History YMMV / Tomie

** Is Tomie's regeneration a supernatural means to protect herself from the men who want to chop her to pieces? Or does she cause people to chop her to pieces as a form of reproduction (also explaining why she's so pointlessly aggravating to her "boyfriends")? The former was suggested in "Mansion," although the speaker was hardly a reliable source of information.

* CompleteMonster: [[VillainProtagonist Tomie]] is a HumanoidAbomination who enjoys [[ManipulativeBastard toying with men to get what she wants]]. She gets them so devoted to her that they'll commit murder and suicide for her, and then drives them to murder her, after which she always {{re|surrectiveImmortality}}generates, usually with multiple bodies in one HiveMind. At one point, a bunch of Tomie chunks grew into more Tomies at the bottom of a lake, where they proceeded to lure many men to jump and [[WouldHurtAChild drown one young boy]], to say nothing of the child she drives insane in the "Boy" chapter. She also uses transplants to [[AssimilationPlot take over girls' bodies and minds completely]]. In another chapter, she turns an old couple who took her in against each other, leading to the wife being DrivenToSuicide and the husband killing Tomie and the maid, [[{{Greed}} all so she could get their money]].

* CompleteMonster: [[VillainProtagonist Tomie]] is a HumanoidAbomination who enjoys [[ManipulativeBastard toying with men to get what she wants]]. She gets them so devoted to her that they'll commit murder and suicide for her, and then drives them to murder her, after which she always {{re|surrectiveImmortality}}generates, usually with multiple bodies in one HiveMind. Another time, a bunch of Tomie chunks grew into more Tomies at the bottom of a lake, where they proceeded to lure many men to jump and [[WouldHurtAChild drown one young boy]]. She also uses transplants to [[AssimilationPlot take over girls' bodies and minds completely]]. In the final chapter, she turns an old couple who took her in against each other, leading to the wife being DrivenToSuicide and the husband killing Tomie and the maid, [[{{Greed}} all so she could get their money]].

** Tomie crossed it in the fourth chapter by grafting pieces of herself onto a girl that [[BodyHorror grew into many more Tomies]], which are so painful [[FateWorseThanDeath that her screams sound like thunder]].

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is Tomie a bitch because she's an AnthropomorphicPersonification of lust and violence, and the death and destruction she causes in her wake the whole point of her existence in terms of the reason she was put on the earth?

* CompleteMonster: [[VillainProtagonist Tomie]] is a HumanoidAbomination who enjoys [[ManipulativeBastard toying with men to get what she wants]]. She gets them so devoted to her that they'll commit murder and suicide for her, and then drives them to murder her, after which she always {{re|surrectiveImmortality}}generates, usually with multiple bodies in one HiveMind. One time, she experimented on a girl, attaching chunks of herself to her victim that proceeded to [[BodyHorror grow into more Tomies on her]]. This leaves her in such pain that [[FateWorseThanDeath her screams sound like thunder]]. Another time, a bunch of Tomie chunks grew into more Tomies at the bottom of a lake, where they proceeded to lure many men to jump and [[WouldHurtAChild drown one young boy]]. She also uses transplants to [[AssimilationPlot take over girls' bodies and minds completely]]. In the final chapter, she turns an old couple who took her in against each other, leading to the wife being DrivenToSuicide and the husband killing Tomie and the maid, [[{{Greed}} all so she could get their money]].

* CounterpartComparison: Tomie has a lot of similarities to Helen Vaughan, a beautiful yet sinister woman who is a humanoid abomination from the novella ''The Great God Pan''. They use their great beauty to seduce males then corrupt both soul and body of their victims.

** Little Finger is this for one of the later Tomies, showing any kindness or vulnerability she shows is a lie to BaitTheDog.

* DesignatedHero: Tsukiko and the male model character from the later stories. The former is involved in taking pics of her male classmates without permission to sell to her female friends and the latter is an arrogant asshole who not only tries disfigure Tomie after she disfigures him, but also starts creating NEW versions of Tomie (who can age) simply to torment the new versions by watching them age and lose their beauty that way.

** Tomie eating a little boy alive in the sixth chapter is another one.
** Little Finger is this for Tomie, showing any kindness or vulnerability she shows is a lie to BaitTheDog.

* MoralEventHorizon: Tomie crossed it in the fourth chapter by grafting pieces of herself onto a girl that [[BodyHorror grew into many more Tomies]], which are so painful [[FateWorseThanDeath that her screams sound like thunder]].
* TechnologyMarchesOn: In "Photograph" it takes ''one'' accidental photo from the only girl in school who owns a camera to make Tomie lose her cool. How on earth would Tomie cope with ''everyone'' owning a camera that can instantly send film and video to everyone else?
** Then again, it might only work with actual film.
** The implication seems to be that not every photographer can bring this out of her. Her "father" in "Mansion" admits his own pictures never turn out that way.
* TooDumbToLive: Tomie, actually. Despite being killed hundreds, if not ''thousands'' of times, she still continues to mock and belittle those obsessed with her, eventually having them snap and kill her in return. One would think she would learn after awhile.
** AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: What if she actually ''wants'' to die?
*** Alternately, her ability to piss everyone off (or make them so obsessed with her that they murder her and hack her to pieces) [[FridgeBrilliance could be intentional, as it allows her to "reproduce" over and over]]. The same could be said for every Tomie duplicate's desire to kill any other Tomies they encounter.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: "Hair", as it spends an entire Tomie-less chapter exploring a property of Tomie that ultimately amounts to nothing- no advancement of the Tomie "species", just death.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Tomie a bitch because she's an AnthropomorphicPersonification of lust and violence, and the death and destruction she causes in her wake the whole point of her existence in terms of the reason she was put on the earth?
* CompleteMonster: [[VillainProtagonist Tomie]] is a HumanoidAbomination who enjoys [[ManipulativeBastard toying with men to get what she wants]]. She gets them so devoted to her that they'll commit murder and suicide for her, and then drives them to murder her, after which she always [[ResurrectiveImmortality regenerates]], usually with multiple bodies in one HiveMind. One time, she experimented on a girl, attaching chunks of herself to her victim that proceeded to [[BodyHorror grow into more Tomies on her]]. This leaves her in such pain that [[FateWorseThanDeath her screams sound like thunder]]. Another time, a bunch of Tomie chunks grew into more Tomies at the bottom of a lake, where they proceeded to lure many men to jump and [[WouldHurtAChild drown one young boy]]. She also uses transplants to [[AssimilationPlot take over girls' bodies and minds completely]]. In the final chapter, she turns an old couple who took her in against each other, leading to the wife being DrivenToSuicide and the husband killing Tomie and the maid, [[{{Greed}} all so she could get their money]].

** AlternateCharacterInterpretation: What if she actually ''wants'' to die?

* VillainSue: Tomie zigzagged in and out of this trope, depending on the stories. In most standard stories, she utterly ruined the life of the people she encountered. The only things that made keep the viewers interested is because Ito occasionally gives the story a BittersweetEnding or a HereWeGoAgain but with ''another'' character.

* XMeetsY: ''Film/TheThing1982'' goes {{Seinen}}.

* DesignatedHero: Tsukiko and the male model character from the later stories. The former is involved in taking pics of her male classmates without permission to sell to her female friends and the later is an arrogant asshole who not only tries disfigure Tomie after she disfigures him, but also starts creating NEW versions of Tomie (who can age) simply to torment the new versions by watching them age and lose their beauty that way.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Tomie a bitch because she's a [[CompleteMonster Complete Monster]] or because she's a AnthropomorphicPersonification of lust and violence, and the death and destruction she causes in her wake the whole point of her existence in terms of the reason she was put on the earth?
* CompleteMonster: Tomie easily qualifies. She's a [[ManipulativeBitch Manipulative Bitch]] to everyone she meets and is completely nonchalant about anyone who gets hurt due to her actions. However, her nature as an [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abomination]] may excuse her.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Tomie a bitch because she's a [[CompleteMonster Complete Monster]] or because she's [[AndIMustScream desperate for someone to finally find a way to kill her permanently?]]
** Or maybe she's evil because people keep messily dismembering her, and she's grown sick of trying to be nice to them.

* DesignatedHero: Tsukiko may come across as this to some readers in the early chapters, considering how she takes pictures of boys so she could sell them to girls for profit without the boy's consent. Tomie finds out and haves her photos confiscated, and threatens Tsukiko to hand them over to the school should she continue her business. Later, Tsukiko takes pictures of Tomie from a request from a friend she could simply have refused, and ends up caught by a teacher and thus earning a suspension. Upon noticing the disturbing results after developing the pictures of Tomie, Tsukiko decides to spread the photos around the school in an attempt to humilate Tomie for...correctly stopping Tsukiko from 'abusing public morals'. In anger, Tomie charms the students into killing her, but this wouldn't have happened if Tsukiko stopped BullyingTheDragon in the first place.

* DesignatedHero: Tsukiko may come across as this to some readers in the early chapters, considering how she takes pictures of boys so she could sell them to girls for profit without the boy's consent. Tomie finds out and haves her photos confiscated, and threatens Tsukiko to hand them over to the school should she continue her business. Later, Tsukiko takes pictures of Tomie from a request from a friend she could simply have refused, and ends up caught by a teacher and thus earning a suspension. Upon noticing the disturbing results after developing the pictures of Tomie, Tsukiko decides to spread the photos around the school in an attempt to humilate Tomie for...correctly stopping Tsukiko from 'abusing public morals'. Of course, in anger, Tomie charms the students into killing her, but this wouldn't have happened if Tsukiko stopped BullyingTheDragon in the first place.

* XMeetsY: Film/TheThing goes {{Seinen}}.

* XMeetsY: Film/TheThing goes {{Bishoujo}}.

* CompleteMonster: Tomie easily qualifies. She's a [[ManipulativeBitch Manipulative Bitch]] to everyone she meets and is completely nonchalant about anyone who gets hurt due to her actions. However, her nature as an [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abomination]] may excuse her.