Thomas “Tom” Jasper Cat, commonly referred to as Tom Cat, or more simply referred to as Tom, and originally known as Jasper, is one of the two anti-heroic protagonists in Tom and Jerry, alongside Jerry Mouse, created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Despite being referred as an anti-heroic, Tom is more often placed in the role of the antagonist, with Jerry often being the protagonist just as much.
Tom is a bluish-grey and white anthropomorphic domestic short haired tuxedo British cat who first appeared in the 1940 MGM animated short Puss Gets the Boot. The cat was known as Jasper during his debut in the short; however, beginning with his next appearance in The Midnight Snack he was known as Tom or Thomas.
Tom and Jerry cartoons
His name, “Tom Cat”, is based on “tomcat”, a word which refers to male cats. He is usually mute and rarely heard speaking with the exception of a few cartoons (such as 1943’s The Lonesome Mouse, 1944’s The Zoot Cat, 1947’s Part Time Pal, 1953’s Puppy Tale and 1992’s Tom and Jerry: The Movie). His only notable vocal sounds outside of this are his various screams whenever he is subjected to panic or, more frequently, pain. He is continuously after Jerry Mouse, for whom he sets traps, many of which backfire and cause damage to him rather than Jerry. His trademark scream was provided by creator William Hanna. Hanna’s recordings of Tom screaming were later used as a stock sound effect for other MGM cartoon characters, including a majority of Tex Avery’s shorts.
Tom is usually defeated in the end (or very rarely, killed, like in Mouse Trouble, where he explodes), although there are some stories where he outwits and defeats Jerry. Besides Jerry, he also has trouble with other mouse or cat characters. One of them that appears frequently is Spike Bulldog. Spike regularly appears and usually assists Jerry and beats up Tom. Though in some occasions Tom beats him or he turns on Jerry (like his debut appearance in Dog Trouble). Usually when Tom is chasing Jerry after a bit Jerry turns the tables on Tom and beats him or uses an outside character such as Spike to beat Tom.
Tom has variously been portrayed as a house cat doing his job, and a victim of Jerry’s blackmail attempts, sometimes within the same short. He is almost always called by his full name “Thomas” by Mammy Two Shoes. In 1961 short Switchin’ Kitten Tom has a membership card as belong to the “International Brotherhood of Cats”.
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In this mega we support Proletariat Hero Tom D. Cat in his battle against Treatlerite labour aristokkkrat Wile E. Coyote
Is spike the police
“International Brotherhood of Cats”
I’m curious, is there any more info about this brotherhood? Or is it just a “no punchline” joke?
the joke is just a simple “im a certified cat”
Im going to make one of those for myself. I used to have cards based on a deleted simpsons scene, its a scene cut from Much Apu About Nothing where Homer spills his business cards fleeing from the non threatening bear in the intro and they zoom in on the card and they just say ‘Homer Simpson- Local Man’
Say what you will about Tom but he didn’t hire no scab to get Jerry
Certified cat
I love my woman
Letting the gusanos live and flee to USia is Castro’s biggest L at this point.
can we have a little death to amerikkka as a treat?
It is a sad truth that many of the worlds most pet-able animals should not be pet at all
The JOJOLands spoilers chpt 26
Corrupt sapphic policewoman taking the time to complain that boyfriends lie all the time while her fireman bald partner is getting his head split in half with his eye popping out by a very angry guy named paco while his addict failpartner keeps crying and shitting his pants and his boss is giving the chad face.
Araki is in the peak phase now, another month another banger.
Screw it here’s my fetch (yes I name my computers after socialist cities)
We call for an immediate stop of the senseless and barbaric Russian aggression against Ukraine. Nothing can justify an unprovoked attack on another country, shelling of its cities and civilian population.
We stand with all the Ukrainians and, also, many Russians who are against this war.
Vadim Zeitlin, wxWidgets developer
wxWidgets is a completely apolitical organization and has never expressed any opinions about any of the, unfortunately numerous, conflicts and injustices happening in the world. However I believe that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is different both in scale and in the lack of any ambiguity about the role of each side in the current events. Because of this I’d like to make an exception to the usual rules and publish this short note.
No similar notice with Israel [sic] and its genocide of Palestine, you know, typical with these things.
Or Israel firing missiles at Iranian engineers and top command or the US dropping bombs on nuclear sites.
Edit: I wouldn’t even mind this shit if they didn’t have “barbarian” attack and “international” community with a wormy kkkracker-style little blurb that they are a completely “apolitical” organization.
Short king posting.
I am a short king. I am stronger than average. I don’t work out enough to be properly strong. Just stronger than average. People are always consistently amazing to see a short king do a feat of mild strength. Like, there was a situation so I had to pick up and move a guy that was bigger than me and people looked at me like I was a wizard for getting a full two work outs in a week.cuck stool sitting in the arby’s lobby
that’s it, that’s the post
we WILL be dodging the draft
I dunno. I might try to join up and frag a commander. Defect with a tank. Depends on my mood.
bag one of those tech CEOs that just got lt. col.
I wonder with COs will be a thing again in my lifetime.
Is anyone else getting pro-Israel propaganda on YouTube? Multiple ads claiming Israel had no choice but to attack Iran and saying Iran’s nuclear capabilities are a threat to Europe. It’s conveniently popping up this week after my ad blocker stopped working on YouTube out of nowhere.
God, I fucking hate the west so much.
AI update: My class just has test and we got wrecked on it because the questions were diffrent than we were used to. Everyone has been salty. One student ran the study materials though chat got and got a study guide that did infact cover the new kinds of questions we had no idea about. So now in my school, in my class, chat gpt is teaching the material to itself using us as pawns.
I am having multiple contradictory emotions about this simultaneously.
Had to get a ride from far away from home yesterday, guy who picked me up was a Somali dude who very quickly started telling me about how he’s a huge Trump supporter, even showed me pictures of him from his facebook page in Trump merch out and about advocating for him. His reasoning was that he believed that countries should focus on their own problems, instead of meddling in others, so he took the bait on that particular part of the inconsistent slurry that Trump endlessly spouts. Oh, he also briefly mentioned that “Trump is against the gays and so are we” (“we” being the Somali).
Outside of that, among other things I listened to him talk quite a lot about having been to many countries, speaking four languages (Somali, Ethiopian, English and Arabic). He even went into the Israel-Iran war in support of Iran, saying what so many have said - that Iranians are extremely kind, well educated people and that they are justified in their self-defense. He also went out of his way to say that he liked Jewish people, but that Zionism is a terrible thing, and that countries should make friends with their neighbors, not enemies.
I asked him what he thought about what was happening in Burkina Faso, he said he didn’t really know much but that he was in favor of any way in which a country tries to improve its own independence and standard of living, but that he was confident Traore will get merc’d by “the West”.
It was pretty fun to get his perspective on things, and overall we both enjoyed the 30-minute conversation even though obviously there was some turbo-cringe shit right up front. He was very friendly, though I imagine he would not have spoken so freely if he thought I was in any way queer.
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