TOM

TOM (short for Toonami Operations Modeule) is known to have had the longest run as host of Toonami for exactly 8 years from July 10, 1999 to September 20, 2008, the day Toonami shut down tragically. He has been hosting the block from four incarnations.

TOM v.1
The first version of TOM introduced and the first one to have custody of the Ghost Planet spaceship Absolution, Cartoon Network's first and only interstellar travel unit. He was called a bubble-headed host by Wall Street Journal and had the joke of fans because of his enourmus "gut" which was a very large nuclear reactor. His appearance was a short, helmet wearing, visored, white and blue robot who's limbs where connected by thin black threads and his personality was that of Moltar's, wise-cracking,sarcastic and sardonic. Also, the symbol of his nuclear reactor was a hazmat symbol. His intro speech was broadcast on July 10, 1999 at 11:55 pm., Five minutes before the first Toonami: Midnight Run broadcast.

"So it's a brand new Toonami but the mission objectives remains the same. My name is TOM. I'm the new Moltar. Welcome aboard the Ghost Planet spaceship Absolution, Cartoon Network's first and only broadcast & exploration vehicle but I'll give you the tour later. From this day forward, she's responsible for all Toonami transmissions. I'm taking you guys into the new millenium. No big changes now, same show, same attitude, new place to do it, new guy to do it with. I'm not going to waste anymore time, let's get back into it. Later."

                                                                                                                                                                                      TOM v.1's first message,

                                                                                                                                                                                                                     July 10, 1999, 11:55 pm

And with lots of new material, he brought us into the new millenium and made Toonami and Cartoon Network rise to the top. Also, like Moltar he gave out sage-like advice like standing up for yourself, courage, and doing the right thing. However, unlike the original guy in red and blue he rarely talked about the heroes or villians in a insulting way.

In the first TIE (Total Immersion Event) The Intruder while having a conversation with his AI assistant SARA on the deck, a large,red blob crashed or should we say burned through the hull of the ship and TOM sent out the Clyde 50's to investige who then started to deveour the Clydes they kept sending out and TOM was immediatley charged with the task of fighting the Intruder. After fighting him and getting knocked out of the ship and having his nuclear reactor turning off in the process, he was turned back on when he bumped into an asteroid. After taking the bigest weapon in his arsenal which was charged by SARA he attacked the Intruder which really grew in their last encounter. TOM constantly kept attacking the red sludge-like creature but with no luck wathsoever. After a failed attempt to trap the intruder, TOM prepared to attack again but our surprise the blaster malfunctioned and the charge sent him into the passenger elevator. Then afterwards to our surprise again the ever still-hungry Intruder deveoured him, bringing the end to or short bobberman-like robot friend.

Hosting period: July 10, 1999 - Semtember 22, 2000

Voiced by: Sonny Strait

TOM v.2
As the ever hungry intruder ate one of the engines, it looked like the end of the Absolution and TOM's sacrifice to be in vain. But like the comics no one stays dead forever and immediatley after The Intruder's assult on the engine, SARA downloaded all of TOM's AI matrix (which means his personality, memory, and other stuff) into a new chasis named TOM 2. Despite this, he was still refered to as TOM and was still the same sarcastic host of ours.

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