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.
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.
However, when one character appears to be in mortal danger from an unplanned situation, or due to actions by a third party, the other will develop a conscience and save him.
Multiple shorts show the two getting along with minimal difficulty, and they are more than capable of teamwork when the situation calls for it, usually against a third party who manages to torture and humiliate them both.
After Daws Butler, Maurice LaMarche, Frank Welker, John DiMaggio, Michael Donovan,[3] Phil LaMarr, Rick Zieff,[4] and Bobby Cannavale[5] would all perform Spike's voice.
[6][7] Butch is a black alley cat who made his first appearance in the Tom and Jerry series in the short Baby Puss (1943), alongside Topsy and the already-established Meathead.
[3] In the later series, The Tom and Jerry Show (2014–2021), she makes cameo appearances in the episodes "Belly Achin'", "Cat Napped", "Don't Cut the Cheese", and "A Star Forlorn".
"[14] MGM Animation/Visual Arts, under the supervision of Chuck Jones, created replacement characters for Mammy in the Tom and Jerry cartoons featuring her for television.
These versions used rotoscoping techniques to replace Mammy on-screen with a similarly stocky white woman (in most shorts) or a thin white woman (in Saturday Evening Puss); Randolph's voice on the soundtracks was replaced by an Irish-accented (or, in Puss, generic young adult) voice performed by actress June Foray.
He also appeared in The Flying Cat (1952), Life with Tom (1953), Hic-cup Pup (1954), Two Little Indians (where he is red in color), and Matinee Mouse (which reuses clips from the previous episodes).
In the Chuck Jones short Catty-Cornered (his final appearance), Lightning is portrayed with more of an orange-yellow color than before, with the additional changes of a black tail and ears.
[5] Meathead is a brown, mangy alley cat who wears a red toupee (which is occasionally seen the same color as the rest of his fur).
But when he's not complaining about the bills, he is sitting in his armchair or on the sofa reading the newspaper wearing his smart purple or grey suit and Spike is keeping him company.
Jeannie proceeds to leap straight onto the phone just as George and Joan shut the front door, which implies that she is very negligent about her job.
Despite this, Jeannie is very kind, friendly, cheerful, and rarely loses a smile—except to scold Tom for "bothering the baby", which she thinks that he and Jerry are doing on purpose to annoy her.
Due to modern sensibilities, this negligent-based climax would no longer be replicated in the newer entrees since child neglect became a very serious matter.
He also appeared in Tom & Jerry Kids, the early 1990s television series, where his fear seems to have re-instated even though he pretended it had not (his name was changed to Tim in that short).
Later, Mechano and Robot-Mouse are seen as a cat-like-robot and mouse-like-robot who serve Tom and Jerry (except at the end of Advance and Be Mechanized (1967), when they get revenge and switch roles with Tom and Jerry, as they control their minds and make them do the work) in the three Chuck Jones outer space cartoons O-Solar Meow , Guided Mouse-ille, and Advance and Be Mechanized (both 1967).
Mechano (called "Robot Cat") also appeared as a fighter in the video game, War of the Whiskers (2002), and was voiced by Marc Silk.
[7] A baby woodpecker that first appeared in Hatch Up Your Troubles (1949) and its remake The Egg and Jerry (1956) where he could peck into virtually anything including Tom's stomach or his golf club in Tee for Two (1945).
A radio with a male human voice that broadcasts music, cookery shows and warnings on escaped animals, bomb threats etc.
Usually, a character turns into a jackass when it is fooled such as Spike in Solid Serenade (1946), The Framed Cat (1950), and Pet Peeve (1954) or Tom in Polka-Dot Puss (1949).
An overweight, short-tempered, average height, middle-aged, and bald white man became Tom's owner only in three of the thirteen cartoons: Down and Outing (1961), High Steaks (1962), and Sorry Safari (also 1962).
He first appeared in Switchin' Kitten (1961) and subsequently was the subject of a number of television episodes (for e.g. 'Trojan Dog' in The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show, 1980–82) and movies thereafter.
His role is similar to Spike in cartoons such as The Bodyguard (1944), Fit To Be Tied (1952), and Much Ado About Mousing (1964), which is to defend Jerry against Tom.
An anthropomorphic cartoon character, a sluggish, sleepy bear who often is in pursuit of nothing, but peace and quiet, originally introduced in the Harman-Ising shorts of the 1930s.
A bad and cruel wolf whose only mission is to ruin the life of Droopy (and Dripple and sometimes to remain with Miss Vavoom in Tom & Jerry Kids).
McWolf sometimes appears as a crazy scientist whom loves to try and dominate the world, as a space villain, or a criminal fat person (known as "The Chubby Man"), etc.
Mauricio is a very amorous octopus gentleman who first appeared in the mainly live-action musical film Dangerous When Wet (1953) during a Tom and Jerry sequence with Esther Williams.
[3] The princess appears in Medieval Menace, where she kisses Tom, who has turned into a frog, thinking he is a prince transformed by a spell.