Tommy Speck

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Tommy Speck is a character in the rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Tommy is a mis-sunderstood teenager. Tommy befriends Hedwig and in turn Hedwig shares some of the songs that she has written with him. Hedwig gives him the stage name "Tommy Gnosis". Shortly after the name is given he left Hedwig and went on to become a huge star using the songs she had written.

Throughout the show Hedwig says that she believes that Tommy is her soulmate and that she cannot be whole without him. She feels driven to either reunite with him or destroy him.