History Characters / DreamSMPTommyInnit

* SafetyInIndifference: He showed shades of this mindset after his resurrection. Tommy disagreed with Ranboo's suggestion to get a new pet after Henry's death for this reason. He told Ranboo that he thought there was no point in getting a new pet because it's just going to die eventually anyway, likely by Dream's hand. He eventually breaks out of this mindset and adopts a spider as a pet, naming him Shroud [[ShoutOut after]] a Website/{{Twitch}} streamer of the same name.

* RealMenWearPink: He's a HotBlooded young man with a chaotic streak a mile wide, who is often considered one of the [[HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday token straights]] of the {{cast|FullOfGay}}... and is also an AnimalLover who can canonically sew, enjoys nature and flowers, and greatly cares for his friends.

** A very understated example is when Tommy decided to pay off [[TheDragon Punz]] in order to maximize his chances of beating Dream--Tommy, one of the poorest people on the server, canonically spent ''days'' mining valuable resources with zero intention of keeping any for himself, and did not let himself get distracted by anything until he believed he had collected enough to pay off Punz. The fact that [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny Tommy]] was able to do this so effectively showcases just how determined he was to making sure things went the right way.

'''Preferred name:''' Tommy
->''"Don't give up on people. Because that's how you lose."''

After the war he was named Vice President by Tubbo, but was later exiled from New L'Manburg for vandalizing King George's house, and founded Logstedshire with Ghostbur. During exile, Tommy was physically, emotionally and psychologically abused by Dream, who slowly conditioned him to believe he was Tommy's only friend. As a result, Tommy became actively suicidal, and developed all the symptoms of PTSD. After about two weeks, Logstedshire was blown sky-high by Dream after Tommy was caught hiding valuable items under the floor of Ghostbur's house, and Tommy was subsequently banned from having any visitors aside from Dream. This hit Tommy so hard that he attempted suicide, but ultimately did not go through with it as he realized Dream was never really his friend.\\

** When Tommy died and went to the Afterlife, he is trapped there with Wilbur. While initially Wilbur seemed to have calmed down, apparently being stuck there has done his mental state no favors, because when Tommy is brought back to life, he ''begs'' Dream not to bring Wilbur back.

-->'''Tommy:''' I felt like I was- like I was shredded to ''dust.'' [...] It felt like I was put through a shredder, but there was no blood, there was no flesh, it was just ''essence''. Like a ''powder,'' and I was put through it, and then I came out, and I was in a... a long- a long- a ''hall'', a- a- t-tunnel of black and void and- not even black, just colorless!\\
'''Dream:''' I tried to give you- I tried to give you time, I wanted to- I wanted to ask you questions-\\
'''Tommy:''' ''(gasping, sobbing)'' YOU GAVE ME ''SO MUCH'' TIME! I was in there- You left me- How long- Where's Tubbo?! How- I was in there for MONTHS!

--->'''Ranboo:''' ''(responding to a donation)'' It's fine, it's fine. I understand. He is... scared. Tommy is very scared. Even though it doesn't seem like he is, he is. He definitely is.

* AssassinOutclassin: PlayedWith, in a weird way. On the day after the Manburg Festival, Tommy sneaks into Manburg to try to assassinate Schlatt, as revenge for him ordering Tubbo's execution. He ends up [[ExactEavesdropping witnessing]] Schlatt and Quackity's argument over the destruction of the White House. In the end, he ''does'' kind of succeed in completing his objective that day, not because he does anything outside of ''considering'' shooting Schlatt, but rather, Quackity does the job for him.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Many of Tommy's projects don't get finished purely because he's ''very'' easily distracted. He often tries to talk about multiple topics at the same time, and loses his train of thought ''very'' quickly. He [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this.
-->'''Tommy:''' Anyway, so I was watching [[WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}} Mumbo Jumbo]]... ''(laugh)'' Sometimes I just remember things from a while- DUDE, MY ATTENTION SPAN IS SO ''BAD!'' AH, God! Okay, focus, brain, focus. So. ''(gets distracted by a spider)'' OH MY GOD- okay. So I was watching Mumbo Jumbo and I was like... Do you think... Is he ''really'' British? 'Cause he sounds like- ''(gets distracted by the same spider as it walks up to him; softly)'' [[CutenessProximity Oh, hello!]]
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther:
** A platonic example. Despite genuinely being distraught over Tubbo exiling him, Tommy still treasures the "Your Tubbo" compass that Ghostbur gifted him, and when Dream finds the stash that Tommy hid, Tommy frantically rushes to the chest to save some of the valuables from the TNT. What does he save? Pictures of Tubbo.
** Another platonic example happens between him and Ranboo. After building a recreation of the prison and the Final Control Room with Tubbo and Ranboo, Tommy genuinely thanks Ranboo for his help and gives him a [[ManHug hug]], and later privately admits to Tubbo that he really does like Ranboo and it's just usually overshadowed by his jealousy of Tubbo and Ranboo's relationship.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Tommy was the youngest member of the server until Eryn (who's a few months younger than him) joined, and is prone to acting immature or childish at times, but the rest of the group generally treats him like a peer (though Wilbur often insulted him by calling him a child). Captain Puffy and Awesamdude are the exceptions, as Puffy is hellbent on keeping those who want to harm Tommy at bay because he's too young for the amount of suffering he's already gone through, and Sam makes it very clear that he refuses to let Tommy's mental state deteriorate further than it already has, creating Sam Nook not just to keep Tommy happy and occupied while his hotel was being built, but to keep him safe as well. However, this trope is no longer relevant as Eryn is now the youngest member.

** This trope also applies to Tommy's view of Sam. The two were good friends that strengthen after the disc saga with Sam acting as a sort of father figure to Tommy, but that all came crashing down after Tommy being locked-in and later killed in Pandora's Vault. Following Tommy's resurrection and release, he wants nothing to do with Sam, angry at the warden for not doing more to help save Tommy when he was locked away with Dream. This worsens after Tommy attempted to break into the prison to kill Dream, as Ghostbur is killed due to Sam's inaction and as a result Tommy's view of Sam crumbles even further.

* ColdBloodedTorture: He inflicts this on Connor and Fundy in short order once he allies with Technoblade. While Connor's is PlayedForLaughs and is mostly humiliating, it still involves repeatedly drowning him, and is lated stated to have left him with trauma, even if he does forgive him. Fundy's torture leaves him screaming and crying in a corner and eventually drowning in the river cutting through New L'Manberg.
* ColorMotif: Red. Tommy's standard outfit is a red and white T-shirt, and most of his other clothes incorporate red elements. Tommy is intensely passionate and emotional, but also deeply concerned with the people who are close to him and can have self-sacrificing tendencies, all of which are qualities associated with red. This is also used to compare and contrast him with [[ThoseTwoGuys Tubbo]] and [[BigBad Dream]], both of whom are sometimes associated with green.

** During his ''second'' day in Exile, Tommy activates a ruined nether portal, and manages to find the community hub portal that leads to the rest of the Dream SMP... [[YankTheDogsChain and he couldn't even go through it]] — Dream is there with him, fully intending to kill him for good if he steps through. Later on, Sapnap and Ghostbur pass through the portal, excitedly talking about the Christmas tree set up nearby on the other side, right in earshot of Tommy. His response is to step away from the portal and walk to the edge of the bridge he was standing on... and [[AMoltenDateWithDeath stare at the lava for a long, long, time...]]
--->'''Dream:''' ''([[InterruptedSuicide punching Tommy away from the edge]])'' [[CruelMercy It's not your time to die yet, Tommy.]]\\

* EnemyMine: After [[HesBack regaining his drive]], he opts to team up with [[BombThrowingAnarchist Technoblade]] in order to sneak back into L'Manburg to retrieve Techno's weaponry in exchange for him assisting Tommy in the retrieval of his discs even if it [[WellIntentionedExtremist requires some "minor terrorism" to do so]].

** Later [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] when Tommy shows up to the destroyed Community House, where he undergoes a HeelRealization about what he's done to get his discs back and defects from Technoblade, instead choosing to side with Tubbo and L'Manburg.

** To Tubbo. Tommy is a very emotional person, and tends to throw logic and reason out the window in favor of protecting the things or people he holds dear. In contrast, Tubbo is a very logical person, and always tries to think his decisions through very carefully. Best exemplified by their would-be final conversation during the Final Disc War, where Tommy is desperately trying to find a way out and insisting that Dream is not going to kill Tubbo, while Tubbo calmly points out that Dream has cut off every possible escape route, and tries to comfort Tommy as he accepts his impending death. This also ties into their respective [[FatalFlaw fatal flaws]]; Tommy's HotBlooded nature makes him ''very'' quick to anger, which causes or exacerbates a lot of conflict between himself and his servermates, while Tubbo's colder, more calculating nature leads him to make decisions that, while seemingly better in the long term, sever emotional ties between himself and his friends, inadvertently leading him to alienate his loved ones.

** To Techno. Where Tommy seems to be [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex compensating for a lack of confidence with bluster]], Techno is secure in his status as the best PVP'er on the server. Where Tommy wants to redeem Wilbur, Techno seeks to drive him further into madness. When L'Manburg is retaken, Tommy takes the side of the country when Techno razes it to the ground. Most of the internal conflict in Pogtopia came from Technoblade and Tommy antagonizing each other, with [[TheIdealist Tommy believing in hope for a better future]] while [[TheCynic Techno is jaded and only sees the potential for tyranny]].

* TheHeart: Tommy is this to L'Manburg. Alongside Wilbur, he continually preaches for unity, and while he enjoys messing with his friends, he always backs them up if they get into serious trouble. After he's exiled from New L'Manburg, many others started leaving the country as well, and by the time Doomsday rolls around, many people either didn't care about maintaining the country anymore, or actively participated in its destruction. This is further supported by a flashback sequence in Wilbur's finale stream, where Wilbur stated that he saw L'manberg as "an extension" of Tommy and that Tommy embodied its core values.

* HesBack: After Dream destroys Logstedshire as punishment for disobeying him during exile, Tommy comes to the realization that Dream was never his friend, only pretending to be to keep him under his thumb. Tommy responds by triumphantly gathering the last of his belongings, leaving Logstedshire, making a base under Techno's house, gathering materials to fix his clothes, and plotting to get his discs back. While he still has major trust issues, he's definitely got his drive back, and acts much more like he used to before his exile.
-->'''Tommy:''' This is our turnaround. No more of this shit. We don't... I'm done not fighting. I tried it, and I was not very good at it. ''({{Beat}})'' There's only one thing we need now, not a revolution, not a- I'm still ''very'' angry at everyone in L'Manberg, no one came to visit me. I'm still very angry at Dream, I hate him. I'm still VERY angry at dickhead [Technoblade] up there... [...] But boys, do you know what we've got now? We've got ''me'' back.
* TheHeroDies: The main protagonist for at least the first two seasons of the SMP before being killed off in the third season by Dream during the lockdown in Pandora's Vault. [[BackFromTheDead It doesn't last, however.]]

** Despite having some genuinely valuable items in his stash when Dream found it, the first things he tried to save from the latter's TNT were [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther pictures of Tubbo]].

* IHaveManyNames: PlayedForLaughs. When forced to write an essay on what he did that day as part of his probation, Tommy decided to sign it with all of his aliases. His signature takes up about ''three pages.''

* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: After Wilbur's SanitySlippage, one of Tommy's goals is to either bring Wilbur around or stop him if he can't be reasoned with. After the festival Wilbur planned to blow up L'Manburg during goes horribly wrong, Tommy succeeds in this fight and convinces Wilbur to abandon the plot. This ultimately fails in the long run as Wilbur successfully detonates L'Manburg into craters during the Manburg-Pogtopia War.

-->'''Tommy:''' i thin kand i type like god but im not fgod im just a big im just a pussy[[note]]"I think and I type like god, but I'm not god, I'm just a big I'm just a pussy"[[/note]]

* KickTheDog: While in prison, one of Tommy's cats, Pussboi, gets teleported into the cell with him by accident. Dream takes a liking to the cat, and tries to protect it from Tommy. Tommy, who hates cats and was at that point trying to piss Dream off as much as possible, hits it repeatedly, tries to bait it into the lava, and eventually kills it.
* KilledOffForReal: When Tommy makes it clear that he was never going to let himself be intimidated or manipulated by Dream ever again, to the point of denying that the revival book was real, Dream snaps and beats him to death, taking his final life. This is {{subverted|Trope}} when Dream [[BackFromTheDead brings him back from the dead]] a few days later.

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: PlayedForDrama. During exile, Dream would beat Tommy with bare fists or an axe if he refused to follow orders, or even if he wasn't quick enough in following them. At first, Tommy would scream in pain whenever he was hit, but over time, he became so apathetic that he stopped reacting to Dream's beatings at all.
%%* TheMcCoy: The Id of the Freudian "Bench Trio", in contrast to Tubbo's Superego and Ranboo's Ego.
* MetaphorIsMyMiddleName: Tommy claims his full name is "Tommy Careful Danger Kraken Innit". "Careful" and "Danger" so he can claim that either is his middle name depending on the situation, "Kraken" because [[RuleOfCool it sounds cool]].

-->'''Tommy:''' Anyway- God, these walls, you need to get them sorted out, hey, that's why- no, that's not why I'm here, I need to start being more honest. I'm thinking out loud a lot these days, Technoblade!\\

* NeverFoundTheBody: A variation of this occurred during exile after Tommy's escape. When Dream goes back to Logstedshire, he takes notice of the fact that if Tommy ''had'' truly died, he'd have left behind items, and promptly begins hunting Tommy down. When Dream shows up at Techno's door, Tommy's location is all but confirmed thanks to him leaving obvious clues around the house.

%%* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The cause of his third canon death.

*** Exile chipped away at Tommy's willpower to fight against Dream. At first Tommy would fight back until Dream threatened him with violence, but several days later he became more compliant to Dream's demands, like removing his armor so Dream can blow it up, or fearing Dream catching him in Technoblade's home. The fact that less than a week prior Tommy couldn't even stop himself from insulting Dream to his face for his own good only made this change in behavior all the more distressing.

-->'''Tommy:''' I know that there's that one line that rings through my head as I sleep...of Wilbur saying "Tommy! Let's be the bad guys!" —and I don't—I don't want to be the bad guys...

-->'''Tommy:''' I know why I'm in here. This is... This isn't worse than exile. ''(laughs)'' This isn't worse than the exile... Because the thing is, in exile, I thought you had all the power. I thought you were fucking dangling me like a little fuckin' ''puppet'', man, and even though in here it's small, and I'm fucking -- ''what was that sound?!'' -- and I'm [[{{Claustrophobia}} claustrophobic]], and I ''hate'' this... Here's the thing, here's the thing, Dream, here's the thing I KNOW. ''({{Beat}}, deep breath)'' [...] The revive-book, Dream... It's not real, is it? It's not fuckin' real. 'Cause all you do- All you do that I- [[BigShutUp SHUT THE FUCK UP]] -- What I remember from exile, is that all you do is ''lie'' to me. And then you UNVEIL this BIG THING in this FINALE, that all the fuckin'- when we go down into your pit, here's what you tell me, you tell me "Oh, oh, I was actually fuckin'... It was ''me'' that reorganized your beach party, it was ''me'' that blew up the community house!" You are a ''clinical'' manipulator, a- a ''psychopath'' if you will. [...] You're a liar, and really, through your Netherite armour and skin, I look at you, and you know what I see? I see a sad little man, who's insecure about the fact that this server has gotten ''so far'' ahead of him, and his ''only'' little ''glimpse'' of power in this world is ''gone.'' I see an insecure, ''sad'' little man. Alright? So ''fuck off''.

* ResurrectionSickness: After being revived, Tommy didn't appear to have suffered any ill effects physically, but mentally he was a complete wreck. He suffered the worst panic attack we've seen from him yet, bordering on complete hysteria, and his initial reaction to waking up was to scramble to get away from Dream in such a blind panic that he almost ''ran into the lava''. He also appeared to suffer from SensoryOverload after being stuck in a dark, soundless void for what felt like ''months'', screaming in agony when Dream so much as ''pinched'' him, completely amazed at the fact that he felt hungry, and startling ''hard'' every time the Elder Guardian made a noise, saying that the sounds were more "pure" (this was also reflected on a meta-level, as Tommy turned up his game volume to max after being revived).

* SelfSacrificeScheme: The first iteration of Tommy's plan to break into prison and kill Dream was for him to go inside alone, while his friends stayed on the outside and fired TNT cannons. This likely stemmed from a combination of his own self-hatred and general impression that no one cared when he was dead, and his experience during the Disc War Finale, where Tubbo was moments away from accepting his own death so that Tommy could retrieve his discs. The second iteration involved Ghostbur visiting the prison and Tommy sneaking inside with him while invisible, which went... [[{{Understatement}} poorly.]]

* SupportingProtagonist: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]].
** Tommy served as Wilbur's sidekick and lackey during the SMP War, with Wilbur himself serving as the leader of L'Manburg. Yet there seemed to be a consensus that he was the main character of the war, with Tommy undergoing the most CharacterDevelopment and him being in the forefront at the end of the war (notably, it's him who participates in the war-ending duel with Dream and not Wilbur--he's also the one who ends the war with his sacrifice of the music discs).

'''Tubbo:''' Plains biomes especially.\\
'''Tommy:''' No, I'm kind of okay- it was the... Let me think, let me think. The hole-stuff really gets me, the um... Seeing [Dream] being ''nice'' to us, seeing him all cocky and laughing at us, that... ''(shaky exhale)'' I still do get traumatized, Tubbo...

* TraumaCongaLine: From being betrayed over and over, to watching his country be blown up no less than ''three times''. Watching Wilbur, who he idolized, slowly fall into insanity, blow up their country, and then get killed by his father. Getting murdered by the person that kept him under tyranny, ''twice'', and then get manipulated and driven into a [[DrivenToSuicide suicidal state]] by the same guy. Watching his best friend be publicly executed by his ally, and almost watching him sacrifice himself. Being exiled and getting so lonely and depressed that he [[SeriouslyScruffy stopped caring about himself altogether]], [[TooUnhappyToBeHungry stopped eating]] and [[TheInsomniac sleeping properly]]. Just when it seems things were starting to look up for him, Tommy was then locked in a jail cell [[AloneWithThePsycho with his abuser]] for an entire week, surrounded by things that remind him of his time in exile, '''killed again''' after being brutally beaten by Dream [[KilledOffForReal costing him his last life]], spent two days in the afterlife with [[BrokenPedestal Wilbur]] except for Tommy it [[YearInsideHourOutside felt like two months had passed]], and then [[BackFromTheDead suddenly revived]] by Dream, not only having to deal with SensoryOverload but more torment from his abuser. All of this when he was ''16''.

%%* {{Tyrannicide}}: He [[TheDogBitesBack takes two of Dream's canon lives]] during the Disc War Finale.

* VagueAge: Tommy's current age is unknown. During one livestream, Wilbur stated that he envisioned Tommy and Tubbo as being in their [=20s=] while he was writing the first L'Manberg arc, but Tommy claimed he was "canonically 9 years old" right after that. However, during the Exile arc, Dream stated that Tommy was to remain in exile until he turned 18, implying that he was still a minor at that point. The fandom usually puts Tommy as the same age as his content creator counterpart, that being 16 when he joined the server (and older as the series progresses).

* WeaponBasedCharacterization: When Tommy tries to look intimidating, he'll take out two sticks or bones and dual-wield them, despite the fact that sticks don't do any more damage than a bare fist. Whenever he's truly in trouble, he uses the Axe of Peace, despite the fact that he feels guilty about using it.

* MemeticBadass[=/=]TheChessmaster: InUniverse. Tommy and Techno joke that Clarencio is secretly a genius criminal.

* SuperSpit: As with all llamas in Minecraft, though notable in the case of Clarencio in that he never stops spitting at people. This ultimately gets him killed when he hits Techno's puppy, prompting Max (the father) [[PapaWolf to retaliate]].

''"No-one cares about me anymore, do they?!"''[[/labelnote]]]]

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Tommy's stream chat takes the form of a Nokia 3310 mobile phone located in his pants pocket. The phone buzzes every time he gets a sub.

%%* BigGuyLittleGuy: The big guy to Tubbo's little guy.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Being beaten to death with a potato by your abuser is not exactly a pretty way to to out.

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* DeathIsCheap: Tommy lost his final life to Dream, but was then [[BackFromTheDead brought back]] using the necromancy book, with no apparent ill effects aside from the mental trauma of seeing the Afterlife.

* {{Determinator}}: Tommy is well known for being incredibly stubborn and bull-headed, which often lands him in trouble when he refuses to back down. This stubbornness seems to have a hidden benefit, though -- if Tommy finds something worth his focus and investment, he'll fight tooth and nail to keep it.

* TheDragon: To Techno in the Vengeance Arc, until his HeelRealization at the Green Festival.

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In contrast to the deaths of Schlatt and Wilbur, which were the logical dramatic conclusions to their respective character arcs, Tommy's final death came ''completely'' out of the blue. Not only was Tommy's arc far from over, Dream had previously placed a lot of emphasis on the fact that he didn't want Tommy to die[[note]]for all his manipulations, the audience had never been given a reason to doubt this[[/note]], so for him to suddenly snap and beat Tommy to death with his bare fists was ''completely'' unexpected, and such an anti-climax that the chat's initial reaction was to assume that it was a [[Trivia/DreamSMP blooper]]. Fortunately, Dream only killed Tommy to prove his necromancy book exists, and [[BackFromTheDead brings him back a few days later]].

* FaceHeelTurn: While it is debatable as to who is in the wrong in the conflict between the Anarchists and L'Manburg, Technoblade has convinced him to fully commit to destroying L'Manburg, as Tommy now only cares about the discs. He is also now fully willing to torture Fundy and knowingly helps Technoblade spawn a wither in L'Manburg just to get Techno's weapons back, openly referring to the process as "minor terrorism".

* TheHeart: Arguably, Tommy is this to L'Manburg. Alongside Wilbur, he continually preaches for unity, and while he enjoys messing with his friends, he always backs them up if they get into serious trouble. After he's exiled from New L'Manburg, many others started leaving the country as well, and by the time Doomsday rolls around, many people either didn't care about maintaining the country anymore, or actively participated in its destruction. This is further supported by a flashback sequence in Wilbur's finale stream, where Wilbur stated that he saw L'manberg as "an extension" of Tommy and that Tommy embodied its core values.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: Despite what a lot of the other characters seem to think, Tommy does ''not'' want to be a hero. Considering the last two people who called him a hero either wanted him dead or wanted his loved ones dead, it's understandable that Tommy is repulsed to the idea of being a hero since it puts him and everyone he cares about in danger, when all he wants is to be safe and free from conflict that's plagued him since his first day on the server.

* TheImmune: Tommy is one of the few people who are immune to the Crimson. %%He also seems to be immune to radiation, as he walked around in the nuclear crater after Snowchester's nuke test unprotected with no ill effects.

* {{Keet}}: Initially played straight but later [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]. Early in the SMP, Tommy was a very loud, energetic, and enthusiastic bratty teen, however, his personality [[TookALevelInCynic became more cynical and somber]] over time, following the decline of his mental health.

* TheMcCoy: The Id of the Freudian "Bench Trio", in contrast to Tubbo's Superego and Ranboo's Ego.

* MinorLivingAlone: In Eryn's 12 February 2022 lore stream, "The Origins of Eryn", a younger, pre-DSMP Tommy was introduced to be living in a taiga village in the middle of nowhere in particular, without any note on where his parents were (if he had any).

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The cause of his third canon death.

* OopNorth: Tommy is from Nottingham, and has a noticeable Northern accent.

* SafetyInIndifference: He showed shades of this mindset after his resurrection. Tommy disagreed with Ranboo's suggestion to get a new pet after Henry's death for this reason. He told Ranboo that he thought there was no point in getting a new pet because it's just going to die eventually anyway, likely by Dream's hand. He eventually breaks out of this mindset and adopts a spider as a pet, naming him Shroud after a Twitch streamer of the same name.

* SignatureLaugh: Tommy has a [[https://youtu.be/zTs1uMdoVww?t=1360s very high-pitched, shriek-like laugh.]]
* SirSwearsALot: It's rare to find a Tommy-quote where he ''doesn't'' drop an F-bomb. Around [[ProfanityPolice [=BadBoyHalo=]]], [[TheGadfly Tommy makes an effort to swear as much as possible]].

* StockholmSyndrome: A non-traditional example, since Tommy was technically exiled and not kidnapped[[note]]though some think otherwise, believing Exile to be a kidnapping in all but name due to the fact that Tommy was never exiled to Logstedshire ''specifically'' or barred from any place on the SMP other than New L'Manberg[[/note]], but nonetheless this seemed to be what [[InvokedTrope Dream is trying to induce]]. After isolating Tommy from everyone, Dream manipulates and lies to Tommy about the other members of the SMP being happier with his absence, leading the boy to believe that no one cared about him anymore -- especially Tubbo. Dream is quick to follow up on these moments by keeping Tommy company or being oddly friendly with him, claiming to be Tommy's only friend. Combine that with the fact that Dream is actively trying to keep other people away from Tommy (such as him neglecting to hand out invites for Tommy's beach party), it's no surprise that Tommy starts clinging to Dream despite how awfully he treats him.
** Even after running away and realizing what Dream was trying to pull on him, Tommy still has conflicting thoughts about Dream, occasionally referring to him as a friend and calling out for Dream when he's stressed despite knowing that Dream will try to kill him for running away from exile.
--->'''Tommy:''' The more I think about him the more I get confused.
* StopOrIShootMyself: Tommy threatens to kill himself after he takes Dream's first canon life in the attachments vault, to get Dream to come back down from the vault's elevator so that Tommy could take his second life. Dream complies because Tommy is his ''sole'' attachment to the point of obsession.
* StreetUrchin: He's heavily implied to have been one before coming to the SMP. He prefers living in a dirt hut over an actual house, and likes building materials that are both easy to get and easy to replace (cobblestone and oak wood being his favorites). When he needs items, he usually resorts to stealing or begging from others, and what items he ''does'' manage to get, he clings to, hiding them away in secret chests he buries under the floor. When asked about his parents, Tommy answered that he raised himself, and at one point even claimed to have been [[ArtificialHuman created in a lab]] (though whether this is true remains to be seen). Lastly, Wilbur is implied to have taken Tommy in, as Wilbur acted like a BigBrotherMentor before his mental health started to decline, and Ghostbur even claims that Wilbur ''named'' Tommy.
* SupportingProtagonist: Zig-zagged.

* ThirdWheel: Tommy comments that he felt like one during his first visit to Las Nevadas with Wilbur, who was having BelligerentSexualTension with Quackity for half the stream.
* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Practically his catchphrase. If Tommy doesn't like you, you'll be called a bitch every other sentence.
* ThoseTwoGuys[=/=]HeterosexualLifePartners: With Tubbo, to the point they have been referred to as brothers.
* TooUnhappyToBeHungry: During his time in Logstedshire, there were several instances where Tommy actively refused to eat despite his hunger meter becoming dangerously low, likely demonstrating that this is the case. It doesn't help that in spite of his now-canonized chat telling him to eat from time to time, he claimed that he didn't have an appetite even with his in-game hunger-bar half gone.

* TraumaButton: While Tommy tries to keep his feelings and burdens under wraps, it's clear that his past still affects him greatly. Locations that remind him of past traumatic events, like [[TheExile Logstedshire]] (where he gets ''incredibly'' anxious) and the Final Control Room (which caused him to have a full-on ''panic attack'', hyperventilating and scrambling for an exit), and things that remind him of his time in exile cause him to become ''incredibly'' panicked.
-->'''Tommy:''' There are still some little things from my exile that ''really'', really get me, y'know?\\

* {{Troll}}: Tommy's favorite pastime is annoying his server-mates, though [[CharacterDevelopment as of Seasons 3-4]], he has relatively toned down on this in favour of more constructive and peaceful activities.
* {{Tyrannicide}}: He [[TheDogBitesBack takes two of Dream's canon lives]] during the Disc War Finale.

* WellDoneSonGuy: [[DownplayedTrope Not nearly as severe as, say, Fundy]], but Tommy seems to desire Philza's respect and pride, even though Tommy has stated he essentially raised himself and the fact that Phil is not canonically Tommy's father. He even tries to make a contract with Sam saying that the building of the hotel will be attributed to his name, just so he can ask if Phil was proud of him.
** Wilbur seems to be trying to invoke this trope on him. He tells Tommy that they ''were'' family until Tommy turned out to not have "the balls to follow along with [him]", and when he joins the game and sees Tommy not mining stone like he'd asked him to do (despite the fact that Tommy ''had'' been mining stone and was just taking a break to clear out some junk from his home), he tells Tommy he was disappointed and leaves.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: As if being banned from L'Manburg wasn't bad enough, Dream took it upon himself to ban Tommy from ''every single place'' that has been lived at in the SMP, which included all of the houses Tommy had built.
** The last day of Tommy's exile from L'Manburg ended up being the day of the Green Festival when he turned against Techno after a HeelRealization, which eventually culminated into L'Manburg being nuked to bedrock ''a day later''. This means that despite everything, Tommy never truly had the chance to go home after he was forced out of L'Manburg--the country he helped found and fought and died for--because of Dream's demands.

** This was taken to an extreme on [[https://dreamteam.fandom.com/wiki/Clarencio his wikia page]], where an editor described him as "the most dangerous creature on the server" and that all the SMP players are "merely pitiful bugs compared to his majesty".

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous[=/=]ShoutOut: Tommy named him after a Twitch streamer of the same name, who he was (and still is) a huge fan of.

* MassOhCrap[=/=]BigNo: Whenever anything lore-intensive yet unexpected happens, the chat's collective reaction is often one of these two:

* AloneWithThePsycho: Tommy has been trapped alone with Dream twice now.
** The first is in Exile, where Dream makes a point of visiting Tommy every day, and while he did have other visitors, they didn't stay for long or come back as often. Dream used this time to slowly manipulate Tommy into thinking nobody cared about him, and that Dream was his only friend.
** The second time is during Tommy's would-be last visit to the prison. As Tommy is about to leave, TNT is set off outside the prison, meaning Tommy has to stay in Dream's cell for up to seven days, until the issue is resolved.

* AngstWhatAngst: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]]. Tommy appears to have quickly bounced back to his usual bright self after running away, but there are clear hints he's not doing as well as he acts. He avoids talking about his time in exile with Dream or outright changes the conversation topic when it comes up, and the few times he ''has'' talked about it reveal that he doesn't know how to handle the trauma it's caused him. His personality has also changed; he's a lot more apprehensive, and starts [[ApologizesALot frantically apologizing]] whenever he feels someone he looks up to might be upset with him.
** One of the few people to see through Tommy's front is Ranboo, who doesn't take Tommy lashing out at him at face value:

* AnimalMotifs: Raccoons. After fleeing Logstedshire, he digs a hole in Technoblade's basement and starts hoarding and stealing from there, causing Techno and even Tommy himself to compare him to a raccoon.

** At the same time, raccoons are often seen as [[RascallyRaccoon tricksters and scavangers]], a fitting motif for a boy with a tendency to troll and steal from his server-mates.

* AssassinOutclassin: PlayedWith, in a weird way. On the day after the Manburg Festival, Tommy sneaks into Manburg to try to assassinate Schlatt, as revenge for him ordering [[HeterosexualLifePartners Tubbo's]] execution. He ends up [[ExactEavesdropping witnessing]] Schlatt and Quackity's argument over the destruction of the White House. In the end, he ''does'' kind of succeed in completing his objective that day, not because he does anything outside of ''considering'' shooting Schlatt, but rather, Quackity does the job for him.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: A platonic example. Despite genuinely being distraught over Tubbo exiling him, Tommy still treasures the "Your Tubbo" compass that Ghostbur gifted him, and when Dream finds the stash that Tommy hid, Tommy frantically rushes to the chest to save some of the valuables from the TNT. What does he save? Pictures of Tubbo.

* BackFromTheDead: The TropeCodifier of the Dream SMP universe; Dream brings him back to life using the necromancy book, two days after he initially loses his final life.

* BigGood: Debatable. Despite his tendency to annoy and provoke his server-mates, and his occasional moments of [[WellIntentionedExtremist morally dubious behaviour]], when it comes to a situation of [[GoodVsEvil good and bad]], Tommy has consistently been on the most moral side. Factoring in the fact that after Dream's imprisonment, Tommy started the construction of a Hotel to make sure that everyone had ''somewhere'' to go after the war, and the fact that Tommy has risked himself time and time again for the greater good, he is easily one of the most, if not THE most morally upstanding people on the server.
* BigGuyLittleGuy: The big guy to Tubbo's little guy.

** Zig-zagged regarding his thoughts on Wilbur. While Tommy acknowledges that Wilbur caused irreparable damage to L'Manburg and its citizens, he seems to be splitting his view of Wilbur into two views -- the Wilbur who blew up L'Manburg, and the "real" Wilbur who served as leader of L'Manburg and helped his people. Even to the very end, Tommy still believed that Wilbur could be brought back from the brink and he even told Tubbo not to let the "real" Wilbur down. After Wilbur's revival, the situation slides closer to RebuiltPedestal, as while Tommy is more willing to criticize Wilbur's actions and behavior, he still sees Wilbur as a brother and cares for him deeply.

* CannotTalkToWomen: Downplayed. Tommy often jokes about how he doesn't know how to handle being around women, and he does get noticeably more awkward when he's talking to a woman. He's only a teenager (as of Seasons 1-3), though, so that's to be expected.

* ColdBloodedTorture: He inflicts this on Connor and Fundy in short order once he allies with Technoblade. While Connor's is played for laughs and is mostly humiliating, it still involves repeatedly drowning him. Fundy's torture leaves him screaming and crying in a corner and eventually drowning in the river cutting through New L'Manberg.

* DeathByIrony: Tommy died from getting beaten to death moments after challenging the idea that a book that can resurrect the dead exists, ''by the person who claims to wield it''.
** To add insult to injury, he died at the hands of Dream... in ''the one place that he was supposed to be incapable of hurting anyone''.

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-->'''Tommy:''' Anyway, so I was watching [[LetsPlay/HermitcraftServer Mumbo Jumbo]]... ''(laugh)'' Sometimes I just remember things from a while- DUDE, MY ATTENTION SPAN IS SO ''BAD!'' AH, God! Okay, focus, brain, focus. So. ''(gets distracted by a spider)'' OH MY GOD- okay. So I was watching Mumbo Jumbo and I was like... Do you think... Is he ''really'' British? 'Cause he sounds like- ''(gets distracted by the same spider as it walks up to him; softly)'' [[CutenessProximity Oh, hello!]]

* BoomerangBigot: PlayedForLaughs. Tommy has stated over and over about how he can't stand men, going as far to claim that [[ExaggeratedTrope all men are his enemies, despite being a man himself.]]

** When telling Foolish about the history of the server and about what happened with Wilbur and L'Manburg, he talks about how the six months between then and the war between Manberg and Pogtopia have changed his philosophy from a BlackAndWhiteMorality ideology with him thinking that ItsAllAboutMe, to seeing that the server's changed to being [[BlackAndGreyMorality more complicated than definitive heroes and villains, and that he himself could be a hero]] ''[[GreyAndGrayMorality or]]'' [[GreyAndGrayMorality a villain, depending on one's perspective]], with him also giving Foolish some advice that [[RousseauWasRight everyone has good in them]], and that [[{{Determinator}} you should never give up on those you care about]].

* ColdBloodedTorture: He inflicts this on Connor and Fundy in short order once he allies with Technoblade. While Connor's is played for laughs and is mostly humiliating, it still involves repeatedly drowning him. Fundy's torture leaves him screaming and crying in a corner and eventually drowning in the river cutting through New L'manberg.

* StockholmSyndrome: A non-traditional example, since Tommy was technically exiled and not kidnapped[[note]]though some think otherwise, believing Exile to be a kidnapping in all but name due to the fact that Tommy was never exiled to Logstedshire ''specifically'' or barred from any place on the SMP other than New L'manberg[[/note]], but nonetheless this seemed to be what [[InvokedTrope Dream is trying to induce]]. After isolating Tommy from everyone, Dream manipulates and lies to Tommy about the other members of the SMP being happier with his absence, leading the boy to believe that no one cared about him anymore -- especially Tubbo. Dream is quick to follow up on these moments by keeping Tommy company or being oddly friendly with him, claiming to be Tommy's only friend. Combine that with the fact that Dream is actively trying to keep other people away from Tommy (such as him neglecting to hand out invites for Tommy's beach party), it's no surprise that Tommy starts clinging to Dream despite how awfully he treats him.

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* TheImmune: Tommy is one of the few people who are immune to the Crimson. He also seems to be immune to radiation, as he walked around in the nuclear crater after Snowchester's nuke test unprotected with no ill effects.

After his plot to kill Dream failed so hard Wilbur was revived in the process, Tommy has shifted his goal to keeping an eye on him to make sure he doesn't repeat the same mistakes, and to try and rekindle their old friendship. He worked for Wilbur, but planned to try and change his mind as soon as he's risen high enough in the ranks. However, when Dream breaks out of prison, Tommy is left to deal with the fallout to prevent himself from going through Exile 2.0.\\

Tommy was deceased, but [[BackFromTheDead was later revived]]. He lost his first life in the Final Control Room, his second when he was killed in a duel with Dream, and his third when Dream beat him to death in his prison cell. He was then revived by Dream, with an unknown number of lives.

* WeaponBasedCharacterization: When Tommy tries to look intimidating, he'll take out two sticks or bones and dual-wield them, despite the fact that sticks don't do any more damage than a bare fist. Whenever he's truly in trouble, he uses the [[AnAxeToGrind Axe of Peace]], despite the fact that he feels guilty about using it.

* EverythingsBetterWithLlamas: Being a trader llama, this is to be expected.

** Even in times of stress, Tommy's prone to cracking jokes. When Wilbur underwent his SanitySlippage, however, Tommy was dead serious and extremely concerned.

* WeaponOfChoice: When Tommy tries to look intimidating, he'll take out two sticks or bones and dual-wield them, despite the fact that sticks don't do any more damage than a bare fist. Whenever he's truly in trouble, he uses the [[AnAxeToGrind Axe of Peace]], despite the fact that he feels guilty about using it.

* NumberOneDime: Tommy's two music discs, Cat and Mellohi. He later gives both up to Dream to secure L'Manburg's independence, though he eventually gets one back. Dream exploits this as a leverage point.
* AdoptTheFood: While building his holiday home away from L'Manburg, Tommy adopted three cows, Henry, Harold, and Harvey, because he got too attached to them before he could kill them for food. It's especially prominent in the latter two, as Tommy immediately refused to kill them after they stared at him in the eyes.

** The first was in Exile, where Dream made a point of visiting Tommy every day, and while he did have other visitors, they didn't stay for long or come back as often. Dream used this time to slowly manipulate Tommy into thinking nobody cared about him, and that Dream was his only friend.
** The second time was during Tommy's would-be last visit to the prison. As Tommy was about to leave, TNT was set off outside the prison, meaning Tommy would have to stay in Dream's cell for up to seven days, until the issue was resolved.
** When Tommy died and went to the Afterlife, he was trapped there with Wilbur. While initially Wilbur seemed to have calmed down, apparently being stuck there has done his mental state no favors, because when Tommy is brought back to life, he ''begs'' Dream not to bring Wilbur back.

* AnimalLover: Tommy has a soft spot for animals, especially cows. He adopted three cows after feeling too bad about killing them for food, started cooing over a slime in Pogtopia and yelled at Quackity for trying to kill it, and was more upset about Dream killing Mushroom Henry (his mooshroom gifted to him by Antfrost) than he was about the destruction of Logstedshire. The only animals Tommy openly hates are cats, who he repeatedly insults and kills for seemingly no reason.
* AnimalMotifs: Raccoons. After fleeing Logstedshire, he dug a hole in Technoblade's basement and started hoarding and stealing from there, causing Techno and even Tommy himself to compare him to a raccoon.

* AssassinOutclassin: PlayedWith, in a weird way. On the day after the Manburg Festival, Tommy snuck into Manburg to try to assassinate Schlatt, as revenge for him ordering [[HeterosexualLifePartners Tubbo's]] execution. He ended up [[ExactEavesdropping witnessing]] Schlatt and Quackity's argument over the destruction of the White House. In the end, he ''did'' kind of succeed in completing his objective that day, not because he did anything outside of ''considering'' shooting Schlatt, but rather, Quackity did the job for him.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: A platonic example. Despite genuinely being distraught over Tubbo exiling him, Tommy still treasured the "Your Tubbo" compass that Ghostbur gifted him, and when Dream found the stash that Tommy hid, Tommy frantically rushed to the chest to save some of the valuables from the TNT. What did he save? Pictures of Tubbo.
** Another platonic example happens between him and Ranboo. After building a recreation of the prison and the Final Control Room with Tubbo and Ranboo, Tommy genuinely thanked Ranboo for his help and gave him a [[ManHug hug]], and later privately admitted to Tubbo that he really does like Ranboo and it's just usually overshadowed by his jealousy of Tubbo and Ranboo's relationship.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Tommy was the youngest member of the server until Eryn (who's a few months younger than him) joined, and is prone to acting immature or childish at times, but the rest of the group generally treats him like a peer (though Wilbur often insulted him by calling him a child). Captain Puffy and Awesamdude are the exceptions, as Puffy is hellbent on keeping those who want to harm Tommy at bay because he's too young for the amount of suffering he's already gone through, and Sam has made it very clear that he refuses to let Tommy's mental state deteriorate further than it already has, creating Sam Nook not just to keep Tommy happy and occupied while his hotel was being built, but to keep him safe as well. However, this trope is no longer relevant as Eryn is now the youngest member.
* BackFromTheDead: The TropeCodifier of the Dream SMP universe; Dream brought him back to life using the necromancy book, two days after he initially lost his final life.

** This trope also applies to Tommy's view of Sam. The two were good friends that strengthen after the disc saga with Sam acting as a sort of father figure to Tommy, but that all came crashing down after Tommy being locked-in and later killed in Pandora's Vault. Following Tommy's resurrection and release, he wants nothing to do with Sam, angry at the warden for not doing more to help save Tommy when he was locked away with Dream. This worsened after Tommy attempted to break into the prison to kill Dream, as Ghostbur was killed due to Sam's inaction and Tommy's view of Sam crumbled even further.

* ChildhoodFriends: With Eryn; as shown during Eryn's February 12th, 2022 stream, they grew on nearby towns together, and spent a lot of time hanging out, teaching each other how to shoot bows or swim, and overall just having fun.

* ColdBloodedTorture: He inflicted this on Connor and Fundy in short order once he allied with Technoblade. While Connor's was played for laughs and was mostly humiliating, it still involved repeatedly drowning him. Fundy's torture left him screaming and crying in a corner and eventually drowning in the river cutting through New L'manberg.

* CrazyJealousGuy: A platonic example. After leaving the prison, Tommy reacted poorly to Tubbo's friendship with Ranboo, fearing his best friend had replaced him. Tommy often snapped at Ranboo out of insecurity. This is later subverted, as Tommy slowly warmed up to Ranboo after Tubbo told him Ranboo makes him happy, and it's implied Tommy's started working on his jealousy issues in therapy.

* DeathByDespair: Tommy seemed to be convinced this was happening to him during his exile. The combination of his worsening mental health, [[DullEyesOfUnhappiness the blue fading from his eyes]], and the fact that things didn't seem to be improving for him led him to believe he was going to die soon, and he started to make preparations for when that were to happen.

* DespairEventHorizon: After Tubbo exiled him, Tommy was ''completely'' crushed. He spent his first day in exile mostly screaming about wanting to go back, and desperately tried to get ''anyone'' to tell him why Tubbo betrayed him. Thanks to this and Dream's manipulation, Tommy's mental health began spiraling to the point where he [[SeriouslyScruffy stopped taking care of his appearance]], [[TooUnhappyToBeHungry refused to eat despite his hunger getting dangerously low]], and considered suicide at multiple points, leading to [[DrivenToSuicide an aborted suicide attempt]] after Logstedshire was destroyed.

** A very understated example is when Tommy decided to pay off [[TheDragon Punz]] in order to maximise his chances of beating Dream--Tommy, one of the poorest people on the server, canonically spent ''days'' mining valuable resources with zero intention of keeping any for himself, and did not let himself get distracted by anything until he believed he had collected enough to pay off Punz. The fact that [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny Tommy]] was able to do this so effectively showcases just how determined he was to making sure things went the right way.
* TheDogBitesBack: After ''months'' of being forced to suffer Dream's abuse, having everything he cares about taken away, and finally being trapped in a room, forced to say his final goodbyes to his best friend before Dream kills him for no reason other than [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Dream doesn't think he's fun or useful]], Tommy finally gained the upper hand by paying [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Punz]] to betray Dream and rally half the server against him. Tommy then proceeded to tell Dream in no uncertain terms that he's ''never'' going to end up under his thumb again, and took ''two'' of his canon lives. When Dream, in a panic, yelled out that he can bring people back from the dead, Tommy, after some hesitation, took Sam's suggestion to put Dream in prison instead.
* DontYouDarePityMe: During his exile, Tommy rejected almost every single form of outside help, hating the idea of being pitied and given charity only because he was the least equipped person on the server. However, he was willing to accept some items as long as he contributed to their acquisition or felt he wasn't being pitied.

* DrivenToSuicide: Tommy had already been showing some symptoms of PTSD after the events of Season 1, but the TraumaCongaLine that was his Exile [[HatesBeingAlone yanked him away from the small support system that he had]], causing the aforementioned problems to further exacerbate tenfold.
** During his ''second'' day in Exile, Tommy activated a ruined nether portal, and managed to find the community hub portal that leads to the rest of the Dream SMP... [[YankTheDogsChain and he couldn't even go through it]] — Dream was there with him, fully intending to kill him for good if he stepped through. Later on, Sapnap and Ghostbur passed through the portal, excitedly talking about the Christmas tree set up nearby on the other side, right in earshot of Tommy. His response was to step away from the portal and walk to the edge of the bridge he was standing on... and [[AMoltenDateWithDeath stare at the lava for a long, long, time...]]

** After Dream destroyed Logstedshire and barred Tommy from going into the Nether or having any visitors, Tommy built a tower hundreds of blocks into the sky, with the clear intention of jumping to his death. [[MidSuicideRegret He ultimately did not go through with it]], but came ''very'' close.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In contrast to the deaths of Schlatt and Wilbur, which were the logical dramatic conclusions to their respective character arcs, Tommy's final death came ''completely'' out of the blue. Not only was Tommy's arc far from over, Dream had previously placed a lot of emphasis on the fact that he didn't want Tommy to die[[note]]for all his manipulations, the audience had never been given a reason to doubt this[[/note]], so for him to suddenly snap and beat Tommy to death with his bare fists was ''completely'' unexpected, and such an anti-climax that the chat's initial reaction was to assume that it was a [[Trivia/DreamSMP blooper]]. Fortunately, Dream only killed Tommy to prove his necromancy book exists, and [[BackFromTheDead brought him back a few days later]].
* DuelToTheDeath: Had an archery-based one with Dream at the climax of the L'Manburg Independence arc. He missed his shots and was swiftly killed. Although [[DeathIsCheap the results aren't as fatal as most other duels]], Tommy was down to a single canon life for the next multitude of months.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: The longer his exile went on, the duller Tommy's eyes got. He pointed this out himself, after they went from bright blue to almost grey. [[ExhaustedEyeBags He also gained deep, noticeable bags under his eyes due to lack of sleep]].
* EnemyMine: After [[HesBack regaining his drive]], he's opted to team up with [[BombThrowingAnarchist Technoblade]] in order to sneak back into L'Manburg to retrieve Techno's weaponry in exchange for him assisting Tommy in the retreival of his discs even if it [[WellIntentionedExtremist requires some "minor terrorism" to do so]].

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Wilbur's line about becoming the bad guys unnerved Tommy deeply, and he fears falling victim to this trope just like Wilbur did. He nearly did after escaping from Logstedshire, becoming bitter and vengeful towards L'Manburg as a whole, not helped by Techno actively egging him on. However, after screaming that the discs mattered more than him right in Tubbo's face, Tommy [[HeelRealization realized just what kind of person he was becoming]], and left Techno's side to rejoin L'Manburg and try to rekindle his friendship with Tubbo.

* {{Hypocrite}}: During the Doomsday War, he confronted Technoblade and called him selfish and a traitor. Tommy himself prioritized the discs over his friends and betrayed Technoblade for L'Manburg the day before the war in a HeelRealization. Though Techno quickly called Tommy out on his hypocrisy, it should be noted that hypocrisy is, ironically, something that Techno himself is regularly seen engaging in.

* IHaveManyNames: PlayedForLaughs. When forced to write an essay on what he did that day as part of his probation, Tommy decided to sign it with all of his aliases. His signature took up about ''three pages.''
* IHaveThisFriend: He attempted to do a variation of this as "Trousers" while visiting Las Nevadas once, to talk about his issues in third person and using various epithets, e.g. referring to himself as "the protagonist". Quackity saw through it, but played along and tried to help him anyway.

** After being revived, people reacted to him showing up on the server again -- quite understandably -- with complete shock, and repeatedly asked him for answers. Tommy ''hated'' this, saying that he just wanted to be treated as normal, and that he felt like nobody actually cared about ''him'', just the fact that he came back from the dead.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: A platonic version. After finding out that Ranboo married [[HeterosexualLifePartners Tubbo]], Tommy was initially somewhat hostile towards Ranboo due to a fear of being replaced, but he became much more civil and amicable about it after learning that Ranboo made Tubbo happy.

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: He employed this on Fundy when interrogating him for the Nether Star that Technoblade wanted, as well as for info about upcoming L'Manburg events. He was so unnecessarily hostile that ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards Technoblade]]'' had to step in and tell Tommy he was going too far. However, when Fundy started to cry, Tommy stepped back and tried to reassure Fundy he wouldn't hurt his family, and tried to get Fundy to stop drowning when Vikkstar sent him falling into water by breaking the floor beneath him.

* KickTheDog: While in prison, one of Tommy's cats, Pussboi, got teleported into the cell with him by accident. Dream took a liking to the cat, and tried to protect it from Tommy. Tommy, who hates cats and was at that point trying to piss Dream off as much as possible, hit it repeatedly, tried to bait it into the lava, and eventually killed it.
* KilledOffForReal: When Tommy made it clear that he was never going to let himself be intimidated or manipulated by Dream ever again, to the point of denying that the revival book was real, Dream snapped and beat him to death, taking his final life. This is {{subverted|Trope}} when Dream [[BackFromTheDead brought him back from the dead]] a few days later.

* NeverFoundTheBody: A variation of this occurred during exile after Tommy's escape. When Dream went back to Logstedshire, he took notice of the fact that if Tommy ''had'' truly died, he'd have left behind items, and promptly began hunting Tommy down. When Dream showed up at Techno's door, Tommy's location was all but confirmed thanks to him leaving obvious clues around the house.

** The meeting with Dream was going well and Tubbo was able to appease Dream by putting Tommy on an extended probation instead of exiling him. Tommy started gloating and insulting Dream to his face, claiming that Dream had nothing on him anymore since he didn't have any of Tommy's discs and Tommy had the skin of his dead horse Spirit. Tommy used this as leverage against Dream to force him into breaking down the walls he built around New L'Manberg and for a moment it looked like it was working... until Dream started rebuilding the walls even higher than before. It turned out Dream ''does not care'' about his dead horse and went back to demanding that Tommy be exiled -- which he eventually was.
** Tommy tried to kill Dream to get rid of the knowledge of the revive-book. However, because he wasn't not allowed in the prison, he had Ghostbur visit Dream while Tommy snuck after Sam, invisible. It went well, until Tommy got too eager and pulled out the Axe of Peace too soon, causing Sam to spot him. In the chaos that followed, Dream managed to [[HostageSituation take Ghostbur hostage]], and when Sam refused to free him, Dream killed Ghostbur ''by reviving Wilbur'', the very thing that Tommy didn't want to happen, and what also opened a whole other can of worms for the server to deal with, considering how much of a WildCard Wilbur was when he was brought BackFromTheDead.

* NotUsedToFreedom: After Exile, Tommy struggled to take matters into his own hands, to the point where Techno remarked that he has "no free will whatsoever". While Tommy improved a lot after Dream gets locked up, he sometimes stated that it was a lot easier when he had someone else to make decisions for him (which was his initial motivation for trying to get close to Wilbur again). He even told Eryn that he ''missed'' Exile sometimes, likely for this reason.

*** Tommy had always been a {{Determinator}}, becoming ''extremely'' attached to anything and anyone and fighting tooth and nail to keep them. That's why it was so shocking that after Jack Manifold kidnapped HOTTER girl ([[ItMakesSenseInContext Tommy's "girlfriend" that he made out of wood and a pumpkin]]) and gave a villainous monologue about how Tommy never should have wronged him, Tommy just quietly said he doesn't care and left without even the slightest attempt at fighting back.
** Tommy's time with Wilbur in the Afterlife seemed to only have soured his opinion of him even more, and he feared what Wilbur would do if he was brought back to life. When Dream revealed to Tommy that he plans to bring back Wilbur, Tommy begged him not to do it, saying that he'd stay and be friends with Dream so long as he did not bring back Wilbur. Let that sink in -- Tommy would've rather spent the rest of his days with the man who literally killed him if it meant preventing Wilbur's revival.
** Tommy ''hates'' being treated like a child, and insists at every turn that he's actually a huge man. However, after Dream's escape from Pandora's Vault, he suddenly started acting much younger than he actually was. He referred to himself as a "kid" multiple times, he compared Dream to a schoolyard bully, and after escaping to Phil's house, he hid behind Phil like a scared child behind their parent, and ended up asking Phil to walk him home.

* ProperlyParanoid: He admitted to Ranboo that the reason why Tommy didn't pass the presidency to Tubbo was because he was scared that it would hurt their friendship. Sadly, he seems to be right about that when Dream's ultimatum pits them against each other.
* PuppyDogEyes: After getting blown up by TNT and losing all of his items, he attempted to use these on Ranboo to get a water bucket. It workedd.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tommy gave a ''scathing'' one to Dream after being trapped in prison with him.

** At the end of the Exile arc, when Tubbo came to Logstedshire to visit him, he spotted the pillar Tommy made to jump to his death from, not knowing that Tommy didn't go through with his suicide attempt, and immediately assumed the worst with the result being that everyone except [[BigBad Dream]] believed Tommy to be dead.
** It happened again in early Season 3 [[PlayingWithATrope in a much more twisted way]]. After being trapped in Pandora's Vault with Dream, the word spread that he was dead, only for him to return to the SMP proper a week later. The twist is that Tommy ''was'' killed by Dream but got resurrected, and no one knew that he came BackFromTheDead until he returned from the prison.

* SafetyInIndifference: He showed shades of this mindset after his resurrection. Tommy disagreed with Ranboo's suggestion to get a new pet after Henry's death for this reason. He told Ranboo that he thought there was no point in getting a new pet because it's just going to die eventually anyway, likely by Dream's hand. He eventually broke out of this mindset and adopted a spider as a pet, naming him Shroud after a Twitch streamer of the same name.

* SecretSquatter: After fleeing from Exile, Tommy briefly lived as this in Techno's basement "like a raccoon" before being found out by Techno and subsequently teaming up with him.

* SelfSacrificeScheme: The first iteration of Tommy's plan to break into prison and kill Dream was for him to go inside alone, while his friends stayed on the outside and fired TNT cannons. This likely stemmed from a combination of his own self-hatred and general impression that no one cared when he was dead, and his experience during the Disc War Finale, where Tubbo was moments away from accepting his own death so that Tommy could retrieve his discs. The second iteration involved Ghostbur visiting the prison and Tommy sneaking inside with him while invisible, which went... [[Understatement poorly.]]

* StockholmSyndrome: A non-traditional example, since Tommy was technically exiled and not kidnapped[[note]]though some think otherwise, believing Exile to be a kidnapping in all but name due to the fact that Tommy was never exiled to Logstedshire ''specifically'' or barred from any place on the SMP other than New L'manberg[[/note]], but nonetheless this seemed to be what [[InvokedTrope Dream is trying to induce]]. After isolating Tommy from everyone, Dream manipulated and lied to Tommy about the other members of the SMP being happier with his absence, leading the boy to believe that no one cared about him anymore -- especially Tubbo. Dream was quick to follow up on these moments by keeping Tommy company or being oddly friendly with him, claiming to be Tommy's only friend. Combine that with the fact that Dream was actively trying to keep other people away from Tommy (such as him neglecting to hand out invites for Tommy's beach party), it was no surprise that Tommy started clinging to Dream despite how awfully he treated him.

* StopOrIShootMyself: Tommy threatened to kill himself after he took Dream's first canon life in the attachments vault, to get Dream to come back down from the vault's elevator so that Tommy could take his second life. Dream complied because Tommy is his ''sole'' attachment to the point of obsession.

** He became the [[TheProtagonist central protagonist]] after Wilbur's SanitySlippage. With Wilbur in no condition to lead Pogtopia, it was up to Tommy to both save L'Manburg and bring his fallen friend back from the brink of a devastating FaceHeelTurn.
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: Tommy did this twice, though with some twists regarding both times.
** In Season 1, he managed to talk Wilbur out of blowing up Manburg in the middle of the Pogtopia Arc. What qualifies it for this trope is that Wilbur intended to blow himself up with Manburg by going down with the country he built (but was taken over by Schlatt). However, it ''is'' possible that Tommy didn't know that Wilbur planned to die during their confrontation.
** In Season 2, he managed to do this with ''himself'' during the end of the Exile Arc, as he realized that Dream was trying to keep him from fighting back against him. This eventually ended with Tommy [[MidSuicideRegret jumping down to safety]] into [[SoftWater a pool of water]] and escaping Logstedshire.

* TheoryTunnelvision: The reason Tommy was so dead-set on getting his discs back is because he believed that once they were back in his hands, every conflict on the server would be resolved, as they were the reason the Disc War started [[DisasterDominoes which had a massive impact on the server and its conflicts as a whole]]. However, his short-sighted focus on his discs led him to make decisions or actions detrimental to everyone else around him, driving away the people he cares about and making him look ''extremely'' selfish for prioritizing objects over other people.
* ThirdWheel: Tommy commented that he felt like one during his first visit to Las Nevadas with Wilbur, who was having BelligerentSexualTension with Quackity for half the stream.

* TragicKeepsake: After Ranboo's death, Ghostboo gave Tommy the Rapple, an enchanted golden apple that took Ranboo ages to find when he was alive, as protection against Dream. Tommy then replied that he'd keep the Rapple close to his heart... then Philza ''[[KickTheDog burnt the Rapple]]'' to try to "teach" Tommy not to get attached to 'material items'.

** After dying and being revived, Tommy had flashbacks and flew into a screaming panic whenever he took damage of any kind, no matter how minor, and any reminders of what happened trigger new panic attacks, to the point where he started ''begging'' people to stop asking him to talk about it.

* {{Tyrannicide}}: He [[TheDogBitesBack took two of Dream's canon lives]] during the Disc War Finale.

* WellDoneSonGuy: [[DownplayedTrope Not nearly as severe as, say, Fundy]], but Tommy seemed to desire Philza's respect and pride, even though Tommy's stated he essentially raised himself and that Phil is not canonically Tommy's father. He even tried to make a contract with Sam saying that the building of the hotel will be attributed to his name, just so he could ask if Phil was proud of him.
** Wilbur seemed to be trying to invoke this trope on him. He told Tommy that they ''were'' family until Tommy turned out to not have "the balls to follow along with [him]", and when he joined and saw Tommy not mining stone like he'd asked him to do (despite the fact that Tommy ''had'' been mining stone and was just taking a break to clear out some junk from his home), he told Tommy he was disappointed and left.

* YankTheDogsChain: With help from Ranboo, Tommy was able to rescue the revived version of his pet cow, Henry, from Dream's bunker, but Tommy struggled to maneuver his pet across the mountainous range outside leading to Henry, once again, falling to his death and Tommy grieving for his pet all over again.

* AmbiguouslyAbsentParents: In Eryn's 12 February 2022 lore stream, "The Origins of Eryn", a younger, pre-DSMP Tommy was introduced to be living in a taiga village in the middle of nowhere in particular, without any note on where his parents were (if he had any).

* IHaveManyNames: PlayedForLaughs. When forced to write an essay on what he did that day as part of his probation, Tommy decided to sign it with all of his aliases. His signature takes up about ''three pages.''
* IHaveThisFriend: He attempts to do a variation this as "Trousers" while visiting Las Nevadas once, to talk about his issues using various epithets, e.g. referring to himself as "the protagonist". Quackity sees through it, but plays along and tries to help him anyway.

** After being revived, people react to him showing up on the server again -- quite understandably -- with complete shock, and repeatedly ask him for answers. Tommy ''hates'' this, saying that he just wants to be treated as normal, and that he feels like nobody actually cares about ''him'', just the fact that he came back from the dead.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: A platonic version. After finding out that Ranboo married [[HeterosexualLifePartners Tubbo]], Tommy was initially somewhat hostile towards Ranboo due to a fear of being replaced, but he becomes much more civil and amicable about it after knowing that Ranboo makes Tubbo happy.

* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Tommy generally speaks ''very'' highly of himself, often half-jokingly insisting that he's cooler than everyone else, and the best at everything. However, reading between the lines, it's easy to see that he's internalized the accusation that he's just an annoying troublemaker, and has quite low self-esteem as a result, [[ItsAllMyFault blaming himself for events that weren't even his fault]], like Doomsday. This is most obvious during the Exile arc where, in his correspondence with Ranboo, Tommy would often word-vomit his thoughts onto the page.

* TheInsomniac: After the Manburg-Pogtopia War, Tommy starts to have trouble sleeping, confiding in Ranboo that he keeps [[PastExperienceNightmare having nightmares of Wilbur's mental health spiral]]. This only gets worse after his exile, as evidenced by the massive bags under his eyes, to the point where he claims to have stopped sleeping altogether.

* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: He employs this on Fundy when interrogating him for the Nether Star that Technoblade wanted, as well as for info about upcoming L'Manburg events. He's so unnecessarily hostile that ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards Technoblade]]'' has to step in and tell Tommy he's going too far. However, when Fundy starts to cry, Tommy steps back and tries to reassure Fundy he won't hurt his family, and tries to get Fundy to stop drowning when Vikkstar sends him falling into water by breaking the floor beneath him.

* {{Keet}}: Initially played straight but later [[SubvertedTrope subverted]]. Early in the SMP, Tommy was a very loud, energetic, and enthusiastic bratty teen, however, his personality would [[TookALevelInCynic become more cynical and somber]] over time, following the decline of his mental health.

* KilledOffForReal: When Tommy made it clear that he's never going to let himself be intimidated or manipulated by Dream ever again, to the point of denying that the revival book is real, Dream snaps and beats him to death, taking his final life. This is {{subverted|Trope}} when Dream brings him back from the dead a few days later.
* TheLancer: During the L'Manburgian Revolution, Tommy is a HotBlooded, headstrong youth and, even though they butt heads at times, was Wilbur's right-hand man.

* LovableRogue: Tommy tends to commit petty crime on a regular basis, usually theft/robbery, trolling and occasionally minor griefing, but is arguably one of the ''more'' morally upstanding characters on the server.

* NeverFoundTheBody: A variation of this occurs when Dream takes notice of the fact that if Tommy ''had'' truly died, he'd have left behind items and promptly began hunting Tommy down. When Dream shows up at Techno's door, his location is all but confirmed thanks to Tommy leaving obvious clues around the house.

** The meeting with Dream was going well and Tubbo was able to appease Dream by putting Tommy on an extended probation instead of exiling him. Tommy starts gloating and insulting Dream to his face, claiming that Dream has nothing on him anymore since he doesn't have any of Tommy's disc and Tommy has the skin of his dead horse Spirit. Tommy uses this as leverage against Dream to force him into breaking down the walls he built around New L'Manberg and for a moment it looks like it's working... until Dream starts rebuilding the walls even higher than before. It turns out Dream ''does not care'' about his dead horse and goes back to demanding Tommy is exiled -- which he eventually is.
** Tommy tries to kill Dream to get rid of the knowledge of the revive-book. However, because he's not allowed in the prison, he gets Ghostbur to visit Dream while Tommy sneaks after Sam, invisible. It goes well, until Tommy gets too eager and pulls out the Axe of Peace too soon, causing Sam to spot him. In the chaos that follows, Dream manages to [[HostageSituation take Ghostbur hostage]], and when Sam refuses to free him, kills Ghostbur ''by reviving Wilbur'', the very thing that Tommy didn't want to happen, and also something that opens a whole other can of worms for the server to deal with, considering how much of a WildCard Wilbur was when he was brought BackFromTheDead.
* TheNicknamer: Tommy either calls people by this, or by FullNameBasis.
** "Big Man" is one he uses for multiple people.
** Quackity is "Big Q", which is the only nickname Tommy has given that [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname actually sticks]].

* NotUsedToFreedom: After Exile, Tommy struggles to take matters into his own hands, to the point where Techno remarks that he has "no free will whatsoever". While Tommy improves a lot after Dream gets locked up, he sometimes remarks it was a lot easier when he had someone else to make decisions for him (which was his initial motivation for trying to get close to Wilbur again), and even tells Eryn that he ''misses'' Exile sometimes.

** Even in times of stress, Tommy's prone to cracking jokes. When Wilbur undergoes his SanitySlippage, however, Tommy's dead serious and extremely concerned.
** Tommy is mostly known for being very loud and confident. However, when Tubbo exiles him, Tommy is stunned into horrified silence.
** His exile and Dream's psychological abuse had started to take a ''massive'' toll on Tommy's mental health, as shown in how his behavior changes:
*** Exile chipped away at Tommy's willpower to fight against Dream. At first Tommy would fight back until Dream threatened him with violence, but several days later he became more compliant to Dream's demands, like removing his armor so Dream can blow it up, or fearing Dream catching him in Technoblade's home. The fact that less than a week prior Tommy couldn't even stop himself from insulting Dream to his face for his own good only makes this change in behavior all the more distressing.
*** Tommy had always been a {{Determinator}}, becoming ''extremely'' attached to anything and anyone and fighting tooth and nail to keep them. That's why it's so shocking that after Jack Manifold kidnaps HOTTER girl (Tommy's "girlfriend" that he made out of wood and a pumpkin) and gives a villainous monologue about how he never should have wronged him, Tommy just quietly says he doesn't care and leaves without even the slightest attempt at fighting back.
** Tommy's time with Wilbur in the Afterlife seems to only have soured his opinion of him even more, and he fears what Wilbur would do if he was brought back to life. When Dream reveals to Tommy that he plans to bring back Wilbur Tommy begs him not to do it, saying that he'd stay and be friends with Dream so long as he did not bring back Wilbur. Let that sink in -- Tommy would rather spend the rest of his days with the man who literally killed him if it means preventing Wilbur's revival.
** Tommy, despite being TheBabyOfTheBunch at age 16-17, ''hates'' being treated like a child, and insists at every turn that he's actually a huge man. However, after Dream's escape from Pandora's Vault, he suddenly starts acting much younger than he actually is. He refers to himself as "kid" multiple times, he compares Dream to a schoolyard bully, and after escaping to Phil's house, he hides behind Phil like a scared child behind their parent, and winds up asking Phil to walk him home.

* ParentalAbandonment: {{Implied|Trope}} in Eryn's 12 February 2022 lore stream, "The Origins of Eryn". In the livestream, little, pre-DSMP Tommy was introduced to be living in a taiga village in the middle of nowhere in particular, without any note on where his parents were (if he had any).

* PuppyDogEyes: After getting blown up by TNT and losing all of his items, he attempts to use these on Ranboo to get a water bucket. It works.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tommy gives a ''scathing'' one to Dream after being trapped in prison with him.

** At the end of the Exile arc, when Tubbo comes to Logstedshire to visit him, he spots the pillar Tommy made to jump to his death from, not knowing that Tommy didn't go through with his suicide attempt, and immediately assumes the worst with the result being everyone except [[BigBad Dream]] believing Tommy to be dead.
** It happens again in early Season 3 [[PlayingWithATrope in a much more twisted way]]. After being trapped in Pandora's Vault with Dream, the word was spread that he was dead, only for him to return to the SMP proper a week later. The twist is that Tommy ''was'' killed by Dream but got resurrected, and no one knew that he came BackFromTheDead until he returned from the prison.

* SafetyInIndifference: Shows shades of this mindset after his resurrection. Tommy disagreed with Ranboo's suggestion to get a new pet after Henry's death for this reason. He told Ranboo that he thinks there is no point in getting a new pet because it's just going to die anyway, likely by Dream's hand. He eventually breaks out of this mindset and adopts a spider as a pet, naming him Shroud after a Twitch streamer of the same name.
* TheScapegoat: If something goes wrong on the Dream SMP, chances are you're gonna find someone blaming Tommy for it, even when he's completely uninvolved in it and minding his own business. It's gotten to the point that Tommy has [[ItsAllMyFault internalized it]] and now views himself as a problem, to the point that he views ''himself'' as responsible for L'Manburg's destruction when it was Dream, Technoblade and Philza who destroyed it.

* SelfSacrificeScheme: Despite knowing that breaking into the prison to kill Dream alone is tantamount to a [[SuicideMission suicide mission]], Tommy still chooses to do it by himself instead of involving anyone else. This likely stems from a combination of his own self-hatred and general impression that no one cared when he was dead and his experience during the Disc War Finale, where Tubbo was moments away from accepting his own death so that Tommy could retrieve his discs.
* SentIntoHiding: Due to [[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated being mistaken for dead]], Techno is forced to keep Tommy hidden to avoid anyone knowing that he's still alive.

* StockholmSyndrome: A non-traditional example, since Tommy has technically been exiled and not kidnapped[[note]]Though some think otherwise, believing Exile to be a kidnapping in all but name[[/note]], but nonetheless this seems to be what [[InvokedTrope Dream is trying to induce]]. After isolating Tommy from everyone Dream manipulates and lies to Tommy leading the boy to believe that no one cares about him anymore -- especially Tubbo. Dream is quick to follow up on these moments by keeping Tommy company or being oddly friendly with him, claiming to be Tommy's only friend. Combine that with the fact that Dream is actively trying to keep other people away from Tommy (such as him neglecting to hand out invites for Tommy's beach party), it's no surprise that Tommy started clinging to Dream despite how awfully he treats him.
** Even after running away and realizing what Dream was trying to pull on him Tommy still has conflicting thoughts about Dream, occasionally referring to him as a friend and calling out for Dream when he's stressed despite knowing that Dream will try to kill him for running away from exile.

* StopOrIShootMyself: Tommy threatens to kill himself after he takes Dream's first canon life in the attachments vault, to threaten Dream into coming back to lose his next canon lives. Dream complies because Tommy is his ''sole'' attachment to the point of obsession.

** Tommy serves as Wilbur's sidekick and lackey during the SMP War, with Wilbur himself serving as the leader of L'Manburg. Yet there seems to be a consensus that he's the main character of the war, with Tommy undergoing the most CharacterDevelopment and him being in the forefront at the end of the war (notably, it's him who participates in the war-ending duel with Dream and not Wilbur--he's also the one who ends the war with his sacrifice of the music discs).
** He becomes the [[TheProtagonist central protagonist]] after Wilbur's SanitySlippage. With Wilbur in no condition to lead Pogtopia, it's up to Tommy to both save L'Manburg and bring his fallen friend back from the brink of a devastating FaceHeelTurn.
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: Tommy does this twice, though with some twists regarding both times.
** In Season 1, he manages to talk Wilbur out of blowing up Manburg in the middle of the Pogtopia Arc. What qualifies it for this trope is that Wilbur intended to blow himself up with Manburg by going down with the country he built (but was taken over by Schlatt). However, it ''is'' possible that Tommy didn't know that Wilbur planned to die during their confrontation.
** In Season 2, he manages to do this with ''himself'' during the end of the Exile Arc, as he realizes that Dream was trying to keep him from fighting back against him. This eventually ends with Tommy [[MidSuicideRegret jumping down to safety]] and escaping Logstedshire.

* TheoryTunnelvision: The reason Tommy is so dead-set on getting his discs back is because he believes that once they're back in his hands, every conflict on the server will be resolved, as they were the reason the Disc War started [[DisasterDominoes which had a massive impact on the server and its conflicts as a whole]]. However, his short-sighted focus on his discs leads him to make decisions or actions detrimental to everyone else around him, driving away the people he cares about and making him look ''extremely'' selfish for prioritizing objects over other people.
* ThirdWheel: Tommy comments that he felt like one during his first visit to Las Nevadas with Wilbur, who was having BelligerentSexualTension with Quackity for half the stream.

* TooUnhappyToBeHungry: During his time in Logstedshire, there were several instances where Tommy actively refused to eat despite his hunger meter becoming dangerously low, likely demonstrating that this is the case. It doesn't help that in spite of his now-canonized chat telling him to eat from time to time, he claims that he doesn't have an appetite even with his in-game hunger-bar half gone.
* TragicKeepsake: After Ranboo's death, Ghostboo gave Tommy the Rapple, an enchanted golden apple that took Ranboo ages to find when he was alive, as protection against Dream. Tommy then replied that he'd keep the Rapple close to his heart... then Philza ''[[KickTheDog burns the Rapple]]'' to try to "teach" Tommy not to get attached to 'material items'.

** After dying and being revived, Tommy has flashbacks and flies into a screaming panic whenever he takes damage of any kind, no matter how minor, and any reminders of what happened trigger new panic attacks, to the point where he starts ''begging'' people to stop asking him to talk about it.
* TraumaCongaLine: From being betrayed over and over, to watching his country be blown up no less than ''three times''. Watching Wilbur, who he idolized, slowly fall into insanity, blow up their country, and then get killed by his father. Getting murdered by the person that kept him under tyranny, ''twice'', and then get manipulated and driven into a [[DrivenToSuicide suicidal state]] by the same guy. Watching his best friend be publicly executed by his ally, and almost watching him sacrifice himself. Being exiled and getting so lonely and depressed that he [[SeriouslyScruffy stopped caring about himself altogether]], [[TooUnhappyToBeHungry stopped eating]] and [[TheInsomniac sleeping properly]]. Just when it seems things were starting to look up for him Tommy is then locked in a jail cell [[AloneWithThePsycho with his abuser]] for an entire week, surrounded by things that remind him of his time in exile, '''killed again''' after being brutally beaten by Dream [[KilledOffForReal costing him his last life]], spent two days in the afterlife with [[BrokenPedestal Wilbur]] except for Tommy it [[YearInsideHourOutside felt like two months had passed]], and then [[BackFromTheDead suddenly revived]] by Dream, not only having to deal with SensoryOverload but more torment from his abuser. All of this when he was ''16''.

* {{Tyrannicide}}: He [[TheDogBitesBack takes two of Dream's canon lives]] during the Disc War Finale.

* WellDoneSonGuy: [[DownplayedTrope Not nearly as severe as, say, Fundy]], but Tommy seems to desire Philza's respect and pride, even though Tommy's stated he essentially raised himself. He even tries to make a contract with Sam saying that the building of the hotel will be attributed to his name, just so he can ask if Phil's proud of him.
** Wilbur seems to be trying to invoke this trope on him. He told Tommy that they ''were'' family until Tommy turned out to not have "the balls to follow along with [him]", and when he joined and saw Tommy not mining stone like he'd asked him to do (despite the fact that Tommy ''had'' been mining stone and was just taking a break to clear out some junk from his home), he told Tommy he was disappointed and left.

* YankTheDogsChain: With help from Ranboo, Tommy is able to rescue the revived version of his pet cow, Henry, from Dream's bunker, but Tommy struggles to maneuver his pet across the mountainous range outside leading to Henry, once again, falling to his death and Tommy grieving for his pet all over again.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: As if being banned from L'Manburg wasn't bad enough, Dream reveals that Tommy has been banned from ''every single place'' that has been lived at in the SMP, which includes all of the houses Tommy has built.
** The last day of Tommy's exile from L'Manburg ended up being the day of the Green Festival when he turned against Techno after a HeelRealization, which eventually culminated into L'Manburg being nuked to bedrock ''a day later''. This means despite everything, Tommy never truly had the chance to go home after he was forced out of L'Manburg--the country he helped found and fought and died for--because of Dream's demands.

* ArchEnemy: Tommy wants Dream dead for the constant torment he puts him through and the danger he poses to the server as a whole, but Dream himself ''[[SubvertedTrope doesn't]]'' find Tommy an ''enemy'', per se, but instead sees him as a toy or a pet of sorts and enjoys tormenting him and breaking his spirit to satisfy his controlling tendencies.
* AssassinOutclassin: PlayedWith, in a weird way. On the day after the Manburg Festival, Tommy sneaks into Manburg to try to assassinate Schlatt, as revenge for him ordering [[HeterosexualLifePartners Tubbo's]] execution. He ends up [[ExactEavesdropping witnessing]] Schlatt and Quackity's argument over the destruction of the White House. In the end, he ''does'' kind of succeeds in completing his objective that day, not because he did anything outside of ''considering'' to shoot Schlatt, but rather, Quackity did the job for him.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: A platonic example. Despite genuinely being distraught over Tubbo exiling him, Tommy still treasured the "Your Tubbo" compass that Ghostbur gifted him, and when Dream found the stash that Tommy hid, Tommy frantically rushed the chest to save some of the valuables from the TNT. What did he save? Pictures of Tubbo.
** Another platonic example happens between him and Ranboo. After building a recreation of the prison and the Final Control Room with Tubbo and Ranboo, Tommy genuinely thanks Ranboo for his help and gives him a [[ManHug hug]], and later privately admits to Tubbo that he really does like Ranboo and it's just usually overshadowed by his jealousy of Tubbo and Ranboo's relationship.
* TheBabyOfTheBunch: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. Tommy was the youngest member of the server until Eryn (who's a few months younger than him) joined, and is prone to acting immature or childish at times, but the rest of the group generally treats him like a peer (though Wilbur often insulted him by calling him a child). Captain Puffy and Awesamdude are the exceptions, Puffy is hellbent on keeping those who want to harm Tommy at bay because he's too young for the amount of suffering he's already gone through, and Sam has made it very clear that he refuses to let Tommy's mental state deteriorate further than it already has, creating Sam Nook not just to keep Tommy happy and occupied while his hotel was being built, but to keep him safe as well. However, this trope is no longer relevant as Eryn is now the youngest member.

** Zig-zagged regarding his thoughts on Wilbur. While Tommy acknowledges that Wilbur died as a villain and ultimately caused irreparable damage to L'Manburg and its citizens, he seems to be splitting his view of Wilbur into two views -- the villainous Wilbur who blew up L'Manburg, and the "real" Wilbur who served as leader of L'Manburg and helped his people. Even to the very end, Tommy still believed that Wilbur could be brought back from the brink and he even tells Tubbo not to let the "real" Wilbur down.
** While not as extreme, this trope also applies to Tommy's view of Sam. The two were good friends that strengthen after the disc saga with Sam acting as a sort of father figure to Tommy, but that all came crashing down after Tommy being locked-in and later killed in Pandora's Vault. Following Tommy's resurrection and release, he wants nothing to do with Sam, angry at the warden for not doing more to help save Tommy when he was locked away with Dream.

** When telling Foolish about the history of the server and about what happened with Wilbur and L'Manburg, he talks about how the six months between then and the war between Manberg and Pogtopia have changed his philosophy from a BlackAndWhiteMorality ideology with him thinking that ItsAllAboutMe, to seeing that the server's changed to being [[BlackAndGreyMorality more complicated than definitive heroes and villains, and that he himself could be a hero]] ''[[GreyAndGrayMorality or]]'' [[GreyAndGrayMorality a villain, depending on your perspective]], with him also giving Foolish some advice that [[RousseauWasRight everyone has good in them]], and that [[{{Determinator}} you should never give up on those you care about]].

* ColdBloodedTorture: Inflicts this on Connor and Fundy in short order once he begins to ally with Technoblade. While Connor's was played for laughs and was mostly humiliating, it still involved repeatedly drowning him. Fundy's torture left him screaming and crying in a corner with Tommy unconcerned about him.

* CrazyJealousGuy: A platonic example. After leaving the prison, Tommy reacted poorly to Tubbo's friendship with Ranboo, fearing his best friend had replaced him. Tommy often snaps at Ranboo out of insecurity. This is later subverted, as Tommy slowly starts warming up to Ranboo after Tubbo tells him Ranboo makes him happy, and is implied to have worked on his jealousy issues in therapy.

* DecliningPromotion: After Dream surrenders Manburg to Wilbur, Wilbur attempts to promote Tommy to presidency of L'Manburg, but Tommy refuses, instead choosing to pass the position back to Wilbur, who in turn passes it off to Tubbo.

* TheDogBitesBack: After ''months'' of being forced to suffer Dream's abuse, having everything he cares about taken away, and finally being trapped in a room, forced to say his final goodbyes to his best friend before Dream kills him for no reason other than [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Dream doesn't think he's fun or useful]], Tommy finally gains the upper hand by paying [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Punz]] to betray Dream and rally half the server against him. Tommy then proceeds to tell Dream in no uncertain terms that he's ''never'' going to end up under his thumb again, and takes ''two'' of his canon lives. When Dream, in a panic, yells out that he can bring people back from the dead, Tommy, after some hesitation, takes Sam's suggestion to put Dream in prison instead.
* DontYouDarePityMe: During his exile, Tommy rejects almost every single form of outside help, hating the idea of being pitied and given charity only because he's the least equipped person on the server. However, he is willing to accept some items as long as he contributes to their acquisition or feels he's not being pitied.

** During his ''second'' day in Exile, Tommy activated a ruined nether portal, and managed to find the community hub portal that leads to the rest of the Dream SMP... [[YankTheDogsChain and he couldn't even go through it]] — Dream was there with him, fully intending to kill him for good if he stepped through. Later on, Sapnap and Ghostbur passed through the portal, excitedly talking about the Christmas tree set up nearby on the other side, right in earshot of Tommy. His response was stepping away from the portal and walking to the edge of the bridge he was standing on... and [[AMoltenDateWithDeath staring at the lava for a long, long, time...]]

** After Dream destroyed Logstedshire and barred Tommy from going into the Nether or having any visitors, Tommy builds a tower hundreds of blocks into the sky, with the clear intention of jumping to his death. [[MidSuicideRegret He ultimately does not go through with it]], but came ''very'' close.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: In contrast to the deaths of Schlatt and Wilbur, which were the logical dramatic conclusions to their respective character arcs, Tommy's final death came ''completely'' out of the blue. Not only was Tommy's arc far from over, Dream had previously placed a lot of emphasis on the fact that he didn't want Tommy to die[[note]]for all his manipulations, the audience had never been given a reason to doubt this[[/note]], so for him to suddenly snap and beat Tommy do death with his bare fists was ''completely'' unexpected, and such an anti-climax that the chat's initial reaction was to assume that it was a [[Trivia/DreamSMP blooper]]. Fortunately, Dream only killed Tommy to prove his necromancy book exists, and [[BackFromTheDead brings him back a few days later]].
* DuelToTheDeath: Has an archery-based one with Dream at the climax of the L'Manburg Independence arc. He misses his shots and is swiftly killed. Although [[DeathIsCheap the results aren't as fatal as most other duels]], Tommy was down to a single canon life for the next multitude of months.
* DullEyesOfUnhappiness: The longer his exile lasts, the duller Tommy's eyes get. He points this out himself, after they've gone from bright blue to almost grey. [[ExhaustedEyeBags He also gains deep, noticeable bags under his eyes due to lack of sleep]].

* GoodIsNotNice: Tommy is a very ''honest'' and blunt person to put it simply, though he does become more friendly once he warms up to them.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Wilbur's line about becoming the bad guys unnerved Tommy deeply, and he fears falling victim to this trope just like Wilbur did. He nearly does after escaping from Logstedshire, becoming bitter and vengeful towards L'Manburg as a whole, not helped by Techno actively egging him on. However, after screaming that the discs mattered more than him right in Tubbo's face, Tommy [[HeelRealization realized just what kind of person he was becoming]], and left Techno's side to rejoin L'Manburg and try to rekindle his friendship with Tubbo.
* TheHeart: Arguably, Tommy is this to L'Manburg. Alongside Wilbur, he continually preaches for unity, and while he enjoys messing with them, always backs up his friends if they get into serious trouble. After he's exiled from New L'Manburg, many others start leaving the country as well, and by the time Doomsday rolls around, many people either don't care about maintaining the country anymore, or actively participate in its destruction.

** Despite having some genuinely valuable items in his stash when Dream found it, the first things he tries to save from the latter's TNT is [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther pictures of Tubbo]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: During the Doomsday War, he confronts Technoblade and calls him selfish and a traitor. Tommy himself prioritized the discs over his friends and betrayed Technoblade for L'Manburg the day before the war in a HeelRealization. Though Techno quickly calls Tommy out on his hypocrisy, it should be noted that hypocrisy is, ironically, something that Techno himself is regularly seen engaging in.

* NotUsedToFreedom: After exile, Tommy struggles to take matters into his own hands, to the point where Techno remarks that he has "no free will whatshowever." While Tommy improves a lot after Dream gets locked up, he sometimes remarks it was a lot easier when he had someone else to make decisions for him (which was his initial motivation for trying to get close to Wilbur again), and even tells Eryn that he ''misses'' exile sometimes.

-->'''Tommy:''' I know why I'm in here. This is... This isn't worse than exile. ''(laughs)'' This isn't worse than the exile... Because the thing is, in exile, I thought you had all the power. I thought you were fucking dangling me like a little fuckin' ''puppet'', man, and even though in here it's small, and I'm fucking -- ''what was that sound?!'' -- and I'm [[{{Claustrophobia}} claustrophobic]], and I ''hate'' this... Here's the thing, here's the thing, Dream, here's the thing I KNOW. ''({{Beat}}, deep breath)'' [...] The revive-book, Dream... It's not real, is it? It's not fuckin' real. 'Cause all you do- All you do that I- [[BigShutUp SHUT THE FUCK UP]] -- What I remember from exile, is that all you do is ''lie'' to me. And then you UNVEIL this BIG THING in this FINALE, that all the fuckin'- when we go down into your pit, here's what you tell me, you tell me "Oh, oh, I was actually fuckin'... It was ''me'' that reorganized your beach party, it was ''me'' that blew up the community house!" You are a ''clinical'' manipulator, a- a ''psychopath'' if you will. [...] You're a liar, and really, through your Netherite armour and skin, I look at you, and you know what I see? I see a sad little man, who's insecure about the fact that this server has gotten ''so far'' ahead of him, and his ''only'' little ''glimpse'' of power in this world is ''gone.'' I see an insecure, ''sad'' little man. Alright? So ''fuck off.''

* SentIntoHiding: Due to unintentionally FakingTheDead, Techno is forced to keep Tommy hidden to avoid anyone knowing that he's still alive.

* SignatureLaugh: Tommy has a [[https://youtu.be/zTs1uMdoVww?t=1360 very high-pitched, shriek-like laugh.]]

* {{Troll}}: Tommy's favorite pastime is annoying his server-mates, though as of Seasons 3-4, he has relatively toned down on this in favour of more constructive and peaceful activities.

* AmbiguousDisorder: It is all but outright stated that Tommy has C-PTSD, even fitting many of the criteria required for a proper diagnosis. Unfortunately for him, ThereAreNoTherapists. On top of this, he also shows some symptoms that could indicate ADHD, such as [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny a very short attention span]], a non-existent brain-mouth filter, extreme emotional responses for both positive and negative emotions, and difficulty articulating himself, especially in stressful situations.

* VagueAge: Tommy's current age is unknown. During one livestream, Wilbur stated that he envisioned Tommy and Tubbo as being in their [=20s=] while he was writing the first L'Manberg arc, but Tommy claimed he was "canonically 9 years old" right after that. However, during the Exile arc, Dream stated that Tommy was to remain in exile until he turned 18, implying that he was still a minor at that point. The fandom usually puts Tommy as the same age as [[LetsPlay/TommyInnit his content creator counterpart]], that being 16 when he joined the server (and older as the series progresses).

* FreudianExcuse: It's heavily implied that Tommy grew up as an abandoned StreetUrchin prior to joining the SMP, which caused his abrasive and blunt personality in the present.