Ten Cents

Ten Cents is a character from the sister show of Thomas & Friends called TUGS, who appears as a minor character in the SC Shorts.

Biography on YouTube
Ten Cents made his debut on Sammy Clark's channel in the video, "Thomas and Tugs", and his first appearance in the SC Shorts was in the episode, "This Has Nothing to do With Halloween".

Biography in the SC Shorts
Sometime before the SC Shorts, Ten Cents originally worked in Bigg City Port in America but was later transferred to Sodor in the UK sometime in 2017 due to the passing of his former boss, Captain Star. Ten Cents mostly works on Sodor towing barges to liner docking operations and occasionally towing ships in.

Ten Cents first appeared in the SC Shorts in the episode, "This Has Nothing to do With Halloween". In the episode he, Sunshine, and Chris fought against a whole lot of Sammy Clark's shows on his channel to determine who should be the main focus of his channel.

When Thomas was trying to celebrate Thanksgiving by throwing a Thanksgiving party, Ten Cents tried explaining to him and later the guests at the party that he should be the one celebrating Thanksgiving because he's from America and not Thomas because he's British. This led to Thomas scolding at Ten Cents by pointing out the irony that while Ten Cents is from America, he has a British accent, and that Thomas has an American accent despite being a British tank engine. Afterwards, Thomas then b*tch-slapped Ten Cents causing him to fall apart into pieces because he was made out of Lego blocks.

When Ten Cents tried auditioning to be the new narrator of the SC Shorts, Thomas smacked him as he didn't find his narration to be suitable. And due to Ten Cents being made out of Lego, his smokestack and his hat fell off, which later led to Thomas taking his hat and wearing it for the rest of the day.

During Thomas' "Birthday" party at Vicarstown, Ten Cents attended to it and was selected to be the guard at Vicarstown Theater. There, he allowed anyone to go in as long as they said the password which was "shut up".

Trivia

 * Ten Cents is the only character from TUGS to still appear in the SC Shorts.
 * On a few occasions, Ten Cents has been shown as able to travel without the aid of water.
 * In "Thomas's Epic Thanksgiving Special Part 1, Part 2", "The New Narrator", and "Duncan's Pepsi Commercial", Ten Cents was shown as a custom Lego model as opposed to a paper model.