Thomas "Tommy" Everett Ross is the tritagonist in Stephen King's first published novel Carrie and its film and stage musical adaptations. He is Sue Snell's boyfriend who agreed to take Carrie White, a shy outcast to the prom, by Sue who wanted to make amends with her after she felt bad for picking on her, but died at the prom after getting a bucket dropped on his head, cracking his skull and killing him.