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'''Thomas "Tom" Sloane'''
{{quote|Remember when we went to the drugstore and read the greeting card poems aloud? That was a fun date.|[[Sappy Anniversary]]}}
==Character Overview==
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Generally, he seems to enjoy his family's wealth while noticing and casually disparaging some of its absurdities. His family's wealth and power was a source of tension between him and Daria during their relationship, sometimes from his unnoticed privilege and sometimes because she automatically assumed the worst because of his class.
==Tom's importance in canon==
[[Image:Tom_DyeDye.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Tom tries to head off Jane's verbal onslaught]]▼
''See [[Tomgate]]''
===Why?===
▲===Why?===
In a [http://www.the-wildone.com/dvdaria/glenninterviewsfull.html 2006 interview with Kara Wild], [[Glenn Eichler]] said Tom was created as "I thought it was really pushing credibility for Daria to have only had one or two dates during her whole high school career - I thought it was time in the evolution of her personality for a boyfriend to enter the picture. And of course it would provide us with some fresh storylines, always welcome after 39 episodes." The reason Tom started as Jane's boyfriend was both because Glenn felt Daria would need to grow on a high school boy for him to ask her out, meaning "he would need to spend a fair amount of time in her company BEFORE they started dating", and because "I thought the situation would allow us to explore and test Daria and Jane's friendship". He admits this "may have backfired" as a chunk of the audience didn't buy Jane would forgive Daria for that.
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==="Nurse Goodnsexy"===
In recent times, a popular depiction of Tom has seen him (or her) getting dolled up, dressing up in a nurse's outfit and seducing the men of Lawndale. Whether or not he is doing this as a coping mechanism for being dumped by Daria, a devious fetish or just for the lulz is usually open to interpretation. Originally a stand-alone series started by [[Shiva]], this trope has been crossed over into several other series, including [[God Save The Esteem]], [[Lawndale Fighting Championship]] and [[Rude Awakening]].
===Record Executive Tom===
In the fanfic [[Fashion Club Entertainment]] written by [[tommyXmaserati]], Tom is featured as the co-founder, co-CEO and A&R of the record label Liquorish Pizza Records.
==Trivia==
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* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/294402/1/Dear_Tom "Dear Tom,"] by [[Ruthless Bunny]]
* "[[Ghosts of Christmas Future]]", by [[Crusading Saint]]
* "[http://thepaperpusher.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=748979 Last of the Summer Whine]", by [[Kristen Bealer]]
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/707323/1/The_Next_Step "The Next Step,"] by [[Mike Xeno]]
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