Tommy (EP034)

Tommy (Japanese: タロウ Tarō) also known as Tomo (Japanese: ターサン Tarsan) is a little boy who lives in the Safari Zone and was raised by.

In the anime
Tommy is the character of the day in The Kangaskhan Kid.

,, and were traveling through the Kanto Safari Zone when  tried to steal a herd of Kangaskhan living on a preserve area of the park. A feral boy freed the captured Kangaskhan with his boomerang, and led them in action against Team Rocket.

Later, a rich couple arrived in a helicopter and explained they were looking for their son Tommy who had been missing for five years. The family was flying over the Safari Zone when the father held their child outside the window of the copter to give him a better look and dropped him. The couple showed Officer Jenny a picture of their boy, and she recognized him as Tomo - the feral boy who protects the Kangaskhan.

Brock tried to help an injured baby Kangaskhan and Tommy attacked Brock with his boomerang. Tommy's human tried to explain who they are, but Tommy insisted that the Kangaskhan have always been his real parents. Tommy's father knocked him unconscious and the boy remembered his past.

Team Rocket tried to steal the Kangaskhan again with a giant robot, but Tommy's parents crashed their helicopter into the robot to destroy it. Tommy's parents emerged from the rubble, however, and announced that they planned to live in the Safari Zone with Tommy and the Kangaskhan herd.

Befriended
This is a list of Tommy has befriended in the.

In The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga
Tommy also makes an appearance in The Electric Tale of Pikachu. In the chapter Pikachu's Excellent Adventure, he helps a lost, along with and , find the Hidden Village where Pikachu hopes to be reunited with.

Tommy lives with his adoptive mother, a. His biological parents are never shown in the manga. It is unknown when he was separated from his parents. Kangaskhan believes that he has been abandoned. Tommy is able to speak fluently in Pokémon language as well as basic human language.

Befriended
This is a list of Tommy has befriended in the Electric Tale of Pikachu.

Trivia

 * Tommy is a fairly obvious parody of in both his back story and behavior, as well as his Japanese name.
 * In an old Pokémon.com summary, he was called Tarzan, which comes from his Japanese name.