List of Tom and Jerry characters

This article contains the list of characters featured in the Tom and Jerry animated series, given in the order of the era in which they first appeared. Main Tom and Jerry Thomas "Tom" (originally called "Jasper") is a bluish grey and white domestic shorthair cat. He is usually, but not always, portrayed as living a comfortable and pampered life, while Gerald "Jerry" (originally called "Jinx"), a brown house mouse, always lives in close proximity to Tom. Despite being very energetic, determined, and much larger, Tom is no match for Jerry's wits. Jerry also possesses surprising strength for his size, sometimes even greater than Tom's, being able to lift items such as anvils with relative ease, and withstand big impacts. Although cats usually chase mice to eat them, it is quite rare for Tom to actually try to eat Jerry. Instead, he tends to compete with Jerry to taunt him (even as revenge) or to obtain a reward from a human (including his owner(s) or master(s)) for catching him or for generally doing his job as a house cat well. By the final "fade-out" of each cartoon, Jerry usually gets the best of Tom. However, on rare occasions Tom triumphs over Jerry. This usually happens when the