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* TheVirus: One story involves a girl who gets a kidney transplant from a recently killed Tomie. The kidney starts regenerating into a new Tomie and is removed, but Tomie cells are still floating around, and multiplying inside the kidney recipient's body. No points for guessing what happens next.

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* TheVirus: ViralTransformation: One story involves a girl who gets a kidney transplant from a recently killed Tomie. The kidney starts regenerating into a new Tomie and is removed, but Tomie cells are still floating around, and multiplying inside the kidney recipient's body. No points for guessing what happens next.
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* KillItWithFire: Burning Tomie's remains is the only [[IncrediblyLamePun sure-fire]] way to dispose of her for good. Otherwise, as little as a drop of her blood can regenerate into a new Tomie.
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* [[spoiler:BrickJoke: All it takes is one unaccounted part of Tomie for her to come back.]]



* ChurchMilitant: Tomie becomes one in "Photograph", complete with a goon squad of two male students as her muscle.



** The male model who comes across Tomie, who's face is irreversibly scared (in a manner that makes it impossible for surgery to get of the scars) for the sin of standing up for himself.

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** The male model who comes across Tomie, who's whose face is irreversibly scared (in a manner that makes it impossible for surgery to get of the scars) irreversibly, inoperably scarred for the sin of standing up for himself.



* ShapeshifterBaggage: 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.

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* ShapeshifterBaggage: 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 her regeneration is partially fuelled by background radiation from the air to fuel her regeneration.radiation.
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* TheVirus: One story involves a girl who gets a kidney transplant from a recently killed Tomie. The kidney starts regenerating into a new Tomie and is removed, but Tomie cells are still floating around, and multiplying inside, the kidney recipient's body. No points for guessing what happens next.

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* TheVirus: One story involves a girl who gets a kidney transplant from a recently killed Tomie. The kidney starts regenerating into a new Tomie and is removed, but Tomie cells are still floating around, and multiplying inside, inside the kidney recipient's body. No points for guessing what happens next.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: 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.


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* WoundedGazelleGambit: 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.
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* LiveActionAdaptation: Several. It's worth noting that Tomie's repeated 'returns' allow for [[TheNthDoctor the casting of a different actress each time]].

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* LiveActionAdaptation: Several.A total of nine films. It's worth noting that Tomie's repeated 'returns' allow for [[TheNthDoctor the casting of a different actress each time]].
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* {{Fingore}}: Tomie's fingers once regenerated into five of her and ganged up on "Pinky". [[spoiler: "Pinky" manipulated a very ugly man (her stepson, in fact) into killing the other four. His reward was to be mocked by her as she left him to die.]]

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* {{Fingore}}: Tomie's fingers once regenerated into five of her and ganged up on "Pinky". [[spoiler: "Pinky" manipulated a very ugly man (her stepson, in fact) into killing the other four. His reward was to be mocked by her as she left him to die.]]
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* HumanoidAbominationHumanoidAbomination: Tomie definitely qualifies. As beautiful as she is, there's still something incredibly ''off'' about her...

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* ChurchMilitant: Tomie becomes one in "Photograph", complete with a goon squad of two male students as her muscle.



* FateWorseThanDeath: Surprisingly, Tomie could probably be this. Consider that no matter how often she's killed she will always regenerate from her wounds or whatever is left of her, often in horrible gory fashions. Also the fact that proximity to another Tomie causes both to want to kill each other by any means necessary. Whether she acts the way she does in hopes someone will kill her for real, or is a complete bitch because it's her only way of coping with the realization is up to debate.

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* FateWorseThanDeath: Surprisingly, Tomie could probably be this. Consider The poor girl who is turned into a monster who is half earthworm and pretty much all Tommie heads, which have been grafted all over her body (including one HUGE one).
** The male model who comes across Tomie, who's face is irreversibly scared (in a manner
that no matter how often she's killed she makes it impossible for surgery to get of the scars) for the sin of standing up for himself.
*** Or the poor folks who either receive a hair or organ transplant from Tomie, who
will always regenerate from her wounds or whatever is left of her, often in horrible gory fashions. Also the fact that proximity to another Tomie causes both to want to kill each other by any means necessary. Whether she acts the way she does in hopes someone will kill her for real, or is a complete bitch because it's her only way of coping with the realization is up to debate.eventually turn into Tomie.


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* MadLove: Tomie's admirers eventually succumb to this; most notably Daichi and her teacher, both of which become her slaves.
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** There's also the story where, after receiving a kidney transplant from Tomie, a girl slowly becomes more beautiful (and more vain) until she eventually becomes Tomie herself.
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* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Basically, one can tell if someone's under Tomie's influence by this.
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* FanDisservice: Turning an entire group of extremely beautiful nude girls into NightmareFuel should earn you a badge.
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* CharmPerson: Oh boy, Tomie is ''the'' prime example of this {{trope}}. She can make anybody fall in love with her [[spoiler:and uses this to her advantage to spread destruction and chaos]].

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* CharmPerson: Oh boy, Tomie is ''the'' prime example of this {{trope}}. She can make anybody fall in love with her [[spoiler:and and uses this to her advantage to spread destruction and chaos]].chaos.
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Tomie is an unusually beautiful girl with wavy hair and a distinctive [[BeautyMark mole]] below her right eye. Structured as an anthology, the manga revolves around Tomie as she [[IncrediblyLamePun starts a new life]] in one city after another, influencing new people, making new friends... and new enemies...

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Tomie is an unusually beautiful girl with wavy hair and a distinctive [[BeautyMark mole]] below her right left eye. Structured as an anthology, the manga revolves around Tomie as she [[IncrediblyLamePun starts a new life]] in one city after another, influencing new people, making new friends... and new enemies...
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* TheTell: 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.

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* TheTell: 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.Tomie.
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Fire does slow down the regeneration, and prevents it when burning smaller parts of her body (presumably) and makes the Tomie appear ugly. So no that\'s not the \"only way to stop her\", there are no ways to stop her. And she never conclusively stated that in chapter 10 (not volume 10, there isn\'t a volume 10). And also, there is no \"canon\" or non canon version.


* KillItWithFire: In the manga ({{Canon}} version), Tomie herself confirmed in chapter 10 that fire is her weakness and can permanently make her stop regenerating.
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''Tomie'' is a horror manga by JunjiIto that predates the well-known ''{{Uzumaki}}'' and ''TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault''.

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''Tomie'' is a horror manga by JunjiIto that predates the well-known ''{{Uzumaki}}'' ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'' and ''TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault''.
''Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault''.
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* ArtEvolution: The Tomie series starts out looking a bit rough around the edges, but things smooth out into JunjiIto's familiar style as it progresses.

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* ArtEvolution: The Tomie series starts out looking a bit rough around the edges, but things smooth smooths out into JunjiIto's familiar style as it progresses.
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* ArtEvolution: The Tomie series starts out looking a bit rough around the edges, but things smooth out into JunjiIto's familiar style as it progresses.

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** Having no empathy for the other characters does make a bit of sense, considering she's not actually human. From her perspective they're just another type of animal. However, the fact that the various different Tomies rarely get along could be due to this, though it may just be that her species is inherently territorial.



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* TheSociopathTheSociopath: If such a description can apply to something that merely ''looks'' human.


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** Then again, it might only work with actual film.
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* CharmPersonCharmPerson: Oh boy, Tomie is ''the'' prime example of this {{trope}}. She can make anybody fall in love with her [[spoiler:and uses this to her advantage to spread destruction and chaos]].
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Tomie is an unusually beautiful girl with wavy hair and a distinctive mole below her right eye. Structured as an anthology, the manga revolves around Tomie as she [[IncrediblyLamePun starts a new life]] in one city after another, influencing new people, making new friends... and new enemies...

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Tomie is an unusually beautiful girl with wavy hair and a distinctive mole [[BeautyMark mole]] below her right eye. Structured as an anthology, the manga revolves around Tomie as she [[IncrediblyLamePun starts a new life]] in one city after another, influencing new people, making new friends... and new enemies...
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** Reiko from the first chapter, maybe? Tsukiko also seems to have [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu handled herself admirably.]]


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* LackOfEmpathy: The root of pretty much all of Tomie's AlphaBitch-ness and assorted villainous acts. As explained in "Mansion", she doesn't see other people as ''people''. This also explains why she has plenty of thralls but never an actual boyfriend: she enjoys the affection, but after a while she gets bored and it's time to find a new toy.


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* TheVirus: One story involves a girl who gets a kidney transplant from a recently killed Tomie. The kidney starts regenerating into a new Tomie and is removed, but Tomie cells are still floating around, and multiplying inside, the kidney recipient's body. No points for guessing what happens next.

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* BlackWidow: An incredibly strange example, where the titluar character does, indeed, go after the money like a typical Black Widow... Except she gives men an odd feeling of wanting to kill her.

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* BlackWidow: An incredibly strange example, where the titluar title character does, indeed, go after the money like a typical Black Widow... Except she gives men an odd feeling of wanting to kill her.



* FrenchCuisineIsHaughty: Once Tomie is well enough to have a say about what she's eating she'll start demanding foie gras and other fancy food.



* TechnologyMarchesOn: In "Photograph" it takes ''one'' accidental photo from the only girl in school who owns a camera to make Tomie lose her cool. How on earth would Tomie cope with ''everyone'' owning a camera that can instantly send film and video to everyone else?
* TheTell: 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.



* TheTell: 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.
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* FinGore: Tomie's fingers once regenerated into five of her and ganged up on "Pinky". [[spoiler: "Pinky" manipulated a very ugly man (her stepson, in fact) into killing the other four. He was mortally wounded and then she ditched him too, calling him ugly on her way out.]]

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* FinGore: {{Fingore}}: Tomie's fingers once regenerated into five of her and ganged up on "Pinky". [[spoiler: "Pinky" manipulated a very ugly man (her stepson, in fact) into killing the other four. He His reward was mortally wounded and then to be mocked by her as she ditched left him too, calling him ugly on her way out.to die.]]



* OffWithHisHead: During one of her freak outs a second face sprouts out of Tomie's head. She orders her two thralls to cut the tumor off, but they cut off her head instead. [[spoiler: And then the tumor orders them to cut the "original" face off and a few hours later the body starts sprouting a new face.]]

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* OffWithHisHead: During one of her a freak outs out a second face sprouts out of Tomie's head. She orders her two thralls to cut the tumor off, but they cut off her head instead. [[spoiler: And then the tumor orders them to cut the "original" face off and a few hours later the body starts sprouting a new face.]]
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* FinGore: Tomie's fingers once regenerated into five of her and ganged up on "Pinky". [[spoiler: "Pinky" manipulated a very ugly man (her stepson, in fact) into killing the other four. He was mortally wounded and then she ditched him too, calling him ugly on her way out.]]



* ManipulativeBitch



* OffWithHisHead: During one of her freak outs a second face sprouts out of Tomie's head. She orders her two thralls to cut the tumor off, but they cut off her head instead. [[spoiler: And then the tumor orders them to cut the "original" face off and a few hours later the body starts sprouting a new face.]]



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* BlackWidow: An incredibly strange example, where the titluar character does, indeed, go after the money like a typical Black Widow... Except she gives men an odd feeling of wanting to kill her.

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* TheTell: 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.



* TheTell: 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.

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* TheTell: 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.
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* TheTell: 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.

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