| “ | 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. | „ |
| ~ Popeye |
| “ | I yam what I yam and dats all what I yam. I'm Popeye the sailor man! *Toot! Toot!* | „ |
| ~ Popeye |
Summary[]
Popeye is the main protagonist of the titular franchise, a sailor character created in 1929 by Elzie Crisler Segar for his Thimble Theatre comic strip in a story arc "Dice Island". He is best known for his squinting (or entirely missing) right eye, huge forearms with two anchor tattoos, skinny upper arms, and corncob pipe. Popeye would later become the main focus of the strip (renamed after himself), as well becoming as one of the most iconic comic and cartoon characters of all time. "Borned to the sea" near the bay of Santa Monica, Popeye's childhood was hard. The ship he was born on was rocked by a massive typhoon just moments after his birth, though his family was ultimately unharmed by the event. Growing up, both his father, "Poopdeck Pappy" and his unnamed mother left his life at a young age. Eventually, Popeye decided to join the military. Despite his rough and gruff appearance, Popeye was a good guy who hated bullies and defended the weak.
Powers and Stats[]
Tier: At least 9-B to 5-A, Low 2-C with Preparation | At least High 4-C, likely Low 2-C. 1-C at his peak.
Name: Popeye
Origin: Thimble Theatre
Gender: Male
Age: 40 Years Old
Classification: Human, Sailor, War Veteran, "The Mighty Seaman", Hercules, etc.
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Toon Force, 4th Wall Awareness (Can ask the audience to give him more spinach), Preparation, Fun Lord, Skilled Hand To Hand Combatant, Weapon Mastery (Via Anchor, Pistol, and his Shotgun), Acrobatics, Regeneration (Mid), Invulnerability, Immortality (Types 2 and 3, can still survive after having his body destroyed and can regenerate by eating spinach), Self-Sustenance (Type 1, can survive in space), Skilled Sailor, Disguise Mastery (Used disguises to trick people or catch them off guard), Enhanced Eating (Chewed up steel beams and spit metal out as bullets/nails/rivets), Summoning (Can summon spinach at will, Can summon Spinachia, the Goddess of Spinach), Deconstruction (As seen here), Limited Fire Manipulation and Breath Attack (With his pipe), Transmutation (Can punch people/animals hard enough to turn them into other things), Immersion (Here), Creation (Can materialize a can of spinach out of nowhere. Painted a can into existence with a paintbrush), Dimensional Travel (Can exit his cartoon), Light Manipulation (Can physically grab a spotlight's beam), Flight, Hypnosis (As seen here), Very Limited Hair Manipulation (Here), Damage Boost (With Twister Punch), Resistance to Mind Manipulation, Being Erased, Extreme Heat (Can grab and be treated like molten metal), Lightning Manipulation (A thunder strike didn't bother him at all ), Magma Manipulation (Survived an erupting volcano without a scratch), Minor Resistance to Freezing (Was still conscious after being frozen solid in a block of ice and could free himself with his pipe), and Resistance to Existence Erasure (Was unaffected by his entire universe being erased from existence) | All previous abilities, Invisibility and Non-Physical Interaction (He can turn himself invisible and can hit intangible beings), Limited Duplication (Can fight himself in shadow boxing), Fire Manipulation (Can shoot flames from his hands to propel himself around. Is hot enough to melt loads of boulders and rubble into perfect roads), BFR (Shown Here, Here, and Here. Can make opponents fall out of the animation frames), Afterimage Creation (Here), Magnetism Manipulation (Here), Clothing Manipulation (Here), Matter Manipulation and Fusionism (Here), Sound Manipulation (Via sending a punch through a radio wire), Air Manipulation, Shapeshifting (He can turn himself into a rock, brick and a tire. Can transform his arms into various different weapons), Limited Dream Manipulation (Here), Magic (Creation, Animal Manipulation, and Explosion Manipulation) (here), Clairvoyance (Can use his own biceps as crystal balls to see things going on further away in the present), Attack Reflection, Resistance to Fire Manipulation (Became immune to flames from a dragon), Age Manipulation (An alien device aged him into an old man and he de-aged himself back to his prime by eating and then spitting out spinach), and Magic based Transmutation, and Size Manipulation (Was once shrunken down before eating spinach by a genie. After getting some, he returned to normal size)
Attack Potency: Unknown, at least Wall level (As a young man, he hit Bluto so hard he bent metal walls and sunk a whaling ship with the strength of a torpedo. Defeated an entire buildings worth of armed men, causing walls to blast open. Punched out the Mongolian Monster, one of the greatest boxers of his time, without any issue. Sunk a pirate ship, bent a gun with his raw strength) to Large Planet level (Gave a sun a black eye. Vaporized a comet that would have destroyed the Earth with ease), Universe Level+ with Preparation (Once had access to the resources of a company "Standard Oyl Corporation" that was going to destroy the universe within years by exerting/draining all of its natural resources) || At least Large Star level (Hit Bluto so hard that he destroyed stellar constellations, although this was done by letting him bounce between different stars, not at once. Damaged The Sun with an arrow, lassoed The Sun and pulled it up, and also blew it out to get some private time with his girlfriend Olive Oyl), likely Universe level+ (Defeated the God of his universe. This same God views characters like Bluto as fiction. Traded blows with Pre Crisis Superman. Consistently depicted as being able to comprehend the 4th dimension, which exist beyond the "sea of time". Was one of the two beings in existence who survived reality "turning off" which "erased all of existence", and defeated the Supreme Jeep, a 4-dimensional being who also survived it. Defeated monsters stronger than Jeeps, who are extremely consistently said to be 4-Dimensional/higher dimensional creatures who exist beyond the "sea of time"). Complex Multiverse Level at his peak (The entire Popeye multiverse has been described as having 7 and 8 dimensions, and defeated Ogbert, a 7-Dimensional alien. Beat up his Animator, who views 8 dimensions as fiction. This makes Popeye 9-D.)
Speed: Superhuman (Pushed a truck fast enough to where it caused a dust trail), with Subsonic+ Reactions (Consistently depicted as being able to fight faster than the eye can see. Can catch and dodge bullets, even while badly wounded.) | Relativistic+ (In "Popeye meets Hercules" Popeye turns into a rocket after eating spinach, and flies from the moon to earth in about 2-2.4 seconds. The time it takes for light to reach the moon from earth is 1.2 seconds. Built 8 Navy Battleships in 5 seconds and can dodge and swing on lightning bolts like ropes.). Likely Immeasurable travel speed with the Yellow Submarine (Capable of traveling through the Sea of Time and the 4th Dimension which exist about it)
Lifting Strength: Class 100 (Casually lifted a house) | Stellar (Pulled the sun up with a lasso to make the morning come quicker)
Striking Strength: Unknown, at least Wall Class to Large Planet Class | At least Large Star Class, likely Universal+. Complex Multiversal at his peak
Durability: Unknown, at least Wall level to Large Planet level (Can fight Bluto, who is comparable to him in strength) | At least Large Star level (Superior to base form), likely Universe level+. Complex Multiverse Level at his peak. Toon Force, Immortality, Regeneration, ability to Summon spinach at will, and Resistance to Existence Erasure makes him incredibly hard to kill
Stamina: Very High (Donated a gallon of blood and made a full recovery within a day, could catch bullets while critically injured), Far Higher with spinach, can continuously replenish his stamina by summoning and eating spinach.
Range: Standard melee range, higher with weapons. Unknown with Toon Force and Preparation.
Standard Equipment: His pipe, an anchor, lasso, shotgun, cans of spinach, Yellow Submarine.
Intelligence: Average. He is an extremely skilled and experienced sailor from the beginning of the 20th Century, however. | Likely Very High (Spinach has shown to also increase Popeye's skills, as well as his physical capabilities. Popeye has been able to lead a twenty man band, where he was the band himself, to become a master musician, a master sculptor, a brilliant scientist, and a master magician.)
Weaknesses: Despite his gruff exterior, Popeye is very soft-hearted and doesn't enjoy hurting innocents, claiming he "haz a heart like nobody's bizniz". He hates fighting animals and when he does, it's only to beat sense into them. He can be hurt and weakened if he doesn't eat his spinach | His spinach effect has a time limit
Key: Normal | With Spinach
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