Tom

"Hi, guys! I'm Tom. You've probably heard of me, right?"

- Talking Tom and Friends Website

Thomas, known by his friends as Tom, is the titular character and one of the main characters of the many series in the Talking Tom and Friends franchise. He is the face of Tom and Ben Enterprises, as well as being the former mayor of his town, in office from "Vote for Tom!" until "Worst Mayor Ever".

Series
Tom is a grey Tabby cat who has long whiskers, a stripy tail, a pink nose and pink canals and white eyebrows.

From Season 4 onwards, he wears a red t-shirt with a thumbs-up sign on the front, blue jeans with a green belt and white and red sneakers.

Starting from Waitress Angela onwards, Tom wears a blue collared polo. This outfit is used interchangeably with his Season 4 outfit during the rest of Season 5.

Games
Tom is a grey tabby cat with green eyes and a pink nose. he was initially naked in older games of the franchise but nowadays he wears a green t-shirt with blue shorts.

Personality
Tom is a creative and ideal thinker. He uses his abilities to help his company in creating inventions and apps for the world to use. He likes to help and support others and spread joy across the town, exceeding in this in "Happy Town" where he uses his mayor status to start a town party, it becomes chaos but he soon turns it around again and no one notices. This also plays into his quick-thinking and plan-making to get himself out of situations and create solutions for problems.

Tom can sometimes be thoughtless and reckless, his actions doing more harm than the good he intended to come out of his plans. This can cause harm towards himself and/or his friends, none of which he desires. He always attempts to make up for any misdeeds he's done as he never wishes for anything bad to happen, even though he can create mistakes quite often.

Tom wants to be a great leader, leading his friends, scout club, and even town for a while. He encourages others and gives determination to his friends in order to succeed. He wants only for the best to happen to everyone and for danger and foes to get out of the way. Working together as a leader, he will defeat anything that threatens him or anyone else.

Angela
Angela is Tom's romantic interest, these feelings are first shown in "Future Tron" where Tom gets scared over the thought of Hank and Angela being in love. Throughout Season 1, Tom's crush for Angela grows deeper as we can see in episodes such as "Tom's Love Song", where Tom wants to write a song specifically to impress her. Although, if anyone tries to confront him about his crush, he will immediately deny what the person is saying, despite how obvious he makes his crush on her towards the people around him.

In "Parallel Universe", Tom gets close to an alternate version of Angela simply because she shares the same feelings towards him. Angela discovers this and becomes frustrated with him for loving the other Angela. Tom questions why Angela is upset, catching onto Angela's mutual feeling. This sets up the Season 1 finale, where Angela admits to also liking Tom in front of Ben. Angela doesn't want to tell Tom about her secret, as she feels it would ruin their relationship if he declined. Tom eventually discovers her secret and they both reveal their love towards each other, kissing each other before their mind is accidentally wiped by Hank.

In Season 2, they find out about their erased memory through a video recording of the two kissing on Ginger's phone and which starts an awkward tension between the two. They agree to stay as just friends after a date goes wrong and go on a normal friend event together but after the rest of the gang are separated from Tom and Angela, they begin to confess that they've wanted to go on a date after the friend event went wrong and declare their relationship by telling Ginger that they're on a date, much to his disgust.

Since they state their relationship, they take it seriously and despite having a few fights throughout the show, they will eventually learn that are truly meant to be together.

Ben
Ben is Tom's childhood friend and business partner. After meeting through bumping into each other playing the same video game, they are implied to have a great bond over the years from childhood to adulthood. They have dreamt of having a company together and used their ideas and creativity to make it. They have a few fights, violent in the pilot but more shouting and insulting in the series. A lot of their arguments can involve the company itself, Tom's recklessness normally leading to events of the argument. Despite that, they know that they need each other in order to keep the company running and don't want to ruin the dreams of their younger selves.

Hank
Hank is Tom's best friend, as he is the roommate to Tom in the studio. It is unknown how they met at all, but unlike the rest of the gang, Hank does not have any outdated backstories used in games or old franchise facts due to him being exclusive to Talking Tom and Friends and later added to the franchise's games and series. Hank is known to share the ability that Tom has of coming up with creative ideas and thoughts. Hank had thought of the idea for My Talking Tom and the company released it. Hank usually supports Tom with what he is doing without thinking about what he's getting into, he also comes up with solutions to the gang's problems at their time of need in the climax. This is even noticed by the characters themselves as mentioned in "The Incredible Super-Fan", when Hank is not with the rest of the gang and they question what to do.

Ginger
Ginger is Tom's neighbor, nephew in Talking Friends, he usually plays tricks on him and the rest of the gang as he likes to laugh and have fun, as well as this, he likes to play with the rest of the gang, usually playing too well for everyone else to catch up. Ginger can sometimes be a menace towards Tom, ruining and using their inventions during the making of one. He doesn't like anyone else taking his friends away from him and can use his annoyance on those who break their friendship in order to get them back. He can get frustrated about the friends being uptight about rules and doesn't like it when everyone ignores what he's saying but he learns that sometimes they need to do things in order to stay where they are. He also heavily dislikes and is disgusted by love, therefore not liking Tom and Angela's relationship, but hating Tom's sadness even more, more because he is disgusted by them moping around rather than sympathising with them and will try and keep them together so that Tom won't be sad.

Early life
Tom met Ben met nearly 8 and a half years ago, at the age of 14. They bumped into each other while using their electronic devices, and became best friends.

Tom and Ben Enterprises
When they were teenagers, Tom and Ben started a tech company called Tom and Ben Enterprises. They didn't have a proper business plan at the time, however, and just had fun making some devices like Boomerang. An idea pitched by Hank led to the creation of the Talking Tom app.

Mayor career
In "Vote for Tom!", Tom was elected as mayor of the town. His term ended in "Worst Mayor Ever" where it is given to another citizen of the town.

Talking Tom and Friends Minis
In Talking Tom and Friends Minis, he works as a cashier in a small café. He doesn't like to show that he's unskilled sometimes.