YMMV / The Tommyverse

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Mozzarella, the Sandwiches' mom. Is she a caring parent who unfortunately severely oversteps her bounds when it comes to nagging her sons or another Spoiled Rich who only cares about how others perceive her and her family? Is she right about Honeydew being a Spoiled Brat or is she just jealous of the apparent Parental Favoritism toward her sister? Does she practice Parental Favoritism herself, or is it the skewed perspective of a resentful Cheese?
• Captain Obvious Reveal: The spell Cheese is under throughout the August segment? Turns out he's a werewolf now; a fact that a good chunk of the audience figured out the moment he drank out of a magic pool (and a few even guessed it was going to happen after Tomato turned into a vampire).
  • Rooney, that nice old guy that Cheese is buddies with? He's Wayer Rune, an ancient sorcerer who invented the werewolf, an expert at memory magic, and was mentioned enough throughout the story that folks caught on from the moment he first showed up.
• Crazy Is Cool:
  • Naturally, Cheese Sandwich is this. Shooting a giant pie from his tank at a bandit, launching himself down a Manehattan street with just a rubber band between lampposts, taming vampires with accordion music to the point where they willingly do the conga... the list goes on.
  • Tomato Sandwich has shown that he can be this as well, despite being more straightforward and down-to-earth than Cheese is. His escape from a closet while tied to a chair and his subsequent avoidance from the arc villain's goons is the most obvious example.
  • Party Favor gets points for stopping a runaway snowball by inflating a giant balloon to spring it out of town and creating an entire fun fair out of balloons. Even with a disability that prevents him from using standard unicorn magic, he's still a talented wizard like the rest of his family.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In-universe, a flashback shows that Mozzarella was surprised by Tomato's cutie mark, having expected it to be something like a squished tomato for bad comedy, or bottle of ketchup blasting off like a rocket. The latter ends up being Tomato's son Ketchup's cutie mark.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Wayer Rune, according to the lore in Brotherly Bonding Time, crossed it when he created the wolf plague and infected his soldiers, causing them to go feral with both the trauma from war and the dark magic turning them more canine than equine. Even worse, according to Flora, he was removing the soldiers' memories so that they didn't have to deal with guilt over the bloodshed.
  • Arguably, Kazam may have crossed it with siccing a hypnotized and starving Vampire!Tomato onto his audience.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Caffeinated Tomato.
  • The werewolf lore that lingers in the background of Brotherly Bonding Time, and slowly crawls its way to the forefront. Twilight mentioning the ponds holding the wolf curse, Kazam being inspired by the pony who enchanted the ponds in the first place (who just so happened to be his ancestor), the fact that the pony was also a pioneer of memory magic, Flora mentioning that he's an important figure in psychology for both the memory and the wolf things, and the implication of Cheese drinking from a pool under a full moon brings on a feeling that the Sandwiches' summer is heading towards a major catastrophe.
  • The Las Pegasus arc has vampire!Tomato. Though briefly Played for Laughs at first, things quickly get serious when Tomato nearly kills someone just for bumping into him, and is later hypnotized into doing Kazam's bidding—one bid being to feast on Kaz's audience and transform them!—and acting like a snarling, hissing bat monster the whole time.
  • Cheese Slowly Slipping Into Evil during the August segment. At first, he seems mostly normal—albeit with a more fiery temper and strangely acting like a dog. Soon enough he's viciously beating ponies to near death, threatening to kill other ponies (including his brother), and even outright killing animals. After his transformation into a werewolf, which was the reason why he was getting so nasty, he gets a My God, What Have I Done? moment and tries to send Tomato home... and then Wayer Rune shows up and purges what's left of Cheese's equinity, turning him into a soulless, savage monster.
  • The Negative Zone of Cheese's mind realm. Notably, the evil needle corn that suck the life out of anything they puncture.
• The Woobie:
  • Tomato Sandwich is the series' prime example. He was shut out by his beloved big brother and didn't understand why, was mocked by so-called friends for being understandably upset when said brother ran away, was forced to hide his jester magic by his mother out of fear of being labelled a freak (to the point where he wasn't allowed to have hobbies outside his special talent, killing his joy in it), had trouble making and keeping friends, was sabotaged and humiliated by his crush, and finally, had a feud with the aforementioned brother in which they blame all their own colthood misery on each other. With that in mind, it's no wonder Tomato turned out to be such a grouch.
    • Within Brotherly Bonding Time, he's nearly been killed several times, humiliated quite a few times, held hostage at least twice, and was transformed into a vampire in Las Pegasus, and was hypnotized to be Kazam's bloodthirsty minion. That last one especially lingers with him throughout the story, thanks to him still feeling "phantom wings" and showing traits of it every so often.
  • Cheese Sandwich doesn't get off easy either. He was painfully shy as a colt in canon, and it's no different here, with the added problems of being bullied and lonely, feeling overshadowed by his little brother's social and academic skills to the point of jealousy, and having his mother hovering over him and berating him for not being good enough in school. Small wonder he ran away.
    • He goes through his own crap in Brotherly Bonding Time as well. After Las Pegasus, he suffers from mental trauma that eventually drives him to allow 'Rooney' to remove the memory of said event. As it turns out, all it did was mess with his brain chemistry, making him suffer from headaches and fatigue until he got medication to manage the symptoms, even if the doctors don't quite know what's going on. It gets worse when he is tricked into giving up more memories, is forcibly transformed into a werewolf, and is later subjected to having the rest of his mind forcibly removed, with him being too weak to fight back. His crying and begging to keep his memories is heart-wrenching..