~ Tom after shooting down Tord's robot with a harpoon gun.
Tom is the deuteragonist of Eddsworld.
Tom's character is best known for his blue hoodie, black eyes and his personality. He is shown to be the smartest and funniest out of the three main cast members and may be the sanest of the characters in the show. He appears to most of the time wear a bored expression of the time but does sometimes have a more cheerful one.
He was voiced by Thomas Ridgewell from 2005-2016, and is currently voiced by Ed Templer.
Tom is a young man with black eyes and spiky hair. He usually wears a blue hoodie and trousers. His trousers have different appearances depending on which season he is in. Sometimes he is shown to have dark blue jeans where as at others to have normal grey leg wear. Tom wears checkered shoes on his feet which are the set out the same way as a chess board.
Personality[]
Tom usually seems rather unfazed by huge troubles and threats, as shown in "Space Face (Part 2)", when he was standing by some buttons and pressing them, making no actual effort in the slightest to prevent the ship they were aboard from crashing into Earth below. He also did not panic at any point at all when the ship was going at full speed and he did not show any concern.
It is revealed in "Zanta Claws" that Tom dislikes (wants to destroy) Christmas. However, at the end of the 2005 Christmas Special, Tom reveals that he does not actually celebrate Christmas.
Tom is a very shallow, bit sadistic, and sometimes cruel character. He does not tend to care about anything unless it will benefit him (not including "Zanta Claws II", where he saves Santa from being shot by jumping in front of him). Tom will also never help someone if he does not gain anything from it. He appeared to be kinder in the earlier episodes, as "Zombeh Nation" seemed to show him being concerned for Matt. He is also a very cold character and is aware his actions will often hurt people but however does not take any responsibility. At times he will make others suffer to reward himself and tends to humiliate people sometimes, however he can be kind sometimes.
Creation[]
Thomas Ridgewell was a fan of Edd Gould, and due to that Tom made a piece of fanart of Edd without a face (a reference to Edd Again) as a gift to Edd, and while Edd did comment on this and a second piece of artwork were originally traced, the two would eventually become friends and the character in the piece of fanart would become a character in Eddsworld first appearing in a Halloween short.
Heroic Acts[]
Space Face: Tom and Matt try to find a button to stop the ship, but Edd finds a taser-like rod and tells Matt to "try using this." Matt tries to ask Tom if he knows what it's for, but electrocutes Tom and causes him to be knocked unconscious. This leads back to what happened at the beginning of Space Face Part 1, Matt cries out for the protection of his face, which gives the ship enough power for Edd to pull the brakes and stop the ship from crashing.
Fun Dead: He killed some Zombehs to escape from them.
PowerEdd: He with Edd and Matt in a car to find Eduardo (before his monstruous transformation).
The End Pt2: He defeated Tord and his mech for revenge against him.
Quotes[]
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Lame...
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~ Tom before being attacked by Tord.
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HOLY F-
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~ Tom's reaction to seeing Tord's robot.
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Kitten Shopping!
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~ Tom's Clone
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I told you that harpoon gun would be useful.
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~ Tom after shooting down Tord's robot with a harpoon gun.
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Christmas sucks!
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~ Tom about Christmas.
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Mwahahaha! Mwahahaha! Ooo. Burning montage!
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~ Tom destroying Christmas.
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You can't possess something twice!
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~ Why Tom couldn't get possessed by the little girl.
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I AM NOT YOUR FRIEND!
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~ Tom's obstreperous/heroic/villainous breakdown to Tord, before launching his harpoon at him.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
Tom real name is Thomas (revealed in Zombeh Attack 3).
It is revealed in the comic Eyes, the deal with Tom's eyes are highly inappropriate and contagious.
When Tom had a uni-brow, he never had a mouth unless he spoke.
Tom speaks "Holy _____ in a _____!" lines in Eddsworld, but not in his YouTube account, TomSka.
In the eddisode Space Face Part 2 his original 2004-Early 2006 looks can be seen briefly when Matt zapped him.
He is a Jehovah's Witness.
Tom is the sanest of the characters, as Edd is mostly sane, Matt is kind of sane, and Tord is completely insane.
Tom's mother is a bowling ball with a pearl necklace and his dad is a pineapple with glasses.
However in "25ft Under the Seat" Tom's father was shown to seemingly be a watermelon and in Surf & Turf Wars pt. 1, he becomes horrified about the mention of watermelon eating competition. This retcon has sparked multiple debate in the Eddsworld fanbase on whether his dad was originally a watermelon or if the melon was someone else entirely.
It's never explained why Tom's eyes are pitch black.
However, he did mention that he got them at some point when he was a child before mumbling gibberish.
Tom, alongside Edd, made a cameo in Crash Zoom which is a web-animation created by TomSka, the original voice actor of Tom.
As shown in Surf & Turf Wars pt. 1, Tom doesn't mind eating sand.
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