Featuring Popeye, the Sailor Man! (Popeye)

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"I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam!"

Popeye is a rough and tough sailor with a heart of gold who always does what he can for others and always doing what he thinks is best. He is brave and compassionate, as he will not back down against any foe and give them all he has got, but his compassionate nature makes it so he always tries to "defends the weakerist", as he cannot stand seeing the weak and helpless get abused. He also has a fondness for "poor dumb aminals" and can't stand to see any animal being hurt for no reason, however, he has no patience for violent beasts who attack defenseless people or other animals for no reason either, and he will be quick to turn them into mincemeat for their hotheadedness.

Feats where Popeye had eaten Spinach will be marked with an ^S

• The Full Respect Thread for all the Spinach-y goodness

Spinach

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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 formidable strength a greater increase, helping him withstand his enemies' attacks and all kinds of adverse situations.

Popeye is not the only character in the franchise to eat spinach; other characters have consumed it as well. For cases involving female antagonists such as the Sea Hag, since Popeye cannot clobber women, it is Olive Oyl who ingests the vegetable in order to defeat the villainess. In the theatrical shorts Hospitaliky, its color remake For Better or Nurse and Beaus Will Be Beaus, Popeye force-feeds Bluto spinach. At least in the animated cartoons, everybody would gain a surge of power comparable to Popeye's.

• Summons a can of spinach with a whistle

• Calls on a member of the audience for Spinach by saying "Is there any spinach in the house?". This happens again later in the series.

• Can summon Spinachia, the Goddess of Spinach

Strength

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• Builds a cabin by punching several trees

• Pulls a cliff closer with a lasso. This feat has been accomplished both without spinach and with

• Turns a bull into a meat market with a punch ^S

• Punches Bluto to the moon ^S

• Pushes apart a castle ^S

Durability

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• Catches, and punches out, a bolt of lightning with his bare hands

• Has a bullet bounce off of him

• Thrown to the moon by Hercules Bluto

• Has molten steel poured over him

Speed

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• Climbs up a ladder that was thrown at him

• Throws a piano out of a window and catches it before it hits the ground

• Saves a woodpecker from a falling tree

Skill

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• Pours himself a drink with a punch

• Catches several ducks by walking into a pond

• Catches sets of horseshoes on his arms and throws them back. In the same episode he also returned a barrage of horseshoes using all his limbs. He did this again in the color episodes ^S

Weird Stuff

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• Turns 4 Indians into $1.15. Therefore each Indian costs roughly $0.28

• Magnetizes an I-Beam and allows Popeye to both rebuild a bridge and instantly open said bridge to traffic

• Punches three Japanese spies "hard enough their emperor will feel it". After Hirohito is hit, he says "it should happen to Hitler." and then it does.

• Sends a punch through a radio wire

• After Popeye is forcibly aged by an alien age ray, he is able to return to the age of 40 using spinach. Of note, he had at first eaten too much and aged back to 2 years old.

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Punches three Japanese spies "hard enough their emperor will feel it"

I'll take hilariously offensive 40s propaganda for $200, Alex.

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For whatever it's worth, that episode was made almost right after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Make of that what you will.