He’s honestly the only character the writers didn’t ruin. Star became a self obsessed girl who cheats on Tom with HIS BEST FRIEND and then doesn’t tell him. Even when they’re dating she treats him like trash, always blowing him off and spending time with Marco instead of ever hanging out with him even though he always asks if they can. Can’t she hang out with both!? Star’s fun and happy personality completely faded and was replaced with annoying teenage emotions. They always do that and THIS IS A KIDS SHOW, no one cares that much about having a realistic character, they just care about likable characters, which Star was before they erased her entire personality and stuck her in a love triangle.
Then Marco thinks it’s okay to kiss his best friend’s girlfriend!? That’s honestly disgusting and Marco should know better than that! Tom deserves better friends, especially after everything he’s gone through.
Now onto why Tom’s my favorite. People might say that Star’s been though the most mentally, but Tom has severe anger issues and thinks somethings wrong with him. He thinks he’s not a good enough prince and that he’s dangerous to be around. It doesn’t help that his parents stink and never try to talk to him, instead giving him a useless anger management coach that never helps at all and causes Tom to feel worse about himself. Tom then tried to change himself by taking out all his tiny inner demons and put himself through insane pain. That’s insanely dangerous, and just goes to show how insecure Tom is that he’d hurt himself so much just to be a better prince. Like he said in the episode club snubbed, he doesn’t know how to be nice. His parents never taught him how to be a good person and expected him to be fine on his own. Instead, he got anger issues and all they did was assign a random dude to be his anger coach. Who, by the way, is literally the worst at his job! Instead of giving Tom exercises to help, he bribes him with badges, saying that if Tom gets the badge, he’ll be a good prince. So naturally, Tom would do anything for that badge and that’s a really unhealthy thing to give to a young boy with a bad temper, that can cause serious problems.
Now lets look at his love life. He literally was so in love with Star that he wore a shirt with a star on it for years! He always was in love with her and thought she loved him back. Then, he heard Ruberiot say Star and Marco were dating and he wanted to give Star space since she was dating Marco (even though she wasn’t at the time). Star got mad at that yelled at him, causing him to lose his temper since he was just trying to be nice. He says he doesn’t know how to be nice and that really shows how hard his life has been if he doesn’t have a positive role model in his life. Then later, Tom’s best friend, Marco, kisses Star while Tom’s dating her. TOM WAS TOTALLY WILLING TO STOP FLIRTING WITH STAR WHEN HE FOUND OUT SHE WAS DATING MARCO, BUT MARCO KISSES STAR WHEN SHE’S DATING TOM!!! That PROVES Tom is a better friend than Marco!
Tom never really had a great community or lots of friends, but now his best and only friend and his girlfriend are dating. They never tell him, he finds out on his own. THEN STAR FREAKING GETS MAD AT TOM FOR KNOWING SHE CHEATED ON HIM!!! I’m sorry, WHAT!? Star, you have NO RIGHT to be mad about this! The fact that neither of them told Tom and then TOM BLAMED HIMSELF FOR “NOT BEING THERE FOR STAR ENOUGH!?” He was always there! He was always asking to hang out with her and she always blew him off and just went over to hang out with Marco! In the Booth Buddies episode, Star just leaves Tom at the party she planned to bring monsters and Mewmans together. She just left him at the her own party! He asked her to dance, but nooooooo. She had to spend the entire party with Marco. So, pretty much, Tom’s closest and only friend and girlfriend are both treating him like trash and he doesn’t really have anyone else because his family stinks and the monsters think he’s too rich to be a monster and the Mewmans think he’s too much of a monster to be equal. So he has to go along with it, act like it doesn’t bother him. Except it totally does, and everyone can tell. He knows Star never loved him and loved Marco, and that if he does anything about that, he could lose his best friend.
Last thing is that Tom is half demon, half Mewman. He doesn’t fit in with the demons, he’s too human-like for that. But he doesn’t fit in with the Mewmans either, since he’s too demon-like. So, pretty much everyone’s scared of him or thinks he’s too different so he really has no friends or people he hangs out with. So, instead of doing something smart about it, his STUPID parents decide it’s okay to just get him a bunny and a anger coach. So, Tom has a bunny and stupid, useless Brian. Except they don’t help him at all. He needs a real therapist, not someone who just hands him a fluffy bunny and a badge and then calls it a day. He needs someone who actually listens to his issues and actually tried to get him to fix them instead of using bribery.