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He is almost always called by his full name "Thomas" by Mammy Two Shoes.
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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. 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. Though in some occasions Tom beats him or he turns on Jerry (like his debut appearance in Dog Trouble). Spike regularly appears and usually assists Jerry and beats up Tom. One of them that appears frequently is Spike Bulldog. Though besides Jerry he also has trouble with many other mouse characters or cat characters. Tom is usually defeated (or very rarely, killed, like in Mouse Trouble, where he explodes) in the end, although there are some stories where he outwits and defeats Jerry. As a slapstick cartoon character, Tom has a superhuman level of elasticity. In newer cartoons, the white fur is gone. In the 1940s and early 1950s, he had white fur between his eyes. However, over the years (since the episode Dog Trouble), he has become almost completely bipedal and has human intelligence and he is similar to his previous appearance, in 1945 shorts he had twisted whiskers and his appearance kept changing. For example, in his debut, he was quadrupedal. Tom has changed over the years upon his evolution, especially after the first episodes. His trademark scream was provided by creator William Hanna, Hanna's recordings of Tom screaming are later reused for the other MGM Cartoon characters, whenever they scream including majority of Tex Avery's shorts. He is continuously after Jerry Mouse, for whom he sets traps, many of which backfire and cause damage to him rather than Jerry. His only notable vocal sounds outside of this are his various screams whenever he is subjected to panic or, more frequently, pain. 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 and 1992's Tom and Jerry: The Movie). His name, "Tom Cat", is based on "tomcat", a word which refers to male cats. 1.2 Anchors Aweigh and Dangerous When Wet.