"'Cannon fodder' is a use, isn't it?" Tom's laugh as he says that is outright mean, and some people might find such an expression of misanthropy distasteful (to which Tom would say that Mammomax hardly counted as a man, and that the proper term should be mispachidermy or something equally unwieldy).

"Regardless, I'm sure you didn't need to keep her around to look better by comparison."