Tomie: Difference between revisions

* [[Pet the Dog]]: The only person that Tomie does not seek to harm is her [[Only Friend]] Reiko, in the first chapter. Reiko witnessed Tomie falling to her death after her boyfriend Yamamoto hit her, and wanted to run for help. She froze when the class realized Tomie was still alive when preparing to cut up her body, and on autopilot mode tossed her best friend's heart in the river. Reiko and Yamamoto decide, after Tomie returns to class with no memory of what happened, is to turn themselves into the police. This act leads to their classmates chasing them down, and Tomie performs a [[Villainous Rescue]], letting Reiko go while confronting Yamamoto and the others who chopped her to pieces alive.

* [[Shapeshifter Baggage]]: They do give an explanation of sorts for this. During the hospital arc, the doctors attempt to kill her with a radiotherapy machine, but it only accelerates her growth. This implies that Tomie is an extreme radiotroph, capable of converting radiation into mass, and presumably under normal circumstances she simply uses background radiation from the air to fuel her regeneration.

* [[The Sociopath]]: If such a description can apply to something that merely ''looks'' human.

* [[Spooky Photographs]]: Introduced in the ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Photograph]]'' chapter, and becomes a recurring plot device. One chapter even has an ''oil painting'' variant.

* [[The Tell]]: Every Tomie (in the manga) has the same mole that allows you to tell if someone is a Tomie. This mole is absent in the movie, however.

* [[There Can Be Only One]]: If multiple Tomies turn up, they often start trying to kill each other.

* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: Whenever someone seduced by her spell tries to kill her, some poor schmuck comes along and saves her, unaware of the endless cycle she has wrought upon her countless victims.

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Well, technically she's the title character.