Thomas

"Bust my butt crack!"

**Thomas** is a little blue tank engine who works on the North Western Railway. He is the main protagonist of the SC Shorts.

## **Biography on YouTube**

Thomas made his debut on Sammy Clark's YouTube channel in the video, "Pac man and the crazy ghostly adventures sneak peak" as a quick cameo appearance, and his first appearance in the SC Shorts was in the pilot episode, "It's a Special Day on Sodor!".

## **Biography in the SC Shorts**

Thomas first appeared in the pilot episode, "It's a Special Day on Sodor!". He did little to nothing in the episode, but you know, he was there from the start of the series. Later on in the second episode, Thomas tried to help out two Bachmann tanker cars from out of the snow but ended up giving up in the end due to him not being able to couple up to the both of them. Later on, he helped out a buried 451 and Jake and then after pointing out Jake's mistake for throwing Jock, he started to suffocate Thomas in the snow. Luckily, he made it out alive and then he started to beat the crap out of Jake.

One day, an argument between an ERTL and a Take-n-Play Thomas soon turned into an argument and later on a fight between a whole lot of Thomas brands and paper models. By the end of the day, the ERTL and the Take-n-Play Thomas became friends, and the other Thomases were either killed off by the evil Minis baby Thomas or off screen by someone else.

When it was Thanksgiving, Thomas tried to throw an epic Thanksgiving party full of food and characters from different shows on Sammy Clark's channel. He was so focused on getting paid and expecting the party to go perfectly that he forgot the true purpose of Thanksgiving; to spend time with the family and friends that you care about and be thankful for you have and not what you don't have. And with that lesson learnt, Thomas and his friends had at a happy Thanksgiving in America at the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade.

When Thomas ran over the narrator of the series, he held auditions for someone to be the new narrator of the SC Shorts. After a bunch of listening and smacking to the characters who auditioned, he volunteered himself to be the new narrator of the SC Shorts, as he had became the new narrator of the official Thomas & Friends series in the same year.

On the first day of December, it was E2 Hunting Season for 'Arry and Bert. And since Thomas was the last E2 Class tank engine in the world, the two diesels went after him to scrap. However, Thomas tricked them into thinking that it was Class 28 Hunting Season, triggering James to show up and start arguing with him on what season it was. After tricking James into saying that it was Class 28 season, 'Arry and Bert captured James and left Thomas to laugh in triumph.

After seeing how tired Percy was with work, Thomas volunteered to take Percy's mail train so he could go and get some rest. However, due to Thomas not taking the mail train in years, he forgot some of the steps to delivering the mail properly and ended up leaving a mail car in the middle of the line causing a big accident down by the Docks. To prevent the accident from ever happening in the first place, Thomas comes up with the idea to go back in time to stop the accident from happening. After screwing up the future twice (and each got worst every time), Duck finally stepped in and saved the future by delivering the mail cars on time and by taking them back to the Shunting Yards.

Sometime later after working with each-other, Duck secretly kidnapped Toby and started to prepare his and his army's attack on Sodor. When Thomas and Percy found out that Toby was missing they searched high and low on Sodor to try and find him, but ended up getting zero results. And after Percy was secretly kidnapped by Duck, Thomas was informed by Oliver that Duck and his army were behind the disappearances and were plotting to take over Sodor the following day. With that in mind, Thomas and his army (as well as Duncan in the process) decided to take down Duck and his army and save Sodor. Fortunately, they ended up victorious in the end and Duck was later sent packing to an old shed out on Thomas' Branch Line.

When it was Christmas time on Sodor, Diesel 10 plotted a scheme to get Thomas kicked off of Sodor. When Thomas was chosen to be the engine to take Sir Topham Hatt to the Earl's Christmas party at Ulfstead Castle, Diesel 10 and his goons placed some freight cars in the way of Thomas to cause him to crash. And due to the diesels leaving before Sir Topham Hatt could notice them, he pinned the blame on Thomas; thinking that it was him who caused them to crash, and ended up banishing him from Sodor forever.

After getting thrown by Cranky, Thomas landed on a far away island, and he tried to find a way back to Sodor, but he couldn't. However, with the help of a paper Santa Claus of all people, Thomas managed to get back to Sodor and stop Diesel 10, with the help of Paxton.

On February 14th, Thomas was constantly stalked by Rosie because of Valentine's Day coming up and her wanting to give Thomas her present as soon as possible. After receiving her present however, Rosie asked Thomas about the present that he got for her. And because Thomas never got a present for Rosie to begin with, his only solution was to trick Rosie and to run off to Brazil. Unfortunately, due to the magic of teleportation, Rosie ended up snagging a ride on the same ship to Brazil as Thomas, causing him to scream in agony.

Thinking that it was his birthday, Thomas was taken to the Mainland Theater for a birthday celebration and an epic roast off on him as a present. Even after revealing to everyone that his birthday wasn't until the 22nd of June, the characters still decided to go on with the roast off, and Sir Topham Hatt later gave an early birthday present to Thomas for all of his work and dedication to the railway. The present was originally something else that wasn't Flying Scotsman however.

Diesel once tricked Thomas into thinking that Sir Topham Hatt was going to scrap him the next day. With this in mind, Thomas decided to spend his last day on Sodor by making amends with the Steam Team and tried to put right something that he did wrong to them in the past. After angering James and causing him to bash into him, Thomas was sent to the Steamworks to be repaired where it was revealed by Sir Topham Hatt that Diesel had tricked him and that he wasn't going to scrap Thomas anytime soon.

After the many accidents to the steam engines on Sodor, Sir Topham Hatt sent Thomas to pick up some engine parts from the Docks and to take them to the Steamworks. While he was waiting for Mike to bring him his brakevan, Diesel placed in Hop in its place and imitated Mike's voice to trick Thomas into thinking that it was Mike. Once Thomas came up to the top of Gordon's Hill, the freight cars started to push Thomas down it causing him to become a runaway. Right before Thomas could crash into the Steamworks, Diesel 10 came in to save him much to Thomas' disbelief. Luckily, Diesel 10 managed to save Thomas and the Steamworks in time, now earning the trust of both Thomas and all of the engines inside of the Steamworks.

Sometime later, Sir Topham Hatt had to leave the island on urgent business and left Diesel in charge of the railway. And after finding out Diesel's devious plan to take over Sodor, Spencer and Flying Scotsman assembled Sodor's Finest, which consisted of: Flying Scotsman (leader), Spencer, Thomas, James, Percy, Duck, Paxton, Philip, and Diesel 10.

After escaping a mine full of dynamite, James got trapped inside. But when Thomas and his friends came back to the mines to save him, they noticed that someone had beaten them to get James out of there. They soon learnt from Spencer that James was apart of Diesel's plan. With this in mind, the engines went down to the Shunting Yards to go and save James from being cemented. Fortunately, they saved James just in time, but unfortunately, Diesel was getting away with the last of the coal left on Sodor. After Spencer gave Thomas the remainder of his coal, he chased Diesel down to the Smelters Yards to save the coal, but ended up coming too late. And after Diesel tried to commit mass genocide on Thomas, he nearly ended up getting incinerated himself. But luckily, Thomas was there to save him, and once Sir Topham Hatt found out about Diesel's doings, he sent him packing to the Mainland in disgrace.

On Valentine's Day in 2021, Thomas and Emily both decided that today would be the day where they both tell their "lovers" the truth about why they couldn't be a couple. However, Thomas refused to go out on a date with Rosie despite Emily saying that it would probably be their last once Thomas tells Rosie the truth on why they couldn't be a thing. But Thomas decided to go out with Rosie anyway after she found him when he was trying to hide from her. Later during Thomas and Rosie's double date with James and Emily, after Rosie tried to "do" Thomas, he revealed to Rosie on why the two of them couldn't be a couple; because he is asexual, which means that he is incapable of having any feelings towards engines of either genders. Despite Thomas saying that he was fine with the two of them still being friends (kind of), Rosie still fainted in shock and disbelief to what Thomas said.

## **Personality**

Thomas is described as being a cheeky engine. He often gets into scrapes, usually by being over-eager to do things best left to bigger and more sensible engines. But clouds never last long in Thomas' life and he is soon bustling about again, playing his part in the yard and on his very own branch line, of which he is extremely proud.

He loves teasing the others, especially the bigger engines, such as Gordon and on occasion brags about his superiority, but is always brought down to earth in due course by anyone willing to correct him, especially Sir Topham Hatt and his two coaches, Annie and Clarabel. If Thomas has one major character flaw, it is that he is forgetful and rather naïve. However, he is also cheerful, optimistic, idealistic, altruistic, kind hearted and helpful.

A friend to all engines and a popular member of Sir Topham Hatt’s railway, Thomas is No.1 and does his best every day to live up to that through helping his friends and those that he cares about. He lives to be a Really Useful Engine and encourages everyone else to do the same. He likes to be better than James and Bertie in races. He can, however, also get annoyed about being useful such as the time when Rosie stalked him around because she idolised and loved him so much.

While he might drive others away, Thomas is very good at luring back friends should the situation demand it.

## **Trivia**

* Thomas has the most amount of appearances and speaking roles than anyone else in the SC Shorts.
* Thomas' wooden models have gone through several aesthetic changes in the SC Shorts.
	+ In "The Gay Race", his Learning Curve Wooden Railway model was customized and given extra detail such as: Painted buffer beams, white footplate, front and rear windows, a whistle, bunker lining, silver lining around his wheels and funnel.
	+ In "Mike's Tender", the Learning Curve model was replaced with a 2013 Wooden Railway Talking Thomas model.
	+ In "The One Year Anniversary Crash Supercut", the Talking Thomas model was replaced with a repainted 2019 Wood Thomas model.
	+ In "Best Of Enemies Forever", the Wood Thomas model was replaced with a 2013 Wooden Railway Thomas model.
	+ Near the end of "Best Friends Forever Part 3", the original 2013 Wooden Railway Thomas was replaced with a different one which was in newer condition and had painted white dots on their pupils.

* Thomas has had the most versions of himself than any other character to ever appear in the SC Shorts.
* In "Double Date", Thomas revealed to Rosie that he is asexual, meaning that he is incapable of liking anyone of either gender.
* The Take-n-Play Thomas that is currently not used all that much in Sammy's videos is still used for his YouTube profile picture.
* It's unknown whether or not Thomas actually likes Percy. Occasionally, he is shown to treat Percy with some respect, but then there are other times where it seems like he truly hates the guy by abusing him.
* Starting from "Free And Easy" onwards, the voice that Sammy provides for Thomas is based off of Joesph May's Thomas voice from the US dub of Thomas & Friends.

## **Gallery**

ERTL ThomasTake-n-Play ThomasThe First Wooden Railway ThomasThe First Wooden Railway Thomas (Now customized)The Second Wooden Railway ThomasWood Thomas/The Third Wooden Railway ThomasThe Fourth Wooden Railway ThomasThe Fifth and Current Wooden Railway ThomasSammy Clark's YouTube Profile Picture