Thomas & Friends (1984–2021)

Thomas & Friends is a children's animated series centered on the adventures of talking trains. The narrative does not include any explicit LGBTQ+ characters, relationships, or themes, resulting in no discernible portrayal of the LGBTQ+ community within its content.

The show features anthropomorphic trains and focuses on railway operations, problem-solving, and teamwork. There are no instances of physical combat between characters, male or female, thus no scenes where a female character defeats male opponents in direct physical combat.

The 1984-2021 series of Thomas & Friends introduced new female characters but did not alter the established genders of its core, pre-existing characters from The Railway Series books or earlier seasons. No characters canonically established as one gender were portrayed as a different gender.

The primary characters are anthropomorphic trains, which do not possess a race. Human characters like Sir Topham Hatt have consistently maintained their established race throughout the series. New human characters of diverse backgrounds have been introduced, but this does not constitute a race swap of existing, established characters.