Tom

— TomTalking Friends Annual 2014

**Tom**, properly known as **Thomas** and also known as **Talking Tom**, is the titular character and main character of Talking Tom & Friends franchise.

He is the charismatic and brave leader of the gang and was first introduced in Talking Tom Cat in July, 2010.

## Contents

* 1Appearance
* 2Personality
* 3Relationships
* 4History
	+ 4.1Talking Tom & Friends
	+ 4.2Talking Tom & Friends Minis
* 5Trivia
* 6References
* 7Notes

## Appearance

Tom generally appears as a gray tabby cat, Felis fabulatus, who has long whiskers, green eyes, a stripy tail, a pink nose and pink canals and white eyebrows. He also has four fingers on each hand and three toes on each foot.

In the original version of Talking Tom Cat, Tom appeared as a bright grey cat. For facial details he had large, black whiskers, semi-realistic feline eyes and a huge frown that spread over his face. His mouth and on his stomach had tinted white fur around them.

In Talking Tom Cat 2, Tom's design was drastically overhauled. Tom appears rather with white whiskers, a more mid-tone grey color-scheme with a more visible transfer between grey and white. His face was also optimized with visible reflection in his eyes (the original model lacked visible lighting). His jaw is also visibly smaller, and he has more realistic fur.

Starting from Tom's Messenger, Tom's visibly fatter, with wider cheeks and a more rounded stomach.

In My Talking Tom, he appears similar to his look from Tom's Messenger and Talking Friends, but with a simplified style, and no visible fur. He's also varying in size depending on his age.

In 2016, Tom once again had a huge overhaul in design. He appears with his original bright grey tone, his eyes are significantly larger, and his mouth is significantly smaller, creating a cutesy Tom. Due to being redesigned to be more chibi styled, Tom is also significantly shorter, with a visibly huge head. Depending on the product, this design varies from being two and three-dimensional. His outfit also varies, depending on if he is wearing it in the game, with him wearing a green polo shirt with one visible yellow pocket in Talking Tom Gold Run (this uniform returned later on).

In My Talking Tom 2, he appears very similar to his design from the previous game, albeit with smaller cheeks and a larger head, more resemblant of his Chibi look.

In Talking Tom & Friends starting Season 4 onwards, he wears a red t-shirt with a thumbs-up sign on the front, blue jeans with a green belt and white and red sneakers.

Starting from "Waitress Angela" onwards, Tom can be seen wearing a blue collared polo. This outfit is used interchangeably with his Season 4 outfit during the rest of Season 5.

## Personality

Tom is a very ambitious and adventurous person; he is always suggesting ideas that might seem okay at first but slowly spiral into chaos. As the leader of his friend group the others usually follow him even if they doubt that his ideas will work. he takes chances when he sees them as an opportunity to make him either rich or famous or better yet, both. He is very confident and charismatic about himself, using every opportunity possible to compliment himself, but he also takes note of the capabilities and talents of others and will praise them. Although he can be reckless, he deeply cares about his friends and is always willing to lend a helping hand. giving them advice whenever they ask of it.

He has a great dignity and is always willing to help those in need. However, his rash and not thought-out actions can sometimes stress the other friends in the group.

## Relationships

**Angela**:

— TomTom's Blog

Tom met Angela while she was out with her friends one evening, trying to find a music concert her and her friends found online. It was dark, and the four of them had gotten lost in a large warehouse district. Shortly after, Tom found the group and asked if they needed any help. Tom and Angela shook paws, and it turned out he was going to the same concert as her. Tom also knew the band, and was able to get Angela and her friends in for free. The two hung out together the whole evening, and later Tom pulled her aside and asked for her phone number. Angela gave him her home phone number, and after Angela arrived home, he called instantly. The noise woke Angela's parents, and she was grounded for staying up so late.

Since then, the two have been on countless adventures, and Angela acts as Tom's romantic interest; these feelings are first shown in "Future Tron", where Tom gets scared over the thought of Hank and Angela being in love. Throughout Season 1, Tom's interest on Angela grows deeper as we can see in episodes such as "Tom's Love Song", where Tom wants to write a song specifically to impress her. Although, if anyone tries to confront him about his interest, he will immediately deny what the person is saying, despite how obvious he makes his interest on her towards the people around him.

In "Parallel Universe", Tom gets close to an alternate version of Angela simply because she shares the same feelings towards him. Angela discovers this and becomes frustrated with him for loving the other Angela. Tom questions why Angela is upset as they are not dating, catching onto Angela's mutual feeling. This sets up the Season 1 finale, where Angela admits to also liking Tom in front of Ben. Angela doesn't want to tell Tom about her secret, as she feels it would ruin their relationship if he declined. Tom eventually discovers her secret and they both reveal their love towards each other, kissing each other before their mind is finally wiped by Hank.

In Season 2, they find out about their erased memory through a video recording of the two kissing on Ginger's phone and which starts an awkward tension between the two. They agree to stay as just friends after a date goes wrong and go on a normal friend event together but after the rest of the gang are separated from Tom and Angela, they begin to confess that they've wanted to go on a date after the friend event went wrong and declare their relationship by telling Ginger that they're on a date, much to his disgust.

**Ben**:

Ben is Tom's childhood friend and business partner. After meeting through bumping into each other playing the same video game, they are implied to have a great bond over the years from childhood to adulthood. They have dreamt of having a company together and used their ideas and creativity to make it. They often have fights, violent in the pilot but more shouting and insulting in the series. When Tom becomes angry at Ben, he tries to not make Ben famous and ruin Ben's projects secretly. A lot of their arguments can involve the company itself, Tom's normally leading to events of the argument.

**Hank**:

Hank is Tom's close friend and roommate in the studio. Unlike the rest of the gang, it is not specified how they met, but they are said to be close friends. Hank is known to share the ability that Tom has of coming up with creative ideas and thoughts. Hank had thought of the idea for My Talking Tom and the company released it. Hank sometimes supports Tom with what he is doing without thinking about what he's getting into, Hank also comes up with solutions to the gang's problems at their time of need in the climax. This is even noticed by the characters themselves as mentioned in "The Incredible Super-Fan", when Hank is not with the rest of the gang and they question what to do.
**Ginger**:

— Tom"talkingtom.com"

Ginger is Tom's nephew and neighbor. He usually plays tricks on him and the rest of the gang as he likes to laugh and have fun, as well as this, he likes to play with the rest of the gang, usually playing too well for everyone else to catch up. Ginger can sometimes be a menace towards Tom, ruining and using their inventions during the making of one. He doesn't like anyone else taking his friends away from him and can use his annoyance on those who break their friendship in order to get them back. He can get frustrated about the friends being uptight about rules and doesn't like it when everyone ignores what he's saying but he learns that sometimes they need to do things in order to stay where they are. He also heavily dislikes and is disgusted by love, therefore not liking Tom and Angela's relationship.

## History

### Talking Tom & Friends

**Early life**

Tom met Ben nearly 8.5 years ago. They bumped into each other while using their electronic devices, and became best friends.

**Tom and Ben Enterprises**

When they were teenagers, Tom and Ben started a tech company called Tom and Ben Enterprises. They did not have a proper business plan at the time, however, and just had fun making some devices like Boomerang. An idea pitched by Hank led to the creation of the Talking Tom app.

**Mayor career**

In "Vote for Tom!", Tom was elected as mayor of the town. His term ended in "Worst Mayor Ever" where it is given to another citizen of the town.

### Talking Tom & Friends Minis

In Talking Tom & Friends Minis, he works as a cashier in a small café. He doesn't like to show that he's unskilled sometimes.

## Trivia

* According to the Talking Friends Annual 2014, he is a tabby cat. According to Talking Angela and Tom Loves Angela, he is also a Felis fabulatus.
* It is revealed in Talking Gina the Giraffe that Tom played Patty Cake in a competition with Gina, but got third place.
* He used to have a vlog as revealed in Talking Tom Vlogs.
* His original model was from a modeling website called TurboSquid
* During the series, he is seen breaking up with Angela a lot.
* In 2012, he visited Hollywood during a promotional event for the release of the Talking Friends Superstars.
* During 2011-2014, Tom had a catchphrase, "No, no no", which he would use in almost every app he was featured in.

## References

1. ↑ TurboSquid 3D Blog, from the Archive.Org, *Retrieved 04-5-23*
2. ↑ Talking Angela Tom's age screenshot, *Retrieved 04-5-23*
3. ↑ Talking Angela Ginger nephew screenshot, *Retrieved 04-5-23*
4. ↑ "Rock the Catsbah" from Talking Friends (0:56) "*This is my nephew, Ginger.*", *Retrieved 04-5-23*
5. ↑ "Multipli-Kitty" from Talking Friends (1:11) "*I've been a bad, bad uncle.*", *Retrieved 04-5-23*
6. ↑ Jump up to:6.0 6.1 "talkingtom.com/ginger.html" (April 2015), *Retrieved 05-21-23*
7. ↑ "outfit7.com/character/talking-ginger" (May 2014), *Retrieved 05-21-23*
8. ↑ Talking Friends Annual 2014 Pg. 24, *Retrieved 05-8-23*
9. ↑ Talking Friends McDonald's 2013 Ginger's profile, *Retrieved 05-28-23*
10. ↑ https://m.facebook.com/davesoltura/videos/this-is-what-it-feels-like-when-ive-had-coffee-sleep-and-prayerswatch-me-as-tom-/527851651405450/
11. ↑ Tom's Blog, from the Archive.Org, *Retrieved 04-5-23*
12. ↑ "talkingtomandfriends.com/talking-tom", *Retrieved 04-5-23*
13. ↑ "http://talkingtomandfriends.com/happy-birthday-to-me-2/", *Retrieved 05-19-23*
14. ↑ Jump up to:14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Talking Friends Annual 2014 Pg. 15, *Retrieved 04-5-23*
15. ↑ Talking Tom - Happy Birthday to Me! (YouTube), "*It was purrfect... Until he started playing that absolutely horrible "dubstep". You call that music?*", *Retrieved 04-14-23*
16. ↑ Jump up to:16.0 16.1 "outfit7.com/character/talking-tom/" (May 2013), *Retrieved 04-14-23*
17. ↑ Talking Ben's Top 3 Jokes from the official Talking Tom YouTube Channel, (1:00), "*You don't know what your talking about, Ben. My cat jokes are purrfectly awesome!*", *Retrieved 04-14-23*
18. ↑ The Making of Talking Tom Shorts from the official Talking Tom YouTube channel (1:58), "*I love cheese! Yes, cheese. I know, I know, I shouldn't eat it, but I love it! I really do.*"*",* Retrieved 04-21-23
19. ↑ "Tom After Tom" from Talking Friends (0:32), "*I pity the fool who doesn't love the 80s.*", *Retrieved 04-23-23*
20. ↑ Talking Friends Annual 2014 Pg. 5, *Retrieved 04-5-23*
21. ↑ "Attack of the Tech!" from Talking Friends (0:17) "*I don't know what went wrong, Thomas! I followed schematics and used lots of screws, bolts, and nuts!*", *Retrieved 05-13-23*
22. ↑ "http://talkingtom.tv/", *Retrieved 05-13-23*
23. ↑ "talkingtomandfriends.com/join-the-friendship" (December 2017), *Retrieved 06-01-23*
24. ↑ Talking Angela Tom and Angela meeting screenshot one, *Retrieved 05-23-23*
25. ↑ Talking Angela Tom and Angela meeting screenshot two, *Retrieved 05-23-23*
26. ↑ Talking Angela Tom and Angela meeting screenshot three, *Retrieved 05-23-23*
27. ↑ Talking Angela Tom and Angela meeting screenshot four, *Retrieved 05-23-23*
28. ↑ Talking Angela Tom and Angela meeting screenshot five, *Retrieved 05-23-23*
29. ↑ Talking Angela Tom and Angela meeting screenshotsix, *Retrieved 05-23-23*
30. ↑ Talking Angela Tom and Angela meeting screenshot seven, *Retrieved 05-23-23*
31. ↑ Talking Angela Tom and Angela meeting screenshot eight, *Retrieved 05-23-23*
32. ↑ Talking Angela Tom and Angela meeting screenshot nine, *Retrieved 05-23-23*

## Notes

1. ↑ In Tom Loves Angela, when the question "What species is Tom?" is asked, Angela will refer to him as a Talking Cat or Chatting Chat, another name for the Felis fabulatus.