History Characters / Popeye

* Cloudcuckoolander: For the entire first year of his existance, he or someone else would remind you that he was one of these as a forewarning.

* Lovable Coward: He wants so badly to be brave & many, but when it comes to a stunt or a fight, he's sure to back down or weasel his way out at the last minute.

* Contortionist: Spends a rediculous amount of time doing acrobatic tricks, with or without Hamgravy.
* Girly Bruiser: Your typical 1920s feminine woman, until you piss her off.

** In personality only. Flappers were fashionable, wore high heels, exposed their knees, cut their hair short, smoked, & drank alcohol. Olive wore long modest skirts, flat shoes, kept her long hair in a bum, & was opposed to drinking & smoking.

* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Every time Castor encounters Hamgravy, he has a new job.

* HairTriggerTemper: She would generally loose her cool pretty early into an argument, or from being flirted by straners, even taking her rage out on animals, going straight for physical retaliation.

* HairTriggerTemper: She would generally loose her cool pretty early into an argument, or from being flirted by straners, even taking her rage out on animals, going straight for physical retaliation.

* HairTriggerTemper: Olive was originally quite violent & quick to anger.

!Thimble Theater

* BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: Opposite of a friend to all animals, Harold seemed to kill just about ever critter he came in contact with, including several of Olive's pets, & it was the punchline of the gag.

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[[Harold Hamgravy]]

* {{Catchphrase}}: He has several.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Help! Popeye! Save me!" The Famous Studios shorts gave her "Keep away from me, you - you *insert insult here*!" and variants of it.

* CatchPhrase:
** "I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today," is the most well-known one, and the only one to gain prominence in the cartoons, but in Segar's comics he had several:
** "Nice weather, isn't it, we're having?"
** "I'm buying, he's paying."
** "I'd like to invite you over to my house for a duck dinner. ...You bring the ducks!"
** "LetsYouAndHimFight!"
** "Jones is my name... I'm one of the Jones boys." (Said when people are getting angry with him.)
** And whenever he's opining his preference for burger fillings: "I'll have pickle and onion and lettuce both."

* {{Catchphrase}}: "You should be killed to death!" (usually said to Wimpy)

* {{Catchphrase}}: "A MAN!!!", a catchphrase that's more often than not, preceded by a "Yahoo!" or "Wahoo!"

* SignatureLaugh: A staccato "ahgahgahgahgahgahgah".

* VocalEvolution: Due to him rotating through several actors in the series, Bluto has gone through a fairly wide range of different sounding voices. His initial voice, William Pennell, gave him a very deep, raspy sounding voice. Then Gus Wickie, his second actor, ditched the raspiness for a very deep BadassBaritone. Pinto Colvig, his third voice actor... basically gave him a very odd voice that sounds like his voiced for [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Grumpy]]. His most prominent voice actor, Jackson Beck, eschewed all of the previous voice characerizations for a smart-alecky wise-guy voice.

* RoleReversal: Amusingly in "Never Kick A Woman", Popeye is the one that needs saving when he tries to teach Olive some self-defense lessons and a would-be female applicant ''beats her up'' to try to leave Popeye open to their feminine charms. Cue Olive being the one to eat the Spinach, [[ClingyJealousGirl and proceed to flip her lid and utterly beat the woman down.]]

* KarmaHoudini: Averted for the most part as antagonizing Popeye almost always winds up getting him utterly humiliated one way or another, usually with Popeye downing some spinach and giving him a well-deserved beating. There is one notable exception that meets this trope and takes it [[ExaggeratedTrope up to eleven.]] Bluto never suffers any consequences in ''Popeye and Son'' for stealing Popeye's wedding ring meant for Olive Oyl. No, he actually gets rewarded instead, by marriage to a far wealthier and more suitable woman, who not only makes him happy, but bore him a son.