| “ | I'm Popeye the Sailor Man. I'm Popeye the Sailor Man. I'm strong to the finish, cause I eats me spinach. I'm Popeye the Sailor Man. | „ |
| “ | That's all I can stand, cos I can't stand no more! | „ |
| “ | I yam what I yam, and that's all what I yam | „ |
Background
Popeye the Sailor is the main protagonist of the Popeye Franchise, a sailor character created in 1928 by Elzie Crisler Segar for his Thimble Theatre comic strip (subsequently renamed after Popeye himself). The star of many comics and animated cartoons, he is best known for his squinting (or entirely missing) right eye, huge forearms with two anchor tattoos, skinny upper arms, and corncob pipe. He can occasionally be seen smoking his pipe but usually, he toots it like a tugboat and sometimes uses it as a weapon by blowing the smoke in his enemies faces
Powers and Stats
Keys: Base | Spinach Amped
Tier: Varies from 9-B to 5-C | High 4-C
Dimensionality: 3-D
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Longevity, Self-Sustenance (Type 1), Toon Force, Fourth Wall Awareness (Can ask his audience for spinach and receive it,[1] he can also receive a can of spinach when he needs one from the audience[2]), Restoration, Martial Arts, Weapon Mastery, Deconstruction & Transmutation (Repeatedly[3] shown[4] the[5] ability[6] to[7] decompose[8] objects[9] and[10] living beings[11] with[12] his punches[13] transforming them into different things entirely[14]), Stealth Mastery, Air Manipulation, Smoke Manipulation, Body Control & Elasticity (Popeye's[3] body[4] can[15] stretch[16] and[7] twist[17] like[18] if[19] it[20] was[21] made[22] of[23] rubber,[24] making him able to twist it[25] to impossible degrees[26]) Rage Power, Sleep Manipulation (The smoke on his pipe is can put others to sleep[3]), Acrobatics, Healing, Resurrection & Statistics Amplification (With spinach), Plant Manipulation (One can of spinach was able to make a dead bush into a giant and healthy tree[27]), Fusionism, Life Manipulation, Matter Manipulation (Fused three lightning bolts into one and transformed them into a single living being.[4] Gave a sun in a painting life after spraying paint on it[28]), Non-Physical Interaction (Can grab lightning bolts with his bare hands.[4] Punched his own evil side which was made of his consciousness[29]), Vehicular Mastery, Social Influencing, Attack Reflection (Was once shot in the head only for the bullet to ricochet back to the shooter.[15] Got hit with a cannonball which reflected back to the shooter[30]), Dimensional Storage, Sound Manipulation, Teleportation, Electricity Manipulation (Created an electric hand that traveled through the radio signal to punch a radio broadcaster[5]), Pain Tolerance, Afterimage Creation, Immortality (Type 2 and 3. Survived being crushed flat.[31][32][33] Survived even after being erased from existence[34]), Regeneration (Mid normally, Low-Godly with spinach. Survived being crushed flat.[13][32] Reformed himself after being erased from existence via eating spinach[34][35]), Nonexistent Physiology (Type 1. After being erased from reality and having no traces of him left, Popeye, while not existing, was able to grab a can of spinach and eat it[34][35]), Water Manipulation, Dimensional Travel (Got out of his own book to come in the real world[9]), Time Travel (Traveled back to his previous cartoons[9]), Supernatural Luck (Popeye seems to always find a way to eat spinach no matter the situation hes in, even if he has no spinach with himself, having his can thrown away or having it destroyed he always is able to get spinach for himself with even outside forces helping him. In Hospitaliky Popeye tries in various ways to get severely hurt so he can go to the hospital, including throwing himself off a plane, tempering a bull, entering in heavy traffic, and staying in the rails of a traintrack, only to end up failing in the end being completely unharmed in a stroke of sheer luck,[10] the same exact thing also happens in For Better Or Nurse[36]), Magic, Fear Manipulation (Popeye roar was able to terrorize lions and make them cower in fear[37]), Surface Scaling, Fire Manipulation, Creation (Created a can of spinach by waving his hand[38]), Enhanced Senses, Plot Manipulation (Able to destroy the film strip he's being animated on.[39] Can end his own show by closing the black borders present at the end of the episode[40]), BFR (Able to throw people outside the film strip hes being animated[39]), Astral Projection, Invisibility (With Invisible Paint[41]), Multiple Personalities (Has two good and bad sides of himself which represents themselves as an angle and demon version of Popeye[29]), Light Manipulation (Grabbed his spot of light and fixed in one place[12]), Immersion (Punched Bluto to a lake that was on a drawing[12]), Subjective Reality (Painted a sun and a cow inside Bluto's mouth, the latter which gained life and the former which burned Bluto's mouth[42]), Resistance to Poison Manipulation (Was once bitten by a snake and didn't suffer any side effects[3]), Electricity Manipulation (Was struck by several lighting bolts and suffered no damage whatsoever[4]), Cold (Able to stay on a pile of snow with no signs of cold[16]), Extremely High Temperatures (Able to touch steaming hot metal with no problem and stood in the middle of burning coal with no reaction.[17] Had no reaction when lava was thrown at him[43])
As before to a greater extent, Invulnerability, Cloth Manipulation, Metal Manipulation (Able to transform an anvil in into an anchor with only a few punches[17]), Accelerated Development (Other. After eating spinach Popeye, who didn't know how to dance at all, was able to instantly and perfectly learn how to dance even winning a contest.[44] Went from barely knowing how to use a sword to a master swordsman after eating spinach.[19] Eating spinach made Popeye from someone who didn't know how to play instruments to a master musician who perfectly knows how to play all instruments.[45] Made Popeye from someone who barely knew any etiquette at all to a refined gentleman[46]), Magnetism Manipulation (Transformed a bent metal into a giant magnet[20]), Genius Intelligence, Hair Manipulation, Flight, Underwater Breathing (Type 2), Shockwave Creation, Thread Manipulation (Made a rope tie itself[47]), Duplication (Created a clone to beat off Bluto[47]), Electricity Manipulation, Homing Attack, Telekinesis, Invisibility (After eating spinach Bluto was able to throw a baseball so fast it became invisible, actively dodge Popeye, and became lighting[48]), Explosion Manipulation (His punches are comparable to torpedoes and can explode whatever it touches[24]), Heat Manipulation (Punched a cloud and made it spill water[26]), Instinctive Reactions (After eating spinach Bluto uncounsciously started hitting Popeye[10]), Size Manipulation (Able to enlarge his fist.[49] Increased his size after being shrunken to a 10th of his original size[50]), Clairvoyance (Able to know the location and state of other people with his muscle[51]), Resistance to Fear Manipulation (After eating spinach Popeye gained enough courage to overcome his fear of the haunted ship[52]), Fire Manipulation (Stood in the middle of a house catching on fire just fine[53]), Telekinesis & Mind Manipulation (Unnafected by Bluto's tries to hypnotize and control him with his mind powers[54]), Transmutation (Was once turned into a bird by Bluto, he then ate spinach and turned himself back into a human[55]), Age Manipulation (Was aged forward to 125 years old, then came back to his original age after eating spinach[35])
Attack Potency: Varies from Wall level (Can destroy walls, fight against lions and alligators, punch Bluto through walls, cause earthquakes with his attacks, blow so hard he destroys a lighthouse, easily defeated gigantic beasts, and launch people meters, if not kilometers, into the air. Can harm those who can harm him) to Moon level+ (Gave the sun a black eye) | Large Star level (Cracked the sun. Can punch Bluto hard enough to launch him through the Earth and even the Moon)
Speed: Supersonic (Outran a piano drop on foot. Outran a shot from a warship canon[56]) with Massively Hypersonic reactions (Caught lighting with his bare hands, and has already dodged lighting aswell) and Massively FTL attack speed (Launched a projectile that reached the sun in a second) | Infinite (Occupied two different places at the same time and boxed himself via sheer speed[57])
Lifting Strength: Class K (Drowned an entire cruise ship with his strength alone[5]) | Class T (His punches have this much force)
Durability: Varies from Wall level (Can survive being thrown through walls and making human shaped holes. Survived being shot with cannonballs. Tanked being punted through windows. Can survive just fine on lava) to Moon level+ | Large Star level
Stamina: Extremely High (Can catch bullets even while severely injured, and has donated a gallon of blood taking only a day ro make a full recovery, ran a whole marathon with his feet covered in cement), Far higher with Spinach (Can replenish his stamina by eating spinach)
Range: Standard melee range, further with weapons, Stellar with projectiles, Toon Force, and other powers, Low Macroversal with Dimensional Travel
Standard Equipment: Cans of spinach, smoking pipe, sailor hat
- Optional Equipment: Numerous different boats and planes sometimes even both, anchor, spinach seeds, monocle, skates, invisible paint, shotgun
Intelligence: Gifted (As a 20th-century sailor, he should have a good fighting experience just by receiving this title alone, he's also shown to be much more skilled than any average sailor), Genius with Spinach (Increases his physical capabilities, making Popeye much smarter than before, able to perform in a band while being all members at the same time, a master magician, a brilliant scientist, and a master sculptor)
Weaknesses: Hates fighting and refuses to hurt innocent animals, refuses to hit woman, as a sailor Popeye prohibs himself to attack a captain on their ship, always respects the law and will even put himself in jail if he breaks it
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
Twister Punch: Popeye twist his arms to relieve a stronger punch, it is able to spin enemies around making them dizzy and this punch is considered by Popeye himself to be his strongest attack
Spinach: Spinach is a leafy vegetable with a high vitamin content, making it a healthy and nutritious food for human consumption. In most media featuring Popeye, it is used as a last-minute device in which the hero, in danger, pulls out a can of spinach from his shirt or otherwise acquires the vegetable and eats it. This gives his already extraordinary strength a tremendous boost, helping him withstand his enemies' attacks and all kinds of adverse situations. The animated cartoons more notedly adhere to a format in which spinach is Popeye's main means for overcoming the greatest of obstacles. Even if the cartoon acknowledges Popeye's immense strength, to begin with (later ones from the Famous era make him much weaker before spinach), consumption of the vegetable augments Popeye's physical might to the extreme, allowing the viewer to enjoy a power fantasy and enabling the sailor to even break the laws of physics at times. In Popeye's dealings with opponents such as Bluto, spinach is consumed when the sailor's well-being is threatened or Olive Oyl is on the verge of being abused. After eating the vegetable, Popeye strikes at the antagonist with his increased strength, wherein the blows can immediately render the erstwhile competitor unconscious, send him airborne to a distant destination, initiate the use of various props which serve to immobilize and otherwise humble him, etc. Often, this comeuppance comes in the form of a humorous reprieve to what had been a tense and life-threatening situation and serves as a concluding "punchline" for the cartoon episode.
Note: This profile covers the original cartoon of Popeye
References
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 67 A Date to Skate
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 170 How Green Is My Spinach
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Popeye the Sailor Episode 1 Popeye the Sailor
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Popeye the Sailor Episode 2 I Yam What I Yam
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Popeye the Sailor Episode 7 Sock-a-Bye, Baby
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 9 The Man on the Flying Trapeze
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Popeye the Sailor Episode 10 Can You Take It
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 15 Axe Me Another
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Popeye the Sailor Episode 28 Adventures of Popeye
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Popeye the Sailor Episode 47 Hospitaliky
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 60 Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Popeye the Sailor Episode 77 Shakespearean Spinach
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Popeye the Sailor Episode 151 Safari So Good
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 186 Popeye's Pappy
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Popeye the Sailor Episode 3 Blow Me Down!
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Popeye the Sailor Episode 5 Seasin's Greetinks!
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Popeye the Sailor Episode 11 Shoein' Hosses
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 19 Beware of Barnacle Bill
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 Popeye the Sailor Episode 23 Choose Your "Weppins"
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 Popeye the Sailor Episode 34 Bridge Ahoy!
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 36 I Wanna Be a Life Guard
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 61 I Yam Love Sick
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 68 Cops Is Always Right
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 Popeye the Sailor Episode 78 Females Is Fickle
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 87 Puttin on the Act
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 Popeye the Sailor Episode 97 Olive's Boithday Presink
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 12 Strong to the Finich
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 46 My Artistical Temperature
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 Popeye the Sailor Episode 76 Never Sock a Baby
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 113 Scrap the Japs
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 24 For Better or Worser
- ↑ 32.0 32.1 Popeye the Sailor Episode 53 The Football Toucher Downer
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 108 Many Tanks
- ↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 Popeye the Sailor Episode 142 Rocket to Mars
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 35.2 Popeye the Sailor Episode 200 Popeye, the Ace of Space
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 136 For Better or Nurse
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 42 Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 56 Fowl Play
- ↑ 39.0 39.1 Popeye the Sailor Episode 66 Goonland
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 114 Me Musical Nephews
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 73 Ghosks Is the Bunk
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 117 Too Weak to Work
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 137 Mess Production
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 17 The Dance Contest
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 29 The Spinach Overture
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 58 Learn Polikeness
- ↑ 47.0 47.1 Popeye the Sailor Episode 44 The Paneless Window Washer
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 48 The Twisker Pitcher
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 147 I'll Be Skiing Ya
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 171 Gym Jam
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 228 The Crystal Brawl
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 13 Shiver Me Timbers!
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 16 The Two-Alarm Fire
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 22 The ''Hyp-Nut-Tist''
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 144 The Fistic Mystic
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 101 The Mighty Navy
- ↑ Popeye the Sailor Episode 106 Pipeye, Pupeye, Poopeye, and Peepeye
Others
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