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Tomco is the romantic (and sometimes bromantic) pairing between Marco Diaz and Tom Lucitor. The ship is fairly large and could be considered the third or fourth biggest in the fandom, behind Starco, Jarco, and StarTom. This ship shares moments of Bromance.

On October 3rd, "Friendenemies" aired, Tom's last huge episode in season 2. Marco, devastated that he is unable to see a movie marathon of his favorite dead martial artist, Mackie Hand (A clear play on Jackie Chan), agrees to hang out with Tom when he tells him he has two tickets to the show. Marco is skeptical at first, but after a push from Star he and Tom spend the episode in Tom's carriage. Tom's carriage turns out to be bigger on the inside and he welcomes Marco in, however Marco is very suspicious on why Tom would want to hang out with him. Marco starts to ask him questions on Mackie Hand to confirm his liking of the fucc martial artist and Tom tells him his favorite movie. Marco apologizes for not believing him, which leads to Tom revealing he's very used to people judging him and is friendless because of this. Then two drivers honk at Tom's carriage and make fun of him, leading to Marco putting an arm around Tom and using his wits to get the drivers arrested. Tom is pleased by this and Marco reveals he likes a boyband called "Love Sentence", the first time Marco has ever mentioned liking it on the show. Marco feels embarrassed about it at first, only to find out Tom ALSO likes Love Sentence, and has a shrine dedicated to it. The two have a montage of them bonding and having fun with the band playing in the background, the song "Awesome Feeling" describes them perfectly. But then Marco wants to head out to the marathon, as it was getting very late, only to be stopped by Tom. Tom ends up getting angry, and it turns out he was being monitored by Brian (Who was in a tiger suit) the entire time. The entire event was actually an test by Brian for Tom to pass his anger management class, and Tom invited Marco because he is supposedly, "The person Tom hates the most". When Marco finds this out, he yells at Tom and exits the carriage, heartbroken. Tom chases after him however, realizing how much he messed up, telling him he wasn't lying about Love Sentence. Marco isn't having it, so he continues to leave until Tom starts to sing. This prompts the first duet in the show, this duet is done to "Too Little Too Late", which returns in "Just Friends". Tom uses it to apologize, but Marco still doesn't fully forgive him. Tom then uses his magic to summon Mackie Hand from the dead, using up all of his energy, he appears to be speaking in a demon tongue, but in other languages it has been translated to :

Marco thanks Tom, and they share a genuine smile at each other, and despite everything still attempt to go and see the marathon with their undead martial artist companion. Tom destroyed the tickets in his rage, so they aren't allowed in. But Mackie Hand starts to attack the security team there and Tom and Marco watch them fight. They eat cereal and share "I Still Don't like You" 's to each other, but as they are smiling as they say this, they clearly were not malicious.

Tom and Marco speak again in "Naysaya", as Tom put a demon curse on Marco to keep him from asking out Star. It is revealed here that Tom and Marco hang out often and regularly, and it disproved some fans who believed the "I still don't like you" 's in "Friendenemies", were genuine.

In the Star vs Book: "Star and Marco's Guide To Mastering Every Dimension ", Marco plays a game of Court, Marry, Or Make Disappear, and before they start he asks Star and Ponyhead to not give him Tom as an option to marry. This isn't due to him not liking Tom, but rather to him "Wanting to work on being friends first", as if he was actually being asked to marry Tom. In this same book, Tom interrupts an interview Marco has with Oskar, they start to bicker when Oskar calls them out for "Bromancing" and leaves. Tom and Marco then exchange an odd look at each other and deny that they were "Bromancing", and Tom then says a very interesting line, "Because if I was bromancing you, Marco.....if i was, you would know it". It's not said when either of these events takes place, but it seems to be after the events of "Friendenemies", and the book itself is confirmed as canon.

When Marco arrives back in Mewni in "Lint Catcher", Tom shows up from Star's bathroom, singing the Burrito song. Marco seems very confused by his presence at first, but then he and Tom greet each other excitably before Marco gets tackled by the guards.

In "Stump Day", Tom arrives to Star's party, and when Marco gets frustrated that Star doesn't want a party, he gets upset with Tom for not going through the effort to plan a party for Star while he did. They fight, but when the stump attacks, Tom and Marco hold hands and forgive each other in order to stop the stump.

In "Lake House Fever", Tom nonchalantly brings up the idea of him kissing Marco in response to Star kissing Marco and not telling him. This could be interpreted as him having thought of kissing Marco in the past.

In "Curse of the Blood Moon", when Star, Marco, Janna, and Tom are all falling in the elevator, Tom and Marco are shown hugging each other in fear. This becomes even more significant given that Marco was right next to Star before the elevator fell, meaning that Marco could've very well easily hugged Star instead of Tom, but hugged Tom instead of Marco.

Tomco is a ship that, while not initially having a big amount of in-show substance, still maintains a very large fandom. Fans of the show took note of Tom's anger issues, and Marco's knowledge of psychology, and interpreted it as a sign Marco would benefit Tom and help him overcome his anger. The fans greatly enjoy the idea of these two becoming a ship and falling in love thanks to their growing bond and how they provide each other emotional support.

While this popularity has helped and sustain the ship greatly, it has also generated a fair amount of controversy with it. An amount of Starco fans have expressed their annoyance of the ship, and vice versa, an inevitable clash, as both are the most popular ships on the show and have a character in common (that being Marco Diaz). Despite the at times intense fighting between fans of both ships, it should be noted that the majority of shippers are completely fine with both existing, and at worst express apathy.

The Tomco fandom marks October 3rd (The day "Friendenemies" aired), as quite a bit of a holiday considering how important of an episode it was to the relationship between Tom and Marco on the show. They celebrated its one-year anniversary in 2017 with a week of Tomco art.

It was also noted that during "Blood Moon Ball", when Tom went out to confront Marco for dancing with Star, he too stood under the light of the blood moon for several moments before it faded away, leading some to believe that he may have been bonded to Star and Marco as well, though the exact nature of the bond isn't known at this time.

There were gay kisses present in "Just Friends", and the characters Rhombulus and Lekmet were confirmed by the crew to be dating, which presents some hope that Tomco has much more potential in future seasons.

Both Songs in "Friendenemies" were written specifically for the episode, "Too Little Too Late" returned because it had emotional significance that fit in future episodes. "Awesome Feeling", was written to be based on Tom and Marco's relationship, and the lines consist of them always having fun together, taking down bullies, opening up to each other, and having great chemistry together, quote, " found out we have chemistry".

The "Friendenemies" Poster (see top of page), is in fact, the real poster for the episode. At the time, it was the most unique poster of the season since it was made by a different artist then the other posters, but that was before "Bon Bon The Birthday Clown". The Poster was made by Sabrina Cotugno, who is now a director working on season 4, she worked on this episode with some other tomco shipping crew members, the most obvious being @heymadeleine on Twitter; who teases and draws tomco art pretty often. Sabrina wanted it to look like a Romance Poster, so yes, this poster was intentionally romantic. Sabrina posted the poster on her official Tumblr as well, but her version has a caption, "It's never too little too late for love". It's suspected this is the original version and the caption was removed as to not spoil at the duet, but it's also possible the original was the blank version and Sabrina added the caption for the version on her blog because she enjoys the ship. Daron posted the poster on her Tumblr along with "Is Mystery"'s poster, as she always did for the next upcoming episodes, and hilariously put a winky face in the caption.

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