History Awesome / POPEYE

-->'''Popeye:''' [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne "You can't insulk me!]] [[TalkToTheFist I'll take ya apart and yer shack to!"]] (slugs vendor and effortlessly demolishes the shack with his bare hands in seconds, leaving the vendor [=KOed=] under its wreckage.)

** In that same short, the thieves try to feed Popeye to a shark, but Popeye takes it out with two hits that seals its mouth closed with its own fangs. What really puts this above his usual badassery is that HE HADNT EATEN HIS SPINACH YET!

* Olive Oyl actually gets one in ''WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailorMeetsSindbadTheSailor'', when she will have none of Sinbads sleazy attempts at wooing her, and attempt to smack the beard right off his face. It doesnt do much, due to how strong Sinbad is, but Olive definetly puts up a fight against him.
** On that topic, Sinbad himself, altough he is the villain, he lives on an island full of monsters he has subdued with his bare hands, including a two headed giant that acts mean as hell, but cowers in fear just from having Sinbad raise his voice to them.
*** And of course, Popeye, who takes out both Sinbads Roc bird and the two headed giant, before even having dipped into his spinach.
* Olive gets a moment of awesome in the second episode "I Yam What I Yam"; when an onslaught of savage indians is attacking her cabin, she's able to hold them off for a bit [[ItMakesSenseInContext by blocking both of the doors by propping her legs between them,]] and when they do break in, she still manages to put up an impressive fight against all of them.

* Swee'pea rescuing Popeye and Olive in "Lost and Foundling".

* "A Dream Walking" and "Paneless Window Washer" could be considered this for the studio, with its complicated perspective gags in the construction site.

* "A Dream Walking" could be considered this for the studio, with its complicated perspective gags in the construction site.

-->'''Popeye:''' [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne "You can't insulk me!]] [[TalkToTheFist I'll take ya apart and yer shack to!"]] (slugs vendor and effortlessly demolishes the shack with his bare hands in seconds, leaving the vendor KOed under its wreckage.)

* In "Seeing Red, White, and Blue"... POPEYE AND BLUTO ACTUALLY FOUGHT JAPANESE SPIES TOGETHER! Who'd a thought that Bluto may be a big bearded bully but he's a AMERICAN big bearded bully!

* The entirety of "Can You Take It?" is one big CMOA. Basically Popeye wants to join Bluto's tough guys club and he decides to try to kill him through various "initiation" tests. Among them is getting shoved into an iron maiden, which Popeye manages to break all the nails on,oh yeah, did I mention he beats them all WITHOUT dipping into his spinach?

* In an early Segar Sunday strip, Popeye delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to a nasty hot dog vendor [[DisproportionateRetribution who refused to give a dirt poor kid a hot dog on credit]] ([[BullyingADragon and insulted Popeye to his face]]), [[KickTheSonOfABitch tears down his shack in seconds]], and [[PetTheDog gives the kid a bunch of free hotdogs.]]

-->'''Vendor:''' "[[ShutUpKirk I will not!]] This is no charity institution. [[GetLost Now beat it]], ya funny lookin gunk, before I push your face.

* In an early Segar Sunday strip, Popeye delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to a nasty hot dog vendor [[DisproportionateRetribution who refused to give a dirt poor kid a hot dog on credit]] ([[BullyingADragon and insulted Popeye to his face]]), tears down his shack in seconds, and [[PetTheDog gives the kid a bunch of free hotdogs.]]

* In an early Segar strip, Popeye delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to a nasty hot dog vendor [[DisproportionateRetribution who refused to give a dirt poor kid a hot dog on credit]] ([[BullyingADragon and insulted Popeye to his face]]), tears down his shack in seconds, and [[PetTheDog gives the kid a bunch of free hotdogs.]]

* This troper isn't making it up but in "Seeing Red, White, and Blue"... POPEYE AND BLUTO ACTUALLY FOUGHT JAPANESE SPIES TOGETHER! Who'd a thought that Bluto may be a big bearded bully but he's a AMERICAN big bearded bully!

* Popeye's fist firing out of the water to sock Bluto.

* Popeye's ''epic'' takedown of Abu Hassan and the thieves in ''PopeyeTheSailorMeetsAliBabasFortyThieves''.

* Olive Oyl actually gets one in PopeyeMeetsSinbadTheSailor, when she will have none of Sinbads sleazy attempts at wooing her, and attempt to smack the beard right off his face. It doesnt do much, due to how strong Sinbad is, but Olive definetly puts up a fight against him.

* Popeye's ''epic'' takedown of Abu Hassan and the thieves in ''PopeyeTheSailorMeetsAliBabasFortyTHieves''.

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* Popeye's fist firing out of the water to sock Bluto.

** On that topic, Sinbad himself, altough he is the villain, he lives on an island full of monsters he has subdued with his bare hands, including a two headed giant that acts mean as hell, but cowers in fear just from having Sinbad raise his voice to them.

* Popeye's fist firing out of the water to sock Bluto.

* Whenever Popeye eats the spinach, awesomeness has ''got'' to come out of it.