The first of these shorts, The Two Mouseketeers, won the 1951 Academy Award for the Best Short Subject: Cartoons. Jerry and Tuffy were also featured together in a sub-series of Tom and Jerry cartoons set in 17th century France which featured the characters as musketeers. In later Tom and Jerry cartoons, Jerry acquired a young ward: a small grey mouse called "Tuffy" or "Nibbles" depending upon the cartoon, who was left on Jerry's doorstep as a foundling baby in the 1946 short The Milky Waif. Hanna and Barbera considered Tom and Jerry "the best of enemies", whose rivalry hid an unspoken amount of mutual respect, but in Tom and Jerry 1975, they were purely friends/best friends/buddies.
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Instead of being a "cowering victim" of Tom Cat's short-tempered aggression, he took delight in besting, and even torturing, his feline frenemy (even if Tom is just following orders or is even just minding his own business and is antagonized by Jerry). While the idea of a cat-and-mouse duo was considered shopworn by the 1940s, Hanna and Barbera decided to expand upon the standard expected cat and mouse relationship. distributor in Texas asked for follow-ups to Puss Gets the Boot. The name "Jerry" was chosen by MGM animator John Carr, who submitted "Tom and Jerry" as potential names for the duo after an important Loew's Inc. When he kicks the fish episode "Cat Fishing," he also shows that he can fight.
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He is shown to pick up larger items than his size and use it against Tom or any other enemies. Jerry gets overwhelmed by the three kittens in the episode "Triplet Trouble." Those three are far more effective at keeping Jerry at bay than Tom, but in the end, Tom and Jerry join forces to put a stop to the triplets' antics. However, in other situations, Tom wins the episode while Jerry loses, implying that Jerry is vulnerable to Tom. Tom can also overcome Jerry at times, but Jerry nearly always gets his vengeance on Tom.
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In a number of episodes, Jerry gains an advantage against Tom the Cat. Jerry is a brown mouse, varying the color tone depending on the cartoon, large ears on his head, a proportionally sized tail, 4 whiskers in the nose region and a small tuft on his head facing forward. Citing his qualities, he is quite smart for a mouse showing not even caring about the mousetraps they set and, beating Tom most of the time, is responsible when the situation calls for it like in the episode "The Little Orphan" where he has to take care of Nimbles, risking himself to get food for him, and in some cases Jerry trusts Tom to face a bigger threat even if he gets suspicious. Although Jerry is usually seen being chased by Tom, he takes the opportunity to attack when he has the advantage of the situation, an example of this is in the episode "Baby Puss", when he sees Tom drinking milk from a bottle and decides to attract the other cats on the street so that they start making fun of him (it is important to point out that the end of the episode is bad for Jerry). Jerry is a cheerful, animated mouse who constantly seeks to have fun even if it is at the expense of others by exaggerating his methods.