before their home video release.[[note]] They've strayed a lot from this over the years, some not airing on Cartoon Network at all and not airing on Boomerang until over a year after their release.[[/note]]

* HeelFaceTurn: In ''Robin Hood and his Merry Mouse'', Tom serves Prince John and works for the Sheriff. But when Prince John and the Sheriff plan to have Maid Marian executed for treason, Tom chose to help Jerry free the Merry Men.

* MythologyGag: These movies are often loaded with them to references to older shorts, MGM and HB. Some examples including character cameos, ReusedCharacterDesign, DisneyAcidSequence homages some HB theatricals did, music sequences like Creator/TexAvery used to do, etc.

* ''Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes'' (2010)

* ''Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz'' (2016)

* ''Tom and Jerry and Film/TheWizardOfOz'' (2011)

* ''Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood And His Merry Mouse'' (2012)

Many of the movies feature the titular cat and mouse getting into themed adventures that test their rivalry, or, in some cases, [[EnemyMine force them to work together]]. Cameos from other MGM characters are often rather common, and so are other Creator/HannaBarbera characters. In more recent years, many of these features [[{{Crossover}} cross the titular duo over with other properties]].

Many of the movies feature the titular cat and mouse getting into themed adventures that test their rivalry, or, in some cases, force them to work together]]. Cameos from other MGM characters are often rather common, and so are other Creator/HannaBarbera characters. In more recent years, many of these features [[{{Crossover}} cross the titular duo over with other properties]].

WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry as a franchise had been around for many decades but eventually Warner Bros Animation decided to put the characters to use in a DirectToVideo series similar to how they did the same for Franchise/ScoobyDoo in the WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries.

Many of the movies feature the titular cat and mouse getting into themed adventures that test their rivalry or in some cases yes teamwork. Cameos from other MGM characters are often rather common and in one so far other Creator/HannaBarbera characters. In more recent years many of these features have included mashing up Tom and Jerry into other properties. We'll leave feelings on that for the YMMV page.

To date there have been 13 entries in this series.

* AmusingInjuries: It's Tom and Jerry true and through.
* CrossOver: A common theme in the later entries to mash Tom and Jerry into other properties.

Franchise/TomAndJerry as a franchise had been around for many decades but eventually Warner Bros Animation decided to put the characters to use in a DirectToVideo series similar to how they did the same for Franchise/ScoobyDoo in the WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries.

Tom & Jerry as a franchise had been around for many decades but eventually Warner Bros Animation decided to put the characters to use in a DirectToVideo series similar to how they did the same for Franchise/ScoobyDoo in the WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries.

Tom & Jerry as a franchise had been around for many decades but eventually Warner Bros Animation decided to put the characters to use in a DirecToVideo series similar to how they did the same for Franchise/ScoobyDoo in the WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries.

* MythologyGag: These movies are often loaded with them to references to older shorts, MGM and HB. Some examples including character cameos, RecycledCharacterDesign, DisneyAcidSequence homages some HB theatricals did, music sequences like Creator/TexAvery used to do, etc.